'I told her you might as well leave': Wendy's drive-thru manager stands up to customer's ridiculous request for a "newer" $5 bill

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Sep 27, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Welcome to working in fast food: Where the pay is low and the customers become your sleep paralysis demon. What is it about working in a fact food restaurant that attracts the biggest of both male and female Karens? Do the neon signs say "entitlement welcome" or something? Yeah, yeah, it's not every customer that walks through the doors of a fast food place that is the worst, but, if you've ever worked fast food before, then you know it is a good portion of them. 

Just take this recent Reddit poster. They shared a short but sweet story with a satisfying ending about dealing with one of these notorious customers while they were working a Wendy's drive-thru. Basically, they gave a woman her change back, which included a $5 bill and OP went on working. A few minutes later they hear this woman screaming at the manager. 

They asked the manager what that was all about after the Karen begrudgingly drove off. The manager said that the woman was demanding that OP get fired because they gave her a $5 bill that was old (like from the 80s/90s) and she wanted a "newer" bill. In the U.S., that money is still very much accepted and there is no reason for anybody to get fired for giving that as change. 

The manager stood up to the Karen and justice was acutely served. A quick and satisfying story. 

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    Font - u/Scared_Fun258 17 hours ago No I want A new $5 Bill S hello everyone time for another funny story about crazy person.
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    Font - not sure if this belongs here here it goes. also please excuse formatting and spelling errors. I'm on mobile and auto correct hates me. Ok here we go.
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    Font - I work at Wendy's and I work at the back drive through. I was given a old $5 dollar bill (it was from the 80's to the late 90's) so I put it in my drawer. A little while later I hear A lady screaming.
    via u/Scared_Fun258
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    Font - NO I WANT A NEW ONE!!! I walk up and ask my manager (M) what was going on
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    Font - M: she told me that you should be fired because you gave her an old $5 bill. Me: so what did you say?
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    Font - M: I told her that the bill you gave her was just fine then she said, "NO THIS IS AN OLD ONE AND STORE WON'T ACCEPT THIS S*** " We went back and forth for five minutes until she screamed NO I WANT A NEW ONE!!! and i told
    via u/Scared_Fun258
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    Font - her you might as well leave because i'm not giving you another five dollar bill, and she drove off in a huff. this is pretty much dumbest person i've ever come across in a long time.
    via u/Scared_Fun258
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    Font - MeatofKings 16 hr. ago ● A boss who didn't cave to unreasonable demand! Might be a Reddit first!
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    Font - kiwimuz . 15 hr. ago The other option is $5 in 1 cent pieces. Watch her choke on that.
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    Font - Medical-Potato5920 14 hr. ago Ugh, I remember once I was opening for a fast food store. A woman had given me the right money to be able to get a $5 note in change. I gave her it in coins and she complained
    via u/Medical-Potato5920
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    Font - that I should have given her a note. I told her that I didn't have any $5 notes in the till and that's why I had given her the coins. She had wanted it for a birthday card. Don't expect fast food stores to act as banks.
    via u/Medical-Potato5920
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    Font - Mulva-Deloris 12 hr. ago I was picking up my take out order once when the till was down due to power failure.
    via u/Mulva-Deloris
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    Font - Cash only. My bill was $4.25 so I gave $5.25. Server couldn't figure out my change in her head. Totally lost without the cash register.
    via u/Mulva-Deloris
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    Font - Rachel Silver 50 min. ago ● I spent a holiday season working as a cashier at a place that sold Christmas decorations. The registers were computerized, but this was the lead up to Christmas of 1990, so they were wonky as hell.
    via u/Rachel_Silver
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    Font - One day, there was a power outage. It only lasted about two minutes, but the registers went down hard, and it took an hour and a half to get them back up.
    via u/Rachel_Silver
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    Font - They managed to find two calculators, but there were four checkout lines. I said I was fine without a calculator. They were hesitant, but I got them to give me a chance, pointing out that they didn't have a lot of options.
    via u/Rachel_Silver
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    Font - They shut one line down and gave the calculators to the other two. I used pencil and paper to add up totals and compute sales tax. I figured change in my head. The other two lines barely moved, while mine was running at about 70% of its normal speed. At the end
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    Font - of the shift, my till was short less than 50¢ (from me letting people slide on pennies), and the other two were way off. After that, the managers and other cashiers acted like I was a freak. I got a small raise, but people were reluctant to speak to me.
    via u/Rachel_Silver
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    Font - kcamp2244 12 hr. ago What is it about $5 bills in the drive thru? I worked at BK in HS, and had a guy start to hand me $5 to pay, and then just ripped it in half all of a sudden. I just took it from him, and handed him his change without comment. Which passed him off,
    via u/kcamp2244
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    Font - judging by his sneer. He looked absolutely furious. The surprising thing was that he wasn't a kid. He was a grown man, pulling a stupid stunt like that.
    via u/kcamp2244

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