‘He watched as I counted every single bill’: Retail employee gets back at demanding customer for refusing to pay with credit card

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    MER 2860. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS LEGAL TENDER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 239 G G 56098239 G INGTON, D.C. "He watched as I counted every single bill" CONE DOLLA ATES OF 30 G ERVE NOT TES OF AME THE 69982
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    Little victories as a retail worker
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    This just happened and work is still very slow, so I figured I'd share a story that happened at the beginning of my shift today. I work in a small store that commonly sells items as cheap as $10 and as expensive as
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    $300+. I am not unfamiliar with handling big bills for a transaction and we can have some BIG cash days. Today was already slow before I showed up and almost no cash
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    transactions. I didn't have a single bill higher than a $5 in my drawer. My first customer comes in. This guy grabbed about $25 worth of small stuff and went to check
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    out, pulling out a zip up wallet containing a single $100 and a few credit cards. Normally this wouldn't be an issue. There's enough traffic to makeup for it and eventually I'll
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    get the $20's to switch out the big bill. But not only was he my first customer of the night shift, the first half of the day was also painfully slow and we received no big bills. The days wasn't expect to get busier either.
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    I try to get him to switch to a card to pay since we try to avoid doing big bundles of small bills as change. He wasn't having it though. He wanted to use the $100 even after explaining my cash situation.
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    The look on his face as I pulled this batch of 100 $1's, watched me count $25, put that aside, then counted his $75 out. Maybe he didn't think I was serious, but I'm not wasting the few good $5's when I have so so many $1's.
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    Poor guy couldn't even zip up his wallet. But I wasn't heartless I did offer to give him a paper clip to hold the $1's together better.
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    harrywwc. 1 day ago good for you - if they're not going to be accommodating early in a shift, then they gets what they gets.
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    many times in the past as a bus driver, I'd get someone try to pay for a $1.50 fare with a $20 note (this was in the 80s) and they'd at me when I hit them with a tonne of shrapnel - "sorry mate, don't have any notes".
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    Indeed, my 'float' was only $20, so that left me with $1.50 in change in the till until some more reasonable customers came along. I expect it was a 'trick' he'd used with other drivers with them
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    saying "I don't have change, get on and pay when you get off" and of course he wouldn't. even back then I was a miserable old and wouldn't 'give in' to those tricks ;)
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    Rachel_Silver 1 day ago You should have given him sixty- five ones and five rolls of nickels.
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    CoderJoe1 1 day ago He's ready for the so club.
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    miory3 1 day ago Oh that was good that tickled all the right spots in my brain
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    00 P4ddyC4ke 22 hr. ago The paper clip will be $20. LOL
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    3VikingBoys 10 hr. ago This is also a way to scam you. That's what I thought your story would be about. Good for you for being so diligent.
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    Dramatic_Reporter_66 · 1 day ago Many years ago, I was in college in a big city. At the time, the fare for a ride on the subway was $0.85. You could buy tokens to use for the fare or use change.
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    One day, I need to go somewhere and I don't have any tokens or change. I do however, have a few dollar bills. I get on one of the cars and as I am trying to put a dollar in for the
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    fare, the conductor snaps that he is unable to give out change. I reply that I don't care, I just really need to get to downtown. It did hurt to have to do that as a broke college student, but I
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    remember just being happy I was able to get where I needed to go on time that day.

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