I went out for a couple drinks with my friend Tim last night, then stopped by Pie Face in Chelsea for a late-night snack on the way home. The BBQ pulled pork pie I ordered cost $6, so I handed the cashier a twenty. He gave me my change, and although I'm usually too embarrassed to check their math, I looked and saw he'd given me $9. Somewhat stunned -- was this an honest mistake or was he trying to take advantage of an inebriated patron? -- I fanned the nine dollars back onto the counter, without saying anything. He quickly realized I was silently protesting, then after examining the change in front of him declared: "Oh, I was right. I just owe you five dollars." Right, indeed.
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I have learned not to hand the cashier a large bill and then, realizing I have the right coin change, hand them the coins. If they have punched the bill amount into the register, they have no way to figure out how to make change. They only know how to get the amount shown on the register and hand it to you all jumbled together. No one ever taught them how to count change back -- as in the olden days of yore when dinosaurs roamed the earth and no one had calculators.
Did you follow up on this w/a supervisor?
I still regret not calling for the manager when a clerk in an Amsterdam market tried to shortchange me by "mistakenly" treating my 20 euro bill as if it were a 10 euro bill.
Either she was too dumb to handle money, or she was trying to steal from a customer. And if she was trying to steal from a customer, she was almost certainly stealing from her employer.
In either case, she should have been fired. Same thing w/your guy.
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