The $100 Bill....RETURNS!!

[Hon'ya-chan]

How long has it been since I had a $100 bill horror story.....a few months?

SOP is that we never open the register to make change. If your purchase something, then we can make change. Otherwise, if you don't wanna purchase something from us, tough ****.

So this guy comes up to me while i'm fixing the comics rack and asks if I can change a $100 Bill (on a Sunday no less!). I tell him I can't open the register unless he makes a cash purchase. So he snaps and says "I was gonna buy some books, and I just wanted to know if you can break it!"

Now the guy had nothing in his hands, indicating he wasn't going to purchase anything. So, I responded, "Well, if your gonna...."

Well, before I can finish, he runs off, and walks outside. I can hear him complain to his wife thru the open door that "They can't break the $100 bill!!" I go and help a person at the register.

Wouldn't you know it, the guy comes back, and purchases a magazine. He hands me a $10 bill. He then complains "Why can't you make change?" I tell him in no uncertain terms "Unless you make a cash purchase, I can't make change. Now, do you want change for your hundred or not?"

He asks for his change from the purchase and leaves angrily. He chimes "Maybe my books will still be here!!"

He doesn't come back for the rest of the day.

[Purple Monkey Dishwasher]

People don't seem to understand that "I don't have change" does NOT necessarily mean "I don't want to make change." Sometimes, I JUST DON"T FARKING HAVE IT!!!

Of course, sometimes it means "I don't want to, you're an asshole I've never seen before, you haven't earned the privilege of just breaking a hundred without purchase." What am I, a bank? Shit, man!

Joe

[Hon'ya-chan]

People don't seem to understand that "I don't have change" does NOT necessarily mean "I don't want to make change." Sometimes, I JUST DON"T FARKING HAVE IT!!!

Oh, I had the change, just I can't open the register unless he made a cash purchase. Which the guy apparently couldn't grasp onto.

[KellyHabersham]

Every so often I'd get a customer at Macy's who'd ask if I could make change for them, most of the time they were okay with my telling them that they needed to go to Gift Wrap for that, as we weren't allowed to make change at the registers.

[icmedia]

As a good customer should do, the last time I went into Wal-Mart with a $100 bill I went to the cashier and asked her before making my purchase if she would be able to break this or if I should go to the Customer Service Desk first. She *very snarkily* told me to go to the CS Desk, which I thought was necessary. When I got back to her to buy my cigarettes, she snapped, "I told you I can't make change without a purchase." She seemed VERY surprised that I wasn't trying only to get change, and when she opened her drawer it looked like she had about 15 $20 bills in there.

It's sad how often she must have been asked to *just* make change for her to get so riled up when I even mentioned the $100 bill.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I hate that bullcrap!

I finish ringing their purchase through, and then they hand me a $100! I have to cancel out, open the drawer, check the amount of $20's I have, and either tell them to go to the back counter to see if they can make their purchase or re-do EVERYTHING I just did!

GAAAAHHHH! I HATE that!

[earl colby pottinger]

No Sale

Oh, I had the change, just I can't open the register unless he made a cash purchase. Which the guy apparently couldn't grasp onto.

The machines where I work don't even have a NO SALE button. You need to call a manager for his key and he enters a special code to open the till if there is no sale. We don't 'just make change' for anyone.

[Crazeyal]

Part of surviving Retail is knowing what you CAN'T change, and which customer would have been dissatisfied no matter what you did, said, or offered. Gather your emotions and walk away from such people. They are black holes and offer nothing back.

[Imogene]

I was forced today to use a $100 on a $40 transaction. The only other small money I had on me was a single $10 and some ones, certainly not enough to cover the purchase. And my debit card was at home. I didn't do it to be mean, and, of course, the lady who rang me up didn't get angry about it, either, what with having the store safe directly behind her.

[myswtghst]

It's sad how often she must have been asked to *just* make change for her to get so riled up when I even mentioned the $100 bill.

What's really sad about it is that the a-holes are ruining it for the rest of us polite, responsible citizens who try to do the right thing by ensuring the cashier has change before trying to make a purchase.

I always use the smallest bills I have to cover the total, but sometimes all I have is a bigger bill, or even a twenty for a <$5 purchase.

[Imogene]

twenty for a >$5 purchase.

And? That's not horrible... however, if it were a transaction of <$1, then you anger the island gods. We'll need a virgin sacrifice to appease them in that case.

[CancelMyService]

Cashiers probably love me, I usually don't carry any cash on me more than a few $1's for the vending machine. When I was carrying the haul from my reception to the bank to deposit, it was the first time in a long while I had a bill larger than a $10 in my wallet. I use my debit for everything, makes less I have to carry with me.

[JustADude]

I ended up having to buy lunch with a $100 today, for less than a $10 purchase.

In my defense, that was all the cash I had. My account was dry after paying bills, and a smart-ass certain smart-ass* who owed me $100 paid me back with the bill.

It was, however, late in the afternoon and I DID ask before I ordered if they could take it, and they made change in $20s from the safe for me.


*He, shall we say, absolutely, positively SUCKS at poker, ended up $25 in the hole, then played me 2 hands of Baccarat (I think that's the game. It's basically a complicated version of 'cut for high card') for double or nothing and lost both.

[Rapscallion]

We'll need a virgin sacrifice to appease them in that case.

Happy hunting.

Rapscallion

[Purple Monkey Dishwasher]

I always use the smallest bills I have to cover the total, but sometimes all I have is a bigger bill, or even a twenty for a <$5 purchase.

I may sigh internally, but except in dire straits, I'll take a 20 for any purchase - I've broken one for a 50-cent bag of nuts on many occasions.

By the way, "50-cent bag of nuts" is my next band name

Joe