I would like everyone to know that I am not a coin counter(language)

[raideo]

Without fail, at least once a night I get some dick who has one or more of the following attributes:
1)gives me a pile of change as payment (usually on an order >$5)
2)gives me whatever coins they have in their pocket and asks for change back
3)gives me >30 pennies

I am not a coin counting machine, nor a cashier, I don't want to count your change, and I do not have room for it in my changer.

If you are one of these people, I have other orders to take out, if you want your change back please bring bills or go fuck yourself with a rusty pole. If you give me any substantial amount of coins I am going to ensure it is sufficient, and I will not give you your change, you are making my job difficult, the excess is my minimum gratuity for your annoyance, don't even get me started on the jackasses that come up short.

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[siead_lietrathua]

Argh, i hate when people do that. i have started only taking the coins i need, and shoving the rest of the pile back at them saying "Oh, seems you gave me too much!". no i am not gonna take your bajillion pennies so you can carry quarters instead!

[gunsage]

For $5+, no, that's not cool. However, there have been times where I have no money in my account, but I do keep a coin tin. I grab as many silver coins as possible because I'd really rather not pay with a bunch of pennies (those go in the bank in bulk after I've rolled them). Often I do this if I just want to go pick up a 40. And yes, most of the time, I have exact change. But yeah...for a $5 transaction? That's crappy.

[blas]

Where I work, our change machines give golden $1 coins. You would be surprised how many dirty looks and confused looks I've gotten from clerks. I really don't want to do it, but at the end of the week when all I have is 5 $1 coins, I'm gonna use them. And it isn't hard to count them at all.

On the other hand, people who tried to pay for their gas with all coins or their cigarettes with all nickels and dimes...........no way.

[rerant]

I can't count how many times parents have brought their kids and kid's piggy bank to my store s their kids can buy crap with all coins.
The largest amount of coins I've ever had to count out was over $40 in all small change, meaning no loonies ($1 coin) or toonies ($2 coin).

Although me and some friends were really low on cash one day a few years ago and went to the beer store with rolled pennies, nickels and dimes. We had enough, but felt like assholes.
Thankfully the guy who was working at the moment was a friend of one of the friends I was with and really didn't care.

[PepperElf]

kinda like here in japan where ... the 1-yen and the 5-yen coins are pretty much useless unless you're using them at a store. vending machines won't accept anything less than a 10-yen coin (and most soda products cost at least 100 yen)

I'm saving up the 1-yen coins to make a necklace eventually...

[raideo]

Where I work, our change machines give golden $1 coins. You would be surprised how many dirty looks and confused looks I've gotten from clerks. I really don't want to do it, but at the end of the week when all I have is 5 $1 coins, I'm gonna use them. And it isn't hard to count them at all.

I have no problem with $1 coins or quarters, its the idiots with dimes and smaller that agitate me.

[ArcticChicken]

One time someone paid a bill around twenty bucks in coins, with maybe four quarters amongst them. I nearly strangled her.

[karma_gypsy]

This young lad of about preteen age came in and plonked down $8.00 in change. A few quarters, mostly nickels, some dimes and pennies. Nickels are big hurking things that take up quite a bit of space in the till. He didn't want to purchase anything, just wanted me to exchange it. No parent was around and he did have a faint foul odor about him (like he had walked all the way here, or somethin).

I counted and recounted his change (with customers waiting on me, of course) and gave him the bills. I didn't want to send him on his way with pockets full of change and I was thinkin' maybe it's for bus money or snack money or whatnot ....

Although, I did mention that they have those CoinStar machines at Wal-Mart, Fred Meyers and Banks, which anyone, including youngsters, can use.

[marasbaras]

I love those CoinStar machines! Especially because I hate change.

They don't have them here in the Philippines and I have piles of P1 coins (worth about 2 cents each ... and falling, thanks US Government!).

[RetailWorkhorse]

Working at the Dollar Tree, I had a lady-customer who would save up all the coins she got from her hubby and spend them in my store. 15-25$ at a clip once a month. After a while it got to be understood; you leave the other cashiers alone and go to MY till. Since I worked the most, I got her all the time, and i was able to just switch out coinage with my other cashiers whenever they needed coins and didn't want to bother the AMs or SM.

Come to think of it; I wonder what her hubby DOES in order to get all that change. And do I really want to know?

[Broomjockey]

Come to think of it; I wonder what her hubby DOES in order to get all that change. And do I really want to know?

My dad's a truck driver, and will often dump all his change on me. I think the record is $25 and some-odd cents at once, though this being Canada, there were $1/$2 coins mixed in. Still weighed a heck of a lot. Wallet was a lethal weapon for a few days until I could slowly spend it.

[boringscreenname]

I almost always pay with exact change, or give the boyfriend change when he needs it for a transaction. He has dubbed me "Keeper of the Change."

I love the Coinstar machines, so convenient.

When I graduated high school and was getting ready to leave for college I visited my great grandma for a few days. We got to talking about laundry and if I'd have to pay for it. I told her all the dorm washers and dryers were coin operated. So she went through her entire house and somehow managed to come up with $40 in quarters that she gave me to do my laundry with.

[Jpurple]

I got to use a Coinstar machine for the very first time the Christmas, and I loved it! My grandmother had been saving her coins for my daughter, and after we'd taken $50 to the bank and started the munchkin an account, we took the rest to the grocery store so we could play with the machine. Good thing we did too, I wouldn't have wanted to make any cashier deal with almost $30 in change, mostly quarters. That would just be mean. Watching the machine sort the change was cool too!

[Lingering Grin]

I hardly ever use change, I tend to save it up to cash in later.

However, I did have one job where I would come home with a lot of coins (Usually quarters, but occasionally dollar coins). I would use those at times as that would be the only money I'd have on me, but I'd never use more than $5 in one transaction.

One time though, when I first started college, me, my roommates, and two of our friends were hungry... but pretty broke individually. So, we decided to pool our efforts and scrounged up all of the money we could find.

We wound up with $15 in bills, and $17 in quarters. We ordered pizza, and gave the delivery guy all of it. (I was the only one that had a car available, and I had NO gas, so we had to do delivery). We handed the guy the quarters in a ziploc bag with the exact amount of change written on it. The guy just laughed and took it. lol

It sucks yea, but he understood because:

1. It's a college town, everyone is broke lol.
2. He delivered to us regularly, and we always tipped decently.
3. We gave him like an $8 tip. (We payed $32 on a $24 order).