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  • #1

    I Stop at my Old Subway for only 10 Minutes...

    Stopped at my old Subway to visit two of my former co-worker friends for a few and the first thing I hear from my vantage point in the back room is co-worker O trying to tell an SC that they didn't have enough change for their $100 dollar bill, while also explaining that if she gave them change then there wouldn't be enough change for other customers.

    Apparently the SC was being adamant about it (wasn't able to hear the SC) and caused O to cave and go to the back with the fresh $100 in her hand and try to grab some change out of the cash box in the back. (Cash box has $200 in various bills and coins).

    Seriously, what on earth is the point of them to have TWO signs stating "No Bills larger than a $20?. The whole store could be covered in a repeating pattern wallpaper stating "No bills over $20" and it would still be ignored by customers.

    Seeing that made me once again glad that I no longer have to deal with that crap.
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    as should be pointed out

    1. customers do NOT read signs (unless it has the word FREE on it and even then they will mis-read it).
    2. signs are for EVERYONE else not us spesil snowflakes.
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    • #3
      See, when I get that first thing in the morning from speshul snowflake tour children on our campus or just other random people, it usually follows one of 2 patterns:

      1
      Kid: Can you break my 20?
      Me: Sure, if you buy something.
      K: Uh...do you have anything for 25 cents??
      Me: Nope.
      K: *ends up rummaging around and buying a $1.50 soda*
      Me: *gives him $18 in ones and 50 cents in nickels.
      K: *stares at me*
      Me: *smiles sweetly* Sorry, it's first thing in the morning, I did tell you I don't have a variety of change in my till...

      I win!



      2.
      Random person on campus: Can you break my $100?
      Me: Sure, if you buy $90 worth of stuff!
      RPOC: Nonono, I just need three 20s, two 10s, some fives and ones. I don't want to go to the bank.
      Me: ...
      RPOC: ...
      Me: I'm sorry, sir/madam, but unfortunately, I don't have banking capabilities. I cannot open the drawer without a sale, and I don't carry a lot of change in my register.
      RPOC: Fine, fine, I'll buy a soda, can I get change then?
      Me: Fives and ones only
      RPOC: WHAT!?!?! I said I needed...(etc, etc, etc)
      Me: Which I don't have. Sorry!
      RPOC: Exits.

      I win again!



      We don't have signs, but it is at our discretion, and when you're TOLD that the cashier doesn't have change in their drawer, listen to them!! They DO know what they have, better than you do!

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      • #4
        That's what banks are for!

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        • #5
          During banking hours, there's actually a bank within sightline of my station that I can direct people towards. Of course, they always come just after you start, or after the bank's closed/any time at weekends...
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          • #6
            and some SCs will expect you to go to the bank to accommodate them.
            cos it's too hard for them to go, so the store employees have to be their personal bank-errand servants

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            • #7
              The only time I think stores should even consider going back on the nothing over $20 policy is if they are ten to twenty bucks under the bill size. If someone is buying $80 worth of food and pay with a $100? I could see that being taken. If someone is buying $40 and paying with a $50? Again, I could see it being taken.

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              • #8
                Quoth Draco
                The only time I think stores should even consider going back on the nothing over $20 policy is if they are ten to twenty bucks under the bill size. If someone is buying $80 worth of food and pay with a $100? I could see that being taken. If someone is buying $40 and paying with a $50? Again, I could see it being taken.
                Most of them do, even the ones with signs. However it is rare for customers to be anywhere near that outside of larger or specialty stores.

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                • #9
                  Draco -- true enough. Many places will bend the rules a bit as long as the *change* to be given back is under $20. The exception is generally for places that have such a policy in place because the store has taken in one too many fake hundreds over the years.... And yes, I know that the most-commonly counterfeited bill (in the US) is a fiver

                  I can certainly understand stores being resistant when someone pulls this on a weekend, though. I swear the sorts of SC's who came and did this at GameStore loved doing it on Saturdays right after we opened, knowing that we couldn't leave to get change because even the mall "bank" would not reopen until Monday morning...
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                  • #10
                    Personally, I don't understand the need for people to have $100 bills other than to show off. I hate having even $50s. With debit cards, there's really no need to carry much cash, anyway.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Draper Mel View Post
                      Personally, I don't understand the need for people to have $100 bills other than to show off. I hate having even $50s. With debit cards, there's really no need to carry much cash, anyway.
                      When my boyfriend and I both bought our current cars, we went to the bank and were given $100's.
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                      • #12
                        Heh, I had this happen once when I was working in a video rental place (over 10 years ago now ugh). Our cash drawers started with $75 in cash for the day. We had $.50 rental days on Tuesdays and I had an SC hit me up with a $100 as the first transaction of the day. I tried (repeatedly) explaining that I didn't have anything that I could break the bill with as I'd JUST hit up the bank that morning for change. He wouldn't budge, and was giving catbutt face. So... I caved. I went in the back, grabbed a pack of singles out of the safe, and gave him his change. 99 singles and 2 quarters. "Sorry sir, I DID try explaining that I didn't have anything that I could break your bill with..."

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                        • #13
                          Quoth lupo pazzesco View Post
                          Random person on campus: Can you break my $100?
                          Me: Sure, if you buy $90 worth of stuff!
                          RPOC: Nonono, I just need three 20s, two 10s, some fives and ones. I don't want to go to the bank.
                          Me: ...
                          RPOC: ...
                          Me: I'm sorry, sir/madam, but unfortunately, I don't have banking capabilities. I cannot open the drawer without a sale, and I don't carry a lot of change in my register.
                          RPOC: Fine, fine, I'll buy a soda, can I get change then?
                          Me: Fives and ones only
                          RPOC: WHAT!?!?! I said I needed...(etc, etc, etc)
                          Me: Which I don't have. Sorry!
                          RPOC: Exits.

                          I win again!
                          As a pizza delikvery driver I get this ALL the time with $50 and $100 bills. most of the time they FAIL to mention the fact they are going to pay with a large bill when they order.

                          SORRY I do not carry more than $20 on me at ANY time and NO I will NOT go get change either at the store or a gas station.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                            ...toppings that I do not like)
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                            • #15
                              I love it when they have already broken the bill at another store, and then pay me with all the ones. They usually grumble and apologize, to which I get to say (sweetly):

                              Oh, that's ok! You must have give then a large bill they couldn't break because they just opened. Now I'll have more than enough ones to give the next customer that breaks a large bill with me!

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