So you DIDN'T need the money?

[Kit-Ginevra]

I'm curious about this. I assume this is public transit as you mentioned "stops." How does increasing fare with more stops work for you? I'm genuinely curious. Here a one-way pass is good for three hours on any local bus (we have a few crosstown express ones that have a higher price) and/or within 2 adjacent rail zones. Within those parameters, there's no limit on how many stops you can go. The fare covers one stop down or 20 stops down as long as the service is either local bus or inside the same two train zones.

A system where the fare went up for each stop (if I'm understanding how your system works) would confuse the heck out of me.

Well,if it's anything like our city,there are like fare stages.City centre down to the river is £1,from the river down to the pub on the corner is £1.70,up to the estate is £2.50.You want to save money,you walk to the next stop.

We also have day tickets,week tickets,month tickets-yer pays yer money,the rest of that time period,you just flash your ticket at the driver and hop on.

My nice little card that works about £3 per day lets me travel anywhere in Cornwall,Devon,Somerset and out to Lyme Regis.For work,it's brilliant.Hop on bus,travel an hour to destination A,back to destination B,down to destination C ad nauseam should I need to for just £90 a month.

[Terza]

I do sometimes let taxi drivers get away with not paying the penny on say £20.01 fuel, but that's because when they put £19.99 in they don't want the penny back. Or they'll leave me a handful of pennies/twopences even if they're paying the right price, because they know we'll let them slide at another time.
Mind you, these are local companies, where we'll see the same drivers shift after shift, so we have a good working relationship with them and our manager encourages it. We also exchange £1 or £5 with them for larger notes if either of us is short, because again good working relationship.

Regular customers also do the same thing occasionally and again it's allowed because it's reciprocal (and again they'll often leave a penny change or give us loose change next time), but if you turn up at the counter, toss me the note and announce you don't have the penny, sorry but you still owe a penny and I will wait to complete the transaction until you give me the penny..
We do have leeway if the customer would have to break into a £10 or £20 for that penny, but people who do that tend to be apologetic that they don't have anything smaller, so we don't mind letting them off. And they often will give us some pennies next time as a thank you.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Here at The Client, there's a little tag you can get for free, which you can load money on at automated kiosks, and then use to buy food at the cafeteria or at the vending machines here at the Mothership. (At some of the outlying parts of the "fleet," the vending machines don't have that feature.) So I rarely have change these days (though I keep a little jar of quarters at my desk for emergencies).

But before then, I tended to keep change in my pocket, and if I wasn't looking for exact bills as change, I was always trying to round up the pennies so I'd get "silver" coins as change instead, paying out the pennies I'd get elsewhere to do so.

Like many others in this thread, it boggles my mind that EWs are expecting the cashiers to "let it slide." It would never occur to me to pay less than the amount the register shows.

Sigh.

[WishfulSpirit]

I deal with these people way too much, and it's never just for odd pennies as our fares round to 5 or 10. No, usually it's a pound or more! Sorry but if you can't afford the fare to the next stop (just a mile up the road) then you need to seek an alternate route; I hear walking is still free?

I'm curious about this. I assume this is public transit as you mentioned "stops." How does increasing fare with more stops work for you? I'm genuinely curious. Here a one-way pass is good for three hours on any local bus (we have a few crosstown express ones that have a higher price) and/or within 2 adjacent rail zones. Within those parameters, there's no limit on how many stops you can go. The fare covers one stop down or 20 stops down as long as the service is either local bus or inside the same two train zones.

A system where the fare went up for each stop (if I'm understanding how your system works) would confuse the heck out of me.

[flybye023]

Don't some shops have a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny thing,so if your total comes to say $15.01,you can just swipe one of them.I remember them having them last time I was in Canada.

My store didn't allow us having loose change around the registers. Even if a customer left some behind we were to send it to the Vault separately from our cash drawer. Besides, some of my customers expected me to cover more than a penny or two.

[Deserted]

I actually make sure to get my complete change if the cashier annoys me. Yes, I know that the change is only 4¢. It's my choice what to do with that 4¢, not yours. Hand it over.

[bainsidhe]

Don't some shops have a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny thing,

Gas stations/convenience stores around here have them, and it's a great tool for the non-greedy types. When I'm cashiering in a grocery store, it's not appropriate to say "What, no one left behind a nickel or something?" when the customer is politely reminded they owe the entire total.

[Becks]

Don't some shops have a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny thing

At my night job, we have those.

I deliberately empty all of them out and hide the pennies (and assorted other change) all night, to use for my regulars and people I get good vibes from.

[Dreamstalker]

Some stores allow drawer shortages to a certain amount (usually only 2-3 cents; the assumption is that a penny or two fell on the floor).

I'll usually have a small pile of pennies at my register (courtesy of customers who tell me they don't want the pennies in whatever they get back, or that I find in the SCO coin trays) that I'll use to round up if someone is genuinely a few cents short or they tell me in advance that they don't want them. If you're nice about it I'll help; those pennies have to go somewhere.

[workerbee222]

I really can't get over this: It never occurs to me NOT to give the cashier the entire amount. Does this actually work for them on some level?

Some guy was in the store yesterday, and looked at some sale merchandise that Boss is fervently hoping to get rid of, and the customer did ask, "Will you take $25 for these?" and Boss did say yes. Negotiating before you get to the register makes more sense, plus, he's talking to the OWNER of the store. Employees who fail to collect the total due tend to be escorted from their [former] place of employment by LP types, no?

[Kit-Ginevra]

Don't some shops have a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny thing,so if your total comes to say $15.01,you can just swipe one of them.I remember them having them last time I was in Canada.

[RealUnimportant]

"You're just going to sit there and watch me dig through my purse?"

Yes, yes I am, because all the time you're doing that it implies you're looking for something related to the transaction! Even if you've given me a note that can cover the bill, if you go purse-diving without saying anything, I'm going to proceed on the assumption that you're looking for the odd change to reduce how much shrapnel you get back.

I deal with these people way too much, and it's never just for odd pennies as our fares round to 5 or 10. No, usually it's a pound or more! Sorry but if you can't afford the fare to the next stop (just a mile up the road) then you need to seek an alternate route; I hear walking is still free?

[flybye023]

when they want me to float them some change just so they don't have to break another bill. They have the money, right there, and they don't want to give it to me so they'll have to carry around change.

I had a guy do this to me one time. His order was, like, $15.83 or something and he hands me a $10 and a $5. And just stands there. I had already seen into his wallet though and he had a wad of bills including a $50. I patiently tell him the total again and mention that he's $0.83 short--like you do in those situations. He yanks his wallet out, tosses me another bill and when I give him his change THROWS it at me and shouts "THERE'S YOUR GODDAMNED CHANGE!!!" and storms out of the store.

He was probably about the 5th person that day that expected me to float him some change. I just don't get that. I've never expected a clerk to accept any less than what was owed. And we don't even have a sales tax.

[Marmalady]

YOU'RE on thin ice? Why, because Princess Penny didn't want to pay up? I don't think so. Ugh.

If a penny is so precious to this SC, I don't think Mrs Eclipse is the one on thin ice here.

[MoonCat]

YOU'RE on thin ice? Why, because Princess Penny didn't want to pay up? I don't think so. Ugh.