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  • #1

    Today's asshat and bonus

    Background: I work at a drugstore on the front cash register. When I get $50's and $100's I mark them with the marker and hold them up to the light to check the watermark. This is store policy. (/end background)
    So about an hour ago (I'm on lunch) I had a lady come up to my register on her phone. She hands me a greendot reload card and a $50 and a $5. She pauses her conversation enough to say $50 then goes back to talking.
    After I ring up the greendot card I mark the $50 and then hold it up to the light...
    SC: you don't have to do that. You marked it.
    Me: well counterfeit bills sometimes mark ok.
    SC: no they don't!
    Me: yea-well I have to do both.
    SC to the person on the phone: omg! She just held the bill up to the light!!! *storms away*
    Me: *blink blink* *over the intercom* Manager dial <my extension>

    I told two managers after the fact and both were like 'she complained you followed policy?'

    Bonus:
    I had a customer with kids today an one made a comment that reminded me of something that happened a while back.

    I don't fully remember the context of the situation, but it probably was when one of my co workers came to help get my line down.

    SC cuts in front of a lady with a youngish child (probably about 4 or 5).
    Little kid to his/her mom: that lady just cut in front of us.
    SC: *explodes in rage at being called out*
    Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
    Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever
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  • #2
    I LOVE when kids call people out! One time I heard a kid call her mom out for trying to steal with a stroller. Mom got mad. haha
    "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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    • #3
      Um...Obviously she's never heard of (or just doesn't give a rat's ass about) people who bleach out $1's and $5's and reprint them as $50's and $100's. Dumbass. The second SC? Oh I'm laughing at the kid calling her out! You go, child! Bravo!
      "And though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"--Shakespeare

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      • #4
        Quoth BrenDAnn View Post
        Um...Obviously she's never heard of (or just doesn't give a rat's ass about) people who bleach out $1's and $5's and reprint them as $50's and $100's.
        EXACTLY what I was thinking...
        I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. --#6

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        • #5
          Quoth Captain Trips

          EXACTLY what I was thinking...
          I tried for all of two seconds to tell her but she wasn't listening to me. Duh.

          Yeah. I told the mom of the kid that reminded me of that story and both her and he lady behind her got a kick outta it. And the kids were all like 'huh?'
          Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
          Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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          • #6
            I'd tell them the pens are for the paper and the light is for the numbers on it.

            ^-.-^
            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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            • #7
              These are the people who get all insulted when you check their currency. They should get over it - most stores have that policy and that's just the way it is.
              When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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              • #8
                Lucky you! We have to mark and light check every bill $5 and up. Really slows down the lines. I have gotten in the habit of light checking the bills. A few weeks ago the main office got us ultraviolet pens to check for the security features in the bill. Those really, really slow down the process. I think its just easier to check for the correct watermark and move on.

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                • #9
                  Quoth crazyofficeclerk View Post
                  Lucky you! We have to mark and light check every bill $5 and up. Really slows down the lines.
                  Ugh >_< That does kinda suck, but I had heard that fives ARE among the most-often counterfeited bills. Why? Because nobody ever checks them ~_~
                  Last edited by EricKei; 07-16-2011, 06:09 PM. Reason: typo? what typo?
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                  • #10
                    Quoth EricKei
                    Ugh >_< That does kinda suck, but I had hear that fives ARE among the most-often counterfeited bills. Why? Because nobody ever checks them ~_~
                    We actually got one recently. It's now taped to the bulletin board by the time clock.
                    Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
                    Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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                    • #11
                      Ever get a really old hundred?

                      Had one from, I shit you not, the FIFTIES handed to me last year right before close on a Sunday night. Big order, too. I tried, checked the treasury website, but no info on how to check for counterfeits on that old fogey. I probably would have given her the already made food, but she had to go and be a twaffle about it, claiming the bank had given it to her that morning.

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                      • #12
                        I see, so SC was trying to teach the 4 year old how to act like a child.
                        A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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                        • #13
                          Quoth dragon_wings View Post
                          Background: I work at a drugstore on the front cash register. When I get $50's and $100's I mark them with the marker and hold them up to the light to check the watermark. This is store policy. (/end background)
                          So about an hour ago (I'm on lunch) I had a lady come up to my register on her phone. She hands me a greendot reload card and a $50 and a $5. She pauses her conversation enough to say $50 then goes back to talking.
                          After I ring up the greendot card I mark the $50 and then hold it up to the light...
                          SC: you don't have to do that. You marked it.
                          Me: well counterfeit bills sometimes mark ok.
                          SC: no they don't!
                          Me: yea-well I have to do both.
                          SC to the person on the phone: omg! She just held the bill up to the light!!! *storms away*
                          Me: *blink blink* *over the intercom* Manager dial <my extension>

                          I told two managers after the fact and both were like 'she complained you followed policy?'
                          Just curious, but from her emphatic statement about how counterfeits react to the various tests, I'd say she must handle them a lot. I'd like to see a store where their policy on checking bills includes "If a customer gets upset about the bill checking, they are to be refused service". After all, why would they get upset unless they're worried that the bills they just printed aren't good enough to fool the tests?
                          Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth wolfie

                            Just curious, but from her emphatic statement about how counterfeits react to the various tests, I'd say she must handle them a lot. I'd like to see a store where their policy on checking bills includes "If a customer gets upset about the bill checking, they are to be refused service". After all, why would they get upset unless they're worried that the bills they just printed aren't good enough to fool the tests?
                            Her response was more and outraged 'I can't believe you question my honesty.' And my first thought after that was 'So is she trying to pass a fake?'
                            Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
                            Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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                            • #15
                              Quoth dragon_wings View Post
                              Her response was more and outraged 'I can't believe you question my honesty.' And my first thought after that was 'So is she trying to pass a fake?'
                              You are wise. Outrage like that is definitely one of the scammers' oldest tricks.

                              Methinks she dost protest too much...
                              "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                              "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                              "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                              "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                              "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                              "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                              Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                              "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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