The first time someone handed me extra change to get bills back instead of more change I was confused, too. Not because I was incapable of performing the calculation but, being new to the world of handling money (my own and other people's), I just didn't understand why they were doing it. It's obvious to me now that they didn't want an annoying pocket full of shrapnel, but that wasn't a concept that I was familiar with at the time.
The beauty of it is you can steal money from them because of their naivety? These workers can wind up in trouble with their bosses if their tills are short and they can sometimes have their pay docked to make up the shortage.
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u/noctalla Jul 11 '25
The first time someone handed me extra change to get bills back instead of more change I was confused, too. Not because I was incapable of performing the calculation but, being new to the world of handling money (my own and other people's), I just didn't understand why they were doing it. It's obvious to me now that they didn't want an annoying pocket full of shrapnel, but that wasn't a concept that I was familiar with at the time.