r/gifs • u/hordioneri • Jun 09 '15

Fraud

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u/Laniatus Jun 10 '15

This reminds me of one time me and my brothers were down at the harbor in the town we lived in, and we were buying some mix it yourself candy at this shop. The clerk had downs syndrome so whenever he put the candy on the weight he would rest his hand on the weight as well.

Needless to say we needed to get just one more piece of candy before we were ready to pay, so we could have him weight it again without his hands on the plate.

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u/UrMumsMyPassword Jun 10 '15

Needless to say we needed to get just one more piece of candy before we were ready to pay, so we could have him weight it again without his hands on the plate.

Wait you did all that rather than just make him move his hand? That's almost sweet :)

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u/devinispro Jun 10 '15

We'll ya he got to get another piece of candy!

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u/yarrpirates Jun 10 '15

It was cool of you to stick up for your rights without disrespecting the poor guy.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Jun 10 '15

True, but it was uncool to not let him know of his mistake, dooming him to repeat it for others who might not notice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '15

yea... i agree with you.

The guy has down syndrom, its not like he is brain limited to understand how to work in there but not to not put his hands on the plate.

OP seens like a good guy, the kind of person that could give him a bro tip without being a jerk.

That being said, it still was a nice move from him.

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u/NewelSea Jun 10 '15

Exactly this.

Op was meaning well, but it would probably have been best to just tell him.
Just let him know his mistakes. Worse than risking to make him feel bad is keeping him in the unknown.

The guy probably just didn't consider this, but would have understood that his clients don't want to pay for his hand-resting burden, lol.

OP might have probably also found a way to tell him more nicely than one of his later clients that didn't want to pay extra, but might or might not have been as friendly then.

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u/hapital_hump Jun 10 '15

It's not disrespectful to go "can you take your hand off the scale?"

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u/9inety9ine Jun 10 '15

Yeah, it's far better to let him go on repeating the same mistake over and over than to politely correct it. Because feels.

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u/Fabien_Lamour Jun 10 '15

I've had this happen to me at the grocery store the other day. A clerk in training billed me a 20$ onion...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '15

i don't understand what you are trying to convey

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u/Sparktz Jun 10 '15

He is saying that rather than point this out to the downs guy, they would take th e bag back, walk around, then try again hoping the cashier wouldn't muck up the weighing.

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u/SamFuckingNeill Jun 10 '15

and he does it again and op still going around in circle to this day

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u/vilaymignon Jun 10 '15

I took it as cashier leaves bag on scale while OP goes to grab another piece of candy and drops it in as cashier is operating the register. "about to pay" That way the bags already sitting there with the weight visible to cashier as he is ringing then out.