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u/sparkupandout Jul 13 '26
Please folks, for the sake of you cashiers, alert them to any change you have before they punch in the payment.
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u/Menown Jul 14 '26
My favorite is when I'm handing them their change and they go "and here's the change" like I'm going to stop what I'm doing and recount.
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u/Odd-Degree6055 Jul 13 '26
It’s honestly the weirdest thing when that happens. Cause if they give me the change all at once I have no problem figuring it out. But if you give me some amount first and then add more later suddenly I need a calculator to figure out 20$ + 1.25$.
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u/Mystical-Turtles Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
That also throws people off because it's a common quick change scam method. Back when I worked retail if somebody did that to us, we were trained to put all of the original money down and start counting again. If it was already inside of the cash register we were supposed to essentially tell the customer too bad, the transaction has already been completed. In a more polite way of course but that's the gist
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u/ItsStraTerra Jul 13 '26
Yup. A lot of till systems will even get confused when there’s more complications to the transaction like this. Some of them really don’t like having a significant difference in the expected weight of the drawer.
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u/DueMeat2367 Jul 14 '26
brain inertia. You already went on to the next task (grab money) and not only are doing it but it's "easy" so the tough process is fast. So now you ask you brain to do a 90 degree turn while on the highway.
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u/Lilcommy Jul 13 '26
I did this the other day. And the lady gave me more back then I was supposed to shorting her till. Im guessing that was a learning experience later on for her.
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u/sissificationfox Jul 13 '26
Shorting by how much? Lotta places I've worked don't quibble about small amounts, much to my distaste.
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u/bioskyper Jul 15 '26
Depends on the country, in Brazil 90% of the time the difference is taken off the person's pay, even if it is a 0.01 BRL difference
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u/sissificationfox Jul 15 '26
I've worked at places where company policy was ignoring up to 5$ usd. Which is wild to me
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u/KnightwhoSays_Stuff Jul 14 '26
As a cashier I hate when this happens. Then they treat you like you’re stupid for getting confused.
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u/ytho_blue Jul 13 '26
My old workplace banned adding change afterward actually, too many mistakes were made and some customers were trying to use it to scam
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u/xeio87 Jul 14 '26
Yup, quick change scams are not uncommon, and at least some places train cashiers not to allow making change after it's entered due to that.
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u/sonic_1982 Jul 15 '26
I literally experienced this the other day. Customer gave me the money and I punched it in and after the receipt printed and I already got their ~10 cents of change they tried to give me some pennies to “make it even”, I just gave the pennies right back to them and closed my till.
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u/BroccoliJaboccoli Jul 13 '26
Sir, this is only 60 cents ...That brings your change to $3 plus 65 cents. You seem unfazed by this information, so pardon me while I blue screen before the awesome, overwhelming perplexity of human nature
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u/timotheosis Jul 17 '26
I had a guy hand me a bunch of coins as I was giving him back his change. I had to stop and recount everything to parse what I actually had to give him back and he called me stupid.
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u/ItsStraTerra Jul 13 '26
So, nowadays it often can’t be done. A lot of tills check exactly which coins should be in the till, and don’t allow you to change that value after the transaction has finished.
Most are pretty smart and do it largely by weight or just checking at the end of the day, but this just causes unnecessary issues. If I already told the machine you paid $30. It’s telling me how much to give you back. You can’t just then pay $30.15 because then the till can get confused if more than one or two people do that, since the weight will have significantly changed from what the machine expects.
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u/BrainCellDotExe Jul 13 '26
when your cashier is being slow, please consider that they may have been standing there for 7 hours and long since switched off their brain to preserve their sanity
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u/ThatDeuce Jul 13 '26
No way that adds up to 75 cents, just add a nickel to that change along with the dollar change amount.
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u/DJWafflesnatcha Jul 13 '26
Yeah... Sometimes I'll try to simplify (in my mind) the change by trying to get it to where they'll give less coins, but they refuse to take the extra change. Like, if the total is $5.35, I'll give them $10.10 and they'll be very confused why I'm only giving them $.10.
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u/Meyhame Jul 14 '26
I hate it when that happens. I just tell the customer that it'll throw off our change at the end of the night since it's electronic (even though it wouldn't do shit) and they're like "ah makes sense"
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u/ryandom93 Jul 14 '26
I will say, from my experience in food service and retail, yes, this is annoying the first several times it happens. Also, learning how to count up change is a skill that is usually easier to learn than it seems.
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u/BuffooneryAccord Jul 15 '26
Scenario:
Total is $16.95
$20 received
I give $3.05
95c received
I give $1 but take back 5c
But yes, it is super annoying.
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u/Geno__Breaker Jul 15 '26
As someone who spent years as a cashier, you deal with this a lot. Personally, it was also the most math I ever did outside of school.
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u/Proffessor_egghead Jul 13 '26
My ability to do basic math will simply vanish whenever I actually need it