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You're serious? THAT'S your nomination for dumbest cashier ever? I've got two nominations that blow yours out of the water:

I went to Friendly's for lunch once, and brought the check up to the cashier after I was done eating. The total was $5.56. I handed her the check, and a $20 bill. She hit a few buttons. The drawer popped open. She then called the manager over.

MANAGER: What's up?

CASHIER: His check was for $5.56, and he gave me a $20. Under "Amount Tendered", instead of typing $20, I accidentally typed $5.56, so the machine says I owe him $0.00 change.

MANAGER: That's no biggie. Just give him his change.

CASHIER: Yeah, but how much is that?

LADY IN LINE BEHIND ME: Oh my God!

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How anyone can be honestly surprised that a Friendly's cashier cannot perform basic subtraction is beyond me.

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The best part is that you need 0 maths to do this, just counting. During my 'Dark Days' I was a cashier at a 7-11. We were NOT allowed to enter the cash tendered amount in the register and were required to just jam the CASH button. Here's how it goes:

$5.56 total
$20 tendered

Count up from $5.56:
4 pennies ($5.60)
1 nickel ($5.65)
1 dime ($5.75)
1 quarter ($6)
4 $1 bills ($10)
1 $10 bill ($20)

Viola!

I'd never be able to tell the customer the actual amount of their change but never got it wrong. Count it back to them as you give it over: "6 dollars (hand over change), 7, 8, 9, 10 (count out each $1), and 10 makes $20 (give a little glance to the customer's bill still sitting on top of the till to make sure what you end with is what they gave you)." The counting procedure when you hand it over is the double check on how you made change.

Whenever I see a cashier start by pulling bills from the till, I know they could be scammed with enough work. The best is handing over $22 for a $6.47 total (to minimize small bills in my wallet) and watching the confused look on their face. I've even had people try to hand me back the extra two $1s.

Little known fact: Any total that ends in 59 cents requires one of each coin (penny, nickel, dime, quarter) when given bills only.