Dumbest cashier ever? (TR kinda-sorta)

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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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I can beat it...

This was probably ten years ago or so and I was at the mall with my cousin. We order a couple of drinks from one of the places in the food court.

The cashier rings up the order and I hand over a five. She enters the $5 in the register and it correctly shows the amount of change we should receive ... Let's say, $2.68.

The cashier looks at the register for a few seconds, then calls out for the manager.

He walks up and says, "OK, that's two quarters, one dime, one nickel, and three pennies."

OMFG!!!

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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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I dont understand.....Now isnt her register short b/c itr said changed owed was zero....aww man, my brain hurts from all of this

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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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I dont understand.....Now isnt her register short b/c itr said changed owed was zero....aww man, my brain hurts from all of this

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sounds like you fit in with the cashiers from these stories

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I find that the average number of errors in my order from fast food is about equal to an average sit down restaurant.

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I don't see this a possibly being true, unless you always order the "regular" thing at a fast food restaurant and always order a "substitution" at a real restaurant.

Regardless, if this is so then you should be upset with the real restaurants (where you can reasonably assume decent service) and not upset with fast food restaurants (where you cannot reasonably assume decent service).

Also, you should specify if your "average sit down restaurant" is a glorified fast food restaurant like the Olive Garden.

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wtf else is "average sit down restaurant" supposed to mean?

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Are you serious? If you live in a big city, "average sit down restaurant" is not a mass-production chain restaurant.

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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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I dont understand.....Now isnt her register short b/c itr said changed owed was zero....aww man, my brain hurts from all of this

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sounds like you fit in with the cashiers from these stories

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I was kidding....but seriosly.
I hate when you give the cashier the odd change to give you all bills back or maybe large coin...i.e quarters and they cant figure it out for the life of them....What has this country come to when you cant figure out grade school math!!!

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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?

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Standard.

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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)

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Back in the dark ages of mechanical cash registers that did not calculate change for you, this was the standard technique for making change. It's pretty much a lost art now.

[theblackkeys]

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I find that the average number of errors in my order from fast food is about equal to an average sit down restaurant.

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I don't see this a possibly being true, unless you always order the "regular" thing at a fast food restaurant and always order a "substitution" at a real restaurant.

Regardless, if this is so then you should be upset with the real restaurants (where you can reasonably assume decent service) and not upset with fast food restaurants (where you cannot reasonably assume decent service).

Also, you should specify if your "average sit down restaurant" is a glorified fast food restaurant like the Olive Garden.

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wtf else is "average sit down restaurant" supposed to mean?

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Are you serious? If you live in a big city, "average sit down restaurant" is not a mass-production chain restaurant.

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You're being overly nitty here.

[KLJ]

cashier at the recently turned 24-hour McDonalds has hooked it up 3 times in a row (obviously by accident)

first time, had a buy one, get one coupon for the $3.50 crispy chicken, ordered some other stuff. ended up as buy 0, get 2 free for whatever reason, she just randomly comped both.

second time, she gave me a quarter instead of a nickel (weak)

third time, i bought about $13.xx worth of stuff, gave her $20 got back a $5, a $10 and some change.

oh how i love random stupidity

[John Spartan]

When that happens to me, me getting too much change back, I always keep it. I rationalize it by telling myself that I don't want to embarrass the cashier in front of other customers by insulting his/her intelligence.