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Just thought I'd share an amusing experience I had at Best Buy:

I purchased a $14.99 DVD today, and brought it to the register. The cashier was quite attractive and had perky breasts for me to oogle as she rang said item up. After Ohio sales tax; the total came to 16.04. I gae her a 20, and she entered the total and opened the drawer. I suddenly remembered that I had a dime in my pocket and told her to hold on. I gave it to her and apologized for not remembering I had it when she rang up my total. I smiled, expecting her to say "no problem" and quickly get my change, but, she froze. Deer in the headlights.
"I-Idon't know how to do this!" She was looking quite panicked, and was staring at the monitor that said "Change due: 3.96"
"It would just be $4.06" I said, quite taken aback. Still staring blankly she pauses and says,
"......Are you sure?"
"...Yes. Pretty much."
She pulls out the money and hands it to me, still looking abnormally terrified, as I thank her and walk away. I was able to get into the parking lot before I started laughing uncontrolablly. Cute, but dumb as hell. Can anyone else relate?
 
dude.... i worked at McDonalds for almost a year.... 75% of my managers wouldnt be able to do that either..... i should have run that place....
 
there are always crazzzzy ass hotties at the BB check out registers.
some day i may slap one with an over priced game and bang her silly in front of those ass juicers that attack u with hi hi hi hi hi hi hi when i walk into the dam place
 
This happens all the time at fast food places. The guy/girl will look at me puzzled like I'm a nut.
 
One time, in a small comic & card shop in the center of my local mall (so there was only the one clerk there), I bought some assorted stuff and was supposed to get some change - some random bills and 50-some cents. The only problem was, the clerk only had one quarter left, and had absolutely no idea how to give 50 cents change without 2 quarters (and I didn't have any change either.)

I spent like 3 minutes trying to explain things to him, but he just didn't get it. He knew how a quarter was equal to 2 dimes and a nickel, but when added to a quarter, he simply couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that it totaled 50 cents. I eventually had him give me the quarter, then TRADED him the quarter for 2 dimes and a nickel, then had him give me the quarter back. He stilled seemed to be suspicious that I was ripping him off... Needless to say, I avoided that place from when on whenever he was working (which wasn't long, fortunately.)
 
I work at a Domino's, and I can kind of relate to the BB girl. We only have a cash drawer, so I'm calculating the change due in my head as I see whatever cash being handed to me. Exact change is great, but closer change situations don't really help at all. I don't panic and start breaking into a cold sweat, but it does take me a second to recalculate. :p
 
Reality's Fringe said:
I don't see how that's possible. What crazy ass dimension were your registers from?
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They were these crappy tocuh screen ones that had impossible menus and such...I'm pretty positve they did come from a special Hell dimension somewhere. Now that I think about it though, that would've only happened if you shut the drawer because for us workers there was no way to open without completing the next sale only then could you put the dime in. But yeah the actually money in the register would be right of course, my bad.
 
[quote name='Javil']I work at a Domino's, and I can kind of relate to the BB girl. We only have a cash drawer, so I'm calculating the change due in my head as I see whatever cash being handed to me. Exact change is great, but closer change situations don't really help at all. I don't panic and start breaking into a cold sweat, but it does take me a second to recalculate. :p[/quote]

If youre hot too...I got an ounce and a half of throat yogart to toss ya....that'll set ya straight....
 
You know, while this isn't directly related, I've noticed that for some odd reason Menard's stores always have attractive females working the registers in the stores, but no place else. I doubt that's a coincidence.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky'][quote name='Javil']I work at a Domino's, and I can kind of relate to the BB girl. We only have a cash drawer, so I'm calculating the change due in my head as I see whatever cash being handed to me. Exact change is great, but closer change situations don't really help at all. I don't panic and start breaking into a cold sweat, but it does take me a second to recalculate. :p[/quote]

If youre hot too...I got an ounce and a half of throat yogart to toss ya....that'll set ya straight....[/quote] :shock:
 
maybe she was really nervous. why? i dont know but just stating some possible reasons before labeling (pretty but stupid) on a person :D
Could very well be her first day, but then again I doubt they let people on their first day work on the registers... uh... first day on the registers perhaps?
 
I just finished going to the post office for a money order, I gave him the money order amount and then the $.90(price that the post office charges). In return he hands me two nickels and my money order; I said to him I gave you $55.90. He stood there a while thinking; I had to tell him that I paid exact change and that he gave me an extra 10 cents.
 
Sometimes this happens to me when I'm at work, we don't have one of those registers that tell us the change to give back. (What I'm saying is she probably just had a moment, it's no reason to not fuck her even stupider.)
 
You guys are being way too harsh. I'm pretty good with accounting and simple math, but with fast-paced retail work, you kinda go into a zen state and get disrupted when someone does something abnormal (i.e., giving me more change after I'm already thinking about how much to give you).
 
[quote name='BigNick']Ya, kids that work at these stores arnt the smartest. I swear that BB and CC want it this way.[/quote]

You mean the really really smart kids, the ones that get scholarships and may even be able to do professional work while still studying, aren't the ones making near-minimum wages in dead-end retail jobs? naaah.
 
[quote name='The Cheapest Ass Gamer']You guys are being way too harsh. I'm pretty good with accounting and simple math, but with fast-paced retail work, you kinda go into a zen state and get disrupted when someone does something abnormal (i.e., giving me more change after I'm already thinking about how much to give you).[/quote]
Exactly. You're making us actually have to do some quick thinking. Exact change = Good. Close change = Possibly annoying.

And Mookyjooky, that is just shaq-fuing sick! :puke:
 
[quote name='eldad9'][quote name='BigNick']Ya, kids that work at these stores arnt the smartest. I swear that BB and CC want it this way.[/quote]

You mean the really really smart kids, the ones that get scholarships and may even be able to do professional work while still studying, aren't the ones making near-minimum wages in dead-end retail jobs? naaah.[/quote]
no, they want drones. People that will follow withour questions.
 
damn this site is evolving from cheapassgamer into pervertedassgamer.....aren't some of you guys too old for this kind of stuff..yikes
 
There are a lot of people in retail who don't know how to count money.

Its shows that the education system here is in a sad state.
 
At my BlockBuster the girls are all not HOT (not all are ugly), but they're all gamers.

:) I consider it a trade off.
 
Here's a recurring problem I have with stupid cashiers. Let's say I buy something and the total is $11.28. I give the cashier a $20 (because I don't have a $10) and 2 $1 bills. I do this, obviously, because I want a $10 back and not some $1s and a $5. But half the time when I do something like this, they look at my like an idiot or even try to give my singles back to me. Stupid!
 
I worked at a book store where you had to put in exactly what cash you recieved and gave out. She had probably entered the cash into the system and didn't know how to back out of the total to add another 10 cents. She'll be off 10 cents at the end of her shift because of it. Most places require some sort of math test to get employed, so I hope she really wasn't confused based on the change.
 
Maybe it was her first day? Or still kinda new to the job? Yes she should be able to calculate the change, but maybe she was just incredibly nervous, or stupid.
 
you know why they do this for one simple reason they come up short they will be fired on the spot for stealing simple as that


you come up short your fired bb has no second chance at least not the ones here. (that is why no1 likes to check people out you will see 12 people standing there but only 1 light on


lol
 
The problem with modern registers is that they do all the thinking for you so you don't have to figure out the change. Since your brain isn't constantly doing those simple math equations and relying on a computer, you're not exercising those skills.

I work at the service desk and I actually make change without the register more often than with. We have the touch screen monitors, so it's quicker to just double-click the exact change button and count out the change yourself. But then of course I get the comments - because I work in a grocery store - when they give me that extra dime or the extra 2 dollars so they can have a ten dollar bill back, they ask "Oh wait am I confusing you?" It's really aggravating because they just assume I'm "dumb".
 
[quote name='The Cheapest Ass Gamer'] I'm pretty good with accounting and simple math, but with fast-paced retail work, you kinda go into a zen state and get disrupted when someone does something abnormal (i.e., giving me more change after I'm already thinking about how much to give you).[/quote]

This is true when I am working I get into this rhythm and when they had me the money the register shows us the change but it take like 5-10 seconds so I just figure it out in my head and by the time I handing the customer their change it will show up on the screen and then I will know that I am right or wrong. I am usally right about 95% of the time.
 
[quote name='moiety']The problem with modern registers is that they do all the thinking for you so you don't have to figure out the change. Since your brain isn't constantly doing those simple math equations and relying on a computer, you're not exercising those skills.

I work at the service desk and I actually make change without the register more often than with. We have the touch screen monitors, so it's quicker to just double-click the exact change button and count out the change yourself. But then of course I get the comments - because I work in a grocery store - when they give me that extra dime or the extra 2 dollars so they can have a ten dollar bill back, they ask "Oh wait am I confusing you?" It's really aggravating because they just assume I'm "dumb".[/quote]

Just act "special" that should shut them up.
 
Yah, Best Buy seems like a place that might have really stupid register rules.


At the movie theatre I work at, stupid managers are taken to the extreme. The motto of the day is "We also do it that way, so why changed?"

So many Examples its hard to count. For instance some of our 12 register do not take credit cards. Do we tell customers before hand? Nope, wait till they place there order. Then if you are in a lucky register the manual type will work, but oh wait make sure that your actually hooked up to the CC Processor, or its all for naught.

Or a big example. We used to spend about 2 Hours a day AT LEAST of employee "nacho-packing" time where we would take nachos out of the bag and then put them in plastic trays. Now, due to a messup order, we got a bunch of single-person tray bags. Now being a person of at least average intelligence I quickly notified a manager, that hey perhaps we should use these bags instead of packing time. (Weird looks), 2-Weeks Later, oh what do you know suddenly we are using bags instead of Nacho-packing time, I wonder what genius manager (2 of them) thought of it.

But as some have said the stupidest thing about most cashier jobs is the automated register screen. Our screens are the worst touch-screen's ever. I swear to god, whatever company made it is the deveil, and the thigns run on Win 98 too lol, so they actually crash sometimes.
 
I'[m not debating that doing a "close change" transaction requires a moment of processing time; I'm talking about the amount of time(more than 2 minutes) she stood there looking dumbfounded before I told her the amount of change to return, and then questioning its validity again. It's also not as if it was some high denomianation. It was $4.06. I could understand it if my order came to, say, 32.39 and I gave her 100.24 or something of the like. First day or no; it was a simple addition problem. And remember, I have love for cashiers. I was one myself until recently, so it's not like I haven't been there. 8)
 
Reality's Fringe]Just thought I'd share an amusing experience I had at Best Buy: I purchased a $14.99 DVD today said:
There's ahottie that works at my local Gamstop that's the same way. She has been working there for at least 2 years yet knows absolutly nothing about video games.

IE:

ME: Hi, do you have a used version of Final Fantasy X?

HER: What System?

ME: ...

*slight pause*

PS2

HER: PS2?

ME: Playstation 2.

HER: OH! hold on a sec.

*she goes off to rumage through F games, finally she comes back and replies:*

We don't have it, but we do have Final Fantasy "X" (she pronounced it as a letter), Final Fantasy "X" 2, oh and we have a new copy of Final Fantasy Xtra Large (Xl).

*a long ass pause as I ponder her stupidity*

ME: Oh in that case I'll just get FF "X".
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... people are too dependant on registers now a days. When I was younger I worked at Radio City Music Hall and we used to do sales out of a pouch. No registers or scanners. We had to calculate totals and how much change we owed in our heads. Today I see kids in stores scanning an item 100 times due to a corrupted barcode just because they cant key it in themselves. It is pathetic...
 
This is one of the many reason i dont use change of any sort. I use to only keep quaters but now that i have easy pass and dont have to pay the toll's i dont even bother with those.
 
Ah, the tales of stupid yet pretty cashiers. While my experience at BB saddened me, it doesn't detract from the fact that I totally wanted to "fuckstart" her face. Mmmmm-MMMMM! Goodness!
 
[quote name='The Cheapest Ass Gamer']You guys are being way too harsh. I'm pretty good with accounting and simple math, but with fast-paced retail work, you kinda go into a zen state and get disrupted when someone does something abnormal (i.e., giving me more change after I'm already thinking about how much to give you).[/quote]

I was about to point this out. I worked at a video store for three years. As soon as I stepped behind that register my brain shut down. My state of mind could be compared to waking up in the middle of a deep sleep.

It's amazing what performing the same action over and over again can do to you.

And christ! Listen to yourselves! "fuckstart her face?" What the hell are you thinking? I would hope you don't talk like this in real life. :roll:
 
It isn't that hard to calculate change. I worked in a bank as a teller and I had to handle about 30,000 worth of cash each day. And my bank was very old school. None of this new-fangled touch screens that tell you what to do shit.
What always pisses me off is when it comes out to something like 20.85 and I give them a dime so I can get a quarter back, and they give me the dime back and then give me another dime and nickel back.
 
[quote name='Duo_Maxwell']Maybe she should've panicked because if those registers are like the ones at where I used to work she's gonna come up $.10 short now.[/quote]

What the hell are you talking about?
 
Well, my Mom took me to the bank so I could cash in my check, and the teller accidently gave me an extra $100. I took it back, because I felt bad for the lady...
 
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