Today, I was just about done with my late-night shift at Ralph's. As I was about to put up my "Closed Lane" sign, an elderly women starts putting items on the conveyor belt. The cost was $14.79, and she paid with pennies. It took her ages to count them all, and I wasn't being paid overtime. FML
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Today, I was shopping at the grocery market and was next in line. Behind me was a woman who only had two items, so I nicely let her in front of me, as it looked like she was in a hurry. When she was all rung up, she decided to pay her $16.45 in loose change which needed to be counted out. FML
Today, at my retail job, a woman came to my till with her purchases. After I scanned all her items, she handed me two small bags. One was filled with nickels and dimes. The other was filled with cents. Her total was $28.53. The coins amounted to $22.30. FML
Today, I had an elderly man come to my cash register. His total came to $15.50 He handed me $5 in nickels and dimes. A full roll of quarters. Before I could take the roll, he bust it open, making me count it. After that was all counted he was 50 cents short. So he handed me a $10 bill. FML
Today, I rang up a customer’s items. The total came out to $24.67. She handed me a bag full of coins and looked at me expectantly. I asked if she had any other payment methods; she got irritated and said ,“If I did, I wouldn’t have given you this, stupid!” I had to count them. She was still 6 dollars short. FML
Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML
Today, while I was delivering pizza in the torrential downpour, I waited 5 minutes in the pouring rain for an old lady to dig 20 bucks out of her purse. Her total was $19.99. She told me to keep the change and make lots of money. FML
Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML
Today, I spent twenty minutes helping an elderly man figure out how to use the self-checkout. When we'd finished, he smiled, thanked me, then walked away… without paying for any of his groceries. The cashier assumed I was with him. FML
Today, an elderly woman couldn't afford all of her groceries at the checkout so she started to take out a few things. I offered to pay for her groceries; she thanked me and walked out. An onlooker then came up to me and told me that she does it to someone every week. FML
Today, I was doing takeout orders at the restaurant I work at. I spent a long while putting together this guy's $135.00 order. When he finally got there to pick it up, I told him to fill out the credit card slip. I looked at it after he left. He gave me a 40 cent tip. FML
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kimbaheartsyou 0
I know 5 or 10 minutes here and there doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. Up until recently, people at my work didn't get paid to close up, which takes around 15 minutes if all goes well. Over 5 days, that's 1.25 hours - around $25. If you work 50 weeks a year, that's $1250 you're getting screwed out of. People need to learn to stop undervaluing their time. If you're working, you should be paid. It's that simple.
justsomgirl 4
I've been there and it sucks.
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Comments (135)
romano07 0
she wanted to go home, what dies it matter if the lady is old? why go buy clothes with 1500 pennies for that matter?!
Mirorbo 27
I swear people who do that are 100x eviler than I can ever hope to be!
kenjiisown 1
No darling?
lilhedz 0
18- bobobobobobobo? ring a bell? at all? your picture, maybe?
marinus_fml 20
Fun fact: If it was all paid in penny's it would have weighed 3.6975 kg. The lady would also have had to count to 1479 to get to the right amount. Anyone else think this is unlikely?
spoilt_ 15
haha how do you know that if your Australian? aren't pennies only in America
Major_General 10
OT in California is paid for working longer than 8 paid hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, unless your employer has negotiated for more unusual hours, like four 10 hour days in a week. Since this person works retail, I doubt they were scheduled to work an even 8 hours. So, they get their regular pay for that time. And likely get chewed out by the boss for costing them labor.
fadingaway 17
*paid
romano07 0
Ralph's? I believe it is a clothing store but not certain. well whether it's a fixed income or not, 1500 pennies?! that ridiculous!
hockeyfever 0
romano dude, you tend to correct other people with their spelling and shit but seems like you ****** up yourself, it's does not dies, dumbfuck lol
romano07 0
lol blame the iPhone, and probably my lack of sleep xD I hate when this stupid thing fixes something correct and makes it a mistake >_<
torrlynn37 0
Uhhhhh, Ralph's is a grocery store ass monkey. The guy with the muscles is right, she's an old lady, have some god damn patience.
hockeyfever 0
lol I'm just joking around, I've got an iPhone too, sucks eh!!!