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
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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, 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, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML
Today, a lady handed me a $10 tip on a $45 bill. I was happy with it, since it was more than 20%, until she came back in and said, "I'm sorry I gave you the wrong amount." I handed it back to her and then she gave me a dollar. FML
Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML
Today, I was cashiering, and a customer's change came to $5.51. She looked pretty stinking rich, so I just gave her $5.50. She demanded the extra penny, and I asked if she really needed it. She said, "No, but they do, asshole," and dropped her $5.51 in the charity donation box. FML
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, I handed a middle-aged woman her change of $0.75 with three quarters. She looked at the change bewildered and threw the coins down, asking if she thought I could get away with only giving her thirty cents. I had to explain to her how much a quarter is worth. FML
Today, I was working in the box office. A group came in for tickets but wanted to pay individually. One paid $40 for a $25 ticket. Laughing, I reached for the calculator while saying, "I went to public school, so I can't do math." They didn't laugh. They were all teachers in public schools. FML
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swift07 4
wait huh she got mad cuz you gave her an extra dollar by mistake :-/
furburger 0
Doesn't the cash register tell you how much change to give? You may want to reconsider your major if reading 4 (four) numbers on a screen is confusing.
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Comments (225)
Cirri 0
People who are telling this guy he's a moron are either kids, or never worked a job where they handled cash. It doesn't matter if you're a maths genius, if you work behind a register long enough, you're going to at least once give someone incorrect change.
btguy 0
the difference between a 'smart' person and a 'dumb' one is how well they find and use the tricks that make the mental work easier. its better to be capable of doing that in your head than be the sort of person that has to close the store if the power goes off or the register breaks, and im sure you would have gotten a pen and paper if it had been thousands
u_r_idiot 1
wow you are AP calculus, so you have taken a high school basic calculus class, are we supposed to assume you are smart?
seekingawug 0
What is your complaint? Her comment? Isn't it on the milder end of what you're accustomed to hearing in the wonderful world of customer service? If you're mad about the fact that you made a mistake, why did you bother to include her comment? It wasn't unreasonable.
MinnieMouse1718 0
Doesn't everyone in this world makes mistakes?
wingquig 0
the woman was a bitch...you made a mistake...life goes on...cept that woman is probably still a bitch. atleast you learned something from that situation.
SAMPAS 0
Flick out the middle finger
felisdomestica 2
hahaha, i also had this kind of experience. after two years of using calculator to study physics and its mathematics in college, it is common to mess simple arithmetic. the lady really had the 'smarter than thou' attitude
joker305 6
Dumass
Jerret 6
I blame schools too. making us learn all this advanced shit, letting us use calculators. We forget how to do simple math.