Today, a buttmunch customer brought in $7 worth of pennies I had to count and roll. As I was putting them in the deposite box at the end of my shift, I fumbled and dropped the rolls. All but one broke, spilling their contents on the floor. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I thought I was having a nice day at work, until I had a client who paid me $376 in rolls made of 0.05 and 0.10. It took me an hour to count. 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, 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 to pay my bus fare in very small change. After carefully counting out coins under the withering glares of a bus-load of people, I quickly slid them into the machine, and somehow ended up jamming it. FML
Today, while at the vending machine, I put in my $20 instead of my $1. I got my change back in quarters. FML
Today, I was at a mini arcade and accidentally put a hundred dollar bill through the quarter machine. FML
Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML
Today, I refused to manually count $64 in pennies from a customer, because I would hold up the line and I was one of three registers open. In fact, I advised her to use the Coinstar machine in the lobby. She refused, threw a fit and demanded my manager for being “incompetent”. I was fired. 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, I went to the bank to get a jar of coins exchanged for cash via a fancy counter machine. After 30 minutes I was handed a bag of rolling sleeves and was told to do it myself. Good news, I have a lot more money than I thought. Bad news, I have A LOT more coins than I thought. FML
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Top comments
Lythiaren 8
You do know that in some areas o the work it's illegal to pay with excessive amounts of change... right? I know I'm allowed to smile and tell customers that I'm not legally allowed to take more than 26 pennies in a single transaction. There's a limit on everything else too but I happened to memorize the penny limit because the damn things suck.
katsuku 5
Pennies are still legal tender. Legally a store is obligated to accept any type of bill/coin as long as it is legal tender.
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Comments (126)
cheapsheep_fml 0
LMAOO. ohman.
lovemehobo 0
well, I had once got 30 dollars in 5,10 and 20 cent peices for a parcket of ciggarettes then i dropped one of the coins and when I began to stand up I thumped my head on the register. it hurt. I know how it feels
PandaPandaPandaX 0
I had someone pay an order worth around $60 in small silver coins. Ugh. I feel your pain.
kukopia 0
They're called dimes. Now ya know.
Grangoire 0
@ kukopia: "They're called dimes. Now ya know." Not to be a dick, but since you set the precedent.... The term 'dime' isn't universal for 10¢ coins. Additionally, did it ever occur to you to click on PandaPandaPandaX's name and see where she is from? AUSTRALIA And in Australia, the smallest silver-ish coin isn't a ten-cent piece called a dime (like it is in the US). It's a 5¢ coin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar Now YOU know.
leisl14 0
Small silver coins= nickles and dimes.
SarahBearXoX 0
she's from Australia ^ so ACTUALLY it's 5 & 10 cent pieces. fail..
SarahBearXoX 0
oh and in Australia, our local bank has a free money counter in banks :)
TheDarkCynder 2
USA banks usually have money counters but there's a fee to use them.
trashmonkey 0
haha thats gotta suck, what an ass
amatayo 0
I once had a dollar. idk just felt like giving imput
invisibledamage 2
OMG ME TOO!
RNCftw 0
that sucks. but you did drop it. that's probably your fault.
wonderscore 0
MONIEEEEEES!
Malik_fml 0
Reminds me of that Dexter's Labaraotry episode where Dexter pays the ice cream man with a jar of pennies and it ruins his ******* life hahaha.
idrivefast 0
It's illegal to purchase anything over 25 cents in pennies here. :) Makes refusing them so much fun
ragamuffin42 12
counting isn't that hard.