Decades ago when I worked at a restaurant, we would do ‘dry-runs’ before/after-hours to train anyone who would have to take cash. Some people just can’t ‘get’ it. We had one girl who would always try to give you back more money than you started with. She never was asked to run the cash register. Fun memories.
Long ago at her store my Grandmother taught me the making change is addition. $4.65 + .10 = 4.75 + .25 = $5.00. Thank you for shopping with us and please come again.
When I was a teenager, I worked as a cashier. We were taught to count UP to the next dollar. So, $4.64 out of $5? Add a penny to make .65 cents, a dime brings you to .75 cents and lastly, a quarter. We didn’t parrot back the AMOUNT we were giving back (sometimes we didn’t even know on the fly exactly what we were giving back), but if you count up to $5, it was easy. And at the time, you did this in the customer’s outstretched PALM, counting OUT LOUD, so they could see what you were doing. I always hated when I grew up and the cash registers told the cashier to give me back in change $X.xx. I had to TRUST they took the right amount out of the register, trying to count it as they shoved the coins into my palm. Or worse, dumped the coins onto the counter for me to pick, one by one. Ugh. I don’t think they really learned how to “make change”. They relied on a machine to tell them.
It’s obvious that this is a “Classic” comic. Now days the registers just show the clerk how much to return. ( And before you ask, Yes, I like to mess with them by handing them the odd cents.)
Learning to make change comes fairly quickly to most people.
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I was paying for something, let us say $35 and gave the clerk $40. She punched in $140 and then panicked when it showed her supposed to pay me back $105. I told her to calm down and I would give her the extra hundred. (I actually had it if necessary.)
She looked expectantly. I explained I had given it to her and she had given it back. She thought for a moment and the light came on in her eyes and she was happy. I still had to remind her about the $5, but that was no big deal.
I was taught to give change by counting from the price of the sale up to the amount given. Although the first time someone gave me change to make it come out even it kinda threw me. My defense is I was only 13.
When I had to run the register at the entry door of a major museum one summer way back in the Olden Times, it was not so much individual transactions that could cause Flop Sweat as at the end of the shift making up the “bank” for the next day….
Mordock999 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Amazingly, Brad gets smarter too, as time goes on……,
macky87 over 4 years ago
Decades ago when I worked at a restaurant, we would do ‘dry-runs’ before/after-hours to train anyone who would have to take cash. Some people just can’t ‘get’ it. We had one girl who would always try to give you back more money than you started with. She never was asked to run the cash register. Fun memories.
gsawyer101 over 4 years ago
Long ago at her store my Grandmother taught me the making change is addition. $4.65 + .10 = 4.75 + .25 = $5.00. Thank you for shopping with us and please come again.
Tyge over 4 years ago
Grade school in my day taught you useful things; like math with coins and how to write a check.
dlkrueger33 over 4 years ago
When I was a teenager, I worked as a cashier. We were taught to count UP to the next dollar. So, $4.64 out of $5? Add a penny to make .65 cents, a dime brings you to .75 cents and lastly, a quarter. We didn’t parrot back the AMOUNT we were giving back (sometimes we didn’t even know on the fly exactly what we were giving back), but if you count up to $5, it was easy. And at the time, you did this in the customer’s outstretched PALM, counting OUT LOUD, so they could see what you were doing. I always hated when I grew up and the cash registers told the cashier to give me back in change $X.xx. I had to TRUST they took the right amount out of the register, trying to count it as they shoved the coins into my palm. Or worse, dumped the coins onto the counter for me to pick, one by one. Ugh. I don’t think they really learned how to “make change”. They relied on a machine to tell them.
Buck B over 4 years ago
It’s obvious that this is a “Classic” comic. Now days the registers just show the clerk how much to return. ( And before you ask, Yes, I like to mess with them by handing them the odd cents.)
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
As usual, Brad doesn’t make any cents here… :D
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 4 years ago
Learning to make change comes fairly quickly to most people.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
I was paying for something, let us say $35 and gave the clerk $40. She punched in $140 and then panicked when it showed her supposed to pay me back $105. I told her to calm down and I would give her the extra hundred. (I actually had it if necessary.)
She looked expectantly. I explained I had given it to her and she had given it back. She thought for a moment and the light came on in her eyes and she was happy. I still had to remind her about the $5, but that was no big deal.
Moonkey Premium Member over 4 years ago
I have a habit of adding odd change, too! I think the cashiers are onto us. I don’t see the panic so much any more.
asrialfeeple over 4 years ago
He’s still learning.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 4 years ago
I was taught to give change by counting from the price of the sale up to the amount given. Although the first time someone gave me change to make it come out even it kinda threw me. My defense is I was only 13.
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
When I had to run the register at the entry door of a major museum one summer way back in the Olden Times, it was not so much individual transactions that could cause Flop Sweat as at the end of the shift making up the “bank” for the next day….