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post #16 of 23
10/5/10 at 10:14pm
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my brother worked in the restaurant industry so he always checks change ect.. the most common way you'll get fleeced is the when you pay directly at a cashier in a diner. they can press in a 3% tip then you get your change less three percent, but then you calculate a tip and then leave the customary 15% (or more). so the cashier ends up pocketing that 3% tip. he gets to the point where he can even sense if the cashier is going to do it and bets me if they do. basically if you're busy and in a rush (with family running late ect) they'll try to pull it off. if its in any type of business you can go ahead and bring it up. its your money. if its between friends... fuck it its 50 cents... hell even a dollar its no biggie.
Wow, thats fucked up, makes perfect sense though.
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post #17 of 23
10/6/10 at 2:49am
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Sometime a clerk will give me small disk of metal with faces on them, I throw them on on the ground. Trash money.

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post #18 of 23
10/10/10 at 7:52pm
Between friends? Never. At the store or restaurant, always. Why? Principle.
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post #19 of 23
10/11/10 at 9:52am
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my brother worked in the restaurant industry so he always checks change ect..

the most common way you'll get fleeced is the when you pay directly at a cashier in a diner. they can press in a 3% tip then you get your change less three percent, but then you calculate a tip and then leave the customary 15% (or more). so the cashier ends up pocketing that 3% tip.

he gets to the point where he can even sense if the cashier is going to do it and bets me if they do. basically if you're busy and in a rush (with family running late ect) they'll try to pull it off.


if its in any type of business you can go ahead and bring it up. its your money.

if its between friends... fuck it its 50 cents... hell even a dollar its no biggie.

Years ago I worked at a high-end office building in L.A. at which the take-out restaurant was run by a guy and his sons who hated people. I noticed one son would intentionally short-change people by 50 cents every once in a while. It was a game to him to see if he could get away with it. I never said anything but stopped patronizing the place. They eventually went out of business and opened up other places in the neighborhood that met the same fate.
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post #20 of 23
10/11/10 at 10:03am
I was overcharged recently at a local wine store by around $20. (I think it was $17 actually.) The guy who rang me up is a nice old man but a little scattered. He was perfectly nice about hearing me explain the error and paying me back. But the other customers in the store acted like I was the biggest jerk in the world for wanting my money back. This was even after I let several of them go ahead of me so as not to make them wait.
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post #21 of 23
10/11/10 at 10:43am
I try to treat people how I would want to be treated. If I made a mistake as a cashier, I would want my customer to tell me, so I could make it right. So that's what I do.
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post #22 of 23
10/11/10 at 10:52am
Regardless of who short-changes me, whether it be a store clerk, a friend, or a coworker, I let them know immediately and it is never awkward. If I were to come back 20 minutes or an hour later or something like that, then it may seem a bit petty (depending on the amount). As others have mentioned, if it's some minimum wage cashier I don't want them to get in trouble at the end of the day for a mistake (in either of our favor) that could have been easily fixed at the time of the transaction. And more importantly, if it's my money in question, I want what is rightfully mine.
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post #23 of 23
10/12/10 at 12:06pm
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I was overcharged recently at a local wine store by around $20. (I think it was $17 actually.) The guy who rang me up is a nice old man but a little scattered. He was perfectly nice about hearing me explain the error and paying me back. But the other customers in the store acted like I was the biggest jerk in the world for wanting my money back. This was even after I let several of them go ahead of me so as not to make them wait.
Yeah, it's easier to sympathize with the elderly and the sick even if they're in the wrong. In fact this very statement sounds cruel because it looks like I'm picking on the elderly and the sick, ya can't win :P. Good to hear everyone's responses, it's pleasing to hear people favouring the correction, and truly nobody should be upset about being corrected for making a simple mistake. Just out of curiosity though it would be interesting to hear if anyone else has a story like Manton's where the response has been less than appreciative.
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