Penny Hell at Best Buy

From Jit: 

Augh! My braiiiin.

I read this site called My Life Is Average

One of the posts: 

"Today, I went to Best Buy. As I was waiting in line, the guy in front of me went to buy a $20 gift card with 5 plastic bags full of pennies. After an argument with the cashier, the manager came to the register and told the cashier that he could not turn down a paying customer and forced the cashier to count every penny. I have a new favorite Best Buy. MLIA"
 

Augh! Bitches! Are you serious? First off, the guy in front of her... it's called COINSTAR. That should have been taken to the service desk.

Second... what a bitch! Not only did she not see the pain in the ass it was for the cashier to count it, the amount of time it took, and the fact that the cashier had nowhere to put these pennies, they want to do it themselves! Assholes. Society needs a gene pool cleansing.

 

Comments

[starflake]

I used to go on that site everyday, now it just bores the hell out out me. It's supposed to be average things, but none of the things that get published are average. "I built a fort today, then I had a lightsaber fight and then we watched harry potter!" Fuck off 13 year olds.

[Tarula]

I saw that and wanted to cry. At least at my store we are allowed to decline the transaction if they do something stupid like that

[Katie]

I would have made the manager help me lol. FML is so much better than mlia.

[Burger Bitch]

Jesus Christ.
That person should be shot.

[atombomb1945]

Thankfully both retail companies I have worked for had a standing rule about pennies at the register. That was we were unable to take more than 50 unless they were in bank rolls.

Ever hear the one about if a company refuses a payment for a credit card, then the balance is completely canceled? You guessed it, a guy walked in with one of those gallon sized pickle jars filled with pennies to pay his store credit card. When I told him that we could not take that and that the bank around the corner could exchange it for cash. He went on the rampage and claimed that I had to cancel his balance because I refused his payment.

For the record, I asked about this years later in my Personal Finance Class. The professor confirmed that it was bogus.

[CrustyCusty]

That site does have a few great moments that make me giggle repeatedly, but there are some stories on there that make blood vessels in my brain burst. This was one of them. I can't even imagine how much it sucked to be that cashier at that moment- and how much of a dick move it was for that asswipe to just sit there and take in the fucking spectacle.

[Logan]

I would have 'accidentilly' continuously lost count, and have to start over and over again. The manager would get tired of the waste of time. The other customers would complain about the hold up due to what the manager said to do. And the customer who brought all the pennies would also get tired of the wait. If they ever would have let me continue long enough to actually finish I would come to the conclusion that they were still a penny short. Make the custy wish they had taken the pennies to their bank where they would put them through the coin counter for free.

[Michael]

I'd have taken off a sock, filled it with their pennies, and proceeded to bludgeon them into unconsciousness.

[ChaoticMuse]

At my current job, we aren't even allowed to accept rolled pennies. We have to take them out and count them so that customers can't short us. Even if they are from the bank. With the old manager, we used to be able to refuse that as payment. Not anymore. There's a little old woman who comes in twice a week- usually while I'm not there, thank god- who ALWAYS pays in home rolled pennies.

[CheerfulChirps]

I remember a lady at my previous job that paid her store credit cards with $30 worth of rolled quarters. I appreciate the fact that they were rolled, but now I have to count all these quarters and tender in a till that only holds $100. It wasn't a problem in the long run though.

[Mallory]

My Life Is Average also condones the 333 ways to get kicked out of walmart.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/none/333-ways-to-get-kicked-out-of-wal-mart-233838/

Read and weep retail slaves...read and weep...

[Joe]

A former customer used to come into the cigar shop and try to pay with quarters. He managed some rental properties and would empty the coin boxes of the washers and dryers. I told him about the CoinStar machine. He said doing that was "too much trouble".
After I "accidentally" dropped two hands-full of them on my side of the counter, he reconsidered.

[Wal-Slave]

I have a confession to make. When I was 12 years old I payed for my family's x-mas presents in nickels and pennies. It was over 40 dollars and they were mostly rolled. I'm sorry former department-store clerk, I was a child and I didn't know better and CoinStar hadn't been invented yet.

[Dorian]

God I remember reading that, I said "WHAT" so loud my roomie heard me down in the basement doing laundry. That was just insane to read. I made sure when my father so charmingly gave me $50 in $1's for my 18th birthday (to learn the value of money har har... something he really needs to do right now) to take those and spend them with someone I knew well, rather than spend 39 dollars in cash with a poor retail clerk.

Soon as I read it though, I knew it'd end up here.

[mf]

Just tonight I had to guilt trip my husband into using Coinstar by telling him that if he insisted on paying for our groceries in unrolled change to save a few bucks I would NOT be seen with him. I've worked a register before, and I was not about to make some poor cashier count out all of our change and try to find room for it in their drawer while a line of customers piled up behind us. He relented and got about $60 out of Coinstar. Can you even imagine?

You're welcome, nice cashier lady. You will never know the hell you narrowly avoided. How could he think that would be okay?

[Mariel]

OH.MY.GOD. I'm a cashier at Best Buy and I think I would have KILLED someone for doing that. I honestly think that my manager would have said sorry, we're not taking that. I did have a guy who paid for a 2,000 computer with 20's. And then was getting pissy because I insisted on double counting it. Sorry asshole. They have these things called CREDIT CARDS nowadays.