I swear people come in on the weekends just to piss me off.
This past Sunday, while I was standing at the cash register angry that I was probably the only person awake at that time, a man came in.
"Do you take Canadian quarters?" he asked.
"No," I said and went back to filling the cigarettes.
"Could I ask why not?" he said, wanting to start an argument.
I sighed inwardly. Why do people like this have to come in and start shit? I'm not in the fucking mood asshole.
"I don't have to take any money I don't want to. That includes ripped bills, bills with blood on them, and Canadian money," I said.
"Well why not Canadian? Right now the Canadian quarter is worth more than the American quarter," he said, staring blankly at me.
"Because no one wants Canadian money back as change. Whenever I give it out, customers bring it back to me and ask for American quarters," I said while starting to get REALLY annoyed. "GO AWAY!" was what I wanted to scream.
"Huh," was all he said. "Well I guess it's good that I brought my American quarters. Give me a pack of cigars. It's still not right though that you won't take Canadian quarters." I wanted to slap him.
After I rang him up, he said "So what am I supposed to do with all these Canadian quarters I have? Give them to the homeless?"
"I don't think even the homeless would want them. Have a nice day," I said as I turned my back on him and went back to stocking.
Am I the only cashier that refuses to take Canadian money when I notice it? I could care less about it, but like I said, other customers bitch about it if I hand back Canadian money to them. So to eliminate people getting mad at me, I just refuse to take it in the first place.
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The answer to his question is "This is the United States, not Canada". At one point in my life I lived in Burlington, Vermont and worked retail. We would get many Canadian people in to shop and some of the stores even gave "even exchange" and at the time $1 American bought $1.33 Canadian. So when people would try to pay me with Canadian money I would refuse. Sometimes they even asked me to change their Canadian into American - at which point I directed them across the mall to the bank.
ReplyDeleteIf I was feeling mellow I would explain that we didn't do "one for one" because we didn't care to lose 33 cents on the dollar and that we didn't do exchanges because I had no way of knowing what the current exchange rate was.
If I wasn't feeling mellow then they got "We are not a bank, it's across the hallway" and "This is the United States, we only take American money"
This is the United States, not Canada! He should take his Canadian quarters and spend them in CANADA.
ReplyDeleteI only have one thing to "say" to something like that...watch this, and it will change your life!! xD
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We take American money all the time. I think the reason you guys don't like our change is because most of you have found it won't work in the vending machines. I also think it is presumptuous of someone to expect you to accept it if you are not within a reasonable distance of the Canadian border.
ReplyDeleteIf I was in California I wouldn't even try but in Buffalo, for sure.
I am fairly close to Canada and have never worked any place that would accept Canadian coins below the "loonies and twoonies". I was told that it had something to do with buy back at the bank. I don't make the rules; I just follow them. Canada IS a foreign country and whenever I've gone to Canada, I've had confusing money exchanges. Also, I would never walk into a Canadian store and expect them to accept my U.S. pocket change to pay for anything.
ReplyDeleteyeah, i'm a cashier too, and customers are always trying to slip in canadian change. sometimes i catch it, sometimes i don't and if my boss catches it at the end of my shift that bit doesn't get calculated into my till. *uber frustrating!* the bank won't take it in our deposits either, because you have to have something like 20 bucks or more of it to make shipping it to the currency exchange place worth it for them or some mess. i dunno. but it's annoying!
ReplyDeleteyeah, i'm a cashier too, and customers are always trying to slip in canadian change. sometimes i catch it, sometimes i don't and if my boss catches it at the end of my shift that bit doesn't get calculated into my till. *uber frustrating!* the bank won't take it in our deposits either, because you have to have something like 20 bucks or more of it to make shipping it to the currency exchange place worth it for them or some mess. i dunno. but it's annoying!
ReplyDeleteAlmost every retailer in Canada accepts American money, but almost no one in America takes Canadian money. At this time, American money is worth less than Canadian, so if I ran a business in Canada, I would probably not want to accept American money. I simply think that are American's are arrogant and have a "we're better than you" attitude when at this point in time that's just not true. Canadian Money is BETTER than American Money at the current exchange rate.
ReplyDeleteJust like the Americans say when in the U.S. use American money, then the Americans should do the same when in Canada....use Canadian money.
ReplyDeleteMajority of stores up here will accept American money. I work for a major retailer. So if someone is going to pay with American cash, I just have to hit the currency conversion button on the register to get the American cost. HOWEVER, when dollar is at par, we get the ones bitching that their use of American money is going to cost them more than using Canadian money....all has to do with what the store gets charged from the bank for conversion and processing.
dumbass cashiers!! they hate there lives. guaranteed fat and underpaid. i know you hate your life but dont take it out on people that have to go to work in the middle of the night that somehow ended up with some canadian coins that we didnt ask for in the first place. you sound just like the dumbass cashier i just had an encounter with. refused to take some candian coin that another dumbass cashier gave me.
ReplyDeleteEh.....dumbass lazy dude, get a cashier job and try sorting out american and canadian at the end of the shift. I resent your comments. Ever been a cashier then stfu! This is america do we take pesos, yen, deutse marc.....grow up. I love my job its customers like you that f it up! Maybe YOU should. Pay attention to the currency and be responsible for it because our jobs depend on it......so STFU!
ReplyDeleteI thought you said you gave canadian change out to bad customers as "revenge" and distracted them from noticing.
ReplyDeleteNow you say that they ALL ("whenever")demand american change. I guess that plan of "revenge" doesn't work so well?