Haines His Way

You put your two-dollar bills under your twenties. You don't usually give twenties out as change, so you won't run into the twos. And you put your dollar coins in the penny or dime slots so you won't confuse them for quarters or nickels.

WRONG!

We do so give out twenties as change.  We give them as change every time a customer hands us a fifty or hundred dollar bill.

I have had customers hand me hundred dollar bills for a less than five dollar purchase FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.  When I have had NO large bills in my drawer to use for making the change.

We also give out twenties as change when customers ask for cash back.  They can do this every time they use a check or debit card to make their purchases, or every time they use a Discover card.  Discover even advertises their card as a means for getting cash back, on national television.

As for putting the dollar coins in with the pennies or dimes, this would make it very difficult to simply slide the pennies or dimes out of the slots.  These slots have curved fronts, to make it easy for the cashier to get to the coins.  And the dollar coins do NOT sink to the bottom of the slot.  They float on top of everything else - small items always slip under the large items (which is why farmers always find large rocks finding their way to the top when they plow their fields).

Not to mention how this would make things more difficult when the assistant floor manager comes around to audit the drawer, to make sure no errors are being made by the cashier.  This process is done with a machine these days - the auditor takes the bin from the cash drawer, weighs it on the auditing machine, and gets the total value of the bin based on the weight.  Mixing coins would throw this process off.

(The dollar bills are also handled by weight, btw.  Fascinating process.)

While we're at it, a sidenote on the change given by the self-scan registers:

The self-scan machines do not carry ten dollar bills, to be used for change.  The machines have three bins under the change slot: one for twenties, one for fives, and one for one dollar bills.  It was decided that having a bin for ten dollar bills would take up too much room, and be redundant for something that can just as easily be resolved by dispensing two fivers.

DR vixmom - Well, 9:45pm is a bit too late for pizza and cake anyway.

-But I'm sure you'll make it up to her anyway.

Vixter - welcome to the group.

But be afraid.  Be very afraid.

 






 

DR SWW - Next time, could you just kindly direct them to the Customer Service Desk so that they could exchange their money there before it goes to the register?  Just say it's now store policy.  Yes, it will hold up the line a bit, but at least that will save you the aggravation.  You won't be refusing them service, you will just be redirecting them.  I still know some stores that will and can refuse any bills over $20 if the purchase is below a certain amount. -And they have signs posted saying so.  -I'm also just wondering why they don't go to a bank to trade the money in.

Sandra, you are working at a parking lot.

I am working at a grocery store.

Compare the volume of customers per hour.

Enough said.

I throughly enjoyed revisiting RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. The new DVD looks superb. I didn't get around to putting in the older one and comparing the two. I will do that tomorrow.

Welcome DR VIXTER!!!

One more day...just one more day....I must get up in the morning and get my rear in gear and my fingers a typing to finish all I have to do before leaving town.  The timing of this trip is perfect. I am most pleased.  Leaving for NYC on May Day...I like that

The second bonus feature had the various members of the cast of the new INDIANA JONES/CRYSTAL SKULL movie commenting on the previous three films, their first experience with them, etc.

So, would it be a bad time to say that I really like the Susan B Anthony dollars

DR Jose.  I forgot to mention to get Sugar checked to be sure the "leaking" isn't due to a physical problem.

Thanks to everyone for the "hints" and advice.

I think I came across a bit "alarmist" earlier in my original post.  In any case, Sugar does seem to have some socialization issues.  Jacks is here during the day, alas, he's not kept in the kitchen area but he's right "around" her in the living room.  They used to keep them together, but, apparently, that made Sugar even more excitable.

Sugar is about 9 or 10 months old.  She gets along great with Jacks and with Don and Alexandra, and she also had a full vet check-up before they finished the adoption (I guess it was an adoption of sorts).

And, yes, she was initially crated-raised, so, I'll pass on that hint about bringing her pad outside with her to do her business.  That makes a lot of sense.

Thanks, again.

AMERICAN IDOL:

Oy! Not much of interest this week. I thought Brooke and Jason were particularly terrible on both songs. Jason doesn't even seem to be trying very hard, and Brooke was terrified with her first song; her voice was literally trembling.

I thought David Archulta had the best first song and David Cook had the best second song. Syesha did OK with both of hers, though she tends to sound the same on everything.

Still, nothing I'd call a standout on this evening at all.

One of our neighbors had a couple of red miniature doxies.  They love to bark at me as I pass by on my way to work, or on my way home.

The younger one, still a pup, loves it when I stop and give her a belly rub.  And yes, she squirts.

But her tail quivers happily at the same time.

I got through IDOL in less than 30 minutes, so I spent the next half hour channel surfing. THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN was on Fox Movie Channel. Not a favorite film (Bruce Dern's character calls gay men "fruiters.")

PBS had a program on the nine days that Agatha Christie was missing after her husband asked her for a divorce in the late 1920s.

I finally settled on ABC where I saw who went home from DANCING WITH THE STARS. The couple seemed to know they were leaving. Not having seen the show, I'm not sure why they seemed resigned, but they didn't seem particularly shocked.