For cashiers/retail, has this ever happened to you?

Question

For cashiers and those who have worked (or work) in retail, has this ever happened?

First in this situation lets get rid of all technicalities and possibilities and just assume its a generic customer with no kind of germophobia or any complication otherwise.

Okay, so you ring the customer up as usual, you outstretch your hand for the customer to hand the money to you and instead the customer, seeing your hand and having the money ready and all otherwise, decides to just place it on the counter (or throws/flings it). You complete the transaction and the customer has the nerve to expect you to hand it to him/her and if you mirror the customer's actions (or don't hand it to him/her in other words), he/she throws a fit. Has that ever happened to you?

Retail/former retail workers/cashiers answer only please.

No rude/flaming answers or answers that don't relate to what I'm asking please.

Answer 1

Yes... all the time.

I work for a hotel, so cash paying guests are fairly frequent. Most of them have been traveling for extended periods of time and are tired. So usually, I just let it slide.

Sometimes, though, I'll mess with them and do that exact same thing and lay (or "slap") their change back on the desk. When they look at me funny I just shrug my shoulders and nod at their change as if to say "What? Take your chage..."

I've never had anyone out and out yell at me for it, but you can tell that there are a few who, if they weren't so tired, would make an issue out of it.

Good question!

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

yes actually it has...I worked in a bakery...our hands never touched the food (paper, gloves), but one woman came in and when I went to take the money out of her hand, said I was filthy ( I wasn't...as the cake decorator my hands were in bleach water all day). I was wearing gloves that I took off to take the money..then she proceeded to give ME a lecture on dirty money and why people who work in bakeries shouldn't expect people to LIKE giving them money hand to hand...

Ok...so I said...look..I'm clean. The food is clean...The health inspector comes once a month. ( I gave her his name) and I said...if she thought money was so dirty, why did she come in and spend it...money isn't dirty, unless it's been outside all the time...it doesn't carry germs...
she was a nut and never came back...my boss said I did the right thing...

So yeah...people are weird and get weirder every day.