@@gorilladisco9108 - Just a matter of knowing who you know... Back in the late 80s early 90s I used to go to a gaming club down a street known for it's red light activities. One of the tattoo places down there was run by a Hells Angels member, on top of that they also ran Harley Davidson tours and had a Harley trike they used for such. Now, I was riding a motorbike back then and they allowed me to park at the very end while they used the rest of the parking spots and they would cover the motorbike parking signs, legally since they were permitted to do it on set days. Now, it wasnt just that group that would run the tours, there were two other 'notorious' biker gangs that also did the tours with them. These guys however were teddy bears back then, unlike they are today and infact they effectively left the family because of how it started heading. Anyway, I digress. This one day I came back to my bike to find a council parking inspector writing a ticket for my bike, the guys were out on the tour. So I asked what he thought he was doing and he told me giving me a ticket for being illegally parked. I asked him how I was illegally parked, and at this point the guys were coming back from their tour. OF course the inspector had paused in his writing to look at me and just pointed to the sign. So I put my hand to my ear and went "WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU!?!" So he went back to his writing. Well, the Hells Angel member sees the inspector, hears me say I cant hear him and looks to me, frowns, then steps over to the inspector right as he finished writing the ticket and took it from him and tore it up, then loudly asked the inspector on why he was writing a legally parked motorbike. Of course, having someone that stands almost a foot over you wearing biker leathers had the inspector take a step back and go... "He's... with you guys?" One of the owners of the tattoo shop had stepped out at this point, saw what was going on and stepped over asking what was happening and the other member goes "This dumbass was giving our mate a parking ticket.." Lets just say the inspector quickly asked for it back and said there must have been a mistake and quickly walked off, never had issues with any parking fines after that lol
Story 4: Only thing that makes me sad is there is a high chance the dude broke into some other family's home and stole their gaming system to get the money. Games were likely worthless to a pawn shop, which is why the little weasel tried gifting them to OP.
I once saw a store get mad over a fake $100 bill that she took and didn't realize it was fake even though it had big red letters stating it was fake and for TV and motion picture use.
A travelling fair came to town and they had novelty £20 notes, instead of the Queens head they had a certain mouse wearing top hat and tails and waving a white gloved hand. A cahier at tesco accepted one as payment
Oh, I remember those stupid bills! They made the rounds of the stores in my town a year or so ago. Said the same thing, motion picture use. I don't think our station fell for one for a sale, but sadly several were stuffed into charity donation jars around the town. Made people think the poor family being helped had a generous donation until they were looked at.
El Payaso is super lucky he only had to pay him back and some extra. Messing with friends and family of a veteran member could be a ticket to a free hole in the head and shallow grave, he was probably high enough in the pecking order to avoid that outcome, but he will be made not to forget that.
The beer story is your classic catch 22 situation. In order to push OP has his money, he has to confess to the crime of underage drinking. No way to win here. At least he paid an a-hole tax for his mistake.
Story 4 (the one with the gang members): Yes, I try to make friends with the lowlife in my district, especially the ex-con ones. It might cost me some beers and such but you never know, it might pay off one day?
Stupid rule and stupid OP. She should put them into two different transactions. She should know that any customers wouldn't be happy with that kind of stupid rule. The store should be reported for deceiving customers with that discount rule.
@@gorilladisco9108 The store and the OP are not stupid. I've bought plenty of things under similar deals and know that the cheapest item gets the discount. It's the customer that's stupid for not asking for multiple transactions and paying a stupidity tax. Also, when it comes to "X-for-1" deals or "Buy one get one free/discounted", the rule of thumb is that the cheapest item gets the markdown. I swear common sense is getting extinct in the wild.
@@JamesDavy2009 No. The store indeed is indeed not stupid. They were profiting from the deceiving rule. Most customers will not think much of it, only Karen did freak out because the difference was so big. But that won't put the advertisement as honest.
@@gorilladisco9108the OP wasn’t even remotely stupid. She was clearly about to tell the customer this and say it would be better to put the $4 bag through as a separate transaction. The customer told her to shut up twice and that she didn’t want to know about whatever OP was saying. Why should the OP go out of her way to be abused even more by trying to explain?
@@gorilladisco9108 you obviously not in Retail. If you dont let me talk you get the shit end of the stick in situations like this. Also pretty sure Karen would throw a fit if they tried to make it 2 transactions. The only stupid one here was the Karen customer.
Story 1 - Well that was her own stupid fault. OP did nothing wrong except do what she told him to do. It’s her fault that she didn’t listen when OP was trying to explain the discount savings to her.
OP was in the wrong. Customer was rude but not so much that it was worth giving her a story to trash the store with. And falling back on the "final sale" line was absurd in that span of time. Manager was also an idiot. Neither of them should be in retail if they get that petty for something that small.
Story 3: Sounded like she just wanted to just be done with the whole thing and not care about any errors. Considering that OP got no further response, I guess nobody noticed (or cared)
It wasn't her money, so not worth (to her) the time and effort to correct. We had customers get free product because shipping couldn't be bothered to fill out shipping tickets or enter them in the system. Product just walked out the door.
If it was a State University, I can guarantee you that someone eventually noticed and it was probably grounds to fire that woman if she was still working there. Technically speaking, OP *should* have contacted her supervisor and if the University claimed to not care and it really bothered OP, go to the local newspaper. After 9 years though, I'm guessing that if OP did go to a state university, someone probably caught the error and realized that it's the fault of the woman. Legally, I'm pretty sure that as soon as the accountant who filed the reimbursement said it was not a problem, the university was just SOL.
If a kid harassed me to buy him beer, I'd take the money & buy him root beer 😂 extra malicious compliance. He didn't say what kind of beer he wanted lol
Payasso basically found out that OP has the Personal Protection of GOD... Payasso was also wise enough to recognize that if he didn't do what OG said, it would be the last mistake Payasso made in this life... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Story 2 and 3: Can't imagine what going to happen to the idiot who lost that much money because they can't look closer at the amount and get the hint that OP's is trying to warn them about the fallout.
These stories remind me of when my old health insurance providers kept sending me checks that I had no clue what they could be from. I ask about one and they say it's the compensation for a colonoscopy (which I never had, and still never have) and even though they believe me, they gave me the clear to cash it. This kept happening, and I never got clear answers, so I never cashed them, nor replied to any letters asking about them. I was not going to risk being accused of fraud at that point. Since then I've gotten on my employers insurance.
If I have someone call me to say I mistakenly sent them a check, I'll listen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Most likely, their lawyer said there's nothing they could do to get the money from OP, so the next available option was they deducted that amount from Karen's paycheck.
I've had that happen to me a few times, but only with amounts less than $10. They just don't listen. Edit: and I don't try that hard to make them listen.
The local authorities do that to see who’s staying in compliance with checking ids. If a staff doesn’t ask for ids after asking for birthday they can get in trouble. I work at a gas/convenient store and you can tell who’s of age and who’s not unless they are a regular that has been in there multiple times and have given me their id multiple times I will just settle for their birthday but if it’s someone I don’t recognize and they get identified
In my town there was an 8 year old boy who was notorious for asking for booze and cigs. He asked a friend of mine to get him 10 Richmond, she took his money and gave him a pack of Richmond sausages saying sorry they only come in 8s. Also when dealing with customers we usually had at least one of four questions. 1. Where's the nearest post box? A large cylindrical bright red box just as you stepped onto our forecourt. 2. Where's the nearest post office.? Along the back wall of the shop. 3. Do you sell milk/newspapers? While standing next to the milk chiller/newspaper stand. 4. Can you tell me where beauty parlour/gym is? Beauty parlour across the road directly opposite, gym next door to us.
Story 3: going off what I've heard from my mother who works at a university in finance, it's probably mixed between overworked employees and incompetence.
Your mother spoke wise words, especially given they hire every Tom, Dick and Harry with connections through cronyism and/or nepotism that are otherwise unqualified.
I mean, if somebody can't understand "you are trying to pay me nine thousand dollars too much" then there's nothing you can do about it. Just take the money and run, buddy!
Story 4 reminds me a bit of a story my mom told me once. When she was in highschool, she and one of my aunts got into a fight with a gang in front of some OGs, and WON. That gang was forever known as getting their a**es handed to them by a couple of white teens girls.
Re: the comment to story 1, I can offer a sort of reverse to that. I'm blind and I've lost count of the times when I've asked a staff member "Can you tell me where such-and-such is please?" only to get the staff member pointing in a direction saying "Its over there." At which point I just wave my white cane (which is about 4ft long - how on earth did they not notice it?) in front of them and tell them "Over there" doesn't actually help me. Usually they apogise & either give directions I can use or actually take me there.
Story 4~ Payaso messed up big time! From what OP said he and his Nana are like family to OG . You never mess with family ever, reimbursing OP plus interest is a light punishment.
Don't know if I'd have given a friend money like that (again), and I'm also on testosterone. I hope that friend of OP's has their back and will remember that kindness.
If I was the clerk when that commenter walked in, grabbed beer and walked out throwing a 20 on the counter, I WOULD call the Police because I don't know if they're underage nor do I know if the beer is more than 20 after Taxes... ALL product MUST be scanned by the computer so the Inventory System can deduct the product from the store Inventory and record Sale, the money that's supposed to be in the till and the Taxes the store owes the IRS... And I would do this no matter WHAT products are sold in the store...I'd do that for a dollar chocolate bar all the way up to a $5,000.00 TV, you want to buy it from my store, you go through the check-out lane and have it scanned, then pay what's owed...
Yeah there was someine who consistently stole beer from the gas station I used to work at, and the second time they did it, they acted like they were paying and just ran iff when I told them the 20 wasn't enough to cover the cases they were taking -_- I called the police almost every time, but they had a vanity plate and the police never spent much time looking.
Sale discount story: And that is why you just might want to let a store employee finish what they are trying to tell you. Oops! Over reimbursed story: OP, you tried to fix it and the person responsible just refused to hear you and actually look at it. Something similar happened to my mother years ago when she was Christmas shopping and I was still a toddler (around 1958). She was given change back for her purchases but was given back $20 too much. Normally mom would have returned that money, but the cashier had been very rude. So mom took the money and did more Christmas shopping... elsewhere. That $20 from back then would be worth about $214 in today's money. So we had an extra nice Christmas that year. It pays to be polite. Beer money story: Very well done OP! Hopefully, the kid learned something that day. As for the commenter who just threw money on the counter while walking out with the beer, HELL YES I would call the cops. I don't want to be busted for selling alcohol to a minor and the store's CCTV would back me up. I'm only surprised he wasn't banned from the store(s) after that. Counterfeit bills story: Who's going to counterfeit $20 bills? Anyone who thinks they can get away with it. IDIOT!
All bills have the potential to be counterfeit. Those who print those bills know that people don't check the lower value bills as often as they check the Grants and the Franklins.
Story 5 reminds me of my childhood - when I was 14 we were in a small corner store buying beer - no one cared, because in Germany the legal drinking age for beer and wine is 16, for stronger alcohol it's 18
Former head teller here. If ever in doubt about money just rub the inked part on a light piece of paper, if the ink shows by tinting the paper a little , its real. Ink never drys on real money! Cause its not paper.
I love the “OG” story. I too have a similar story. So growing up my mom had restaurants and she basically raised the head gang bangers and would feed them, help mentor them. One time one of the “yg’s” (youngins) robbed my mom’s restaurant and was bragging about it. When the “OG” heard he was heated and made the “yg’s” come and pray at my mom’s feet asking for forgiveness. Then he made them wash dishes at the restaurant for like 2 weeks. They always looked out for my mom. Some of them use sit in the booth table with me and help my brothers and I with homework. Then another time when my brothers got jumped, they found out who it was…. They were really good people deep down inside.
Last story: "who would even use a counterfeit on a 10 or 20 dollar bill?" is she serious?? I'm no cashier but as far as I know those are the ones that are counterfeited the most.
Especially if they're American. We don't even take their money, or have special machines or markers for is. Ugh the tourists get so mad, but you know how Americans are. .... so unpleasant
So true. Counterfeiters know that the median-value denominations don't get checked as much as the low or high value bills. That manager was a total fool.
Last story: a few years back, the area I lived in (Central NY state) had people passing off $5 counterfeit bills. Most establishments weren't checking them because they were "small" bills. I don't recall how it all ended, but I had heard it was close to $500 worth of bills authorities managed to confiscate in our town alone.
Exactly what I said out loud when I heard the story. A police detective I used to know said that £5 and £10 notes were the most often forged as they’re less likely to be checked.
Story 3: My brother had a situation in his second year of college (1975) where he was sent a check for a lot of money for GI Bill stipends. They had his name and SS# on it. He called and they said it was legit since he had served 2 years in the Army, including 14 months in Vietnam. He tried to explain that they had the wrong person but they insisted they were right. He finally went to the bank, cashed the check and had it given to him in $1 bills, then went to the office and gave them the bag of money and told them if they had sent it to a less honest person that would all be in his pocket now. They took the money back.
1st story: CVS has a similar policy, but when you use their 30% coupon, it's on FULL PRICE ITEMS ONLY. If you buy something on sale, you don't get the discount. I made the mistake one or twice, and each time I got about 50 cents off on a bottle of soda because everything else purchased was on sale.
Oh God, any time I had one of those coupons, nearly every item in the store would have the "Buy One, Get one Half Off" which kept me from even being able to use the coupon
@@nancyomalley6286 The only times that the coupon really worked for me was when I was able to stock up on books that were specific for my state. Then I was able to, between the coupon and my card, I was able to knock off about $6 off the cover price.
Story 4: Well then, all the more reason gang members shouldn't just go throwing their weight around. All it takes is one connection you don't know about before _you're_ the one being ordered to pay up or else.
Story three.... Back in my US Airforce years, late 1970s, the disbursing offce gives me $800 too much in my paycheck. I went to Disbursing to tell them of the overage. The clerk says, "We don't make mistakes!" So I kept that $800 aside from my regular pay. Sure enough a couple months later, my paycheck is $800 light. I expected it. That extra $800 came in handy. 😅 Luckily had no further problems.
Story One: This reminds me of an issue that used to happen annually where I work. Basically, once a year in early December the company gives every employee a one-time "extra fifteen percent off on one entire purchase" bonus, which can be combined with our regular employee discount for a total of twenty five percent off. And it does indeed mean 'one entire purchase' so it's totally allowed to exploit the crap out of it by loading up multiple carts. Nowadays, this works through the scanning of a special one time use bar code so there's no risk of errors, but it used to be that the system automatically applied the bonus discount the first time an employee swiped their discount card once the bonus went live... And every year there was at least one unfortunate who forgot and, grabbing a bottle of soda on their way to break, got their extra bonus off on a one dollar purchase.
Story 6: Oh boy, that manager's argument "who would even counterfeit a 10 or 20 dollar bill" is idiotic. It's exactly BECAUSE nobody expects it that counterfeiters will do it. When I worked as a cashier, the first counterfeit I came across was a 20, and we didn't have machine to check so we all had to hold it up (they can't insist we check the bills and say we can't resort to our only option). And yes, a lot customers don't like that. Now I work in our booking office and from time to time we do get obvious fakes, even "movie money", bills that clearly indicate they are not real. Thankfully it's extremely rare we see them for large amounts.
Yup. The vast majority of counterfeits are $20 bills. I also wouldn't be surprised if $10 counterfeits are becoming more popular as $20s are checked much more often.
With the College story: After several documented failed attempts, and a 2 year hold in a saving account- nope according to the US treasury that money is OP's free and clear. If you make multiple offers to settle a bill or correct an accounting mistake and the issuer in question denies the error, bill or refuses legally recognized currency then the bill or debt is considered void and the person trying to address the situation is free and clear. This works for any place where legal currency for a bill or debt is refused be it a college, a grocery store, a law or medical office, or a contracted service. Most likely the reason OP never hard about it again was when they noticed the discrepancy and looked at the acceptance with the notes and documented dates and times when he tired to fix it and their employee denied the error there was nothing they can do... Except fire the lady in the financial aid department for her rudeness, her belligerence and the fact that she stole, and gave away to a random person, over 10K. There was nothing they could do to OP, it was their error that they denied. Um... "Bank error in your favor collect 200 ( in this case 10 thousand) dollars"
The gang member one reminds me of my gas station days. there were some dark cars always parked out back and I would just pretend I didn't see them or know what they were doing. Id give them their privacy and spot them some free slurpees, and whenever I had a trouble customer all I had to do was make eye contact with one of the cars and 2 or 3 scary looking dudes would come in and loiter around to make sure I was safe. Never had any safety issues in the few years they were around! good folk :)
It really pays to be on friendly terms with senior gang members; it’s literally saved my life before. Was breaking up a fight while working security in a bar, and homie stepped up to one of his boys who pulled a gun on me, telling them that if any of his boys touch me, he’d kill them himself. He then got all of them to leave and was extremely apologetic. He still continued to be a regular at the bar, but never brought those guys with him again (most of them were 86'd anyway).
Story 3: There is a statute of limitations on how long an organization can wait to collect on an unpaid bill or fix a billing error. Usually in the realm of 3 years or so. So OP needed not have worried at all once he graduated.
Despite the First story's sale being final, I am pretty sure my manager would have simply voided the entire thing and redone the sale without the bag so she got her refund, and then sold her the bag separately. I would have then offered her maybe a second bag for an additional discount. He's the manager, he could go over a machine's insistence it was final sale. What if the OP had made a mistake ringing the customer up? But then they wouldn't have gotten the extra money.
Story 4: That’s all fine and great for OP, but what about all of the other kids that are going to be treated horribly by this dude. This didn’t solve anything.
Indeed the cashiers should be vigilant when handed a Hamilton or a Jackson-people will notice when given a ton of low-value bills or a high value bill to break.
I've never heard of anyone ever getting upset with a cashier checking the customers money to see if they're counterfeit. My favorite thing to do when I see a cashier doing that is to jokingly say "I made them good right?".
Story 5: I once had this happen to me about 30 years ago. I went to a store and some kid asked me if I was 21. I knew he wanted me to buy beer. I told him no, I wasn't 21. What I didn't tell him was I was 22.
"Who would even use a counterfeit on a $10 or $20 bill?" There was, in fact, a guy who tried to use a $20 counterfeit back in 2020. It didn't end up well.
For anyone who doesn’t know and might be considering just throwing down money and walking out with the beer like the commenter described, that is still theft and they may call the cops on you. The store has to accept the money before the product is considered your property. All the guy did was steal beer and abandon money
Story 4: As a teenager I gave some guitar lessons to an HA-vet. The most shady downtown quarters became totally safe for me at any time of the day (or night).
Story 3: We used to joke that our University’s slogan was “Grab Your Ankles!” Frankly, it’s nice to see a student coming out ahead in a transaction with a university.
2:53 This makes no sense, the "buy one, get next item x% off" means the same item or similar items. And I seriously doubt a shopping bag was anywhere in the same category as the $250 item.
The first story sounds like their cash register rewards the rich over the poor. 75 percent off the cheapest item could be redeemed on two similar products that are too expensive to be worth buying two of making it basically buy one get one free.
With the 9 grand, I would have added at the end of the note "Due to past attempts to correct this matter, it will be considered correct and indisputable if it is not addressed by mm/dd/yyyy." To avoid worrying about it for years lol
Lower bills get less scrutiny. You walk into a story and buy $9 worth of food and pay in cash, a 10 or a 20 would be reasonable. A 50 or a 100 would not. 50's and 100's are usually used for bigger purchases. If you don't want to get caught making fake bills, you make them worth less because people automatically think "Well what's the use in fake 5's 10's and 20's?". Typically large forging operations make smaller bills to be passed off locally.
It's true. It shows more if you're also licensed for money transfers like Western Union and such, as not a lot of employees actually CHECK them that often.
I claimed mileage for a trip of 64 miles, and the company paid me for 64 HOURS. Since this was in addition to my regular hours, it was all overtime. I received a check for almost 3 1/2 times my normal pay. I showed it to my supervisor, my assistant manager, the store secretary, and the store manager, asking what I should do. They all shrugged and had no idea. The store manager even gave me a thumbs-up! I put it in the bank and let it sit there, expecting a clawback when they realized the mistake, but nothing ever happened. That was 24 years ago and I've long since retired, so I guess it's too late now for them to do anything about it.
Story 3 - If they ever do come after OP for the 9K, they may try to hit him up for "late fees". Hopefully, this will never happen, but OP should be prepared to fight it, just in case.
Story 4: as a mom, i will never understand how a parent can put their kid's lives and future at risk by living in a bad part of town. No kid should ever be afraid of being robbed or avoiding gangs or be pushed to join a gang. Setting your kids up for failure 😞
I'm so glad that my only likely contact with a Customer is when they do a factory tour with a Boss, or when I hold the door for them going into Reception. A smile, "You're welcome", that's all of it. I'd hate to have to deal with Customers in retail - I've been there, I NEVER want to go back.
Story 1: If OP’s version is accurate, OP engaged in unnecessary preamble rather than simply saying, “If you buy the bag, you’ll pay full price on the $200 item.” Brief and to the point, without OP’s unnecessary blather. A sale is a contract, and the customer didn’t get the benefit she thought she was getting. If taken to court, some jurisdictions would undo that sale, despite the “all sales are final” condition, due to the mistake.
Tuition story: universities here in Australia’s make minimum 40-50k/yr per international student…. They’re not in any monetary issue unless international students don’t come to Australia to study anymore
when i was a kid my dad had friends from hell's angel i grew up with them around and never really understood about them til i was in high school when my friends told me about them and how mean they are.... i was shocked that the awesome men and their wives were so cold and mean but to me they were amazing people
Story 5: Manager deserved to be fired, $20 bills are the most commonly counterfeited bills, if she thinks no one is going to counterfeit small denominations you can only imagine how often she took counterfeit bills as payment.
Story 4: The fact Payasso (or however you spell it) just accepted his mistake and kept good relations, shows that there is a decent person underneath the gangmember. Which isnt unusual. Just sad they are in gangs :/
Holding up bank-notes to check that they're genuine. Whenever I get a note in my change I always ostentatiously hold it up to the light. It annoys the crap out of people.
#4 - that's why you never fuck with the fam of the neighborhood grandma. My gma had that role when I lived in a bad side of town... we were mixed and lighter, and my dad's mother was Austrian. Everyone in the neighborhood called her Oma. No one in our bad neighborhood, regardless of background, messed with us because everyone loved Oma.
#3 Another possibility was OP mistype the amount in his activity proposal (or anybody who enter it into the university system) and the university just signed on it. That may explain why Karen insisted that nothing was wrong with the reimbursement. IT people has a term for it, GIGO (garbage in garbage out), if you input garbage, the computer will spit out garbage too.
"are they going to call the cops and say someone paid for beer?" - Depending on where you are and when it happens... I had to do the mandatory sales thing once (it had nothing to do with my actual job but they'd rather waste our time than be logical) and the instructions on dropped the money took the liquor was 100% call the police
S3 Hilarious story of how OP bought a Diesel Genset at a big box store. Then saw that the price was less online at the same store. So he buys it online and cancels the offline purchase. Pays and takes delivery of ONE DG Set. A week later, they tell him his DG Set is ready for delivery. He keeps telling them that he paid for and took delivery of ONE DG Set. They don't seem to understand what he is saying and keep insisting he take delivery of a (2nd) DG Set. He approaches the store and nervously talks about payment. They assure him he PAID in full for the set. After taking it home and waiting for some months for the store to tell him they made a mistake, he tells a friend to have it gratis in exchange for the many hours free labor the friend put in helping OP at his farm!
Story 3: People don't like to be told they've made a mistake. Years ago, my family was eating out. When we got the ticket, the total didn't look right so we added everything up and discovered she left something off the ticket. The waiteess saw what we were doing and assumed we were trying to cheat the restaurant. We tried to explain that she didn't charge enough, but she got mad and insisted that she didn't make a mistake and the ticket was right. So we paid the ticket and got some free food.
story 3: If OP said specifically I paid 1k and not 10k then it might have finally jolted the karens brain into action but you can never be too sure, that's why you always cover your rear and document everything as well as record when able to. check your local laws to see if you can record without informing the other side. this place might have been one of the larger uni/college so it might actually have been a small amount. large amounts for individuals can be small for large organizations. story 5: luckily the manager didn't remember OP's comments and delete the recording.
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Story 4: For those who don’t know Spanish, payaso means clown.🤡
Lol I forgot it could also mean that coz where I'm from it could also mean a really skinny tall person (ig like those clowns on stilts)
Lol😂
lmfao
And "pendejo" means pubic hair. Just for the record.
That's hilarious!
Man story 4. That dude stepped in a massive pile and then realized the "Oh s**t. I've just f**ked around and I'm about to find out."
OP was "connected". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gorilladisco9108 - Just a matter of knowing who you know... Back in the late 80s early 90s I used to go to a gaming club down a street known for it's red light activities. One of the tattoo places down there was run by a Hells Angels member, on top of that they also ran Harley Davidson tours and had a Harley trike they used for such. Now, I was riding a motorbike back then and they allowed me to park at the very end while they used the rest of the parking spots and they would cover the motorbike parking signs, legally since they were permitted to do it on set days. Now, it wasnt just that group that would run the tours, there were two other 'notorious' biker gangs that also did the tours with them. These guys however were teddy bears back then, unlike they are today and infact they effectively left the family because of how it started heading. Anyway, I digress.
This one day I came back to my bike to find a council parking inspector writing a ticket for my bike, the guys were out on the tour. So I asked what he thought he was doing and he told me giving me a ticket for being illegally parked. I asked him how I was illegally parked, and at this point the guys were coming back from their tour. OF course the inspector had paused in his writing to look at me and just pointed to the sign. So I put my hand to my ear and went "WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU!?!" So he went back to his writing. Well, the Hells Angel member sees the inspector, hears me say I cant hear him and looks to me, frowns, then steps over to the inspector right as he finished writing the ticket and took it from him and tore it up, then loudly asked the inspector on why he was writing a legally parked motorbike. Of course, having someone that stands almost a foot over you wearing biker leathers had the inspector take a step back and go... "He's... with you guys?" One of the owners of the tattoo shop had stepped out at this point, saw what was going on and stepped over asking what was happening and the other member goes "This dumbass was giving our mate a parking ticket.." Lets just say the inspector quickly asked for it back and said there must have been a mistake and quickly walked off, never had issues with any parking fines after that lol
Story 4: Only thing that makes me sad is there is a high chance the dude broke into some other family's home and stole their gaming system to get the money. Games were likely worthless to a pawn shop, which is why the little weasel tried gifting them to OP.
OP was Artie Bucco from the Sopranos. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that is sad, but....nothing much can be done? i dunno
I once saw a store get mad over a fake $100 bill that she took and didn't realize it was fake even though it had big red letters stating it was fake and for TV and motion picture use.
A travelling fair came to town and they had novelty £20 notes, instead of the Queens head they had a certain mouse wearing top hat and tails and waving a white gloved hand. A cahier at tesco accepted one as payment
Oh, I remember those stupid bills! They made the rounds of the stores in my town a year or so ago. Said the same thing, motion picture use. I don't think our station fell for one for a sale, but sadly several were stuffed into charity donation jars around the town. Made people think the poor family being helped had a generous donation until they were looked at.
Story 4 - Oralé… be careful who you shake down, right?
El Payaso is super lucky he only had to pay him back and some extra. Messing with friends and family of a veteran member could be a ticket to a free hole in the head and shallow grave, he was probably high enough in the pecking order to avoid that outcome, but he will be made not to forget that.
The beer story is your classic catch 22 situation. In order to push OP has his money, he has to confess to the crime of underage drinking. No way to win here. At least he paid an a-hole tax for his mistake.
Reminds me of the video of a woman who called police because her drug dealer took her money but didn't give her the drug she bought. 🤣
Story 4 (the one with the gang members): Yes, I try to make friends with the lowlife in my district, especially the ex-con ones. It might cost me some beers and such but you never know, it might pay off one day?
It never hurts to know a few of the 'right kind' of wrong people. it can be handy.
That gift bag she didn't want to hear about wound up being a stupidity tax. Her fault for not wanting to hear it.
Stupid rule and stupid OP. She should put them into two different transactions. She should know that any customers wouldn't be happy with that kind of stupid rule. The store should be reported for deceiving customers with that discount rule.
@@gorilladisco9108 The store and the OP are not stupid. I've bought plenty of things under similar deals and know that the cheapest item gets the discount. It's the customer that's stupid for not asking for multiple transactions and paying a stupidity tax. Also, when it comes to "X-for-1" deals or "Buy one get one free/discounted", the rule of thumb is that the cheapest item gets the markdown. I swear common sense is getting extinct in the wild.
@@JamesDavy2009 No. The store indeed is indeed not stupid. They were profiting from the deceiving rule.
Most customers will not think much of it, only Karen did freak out because the difference was so big.
But that won't put the advertisement as honest.
@@gorilladisco9108the OP wasn’t even remotely stupid. She was clearly about to tell the customer this and say it would be better to put the $4 bag through as a separate transaction. The customer told her to shut up twice and that she didn’t want to know about whatever OP was saying. Why should the OP go out of her way to be abused even more by trying to explain?
@@gorilladisco9108 you obviously not in Retail. If you dont let me talk you get the shit end of the stick in situations like this. Also pretty sure Karen would throw a fit if they tried to make it 2 transactions. The only stupid one here was the Karen customer.
Story 1 - Well that was her own stupid fault. OP did nothing wrong except do what she told him to do. It’s her fault that she didn’t listen when OP was trying to explain the discount savings to her.
OP was in the wrong. Customer was rude but not so much that it was worth giving her a story to trash the store with. And falling back on the "final sale" line was absurd in that span of time. Manager was also an idiot. Neither of them should be in retail if they get that petty for something that small.
@lahoorah Yes we did, as you just self-identifed...
@@senhowler OP was not in the wrong you dont understand retail if it hit you in the ass
@@mattschehr163 I work in retail, idiot. What they did was escalate a minor situation into a major one.
OP definitely did everything correctly. Biddy has no one to blame but herself.
Story 3: Sounded like she just wanted to just be done with the whole thing and not care about any errors. Considering that OP got no further response, I guess nobody noticed (or cared)
It wasn't her money, so not worth (to her) the time and effort to correct. We had customers get free product because shipping couldn't be bothered to fill out shipping tickets or enter them in the system. Product just walked out the door.
If it was a State University, I can guarantee you that someone eventually noticed and it was probably grounds to fire that woman if she was still working there.
Technically speaking, OP *should* have contacted her supervisor and if the University claimed to not care and it really bothered OP, go to the local newspaper.
After 9 years though, I'm guessing that if OP did go to a state university, someone probably caught the error and realized that it's the fault of the woman. Legally, I'm pretty sure that as soon as the accountant who filed the reimbursement said it was not a problem, the university was just SOL.
If this were a movie that little kid would become a mini gang boss with all these guys cracking their knuckles behind him
If a kid harassed me to buy him beer, I'd take the money & buy him root beer 😂 extra malicious compliance. He didn't say what kind of beer he wanted lol
Nah.. Birch Beer is better..
Better yet, buy the 0-proof alcohol free kind.
@@JamesDavy2009☠️☠️☠️
Ginger beer. That stuff is fire -- literally.
@@hagamapama Especially the one produced in the place of my birth: Bundaberg.
Payasso basically found out that OP has the Personal Protection of GOD...
Payasso was also wise enough to recognize that if he didn't do what OG said, it would be the last mistake Payasso made in this life...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
OP was "connected". He's Artie Bucco from the Sopranos. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those veterans don't get to their age by selling Girl Scout cookies.
Story 2 and 3: Can't imagine what going to happen to the idiot who lost that much money because they can't look closer at the amount and get the hint that OP's is trying to warn them about the fallout.
I don't know about Story 3, but with Story 2 OP did say that a different lady spoke to them. So I think it's safe to say at least one idiot got fired.
@@Arcane_Route_66and with story 3 I wonder if they realized too late or stayed dumb. That lady he spoke too sounded wonderful 🙄
These stories remind me of when my old health insurance providers kept sending me checks that I had no clue what they could be from. I ask about one and they say it's the compensation for a colonoscopy (which I never had, and still never have) and even though they believe me, they gave me the clear to cash it. This kept happening, and I never got clear answers, so I never cashed them, nor replied to any letters asking about them. I was not going to risk being accused of fraud at that point. Since then I've gotten on my employers insurance.
If I have someone call me to say I mistakenly sent them a check, I'll listen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Most likely, their lawyer said there's nothing they could do to get the money from OP, so the next available option was they deducted that amount from Karen's paycheck.
I've had that happen to me a few times, but only with amounts less than $10. They just don't listen.
Edit: and I don't try that hard to make them listen.
Story 5: OP could've been arrested and the parents might've been hounded too. All because some dumb 12-yr old wanted beer
Not to mention the store could have been fined and lost its liquor license.
In my stater, the local alcohol compliance agency will often use underage peeps to get people to either buy them cigs/booze or buy them themselves.
The local authorities do that to see who’s staying in compliance with checking ids. If a staff doesn’t ask for ids after asking for birthday they can get in trouble. I work at a gas/convenient store and you can tell who’s of age and who’s not unless they are a regular that has been in there multiple times and have given me their id multiple times I will just settle for their birthday but if it’s someone I don’t recognize and they get identified
Reminds me of the video of a woman who called police because her drug dealer took her money but didn't give her the drug she bought. 🤣
In my town there was an 8 year old boy who was notorious for asking for booze and cigs. He asked a friend of mine to get him 10 Richmond, she took his money and gave him a pack of Richmond sausages saying sorry they only come in 8s. Also when dealing with customers we usually had at least one of four questions.
1. Where's the nearest post box? A large cylindrical bright red box just as you stepped onto our forecourt.
2. Where's the nearest post office.? Along the back wall of the shop.
3. Do you sell milk/newspapers? While standing next to the milk chiller/newspaper stand.
4. Can you tell me where beauty parlour/gym is? Beauty parlour across the road directly opposite, gym next door to us.
Story 3: going off what I've heard from my mother who works at a university in finance, it's probably mixed between overworked employees and incompetence.
Your mother spoke wise words, especially given they hire every Tom, Dick and Harry with connections through cronyism and/or nepotism that are otherwise unqualified.
I mean, if somebody can't understand "you are trying to pay me nine thousand dollars too much" then there's nothing you can do about it. Just take the money and run, buddy!
It's like watching an _OOPS!_ segment on _Square One TV._
It is a great salve to one's conscience to Have Done What You Could To Fix A Problem.
I applaud OP for having integrity. He gave the woman every chance not to fail.
Story 4 reminds me a bit of a story my mom told me once. When she was in highschool, she and one of my aunts got into a fight with a gang in front of some OGs, and WON. That gang was forever known as getting their a**es handed to them by a couple of white teens girls.
S4: Wow, good thing both OP and OG lived where they did. Many children don't have an OG in their lives, sadly.
The way OG uno reversed dude is crazy.
11:16 You’re a good person OP, thank you for supporting your fellow member when his parents were being bigots, much love and respect for you OP 😌🖤
Re: the comment to story 1, I can offer a sort of reverse to that. I'm blind and I've lost count of the times when I've asked a staff member "Can you tell me where such-and-such is please?" only to get the staff member pointing in a direction saying "Its over there."
At which point I just wave my white cane (which is about 4ft long - how on earth did they not notice it?) in front of them and tell them "Over there" doesn't actually help me. Usually they apogise & either give directions I can use or actually take me there.
That Karen screwed herself over with her rudeness. Got what she deserved.
I love when people try to use the "I'd owe you one" line. All without thinking what they actually have to offer
Story 4~ Payaso messed up big time! From what OP said he and his Nana are like family to OG . You never mess with family ever, reimbursing OP plus interest is a light punishment.
Payaso got off easy. Stupid young thug nearly ate his own teeth. Happens sometimes to the young and dumb.
Story 3: What a good ending of what OP did with the money to a friend whose parents stopped paying ❤
Don't know if I'd have given a friend money like that (again), and I'm also on testosterone. I hope that friend of OP's has their back and will remember that kindness.
It's fake
If I was the clerk when that commenter walked in, grabbed beer and walked out throwing a 20 on the counter, I WOULD call the Police because I don't know if they're underage nor do I know if the beer is more than 20 after Taxes...
ALL product MUST be scanned by the computer so the Inventory System can deduct the product from the store Inventory and record Sale, the money that's supposed to be in the till and the Taxes the store owes the IRS...
And I would do this no matter WHAT products are sold in the store...I'd do that for a dollar chocolate bar all the way up to a $5,000.00 TV, you want to buy it from my store, you go through the check-out lane and have it scanned, then pay what's owed...
Yeah there was someine who consistently stole beer from the gas station I used to work at, and the second time they did it, they acted like they were paying and just ran iff when I told them the 20 wasn't enough to cover the cases they were taking -_- I called the police almost every time, but they had a vanity plate and the police never spent much time looking.
Sale discount story: And that is why you just might want to let a store employee finish what they are trying to tell you. Oops!
Over reimbursed story: OP, you tried to fix it and the person responsible just refused to hear you and actually look at it. Something similar happened to my mother years ago when she was Christmas shopping and I was still a toddler (around 1958). She was given change back for her purchases but was given back $20 too much. Normally mom would have returned that money, but the cashier had been very rude. So mom took the money and did more Christmas shopping... elsewhere. That $20 from back then would be worth about $214 in today's money. So we had an extra nice Christmas that year. It pays to be polite.
Beer money story: Very well done OP! Hopefully, the kid learned something that day.
As for the commenter who just threw money on the counter while walking out with the beer, HELL YES I would call the cops. I don't want to be busted for selling alcohol to a minor and the store's CCTV would back me up. I'm only surprised he wasn't banned from the store(s) after that.
Counterfeit bills story: Who's going to counterfeit $20 bills? Anyone who thinks they can get away with it. IDIOT!
All bills have the potential to be counterfeit. Those who print those bills know that people don't check the lower value bills as often as they check the Grants and the Franklins.
Story 5 reminds me of my childhood - when I was 14 we were in a small corner store buying beer - no one cared, because in Germany the legal drinking age for beer and wine is 16, for stronger alcohol it's 18
Former head teller here. If ever in doubt about money just rub the inked part on a light piece of paper, if the ink shows by tinting the paper a little , its real. Ink never drys on real money! Cause its not paper.
my ass
Um, I've accidentally washed money before, in a washing machine, how's come the ink didn't wash away, or at least some of it?
That wouldn’t work everywhere. In the UK our notes are plastic now.
Story 4 had me laughing so hard! He f*cked up so badly.
I love the “OG” story. I too have a similar story. So growing up my mom had restaurants and she basically raised the head gang bangers and would feed them, help mentor them. One time one of the “yg’s” (youngins) robbed my mom’s restaurant and was bragging about it. When the “OG” heard he was heated and made the “yg’s” come and pray at my mom’s feet asking for forgiveness. Then he made them wash dishes at the restaurant for like 2 weeks. They always looked out for my mom. Some of them use sit in the booth table with me and help my brothers and I with homework. Then another time when my brothers got jumped, they found out who it was…. They were really good people deep down inside.
Most people are good when given an opportunity to be.
Last story: "who would even use a counterfeit on a 10 or 20 dollar bill?" is she serious?? I'm no cashier but as far as I know those are the ones that are counterfeited the most.
Especially if they're American. We don't even take their money, or have special machines or markers for is. Ugh the tourists get so mad, but you know how Americans are. .... so unpleasant
The manager was working with the scammers. She must have tampered with the checker
So true. Counterfeiters know that the median-value denominations don't get checked as much as the low or high value bills. That manager was a total fool.
Last story: a few years back, the area I lived in (Central NY state) had people passing off $5 counterfeit bills. Most establishments weren't checking them because they were "small" bills. I don't recall how it all ended, but I had heard it was close to $500 worth of bills authorities managed to confiscate in our town alone.
Exactly what I said out loud when I heard the story. A police detective I used to know said that £5 and £10 notes were the most often forged as they’re less likely to be checked.
Story 3: My brother had a situation in his second year of college (1975) where he was sent a check for a lot of money for GI Bill stipends. They had his name and SS# on it. He called and they said it was legit since he had served 2 years in the Army, including 14 months in Vietnam. He tried to explain that they had the wrong person but they insisted they were right. He finally went to the bank, cashed the check and had it given to him in $1 bills, then went to the office and gave them the bag of money and told them if they had sent it to a less honest person that would all be in his pocket now. They took the money back.
1st story: CVS has a similar policy, but when you use their 30% coupon, it's on FULL PRICE ITEMS ONLY. If you buy something on sale, you don't get the discount. I made the mistake one or twice, and each time I got about 50 cents off on a bottle of soda because everything else purchased was on sale.
Oh God, any time I had one of those coupons, nearly every item in the store would have the "Buy One, Get one Half Off" which kept me from even being able to use the coupon
@@nancyomalley6286 The only times that the coupon really worked for me was when I was able to stock up on books that were specific for my state. Then I was able to, between the coupon and my card, I was able to knock off about $6 off the cover price.
Story 4: Well then, all the more reason gang members shouldn't just go throwing their weight around. All it takes is one connection you don't know about before _you're_ the one being ordered to pay up or else.
Some fun context for story 4: payaso is Spanish for clown 🤡
Story 5, yeah that kid surely paid the annoyance tax alright.
Story three.... Back in my US Airforce years, late 1970s, the disbursing offce gives me $800 too much in my paycheck. I went to Disbursing to tell them of the overage. The clerk says, "We don't make mistakes!" So I kept that $800 aside from my regular pay. Sure enough a couple months later, my paycheck is $800 light. I expected it. That extra $800 came in handy. 😅
Luckily had no further problems.
Story One: This reminds me of an issue that used to happen annually where I work. Basically, once a year in early December the company gives every employee a one-time "extra fifteen percent off on one entire purchase" bonus, which can be combined with our regular employee discount for a total of twenty five percent off. And it does indeed mean 'one entire purchase' so it's totally allowed to exploit the crap out of it by loading up multiple carts. Nowadays, this works through the scanning of a special one time use bar code so there's no risk of errors, but it used to be that the system automatically applied the bonus discount the first time an employee swiped their discount card once the bonus went live... And every year there was at least one unfortunate who forgot and, grabbing a bottle of soda on their way to break, got their extra bonus off on a one dollar purchase.
Story 6: Oh boy, that manager's argument "who would even counterfeit a 10 or 20 dollar bill" is idiotic. It's exactly BECAUSE nobody expects it that counterfeiters will do it. When I worked as a cashier, the first counterfeit I came across was a 20, and we didn't have machine to check so we all had to hold it up (they can't insist we check the bills and say we can't resort to our only option). And yes, a lot customers don't like that. Now I work in our booking office and from time to time we do get obvious fakes, even "movie money", bills that clearly indicate they are not real. Thankfully it's extremely rare we see them for large amounts.
Yup. The vast majority of counterfeits are $20 bills. I also wouldn't be surprised if $10 counterfeits are becoming more popular as $20s are checked much more often.
@@robertc.9503 Always check your Hamiltons and Jacksons.
You know that $1,200 is coming out of that woman's paycheck and she's probably fired or at least demoted /put on probation for that screw up!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
For those who don’t know, counterfeits are usually used for lower bills specifically because they don’t get checked.
With the College story: After several documented failed attempts, and a 2 year hold in a saving account- nope according to the US treasury that money is OP's free and clear. If you make multiple offers to settle a bill or correct an accounting mistake and the issuer in question denies the error, bill or refuses legally recognized currency then the bill or debt is considered void and the person trying to address the situation is free and clear. This works for any place where legal currency for a bill or debt is refused be it a college, a grocery store, a law or medical office, or a contracted service. Most likely the reason OP never hard about it again was when they noticed the discrepancy and looked at the acceptance with the notes and documented dates and times when he tired to fix it and their employee denied the error there was nothing they can do... Except fire the lady in the financial aid department for her rudeness, her belligerence and the fact that she stole, and gave away to a random person, over 10K. There was nothing they could do to OP, it was their error that they denied. Um... "Bank error in your favor collect 200 ( in this case 10 thousand) dollars"
I was thinking of that Community Chest card.
The gang member one reminds me of my gas station days. there were some dark cars always parked out back and I would just pretend I didn't see them or know what they were doing. Id give them their privacy and spot them some free slurpees, and whenever I had a trouble customer all I had to do was make eye contact with one of the cars and 2 or 3 scary looking dudes would come in and loiter around to make sure I was safe. Never had any safety issues in the few years they were around! good folk :)
It really pays to be on friendly terms with senior gang members; it’s literally saved my life before. Was breaking up a fight while working security in a bar, and homie stepped up to one of his boys who pulled a gun on me, telling them that if any of his boys touch me, he’d kill them himself. He then got all of them to leave and was extremely apologetic. He still continued to be a regular at the bar, but never brought those guys with him again (most of them were 86'd anyway).
Woohoo!! Fluffy time!
Story 3: There is a statute of limitations on how long an organization can wait to collect on an unpaid bill or fix a billing error. Usually in the realm of 3 years or so. So OP needed not have worried at all once he graduated.
Despite the First story's sale being final, I am pretty sure my manager would have simply voided the entire thing and redone the sale without the bag so she got her refund, and then sold her the bag separately. I would have then offered her maybe a second bag for an additional discount. He's the manager, he could go over a machine's insistence it was final sale. What if the OP had made a mistake ringing the customer up? But then they wouldn't have gotten the extra money.
Story 4:
That’s all fine and great for OP, but what about all of the other kids that are going to be treated horribly by this dude. This didn’t solve anything.
Malicious Compliance has to be my favourite. Thank you for the treat, Fluff!! 😍
I think it’s cooler than cool that OP ultimately used the money to help another student
Essentially one day's interest on their huge endowment.
10 and 20 dollar bills are the most common to counterfeight, of this obvious reason; people don't realize they are the most common bills
Indeed the cashiers should be vigilant when handed a Hamilton or a Jackson-people will notice when given a ton of low-value bills or a high value bill to break.
I've never heard of anyone ever getting upset with a cashier checking the customers money to see if they're counterfeit.
My favorite thing to do when I see a cashier doing that is to jokingly say "I made them good right?".
If they are getting upset, that raises a lot of red flags.
@@JamesDavy2009 yup exactly. Like someone getting mad at the door greeters checking you receipts.
Story 4 really be being nice to people can be rewarding
Story 4 i just hope payaso didn't rob some poor family's house to get those games
Story 5: I once had this happen to me about 30 years ago. I went to a store and some kid asked me if I was 21. I knew he wanted me to buy beer. I told him no, I wasn't 21. What I didn't tell him was I was 22.
Technically not a lie-the framing was if the age was equal.
Story 4 really reinforces the fact that criminals aren't allowed to win any battle of good vs evil in any form.
"Who would even use a counterfeit on a $10 or $20 bill?"
There was, in fact, a guy who tried to use a $20 counterfeit back in 2020. It didn't end up well.
For the first story. As soon as she bought the $4 bag, I was laughing my ass off the rest of the story.🤣
For anyone who doesn’t know and might be considering just throwing down money and walking out with the beer like the commenter described, that is still theft and they may call the cops on you. The store has to accept the money before the product is considered your property. All the guy did was steal beer and abandon money
It only takes a minute at most to go through the proper channels to acquire a purchase. Haste makes waste.
I had a gf who was a queen in the crips before she passed away from cancer...
Story 4: As a teenager I gave some guitar lessons to an HA-vet. The most shady downtown quarters became totally safe for me at any time of the day (or night).
Story 3: We used to joke that our University’s slogan was “Grab Your Ankles!” Frankly, it’s nice to see a student coming out ahead in a transaction with a university.
2:53 This makes no sense, the "buy one, get next item x% off" means the same item or similar items. And I seriously doubt a shopping bag was anywhere in the same category as the $250 item.
Thank you. I appreciate you both so much
The first story sounds like their cash register rewards the rich over the poor. 75 percent off the cheapest item could be redeemed on two similar products that are too expensive to be worth buying two of making it basically buy one get one free.
With the 9 grand, I would have added at the end of the note "Due to past attempts to correct this matter, it will be considered correct and indisputable if it is not addressed by mm/dd/yyyy." To avoid worrying about it for years lol
Story 3 :
Op at least use the money for good 😊
Manager in the final story: You're fired!
The OP: no u!
Last story: 10's and 20's are the most counterfeited bills? The eff she talkin' about?
Lower bills get less scrutiny. You walk into a story and buy $9 worth of food and pay in cash, a 10 or a 20 would be reasonable. A 50 or a 100 would not. 50's and 100's are usually used for bigger purchases. If you don't want to get caught making fake bills, you make them worth less because people automatically think "Well what's the use in fake 5's 10's and 20's?".
Typically large forging operations make smaller bills to be passed off locally.
It's true. It shows more if you're also licensed for money transfers like Western Union and such, as not a lot of employees actually CHECK them that often.
I think the manager was in on the counterfeit scheme. She might have broken the machine herself, and the shady ladies are her friends or relatives
What she said was, "Lalalalalaaaaa reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
If anyone underage asks me to buy beer, I’ll say sure. Go in and get a 6 pack of Root Beer. LOL
Story 1
Those policies should have the decision makers on the front line to test them out.
I claimed mileage for a trip of 64 miles, and the company paid me for 64 HOURS. Since this was in addition to my regular hours, it was all overtime. I received a check for almost 3 1/2 times my normal pay. I showed it to my supervisor, my assistant manager, the store secretary, and the store manager, asking what I should do. They all shrugged and had no idea. The store manager even gave me a thumbs-up! I put it in the bank and let it sit there, expecting a clawback when they realized the mistake, but nothing ever happened. That was 24 years ago and I've long since retired, so I guess it's too late now for them to do anything about it.
Malicious compliance, where all the fluffs are given
Story 3 - If they ever do come after OP for the 9K, they may try to hit him up for "late fees". Hopefully, this will never happen, but OP should be prepared to fight it, just in case.
Story 4: as a mom, i will never understand how a parent can put their kid's lives and future at risk by living in a bad part of town. No kid should ever be afraid of being robbed or avoiding gangs or be pushed to join a gang. Setting your kids up for failure 😞
I'm so glad that my only likely contact with a Customer is when they do a factory tour with a Boss, or when I hold the door for them going into Reception. A smile, "You're welcome", that's all of it. I'd hate to have to deal with Customers in retail - I've been there, I NEVER want to go back.
Is counterfeiting really that commonplace? I always assumed movies exaggerated how easy it was
It can be depending on where you are. Always check your bills and if you are a Yank, check your Hamiltons and Jacksons especially.
“who’d fake a $20 or $10 bill?”
As someone who’s caught *numerous* fake $10’s, you’d be surprised
Story 1: If OP’s version is accurate, OP engaged in unnecessary preamble rather than simply saying, “If you buy the bag, you’ll pay full price on the $200 item.” Brief and to the point, without OP’s unnecessary blather. A sale is a contract, and the customer didn’t get the benefit she thought she was getting. If taken to court, some jurisdictions would undo that sale, despite the “all sales are final” condition, due to the mistake.
The law supersedes store policy.
Tuition story: universities here in Australia’s make minimum 40-50k/yr per international student…. They’re not in any monetary issue unless international students don’t come to Australia to study anymore
when i was a kid my dad had friends from hell's angel i grew up with them around and never really understood about them til i was in high school when my friends told me about them and how mean they are.... i was shocked that the awesome men and their wives were so cold and mean but to me they were amazing people
Story 5: No, tell the cops some kids stole beer and left their money on the counter. They didn't pay for it, there was no transaction.
Story 5: Manager deserved to be fired, $20 bills are the most commonly counterfeited bills, if she thinks no one is going to counterfeit small denominations you can only imagine how often she took counterfeit bills as payment.
Story 4:
The fact Payasso (or however you spell it) just accepted his mistake and kept good relations, shows that there is a decent person underneath the gangmember.
Which isnt unusual.
Just sad they are in gangs :/
Holding up bank-notes to check that they're genuine.
Whenever I get a note in my change I always ostentatiously hold it up to the light. It annoys the crap out of people.
Story 4 is really about it pays to be decent to everybody.
#4 - that's why you never fuck with the fam of the neighborhood grandma. My gma had that role when I lived in a bad side of town... we were mixed and lighter, and my dad's mother was Austrian. Everyone in the neighborhood called her Oma. No one in our bad neighborhood, regardless of background, messed with us because everyone loved Oma.
#3 Another possibility was OP mistype the amount in his activity proposal (or anybody who enter it into the university system) and the university just signed on it. That may explain why Karen insisted that nothing was wrong with the reimbursement.
IT people has a term for it, GIGO (garbage in garbage out), if you input garbage, the computer will spit out garbage too.
"are they going to call the cops and say someone paid for beer?" - Depending on where you are and when it happens... I had to do the mandatory sales thing once (it had nothing to do with my actual job but they'd rather waste our time than be logical) and the instructions on dropped the money took the liquor was 100% call the police
With the college money, she might have been saying that there was no issue because she was attempting to give the poster the money.
S3 Hilarious story of how OP bought a Diesel Genset at a big box store. Then saw that the price was less online at the same store. So he buys it online and cancels the offline purchase. Pays and takes delivery of ONE DG Set. A week later, they tell him his DG Set is ready for delivery. He keeps telling them that he paid for and took delivery of ONE DG Set. They don't seem to understand what he is saying and keep insisting he take delivery of a (2nd) DG Set. He approaches the store and nervously talks about payment. They assure him he PAID in full for the set. After taking it home and waiting for some months for the store to tell him they made a mistake, he tells a friend to have it gratis in exchange for the many hours free labor the friend put in helping OP at his farm!
Story 3: People don't like to be told they've made a mistake. Years ago, my family was eating out. When we got the ticket, the total didn't look right so we added everything up and discovered she left something off the ticket. The waiteess saw what we were doing and assumed we were trying to cheat the restaurant. We tried to explain that she didn't charge enough, but she got mad and insisted that she didn't make a mistake and the ticket was right. So we paid the ticket and got some free food.
Word to the wise even if you don't belong to the gang or mafia if you're friends with the cappo of one the benefits can be pretty good.
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Can you imagine the look of the two ladies? Like Holy sh*t that worked?
For those non Spanish Speakers, Payaso means Clown.... I had to look that up. I'm not Bi-lingual. Also.... Way to go OG!!!
story 3: If OP said specifically I paid 1k and not 10k then it might have finally jolted the karens brain into action but you can never be too sure, that's why you always cover your rear and document everything as well as record when able to. check your local laws to see if you can record without informing the other side. this place might have been one of the larger uni/college so it might actually have been a small amount. large amounts for individuals can be small for large organizations.
story 5: luckily the manager didn't remember OP's comments and delete the recording.