• Euphorazine@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 months ago

    From my time on Reddit years ago this question came up.

    Some cashier’s said they reciprocate the exchange back to the customer. If the customer puts cash on the counter for them to pick up, they’ll put the change on the counter in return.

    There also was probably some new training from covid where you didn’t want to touch people directly, so those training materials probably still exist

    • abcd@feddit.orgEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      This is the right answer. Source: worked as a cashier.

      • You are surprised you have to pay for stuff and need minutes to find your money? I’m surprised too that I have to hand you back some change and need just as much time.
      • You have been an asshole in general? Just let me grab a fresh roll of small coins, open it an take coin after coin and put everything on the counter.
      • My all time favorite: A guy came and was ready to pay the correct sum (it was like three coins). He immediately left after putting everything on the counter. I wondered why he was in such a hurry. Then I saw that he paid with a foreign coin that looked like a 2€ coin but was actually worth around 50 Cents back then. I don’t know why but I am really good in recognizing faces. So I used my superpower for my petty revenge: I waited around 3-6 months until this guy came again. He paid with a bill. When giving him his change, I grabbed that coin as the last one placed it on the counter and gave it back.

      Cashiers are human beings. They are intellectually as able as everybody else. And they know all tricks from customers. So please, have some respect for people doing their jobs.

  • BabyVi@lemmy.world
    141·
    3 months ago

    Nine times out of ten the customer is busy wrangling their items or dealing with their kid. Instead of awkwardly waiting, hand outstretched, I put the change on the counter. I then start prepping for the next customer as we’re timed on the whole process.

  • t�m@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Same reason why you put it on the counter handing it to me

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 months ago

    Literally everyone that is somehow bothered by this probably deserves it. It’s so trivial and mundane. Now if the change was handed back wet…

  • CptEnder@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    I always get the bills dropped lightly in my palm with coins dropped in the bills like a little money burrito. Guess I’m a nice person lol. All I know is I feel the weight of the universe on my back whenever I go up to the cashier and wanna do it as fast as possible so I don’t plop the money on the counter because it wastes time, just hand it over and if there’s coins I hold em up to drop an inch in their hands.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    51·
    3 months ago

    They don’t want to touch you, or to depend on your qualifications in order to fulfill the task

    Putting the change on the counter leaves 0 chance that you’ll fuck up the process for them, in any way