Is that specific to McDonald’s? I’ve worked in fast food before and never had to have a manager approve a hundred. We used to use those special pens then we started just dropping it directly into the safe to see if it accepted it.
My current job is the only one where we mark with a pen and just drop it immediately (and ask for the change if required).
My last two jobs needed manager approval, though at my first one I was a manager in everything but title+pay, (so all the responsibilities but none of the benefits) so I was the one to approve them because we almost never had a manager actually doing their job (or there. Fuck you Destiny. I hope your crops DON'T florish).
Some places just don’t take big bills. Like maybe they don’t have markers or whatever. I have worked in a place that didn’t take big bills, whether we had change or not. The owner didn’t want to take the risk
It was 20 years ago, but I never had to approve hundreds. I was even there when the switched to the multicolored bill change happened. Just had to mark them to check for the security strip.
U - If she needed change from the safe a manager would have needed to get it for her. And would have needed to check the bill to make sure it isnt fake. Highly unlikely.
Right, and the manager wouldn't have made that error because they'd have to verify the bill was real before making change out of the back bank envelope.
I guess it is possible, and the truth I want to believe, is that OP was high as fuck, handed over a $100 thinking it was a $10, and the rest happened like they said.
No it was crazy, I'm telling you. Dude pays for his $5 frap with a hundred, which of course I have to go get authorization to get change for because my drawer was out, then after I handed him his change he just sped away with this wide eyed look. Never even picked up his frap!
U there's a distinct enough difference between a $10 and a $100 that it wouldn't be an easy mistake to make and to get the change they didn't have they'd have to talk to a manager
Except for the fact that unlike most countries - including the UK - all US paper currency is exactly the same size and is printed in the same colours (until 2003 banknotes, when a faint secondary colour was added). As someone else has suggested, it seems more likely that they handed over a $100 bill thinking it was a $10, and the staff followed the set procedure and gave the correct change.
To me at least, the green/blue of a $100 bill is pretty noticeable compared to the green/yellow of a $10 bill plus the blue stripe on most $100 bills. But I'm also speaking from 7 years of customer service experience. Almost 5 of those years being in a grocery store (two of which were as a shift supervisor) and 2 years at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, so i may notice that stuff more since it was my job for so long.
That's fair enough. As an infrequent visitor to the US, I recall the notes looking very similar, especially compared to UK currency. I admit that I didn't have first-hand experience with $100 bills, as we were advised to stick to lower denominations for that exact reason. Perhaps the interior of their vehicle was not well-lit, adding to the possibility of misidentification.
Smaller bills are all very similar, it's not uncommon for people to mistake them. 50's and 100's are pretty noticeably different though. At least newer ones are, older ones no.
Not how these transaction work. And if it was and this was true, he absolutely would've gotten that girl fired, so its hardly something they should brag about.
I believe it’s real anyway. I recently gave a retail worker $400 in cash for a $500 purchase and got 100 bucks in cash back and didn’t have to pay anything else. The employee wasn’t young either.
I’ve handed over a 50 instead of a 20 before without realizing, it’s not out of the realm of possibility OP handed over a 100 instead of a 10 without realizing and the girl gave them the right amount of change
U the manager that is no doubt “working” by sitting in the office playing Angry Birds would’ve noticed because they watch the cameras like a fucking hawk
U BUT as a retail manager I can say these younger kids in the work force are really not good with money/giving out change. Even though the register says how much to give back they still find a way to fuck it up especially if they are busy and flustered. If they had the change in their drawer I would 100% believe it.
I've had kids up to the age of 17 tell me they can't count change because they dont know what each coin is worth.
Maybe like 4 total over the years but that should be 0. They were born and raised in America too for all 4 of them how can we not know what our currency is worth?
Same reason so many can't type anymore. The less they use physical currency the less likely they are to know anything about it, even if it is a small thing.
Same. We had (keyword here: had) an employee who would just give people their food without checking to see if they paid or not. It took a couple of shifts of us being like $200 short to figure it out.
If we were talking about back in the 90s and early 00s I would give it a plausible, before the $100 was redesigned in 96 they looked similar enough to a $10 that I could see someone making this mistake if they didn't look closely enough at it.
However those old bills haven't been commonplace in a long, long time. The new bills look nothing alike.
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that's what everyone is apparently thinking but as mentioned in other comments, they don't look anything alike, and she would've needed a manager who also would've had to look at it.
I'm familiar with people dumb enough for this to happen but I'm just not able to believe two people thought a 10 was 100 like this
flip side of that ofc is i lost 100$ out of 500 trying to get some snacks for the road, efs code cashed out 500 I watched them count it
I also got a parking refund so a bit over 500
got some drinks and snacks for me and my partner, expecting that I had about 430 left
get to the truck and it's only 330
exactly 100 short of what I expect
they think it fell out of my pocket, but I'm right in front of the door
I know for a fact somehow that 100 got lost in the shuffle of buying things and I couldn't figure out how.
so this whole thing isn't impossible
but very unlikely still
I mean the old 100s look a whole lot closer and also whose to say they didn’t just ask the manager for change and the manager just gave it to them without looking at the bill? You’re also forgetting many fast food managers are 16-18
drawers are going to be screwed, if i had to guess she took a $100 to another drawer to break it and was supposed to put the $90 back in hers and give the customer the change but instead handed it all over xD that or got a "loan" but that's just as bad xD
One time a lady hit the button for cash back, and when I gave her the 10 she looked at me like I had made a mistake. She didn’t realize she had hit the button on the screen and thought I was messing up. OOP probably gave the wrong bill and then thought it was her mistake.
Years ago ( I don't remember what year ) when they first started re-designing and printing new bills , they started with the $100 bill and put them into circulation . Next they re-designed the $20 bill . Shortly after they started putting the new $20 bills into circulation , I walked into a Popeyes and ordered some food and paided with a new $20 bill . It was obviously the first one she had seen and did not look at it very closely . She thought it was a $100 bill and started to give me change as if it was a $100 bill . I could have easily accepted the change and she would have not known the difference ( untill the end of the day when they counted the till ) , but I stopped her and made her realize that it was only a $20 bill that I had given her .
T i don't know if you realise mcdonalds hires literal children (age 17 and up) who don't give a fuck about shit and some of whom legitimately cannot read or count. i'm not saying it's the majority but i could absolutely believe some of the braindead people they employ might not be able to tell a $10 bill from a $100 bill or just come into work high or drunk and don't turn their brain on. they wouldn't last long handing out $90+ but it can happen, surely.
You're being downvoted but you aren't wrong. A lot of younger folks nowadays have always used cards/applepay/etc and never cash, so they don't necessarily know all the denominations or how to count back change. It's actually been a big issue at my job with a lot of the teenagers they hire as cashiers.
She wouldn't have been able to access the safe herself so it wouldn't matter how "zooted" she was. You really think McDonald's lets any crew person just go in the safe themselves?
You can't make change by going into a different till. The change would've come from the safe. Also crew people can't just access another till without manager codes.
Ok, I don’t work in fast food so maybe you know better than me… at my job we can go to a different register as long as we clue in the person who’s supposed to be in charge of it 🤷
I’ve broken change that way dozens of times when people need it for tips (but I also know how to count so this situation hasn’t happened to me)
It depends on how much the corporation trusts their employees (also whether the company has computers in their registers), in places like McDonald’s or target or dollar tree, where they do not trust their employees, you are responsible for your till being correct, a manager counts it up for you (to make sure you have the exact right amount), the computer checks how much money you have put into the till and taken out, and a manager counts down your register to make sure it has the right amount, so there’d be no way to tell the computer that you took the money from one register and put it in another, which would make doing so either very risky or very difficult
Never thought about that. Never worked food service myself. When I worked retail we were able to make change from other tills, so that was my reasoning.
It wasn't unreasonable either, everyplace is a little different.
I've worked places where we were allowed to get change from other registers, some just had a key in the drawer, others you just needed who the register was assigned to to open it for you, no manager involvement needed.
One we had a safe for making change under the counter that was never locked.
Others that we had to go get the manager to get change.
It all depends on how much they trust their employees and how much they are willing to tolerate the line getting held up because you have to get someone else to make change.
T. I went to Target, got some cat food, wanted cash back but I had already paid. I asked for like $300 back and he just straight up opened the register and gave me $300 and I had to correct him and tell him I did not pay for this cash back and he can't just do that. I totally could've robbed the target but I didn't want the cashier to get fired.
I also literally gave exact change at a wingstop once and said "this should be exact" and he literally just put it away without counting it and gave me like $8 back and I hesitated for a sec but he seemed to really just not give a fuck about his job so I accepted it.
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U. Work for the clown. A manager usually has to ok a 100. So... U
I do too. People be thinking we let any crew person just fuck around when it comes to cash. Smh
Is that specific to McDonald’s? I’ve worked in fast food before and never had to have a manager approve a hundred. We used to use those special pens then we started just dropping it directly into the safe to see if it accepted it.
Every place I’ve worked (with a register) has required manager approval for a hundred. Bill too big. Some places won’t even take 50s and 100s
I’ve worked at many a CVs stores and not had this problem
Good to know I can take my counterfeit bills to CVS 😌
My current job is the only one where we mark with a pen and just drop it immediately (and ask for the change if required).
My last two jobs needed manager approval, though at my first one I was a manager in everything but title+pay, (so all the responsibilities but none of the benefits) so I was the one to approve them because we almost never had a manager actually doing their job (or there. Fuck you Destiny. I hope your crops DON'T florish).
Not been a thing for me
No place ive worked has required amanager for a hundred. They tell me to just Use a counterfeit pen.
Crazy
FYM the average order is probably closing on $50
Some places just don’t take big bills. Like maybe they don’t have markers or whatever. I have worked in a place that didn’t take big bills, whether we had change or not. The owner didn’t want to take the risk
It was 20 years ago, but I never had to approve hundreds. I was even there when the switched to the multicolored bill change happened. Just had to mark them to check for the security strip.
I know a manager had to check any $50 or $100 when I worked there in the 90s.
U - If she needed change from the safe a manager would have needed to get it for her. And would have needed to check the bill to make sure it isnt fake. Highly unlikely.
“She came back” so she left to talk to the manager.
Right, and the manager wouldn't have made that error because they'd have to verify the bill was real before making change out of the back bank envelope.
I guess it is possible, and the truth I want to believe, is that OP was high as fuck, handed over a $100 thinking it was a $10, and the rest happened like they said.
Now that is totally believable 😆
No it was crazy, I'm telling you. Dude pays for his $5 frap with a hundred, which of course I have to go get authorization to get change for because my drawer was out, then after I handed him his change he just sped away with this wide eyed look. Never even picked up his frap!
U there's a distinct enough difference between a $10 and a $100 that it wouldn't be an easy mistake to make and to get the change they didn't have they'd have to talk to a manager
Except for the fact that unlike most countries - including the UK - all US paper currency is exactly the same size and is printed in the same colours (until 2003 banknotes, when a faint secondary colour was added). As someone else has suggested, it seems more likely that they handed over a $100 bill thinking it was a $10, and the staff followed the set procedure and gave the correct change.
To me at least, the green/blue of a $100 bill is pretty noticeable compared to the green/yellow of a $10 bill plus the blue stripe on most $100 bills. But I'm also speaking from 7 years of customer service experience. Almost 5 of those years being in a grocery store (two of which were as a shift supervisor) and 2 years at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, so i may notice that stuff more since it was my job for so long.
That's fair enough. As an infrequent visitor to the US, I recall the notes looking very similar, especially compared to UK currency. I admit that I didn't have first-hand experience with $100 bills, as we were advised to stick to lower denominations for that exact reason. Perhaps the interior of their vehicle was not well-lit, adding to the possibility of misidentification.
Smaller bills are all very similar, it's not uncommon for people to mistake them. 50's and 100's are pretty noticeably different though. At least newer ones are, older ones no.
U
Not how these transaction work. And if it was and this was true, he absolutely would've gotten that girl fired, so its hardly something they should brag about.
I feel like someone would get fired regardless of how they were caught in this scenario.
Nah, if the dude immediately said he got wrong change and gave it back to the cashier, nothing would come of it, except maybe a write-up.
U - Even if she actually thought it was a 100 she would have had the change to break that in her register
If it was the beginning of the day, $100 could be the entire bank drawer.
I believe it’s real anyway. I recently gave a retail worker $400 in cash for a $500 purchase and got 100 bucks in cash back and didn’t have to pay anything else. The employee wasn’t young either.
Why did you do that?
U
U - If it cost $500 why would you give them only $400 in the first place? Doesn't make sense.
because i have $400 cash that i need to buy something with and then i’ll finish the payment with my card since i used the cash i needed to use?
I’ve handed over a 50 instead of a 20 before without realizing, it’s not out of the realm of possibility OP handed over a 100 instead of a 10 without realizing and the girl gave them the right amount of change
I was thinking the exact same thing lmao. Then they were like damn that rich guy didn’t even wait for his Carmel frappe
U- I mean, just read it
U the manager that is no doubt “working” by sitting in the office playing Angry Birds would’ve noticed because they watch the cameras like a fucking hawk
No one believes you. Not even me.
U BUT as a retail manager I can say these younger kids in the work force are really not good with money/giving out change. Even though the register says how much to give back they still find a way to fuck it up especially if they are busy and flustered. If they had the change in their drawer I would 100% believe it.
I've had kids up to the age of 17 tell me they can't count change because they dont know what each coin is worth.
Maybe like 4 total over the years but that should be 0. They were born and raised in America too for all 4 of them how can we not know what our currency is worth?
Same reason so many can't type anymore. The less they use physical currency the less likely they are to know anything about it, even if it is a small thing.
Same. We had (keyword here: had) an employee who would just give people their food without checking to see if they paid or not. It took a couple of shifts of us being like $200 short to figure it out.
U
If we were talking about back in the 90s and early 00s I would give it a plausible, before the $100 was redesigned in 96 they looked similar enough to a $10 that I could see someone making this mistake if they didn't look closely enough at it.
However those old bills haven't been commonplace in a long, long time. The new bills look nothing alike.
U - $100’s are really distinct and everywhere I’ve worked has required us to verify 50’s and 100’s every time as it’s not worth the risk.
Bro hit the vape too hard in the drive through, gave them a $100, and drove off $5 poorer thinking he done something
This belongs in r/thathappened not here
Not according to the sub rules
You sure bout that?
Yup
So you think this post is the same thing as someone posting a picture of 3 pop tarts in one package? Bless your sweet little heart.
Baby girl have you not seen the other posts on the sub from social medias? Bless your sweet little heart.
U - I saw 2 different “digital creators” post this exact thing on their facebook page. It’s a viral post that’s now making its way everywhere.
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was the till out of change for anything and she got some change for it but ended up giving all the money to the guy?
only scenario that makes sense
but still leaning on U
She thought it was a $100 not a $10
that's what everyone is apparently thinking but as mentioned in other comments, they don't look anything alike, and she would've needed a manager who also would've had to look at it.
I'm familiar with people dumb enough for this to happen but I'm just not able to believe two people thought a 10 was 100 like this
flip side of that ofc is i lost 100$ out of 500 trying to get some snacks for the road, efs code cashed out 500 I watched them count it
I also got a parking refund so a bit over 500 got some drinks and snacks for me and my partner, expecting that I had about 430 left get to the truck and it's only 330 exactly 100 short of what I expect they think it fell out of my pocket, but I'm right in front of the door
I know for a fact somehow that 100 got lost in the shuffle of buying things and I couldn't figure out how.
so this whole thing isn't impossible but very unlikely still
I mean the old 100s look a whole lot closer and also whose to say they didn’t just ask the manager for change and the manager just gave it to them without looking at the bill? You’re also forgetting many fast food managers are 16-18
To the one who drove off with the cash... You're a 💩
drawers are going to be screwed, if i had to guess she took a $100 to another drawer to break it and was supposed to put the $90 back in hers and give the customer the change but instead handed it all over xD that or got a "loan" but that's just as bad xD
U.
One time a lady hit the button for cash back, and when I gave her the 10 she looked at me like I had made a mistake. She didn’t realize she had hit the button on the screen and thought I was messing up. OOP probably gave the wrong bill and then thought it was her mistake.
Years ago ( I don't remember what year ) when they first started re-designing and printing new bills , they started with the $100 bill and put them into circulation . Next they re-designed the $20 bill . Shortly after they started putting the new $20 bills into circulation , I walked into a Popeyes and ordered some food and paided with a new $20 bill . It was obviously the first one she had seen and did not look at it very closely . She thought it was a $100 bill and started to give me change as if it was a $100 bill . I could have easily accepted the change and she would have not known the difference ( untill the end of the day when they counted the till ) , but I stopped her and made her realize that it was only a $20 bill that I had given her .
T. You underestimate average intelligence
T Paid for a $30 order with a $50 bill. they gave me 2 20s back
U
T i don't know if you realise mcdonalds hires literal children (age 17 and up) who don't give a fuck about shit and some of whom legitimately cannot read or count. i'm not saying it's the majority but i could absolutely believe some of the braindead people they employ might not be able to tell a $10 bill from a $100 bill or just come into work high or drunk and don't turn their brain on. they wouldn't last long handing out $90+ but it can happen, surely.
You're being downvoted but you aren't wrong. A lot of younger folks nowadays have always used cards/applepay/etc and never cash, so they don't necessarily know all the denominations or how to count back change. It's actually been a big issue at my job with a lot of the teenagers they hire as cashiers.
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She wouldn't have been able to access the safe herself so it wouldn't matter how "zooted" she was. You really think McDonald's lets any crew person just go in the safe themselves?
There’s more then one register, if its true they probably just went to the one up front? I feel like there’s sometimes even like 2-3 up front…
You can't make change by going into a different till. The change would've come from the safe. Also crew people can't just access another till without manager codes.
Ok, I don’t work in fast food so maybe you know better than me… at my job we can go to a different register as long as we clue in the person who’s supposed to be in charge of it 🤷
I’ve broken change that way dozens of times when people need it for tips (but I also know how to count so this situation hasn’t happened to me)
It depends on how much the corporation trusts their employees (also whether the company has computers in their registers), in places like McDonald’s or target or dollar tree, where they do not trust their employees, you are responsible for your till being correct, a manager counts it up for you (to make sure you have the exact right amount), the computer checks how much money you have put into the till and taken out, and a manager counts down your register to make sure it has the right amount, so there’d be no way to tell the computer that you took the money from one register and put it in another, which would make doing so either very risky or very difficult
Never thought about that. Never worked food service myself. When I worked retail we were able to make change from other tills, so that was my reasoning.
It wasn't unreasonable either, everyplace is a little different.
I've worked places where we were allowed to get change from other registers, some just had a key in the drawer, others you just needed who the register was assigned to to open it for you, no manager involvement needed.
One we had a safe for making change under the counter that was never locked.
Others that we had to go get the manager to get change.
It all depends on how much they trust their employees and how much they are willing to tolerate the line getting held up because you have to get someone else to make change.
T. I went to Target, got some cat food, wanted cash back but I had already paid. I asked for like $300 back and he just straight up opened the register and gave me $300 and I had to correct him and tell him I did not pay for this cash back and he can't just do that. I totally could've robbed the target but I didn't want the cashier to get fired.
What
It's not impossible to get an idiot cashier, especially a teenager who does not care/underestimates the possible repercussions.
I also literally gave exact change at a wingstop once and said "this should be exact" and he literally just put it away without counting it and gave me like $8 back and I hesitated for a sec but he seemed to really just not give a fuck about his job so I accepted it.
How do I know you didn't just type this?
Nobody in this sub understands what it's for.
Saw it on Facebook. Also, I’m a white female and would never use the n word in any context.