I was at the inside counter paying for my gasoline this morning, and the clerk handed me my change and asked me if it was alright if she shorted me 3 pennies? Normally, I would have said ‘yes’ but for the hell of it, I asked if she would round up and give me a nickel.
She put on a really sour face like someone had passed wind, and told me ‘No’ like I was some sort of fucking idiot.
WTF, lady? Blow me! I am short 3 pennies, I’ll take your money at par, but you don’t have the correct change, so a nickel will do. —Victim of a Double Standard
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.
yeah that’s pretty ridiculous. It is only 3 cents but I agree with your principle.
Funny that it’s ok to short the customer by 3 cents but not the company by 2!
Barrington Street Superstore gas bar I bet
If you watch the pennies the dollars will take care of themselves…or something like that !
Piss poor business sense. I’d make a complaint to head office. It may only be 3 cents but there’s a principle at work here.
Interac or Visa is the answer – sorry for spreading the message dear Occupy fucksticks.
were they to get rid of the penny… wasn’t that the proposition?
2 or less, round down, 3 or more rounds up?
In the long run…squabbling over pennies just doesn’t seem worth it.
OB, why aren’t you paying with a credit card at the pump like every other logical person?
OB coulda bought a pack of gum or breath mints or some other similar product that probably would have eliminated the need for the return of any pennies.
I understand the principle being brought up in this bitch but, I got to go with zZz on this. In the long run, is it really worth bickering over a few pennies?
Lets see how many people trash OP who defended that MT driver who wouldn’t let buddy on cuz he was 5 cents short.
No shit, tj.
Tommy, wasn’t that ‘buddy’ you?
Or were you the hospital dude who had jack all on him?
so many bitches of yore…. I canna remember.
I was forced to ‘drive around’ the basin last week…
25 minutes because I didn’t have a dollar… god damn.
that shit’s weak…
SHIIIITS WEAK…
WIZZEAK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCiFSyio4Ak…
It doesn’t surprise me in this ‘culture of greed’ that it is acceptable to alienate a customer over a few cents. Having recently purchased 2 meal combos at a well-known fried chicken chain, I declined the included soft drinks because they wouldn’t travel well on my bicycle. They wanted to charge me an extra .20 cents for one plum sauce even though I was not taking $4 worth of beverages that I was entitled to. How easily they forget that they are surrounded by restaurants who will be the future recipients of my money when I need a quick dinner solution to go on the way home. No, .20 cents is not a big deal but like the .03 cents cited in this bitch, it is about the principle and good customer relations, not the money, something greedy corporations have lost sight of.
I can’t believe that anyone representing a business would even ask if it was permissible to shortchange a customer. Business did not have sufficient change. Their mistake. Suck it up, head office. And if the employee doesn’t have the “authority” needed to make a judgement call of that nature, then the company is being run by a bunch of fools. It’s the people who deal with customers face to face who have the most power to affect the business’ reputation. I’ve blacklisted businesses, both chains and specific locations for much less.
DEFINANTLY agree with ‘kelifax’
Oh man.
What a sour petty tight arse you are, OP – three fucking cents – go dip your head in deep fryer.
those extra 2 cents could have got you someoe who really would give a fuck. i don’t and i don’t think most of the rest here do, either. 3 lousy fucking cents, and you write a bitch about it. give me a huge fucking break.
lol no Z. The tollbooth on the way to the hospital bitch was mine. I just defended the OB who had to put a Loonie in the box when they were only short a nickel.
TTFN, we all know how you would feel if it was $30.
Since we’ve already established that you are a sour petty tight arse, too, lets try to figure out how much….So how would you feel if it was $3 or 30cents?
oh no you didn’t…are you the author of the bitch gv?
I’m not a sour petty tight arse – I’m as tight as a hen’s hole, actually. Comparing 3 cents with $3 is a pretty boneheaded argument.
i am very disappointed ya old bag^^i am watching mash reruns and cooking
TTFN I don’t think the 3 cents is the argument … it’s the fact that the company wouldn’t short itself 2c but would short the customer …
Although, do they balance till at the end of the shift for gas station employees? ’cause maybe it was coming right off the employees pay?
Dunno.
A lot of places out here have a penny cup.
Take a penny , leave a penny….I’ve even seen this at the likor stor out here.
But I see the principal of it…you are asking someone to not get there 3 cents back, but refuse to give out 2 cents.
It is petty on both counts.
But as someone who collects coins, I have more than 1 penny in my collection that is worth hundreds of dollars.
I have also found more than 1 cent in pocket change worth more than $50.00…I recently found a loonie worth 38-45 dollars at a bar.
Since it wasn’t a ciculation loonie, (it was a 2004 Canada Goose) it had to have come out of a Proof set or Specimen set & according to Trends, it will grade out at MS64 ,MS65 & that is the price it will sell for. I already had a set I bought that year & it is why it caught my eye.
Bartender gave it to me as change..so I got it for a dollar .
If you know what to look for, there are many recent ( in less then 10 years) circulating coins that are mint errors or have other rarities (like the olympic quarter, from BC Winter olympics, with an engraved date as opposed to a raised date) that make them collectable & worth many times their ‘government’ assigned value
But I digress, sorry
Geeze, Painey, what did I do? I don’t argue on principle any more – got me into too much shit when I was young and even more mouthy than I am now.
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There’s a story about a guy that asks a woman if she would have sex with him for a million dollars. She says “yes”. Then he asks if she would have sex with him for $50. The woman gets very offended and says “Ofcourse not, what kind of woman do you think I am?”
The man says ” We’ve already established that, now I want to negotiate the price”
TTFN, I think getting pissed off for $3 or even $30 is petty. so perhaps you can understand where my previous comment is coming from.
Anybody who agrees with this bitch is an idiot.
It’s fucking pennies, you dick head. That’s why she gave you the sour face, because you made yourself look like a petty moron. Do you know how much shit people in customer service take from customers on daily basis? She was looking for someone to cut her some slack and you were a jerk about it… get a life.
haha, just joshin ttfn, i thought you were too nice to gv^^
Morning Painey, are you still in the throes of the grippe? One of my corbies buzzed me so closely I thought he was going to perch on my shoulder. I’d have looked some cute at Barstucks saying ” Yarrr Jim-lad I’ll have two firkins of Frappuchino and some cuttlefish for Polly here.”
yeah, but i’ll live. the new corbies hadn’t seen snow before, it was funny to watch them yesterday, like little kids
pg, where about are you that you have snow?
not really snow, just a few flurries yesterday afternoon. i live in the duchy of fenwick^^
fenwick out yonder or the fenwick street in Halifax?
I tend to agree with allieinthesun, it’s too petty a bitch. If it’s less than 10 cents, it’s not worth arguing about whether at the gas bar or getting on the bus.
A dime may seem arbitrary but it sounds good to me.
I think the penny should be a thing of the past anyway.
so you aren’t petty until its 10cents? is that what you are saying?
No, you are petty until it’s 10 cents.
love the devil, critter guy. if i told you were i live gv, the wpp would move me again^^
where
good morning all!
It looks like there is only 7-8 cents separating my pettiness and Troodon. I have a looney in my pocket, so I’m in good shape for a couple of days.
You know what’s really petty? Arguing about what’s petty and what’s not. Jesus. Give it up.
I think we can all agree that this is petty…
http://www.2flashgames.com/photo/file/tom_…
so that’s a start.
avast, I think that is petty to make us all feel petty. Petty people have feelings, too, ya know!
Agreed Avast0. No more pretty penny pettiness.