Posted on 12/26/2024 11:37:27 AM PST by Morgana
Gen Z cashiers are infuriating their bosses when they take cash from customers.
According to reports young workers are deeming some bills counterfeit when they are in fact legitimate.
According to one boss of a frozen yogurt shop in Florida, teenage employees had to be told that the bills they had refused to accept because they were fake, were actually 'just old.'
Sam, 22, told Newsweek that the £10 and £5 notes that were confiscated at the store were 'pre-1999 as far as dating goes, so at least 25-30 years old.
'The $5 is even older, maybe from the 60s' the assistant manager explained.
Sam acknowledged that some of the confiscated bills were older than the employees themselves and that as a generation they are probably unused to handling cash.
'It's a digital world nowadays,' he told the publication.
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Ever time I go to the bank I get a bunch of those plus the coin dollars, Susan B Anthony, Sacagawea, and the Presidential editions. The kids have not a clue what they are.
About 30 years ago I had a cashier call the store manager on me for a $2 bill. The manager too one look at it an laughed. I thought it was pretty funny too. The cashier did not.
How many £10 notes have you gotten.
Hooboy...just waiting for the day one of those little s*its confiscates my money at the register because *they* think it’s counterfeit.
During the Great Recession, a lot of Kennedy halves were being spent at the grocery stores. I’d glance into the till when I was checking out. Pretty easy to catch the sight of silver. I’d generally just ask for all of the halves. One kid picked up a Franklin half, looked at it, and said “That’s a funny color.”
I hear of that one happening all the time with these young people. Well we know what they are not teaching them in schools.
I used to be a cashier and the procedure we used was to simply refuse any money that we thought were fake and that was the end of the matter. I have a right to refuse the method of payment and demand an acceptable form of payment. A lot of people with fake money will use the implied threat of violence if we claimed it was fake.
A business can limit what they take as a form of payment, this is not illegal to do so.
Without electronic cash registers showing the amount of change to refund, today’s youth couldn’t make correct change.
Kinda rare in the US. England on the other hand not so much. I suppose this is a typical typo from the DM.
“A business can limit what they take as a form of payment, this is not illegal to do so.”
And you are an expert on US state laws?
Read your money, cash cannot be refused when used to settle debts. There is nothing on the bill that requires me to take it for retail purposes.
However, that law was created to ensure that farms and other assets couldn’t be taken to settle debts, a farm because the farmer owed a couple of dollars.
Now, you can show me the state laws that say I must take cash when people are trying to make purchases, of which I doubt you’ll find any state laws on the matter.
I remember in the 70s stores had automatic coin change machines.
It’s been decades since I’ve carried cash. Use my debit card for everything. If they don’t accept debit cards, I don’t do business there.
A few years back I got a thousand dollars in travelers checks for a trip to Saigon, Vietnam. Went to an official money exchange for Dongs and Dollars.
On the way out I stopped quickly and said “Wait! Is this US dollars?”
“Well yeah” said my Vietnamese friend who’s never been outside his country.”You don’t know your own currency?” my friend laughed.
“Yeah but the heads are bigger on these. The dollars I use have smaller heads”
“Oh that’s the old dollars these are the new ones he said
“Wow! I’ve never seen these ones”
“That’s because you use too much the card” he said.
I know a lot of businesses that don’t accept cash.
If you refuse to take my Obama three dollar bill that proves you are racist.
Lol.
I am willing to take the hit, as long as I can still eat.
I use the $400 Biden bill, saves me space in the wallet when going to the grocery store.
“Now, you can show me the state laws that say I must take cash when people are trying to make purchases, of which I doubt you’ll find any state laws on the matter.”
That law is likely unconstitutional, as a violation of free expression. Business owners still has their constitutional rights in how they wish to run their businesses.
I’m on the side of businesses who wish to minimize their risk by not taking in counterfeit bills.
Colorado is an anti-Constitutional state.
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