Renu Zaman
Posted on 09/15/2010 12:50:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Cashier goes postal over $50 bill
Here's a tip for anyone who ever ends up being served by Renu Zaman: Have exact change.
The 22-year-old gas station clerk near Naples has been charged with aggravated assault after he beat a customer with a stick for trying to pay for a six pack of beer with a $50 bill, reports the Naples News.
Yes, he beat a man for trying to pay for his items. It's unclear how much the beer cost, but Zaman wasn't too thrilled about having to make change for the victim. So instead of breaking down the Ulysses S. Grant, Zaman decided to break down the customer with a wooden stick from under the counter.
He beat the man to a bloody pulp as surveillance cameras in the store rolled on the gas station clerk going postal. Zaman also allegedly yelled, "You Mexicans have too much money," as he wailed on the man.
Eventually yes, until then when you’re one of the first sales on a drawer that was equipped with $60 of assorted change and you’re buying a $5 item with a $50 the clerk will hate you.
Anyone paying with a big bill would get change in $2 bills and $1 coins. We also posted a sign by the register that explained this policy in small print said "Thank you for paying in the smallest possible bill" in big print. As closing time drew near, that signed got turned around. 95% of the time, people who were going to pay with a $50 or $100 could find something smaller once they understood they were going to get change back in mostly $2 bills and $1 coins.
We figured any would be robber would have a tough time not attracting attention by spending a lot of dollar coins and $2 bills. The local county fair followed the same policy but for a different reason-- so all the local merchants would get some idea of just how much trade the fair generated. Of course, just about all the cashiers we hired back then were housewives who could count.
When 50 becomes the new 20, the clerk will have approximately 2 1/2 times as much cash in the drawer.
Yup, eventually. And at that point they’ll hate people with hundreds the way they currently hate people with 50s.
Renu Zaman
Maiming the customers is bad for business.
The clerk probably just got tired of customers ignoring the “50 and 100 dollar bills not accepted.”
Any time I read or hear a news account about someone being “beaten to a bloody pulp” I have to wonder about the accuracy of the entire article
Well, that's true, isn't it?
......and a stick!
*chuckle*
There were some crooks that used to go into stores and buy small items with a fifty. Once they had the change in hand, they’d find a smaller bill in their wallet, give it to the clerk and ask for the fifty back. Often enough, the clerk would not realize right away that they should get the change for the fifty back as well, and the crook would walk out forty-something dollars ahead.
It takes two $50’s to fill my truck. Is that why they give me a dirty look?
The 22-year-old gas station clerk near Naples has been charged with aggravated assault after he beat a customer with a stick for trying to pay for a six pack of beer with a $50 billThere's a Shakespeare angle, but ya reallllly have to look for it.
He won’t have to give change, but he’ll still have to do the counterfeit check, and he’ll probably have to put it in the drop safe. Or he just could be annoyed at people putting a week of his salary in the gas tank. If inconvenience doesn’t bug him class envy probably will.
The thing about class envy that really gets me is they don’t stop to think who is paying for their medical services, education, public services, etc., me and other people who work(ed) hard to succeed.
Most types of envy involve not thinking it through, if they did they’d probably just fix it, or at least realize it was pointless and silly.
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