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If I had a penny for every time....

29 replies

Hadenoughofitall441 · 15/05/2019 22:18

Someone said I’ve just printed it after handing you a note. Working in retail for 14 years that’s literally all I hear. I think I’d be able to retire comfortably by now. I always quip back but it’s just like ‘as if I haven’t heard that one before’

Come on let’s keep it going and see how many people can relate....

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Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 22:21

Another retail one.
Customer-"Oh what a shame, the weather's gorgeous out there and you're stuck in here working, what a shame."
Me muttering-"Is it, I hadn't fucking noticed." 😤

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 15/05/2019 22:24

If I had a penny for every time my dogs farted I would be a very rich woman.

Wallabyone · 15/05/2019 22:34

I feel really silly but I don't think I understand the OP 😭😭

Wallabyone · 15/05/2019 22:35

Ignore me, I read it as a note, handwritten on a piece of paper, not cash 😭 I've never heard anyone say that before though!

Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 22:36

Customer 'joking' that they'd just made/printed the money. It's an oldie but not a goodie.

Likeamobvie · 15/05/2019 22:41

I worked in a cafe when I was 13.
'Do you take sugar?'
'No, You're sweet enough for me' 🤮

Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 22:45

5 pence for a carrier bag?
Yes, since 2014. 🙄

Alorralorralaughs88 · 15/05/2019 22:47

I work in a supermarket on checkouts and self serve, I've lost count of the amount of times I hear "oh it didn't scan? It must be free!"

🙄 hilarious!

Gingernaut · 15/05/2019 22:49

Dropping coins as they're paying

"Oh! I'm throwing money away!"

Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 22:52

Have you got change of a £20?
It's 20 quid not a gazillion pound note.

RezCowgirl · 15/05/2019 22:55

I used to work in an old fashioned sweet shop when I was a teenager.

"I feel like a kid in a sweet shop"

Shadow01 · 15/05/2019 22:58

I don’t get the I’ve just printed it so much but definitely the joke that it must be free if it doesn’t scan first time

Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 23:01

That'll be £17.63
Sorry, I've only got £14.22.
No worries, I'll put it in out of my minimum wage. 🤪

DoneAdulting · 15/05/2019 23:02

In a high street bank, every other customer asks 'You're not going to close are you?', like I make the decision or that they tell us but then keep it a secret from the customers.

My favourite response is 'I'm not allowed to say!'.

Gingernaut · 15/05/2019 23:05

@Shadow01, think printed paper notes.

Just printed this one this morning. The ink should be dry.

They're pretending they're forgers, printing their own money.

SarahTancredi · 15/05/2019 23:06

It's wrong to have two women here this time of night.

Stop coming in then.we are only here because people come in Hmm

Justmuddlingalong · 15/05/2019 23:06

Massive sign displaying opening hours on the front door. Shop opens at 8am.
Cue the rattling on the door by people at 7.38 mouthing "are you open yet?"

Shadow01 · 16/05/2019 07:21

@Gingernaut I know what it means I meant that customers have got bored of trying that one Grin

S0CKS · 16/05/2019 07:53

Anything else I can help with?
Yes.. Do you have this coming Wednesday lottery numbers?
Fuck off. If i did i wouldn't be serving you now!

ssd · 16/05/2019 07:58

Agree with the 'oh it's lovely outside' when you are stuck inside serving someone

Also the sugar 'I'm sweet enough'

cantfindname · 16/05/2019 08:23

I used to have a customer every week who would place his order and finish it with 'And a pound out the till please' You HAD to respond, ignore it and he would go on and on labouring the point. This went on for years until I snapped, grabbed my purse, took out £1, slapped it on the counter, told him for the millionth time he couldn't have £1 out the till as I would lose my job if the till didn't balance, but as he was so obviously desperate he could have £1 out of my purse from my wages.

Believe it or not the old git took it!!

Gingernaut · 16/05/2019 12:01

Believe it or not the old git took it!! Shock

ThisIsTheEndgame · 16/05/2019 12:04

I had a namebadge saying 'temporary staff' when I did a few months Christmas cover in Woolies. If I heard "temporary staff, that's a funny name" once I heard it a million fucking times.

BellMcEnd · 16/05/2019 12:10

“He’s always had blood pressure, nurse”

Well yes. He’d be dead otherwise.

Hadenoughofitall441 · 16/05/2019 22:24

@thisistheendgame
I used to work in woolies and they took so long getting me a name badge I used a different one everyday from the big pot of badges. I used to get people saying, ‘well you don’t look like a simone’ ‘or you don’t look like a Claire’ it was on the tip of my tongue to say ‘well you don’t look like a dick, so there we go’
Funnily enough there’s a programme called superstore and one of the characters in there uses a different name badge every episode 😂😂 I’m a trendsetter 😂

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