To think that people should have the courtesy to place money into the hand that people serve them instead of slapping it down onto the counter

[jammiedodger79]

I just think it's beyond rude!!!

YABU. I learnt a long time ago to put money on the counter or something always gets dropped.

It can be a bit of a cultural thing. I remember moving to another European country and really confusing a few shopkeepers by trying to put money in their hands instead of in the tray or on the counter.

It's very annoying.

Good job we don't slap their change on the counter.

Imagine the whinging about that.

Some shopkeepers prefer on the counter anyway. They ask you to do it.
It is not a big deal really.

yes - and hand us the notes first then the coins - not the coins balanced on the note so it all falls everywhere

I always counted out change into the customers hand then gave any notes

I'm with hetienne on this one. There is usually a special tray on the counter for exactly that purpose.

I used to work in a shop and hated people putting a handful of change on the counter and having to scrabble about picking it all up. Especially if my hand was out waiting for the money and they still dumped it down.

I work in a shop and i have started putting cash down on the counter because i am sick to death of catching customers illnesses. A customer came in the other day with impetigo ffs.

Really? I did not know that. I often have dirty hands (nature of my job) so I put the coins on the counter and slide them across.

I do NOT slap them down though, that would be rude.

I worked in a shop a long time ago and I know that there is a special layer of hell for people who are too fucking ignorant to put money in your hand. When you have your hand out for it.

If a customer puts their money into my hand, then i put their change in their hand. If they bang the money on the counter, then I bang their change on the counter and if they throw their card at me then I throw it back. Job done, you get some odd looks, but they catch on pretty quick.

It is a big deal if you work on a till.

Some people prefer it the other way round,gordy

well some people are just wrong Usual

I live in Australia, and am always utterly charmed by the way Chinese shop assistants will offer back paper (plastic, actually) money with both hands, like a gift.

I put the money on the counter sometimes because I am counting out the right money...and with purse in hand it's hard to manage!

Yanbu!! I used to hate that people not putting the money in my hand!however these People used to think it rude if the their change was put on the counter...

Cooeyonlyme I don't understand the difference after all you are picking up the money they and millions of others have touched and to my experience the exchange of money is just that... No hand to hand contact or anything?!

If a hand is out you put money into it, it is rude to deliberately ignore when someone is showing you what they'd prefer.

Used to hate it when people did that to me. Made me very slow to give them change and a receipt

YANBU

As long as they pay I'm :-)

Now when DH drops something on the floor that I'm holding my hand out for.....

I do it like justforlaughs - I copy what they did, so if they hand it to me, I hand it back.

O the other hand... Money thrown at me gets the 'icy look and raised eyebrows' treatment and it gets rung in the till veeeerrrrryyyyy slowly and their change gets pointedly and painfully slooooowwwwwllllyyyy counted back into their hand as if they were a toddler.

A very surly teenage girl threw her money at me once so I threw her change back at her. I misjudged the sliding distance across the counter and all her change landed at her feet

Fucking deserved it though, moody little mare.

My DP works in a bar and had a women who flung a note at him, without even looking at him. He finished the transaction and flung her change back at her. She was not happy having to pick all the coins off the floor, she'll maybe learn nt to be so rude the next time.

I think YABU and YANBU at the same time. YABU because you don't know why people might not want to hand it to you. They might have reasons that aren't logical to you but a very valid to them. But if its the kind of customer that looks at your hand and does a smirk so you just KNOW its because they are being a douche, YANBU.

I have to admit if I can help it I just put the money on the counter. I don't slam it, I just set it down. Not to be rude but its an interaction I'm really not comfortable with. Same with eye contact. I force myself to look people in the eye but secretly I feel awkward and a bit a scared.