For those of you who work at a register...

[The Spawn]

...when a customer tells you to keep the change, do you literally keep it for yourself, or do you put it in the register?

For those of you who don't have such an occupation, this is a hypothetical for you.

 

[PyroChamber]

I say it depends on how much the change is.

 

[The Senator]

When I worked at a grocery store in high school, we were told to put it in the register unless it was explicitly indicated that we were being tipped. As in, the customer had to say something like "here's a tip" for us to keep the change for ourselves. Needless to say, I don't think I ever kept any change for myself.

 

[DorkyFresh]

i used to just keep it at the side of my register in case i ever came up short. i never received enough change for me to consider keeping it.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

i used to just keep it at the side of my register in case i ever came up short. i never received enough change for me to consider keeping it.

Same here.

 

[Morg]

You can tip registers? News to me

 

[Silk Spectre]

We had these little things that dispensed the coins at my last job. A lot of people would leave/forget their change. Over the course of the day it would add up to two or three dollars, sometimes more. Eventually I started putting back in my til.

 

[The Squirrel]

i used to just keep it at the side of my register in case i ever came up short. i never received enough change for me to consider keeping it.

Yeah that's what I did too.

 

[DorkyFresh]

also, if a customer was a few cents short i would use whatever change was left by previous customers to make up for them being short.

 

[thedeadite]

Cashiers where I work (everyone there actually) are strictly forbidden to take tips.
All "tips" or left change has to go back into the till.
All tills have a camera directly above them pointing down at the cash drawer so it would be pretty dumb to take any "tips" while on cash.
If someone tips me for loading/unloading furniture in their vehicle you better believe I keep it though.

 

[DeGenerate10]

Cashiers where I work (everyone there actually) are strictly forbidden to take tips.
All "tips" or left change has to go back into the till.
All tills have a camera directly above them pointing down at the cash drawer so it would be pretty dumb to take any "tips" while on cash.
If someone tips me for loading/unloading furniture in their vehicle you better believe I keep it though.

Yeah me too. I made like 10 bucks in one day just by helping old ladies out with the grocceries. The key is small talk.

 

[JTHM777]

I just put it in the register. I'm weird, I hate when they leave change, but it can be handy when someone else comes up short.

 

[AndThePickles]

When I used to work a register back in the day, NO ONE ever said "keep the change."

 

[NewYorkSpider]

The cashiers at the store I work at just leave in on the register, and if someone needs 5 or 10 cents, we lend it too them. Anything more we just throw it in the drawer.

 

[terry78]

Tip the cashier? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....oh, you're serious.

 

[thedeadite]

Mostly regulars would try to tip when I worked cash.
Actually I had a regular the other day give me about 50-60 cents "for christmas", haha. He's a nice old man who spends several hours a day in the store while his wife plays bingo further down in the plaza.

 

[Jack O'Lantern]

A customer offered me a tip once but I didnt take it. I've never been told to keep the change. I'm sure that if that did happen, it would only be some spare change, which I would put in the drawer.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

No, not really. I've worked box office many times and rarely do people suggest that we keep the change. Even if they did we're not allowed to take it as it's a tip and cashiers, doormen, concessionists, and projectionists are strictly forbidden to take tips from customers.

Although I tend to find a lot of money when cleaning theatres so that is usually my tip.

 

[Heretic]

I occasionally will tell the cashier to keep the Obama. It is meant as a tip, not as "give this money to your billion dollar corporation".

 

[The Original Bamfer]

I leave any spare change around in case a customer should need it. Now, if I'm feeling like a snack, and there's enough lying around, I'll use it - it doesn't belong to the company. If it's a bill-amount, though, and I'm sure the customer gave it to me, I'd keep it.

I never, ever put it in my drawer, though. If I'm off by a few cents, then I'm off. It doesn't usually happen, though.

 

[Master Chief]

pFfFt plz I'd short change people, if they tell me to keep it I keep it. :heart:

 

[Joker]

At almost every job I've had with a register, you get in just as much trouble if your drawer is over as you do if it's short, as either way it still f**ks up their system and totals for the day, and it's possible that you ripped someone off. So I keep it, keep it.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

we've been told anything found by us in store or giving to us by customer, is property of the company

my co-worker found a £100 note cleaning up on night, handed it in thinking if no one claimed it within a week it was his, he wait and week then get told the ******** that it wasn't his. i've heard the same in other shop with other stuff like shopping backs or dvds and games

personally all this attitude does is just make the staff if the find something keep quiet and just take the item

 

[Darthphere]

Yeah, we have to put it back in the register.