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Grrr I just got scammed!

totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
edited December 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Oh man I'm soo pissed off :(

I work in a supermarket and some guy asked me for change. He had like a pile of twenty euro notes so i changed €300 worth of twenties for fifty euro notes for the guy. Then he goes, "no, no, no, I want smaller change!" so I said i didn't have any and he asked for his money back. So I gave it to him and he gave me the fifties back. He left the store pretty quickly then I realised that he only gave me €200 back :( He was gone before security got there!

Grr I fecking hate when shit like that happens :(

sorry I had to vent! Has anything like that ever happened to you guys? if so, what happened after? I was pretty worried that i'd lose my job, but luckily I didn't!
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  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    totaledhead wrote:
    Oh man I'm soo pissed off :(

    I work in a supermarket and some guy asked me for change. He had like a pile of twenty euro notes so i changed €300 worth of twenties for fifty euro notes for the guy. Then he goes, "no, no, no, I want smaller change!" so I said i didn't have any and he asked for his money back. So I gave it to him and he gave me the fifties back. He left the store pretty quickly then I realised that he only gave me €200 back :( He was gone before security got there!

    Grr I fecking hate when shit like that happens :(

    sorry I had to vent! Has anything like that ever happened to you guys? if so, what happened after? I was pretty worried that i'd lose my job, but luckily I didn't!

    Yep, when I was working at the courtesy desk of a grocery store I got scammed on two separate occasions two separate ways. But both were change scams. It was completely idiotic of me and there's really nothing you can do except take responsibility for it and learn to let it not happen again. It sucks though... I know the feeling man.
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  • totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
    DOSW wrote:
    Yep, when I was working at the courtesy desk of a grocery store I got scammed on two separate occasions two separate ways. But both were change scams. It was completely idiotic of me and there's really nothing you can do except take responsibility for it and learn to let it not happen again. It sucks though... I know the feeling man.

    yeah it's a pain in the ass. Well apparently this happens pretty frequently in the stores around my neighbourhood so I really should have known! :(
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    You never can trust people from Galway...


    ;)
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  • totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    You never can trust people from Galway...


    ;)


    I can assure you, this wasn't an Irish person

    but thanks for that Al :p
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    totaledhead wrote:
    I can assure you, this wasn't an Irish person

    but thanks for that Al :p
    My brother's actually down there for the weekend. I firmly expect him to come back with multiple horror stories. :D

    Just kidding*. I never got scammed like that when I worked in Dunnes Stores, but that's cos they have a strict "don't open the till unless people are paying for things" policy.

    *Sorta :p
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  • totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    My brother's actually down there for the weekend. I firmly expect him to come back with multiple horror stories. :D

    Just kidding*. I never got scammed like that when I worked in Dunnes Stores, but that's cos they have a strict "don't open the till unless people are paying for things" policy.

    *Sorta :p

    yeah well Dunnes sucks, Lidl all the way! :p
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    totaledhead wrote:
    yeah well Dunnes sucks, Lidl all the way! :p
    You work in Lidl? :eek: You're part of the reason good, proper, scroungy, rip-off Irish stores are going out of business. :mad: :p
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  • totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    You work in Lidl? :eek: You're part of the reason good, proper, scroungy, rip-off Irish stores are going out of business. :mad: :p

    Yeah, but we sell everything for half price! Also, I get pain €10.70 p/h :D
  • muiren77muiren77 Posts: 3,511
    totaledhead wrote:
    Oh man I'm soo pissed off :(

    I work in a supermarket and some guy asked me for change. He had like a pile of twenty euro notes so i changed €300 worth of twenties for fifty euro notes for the guy. Then he goes, "no, no, no, I want smaller change!" so I said i didn't have any and he asked for his money back. So I gave it to him and he gave me the fifties back. He left the store pretty quickly then I realised that he only gave me €200 back :( He was gone before security got there!

    Grr I fecking hate when shit like that happens :(

    sorry I had to vent! Has anything like that ever happened to you guys? if so, what happened after? I was pretty worried that i'd lose my job, but luckily I didn't!

    so, are gonna pitch in for the shortage coz that would really suck? 100 euros is pretty big (it's around 8,000 pesos here)...
    what is essential is invisible to the eye

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  • totaledheadtotaledhead Posts: 197
    muiren77 wrote:
    so, are gonna pitch in for the shortage coz that would really suck?

    nah, I asked, and even offered to pay, cos I felt bad, but they said no... so who am I to argue with that? :p
  • muiren77muiren77 Posts: 3,511
    totaledhead wrote:
    nah, I asked, and even offered to pay, cos I felt bad, but they said no... so who am I to argue with that? :p

    your employers are so kind...
    what is essential is invisible to the eye

    apparently, 07162056 is THE date...
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    I think I was scammed once when I worked at Target. I worked in Electronics and people normally don't bring items to the register there that aren't video game related. So someone came up with tons of items, mostly cleaners and stuff. I knew the drawer was getting low on change and they paid with a 100, and when giving change back they wanted to pay with two 50's instead of the 100 when in the middle of the transaction. It got really confusing and I remember giving them back most of the money they had handed me, but in my head it sort of made sense and they were talking me through it and made it sound even more like it made sense.

    I took my time figuring out the change and thought I got it mostly right, but I felt unsure and was scared about it. No one ever said anything when they checked the drawer at the end of the day though, so who knows.
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