Word To The Wise!

[Mapguy]

Recently, I visited Rimping near the river. I always check the marketing prices as the clerk scans the goods. This is not easy, of course, since they can do so very quickly, but I have become quite good at it. It just takes practice.

Anyway, when it comes to totaling things up, that's when I am really careful. I NEVER pay the exact amount. I always, use a big bill, so I can carefully calculate the change I receive in return. (I have had some complaints in the past from people behind me that I am delaying their departure. And drippy ice cream on the rubber moving belt does make a mess, after all!), so I try to be considerate of others. I check the register and count my change, of course! Who doesn't ?!

Well, this time I received 100 baht too much!

Just wanted to be sure you know! So, you can try it out, it is the cashier on the far left lane. She is about 40 years of age, as far as I can tell. It is hard to tell sometimes; they are so cute for a long time! But she does wear glasses with brown frames! That's why I think she was easy to remember. She had a "certain look."

Anyway, I got a nice cookie with my 100 baht at Butter Is Better!!!

WISH YOU GOOD LUCK!

[Femme]

Euhm...you do know that it is not uncommon that staff have to pay the difference themselves?

[Beechboy]

Not a whole hundred baht, surely?

It must have made your day.

[Farang0tang]

mmmmm....are you sure? Did you check all your goods when you got home?

Perhaps you were missing that 200 baht pack of English mature cheddar!

[Flatouthruthefog]

Not a whole hundred baht, surely?

It must have made your day.

So, OP, you have "become quite good at it" huh? Ripping off under-paid Thai staff who then DO have to make up for their errors (you, of course, never made one?) while you enjoyed your measly, ill-gotten 100 baht.

I always used to respect your posts.

Used to!

[tolstoy]

So you are bragging that you stole money from a clerk? I do hope that you returned the error just as you would ask for the correct change if they underpaid.

[heybruce]

What does a cashier at Rimping make, about 20 baht an hour? If so, she lost five hours of pay so the poster could have a cookie.

[philw]

Sad, sad, sad.

With a capital F.

[folium]

OMG, what a sad pathetic excuse for a human being.

next it will be tips on how to steal sweets from small kids.

Please tell me this is just a wind up, if not Mapguy you are one seriously sad individual.

[Beetlejuice]

If the till balance does not tally at the end of the shift, then the cashier has to make up the difference.

Similar happened to me at Tesco Lotus a few months ago. A young lady cashier gave me 50 baht too much change. I noticed and returned the 50 baht to the little girl on the till and then with a smile gave her a polite warning to be more careful in the future.

As for our mapguy, not the sort of person I would choose as a pal. Sly and cunning like a shitehouse rat.

That 100 baht of ill-gotten gain will not bring him luck. What goes around, comes around.

[HarryPalmer]

I think the "certain look." comment gives it away!

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

yeah unfortunately its true that a lot of cashiers have to pay shortages and many shops require an employee to have a deposit to draw against when the totals don't match.

In the west the company pays but here it's often the employee.

oh well. In the future the employee will learn to count more carefully.

[hellodolly]

Must have been one he-l of a cookie for 100 baht.

But what the heck you didn't have to pay for it. Some poor probably underpaid Thai proving she was human by making a mistake.

Think I will look her up and give 100 baht.

[elektrified]

It's a spoof on this ---->

"She had a certain look" gave it away.

[scd]

Thanks for the laugh Mapguy!

[Ulysses G.]

Butter is Better's best - and most expensive - cookies are the amazing chocolate chip ones for 25 baht. It looks like karma got you this time Mapguy.

[ianf]

Well that's not very honest is it? If a cashier gives me to much I ALWAYS hand it back. Keeping it when you know it is too much is theft. And besides the poor girl gets it docked - a 100 baht is big money to some of these ladies - and it's FA to you. So I suggest you go back to Rimping and find this woman and give it back. Not nice to admit you are a thief on this forum, is it?

[ha55ha]

has to be a joke

[richard_smith237]

This has happened to me before. When I pointed the error in change to the clerk they looked at me as if I was a complete idiot....

A first they can't comprehend that they have made a mistake....

When then finally accept that there is a mistake, they look for where they have short changed me.

But they can't see the short change... they are flummoxed.

Then it dawns on them that their mistake is not to short change me, but they have 'over changed me'.

There is a moment of 'rabbit in the headlights' hesitation as it dawns on them that I am honest.

Then they look at me as if I'm an idiot for wasting their time, making them loose face for pointing out a mistake that benefited me !....

It appears as though some would rather I just walk off with the extra money than point out a mistake to them.

Others of course are grateful.

It is also noted that the 'short changing' is more common than 'over changing'....

[chiang mai]

Euhm...you do know that it is not uncommon that staff have to pay the difference themselves?

Er um, you do know it's not uncommon for people to have a sense of humor! Nicely done.

[chiang mai]

As for our mapguy, not the sort of person I would choose as a pal. Sly and cunning like a shitehouse rat.

I'm trying to imagine your embarrassment at this point but find it difficult to do so.

[seekingfriends]

As for our mapguy, not the sort of person I would choose as a pal. Sly and cunning like a shitehouse rat.

I'm trying to imagine your embarrassment at this point but find it difficult to do so.

100 bath .thats 3.78 australian .that is one of the things i dislike living in thailand there are so many tight arse westerners when i used to travel by train or bus .and listening to backpackers braging how they got a hut on the beach for 150 bath a night .and paid 89 bath for the long tail boat to the island .thank goodness you dont get too many backpackers on flights in thailand .and out friend who ripped off the cashier .have anice day . james hat yai

[butterisbetter]

The thing about this posting is that the humor, such as it is, depends on the imagined reader paying obsessive attention to other threads. The quotation marks around "certain look" could be there just to call attention to the phrase itself. It would have made far more sense to have posted this entry in the thread it referred to. If someone hadn't carefully read that other thread, how would they know that this was a joke? So I don't think that anyone needs to feel ashamed for possibly having a life outside of thaivisa.com.

[chiang mai]

It's a Chiang Mai centric spoof and most of the players are regular readers thus your argument is not exactly water tight.

[sbk]

Tight enough, and I think we've invited enough abuse

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