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"No, I don't have two cents!" Tuesday, August 30, 2005

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Posted 02 September 2005 - 09:37 AM

Maybe it's because I deal with numbers all day. I hate when people round up. They're like, "It's $34,000." And I have to say... "What is the EXACT amount?" And then they're like, "It's $34,600." And then I say... "And...?" "twenty eight dollars." "And...? "Thirty-two cents."

That makes a big difference. Just because we're dealing with tens of thousands of dollars, what makes you think that I'm not interested in every penny?
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Posted 02 September 2005 - 01:43 PM

I know what you're saying, Chef, and I fear this will look like nitpicking, but: numbers are exact quantities, and don't play well to analogies. Ignoring penies here and there will add up to a difference of at most $500.00 dollars a year. About half as often as you're under, you'll be over, so the shrink doesn;t ad up to much. In your example, it would be acceptable to ignore $628.32. Even at 100 transactions a day, allowing for being over by just as much one half as often as you're under (that is, one third of the time), you'd be losing $41888.00 every day.

I don't care what sorts of budgets you're dealing with, these numbers don't compare. Anyone oculd afford the former, while only a bloated government defence budget could justify the latter. There actually is a point to saying that pennies are small change and that they are not worth fussing over. If strict accounting means more time spent at bookkeeping, and more time spent running to the bank, and having larger floats, etc, is it worth it for $2.67 a day (I worked retail for a while, and it was never higher than that, usually, with the penny jar, the count matched the tape anyway)?

In the example that started all of this, what would have happened had the cashier not had the pennies, and had given you $0.95? Would it have been worth arguing to get your three cents? Or what if she had given you $2.00? Really, do you think they'd be going under? Do you think their profit margin comes in so low they'd notice it?
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Posted 03 September 2005 - 01:51 AM

QUOTE (civilian_number_two @ Sep 2 2005, 02:43 PM)
In the example that started all of this, what would have happened had the cashier not had the pennies, and had given you $0.95?  Would it have been worth arguing to get your three cents?


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Posted 03 September 2005 - 02:52 AM

In Australia we don't have 1 or 2 cent pieces anymore. The lowest denomination is the 5c coin. And when cashiers ask if you have the 2c(as in your orrigional post)they're usually(at least in my experience)doing so as a favour to you. If somebody's goods come to $11.05, I'll ask if they have a 5c coin, as a $1 coin change is a lot lighter then a 50 cent coin, two 20 cent coins and a five cent coin. Weight is irrelevant to the cashier. They just chuck it in the till. You have to carry it around all the time.
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Posted 03 September 2005 - 04:50 AM

That's odd, I always thought that if Canada dropped the penny, then all store prices would round up to the nearest nickel. They still have 'to the penny' prices in Australia?
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Posted 04 September 2005 - 01:19 AM

It mostly comes in with fruit and other loose items. For example, apples may be $2.95 per kilo, but if you get 800g, that's $2.36. We round to the nearest whole coin, so 1, 2 8 & 9 go to 0, and 3, 4, 6 & 7 go to 5.
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Posted 04 September 2005 - 06:09 PM

QUOTE (WalkingCarpet @ Sep 1 2005, 08:24 AM)
For some reason I have an irrational loathing of the phrase "Well, maybe you can help me".

"Well maybe I can't.  Maybe I can but I don't want to.  Maybe I'd rather take this phone and shove it up your fat, wrinkled, probably richer than me, time-wasting ass."

Possibly why I didn't last on the Samaritans.


the phrase tends to usually translate as:

hello, i'm a complete retard who has done inadequate research and preperation into calling the people i'm actually suppose to be calling and used the phone book to find a company that has the same company name as the street name of the people i actually want to call... (that, or i dialed random numbers until i got someone) i was hoping if you could listen to my life story... no don't interupt, it will take a while... and the less interuption the sooner i can rely on you to use your computer to find the number i'm actually after. plus some other tidbits of information they should have, or possibly did, teach me at school.
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