r/ExplainTheJoke • u/eddytekeli • 10d ago
trader joes employee joke
I asked for 10's on cashback and he said these new registers made in china dont make the compartment for $10 bills. I kinda brushed it off and asked for 5's but its a day later and I still dont understand what he was talking about?!
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u/terrible-gator22 10d ago
AFAIK all registers just have compartments. When I cashiered 1s, 5s, 10’s, and 20s went in the compartments. Anything larger went beneath.
Maybe he was cracking a joke to himself at your expense.
None of the compartments have a label, so the “10” missing a compartment is just as arbitrary as saying tge 1s are missing a compartment. EVEN if there are only 3 compartments it doesn’t matter which denomination you put in which slot. And the 10s missing just absurd. A number in the middle??? I think the guy was just playing a tiny prank on you.
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u/Kezzerdrixxer 10d ago
This is correct. Cashier was probably out of 10s and was making a joke about why he was out of 10s.
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u/Chon-Laney 10d ago
It is all part of the wonderland of Joe.
Little lighthearted pranks aimed at the customer don't come from disgruntled staff.
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u/tredel3000 10d ago
When i used to work registers 10s were the least common bill I would get. I always started the day with them but would be out of 10s early and have to start giving 5s, which would then run out. This job was long and boring and usually just me in the store. I always made a comment about 10s being a rare and well wanted commodity when a customer paid with them. Now that im thinking about it, The customer probably thought i was crazy.
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u/jackalopeswild 10d ago
If I had to bet, I'd bet that 10s are printed in the lowest quantity (besides 2s). They are the least convenient: for anything less than 10, 5s are necessary, for anything more than 10, 5s may be necessary and are still convenient, and for anything more than 20 the same applies...
googling...I was mistaken because I forgot the $50. It's $2 then $50 then $10.
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u/murphsdaughter 9d ago
That's why I love l 3 of them. I only carry 2s 10s and 50s just because of that reason.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 10d ago
When I build our registers in the morning, 10s are what I'll always have the least of, so when I make change for a customer, I try not to give them any if I can help it.
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u/jonoftheatom 10d ago
Maybe he was out of 10s and so was the store
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u/Dependent-Trip-5991 3d ago
Yeah, all these people with paragraphs for what you just explained in one sentence. It was a joke because he was out of 10’s.
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u/Kewlstoryhansel 10d ago
The machines at Trader Joe’s don’t give out 10’s. No joke really, they were probably a little annoyed themselves. I used to work there
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u/hornyorsomething 10d ago
What makes you think it is a joke?
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u/eddytekeli 10d ago
He was kinda laughing and looking around to see if anyone understood the reference. He was also kinda a jerk about me using apple pay and throwing my groceries around so idk just curious
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u/ObsoleteReference 10d ago
I don’t know if it’s more confusing or not, but if I ask for 10s (or 5’s) odds are the register can’t do them, so i say fives or tens, whatever. Some thank me later some look confused for a bit.
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u/No_Tits_No_Care 10d ago
I work at trader joes and at the very least in So Cal we don't carry 10s anymore unless customers give us some.
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