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[Adder]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Seriously? I'm not sure I'd ever point it out. I mean, it's soup. It isn't like the extra 2 ounces they've thrown in costs enough to matter and I'm sure the containers cost the same. It is like pointing out that I ordered 2 tea bags in a Starbucks tea when they ring me up for the lower price. I assume that they know what they're doing when they ring up the smaller price and they are either trying to garner goodwill for a potential tip or they think it is stupid to charge for the second tea bag.

I've also worked in the service industry enough to know that the cashier doesn't care one bit about the small/regular soup discrepancy.

My only concern would be that the person was somehow going to get in trouble for it.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Adder
My only concern would be that the person was somehow going to get in trouble for it.

There is no way to track that, really unless someone actually saw the cashier mis-ring the medium as small, it isn't like it would be electronically tracked like a retail store

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Indeed. What is one to make of this?

• I stood with a man
  Watching the sun go down.
  The air was full or mumurous summer scents
  And a brave breeze sang like a bugle
  From a sky that smouldered in the west,
  A sky of crimson, amethyst and gold and sepia
  And blue as blue as were the eyes of Helen
  When she sat
  Gazing from some high tower in Ilium
  Upon the Grecian tents darkling below.
  And he,
  This man who stood beside me,
  Gaped like some dull, half-witted animal
  And said,
  "I say,
  Doesn't that sunset remind you
  Of a slice
  Of underdone roast beef?"

I'd call that the finest segue/thread tie/reference linkage in history. How in the fuck did you find that?

ETA: I'd also say Wodehouse knows pussy.

Originally posted by dtb
Oh, Hank. Please.

You know everyone reads these sorts of things

Not everyone, which is something I would ask you to bear in mind when you consider quoting.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Adder
My only concern would be that the person was somehow going to get in trouble for it.

Being that the kitchen measures the soup inventory by volume every half hour and matches it against receipts, they no doubt fired the incompetent clerk.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Being that the kitchen measures the soup inventory by volume every half hour and matches it against receipts, they no doubt fired the incompetent clerk.

right, but they gave her the extra to balance for the volume added by the copius semen added by the prep cooks who read about the latest round of associate raises in N.Y.C., else they would get in trouble for screwing with the food.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Today I ordered a small soup to go with my bacon and avocado sandwich (no pickle, but still delish). The cashier gave me a medium soup but charged me for a small. When I saw the medium soup going into the bag I thought -- hooray -- more soup for me!! I did not draw her error to her attention.

Now I feel bad. Would you have pointed out the mistake and paid for the larger soup?

Note: this has happened to me before at the same place -- and I pointed out the error in the past, and the cashier just giggled and said that it was my lucky day and didn't charge me for the difference.

If it makes any difference, the cashier is kind of cute.

If it were a place I visit frequently, I'd point it out the first time it happened, but not necessarily on subsequent visits.

Query: is there a tip jar and if so, are you fairly generous with the tip jar?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
If it were a place I visit frequently, I'd point it out the first time it happened, but not necessarily on subsequent visits.

Query: is there a tip jar and if so, are you fairly generous with the tip jar?

No tip jar.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
right, but they gave her the extra to balance for the volume added by the copius semen added by the prep cooks who read about the latest round of associate raises in N.Y.C., else they would get in trouble for screwing with the food.

So what did they do when the news of the Goldman bonuses broke. Full on semen soup?

[Fugee]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Today I ordered a small soup to go with my bacon and avocado sandwich (no pickle, but still delish). The cashier gave me a medium soup but charged me for a small. When I saw the medium soup going into the bag I thought -- hooray -- more soup for me!! I did not draw her error to her attention.

Now I feel bad. Would you have pointed out the mistake and paid for the larger soup?

If I ordered & got a medium and the clerk only rang me up for a small, I point it out. If I noticed the clerk grabbing a medium bowl when I'd only ordered a small, I'd have pointed it out. But I don't think you should have to pay for a medium when you ordered a small.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Fugee
If I ordered & got a medium and the clerk only rang me up for a small, I point it out. If I noticed the clerk grabbing a medium bowl when I'd only ordered a small, I'd have pointed it out. But I don't think you should have to pay for a medium when you ordered a small.

That reminds me. I ordered from a pizza joint this weekend. Eggplant parm special. They sent me chix parm. I called. They said okay, well, credit your account or send the eggplant? I said send the eggplant, so I said "do you want the chix back?" she said "no, I can't send that out so keep it" so I had a chix parm and eggplant parm for the price really of eggplant. [I brought most of it home] I did ask her point blank.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by dtb
Oh, Hank. Please.

Let it all hang out, baby.

I've seen that and it isn't pretty.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I've seen that and it isn't pretty.

Is it as bad as the picture of Cisco Adler that's floating around today?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Is it as bad as the picture of Cisco Adler that's floating around today?

I haven't seen it, but if you're asking I suppose I should be grateful.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'd call that the finest segue/thread tie/reference linkage in history. How in the fuck did you find that?

ETA: I'd also say Wodehouse knows pussy.

Pure coincidence. I just happened to read it this morning on my way into work. Couldn't have fit better if I'd specially commissioned it.