I work at a bakery in Germany that’s open on sundays (most things are closed). Yesterday was absolutely flooded because of Mother’s Day and we kept running out of coins.
I had a man wait over five minutes before I was able to give him his change of one cent. I wish I were so in charge of my finances.
That's why I hate X.99 prices.
Just make it 4.50, 4.80, 4.90 or 5.00
If it helps, it was a price ending in a different digit. It ended in six, he gave me seven cents, and wouldn’t accept my offer of his two cents back and I’d be happy to pay the difference personally. He wanted to pay exactly what he owed, which is his prerogative.
That's very German of him
As an immigrant with all the love in my heart: yes.
1 cent?! We don't even deal with those fiddly little coins in our shops anymore. 5 cents is the smallest change.
We just got this rule in Estonia too this year. Cash payment, round to nearest 5 cents, card payment, still exact number.
The price of our plain Brötchen is indivisible by five, which means I get to impress the shit out of people with very basic mental math, but we do have to mess with the fiddly coins. Normally people are a little embarrassed and grimace while waiting for a tiny amount of change, but this guy was chilling. Honestly, more power to him.
No, I mean in stores we still get prices like 2,99, and if you pay with card you pay 2,99 but if you pay with cash you pay 3 euro. You don't get 1 cent return.
On the flipside: if your total is something like 2,96 then you pay 2,96 if you pay with card, however in cash you pay 2,95.
So in the end it all kind of evens out.
That would kill me. I realized that the computer rounds down when calculating our employee discount (we get 50% off, but if something ends in x.x5, we pay x.x2/x.x7, whereas other customers paying for half a loaf of bread would pay x.x3/x.x8) and I’ve been exploiting that since.
I guess this comment section has been a learning experience because I realized that I am exactly the same as that customer.
Who says memes can't be educational? :D
Germans' hate for electronic payments strikes again
Yes, getting rid of 1c 2c and 5c would be great
Here's it is without the pointless first half.
Here it is with an elongated first half
You may not like the format, but it was used correctly in this case.
How many half A presses is that when converted?
Hahaha I’m curious how many people know the word ‘Pannenkoek’ just from the Mario 64 youtuber
I didn't know it was dutch until this post lol. But it's obviously pancake looking at the word. Or so I thought! Looking it up it's specifically a Dutch Pancake?
Is there a different word for a western pancake?
About 1/1000th of a washing machine.
(Ironically, this was my 1000th comment on this account on Lemmy)
Dat is geen pannenkoek, dat is een pizza. Pannenkoeken komen niet uit een oven.
0.05 Mcdonalds mayo (you dipped once)
they might settle for a stroopwafel, or a handful of hagelslag
Lmao. When I lived in Austria I remember I chilled with a friend and he let me take a couple sips from his Beer.
The next day he asked me to wire him 0.3 euro for half the beer 😭.
I just told him next beer is on me.
Wait like, between friends?
Euh, yeah. Usually in the group chat.
Times like these I think the Hellenes had it right with the idea of xenia.
For anyone else who’s learning something new today. That’s generally what I practice, though I tend to think of it as a form of chivalry. I’m a woman ish, but I like the idea of decoupling chivalry from gender roles and treating everyone with more care than is typical. Plus, sexist men hate nothing more than having a woman hold the door or offer to carry something heavy for them.
Anyone who can upset sexist men is a-okay in my book. I like you.
It's what I think of any time I hear the phrase "traditional values". Caring about other people is the basis of any sane ethos.
That's what I prefer too.
Yeah. We use it to settle a lot of things with friends etc. Going out for dinner or having a drink at someone's place? Split the bill and send everyone a Tikkie. Sometimes there's even multiple because someone paid for the beer and someone else for the pizza.
For context: in the Netherlands we generally pay using debit card instead of physical money or credit card. Almost every bank has their own "Tikkie" service nowadays. There's also Splitser, which allows you to keep track of who paid for what over a longer timeframe with more people. Like a holiday with friends.
Yeah but for €0.43? Here in the states people tend to think more like "it'll even out" especially among friends.
I wouldn't ever ask my friends to pay me back $0.50 lol
Oh no definitely not. Unless it's a meme haha. Among friends we regularly don't send a tikkie even when getting beer or something, because you know it's probably gonna be repaid sometime. As friends you definitely don't always need to even the books
Pancakes
I thought I would never need to see this meme format again...
I swear Dutch reads and sounds like an English speaker making fun of German people.
"Ja I joost drooped mein pannenkaken entoo de poopengarten." This is what Dutch sounds like to me, you have a practical rainbow of Germanic languages and then there's Dutch which sounds and reads like a shit post.
Have you seen Afrikaans?
I saw a post of an old Afrikaans newspaper that read "Hitler dood, wat nau?"
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