The owner isn't in the business of handing out $40 chunks due to the idiocy of his employees. He is almost certainly doing this to ensure that he finds out if an employee fails to check the ID of someone under 40. He is certainly not doing it for the benefit of his employee either.

Same line as my local Taco Bell offering $5 or a free meal (I forget which--and not sure if they still do this) if the cashier fails to give you a receipt.

According to the posted sign, handing out $40 due to his employee's idiocy is exactly what was supposed to happen in LKJ's case.

" He is almost certainly doing this to ensure that he finds out if an employee fails to check the ID of someone under 40. "

finally figured out what el diablol left us for

I actually heard from one of my old cellies the other day. Diablo is in the hole after splitting some punks wig who tried to take his cheeks.

You guys make some odd points. I'd be surprised if there was anyone reading this thread who doesn't understand why the owner put the sign up. Everyone gets it, it's not a particularly interesting part of the conversation.

The topic was brought up with regard to whether or not a customer would/ or should participate by taking the $40 and snitching on the cashier. The other interesting topic is the consequences for the cashier along with the legality of the possible consequences.

I think it's a dumb policy, and reward system, because it's far from the most effective method to ensure an employee doesn't sell to an underage customer. It's also a stupid because 40 is not an effective over under age. Differentiating between someone 39 vs 40 is considerably harder than differentiating whether someone is safely over 21 or whether they should be carded.

The owner is making the clerk's job harder by giving them enough rope to hang themselves with and making the distinction of who the clerk should card harder than it needs to be.

Simply requiring the clerk to card 100% of customers would be a simpler, more effective, way to run the business as opposed to expecting a clerk to decide if someone is >40 and putting a bounty on the clerks head.

100% id checking is more boneheaded than setting a line that will be very wide of the legal drinking age. I was unable to buy beer recently because of that zero tolerance policy which is ridic as I have been legal to buy beer for longer than not. How does carding my 93 YO grandma or even 70 yo dad make more sense than setting a stupidly, but not quite as stupid margin?

Also, why do you assume that the owner ALSO must enforce the rule in some dumb ass way? It is a painted cattle guard. It is a reminder to the staff to be careful and ask for ID in ANY case that could possibly be near the line so they don't lose their liquor license. Nobody knows what the consequences are to the cashier for ****ing up, but if the boss is going to fire them the first time some ****ty customer who is 39 angles for the $40, good riddance to that ****ing job. They likely don't do anything in that case but pay the $40 and instruct to estimate even wider to the clerk. What if it is a 23-year-old who calls them out who SHOULD have been carded? Maybe in that case the clerk gets a reprimand or warning. Maybe they get more training. Maybe they get taken off the register. Or maybe, if it happens frequently, they fire the person who can't be arsed to give a **** about protecting the business even with lots of instruction up to and including assinine policies to motivate compliance?

ETA: I once worked a job as a cashier at a lunch counter type restaurant that did the "get your receipt or your meal is free" thing because they were getting robbed like crazy. There was a bakery side that sold break for $3.00 a loaf and they did a few hundred loaves a day. There was at least one clerk who would just put the cash in his pocket. On my side, which was the lunch side, I could expect 3-4 people to try to bounce without their receipt every day. They would eye-ball the sign, look at me, get all squirely and start to walk off with their hand behind them like a ****ing relay racer waiting for the baton. One of the few pleasures I had in that job was pretending I was going to forget and watching their disappointment as I grabbed the receipt out of the printer a split second before they got their change. The dude who was stealing the bread cash got caught because of that policy.

So you're saying that had LKJ accepted the $40 he's an angling ****ty customer?

Posting a sign directed at the customers, in plain view of the customers, isn't there for the customers but is actually there for the employee?



They're both boneheaded approaches. If you're going to take a boneheaded approach why not take the one that's easiest for the clerk, has 100% accuracy and doesn't open you up to angling, ****ty, 39 yr old customers?


I didn't assume anything. The owner put the sign up and he is enforcing the rule in some dumb ass way.


ETA:
Do you think your behavior enhanced or detracted from the customer experience?

If you were the man would you be happy to learn that your policy led to this employee/customer interaction every time?

In his case, he may have been just inconsiderate to the potential consequences to the cashier (he wasn't tho), but the fact that he didn't get his $40 even though he was entitled to it kinda makes my point. I wouldn't have. I'm talking about the people who see the sign and hope the cashier fails, like in my anecdote about working a ****ty job with ****ty, angling customers.
The fact that the customer can see it is to influence the employees. I may be missing your point. The purpose of the sign is not because they want to give out $40, it is because they don't want to.

The unintended consequence of 100%--bothering old fart customers and making your cashiers look stupid, vs bothering only gen x customers and making your cashiers look encumbered by dumb policies with the very rare occurrence of a 39-year-old achieving a goal on the net and following through to get the $40 are the difference here.

We have no idea to what extent this rule is enforced or what that enforcement looks like. The policy and sign may preexist the current owner/manager for all we know.

Johny,

A customer who goes into a store, reads a sign posted by management, and abides by the terms of that sign is not a ****ty angling customer.

Fwiw in your anecdote you were a ****ty angling employee.

you can't possibly be serious.

I already spent more energy than is sound inflating my GAF level about this topic for sport, but we are much further apart than I thought. That's cool, though. Agree to disagree.

Some advice for noone in particular: Quit while you're behind.

Howard,

I don't believe you ever answered Alobar's question re: what the original no Politics posting bet terms were.

Zoinks!

Make him pay El D! It's for your disciple Fabian.

Nice to see you btw.

ED's account has been hacked!!!

Call the e-constabulary at once!

Two things:

(1) Not sure I've ever been more amused than when my 61-yr-old Dad was refused entry into a bar because he didn't have ID; and
(2) Does Fabian actually exist? If so, we should get him to the US for a tour of real life.

Hehe,

now I know the spell that brings ElD. Just name him as an arbiter in something.

ElD, good to see you.

Howard,

Would rep and I get along irl? My initial inclination is no. He seems like the guy on the phone who gave you **** type.

Our fearless leader is back, baby!

So he's been away golfing all this time!

Been craving a chili cheese dog so when the wife asked me if there's anything I need from the store I told her to get all the stuff to make them and I'd grill the dogs when I got home.

So Im home with everything ready and have loaded up my bun with a nice blackened dog, mustard, sauteed onions, and was just getting a heap of chili ladeled up when I notice what looks like a piece of corn floating around in the chili.

"What kind of chili is this?"
"Idk, regular chili"
"Regular chili?"
"Yep"
"This isn't veggie chili is it?" as I'm poking around looking for any sign of meat.
"No."
"Ok, so there's meat in it right?" still searching.
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"Well its just chili ok!" like its my fault the chili looks weird.

So I look in the recycling bin and sure enough, 2 cans that say
GARDEN CHILI NO MEAT right on the damn label.
Are you kidding me?! Thats not ****ing chili! WTF

I was so distraught over the meatless "chili" debacle that I completely forgot to put the cheese on until halfway through my second bean and veggie mush cheeseless dog. Saddest goddamn thing I've ever seen on a bun.

Good luck with your next wife cs3.