Do you want a receipt?

Hitchens

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

Hitchens wrote: »

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

Keep the head up buddy, life is tough. We're here for you.

SEPT 23 1989

some people need a receipt for their accounts

Blackhorse Slim

If you were getting your petrol paid for by your employer, or writing it off a business expense, and forgot to ask for a receipt, they would be doing you a big favour

Ruu

You poor thing!

SkyBlueClouds

Hitchens wrote: »

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

I usually only request them if im paying in Cash. If it's by card or paypal there's a record of it there for my own peace of mind.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Hitchens wrote: »

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

And if they didn't give you one, you'd be on here moaning about shoddy customer service not offering you a receipt...?!

Hitchens

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

And if they didn't give you one, you'd be on here moaning about shoddy customer service not offering you a receipt...?!

No, just hand over the receipt, simple enough I would have thought

ThisRegard

The rich couple on €105,000 need them to write it off as an expense in order to stay filthy rich.

Turtyturd

Come across a lot of shop assistants asking me if I got any petrol or diesel when they are ringing up my stuff from the shop.

What's up with that?...If I had any I would have told you.

Other than that happening the days when it happens do be good days.

BKWDR

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

If it's by card or paypal there's a record of it there for my own peace of mind.

Where can you pay for petrol with Paypal?

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!

Well yeah, how are they to know you're driving a work vehicle or just filling up your own personal car.

I used to work in a petrol station and nobody would have wanted a receipt after filling up their own car.

RobYourBuilder

Hitchens wrote: »

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

Some people need them for expenses. Others like to keep them as a record to help them budget accordingly.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!

Turtyturd wrote: »

Come across a lot of shop assistants asking me if I got any petrol or diesel when they are ringing up my stuff from the shop.

What's up with that?...If I had any I would have told you.

Not everyone is as honest as you!

Hitchens

Just to clarify the OP.

I paid in cash and it was rung up and that was that except I stood there waiting and then I got the "do you want a receipt?"

Just hand over the receipt ta fúck!

Valetta

Most people don't want a receipt.

That's why they ask.

BKWDR

Hitchens wrote: »

Just to clarify the OP.

I paid in cash and it was rung up and that was that except I stood there waiting and then I got the "do you want a receipt?"

Just hand over the receipt ta fúck!

I agree, it should be an automatic and you can say 'scrap the receipt'...

Same in the local spar, you have to ask for a receipt. I wouldnt mind but i never do but one time in my head i added up things and it wasn't the same so when i just asked for a receipt yer man looks at me like i've ten heads , i left the shop realised it was wrong , came back in and he knew straight away why i'd come back.

columf

Hitchens wrote: »

Just to clarify the OP.

I paid in cash and it was rung up and that was that except I stood there waiting and then I got the "do you want a receipt?"

Just hand over the receipt ta fúck!

how dare those peons ask a question of you.
Most places I go if you pay will either ask if you want a receipt or you need to request one as they don't print a customer copy part of this is to reduce waste and littering.

Boom_Bap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWx6uA5aCrE

Eutow

Turtyturd wrote: »

Come across a lot of shop assistants asking me if I got any petrol or diesel when they are ringing up my stuff from the shop.

What's up with that?...If I had any I would have told you.

Other than that happening the days when it happens do be good days.

Having worked previously in a petrol station that was also a small shop, no customers do not always tell you. Some customers assumed you automatically knew they had bought petrol/diesel.

It was only when you quoted the price to them (after they brought some groceries to the register, or ask for cigs etc) and then you ring it through the till, that they mentioned that they have also bought petrol/diesel.

You also get the shop assistant asking you what petrol pump number you filled up at if there are several pumps being used at the same time. This is to avoid you getting charged the wrong amount.

Birneybau

Why would you want a receipt, if not for expenses?

You were asked to pay the value of the petrol, you paid it, why would you want a receipt as a synopsis of the transaction?

The_Captain

Valetta wrote: »

Most people don't want a receipt.

That's why they ask.

This is the reason.

A receipt for something that might be faulty or that I might return, like a TV or clothes or something

I don't need a receipt for a sandwich or petrol

Badly Drunk Boy

I hate getting faulty sandwiches.

GLaDOS

Maybe they're trying to reduce their paper usage, to save the rainforests.

For shame, OP.

anncoates

Worked in a petrol station years ago and actually enjoyed it apart from some of fcukheaded customers.

Billy86

Turtyturd wrote: »

Come across a lot of shop assistants asking me if I got any petrol or diesel when they are ringing up my stuff from the shop.

What's up with that?...If I had any I would have told you.

Other than that happening the days when it happens do be good days.

Because if you did get petrol and they didn't spot it, you can pretty much legally return to your car and drive away without paying if they failed to ask.

AnonoBoy

Billy86 wrote: »

Because if you did get petrol and they didn't spot it, you can pretty much legally return to your car and drive away without paying if they failed to ask.

I don't think that's how the law works.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Hitchens wrote: »

No, just hand over the receipt, simple enough I would have thought

Dunno how many useless pieces of paper I have stuffed in my wallet when I was automatically handed back a receipt. Always nice to be asked.

Billy86

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I don't think that's how the law works.

I worked in a Statoil/Topaz for a year or so right after the economy went to the dogs. If someone fills up on petrol, then enters the shop and goes to the counter, there is very little that can be done about them driving off without paying if you fail to ask if they got petrol. The manager of the place was Estonian and the Irish laws on this drove him absolutely mad at times.

AnonoBoy

Billy86 wrote: »

I worked in a Statoil/Topaz for a year or so right after the economy went to the dogs. If someone fills up on petrol, then enters the shop and goes to the counter, there is very little that can be done about them driving off without paying if you fail to ask if they got petrol. The manager of the place was Estonian and the Irish laws on this drove him absolutely mad at times.

Class! Free petrol for me this evening!

Thanks for the tip!

donal7

The best place I've heard this line was at my local GP.

Billy86

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Class! Free petrol for me this evening!

Thanks for the tip!

I hope you wind up like the guy I'll never forget, that drove off and gave me the finger like a cocky prick as I spotted him doing it...

...then sheepishly came back about 10 minutes later needing assistance because he had filled his diesel car with unleaded. I swear to God it's as if he thought I wouldn't remember him since it was a busy day or something?

Got the Gards to give him a hand, alright.

Tzardine

This whole petrol station things does my head in. Conversation usually goes like this.

Me: Just these please (Place bread and milk on counter)
Assistant : Do you have any petrol or diesel.
Me : dafuq. /facepalm

Not as annoying as the petrol stations that have that automated thing at the till that shouts at you. HAVE YOU GOT ANY PETROL OR DIESEL.

Bloody staff look mortified each time it roars out.

--LOS--

I don't get the problem, it's to reduce waste, you can always ask for a receipt, you were even offered the choice, even better, what are you complaining about The word for 'receipt' was one of the first words I picked up here, no supermarket issues receipts automatically, most will ask if you want one, people are just more waste conscious, bizarre to think of people being against it really.

Birneybau

Billy86 wrote: »

Because if you did get petrol and they didn't spot it, you can pretty much legally return to your car and drive away without paying if they failed to ask.

To the petrol station boys!

Anyway, what is the big deal in being asked if you got petrol or diesel ffs?

Do people complain if they are asked if they need a bag?

It's just shop talk, staff HAVE to ask it.

Billy86

Tzardine wrote: »

Bloody staff look mortified each time it roars out.

They should just bring in those Atype machines where you put your cash or card and lay beforehand. Easier for everyone involved, less theft and less queues. Petrol stations wouldn't go for them much though, since they make most of their money off the stuff in the actual shops.

By the way, you would be surprised the amount of people who HAVE got petrol go to the counter and loudly declare "this is all I have, nothing else, now just please be quick" etc etc hoping the person at the till won't ask so they can drive away.

El Horseboxo

I hate receipts from a filling station. They just end up as clutter in the car. Only want them when expensing them so it's good they ask.

Joe Doe

Receipts? Yes please.

The fancy 'toxic BPA coated receipts' everyone uses? Nope.
Bring back the aul letterpress ink n paper tills.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I don't want a receipt. I only wish I had use for one but I don't. I makes perfect sense to ask if you want one rather than had over unnecessary paper to add to all the litter.

Sunhill

This ' Did you take any petrol or diesel?' question annoys me too.
Watch the reaction when you answer 'Not at your prices!'

Timberrrrrrrr

Hitchens wrote: »

No, just hand over the receipt, simple enough I would have thought

Environmentally friendly not to give them out unless needed, save the trees ffs :mad:

Greenmachine

Valetta wrote: »

Most people don't want a receipt.

That's why they ask.

That is total irrelevant. They are obliged to provide the receipt. If the customer doesn't want it they can throw in the bin. Sick of having to ask for a receipt when i buy something, because the clerk can't be arsed.

Miaireland

The reason a lot of places ask if people want receipts or not is due to the amount of people who just drop the receipt on the ground when they go outside if they do not want it. Cuts down on waste and littering. I don't see what the problem is to be honest with being asked. All you have to say is one word.

Bio Mech

Billy86 wrote: »

Because if you did get petrol and they didn't spot it, you can pretty much legally return to your car and drive away without paying if they failed to ask.

How could you prove you asked or not? Are all till conversations recorded? I doubt it. If they drive away without paying they still owe you for the petrol it doesn't just become a freebie. I would guess its just that they would be less likely to be charged with theft if they entered the shop and paid for items as it demonstrates that either they genuinely forgot or you forgot to charge them.

Its not like its free petrol, mums the word.

GottaGetGatt

Hitchens wrote: »

Come across this a lot from shop assistants. I bought €80 of petrol this morning, goes into the shop and pays for it, the assistant rings it up and says "do you want a receipt?"

It's like they're doing you a favour.

Other than that it wasn't a bad morning :-0

Most workers get a receipt so they can claim it back as travel expenses through work. Come out from under that stone your living under there boy.

AnonoBoy

Bio Mech wrote: »

Its not like its free petrol, mums the word.

No. It's a brilliant life hack for free petrol so it is.

I just tried it there.

Got 50 euro of diesel, went into the shop and bought a twix and the guy didn't ask me about the fuel. I got outside the door and jumped up and down shouting, "Wahooooo! FREE FUELL!!!"

The guy behind the counter was a bit embarrassed but he gave me that look that said, "Hey buddy, you got me! We both know the law here, you got yourself a free tank of diesel, boy is my face red!"

Good times folks. I encourage everyone to try it today.

Eutow

Tzardine wrote: »

This whole petrol station things does my head in. Conversation usually goes like this.

Me: Just these please (Place bread and milk on counter)
Assistant : Do you have any petrol or diesel.
Me : dafuq. /facepalm

Not as annoying as the petrol stations that have that automated thing at the till that shouts at you. HAVE YOU GOT ANY PETROL OR DIESEL.

Bloody staff look mortified each time it roars out.

If any customer said to me "just these", obviously I wouldn't have asked.

Whenever someone lifted the pump, a beeping noise used to go off on the till to let you know somebody wanted to use the pump. I grew to hate that noise. Bloody annoying also if you left the till for a moment to go to the other end of the shop and it starts beeping. You had to go running back to press the button on the till to release it, otherwise the person at the pump wouldn't be able to pump any petrol.

Penny Tration

Sunhill wrote: »

This ' Did you take any petrol or diesel?' question annoys me too.
Watch the reaction when you answer 'Not at your prices!'

Being a smart arse to a low paid retail worker. Wow, that's pleasant.

Hitchens

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

Most workers get a receipt so they can claim it back as travel expenses through work. Come out from under that stone your living under there boy.

That's my point, the shop person wasn't going to give me a receipt........when I stood there waiting it dawned on the assistant that I probably wanted a receipt.

That old 'save the planet' or 'you might clog up your car with receipts' thing is just bullshít.

Besides the expenses, 2 other reasons for getting a receipt for petrol is:

1. Stretched petrol scam.

2. Guards pull you over after a few kilometres and say: ....."we have a complaint that you just drove away from that petrol station without paying"

You: "but I did pay, Guard"

Guard: "can you prove that, sir/madam?"

Eutow

green_screen wrote: »

Being a smart arse to a low paid retail worker. Wow, that's pleasant.

Whenever someone complained about the price I would just laugh to myself. The price was in big writing on display at the entrance to the forecourt, so customers if they wanted to, could have gone somewhere else.

The fact was though, that all the stations around the area I worked would all have similar prices, so it wasn't worth them going anywhere else.

KERSPLAT!

Billy86 wrote: »

I hope you wind up like the guy I'll never forget, that drove off and gave me the finger like a cocky prick as I spotted him doing it...

...then sheepishly came back about 10 minutes later needing assistance because he had filled his diesel car with unleaded. I swear to God it's as if he thought I wouldn't remember him since it was a busy day or something?

Got the Gards to give him a hand, alright.

Give him a hand with what? You said nothing can be done.

I call BS on it anyway