Receipt messages
I used to work in a shop, selling computers and related equipment (profiteroles as one of our adverts once misread...)

When we cashed up every night, after entering the totals in the till software it would, as a final question before shutdown, ask for tomorrow's "message of the day". This would be printed at the bottom of the receipt until the next end-of-day routing was run, and was for messages such as "Commodore Amigas - order now for Christmas" and "Floppy disk special - ten for £10"

At the end of one particularly stressful day, where the only things we wanted to say to our punters was "up yours" or "there are other shops where you can go and waste people's time" the owner cashed up, and then shouted loudly, "Right, after today you can all f!ck off and die", and duly typed "Fuck off and die" into the till.

Halfway through the next day a regular customer popped back into the shop with his receipt.. "did you know...."
(ymmit, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 9:25, 1 reply)

I shall remember this should I ever hand in my notice

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 10:43, closed)