Why is my name "Beaker?" Well, at work, that is what my co-workers call me because they say I remind them of the Muppet with that name.

I work at a grocery store called Weis. I am technically a "Customer Service Clerk" but according to many customers I am, for all intents and purposes, the Manager, minus the larger paycheck and official job title. Most of my bills that I EMS come from, and are spent at, Weis.
I started when I found a stamped bill in the register at while working, on July 3, 2001. I exchanged it for one of the bills in my wallet, took it home, and entered it. Didn't enter another bill until August, when I saw another stamped bill in the register. By the end of October, 2001, I had entered a grand total of 10 bills. It had never occured to me to enter an umarked bill, and mark it myself. However, that changed in November when I saw a bill handwritten with "See where I've been!" in the upper margin, and "www.WheresGeorge.com" on the bottom. I started doing the same, entering and marking over 100 bills in November. This seemed to work fine, since I have gotten several hits from people who had apparently never heard of this site before seeing one of my bills.

On 12/17/01, I got a WheresGeorge stamp, from The Stamp Man. That is when I really started entering a lot of bills. Also, my hit rate slowly increased since then, until March, when my co-workers informed me that it's (in their uneducated opinion) "illegal" to mark bills, so I quit doing that. However, I can still enter bills, just as long as they aren't marked. To summarize:

My WG-Related Sites...

• Operation Area 51 Stats
• Directory of WG Forum Posts
• WG Family Tree

Click here for my hit stats (semi-interesting but EXTREMELY out-of-date - last updated July, '02).

One thing I am really proud of is having entered a bill of the rarest Series/Denomination combo on the site - a 1969B $50. There are only 24 entered on the entire site - and mine is one of them!

Allentown

Don't Stop Georgin'

EMS the Page

Every Bill I Get

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (2001 series)

I Want to Know What A Hit Is

I'm Still Stamping

No Stamping Tonight/New Public Forums

One More Hit

Waiting For A Hit Like You

Writing State of Mind

About me at my job...

I started at Weis as a cashier in October, 2000. I quickly gained a reputation for being one of the fastest cashiers there, and also one of the most obsessively neat and ordered cashiers. For example, one particular thing that often annoyed co-workers and managers was my tendency to quickly pick up any grocery items sitting around, and put them away (unshop them). This was annoying to everyone else because they would often set stuff aside with the intention of buying it later, only to find that I had put it away. I even did this a couple times with half-full carts of stuff. This caused the managers to get genuinely pissed at me a couple of times. However, they soon realized that what it meant was that I was simply doing my jox as I should (keeping the front neat) and apparently they were not used to having anyone who did that job so well. They soon figured out that anything left out would be quickly put back on the shelf, and even now anyone who plans on setting aside stuff to buy later makes sure to tell me.

People who don't understand computers and Self-Checkout machines

People with too much stuff in the Express line

The $2.49 Grape-Tomato Guy (title until someone has a better idea)

This is considered a classic and the all-time best/worst/funniest customer experience at my store.

I'm fuzzy on when exactly this happened (it was a while ago) but I believe it was late 2001, and I think I was still just a cashier at the time. Anyway, here goes...

It was pretty late at night - maybe 8-9pm (we closed at 11 at the time). This guy came up to Customer Service and said that he had bought 2 packages of grape tomatoes ($2.49 each), which were advertised as "Buy one, get one free", and he didn't get the $2.49 discount for the free one. When asked to show his receipt, he showed the Self-Checkout receipt.

Well, back then the Self-Checkout machines didn't let you pay there - it simply printed out a receipt with a list of items and a total, and this receipt was given to the cashier. After the customer paid, s/he was given a 2nd receipt - one that says the customer actually paid.

This guy only had the 1st receipt, with the list of items. So, for all we know, he could've just scanned his stuff and walked out without paying, so the person working Customer Service told him that he couldn't get any refund unless we saw his 2nd receipt. Customer: "What? I never got a 2nd receipt! Give me my refund!" He was again told that he would get no refund unless he showed us the receipt that proves he paid. Chances are, he did get it but threw it out - too bad, if he did that's his own fault!

After (finally) realizing he wouldn't get anything from Customer Service, he tried a new tactic. He went into every cashier's line, asking each cashier if they could give him his refund. While in line, he was telling everybody else in line, "Hey, make sure you look at your receipt! They'll try to rip you off! This store will scam you!" but fortunately it seemed that all the other customers were intelligent enough to ignore his BS. Needless to say, he did not get anything from any cashier, since no cashier is even allowed to give refunds anyway.

After trying every other cashier, he came to me - I was working at the Self-Check machines. He tried asking me to give him a refund - well, my IQ is well above 10, so I obviously didn't give it to him. He was really pissed by this time, and in an attempt to calm him down I had an idea. Every register at that time (before we got new printers) had 2 receipts - 1 was the receipt printed and given to the customer, and the other, the "Journal", was a listing of the details of every transaction on that register - the total, all voids, discounts and coupons, and how much was paid and how much change was given.

I looked in the Journal paper, and found a transaction matching the time and transaction number on his receipt. I saw the cashier # for that transaction, and it was me! Well, this customer wouldn't come through my line 2 hours earlier, and I'm just not the kind of person that can see 1 specific guy for a minute and remember him when he comes in 2 hours later. Well, since I had been the cashier who had helped him I KNEW I would've given him a receipt, UNLESS he told me he didn't want it or he was in such a hurry that he just didn't care. So, I knew that his "cashier didn't give me a 2nd receipt" complaint was utter BS, and I basically told him this. I told him that I ALWAYS give EVERYONE a receipt, and if he didn't have his, well, that's his own fault for losing it.

Then I looked closely at the transaction details on the Journal paper. I saw a line that said (something like) Grp Tom Disc 2.49-. I also saw the final total, which was (*GASP*) $2.49 less than the total on this customer's receipt. I pointed out the line "Disc 2.49" line on the paper to him, and said, "See? You DID get the discount! And here's your total, $2.49 less than the total on your receipt!"

I thought he was going to give up at that point - no such luck. "WELL, THE COMPUTER'S LYING!!" he shouted. I thought I was about to faint at this display of utter stupidity. Fortunately, I managed not to, and told him, "Well, if the computer's lying, how do we know that YOUR receipt (printed by the same computer) is true? Basically, you have no idea what you're talking about. The computer says you got your discount, so that means you did." This accomplished absolutely nothing. He shouted "I WILL GET MY MONEY! I AM NOT LEAVING THIS STORE UNTIL I GET MY DISCOUNT!"

Sometime during all this, one of the managers called the cops, and as this guy was announcing that he refused to leave, a couple of policeman were standing there watching him. I told him, "Well, then I guess you're going to be here a long time." At this point the cops took over, saying that he needed to leave the store because he was disturbing the peace.

He walked with them near the exit doors, in front of the pharmacy. When they asked for his ID, he said, "I DON'T NEED TO SHOW YOU MY F*@#$% ID!!" After some effort, they handcuffed him and walked him out of the store. I believe they arrested him for disturbing the peace, refusing to show ID, and resisting arrest. In addition, his car was impounded.

10 minutes later a policewoman called and talked to one of the managers, describing how crazy this guy is. The policewoman stopped in midsentence - "Wait, I gotta go - they're having trouble putting him in his cell!"

I don't know what kind of sentence this guy got, but I hope it was long. We have often joked about stupid people who "must have escaped from a mental hospital." We were saying that about this guy too, except we weren't joking this time. We seriously consider that a possibility.

Hits by State - Map

Number of Hits	State Color
No Hits
1 - 4
5 - 9
10 - 19
20 to 29
30 or more

Maps are generated by a program generously provided by Bruce

BIAGIO

Doomer

E=Mc²

Ed - made the Wall of Shame and WG Anonymous

Georgette

Gizmo

Hank - creator and webmaster of Where's George?

JasonKY

Josiah

Justin aka J Money

M

Pino the pizza-man

Renee - I learned about Where's George by finding one of her bills

Single A - ideas for milestone list

Slowpoke - created the Encyclopædia Georgetannica and the Directory of WG Pages

Triple Sharp's Toms - experiment with $2 bills

Got many ideas from these profiles, and from helpful responses in the public forums. Also learned a few things from Profile Ideas and other WG silliness.
If you think I shamelessly ripped off any of your ideas, please contact me and I'll add your profile to my list.
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