From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 03:36:32 -0000 (UTC), darkon  wrote:   
   >usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
   >>Some cashiers rely so completely on the register that they can't   
   >>even do basic arithmetic.  At a burrito shop, my total came to   
   >>$22.80 and I gave the young woman $25.  She stepped away from   
   >>register for a moment to speak with the cook, and in the process   
   >>lost the read-out of the change due.  She came back and fished out   
   >>a pen and paper and started figuring.  I realized she was   
   >>calculating my change -- she couldn't do that basic sum in her   
   >>head.  I had to chide her for that.  She weakly made some excuse   
   >>about "being out of school."   
   >   
   >Yeah, they get confused when you give them odd-seeming amounts so that   
   >the change will be more convenient, such as wanting three quarters back   
   >instead of 69 cents. In their defense, working fast food can be mind-   
   >numbing. You're tired, your feet hurt, everything smells like grease,   
   >then some customer hands you $7.06 for a $6.31 purchase and asks why   
   >you don't do it in your head.   
      
   I agree that working in a fast food place can be mind-numbing, but this was an   
   upscale "gourmet" burrito shop that's never busy like a fast-food restaurant.   
   That $22.80 is for just two burritos.   
      
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