From: usenet@only.tnx
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:13:45 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:07:17 -0800, Snidely wrote:
>>On Wednesday, Roger House yelped out that:
>>
>>> 2.) In relation to number 1, as an example, if your order total comes to
>>> something like, say, $18.02, when you give me your payment money, you do
not
>>> *NEED* to give me $20.05, twenty even covers it just fine.
>>
>>Some of us prefer to get 3 pennies back, rather than 98. Most cashiers
>>I've tried this with understand just fine.
>
>Occasionally they don't. I was in CostCo recently, and my total was X dollars
>and 36 cents. I gave the cashier the bills to cover it and a penny. That
>seemed to confuse them, and subsequently they screwed up entering the "cash
>tendered" to the point where another employee had to come over and reset the
>register. I would think that one doesn't have to work too many shifts as a
>cashier before becoming well-acquainted with this practice.
>
>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."
Yet another example: at a drive-through recently, the bill total was $11.23.
I gave the young women 21.28, expecting to get ten dollars and a nickle in
return. She gave me three $5 bills. I gave one back and explained it to her
but I still don't think she fully understood her mistake.
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