I got this in an email. I don't know about countries other than the US, but for us over here, this is so true...



--Jon

It's amazing to me how persons with that acumen are allowed to work a companies cash register! Thank the powers we've evolved to spell check, calculators and computers technology, so the program can give them a clue when thinking is clearly in deficit!

We bought a dinner for two at a Tampa Florida Burger King some years ago. At the last minute, we asked to add a 99cent large fry to the final total, which would have made for a penny less than a full dollar, to add on for a final grand total of 5.99

I am not exaggerating here when I tell you it took two register workers, (1 had to leave their customers/register, to come over and try to add.) , and 1 manager to attend the request. I'm standing there, people in line behind me waiting their turn, watching these 3 minds with a calculator, try to add 99cents onto the total because the register had already gone beyond sub-total and therefore could not help them to count. I had to exercise the patience because I was so amused and dumbfounded at the same time! OMG! So finally I had to say, ya know if you add 1 dollar onto that final total of 5 dollars you have 6 dollars. Then just take away a penny from that, for that 99 cent fry, and you have 5.99. Right!? *Looking hopeful*

They all three looked at me, to the register, to the calculator, 1 to the menu board to be certain of the 99cent thing, and then finally!!! FINALLY!!! The grand puba , aka/ Burger King manager said in all authority;
"It's ok, just give it to her for 5.99" As if doing me the favor. Which is true actually. I appreciated the consideration to cut short the blatant example that in some cases 3 will never be able to divide 1.

Thank you for the read .

One time I went to a McDonald's in the mall around here and I forgot what I ordered exactly, but it came out to $7.24. I gave the girl a $10. It was another incident like you described, it took two people 10 minutes to figure out the change, which they asked me anyway...wtf?

Excuse the f*** out of me for making you work for your minimum wage!

--Jon

wow, and I thought that I wasn't good at math...
I mean, I may not had payed attention in my classes and my books might had been as good as new but I am not THAT stupid!
Perhaps this people skiped all the math classes (I either skiped most of them or I wasn't paying attention, either sketching on my math book or sleeping ) in school? or perhaps they didn't even went to school?

It amazes me how someone can not figure out change . . I've encountered counter folk like that. There were a couple times when I actually had to add the prices of the items I ordered, for the person taking my order . . . good grief . . .

We had a small herd of goats at one time, and so I had occasion to stop at the local Amish farm to buy a load of grain and straw. The kids don't attend school past 6th grade, and their studies are conducted within their own community. So depending on the time of day I go to the store, I may get a child at the counter or an adult. This day it was a boy about all of 10. He's writing down my order and figuring the total with a pencil. He comes to the conclusion I owe 30 dollars more than I actually bought. There's a battery operated calculator at his disposal as well. So I figure, what the heck, I'm here and since the calculator got it wrong....

This other customer is standing behind me and they had yet to make their order request, so I just knew they were scared , wondering what their total would end up as. So I lean over on the desk, take a spare pencil and take this boy through the particulars of adding it all up. It felt good to show him , and he was very kind in accepting my offer, what someone had clearly missed before I got there. *Teachers anyone?*

Can you imagine doing that @ a fast food place?! HaHa


*sings* "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us, just don't expect us to add worth a darnnnnnn"