Are Dolphins Smarter Than A Walmart Employee?

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Are you kidding? Those are just scanners with pretty pictures on a screen. The computer does all the real work, even then the employees still manage to mess it up now and then. If they had to deal with real cash registers, with buttons and numbers and, God forbid, MATH, they'd be screwed.

I used to work at a 7-Eleven before they got the new cash registers with the touch screen LCDs. In a convenience store you usually try to get people out as fast as possible, because people go to convenience stores BECAUSE they can get in and out quickly. So every employee I knew would not bother punching in the amount of cash received, the'd just hit the cash button and figure the change in their head. It was faster that way. And of course it didn't screw up the cash count at the end of the shift. And these were 7-Eleven employees, not exactly Rhodes Scholars.

I wonder what a Walmart employee would do if your total came to $15.58 and you handed them $21. I think a disappointing percentage of them would hand you back your $1 bill, then give you 4 $1s and a 42 cents.

Not just Walmart... any store with employees who work behind a cash register. In fact, I'd say that if the total came to 16.87 and I gave the cashier 22.12 (to make the change easier), I'd estimate that 85% of the people in this country would struggle with that. Pretty pathetic, isn't it. But, as a society, we don't care if someone can't do 4th grade arithmetic, yet we ridicule them when they can't read, write, spell, or use proper grammar.

Why wouldn't you just give her a 20.00 bill and get 3.13 change? Your not making it easier. The math for me was very easy with the 20.00 bill and more difficult with the 22.12

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
Why wouldn't you just give her a 20.00 bill and get 3.13 change? Your not making it easier. The math for me was very easy with the 20.00 bill and more difficult with the 22.12

Because he'd have at least 4 fewer bills and 6 fewer coins in his pocket. I'd have just stuck with $22, because I don't care much about coins... I just leave them in my car. You keep paying with big bills and you end up with a ton of small bills.

I just pay with a credit card and don't worry about cash at all.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
Why wouldn't you just give her a 20.00 bill and get 3.13 change? Your not making it easier. The math for me was very easy with the 20.00 bill and more difficult with the 22.12

Because he'd have at least 4 fewer bills and 6 fewer coins in his pocket. I'd have just stuck with $22, because I don't care much about coins... I just leave them in my car. You keep paying with big bills and you end up with a ton of small bills.

I just pay with a credit card and don't worry about cash at all.

Well my point is, is that the calculation is very easy with the 20.00 bill scenario and more difficult with the 22.12 scenario.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
Why wouldn't you just give her a 20.00 bill and get 3.13 change? Your not making it easier. The math for me was very easy with the 20.00 bill and more difficult with the 22.12

Because he'd have at least 4 fewer bills and 6 fewer coins in his pocket. I'd have just stuck with $22, because I don't care much about coins... I just leave them in my car. You keep paying with big bills and you end up with a ton of small bills.

I just pay with a credit card and don't worry about cash at all.

Well my point is, is that the calculation is very easy with the 20.00 bill scenario and more difficult with the 22.12 scenario.

Yeah it is. But they do have a cash register to help them.

 

[BlancoNino]

Stupid people deserve jobs too. Hats off to Wal-Mart for employing them.