Cashiers who cannot perform basic math

[brianmanahan]

why is anyone even using paper money and coins for restaurants nowadays? waste of good credit card points.

%3 back via points on restaurants with either the chase sapphire reserve or chase freedom card right now.

 

[brianmanahan]

also, i have only seen a couple cashiers in my life have this problem. most have had no issue if i give them exact change, or even inexact change to get a quarter back or something.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Some cashiers can't do math, but sometimes, it's simply the fact that it is just such a brainless job, the cashier spaces out into oblivion, so when someone does something different, it takes a moment to snap back into reality.

That happened to me all the time when I worked fast food in high school. I got a 4.0 in college in aerospace engineering, so I knew what I was doing, but jobs like that can kill your desire to use to your brain.

 

[Linux23]

why is anyone even using paper money and coins for restaurants nowadays? waste of good credit card points.

%3 back via points on restaurants with either the chase sapphire reserve or chase freedom card right now.

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[madoka]

To be fair, depending on the cash register, it might be complicated as shit to actually input values in a coherent manner. It really shouldn't be, but for all I know In-n-Out has a garbage system. To complicate things, they may have been busy, cancellations/changes might require a manager override (who might have been taking a shit), thus leading to fluster from the cashier. Oh and naturally everything has to be documented right, so they can't just give you the $15 and call it square.

Just sayin', person might not have been totally inept.

Yeah, I was the only one in line at the time and he took care of everything himself without calling any one over. He also didn't seem worried that he punched in that he received $202.90 but wouldn't have it in his register.

 

[brianmanahan]

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nah that would be rossman!

ooh actually the freedom is %5 right now, not %3.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Yeah, I was the only one in line at the time and he took care of everything himself without calling any one over. He also didn't seem worried that he punched in that he received $202.90 but wouldn't have it in his register.

Fair enough, some people just aren't good at maths or computering.

 

[madoka]

why is anyone even using paper money and coins for restaurants nowadays? waste of good credit card points.

1. Welcome back

2. I've had my card violated so many times now that I do not use it at gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, or any place else unless I'm absolutely forced to.

also, i have only seen a couple cashiers in my life have this problem. most have had no issue if i give them exact change, or even inexact change to get a quarter back or something.

That's because their register is telling them what to do. In both of my examples, there was a glitch and they could no longer depend on the register.

I worked for years as a cashier, starting at 12 years old at my parent's store, so I know what the job entails. Most times I would do the calculations in my head as a double check to make sure I've punched in the right numbers. I'm not trying to be smug that they can't do basic arithmetic. If you can't do simple math, then switch to flipping the burgers because you're not qualified to do that job.

 

[destrekor]

nah that would be rossman!

ooh actually the freedom is %5 right now, not %3.

It's been boring without you around yo!

Also, yeah the Freedom is always 5% back, just different category. I think both my Citi Costco Visa and Chase Amazon Visa offer 3% year-round for restaurants, so those are always my go-to when the Freedom doesn't beat it.

 

[disappoint]

She needs to find a less demanding job. Human paperweight? Can you get paid for that? :^D

"I'll have to put on some weight for that, in case there's a tornado. What's the probabubbly of a tornados? 110% right? There should be one any minute...better take cover. Wait...so this is how they've been drinking me under the table even though I don't drink! I'll have to put on about 5 pounds to get to 200 pounds on a count of I weight 120 pounds now." -her proverbly.

Jokes aside, I think common core math makes it more difficult to do simple math in your head compared to the system we were taught.

 

[Leyawiin]

2. I've had my card violated so many times now that I do not use it at gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, or any place else unless I'm absolutely forced to.

I still do even though a day or two after using a small mini mart gas station in NorCal run by Apu I got a call from my bank saying someone was trying to use my credit card number in Manchester, England.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Too many people still don't get it. Being a good cashier has little correlation to intelligence, math ability or, reasoning. It is a skill set. Washing dishes is a skill set. "Flipping burgers" is a skill set. If you do not have the skill set, you will only ever be adequate no matter how much training you have.
Cube monkeys love to put down people in the service industry even though they are surrounded by people who don't have the skill sets to be a good cube monkey let alone a good cashier.

 

[RLGL]

At K-mart my purchase was 16 dollars and change, the register rang the total, the drawer opened and the power went out. The clerk could not figure how to make change for a twenty. I had to tell her how much I had coming.
At the hardware store the person ahead of me had 144 inches of wire. The cashier stated it was priced by the foot. Neither could convert inches to feet. When I told them it was 12 feet they were amazed I could do that in my head, grade school math, oh well

 

[lxskllr]

At the hardware store the person ahead of me had 144 inches of wire. The cashier stated it was priced by the foot. Neither could convert inches to feet. When I told them it was 12 feet they were amazed I could do that in my head, grade school math, oh well

LoL! I find I can't convert imperial(retard) to decimal feet as fast as I used to. Getting old... I just got a new tape, and it's confusing to read quickly. It has decimal and imperial at equal sizes, along with 16" centers marked the whole way. Someone using a decimal scale has zero use for 16" centers. It just creates visual clutter, and the scales should be easier to differentiate. I'll be buying Lufkin next time.

 

[destrekor]

... decimal intervals on imperial measurements like inches and feet?

Wut

You never go half-retard! Only full, or not at all. If I'm working in imperial, which is often, I stick to imperial intervals; if in metric, then decimal (because, hey whaddiyaknow, the intervals are decimal!).

 

[rstrohkirch]

Do you mean when you are reading a standard imperial tape measure you don't convert things like 1/4" to .25 or 5/8" to .625 in your head? I may say 15 and 5/8" but in my mind I see it as 15.625. I also never write in fractions/intervals only decimal. Like if I was trying to find spacing or centers like mentioned above.

 

[destrekor]

Do you mean when you are reading a standard imperial tape measure you don't convert things like 1/4" to .25 or 5/8" to .625 in your head? I may say 15 and 5/8" but in my mind I see it as 15.625. I also never write in fractions/intervals only decimal. Like if I was trying to find spacing or centers like mentioned above.

Oh, that, yeah I do that. Fractions are always readable in decimal notation, but that's not how I was reading it. I was expecting more like .1, .2, .3, .4, etc.

 

[lxskllr]

... decimal intervals on imperial measurements like inches and feet?

Wut

You never go half-retard! Only full, or not at all. If I'm working in imperial, which is often, I stick to imperial intervals; if in metric, then decimal (because, hey whaddiyaknow, the intervals are decimal!).

Decimal feet and fractions. Half the tape(longitudinally) is marked decimal the other half imperial. I work exclusively in decimal feet. Sometimes it's useful to convert from inches to tenths looking at a tape, but I'd be fine if it was decimal only.

 

[manly]

why is anyone even using paper money and coins for restaurants nowadays? waste of good credit card points.

%3 back via points on restaurants with either the chase sapphire reserve or chase freedom card right now.

I don't charge small bills at mom & pop restaurants that I frequent. The merchant processing fee comes out to a fairly substantial amount. If it's a corporate chain, I assume they have a better deal with their CC processor so I don't mind.

 

[Ruptga]

Decimal feet and fractions. Half the tape(longitudinally) is marked decimal the other half imperial. I work exclusively in decimal feet. Sometimes it's useful to convert from inches to tenths looking at a tape, but I'd be fine if it was decimal only.

Do you also do your calculations in Rankine?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not everyone is good at math. Math is like my biggest weakness, especially trying to do it in my head, even basic math and it's worse when under pressure. I would do suck as a cashier. Thankfully never had to do it. Mind you modern cashes are probably not so bad since they do most of the math for you.

When I ran a business I made sure that all my prices were rounded numbers so it made it easier. The tax was included in it. The customer would still get a tax break down on the invoice so they can claim it or w/e, but it was part of the price. I wish that was standard, it would make it easier for everybody including consumers. The price you see is the price you pay.

 

[Exterous]

why is anyone even using paper money and coins for restaurants nowadays? waste of good credit card points.

Around here a lot of restaurants do discounts for cash. A local Thai place I frequent does 5% off for cash. Its only supposed to be up to 4% but I doubt anyone is paying that close of attention

2. I've had my card violated so many times now that I do not use it at gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, or any place else unless I'm absolutely forced to.

Where are you using your cards?! I've had the same Chase # that I've run a crap ton of money from numerous countries through for years and it hasn't been stolen.

Cube monkeys love to put down people in the service industry even though they are surrounded by people who don't have the skill sets to be a good cube monkey let alone a good cashier.

Just because you have coworkers who aren't good at their jobs that doesn't mean you aren't able to judge the job effectiveness of non-coworkers.

 

[lxskllr]

Do you also do your calculations in Rankine?

TIL... Never heard of that scale before. I don't deal with temperature much, but I'd love to use a decimal scale for angle measure.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Too many people still don't get it. Being a good cashier has little correlation to intelligence, math ability or, reasoning. It is a skill set. Washing dishes is a skill set. "Flipping burgers" is a skill set. If you do not have the skill set, you will only ever be adequate no matter how much training you have.
Cube monkeys love to put down people in the service industry even though they are surrounded by people who don't have the skill sets to be a good cube monkey let alone a good cashier.

One skill you are capable of attaining within a week of side-by-side training - the other requires a background in many courses typically that would take years for a lot of burger flippers to attain.

And plenty of people have cube jobs that are pretty easy too - and they are easy for people like us. Try explaining basic accounting principles to a burger flipper. Go on. I'll still be here when you get back 5 years later.

 

[Ruptga]

TIL... Never heard of that scale before. I don't deal with temperature much, but I'd love to use a decimal scale for angle measure.

Like radians? http://www.proradian.net/pro-shop/proradian-pro/ http://www.proradian.net/pro-shop/proradian2/
You can probably also find one scaled in decimal values of pi for even more intuitive math.