Re: Obsolete Skills
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1) cash register attendants: can't do simple arithmitic, i just feel bad for these people. It makes me realize how bad the education system is in our country.
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Bill is $5.61. They enter the cost and the amount you gave them ($10) and they see the result on the display ($4.39). You then proceed to hand them 11 cents. Watch with amusement at the resulting deer-in-headlights look and wisps of smoke curling out of their ears.
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I'm not sure why but this routinely [censored] up the workers in the USA, but in Argentina they seem to be totally on the ball with this even with weird [censored] like me giving them change to get back a 2 peso bill (1 peso is a coin) and other curveballs. I'm not sure why, but somehow these people getting paid $2/hr at McDonald's have better math skills than workers in the USA. Maybe it's because we don't realistically use another under 5 centavos and usually not even under 25 centavos. I admit 11 cents makes things ever so marginally harder for retards.
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