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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Exactly the same in Spain weird, very strange. Lots of time they would actually go out of their way to ask for more change or whatever so they could give you back a certain amount.
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