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Re: [Rant] Math, lacking at Tim Horton's If I understand you correctly you gave him a total of $1.80 and then he gave you back a dime ? |
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| Total was 1.76 - I mentioned rounding down to 1.75 due to no penny and the whole BOC change. Confused teenager blank look.
Didn't want to argue over a penny, gave $1.80, got $0.10 given change.
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kudos:5 | reply to I_H8_Spam
said by I_H8_Spam:Total was 1.76 - I mentioned rounding down to 1.75 due to no penny and the whole BOC change. Confused teenager blank look.
Didn't want to argue over a penny, gave $1.80, got $0.10 given change.
Unless their store computer does it for them, I found most young people at retail stores are completely incompetent at doing even very basic math calculations.
Until they reprogram the computers with new prices and new tax calculations and new change calculations you will continue to see this mess.
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kudos:1 | said by Linklist:Unless their store computer does it for them, I found most young people at retail stores are completely incompetent at doing even very basic math calculations.
You can blame calculators for that. Just ask a young person to multiply two long numbers together. Chances are they can't do it.
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said by Linklist:Unless their store computer does it for them, I found most young people at retail stores are completely incompetent at doing even very basic math calculations....
That's the REAL shame in all of this - unwittingly exposing some of these workers who should never have been hired unless they had passed a basic arithmetic skills test.
Now THERE's a way for employers to thin the pack when there are so many extra applicants for jobs in general these days (but especially in retail).
Make them pass a MATH test ! 
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said by milnoc:said by Linklist:Unless their store computer does it for them.... You can blame calculators for that. Just ask a young person to multiply two long numbers together. Chances are they can't do it.
Hey, I wasn't even asking (above) for multiplication in that test - just addition & subtraction. 
Well, OK - maybe enough multiplying to figure out the tax on something. |
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