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Super Slo Mo said:
Eventually she came back, put the money into the toll and gave me £5.00. Still looked utterly confused though, although in her defence she was quite young, quite possibly still in school or college doing a weekend job.
Is that the case for the defence?. "Because I haven't finished school yet, I don't know what £11.75 - £6.75 is." Is that something you learn on your last day!!!That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Is that the case for the defence?. "Because I haven't finished school yet, I don't know what £11.75 - £6.75 is." Is that something you learn on your last day!!!
That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
I was being generous, meaning that she lacked retail experience where that kind of transaction happens regularly That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
. Super Slo Mo said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Is that the case for the defence?. "Because I haven't finished school yet, I don't know what £11.75 - £6.75 is." Is that something you learn on your last day!!!
That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
I was being generous, meaning that she lacked retail experience where that kind of transaction happens regularly That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
. CanAm said:
I thought most cash registers these days asked for the amount tendered and worked out the correct amount of change for the hard of thinking.
You'd think so, but I recently stopped going to my local minimarket because the guy there frequently got things wrong even with the till to help him! Example: If I buy half a dozen items, all of which are either a round number of pounds, or something fifty, how can the total possibly have a 25p on the end?Not that the Co-Op I switched to always get it right. When their packs of bread rolls at two to a pound were past their sell-by date they reduced the white ones to 49p a pack, and the brown ones to 59p a pack.
Ultra Sound Guy said:
Speed 3 said:
To be fair to the younger generation using their brain is a bit of an archaic concept. Maybe we could improve their mental maths by getting them to take up darts and working out finishes.
FTFY!TwigtheWonderkid said:
Super Slo Mo said:
Eventually she came back, put the money into the toll and gave me £5.00. Still looked utterly confused though, although in her defence she was quite young, quite possibly still in school or college doing a weekend job.
Is that the case for the defence?. "Because I haven't finished school yet, I don't know what £11.75 - £6.75 is." Is that something you learn on your last day!!!That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
It's a weird cash colloquialism if you like.
If you've not seen it before you'd definitely question it.
I'm sure it wasn't the maths that was the issue, but rather understanding the strange behaviour that was going on.
BMWBen said:
I think you're being a little unfair here - take a step back and think about how odd it is to choose to give someone more money than is necessary for the transaction.
It's a weird cash colloquialism if you like.
If you've not seen it before you'd definitely question it.
I'm sure it wasn't the maths that was the issue, but rather understanding the strange behaviour that was going on.
If it was her first day on the tills, I suppose you could be right. She may have only ever seen her parents buying things and they always use cards.It's a weird cash colloquialism if you like.
If you've not seen it before you'd definitely question it.
I'm sure it wasn't the maths that was the issue, but rather understanding the strange behaviour that was going on.
That still doesn't really excuse not being able to do the maths though, and I bet if you asked her how many minutes after 4:00pm it would be if the time was quarter to five, she wouldn't gave a clue ..
When I started in retail the tills were not smart enough to do the change.
You were taught to count it from the till drawer.
Eg item is £2.95 customer gives you £5
5p makes £3
£1 note makes £4
Another £1 note makes £5.
I am also amazed at the amount of bar staff who never learn the price of drinks or rounds of them,who then have to walk to the till to add it up.
If you know the prices you will walk half as far during a shift as your visits to the till will be halved.
You were taught to count it from the till drawer.
Eg item is £2.95 customer gives you £5
5p makes £3
£1 note makes £4
Another £1 note makes £5.
I am also amazed at the amount of bar staff who never learn the price of drinks or rounds of them,who then have to walk to the till to add it up.
If you know the prices you will walk half as far during a shift as your visits to the till will be halved.
BMWBen said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Super Slo Mo said:
Eventually she came back, put the money into the toll and gave me £5.00. Still looked utterly confused though, although in her defence she was quite young, quite possibly still in school or college doing a weekend job.
Is that the case for the defence?. "Because I haven't finished school yet, I don't know what £11.75 - £6.75 is." Is that something you learn on your last day!!!That's the worst defence since "I shot the sheriff, but i didn't shoot the deputy."
It's a weird cash colloquialism if you like.
If you've not seen it before you'd definitely question it.
I'm sure it wasn't the maths that was the issue, but rather understanding the strange behaviour that was going on.
fttm said:
It's called having gumption and a smattering of common sense . Should it be that difficult ?
It's potentially something some may worry about - given extra cash, what if it's fake then you might lose even more salary from your wages. Unlikely, but could be. Young people are brought up to question a lot of stuff due to all the skams around now.bristolracer said:
I am also amazed at the amount of bar staff who never learn the price of drinks or rounds of them,who then have to walk to the till to add it up.
If you know the prices you will walk half as far during a shift as your visits to the till will be halved.
Easier said than done ... the last bar I worked in (bearing in mind this was in 2000) had over 150 different drinks items, plus 40odd cocktails and then somewhere around 20 taps ... If you know the prices you will walk half as far during a shift as your visits to the till will be halved.
You could have been the first person to ever have given her over the amount needed and she won't have immediately realised that you were doing so in order that you could be given more a more convenient note as change rather than a handful of coins. Something to learn when you work in retail, but you can only learn it if you experience it, right?
There was someone on one of the other threads who mentioned something similar in America, giving a larger than needed note and some coins in order to get the change the right way - but having a cashier who clearly didn't understand the point of this either.
There was someone on one of the other threads who mentioned something similar in America, giving a larger than needed note and some coins in order to get the change the right way - but having a cashier who clearly didn't understand the point of this either.
Shakermaker said:
You could have been the first person to ever have given her over the amount needed and she won't have immediately realised that you were doing so in order that you could be given more a more convenient note as change rather than a handful of coins. Something to learn when you work in retail, but you can only learn it if you experience it, right?
There was someone on one of the other threads who mentioned something similar in America, giving a larger than needed note and some coins in order to get the change the right way - but having a cashier who clearly didn't understand the point of this either.
Absolutely I agree. We all had to start somewhere of course, it was just the first time I’d experienced a cashier who didn’t understand it. There was someone on one of the other threads who mentioned something similar in America, giving a larger than needed note and some coins in order to get the change the right way - but having a cashier who clearly didn't understand the point of this either.
I used to work in retail and I found it improved my mental arithmetic hugely, I used to tot everything up in my head before even entering it in the till.
This was the old cheap till where it didn’t scan bar codes but had to have every product price entered manually.
Them were the days, etc
Moonhawk said:
V8mate said:
Maybe because, at the point of deciding that she is hungry, she offer's 'don't care' as an answer because she hasn't actively considered the options of what she might like?
In plain English "don't care" surely means "I have no preference, i'll eat whatever you decide to make/buy" (obviously within the context of food I know she likes).If they haven't actively considered the options, but wish to - surely the correct response is "I'm not sure yet - let me have a think".
To say "I don't care" is to make positive statement of having no preference.
Edited by Moonhawk on Monday 5th March 10:19
I’ve got a colleague whose first language is German. Their English is pretty much spot on, other than a few times where the tone of conversation can be literal.
My favourite is the replacement of “I don’t mind” (polite) with “I don’t care”.
Such as “what shall we discuss to begin today?”
“Don’t care!”
It takes new people off guard but it’s very difficult to explain the difference to a German, and difficult for them to change as she’s done it her whole life
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