I really did not mean to cause a problem.

[pawncop]

So, tonight my darling wife decides that she would like a vanilla milkshake from the local Braum's

Now I am dressed down, I mean really down, wearng a pair of old scrubs pants and shirt. So I go through the drive thru.

Now from previous adventures of this nature I know the total is going to be $3.89.

Down in the old console I have a fair amount of loose change and checking I locate nine (9) pennies.

Get to the drive in window I give the clerk a $20.00 and the nine pennies.

OMG, you have never seen such a look of confusion and panic, the poor clerk had to call for a manager and fumbled with change and after what seemed an eternity finally figured my change and got it back to me.

I really did not mean to cause a problem.

 

[armadillo]

Was the clerk a product of our public education system or some other country's education system?

 

[spricks]

Yikes...I'm afraid of what's yet to come from our educated youth?
spricks

 

[Indycar]

Near where I used to live was what was commonly called the WWMickyD's (Worlds Worst McDonalds). Your order would take 10 minutes to fill (BigMac combo?), would be wrong half the time and the "cashier" couldn't understand English or make change.

I went in there armed with $2 bills, Sacajawea dollar coins, Susan B. Anthony dollar coins and a couple of Kennedy half dollars.

I placed my order, wait, wait, wait, paid for it with a $2 bill, a SBA dollar coin, a Sacajawea dollar coin and a Kennedy half. The "cashier" couldn't figure out what the currency and coinage was and wouldn't take it.

I told him to call the shift leader who did the same thing.

I asked to see the "Manager" who did tell the other 2 employees that it was legal tender.

PS: The "cashier" still couldn't get the change right.

The "Cashier" couldn't figure out where to put the $2 bill and the dollar coins in his drawer and had to call the shift leader again.

I'm about to crack up, the people behind me were either laughing their heads off or were PO'ed.

It was for once worth the wait for a cold Big Mac.

I've told others about this and they have done the same thing at this same "fast food establishment" and encountered the same experience.

 

[Crazy K38]

Near where I used to live was what was commonly called the WWMickyD's (Worlds Worst McDonalds). Your order would take 10 minutes to fill (BigMac combo?), would be wrong half the time and the "cashier" couldn't understand English or make change.

I went in there armed with $2 bills, Sacajawea dollar coins, Susan B. Anthony dollar coins and a couple of Kennedy half dollars.

I placed my order, wait, wait, wait, paid for it with a $2 bill, a SBA dollar coin, a Sacajawea dollar coin and a Kennedy half. The "cashier" couldn't figure out what the currency and coinage was and wouldn't take it.

I told him to call the shift leader who did the same thing.

I asked to see the "Manager" who did tell the other 2 employees that it was legal tender.

PS: The "cashier" still couldn't get the change right.

The "Cashier" couldn't figure out where to put the $2 bill and the dollar coins in his drawer and had to call the shift leader again.

I'm about to crack up, the people behind me were either laughing their heads off or were PO'ed.

It was for once worth the wait for a cold Big Mac.

I've told others about this and they have done the same thing at this same "fast food establishment" and encountered the same experience.

if I hadn't seen where you where, I would have sworn you were from a small town in alabama

 

[USAF385]

I'm confused... did you hand her/him $20.09 or did you hand her/him $20 THEN .09? If you handed them $20.09 then the register would have done that hard math for them. If you handed them $20, which they entered into the register, THEN handed them the .09, then I can understand the confusion.

Yes, they should be able to figure it out, but when you rely on the register for transaction after transaction you can get rusty.

I used to work retail. I noticed once that my monetary math skills were getting weakened, so I started to make a game of trying to figure out the change before the computer.

 

[jkc]

Is it possible that by "idiot-proofing" (pre-progamming) the cash registers, that the poor sap running the machine can't make it deal with the problem you presented, i.e., an odd amount tendered, and inability to compute change from an odd increment of tender? I know our youngsters are regrettably challenged by tasks such as simple arithmetic and writing coherently (if at all), but this ineptitude may be assumed, and forced upon them by corporate entities that preemptively ( and probably justifiably) assume the worst of thier employees, and set them up with narrow alternatives.

 

[truckemup97]

Your Braum's sounds almost as bad as ours. At least they got your order right, I'm guessing. At ours, you would have received $17.28 in change and a large order of fries.

 

[whitecoyote]

TROUBLE MAKER!

 

[mlk18]

Sir, I think the trouble started long before you dug out those pennies. I am guessing it started with their parents, moved on to their school system and is still in process with their supervisor. The funny thing is that clerk will probably be a US Congressmen some day.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Yep, Just as I imagined. A product of our failed school system. But on the other hand schools just need more funding to teach the unteachable.

 

[Bullseye Smith]

If they don't have a machine to think for them they are lost, remember the song "In the year 2525" it will happen before then.

 

[ElToro]

i worked in high school and part time in college at a local 7-11. i could not stand breaking in new clerks that couldnt figure out making change, no matter how i tried to explain that counting back to the nearest 5, 10 or 25 then dollar. in fact i would often open the register and usually have correct coin change ready before somebody pulled out their bill. i hear ya though

 

[ingmansinc]

Perhaps they were eating ice cream and got a brain freeze.

The part that scares me is this person may soon earn as much as a doctor.

 

[afriqueart]

Were the Klerk homeskooled?

 

[Strato]

And it's not just food places either. A few years ago I was buying a new computer and when the cashier saw I was paying cash she sent me to another line because she wasn't allowed to handle cash so after waiting in a second line I handed the cashier 8 100 dollar bills and she had to call a manager over to count it for her. And that was the one that was trained in cash transactions. The register told her how much change to give me but she couldn't count to eight.

 

[NFrameFred]

Were the Klerk homeskooled?

If he were it's more likely it would not have been a problem . . .

 

[novalty]

There making it even easier for them, with the cash registers that spit out the coins into a cup for the customer to pick up. The problem seems to be that the kids are not getting the math skills at early enough age, and most of them are so spoiled that they don't even care what they get for grades, because "Hey, I got everything I need at home. Why do I need to go to school?"

 

[wildfiresrozes]

And it's not just food places either. A few years ago I was buying a new computer and when the cashier saw I was paying cash she sent me to another line because she wasn't allowed to handle cash so after waiting in a second line I handed the cashier 8 100 dollar bills and she had to call a manager over to count it for her. And that was the one that was trained in cash transactions. The register told her how much change to give me but she couldn't count to eight.

She probably had to have managers approval bc of the large cash payment; majority of the transactions are probably plastic. OR was concerned with the authenticity of the bills. I'm gonna guess that being able to count to 8 wasn't the issue, though. :/

 

[wildfiresrozes]

If you handed them $20, which they entered into the register, THEN handed them the .09, then I can understand the confusion.

Yes, they should be able to figure it out, but when you rely on the register for transaction after transaction you can get rusty.

I used to work retail. I noticed once that my monetary math skills were getting weakened, so I started to make a game of trying to figure out the change before the computer.

What he said.