WHY AREN'T SCHOOLS TEACHING OUR CHILDREN HOW TO COUNT CHANGE?

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm..........Ok

You get......4 and 1/2 extra fries for that!!!!!

I think!!!!!!

That is scary.

lol I had a guy who's cash register wasn't working... he actually got sum paper out, wrote it down, subtracted, even crossed out, carried the one over lol etc etc all to give me my change back. I watched him in amazement, that he just had no concept of how to count change back.

you bought a burger for $1.58! did the cash register look like this

Looks like ya got......

A nickel back!!!!!!

unbelievable

why didn't employer teach her is also a good question??? Yanno she also had the option of just entering the amount you gave into the register....the damm thing spits out the right change regardless.... as far as I can tell anyway...maybe she was new

She probably had already entered that she received $2.00.

..and then it was too late.

They do not teach new cashiers how to count change. It takes too long. The register does all the work for them.

My first job was car hop. If I came up short at the end of the night, I had to pay it out of my salary. I was only making $.75 cents per hour so I could not afford to make any mistakes.

I am terrible at math. Very terrible. BUT I had my mother teach me how to count change and I practiced it over and over until I got it right.

I never came up short.

Today very few people, especially young people, know how to count change back to people. I was never taught this in school either.

Of all the math that we learn in school, when we get into the real world, our money is probably the most important math of all, yet they don't teach children how to count change back to others in transacting business.

WHY?

p.s.

I have a cash register just like that.

Most of the grocery stores, resturants have cash registers that tell them how much change to give back, so most of the clerks don't know how to count change if the bill is 1.55 and you give 2.05 you have to tell them that rounds it out to 50 cents. I can count, I used to work as a cage cashier in Vegas and worked the casino bank try counting and verifying a million each night, plus doing the buy/sell for dealers, hotel, restaurant, slots etc. But barely passed algebra (c grade)

I'll never change.....You can pretty much.....

Count on it!!!!!!



Oh......



Nevermind!!!!!!!

This a real common problem around here. It is why it is so easy to short change cashiers these days.

It is not going to get any better either, since more and more devices are made to do it all for you. Such as my phone telling me how much to tip a waiter.

I think some of it is that it is easier and faster to not have the cashier take anything but one offering of cash so they only allow a program on the cash register that pretty much locks down when anyone trys to deviate. To take the time to actually count a person
s change back into their hand is just too time consumeing.

Part of it is to try and keep the cashiers honest because sadly it only takes one skilled cashier/theif to drop a lot out of a register in a short time.

If a register is open more than a few seconds it registers on a security code. The management then assumes that an employee is dishonest and if a shortage "confirms" it is easier to fire them than confirm if it was a shister customer, and honest mistake, or a repetative pattern.

I was in a department store browsing while two teenage boys were talking about buying something for $7.00 but wanted to buy 4 of them. One kid asked the other how much that would be and the other proceeded to get out his cell phone to use the calculator. I yelled "for goodness sake; its $28.00"

Its the pink hair that makes you smart...

I learned to count change in elementary. It is called basic arithematic!

It's pretty amazing how much "technology" is doing what we consider "basics" nowadays.
Ever wonder what would happen if the power grid failed across the USA and people actually
had to talk to each other and think for a few days?

One doesn't need to use the brain for basic maths anymore. Student are allowed calculators in class so.

yup - best way to learn to count back change (still) is cocktail waitressing - one of the the few jobs where you handle cash and usually DON:T have a machine to tell u the change

I always had to add my tip and figure out the change on the floor- no register and even with the credit cards we still had to figure our percentages for tips ourselves on the floor - on our feet

I don't miss those days - but I learned to handle cash

NO NO NO