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teaching science
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Unfortunately, we spend so much time teaching how to graph polynomials and how to save the world from ourselves that we now ignore basic things like counting change, reading a ruler and balancing a checkbook. State testing drives what we teach so much that we really dont have time to teach those skills anymore. Sad for us who really want to prepare the kids for the real world.
LP GAS ONLY
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Instead she got the $1.16. That will teacher her.
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es, that will get most of the younger set! It that doesn't, give then the $10, wait until they enter that $10 into the electronic cash register, then....give them the 23 cents! BOOM! End of world! They will have to call the manager & that may not even help! Today's news story is that 80% of NY city high school graduates applying to junior/community college can NOT pass a basic reading test!!!!!! And you expect them to make change!!? :twisted:
Anonymous-0
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You old farts talk like the "REAL WORLD" is your world--The new real world is when you pay for your meal they swipe their debit card--a lot of the younger generation do not even carry money!!Right or wrong that is what it is coming to.
onefarmer
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BT even worse is you give $11.23 for your $6.23 bill and they just look like a deer in the headlights. Just give me my $5 and I'm out of here!
I agree. We've got a ten year old that they are trying to teach a second language to, computer skills to rival Microsoft engineers, along with teaching all of the other subjects in "new and imporoved" ways to the point that my wife and I can't help her out when she doesn't understand something. Add in all of the other crazy mess they try to fill their heads with and it comes down to me having to tell her that if there is a contridiction in what we tell her to do and what they tell her to do, to do we tell her and if anyone has a problem with it they can come talk to me......
massey 333
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JMOR,don't blame the clerk for 23 cent example,they CAN'T just take the 23 after it($10)was entered because the computer will not show it correctly.so the Manager has to cancel every thing out and start over again.Stupid yes and some kids today don't know how to make change easily,but until you have to program one of those things then you would understand.If the manager doesn't correct it then,the clerk could maybe lose their job.Sad but true.
Eldon (WA)
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If you want to play with em, throw in one of those dollar coins.....last time I used one the gal had to show it to her manager to see if they could accept it LOL!
Motorcraftman
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Ya.. I do that alot... Keeps from having a Pocket full of Pennies/change.. Larry
Tom from Ontario
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If you really want to astonish some of these folks, watch the register and have the absolute correct amount ready to dump into their hand.
Anonymous-0
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Last year at the baseball diamond (Sixth grade) one of the fathers was running the concession stand with his third grade daughter. Was astounded when she counted my change back the "oldfashioned" way. I complimented both her and her father. Really refreshing.
Areo
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i know a fifth grader that can't read a clock with hands, only digital ones.
i've wondered lately if she is unique or is this also a wide spread problem.
i've wondered lately if she is unique or is this also a wide spread problem.
What's really sad, back in the late 1970's I worked with a 27 year old fellow who didn't know the difference between AM & PM, this is something you learn when your about 5 or 6 years old.
Here in my area of southern Nevada the kids are only in school for 4 hours, and what with the holidays and vacations when are these kids supposed to get an education. When I was in school, my first class was at 7 AM (and I had a 5 mile walk to school), and I didn't get out of school until 5 PM, with a half hour for lunch.
Here in my area of southern Nevada the kids are only in school for 4 hours, and what with the holidays and vacations when are these kids supposed to get an education. When I was in school, my first class was at 7 AM (and I had a 5 mile walk to school), and I didn't get out of school until 5 PM, with a half hour for lunch.
I made a post in Tractor tales a few days ago about a moron. Stopped and got gas and ran over to $15.05. Gave the lady my $20 bill and fished in my pocket and found a quarter. I waited and daydreamed around a litlle out side her little booth. I looked and she was typin away on a calculator to figure out she owed me $5.20!
Richard from SE AZ
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I read about a guy that paid for something somewhere and the register told the young girl that the change was $.10. She called the manager and told him that she didn't have any dimes. The manager told her to give him 2 nickles and walked away.
ou are probably more knowledgeable of the programming than I am, so you get benefit of doubt even though I do not see any way that it could matter one way or the other. The machine can't possibly keep a running tally on every coin & bill that goes into & out of that drawer and at the end of the day, in my example, the amount of money in the drawer would be identical. :shock:
armand tatro
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Five or six years ago when the gas stations had signs in the window saying no 50 or 100 dollar bills accepted I pumped just under $50 of gas in my truck and paid for it with a $50 dollar bill. Lady said she couldn't take it I informed them it was legal tender and either take it or they could pump the gas back out of my truck! Needless they took the 50! Armand
armand tatro
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Five or six years ago when the gas stations had signs in the window saying no 50 or 100 dollar bills accepted I pumped just under $50 of gas in my truck and paid for it with a $50 dollar bill. Lady said she couldn't take it I informed them it was legal tender and either take it or they could pump the gas back out of my truck! Needless to say they took the 50! Armand
massey 333
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You are right on the end of day and it is stupid,but if the 26 cent entry shows up on the daily or hourly tally sheet.It has tobe for something.If you own your own business,you can kind of overlook it,but these businesses that have automatic or product pricing,that little recorder inside will trip you up every time.I know it is very stupid but that is computers now days in big business.
Dan T in MO
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I think the US Submarine Base port is in Groton, Connecticut.
Dan T in MO
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Just the other day, I pumped in just over $50 worth. I went inside to pay and pulled out a hundred. I went to get the change, but I had none. So I fished in my wallet for a single. Smallest I had left in there was a $10 bill, so I put it on the counter. The lady looked at me funny and asked why I gave her a ten. I said it was the smallest I had and just wanted to cover the change. She sorta chuckled and said she didn't have $50 bill in the drawer.
Sounds like a dispatcher I once had. Calls me one day about half hour after he got to the office, chewing me out about 12 am being midnite. I said "wait, let me check, yeah my paper you left in my box says 12 PM"
Changed his tune real quick-like.
He didn"t last long. What we did the last week before our previous dispatcher left, was what we did all summer. Things changed when I walked in the office and told him in somewhat political terms what was going to happen to him if I ran the same two loads for a third week in a row, in front of the boss" wife.
Changed his tune real quick-like.
He didn"t last long. What we did the last week before our previous dispatcher left, was what we did all summer. Things changed when I walked in the office and told him in somewhat political terms what was going to happen to him if I ran the same two loads for a third week in a row, in front of the boss" wife.
You know Randy - I used to think that too, but one day my wife and I were talking to one of the waitresses at the Local Golden Corral. She seemed kinda tired and I had asked her if she'd had a rough previous night, and she said she had. Turns out she got off work at the hospital, then beat it out to the restaurant to put in a shift there. She's a young neuroligist(sp) and she's working two jobs to get her school loans paid off quicker. I could tell she was a fine gal, but I had no idea what was going on in her life. . .
Paul from MI
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As an engineer that graduated in the slide rule days, I can say this. It did teach you a bit of common sens. Slide rules only calculate significant digits, you have to know where to put the decimal point. Makes you think about the calculation you are doing, and more important, what the outcome will be to be logical. In my 45 years of experience, good old common sense will prevent lots more problems than Diferential Equations or Calculus IV( and , yes, I took them both and passed the course).
RR,
You are absolutely correct that qualified, educated people don't often make a career of waitressing, with the operative word being often.
My wife is a waitress and deals with the young girl, no change counting, texting on the job, drama creating coworkers every day. However, she is able to work a few days a week, and only works the lunch hour so that she can be home with the kids before and after school.
She has many customers that will only sit in her section due to poor waitresses and bad experiences with others. She makes more in 15 hours a week than she would working 40 at some office job in town!
I have learned a lot about the industry from her. It is entertaining to go out to eat with her and watch her deal with a bad waitress!
Personally, my pet peeve is you give them cash and they ask "Do you want change?" He11 yes I want change!! If I offer you the change fine, but until I do it is my money!
You are absolutely correct that qualified, educated people don't often make a career of waitressing, with the operative word being often.
My wife is a waitress and deals with the young girl, no change counting, texting on the job, drama creating coworkers every day. However, she is able to work a few days a week, and only works the lunch hour so that she can be home with the kids before and after school.
She has many customers that will only sit in her section due to poor waitresses and bad experiences with others. She makes more in 15 hours a week than she would working 40 at some office job in town!
I have learned a lot about the industry from her. It is entertaining to go out to eat with her and watch her deal with a bad waitress!
Personally, my pet peeve is you give them cash and they ask "Do you want change?" He11 yes I want change!! If I offer you the change fine, but until I do it is my money!
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