Wisconsin school board bans display of pride flag. Staff also may not say in emails what their preferred pronouns are
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So, I was shopping at a pop up consignment shop last night, and they had teens volunteering to help. I paid cash. They didn't know how to do change. Like, they punched the numbers into the computer but they literally didn't know how much quarters, nickels, and dimes are worth. WTF are schools even teaching kids??? Not how to survive in the real world that's for sure. And my area supposedly has one of the top 10 school districts in the state!
Pretty sad, but on the other hand, they probably don't use cash much these days. Their parents probably only use credit cards and phone apps.
I helped someone with this problem a while ago. They were from another country.
American change is kind of confusing.... In the country my friend is from the smallest coins are worth the least and the biggest are worth the most and the value is clearly displayed. We have nickels that are bigger than dimes and you don't have a big obvious number, and they all have different designs. , Their bills all have different physical sizes and colors too, which is pretty convenient.
That said, it's ridiculous that an American couldn't learn that system.
This is what I do sometimes. Say the bill comes out to $8.23, I'll hand them a $10 and after they enter that into the register, "realize" I have the 23 cents and hand that to them, and then I get the "thousand mile stare". It's sad how many kids just shut down and I have to tell them how much change they should give me. Sad thing is, I'll bet if I said $5.00...they'd just hand it to me, without a second thought.
I never had issues doing that when I worked a register not long ago.
Sometimes it's funny to hand them 5¢ if the total is like $10.07 or something. I find it funny to do, especially after they've entered the total in the register (they usually tell you the change)
True Story: Many years ago I applied for a stocker/checkout position for a local grocer. Before I was given an application...I had to take a 10 question math test. The math problems were questions like "If cans of peas are 3 for a dollar, how much would you charge for 2.
I finished the test in a few minutes and gave it back to the receptionist. She gave me a look that said..."You poor dear....giving up so soon?"
She grades it and looks up at me with eyes as big a saucers and says "You Aced the Test!"
I was shocked but had a pretty good idea of where we were headed as a society...and now...here we are.
I have had cashiers refuse to take the change from me, because they were like "Nope, the computer already rang it up," and I knew right there that they couldn't figure it out for themself.
That money system makes so much sense. We should have coins made out of precious metals again and instead of a value in dollars, inscribe their weight onto them.
Maybe a coin could be a quarter ounce of copper or silver or something like that
YEARS ago, one night a week hubby and I had to drive to town for a puppy class - nearly 50 miles. We’d often stop at McDonalds on the way home. We always walked in. Inevitably I’d be ticked the employees couldn’t count back change.
The next day, during calendar, my 2nd graders would get a big lesson on counting change and someone always said….”You went to McDonald’s again, didn’t you Mrs. M?” LOL
I’m sad to say it hasn’t changed much, but my kiddos had a rudimentary idea of counting change before they went to 3rd grade!
My 6 year old daughter and 8 year old son both have known the values of the various coins for years at this point, so I find this a bit hard to believe.
However I found by keeping my expectations low shocking behavior is, well, less shocking, so this is probably true.
I guess it's possible she was just flustered. Maybe she did know the value of the coins, but she was definitely having trouble adding them up to 45 cents. The adult that was supervising had to tell her which coins to grab, and she wasn't picking the correct ones she was told to, so the adult was pointing to the correct coins. Even before the young girl had issues the adult made a comment "I know this is going to be difficult for you since they no longer teach how to give change in schools." 🤷♀️🤦♀️