Wisconsin school board bans display of pride flag. Staff also may not say in emails what their preferred pronouns are
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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 remember my consumer education class in 9th grade in 1973 making us all do this in front of the class with the teacher playing the customer with students having to make change. We also were put into pairs to simulate being married and given real life scenarios of jobs, living expenses etc and forming a budget and then demonstrating to the class how we survived on the income we had. Now I work with low-income families who don't understand that if they bring home $1000/month, they can't afford $1200/month rent unil I literally show them the math.
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