It's kind of sad really. I was in line at a local dollar store this evening buying something to snack on. I got behind a guy who was paying for his item with change (coins). The kid at the register was slowly picking up the coins (presumably counting them) and he picked up the last coin, thought about it for a moment and handed it back to the customer saying he couldn't do it. The customer sort of laughed and said 'come on man, are you kidding'? So the customer counted it out for him and the cashier still couldn't process it. The guy had to dig into his wallet and pull out a dollar bill and then add the 34 cents which the kid still had issues counting the 34 cents...
What's happened to our educational system? I learned how to count change in elementary (grammar) school. How do people budget their own money if they can't count out $1.34 in change?
I'm completely baffled by this now. Was this kid 'special'? I mean if he is then that's fine. But don't put him in a position where he has to do something that he can't do. If the kid is not 'special', why can't he count change? At first I thought he was just a little slow. I didn't want to say anything because I wasn't sure. But after conversing with him as a customer, I kind of got the sense that no, he's not special. He was pretty normal. He just doesn't know how to count change. Not a great idea to put him on a register then.
This store usually only has one, maybe two people working at a time so he may have been the only one there which tells me that he's not 'special'.
At this point, I'm willing to believe that this young man was not special. Nice kid, very pleasant talking to. But really shouldn't be in a position to count change.
Submitted May 17, 2021 at 01:13AM by Phydoux https://ift.tt/3uU17Vj
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