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Originally Posted by Captain Vlad
For all of people's bitchin' and moanin' about the lack of education or intelligence, if you've ever worked in a cashier's position at some point or the other you've been the dumb-ass employee you're complaining about now. If you have never been a cashier, and decide to become one, you may also rest assured that you will become, if only for a moment, the dumb-ass employee you're talking about now.
But it balances out, because everyone, at some point, has also been the pain-in-the-ass demanding customer who won't shut up and go home despite receiving perfectly good service.
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I worked at RadioShack for a few months when I took a semester off from college. There were a few times when the computer system was down and all transactions had to be by hand.
If I hadn't been working there when those instances happened, I imagine my coworkers would've been freaking out having to do all the math in their head. I became the store calculator for a few hours. You'd think basic addition and subtraction was an alien language these days.
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Originally Posted by heRS
Nice to see the milk of human kindess flowing freely towards those less fortunate than yourselves.
Personally I have a number dyslexia sort of thing going on. Despite a 3.6 - 4.0 in all other subjects I failed at math miserably. My 7th grade math teacher gave me a mercy D- and said "I'm doing you a favor so you don't have to suffer through my class again, I can see that math just isn't for you". That was my last math class in high school!
I'm the person who can have momentary confusion over numbers, who does have to be very careful with anything involving numbers so I get it right. I can count change although when someone hands me an odd amount it might take me a little cipherin' to figure it out.
Luckily, as a dog trainer (who can afford to buy a new Camaro because I'm good at what I do), I'm not required to do much with numbers.  |
But see, you KNOW you have issues with numbers. And since you KNOW that, I imagine you wouldn't be applying to a job that requires you to work a cash register all day long, would you?
This was clearly not a case where the person had a legitimate dyslexia with numbers issue. They just didn't pay any attention in math class and it showed.
