Wife and I just got back from Panera Bread in Independence, our order was 27.11 wife handed the young cashier girl 27.25 in cash, the cashier looked at the cash like she never saw paper money before, plus she had to add a 10, three 5s two singles and a quarter. She honestly looked lost, like “OMG I CANT COUNT or ADD,” This younger generation is in BIG trouble! WTF is going on with young people, I know most are pretty smart, but damn, technology is not helping, the cashier and her co worker were more worried about a tablet not working! They may as well just do away with schools, they don’t teach anything anymore, and if your kid is bad, it’s ok. Ok I’m done ranting
I bought lunch at a Bojangles today. Total was $11.00 (even!) and I gave the associate, a friendly young latina, a twenty and a one so I wouldn’t get a five and four ones back, fully expecting to confuse her. Nope, she said ‘I’m out of tens, is two fives ok?’. So, our future may be ok, just not for every group. Patrick
Thank god there weren't any stupid or uneducated people in all our past generations. I mean, this generation can't read cursive, use a slide rule, use a washboard, dial a rotary phone, or read a paper map. They don't even know how to saddle a horse, dad gum it.
Stupid counterfitter makes a bunch of 18 dollar bills. His buddy asks, "how the hell are we ever going to pass those?". Dude says, "Relax, we'll go up in the hills and find some rube to take them." So they go up in the hills, go into a local store, and ask the cashier if he has change for an eighteen dollar bill. Dude says, "Sure, whatcha want -- three sixes or two nines?"
Try being in a job that uses shop math. Looking for how much gap I’ll have between installed components, so I pull a 6-inch scale from my pocket. Ended up grabbing the low end, so I just held the high end up and got the number. Kid I was teaching the job to was shocked - asked me how I knew the measurement was correct since the numbers on the scale were “backwards.”
Have reined in almost all "credit card" purchases. Use cash for nearly everything, and write checks and use US Mail for bills. Simply don't trust "auto pay" or having some unseen entity suctioning funds out of my bank account.
Funny stories, these kids are doomed! I tell the wife to swing by the bank and get me some cash. She says everybody takes credit cards. I said Maybe places you go to and things you do but in my world is only cash. Like what she asked, I say swap meets, local car races, car shows. Fernando
Instead of giving allowances to their children with cash a few people I know give their kids debit cards and ad the allowance there. That could be half the reason??
If a cashier was to input the amount the customer paid, the register would tell them what change to give. So it’s not just their math skills they don’t know how to operate a register.
The biggest problem with the younger generations is they don't get my references to hit television series like Manimal or Air Wolf.
Yep, whenever I go to the track I make sure I have cash, especially when the money girls are waaaaay far away from the cashier stand, I’m NOT going to hold up the line or make the girl walk. They’re spoiled! Haha true, BUT they know how there smart phone works! Yep, a lot of young people are boring. You mention Dukes of Hazzard or Smokey and the Bandit being cool, you get a blank stare
when the cashier or wait person ask me, " do you want your change"? WTF! yes i want my change back! if I want to tip you, that's up to me. It's not my fault you can't add or subtract.
LMAO I always keep one of these in my money clip jussssssst to watch the look on their faces! Watch them try and find a counterfeit marker for one of those!
Willy Wonka’s Umpa Lumpas said it crystal clear, “you know who’s to blame, the mother and the father.” I learned a long time ago I was lucky if I could control spitting distance around me. If your children are lacking, pull up the slack.
I like to mess with them. I'll buy something say the total is $17.68 Ihand them a$20 wait till they ring it through and the draw pops then tell I have the 3 cents.They just stop and stare the world just came to a end.Then they break out there phone to do the math.Unreal. Chris
