I agree with ellisaana. My first boss taught us to count up. Unfortunately, fast food chains are making today’s youth ignorant. They don’t even have to count change anymore. It’s automatically spit out for them.
When I volunteer at an event and have to count back change, folks in my generation have a nice smile. Some of the younger ones don’t get it. You’re not using a calculator? Why?
First, most registers these days, fast food registers at least, won’t complete the sale until you enter the tender amount, whereupon it calculates the change for you. Second, there was a tale in the Readers’ Digest from a customer who was ordering at a fast food joint when the power went out. Kid at the register said, “Well, I guess we have to do this the old-fashioned way,” and pulled a calculator out of the till.
Back in the late ’60s, automated change registers were becoming common, where the coins would slide down into a little metal bowl for you, and the clerk just had to deal with the bills. Whatever happened to them?
(BTW in Canada, we have $1 and $2 coins, so change making is not only a bit more complicated, but customers are more likely to want to get rid of a handful of change to pay.
And very few Canadian bank branches have free coin deposit machines.
ellisaana Premium Member over 11 years ago
The easy way is to start counting out money from 12.43 until you get to 50.00. They used to teach that in school.
cobraman7594 over 11 years ago
I agree with ellisaana. My first boss taught us to count up. Unfortunately, fast food chains are making today’s youth ignorant. They don’t even have to count change anymore. It’s automatically spit out for them.
sundogusa over 11 years ago
When I volunteer at an event and have to count back change, folks in my generation have a nice smile. Some of the younger ones don’t get it. You’re not using a calculator? Why?
Tsukuyomi over 11 years ago
Neil’s look on panel two kind of reminds me of Squidward.
K M over 11 years ago
First, most registers these days, fast food registers at least, won’t complete the sale until you enter the tender amount, whereupon it calculates the change for you. Second, there was a tale in the Readers’ Digest from a customer who was ordering at a fast food joint when the power went out. Kid at the register said, “Well, I guess we have to do this the old-fashioned way,” and pulled a calculator out of the till.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 11 years ago
when you finally figure it out, be sure to stuff the guy’s change, bills and receipt into his hand so he has to separate them
Michelle Morris over 11 years ago
Or just subtract $12.43 from $50.00.
flyintheweb over 11 years ago
Now you see the real reason soem places won’t take anything over a 20 – it’s not counterfeits, it limits the losses when the kids screw up the change…
Toronto2 over 11 years ago
Back in the late ’60s, automated change registers were becoming common, where the coins would slide down into a little metal bowl for you, and the clerk just had to deal with the bills. Whatever happened to them?
(BTW in Canada, we have $1 and $2 coins, so change making is not only a bit more complicated, but customers are more likely to want to get rid of a handful of change to pay.
And very few Canadian bank branches have free coin deposit machines.