Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 31, 2014

Gotta be first day on the job for the cashier who must’ve also been flunking math in school.

And he wants a 50% RAISE.

Many don’t even consider doing the math — they just count it up, enter the Amoun t Tendered, and are amazed when the computer tells them the change due the customer.

I’ve seen it often. Kids depend on the cash register to tell them what change to give. If you can’t figure that out, you’re bound to be cheated sooner or later.

Actually most registers today do all the math work. The hard part comes when the cashier has to count out the change. The chain drug sore I recently retired from has a device that dispenses the correct coinage, cashier just has to count out the dollars shown on the screen & some even have problems with that.Anyway Everyone have a Happy & Healthy & Safe 2105

Pluggers are very smug and congratulate themselves whenever they know something a total stranger does not? Ugh.

I am delighted that the few times I used cash, the change is counted back up to the amount I gave them.

Back in my cashiering days, I used to challenge myself to figure out the correct change before the register told me.

I can see giving the cashier $10.27, but not $11.27, unless he wants a $5 bill, which doesn’t make sense to me either.

Too True. Also, the number who can’t tell time on a “Real” clock.

Back in “my day”, you couldn’t get out of Miss Fatz’s 3rd grade until you could. AND … everyone made it into Mrs. Fugate’s 4th grade on schedule.

A friend and I were on a trip driving separate vehicles. It was etting late so we decided to fill our trucks with gas.

We pulled in to a small store and each gave the cashier a twenty (gas was cheaper back then).

I finished with the gas first and went inside to get my change. The clerk stood in front of the cash register for a bit with a puzzled look on his face. Finally he asked, “Do you remember which twenty was your?”

It was hard, but I manage to pick my jaw off the floor and to control the laughter building inside. I pointed to one of the bills and said, “That one.” He was satisfied. I got my change and left.

So glad this is #1 – this thing with a cashier not knowing how to make change has been a real aggravation to me for many years. It was a mistake to allow calculators in the lower level schoolrooms. For calculus, etc., fine, but not for 1 + 1 stuff.

You think like me. LOL

Have a wonderful NEW YEAR my fellow GOCOMICS fans.

Went in to a store a few weeks ago. Young lady waited on me. She told me the total off the register. I paid with partial change to make things easier. She then pulled out a pocket device to figure it out and still gave me too much change back. Ain’t technology grand? Take away their batteries and their helpless. Never learned to think. What a pity.

I remember the first time I rang up a sale and someone did this to me. They were nice enough to explain. I’m glad they did instead of being sarcastic. It was a lesson learned.

Oh I am so going to try that.

Happy New Year’s, best wishes and health to all in the new year!

Although I rarely ever eat fast food, I stopped into a Taco Hell on the northwest side of the cities for a quick lunch..First, the gal behind the counter spoke clear, easily understood English when she took my order. I waited only a couple of minutes, and my food was ready (after all, isn’t this why it is called fast food?). I don’t remember the price; but, I handed her a $20 bill. She opened the cash drawer, counted the change to herself first, then proceeded to count the change back to me as she placed the change in my hand..I stood there speechless, almost thinking I had died and gone to Heaven! I told her how pleased I was with her actions and she said it was how she was taught years ago and wasn’t going to change..I thanked her and left her a sizable tip…

Thank goodness….back in the “dark ages”….BC…(before computers) I learned how to use an old-fashioned cash register and how to make change. Like today’s cartoon…sometimes it boggles the mind of the cashier to have to make correct change!!!

Doctor Toon: The total wouldn’t have happened back when I had my book store, but I liked to boggle the customers with three pennies to get to $6.30, two dimes to reach $6.50, a Kennedy half for $7, a dollar for $8, and a Jefferson two to complete the ten. Then the banks stopped letting me have the twos and halves. Don’t know why they let me have dimes to include the other president the rich still hate..fnav13aard: Unless you made a sizable purchase, I can understand why the manager was needed. Most registers can’t “break a hundred” without emptying the register, as a means of deterring holdups; and many require verification of even a $20 because they are popular with counterfeiters.

I’m amazed store clerks don’t know how to bag groceries!

Fifteen Dollars per Hour. Eight dollar gag-burger. Worth every dime.

it’s called "apply at computer at front, screened by computer, hired by computer, and papers handed to selected person to be signed (if they can still use cursive, if not, print) by the "personnel mgr. that’s to make sure there is no “discrimination” never mind the real person or intellegence needed for the position being filled. Sad, but true…

What gripes me is when in the drive thru, they hand you the bills with the coins balanced on top. Then you try to get the change into the car without having to get out and pick up the coins.

I’ve taken to prefacing a scene like this with the words, “Yes, I did do that with malice aforethought.” At that point either the kid figures out the change or plugs the amount into the register and realizes what I’ve just done. OTOH, I’m reminded of the kid at the fast food counter who had the power fail on his register, said, “Looks like we have to do this the hard way,” opened his cash drawer and pulled out a calculator.

sunchaunzo: The best lesson in sacking groceries was a one-week arc on Second Chances (the characters still appear occasionally on his Tank McNamarra). It included obvious tips like heavy items on the bottom, but also details like keep sides straight and parallel, and the whole thing under 20 pounds (I would say 16 – the weight of two gallons of milk) and add put frozen together, refrigeratables together, and don’t bother sacking light bulky things like bulk paper towel packages which have their own bag.

In a previous life, I helped run a local food booth at a county fair. The cash register was an antique manual. In order to be hired the high schoolers had to answer this:.‘Quickly! How many quarters in a dollar??’.You’d be surprised how many had to think about it for a while.