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Campfire Ranger
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Cheap food....cheap labor.
This ain't no fancy dinner service.
I think it was kind of a dick move....actually. Come on Jim, can't we expect anything from anyone? When I was a grocery store cashier as a kid I could count back change. I know McD's isn't the Jet Propulsion Lab, but how low must our expectations go? Betting they put ice in their.....seltzers too
FJB & FJT
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Campfire Kahuna
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It always seemed to me that both the cashier and the customer should be smart enough that the cashier could say, "Your bill was $4.71. You gave me a five. Your change is 29 cents, " at which point he/she would hand the customer a quarter and four pennies, and they would both, as I said, be smart enough to see that it was correct. I never could understand this fanatical obsession with having change "counted back". You weren't around when coins had value. Now days being off a nickel or dime means nothing but at one time, it was valuable money.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Get what you pay for.
Still true. There aint no "extra" today. If you are giving extra, time and time again.......you are a sucker and wont ever be paid to match.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Oracle
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It always seemed to me that both the cashier and the customer should be smart enough that the cashier could say, "Your bill was $4.71. You gave me a five. Your change is 29 cents, " at which point he/she would hand the customer a quarter and four pennies, and they would both, as I said, be smart enough to see that it was correct. I never could understand this fanatical obsession with having change "counted back". You weren't around when coins had value. Now days being off a nickel or dime means nothing but at one time, it was valuable money. Not true. John used to trade pretty shells for items.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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If you give him 20 muskrat and 50 beaver pelts.....he will give you red cloth.
Now thats a very good bargain for you!
I am MAGA.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I'm training a 15 year old young lady to do retail sales at the farm right now. Really tough stuff, fish is $2.50 a lb, we don't charge for the partials. She made herself a cheat sheet so she didn't have to break out the calculator.... I suppose props for initiative. Although it still throws her for a loop if they want $60 worth.... How much is that? Or when we're moving fish, and the fish are 9 to the pound, and we've moved 3,400 lbs, how many fish is that -- dear in the headlight looks, every time. And when you say 10% less than 34,000, that doesn't get them any closer. Never not funny when someone makes fun of folks who can't figure out math, yet they can't figure out spelling. Of course, I fired a guy once that lost 15,000 fingerlings, because he thought 1/4" screens were smaller than the 1/8th" screens I told him to put in........ So, I agree, math matters. But so do fractions. Yeah, because fractions are different than math. His spelling is accurate, but the word is *incorrect* for the situation. A normal person would infer what he meant without elitism, which is faulty here specifically for the purpose that the written word is more difficult than spoken, and especially with similar spellings having different meanings in English, plus the fact that auto text correcting applications constantly get it wrong. I can't count how many times 'autocorrect' has created errors grammatically for me when attempting to fix my spelling. The fact that you went out of the way to create an entire post about a 'misspelled' word based on a single character speaks volumes about your lack of conceptualization, and more on your own lack of mental cohesiveness. Your attempt at sarcasm to delineate that fractions ARE math fails upon your own feet again because of the fact that few 'adults' today understand that large numbers in the denominator actually create a lower quantity, and that is obviously lost on you. Please continue on your self righteous path, as it's humorous to those of us whom aren't as basic as you. Besides if you were really a super smart person about grammar instead of wannabe C(_)/\/T you wouldn't have used a double negative to start your post... an Engineer should know better than to 'through' stones in a glass house. BTW: I always got Cs in 'Language Arts' because the curriculum was boring, not because I was 'stoopid'. YMMV Weigh moor bettor job on thee com meant than eye cud half dun.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Campfire 'Bwana
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It always seemed to me that both the cashier and the customer should be smart enough that the cashier could say, "Your bill was $4.71. You gave me a five. Your change is 29 cents, " at which point he/she would hand the customer a quarter and four pennies, and they would both, as I said, be smart enough to see that it was correct. I never could understand this fanatical obsession with having change "counted back". You weren't around when coins had value. Now days being off a nickel or dime means nothing but at one time, it was valuable money. Not true. John used to trade pretty shells for items. That is correct. Even then, I thought that both parties should be smart enough to look at the smaller shells returned as change and be able to calculate that they represented the amount tendered minus the cost of the product. (For the record, I still feel that it is worth my time and effort to stoop down and pick up a penny.)
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Campfire Kahuna
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during the Depression, my grandparents lost a farm because of those coins. They couldn't raise $200 worth of them to pay the mortgage. All they could do was barter and the banks didn't accept corn or pigs as payment.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Maybe unrelated- maybe not.... Why the heck is there a coin shortage "due to Covid19"? Paper cash too sometimes. I hmust be too smart to figure this one out. Or something...  people hoarding, not spending, banks closed, no one going to banks???? Nothing I can think of really computes.
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