When the tills are down...

Ivory_Tinkler

OP why don't you just go to the supermarket and buy yourself all this stuff in bulk. Not only would you save yourself a heap of money, but your stress levels would be lower, you wouldn't waste so much time, you wouldn't be late for appointments and the poor assistant would be spared your wrath.

Meepster

Ivory_Tinkler wrote: »

OP why don't you just go to the supermarket and buy yourself all this stuff in bulk. Not only would you save yourself a heap of money, but your stress levels would be lower, you wouldn't waste so much time, you wouldn't be late for appointments and the poor assistant would be spared your wrath.

TBQH I usually do, (well, apart from the Mars bars, sshhhhh, don't tell the Mrs. :eek: ) but yesterday was really NOT a day for going out (look at all the flood warnings for central Scotland). I'm off to Te$co tonight, so at least she will be safe tomorrow... :T

tbw

Why all the uncalled for hassle ? The OP made a valid point - its crazy that so many supposedly reasonably well educated people are unable to do basic mental arithmetic. And its even worse when they can't even work a calculator !

I don't think its unreasonable to expect a shop assistant to have these basic skills and I can well understand why the OP got irritated.

costapkt

IT'S bad enough when the tills are working, they have to wait and see how much change to give you. Nobody counts it out to you anymore, you just get a handfull of change and have to check it yourself.

Meepster

costapkt wrote: »

IT'S bad enough when the tills are working, they have to wait and see how much change to give you. Nobody counts it out to you anymore, you just get a handfull of change and have to check it yourself.

It seems to be bakeries are the only places that count your change out now-a-days...

That's why I eat so many pies, at least i know I'm getting the right change

qw3rt7

There is little mottivation for someone in a minimum wage job when the chance of promotion is limited and unemployement equally well remunerated.
Plus some people are 'less intelligent' than others. Its possible she is very good at her job when the tills are working, which will be the majority or the time.

That said i did end up paying £10 for £3.46 worth of second hand books from a red cross last year, after critisisng the very elderly ladies arithmetic, then suddenly feeling like a complete a***!

emmas42

It can be a pain the tills working it all out for you.
Many years ago i worked in a shop with ancient tills that didn't work out change etc for you, I got used to this and carried out transactions quickly and accurately.
Now I work with tills that are more or less computers, when they go down it takes me a few transactions to get back into it again. My speed is nowhere near what it was when I was on the old tills because you become conditioned to rely on the numbers on the screen.
I miss my old tills :-)
Kept my brain ticking over

nomoneytoday

I think I met the same cashier in a DIY store near me. The bill came to £2.99, but she insisted on ringing everything through again after pressing £5 tender instead of £10 tendered.

She didn't "get" that you simply give £7.01 change instead of £2.01....
If I were her manager she would be taking extra mathematic lessons

DCFC79

I used to work in retail and i used to get aked how much would this or that weigh so i weighed it and just guessed, i cant work out how much 1 carrot would be, its nt my area of expertise,

Anthillmob

chou_123 wrote: »

Unfortunately, tills do it all for you now, so you don't have to think. So when a situation like this arises, most cashiers can't think quick enough.

my whine at work is i wouldnt know how to work out a claim on paper if the computers went down because ive never been shown! and do they care and think 'training issue'? do they !!!!. ive been on at them for the last 5 years to have training on self employed claimants and still havent had any.