On 8/29/2015 5:04 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/29/2015 1:14 AM, Tony Hwang wrote:

People are getting dumber, robots are getting smarter I think. Go to a
bank and see young tellers can't even add two simple numbers without
calcutor.

I like to hand the clerks paper money plus some
coins. Make their lives easier. I calculate the
change in my head, they use the cash register.

Most likely they would be lost without the screen.

I've found that, more often than not, their first instinct
is to hand the coins *back* to me. Especially if the tab is
$X.17 and you hand them $X.42... all those coins (4 dimes and
two pennies) seem like "way too much".

*Some* folks will hand me back two dimes (i.e. $X.22 yielding a
nickel change) and I'll suggest that I'd prefer to have a quarter
as change, instead of a *nickel*.

Regardless, when their eyes glaze over, I tell them, "Just type
it in and let the MACHINE do your thinking for you..." in a
mildly disgusted tone.

OTOH, when I encounter someone who actually knows how to
count change *back* to me, I make a point of drawing attention
to that fact: "Ah, someone who knows how to COUNT CHANGE!!"
with a broad smile.