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On 12/20/2015 2:36 PM, wrote:

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With that accomplished, he enters the price into the computer, and asks
"what is it called". I said "it just says METAL TRIM on the sign. He
enters those words. Then I tell him I also need two pieces of vinyl
siding trim, from the outside building, it looks like *and I point to a
display on the wall*. He looks at the display, and says "I'll have to
look up the item number". He goes to the computer, when I tell him to
look at the sign on the wall, right next to the display, and it's says
the item number and the price right there. He says "Oh wow, it does".
Then for the 3rd time he asks me how many of them I want. I said TWO. I
did not say another word, because I felt like saying, "Dude, you're
"DUMBER THAN HELL".....

When I was 16 I worked at McDonald's. When they found out that I knew
how to figure out sales tax and make change (no computerized cash
registers then), I was always put up front to take orders.

When I was 17 I worked at a department store. We had to take a math test
to get the job.

Many years later I was at K Mart, and was talking to the cashier,
telling her that I was going to Long's (a drug store chain later
purchased by CVS) and she said "oh, it's my dream to work at Long's." I
said "so why don't you apply there?" She said "I did, but I could not
pass their math test." Aha! Long's always had very competent cashiers,
but apparently that went away when they were bought out by CVS.

One day I was at CVS and they had 40% off all remaining summer
merchandise. I bought something marked at $10. They had not programmed
the new price into the system so the cashiers had to take 40% off.

The cashier took out a little pad of paper. She wrote $10 on it. Then
she took out a calculator and multiplied 10 by 0.4. She wrote down 4 on
the pad. Then she did 10-4=6. I told her to just multiply by 0.6, but
she helpfully informed me that it was 40% off, not 60% off. I really
wanted to come back the next week when everything was 50% off to see if
she went through the same procedure.