Let’s colour code sales clerks
October 19th, 2005 by Bill
I went to the corner store. My purchase came to $9.35. All I had was a $20 bill and a pocketful of change. I am now convinced sales clerks should be colour coded – perhaps using hats.
Blue hat: math enabled
Red hat: challenged
So it’s $9.35 … all I have is the twenty and I don’t want more change so I give the guy $20.35.
You would think the trumpets heralding the Apocalypse had sounded. Or aliens similar to Independence Day were making their final assault. Or something. The guy froze. He stared at the register as if it were an oracle that would deliver some special message just for him.
Of course, it might have if he knew how to use it! Like, by recognizing the small math problem I had presented would be easily solved by simply entering into the machine how much money I had given him. It then would have told him he owed me $11.00.
But no, the lobotomized aren’t up to this sort of task. He taps into the machine that I gave him simply $20.00. But at the same time, some part of him knows I gave him more than that so, when the machine says he owns me $10.65 some barely living portion of his brain tells him, “Well, that’s just not right.” Which was true.
So he stares at the damned thing again as if it will speak, something like a burning bush to Moses.
Anyway … It was just a trifling annoying since the whole point was to reduce how much change I had and get out of there quickly. I ended up getting more change, hanging around forever as he sorted himself out and leaving in an aggrieved state.
Grrr. Let’s colour code these clowns so at least you know ahead of time what kind of an Einstein you’re dealing with.
Tag: Sales clerks, How to become an idiot
I agree- color coding would greatly enhance my expeditious shopping experience. I had a “situation” yesterday at the market. Two lines where marked “closed” though idiot people “didn’t see the sign” (ahem, right!). So while I move to a longer line that is open, people are whizzing in and out of a line that is SUPPOSEDLY closed. False advertising!
Being a good girl who follows the rules blows sometimes.
I don’t even know what cash is anymore. My wallet would freak out if anything green went in there. Debit debit debit.
That’s a good idea. I’ve given the extra few cents so as not to get a load of change back and some of them looka t you funny.
Ted.