Friday, December 16, 2011

Why We Will Fail as a Society

I was just standing at the Target counter.

I hand the girl $20.00 when I notice the register rang up $5.02.

"Hang on on," I say as I reach into my pocket, "I have two cents."

I pull them out to give her.

"I already rang it up," she tells me.

"This will make the change an even $15.00."

"I can't. I already rang it up."

She's an idiot. I realize I cannot explain something to her as simple as $14.98 + $0.02 = $15.00.

"Can you leave the drawer open and give me a dollar back for a dollar of change?"

"You have to go to the customer service counter to do that."

Are you fucking kidding me? We allow people like this to have minimum power like working at a register?

She has no business being in a position where math is involved.

Target needs to hire smarter people capable of thinking.

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