Fast-food workers in walkout to protest low wages

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Just Sayin......

[GeneFrenkle]

@gunderwood - yes, service has been on a declime for the last 20 years. It's not limited to the fast food industry, imho.

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[Swampman]

@HighExpert - you neglected to take your point about being able to count change far enough. Next time you are in a store, any store, watch and see how many of them look at the display to see how much change to count out. They always do it backwards, starting with the largest denomination first.

[skeeterss0]

most times they don't even count it out to you, they hand you some bills and your reciept then drop the change on top and tell you how much it is. I hate that. I prefer my bills to go in my back pocket and my change in my front, the reciept should go in the bag. Now I have to stand there and separate everything before I can get out of there.

If they count it to you like they are supposed to they count the change to you, bam that goes in the front pocket, they count the bills and that goes in the back. Wam bam thank you ma'm I'm gone

[Reverenddel]

You're lucky you GOT change!

I had the idiot at the Exxon at Southpark Blvd NOT give my $3 from lotto, then ARGUE he had when the girl beside me said "No, you didn't."

I felt it best to just leave than argue over $3... especially because I was armed, and didn't want to explain to Colonial Heights PD that I'm in an arguement over $3 with a gun on my hip.

Sometimes, it's better to just let that sh't go. But I won't go back to that Exxon, and I won't hestitate in telling people why.

[dorminWS]

I distinctly remember being taught sometime in the 2nd or 3rd grade in school the "proper" way to make change. It wasn't stated as a rule, though - it was explained and demonstrated by the teacher. But it was something like, "State the amount of the change, count it out beginning with the amount of the purchase and incrementing that amount by the value of each item of currency as you count it into the purchaser's hands, from smallest to largest denomination." Not sure it was considered a "life skill"; because I'm not sure they had that concept back then. I suspect it was considered to be a common courtesy. And that's how folks used to do it. But it seems to me to be a rarity these days to find a youngster that knows this and does it.

[WRW]

Old cash registers didn't compute change and, as well, consumers were not necessarily as well educated. The old way of making change was for their benefit.

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[FiremanBob]

Old cash registers didn't compute change and, as well, consumers were not necessarily as well educated. The old way of making change was for their benefit.

That last sentence is not true. Elementary school children across the entire intellectual spectrum were much more adept at basic arithmetic than children are today, for the simple reason that they were properly taught the skill. Counting change properly was done as a basic courtesy, as it proved that the amount of change was correct. Back in the day when a dollar was a dollar, and a Snickers bar was five cents, those coins were valuable and every one mattered - even the pennies. I know, I was there.

[WRW]

Yes, those that were educated were more adept...but there was a much greater percentage of the population that had not attended school beyond third grade. I stand by my statement.

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[Kreutz]

Don't be too hard on the workers....

A network of local community groups, clergy and unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), are backing the strike.

The above have much to gain should they succeed and nothing to lose when the workers are unemployed. I'd be amazed if any McDonalds worker in the NY metro spoke English very well; God knows what the unions told them.

[gunderwood]

Old cash registers didn't compute change and, as well, consumers were not necessarily as well educated. The old way of making change was for their benefit.

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What's this cash you old timers are talking about?

[WRW]

Old cash registers didn't compute change and, as well, consumers were not necessarily as well educated. The old way of making change was for their benefit.

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+1

What's this cash you old timers are talking about?

It was convenient as all get out. With a crank style register and cash money you could continue shopping even when the power went out.

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[GeneFrenkle]

You can't do that nowadays even with non-point-of-sale systems. Cashiers do not know how to calculate tax on paper.

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[dorminWS]

Old cash registers didn't compute change and, as well, consumers were not necessarily as well educated. The old way of making change was for their benefit.

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+1

What's this cash you old timers are talking about?

It was convenient as all get out. With a crank style register and cash money you could continue shopping even when the power went out.

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My pappy didn't believe in credit cards. Even though he was a man of not inconsiderable means, he never had one as long as he lived. My mother used to sneak and call me to order stuff for her on the phone because he literally would not allow a credit card to be held by a member of his household. When asked at a hotel how he intended to settle his bill, he'd listen to the clerk rattle off all the different credit cards the establishment accepted and then ask, "How about yankee money; do y'all still take that?". Then he'd insist on paying in cash, of which he always carried a fairly substantial wad. Many hotels didn't want to do business with a person who had no credit card; and occasionally he'd encounter someone who either could not or did not know how to accept cash. Used to p!ss the old man off profoundly.

[vaeevictiss]

I liked the line about living in poverty. How much you want to bet that some of the same workers, in their time there, have bought a nice new smartphone or even a new car.

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[WRW]

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... ceweather/

Could be that there will be some scrambling to learn how to calculate taxes on paper.

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[gunderwood]

I liked the line about living in poverty. How much you want to bet that some of the same workers, in their time there, have bought a nice new smartphone or even a new car.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

I was looking at the CNN report on this last week and they showed "budgets" from real workers. Yes, they generally spend more than I do on clothes, phones, etc. a month.

[VBshooter]

Guess it is time for them to practice a little restraint and live within their means.. other than that they need to STFU

[SHMIV]

@Dormin: I can sympathize with your Pappy. I about got kicked off the last plane I was on when they refused me a beer because they were not set up to accept cash.

As far as hotels go, all the hotels that allow smoking don't care about credit cards. So, I never have problems in that department.

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[Reverenddel]

I see in the future that "cash money" ain't gonna be accepted... and it's gonna be the beginning of the end.

I like having resources OTHER than electronic! You never know WHAT is gonna happen!