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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
But I happen to know that the owners of this establishment are free to work their own business (and it only takes one). So they don't need to tolerate lousy employees. They choose to do so.
It's like I always say about local bar owners. You won't succeed by sitting on the other side of the bar and paying bartenders. Only the bar owners who work behind the bar (as much as humanly possible) will thrive. Too many business owners are too quick to try and jump from self-employed to employer. If you CAN run your own business with no (or very little) help, you SHOULD. Your bottom line (and most likely your customers) will thank you for it.
Of course it's different if there's more work than one person can reasonably do.
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Well, I agree. In hindsight, I would have remained far smaller, and only done the work myself. I would not have personally earned a lot less; it's possible I may have earned more. But we were simply inundated with requests and I didn't foresee the stress it would add, to my life, to have employees. People, trust me, if you can remain a sole practioner/provider, do so. When you have people employed and you become responsible for their welfare, their rent payments, food, kids lives'... Jesus, it's an
unimaginable psychological burden. If I owned a bar, I would be the man behind the counter, so to speak.
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Originally Posted by issybird
What truly shocks me is how cashiers can’t do mental arithmetic. Once a transaction goes beyond swiping the bar code and reading out the total they’re at a loss. Bad enough when it’s just simple addition or subtraction; percents are the realm of higher mathematics.
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It's appalling. It's not higher math, for the love of heaven. You don't need Calculus to work at an entry-level job, just addition and subtraction, and maybe a little multiplication. Oh, and maybe, in some unautomated places, percentages for sales tax. But hell, even then, you can make up a chart grid and spare them trying to do, for example, 6.7% of yadda.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Or the person years back when I took my daughter for a kid's happy meal at a fast food place. Paid with a $10 bill. The math challenged cashier accidentally hit an extra zero when inputting the payment and was happily trying to give me $95 in change.
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Yes, boggling. Absolutely boggling.
Hitch