Interesting and an eye opener

[columbus]

Sounds like the kid was stoned to me.
I don't care what anybody claims, pot makes most people stupid. Been there done that.
Tom

 

[jojom]

I would never conclude from a single incident that someone is incapable of doing math in their head. One data point is not a trend.

Good for you. Here's a cookie.

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[columbus]

I know there are a number of people out there who are in the same boat, but I had never come across one before.

Would you buy food again at that place?
Knowing that their employees are incompetent?

Not just the ones in the back making the stuff you put in your mouth and swallow, but the ones out there on the counter in front of God and everybody.

I don't eat out a lot. I'd rather know what I'm eating.
Tom

 

[Quintessence]

Good for you. Here's a cookie.

WHAT?! No butterscotch chips?!?!

 

[Revoltingest]

This one isn't about math skills but it should fit right in anyway:
(at a coffee shop)
Me: Hi, I'd like a large, half-caf coffee please.

Luck you didn't get this....

 

[Quagmire]

Luck you didn't get this....

Could have been worse, could have been the other half.

 

[Skwim]

Would you buy food again at that place?
Knowing that their employees are incompetent?

Not just the ones in the back making the stuff you put in your mouth and swallow, but the ones out there on the counter in front of God and everybody.

I don't eat out a lot. I'd rather know what I'm eating.
Tom

It's a

, and I would buy from there again.

 

[columbus]

It's a

, and I would buy from there again.

Oh. I like Papa Murphy's.
I like watching them put the stuff on and then baking it myself.
Usually I add more stuff when I get home.

Buy I can imagine the simplicity of their business model encourages them to avoid paying for educated employees.

Tom

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Ever have one of these encounters?

When I worked at Rallys, there was I manager I hated - for several reasons - partly because she could not make change in her head. If she pushed the wrong button when entering how much the customer gave, she always had to ask how much to give back in change. And, yes, she was a manager.

Sounds like the kid was stoned to me.
I don't care what anybody claims, pot makes most people stupid. Been there done that.

/me polishes honors graduate medallions.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It's a

, and I would buy from there again.

Are they still open? The one here just suddenly closed, and even though they had a decent deep dish, I didn't like them enough to see if it was just that location or the entire chain.

 

[Skwim]

Are they still open? The one here just suddenly closed, and even though they had a decent deep dish, I didn't like them enough to see if it was just that location or the entire chain.

I think most are franchises, and any closing would be up to the franchisee rather than corporate Papa Murphy's.

 

[savagewind]

Sounds like the kid was stoned to me.
I don't care what anybody claims, pot makes most people stupid. Been there done that.
Tom

I agree. I have been there and stoniness might seem to make a person stupider But I think what it really does is make stupid evident. Stupid was there, but now you know.

/me polishes honors graduate medallions.

This is interesting and I do not know what it means.

With smoking?

 

[Yerda]

Ever have one of these encounters?

I've worked bars, fastfood and retail before so yes. The first time I took an order and asked for x (pounds), y (pence) and the customer gave me a 20 plus y, I wondered what was going on. I worked it out a bit quicker than your pizza man but I was properly confused at first. It had never occurred to me to make life easier by handing over the small change. I'd always just given the nearest but larger note and waited for change.

Serving customers made me a lot quicker at counting in my head. Maybe the should get all children a job in a pub as part of school.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

This is interesting and I do not know what it means.

My rebuttal against the claim that pot makes you stupid. People keep saying it, but I know a lot of really smart and intelligent tokers.

 

[savagewind]

My rebuttal against the claim that pot makes you stupid. People keep saying it, but I know a lot of really smart and intelligent tokers.

I think their point is not that it makes people stupid but that it makes even intelligent people stupider. So genius becomes smart, smart becomes average and average becomes stupid.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think their point is not that it makes people stupid but that it makes even intelligent people stupider. So genius becomes smart, smart becomes average and average becomes stupid.

People say that, but I've known many people who, even while stoned, are really smart.

 

[Thief]

Several years ago I noticed something lacking in the skills of my children.
Turns out, the high schools have dropped home ec and shop classes.

So, it will become the prevailing trend....
Johnny won't be able to bring home the bacon.....and even if he did....
Susie won't know how to cook it.

 

[Curious George]

Last Saturday I ordered a pizza over the phone. When I went to pick it up a young guy, looking to be about 17, waited on me and told me my order came to $16.61. I dug out the 61 cents and handed it over, and having a wad of bills in my wallet that I wanted to reduce, I gave him a five and a one. Then I gave him a twenty (I didn't have a ten or any more fives). He looked at it a moment and then looked at me rather quizzically, as if needing an explanation. I told him that I had just gave him $26.61 and would like ten dollars back. This didn't register at all. So I told him exactly what I had just done, that the bill was $16.61 and the total amount of money I had given him was $26.61 and that 16.61 from 26.61 was 10. He was still drawing a blank, and after a moment called one of the other workers to come over and take a look at what was happening. She immediately saw the situation and told him to give me $10.00. Almost reluctantly he handed over my $10.00. What was interesting is that here was what I assume to be a high school senior---perhaps a junior---who was intelligent looking enough, but unable to do simple math in his head. I know there are a number of people out there who are in the same boat, but I had never come across one before.

Ever have one of these encounters?

Maybe he thought you were one of these guys:

 

[savagewind]

People say that, but I've known many people who, even while stoned, are really smart.

I do not agree with their assessment that people become stupider stoned. I think stoned allows the person perspicacity* whether real smart or real stupid intellectually. It's like knowledge of: Oh! I am that dumb? or maybe even, Jesus Christ can I be so smart?

*Oh God I love google http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/perspicacity

 

[SomeRandom]

I

Last Saturday I ordered a pizza over the phone. When I went to pick it up a young guy, looking to be about 17, waited on me and told me my order came to $16.61. I dug out the 61 cents and handed it over, and having a wad of bills in my wallet that I wanted to reduce, I gave him a five and a one. Then I gave him a twenty (I didn't have a ten or any more fives). He looked at it a moment and then looked at me rather quizzically, as if needing an explanation. I told him that I had just gave him $26.61 and would like ten dollars back. This didn't register at all. So I told him exactly what I had just done, that the bill was $16.61 and the total amount of money I had given him was $26.61 and that 16.61 from 26.61 was 10. He was still drawing a blank, and after a moment called one of the other workers to come over and take a look at what was happening. She immediately saw the situation and told him to give me $10.00. Almost reluctantly he handed over my $10.00. What was interesting is that here was what I assume to be a high school senior---perhaps a junior---who was intelligent looking enough, but unable to do simple math in his head. I know there are a number of people out there who are in the same boat, but I had never come across one before.

Ever have one of these encounters?

I've done that once or twice at the end of a long shift or particularly long week. A lady gave me 35$ for a 30$ order in coinage and it took a second to register with me lol