Originally Posted by Ninnie
It always shocked me how many young people would come in our store and couldn't count change,.
When I was working in a retail store, I heard this from the customers about the
young folks - just as a general comment. The truth was, that they were great at counting back the change - it was this ol' gal who had the trouble counting back change and I would panic if the register was out of order - I truly relied on it to let me know the change to give back.
I have always been Math challenged and it reflects in my quilting, too. Working with percentages is also a challenge for me and thank heaven's we're on the metric system. If I made an error and the customer pointed out the mistake, I would sometimes be light humoured about it and apologize and make it right - they always left with a smile.
That's not to say what this young fella did was right - it wasn't. He should have corrected his error and apologized. It should be brought to the owner's attention.