To my mind, that is not fun, but is, rather, an example of exceptionally poor training on the part of management.
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Got it working again (but only in Catalina!). Now I’m updating it before hopefully restoring my files.
Not really. The dollar coin is not a common currency. Most people have never seen one before. I have a few Susan B Anthony coins which the kids think are fake coins.
Every vending machine I've tried rejects the Susan B Anthony dollar coin. Heck, those machines even rejected the JFK 50¢ coin. They're not commonly in circulation.
I also have an Eisenhower dollar coin. Most folks have never heard of that coin, let alone seen one.
I would gladly accept an Eisenhower coin as payment for services rendered at more than face value.🤫 "I like Ike" 🤩. I'd only accept the Susan B Anthony coin at $1 value, since they're oh so abundant.
I had 2 paper routes in the 1970's here in the USA.
(did delivery by riding my bike with paper saddle bags, had a pull-cart for the Sunday edition)
Cool thing was I was paid in all sort of currency, including;
-Silver dollar paper certificates
-1964 / before coins were much higher silver content
-Buffalo nickels
-mercury dimes
-wheat pennies
-zinc pennies
-occasionally old early 1900's silver dollar coin
-etc
I still have all of them today, 45-50 years later, maybe upon retirement will see their value.Being paperboy collected weekly, got very good doing the math in my head, plus needed a system to account paid per home.
Taught me the simple value of working and earning $'s, saving some and having some to spend.
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Not management, but the parents and the schools.
How does someone who is capable of getting a job not know there are dollar coins?
I know there are dollar coins... so I get that example. But this honestly sounds like the kind of thing I wouldn't know about. Is it because of "poor education?" No.
In the US, we anoint our own royalty from pop culture. All hail Taylor Swift
The most recent/current US $1 in circulation have a gold color but their faces change annually as commemorative issues. In my experience the only place where you regularly see then in circulation are as change from subway fare vending machines and post stamp vending machines at a US Post Office.Not really. The dollar coin is not a common currency. Most people have never seen one before. I have a few Susan B Anthony coins which the kids think are fake coins.
Every vending machine I've tried rejects the Susan B Anthony dollar coin. Heck, those machines even rejected the JFK 50¢ coin. They're not commonly in circulation.
I also have an Eisenhower dollar coin. Most folks have never heard of that coin, let alone seen one.
I would gladly accept an Eisenhower coin as payment for services rendered at more than face value.🤫 "I like Ike" 🤩. I'd only accept the Susan B Anthony coin at $1 value, since they're oh so abundant.
Native American $1 Coin Program | U.S. Mint
Native American $1 coins celebrate the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history of the U.S.
the tooth fairy always left my kids the gold coin dollars.
Years ago when I took a part-time job at Borders Books & Music (RIP, Borders -- I loved you!), we had a week-long training period before we were ever allowed out on the sales floor and to be stationed at the registers. Some of us -- myself included -- had never worked in Retail before and so there were a lot of new things to learn, especially when it came to the Registers. The idea of handling someone else's money handed over to us was intimidating for a lot of us.
So, yes, we were indeed indoctrinated into handling the various forms of payment (cash, checks, credit cards, debit cards, traveler's checks, etc.). We learned that when someone gave us cash that it could be all bills, or all coins(!!) or (more usually) a mixture of the two, and that with bills or coins, along with the standard ones with which we were familiar there might be the oddity every now and then -- $2.00 bills, $1.00 coins, etc. We were pretty thoroughly trained on how to handle any transaction with a customer which might result in something presented to us which was unusual but actually also was legitimate, genuine legal tender. Of course if we had any concerns we knew to quickly summon a manager to assist with the transaction.
Ah, those were the days..... I loved my time at Borders and learned a lot about dealing with the world of books and people from a different perspective from that which I had and continued to customarily experience it at various times as a professional librarian in a local public library system or large health system medical library setting.
Paper delivery is something my generation has not experienced from what I can tell.
I didn't say that it did. I wrote "Retina models era", not "Retina models".
When I worked my first retail job, training was more like 30 minutes. Then you were off.
These days we don’t even take cash in our stores. It’s card only. Like a lot of places.
Ok. I’ve not been brace enough to venture into the study to see how it got on over night yet.I didn't say that it did. I wrote "Retina models era", not "Retina models".
That was nice. I had to stump up a £5 note for my daughters teeth.
Sorry I mean that’s what the tooth fairy used to leave! 😝
So what did you do to earn money at 13?
That was the youngest you could do a paper round here. I had two. Mornings everyday. Then one evening one.
Before that I had a car washing round. I was good a detailing cars. Still am.
Then at 14 I started selling double glazing appointments over the phone (telesales). But they found out I wasn’t coming up 16 as I’d told them so they had to let me go when I couldn’t produce a NI number.
Then at 15 I quit school and started working full time. Never stopped since.
Nothing. At 13, I was still in middle school. I didn't work in high school, either. I don't really want to work here in college, but I might anyway.
I’d encourage you to. It teaches you things you won’t learn in the academic world. A lot of my colleagues who went to university have very little knowledge of how things work in the world of the workplace.
I have 2 in college at MTU upper peninsula Michigan, well 1 graduated and 1 now a junior.
Oldest got a dorm desk job, first 2 years there, 3 times a week 10-12 hours.
She loved it, could study when not busy, about 50% of time .. earned weekly spending $’s.
Son first year no work he did lots of clubs / etc. 2nd year was a lab technician, 3 times a week 10-12 hours, but more busy so no “study on the job” perks.
It’s a balance, full time college and possibly part time work.
Wish you success.
Part of the building complex I work in is painted battleship grey. When I asked why the building is painted such an ugly colour, it was apparently because after WWII my university got its hands on surplus paint for actual battleships. They used that for so long it would now take planning permission to change colours.
Some terrible news I received this morning. I can't talk about it, but it has me extremely concerned for the future of the organization it affects. And sadly, there's really nothing I can do about it. And in case you're wondering, injury or death have nothing to do with this.
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Found an old Borders gift card when we were cleaning out to move.
I have to ask about training. How much did they press selling the "rewards program"?