Seasonal Disorder

After school tonight, I stopped by Target to get a few things, most importantly, cat litter.  I swear, neighborhood cats have found a secret passage into my house and come in when I’m not home to use the litter box.  Too much scooping for two cats is what I am saying.

At Target, I found an open register with just one customer in line.  The cashier told the customer her total was $209.03.  The customer handed the cashier eleven 20-dollar bills and said she had the three cents.  As the customer fished around for the pennies, the cashier counted the bills.  Slowly.  With great confusion.  She did this two more times.  Yup.  The cashier couldn’t count money.  She could not easily count off 20, 40, 60, 80 ….  Finally, she entered an amount in the register and miraculously gave the customer the correct change.

I was appalled, to say the least.  I was tempted to inform the manager about their currency-challenged cashier, but I figured if they want to hire idiots, it’s their loss.  Besides, I’m sure they wouldn’t care.

The thing I don’t get is, with unemployment rates so high, how are people like this getting hired?  Were there no better applicants?  Scary.

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