At 10:31 -0500 on 08/11/2008, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re:
California's COBOL payroll system:
I must respectfully disagree. When my "server" at the Golden Arches
doesn't understand that "half a dozen" McNuggets is the same as
"Six", and she's in her early twenties, I have to cast certain
aspersions on basic education in this country. When she can't make
change because the power failed and she can't do basic arithmetic, I
have to wonder what's being taught in school.
Or when you hand her $11.25 for a $6.25 order (since you want a $5
bill back) and get told you gave her too much money and get 4 $1
bills bills back from the $10 bill and your original $1 bill is not
used (ie: You get $5 in $1 bills as change not the $5 bill you
wanted).
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