Funny that her sister ships did the run without any kerfuffle.

Also, if the US was unsettled, it'd be odd for a passenger cruise to drop people off at nowhere in particular.

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 10, 2022, 09:40:37 AMAlso, if the US was unsettled, it'd be odd for a passenger cruise to drop people off at nowhere in particular.

The Mayflower was a puritan plot.

I just see a lot of shades of green and blue.

My daltonism makes dan sure that map is useless to me :p

My color blindness (red/green) allows me to see two colors--blue and I see the rest as all brown. 

Quote from: Mike Cl on April 12, 2022, 08:47:53 AMMy color blindness (red/green) allows me to see two colors--blue and I see the rest as all brown. 

It's not just you. They only used two colors: purple and red. There are multiple shades of red, but they're all too close to each other to be useful.

The scale is a joke, too. <1M is no military?

I feel like 2/3 of the internet forgets that division/multiplication ALWAYS* takes precedence over addition/subtraction.  9 minus 9.  You can do it in your head.

* (anything in parenthesis gets top priority, of course)

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 12, 2022, 09:03:11 PMI feel like 2/3 of the internet forgets that division/multiplication ALWAYS* takes precedence over addition/subtraction.  9 minus 9.  You can do it in your head.

* (anything in parenthesis gets top priority, of course)

At the garden center my bill was $5.23. I gave him a ten-dollar bill, 2 dimes and 3 pennies because I don't want the coin. He just stared at me for three minutes until I explained he owes me a fiver. "Uh, Uh Oh, OK". You work a register dude!

Quote from: Cassia on April 12, 2022, 09:38:45 PMAt the garden center my bill was $5.23. I gave him a ten-dollar bill, 2 dimes and 3 pennies because I don't want the coin. He just stared at me for three minutes until I explained he owes me a fiver. "Uh, Uh Oh, OK". You work a register dude!

I've been on both sides of that transaction.  Sometimes, we have long days with a lot of crap on very little sleep and some elementary errors happen.  Other times, the hiring manager forgot to make sure the new hire isn't a complete dumb.  I had one person who worked register who literally could not handle money at all.  I'm pretty sure that person has never handled cash money in their entire life.  I mean, maybe in like 20 years or so we'll go almost entirely cashless (iBux from Applezon), but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Half-serious] Imo, all cashiers should be avid RTS gamers in their spare time.  That should sort out any math deficiencies real quick.

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 12, 2022, 09:47:47 PMI've been on both sides of that transaction.  Sometimes, we have long days with a lot of crap on very little sleep and some elementary errors happen.  Other times, the hiring manager forgot to make sure the new hire isn't a complete dumb.  I had one person who worked register who literally could not handle money at all.  I'm pretty sure that person has never handled cash money in their entire life.  I mean, maybe in like 20 years or so we'll go almost entirely cashless (iBux from Applezon), but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Half-serious] Imo, all cashiers should be avid RTS gamers in their spare time.  That should sort out any math deficiencies real quick.

Yeah, I have worked a register. The standard approach in the '70s was "$price out of $given" and so you would count up from $5.25 to $10.25 and of course you leave the given cash laying horizontal on top of the drawer until the buyer is happy with their change and leaves. This helps with the "I think I gave you a 20" bullshit. "No you didn't, here is what you gave me right here".

Quote from: Cassia on April 12, 2022, 10:22:57 PMYeah, I have worked a register. The standard approach in the '70s was "$price out of $given" and so you would count up from $5.25 to $10.25 and of course you leave the given cash laying horizontal on top of the drawer until the buyer is happy with their change and leaves. This helps with the "I think I gave you a 20" bullshit. "No you didn't, here is what you gave me right here".

One of the first lessons the owner gave new employees was to do the $100 flim-flam where the customer wanted to start working the change angle. He told the kids (I was 27 when I started there, but I was a mechanic, working my way through uni towards a physics degree) to just shut the cash drawer when they started doing that, and tell them that they had their correct change. Our biggest losses came from guys simply pinching money from the till, in increments of $10. Once it started, the owner would have a memo everyone had to read and sign about not stealing money. Of course, typically an employee was planning on leaving anyway, and when they did leave, the "shortages" stopped.