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How sad is this?
Today I went to McDonalds. I know, I hate their food, but it makes my little Princess happy to have a Happy Meal. And what Princess wants, Princess gets.
So, I hit the Mickie-D's drive-thru (spelled wrong, so the average customer knows what it is) and place my order.
My bill comes to $6 and change. I hand the "register specialist" a $20 bill. This guy isn't making fries, or flipping burgers. At least, he isn't today. He's just taking money at the register. That's all he's doing. He stands there, confused. After about 30 seconds of waiting, I ask him what the problem is. He tells me that he doesn't have enough singles to make change. I offer him $2 more, so that I get $15 (and change) back. This only confuses him, since his display doesn't help him do math.
So, I wait while a manager comes over and makes change. He hands me my money and mumbles something I can't understand.
How sad is it that the man entrusted to take money at a restaurant can't make change without a screen to show him how much to give you, and when you offer him a different amount, he can't adjust and do the simple math necessary to perform his job.
In completely unrelated news, Gary Glitter, of Rock and Roll Part Two fame, is facing death in Vietnam for boinking 2 underage girls. If only he was a Catholic Priest, he'd get sent to Boston.
Also in today's news, Texas is suing Sony BMG for their stealth spyware that installs as a "rootkit" and enables viruses to trash your computer, completely undetectable, even to anti-virus software. Thanks, Sony. In their zeal to protect the public from illegal copies of the shitty music they pimp to the public, they've illegally invaded your computer, and made it accessible to hackers without even telling you it was adding this software to your system.
And you wonder why I like Linux so much? They're not stupid enough to allow those kind of stupid hacks in their operating system. That's why the term "Windows" and "security" should never appear in the same sentence.
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