“A double McSpanky with fries and a Flurp, that’ll be $6.53. And $3.47 is your change” I hear Jimmy Neutron say. I never saw that little fuck press the buttons with food on them, so I had to go speak to him. “Dude, you’re supposed to press the buttons with the pictures of food on ‘em”. I say. “Don’t need to Skeet, I memorized the prices and did the tax and change in my head” he replies. Ever since he fucking started at this job, he insists on trying to make things harder on them. Just last week, he had the fucking nerve to call salt “Sodium Chloride”. No, you fuckwad, just call it salt. No one gives a shit how you know the basic chemical name of fucking salt. Not to mention that it’s not even 100% sodium chloride, it’s 98% sodium chloride with 2% trace elements. But he just insists on calling it sodium chloride. This was my moment to ruin this fucking nerd. “Dude, you do know that the pictures there aren’t just for prices, right? They are logged and from there, the managers can get a rough estimate on how much food has been used and they can subtract the amount used by their stock so they know how much to order so we don’t run out of food for later days. It’s not just about prices. And what if you do make a mistake? Even a few cents missing from your drawer will result in potentially a write up, and doing it on numerous shifts can result in you getting fired, especially if you’re missing a good amount of money, like in the dollar amounts. And sometimes the store provides deals or the manager changes the price without telling the team members, and if you don’t check the prices constantly, you might be undercharging or overcharging customers. If you’re inaccurate by 30 cents on just one meal, and that meal is ordered many times, you’re going to get fired after just one day of working. You can’t just rely on your brain, man. Just press the buttons, it makes life easier for everyone. And if we ever add a new meal, you’re going to have to press the button to see the price, anyway, so why not just use it now instead of having to do the tax on $6.36 in your head everyday. And what if the city changes their sales tax amount? Then what? You have to memorize like 20 prices while also forgetting the previous amounts? C’mon man, just hit the buttons. You don’t need to constantly act smart and do math in your head when a calculator is right there that literally calculates everything immediately for you. God, I’m so angry with you. There’s literally no reason to do the cost in your head. Also, the buttons are the only way to get the name of the meal onto the receipt so that it can be sent to the back. If not, you’d have to tell the back of house staff constantly what the person ordered, which can confuse them and makes it even harder for them to work. And the receipt would literally just say the charge of an item. It wouldn’t tell you what meal was ordered- if a customer ever had a complaint, or they didn’t get their food, how would a manager ever help them get their proper food when all they see on a receipt is “CHARGE- $6.53”. Just hit the damn buttons with the pictures of the food on them, or I will report you to a manager and get you fired.