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If you wish to be a bit antisocial in the morning before you have had your coffee and just hand the money to the coffee shop clerk, make sure they are not blind. Especially before saying, "My money is right in front of you, what are you, blind?". The shame will never allow you back in that shop.
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Perhaps it would be good to go and make it a point to apologize honestly and profusely. Many people don’t own up to when they have made a mistake, or when they were a jerk. When I have admitted to my mistakes people have usually been quite receptive and are happy that I ‘manned up’ to it. Try it, it’s the right thing to do. You will probably e remembered as a good guy, and your relationship with the staff will be even better. Andif not, you still did the right thing.
I agree–OP should cowboy up and apologize to the clerk. I might not go so far as “profuse,” or the person might be embarrassed, but something like, “The other morning, I made a crack about you being blind, and I didn’t realize you actually were. It was inappropriate in any case, and I’m sorry.” And then tip well.
That, or he could just start using a funny voice whenever he goes to that coffee shop and the clerk wont recognise him.
I’m just wondering how the clerk would know they are being handed the sum they are being told. Unless this is in a country where different denominations of currency have physically different sizes.
How many countries have that?
I don’t think there are many. I mean, coins obviously, but a ten-dollar bill is exactly the same as a twenty, isn’t it?
UK notes are all different sizes.
As are all the coins
e.g. all the Euro countries. bills and coins are different sizes AND marked for blind people. coins have different edges and on bills you can fell the imprinted values
That’s a really good idea. People here (U.S.) think we’re the best country in the world. How have we not come up with this?
The same goes for Canada. The coins are different sizes, but the bills aren’t. Instead, the bills have braille on them. Not that it’s applicable to this scenario specifically, but some blind people have seeing eye dogs that are trained to be able to give correct money to cashiers; they recognize the different bills and what’s needed. Dogs like that are amazing =D.
ive been to a few places with blind cashiers, usually you just tell them the bills you are handing over (you have to be a pretty miserable person to lie to a blind person trying to earn an honest day’s pay instead of just collecting on disablility)
Remember a blind person has their other senses enhanced, they can tell by touch.
I had the same experience: to a kitchen-hand, for not returning stuff to the right places according to their labels. “Can’t you READ?!?” Um, no, he couldn’t.
How’s this the OP’s fail? Whoever hired the clerk shouldn’t have put a blind guy on the till. That’s just stupid!
You might as well give ppl the Amish computer virus.
You know, the one that works on the honor system?
Yes, in fact blind (and all handicapped) people should be forced to live at home all day instead of being allowed to contribute to society or interact with us “normals”. In fact, i propose that we put them in cages, that way we can study them to learn more about them!
Yeah, one of the coffee shop guys at my dad’s work is blind. As long as people are not assholes–i.e., tell them accurately what bills you’re giving them, as another commenter said–it can work just fine.
In their own personal wallets, blind people often fold each denomination of bill differently, so they can pick the correct one to pay for things.
They can have jobs, just ones that are appropriate for their skills. Like testing light bulbs. If it gets hot, put it in the box. Probably going to need some ointment after a long day.
Simple. Put them in a job that doesn’t need someone to see what they’re doing in order to facilitate loss prevention.
Wow someone’s a raging douche. The guy didn’t reach out to take his money and he said something stupid. Yeah, that’s his own fail. That’s not the blind guy’s fail. It would be hilarious if you became disabled and then couldn’t find a job because of it. Most countries have money with braille on the paper money to distinguish the difference. I see nothing wrong with a blind person doing cashier duties if they’ve been trained properly, and I don’t think them not reaching out just right to take the money is worthy of them losing their job.
I’m pretty sure this is also why you never say things like “Are you blind?” or “Can’t you read?” to people. It’s not the kindest way to go through life and it reeks of someone who hasn’t grown past the 7th grade.
So true. You should always be respectful at least in some capacity.
I was actually thinking earlier of something that happened at a Bible study at church once. A lady said something referring to something on the handout and another lady said, “How did you see that?” The first said, “With my two eyes.” The other lady only had one eye. The first one felt really bad about it and didn’t mean anything by it but even comments like that can have an effect on people.
I agree. I always find these fails annoying, because they’re easily avoided by not being an ass whenever you get annoyed. I’m glad someone else said this =).
And on a side note, didn’t these people’s mothers teach them “if you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all”?
I’m pretty sure the fail was being rude and nasty.
This is fake, for a blind person to work as a cashier they’d need an electronic counter with brail which would be far to expensive for any coffee shop to afford just to accomodate one employee… And over all hiring a blind person to work around hot liquids and metal is just an irresponisble and dangerous thing to do. People need to stop posting lame and obviously fake fails….its a fail their life is so uninteresting that they cant write up a real fail.
This. A thousand times, this.
People with vision loss can certainly be contributing members of society, but someone with so little visual acuity as to be unable to properly tender transactions without assistance is not suited to be working in such an environment. Particularly with scalds, burns and cuts are a factor.
I think the fail here is that you just CHOSE to be a bitch for the hell of it.
“I think I’ll just be mean to people because I havent had my coffee yet. I’m such a smart loveable person!”
My father used to know a woman who taught at a school for the deaf. Some of them could speak without the use of sign language, but sometimes spoke very, very loudly without being aware of it.
On a particularly stressful day, one of her students unknowingly began shouting at her. She responded by very forcefully signing back in ASL:
I-AM-NOT-DEAF!!!
I’ve had people try and speak to me loudly and slowly, and do hand actions. I always get frustrated when they do so.
Hey, my city has a group which assists blind and legally blind people in owning businesses. A barista at the courthouse is blind, at least legally. Most blind people can see up to a certain degree – it varies in different people, Yes, some blind people can’t see at all. But I guess that is rare. The barista I know does a fine job. She just takes her time to make sure she does it correctly. People with disabilities are good at adapting to perform jobs that “abled” people do easily, and this can be an asset in the workplace.