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For me it's:
- counting the till pre and post : It takes about 3-5 minutes a till. (money counters are awesome, and I setup all pricing increments to avoid anything below a quarter, which wouldn't be practical for an average gas station. But it could be done down to the nickle or dime) I don't count before and after, just after. The before till should already be done from counting the after and using for a shift the next day.
- validating voids and receipts : it's mostly fully automated via the POS. Maybe 10 mins when something odd happens but it's not common.
- checks and cashier's checks : we get almost zero of these.
- bagging and dropping cash : labeled bags and a drop safe, I don't count until at least the next day, all in one quick go. All the time is in the counting part.
- cash slippage - ours has usually been fairly close. Some times a bit over sometimes a bit under. If its a few dollars off every now and then I don't worry about it. If its consistently off, either way, it signals a problem, usually in training. But every now and then its nefarious and corrected.
So weekly time breakdown is probably:
- counting daily tills : 30-45 mins
- making the change request, deposit and going to the bank, Ill just say 1 hr as the bank is about 10 mins away. I also usually do this when already out for another reason and I usually go only once per week as cash is so low post covid. I used to go 2-3 times a week pre covid. But if we have a large cash day I will make an extra trip so we are not sitting on as much.
- misc accounting etc. : our QuickBooks auto syncs to the POS, with each day's sales recorded and the corresponding expected credit card and and undeposited cash account records created. So when the physical cash deposit is made it with auto match the record already created by the POS and I just click the match button. But other things always can happen in the chain so let's give another 10 min buffer here.
So I'm out 1.75-2ish hrs/week, which actually feels like more than I spend on it. So for quick math for each 10k sold per week at a 2.5% cc rate (ours is higher around 2.8ish). That's $250 in credit card fees. That's About $125/hr to handle the cash vs take the card. Looking up the average gas station sales of about 109k/month that is around $2,725 in fees. So even quadrupling the time I spend that would yield a savings rate of $340/hr spent handling the cash. Seems worth it.
Also alcohol labeling has a small wiggle room but .8 bring zero is incorrect. If it's labeled at 5%. The manufacturer can legally sell it at a .3% wiggle so 4.7% to 5.3%.
I think that cheaper propaganda is probably from theft in mostly places that hire minimum wage workers and treat them like slaves.
I just started to make the transfer to Linux from windows. I have limited experience after running Ubuntu on a dual boot laptop back in school a long time ago. It wasnt my daily driver at the time but class required it.
I recently downloaded fedora onto a desktop and it has been a horrid experience. It's sooo slow compared to when windows was on the same hardware. It's so bad the kids won't use the computer unless it's the last one available. I regret the switch, but want the results. I cannot seem figure out what's causing it.
Sorry Nintendo, I've owned every console to date but you lost me.. and my kids.
A: "If Sally has 3 brothers, and each brother has 2 sisters, then the total number of sisters is: 3 brothers x 2 sisters per brother = 6 sisters So, Sally has 6 sisters in total."
Closer than 9 but no better.
Granted this shouldn't be a problem for these newer EVs for a long time but I could see having to push one at some point or another in the vehicles lifetime, assuming they last as long as a standard ICE.
Loathe: [0] "to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance" Abhor: [1] "to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe"
Basically any word that means exactly the same as another word.
The SAT liked to do questions like Abhor is to Loathe like X is to Y.
[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathe [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abhor
That's the exact question asked by the above poster.. any sources?
I remember walking into the classroom to take the test and I recognized a student who ranked in the top of the class. So I sat down next to them. We didnt know each other. We were both taking the test and through "random" peripheral vision I noticed that none of our answers were lining up. So I continues on with the test. I was on the math section with which I am quite confident so I didn't even consider questioning myself and just assumed we had different tests. Then I started my English section for the second half of the exam. Now this is the only language I can speak but I am still terrible at all those words whose definitions mean to lookup another word (is there a word for that?). But again none of my answers lined up with theirs. I started to doubt myself but it's at this point I noticed all my first math questions are lining up perfectly with their second section... No way I think. They don't make multiple versions of the test? No way I think, it can't be this obvious. Then I start checking every English answer I am undoubtedly sure about with their first half and they all line up perfectly. Needless to say I took a "gamble" and if I didn't know all the stupid words in the analogy I just put what they put.
This long, verbose story later, I cheated my sat got 300 points higher than my pre-sat and it's all because they made 1 version of this terrible test.
If I would have had to take it digitally I would of probably cheated it in some other way. It's absolutely no way to determine intelligence. Simply test "taking" skills.
In Texas it is legal to spotlight wild hogs (on your own property). Even without a hunting license!
I have never read about problems with not enough power lines, its always about all other other factors related to inconsistent production. A power plant given coal or natural gas or other fixed inputs produces a set amount of power. But 1 huge unexpected wind gust and lines can blow, and someone please monitor all those pesky clouds around the solar production because we need at least 5 minutes to get the coal plant producing.
That was true of beer brewed hundreds of years ago so it would have some carbonation and its sourness would be tolerable but it is not true of any modern brewery. Unless they want exploding cans.
Even though hazies are best drank fresh they go through all the normal fermentation as any other ale. Otherwise they would be rough, estery, butter bombs from not giving the yeast time to clean themselves up. Many breweries just screw them up as it's one of the harder styles of beers to do properly.
If the hazy your drinking has yeast sediment in the bottom of the glass/can it was done wrong.
Avg miles drive per day:5 (1.5mile commute each way + some extra generous miles)
Avg cost of a new vehicle: idk I've never bought a new vehicle. My last vehicle was a used repo and purchased in 2009. Still going strong.
Fastest selling vehicle ever made: without some data point this seems like complete bs. Toyota, Ford, Honda, insert every major car company, makes more vehicles per year than Tesla could dream about.
That car isn't old enough for anything to be breaking yet. It's barely 4 years old. In a 2006 so many basic simple things break like the clip to hold down the center console, the knob on the AC control. Not to mention the suspension, fan on the blower, belts, power window on at least 1 window. And you expect that touchscreen and software to make it?
While I don't disagree with you at all because I have zero actual info on it but the rate of wind power growth is just insane. If you drive south from San Antonio to Corpus Christi it's almost impossible to not see a truck carrying a part of a wind turbine. Then the port in corpus Christi has them coming off the boats all the time.