Been going on for years. If your bill is $9.51 give them $10.01 and they go deer in the headlights.
Used to happen to me all the time. I would slip in the penny with the $10. They would push it back. Run the machine.. and hand me a pile of change. Siiigh.
20+ years ago a friend had a standard question for teenagers who would come into his watersports company looking for work.
“What is 17 plus 11?” If they couldn’t tell him, they were sent away. Most would ask for a “calculator”. Others would get a job, immediately announce a vacation and get fired. Others wanted summer vacations. Boss would explain that the 90 days of summer made the year for the business, required all hands on deck. A lot of them got fired over that.
The situation isn’t new, just worse. Now they don’t even bother with finding a job where they can goof off and get paid until they get fired.