Maybe I should go back to my roots!

This might be obvious but, until now I have never spent this long without working. I have had a job since I was 14 years old. My first official job was getting drinks on the line at a sandwich board. I have come a long way from there. My second job was at a little food court joint called Taco's Etc. This is where I learned how to cashier...I was trained very well by the owner and I still remember the right way to do it even though I was only 16. That being said...cashiers are just not trained the way they used to be. When I learned, we put jingle change in the palm first, not on top of the bills (this is so annoying, often the change gets dropped and flys everywhere). I was also strictly told to count it into the hand of your guest. Yesterday I went to a local burger chain (who shall remain nameless) and not only was my change not counted back to me, it was placed on the counter not in my hand! I was shocked...Am I wrong to think that this is rude? I of course blame whoever trained this guy...but I also think that there has been several cycles of bad training of cashiers in lots of places. When did it become OK for us to be helped by terrible cashiers and not demand better service? Seriously!

I need a vacation...

Too bad, I can't take one....it is ironic that it wouldn't be hard to get the time off right now (ha ha ha) except for one thing: I don't have a job. I realize that technically it could be seen that I have been on vacation permanently for 14 months, but I really would like to go somewhere.