Except when you have a 5 out, the total coes to 4.82, the guy has already punched in the 5.00 when you hand him the additional 7 cents. Love the quizzical look. At that point you could tell him that your correct change is 20 bucks and they probably wouldn't question it.

Nope. Under 15k a year.

He couldn't do the math.

the manager was counting my drawer and said I was $44.38 off so i was distracted.












But if you want I can do binary to decimal conversions in my head and give you ranges of IP addresses.

Binary....or Hexidecimal? I'm rusty (use it or lose it), but I used to be really good at mental hex stuff (LOTS of experience reading dumps, traces, etc.), but I haven't messed with strings of 1s and 0s since college (where one memorable assignment was coding a program in 'machine language').... I couldn't imagine doing binary conversions (more than a byte or two long)....I NEED hex as a crutch :)!

PS: you must be one of the 10 types of people....one who understands vs. those who don't!

I can do hex, but I'm slower. I do more network addressing and subnet masks which is binary. shudder... programming.

Yep, I'm one of the 10 people.

I gave him $255.25 in change because we're on an RFC 1918 class C

Originally posted by Rick Lee :

"Life is hard on stupid people".


I like that quote all by itself!

So we should overpay ignorant high school dropouts because some of them might have kids? The only way they are going to take responsibility for their lives is if they are not comfortable where they are at...

Every day that I am in a supplier's store I see grown men, business owners, asking for help figuring out brick, stone, wall block, etc. How pathetic! This is how you pay your bills, learn the damned trade! I'm talking square footage and volume for aggregate and simple construction math. It is fun though when the counter person knows me and aks for my help, I'm usually half the age of the other contractor, and always make it a point to use big words and quick math written in draftmans print.
-Jeremy

PS, when the wrong change thing happens to me, I just keep shaking my head until they figure it out themselves, I've gotten more in change than what I paid in the first place a couple of times, too. Fools. I am going to rule the world if things continue this way! I have been considering a hostile takeover of Ohio lately, any others from Michigan want to help?
-Jeremy

How much of the ninth eighth had she smoked at that point?

I think that's hilarious, but they must think you're a real ass. hahaha

PS What's "draftman's print"? Is it some sort of shorthand or are you just talking about the really neatly printed alphabet used in drafting? Google left me hanging.

I'm in!!!! http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/ar15.gif

Bill, we will need some kind of cool acronym to do this right, I'll start thinking...

Steve, yeah, I'm an ass, but if you want good math then you've gotta deal with it! Yes, I was reffering to neat hand writing, as opposed to the chicken scratch stuff I see from most people. I have seen other companies quotes/bids that are unreadable. My industry is hilarious.

You guys ever watch Jay Leno's Jay Walking? There are some amazingly stupid people out there.

I did construction for years before I went back to get my engineering degree. Amazing the guys that can't figure the square footage of a square room.:rolleyes:

What is it they say, 20 years ago American kids were near the best in the world at math, now they're not in the top 20? Scary world, hard to innovate and stay ahead when the majority of engineers and scientists are Indian, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Nobody that goes to college wants a "hard" degree, I can't count the people I know that majored in business management. Now they're working at Target for $25k a year, that education sure is paying off.

The sure sign of our decline is that we graduate more lawyers than engineers per year, while CHina and India to the inverse.

Yep. Half the people out there have below average intelligence.

The funny thing is that if half of them are at a given point, then they are average. It's just that the average is so darn low.

And, unfortunately some of them are fairly intelligent, they are just poorly educated because no one told them it was important. I put most of the blame with parents. If parents stressed education and grades more (and had control of their kids) then more kids would have better grades and better educations.

Sometimes it's the person's ability. Some people just have a brain that doesn't work as well as others, but for the most part, I think it's a vicious circle.

Uh, speaking of basic math....???