Telephone exchange with a store employee
JHM: What’s the price on those, please?
Employee: We have three-packs for $8.99. We also have large bags individually for $2.
JHM: Individually they’re $2?
E: Yeah, but they’re larger.
JHM: Then it … kinda sounds like the individual bags are a better deal, yeah?
E: [nervous laugh] I didn’t want to say that.
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February 24th, 2010 at 14h26
Did you see this dude who cannot get Verizon to understand why .002 cents is not the same as .002 dollars? Amazing. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
February 24th, 2010 at 14h56
Un-fucking-believable. While many would decry this as a failure of math education in this country, I think the bugbear is actually the relativism-postmodernism syndrome of making everything a “matter of opinion”. “Matter of opinion” is a lazy, stupid person’s way of avoiding learning something, and is a form of intellectual vandalism. “Well, that’s what I believe” — it absolves one of effort and implies that I have to respect it.
I’ve heard people state “I don’t believe in science.”. It’s. Not. Fucking. Optional. Mathematical truth is not optional. The observations of evolutionary development are not optional. The fact of Biblical errancy is not optional. I don’t care how any of it “makes you feel”. Go watch a rom-com for that shit. Gah.
Reminds me of this — just worse.
February 24th, 2010 at 23h21
Josh, for all of us that just found that recording of the VerizonMath you should put it on your home page. That is unbelievable. I listened to the whole recording and he was a lot more patient than I would have been.
I’m a Verizon customer and I’m tempted to call and ask what the rate is for Canada. Does anyone know if they’ve fixed it? (I have no confidence in teaching the tech support people…just are they quoting the correct charge?)