Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[GrogNerd]

Did the customer reply: What's maths hot to do with it?

foundational system of mathematics called Set Theory

she's looking for the intersection of two groups

A = Active Status
B = Live in Missouri.

she wants people who are A AND B, she was using a filter that was A OR B

Kiwi schools not teach this stuff?

here's something that might blow your mind: when you count money, you're using ALGEBRA

 

[Pyg]

I wished I had paid more attention in highschool, I ended up graduating highschool and coasting through college with a 10th grade math educations.
Now I spend all day making formulas for spreadsheets. I figure it all out and I get through the day, I just wish I had learned it the first time.


I have an office mate, who declares any project I undertake to be pointless and a waste of time. I guess reading CNN is far better use of our time than trying to determine our customer base statewide?

 

[n240sxguy]

I work at a chemical plant. Basically everything is more flammable than gas. On top of the hydrogen and acetylene reactions that are run. Anywho, had a guy decide that walking outside the fence to smoke was really far. So he decided that the roof would be the place to smoke. The roof where all the relief devices that would vent hot flammable explosive gases. They installed some camera's and he was promptly fired.

Never understood the venting to the roof approach. A company within my company's complex uses benzene and used to have fires on the roof all the time. Good thing nobody was there smoking.

 

[TheCADJockey]

When the engineers get yelled at by the chief engineer so bad that they get angry and come to me, violently requesting drawings or changes to drawings that they originally messed up. It is like they are trying to take it out on me, but there is nothing to take out on me. They just kind of ask, in an extremely angry tone.

I get a lot of laughs on the inside, then just slip it to the bottom of the pile.

 

[Ridire]

foundational system of mathematics called Set Theory

she's looking for the intersection of two groups

A = Active Status
B = Live in Missouri.

she wants people who are A AND B, she was using a filter that was A OR B

Kiwi schools not teach this stuff?

here's something that might blow your mind: when you count money, you're using ALGEBRA

I hate when people say, in a snarky way, "hell, how often do you use the math you learned in school?"

My answer is, "between 50-100 times a day, depending on what I'm doing".

 

[TheCADJockey]

I hate when people say, in a snarky way, "hell, how often do you use the math you learned in school?"

My answer is, "between 50-100 times a day, depending on what I'm doing".

Damn. Isn't that like 75%?

 

[GrogNerd]

damn. Isn't that like 75%?

150 proof!

 

[Oberon67]

We learned "the math we learned in school" so that a few of us could go on to be pros in science and technology fields. If we hadn't learned it, none of us would have been eligible to go into those fields.

In other words, all that crazy math gave us options.

 

[Kee]

there was a roustabout (green hand) in NE Wyoming thought the work truck would be a safe place to smoke on location. there was just enough methane in the cab to create an explosive atmosphere. I believe he lived, but I can't recall.

Luckily I've never been injured touching off methane with cutting/welding slag but created some excitement from time to time before all of those safety rules were implemented.

 

[mattd2]

foundational system of mathematics called Set Theory

she's looking for the intersection of two groups

A = Active Status
B = Live in Missouri.

she wants people who are A AND B, she was using a filter that was A OR B

Kiwi schools not teach this stuff?

here's something that might blow your mind: when you count money, you're using ALGEBRA

Did they teach reading comprehension in U.S. schools? (don't retaliate with my poor spelling in the original post) - smiley face to show I'm joking
I was just meaning to a lot of people maths = numbers, and that is frustrating (as you pointed out)!

We learned "the math we learned in school" so that a few of us could go on to be pros in science and technology fields. If we hadn't learned it, none of us would have been eligible to go into those fields.

In other words, all that crazy math gave us options.

We also were taught it so we can all be functioning members of society and do stuff like pay our bills, keep score in a game, tell the time and organise things

 

[Oberon67]

We also were taught it so we can all be functioning members of society and do stuff like pay our bills, keep score in a game, tell the time and organise things

Oh, right. But that's generally not the maths that I hear people complain about. Usually it's about trigonometry, or why did I have to memorize the quadratic formula, or boy I wish I'd never wasted my time learning proofs.

People don't seem to realize that learning is itself a skill that is honed over time, and which is essential to one's quality of life.

 

[Kee]

Oh, right. But that's generally not the maths that I hear people complain about. Usually it's about trigonometry, or why did I have to memorize the quadratic formula, or boy I wish I'd never wasted my time learning proofs.

People don't seem to realize that learning is itself a skill that is honed over time, and which is essential to one's quality of life.

Our schools could do a better job at demonstrating the usefulness of math and other subjects, and making them more interesting. But that's a whole 'nother topic.

 

[Oberon67]

Our schools could do a better job at demonstrating the usefulness of math and other subjects, and making them more interesting. But that's a whole 'nother topic.

Just as I brew at home, we also do school at home, for this and several other good reasons.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

We're short staffed and the hiring process is slow as hell. Per diem and full time pick up extra hours, then either don't show up, or complain that they did. You can just say no, right?
I pick up extra hours to help out, then have the big boss expect me to stay even later than my kids' after school program goes on the days my fiancee works too.
People won't confront each other, leading to them talking crap behind each other's back. It's NOT high school guys!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Our schools could do a better job at demonstrating the usefulness of math and other subjects, and making them more interesting. But that's a whole 'nother topic.

Just as I brew at home, we also do school at home, for this and several other good reasons.

hey! I got kicked out of public skool and I terned owt just fine!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

About the same time every morning, the outer office stinks of hairspray, $hit, cigarettes & coffee; sometimes with a bit of chemical "air freshener" thrown in...
Makes me wanna puke.
:cross:

 

[Billy-Klubb]

About the same time every morning, the outer office stinks of hairspray, $hit, cigarettes & coffee; sometimes with a bit of chemical "air freshener" thrown in...
Makes me wanna puke.
:cross:

I'm gonna market that as a perfume. I'm gonna call it "Duchess of the Diner Commode". think I could get Liz Taylor for the commercial?

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I'm gonna market that as a perfume. I'm gonna call it "Duchess of the Diner Commode". think I could get Liz Taylor for the commercial?

Might be kinda tough, since she's been dead a few years; but that might actually work to your advantage with such a scent. "Zombie office duchess de toilette."
:cross:
Regards, GF.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I'd buy it. It has got to smell better than the BS coming out of our intern's mouth right now.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Might be kinda tough, since she's been dead a few years; but that might actually work to your advantage with such a scent. "Zombie office duchess de toilette."
:cross:
Regards, GF.

plan "B". you guys remember my grandma, right?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Our schools could do a better job at demonstrating the usefulness of math and other subjects, and making them more interesting. But that's a whole 'nother topic.

I was a history major in college and had a prof who once said "somehow public school teachers take a series of stories loaded with sex, violence, intrigue and drugs and manage to bore students with them. Its almost impressive."

 

[Pyg]

I was a history major in college and had a prof who once said "somehow public school teachers take a series of stories loaded with sex, violence, intrigue and drugs and manage to bore students with them. Its almost impressive."

I was also a history major!!!
SWMBO is a teacher and I can tell you it is not the teachers who bore the kids.
most of the admins and school boards dont allow books to be taught, because they are too long & kids dont have the attention span!

 

[finsfan]

I was a history major in college and had a prof who once said "somehow public school teachers take a series of stories loaded with sex, violence, intrigue and drugs and manage to bore students with them. Its almost impressive."

Haha that is so true, pretty hilarious, but kinda sucks all at the same time.

 

[watermelon83]

foundational system of mathematics called Set Theory

she's looking for the intersection of two groups

A = Active Status
B = Live in Missouri.

she wants people who are A AND B, she was using a filter that was A OR B

Kiwi schools not teach this stuff?

here's something that might blow your mind: when you count money, you're using ALGEBRA

Reminds me of my boy. He started algebra basics last school year. Was having a hard time with concept. I asked him how much money I started with if I had bought a ten dollar item and had ten dollars in my pocket still. He thought it over a second and said twenty. Then I wrote it out x-10=10 and said okay now solve for x. The ah ha moment warmed my heart. Lol

 

[GrogNerd]

Reminds me of my boy. He started algebra basics last school year. Was having a hard time with concept. I asked him how much money I started with if I had bought a ten dollar item and had ten dollars in my pocket still. He thought it over a second and said twenty. Then I wrote it out x-10=10 and said okay now solve for x. The ah ha moment warmed my heart. Lol

AAAH! WORD PROBLEMS!

that's awesome.

 

[Zuljin]

Never mind 10, 12 and 60. The whole thing is -1.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Wait. The answer isnt 42? I thought that was the answer to everything.

 

[GrogNerd]

Wait. The answer isnt 42? I thought that was the answer to everything.

no, 42 is the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

 

[DrunkleJon]

no, 42 is the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

But if it is the answer to everything, and a math problem is a question, then the answer has to be 42, even when it isnt. Right?

 

[GrogNerd]

But if it is the answer to everything, and a math problem is a question, then the answer has to be 42, even when it isnt. Right?

it's the answer to The Ultimate Question.

a math problem is a question, but is it The Ultimate Question?

and not just the answer to The Ultimate Question of Everything, but also the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life AND the Universe

Set Theory strikes again!