Miscellaneous: Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting...

By Links - 20/11/2009 07:26 - United States

Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/01/2011 11:07 - United States

Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML

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By Meow - 11/07/2009 06:28 - Australia

Today, while working at McDonald's a car full of obnoxious teens came through. They had made a $30 order, and handed me a tin of small change, claiming that on a McDonald's ad they saw that we, employees, liked counting change. I had to count out $30 in spare change during a rush period at work. FML

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By NoOrdinaryNZer - 30/10/2016 11:09 - New Zealand - Christchurch

Today, an old man, while I was working, asked me to spell average-length words. Confused, I refused. Turns out I was apparently taking too long counting the large amount of small change he'd given to me, and he assumed I couldn't count or spell. I study law, and I've learned basic calculus. Welcome to retail. FML

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Maths is hard

By Anonymous - 01/04/2014 17:07 - Canada - Cranbrook

Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/06/2009 23:13 - United States

Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML

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By Jesse - 22/06/2009 16:18 - United States

Today, McDonalds charged me 21 cents for a honey mustard packet. The jerk manager made me break a $50 bill. So I grabbed all their napkins, carried them into the parking lot and tossed them all into the air in protest and drove off. Down the road, I realized I left my wallet at the counter. FML

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By stupidapperently - 01/02/2013 04:06 - United States

Today, while checking out a couple at work, I handed them their receipt and wished them a good day. The woman promptly pulled her husband to the side, and whispered to him about how much of a "fucking idiot" I was for making the prices so high. I work at McDonald's. FML

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By korbo7 - 17/05/2016 03:26 - United States - Grand Island

Today, I saw a man help an elderly lady with her tray at the local McDonald's. I wanted to do something nice for him, so I added a couple extra nuggets in his meal. He later came up to me and told me I was dumb and didn't know how to count, and that was why I was working at McDonald's. FML

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By anonymous - 21/11/2012 18:16 - United States - Tucson

Today, I have a final for my precalculus class. After hours of studying this week, I felt pretty optimistic. Until I got to class and realized that I'd forgotten my calculator. FML

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By Ihadnoidea - 12/12/2015 19:41 - Canada - Ottawa

Today, while working at a gas station, I accidentally changed the price of gas to 8.9 cents per litre. It took me fifteen minutes to figure out why everyone wanted only two or three dollars of gas. I fixed it, but now my managers are debating charging me for lost revenue. FML

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e11ie 0

Friday 20 November 2009 12:25

No big deal. Simple mistake. I have a PhD in English and misstype/spell words weekly. That doesn't mean I'm any less intelligent.

popatia 0

Friday 20 November 2009 12:44

Who the **** you think you are that someone from mcdonalds can't be smart? A lot of people work at chain restarunts to pay for school, medical bills, etc.

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eyeballs0_0 0

Friday 20 November 2009 14:15

OBVIOUSLY this asshole is too stupid to understand logarithms therefore they can't understand how to do simple math!!!! it's soo simple people!

omgwtfun 0

Friday 20 November 2009 14:24

you soooooo fail!

perdix 29

Friday 20 November 2009 14:15

You're studying mathematics, but it's your arithmetic that sucks. More accurately, it's your arithmetic with money that less than that of a minimum-wage food worker. The good news is that with you skill in the abstract, but ignorance of common sense, you won't be getting paid too much money, so your errors can only be small. ;)

StreetSinger 4

Friday 20 November 2009 14:16

Psh, I'm a junior physics major in college, and I suck at basic math. Get used to it, the fundamentals will slowly slip away as you use calculators more and more.

athame1983 0

Friday 20 November 2009 14:33

how is this a fml.....i dont get it what, u think that bc ur taking a calculus class u are like the god of math, above making an error?

xavel_fml 0

Friday 20 November 2009 14:34

just cause some1 works at mcdonalds doesnt mean that they are not smart!

NavjitG 0

Friday 20 November 2009 14:35

You learn to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm in grade 12. YDI OP for being such a dumb ass in three ways - counting the change, assuming the McD's employee is a retard, and thinking the derivative is hard.

babelini 12

Friday 20 November 2009 14:37

news flash for u. my neighbour works part time at mcdonalds and she has a masters degree in actuarial science and mathematics. don't think that because they work there they're not smart!

aero_fml 0

Friday 20 November 2009 15:09

YDI for attempting to use complex sounding words to make yourself sound smart

TheKingDon 2

Friday 20 November 2009 15:13

Oh mister big high school math whiz! Look out for this guy, folks! He might be the next Einstein!

asafetybuzz 0

Friday 20 November 2009 15:15

sometimes when we take higher levels of math, we forget basic math. i took calc my senior year of high school, and now i'm in math 111 (which is math content for teachers...which is basic math) and i had trouble with long division at first. it's because we don't practice basic math often when we have calculators. :)