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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Erindub 0
And so what??? You think you're better than a guy who works at Mc Donalds??? Guess you were wrong huh?!
epccsplayer 0
Sounds like YDI, idiot. Being in "AP Calculus" doesn't mean much anymore these days, obviously.
trojan124 0
haha, you think you're good at math because you're taking AP Calculus? What a joke. YDI for being a psuedo-intellectual and pretentious asshole
FrozenSoliid 0
YDI prick, a position at any job does NOT necessarily correlate to their intelligence. perhaps you should fill out an application though? seems you might learn a thing or two.
shortyme32 0
I've worked at McDonald's for 4 years. All through high school and now into college. Over these four years I have discovered that the customers are often dumber than the employees. In fact, my store manager has a business degree from a school that is considered second only to U-W Madison in the mid-west and she makes damn good money. I guarantee if you worked at McDonald's you would gain 10 times the intelligence and life experience than you would in your little AP Calc class. You would learn things that really matter in the real world. P.S. We make fun of customers like you when you leave.
Darling_Cherry 5
LoL. Kudos, to you, Shorty.
muichini 0
some people at mcd's are really smart, my one friend just graduated from med school and no one will hire him as a doctor... he's a sub was sandwich artiest now. my other friend went as high as he could go in math and got a degree for being a physicist or something like that. and he actually works in mcds. no one will hire him.
iloveericmaynor 0
everyone makes mistakes doing stupid things... this isnt an f your life. it just should be a realization to you that youre self conscious about stupid little things. suck it up.
hawkeyefan26 0
haha dont worry about it... i scored a 5 on the AP Calc test when i was 16 and i'm getting my chemical engineering degree right now, and i failed the required math test to waitress at Outback Steakhouse.
tricia89 0
YDI for thinking you are better than a McDonalds employee just because you are taking an "advanced" math class. I work at McDonalds, and most of my coworkers are college students like me who probably have taken more advanced math classes than you at uni, so shut up.
xx_irish_rose_xx 0
So? Counting out change wrong isn't a big deal, and you shouldn't think you're better than someone working at McDonalds.