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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Le_Pecheur 0
also, if he means the inverse of the log to be 1/log(x), that's not so simple, and none of you have even mentioned the correct answer to that derivative. He didn't say natural log, so it's not necessarily ln(x). The real answer is actually f'(x)=-1/((ln(x)^2)*x) for f(x)=1/log(x), and I had to pull maple out to do that because I'm lazy and didn't feel like actually doing the nasty little limit involved in doing that. Actually, now that I look over most of the replies on here, it's pretty clear that most of you don't know anything about math. And most people who are proficient in math (i.e. professors and math majors) will often commonly use 1/f(x) to be the inverse of f(x). Same with physics professors, engineering professors, in fact I've heard it from yale grads, harvard grads, etc...
jloveee 0
Really? Just because he works at McDonald's he's supposed to be stupid? Him working there is probably why he caught your mistake in the first place.
lecundra 0
the only thing remotely interesting is all the idiots cyber-wanking over their superiority in math over the OP; just like you don't care about him being AP calc, similarly nobody gives a hoot over you being the master of the math-universe (or so you think).
Arancaytar 0
Don't sweat it, no real mathematician can do sums in their head. What do you think a calculator is for? (Now, if you were a physicist, you'd be in trouble.)
JacobBrown 0
you made a mistake, go cry me a river fucktard.
buzby 0
dude you fail... I'm in pre calculus in highschool.., we learned that shit last year -.-
metawarr556 3
Just because you're a calculus student doesn't mean that you are immune to simple math mistakes. After all, the stuff you're learning is all based on simple math, anyway. Not an FML, especially since McDonald's employees are generally assisted by the cash registers.
sistine_chapel 2
You're an idiot trying to sound smart. The inverse of a logarithm is simply an exponential function. The derivative is easy to find once you have a simple polynomial. Did it ever cross your mind that the McDonald's worker is also an AP student, working to have a little extra money to pay for college?
nataca2 0
wtf, just because he works at mcdonalds, doesnt mean he can't count mister math genius.
Krabby_fml 0
Did lol. We learned that in maths when I was about 16.