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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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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.
cals 0
exactly. not only that, but i'm not the greatest at math, but counting change is rather basic.
englandtilidie 0
so does that mean coz they work at macdonalds they cant add up! What a joke and a snobbish thing to say!
lankykid 0
everyone who does advanced maths fails at the simple stuff when i did a-level maths i forgot how to do some of the simple stuff, but i was never that great anyway and more importantly, the McDonald's employee had a machine telling them the answer
aimhighiflots 0
I work at McDonald's and I am a 5th year senior in college. one of my coworkers is an engineering major taking Engineering Calculus 3 and when I look at him catching up on homework for it when we are slow, it looks nothing like the math I know (Agriculture major with a Business minor here), so, don't feel like that is a FML moment.
OLOtheDemigodess 0
haha I just did an exam that included finding derivatives of inverses of logarithms :D it's actually pretty easy >.> but lol that's not FML - you stuffed up. So does everybody once in a while. Deal with it XD
kevind23 0
Little bit too much information, since derivatives are pretty easy, and don't have much to do with basic arithmetic.
hackwack123 0
dont be so snobby about mcdonalds employees, maybe theyre studying maths too just in maccy dees to make their way
xSceneSceneBabyx 0
everyone makes mistakes. I make that mistake too. but in also in 8 grade. regular math, not algebra. but hey, my math teacher makes mistakes too! don't feel too bad. at least you didn't get cut from a lollipop. break a lollipop, it bites you as its last will and testament.
4ube_fml 6
Mc Donalds employees are most of the time students trying to earn some money. But the deriverate of an invest logarithm... I kind of learned that in highschool. So no big deal, it's not rocket science. I am not voting on this one because abstract calcul and advanced calcul is not the same as simple calcul (i have trouble adding pourcentages to get it to 100%.. i might say that 77% and 33% make 100, which is false).
popatia 0
pourcentage? is that like pourspelling?
SFMember 0
That would be poor-spelling. Unless you're pouring letters from a bowl/cup/etc.
8trickster8 0
mmmm alphabet soup
popatia 0
Clearly you missed the joke :P
mattg_fml 0
Troll'd!
fudrick 0
I love when ******* idiots like #40 fail to see obvious jokes and try to correct them.
popatia 0
I think I love you :D
Vitamin_C 0
All this proves is that right now, for you, knowing how to calculate the derivative of *anything* has no bearing at all on what a douche you are. I take that back - it seems to have expedited the process..