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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jaeilssanguh 0
AP Calculus. WOW. You must be a genius. Because no one totally takes/has taken it.
MagicMeds 0
But just saying he's in an AP class in America means nothing, what with our crappy school system.
Reddex 0
The inverse of logarithms is easy. It's either got e^x, which is just d/dx e^x = e^x, or a^x, which is just d(a^x)/dx = ln a a^x. People suck at math on the internet. : /
brakakakaka 0
Wrong. It's a^x/ln a. :
theblazian 0
IZ IS AN HIGH SKOOLER IN ZHE AP CALUSKUS! I IZ A GENUS! ME GO TO MICK DOUGHNUTS AND LOWLY CASHER CORECT ME MATH! BUT IZ IS GENUS! ME NO MAEK MISTEAKS! IZ IMPOSIBLE! That aside the kid deserves it only because he is an arrogant prick who probably (this is an assumption) never had to get a part time job or do actual work during his time in high school. If he had he would have realized that *gasp* people who work minimum wage jobs go to high school too! Shocker! But not only that... some of them may even have go, have gone, or completed and moved on from college! Gasp so-shocking-I-just-had-a-heart attack. That said whoopdeefreaking do you are in AP Calc. Give me a call when you start doing Discrete Math, Differential equations, or some serious programming and not memorizing pretty much a simplistic formula. Actually even if you did do that I would still have to ask you to stop being a snob, a douche, and/or completely naive to the world around you.
Electrus 0
Why is it that as soon as people join AP Calculus, they assume they automatically know all there is to know about math?
radjas03 0
YDI - I worked at McDonalds for 9 years and have my college degree in Architecture. I worked there through high school, college and while working my full-time job. So just cause someone works at McDonalds doesn't mean they're dumb.
greengrass12 0
just because someone works in fast food it doesn't make em stupid!!!
PhillyFox 0
Everyone makes mistakes. Do you think you're above making mistakes just because you're taking calc?
andyroxs 2
dude you DO realize that in order to finish high school, most likely he'd have taken calculus, regardless of whether or not he works at McDonalds. Plus its probably just a day job, for all you know he could be a poor ivy league student.
TheKingDon 2
I don't know where the hell you go to school, but the highest math any state that I know of requires is basic pre-cal/trig.
nesquikr0x 0
I worked at McDonald's and I've completed the standard Calculus progression (1,2,3,4) and I am now taking advanced math topics. :/