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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Halloween
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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Shinespike 9
Big Deal. I've got a BA in Mathematics and Secondary ED. and I still get change wrong sometimes lol.
voveraite 7
Ahahaha, calculus is to math like an ant to an elephant. "currently learning"? my friend, you should be able to "learn" this in five minutes, or even better, UNDERSTAND the logic behind differentiation and integration, and you won't have to make learning a single derivative a stand-alone process. It's ridiculous! This is not a FML, but I'll click YDI, because you think your math. education is worth mentioning.
1m_b0r3d 0
lol i think you would fail IB math higher level lol.....try finding integral of an equation that is practically an entire line of your page filled with trig (cos, tan, sin, cotan, cosine, csc), logs, lns, and e. lol have fun Thats a high school thing btw anyway everyone messes up change. Even people who probably have a Phd in math :P
talaina 2
Oh, it definitely is worth it, and I milked my AP credits for all they were worth. I'm just saying, not caring about AP classes doesn't necessarily mean you don't care about college, or about how to pay for it.
ico2 2
mathematicians often can't do mental maths.
RustyGuns 0
Stop judging those greasy bastards, studies have shown there is brain activity in the workers there. They should be given the same rights as real people
GreenDaemon21 0
CMON PEOPLE. Obviously OP is one smart person if he is taking AP calc! dont you all know that everyone who "took AP calculus and learned how to take the derivative of inverse logs", they are gonna be CEO's of major companies by age 25? and everyone of them lost their virginity before age 14 and made their first million right in college?
somefacts 0
How is this an FML? You miscounted some change. Plus you used superfluous language with that inverse logarithm which is simply an exponential. Plus AP Calc 1 is easy, so are taking those derivatives. The biggest FML in this story is the fact that you think you are good at math because of this as implied by your FML, when atm your nothing more than a glorified bean counter, and apparently a bad one at that.
ravar5 0
hey they always say that in the higher levels of math you lose the ability to do simple arithmetic
lizblade 0
Isn't the inverse of log an exponential? Dude that aint high level math... It's really simple so its more of an FML if you're STILL working on that AND couldn't get the change right...
honeyishrnkdakid 2
YDI. Why do you assume that just because someone is working at McDonald's they're less intelligent than you. Maybe the employee also took AP calc. Maybe they're in college. You're a pompous ass for assuming that. The summer after my first year at Brown University I worked at McDonald's. I'm now in graduate school at Harvard. It's what you get for making assumptions.