Posted on 02/04/2020 10:43:50 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Bronx bodega worker has gone viral on TikTok for testing his customers’ math skills.
If the customer gets the math problem correct, they have five seconds to grab whatever they want and they can keep it free of charge. In one video, a customer goes for the bodega cat.
“Not my cat,” Ahmed Alwan said to the customer. So, the customer goes for a hookah and a whole rack of snacks instead.
Alwan told News 12 that he wants to show everyone that education is key. He hopes that when kids see the videos on TikTok that it will inspire them to stay in school and do good for their communities.
Alwan’s father has owned the bodega on the corner of Southern Boulevard and Freeman Street for more than 10 years and Alwan works behind the counter when he can. He knows all his customers by name and he said he does whatever he can to help from behind the counter.
“I said, ‘let me entertain people and help people at the same time,’ because I see a lot of homeless people in the streets and the train,” Alwan said.
Alwan’s friends say that he is a good-hearted person who takes care of others. When News 12 asked Alwan if his father is OK with him giving away free merchandise, Alwan said that it all comes out of his paycheck.
As an engineer with multiple degrees , who works as an electrician , I have a standard question that I ask all licensed electricians
if they can’t answer it they really have no business being an electrician
but amazing way to out of three cannot answer the question
Question: what does 277/480Y mean ?
it all comes out of his paycheck... but who is doing the math?
That shouldn't be very much longer!
“Question: what does 277/480Y mean ?”
That the motor I have in stock will work! ;-)
(punches bodega owner. Stops to pull his pants up and pick up his sail phone. Punches and kicks bodega owner again...)
CUSTOMER: FU-K yo maff, BITCH!
As a WAG since I don’t work with power distribution and I’m not an engineer:
1 Phase
277 volts, 3 phase?
277/480Y
___________
Epstein did not kill himself?
Your maff response is hysterically funny, but don’t report me to Maxine Waters.
Question: what does 277/480Y mean ?
Seriously? Any electrician that can’t answer that should have his certification pulled, and be sent back to first year pre-apprentice classes.
3-phase AC power in a wye configuration. 277 VAC from the neutral to any of the phases, and 480 VAC phase to phase.
And yes, if Sparky doesn't know it, it's time for him to get a job at the bodega where he belongs - presuming he can answer Ahmed's math problem, that is...
You just blew up the fax machine in the office. :)
I'm no electrician but when you write it that way it seems like you're describing the output (secondary) of an ac transformer, where the voltage is 480v across the legs of the wye and the voltage across a leg is 277v. But don't ask me to connect it up properly, it will take me all day to figure it out.
I would guess that those two out of three only work in residential electrical work and not industrial, never running into three-phase wiring, or, alternately know only how to wire three-phase and do no trouble shooting after-the-fact corrections of three-phase. They wouldn’t ever be in the position of putting a meter on a three-phase system to measure the voltages, and just know by rote the running of the wires, having learned in an apprentice program. I.e. in this situation , do this; in another, do that, all without really understanding why. I’ve run into “electricians” of that stripe. They defer to a real electrician when out of their depth.
My elder daughter’s first house was obviously wired by one of those “electricians”. . . for example, when I was remodeling her kitchen and bathrooms, I discovered that for some reason a wire came off of a light switch in the master bedroom suite’s bathroom and ran off toward the kitchen and just stopped. . . no wire nut. . . no reason I could figure out. Why would you want to switch anything in the kitchen from the master bath? There were similar wires that went nowhere in other locations. It often made no sense. . . and all appeared to be original work when the subdivision was built.
There were other obvious signs in retrospect in that house of drive-by inspections. . . In the entire development as well. Me thinks that some money changed hands from the builder to the inspector.
Voltage output?
“Question: what does 277/480Y mean ?”
Thanks! I will make sure to ask the electrician that comes to my house next time.
Not an electrician by any means, but is it something to do with commercial-based (and oddly-numbered) 277-volt/480-volt service connection?
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