Unbelievable. So, if inflation goes from 10% per annum to 8% per annum, prices are DECREASING?
Staggering stupidity on display...but she IS a Congresscritter and she IS a Democrat.
I just stopped at the supermarket deli to get some sliced ham for sandwiches. They young man asked “How much do you want?” I replied “eight ounces.” He said “We don’t sell it by the ounce, only by the pound.”
“Here we go again,” I thought to myself. I asked him “What fraction of a pound is eight ounces?”
“I dunno.”
I asked him “OK, how many ounces in a pound?”
He said “I dunno. Maybe I learned it in school, but I forgot. I never needed it in real life in school.”
I guess he doesn’t think working the deli counter is “real life.” I gave up, shook my head, and said “Give me a half pound.”
My wife said “Maybe they hire kids with learning disabilities.” At least he got himself dressed today.
He’s got a great future in Congress.
At least he’s working. You seem a bit entitled bashing a minimum wage worker. Is your name Karen? You seem mighty full of yourself.
These kids don’t understand decimals. Many of them, even if they are college graduates, they don’t understand decimals. If you ask them which is smaller, 0.1 or 0.09 they can’t tell you.
The kid should have known, I agree. But what kind of scale did the cutter use to weigh the ham? Condidering the exchange was in a supermarket, was it an electronic one? Did it display in ounces? Or tenths and hundreths of a pound?
Anymore, I’m used to seeing cutters and counter staff using electronic scales that display decimals to two places.