Insane discount SC's

[mattm04]

Math FAIL

The SC approaches me holding a item from our 50% off mark-down rack.

SC: How much is this.
M: *looks at sticker* It was $7.74 and marked down 50%, so it is $3.87.
SC: *looks at sticker* Are you sure!!??
M: Yes.
SC: *looks again at sticker, mutters* Hmmm, 7.74 half of that is....

The SC pulls out their phone and begins to type some numbers in to presumably the calculator.

SC: Ha! Half of $7.74 is not 3.87. It is $1.27! You liar!
M: Let me double check. I grab the calculator and show the SC the very simple math.
SC: Nooooooo, that wrong. The correct way to do it is to take $7.74, subtract 2, than multiply that by 6, they you get half, which is $1.27.
M: *does SC math* No, that's actually $34.44. Which is more the than the original price. You can buy it for $3.87 or not. (I wish could have charged them $34.44, by the system won't let me)
SC: Forget it! *They slam their shopping basket down on the floor and stomp off.*

A nearby customer who witnessed it remarks, "are they really that dumb all the time"

I reply, "sometimes."

But i'm Jeeeeeewishhhhhhh!!!!!
Some of the food products we sell are kosher, some are not. If they are it says in some form on the packaging. A SC brings up a item.

SC: I have a question.
M: Ok.
SC: is this Kosher? It was on the mark down rack.
M: *I look at the package and see no marking indicating it is* I don't think so. I don't see the symbol anywhere. (usually a K or some Hebrew looking symbol)
SC: Well, this one *holds up a marked down loaf of bread and points to the "K"* is.
M: Yes.
SC: Soooooo, you mark down both kosher and non-Kosher food!!??
M: Yes.
SC: But i'm Jeeeeeewishhhhhhh!!!!!
M: *huh? WTF?*
SC: So.
M: *seriously WTF? no where do we or have we advertised we only sell Kosher food*
SC: I guess what i'm saying is, you should also mark down Kosher food. It is not fair to Jewish people.
M: We do. You just showed ma a loaf of marked down bread that was Kosher.
SC: ....
M: ....
SC: It's still not fair to Jewishhhh people!

The SC stomps off, leaving me holding the marked down non-kosher item.

[MoonCat]

Ow.

My brain pretzeled trying to figure out how the first one came up with her math. Subtract 2? MULTIPLY? Wha....??

And the second one...her kosher product was marked down, I don't know what else she wanted.

[bainsidhe]

I wonder how the first lady figures out her gas mileage. Either she's getting like 100 miles to the gallon, or she's filling her car daily.

[jjc927]

Who seriously doesn't know how to get half of something? I wonder what other fine geniuses her school produced (or perhaps she was homeschooled by someone who had no clue at all what he/she was doing?).

And that second person... guess she had nothing better to do?

[Goddess of Retail]

I can do 1 better. I was getting mashed potatoes at my local grocery store, which is for some reason next to the meat department. I was within earshot of a lady who had Jewish company coming over, & was pissed that the grocer "wouldn't" give her kosher pork chops.
I wonder if she was going to serve dairy with that too...So sad.

[mattm04]

I can do 1 better. I was getting mashed potatoes at my local grocery store, which is for some reason next to the meat department. I was within earshot of a lady who had Jewish company coming over, & was pissed that the grocer "wouldn't" give her kosher pork chops.
I wonder if she was going to serve dairy with that too...So sad.

With a nice baked potato w/ butter, sour cream and bacon bits with milk to drink. And maybe Cheese cake for dessert.

[mikoyan29]

Sounds like she divided by six

[Racket_Man]

Math FAIL

SC: Ha! Half of $7.74 is not 3.87. It is $1.27! You liar!
M: Let me double check. I grab the calculator and show the SC the very simple math.
SC: Nooooooo, that wrong. The correct way to do it is to take $7.74, subtract 2, than multiply that by 6, they you get half, which is $1.27.
M: *does SC math* No, that's actually $34.44. Which is more the than the original price. You can buy it for $3.87 or not. (I wish could have charged them $34.44, by the system won't let me)
SC: Forget it! *They slam their shopping basket down on the floor and stomp off.*

A nearby customer who witnessed it remarks, "are they really that dumb all the time"

I reply, "sometimes."

HUH???????? I have heard of new math, I have heard of old math, I have heard of math, I have even heard of weird math problems where no matter what number you put into the steps you get 5, but this................

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must hit head with pizza box brain cells quickly migrating to ears to perform the fall of DOOOM

[ChozoGhost79]

A problem has been detected and your brain has been shut down to prevent damage to your body.

SC_MATH_MAKES_NO_SENSE

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, perform a facepalm.

[tollbaby]

My boyfriend (who is Jewish) would like me to extend his apologies for the SC in the second story.... We've NEVER encountered anyone who would act like that (and most of our friends are Jewish), and we're deeply ashamed at that sort of blatant whining.

[TheRabbi]

I'm right there with you, tollbaby. No clue what was up there.

And the math... the math! How does that even...? That's an "if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" kind of remark.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

SC: Nooooooo, that wrong. The correct way to do it is to take $7.74, subtract 2, than multiply that by 6, they you get half, which is $1.27.

I propose a contest to figure out what half of some number, say 100, is.

If she's right, I give her half my yearly salary. If I'm right, she gives me half of hers.

She'll be in hock to me for the rest of her life.

[JustaCashier]

The SC pulls out their phone and begins to type some numbers in to presumably the calculator.

Need help with that complicated SC Math?

There's an app for that!



Now excuse me, while I go to Craigslist to post an ad for my brain which just ran away.



Mike

[taurinejunkie]

At least they didn't try to divide by zero.

[mharbourgirl]

Out of ChEese Error.

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