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Offline jinxmchue

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Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« on: February 08, 2009, 09:24:09 AM »
[youtube=425,350]lCJ3Oz5JVKs[/youtube]

You gotta feel for the guy.
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2009, 02:05:54 PM »
That pesky decimal place!!!!!!11!1!!1   :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

(can anyone else hear a math teacher reminding us to LABEL, LABEL, LABEL?)
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2009, 02:50:00 PM »
Did he really post that to his blog? I would love to see the reactions.  :lmao:
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2009, 02:57:38 PM »
I googled it and Verizon did finally acknowledge their error. Still hilarious though.
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009, 04:22:03 PM »
Quote from: jendf on February 08, 2009, 02:57:38 PM
I googled it and Verizon did finally acknowledge their error. Still hilarious though.

Well, that's good.  I hope they gave their employees a refresher in basic math and money calculations.  I still find it unfathomable that the guy led these people through the logic of the difference between half a dollar and half a cent and they still didn't understand the difference between 0.0002 dollars and 0.0002 cents.
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009, 07:52:42 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on February 08, 2009, 04:22:03 PM
Well, that's good.  I hope they gave their employees a refresher in basic math and money calculations.  I still find it unfathomable that the guy led these people through the logic of the difference between half a dollar and half a cent and they still didn't understand the difference between 0.0002 dollars and 0.0002 cents.

Companies like Verizon don't hire math genius's to work at their customer service call centers.

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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2009, 09:58:36 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 08, 2009, 07:52:42 PM
Companies like Verizon don't hire math genius's to work at their customer service call centers.

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That's probably very true, but you don't even have to be a math genius (I'm not) to understand the difference.
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Re: Verizon and math - a journey that is equally sad and hilarious
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2009, 10:56:50 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on February 08, 2009, 09:58:36 PM
That's probably very true, but you don't even have to be a math genius (I'm not) to understand the difference.

We have a Verizon call center here.  Their "job fair" advertisement says you have to have a 2-year degree for them to consider hiring you.  They don't mention what field the degree has to be in.
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