Lowes experience

[Jim Mackell]

So I'm down in Maryland helping my son with a Murphy bed project. We go to the closest lumber yard "84" and check out their plywood. Priced OK but they don't offer panel saw cuts to break down the full sheets. Off to Lowes. Prices slightly less than 84. Load the cart and wheel over to the cutting station. First couple of sheets break down just fine. 24 inches, 32 inches, etc. Last 2 sheets need to be ripped at 31 3/8. Operator takes long hard look at tape measure and then asks how to find the 3/8 mark.

Well, at least I know if I have to come out of retirement someday, I can always work at Lowes!

PS Murphy bed came out OK!

[Jim Koepke]

Well, at least I know if I have to come out of retirement someday, I can always work at Lowes!

Maybe some of us old retirees would do the world a favor by coming out of retirement as teachers.

jtk

[daryl moses]

Operator takes long hard look at tape measure and then asks how to find the 3/8 mark.

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That's pretty sad.
I had problems in school with fractions when I was a kid. My dad got me a job in a furniture Mfg. for a summer job when I was 16. One of the requirements for the job was knowing how to read a tape measure and a set of calipers. All of a sudden it clicked, reading a rule is fractions!! I learned more that summer about math than I did in 10 years of school.

[Chris Padilla]

I would have said, "Right next to the 7/16" mark!"

However, I'll give kudos to the kid for asking so as to cut things correctly.

[Jerry Thompson]

My 16 y.o. grandson can't read a map. I have told adults jokes with famous people as the butt of the joke and they have never heard of them. But then again I see and hear about stars and I have no idea who they are.
I can't read a map either, unless I use a magnifier.

[Brian Tymchak]

Hmm, at my local HD, I had some plywood cut down last year, they had a posted policy that their cuts can be +/- 1/8".

Now maybe I understand why...

[Jerome Stanek]

When I worked for a ceiling company the bosses sons would help out doing the cuts for us we would call down 11 and 5 meaning 11 5/8 and they would call back how many marks is that.

[Lee Schierer]

At least he asked before making the cut and sending you home with the wrong dimensioned piece.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

My wife Is a college professor and has students come to her class that don't know how to read a ruler or add simple fractions like 1/4 + 1/8.

[Wade Lippman]

I always get them cut oversized just to get them home and then saw them properly. It is a lot less hassle.

68% of registered US voters can't find Belgium on a standard globe.

[George Bokros]

My wife worked in grocery store and some of the young kids that were cashiering could not make change if the register didn't tell them how much to give to the customer.

[Mike Chance in Iowa]

My wife worked in grocery store and some of the young kids that were cashiering could not make change if the register didn't tell them how much to give to the customer.

It's not just kids. I still run into adults that can't make change at stores! It seems few people teach their employees to hand the customer the coins first, then the paper. That way, you can accurately count up the money, as well as the customer can easily close their hand over the change without creating a funnel and spilling their coins all over.

As for the Lowe's employee ... I give the employee a gold star for having the courage to ask how to do it and caring enough to want to do it right.

[John Conklin]

I design huge industrial facilities for a living and our project administrators practically beg us to not use fractions less than 1/2", 1/4" if absolutely necessary. And the workers are described as "trained craftsman".

[Jim Matthews]

You can find somebody at Lowes to help you? Hardly the standard "uppa heya".

[Pat Barry]

...Last 2 sheets need to be ripped at 31 3/8. Operator takes long hard look at tape measure and then asks how to find the 3/8 mark.

Thank goodness you were able to find someone else there who could help!