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Old 03-02-2009, 05:03 PM
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Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
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Doubt anyone will ever know except the two of us and everyone here.

Just BLOWS me away.

I had the hardest time explaining it to her - you can't argue with math though.

I finally backed into it and told her if you take 34 minutes a day x 45 days that equals 1530 calls.

She couldn't say a word. Her boss walked up - I exited and came to my office and did a WHOOHOOOO!!!!
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Old 03-02-2009, 05:12 PM
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How many minutes per day did these calls take?
Here would go my step three and the 14 minuets.

But if you are going by what she is saying(about a minuet a call) then she is only spending 4.2 minuets and hour on the phone?

Sounds like she is lying-imo
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Old 03-02-2009, 05:15 PM
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This is what I get

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 divided by 8 hrs = 4.2 calls and hour

4.2 divided by 60 minuets = 14.28 minuets per call
1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 calls average one minute each = 34.3 minutes per day on calls.
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Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
That same trick gets used around here from time to time. Misdirection.

"Follow my facts - they're all correct! Therefore you MUST reach my conclusions, no matter what!"

But what happens when we pare the whole thing down? Try adding the $27 not refunded to the guests to the $3 dollars that was refunded. The total is $30 bucks.
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Here would go my step three and the 14 minuets.

But if you are going by what she is saying(about a minuet a call) then she is only spending 4.2 minuets and hour on the phone?

Sounds like she is lying-imo
Not lying - - she just didn't think through her formula. Her answer was how many calls per hour she gets (4.2) and she thought it was 4.2 hours.

I cringe at the thought of how many she has reprimanded in the past for talking on the phone too long and they weren't. Probably even wrote them up.
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What does "wrote them up" mean?
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Not lying - - she just didn't think through her formula. Her answer was how many calls per hour she gets (4.2) and she thought it was 4.2 hours.

I cringe at the thought of how many she has reprimanded in the past for talking on the phone too long and they weren't. Probably even wrote them up.
That is sad! How can she be a good leader if she doesn't even understand her own math?! Correcting people with the wrong knowledge, poor folks!
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What does "wrote them up" mean?
Discipline 1st step - - verbal warning (you talk too much on the phone)
Discipline 2nd step - - written warning (report proving you talk too much on the phone)
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That is sad! How can she be a good leader if she doesn't even understand her own math?! Correcting people with the wrong knowledge, poor folks!
She was a bit shocked, surprised, stunned, but said I can admit I made a mistake.

However, how far will she take that? Just admit to me or now go back to ALL the people she reported incorrectly and admit she messed up.
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