Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Where do the commas go?In my first proper job after leaving uni I was working in a small import/export company that dealt with a lot of stuff from Japan. To avoid currency exchange risk we invoiced our customers around Europe in Japanese Yen, which meant a standard invoice would normally be around a million.
I had an assistant, the boss's wife, who once asked me in all seriousness, "Where do the commas go when you write 1,000,000?".
In a previous job she had been an account manager for a large computer company. It went bankrupt in the early 90s, I sometimes wonder if the two were connected.
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If you're invoicing around europeyou don't put commas in. It saves the confusion on the other end when the new hire at one of the companies inevitably wonders why you've got two decimal points in the total.
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Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 13:09,
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