Originally posted by Hand of HecateI have actually been surprised to recently find a number of people who weren't like this. There was a product I tried to get at the store yesterday, but it was on the top shelf and set too far back to reach. Not only did an employee reach it for me, he brought the rest to the front so other customers could help themselves as well. I was jolted to realize how uncommon and yet simple that act was!
I have a question for you. What ever happened to customer service? When did it suddenly become acceptable to abuse your customers? Have we really become so jaded that how we treat each other doesn't matter anymore?
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Originally posted by pawnhandlerAs above, below...
I have actually been surprised to recently find a number of people who weren't like this. There was a product I tried to get at the store yesterday, but it was on the top shelf and set too far back to reach. Not only did an employee reach it for me, he brought the rest to the front so other customers could help themselves as well. I was jolted to realize how uncommon and yet simple that act was!
If it's not in the corporate boardroom culture it's not in the corner office mentality or scheme of values, or in the behavior of employees
(salaried supervisors or hourly wage) on the factory or retail space floor, or at the cash register or at the complaint desk or on the phone.
Most pointed analogy would probably be the way children, sooner or later, reflect in public their parents' role model behavior and the civility
of their lives at home. There still are some wonderful exception to the rule companies which make it a point to treat their employees,
clients, customers and stockholders well. We're talking single digit percentage range. And they do so because the organization is a cut
above in its vision and strategy... and because it's good business. Also many outstanding employees working in less than companies.
Worth pressing to your forehead... As above, below. -gb
Putting aside all mathematical labels for the moment....
1 is the only true "number"
All other "numbers" are nothing more than quick way to describe how many more than 1 of something that you have.
This symbol that we know as "4" is nothing more than a way to express how many more than 1 of it you have.
You cannot know what any of these other things we call numbers are unless you know what 1 of them is. You can't know what 5 apples are unless you know what 1 apple is.
Therefore, 1 is the only true number....the rest are just descriptions.
Originally posted by uzlessBut .. I have no apples? How many "ones of an apple" is that?
Putting aside all mathematical labels for the moment....
1 is the only true "number"
All other "numbers" are nothing more than quick way to describe how many more than 1 of something that you have.
This symbol that we know as "4" is nothing more than a way to express how many more than 1 of it you have.
You cannot know what any of these other th ...[text shortened]... at 1 apple is.
Therefore, 1 is the only true number....the rest are just descriptions.
Originally posted by uzlessWow. Never viewed sums with that simplicity but makes pure sense.
Putting aside all mathematical labels for the moment....
1 is the only true "number"
All other "numbers" are nothing more than quick way to describe how many more than 1 of something that you have.
This symbol that we know as "4" is nothing more than a way to express how many more than 1 of it you have.
You cannot know what any of these other th ...[text shortened]... at 1 apple is.
Therefore, 1 is the only true number....the rest are just descriptions.
So, by extension, unless description/base is implied or defined even
1+1= is an equation floating between problematical and meaningless.
Thanks, Uz
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Originally posted by uzlessYep you can.... Its 5(i)...... Where i is the imaginary number
Pretty sure you can't take the square root of -25
(squareroot -1)... thus if I have square root of -25 apples then I have 5 apples X (i) the imaginary number..... resulting in 5 imaginary apples..... and a bad acid trip....
This is actually true as well.....