Overheard at Work

[MoonShadow]

I learned from a CW yesterday that she wakes up at 3:30 AM every morning. And goes to bed at 12:30 AM. And has been doing this for many months, since starting the vanpool to work (which is saving her $800 a month in commuting costs).

That's less than minimum wage, isn't it?

[seathink]

I learned from a CW yesterday that she wakes up at 3:30 AM every morning. And goes to bed at 12:30 AM. And has been doing this for many months, since starting the vanpool to work (which is saving her $800 a month in commuting costs).

That's less than minimum wage, isn't it?

Definitely when she was driving. I think the vanpool is like $100 a month, so she's just over minimum wage for our state when I estimate her real hourly wage without the crazy $800 a month for gas.

[intirb]

A fellow grad student and I live about 3 miles away from a class that's three times a week.  I usually bike to class, but occasionally I am lazy and take the bus.  In my town, a one-way bus-ride costs about $2.50, or if you're a regular user you can get a monthly bus pass for $35 (which would work out to about $1.50 each way to/from class, assuming you never take public transportation for anything else ever).

Anyway I found out yesterday that this other grad student takes Uber every day to/from class.  Horrified, I asked him if that wasn't a bit expensive?  His reply - well, it's only a few dollars more than the bus per ride.. 

[Drifterrider]

Seen on a CW's desk for lunch: Cinnabon. 

Gross.

Cinnabon is delicious

So is a bowl of sugar and a fist of butter.

Add bacon and it become perfection.

[Eric222]

So is a bowl of sugar and a fist of butter.

YES, but there are some things I don't want to know!!!

[Pooplips]

Overheard co-workers discussing what they would do if they won the lottery. I love these discussions so I always chime in.

Me: I wouldn't even need $100M to retire just give me $2M
CW: (puzzled look) I can't retire off $2M
Me: Really? $2M would easily give you $40K a year for the rest of your life, which is exactly what you make right now.
CW: Yeah, true, but I wouldn't have $2M after I bought my big ass house and 3 cars. You gotta have 3 cars. (Another CW proceeds to give said CW high five saying damn right)

Priorities I do not understand.
 

[Gin1984]

Overheard co-workers discussing what they would do if they won the lottery. I love these discussions so I always chime in.

Me: I wouldn't even need $100M to retire just give me $2M
CW: (puzzled look) I can't retire off $2M
Me: Really? $2M would easily give you $40K a year for the rest of your life, which is exactly what you make right now.
CW: Yeah, true, but I wouldn't have $2M after I bought my big ass house and 3 cars. You gotta have 3 cars. (Another CW proceeds to give said CW high five saying damn right)

Priorities I do not understand.

??? Does she have three cars now?

[mtn]

Overheard co-workers discussing what they would do if they won the lottery. I love these discussions so I always chime in.

Me: I wouldn't even need $100M to retire just give me $2M
CW: (puzzled look) I can't retire off $2M
Me: Really? $2M would easily give you $40K a year for the rest of your life, which is exactly what you make right now.
CW: Yeah, true, but I wouldn't have $2M after I bought my big ass house and 3 cars. You gotta have 3 cars. (Another CW proceeds to give said CW high five saying damn right)

Priorities I do not understand.

Forget the big house, change it to a huge garage, and change the 3 cars to 4 and a boat, for me. Oh, I'd probably have a second house. And I'd still likely only need about $2.5 mil (after tax) for all of that--the extra $500k would be for the two houses, the 4 cars, and the boat.

[Pooplips]

??? Does she have three cars now?

Haha no. But if they somehow got money 3 cars would be absolutley necessary.

Forget the big house, change it to a huge garage, and change the 3 cars to 4 and a boat, for me. Oh, I'd probably have a second house. And I'd still likely only need about $2.5 mil (after tax) for all of that--the extra $500k would be for the two houses, the 4 cars, and the boat.

If you could fit all the purchases into 500K your idea is valid. This conversaition concluded with talk of million dollar houses and Lambos. At which point he looked at me and said, "See I would need to keep working."

[mtn]

??? Does she have three cars now?

Haha no. But if they somehow got money 3 cars would be absolutley necessary.

Forget the big house, change it to a huge garage, and change the 3 cars to 4 and a boat, for me. Oh, I'd probably have a second house. And I'd still likely only need about $2.5 mil (after tax) for all of that--the extra $500k would be for the two houses, the 4 cars, and the boat.

If you could fit all the purchases into 500K your idea is valid. This conversaition concluded with talk of million dollar houses and Lambos. At which point he looked at me and said, "See I would need to keep working."

$250k dream house for me. Maybe up to $350 depending on what is available. Then the "other house" would really just be a base camp where I grew up, so that is only another $150-$300k.

Dream boat is $20-30k, throw in a used BMW 5 series, and a nice 4WD, 4 door pickemup truck, and some combination of 1 to 3 of the following: (Miata, Corvette, Viper, MGA, MGBGT, 911SC, TVR, Morgan 3 wheeler, RX7). We're at about $50-200k total for the toys. So I'm either under my $500k by $50k, or over by $350k.

The Lambo's are really silly when you get down to it, even though I wouldn't kick a Diablo out of bed.

So I'm over but not by a whole lot.

[HairyUpperLip]

Dream boat is $20-30k, throw in a used BMW 5 series, and a nice 4WD, 4 door pickemup truck, and some combination of 1 to 3 of the following: (Miata, Corvette, Viper, MGA, MGBGT, 911SC, TVR, Morgan 3 wheeler, RX7). We're at about $50-200k total for the toys. So I'm either under my $500k by $50k, or over by $350k.

The Lambo's are really silly when you get down to it, even though I wouldn't kick a Diablo out of bed.

So I'm over but not by a whole lot.

Yeah, no thanks on the Lambo's.

My collection would look something more like - Supra MKIV, 70's Civic HB in yellow, '83 Civic Wagon, 99-00 Civic HB, NSX, Integra Type R, Lotus Exige, '05 STi, umm... a Toyota Tacoma/Tundra and I guess a Tesla for the wife. :)

[shelivesthedream]

You know, if money really were no object I could easily spend over £1 million on housing. I'd buy a medium sized house with a bit of land (large garden and a bit of woodland) in the country somewhere like Suffolk with a decent train service into Victoria/Waterloo and then a teeny pied-a-terre right in the middle of London. Seriously, that's my £2 million gone right there.

So I reckon £3 million would totally set me up - £2 million to buy my house and flat, and then £1 million to cover all the expenses I could ever want.

[LennStar]

People shouldn't talk on their phones near me... "all I have is my Army retirement, which is fine as long unless the government goes tits-up, which there's a good chance of that happening...."

So his greatest worry when the government with the mightiest army in the world, not even counting thousands of nuclear weapons, is going "tits up" is his pension?
He hasn't got fantasy, does he?

Or I might just not understand tits up, me little foreigner me.

[Dollar Slice]

Co-worker D had a bad bug a couple of weeks ago (respiratory - head cold, coughing, lost his voice, etc.). I came down with something similar a week later. Co-worker C starts going on about this supplement she takes, and since she started taking it she NEVER gets sick, and we should totally try it and it's only $40 a month. She said she doesn't usually go for these things (which I happen to know is a lie, but whatevs) but her husband takes it and he NEVER gets sick so she was convinced, and blah blah blah. Co-worker D was convinced by her and said he was going to start taking them.

So, guess who's sick this week (and spreading it around the office, naturally) - Co-worker C who "never" gets sick! Oh, and she says her husband is sick, too. I'm not sure I'm mean enough to call her out on the supplement B.S. about "never" getting sick... ;-)

[Squirrel away]

You know, if money really were no object I could easily spend over £1 million on housing. I'd buy a medium sized house with a bit of land (large garden and a bit of woodland) in the country somewhere like Suffolk with a decent train service into Victoria/Waterloo and then a teeny pied-a-terre right in the middle of London. Seriously, that's my £2 million gone right there.

So I reckon £3 million would totally set me up - £2 million to buy my house and flat, and then £1 million to cover all the expenses I could ever want.

I was saying that the other day. I would like a place by the sea as well as a small flat in central London if we wanted to have a night out and not travel home.:P

[MandalayVA]

The call center at my workplace is staffed with kids, who of course spend every second of off-time on their phones.  Within the week I've witnessed the following:

Girl at the cafeteria cash register talking to her "bae" while juggling a huge Coach bag and three cups of ice, phone tucked between her ear and her shoulder.  The phone slipped out.  Of course she dropped everything to rescue the Precious.  Ice got all over the floor and the contents of her purse went everywhere.  She actually carried on the conversation amidst the mess until someone shamed her into cleaning it up (and shot a very dirty look at the shamer, which was not me BTW).

Another girl busily texting walked headlong into the exit doors.  She literally bounced off the door onto her back, somehow not cracking her head.  She took a breath, got up, and continued texting.

A guy busily texting tripped over a maintenance man's vacuum wire and fell flat on this face.  Since he was more concerned about protecting his phone than his face, he had quite the nosebleed.

Girl Genius Number 3, busily texting while tottering on very high heels on uneven ground, took a wrong step, resulting in a header into the street.  If a car had been coming she would have been a red slick on the pavement. 

This is a higher-than-usual spate of incidents, but I see something like this at least once a week.

[Rollin]

The call center at my workplace is staffed with kids, who of course spend every second of off-time on their phones.  Within the week I've witnessed the following:

Girl at the cafeteria cash register talking to her "bae" while juggling a huge Coach bag and three cups of ice, phone tucked between her ear and her shoulder.  The phone slipped out.  Of course she dropped everything to rescue the Precious.  Ice got all over the floor and the contents of her purse went everywhere.  She actually carried on the conversation amidst the mess until someone shamed her into cleaning it up (and shot a very dirty look at the shamer, which was not me BTW).

Another girl busily texting walked headlong into the exit doors.  She literally bounced off the door onto her back, somehow not cracking her head.  She took a breath, got up, and continued texting.

A guy busily texting tripped over a maintenance man's vacuum wire and fell flat on this face.  Since he was more concerned about protecting his phone than his face, he had quite the nosebleed.

Girl Genius Number 3, busily texting while tottering on very high heels on uneven ground, took a wrong step, resulting in a header into the street.  If a car had been coming she would have been a red slick on the pavement. 

This is a higher-than-usual spate of incidents, but I see something like this at least once a week.

Darwin's theory at work, but not quite successful?

http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/

[MrMoogle]

People shouldn't talk on their phones near me... "all I have is my Army retirement, which is fine as long unless the government goes tits-up, which there's a good chance of that happening...."

So his greatest worry when the government with the mightiest army in the world, not even counting thousands of nuclear weapons, is going "tits up" is his pension?
He hasn't got fantasy, does he?

Or I might just not understand tits up, me little foreigner me.

If I said that, it would mean I'm not worried at all.

[MandalayVA]

Darwin's theory at work, but not quite successful?

http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/

Why no one here's won a Darwin Award is beyond me, and what blows my mind is how often the dropper/tripper goes right back to texting.  Then there are the ones who walk into people and don't even apologize, often glaring at whoever they walked into.  One girl made the mistake of doing that to me and I tore her a new one.  After that if I saw her all I had to do was clear my throat--since obviously she wasn't looking up--and she'd scurry away.  I'm so mean.  :D

[zephyr911]

A fellow grad student and I live about 3 miles away from a class that's three times a week.  I usually bike to class, but occasionally I am lazy and take the bus.  In my town, a one-way bus-ride costs about $2.50, or if you're a regular user you can get a monthly bus pass for $35 (which would work out to about $1.50 each way to/from class, assuming you never take public transportation for anything else ever).

Anyway I found out yesterday that this other grad student takes Uber every day to/from class.  Horrified, I asked him if that wasn't a bit expensive?  His reply - well, it's only a few dollars more than the bus per ride..

Holy fuck! Has he ever studied math?

[TheGrimSqueaker]

A fellow grad student and I live about 3 miles away from a class that's three times a week.  I usually bike to class, but occasionally I am lazy and take the bus.  In my town, a one-way bus-ride costs about $2.50, or if you're a regular user you can get a monthly bus pass for $35 (which would work out to about $1.50 each way to/from class, assuming you never take public transportation for anything else ever).

Anyway I found out yesterday that this other grad student takes Uber every day to/from class.  Horrified, I asked him if that wasn't a bit expensive?  His reply - well, it's only a few dollars more than the bus per ride..

Holy fuck! Has he ever studied math?

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

[zephyr911]

So his greatest worry when the government with the mightiest army in the world, not even counting thousands of nuclear weapons, is going "tits up" is his pension?
He hasn't got fantasy, does he?

Or I might just not understand tits up, me little foreigner me.

I live in the part of the country where the idea of being forced to hole up in a country house with a few people you love, armed to the teeth and defending your stockpile of canned goods and ammunition against a populace gone mad, is not merely acceptable but actually gives people giant, throbbing erections.

So yes, losing the government check would be pretty much the only downside.

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Fine Arts.

[MgoSam]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Fine Arts.

English.

[MandalayVA]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Sociology.

[TheGrimSqueaker]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Sociology.

I read that as Scientology. Made me laugh. Dunno why.

My guess: "General Arts and Sciences; Major Undefined."

Can you do that in grad school? I thought that was a uniquely undergraduate way to waste time and money.

[mtn]

One of the following:
A: Polynesian Underwater Basket Weaving
B: Alternate Methods of Public Transportation

[Pooperman]

How about something somewhat techy but made for a business student (because let's be honest, this person is a business student of some kind, Business Admin or otherwise). I'll guess BIS (Business Information Systems).

[mm1970]

The call center at my workplace is staffed with kids, who of course spend every second of off-time on their phones.  Within the week I've witnessed the following:

Girl at the cafeteria cash register talking to her "bae" while juggling a huge Coach bag and three cups of ice, phone tucked between her ear and her shoulder.  The phone slipped out.  Of course she dropped everything to rescue the Precious.  Ice got all over the floor and the contents of her purse went everywhere.  She actually carried on the conversation amidst the mess until someone shamed her into cleaning it up (and shot a very dirty look at the shamer, which was not me BTW).

Another girl busily texting walked headlong into the exit doors.  She literally bounced off the door onto her back, somehow not cracking her head.  She took a breath, got up, and continued texting.

A guy busily texting tripped over a maintenance man's vacuum wire and fell flat on this face.  Since he was more concerned about protecting his phone than his face, he had quite the nosebleed.

Girl Genius Number 3, busily texting while tottering on very high heels on uneven ground, took a wrong step, resulting in a header into the street.  If a car had been coming she would have been a red slick on the pavement. 

This is a higher-than-usual spate of incidents, but I see something like this at least once a week.

God, a little off topic - but I was walking the kids to school today with the neighbor.  Between the two of us, she and I were walking 5 kids to school.  One mine, two hers, two the other neighbors.

Anyway, she was talking about how she's trying to line up babysitters for the PTA meeting (we are required to provide babysitting).  Our best sitter went out of state to college.  My friend says "I don't know about these young kids.  They never answer the phone.  They don't e-mail you back.  Most of them won't even text me back."  Now, I sort of understand the whole texting thing now - even me, at age 45, will text before phone at this point.  But my friend had a point - she seriously wonders about this generation's ability to interact with people face to face or on the phone.  How will they function at work?  IM only?

It was an interesting conversation.  (My friend is 57.  She doesn't really like to text but will do it if necessary to line up a sitter!)

[Goldielocks]

The call center at my workplace is staffed with kids, who of course spend every second of off-time on their phones.  Within the week I've witnessed the following:

Girl at the cafeteria cash register talking to her "bae" while juggling a huge Coach bag and three cups of ice, phone tucked between her ear and her shoulder.  The phone slipped out.  Of course she dropped everything to rescue the Precious.

..... 

This is a higher-than-usual spate of incidents, but I see something like this at least once a week.

God, a little off topic - but I was walking the kids to school today with the neighbor.  Between the two of us, she and I were walking 5 kids to school.  One mine, two hers, two the other neighbors.

Anyway, she was talking about how she's trying to line up babysitters for the PTA meeting (we are required to provide babysitting).  Our best sitter went out of state to college.  My friend says "I don't know about these young kids.  They never answer the phone.  They don't e-mail you back.  Most of them won't even text me back."  Now, I sort of understand the whole texting thing now - even me, at age 45, will text before phone at this point.  But my friend had a point - she seriously wonders about this generation's ability to interact with people face to face or on the phone.  How will they function at work?  IM only?

It was an interesting conversation.  (My friend is 57.  She doesn't really like to text but will do it if necessary to line up a sitter!)

At work, many "untrained" persons will:

1) Answer the work phone with a sullen or bored voiced "hullo..."   Not state their name when they pick up.  How would you even know you connected with a business, let alone the right person when you just get a "..hullo.."?   External client or subconsultant calls are about 30% of all calls they answer directly.

2) Not answer the phone.  This one is a funny story.  We went to an air diving training center as part of a birthday present on a Saturday.  The outer yard gate was locked on weekends (as they share with other industrial tenants), so you had to call the reception to send someone to let you in. Turns out, the receptionist only answers texts, though.   I gather our waiting out there for 25 minutes, while calling about 4 times, per the posted sign, and causing their "flight schedules" to be late while the tour leader waited for us to arrive, was not the first time that the receptionist had to be reminded to "answer the phone, as it is your job...! "  Even funnier was that the entire office area was only 8 ft x 20 ft in size with a tiny storage closet at the rear.  There was no way to miss the (softly) ringing phone.

[Threshkin]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Fine Arts.

English.

Economics  (or Gender Studies)

[solon]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Fine Arts.

English.

Economics  (or Gender Studies)

No. The guy has problems with math. Got to be an MBA student.

[Astatine]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Fine Arts.

I'm going with Liberal Arts (well, we call it an arts degree in my country, but I try to speak the main forum dialect outside of the journals).

[intirb]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

[englyn]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Statistics. He understands the maths, really, he can just twist it to justify whatever he wants it to.

[shelivesthedream]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Physics? He understands mathematics but not the real world.

[Eric222]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Statistics. He understands the maths, really, he can just twist it to justify whatever he wants it to.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics...

[YoungGranny]

"I'm buying a new car so I'm going to make sure to get exactly what I want...it's only $5k to get the extra features I want so that's definitely worth it."

[runningthroughFIRE]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Actuarial science?  He understands the math, but he's going to die from something anyways, so why not?

[Papa Mustache]

I live in the part of the country where the idea of being forced to hole up in a country house with a few people you love, armed to the teeth and defending your stockpile of canned goods and ammunition against a populace gone mad, is not merely acceptable but actually gives people giant, throbbing erections.
[/quote]

Yeah we have those characters here too. Not many of them but they are very real. A coworker subscribed to all the reigious and political conspiracy theories about the gov't buying up all the ammo, Barack Obama coming for his guns, signs of the end of times, etc. He bought a thousand+ dollars worth of ammo and gun(s) at the height of prices.

Now a few years later I wonder if the coworker ignores the reality that he and his were badly wrong or if he just puts it out of his mind? I think a second CW shamed him into silence. CW2 is good friends with CW1 and has same cultural and political background as CW1 but CW2 let be known during idle chat at work one day that he thought all those conspiracy theories was a bunch of **** without knowing CW1 believed in them. CW1 never said another thing about them to me.

We've lost friends to these rampant conservative conspiracy theories. Just had to give up on these friends and move on. These are educated people....

On another note: found out why CW1 won't bring food from home for lunch. He rejects any and all leftovers. His wife stopped by work and said my leftovers smelled GOOD and lamented that CW1 wouldn't eat leftovers. Daily fastfood however is appealing to him. Am not a food snob but fastfood is just terrible more than once in a blue moon. We have a dozen or more FF establishments in this town and they all serve versions of the same things.

[jinga nation]

I live in the part of the country where the idea of being forced to hole up in a country house with a few people you love, armed to the teeth and defending your stockpile of canned goods and ammunition against a populace gone mad, is not merely acceptable but actually gives people giant, throbbing erections.

So yes, losing the government check would be pretty much the only downside.

It's the same where I work too, a West Central Florida AF Base. I had one co-worker who would constantly buy guns and knives and he was happy that his stay-at-home wife would complain that the bank balance is zero. I told him you have only 2 hands to fight with, so why do you need so many weapons? He asked me to stop using logic, he gets enough of "that shit" at home.
Guys go crazy when ammo is on sale, because Obama is going to ban it. Never mind that the 2nd Amendment is to the guys' advantage.
Able-bodied men getting physical disability checks, folks trying to game the system. "Don't hate the player, hate the game" is the common refrain. If you heard the conversations, you'd lose it.
No wonder we're fucked as a nation. Hey Trump, the financial rapists are already part of the system.

[mm1970]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Operations Research?  (my master's is in engineering management, so I had to take probability)

Or Biology?

[OkieStache]

"I'm $65k USD underwater on the house (3 mortgages).  Can't believe I was shopping for $1,000 suits and now I'm filing bankruptcy."
He was let go from a low six figure job, obviously no savings of any kind...

[Pooplips]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Operations Research?  (my master's is in engineering management, so I had to take probability)

Or Biology?

Womens Studies.

[zephyr911]

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Dammit!

Umm... history?

[Pooperman]

So we had a benefits discussion at work in preparation for open enrollment and transition to our new overlords' medical plan. We have a HDHP that turns out to be a sweet deal ($1800 for the year for me and DW, they put in $3k towards the HSA, payroll deductible HSA contributions, etc). So one of the guys joked that his wife was gonna go to Khols and buy stuff with the HSA. The representative didn't mention how you can withdraw at 65 like an IRA, typical stuff. Anyways, just people not understanding how it works and freaking out. The representative did a decent job considering.

$6000 oop maximum for in network stuff ( everything else covered). 50% of out of network stuff covered after maximum and all preventative things are covered 100%. Not bad I think.

[intirb]

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Or Biology?

We have a winner, folks.

[jorjor]

So we had a benefits discussion at work in preparation for open enrollment and transition to our new overlords' medical plan. We have a HDHP that turns out to be a sweet deal ($1800 for the year for me and DW, they put in $3k towards the HSA, payroll deductible HSA contributions, etc). So one of the guys joked that his wife was gonna go to Khols and buy stuff with the HSA. The representative didn't mention how you can withdraw at 65 like an IRA, typical stuff. Anyways, just people not understanding how it works and freaking out. The representative did a decent job considering.

$6000 oop maximum for in network stuff ( everything else covered). 50% of out of network stuff covered after maximum and all preventative things are covered 100%. Not bad I think.

One positive to my job: Working as a health insurance actuary with a bunch of other health insurance actuaries as co-workers means that everyone knows this stuff really well. If they don't know it really well, there are literally 25 people you can ask along the hallway that will know it better than most HR benefits reps.

[crispy]

Coworker told me today that his commute was two hours each way.

[RetiredAt63]

Seriously?  Biology?  What kind of Biology?  I'm a biologist.  And certain areas of Biology really need math - stats, life tables, population modeling, all sorts of things.  Of course the really strong math biologists often do a math major and biology minor.

 

Let's try to guess his major. Winner gets bragging rights. My guess: MBA student.

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Or Biology?

We have a winner, folks.

[Goldielocks]

Haha, you guys crack me up.  No one's got the major yet.

To add some fuel to the fire though, we were going to a graduate-level class in probability.  So yeah, this guy has taken math classes before..

Dammit!

Umm... history?

It's so obvious.

Political science.
Who else crusades for the little guy while taking Uber 5 blocks, doesn't calculate the obvious, and takes a lot of grad studies?