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MostBoringStan t1_j0igko4 wrote

Reply to comment by midnight_mechanic in NASA's DART asteroid smash flung 2 million pounds of rock into space by shellystarzz

This made me remember a job I had for a short time a few years back. I was in the shipping department of a machine shop. The one guy wanted to train me how to cut some pieces of metal on one piece of equipment.

Before we got started, he pulled out a tape measure and started asking me where on the tape measure 1 3/4" was, or 2 3/8" was. I was really confused because I'm a grown ass man and have known how to use a tape measure since I was a child.

Then he laughed and said he just wanted to make sure because a not insignificant amount of people he has worked with had no idea wtf they were doing when it came to tape measures and fractions.

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midnight_mechanic t1_j0ih1u0 wrote

I had a folder with spare copies of a chart of fractions and their decimal equivalents I would hand out to people on the first or second day of training.

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Uden10 t1_j0it8kh wrote

This... this is concerning. Not that I can talk much since I had to learn imperial units for volume and weight in college. I never memorized them in primary school despite being American.

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