From: "Jinx" <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:07 PM


> Probably won't happen to that degree of
> course, he said, slipping off the rose-tinted glasses, but consider
> the work force now compared to that of the Victorian or Tudor
> period.

I'd say the work force is at least as ignorant today.

Have you seen this story? 
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html 
Verizon's employee don't know the difference of a rate of 0.002 cents/kB and 
0.002 dollars/kB.  The recordings available could have been an Abbot and 
Costello skit.  These are people in white collar jobs. 


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