HR person incorrectly calculates 10% raise underpaying employee, confidently shares their incorrect equation when challenged: 'This was their response...'

"Math is important." "You're going to use this one day, so you'd better pay attention." "It's not as if you're going to have a calculator in your pocket."

We were told these things about math class in school either by a teacher trying to earn our engagement or a parent desperately trying to get us to apply ourselves to our homework. While only two out of three turned out to be true, it's clear some people weren't listening, regardless.

That's all well and good; it's not like you're actually going to use most of what you learned in your everyday life, but simple things like basic operations, fractions, and percentages are well worth knowing—especially when your job is to calculate the pay that employees will be receiving. Further, it stands to reason that having a base understanding of the way the world works or even being able to accept that there are things you just don't understand is important. It will get you far in life and, frankly, do the rest of the world a world of good.

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For those already letting their ego get in the way, not knowing something doesn't necessarily mean you're dumb (though it doesn't necessarily not either.) Some things just don't click for some people, and there are some things in life you'll never be good at… and that is OK. These things are still well worth doing if you enjoy them or at least worth noting down as a personal shortcoming where you'll defer to others. Some people, however, are so dense that they never learned this valuable lesson, and thus, they never learned that there are situations in which they should ask someone who understands them for help.
This is especially important when the thing you don't understand directly affects someone else and their livelihood. People have bills to pay, and mistakes in payroll administration can have massive knock-on effects for them and their financial obligations.
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Not so in this case, where this HR rep doubled down on their mistake when an employee messaged them, querying a mistake in their pay, namely in the fact that their recent 10% raise hadn't been applied. The HR rep replied confidently, dismissing the employee's complaint and including the method they had used to calculate the employee's pay, which—well, was completely the wrong equation. The employee shared screenshots of the email message with this popular online community, where images went viral.
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