(Me) "Yes Ma'am, please get me One LB of Turkey Pastrami" (LB is pronounced LB)
(Lady at deli) "How much is one LB?"
(Me) "Here, let me write it for you LB" (Now she gets it!)
(Lady at deli) How thick would you like it?
(Me) "O, about a millimeter apiece!" (She is lost again)
(Me) Here, this is a scale, and this is a millimeter. (I show her)
Why is it so hard for a simple surveyor, to communicate, and buy simple lunch meat?
TIME TO EDUCATE WOMEN, THAT WORK AT THE DELI!
🙂
Nate
PS
I later, went back, and learned that there is:
1.) Shredded
2.) Shaved
3.) Thin
4.) Medium
5.) Thick
However, I have no idea what these mean, as they are all relative terms.
Like talking material discrepancy, with a high brow Korean woman! He he he:-P
I detest ambiguity, but get less upset by things like your example than when something I am accustomed to changes on me.
I grew up with a choice of white bread or whole wheat bread. In recent years it has somehow become "white or wheat", as if bread made from wheat couldn't be white. Are there great fields of "white" growing in Kansas?
Sizes of things have also changed. You used to get small, medium, or large drinks. Now they probably don't call anything "small", may not have medium, and are more likely to offer a coice from "big splash" to huge to gargantuan.
For decades I could go to a store and buy Levi's in a certain style number at my current waist size and 30 inch length, without trying them on. One time I did that and got them home to find that somehow 30 inch length had been redefined and they didn't fit. That was the last pair of Levi's I ever bought. Found another brand that gives consistent results and tends to be a couple bucks cheaper.
Communication is key in all situations.
One of the PLS's I work with from time to time has a major pet peeve about GPS, and the misguided view of many land planners that somehow there is a great unified coordinate system, accurate to infinite decimal places, that fixes the location of the entire planet.
Our tax plats are off by feet at the south end of the county, and off by about 130 feet at the north end, with their interpolated data putting lot lines through houses if overlayed on their latest GIS maps.
He has been barred from commission meetings, due to his views on the matter.
What some might see as an opportunity to clarify and generate more understanding between the public service sector and our profession, he chooses to condemn wholesale and alienate the profession further.
He is true blue old school, and a great friend, have learned a lot over the years from his mentoring, but a failure to communicate has blinded him to any productive contributions.
When my youngest daughter was in Australia doing an internship in marketing for her college requirement she went shopping for groceries with her roommates on their first day together. At the meat counter she was asked how much sliced ham she wanted. She said, "Oh, about a half pound." She got THAT LOOK from the vendor before realizing the error of her ways.
Shouldn't that be "Time to educate women WHO work at the deli"?
> Shouldn't that be "Time to educate women WHO work at the deli"?
Er Um... yeah, ok!
🙂
N
Why is it so hard for a simple surveyor, to communicate, and buy simple lunch meat?
However, I have no idea what these mean, as they are all relative terms.
Sounds like you answered your own question.
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