{"id":21051,"date":"2006-12-12T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/stay-away-from-my-iv-drip"},"modified":"2006-12-12T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T02:55:43","slug":"stay-away-from-my-iv-drip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/stay-away-from-my-iv-drip","title":{"rendered":"Stay away from my IV drip."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/verizonmath.blogspot.com\/\">Verizon CSRs do not understand decimals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nG: [big sigh]  Okay, I think I have to do this again. Do you recognize that there&#8217;s a difference between one dollar and one cent?<br \/>A: Definitely.  <br \/>G: Do you recognize there&#8217;s a difference between half a dollar and half a cent?  <br \/>A: Definitely  <br \/>G: Then, do you therefore recognize there&#8217;s a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents  <br \/>A: No.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe short version is, this guy was quoted a rate of two thousandths of a cent per KB for data usage, and was (of course) charged two tenths of a cent.  Many, many calls and letters confirmed that nobody seems to realize that &#8220;point oh oh two cents&#8221; is not the same as &#8220;point oh oh two dollars,&#8221; so it&#8217;s a good thing these people aren&#8217;t doing stoichiometry. The <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd<\/a> recommendation?  <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/verizon\/\">Just pay the bill.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, apparently, Verizon CSRs do not understand decimals. G: [big sigh] Okay, I think I have to do this again. Do you recognize that there&#8217;s a difference between one dollar and one cent?A: Definitely. G: Do you recognize there&#8217;s a difference between half a dollar and half a cent? A: Definitely G: Then, do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}