I went into a local hardware store to buy four feet of chain. The young employee who assisted me paused and asked me, “uh, how many inches are there in a foot?” WTF! Shocked and wide-mouthed, I figured he must have been pulling my chain…nope! (Well, sort of…) So, not to judge, I retained my composure and politely said, “um, 12 inches.” He then started to measure a 12-inch length on the 48-inch ruler attached to the the shelf! WTF round two! After recovering from my face palm, I said, “just pull it out to the 48-inch mark…no sense doing that four times!” WTF KID! You must be part of Generation F, because the future is clearly fucked! —G. Rant
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2018.
Or, just perhaps, this is a person who was raised with the metric system and has no need to learn imperial measurements. That would be useful to learn while working at a hardware store yes but they could be new to the job. Older people are so quick to complain about younger people, yet it’s almost always older people you see getting salty about the littlest things.
I hate words like ‘salty’. It’s almost worse than ‘adulting’. Ugh, Millennials!
According to the Nova Scotia educational curriculum, as a core competency, all high school students should be able to use both the Imperial and the SI systems. (SI stands for International System of Units upon which “metric” is based). They should be able to both measure in and convert between the two. See Grade 10 measures M1 thru M3 (pg.47): https://www.ednet.ns.ca/files/curriculum/L…
According to the Nova Scotia educational curriculum…..
Cue snoring.
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No, man, the problem is yours. It’s 2018 and Canada is a metric country.