{"id":97,"date":"2007-08-09T04:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.org\/capsule\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-08-09T04:16:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:16:27","slug":"6-or-half-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"6 or half dozen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recruiting department in the company is lauching an incentive-based campaign that blew my socks off. In return for an X number of &#8216;entries&#8217; the department is willing to give<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 1-2 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 3 donuts<\/li>\n<li> 2-3 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 4 donuts<\/li>\n<li> 4-6 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 6 donuts or half dozen<\/li>\n<li> 7-10 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 12 donuts or 1 dozen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice what is wrong with the above allocation? The first one is that there is a overlap on the first two entries. The second one is that while the last two are grammatically correct, they are syntactically ambiguous. <\/p>\n<p>Rep: Ah excuse me ma&#8217;am, would you like 6 donuts or half dozen?<br \/>\nPerson1: Ah, I&#8217;ll get half dozen, it sounds it has more donuts than 6.<br \/>\nRep: How about you sir?<br \/>\nPerson2: I would like 12 donuts  please.<br \/>\nRep: May I suggest getting 1 dozen instead? It costs the same anyway.<br \/>\nPerson2: Gee thanks, I appreciate the help.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, some might comment that whoever wrote that memo was just being smart in providing an alternative term for a half and one dozen prizes. If that is the case then why not say quarter dozen or third of a dozen on the first two? Not being used enough? It doesn&#8217;t matter. Whoever wrote that tried to sound smart but ended up being ambiguously retarded.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad it was sent through a generic mailer. Otherwise I could have replied back. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bored.<\/p>\n<p>ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recruiting department in the company is lauching an incentive-based campaign that blew my socks off. In return for an X number of &#8216;entries&#8217; the department is willing to give 1-2 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 3 donuts 2-3 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 4 donuts 4-6 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 6 donuts or half dozen 7-10 &#8216;entries&#8217; = 12 donuts or 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garbage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}