> > From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/03/11 Thu PM 01:13:19 EST > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:29176] Re: Point-of-order on Decimal time > > Dear Bill, > > Another 'point-of-order'...: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:29:48 > Bill Potts wrote: > >Marcus Berger wrote: > >"Say a worker spent 1h25min on a job which pays him 8 $/h. How much money > >should he be paid for that amount of work?" > > > >That's easy -- $12. > > ??? Absolutely NOT!? I doubt any company would be sloppy to > that degree in considering 5 minutes "irrelevant"! Can you > imagine how much money that would cost the business if > extended to EVERY other worker??? Sorry, pal, but I can't quite > honestly agree with your "rounding" answer above.
Back in the early 1980s, at one of the jobs I held, during high school, I recall that the punch clock system used by my employer, divided the hour into 100 equal parts. So, if you started work at 8:00 until 9:25, it would have been displayed your stop time as 9.42. Your work time would have been 1.42 and that would have been multiplied by your rate of pay to get your gross salary. Stephen
