[USMA:36694] RE: Metric problem and solution at work

[Mike Millet]

I've also had many people get mad at us when we hand them 2m or 3m cables and the foot measurement was right on the package next to the SI one. I'm so used to dealing with cable lengths in meters I hardly think in feet. What's the best though are the people who want to have our sales guys convert 35mm lenses and whatnot to some sort of inch equivalent before they feel comfortable with it.

If you have to have 35mm film and camera lenses converted to inches you must have spent much of your life on Mars :).

On 4/30/06, Philip S Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Oh sorry madam, let me just label that up for you.

 

Now let me see that's 0.098 inch to a 0.138 inch adapter  … there you are.

 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sent: 30 April 2006 12:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:36691] RE: Metric problem and solution at work

 

Today while at work I had a couple of interesting experiences that I thought I'd pass on. The first was a woman who came in looking for an adapter to fit a standard 2.5mm headphone jack into the larger 3.5mm jacks on a TV. I handed her the package which was labeled " 2.5mm to 3.5mm conversion cable", and she promptly asked me why it wasn't labelled in inches. I responded that I had never seen those jacks referred to in anything but millimeters and she responded with "Well I'm American so I shouldn't have to deal with metric displayed on the things that I buy. We use inches and feet here"  

 

"Things are changing.  Adapt yourself...."

 

Now you may not be able to actually say that, depending on the situation, but that's all the more I'd let it worry you.

 

Nat

 

 

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