Wow... Really? REALLY?! Quick background. Our time card requires you to put in the percentage, rounded to 2 places, of an hour if we manage to go over the normal 8 (or don't stop on a nice even hour mark). So 6 minutes of overtime gets reported as 8.10 in the time card. One of my agents here doesn't quite grasp the concept of converting minutes into a percentage. (Which amounts to x/60) I was getting sick of doing the math for her (even though I showed her many times how to do the math) so I created a simple JavaScript page to do so. I put it on the intranet site and share the link. So far 5 responses of thank you for making that. All I can think is REALLY?! C'mon guys. Simple math. IS over OF equals % over 100. [By: DarkRookie / 2012-06-22 ] Comment on Story Comments Some of my coworkers can't even do the math to convert military time to regular time. I mean, they now how to add and subtract 12 from something, but they don't know how to apply it. -thx1138 I have come across peopel who cannot do a % on the number of pence in a pound - or cents in a dollar (same sum). I think they decided many years ago that anything that involved any arithmetic was for geeks. -Holdfast I will admit that percentages tend to give me trouble, however, if you showed me x/60, I'd know what to do. "Math is HARD!" -Lusus THX- at least with the 24-hour clock, I've always trained people by telling them, "you remember back when you were real little, in school, and the teacher was telling you that an hour after 12 o'clock noon, it's NOT thirteen-o'clock? They lied!" -Voz Well 2 + 2 does equal 5 but only for large values of 2. -atomicbill X/60? Damn, even I can grasp that, and I went to public school in Southern California! -MeanDean That being the reason that my company redesigned out time sheet to take a start time, and a finish time, then do the math in the background. -garwain

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