{"id":6613,"date":"2014-09-22T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2014-09-22T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:00:45","slug":"the-ogwife-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"The Ogwife volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"

at our church for any number of things, and sometimes the help she gets, while ambitious, is not… adequate. <\/p>\n

Today she had a co-volunteer who was still attending college in her thirties<\/em> become flummoxed at being faced with the task of making change for $25 out of $40. <\/p>\n

Oy.<\/p>\n

Long before there were pocket calculators I was taught at school and by my mother the bookkeeper how to check my work by casting out nines.<\/em><\/a> Anyone who hasn’t ever done this, it seems like magic. And it is not foolproof but a bookkeeper who is entering data into a general ledger (How all business was conducted until the 70’s, pretty much, and even after that, for a lot of companies) it was a quick and dirty way to check your work. Remember that in those days only the head bookkeepers and accountants would have been supplied with adding machines, when the salary of a secretary was $20-$30 a week, an adding machine cost $300. <\/p>\n

I get that you don’t need to do this because the machines are so much better and faster, that’s a very good thing. But shouldn’t anyone be able to make change for $25 out of $40? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

at our church for any number of things, and sometimes the help she gets, while ambitious, is not… adequate. Today she had a co-volunteer who was still attending college in her thirties become flummoxed at being faced with the task of making change for $25 out of $40. Oy. Long before there were pocket calculators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}