“19.5,” he said without looking up from his work station.
“No, that can’t be. Use the calculator.”
Stoddard stared silently at her for several seconds before pulling a calculator out of a drawer to make the obvious calculation.
“See? 19.5.”
“Th-the calculator must be wrong!”
“As ‘head’ of the accounting department, would you rather the CEO know you can’t do basic arithmetic or that you argue with calculators?”
“...”
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“Stoddard, help us! The Computrometer 3000 won’t work! We tried rechanneling the comm output to ‘automatic’ and then set the array function to ‘manual.’ Then we pushed all the buttons on the user panel but nothing happened!”
“Is it plugged in?”
“... ...Oh.”
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“Stoddard, help me! Can you scan this document and email it to me so I can print it out to have a copy?”
“Can’t you use the copier?”
“...Oh.”
“Make sure it’s plugged in.”
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