Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[silvia8917]

Sometimes I wonder about the reason for hiring people of one gender, especially everyone can have an avatar of a different gender.

I am a female who has a male avatar. Once I was hired by this female avatar, and throughout my job "she" was saying things like "won't hire girls again", "stupid, lazy and always whining". It makes me somehow baffled - if everyone stops hiring female avatars, just like "herself" (I never did ask if "she" was a girl in reality as it seemed rude), "she" would probably never get hired.



Ok, I admit I'm just trying to say something on-topic before I dive into math again.

Originally Posted by Charo

The order of priority is multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

The mnemonic is, "My Dear Aunt Sally."

LOL They definitely teach differently here, in Hong Kong.

Yesterday I was checking homework for a primary three students (8-9 years old), and her math textbook definitely says "in calculation which involves both addition and subtraction, do it from left to right if there're no brackets".



By the way, I don't know how high-levelled one should be in order to use "." in multiplication, although I've seen it. From my own experience, I started abondoning "x" and adopted parentheses in multiplication when I was 14-15, not because I was taught to do so, but it was so much more convenient. I abadoned the division sign too, and only expressed division in fractions ever since.