I was driving to work today, and I heard the latest Burger King commercial, it didn’t sound stupid at first, but then I began to think about it… it breaks down like this:
Boss: Hi, welcome to your first day of work!
Employee: Thanks, glad to be part of the team, I quit.
Boss: Wha?
Employee: And I’m going to need to be paid for the time I was here.
Boss: All five seconds?
Employee: Yep.
Boss: You’ve made maybe two dollars.
Employee: Enough to buy something off of BK’s value menu….
And stop. Now, two dollars doesn’t seem like a lot of money. But this guy made two dollars in FIVE SECONDS. That means he makes $24 a minute, and $1440 an hour, which is $57,600 a week, and a whopping $2,995,200 a year.
Wow.
Curious, I did the math to figure out what he would make if he made 2 cents in five seconds, which seems far more realistic. $29,952 a year, that’s not too shabby, seems like your average job, but you’d need to work more than five seconds to buy something from Burger King.
So get your math right, BK, or else some over-analytical guy with too much time on his hands will call you out on it.
Zel-kun out.
David N. Scott | 03-Dec-07 at 9:13 pm | Permalink
Hey, I missed some posts.
And I *hate* stuff like that.
And then I feel nerdy and lame for even noticing.
It’s sort of a vicious cycle.