What the hell is with people using calculators?

[unjung]

Who here still uses calculators at work? I probably need one a few times a day, so I use the one built into my OS. I can see real numbers people (small-time accountants) still using them occassionally because they need it so often and they're used to it (obviously standard calculators - people with technical careers may need technical calculators when they don't have access to their crazy software).

But I constantly (once or twice a week actually) have co-workers ask me if they can borrow a calculator. They don't seem to understand that their computer is a calculator. So they don't use one regularly enough to need a real one sitting on their desk, yet when they do need one, they go to find a real one rather than using a piece of software. What the **** is with that?

 

[robin]

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[Thomas]

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[EL72]

Maybe it's a generational thing but I find it easier, more ergonomic, faster... to use a calculator than a computer mouse or a keyboard.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by Thomas

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[milosh]

Originally Posted by Thomas

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awesome.

 

[BDC2823]

I use a calculator daily. I use alot of computer programs and it's easier to do the quick arithmetic necessary for the inputs using a calculator that is next to me, than it would be to pull up the one on the computer.

 

[Mr T]

About a year ago I was discussing budgets at work with the finance woman. She actually used an adding machine to show me what she was talking about. I just stood there speechless.

 

[breitlingman]

Yeah and what is with people and phonebooks? Who uses those anymore except for raising up cheap LCD monitors that don't come with height adjustment.

 

[VKK3450]

I would like to learn to use an abacus

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[MrG]

Originally Posted by BDC2823

I use a calculator daily. I use alot of computer programs and it's easier to do the quick arithmetic necessary for the inputs using a calculator that is next to me, than it would be to pull up the one on the computer.

This. Though I probably still use the one on the computer more often when I'm at my desk.

Also, I'm a "real numbers person" (though not an accountant), which means I go to a lot of meetings where numbers are discussed. I don't always have a use for a computer at the meetings, so it's better for me to have a calculator.

 

[gdl203]

People use that little calculator application on their computer?

 

[DeadDJ]

I can't believe this thread, or the continued replies, exist.

 

[scarphe]

my calculator is a small computer, what good is computer for calcualting unless you have matlab or some equivolant program?

 

[Davidko19]

this guy at works brigns this old ass funny loking accountants calculator EVERYWHERE. I still use a standard one when doing basic work calculations. Do you realize how annoying it is to find in my menu and use my mouse to use the calculator on windows? Lame...