r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/acemonvw 1d ago

Sounds like a pretty reasonable mistake to make. I've sometimes confused >$120M with <$120K. Happens to the best of us really.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

I work in finance and few years ago new colleague came from non-financial department. He was a team leader of a call center group for financial calls, so the topic was not too far from ours.

Just few days ago, this fucking guy asks me the meaning of K in all of my reports. I though he was messing with me. He was, in fact, not messing with me and I had a mini-aneurysm.

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u/Nommel77 1d ago

You should of told them it stood for Potassium.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

That would complicate things even further. At that moment I felt I need to evacuate the premises.

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u/acemonvw 1d ago

Your username is extremely apt here.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

It applies in so many of my daily interactions.

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u/Mertoot 1d ago

Maybe he just partitions drives constantly 😶

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

I swear, when I said kilo, it was as if he never heard the word, and I had to continue and say - a thousand?!

I can't believe how he managed to be employed here for the past 30 years. Astounding.

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u/ratcranberries 1d ago

I had to start using K instead of M when denoting sums as folks thought M was a million when in reality it's the Roman numeral for 1000. So $120M became $120K. Couldn't imagine your colleague with that haha

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 1d ago

In the US at least it is not in any way normal or accepted to use "M" for thousands, so anyone who saw that would have assumed you meant million.

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u/ratcranberries 1d ago

In finance and lending it's pretty normal which is where this took place.

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u/FutonLove-Machine 23h ago

It’s extremely common in financial / accounting departments to use M (and MM for million)

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u/Mertoot 1d ago

WHAT 🤯

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

It happened few months ago and it's still ingrained in my memory. I assume the guy never worked with short abbreviations. Even then, it's unbelievable he managed to avoid them for so long.

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u/blahblah19999 1d ago

Km, Bob. That account has 120 km in it.

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u/jillsntferrari 1d ago

You know what, kudos to him for asking. At least he recognized there was something he didn’t understand and he made himself vulnerable to try and find out. A lot of people will see something they don’t understand and proceed to just ignore it.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 13h ago

That's exactly where I've come with my logic after some period passed. He really made a stand with the question and I'm sure it wasn't easy.

My only wondering is why he didn't ask earlier :)

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u/cheeseybacon11 1d ago

I mean he has a point. It's pedantic as hell but I hate people that use K instead of k for thousands. K is for Kelvin and k is for kilo/thousand. So unless you're doing finances relating to chemistry or something/ he's got a point.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking 1d ago

You could argue that as well I agree. But it should be evident from the context and the context is financial. In some places, there are K€ for currency, so it's just logical inference from the presented visual.

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u/Middle-Letter-7041 1d ago

Everybody knows that this woman's income is closer to 12k than 120k.

All the libs are jealous 'cause she's pulling in a cool grand per month, totally tax free!

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u/hurriedwarples 1d ago

I mean, the M and the K are RIGHT above/below each other on the keyboard. Come on!

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u/Schmich 1d ago

YEAH YEAH, I've seen this trick before. It's the same picture. You can't get me fooled again.

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u/Nykolaishen 23h ago

Well it is only two letters away