I still wouldn’t make that mistake. But I guess that explains this:
During federally mandated yearly training, we are supposed to take all the tests over and over again until we get everything right.
So: a certain service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to all employees. The related test question is “This certain service is available 8am to 9pm Monday through Friday. True or False?”
The correct answer is obviously True, as per dictum de omnia, anything which is true of ALL hours and days is also true of ANY hours or days.
But the test software is programmed to only accept an answer of False. I assumed this was just due to a typographic error by the test administrator, and sent her a polite email warning that there was a bug in the test (I recommended strategically inserting the word “ONLY” into the question).
The test administrator bounced my email to the Director of Human Resources (a company Vice President who does not like me) who insisted that I was wrong, and the correct answer is False (presumably because if she buys kippers it will not rain, trout live in trees, and I do not love her any more).
This started an email exchange that ended with me refusing to answer the question incorrectly, and providing copious documentation referencing Aristotle, Boole, Kleene and the laws of thought and reason.
Eventually my boss did an end run around both of us, and somehow got the requirement for a perfect score on the test waived, and I posted the email exchange on my office door, where’s it’s been a year or so now.
