The geek in me tried to actually do the math to find out what Costello should have actually got, even if we're generous with Abbott's weird rates that Costello only earned $1 per 24 hours worked. Let's see here... +365 days a year -14 for a vacation -50 for Sundays, not counting two Sundays from his vacation -12 for assumed holidays This is the part with most assumed variables. We don't know what counted as holidays in 1940, if any happened on weekends, or if any happened when Costello was on vacation, so I'll give Abbott the benefit of the doubt and subtract 12 days max (at least one of the 13 holidays had to be Easter Sunday, which wasn't worked anyway). This means he worked approximately 289 days that year. 289 - 50 for half day Saturdays, again not counting two from his vacation (we'll add them back in later) x (7/24) for hours worked per day, assuming a standard eight hour 9-5 but minus that one hour for lunch + [50 x (4/24)] to add the hours worked per half day Saturdays back in, assuming he didn't take a lunch So Costello is owed about $78.04 even with Abbott's smooth logic, if he didn't cheat him. With inflation rates that would equal $1,541.79 today, meaning he got fast talked out of a minimum of $1,522.03 to be left with a measly $19.76 for a full year of employment.
1940 was the debut year of A&C, but it was also a year when the Marx Bros, The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy and even Charlie Chaplin were all making films still.
Brilliant vaudeville routines... Just think...way back when, you could get into a theater for 25 cents and laugh your ass off for a solid three hours...and even hick towns had a theater... I would have loved to have lived back then and had a partner and performed funny routines... That would have been the life...
That's 35p in British money back then. That's the equivalent of 4 weeks pay in the year 1300 for a labourer so god knows if there was ever a time someone was paid the equivalent of 1 dollar for a whole years work.
The exact same guidelines are used by the Commonwealth Bank and most other banks when they want to charge fees for service that was never provided "We owe you (X) dollars, ahh but......"
That's how he counted everything. He only granted him a third of a days pay, but when he took away money it was for a full day. It was shit from the gitgo.
1:35 He already deducted Sundays and half Saturdays, but still deducts 14 days for 2 weeks' vacation, whereas he should have deducted 14 days--2 sundays--1 day(two half Saturdays) = 11 days Means he gets 1+3= 4 dollars.
There is 24hrs in a day, all but February that has 28… 😂😂😂😂 didn’t know that February has 28 hours in a day, my watch must have been missing some hours every February month!!! Castello my guy!!!😂😂
Abbott and Costello at their best. Their vocal routines were a million times funnier than the slapstick. IMHO they resorted to slapstick when they ran out of material like this.
Alright, breakdown time (this is too sly not to be exposed): _Quick note before we begin: Some comments have pointed out some logic flaws I missed, so I've added those in later._ 365 days @ $1/day = $365 8 hours = 1/3 day 1/3 x $365 = $121 (rounding down, but fair enough so far) _But of course Costello couldn't be expected to work the full 24 hours, so it'd be more reasonable to consider each day he works the number of hours expected a full day's payment, thus effectively nullifying this discount._ Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year 121 - 52 = 69 (nice) Here we see our first logical flaw. Abbott "forgets" to take into account his calculation regarding hours worked, thus reducing the payment by triple. The actual fair equation should read: Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 52 = approx. 17 (again rounding down, but I reckon it cancels out the rounding down before, since this reduces the amount taken away) 121 - 17 = 104 (already increased by over 30%) Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year 52/2 = 26 69 - 26 = 43 Again, Abbott "forgets" to take into account his first calculation, compounding on the previous error. With all errors resolved, the equation is thus: Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year @ $1/3 a day 1/6 x 52 = approx. 8.5 (more rounding down because I'm nice) 104 - 8.5 = 95.5 In fact, Costello could gain even more depending on what is meant by "half day". If this means half of what he usually works (i.e. 4 hours), then the equation remains the same. However, if it means a half of the full day (i.e. 12 hours), he would actually gain money, since he works more than usual: (1/2 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in total) - (1/3 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in excess of his usual earnings) = 1/6 x 52 Therefore, he gains what he originally lost: 104 + 8.5 = 112.5 Sadly, this latter option is unlikely given the context: if it had been the case, even Costello would've noticed Abbott's trick, as he would be plainly losing money; thus, I'll work with the value of $95.50 from here. Take out vacation for 14 days 43 - 14 = 29 Once again, Abbott relies on his old trick of "forgetting" his first calculation; doubly clever as this reaffirms the idea that it is actually sound logic (repetition legitimises, shout out to Adam Neely viewers). The completely rectified equation: Take out vacation for 14 days @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 14 = approx. 5 (I've been too lenient) 95.5 - 5 = 90.5 _Edit: Additionally, Abbott already discounted Sundays and half Saturdays, meaning the vacation should only result in 12.5 days worth of payment: 12.5 days @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 12.5 = 4.2 95.5 - 4.2 = 91.3_ Take out one hour for lunch for 365 days 365/24 = approx. 15.2 (Holy crap Abbott's good at math when he wants to be) 29 - 15 = 14 Abbott switches from flawed to flawless logic- ironically- flawlessly. Taking into account past corrections: 90.5 - 15.2 (since we're working with decimal points now apparently) = 75.3 _Edit: (I can't believe I didn't spot this) Abbott has completely disregarded all days he already discounted (Sundays, half Saturdays and the vacation). This means the actual number of days worth of pay discounted should actually be: 365 - 52 - 26 - 12.5 = 275.5 So: 275.5/24 = approx. 11.5 91.3 - 11.5 = 79.8 And this is assuming his lunch hour isn't sandwiched in between his 8 hours, making 9 in total and nullifying the need for this discount entirely._ Take out holidays for 13 days- wait a minute... do these days coincide with the vacation mentioned earlier...? Probably not, again, Costello would've noticed. 14 -13 = 1 You know where this is going 13/3 = approx. 4.3 (you'll see, it works out) 75.3 - 4.3 = 71 _Edited: 79.8 - 4.3 = 75.5_ If Abbott hadn't been -a character in a math related comedy show- a sly manipulative employer (which, to be fair, can also be said of Costello's characters), Costello would've gained up to $71. If the waiter for some strange reason had still interpreted one of Costello's dollars as charity, it would've rounded it out to a nice even $70 (so close... so close). Probably enough to get by until he found another job. _And with the help of @Cam Bowman, we've gotten him another $4.50 for a total of $75.50... unless Cam's theory about Costello's lunch hour is correct, then the figure shoots up to $15 for a whopping $86. Thank you for your help! Together, little by little, we can achieve justice for Costello!_ _And then @Jupi swoops in and multiplies Costello's salary threefold. Legendary._ This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need maths. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, next week I discuss why Buster Keaton is a madlad. Sincerely, Oscar Gill P.S. If you find any more errors in my logic, please let me know in the replies and I'll rectify it as quickly as possible!
You missed where Abbott slyly converted a two week vacation into a 14 day deduction, despite those two weeks containing 2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays A similar thing happens when talking about that 1 hour off for lunch which he applied to 365 days, when it has already been counted out of Sundays and vacation days, and probably Saturdays as well if he's taking a half day on those And that's assuming that taking a 1 hr lunch break means working 7 hours instead of 8. If it's just splitting up the 8 hours it shouldn't be deducted at all.
That's wrong, he get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.
365 Days = $365 52 Sundays so -$52 = $313 12 days vacation (already counted Sundays so -$12= $301 50 Saturdays (already counted holiday 2) half days so equal to -25 full days = $276 13 holidays so -$13 = $263 1hr Lunch of 238 full days (week days in a year as wouldn't take hour lunch on 4 hour saturdays) is equal to 30 days lunch so -$30 = $233 Even if you count the 1/3 days worked BS it still comes to $77 (rounded down which employers love to do). So he'd either get $233 or $77.
@@develynseether4426 You have to take into account that Abbott is taking multiple deductions for each day. He starts by deducting 2/3 of 365 days. Then he deducts 52 dollars for Sundays, but he already deducted 2/3 of those Sundays. And so on...
@@boogit9979 What is it from Canada or something? Abbot and Costello were American. American money from that time period is worth more than face value.
@@kylelindberg7771 just a 1937 american $100 bill. I work in a store. Trust me. I know enough about values of old currency. Most bills arent too valuable from sheer age. Usually looking for coins or special notes. Not simply an old piece of tendered parchment
@@boogit9979 I just did some research. There appears to not have been any $100 bills made in America in the year 1937. There was a series containing $100 bills minted in 1934, however. THOSE are worth face value if heavily circulated ($150 - $200 if crisp and sometimes more than $1,000 if uncirculated and graded.) While I mostly collect coins, I do have a series 1934 $1 silver certificate and those are worth more than face value ($5 - $12). But I still have a hard time believing that a bill from a year you can't even find on the internet would be worth face value.
@@kylelindberg7771 Apologies. 1944. Went into the book to check. Its heavily worn. Worth face value. But kudos to research. Youre already smarter that 90% of internet users
Whiner. Do you accept employment, ignorant of what they intend to pay you? And it´s not the employer's deductions but the government's. (ownership-class = working achievers, You = envious underachiever
Some of those days? A dollar a day for which you’ve worked a third. Which is already a questionable rate but that’s 2/3s of a dollar per day already accounted for Subtracting the Sundays, but instead of subtracting a third you subtract a whole dollar. That’s 52 times 2/3 dollars cheated from you Half of a Saturday and that’s 1/6th of a day worked counted for 1/2, that’s 1/3 (1/2-1/6) times 52 dollars cheated from you Now of course the vacation overlaps with the weekends, but they’re not only overlapping but counted for more than 3 times their weight (because that’s only 16 hours per 5 days plus 20 for Saturday you didn’t work) so whatever you didn’t work times two is the hours cheated from you. (This works out to be 7ish bucks +1 from Sundays) More than $60 is cheated just out of maliciously calculated hours 💀
(1 x 8 x 5 x 52) - (1 x 1 x 5 x 52) (Hours worked) (lunch break) Excluding holidays and that vacation, should be $1,820. Only left those out bc the holiday might have been on a weekend and the time of the vacation was specified. If anything he should *at least* have $1,775. But i do gotta admit, he was smooth with it.
He get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.
lunch breaks are not deducted, there is an extra hour worked. Saturdays are overtime, and public holidays must be paid. Pay is for hours worked, not for 24 divided by 3. He is deducting time which is not included in the pay day
@@tonybarfridge4369 He clearly stated that he will take that 1 hour away, and for paid holidays I do not know about as I don't work, but even so, that is still the correct answer compared to people starting from $121
That's kind of the joke. On some level, it makes sense. In fact, all the STEPS they're doing are correct, but they're doing them in the wrong order. With the correct order of operations, we have 7 hours a day, for 365-52 Sundays-26 Saturdays (That's 52 half saturdays)-13 Holidays. That's 7 hours a day for 274 days. 274/24=... real difficult math, we'll let my calculator do it. Multiply that number by 7 and we're looking at 79 dollars and 92 cents. Order of operations is IMPORTANT.
Abbott didn’t wanna pay him $1 a day ($365) cause Lou didn’t work 24hrs,half a day on Saturday, and no work on Sunday. Lou only worked 8hrs a day, but Bud took out $1 a day ($14) for his 2 week vacation 😂😂
Heey, he cheated him on that vacation. If he's not including a dollar a day with the work hours, he shouldn't with the vacation time. He should have only subtracted 1/3 of the 14, so around 4 and a half, little less.
Abbott's arithmetical skills are equal to Costello's ability to multiply 13 by 7 and get 28
Hahaha so true!!
I just came from that video
The brilliance of this routine is Priceless!!!!!
Qq
@@olcuqap1789 Same
0:28 there's 24 hours in a day, all but February which has 28.... That one tried to slip under the radar lol
Hey look, it's the historic creation of the IRS (non-colorized).
My two favourite parts are when Lou says "24 Hours in a day, except February" and when Bud says at the end "Fine time to take a nap!" 🤣
The deduction for the lunch break was the most brutal 😂
The geek in me tried to actually do the math to find out what Costello should have actually got, even if we're generous with Abbott's weird rates that Costello only earned $1 per 24 hours worked. Let's see here...
+365 days a year
-14 for a vacation
-50 for Sundays, not counting two Sundays from his vacation
-12 for assumed holidays
This is the part with most assumed variables. We don't know what counted as holidays in 1940, if any happened on weekends, or if any happened when Costello was on vacation, so I'll give Abbott the benefit of the doubt and subtract 12 days max (at least one of the 13 holidays had to be Easter Sunday, which wasn't worked anyway). This means he worked approximately 289 days that year.
289 - 50 for half day Saturdays, again not counting two from his vacation (we'll add them back in later)
x (7/24) for hours worked per day, assuming a standard eight hour 9-5 but minus that one hour for lunch
+ [50 x (4/24)] to add the hours worked per half day Saturdays back in, assuming he didn't take a lunch
So Costello is owed about $78.04 even with Abbott's smooth logic, if he didn't cheat him. With inflation rates that would equal $1,541.79 today, meaning he got fast talked out of a minimum of $1,522.03 to be left with a measly $19.76 for a full year of employment.
Taking 14 days vacation should be counted as 12, since he wouldnt work on sundays anyway so they shouldnt be counted
@@Nominal_GDP It would come up the same.
365 - 14 - 50 - 12 = 289
365 - 52 - 12 - 12 = 289
Costello: “Well give me the 69 dollars.”
Abbott: “Eh, but...”
Costello: “WHAT’S WITH THE BUTS?!”
😂😂
Thanks for putting in subtitles. really appreciate it.
1940 was the debut year of A&C, but it was also a year when the Marx Bros, The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy and even Charlie Chaplin were all making films still.
You mean in film.
@@Selrisitai Appearing in films.
Of course February has 28 hours in a day
He meant days
Brilliant vaudeville routines...
Just think...way back when, you could get into a theater for 25 cents and laugh your ass off for a solid three hours...and even hick towns had a theater...
I would have loved to have lived back then and had a partner and performed funny routines...
That would have been the life...
Sounds like the Federal government.
Probably where they perfected their tax cuts
lol exactly...or we owe them money in some twisted way
Getting a dollar a year is a hilarious premise all by itself.
FDR had a whole bunch of "dollar-a-year men" ... They helped the USA win the Pacific War.
That's 35p in British money back then. That's the equivalent of 4 weeks pay in the year 1300 for a labourer so god knows if there was ever a time someone was paid the equivalent of 1 dollar for a whole years work.
This is not only funny but extremely brilliant as well, PERIOD!!!!!
My favorite bit from the movie😂
their scenes were the only good thing about it
"Wait a minute, Im glad I thought of this..." Every boss and CEO ever.
Should have said in the end, "But, wait a minute. You didn't work on your birthday, did you? So that's one dollar."
A fantastic skit in this early movie, with Abbott and Costello as supporting cast members.
These were two of the funniest guys I have ever seen.
The exact same guidelines are used by the Commonwealth Bank and most other banks when they want to charge fees for service that was never provided "We owe you (X) dollars, ahh but......"
I like how he only paid him for 1/3rd days, but he deducted his vacation of 14 FULL days ($14)
I'm very glad you were here to explain the joke. Otherwise I would not have understood it.
That's how he counted everything. He only granted him a third of a days pay, but when he took away money it was for a full day. It was shit from the gitgo.
The actual amount he is owed is (365-52-14-15-13-26)/3 , or 81.66 dollars.
I can't believe someone actually calculated this!
@@sunchoi4790 I'm still off by a little. Im pretty sure I got the half days on saturday part wrong.
what’s the divided by 3 part?
@@mayokichi2339 work 8 hours out of the 24 hours in a day
but...
Ah, back when actors - and the audience - could do math in their heads. One more reason why this is so good and so entertaining!
Or it's in the script lol
ok dude
It’s because people now don’t have the knowledge of the past
Just because modern entertainment kinda sucks doesn’t mean people are dumb
GENUIS COMEDY and not 1 swear word needed !😜👍🏻
At 2:50 Costello is a master of bumping into things and making it look real.
1:35
He already deducted Sundays and half Saturdays, but still deducts 14 days for 2 weeks' vacation, whereas he should have deducted 14 days--2 sundays--1 day(two half Saturdays) = 11 days
Means he gets 1+3= 4 dollars.
still higher than my salary 💀
GUYS WE HAVE A GENIUS OVER HERE
The video is full of this, that's the joke
He double counted pretty much every deduction he made lol
he acutally deserved nothin that one day was his birthday
This is how taxes work
There is 24hrs in a day, all but February that has 28… 😂😂😂😂
didn’t know that February has 28 hours in a day, my watch must have been missing some hours every February month!!! Castello my guy!!!😂😂
😝😝😝😝😝
(365 - 52 - 52/2) * (8-1) / 24, depending on the amount of time he took for a lunch break on saturday
Abbott and Costello at their best. Their vocal routines were a million times funnier than the slapstick. IMHO they resorted to slapstick when they ran out of material like this.
Wait so he worked for 365 days and didn’t get paid until he got fired?
The old. Times when TV comedy is legit funy
13×7=28 is much cleverer than
365 × 8/24 × 5/7 minus etc. etc. etc., which suggests a dollar-a-day isnʼt worth two cents in todayʼs economy.
$365 in 1940 is almost $7k now.
No, it would be worth a dollar 😉
him just being pure defeated at the end…
I can't believe this is the only time they did this bit in their movies and tv shows--this rivals "Who's on First." 😅
Jeff Bezos: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!!!
OMG funny 🤣🤣🤣
Kings of comedy - none better.
"What's with the but!?!" fucking sent me XD
The US tax system in a nutshell.
Better then the UKs
If it was the UKs you’d somehow end up owning them 365 dollars.
If I get some of it I’ll be lucky.
That's what Tesla employees make. 😂🤣
At any moment I thought he was gonna say "do I look like a clown to you" lol
0:59 Nice
69!
Alright, breakdown time (this is too sly not to be exposed):
_Quick note before we begin: Some comments have pointed out some logic flaws I missed, so I've added those in later._
365 days @ $1/day = $365
8 hours = 1/3 day
1/3 x $365 = $121 (rounding down, but fair enough so far)
_But of course Costello couldn't be expected to work the full 24 hours, so it'd be more reasonable to consider each day he works the number of hours expected a full day's payment, thus effectively nullifying this discount._
Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year
121 - 52 = 69 (nice) Here we see our first logical flaw. Abbott "forgets" to take into account his calculation regarding hours worked, thus reducing the payment by triple. The actual fair equation should read:
Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year @ $1/3 a day
1/3 x 52 = approx. 17 (again rounding down, but I reckon it cancels out the rounding down before, since this reduces the amount taken away)
121 - 17 = 104 (already increased by over 30%)
Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year
52/2 = 26
69 - 26 = 43 Again, Abbott "forgets" to take into account his first calculation, compounding on the previous error. With all errors resolved, the equation is thus:
Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year @ $1/3 a day
1/6 x 52 = approx. 8.5 (more rounding down because I'm nice)
104 - 8.5 = 95.5
In fact, Costello could gain even more depending on what is meant by "half day". If this means half of what he usually works (i.e. 4 hours), then the equation remains the same. However, if it means a half of the full day (i.e. 12 hours), he would actually gain money, since he works more than usual:
(1/2 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in total) - (1/3 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in excess of his usual earnings) = 1/6 x 52
Therefore, he gains what he originally lost:
104 + 8.5 = 112.5
Sadly, this latter option is unlikely given the context: if it had been the case, even Costello would've noticed Abbott's trick, as he would be plainly losing money; thus, I'll work with the value of $95.50 from here.
Take out vacation for 14 days
43 - 14 = 29 Once again, Abbott relies on his old trick of "forgetting" his first calculation; doubly clever as this reaffirms the idea that it is actually sound logic (repetition legitimises, shout out to Adam Neely viewers). The completely rectified equation:
Take out vacation for 14 days @ $1/3 a day
1/3 x 14 = approx. 5 (I've been too lenient)
95.5 - 5 = 90.5
_Edit: Additionally, Abbott already discounted Sundays and half Saturdays, meaning the vacation should only result in 12.5 days worth of payment:
12.5 days @ $1/3 a day
1/3 x 12.5 = 4.2
95.5 - 4.2 = 91.3_
Take out one hour for lunch for 365 days
365/24 = approx. 15.2 (Holy crap Abbott's good at math when he wants to be)
29 - 15 = 14 Abbott switches from flawed to flawless logic- ironically- flawlessly.
Taking into account past corrections:
90.5 - 15.2 (since we're working with decimal points now apparently) = 75.3
_Edit: (I can't believe I didn't spot this) Abbott has completely disregarded all days he already discounted (Sundays, half Saturdays and the vacation). This means the actual number of days worth of pay discounted should actually be:
365 - 52 - 26 - 12.5 = 275.5
So:
275.5/24 = approx. 11.5
91.3 - 11.5 = 79.8
And this is assuming his lunch hour isn't sandwiched in between his 8 hours, making 9 in total and nullifying the need for this discount entirely._
Take out holidays for 13 days- wait a minute... do these days coincide with the vacation mentioned earlier...?
Probably not, again, Costello would've noticed.
14 -13 = 1 You know where this is going
13/3 = approx. 4.3 (you'll see, it works out)
75.3 - 4.3 = 71
_Edited: 79.8 - 4.3 = 75.5_
If Abbott hadn't been -a character in a math related comedy show- a sly manipulative employer (which, to be fair, can also be said of Costello's characters), Costello would've gained up to $71. If the waiter for some strange reason had still interpreted one of Costello's dollars as charity, it would've rounded it out to a nice even $70 (so close... so close). Probably enough to get by until he found another job.
_And with the help of @Cam Bowman, we've gotten him another $4.50 for a total of $75.50... unless Cam's theory about Costello's lunch hour is correct, then the figure shoots up to $15 for a whopping $86. Thank you for your help! Together, little by little, we can achieve justice for Costello!_
_And then @Jupi swoops in and multiplies Costello's salary threefold. Legendary._
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need maths.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, next week I discuss why Buster Keaton is a madlad.
Sincerely,
Oscar Gill
P.S. If you find any more errors in my logic, please let me know in the replies and I'll rectify it as quickly as possible!
Dude you are an absolute madlad for making this wtf
this mf really did all the math for a comedy that was released in the 1940s
respect.
@@ryvic9021 Thanks! It's what I do; I have more breakdown comments than I do videos...
You missed where Abbott slyly converted a two week vacation into a 14 day deduction, despite those two weeks containing 2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays
A similar thing happens when talking about that 1 hour off for lunch which he applied to 365 days, when it has already been counted out of Sundays and vacation days, and probably Saturdays as well if he's taking a half day on those
And that's assuming that taking a 1 hr lunch break means working 7 hours instead of 8. If it's just splitting up the 8 hours it shouldn't be deducted at all.
That's wrong, he get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.
00:58
"WHAT'S WITH THE BUT!"
He got mad cuz he didn't get his 69$ dollars if you know what I mean
I worked for a company that saw it that way.
Abbott can get you to owe him
a comedic due like this only comes once in a lifetime
When your boss tries to explain why he's not giving you an end of year bonus
Reason they invented the Time Clock
The IRS when you dare to earn money within taxing distance 1940 noncolorised
Finally getting to a point where you realize you worked for nothing
Hence the great resignation of the 2020s.
Great timing, both of them. "BUT! See I know it better than YOU do!"
I really love how some of these people in the comments take a simple joke thats not suppose to make sense in the first place so seriously lol
I tried to calculate based on sketch’s contents and got 288 ;)
But then you gotta divide that by 7 so you end up with 133
365 Days = $365
52 Sundays so -$52 = $313
12 days vacation (already counted Sundays so -$12= $301
50 Saturdays (already counted holiday 2) half days so equal to -25 full days = $276
13 holidays so -$13 = $263
1hr Lunch of 238 full days (week days in a year as wouldn't take hour lunch on 4 hour saturdays) is equal to 30 days lunch so -$30 = $233
Even if you count the 1/3 days worked BS it still comes to $77 (rounded down which employers love to do).
So he'd either get $233 or $77.
@@develynseether4426 You have to take into account that Abbott is taking multiple deductions for each day. He starts by deducting 2/3 of 365 days. Then he deducts 52 dollars for Sundays, but he already deducted 2/3 of those Sundays. And so on...
Why does this actually seem realistic? Rather close to home I’d say
Absolutely hysterical!😂😂😂😂😂
This is me filing my taxes lmfao 🤣
Maravilha!!!!comédia do meu tempo!!!!dei muitas gargalhadas👋👋👋👋👋👋
Government Taxation 101
I would want that dollar. It's old and worth a lot now.
Not really. Old tender doesnt magically get more valueable. Ive a 1937 hundred. Worth $100.
@@boogit9979 What is it from Canada or something? Abbot and Costello were American. American money from that time period is worth more than face value.
@@kylelindberg7771 just a 1937 american $100 bill. I work in a store. Trust me. I know enough about values of old currency. Most bills arent too valuable from sheer age. Usually looking for coins or special notes. Not simply an old piece of tendered parchment
@@boogit9979 I just did some research. There appears to not have been any $100 bills made in America in the year 1937. There was a series containing $100 bills minted in 1934, however. THOSE are worth face value if heavily circulated ($150 - $200 if crisp and sometimes more than $1,000 if uncirculated and graded.) While I mostly collect coins, I do have a series 1934 $1 silver certificate and those are worth more than face value ($5 - $12). But I still have a hard time believing that a bill from a year you can't even find on the internet would be worth face value.
@@kylelindberg7771 Apologies. 1944. Went into the book to check. Its heavily worn. Worth face value. But kudos to research. Youre already smarter that 90% of internet users
What I don't understand is why Costello wait one year to collect his salary!!!
this is how the IRS operates
this is how tax in Finland works
Yet, you're supposedly the happiest people on the planet.
@@drmodestoesq yes pay ya tax and reap the rewards.
He over charges him for lunch. Says it’s 365 days when he has already deducted Sunday when he doesn’t work as well as others.
That's the joke....
Why over analyze the joke? just enjoy the genius of these two greats
over charges him for lunch???? so everything else was solid? dude....
Whats with the butttttt!!!!!😂😂😂😂
Tax cut in a paycheck be like
How the ownership class actually does the math.
Whiner. Do you accept employment, ignorant of what they intend to pay you? And it´s not the employer's deductions but the government's. (ownership-class = working achievers, You = envious underachiever
@@jaelge Bootlicker detected.
Don't sign the contract then
I use this to explain to my grandchildren how The Canadian Government operates.
Unfortunately this is exactly how most corporations are!!!!!
It's great to see that wages haven't gone up since then.
Some of those days overlapped. Smh.
Some of those days?
A dollar a day for which you’ve worked a third. Which is already a questionable rate but that’s 2/3s of a dollar per day already accounted for
Subtracting the Sundays, but instead of subtracting a third you subtract a whole dollar. That’s 52 times 2/3 dollars cheated from you
Half of a Saturday and that’s 1/6th of a day worked counted for 1/2, that’s 1/3 (1/2-1/6) times 52 dollars cheated from you
Now of course the vacation overlaps with the weekends, but they’re not only overlapping but counted for more than 3 times their weight (because that’s only 16 hours per 5 days plus 20 for Saturday you didn’t work) so whatever you didn’t work times two is the hours cheated from you. (This works out to be 7ish bucks +1 from Sundays)
More than $60 is cheated just out of maliciously calculated hours 💀
Classic. Like today with taxes and inflation!!!!!
Classic.... like today with taxes and inflation!!!!!
Sad, they both died broke..
(1 x 8 x 5 x 52) - (1 x 1 x 5 x 52)
(Hours worked) (lunch break)
Excluding holidays and that vacation, should be $1,820.
Only left those out bc the holiday might have been on a weekend and the time of the vacation was specified. If anything he should *at least* have $1,775.
But i do gotta admit, he was smooth with it.
But they were charging by the day, not by the hour. If I'm not mistaken, those amounts should be reduced by a factor of 24. Still better than nothing.
@@oscargill423 ah, forgot about the day/hour thing
@@coalrocks So did Costello apparently... that's how good Abbott is at deceiving us
This reminds me of the tax man 🤔
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Common Core math?
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All of that to get one dollar a waiter take said dollar AND you get knocked out bruh😂😂😂
Can't feel sorry for Costello after the way he ripped off his landlord. (Karma)
He get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.
Well, if he gets paid by the day and he’s allowed a lunch break in on his working days then he shouldn’t lose 1/8 of the dollar
lunch breaks are not deducted, there is an extra hour worked. Saturdays are overtime, and public holidays must be paid. Pay is for hours worked, not for 24 divided by 3. He is deducting time which is not included in the pay day
@@tonybarfridge4369 He clearly stated that he will take that 1 hour away, and for paid holidays I do not know about as I don't work, but even so, that is still the correct answer compared to people starting from $121
@@Official_Happy_ nobody is paid $1 a day, and then take away 2/3. It was his scam
Haha that's funny how the math is so wrong. They should make a world-renown comedy skit out of it or something...
Unpaid two weeks vacation. Bahahaha
Some people just deserved to get punched in the nose. Abbot was that person.
Dig Lou's "Mister B" collar
That sounds like my boss.
Well in some way their math makes sense
That's kind of the joke. On some level, it makes sense. In fact, all the STEPS they're doing are correct, but they're doing them in the wrong order. With the correct order of operations, we have 7 hours a day, for 365-52 Sundays-26 Saturdays (That's 52 half saturdays)-13 Holidays. That's 7 hours a day for 274 days. 274/24=... real difficult math, we'll let my calculator do it. Multiply that number by 7 and we're looking at 79 dollars and 92 cents.
Order of operations is IMPORTANT.
@@aradraugfea6755 Why divide by 24 hrs, a day of work for him is 7 hours. He should get 1 dollar for every "day" he worked which is 274 dollars
@@bahiralilatif6639 This is context, and dropping the context is the other element that makes it funny.
Abbott's form of math really cracks me up.
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Abbott didn’t wanna pay him $1 a day ($365) cause Lou didn’t work 24hrs,half a day on Saturday, and no work on Sunday. Lou only worked 8hrs a day, but Bud took out $1 a day ($14) for his 2 week vacation 😂😂
he cheated abbott, after all this, he actually has $1.46 coming to him
Surprising they can take learning and math and make it funny.
Wait ! We don't get pay in vacation back then ?
Or holidays apparently. And while we sleep too!
But............................
lol its a dollar a day when he is subtracting his pay but 33 cents a day when he is adding it up his wages at the start
The American tax system at work.....Abbott & Costello style! 💲💲💲💲💲 💸💸💸💸💸 😝😝😝😝😝
Classic!
Which TV show is thi?
It is from the first film they appeared in, "One Night in the Tropics" (1940). The lead stars were Alan Jones and Robert Cummings.
Modern companies must have studied this video a lot to screw their employees.
That’s fine, learn how 13 times 7 equal 28 to get them back.
A joke then, but reality now
Heey, he cheated him on that vacation. If he's not including a dollar a day with the work hours, he shouldn't with the vacation time. He should have only subtracted 1/3 of the 14, so around 4 and a half, little less.