This old food court stand at the mall had digital menus, but used stickers when the prices changed.
This old food court stand at the mall had digital menus, but used stickers when the prices changed.
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I wonder if burn in was a factor? Or if the prospect of changing the images was out of the owners wheel house?
You know how it is; Brian was the guy who knew the password for the computer system, and he quit two years ago because the day manager wouldn't stop fucking with his schedule.
Brian knew the Old Ways. Without Brian, we are lost.
So, side story. Management at my old company wanted a dick-wagging screen in the office lobby. Literally just a graphic with the company logo and impressive sales numbers. Problem: they didn't want some random box having access to actual data. Fair. So the workaround was a static program that literally started from X and incremented by whatever values. And once or twice a year someone had to dig the airgapped PC out of a network closet and replace the exe via flash drive if the imaginary numbers got too incredulous. Brain dead simple procedure, well documented... and people still fucked it up.
By the time I left that TV was just playing fox business all day.
Or maybe they were marking up the official prices set by the franchiseâs software, and pocketing the difference.
Maybe? If itâs a franchise. But that is still solid B territory. Changing the files would be much less obvious
Wouldnât that get caught by the accountants when the receipts donât match up?
Maybe they were laundering the money? (nobody really knows what that means but it's always a viable explanation)
I just looked it up in the dictionary. It means "to conceal the source of money as by channeling it through an intermediary"
If this was independently owned, what likely happened is that the owner hired a company to do this, then lost the documentation of how to change it or just forgot how to do it. When it came time to change prices, they didn't know what to do, so they just taped prices on.
Yea, but i also notice that these type of screens display the same image day and night for years, and itâs a bad look for the burnt in lower price to shadow the new one, and at that point stickers or replacing the whole tv is the only fix