Yeah, my previous employer had shutdowns on the week of July 4th and Christmas so the production operators on contract(aka not paid for holidays) could volunteer to help in the counts.
I was curious if libraries have a similar system...
Out of curiosity do you have a routine to periodically (annually, quarterly, I don't know) to re-arrange books put back in the wrong place?
I know they do it in warehouses to verify like "system says we have 500 of x but we have 495. System says we have 1100 of y but we have 1132" and they correct all the counts annually.
Really? When I go to the bank they have a card machine there, insert card, enter pin, teller does order and if it's over $1000 require a state issue id also...
Except you also have to have your card/phone and know your pin. It's actually one of the hardest places to steal from.
I have an uncle who used to do security for a major department store. This was over 40 years ago. They had an issue where entire racks of clothes were going missing. One time it was even two complete pallets, not even unpacked yet, they were received and then just missing. After the investigation they discovered a guy had clothes that looked similar to their uniform walked in confidently, released the locks on the wheels of the rack, rolled it into the back, another guy pulled up in a van, they put the whole rack in the back and drive off. He kinda looked like he belonged so no one questioned him.
The pallets, again same guy just walked into back room found a forklift, picked them up, loaded them into a rental truck and drove off.
Stealing is easy, it's not getting greedy and being able to not get caught is the issue.
I saw a talk recently, I can find the video if you like but pretty sure it was the most recent ND conference, where they made the point that a lot of lack of efficiency in modern code is because of large companies. Basically in alot of cases it's more important to get a product out ASAP then to care if it was well done. Ok, a poorly written program may cost an extra $10,000 a month to run but if it earns them a million a month and saves 6 months of development time it pays for itself and they can eat the cost.
This seems like the case with renting vdis instead of fixing the program.
Am I reading that right, that he printed out the generated sql query?
If so depending on context that may make sense to complain about. A 12 page sql query would be insane, something sounds like their are other issues.
That said I probably wouldn't go to cto, I would go to manager or a senior dev and ask why it was so complex to get a particular content type. If there were no performance issues or bugs I would just ask out of curiosity.
As long as the child isn't actually hurt then typically you can distract then with something funny and they forget about the pain.
Obviously if they have a serious injury don't do this and contact medical professionals.