Its a feature
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So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at. Fear not the cash registers are UPS'd and we have a back up generator for cash registers, emergency lights, automatic doors, etc... Five minute laters all but 3 brand new $4000+ registers were gone... oops. Knowing that this shouldn't be happening I abandoned my job (counting registers) and tried fixing things. First thing I found were a couple defective UPS's (and brand new too boot) and that they were installed wrong. Instead of plugging the UPS into the labled generater outlet they plugged it into the one for non-essential devices (i.e. not connected to generator). All fine and dandy I personally got all but two working by the time the power came back (the defective units). Several days later I was talking to my boss, who had called the large computer company that built and installed the registers. Needless to say he was quite upset when the words "its a feature" came up. It turns out that this company had neglected to pass on the information to the install crew that there was a generator... Ready for the kicker, the store I work at was one of the last stores to get the new registers... they have been upgrading all the stores to these registers for ~4 years now... That means that there is a good chance that all of the stores were setup incorrectly :eek: The good news, I got a congratulations and thanks for my hard work in an emergency. A clue about the big computer company, think chess.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots -
So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at. Fear not the cash registers are UPS'd and we have a back up generator for cash registers, emergency lights, automatic doors, etc... Five minute laters all but 3 brand new $4000+ registers were gone... oops. Knowing that this shouldn't be happening I abandoned my job (counting registers) and tried fixing things. First thing I found were a couple defective UPS's (and brand new too boot) and that they were installed wrong. Instead of plugging the UPS into the labled generater outlet they plugged it into the one for non-essential devices (i.e. not connected to generator). All fine and dandy I personally got all but two working by the time the power came back (the defective units). Several days later I was talking to my boss, who had called the large computer company that built and installed the registers. Needless to say he was quite upset when the words "its a feature" came up. It turns out that this company had neglected to pass on the information to the install crew that there was a generator... Ready for the kicker, the store I work at was one of the last stores to get the new registers... they have been upgrading all the stores to these registers for ~4 years now... That means that there is a good chance that all of the stores were setup incorrectly :eek: The good news, I got a congratulations and thanks for my hard work in an emergency. A clue about the big computer company, think chess.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on IdiotsMatt Newman wrote:
So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at.
Used to work at one myself; my brother and father both work at grocery stores. Care to reveal which store chain?
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Matt Newman wrote:
So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at.
Used to work at one myself; my brother and father both work at grocery stores. Care to reveal which store chain?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Dumbest. Movie. Title. Evaaar. The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
Don't want to say much, but really big in the midwest [Update] Though checking your profile you may not have heard of it being from bloomington, Mankato is one northern most stores.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots -
So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at. Fear not the cash registers are UPS'd and we have a back up generator for cash registers, emergency lights, automatic doors, etc... Five minute laters all but 3 brand new $4000+ registers were gone... oops. Knowing that this shouldn't be happening I abandoned my job (counting registers) and tried fixing things. First thing I found were a couple defective UPS's (and brand new too boot) and that they were installed wrong. Instead of plugging the UPS into the labled generater outlet they plugged it into the one for non-essential devices (i.e. not connected to generator). All fine and dandy I personally got all but two working by the time the power came back (the defective units). Several days later I was talking to my boss, who had called the large computer company that built and installed the registers. Needless to say he was quite upset when the words "its a feature" came up. It turns out that this company had neglected to pass on the information to the install crew that there was a generator... Ready for the kicker, the store I work at was one of the last stores to get the new registers... they have been upgrading all the stores to these registers for ~4 years now... That means that there is a good chance that all of the stores were setup incorrectly :eek: The good news, I got a congratulations and thanks for my hard work in an emergency. A clue about the big computer company, think chess.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on IdiotsMatt Newman wrote:
A clue about the big computer company, think chess
As in, you guys got rooked?
Software Zen:
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Matt Newman wrote:
A clue about the big computer company, think chess
As in, you guys got rooked?
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
As in, you guys got rooked?
More as in something big and blue from a few years ago
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots -
So a week or two ago the power went out at the grocery store I work at. Fear not the cash registers are UPS'd and we have a back up generator for cash registers, emergency lights, automatic doors, etc... Five minute laters all but 3 brand new $4000+ registers were gone... oops. Knowing that this shouldn't be happening I abandoned my job (counting registers) and tried fixing things. First thing I found were a couple defective UPS's (and brand new too boot) and that they were installed wrong. Instead of plugging the UPS into the labled generater outlet they plugged it into the one for non-essential devices (i.e. not connected to generator). All fine and dandy I personally got all but two working by the time the power came back (the defective units). Several days later I was talking to my boss, who had called the large computer company that built and installed the registers. Needless to say he was quite upset when the words "its a feature" came up. It turns out that this company had neglected to pass on the information to the install crew that there was a generator... Ready for the kicker, the store I work at was one of the last stores to get the new registers... they have been upgrading all the stores to these registers for ~4 years now... That means that there is a good chance that all of the stores were setup incorrectly :eek: The good news, I got a congratulations and thanks for my hard work in an emergency. A clue about the big computer company, think chess.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiotscan you say H.A.L.???
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
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Don't want to say much, but really big in the midwest [Update] Though checking your profile you may not have heard of it being from bloomington, Mankato is one northern most stores.
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on IdiotsIt's not Cub Foods, is it?
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It's not Cub Foods, is it?
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I'd never lower myself to cub... unless it was life and death and my only choices were cub or walmart. :)
Matt Newman
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I'd never lower myself to cub... unless it was life and death and my only choices were cub or walmart. :)
Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on IdiotsOuch! Harsh words for Cub, eh? :laugh:
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