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This old food court stand at the mall had digital menus, but used stickers when the prices changed.
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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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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.
If they're a publicly traded company then they're lucky no one knowledgeable ever noticed that sign, because iirc lying about sales numbers is a no-no that can get you in trouble and bring big fines
Now that you mention it, that display might have gone away right around the same time the company went public. Good call.