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Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: Winston Smith on December 04, 2005, 07:39:45 PM
So I work at a small boutique that sells t-shirts, gifts, cards, novelties, and baby items. Instead of cash registers, we have old-skool imacs on top of cash drawer. These imacs are prone to freezing and breaking down, and today one did.

So, we get it started back up again, everything goes as normal. I take my lunch break, come back, and I look at the time. 2:38? What? I left at 3:00

What?

2:38 ... in the morning?

I check the date. 1/1/04.

Not 2004.

1904.

As my boss was dicking around with it attempting to fix it, he accidentally had me clocked in from 1904 to today.

I said, I quit, give me my back pay, I'll sue.

He didn't find it funny.

Eventually we got it all worked out.

Rest of the day passes without incident... I count out the register that acted up, and holy crap, we're a hunnerd and some-odd dollars over.

Uhh?

The most we've been off in my tenure there has been 8 dollars. How does one go about accidentally acquiring 107 dollars in the course of a day?

Then we realized - we were only counting purchases posted to 12/4/2005!

Not 1/1/1904!

You guys have any similar experiences?
Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: grampster on December 04, 2005, 07:43:43 PM
I hate to tell you this Winston.  It is 1904.  You must have been having a bad dream about being in the future.  I'll hop in the carriage and come over and see you so you can tell me the rest of the story.
PS:  Did you get the outhouse moved ok?
Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: Winston Smith on December 04, 2005, 08:31:20 PM
Wait.... what? What's this glowing box in front of me? QWERTY? Oh my GODDD

BACK DEMON!

Askdhjashihf9a819121281iay9111!!!!!111!!!1!!!1uno!!!!


EDIT:

Wow, okay, that was a weird post.
Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: mfree on December 05, 2005, 05:08:45 AM
Heh, I bet the iMac's battery is bad, one of those little CMOS memory jobbies.
Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: garrettwc on December 05, 2005, 05:09:22 AM
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I said, I quit, give me my back pay, I'll sue.

He didn't find it funny.
Can't imagine why. You didn't ask for interest on the money due. He should have been happy you gave him such a sweet deal. Tongue
Title: Y2k came late at work today.
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 05, 2005, 10:59:03 AM
yip the battery that holds PRAM is getting wonky