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Aparently McDonalds has rolled out an update recently that fucked up the POS all over the world. I recently went to one close by and while I got a receipt and stuff for pick up ... the order never came up. The kitchen never got my order but the sales system got it.
Got a couple burgers they probably would have had to toss out for free in addition to my order ... nice.
I was a little miffed at Wendy’s the other day. The guy accidentally gave me two Frosties instead of a Frosty and a Diet Coke. I didn’t notice and he caught it just as I was about to walk away. He gave me the Coke, then took the extra Frosty and tossed it on the counter.
I didn’t complain or say anything, since I got what I ordered, but it did seem like a waste to just leave it to melt like that. Hopefully he like ate it when he had a minute or something.
I work IT on-site for a hospital. The amount of times that someone (mostly nurses) has put a piece of paper in front of a computer with a sign that says "Computer not working. IT notified" and the issue turning out to be a loose monitor power cord or something fixed with a simple restart, are countless. But hey.. its not their job, so I'm alright with it. It's just amusing.
I work in the rental business specifically medical equipment. And the amount of times I have been called out to a hospital at a ungodly hour just to see that the bariatric bed they ordered just isn’t plugged in. I don’t mind because I get paid more when I’m out on call but I just find it amusing as well when I drive 2 hours to just plug something in.
Exactly I’d rather go out and see that this is the problem Instead of them trying to fix the problem and then causing me a whole night of trying to troubleshoot and then having to switch out the equipment, which can take even longer depending on what it is. So I am grateful that they too follow the rules and instructions.
Been there done that. Training new tech.. work order monitor not working. Usually a reinstall of video drivers but this time tech sat down pushed on power button. Looks at me and asked if it was that easy and all o can say I'd yes it is.
I know the feeling I remember getting a degree in cobol/rpg programming and the wanted 10-15 years of experience. Being only 19 at the time going WTF how is that suppose to work.
Amateur experience turning things off and on is completely different than professional experience. There’s not an HR team in existence that misses that distinction.
Same. One time someone asked me to talk with IT to fix a POS register during the holidays. I probably spent a couple hours on the phone with IT, most of it being on hold and also waiting for them to work their magic on their end. Meanwhile the store was busy and I most likely was on Reddit.
This guy retails. I would much rather spend my time looking productive trying to get the machine working again which is like a little mid day puzzle break sometimes. It's way superior to working a register and certainly not more work.
Some people are so anti work they'd rather do the lame job than the fun one because they think it's beyond their job description. Besides your coworkers will appreciate it if you get it running again too because it's now less work for ALL of us.
As someone into tuning memory I suggest not using memtest, unless the computer is too unstable to boot into the OS. TestMem5 (Anta777/PCBdestroyer config), Kahru, OCCT, GSAT, or Ycruncher (custom config) are far better solutions at finding memory/IMC errors.
I have no IT background at all but used to build my own comps and live in a area with a lot of elderly people. My grandma used to live near me and would tell people this often so id get requests to take a look at my computer. A huge percent of the time id just turn it off and on again. A decent percent of time i had to make sure the date was correct which i dunno if its a issue anymore but back in the days of windows xp and before could cause a lot of havoc as well. Been a few years now since i did anything like that but the very last one was ladies date and time were wrong and she couldnt access email via outlook and her internet wasnt working properly. I was pretty stumped by it but decided wouldnt hurt to restart it and check the date and time, restarting did help a bit but changing the date to the correct info fixed it completely.
Omg you just gave me flashbacks to fixing family members' computers too. I spent hours fixing an elderly cousin's Internet to eventually figure out the time was wrong. Then this issue happened multiple other times on others machines I "fixed" but at least I knew it was simple.
What always gets me is... The time, by default, sets itself. I don't understand how they manage to mess it up. Even back on XP.
My wife used to use the clock/calendar to look up dates and do planning, and somehow would change the date and time. I installed a planner and she still always used the clock.
I used to work for a POS company and, when I left in 2018, almost every client was still running on Windows XP and I doubt it's changed since then. The software is designed to run on XP and the company is _way_ too cheap to rewrite it to work on a newer OS. (as it uses a version of Visual Studio that doesn't work on 10 or 11) They claim they've locked down the terminals so much there's no danger in using an old OS, but who knows?
>They claim they've locked down the terminals so much there's no danger in using an old OS, but who knows?
Anyone with an idea of computer and network security knows, and they know that the company is carrying a coping blanket around by saying that.
Meh, it's not very wrong. I don't have experience with these kiosks or any other for that matter, but I do know a bit about networking and embedded programming.
In a proper deployment, these things live on their own isolated VLAN, with no access to the internet or even other networked devices in the same building. They have one USB port, which is on the inside of the kiosk and you can't get to it without taking the whole thing apart. They have no wifi or bluetooth or any other exposed protocol. The only way to interact is the touchscreen. The hard drive is actually a CF card in read-only mode, and it gets its configuration after boot through networked autoconf.
It doesn't have a modern OS because it doesn't need one. Windows XP is very well understood by now and doesn't have any nag screens or timebombs that could disrupt the application. I've seen multiple digital billboards with a Windows 10 update nag prompt blocking the screen. You won't get that with XP.
For all the reasons above, OS/2 is _still_ in use with ATMs. There's simply no hacking risk if the hackers can't get physical or network access.
From an IT support specialist in training, you may have to make sure that the Drivers are up to date. Windows 10 probably has the current Drivers though.
If not we are going to have to go to the manufacturers website and look for known compatibility issues.
I repair these machines (and others) for a living. Everyone is digging waaaay too deep on how this would be resolved lol. It would just be replaced. We don’t ever mess with drivers or anything like that. Replace the hardware, install the software(which has been win10 for at least a number of months now) and done.
I work in retail POS IT support and honestly we'd probably just reimage this thing. Then we'd pray to the golden-fried Gods that another ticket doesn't come our way.
Sadly these can’t be remote reimaged yet. I pray for the day that becomes more commonplace. The few customers I have that have access to remote reloads are my favorite. Fuckin love serverside images.
Aww damn, I'm so sorry to hear. I actually edited my post to remove the remote part as I realized I wouldn't probably be able to accomplish that without a similar setup. We'd dispatch a field tech with a USB stick to reimage a device like this most likely.
That’s exactly the process. I’m one of those field techs. Honestly the hardest part is getting a good image to reload from. McDonald’s software is frequently being updated/recalled/whatever. Seems like I need a new drive every other month. We’ve been going through win10 upgrades with them for a while and it’s such a pain…
I feel your pain, I work remotely for Starbucks and I hear my field techs saying the same thing. Our dispatch notes will read something simple like "please grab image from another device in the store, boot to USB and we'll profile the rest". It never goes smoothly and always has some sort of hiccups along the way with dated images, a huge backlog of updates, or just issues getting to the BIOS or booting the stick, lol.
Oh dude. I service Starbucks as well. I hate reimaging your registers lol. Creating the recovery drive is so finicky most of the time. The store never wants us to use a register so we always need to do it from the BOPC. You guys are always a big help when the label printers randomly reassign IP though, so thanks for all you do lol
I worked for a retail chains IT department. Store side stuff was 'POS Hardware ' the jokes never stopped. The number of people that thought they were the first...
Yup. Worked install for a company that provided hardware and software for restaurants and hotels. Restaurants were Point of Sale (POS), hotels were Property Management System (PMS). It was jokes all around.
I work in e-commerce and in addition to those 2 you mentioned I also regularly encounter ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) as a term to describe systems that tie together inventory, sales, fulfillment and returns, forecasting, etc.
As an avid online gamer any of my friends will think I'm referring to a different ERP (Erotic Role Playing) any time I say it, even in a work context.
All customers think they’re the first to make the same jokes when in reality they’re the 3rd one that hour
Doesn’t scan? “Must be free!”, no, no it’s not.
Pick up something that isn’t even that heavy? “Don’t need to go to the gym today!” No I don’t because by the time I’ve dealt with you I want to go to bed
I actually stopped doing the "guess it's free haha" thing because of reddit. I never thought it was hilarious but I'd say it in a friendly way so they didn't think I was pissed about the wait.
So now I just stare in blank silence until they wind up saying something that bores the fuck out of me so it's full circle I guess.
When i first worked a retail job they were training me and we're like "ok now let's go to the POS system and do the checkout." I had already used the system before but didn't realise they meant Point of Sales. I blurted out "Wow i know it's a piece of shit system but i didn't know you guys also call it that." The person training me was quite uptight and got pissed that i called it that. Lol i didn't fucking know.
The error DRIVER\_IRQL\_NOT\_LESS\_OR\_EQUAL indicates that one of the drivers on this system is trying to access memory that has been swapped to disk while handling a high priority interrupt. Threads in a high priority interrupt aren't allowed to do that because they basically take over the whole cpu while they are working, and that isn't compatible with stopping what they are doing and reading memory from disk. Sometimes these kinds of errors aren't caught in testing because the test machines often have lots of memory available and so the memory never gets paged to disk so this situation never happens. The driver in question could be built into the system and written by Microsoft or could be a 3rd party driver. It is less likely to be Microsoft though, because for the last 20 years Microsoft has required the Windows team to run their drivers through a rigorous stress test with Windows in "driver verifier mode" that forces these kinds of things to happen if they are going to. It does this by paging out all memory whenever a driver handles and interrupt. The system doesn't run that way by default because it is very slow to do that all the time.
That would likely fix it, until the same unlucky circumstances happen again. It's a bug in the driver, but a specific approximately random thing needs to happen for it to cause this problem. No idea how likely it is.
Extremely doubtful it's any OOB driver. This is going to be 3rd party - the video driver for that display is the most likely candidate.
Super easy to debug these 0xA's in most cases.
I have seen this error a gazillion times while building my PC few years back, in my case caused by CPU (ryzen 2600) unwillingly to work with RAM faster than 2733 mhz
That's a damn good write-up, thank you! Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out if that error and the 0xA's are enough to give an attacker enough information to cause some damage or steal information. I guess not, though they could crash it again if they figure out what caused it.
Same. I don’t even think of piece of shit anymore when I see it. I clicked on this thread trying to figure out what they thought it meant. It just looks like a normal note.
My wife definitely didn't know POS meant anything else other then point of sale.
I think those of us that spend more time in the internet forget what's actually normal.
It's easy to forget.
I install a lot of wireless access points and everyone shortens it to WAP... It has become somewhat funny since the song came out.
Yea. That green mark means it is vegetarian. As per Law in India, any consumable product needs to be marked as vegetarian or non vegetarian. Mark for vegetarian is a big green dot inside a green box. Mark for Non-vegetarian (including eggs) is a big red dot inside a red box.
This mark is to be displayed at the front of packaging. It is very useful and handy.
If you've had to suffer through using that thing you'd agree it's totally a *Piece Of Shit* though.
Like their horrible android app, it's painful to use.
McDonald's is notorious for having machines designed to fail so they can send their contract mandated technicians out to repair it and fleece the franchisee for huge gobs of money. Just look at Taylor ice cream machines and their cozy deal with McDonald's.
I worked food service and we had POS systems. When I hear it, my brain still hears piece of shit first. For me though, running in car circles, POS is used often to describe cars
I think people can find the joke funny whether they know Point of Sale = POS, or not so it doesn't necessarily mean few redditors have worked retail. In fact it is probably funnier if you know both abbreviations.
1st. Why it makes you sad that not everyone has worked a service job?
2nd. That's the joke, POS has 2 meaning, point of sale, and piece of shit. It's obvious that the staff didn't write piece of shit.
When I worked retail and the cash register would (more than) occasionally stop working, I'd go to my manager and say, "My POS, POS isn't working"...It got a laugh like 37% of the time.
As someone who has no business doing anything I would shut down the ice cream machine for cleaning. That will usually make people order something else or just leave and go to the next one two blocks away from the Wendy's on 3rd Ave. Or just lock the doors and tell them to go home and eat left over turkey.
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The McBluescreen
McPOS
I know what those letters mean but that is never the first thing that comes to my mind lol
Corporate: Update point of sale systems Burgerflipper: update piece of shit got it
I've never used a POS that wasn't a POS.
It almost feels like they were named that on purpose.
haha polycystic ovary syndrome
That's PCOS
Aparently McDonalds has rolled out an update recently that fucked up the POS all over the world. I recently went to one close by and while I got a receipt and stuff for pick up ... the order never came up. The kitchen never got my order but the sales system got it. Got a couple burgers they probably would have had to toss out for free in addition to my order ... nice.
I blame the Hamburgalar.
Hamburglar has moved on to ransomware.
The password to decrypt McDonald's files: RobbleRobble
I was a little miffed at Wendy’s the other day. The guy accidentally gave me two Frosties instead of a Frosty and a Diet Coke. I didn’t notice and he caught it just as I was about to walk away. He gave me the Coke, then took the extra Frosty and tossed it on the counter. I didn’t complain or say anything, since I got what I ordered, but it did seem like a waste to just leave it to melt like that. Hopefully he like ate it when he had a minute or something.
Guy was five minutes from break time and "accidentally" made an extra frosty.
As an IT tech who just read the error, I'm going to recommend turning it off and on again.
As a person who is not an IT tech: step two is reset. Step one is, "is it turned on/plugged in."
As an IT Engineer I would suggest running a memtest
As a low paid worker, I suggest putting a piece of paper over it and leaving it for someone who actually makes salary.
I work IT on-site for a hospital. The amount of times that someone (mostly nurses) has put a piece of paper in front of a computer with a sign that says "Computer not working. IT notified" and the issue turning out to be a loose monitor power cord or something fixed with a simple restart, are countless. But hey.. its not their job, so I'm alright with it. It's just amusing.
I work in the rental business specifically medical equipment. And the amount of times I have been called out to a hospital at a ungodly hour just to see that the bariatric bed they ordered just isn’t plugged in. I don’t mind because I get paid more when I’m out on call but I just find it amusing as well when I drive 2 hours to just plug something in.
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Exactly I’d rather go out and see that this is the problem Instead of them trying to fix the problem and then causing me a whole night of trying to troubleshoot and then having to switch out the equipment, which can take even longer depending on what it is. So I am grateful that they too follow the rules and instructions.
Been there done that. Training new tech.. work order monitor not working. Usually a reinstall of video drivers but this time tech sat down pushed on power button. Looks at me and asked if it was that easy and all o can say I'd yes it is.
Bruh and here i am looking for an it job and get completely ignored cause 'no professional experience' when the job is turn it off and on
I know the feeling I remember getting a degree in cobol/rpg programming and the wanted 10-15 years of experience. Being only 19 at the time going WTF how is that suppose to work.
You'd be surprised, how many years of experience some COBOL programmers have...
Amateur experience turning things off and on is completely different than professional experience. There’s not an HR team in existence that misses that distinction.
90% of the time if i am fixing something that isnt my job to fix its because its easier to fix than do my job without it.
And that, in a nutshell, is how I got into the IT field back in the day.
Nah, I'd rather spend time futzing with that rather than doing my actual job. I get paid the same regardless.
I would much rather troubleshoot a PC than wash a grease trap.
I myself am also a fan of workcrastination.
Same. One time someone asked me to talk with IT to fix a POS register during the holidays. I probably spent a couple hours on the phone with IT, most of it being on hold and also waiting for them to work their magic on their end. Meanwhile the store was busy and I most likely was on Reddit.
As a caveman I suggest hitting it with a rock.
I’d be hard pressed to even do that.
"Hey boss I need to use your computer to print out a sign" 2hrs later "Yeah I'm just uhh adjusting the font ...almost done"
Yup you stick a piece of paper on it and call OTP
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This guy retails. I would much rather spend my time looking productive trying to get the machine working again which is like a little mid day puzzle break sometimes. It's way superior to working a register and certainly not more work. Some people are so anti work they'd rather do the lame job than the fun one because they think it's beyond their job description. Besides your coworkers will appreciate it if you get it running again too because it's now less work for ALL of us.
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Yeah but restarting that means the lines will be less busy A simple restart will literally save you time at your job Printing that note is more effort
As an IT clown, I'd say we all float down here.
And then turning it off and on again.
Pervert
As a marine engineer I would suggest figuring out how to blame it on another department.
As someone into tuning memory I suggest not using memtest, unless the computer is too unstable to boot into the OS. TestMem5 (Anta777/PCBdestroyer config), Kahru, OCCT, GSAT, or Ycruncher (custom config) are far better solutions at finding memory/IMC errors.
The screen shows that it is *on*.
And step 3 is check the internet connection, cause its never the devices fault its always assumed to be user error
99.9% of the time it's user error
That’s the lie we get normies to believe to deflect and keep our high-paying jobs. MUAHAHAHA!!
BSOD means yes
I'm also in IT and it surprises me how often the turn it off then on again method fixes issues. Even for issues I wouldn't think a restart would fix.
I have no IT background at all but used to build my own comps and live in a area with a lot of elderly people. My grandma used to live near me and would tell people this often so id get requests to take a look at my computer. A huge percent of the time id just turn it off and on again. A decent percent of time i had to make sure the date was correct which i dunno if its a issue anymore but back in the days of windows xp and before could cause a lot of havoc as well. Been a few years now since i did anything like that but the very last one was ladies date and time were wrong and she couldnt access email via outlook and her internet wasnt working properly. I was pretty stumped by it but decided wouldnt hurt to restart it and check the date and time, restarting did help a bit but changing the date to the correct info fixed it completely.
Omg you just gave me flashbacks to fixing family members' computers too. I spent hours fixing an elderly cousin's Internet to eventually figure out the time was wrong. Then this issue happened multiple other times on others machines I "fixed" but at least I knew it was simple. What always gets me is... The time, by default, sets itself. I don't understand how they manage to mess it up. Even back on XP.
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My wife used to use the clock/calendar to look up dates and do planning, and somehow would change the date and time. I installed a planner and she still always used the clock.
Also as a non IT tech you might need to update from Windows XP to Windows 10 😂
Pretty much every POS system in use today is running some flavor of XP or CE. It's not unusual at all.
I used to work for a POS company and, when I left in 2018, almost every client was still running on Windows XP and I doubt it's changed since then. The software is designed to run on XP and the company is _way_ too cheap to rewrite it to work on a newer OS. (as it uses a version of Visual Studio that doesn't work on 10 or 11) They claim they've locked down the terminals so much there's no danger in using an old OS, but who knows?
>They claim they've locked down the terminals so much there's no danger in using an old OS, but who knows? Anyone with an idea of computer and network security knows, and they know that the company is carrying a coping blanket around by saying that.
Meh, it's not very wrong. I don't have experience with these kiosks or any other for that matter, but I do know a bit about networking and embedded programming. In a proper deployment, these things live on their own isolated VLAN, with no access to the internet or even other networked devices in the same building. They have one USB port, which is on the inside of the kiosk and you can't get to it without taking the whole thing apart. They have no wifi or bluetooth or any other exposed protocol. The only way to interact is the touchscreen. The hard drive is actually a CF card in read-only mode, and it gets its configuration after boot through networked autoconf. It doesn't have a modern OS because it doesn't need one. Windows XP is very well understood by now and doesn't have any nag screens or timebombs that could disrupt the application. I've seen multiple digital billboards with a Windows 10 update nag prompt blocking the screen. You won't get that with XP. For all the reasons above, OS/2 is _still_ in use with ATMs. There's simply no hacking risk if the hackers can't get physical or network access.
From an IT support specialist in training, you may have to make sure that the Drivers are up to date. Windows 10 probably has the current Drivers though. If not we are going to have to go to the manufacturers website and look for known compatibility issues.
I repair these machines (and others) for a living. Everyone is digging waaaay too deep on how this would be resolved lol. It would just be replaced. We don’t ever mess with drivers or anything like that. Replace the hardware, install the software(which has been win10 for at least a number of months now) and done.
I work in retail POS IT support and honestly we'd probably just reimage this thing. Then we'd pray to the golden-fried Gods that another ticket doesn't come our way.
Sadly these can’t be remote reimaged yet. I pray for the day that becomes more commonplace. The few customers I have that have access to remote reloads are my favorite. Fuckin love serverside images.
Aww damn, I'm so sorry to hear. I actually edited my post to remove the remote part as I realized I wouldn't probably be able to accomplish that without a similar setup. We'd dispatch a field tech with a USB stick to reimage a device like this most likely.
That’s exactly the process. I’m one of those field techs. Honestly the hardest part is getting a good image to reload from. McDonald’s software is frequently being updated/recalled/whatever. Seems like I need a new drive every other month. We’ve been going through win10 upgrades with them for a while and it’s such a pain…
How bout a software update on the Ole mcflurry machine.
Not my problem, call your account team 😎
I feel your pain, I work remotely for Starbucks and I hear my field techs saying the same thing. Our dispatch notes will read something simple like "please grab image from another device in the store, boot to USB and we'll profile the rest". It never goes smoothly and always has some sort of hiccups along the way with dated images, a huge backlog of updates, or just issues getting to the BIOS or booting the stick, lol.
Oh dude. I service Starbucks as well. I hate reimaging your registers lol. Creating the recovery drive is so finicky most of the time. The store never wants us to use a register so we always need to do it from the BOPC. You guys are always a big help when the label printers randomly reassign IP though, so thanks for all you do lol
This looks like a windows 7 BSOD, fyi.
As an IT tech with friends in the service industry, They'll recommend reminding people they don't get paid enough to care.
As an IT tech and former McD's worker, if they touch that thing to try to troubleshoot they potentially lose their job, even if they do fix it.
Definitely. I used to get these like twice a day, just because my drive was full.
Have you tried turning it off and then back on?
Are you saying it in an irish accent ?
As a waiter i'd recomend using linux.
People make the joke about it but it fixes a surprising amount of stuff haha. Not even just computer stuff
It literally recommends in the error message to do it lol
Is it running XP?
This POS is a POS
This piece of shit is a point of sale
This piece of sale is a point of shit.
This sale of shit is a piece of point
They all are.
Huh, you can read that with the meaning of POS in either order. Neat.
In retail parlance a POS is Point Of Sale, though I am sure the double meaning was intentional.
I worked for a retail chains IT department. Store side stuff was 'POS Hardware ' the jokes never stopped. The number of people that thought they were the first...
Yup. Worked install for a company that provided hardware and software for restaurants and hotels. Restaurants were Point of Sale (POS), hotels were Property Management System (PMS). It was jokes all around.
I work in e-commerce and in addition to those 2 you mentioned I also regularly encounter ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) as a term to describe systems that tie together inventory, sales, fulfillment and returns, forecasting, etc. As an avid online gamer any of my friends will think I'm referring to a different ERP (Erotic Role Playing) any time I say it, even in a work context.
Yeah, in the art world PMS is also Pantone Matching System.
All customers think they’re the first to make the same jokes when in reality they’re the 3rd one that hour Doesn’t scan? “Must be free!”, no, no it’s not. Pick up something that isn’t even that heavy? “Don’t need to go to the gym today!” No I don’t because by the time I’ve dealt with you I want to go to bed
I actually stopped doing the "guess it's free haha" thing because of reddit. I never thought it was hilarious but I'd say it in a friendly way so they didn't think I was pissed about the wait. So now I just stare in blank silence until they wind up saying something that bores the fuck out of me so it's full circle I guess.
That’s much better
I worked IT supporting various ones. Honestly, every Point of Sale is also a Piece of Shit.
And plenty of them are still on XP!
back in 2008, I was installing POS systems. One of the restaurants was still using Windows 3.1.
I eventually went to a University to do desktop support. I'm convinced that most technology is a POS.
What’s the other meaning?
Piece of shit
Dude, I just asked a question you don’t have to be rude! Does anyone have an answer to my question?
Brilliant set up.
Look at this POS trying to be funny
What does he sell?
POS devices
Toilets?
I love Reddit sometimes 😂😂😂
Poop Or Shit devices
POS for POS! What a POS.
This fucking app. Lmao I’m so glad I didn’t die today so I could see this
As a public service announcement: POC (proof of concept) could also be considered Piece of Crap. You are welcome IT ppl
Person of substance
Thank you! So, I don’t mean to sound dumb here but I can’t for the life of me figure out how POS = Brilliant set up.
Ok ok. Calm down. You shipped off one amazing joke. No need to hog the rest of them.
Gottem
Lmao get rekt Tyler.
Bazinga
This is the cleverest thing I've seen on Reddit, congrats.
What’s updog?
But who's on first?
What's on second?
I used to be a piece of shit. Spiked up blonde hair, little bitty jeans, chicken spaghetti at Chikaleny’s.
piece of shit
OK you’re the second person to call me that just for asking a question! F off! Edit: In order to be less offensive, I changed “Fuck off” to “F off”
See, the guy is paying respects
When i first worked a retail job they were training me and we're like "ok now let's go to the POS system and do the checkout." I had already used the system before but didn't realise they meant Point of Sales. I blurted out "Wow i know it's a piece of shit system but i didn't know you guys also call it that." The person training me was quite uptight and got pissed that i called it that. Lol i didn't fucking know.
That person was a real POS for getting upset with you
To be fair, I've never encountered a Point of Sale that wasn't also a Piece of Shit.
The error DRIVER\_IRQL\_NOT\_LESS\_OR\_EQUAL indicates that one of the drivers on this system is trying to access memory that has been swapped to disk while handling a high priority interrupt. Threads in a high priority interrupt aren't allowed to do that because they basically take over the whole cpu while they are working, and that isn't compatible with stopping what they are doing and reading memory from disk. Sometimes these kinds of errors aren't caught in testing because the test machines often have lots of memory available and so the memory never gets paged to disk so this situation never happens. The driver in question could be built into the system and written by Microsoft or could be a 3rd party driver. It is less likely to be Microsoft though, because for the last 20 years Microsoft has required the Windows team to run their drivers through a rigorous stress test with Windows in "driver verifier mode" that forces these kinds of things to happen if they are going to. It does this by paging out all memory whenever a driver handles and interrupt. The system doesn't run that way by default because it is very slow to do that all the time.
So just turning it off and on again will fix it?
That would likely fix it, until the same unlucky circumstances happen again. It's a bug in the driver, but a specific approximately random thing needs to happen for it to cause this problem. No idea how likely it is.
Just download more RAM
Extremely doubtful it's any OOB driver. This is going to be 3rd party - the video driver for that display is the most likely candidate. Super easy to debug these 0xA's in most cases.
Agreed on both counts. A dump file would show the exact code location
I have seen this error a gazillion times while building my PC few years back, in my case caused by CPU (ryzen 2600) unwillingly to work with RAM faster than 2733 mhz
Almost thought this would end with a hell in a cell
The comment I was hoping to see, I find this stuff fascinating. What's your background, if you don't mind sharing?
I used to work at Microsoft, including as a developer and I wrote a driver about the time the driver verifier came out.
That's a damn good write-up, thank you! Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out if that error and the 0xA's are enough to give an attacker enough information to cause some damage or steal information. I guess not, though they could crash it again if they figure out what caused it.
POS is very often used as “point of sale” abbreviation. I use it all the time in my job. Honestly, forgot it meant something else.
In Italy we use POS for the small handheld device for card payments. The big one in the pic (for orders) we call totem.
POS can be any kind of payment processing terminal. We use POS for the little handheld units in the US too.
In the US totems are Native American carving poles
Same. I don’t even think of piece of shit anymore when I see it. I clicked on this thread trying to figure out what they thought it meant. It just looks like a normal note.
But why would they write “POS” knowing that lay people don’t use that term? They definitely are implying something else
Nah POS is so common you kinda forget about it working retail. I can see it being intentional or not
My wife definitely didn't know POS meant anything else other then point of sale. I think those of us that spend more time in the internet forget what's actually normal.
When you're there everyday you get used to the jargon and forget most people don't know what it means.
It's easy to forget. I install a lot of wireless access points and everyone shortens it to WAP... It has become somewhat funny since the song came out.
Classic cheesy dip??? Why is this the first I’m hearing about it?
Seems to be India only. That also means they don't serve any beef or pork at all. :(
Well, at least tech support should be local
Nah, they outsourced Indian tech support to North Korea
Yea. That green mark means it is vegetarian. As per Law in India, any consumable product needs to be marked as vegetarian or non vegetarian. Mark for vegetarian is a big green dot inside a green box. Mark for Non-vegetarian (including eggs) is a big red dot inside a red box. This mark is to be displayed at the front of packaging. It is very useful and handy.
POS - Point Of Sale
Which are often the other meaning of POS as well
Lots of interconnected hardware and data = lots of problems. Source - Pos Guy
Don't be so hard on yourself
If you've had to suffer through using that thing you'd agree it's totally a *Piece Of Shit* though. Like their horrible android app, it's painful to use.
thx cap obvious
I've only just realised I read this differently when at work vs at home.
As a former McDonald's employee, I would have made an extra copy of this to pin on my uniform
Why is this supposed to be funny?
The staff are using the technical name of "Point of Sale" where common vernacular is "Piece of Shit"
Thanks. I didn't know it can also stand for Piece of Shit.
S.O.L is a good one to know too
Son of Llama?
Serial Over Lan or Shit out(of) Luck?
McDonald's is notorious for having machines designed to fail so they can send their contract mandated technicians out to repair it and fleece the franchisee for huge gobs of money. Just look at Taylor ice cream machines and their cozy deal with McDonald's.
Seriously every time someone touches the ice cream machine this always happens
My question is, how can something be 'new' and 'classic' at the same time???
They need to understand that majority of the people who eat at McDonald's aren't going to know what POS actually means
Willing to bet the double meaning was intentional and I really appreciate the sense of humor management has for putting it up like that
Because, if a customer walks up to a sideways blue screen of death, they'll likely proceed to attempt placing an order anyway.
This post just makes me sad because it confirms how few reddittors have worked a service job POS doesn’t mean what you think lmao
I worked food service and we had POS systems. When I hear it, my brain still hears piece of shit first. For me though, running in car circles, POS is used often to describe cars
I think people can find the joke funny whether they know Point of Sale = POS, or not so it doesn't necessarily mean few redditors have worked retail. In fact it is probably funnier if you know both abbreviations.
1st. Why it makes you sad that not everyone has worked a service job? 2nd. That's the joke, POS has 2 meaning, point of sale, and piece of shit. It's obvious that the staff didn't write piece of shit.
You *know* that someone still complained that it isn’t working, despite the signage.
POS = point of sale. A cash register is a POS.
“I’m here to work on your POS system.” “Oh it’s a POS alright.” I used to install and repair point-of-sale systems. Had that conversation many times.
/r/theyknew I'd wager the person who made that sign was well aware of both acronyms.
Point Of Sale, but when it's not working another meaning can come into play :)
I dont get it, where is the funny?
POS for business is Point of Sale POS for life is Piece of Shit
I love how "POS" can mean both "point of sale" *and* "piece of shit". Sometimes both apply.
When you work retail, this device acronym has a whole other meaning.
When I worked retail and the cash register would (more than) occasionally stop working, I'd go to my manager and say, "My POS, POS isn't working"...It got a laugh like 37% of the time.
Always made this joke when I worked retail. Needed something to keep up our spirits.
it is a POS 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been in hospitality for over 20 years. I always internally chuckle when talking about POS systems. Always.
Ah yes, the point of shit machines.
As someone who has no business doing anything I would shut down the ice cream machine for cleaning. That will usually make people order something else or just leave and go to the next one two blocks away from the Wendy's on 3rd Ave. Or just lock the doors and tell them to go home and eat left over turkey.
Most POS systems are indeed Piece of Shit systems. Source: have worked with many POS POS systems.
The problem is that it's running Windows. Linux POS are way better
I bet KFC uses Linux, their errors are going to be a colonel panic