GN Focus: If You Had a Boss Like Mine - John A Halford - June 1984

John A Halford

One of our local supermarkets has installed computerized cash registers. The registers are supposed to operate at the speed of light if everything is working well. One day recently it wasn't. Something wasn't interfacing with something else, and the computers were making all kinds of mistakes. Consequently, the line of customers was getting longer and angrier, and the hapless cashiers were becoming more and more frustrated . By the time the old gentleman in front of me reached the head of the line, he was beside himself with impatience. As the register buzzed, clicked and flashed in a futile attempt to make sense of its own signals, the old fellow had had enough. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library