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What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote) (lemmings.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Job: cashier

Item doesn't scan

Customer: "That means it's free, right?"

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I've heard this enough to last me a lifetime.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

As someone who had to work on syncing multiple databases of customer and order data this was actually very important for me to know. Turned out that it could vary on a field by field basis and could also depend on the type of customer and where they came from.

To sync up our new and shiny SAP CRM with several Access databases and our customer-facing software I ended up writing a script that would collect all data field by field with varying hierarchies and writing it back out to everything. Worked surprisingly well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is Access still in use?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Access will probably be the last thing to die before the heat death of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even after things inappropriately hosted in Excel? Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh, yeah, forgot that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm certain the access database living in a broom closet that someone setup 20 years ago is still going strong at my last job. It was also fed by mainframe dumps, I'm super glad I never had to go anywhere near the thing personally, different department and it was explicit that they owned it.