Post #779190 by AceExplorer on Fri, Aug 25, 2017 8:09 AM

On 2017-08-25 07:53, tikiskip wrote:
None of that was directed at you.
More of a hey technology has problems too kind of thing.

Do you work in that field?
It seams like you are in a way vested to the idea.

It looks like when these things break down like three or more guys come out to fix them.

Sorry I'm old school and don't like many new things really.
Look what happens when a computerized cash register (Or POS)goes down at a business or there is a power outage.
They close, it's over for the day.

Nah, didn't take it that way at all, but I have worked for a couple interesting companies, including a former Imagineer and his company and my team did some cool stuff with attraction-based lighting and show control and special effects. I'm currently involved in technology and process improvement projects, plus a handful of other ridiculously fun things.

Breakdowns are a multi-team party-o-joy, sometimes due to unions. Gotta have a separate mechanical guy, an electrical guy, a hydraulics guy, an operations guy, and maybe a bored supervisor for good measure and to write up an incident report. Oh, and sometimes a cleanup guy.

I gave up on resisting change a long time ago. I found that when I dropped my resistance to things it made it much easier to see other points of view and WHY people wanted to try funky new things, even if they were early adopters and reliability was still low. And then I also started to see that there was also the manufacturer offering steep discounts to make things more profitable for the early adopters, and so the manufacturer could garner more publicity for their brand-spanking new products and inventions, etc. etc. etc.

By the way, when a computerized cash register (modern POS system) goes down at a business or there is a power outage, it's only over for the day for the poor guys who don't anticipate that problem and who don't have an effective backup plan. See - I'm a process guy too. The more you marry technology and processes and business sense, the more successful you are likely to be when adversity strikes. And adversity strikes us all.

I have some interesting stories I can tell when we're at a bar sometime... One of these days we'll cross paths and see who can make the other person first to pass out at the bar, lol!!!