When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have ‘2 for $x’ specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.
People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.
So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 ‘2 for $6’ specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.
Anyone else do anything like that?
I used to work at a place on an hourly wage. There were two PCs you would clock in on. Most of the time, people would just use the one. But one time, I had to use the other. And I noticed the clock was behind on the other. By about ten minutes.
So after that, I would clock in on the computer showing the prior time stamp, and clock out on the computer with accurate time. Ten minutes a day, five days a week, for a whole summer? About a free $100
Nice!! That’s the kind of perk I like.
sorry to burst your bubble but if there were two PCs capable of clocking you in, then 99% it wasn’t either of them keeping track of the time, but rather a separate server they were connected to
I’ve worked in IT. You are most likely correct, and anyone with any sense would do it that way, but I would absolutely believe that someone could be incompetent enough to use the computer’s time stamp. I also wouldn’t be surprised if users had access to change the clock.
You underestimate how shitty most software is written.
I’ve absolutely used timecard software that used the local device time instead of using a centralized time source.
I wasn’t really sure that it would work, but I checked my paycheck and it seemed to be working. This was in 2006 at a country club. So it’s not shocking that a) they had a paid some nobodies to give them a bad time keeping software and b) it was designed to not need the internet.