bamford@randvax.UUCP (01/22/84)
[This line is for the line gobbler.] Is anybody out there as disgusted as I am with these new restaurant receipts that print (in agonizing detail) a complete description of your meal? Here is an exact example: +-------------------------------------+ | GUEST CHECK | | | | SERVER 96 TABLE 119/1 TIME 19:10| | | | 1 CLUB SANDWHICH 4.95| | 1 -BECKS 2.25| | 1 -GILBEY VODKA 1.25| | | | TOTAL 8.45| NOTICE THE TIP IS NOT | TAX .55| DETAILED - INSULT ON INJURY | GRAND TOTAL 9.00| | | | ELI MCFLY RESTAURANT AND BAR | | CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA | | | | THANK YOU! | | | | FOOD 4.95| | BEVERAGE 3.50| | | | 83-11-01 1 GUEST NUMBER 174| +-------------------------------------+ I don't cheat on my expense reports or my taxes. Nonetheless, I don't think my company accountant has any right to know what brand of vodka I drink, or how many drinks I had, or how many freinds I shared them with. A perfect example of stupid, dehumanizing computerization that implements a function just because it's easy, in oblivion of possible moral implications. Now, when I'm handed one of these excrescences, I find the manager, and make him write me a normal reciept (date, place, amount including tip, period) I enough of us put enough managers thru this irritating (to them) exercise, we might just make an impression on the idiots who make and use these cash registers. CONTINUATION DISCUSSION IN NET.FOLLOWUP, PLEASE. Cliff Bamford Consultant currently at Rand Home: 2902 Pine Street, SFO 94115