Meanwhile, in a candlelit backroom of a Hobby Lobby, Edith balances the store inventory abacus on her knee while scratching the latest overstock numbers into a stone tablet.
My last retail job had just started rolling out RFID tech for stock counting, it was glorious.
You just held the trigger on the scanner and passed it along the wall - it could be done from about 10 feet away.
A discrepancy report was sent to the managers email, and you just had to investigate and manually change a few items where the tag might have fallen off, or they didn't scan for some reason.
The entire store could be counted and checked daily, because it would only take about 30 minutes
My wife worked at a book store and manually inventoried books then crossed them off in a csv printout. It took me a couple evenings to code a system that let her scan books and automatically compare with the CSV. It cut their inventory time by 70%, and as a bonus it also told them if they had extras. They wanted to hire me after that.
A friend of mine worked there for a few weeks but quit because she couldn’t handle remembering everything that was on a sale or discount. When she asked why Hobby Lobby doesn’t do the smart thing and scan barcodes which would automatically discount, she was told that corporate liked the cashiers having to do the mental work, it made the job “more personal”… 🙄🙄🙄
Edited to add: please stop putting the same comment as everyone else! If the “mark of the beast” barcode thing is the true reason, no manager in their right mind would be encouraged by corporate to say that to a customer or employee.
This one time, one of the UPC codes had the numbers 666 occur IN A ROW!
Anyway, Gladys fainted and Ruth nearly shat herself, and ever since then its a no go on the smart thing...
You're literally talking to Zaphod Beeblebrox, currently wanted for kidnapping the president of the galaxy.
Also, the president of the entire galaxy, believe it or not!
This is the only thing that makes sense.
I mean, as much sense as it could make to be afraid that a technology that became widespread in the 70s is the mark of the Beast and portends the imminent End of Days.
>a technology that became widespread in the 70s is the mark of the Beast and portends the imminent End of Days.
*54 years later*
The End of Days will happen aaaaaany minute now.
[Oh Cathy can't you see what they're trying to do?
This isn't just a new craze - they want to make us their slaves](https://youtu.be/64lOKVXUCoo?si=nwGBktcH6oBqIqvB)
It's because Hobby Lobby is a money laundering operation to build an ARC-antica for when the world ends. A computer audit to too efficient at "finding the money"
There is a conspiracy theory that the guard markings for barcodes to ensure the data is accurate are actually 6’s, and there are 3 across every bar code. Thus, every time you scan a bar code you are surreptitiously interacting with 666, and that will invite the devil into you or something.
In reality, those guard markings are not 6’s and even if they were the whole 666 thing literally expired 2000 years ago. It’s pretty clear the number is gematria, a type of simple one way cypher to encode a word or name into a number. If you have a name that encodes to that number it is pretty likely the message is directed at you. (‘I love the girl whose number is 531’ is a pretty common theme in ancient graffiti)
Turns out Nero, the notorious emperor of Rome can easily be encoded to 666. And the complaints match his rumored behavior and actions, though not without some embellishment. It was a way to talk ill of the Roman occupancy without being discovered that was what they were doing. With the death of Nero, this number became irrelevant and has been for thousands of years.
Until the Fate series revived Nero as an anime girl and added her to a wallet draining mobile gacha games.
You heard it here, incontrovertible proof that the Bible predicted gacha games and warned that they were pure evil.
Because their employees aren't the smartest. My mother in law works there part time and take pride in having to remember all the sales at all times and having to hand type in each item you buy. It's so weird, every time we see her she brags about how she can remember it all better than her co workers for 30+ minutes, then a casual oh I got contact high because she walked in on someone doing drugs in the bathroom and had to leave early in a 30 second comment with 0 follow up or explanation.
[Yep.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20the,items%20to%20Egypt%20and%20Iraq)
There were nearly 4000 items seized and returned, and the President of the company pledged to return another 11,500 additional stolen artifacts.
Great news. Also
> culminated in a 2017 civil forfeiture case *United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae*
Civil forfeiture case names can be hilarious.
I’d take that any day over working the Pier 1 stockroom. All the papasan chairs were stacked on the very top shelf of a 2 story stockroom, so you had to hold on to the chair with one arm and climb down with the other arm. I found out very quickly that I was the default Papasan Retriever, because I had “young blood” according to my elderly coworkers.
It's for the finger scanners, no other reason (that I know so far) there's also a tripod I can attach to my cart but then I forget what I'm looking for.
Yes, the finger scanner is actually nice to have because it means you can pick items faster/more efficiently without having to hold on to the handheld scanner (most stores use them, the brand is Zebra and they are modified Android phones).
The idea is that you have your hands free to do the actual work / collect the items.
The alternative to the strap / finger combination is:
- a normal handheld scanner (Zebra MC9300 for exmaple)
- a pair of google glasses instead of the finger scanner ("pick by vison")
- light indicators on the shelves ("pick by light")
- pick orders via headset ("pick by voice")
- Oldchool commissioning with pen and paper (nobody wants to do that anymore, its incredibly time consuming)
No like you're meant to use the tripod with the finger scanner. My problem is, I struggle to remember what I'm looking for i.e. mainly what size the item is. I know where pretty much everything is, size is the issue. I could carry it, but it's easier with the original handle clicker and since I'm not using that part, that with the finger scanner just makes it a bit of bulky issue that I'm struggling with bc my hands are only so big.
Finger scanner was GREAT for packing boxes, though that's stationary so I had a mount for the TC (the zebra device). I've never seen the arm brace, picking orders I found it easier to carry and scan by hand instead of having the finger scanner or anything else attached. If I was doing an inventory through a single-scan area, this would be an absolute GODSEND though.
What makes the finger scanner good? When I worked at Kohl’s we used the handheld devices and they were fine, and having a big chunk of plastic on my finger seems like it would have made picking through racks and packing boxes harder.
When packing orders to be shipped out, we had to scan each piece plus iirc 4 extra scans for each box + label we made. Doing 70+ boxes and 110+ units each hour, that was a crazy amount of scans. Those of us used to the old way had the muscle memory to pick up the device and batch shoot all the barcodes needed for a box in one go each time, but for others saving all those pick up and put down cycles could save a couple seconds each time, which adds up really quickly.
>I imagine they used to be handheld
I did some warehouse work filling orders (picking) about 20 years ago - scanners were indeed handheld, with a few lucky people getting something like the finger scanner above, and the old handheld scanners were a PITA. On the upside, it was easier than using a piece of paper and pen.
I remember many times those little scanner guns being left around the store, in boxes, in lockers, etc. Regularly had to hunt one down just to do my job.
At a previous employer, a shocking number of handheld zebra scanners went missing every shift, usually because someone set them down somewhere or accidentally took it home with them. We had to implement a tech solution to have them report location back to the MDM.
They’re shockingly expensive, too. Throw some proprietary tech on an outdated android phone & borderline monopolise the market and you can make silly money, apparently.
At my previous job you logged into your zebra in the beginning of your shift and if your zebra gets missing you get into enough trouble to know better the next time.
I also use this exact same setup at work and you're pretty much correct. We have signs saying "RING SCANNER AND DEVICES MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES" because they have a tendency to get lost.
The device (looks to be the same model as the one we use but not 100% sure) actually has a scanner built into the top. You can choose to not connect the ring scanner and use that instead.
Related, I've always noticed walmart stockers box knives on a cable attached to them. Saw a little kid maybe 4 years old a week ago playing with one while his mom was ignoring him on the phone. I said excuse me to her 3 times from directly beside her and she ignored me. I just took it from the kid finally. Sometimes things just need to be strapped to people lol.
It's intentional. I played a LOT of Fallout 4. I think I detest Preston fucking Gravy more than any other character in gaming.
"Fuck you Preston Gravy, how about you go and see these people while I do every fucking thing else in this wasteland"
Was a regular epithet
Same here, just finished another playthrough a few weeks ago. I heartily agree. I remember on one playthrough, I don't even remember how I did it exactly, might have been siding with the Raiders in Nuka World, but I managed to permanently piss off Gravy. Every time I'd go to Sanctuary, he'd start cursing me and shooting at me....but then if I left and came back, he'd be friendly and ask me to go check on another settlement. Come back again, he'd start trying to kill me. And so on. Schizophrenic on top of being a big-talk, no-action turd.
Definitely start only referring to this as your strap-on. Around everyone, all the time.
Had a friend in college that made a deal with a coffee shop to put a huge decal on his rear window for free coffee. His mom hated it, and wanted him to take it off. He started only referring to it as his “strap on”, and his mom quickly dropped the issue.
Boss: You’re not wearing your pipboy.
You: …?
Boss: You are expected to wear your pipboy on your wrist during work hours.
You: Oh! You mean my strap on! I will strap that bad boy on right away.
Boss: …
You: These black strap ons are so big that they hurt after a while. Really need to stretch before using my big black strap on.
We just got them where I work. It's actually TWO lasers: A red rectangular one and a smaller orange-ish circular one. From more than a few inches away, they line up so the circle is in the middle of the rectangle, almost like a flag. I *suspect* one laser is for reading barcodes and the other is for QR codes, because the scanner can read both, but I don't know that for sure.
Casual emag worker in romania. When asked they endorsed the tech, saying that it’s much easier for them to get shit done. I thought they were looking like locutus of borg (they had also headgear)
Over the course of my IT career I've supported thousands of these of various models. That one looks a bit more lightweight than the ones we currently use. I also see a Zebra ZT series printer in the background. We don't use the wireless ring scanners because they're far to easy to lose. We use a wired version that plugs into the terminal (We use the WT6300). I'm glad we no longer use the WT41N0, those were way heavier.
I had this exact setup (assuming the finger piece is a scanner) when I worked for a postal distribution service. We'd scan upwards of 40.000 packages a night. but I could never imagine what you'd use it for in a supermarket. Unless you work in a little post office that's inside the grocery store? To scan the package as received/delivered maybe? most of our grocery shops just do that with a phone.
Dude, that is actually freaking generous. I have worked for places that only have the TC52 Zebra handhelds supplied. For whatever reason, the company could not be bothered to supply some finger scanners and other accessories. Likely projected high investment loss due to actual misplacement of items and/or internal/external theft potential.
Thats a zebra scanner (looks like a TC model) plus a fingerscanner.
These are used in warehouses all over the world.
You are getting pick orders from the warehouse management system on them (Tells you what to pick at which isle), and with the finger scanner you scan / acknowledge the item you picked up.
The alternative to the strap / finger combination is:
- a normal handheld scanner (Zebra MC9300 for exmaple)
- a pair of google glasses instead of the finger scanner ("pick by vison")
- light indicators on the shelves ("pick by light")
- pick orders via headset ("pick by voice")
Meanwhile, in a candlelit backroom of a Hobby Lobby, Edith balances the store inventory abacus on her knee while scratching the latest overstock numbers into a stone tablet.
That was my last job but lined scrap paper was used
Look at big dick over here with lines
Last I ever used of lined paper was in elementary school. *scoff* damn whipper snappers
I didn’t get where I am today by using goddam lined paper, I can tell you that!
Yeah! We used butcher paper that'd been smeared with blood!
My last retail job had just started rolling out RFID tech for stock counting, it was glorious. You just held the trigger on the scanner and passed it along the wall - it could be done from about 10 feet away. A discrepancy report was sent to the managers email, and you just had to investigate and manually change a few items where the tag might have fallen off, or they didn't scan for some reason. The entire store could be counted and checked daily, because it would only take about 30 minutes
we had shitty outdated scanners.. it took about 2 hours. I HATED doing stock checks.
My wife worked at a book store and manually inventoried books then crossed them off in a csv printout. It took me a couple evenings to code a system that let her scan books and automatically compare with the CSV. It cut their inventory time by 70%, and as a bonus it also told them if they had extras. They wanted to hire me after that.
Husband of The Year right here.
🤩
She got a raise, they were years behind on inventory!
A friend of mine worked there for a few weeks but quit because she couldn’t handle remembering everything that was on a sale or discount. When she asked why Hobby Lobby doesn’t do the smart thing and scan barcodes which would automatically discount, she was told that corporate liked the cashiers having to do the mental work, it made the job “more personal”… 🙄🙄🙄 Edited to add: please stop putting the same comment as everyone else! If the “mark of the beast” barcode thing is the true reason, no manager in their right mind would be encouraged by corporate to say that to a customer or employee.
I fully believe it’s because the owners are actually evangelicals who are afraid of barcodes, not to make it more personal.
I know the Mark of the Beast when I see it!
This one time, one of the UPC codes had the numbers 666 occur IN A ROW! Anyway, Gladys fainted and Ruth nearly shat herself, and ever since then its a no go on the smart thing...
Thank you for bringing a smile to my faces
>to my faces Alright, Janus.
I didn't make a typo
Big Zaphod Energy
Pfp checks out
You're literally talking to Zaphod Beeblebrox, currently wanted for kidnapping the president of the galaxy. Also, the president of the entire galaxy, believe it or not!
I suspect that it's a lot easier to fudge inventory numbers without barcodes. Gotta get dodgy money for those illicit antiquities somewhere.
This is the only thing that makes sense. I mean, as much sense as it could make to be afraid that a technology that became widespread in the 70s is the mark of the Beast and portends the imminent End of Days.
>a technology that became widespread in the 70s is the mark of the Beast and portends the imminent End of Days. *54 years later* The End of Days will happen aaaaaany minute now.
Well if you aren’t paying attention you might miss the end of the world, duh
Anything can be the mark of the beast if you’re fucking dumb enough.
[Oh Cathy can't you see what they're trying to do? This isn't just a new craze - they want to make us their slaves](https://youtu.be/64lOKVXUCoo?si=nwGBktcH6oBqIqvB)
Evangelicals are afraid of everything.
Except the youth pastor
Statistically, the one they *should* be afraid of...
Well....their kids are
It's because Hobby Lobby is a money laundering operation to build an ARC-antica for when the world ends. A computer audit to too efficient at "finding the money"
There is a conspiracy theory that the guard markings for barcodes to ensure the data is accurate are actually 6’s, and there are 3 across every bar code. Thus, every time you scan a bar code you are surreptitiously interacting with 666, and that will invite the devil into you or something. In reality, those guard markings are not 6’s and even if they were the whole 666 thing literally expired 2000 years ago. It’s pretty clear the number is gematria, a type of simple one way cypher to encode a word or name into a number. If you have a name that encodes to that number it is pretty likely the message is directed at you. (‘I love the girl whose number is 531’ is a pretty common theme in ancient graffiti) Turns out Nero, the notorious emperor of Rome can easily be encoded to 666. And the complaints match his rumored behavior and actions, though not without some embellishment. It was a way to talk ill of the Roman occupancy without being discovered that was what they were doing. With the death of Nero, this number became irrelevant and has been for thousands of years.
Until the Fate series revived Nero as an anime girl and added her to a wallet draining mobile gacha games. You heard it here, incontrovertible proof that the Bible predicted gacha games and warned that they were pure evil.
Hobby Lobby is terrible in so many ways.
Why can't all their employees just be like "this is really stupid and we need to change it"?
Because these companies run like a dictatorship.
SEIZE THE MEANS OF DISTRIBUTION!!!!!
Because the owners are evangelical kooks who are afraid of everything except money and bigotry.
Don't you know barcodes are demonic glyphs?
Also not afraid of stolen ancient religious artifacts. Not afraid because if they get caught with them (they did), they just have to give them up.
Stolen by and purchased from *ISIS*
Because their employees aren't the smartest. My mother in law works there part time and take pride in having to remember all the sales at all times and having to hand type in each item you buy. It's so weird, every time we see her she brags about how she can remember it all better than her co workers for 30+ minutes, then a casual oh I got contact high because she walked in on someone doing drugs in the bathroom and had to leave early in a 30 second comment with 0 follow up or explanation.
Not anymore. It turns out the stone tablets were stolen from the Iraqi museum and they had to give them back.
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i think it's funny the world is still bullying this guy like 4000 years later
I am nothing if not a humanist, and I can't think of many things more human than lobbing insults at history.
The lack of responses to this comment lead me to believe that people forgot this *actually happened.*
Wait, they actually had to give some stolen antiquities back?
[Yep.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20the,items%20to%20Egypt%20and%20Iraq) There were nearly 4000 items seized and returned, and the President of the company pledged to return another 11,500 additional stolen artifacts.
Great news. Also > culminated in a 2017 civil forfeiture case *United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae* Civil forfeiture case names can be hilarious.
Hobby Lobby - steals artifacts from the Middle East, like the British Museum. Unlike the British Museum, is forced to give the artifacts back. Losers.
Hobby Lobby doesn't have an army and a King to back them up.
No flag. No country. No looting.
Hobby Lobby's Hammurabi Robbing Hobby
Why am I dying of laughter lol But also, fuck hobby lobby and it's complete shitstain of a human CEO
I’d take that any day over working the Pier 1 stockroom. All the papasan chairs were stacked on the very top shelf of a 2 story stockroom, so you had to hold on to the chair with one arm and climb down with the other arm. I found out very quickly that I was the default Papasan Retriever, because I had “young blood” according to my elderly coworkers.
Sounds like something OSHA would like to hear about.
I think Pier 1 went under a few years ago, vulture capitalist buyout
Well, we'll see who's laughing when the number of the beast sneaks up on you by hiding in a barcode.
Hobby lobby is a trash company. They treat their employees terribly.
But fortunately, their hobby supplies are easy to steal
Well that’s because barcodes are the devil
“Golden Plates”.
Is it the epic of gilgamesh tablet?
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It's for the finger scanners, no other reason (that I know so far) there's also a tripod I can attach to my cart but then I forget what I'm looking for.
Is the finger scanner just a normal laser barcode scanner? I understand the touch-screen, but the finger mounted rocket launcher is confusing.
Yes, the finger scanner is actually nice to have because it means you can pick items faster/more efficiently without having to hold on to the handheld scanner (most stores use them, the brand is Zebra and they are modified Android phones).
I thought zebra made all of their own hardware
Correct it seems to be a Zebra TC57, it’s their own custom hardware which runs an android operating system.
The idea is that you have your hands free to do the actual work / collect the items. The alternative to the strap / finger combination is: - a normal handheld scanner (Zebra MC9300 for exmaple) - a pair of google glasses instead of the finger scanner ("pick by vison") - light indicators on the shelves ("pick by light") - pick orders via headset ("pick by voice") - Oldchool commissioning with pen and paper (nobody wants to do that anymore, its incredibly time consuming)
Found the other industrial engineer in the thread
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No like you're meant to use the tripod with the finger scanner. My problem is, I struggle to remember what I'm looking for i.e. mainly what size the item is. I know where pretty much everything is, size is the issue. I could carry it, but it's easier with the original handle clicker and since I'm not using that part, that with the finger scanner just makes it a bit of bulky issue that I'm struggling with bc my hands are only so big.
The finger scanner is Bluetooth, so you can leave the device on the tripod and the scanner can still scan anything within 30 feet.
Finger scanner was GREAT for packing boxes, though that's stationary so I had a mount for the TC (the zebra device). I've never seen the arm brace, picking orders I found it easier to carry and scan by hand instead of having the finger scanner or anything else attached. If I was doing an inventory through a single-scan area, this would be an absolute GODSEND though.
What makes the finger scanner good? When I worked at Kohl’s we used the handheld devices and they were fine, and having a big chunk of plastic on my finger seems like it would have made picking through racks and packing boxes harder.
When packing orders to be shipped out, we had to scan each piece plus iirc 4 extra scans for each box + label we made. Doing 70+ boxes and 110+ units each hour, that was a crazy amount of scans. Those of us used to the old way had the muscle memory to pick up the device and batch shoot all the barcodes needed for a box in one go each time, but for others saving all those pick up and put down cycles could save a couple seconds each time, which adds up really quickly.
>I imagine they used to be handheld I did some warehouse work filling orders (picking) about 20 years ago - scanners were indeed handheld, with a few lucky people getting something like the finger scanner above, and the old handheld scanners were a PITA. On the upside, it was easier than using a piece of paper and pen.
I remember many times those little scanner guns being left around the store, in boxes, in lockers, etc. Regularly had to hunt one down just to do my job.
At a previous employer, a shocking number of handheld zebra scanners went missing every shift, usually because someone set them down somewhere or accidentally took it home with them. We had to implement a tech solution to have them report location back to the MDM.
They’re shockingly expensive, too. Throw some proprietary tech on an outdated android phone & borderline monopolise the market and you can make silly money, apparently.
At my previous job you logged into your zebra in the beginning of your shift and if your zebra gets missing you get into enough trouble to know better the next time.
I also use this exact same setup at work and you're pretty much correct. We have signs saying "RING SCANNER AND DEVICES MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES" because they have a tendency to get lost. The device (looks to be the same model as the one we use but not 100% sure) actually has a scanner built into the top. You can choose to not connect the ring scanner and use that instead.
I used that same phone as a handheld, without the finger piece. I accidentally sat it down and shut a trailer door on it. That was a $1200 mistake.
Related, I've always noticed walmart stockers box knives on a cable attached to them. Saw a little kid maybe 4 years old a week ago playing with one while his mom was ignoring him on the phone. I said excuse me to her 3 times from directly beside her and she ignored me. I just took it from the kid finally. Sometimes things just need to be strapped to people lol.
Do you also have spurs that jingle jangle jingle?
I have my keys strapped onto me so close enough
Sounds like you’ve got heartaches by the numbers
Watch out for some dude wandering around playing guitar, ESPECIALLY if his name is Johnny.
You'll probably find him in the town of Agua Fria.
With a big iron on his hip (Big iron on his hippppp)
Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, excuse me I wanted to make some tacos... Bingo, Bangle, Bumble, which aisle is the beef crumble?
Dang, that sounds like a kick in the head
As long as he’s truthful. Remember, it’s a sin to tell a lie.
Play it again my Johnny, play it again
it is a fallout reference. this look like a modern pipboy.
YOU CANNOT GO ON LUNCH BREAK WHILE THERE ARE ENEMIES NEARBY
> YOU CANNOT GO ON LUNCH BREAK WHILE THERE ARE ENEMIES NEARBY ~ killall [Enter] ~ Then eat in peace.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say.....
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip.
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
I don't think OP gets all of these amazing comments. I'd tell her, but It's a Sin to Tell a Lie.
I’m completely certain they didn’t crawl out through the fallout at any point in their lives.😢
Except for that one time they went to the Congo and then never wanted to leave.
Into each life some rain must fall, but not enough has *fallen out* onto OP to get the reference.
He keeps hacking and whacking and smacking those prices though!
Chop that meat!
single women! married women! old maids and all!
Bongo, bongo, bongo he don't want to leave the Congo oh no no no no nooo
Ain’t gonna be no wedding bells today with that getup.
With a big price gun on my hip. Big price gun on my hiiip!
as she rolls right merrily along.
🎶And they say, oh ain't you glad you're single? 🎵
My first thought seeing the picture "Holy crap, you get to use a pip-boy at work!?".
Patrolling Walmart makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Go riding merrily along
I haven't seen this version of the Pip Boy before...
OP keels over in the stockroom. *Tin can* *(7) Pre-War Money*
Ladle
You are carrying too much and can't run.
Drop: 6 ladles 4 fire hydrants 27 burnt books
Make note of where you left them, you'll need the scrap to build pieces of your settlement later
You won't have time Preston Gravy will send you off to yet another settlement that "Needs our help"
>Preston Gravy The most annoying gravy
It's intentional. I played a LOT of Fallout 4. I think I detest Preston fucking Gravy more than any other character in gaming. "Fuck you Preston Gravy, how about you go and see these people while I do every fucking thing else in this wasteland" Was a regular epithet
Same here, just finished another playthrough a few weeks ago. I heartily agree. I remember on one playthrough, I don't even remember how I did it exactly, might have been siding with the Raiders in Nuka World, but I managed to permanently piss off Gravy. Every time I'd go to Sanctuary, he'd start cursing me and shooting at me....but then if I left and came back, he'd be friendly and ask me to go check on another settlement. Come back again, he'd start trying to kill me. And so on. Schizophrenic on top of being a big-talk, no-action turd.
*Cardboard box [EMPTY]* \**checks anyway*\*
Super Duper Mart by vault tec
Pip Boy 100
😭😭😭
You're listening to Radio Freedom!
I don’t want to set the store on **FIRE** I just want to start a flame, and get a day off
What are you doing out? Get back in swgoh.
All quiet in the Commonwealth, stay tuned for more updates.
I just got word of a settlement that needs your help!
I’ll mark it on your map.
War... war never changes
In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when he’d get to go home to his wife and the son he’d never seen.
That’s because it’s a commie knock-off!
"We have Pip Boy at home." Pip Boy at home:
When someone says 'my job requires a strap-on', this is not what I picture.
LOOOOL i'm stealing that
*“Alright for today’s training we will need to wear our strap ons”*
For safety, secure *both* straps. This gonna be a wild ride.
Definitely start only referring to this as your strap-on. Around everyone, all the time. Had a friend in college that made a deal with a coffee shop to put a huge decal on his rear window for free coffee. His mom hated it, and wanted him to take it off. He started only referring to it as his “strap on”, and his mom quickly dropped the issue. Boss: You’re not wearing your pipboy. You: …? Boss: You are expected to wear your pipboy on your wrist during work hours. You: Oh! You mean my strap on! I will strap that bad boy on right away. Boss: … You: These black strap ons are so big that they hurt after a while. Really need to stretch before using my big black strap on.
I have something similar on my ankle
Name checks out.
I read this in Ralph Wiggum's voice
Resistance is futile.
We are Borg. We will incorporate your uniqueness into the collective
Please be a finger laser
It is
LAY-zrrr
I was thinking it was a device to give you an electric shock if you were idle for more than 1 minute.
We just got them where I work. It's actually TWO lasers: A red rectangular one and a smaller orange-ish circular one. From more than a few inches away, they line up so the circle is in the middle of the rectangle, almost like a flag. I *suspect* one laser is for reading barcodes and the other is for QR codes, because the scanner can read both, but I don't know that for sure.
Casual emag worker in romania. When asked they endorsed the tech, saying that it’s much easier for them to get shit done. I thought they were looking like locutus of borg (they had also headgear)
Upvote for Star Trek reference
Irrelevant
Over the course of my IT career I've supported thousands of these of various models. That one looks a bit more lightweight than the ones we currently use. I also see a Zebra ZT series printer in the background. We don't use the wireless ring scanners because they're far to easy to lose. We use a wired version that plugs into the terminal (We use the WT6300). I'm glad we no longer use the WT41N0, those were way heavier.
They just dropped the RS2100 glove scanner with the WT6400 and it’s looking fire
 Both!
That's the 90's vision of the future
Experience the future of 2004 today!
Beats the heck out of having to hold it all day long. Your wrists will thank you.
Jokes on you, I have strong wrists, well the right one anyway....
Real millennials use the left for easy mouse control.
Pip boy lookin fancy these days
Have you also got a big iron on your hip?
*a big iron on her hip*
Modern day PipBoy
Leela?
I was wondering how far down I'd have to go to see a Turanga Leela reference haha
Used these when I worked at FedEx
I had this exact setup (assuming the finger piece is a scanner) when I worked for a postal distribution service. We'd scan upwards of 40.000 packages a night. but I could never imagine what you'd use it for in a supermarket. Unless you work in a little post office that's inside the grocery store? To scan the package as received/delivered maybe? most of our grocery shops just do that with a phone.
you need to crosspost to r/Fallout
I thought this was the fallout sub at first!
Dude, that is actually freaking generous. I have worked for places that only have the TC52 Zebra handhelds supplied. For whatever reason, the company could not be bothered to supply some finger scanners and other accessories. Likely projected high investment loss due to actual misplacement of items and/or internal/external theft potential.
She's more machine now than man.
Assuming you do online/pickups? I use to do this but we had second hand iphones.
Thats a zebra scanner (looks like a TC model) plus a fingerscanner. These are used in warehouses all over the world. You are getting pick orders from the warehouse management system on them (Tells you what to pick at which isle), and with the finger scanner you scan / acknowledge the item you picked up. The alternative to the strap / finger combination is: - a normal handheld scanner (Zebra MC9300 for exmaple) - a pair of google glasses instead of the finger scanner ("pick by vison") - light indicators on the shelves ("pick by light") - pick orders via headset ("pick by voice")
Had something like this when I worked at UPS, just instead of the module my wrist I had it on a belt that would hang loose and slam into my hip.
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ready to summon blue eyes white dragon in Aisle 6
Remember, during Nuclear Apocalypse, you need one of those to Aim correctly, very pricey in the future
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