Post by minx on Jun 16, 2022 16:19:14 GMT -5
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First we'll start off with what's right here.
1) Dude is a genuinely decent person who's mortified by his mistake and wants to make things right for his former employer.
2) Lots of people are stepping in to help him do that.
Now what's wrong
Dude makes an honest (and probably easy to do mistake) and accidentally misses a decimal point, setting gas to .69 cents a gallon. Why doesn't the system have a safeguard for this? A simple "The new price is .69 a gallon. Is this correct?" should do the trick. Could be that that was in place and he clicked yes anyway, but I haven't seen anything saying that.
People who clearly knew better called their friends and everyone in creation rather than being decent and going into the store to tell him the price was wrong. He didn't realize what had happened until there was a line of cars a mile long and the pump had run dry.
WTF is wrong with people? Greed knows no bounds I guess. I was taught to go back into the store and point out the mistake - otherwise it was stealing.
(full disclosure - I didn't always do so, but for something like this, I definitely would have)
First we'll start off with what's right here.
1) Dude is a genuinely decent person who's mortified by his mistake and wants to make things right for his former employer.
2) Lots of people are stepping in to help him do that.
Now what's wrong
Dude makes an honest (and probably easy to do mistake) and accidentally misses a decimal point, setting gas to .69 cents a gallon. Why doesn't the system have a safeguard for this? A simple "The new price is .69 a gallon. Is this correct?" should do the trick. Could be that that was in place and he clicked yes anyway, but I haven't seen anything saying that.
People who clearly knew better called their friends and everyone in creation rather than being decent and going into the store to tell him the price was wrong. He didn't realize what had happened until there was a line of cars a mile long and the pump had run dry.
WTF is wrong with people? Greed knows no bounds I guess. I was taught to go back into the store and point out the mistake - otherwise it was stealing.
(full disclosure - I didn't always do so, but for something like this, I definitely would have)
