Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 16 years and 10 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

I consider myself to be very detail-oriented, so it bugs me when I run into examples of where it’s obvious no one else is paying attention to the little things.

Take this receipt from today’s lunch at Subway for example:

Huh? Happy Holidays!? Happy New Year!? It’s August! No one working at this Subway (like the manager) has noticed this? For the past 8 months?

Ok, I can’t completely fault the employees of my local Subway. I must admit that I’ve gone there quite a few times this year and this is the first time I noticed (in my defense, though, I really only glance at the receipt to check the points balance on my Subway card).

I have a (non-technical) colleague at work who is fond of the following phrase when he’s telling me how I should solve a programming problem: “C’mon, it’s just a simple IF statement.” Now I don’t know a lot of about POS systems (point-of-sale, not the other meaning for POS) but in this case I think a simple IF statement would have worked. If the current date is greater than or equal to, say, January 15, don’t print that message anymore!

Sheesh.