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TIFU by breaking the printer system at McDonald’s

To give a bit of context, I work at a McDonald’s and my coworkers and I are pretty chill with each other. We occasionally make jokes and mess around when things are slow. So today 2 coworkers and I were having a bit of a laugh by putting 100 quarter pounders into the system to freak out the kitchen staff. It was a good laugh and I thought it would be an even funnier idea if I added on something more. I put down 888, the max number you can select at once, of the double quarter pounder cheese deluxe sandwiches. And it was hilarious, there was a nice moment of laughter, but then panic ensued. You see, there’s a printer in the kitchen that prints out receipts for modified items, and so it started printing, one receipt at a time, for each sandwich. Now in the moment of fun, I had completely forgotten that the printer does that and I thought that it only printed if someone clears the order, but it turns out that it prints automatically. And with 888 receipts queued for printing, there was no way to stop it and the whole system was backed up as they now had to wait for it all to flush out. Of course the manager and the kitchen staff instantly got pissed off at me and I try to explain to them I’m sorry and I really didn’t know. But they were too mad and repeatedly asked why I’d do that, I then had to leave and here I am now at home writing this out while playing out tomorrow’s possible scenarios. I don’t want to be fired, I enjoy working there and I would willingly pay for the paper and ink used if they want me to. Though I can’t help but feel helpless and extremely upset at what happened.

TL;DR I caused a printer to spew out receipts without end which resulted in the whole system getting backed up; which might also result in my firing.

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