TheBeastie
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Ever gone to McDonalds looking forward to having one of their Chocolate Sunday's only to be told the machine is down?
I lost count of how many time this happened to me.
I conceived my own personal theory on why these machines were so shitty, that being there must be some kind of key patent on how the machine works that McDonald's deeply values and can't use an alternative machine, but I was wrong.
The truth is far more sinister!
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
[youtube]SrDEtSlqJC4[/youtube]
^This story reminds me of a business (publically listed stock company) I worked at years ago that had a lot of shitty software at the core of their all their services, and it was my job to keep them running but the core rule at the company was to never improve any of it. The line for years no matter how much the service ran slow or got shitty (more or less) was just keep it up and otherwise don't do anything else.
And it was annoying for me because things would fail randomly at night when I was asleep and it was my job to kick it back up.
But after a few years of watching the net profit/revenues double and double again year after year I realized why the executives of the company ran it that way, they were simply making too much money in a short period of time when they wanted revenues/profits to go up over a slower time or more years so that the stock price climbed more slowly.
Sure enough, once profit growth stagnated after 3-4 years suddenly the order was given to improve the software services of just about everything after it had been left to run shitty on an almost insane level.
I realized all the giant companies do this, I this is why Microsoft sat on Windows XP for years, the answer is simple, they were making too much money and the stock price was doing fine. If you look at MS's stock price chart at the time of Windows PX etc as soon as revenues/profits stagnated they started releasing new OSes with new features etc.
I am sure this is the same with McDonald's, their problem is they WANT a shitty ice cream machine so that when the shit hits the fan in profits they have a new fall back to getting things back to normal, that is 24/7 reliable icecream.
And if they are anything like the company I worked for then they are willing to let this problem sit there and fester for decades before that one day out of nowhere they execute the "order 66", and get their workers who have no idea what is going on to magically turn the knob "active 24/7 reliable ice-cream".
Just like Pulpertine with is "execute order 66"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSN6BOgrSSU
[youtube]xSN6BOgrSSU[/youtube]
Unless you have worked in a company that has listed shares you will NEVER understand the insane levels the executives at the top will go to in keeping a high valuation of a stock price for a very long period of time at the cost of everyone and everything else.
I lost count of how many time this happened to me.
I conceived my own personal theory on why these machines were so shitty, that being there must be some kind of key patent on how the machine works that McDonald's deeply values and can't use an alternative machine, but I was wrong.
The truth is far more sinister!
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
[youtube]SrDEtSlqJC4[/youtube]
^This story reminds me of a business (publically listed stock company) I worked at years ago that had a lot of shitty software at the core of their all their services, and it was my job to keep them running but the core rule at the company was to never improve any of it. The line for years no matter how much the service ran slow or got shitty (more or less) was just keep it up and otherwise don't do anything else.
And it was annoying for me because things would fail randomly at night when I was asleep and it was my job to kick it back up.
But after a few years of watching the net profit/revenues double and double again year after year I realized why the executives of the company ran it that way, they were simply making too much money in a short period of time when they wanted revenues/profits to go up over a slower time or more years so that the stock price climbed more slowly.
Sure enough, once profit growth stagnated after 3-4 years suddenly the order was given to improve the software services of just about everything after it had been left to run shitty on an almost insane level.
I realized all the giant companies do this, I this is why Microsoft sat on Windows XP for years, the answer is simple, they were making too much money and the stock price was doing fine. If you look at MS's stock price chart at the time of Windows PX etc as soon as revenues/profits stagnated they started releasing new OSes with new features etc.
I am sure this is the same with McDonald's, their problem is they WANT a shitty ice cream machine so that when the shit hits the fan in profits they have a new fall back to getting things back to normal, that is 24/7 reliable icecream.
And if they are anything like the company I worked for then they are willing to let this problem sit there and fester for decades before that one day out of nowhere they execute the "order 66", and get their workers who have no idea what is going on to magically turn the knob "active 24/7 reliable ice-cream".
Just like Pulpertine with is "execute order 66"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSN6BOgrSSU
[youtube]xSN6BOgrSSU[/youtube]
Unless you have worked in a company that has listed shares you will NEVER understand the insane levels the executives at the top will go to in keeping a high valuation of a stock price for a very long period of time at the cost of everyone and everything else.