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CommentAuthorsarahkay626
- CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008
happened yesturday thru all frys stores including home office
it was a rough hour . everything was down! -
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CommentAuthorSDCherryPicker
- CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008
You know you work at frys right? It happens once a week atleast if not more. -
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CommentAuthorsarahkay626
- CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008
no it doesnt, not for me -
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I hear we are switching from Novell to something based on Ruby. Can anyone confirm?
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at my store they switched it to linux serversLas Vegas, NV / Store # 27 / Dept. 12
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Sasquatch: I hear we are switching from Novell to something based on Ruby. Can anyone confirm?
Ruby on Rails on linux? That would be crazy! -
The general idea is that it is better. At least it should be. Customer add still takes fucking forever.
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CommentAuthorelusivententionz
- CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008 edited
Its pretty much standard that Fry's system go down at least once a week. Maybe it won't be the entire store, but it could be certain parts of the system. Its really a pain in the A$$ when it does go down though. Some of the guys at home office IS department are nice and really easy to work with, and then there are some that are total jerks that can't even speak clear English.
And I believe that most of the stores should be running on Linux servers that divide the POS systems into two parts so that if one goes down, the other doesn't...something along those lines right? -
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Randy Fry hire me and I'll redo your whole architecture. Pay me $100k/year though. I can work from home or at a local store.
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CommentAuthorxbluebellax
- CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008
i can handle system crashes, as long as it's not Black Friday, then I might shoot myself. Or quit, haven't decided yet. Any idea what it's going to take to get Home Office to give us stuff that actually works on a regular basis? I mean, do they not realize that people actually do leave because they are fed up with the line going all the way down and around? -
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CommentAuthorelusivententionz
- CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008
I believe that one of the brothers is in charge of the entire system. And to be honest that guy doesnt know jack poop. These guys use store 9 as the dummy store to test their new equipment, and even before they get all the bugs out of the system, they start rolling it across all the other stores. The transition to XP was a horrible memory. At first they started using Windows XP home, and then about 2 months later they made us convert all over to XP PRO.
A lot of what they do is foolish and dumb. Its what made me quit...
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Whoever it is... It's been obvious for a while that jack-poop is not known.
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actually it is trying to merge to a linux system with a sql database this is before I left a couple months ago ........ needless to say it will probably be a big flop. Remember their IT dev group has enough knowledge to fill a thimble maybe more.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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CommentAuthorelusivententionz
- CommentTimeSep 26th 2008
They need to overhaul the entire company and run a POS like Target, Walmart, or Forver 21 to say the least...LOL -
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CommentAuthornotparistexas
- CommentTimeSep 26th 2008
Ruby in the sky. With diamonds. -
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My college friends and I could do a better job in half the time for a quarter of the pay.
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you really want to make less than an average Chinese farmer?? no offence to the Chinese.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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Somewhere there is a man in charge of our networks. He gets paid too much.
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well if there is he doesn't know much about them.... oh right typical frys manager.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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Does anyone at frys know anything about electronics? wtfi am a worm.
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Ahem.
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CommentAuthorparticleman
- CommentTimeSep 27th 2008
From a technical standpoint, I can see why Frys wouldn't change over to a completely different POS system. They have millions of invoices and TONS of customer data in their database; moving all of that to a completely different system would surely be difficult and costly. Sure this x286 DOS application was great back in the day, but it's not up to par now. They should have started a migration years ago but I think John Fry didn't want to let go of his baby (he wrote the original POS system, or so I've been told).
Anyhow. The move to XP was a nightmare, BUT now that we aren't using Novell, the system has become much more stable. Novell NetWare is such a terrible network operation system. I'm not exactly sure what we're operating on now, but it doesn't lock up nearly as often as it used to. The big challenge will come in about two month's time.
At store 25 last year, the systems went down for awhile on Black Friday. I took a nice long break in the cafe/break room and didn't think much of it. And now that comissions are in the shitter, I don't think that it'll be much of a difference. Who cares if I sell 25 sticks of sale ram, 40 sale routers, 10 sale GPSes, and 20 sale harddrives? I wont make more than $10 combined. Fuck it. -
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CommentAuthorelusivententionz
- CommentTimeSep 28th 2008
To be honest I believe the postive factors from a move to a new POS would outweigh the cost and headaches of the current system as it stands. Imagine the amount of fustrated customers you have that complain when the system crashes...think about all the money Fry's is losing each time the system goes down.
I remember one time, when the system went down, we have to pass out water to all the customers in line. They were getting really fustrated and I saw plenty customers leave the line and leave the store.
As I mentioned, Walmart or Target have a wonderful system that I feel that Fry's should incorporate ASAP to save the headaches in the future. But thats my opinion! -
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particleman: From a technical standpoint, I can see why Frys wouldn't change over to a completely different POS system. They have millions of invoices and TONS of customer data in their database; moving all of that to a completely different system would surely be difficult and costly. Sure this x286 DOS application was great back in the day, but it's not up to par now. They should have started a migration years ago but I think John Fry didn't want to let go of his baby (he wrote the original POS system, or so I've been told).
Anyhow. The move to XP was a nightmare, BUT now that we aren't using Novell, the system has become much more stable. Novell NetWare is such a terrible network operation system. I'm not exactly sure what we're operating on now, but it doesn't lock up nearly as often as it used to. The big challenge will come in about two month's time.
At store 25 last year, the systems went down for awhile on Black Friday. I took a nice long break in the cafe/break room and didn't think much of it. And now that comissions are in the shitter, I don't think that it'll be much of a difference. Who cares if I sell 25 sticks of sale ram, 40 sale routers, 10 sale GPSes, and 20 sale harddrives? I wont make more than $10 combined. Fuck it.
You are not lying, my friend. They should show us some love. -
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CommentAuthorparticleman
- CommentTimeSep 28th 2008
elusivententionz:I remember one time, when the system went down, we have to pass out water to all the customers in line. They were getting really fustrated and I saw plenty customers leave the line and leave the store.
Water? Ha! We had a tele sales guy stand at the entrance to the line, apologizing for the system being down and passing out pieces of random candy. It was pretty sad. (I took a few Starbursts) -
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CommentAuthorSDCherryPicker
- CommentTimeSep 28th 2008
Had a nice little crash today as well. I refuse to do manuals. -
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well sorry systems down come in tomorrow ...... when i'm not here at service. The pos system would e easy to move to a sql database the way it works it "prints" data but the network is so slow it would be a loooooooooooooong process of doing nothing but waiting for scripts to run.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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CommentAuthorSDCherryPicker
- CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
System was down again this morning. -
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yay its sooo much fun isnt it i can hardly imagine why i didnt want my job back after they offered it to me.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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What's the story on that?
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CommentAuthorsarahkay626
- CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
the systems at my store work just dandy :D woot woot! -
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well i got a sup 1 kicked from store6 for doing nothing he went to store 9 and became a manager then i got put in store9 he quit and 5 dayed me so i picked up another job inside the 5 days. and suffice it to say i make more money without fried.Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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Your story is hard to follow. He quit and 5 dayed you... how can he quit and 5 day you?Superhero!
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Maybe he means the manager quit him. Just like my professors learn me.
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oh the manager fivedayed me the day before he transfered to fremontLooking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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Sasquatch: Maybe he means the manager quit him. Just like my professors learn me.
I wish I knew how to quit you.Superhero! -
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yyyeeesss >_> <_< >_>Looking for my head ............... yeah the eight valve one yeah ....
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