Macromatix is the backoffice system that we use at one of my places of employment. Amongst it's many other talents, it can do stock management, preparation of payroll data, accept passwords regardless of case, and do cash management, the latter of which I use almost every shift when it comes to register reconciliation time.
As accessing it from my home computer would raise some alarm bells and taking printscreens on the work computer would raise questions that may or may not lead to termination, you'll have to make do with this mockup instead of roughly what it looks like:
![Macromatix 1](http://i51.tinypic.com/347zn1h.png)
Step 1, for the record, is choose the terminal operator from the employee list, choose the authorizing manager, and to look at the POS operator name: so for me, it's H4 Douglas <surname>, whoever the manager is, Douglas <surname>. That's a WTF in itself that Macromatix can't link POS operator names to records in it's database.
Step 2 is count the money, and feed it to the appropriate fields. Step 3 is to take out all but $300 so that someone else can use that drawer and to feed that count into the appropriate fields. Step 4 is authorize, step 5 is check any final variance, explain if it's ridiculous, and authorize again just because.
Recently, they rolled out an update to beloved Macromatix. Previously you had to think for yourself, and come up with your own float amounts. Now, they've tried to get it to think for itself, and gotten it to fall
As I punched in the coins I had in the register (these are just numbers I pulled out of thin air, for the record, and please, ignore the mistake, I can't copy and paste for the life of me apparently)
![Macromatix 2](http://i54.tinypic.com/1493wvo.png)
"Well, that's nice," I think, "I don't have to think too much about this anymore." Not that it was difficult, it's just that usually at the end of my shift, I was more concerned about food or what was on TV that night or something trivial like that, and less concerned about floats and cash counts.
Thinking how wonderful this new update was, I proceeded to punch in my notes. Then I looked over at Step 3. Uh, okay. Thanks for your help, Macromatix. No. Really. Thanks...
![What is this I don't even.](http://i54.tinypic.com/2rd88s1.png)
So, it copied the coin figures over for me. It didn't copy over the notes. It didn't attempt to balance a float. I don't know why it bothered. I can usually figure out a float in less than three minutes (even number of five cent coins; cents figure in total of each 10 and 20 cent coins should equal fifty cents or one dollar; fifty cent count should be odd if sum of 10 and 20 cent figures is 50c and even if the sum of 10 and 20 cent figures is $1; sum of $1 and $2 should be divisible evenly by $5, notes to fill the rest out; it makes sense, trust me), and in the end, having half of the figures copied over for me just confused the hell out of me.
To the sloppy coders behind this, why in hell did you even bother? Waste of time. Go to the corner and mope for a while and think about how you could have done this better, and on what planet this would have made any sense whatsoever, while I devise a fitting punishment that may or may not involve giant blenders.