Conflicted arcade logic (at least for me)

[Arcademan]

Some of you know I work as a technical manager at a pizza place (Peter Piper Pizza; which is owned by Chuck E. Cheese). Recently they closed a location and we would receive a few games from their game room. The higher ups decided to get rid of a few games in our location to make room for the new ones which is usually fine since they were old pieces though the paperwork and stuff really is a pain. The deal is that any equipment must be in perfect condition, clean and presentable inside and out and in an event of any game issues, the store in which the games come from must pay for any parts needed. If the games going out need work, the main storage facility in Kansas will charge the store for repair cost. The joys of business.

Shortly after getting the list of games to be taken out, I got them all prepared and then the word came to me that the outgoing games would all be junked instead. Time wasted on that but no biggie since I get paid either way. All I had to do is get the monitors, main boards, locks and card reader off, then the rest of it would go right into the garbage can, providing the company with pics of the 'before and after' as evidence. Mostly old redemption games, no big loss however the two that were butchered? Two sit-down H2Overdrives!!! As a game fanatic, this personally rub me the wrong way. If I knew this was the plan, I would've offered to buy at least one if not both of them and haul them away to a good home (either mine or someone who could put them to good use) but rules stipulate we can't profit off of game sales (stupid rule since the company would get the money, the dirty rats) so in the dumpster they went. That hurts...well, me anyway destroying a perfectly good and playable game that I kept in awesome condition.

I know this is a lengthy post as far as I normally do here and those who took the time to read it, I greatly appreciate it. Just had to get this off my chest

PS: The games they brought in were mostly lower stuff with missing parts, lights and in case of the two Super Cars replacing the H2Overdrives, one monitor out that I had to order and both are missing the feedback steering because the tech in the other location didn't spend $10 for a steering belt. Rant over.

 

[Fygee]

I'd smuggle them out.

 

[Takumaji]

I never got company policies like that. Well, yeah, I get them somehow, money, etc., but it's just not right. I'm not cool with throwing stuff away that's still perfectly fine.

 

[Syn]

I never got company policies like that. Well, yeah, I get them somehow, money, etc., but it's just not right. I'm not cool with throwing stuff away that's still perfectly fine.

 

[lithy]

It's the inevitability of business versus hobby. Those things are ultimately just assets, revenues, and costs to a business.

I admire that you haven't fallen too far into cynicism about the machines in the decades you've been doing it and can still feel some level of sadness over dumping a couple decent cabs.

 

[BIG BEAR]

I would have rented a U-Haul and removed them from the premises...
You don't destroy perfectly good stuff.
BB

 

[terry.330]

His boss has to go back to work one evening because he forgot his phone or something only to find Arcademan dressed as a Card Captor character trying to haul an H2Overdirve cab out the back door. Caught, he snaps and beats his boss to death in a fit of rage and panic.

Police get a suspicious persons call about an elderly man dressed like an anime character covered in blood trying to get on the bus with an arcade machine.

 

[Takumaji]

Love that song, bought the maxi single when it was new

Ah well, I get what you're saying, guess it's the same everywhere you look. Just take the food disposal at supermarkets for example, the amount of perfectly good food they throw away everyday just blows yer mind. You could feed hundreds, if not thousands of people with the food that gets wasted in a large market every week just because of that best-before date bs. My wife worked for one of those markets in her younger years and of course she was aware of the giant waste that went on. They secretly took stuff out of trash cans and gave it to horse breeders and farmers to get at least some use of it but they had to be on their toes coz of course it was illegal/considered theft, people have lost their jobs because of it.

 

[StevenK]

I was at the tip (rubbish dump? Not sure what Americans call it) throwing some broken furniture away and a guy pulls up and starts unloading kilo after kilo of cast iron weight plates. I walked over and asked him if I could take them, he said sure, I start loading them into my car. Guy who works at the tip runs over in his hi-vis super pissy, basically passing something along at the tip is outright illegal. I asked the guy if he'd pass them over just outside the premises, he refused, into the tip they went.

Another pointless waste.

 

[smokey]

I've taken a lot of stuff from the dump. My current PS3 is a dump find. I once found Auratone C5 speakers. I just like them because they were square. Later I sold them for like €500 . When I just started living by myself and I was tired of my dad's old CUBE G4 . I started picking out PC's from the dump. Usually took 2 or 3 that was enough to make a working one. Basically did that until I got the M1 macbook air, I'm typing on right now. (Have to say I always had a work laptop but don't like using that in the evening).

My first job was in a toy store . I remember thrashing PS2 demo pods so we could replace them with PS3. It was really satisfying to see the compactor crush it together. I wasn't really collecting games at that time.

 

[NeoSneth]

they must have used all the depreciation to that point.

 

[Lagduf]

I was at the tip (rubbish dump? Not sure what Americans call it) throwing some broken furniture away and a guy pulls up and starts unloading kilo after kilo of cast iron weight plates. I walked over and asked him if I could take them, he said sure, I start loading them into my car. Guy who works at the tip runs over in his hi-vis super pissy, basically passing something along at the tip is outright illegal. I asked the guy if he'd pass them over just outside the premises, he refused, into the tip they went.

Another pointless waste.

It’s called the dump, because you dump waste there. We aren’t creative across the pond, but the name makes sense.

The fuck is it called the tip?

We generally don’t say rubbish. We say “garbage.”

Also does “skip” specifically a dumpster or a waste bin in general?

 

[Lagduf]

My cousin worked at a solid waste transfer station. It was basically a dump that consisted of three huge dumpsters. He had a little shack with electricity that he sat in. He worked four ten hour shifts a week.

Bruh had the sweetest job ever. He directed people which dumpster to put shit in and some stuff went in special piles (chemicals, electronics, etc) that had specific regulations.

He had his pick of whatever the fuck he wanted that people were throwing away. Even found a few firearms. People throw away perfect stuff.

He used to cut the cords from all the electronics, extension cords, etc that people dump and scrap the copper once a year.

 

[StevenK]

It’s called the dump, because you dump waste there. We aren’t creative across the pond, but the name makes sense.

The fuck is it called the tip?

We generally don’t say rubbish. We say “garbage.”

Also “skip” specifically a dumpster or a waste bin in general?

I assume it's called the tip because of the action of tipping something away.

A skip is a big metal container, as big as a car, that you fill with (usually) construction waste during building work.

 

[Lagduf]

Here a skip is just called a dumpster. I don’t think we differentiate between the smaller ones a business might have or the huge ones at a construction site with a different term. When they get large enough they’re identified by how many (cubic) yards of waste they hold.

At the co-op I work at they do a pretty good job of mitigating food waste. It isn’t perfect of course, but we don’t just throw out all the food items that are near or over date. We give food to the staff (including damaged product like dented cans, crushed boxes, etc), donate to couple homeless shelters, and we have a variety of different compost bins out back that go to different local farms (including a worm farm, lol.)

 

[Arcademan]

Police get a suspicious persons call about an elderly man dressed like an anime character covered in blood trying to get on the bus with an arcade machine.

In my defense, it would've fit on the bike rack in front of the bus however the driver said he couldn't see a thing while driving

 

[terry.330]

In my defense, it would've fit on the bike rack in front of the bus however the driver said he couldn't see a thing while driving

So what you're saying is that you have been thinking about it for the last week...

 

[Arcademan]

Similar thing happened when corporate took over our store and then installed the card readers on all the games. We had coin drop games and coin pushers that had to be taken out since they could not be converted to a card reader system so they were trashed but not before I stripped much of the lighting and parts to some. All of the games were redemption so no video games were lost so I felt less sad about it however three of the four that were taken were our highest earning games at the time, which to this very day the game room revenue hasn't come close to touching on a weekly basis.