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That is a whole bunch of problems that came out of just one tiny

little detail, that being not writing the order clearly enough. At my

current job, when a food order is taken, the same process is followed

by simply pushing the right series of buttons for what the customer

ordered. After this, a copy of the order is printed out in the

kitchen and is very easy to read. This makes it hard for the cook to

blame anybody else other than themselves for any problems that occur.

There never has to be any guessing games as to what the server was

trying to write down. But there are a few drawbacks to this system,

it seems that every computer is a little bit different and you can’t

expect everybody in the workplace to become an expert on that

particular computer that is there. Henry David Thoreau’s statement

saying “men have become tools of their tools” can definitely true in

this case. I have had it happen to me where I accidentally hit the

wrong button at the wrong time and the computer froze up. One time it

took me almost ten minutes to figure out what I had done wrong and fix

it. I had truly been at the mercy of technology at this time. All in

all I definitely feel that, in this case, a business is better off

using technology than going without it. On the basis of his

statement, Thoreau would probably disagree with me saying that this

technology is only the beginning. Before long there will be robots

and computers waiting the tables, cooking the food, and mixing the

drinks. He might suggest that eventually only one person will be

needed to run such a business, and that person is the one who supplies

all of the capital and buys the equipment. Then the place would just

run itself, while that person sits back and reaps the benefits. My

counter-argument would be this, so long as there are people in this

world who are interested in getting the most value for their dollar,

they would rather be at a place where they are treated like a person,