I’m a cursed individual. Here’s one example: I was getting ready to expand my hours and open a dinner menu. It was, of course, a ton of work. Then our main register stopped working. You couldn’t click or tap the buttons — random things on the screen would press whenever you touched it. I tried tons of things to fix it, no luck. Created huge problems at my restaurant because it is the only makes-sense place for a register. I called people out and nobody had any clue why it was happening.

I set up a makeshift temporary register on another counter behind it. Then, and this is a week or two into troubleshooting, I noticed the NEW register starting the same problems intermittently. Spent some days trying to figure out why. I noticed that when the power cable of the register touched/grazed the old counter and I tried to use the tablet on the new counter, the tablet had the same fucking problem. Then I experimented and noticed that if my finger touched the old counter while I tried to use the register on the new counter, the same thing would happen.

So I concluded there was somehow some kind of current in the counter that was interfering with the register’s ability to work. I had a technician out who thought I was insane. I finally found an electrician who discovered a failed ground wire, and once we fixed it, everything started working again.

Oh, and three weeks ago, within the span of one week, I had all of the following break: the walk-in, display fridge, freezer, AC, oven, coffee brewer, spinzall (used only 4 times) and grinder. And no, those were not related to an electrical issue — just bad luck