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The museum where I work being a small business, our cash register is an iPad, which we use both for ticket sales and for sales in the gift shop (two different systems and two different dongles, but that's another, and uninteresting story). We have a wonderful small exhibit in the front of the museum on cookbooks; it's free to the public, so people come and go. This has not been a problem--most of the time when there are people in the museum one of us is at the front, watching the shop and being available for questions etc. But sometimes you have to run upstairs or something.
On Friday a guy came in--respectably dressed, seemed interested in the show--and stole the iPad. Because of the two different dongles etc. it was not in the dedicated Square stand, which plugs into the ear-jack but leaves the charging port (where the Eventbrite dongle plugs in) blocked. All this is by way of explaining why the iPad wasn't somehow locked down.
We have ordered a refurbished iPad, remotely locked the stolen one (with a message from me if thief attempts to use it that says "You have stolen this iPad. It is locked. If you'd like to return it..." and our address. We won't get it back, but I found it remarkably relieving to write) and notified the two sales services. All is slightly inconvenienced, but on its way to well.
But I reflected, on my way home yesterday, how glad I am that my life is such that I don't have to steal small things that won't realize much in the way of money, just to survive. Some of that is on me, but some of that is simply really good luck. For which I am deeply thankful.
On Friday a guy came in--respectably dressed, seemed interested in the show--and stole the iPad. Because of the two different dongles etc. it was not in the dedicated Square stand, which plugs into the ear-jack but leaves the charging port (where the Eventbrite dongle plugs in) blocked. All this is by way of explaining why the iPad wasn't somehow locked down.
We have ordered a refurbished iPad, remotely locked the stolen one (with a message from me if thief attempts to use it that says "You have stolen this iPad. It is locked. If you'd like to return it..." and our address. We won't get it back, but I found it remarkably relieving to write) and notified the two sales services. All is slightly inconvenienced, but on its way to well.
But I reflected, on my way home yesterday, how glad I am that my life is such that I don't have to steal small things that won't realize much in the way of money, just to survive. Some of that is on me, but some of that is simply really good luck. For which I am deeply thankful.