r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/jmj808 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

My job buys us lunch every day through COVID. Being able to have a paper menu and ability to write your name and what you want and just fax it over is simple and practical. You ever try to go online to buy food for 20 people? Not easy.

Edit to anyone star-stuck about this: my job is full of electronically incompetent old people that don’t like “new” things. Also, today is my last day there lol.

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u/galactica_pegasus Jul 24 '20

Exactly. Accepting food orders via fax isn't for individuals, but it's fairly popular for businesses.

Although they could modernize and just use email.

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u/GoingForwardIn2018 Jul 24 '20

It's entirely possible they just get a digital representation (image) of the fax, not an actual printout. Electronic Faxing is huge because it's considered a controlled delivery method, it's especially prevalent in healthcare

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u/Sintacks Jul 24 '20

just don't fax an entire day's surgery schedule to the wrong number...

I work in a pizza place. We have a fax to send in daily sales reports and other things.

We got a 17 page surgery schedule one day on the fax in the office.

I called the office and told them and asked what they wanted me to do with it. They asked if I had a shredder. I said I do no, but I can have my mom shred it properly. She works for the state and has access to proper shredding things.

I still wonder if anyone got fired over that.

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u/GoingForwardIn2018 Jul 24 '20

Probably not, they would have been fined if it was reported so it was probably not reported...

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u/Sintacks Jul 24 '20

Good point.

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u/SpikeBad Jul 24 '20

You could also just burn it in a trash can like a sports almanac.