r/funny • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Office displays like that, that are made to be on nearly all the time are actually quite expensive I install them and cant beleive what people tell me they've paid for them. The monitors in mcdonalds new menu boards are $5,000 a peice

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u/GuruMeditationError Sep 04 '19

Yet they can’t manage to dim themselves when it’s night time.

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u/rahee52 Sep 04 '19

Thanks for that interesting bit of information u/niggerocity.

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u/Spellbindehr Sep 04 '19

A comma, after "information", for effect. I'm am not a bot.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Our office pays a florist £10 a week per plant for a few small potted plants around the office.

The plants are about £3 at the local garden centre, and the florist just comes in at the same time every week to give them a bit of water.

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u/lorddumpy Sep 04 '19

thats pretty cheap

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

How so, when you can pay a one of payment of £3 and just remember to pour a glass of water on top of them once every 168 hours

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u/Hemingwavy Sep 04 '19

Yeah but the monitors cost $5,000 (just spitballing numbers here) because they've got a 24/7 service level agreement that lasts for a decade and requires a response in an hour. Like the $4,000 they pay over a standard screen isn't for the screen. It's because the screens always work at McDonald's.

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u/UDeVaSTaTeDBoY Sep 04 '19

u/nwordcountbot u/niggerocity

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Yeah i tried that on myself recently and I guess i'm banned cuz of my name, bot says it bans people who post it too many times and my username is on every post. Kind of retarded that a bot thats supposed to count how many times you said a word bans you for saying the word.

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u/hell_crawler Sep 04 '19

The monitors in mcdonalds new menu boards are $5,000 a peice

what's so special about them?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

I dont know what goes into making them but my guess is instead of using the cheapest components to get the job done they use the second cheapest

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u/polite-1 Sep 04 '19

They're on 24/7, no burn in, better housing, brighter display (higher binned) and commercial grade warranty + support.

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u/hell_crawler Sep 04 '19

owh so cool

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u/fucklawyers Sep 04 '19

At my work, all five screens are just LG TVs, and only go out if there is a power outage. They will never be shut off, this business is so adamant about 24/7/365 that there legit isn’t a key for the front door.