Wednesday, October 7, 2009

And this pretty much explains it all...

Oh Midway...

For those of you without a business background, allow write out what I shall dub "the equation for a successful company."

Successful Company: Income - Costs > 0

The once proud Midway games apparently had an error in the equation and for a decade or so had accidentally replaced the ">" sign with a "<" sign...thus bankruptcy. As such, you can imagine the company-wide hilarity that ensues when someone discovers a stash of these:
That's right, ladies and gentlemen...Midway had apparently assigned the role of "profit manager" to an inanimate calculator. (Insert joke about how this would still be better than most account managers at major banking institutions in the US here).

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