# Why are so many companies looking to hire me as a point of sale technician?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 28, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194 "2015-08-28T18:37:42Z")
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### Author:  [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194/1 "2015-08-28T18:37:42Z")
I have worked as a POS technician before, but now I am working for a VOIP instalation company. In the past week 3 different companies called me saying they found my resume online and would like to hire me for field POS service positions. One evem offered me a job over the phone, but offered less than i am making now. I am able to fix credit card machines and cash registers, but am I the only one in the state who can do it? Is it really that hard to find people in Maine with a clean driving record and basic technical skills?
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194/2 "2015-08-28T18:48:30Z")
[NM]
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194/3 "2015-08-28T21:00:39Z")
I got a voicemail yesterday from somebody looking for a Java developer.
I haven’t updated my resume online in a _very_ long time. (And I haven’t done any significant Java in maybe a decade.)
I wonder if one of the online job sites is taking old resumes and re-setting something so they are coming up again in searches now.
But still a human should be able to easily tell it’s out of date at a glance.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-companies-looking-to-hire-me-as-a-point-of-sale-technician/729194/4 "2015-08-28T21:06:59Z")
I’d bet there’s a bit of a crunch in the POS industry right now because of the equippage deadline for chipped cards in a few weeks.
So everybody and his sister is just realizing they shoulda bought new smart cash register/POS systems sooner. And every POS sales outfit is scrambling to find enough installers to install all the stuff they’re suddenly selling.