SPOILERS Sy Taking the Extra Sets of Photos
Sy's manager had multiple reasons for firing Sy, small ones like the extra long breaks he was taking (which could have been solved with an official warning instead), the medium reason of Sy giving away the disposable cameras (which could have been resolved by ordering him not to any more, even making him pay the company back), you can see I hated seeing Sy get fired, he was so dedicated and loved his job, but the big reason was all the missing prints for all those years when Sy was ordering himself an extra set of the family's photos. My question is how did he he get away with that for so many years? He wrote three copies on the orders when the family only wanted two so he would always have the extra copy for himself and his manager said his cash was always short so he was only charging the family for two copies, shorting the store. He was doing that for so many years but only the one manager many years later caught it? How did previous managers not catch that? Really Sy could have not documented the extra set since he was the one who processed all of that family's photos, he even steps in one time to say that he will do it, and the other tech with less seniority lets him. Then he wouldn't have been caught. My guess is that he was afraid of the chance that he might miss the family's photos even one time so he always marked three instead of two in case he wasn't the one who processed them. Then he could still take the extra set, he was likely always looking for their name. And he just wanted to be the one to do it because he took such pride in doing a good job with the processing. He was a very intelligent but I guess he always took the chance of constantly shorting the store because his obsession was so strong. You would think he would be caught for that sooner though. Maybe he hadn't always been marking the orders incorrectly though. Fascinating movie, loved how realistic it was and that Robin Williams learned the photo processing business. RIP Robin Williams, you are greatly missed.
When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)