Man, that would stick with me too. Here's what I want to know though: did he read it in a flat voice like he was just sounding out words, or did he actually laugh first and then walk off? Because those are two very different things. If he laughed, your wife is right and you can let it go.

The clipboard and I have a long history of me dropping it, losing the pen, or signing on the wrong line (my handwriting looks like a chicken got loose on the page), so the QR code thing would honestly save a guy like me. The paper line really was the slow part, no question, and 20 minutes of standing around just to hand over a sheet is rough. Small yards I've been to still run on clipboards and it feels like stepping back in time, though some of them seem to be testing tablets now. My guess is the small places will hold out until the tablet cost drops or a dispatcher gets fed up.