Tell us a secret you know because of your work that others might not know
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[QUOTE=Hamushka11;23534419]Knowing that there is a cure for diabetes but not producing it because it's more profitable to sell blood sugar meters and insulin is pretty evil if you ask me[/QUOTE]
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What are these things called? It takes forever for me to find them.
Im getting a job at a fish and chip shop soon, and after reading all of these im scared to what I might find :ohdear:
[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;23551469]fun fact! mcDonalds fries are so packed full of preservatives that no matter how long you leave them out, they'll never accumulate mold! try it yourself!
off topic: perf, your avatar is SO AWESOME.[/QUOTE]
This is a lie. McDonnalds Fries have two ingredients. Potato, Oil (sunflower).
If you have virgin broadband and you are in the top 5% of bandwidth users in any given hour then you will be 'traffic managed' for the next 4 hours - your service will be reduced to a quarter of what it should be. Even if you are paying for 20meg, if you're in the top 5%, you'll only get 5meg for the next four hours. The only package that doesn't restrict you is 50meg. Not many people know this, but it IS in the TOS.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;23547251]I work at a grocery store. When I say I'll check in the back, I'm actually just going to get a drink of water or sit and stare for a while before I go out and tell the customer the item they were looking for isn't there.[/QUOTE]
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(UK) - All McDonnalds burgers are 100% beef, from a selection of three cutlets, and is either irish or british.
[QUOTE=g42;23542617]I would just go to the back stand there and then come back and say we have none, hell my supervisor even told me to tell the costumer to fuck off we have none lol.
also at the supermarket i worked at, at the end of each day a whole ton of bread and other goods from the bakery are thrown out into the trash, employees are not allowed to take any but they still do anyways.[/QUOTE]
I currently work at a Loblaws (Canada) bakery, and I can confirm the amount of still very tasty and edible bread we throw out every night [B]in one store[/B] could feed all the homeless in the city for at least the next day. Yet our store manager refuses to donate the bread to the shelters, despite the fact they must pay for garbage disposal, whereas the shelters will literally come to the store and collect the bread for free.
[QUOTE=runtime;23550610]I used to work at a retail store. If the rails don't have the sizes you are looking for, ask a member of staff to check out back for you. If they reply something along the lines of "I know we haven't any" reply with something like "Well can you look anyway please?" - they have little choice of doing it for you, and 9 times out of 10 the sales assistant will be so bone idle and lazy they'll use it as an excuse not to have to go look. Once they are out there they'll actually realise that they might as well look for your size and will actually spend a little while hunting around for it, and if they DO find it for you you'll have put them in a good mood for the rest of the day - they like helping customers, even if they ARE lazy.[/QUOTE]
I don't suggest harrassing employees unless you need to. At the bakery, we put out everything we have. When people tell us to "check the back" I get pretty pissed, considering I am the one who puts it out in the first place. On several occasions I have had to tell persistant customers to leave before I call management. They are simply unwilling to believe me, even when I explain that I literally made the bread and put it out myself.
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Now, for my main story. I worked at Convergys. It is a multi-national corporation with a strong focus on consulting and call centres. I worked at one of those call centres, taking calls from AT&T cell phone customers no less. Tier 1 support, front line. That was me. Worst job EVER. It wasn't even AT&T's fault. Convergys gets paid by the call, so they were constantly monitoring your numbers. Your calls needed to average 10 minutes or less. You could only spend 30 seconds between calls to take notes; you were supposed to do so during the call, but it's quite difficult, even for a very experienced multi-tasker like me (playing guitar/singing, gaming/voice chat, etc). Compounding these problems was the very slow speed of our systems, and you had a recipe for disaster.
I was one of the few in the centre who had a 100% resolve rate. Every problem that I could have solved I solved. Every problem I needed to transfer somewhere else got transferred to the correct department. I memorized phone models and the codes. I even picked up a few "hacks" so I could get things done faster and cleaner, all while not breaking the rules. I even came near breaking the record for customers wishing to express to the supervisor just how damn good of a job I did. My little shit box (can't even call it a cubicle) was decorated in "Power of One" cards.... and I was one of the youngest employees in the centre. I was damn good. Unfortunately, my aftercall time was averaging around a minute (they wanted 30 seconds), and I was being reminded of this constantly... even as I started to approach the lowest average call times and highest satisfaction rates ever. The badgering... dear god. They never stopped, not even for a moment. They would express some small joy for what was a fucking amazing feat... and bash me for my aftercall time. I started having panic attacks. Every week. I eventually just stopped showing up to work. They never even called me to ask what happened.
The things I saw while I worked there... poor people, some of them who had called 5-6 times, talked to someone, been assured their problem was 100% solved, but the person who took the call did NOTHING. LITERALLY NOTHING. How the fuck did these people still have jobs? Our centre was reporting these dipshits left and right and all we got back were messages from their managers like "Whatever." and "Not my problem." The people taking these calls were Americans, not even Canadian like us. You would have thought they'd be more helpful to their own countrymen... apparently not. But the American call centres were nothing compared to the AT&T stores. Those assholes running the stores are lying, cheating asshats. They will add stuff to your plan, get the commission when the stuff they added comes up on your bill, and then you have to call and get it removed, wasting my time and your time but still leaving these guys with a commission. If you go to a cell phone store to do ANYTHING to your account or phone, make sure to double check all the details of your plan after you leave. If the store dipshits added anything, make sure to give your company a call right away and have it removed, or the dumbasses as the store get a free commission and you're stuck paying the bill.
Also, slightly unrelated... yes, I was working when the iPhone came out. Specifically, the iPhone 3G. So many iPhone users called in, asking for an upgrade, and I had to tell them they couldn't because they had only gone through one year of their two year contracts... man were they pissed. Do these people even know they signed for TWO FUCKING YEARS!? That's why the phone costs "only" $200. Otherwise you could have counted on paying $600 or more. Seriously, iPhone users were the worst callers, by far, and not only because they generally were fucking retarded self-important pricks, but also because [B]there was literally nothing we could do for them[/B]. Apple doesn't just cripple the holder of the phone itself with censorship and a lack of flash, Apple cripples the service distributors as well, their iron fist reigning over every facet of the iPhone, from physical distribution to use. After working under the conditions Apple forced us into, I genuinely feel sorry for anyone buying Apple products. Like seriously, if you want to be able to call in for phone support and get it in a timely fashion, [B]don't buy an iPhone[/B]. It has nothing to do with AT&T or Rogers or whoever you're buying from, and everything to do with Apple being a bag of cocks waiting to fuck you in the ass.
[QUOTE=FlashStock;23549848]I can confirm the [B]THIS[/B]. I was helping out at the local PC repair shop and an old fellow had some problems with his PC (viruses, bluescreens, slow, etc). The first thing the guys in the back do is look for porn, and boy did they found some nasty porn. They found a bunch of videos and pics of different animals fucking and cumming. They didn't tell the old guy that they found it ofcourse, but every day he came by to "check" that everything was alright.
I love that place.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, at the one I used to work we didn't confront anyone with the stuff we found, we just looked for the heck of it.
My cock goes in the meat.
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Penis in the onions lolol
I work at the graduations for universities in brisbane, if you think anything is clean when you wear it, think again, all the gowns and hats people just wore, got all sweaty in and have lice and stuff, its thrown back into boxes and on racks, then the next people get their hats/gowns from there. I have picked up some which are literally wet with sweat, and within 10 minutes its on someone else.
If you can afford to go to the graduation, buy your own gown.
[QUOTE=Red_Eyes;23547196]Every time you leave your PC / cellphone on a stone for repairing the first thing they'll do is look for porn, pics of you and other stuff.
The guy who will speak to you at a store who's all nice and takes time to explain things to you and really looks like he's enjoying your questions is most likely just ranting in his mind about how he hates you and wants you to go get raped.[/QUOTE]
Wait, so what if I tell him where I keep my porn?
I mean, I'm sure he'd appreciate that, just as you're about to leave, just say, "Of hey, if you have trouble finding anything, check the 7-Zip folder, I'm a lazy jerk-off so I can't be bothered to password it or anything."
Not a real big secret, but there is a lot of stuff on the In-N-Out secret menu that a lot of people haven't heard of:
[QUOTE][B][U]Burgers:[/U][/B]
Hamburgers - "Double Meat" or "Triple Meat" for multiple patties.
X by Y - Any number of X patties and Y slices of cheese. A change in policy recently has limited the amount of meat and cheese per burger to 4 each.
Veggie Burger - a sandwich containing only vegetables, without meat or cheese.
Grilled cheese sandwich - served with tomato, lettuce, spread and onion.
Extra Everything - adds extra spread, tomato, lettuce, and onions (regular or grilled).
Extra Toast - bun is toasted longer.
Sliced Chilies - mild, pickled chopped peppers are added to the burger.
Protein Style - any burger is wrapped in lettuce rather than being served on a bun.
Flying Dutchman - two meat patties with two slices of American cheese between them. This style comes with no bun, no lettuce, and no tomatoes.
Animal Style - patties are grilled with mustard or "mustard fried", add pickles, add grilled onions, lettuce, tomatoes, and extra spread.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - open faced(just bottom bun), three patties, cheese, splash of lime juice. [Carriage and Buggy Style - same sandwich, cut in half with onion rings in between]
[U][B]Additional condiments:[/B][/U]
Spread - packets of refrigerated "Spread", similar to Thousand Island dressing.
Yellow Peppers - packets of whole yellow Chili peppers.
Pickles - pickles do not come on the burger and can be added upon request
Onion styles: The company's customization extends to the onions it serves. "Regular Onions" is default and is a whole slice of fresh onion. The company will also serve the slice cooked ("whole grilled"), raw chopped, and grilled. How the onions are ordered will determine its placement on the sandwich; raw whole onions are placed with the cold ingredients, cooked onions are on the burger patty.
[B][U]French fries[/U][/B]
Fries "Light" - Decreased cooking time for a softer product.
Fries "Well" - Increased cooking time for a crispier product.
Fries "Extra-Well" - Further increased cooking time for a very crispy product.
"Animal Fries" - Melted cheese, spread, and grilled onions.
Cheese fries - called fries with cheese
[U][B]Beverages[/B][/U]
Root beer floats
"Lemon-Up" - a mixture of lemonade and 7 Up.
Lemonade/Tea mix - known as an "Arnold Palmer", a mixture of iced tea and lemonade.
Choco-Vanilla Swirl shake, a mixture of vanilla and chocolate flavors
Neapolitan shake, a mixture of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors
"Large" shake[/QUOTE]
Also, I at the school I have a summer job at, some of the teachers have Pro-Communism literature in their rooms. I have pictures on my phone and one of them was actually interesting.
Also, I really want to try the Dwight D. Eisenhower.
I work in a frozen vegetable factory. You are required to wear blue disposable latex gloves when on the inspection table. There are sevral pails of "sanitizer" in the room. You are required to sanitize your gloves if you handle anything besides whats on the table at the time.
One guy that works there didnt sanitize his gloves for over a week straight. Oh yeah, and he wore the same gloves too.
edit: I forgot to mention each day you handle thousands of pounds of food, for hundreds of families.
If I tell you I'd be releasing classified information about my job in the military and that'd be bad.
But I can give you the fun fact that most pilots are cool except some are asshole that don't care if they wreck your jet :D.
[QUOTE=JeffmA;23552739]If I tell you I'd be releasing classified information about my job in the military and that'd be bad.
But I can give you the fun fact that most pilots are cool except some are asshole that don't care if they wreck your jet :D.[/QUOTE]
Is it your responsibility if they do?
[QUOTE=Red_Eyes;23547196]Every time you leave your PC / cellphone on a stone for repairing the first thing they'll do is look for porn, pics of you and other stuff.
The guy who will speak to you at a store who's all nice and takes time to explain things to you and really looks like he's enjoying your questions is most likely just ranting in his mind about how he hates you and wants you to go get raped.[/QUOTE]
last summer i had a job at staples. i was one of the computer repair guys. One day a woman came with her sons computer (i know this because we had a chat about video games then she told me that the computer was her sons). So when she left i opened up the case to dust the inside off check if anything was burnt out etc. i hooked the computer up to one of the monitors we use. i turned the computer and started looking through all the main os files on the computer. then in C: i found a large folder called "p". so i opened up "p" and to my amazement i found dozens of links to porn sites and text files with porn site usernames and passwords. i clicked one of my links and of every kind of porn, every kind of fucking porn ever conceived on the internet it was fucking tranny porn.3 quarters of the porn was tranny porn.The other quarter was normal porn with a small bit of bestiality and furry. So i showed this shit to my coworkers and he laughed. We later find out the computer had nothing wrong with it, but the monitor died out.
[QUOTE=MegaChalupa;23552882]Is it your responsibility if they do?[/QUOTE]
If he's a Team Leader, or Supervisor it is.
[QUOTE=Chunk3ym4n;23534115]As I was inspired by this thread at Sherdog([url]http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f48/tell-us-secret-you-know-because-your-work-others-might-not-know-1266333/[/url]), it would be cool if the working members of Facepunch shared their work secrets that aren't common knowledge.
A couple of examples from the Sherdog thread:
[quote]No matter if you buy a cut of fish that is $60 from a fancy restaurant or you buy it for $8 per lb. at a market, all fish is equally fucking disgusting how it is handled from ocean to your plate. Routinely just placed on nasty floors, on tables with tons of guts and other innards. Health inspectors are either bribed or simply turn a blind eye.
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[quote]Well back in the day i used to work at Mcdonalds and we used to use this stuff called FORMULA 47 which was made with beef tallow. we wouldnt ever change the oil where we cooked the fries we would scoop two big amounts of this formula into the vat and watch it melt in there. The stuff was pure white looked like lard one of the grossest things ive ever seen.
Also the mcchicken patty on the box the ingredeints say ground up chicken skin and meats.[/quote]
[quote]Do NOT look at the magazines in a hospital. They are loaded with Staph. If you can avoid it, don't go into a hospital waiting room at all, actually. Also, have other people push the buttons in the hospital elevators.
Oh and you assholes who take the staff elevators/sit on the beds in the hallway: Enjoy the viruses you pick up from the biohazard.[/quote]
[quote]I use to work at Levi's jeans and in Europe wearing Levi's 501 jeans is a sign that you are a gay man ready to have sex! Also on the Levi's leather patch in the pack of the jeans there is a hidden gay picture don't remember what it was but my manger showed me once. Its to guys pulling on something.
I use to work at Wendys, never ever it the chilli!!! Its all the left over old greasy hamburger meat that is piled up in grease and thrown into the chilli pot but and sits there for days. Also in wendys employee's are allowed to stick there dirty hands and grab nuggets and fries every time they walk by. Also the hamburgers are not frozen and very bloody, they are in packs in the freezer filled with blood, I remember having cow blood all over me at times.[/quote]
[quote]I work at a grocery DC. All the bottled watter that you (morons) buy at the grocery store has probably been sitting in a hot warehouse for several months, giving it plenty of time to absorb the plastic flavor/poison. Also, probably half of all Pringles cans have crushed chips in them from being thrown around/dropped etc.[/quote][/QUOTE]
those are all fake and if you seriously believe these you're a tool
[QUOTE=Teh_Spork;23552645]Not a real big secret, but there is a lot of stuff on the In-N-Out secret menu that a lot of people haven't heard of:
Also, I at the school I have a summer job at, some of the teachers have Pro-Communism literature in their rooms. I have pictures on my phone and one of them was actually interesting.
Also, I really want to try the Dwight D. Eisenhower.[/QUOTE]
How could anyone miss the Animal Fries? Those are the best! :3:
[QUOTE=GunFox;23541948]It's called eating low carb.
Herp derp, when you stop consuming stuff that didn't exist when you evolved and start consuming a diet closer to what you actually would eat as a hunter gatherer, you become exceptionally healthy.
Not that I plan on giving up carbs any time soon.
It's actually been documented as having cured diabetes when pursued for a good length of time. But even if it doesn't it will stabilize your blood sugar and remove the need for testing.
And the lack of carbs also means that cancer has a HELL of a time progressing in your system. It will reduce the likelihood of getting cancer substantially.
Low carb is ridiculously healthy. It's the poster child for why vegetarians are idiots and should choke to death on their own vomit.[/QUOTE]
Except it wont help at all if you have a defective pancreas. Its the same reason that the theory someone mentioned earlier that there is a cure for it exists is bullshit (the type with a defective pancreas anyway, the other sort probably can be sorted out through dietary changes) unless someone has made some sort of pill which grows organs after you take it.
[QUOTE=Kade;23551646]If you have virgin broadband and you are in the top 5% of bandwidth users in any given hour then you will be 'traffic managed' for the next 4 hours - your service will be reduced to a quarter of what it should be. Even if you are paying for 20meg, if you're in the top 5%, you'll only get 5meg for the next four hours. The only package that doesn't restrict you is 50meg. Not many people know this, but it IS in the TOS.[/QUOTE]
This isn't exactly a secret, its well advertised. [url]http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html[/url]
The limits listed there are the percentages (on average) you talk about. At least that is what I have been lead to believe. I have only ever skim read the ToS, so there might be a section which says "The website is a complete lie".
I used to work at Sonic as a cook and hated it therefor I shall share my wealth of knowledge about it.
1. Do not eat the burgers or for that matter anything with meat in it. With hamburgers we throw about 30 on the grill in the morning and cook it then set it on the back of the grill till they are all gone then repeat it.
We cook all the bacon in the morning and put it in a tin tray and let it sit there the rest of the day. They deep fry all the chicken at the beginning of the day and do the same thing as bacon just let it sit all day.
Only clean out the grease trap like once or if lucky twice a week.
The managers would always smoke in the back room where all the bread and non-perishables were kept.
All the smoothies are not actually fresh but just powder in things like hot coco that we just mix together with milk and cream.
None of the employees wash their hands and do not use gloves either.
Thats my knowledge i'll post more as I remember more.
I sighed a sigh of relief at that pringles one.
My dad once brought home a full 500 gig hard drive from work. He tests the jet engines for the new JSF fighter. Before i formated the hard drive for him I took a peek. It was FULL of .txt files with testing results and the such.
my brother worked at mcdonalds and I asked him if it was as bad as people say and he said no.
He has a new job now putting shit in order and shit at different stores.
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pays better
We are developing teleportation technology. It's going quite well, so far, but it's merely in its beta-stages.
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;23555199]We are developing teleportation technology. It's going quite well, so far, but it's merely in its beta-stages.[/QUOTE]
Hows it coming preventing those cascade resonances?
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;23555199]We are developing teleportation technology. It's going quite well, so far, but it's merely in its beta-stages.[/QUOTE]
Aren't you supposed to be in the test chamber by now Mr. Freeman?
oh oh where to begin with Best Buy.
1. I was told by my manager once that it doesn't matter what the customer needs, make them want what you show them.
2. "Customers are dumb and don't know what they want or need so we make them pay for the biggest best thing that they really don't need but make them want." That same manager
3. Geek Squad technicians sometimes don't use the door flaps in the front in order to remove static from themselves and can cause damage to a computer in repair
4. One of the co-managers drinks and smokes pot after hours in the break room
WAIT! I have a 13-page archive of this exact stuff I lifted from an info thread on /b/ a few days ago! Gimme a sec to upload!
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