Things about places you've worked at that they don't want the general public to know

IvaBigWun

SimonTemplar wrote: »

I heard the general manager of a department store say that she doesn't want a particular agency girl working in the store because she is too fat.

At a guess Id say House Of Fraser,

Wall to wall pretentiousness.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

I like the bit about the poor lad working in the chipper who spilled some vinegar. It burned through his shoe. I wonder did it dissolve the floor as well. Dripping down into the basement.

I used to work for a now defunct online store. Although the front end website was SSL secured, the back end which transferred the credit card info from the datacentre to the warehouse was not! It was a plain old unsecured POP3 e-mail system.

streetwise

BK SPECIAL SAUCE

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4873955863561671&pid=15.1

Sh1tbag OToole

Karsini wrote: »

I used to work for a now defunct online store. Although the front end website was SSL secured, the back end which transferred the credit card info from the datacentre to the warehouse was not! It was a plain old unsecured POP3 e-mail system.

The S in SSL stands for Snake oil

Duggy747

Working in IT repair companies I came across a lot of silly stuff. One in particular was one guy I worked with who had a penchant to go through people's Pictures folder on the machines that were dropped in for repair.

Sh1tbag OToole

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

The S in SSL stands for Snake oil

Yeah, after seeing that it made me somewhat reluctant to buy stuff online.

syklops

Fuzzytrooper wrote: »

Please...Everyone knows its tiny elves with tiny hammers.

Microscopic elves from Lanzarote I heard.

Dozen Wicked Words

If you buy a prepacked chicken with giblets included (rare these days I know) the giblets won't belong to that chicken. They come from huge bins of giblets and you shove a bag of them in each chicken as it goes by. Very impersonal for the poor deceased bird.

Fact bought to you by the good people at Faccenda chicken processing.

Savoir.Faire

loveBBhate wrote: »

Name 4 so.

Genuine public servants in the Dáil?

Paschal Donohoe
Kathleen Lynch
Thomas Pringle
Michael Noonan

loveBBhate

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

Genuine public servants in the Dáil?

Paschal Donohoe
Kathleen Lynch
Thomas Pringle
Michael Noonan

Mmmmm pringles

danotroy

david75 wrote: »

If you're in a bar and order a Guinness, and the barman pulls the pint from one tap but tops it up from another, send it back immediately. Serious shenanigans involving bad keys and slops.
I've left two bar jobs cos of this.

Elborate?

loveBBhate

danotroy wrote: »

Elborate?

Something like the ends of pints patrons don't finish are thrown back in to one after collection or something, I think, heard something along the lines of this before?!

danotroy

loveBBhate wrote: »

Something like the ends of pints patrons don't finish are thrown back in to one after collection or something, I think, heard something along the lines of this before?!

I think this is BS. Pub talk.

loveBBhate

danotroy wrote: »

I think this is BS. Pub talk.

Maybe, maybe not. Just what I heard

Untouchable Peasant

Bought a large round of drinks tonight in the Olympia and then tell me I can't pay using a card. Why the fcuk would somewhere like that not take cards? Load of me arse and yeah I know this has nothing to do with the thread but I'm drunk and thought I'd shoehorn the ****er in somehwere. Right you are.

Pogmothone

I used to work in Burger King when I was still in school, My sole duty was to cook the burgers, Id stand at the end of the cooking belt with a big box of frozen burgers and put six on at a time....Walk to the end and put the burger in an empty bun and pack them in a container ready for the burger maker to make them up...Sometimes they'd be sitting there for ages and sometimes not, Before they are made up they are microwaved for 10 seconds. To heat them up so the cheese melts....

SusieBlue

At peak times, when the club is really busy, glasses are only put in the dishwasher for a maximum of 20 seconds before being taken out for the next lot to go in.

In every single nightclub I've worked in (and I've worked in several) the toilets are cleaned by a minimum wage college student glass collector at about 4am, who happened to pull the short straw that night. Managers never give a shít so long as there isn't any visible piss or vomit they're easy going about it. 99.9% of the time they aren't cleaned properly at all.

As someone who has seen how a large portion of them are cleaned..Use at your own risk. There isn't bleach or toilet cleaner used. Quick mop of the floor and wipe the sinks/mirrors and your done unless an absolute horror has puked somewhere.

From my own experience I wouldn't use a club toilet (any club, not just the ones I've worked in) if you paid me.

danotroy

WhiteRoses wrote: »

At peak times, when the club is really busy, glasses are only put in the dishwasher for a maximum of 20 seconds before being taken out for the next lot to go in.

In every single nightclub I've worked in (and I've worked in several) the toilets are cleaned by a minimum wage college student glass collector at about 4am, who happened to pull the short straw that night. Managers never give a shít so long as there isn't any visible piss or vomit they're easy going about it. 99.9% of the time they aren't cleaned properly at all.

As someone who has seen how a large portion of them are cleaned..Use at your own risk. There isn't bleach or toilet cleaner used. Quick mop of the floor and wipe the sinks/mirrors and your done unless an absolute horror has puked somewhere.

From my own experience I wouldn't use a club toilet (any club, not just the ones I've worked in) if you paid me.

You cant talk for an industry as a whole based on your experience in a few nightclubs.

oranbhoy67

back in Glasgow i worked for a while with the city council on the bin lorries , there was many ways of making a few bob from the stuff we found ,but the strangest one to me was selling porn magazines back to the local asian newsagent ,you would see lads from the depot at lunchtime head around their with refuse bags full of the grot mags ,then he would tell you to come back in half an hour or so , when you came back he would give you back ones that were no use to him ( in a half indian/half glaswegian accent - "too many spunkstains" ) and pay you a few quid £4-5 for the pile that he wanted , i do not know what he done with them if he resold them in the shop or just kept a massive collection of 2nd hand porn for himself

Albertofrog

loveBBhate wrote: »

Name 4 so.

There's a difference between working hard for your electorate and working hard for your re election

loveBBhate

Albertofrog wrote: »

There's a difference between working hard for your electorate and working hard for your re election

Politics for ya ha?! All lies is right, you're spot on there Albert!

Teyla Emmagan

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

back in Glasgow i worked for a while with the city council on the bin lorries , there was many ways of making a few bob from the stuff we found ,but the strangest one to me was selling porn magazines back to the local asian newsagent ,you would see lads from the depot at lunchtime head around their with refuse bags full of the grot mags ,then he would tell you to come back in half an hour or so , when you came back he would give you back ones that were no use to him ( in a half indian/half glaswegian accent - "too many spunkstains" ) and pay you a few quid £4-5 for the pile that he wanted , i do not know what he done with them if he resold them in the shop or just kept a massive collection of 2nd hand porn for himself

That is just nasty

J.P.M

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

I like the bit about the poor lad working in the chipper who spilled some vinegar. It burned through his shoe. I wonder did it dissolve the floor as well. Dripping down into the basement.

That was a xenomorph not the vinegar!

stefan idiot jones

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

That is just nasty

He was just being an ontrapanure.

The One Who Knocks

newmug wrote: »

A place I worked in barred us from joining a union. Not only that, but its the LAW that if you work 12 hr shifts, you MUST be in a union. No Guard, politician, judge seemed to care.

Ryanair?

dodderangler

I know of a certain bread place I worked in when I was a kid that every morning in the van I was guaranteed to see a mouse on the boards full of bread.

newmug

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

Ryanair?

Nope. You would be very surprised though, a big name computer chip manufacturer. I'm not saying any more.

Fishyfreak

My Da, a man with an iron stomach, a man who would put almost anything in a sandwich, a man who used to literally eat tripe and spread dripping onto bread............ refuses to eat Granby Burgers.

He used to work in the factory many a moon ago and won't touch them.

Whenever I ask him about it you would swear that he was a Vietnam veteran recalling the war: "You weren't there man!!! You don't know what went on!!!!".

DeanAustin

Worked for a fairly big company who were told by a major grocery chain that if we dealt with Aldi or Lidl, we'd lose a lot of business with them.