Bad Things You Seen AT Work...

I worked for the company that did the Port Tunnel and as a result I refuse to go near the thing.

In relation to food and groceries, if you knew every single thing that was done to your food before it hits your plate, you'd never eat. Be it pre-packed, tinned, fresh from deli, served in a restaurant, whatever. You'd stay at home and grow your own veg in your garden.

I do believe meat is particularly bad. In a supermarket I worked in, they'd take the steaks that'd be on their last day and put them in the mincer and sell them for another three or four days. Disgusting.

In saying that, goodness know what has happened to the fruit & veg on sale. Take something as simple as if an apple fell on the ground outside; at home you'd throw it out. In the supermarket, they'll spray it with water and put it back on sale.

deisedevil wrote: »

Mince from behind a butchery counter is something to be avoided like the plague!! I worked in a butchery and I know for a fact that they will use any meat that is nearly gone and put it in with meat that is fresh and even this meat will be only shin and heel meat. Round steak mince was a mixture of any meat that was a bit lean but rarely ever was it actually round steak that was minced. I always buy the packets on the shelves now.

And for this, I am so glad I am a vegetarian

Another supermarmarket / butcher story:

A butcher in a well known Co. Dublin supermarket was grinding up meat in the mincer.

There was a stain on the top of the mincer from old meat he minced 2 days ago and thought I'll wipe that off.

He grabbed the nearest J cloth and started scrubbing away, but the tail end of the cloth got caught in the mincer and the entire cloth got dragged through the grinder.

The butcher thought nothing of this and sold the mince with the ground up (and soiled) J cloth included.

When questioned by a customer "Whats that blue stuff in the mince ?"

The butcher told the customer "Thats just where the cow was branded - nothing to worry about - How much do you want" :eek::eek:

Was told of fast food chain, (horrible smelly food - cant stand the place) was being cleaned before opening, and staff were cleaning the counter- tops with the mop after washing the floor :eek:

And were resting their feet beside the hot food plate - while cooking food!!! :eek:

Also, friend worked in local shopping centre restaurant, said to never ever eat the soup - would be sold as vegetable soup but was basically everything that was not sold the day before- meat & all :eek::eek:

My fiancee worked in a fast food chain. His two examples he usually gives are:

1. Cleaning out the ice cream machine, getting it all lovely and shiny then pouring back in the old ice cream that they had drained out in order to clean it. If you think about it, there could be some ice cream in there from the first time the machine was used. :eek: He got caught pouring it down the drain once and got a severe bollocking. It was only about a pint.

2. The chicken in the warming cabinets, usually made at 7am (depending on the opening time) and if you see it there at 3am when you're in after pints, it's the same stuff, 20 hours later. Never eat the chicken after noon is his policy. I suppose in the bigger branches where there's big custom the turnaround would be better.

His advice is order something awkward from the grill,like a burger with no onions or something so they have to make it fresh. Chips are usually OK as well.

I worked in a place that if you cut yourself you were expected to finish serving the customer before going to get a plaster. :eek:

StormWarrior wrote: »

I used to work doing telesales for anglian windows, and our boss would encourage us to harrass the customers, be very rude and say extremely stupid things to them. The more pissed off a customer got, the more frequently we would phone them and say things like, "If you don't buy a window my baby will starve to death." Or start singing songs at them, or pretend we were from a different company and try and trick them into letting us come round and give them a quote, and tell them we were cartoon characters like mighty mouse and all the world's problems would be solved if they let us come round. We would tell them lies to let them come round like "We're coming to visit your neighbour anyway so we might as well visit you while we're there." Sounds silly but the customers would get so angry they would scream down the phone and threaten to call the police. Our boss gave prizes of chocolate, kfc and alcohol to whoever could cause the customers the most distress.

What... Why??

StormWarrior wrote: »

I used to work doing telesales for anglian windows, and our boss would encourage us to harrass the customers, be very rude and say extremely stupid things to them. The more pissed off a customer got, the more frequently we would phone them and say things like, "If you don't buy a window my baby will starve to death." Or start singing songs at them, or pretend we were from a different company and try and trick them into letting us come round and give them a quote, and tell them we were cartoon characters like mighty mouse and all the world's problems would be solved if they let us come round. We would tell them lies to let them come round like "We're coming to visit your neighbour anyway so we might as well visit you while we're there." Sounds silly but the customers would get so angry they would scream down the phone and threaten to call the police. Our boss gave prizes of chocolate, kfc and alcohol to whoever could cause the customers the most distress.

I dont know whether to laugh or cry
We have had a few companies continually calls us about offers and we noticed that the more agitated we became like saying "No, dont call here again *hangup*", the more often they would call. Thankfully we have a cordless phone, so anymore they get rickrolled and trust me, they dont call back

Just The One wrote: »

I won't name the supermarket but they do try to offer super value to customers.

A little subtle, no?

I can confirm the state of supermarket buchers, but I still buy from them on occasion.

Just The One wrote: »

I am not sure what you mean?

Yeah Brain isnt working yet, I made an edit to the original post

i worked in a burger bun factory( they made some of ireland best known burger buns and for a very big fast food place where the burger was"KING") and i saw some mad stuff go into the mixed, there was flys everywhere and i even saw a nose ring go into the mix.

i also working in a chippy as well, the chicken if it was starting to go off it was left in a bucket or water lemon and salt to cover up the smell and taste. i had to leave it the ower was scum. i even saw him take stuff out of the bin to give to people on their burgers.