Bad Things You Seen AT Work...

alancork · 21-04-2008 10:36PM

I work in a medium sized supermarket, and the food in the deli is shocking.

All pre-pack meat from the shelf that is past its' sell by date is left out the back, and kept for using in the deli for the next few days, especially hot food and dinners etc. I've been given out to many a time for putting gone off chicken, mince and other meat in the *returns* section, and told to put it with the deli food instead. I mean, this stuff smells like.

Also, was in a fast food place recently where you can see the whole kitchen from the counter. Saw a woman cooking burgers on the grill, flipping them with uncovered hands. Went to the fridge, took out 2 raw burgers, and went back to the cooking burgers. Then proceded to put same hands in onions and cheese, and put the burgers together.. All without washing hands, or wearing gloves..:eek:

Miss Fluff · 21-04-2008 10:49PM

voodoo_child wrote: »

Came across loads of viking stuff on an excavation in the city centre and never reported any of it :pac: Dug it up to fcuk and covered it in concrete

WTF????????:eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad:

alancork · 21-04-2008 10:51PM

Are you a Viking or something:D:rolleyes:

radioactiveman · 21-04-2008 10:56PM

ah that's a troll, why would you dig it up only to cover it in concrete afterwards...

bug · 21-04-2008 11:01PM

voodoo_child wrote: »

Came across loads of viking stuff on an excavation in the city centre and never reported any of it :pac: Dug it up to fcuk and covered it in concrete

I heard about this too. In fairness the place they built on it never had any luck and was constantly changing hands.

Toto Wolfcastle · 21-04-2008 11:28PM

alancork wrote: »

I work in a medium sized supermarket, and the food in the deli is shocking.

All pre-pack meat from the shelf that is past its' sell by date is left out the back, and kept for using in the deli for the next few days, especially hot food and dinners etc. I've been given out to many a time for putting gone off chicken, mince and other meat in the *returns* section, and told to put it with the deli food instead. I mean, this stuff smells like.

Also, was in a fast food place recently where you can see the whole kitchen from the counter. Saw a woman cooking burgers on the grill, flipping them with uncovered hands. Went to the fridge, took out 2 raw burgers, and went back to the cooking burgers. Then proceded to put same hands in onions and cheese, and put the burgers together.. All without washing hands, or wearing gloves..:eek:

I'm scared now that I may have used one of these two places!

/gets sick

Dolbert · 21-04-2008 11:39PM

I once worked for a small supermarket chain, where the practice of scraping the mould off the old peppers and mushrooms and make vol-au-vents was a regular occurrence :pac:

chuci · 22-04-2008 12:15AM

yawnstretch wrote: »

You know what's really strange? This thread has made me hungry. What the hell is wrong with me...

+1 would love a snack box now.

my story is not food related but when i was a first yr student nurse me and my friend were giving this old lady with dementia a bed bath and it was the first one we were aloud to do by ourselves we were feeling very proud until we rolled the lady over and her fake eye popped out and rolled across the floor. cue the two of us freaking out and jumping around the room going what the hell do we do??? my friend picks up the glass eye runs it under water for a few minutes and pops it back in. it makes me wonder why i continued with that course for the next few years. but that story is true i sh*t you not.

EamonnKeane · 22-04-2008 12:55AM

snyper wrote: »

I sold a member of a travelling community wearing a tux - a slash hook, a stanley knife, a 1m length of chain and a hatchet.

I gave him 10% discount because i know he was going to do some thing good that day

Construct a very small fence?

gerky · 22-04-2008 01:55AM

A lot of you are seriously f**ked up for not reporting these things and don't talk about getting in trouble as there any number of ways of making an anonymous complaint, an elderly man in my area recently died after contracting some form of bacterial food poisoning.
And anyone who participates in destroying archaeological evidence deserves to end up in court if not jail.

Dudess · 22-04-2008 02:27AM

Titan Slimy Transparency wrote: »

+1

The amount of Howard Hughes heads on this thread is laughable.

The level of trollishness in your post is laughable. Some of the stuff mentioned here is appalling and you know it.

StormWarrior wrote: »

Because the job would have been very boring otherwise.

But... how did the company make any money and thus pay you and your colleagues?

Cianos · 22-04-2008 03:52AM

The average quality of meat in restaurants, fast food places, pre-packaged pizzas and the like, and not to mention all the examples given in this thread make me pretty happy to be vegetarian right now.

Here's some more work place shenanigans
(*Warning, the contents can be quite disturbing*)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4

phantom_lord · 22-04-2008 05:28AM

saw! or have seen!

Just The One · 22-04-2008 08:18AM

Joe Robot wrote: »

As for the cost of your shopping on the swipe card machine, ask them! Even if I'm paying with lazer or credit card I always ask the total price. It's common sense FFS! :rolleyes:

I have. I have spoken with the manager and told him he was not following the correct procedure etc... He just told me that if there was ever a problem just come to him and he would sort it.... I told him that was not good enough... reversing transaction... bank charges, etc... he still refuses to change the procedure.

Sam Vimes · 22-04-2008 08:59AM

orestes wrote: »

I worked in a fast food place for years, at one stage it was the busiest one in the country in the chain (it was one of the big 2 American chains)

The things I saw working in there guaranteed that I will never eat fast food again (unless I'm hammered of course) Changing the date/time on the chicken, meat and salad so they could keep selling it instead of throwing it out was a daily occurance, milk that was due to be thrown out was opened and chucked in with the milkshake mix, and just other general grossness.

i know you're trying not to name the place specifically but i know exactly where you worked because you said it was the busiest in the world. it's a pizza place in tallaght right?

togster · 22-04-2008 09:07AM

Not as bad as some of the food stories here but anyway.....

Used to work for a horse dealer in Tipperary and he sold so many dodgy horses. He sole a 14 y o horse as a 6 y o to americans. he would forge passports (birth certs) to make the horse younger or older and lots of his horses were by clover hill even though that stallion has been dead for years. :eek:

When a horse is sold they normally get vetted which includes x-rays of the horse principal joints. If the horse failed he would bribe the vets to pass it.

If a horse was lame he would dope it to the eyeballs with painkiller.

bobbi · 22-04-2008 10:53AM

I worked in a certain bar in the city centre where the supervisor used to make us serve "drip tray" pints. Well any drip trays that didn't have guinness in them. Not very nice we did wash the drip trays everyday though

Dord · 22-04-2008 11:06AM

Just The One wrote: »

I have. I have spoken with the manager and told him he was not following the correct procedure etc... He just told me that if there was ever a problem just come to him and he would sort it.... I told him that was not good enough... reversing transaction... bank charges, etc... he still refuses to change the procedure.

OK, but you should ask before you hand over your card! That way if the price isn't satisfactory you can just walk outta there.

Gummy Panda · 22-04-2008 11:45AM

bobbi wrote: »

I worked in a certain bar in the city centre where the supervisor used to make us serve "drip tray" pints. Well any drip trays that didn't have guinness in them. Not very nice we did wash the drip trays everyday though

Did he not fill up the old kegs with the drip trays and send them back for credit?

I know Guinness takes back Guinness, Bud, Carlsberg, Smithwicks and Harp. They use these kegs to test the quality.

bobbi · 22-04-2008 12:13PM

Did he not fill up the old kegs with the drip trays and send them back for credit?

I know Guinness takes back Guinness, Bud, Carlsberg, Smithwicks and Harp. They use these kegs to test the quality.

They did but this supervisor didn't like waste basically and preferred to recycle using the customers. Help the environment

22-04-2008 01:21PM

orestes wrote: »

Seems to work alright for ntl (off topic I know, but god I hate those bastids :mad:)

I worked in a fast food place for years, at one stage it was the busiest one in the country in the chain (it was one of the big 2 American chains)

The things I saw working in there guaranteed that I will never eat fast food again (unless I'm hammered of course) Changing the date/time on the chicken, meat and salad so they could keep selling it instead of throwing it out was a daily occurance, milk that was due to be thrown out was opened and chucked in with the milkshake mix, and just other general grossness.

NEVER eat in a fast food place, trust me, and I'm sure anyone else here who has worked in one would agree

I did, and I don't agree.

Just for the benefit of everyone else reading this, I worked in McD's on grafton street for about 3 years and NONE of this ever happened there (at least while I was working there).

TBH, your post smells of BS. You can't "throw milk in with the milkshake mix" as it wouldn't come out of the dispenser properly. Also, "changing the time on chicken etc."........WTF? Has anyone ever gotten a burger/nuggets etc. with a best before date on them? How would "changing the date" on something be of any benefit?

Next time you're in McD's, have a look at the clocks on the walls over/around the tills. As well as the regular hour/minute numbers, there are red and black digits ranging from 1 - 12 on the face. Each product has a set shelf-life, and if you make, say a tray of big macs at quarter past one, and they're kept for ten minutes before being thrown out, you'd look at the clock and say "o.k., ten minutes = 25 past one = a red 7 on the clock face" so you'd put them in the production bin and place a marker with a red 7 on it behind them so that anyone on tills would know what time they should be thrown out at.

All the waste food is counted/weighed and refunds are gotten for them so they'd have nothing to gain by serving old/cold/dangerous food and everything to lose.

chopperbyrne · 22-04-2008 01:25PM

^^ Which is why I also mentioned that I never saw anything other than impeccable standards in Pizza Hut either.

Unpossible · 22-04-2008 01:43PM

I did, and I don't agree.

Just for the benefit of everyone else reading this, I worked in McD's on grafton street for about 3 years and NONE of this ever happened there (at least while I was working there).

TBH, your post smells of BS. You can't "throw milk in with the milkshake mix" as it wouldn't come out of the dispenser properly. Also, "changing the time on chicken etc."........WTF? Has anyone ever gotten a burger/nuggets etc. with a best before date on them? How would "changing the date" on something be of any benefit?

Next time you're in McD's, have a look at the clocks on the walls over/around the tills. As well as the regular hour/minute numbers, there are red and black digits ranging from 1 - 12 on the face. Each product has a set shelf-life, and if you make, say a tray of big macs at quarter past one, and they're kept for ten minutes before being thrown out, you'd look at the clock and say "o.k., ten minutes = 25 past one = a red 7 on the clock face" so you'd put them in the production bin and place a marker with a red 7 on it behind them so that anyone on tills would know what time they should be thrown out at.

All the waste food is counted/weighed and refunds are gotten for them so they'd have nothing to gain by serving old/cold/dangerous food and everything to lose.

Supermacs, from the two stores I worked in briefly, have a similar proceedure. Our boss' solution to throwing out too much food was simply not to cook so much unless it was ordered.

Slidey · 22-04-2008 01:49PM

A few years ago i worked in a large supermarket chain in the deli counter

We used to leave the sheep carcasses down 1 end of the fridge and have a hook on the rails just inside the door.
Run flat out into the fridge with your feet straight out and see how many ribs you could break in one go!

ronnie3585 · 22-04-2008 02:00PM

slideways wrote: »

A few years ago i worked in a large supermarket chain in the deli counter

We used to leave the sheep carcasses down 1 end of the fridge and have a hook on the rails just inside the door.
Run flat out into the fridge with your feet straight out and see how many ribs you could break in one go!

Ha ha, god that brings back the memories. I also worked in a large supermarket chain in the butchers for a summer job. Whenever the fresh lambs would come in the Rocky music would start in all of our heads. When the boss wasnt around we would go into the fridge and start boxing the sh1t out of the lambs seeing how many ribs we could break!

Good times.

pontovic · 22-04-2008 02:01PM

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

Ok just thinking over the years I have worked in a few Bogart places that didnt entirely believe in health in safety etc etc.

Which begs the question what have you witnessed:

Here are just 2 e.g. i can think of :

While working for a well know super market, if you were buying mince from the butchers dept. (bad idea)

What they did to get that was open the gone off packets from the shelves and put the blood from the big meats to put a bit of life back into it.

I worked for a well know fast food place and some of the staff used to play games called

Pickle Races where a pickle was thrown against the wall and raced against other pickles & yes it was put back in the burger

Also
Lucky Nuggets where someone ordered lets say a 20 nugs and they would get like 13nugs in the box.

Tells us your stories

Ok that sounds quite disgusting. Why can't you name the shops ? Will boards.ie be sued for this ?

nevaeh-2die-4 · 22-04-2008 02:16PM

i wont name the places but i will give u a hint
freshcos & mackdonalds

in mackdonalds i also seen seen some dirt bird put a bun down his bags & fart on it. (i have to say i pissed my self laughing at that)

civis_liberalis · 22-04-2008 03:09PM

While working for a well know Irish fast-food chain I was my freezer for keeping the burgers in, near the grill was filled up with stuff that came from another branch in Longford that was closed down. It has defrosted and was then obviously frozen again in the freezer in my place.

I'm pretty sure that is majorly unsafe?

You could see that the blood had ran out of them.

yawnstretch · 22-04-2008 07:28PM

chuci wrote: »

+1 would love a snack box now.

my story is not food related but when i was a first yr student nurse me and my friend were giving this old lady with dementia a bed bath and it was the first one we were aloud to do by ourselves we were feeling very proud until we rolled the lady over and her fake eye popped out and rolled across the floor. cue the two of us freaking out and jumping around the room going what the hell do we do??? my friend picks up the glass eye runs it under water for a few minutes and pops it back in. it makes me wonder why i continued with that course for the next few years. but that story is true i sh*t you not.

Sounds like something from scrubs - or house (which Im more into now)

AckwelFoley · 22-04-2008 08:11PM

Cianos wrote: »

(*Warning, the contents can be quite disturbing*)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4

Newsflash.

Chickens in captivity.

... and in other amazing news PETA didnt inform us of, chickens die in free range farming too.

We die too, and by the looks of it the chickens get better attention than us Irish do in some dublin hospitals.

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