Stuff you know that others wouldn't know because of your job.

Zangetsu · 27-11-2008 04:14PM

bryanjf
Most people can't tell the difference between pints of Budweiser/Heineken and or Carlsberg.

Same goes for Vodka and Gin.

You must have no taste buds :S

Professey Chin · 27-11-2008 04:14PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The amount of IT info here leads me to deduce that a lot of us boards daytime wasters are IT people...not me though!!

Theres non IT people here?

:eek:

Dragan · 27-11-2008 04:15PM

jebuz, your sig gave me lolz.

:pac:

James Forde · 27-11-2008 04:15PM

Going Forward wrote: »

Actually, with the first one i'd wager people just think they got a dodgy pint :P I know i've been unsure when drunk as to whether its a crap pint or something else.

True, but it's amazing to see people who haven't a notion as to what there drinking when they've spent the guts of a fiver for it!

Cookie_Monster · 27-11-2008 04:15PM

BumblebeeGirl wrote: »

All cans/bottles in an off licence have been sitting out back for at least afew weeks. Wipe before drinking. Its nasty.

Not true at all, the offo i worked in turned most deliveries around in a week or so.
Wine can sit around for a while but remains boxed generally.
Considering its been sitting in in a container from africa, of south america for 10-16 weeks before that i wouldn't be worried if its on a shelf for 2 or 3.

James Forde · 27-11-2008 04:16PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

bryanjf
Most people can't tell the difference between pints of Budweiser/Heineken and or Carlsberg.

Same goes for Vodka and Gin.

You must have no taste buds :S

:L other people don't not me!;)

chin_grin · 27-11-2008 04:16PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

bryanjf
Most people can't tell the difference between pints of Budweiser/Heineken and or Carlsberg.

You must have no taste buds :S

Or he does and agree's that they're all pish.

Hmm. IT guys prefer dealing with other companys' IT guys. Aw.

Zangetsu · 27-11-2008 04:17PM

Actually there are really only 6 posters on boards, all with multiple accounts playing mind games with each other, each of them work in IT and have nothing better to do so they argue and debate with each other about the finer points of our existence.

There I said it... Cats out of the bag!

James Forde · 27-11-2008 04:19PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Or he does and agree's that they're all pish.

Hmm. IT guys prefer dealing with other companys' IT guys. Aw.

True, Guinness all the way

jebuz · 27-11-2008 04:20PM

Dragan wrote: »

jebuz, your sig gave me lolz.

:pac:

I would love to return the compliment Dragan but I couldn't extract any epic lulz from your sig ftw brb gtg

Tigger · 27-11-2008 04:22PM

bryanjf wrote: »

Most people can't tell the difference between pints of Budweiser/Heineken and or Carlsberg.

Same goes for Vodka and Gin.

i find that very hard to believe

oeb · 27-11-2008 04:22PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

Actually there are really only 6 posters on boards, all with multiple accounts playing mind games with each other, each of them work in IT and have nothing better to do so they argue and debate with each other about the finer points of our existence.

There I said it... Cats out of the bag!

I can't believe I just told everyone that.

Das Kitty · 27-11-2008 04:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Deli workers do not follow the hygiene standards nearly as much as they should. They're meant to change their plastic gloves for every sanger they make.

Not quite, every 4 hours provided they don't touch anything other than the sangers and their (cooked!) fillings.

I worked in 2 Delis and attended HACCP courses twice (couldn't find my original qualification cert).

I also know from my time in Delis that HACCP rules are only for "when we're not busy." Or when the overheads are piling up. I got yelled at once for changing my gloves after being out the back in the shed lugging boxes around.

From my current job I know things like: Japanese people have tiny heart valves, everything can run more efficiently if you just can figure out how to get people to sign up & fixing blocked arteries is usually done on an outpatient basis these days.

ordinary_story · 27-11-2008 04:23PM

Low fat Coleslaw and regular coleslaw are EXACTLY the same thing just in different packaging. I know because I used to make the stuff in a factory.

Professey Chin · 27-11-2008 04:24PM

oeb wrote: »

I can't believe I just told everyone that.

I thought I did???

jebuz · 27-11-2008 04:28PM

My go, a String is an immutable object.

James Forde · 27-11-2008 04:30PM

Tigger wrote: »

i find that very hard to believe

more so with the beers than the spirits to be honest.

but it's ridiculous how often it happens..........

Customer: Pint of Bud and Pint of Heineken

Me: Here's your Bud and here's your heineken (customer not looking as usual)

Exchange Money

Customer: which is the Bud

Me : that one (its heineken)

Customer: (takes a nice drink) ok cheers.:D

Tigger · 27-11-2008 04:34PM

bryanjf wrote: »

more so with the beers than the spirits to be honest.

but it's ridiculous how often it happens..........

Customer: Pint of Bud and Pint of Heineken

Me: Here's your Bud and here's your heineken (customer not looking as usual)

Exchange Money

Customer: which is the Bud

Me : that one (its heineken)

Customer: (takes a nice drink) ok cheers.:D

ok

suppose if yer gonna drink that muck ......

homerun_homer · 27-11-2008 04:36PM

No one in the company I work for uses the software they are famous worldwide for - instead they use someone else's free demo version which we all swear by:)

-simon- · 27-11-2008 04:37PM

If you order a scone in a cafe/hotel and when you get it, its warm even though you didnt ask for it to be heated, thats probably because it was a wee bit stale so it was chucked in the microware for 20 seconds!!

Saint_Mel · 27-11-2008 04:38PM

bryanjf wrote: »

more so with the beers than the spirits to be honest.

but it's ridiculous how often it happens..........

Customer: Pint of Bud and Pint of Heineken

Me: Here's your Bud and here's your heineken (customer not looking as usual)

Exchange Money

Customer: which is the Bud

Me : that one (its heineken)

Customer: (takes a nice drink) ok cheers.:D

Something similar happened me on a night out years ago. Was chatting at the bar and called for a pint of Carlsberg and pint of Heiniken. Barman put them up and even though I didnt ask he pointed out which drink was which.
Again I wasnt really looking and just grabbed the pint he pointed as Carlsberg and my mate took the Heiniken. Mine tasted bad so I called him back and told him that wasnt Carlsberg ... so he dumped it and pulled another one. Queue my mate tasting his pint and shock horror it didnt taste like Heiniken ... so he called the barman and he replaced it.

Turned out that the barman wasnt concentrating himself and pointed the wrong pints out. If only 1 of the 3 of us were paying attention there wouldnt have been 2 grand pints wasted! Oh how we laughed

BaconZombie · 27-11-2008 04:39PM

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As stated IT have full access to all your files but we could give less then two sh!ts about read/looking at it.

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The pricing markup of cables, connectors and adapters sold in retails store is at lease 85% if not more.

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Military Grade Security systems can be easily bypassed, and the type used in Irelands Airports is even easier to bypass.

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99% of people to not know there legal rights.

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IT, Facilitates, Reception and Payroll {in that order} are the worst departments to piss off and hold the longest grudges.

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Most Payroll/Accounting software store ALL your personal data in plaintext, ROS {Revenue Online Service} only except your weekly/monthly tax details in .xml format {which is basically plain text}.

hobochris wrote: »

When your company has bought an accounts package from a software company they in turn are giving strangers access to your financial and personal details. a majority of the time the IT (who you'll probably never meet)staff of this company that develop/install/support that system have more information at their disposal than would be required to commit identity fraud. with little or no measures to stop them doing so.

Also a majority of companies have very few if any security measures in place to protect some of your most valuable information.

*I'm sure that this isn't very surprising to anyone who have herd about bank security blunders in the new recently.

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And I've seen people like that chew on the top of the pen while wearing the bio-hazzard gear.

Tigger wrote: »

people who work in labs put on gloves and white coats to protect themselves from the bio-hazzards
they then use pens with the gloves on and when they are finished they takeoff the gloves put the pens in their pockets

later on they take the pens out of the jackets and use then in the out of lab offices

ShooterSF · 27-11-2008 04:50PM

Heineken and carlsberg can be interchangable till you taste but Bud is visibly lighter in colour.
Ive been asked which is which in a different situation and replied "that's your vodka and that one's the J.D" :rolleyes:

More people than you would think have expired Norton or McAfee anti virus software that came with their home PC as their only protection.

Tigger · 27-11-2008 04:52PM

BOFH_139 wrote: »

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And I've seen people like that chew on the top of the pen while wearing the bio-hazzard gear.

yup

me too

an when you say irt to them they laugh

27-11-2008 04:53PM

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In$omniac · 27-11-2008 04:53PM

When you have a disagreement with Customer Service and they say 'I am so sorry about that, I will look into the matter straight away'.

They won't the only thing they are sorry about is that you didn't go to another branch or emigrate :P

AnonoBoy · 27-11-2008 04:54PM

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Oh how we laughed

Oh you wild and crazy guys!

Frogdog · 27-11-2008 04:54PM

When you mark a package "Fragile - handle with care", that gives the courier/baggage handler license to give it a kick.

gaz wac · 27-11-2008 04:59PM

If im dying with a hangover and there is an error in your wages, dont ask me what the correct amount will be next month, im going to say " I cant, im still working on the current period"...i can, im just too last to work it out manually!!

If you didnt get the right tax credits its because I didnt bother logging onto ROS cos that means I have to remember two more passwords!!

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR BIK !!

ShooterSF · 27-11-2008 04:59PM

Frogdog wrote: »

When you mark a package "Fragile - handle with care", that gives the courier/baggage handler license to give it a kick.

In their defence its only to check your not lying...

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