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

while working in the bistro of a well known hotel in Cork not so long ago, all the glasses and cuttlery were polished with napkins that were clean, but stained and deamed unfit for the tables, all well and good says you. But when the supply of polishing napkins was exausted for the night my co workers would pull out 'clean looking' napkins from the dirty napkin bin. i.e. the napkins that a customer would have used to wipe there mouth earlyer in the evening, and use these to polish the glasses and cuttlery and wipe the tables.

one night while cleaning coffee station in the kitchen i moved the coffee machine to finde at least 6 months of dried coffee stains, it was like looking at the rings of a 100+ year old tree, when i reacted with disgust my co worker gave out saying i shouldnt move the coffee machine, that they dont clean under there.

but the worst part of that night was what i found on the wall behind the coffee machine when i did move it, a layer of dust, grime and grease, with the still clear fitters markings on the wall in pencil, "coffee machine" and "water boiler". clearly this wall had not seen the damp side of a cloth since the kitchen was kitted out in the mid 90s. this was about 1.5meters from the food prep area and the pass.

all tips that were put on cards or rooms were shared every 3 months, and we only ever saw a fraction of the real amount.

i complained to managment, who, while symathetic, didnt care, and did nothing to fix anything, well no thats wrong they put up a cleaning rota that no one paid any attention to, i quickly found a new job and got the hell out of there.

worked in a hotel

they had an old bath in the kitchen for mixing the punch at wedding receptions

urbanledge wrote: »

A guy I know did phone repairs,
He said when they got a phone in they just looked at the first few photos on it.
Generally when people get new phones they take snaps of their missus in the nip etc until the novelty wears off.

He said hes seen some weird ****.Brazilian trannys etc

Mod

Kindly refrain from using the term Tranny, It is seen as a slur.

Thanks.

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Having briefly worked in a McDonalds many years ago, I can vouch that its possibly the cleanest place you could eat in. The amount of cleaning the staff have to do is phenomenal.

they still feed customers dirt though

lkionm wrote: »

If you get petrol in a station and go in and let's say get a bottle of coke and bring that up and say nothing about the petrol you will get away with the petrol as its very hard for them to pin the blame on you for a drive off if the till person didn't ask for petrol.

To anyone thinking of trying this; dont. You're effectively saying that it's okay to put a bottle of coke in your pocket and walk out because the cashier didn't ask if you had anything in your pockets. Or dine-and-dash in a restaurant because the waiter didn't bring you a bill without you bothering to ask for one.

If you fill up your car, you owe the company a debt.

Happened to me loads of times when I worked in a petrol station and every time the guards had no problem coming to collect the CCTV and pay a visit to the persons home.

My petrol station also blacklisted people we thought had done it intentionally and would make them prepay in the future.