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

rubadub · 15-11-2013 06:35PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Chefs sometimes take revenge on customers when they complain their steak is underdone by throwing it on the floor first.

And dentists take revenge on whining patients by sticking their finger up their hole and then in your mouth. Nurses will spit on sterile needles before injecting you.

I just made up that bollocks of course, I do not for one minute believe the extent of all the supposed antics that people involved with food preparation get up to. Is there some psychological reason that subhuman scumbags are unusually attracted to jobs into the food industry? That includes the people reporting that they saw it, you're a dirty subhuman scumbag too if you stood by and did nothing. If your "friend" told you, why the fuck are you still their friend?

If there are so many disgusting scumbags who deliberately put people's health at risk then surely they should be in other areas too, like the medical profession.

Degag · 15-11-2013 07:19PM

Liamalone wrote: »

Aul arse, if the person on the phone hasn't the the authority to sort the problem then you should be able to speak to someone who has the authority. I take it you didn't last long or is that call centre shut? No surprise either way lol

Most call centre staff are able to solve most queries themselves but often the customer isn't happy with their response or the time frame in which it should be solved. It may be a cliché, but "My manager will tell you exactly the same thing" is true in a lot of cases

Mint Aero · 15-11-2013 08:13PM

Mate of mine working in civil service, their department used have deadlines to meet. They'd leave all the work pile up by not doing a tap for months on end.

Coming up to deadlines then it was all 'oh **** we're snowed under with work' 'backlogs' etc so then they were able to do over time at the weekends, treble pay or something. This was few years ago now, not in touch with him these days.

Fred Swanson · 15-11-2013 08:16PM

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Corvo · 15-11-2013 08:53PM

Billy86 wrote: »

Yes and no. As best I know 123 are not dodgy in terms of how they get you on board (though individual sales agents might be - happens in all companies, sadly), but beware their admin costs that I got at back on page 16! They're one of the worst for that. They simply get RSA's best rates because RSA own them, so I am assuming it is better in the eyes of RSA to have you on their books via 123 than any other broker.

That, and the whole scandal of the last few days of course. Though stimpson that could not have amounted to the 80% difference. I'm sure it played a role of course, but sometimes companies do just change their 'acceptance criteria' to expand their book of business, and sadly that inevitably f***s over some existing customers. AXA for example seem to have got stricter on younger drivers, imported vehicles and more powerful cars than they were 2 years or so back when they were one of the best ones for it.

Axa are now one of the best but you have to install a DriveSafe box into the car, which tracks driving patterns.

Sh1tbag OToole · 15-11-2013 09:03PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Nooooooo! But Word is great? and not at all frustrating to use.

The thing about word is for 95% of cases you could make a document in Word 97 or similar ancient version just as well as the new one. Its really just the shiny new look and MS making the old formats obsolete thats driving people to upgrade

2nd Row Donkey · 16-11-2013 12:21AM

Lad that I went to college with about 10 years ago has worked for numerous software companies who supply software to stores in the retail industry - coffee shops, hardware stores,motor factors, convince retail etc. He explained to me that nearly all of them intentionally design their software with a function to allow the stores to record sales on the tills as normal as far as the joe soap customer is concerned but those sales are never officially recorded in the 'back office' meaning these sales are not registered for the audited reports/vat purposes therefore denying the exchequer 100's of 1000's of revenue every year.

Ever see a till in a shop with a sign that says 'cash only, no credit card' .... More often then not thats because credit card sales leave an electronic paper trail, records with the bank and so on and they only want cash sales because they can be hidden using the function I mentioned above.

campo · 16-11-2013 12:26AM

I once worked for a company who sold bottled water , one day the machinery that filled the bottles with water broke down so the owner filled the bottles with tap water

Fred Swanson · 16-11-2013 12:28AM

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campo · 16-11-2013 12:39AM

Fred Swanson wrote: »

Bet no one noticed.

Nope in same job we delivered to a chipper where we saw a young lad pissing into the barrel of chips while they were soaking in water

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 12:55AM

Corvo wrote: »

Axa are now one of the best but you have to install a DriveSafe box into the car, which tracks driving patterns.

Is that just under a certain age? While it's a massively beneficial thing for careful younger drivers to have, I can't see them saying you have to have it installed.

NuckingFacker · 16-11-2013 01:05AM

campo wrote: »

Nope in same job we delivered to a chipper where we saw a young lad pissing into the barrel of chips while they were soaking in water

Yeah, I saw an armed robbery once. Just goes to show, there's always the odd weirdo out there. I doubt it was part of his scheduled work. Or somthing the company planned to happen at 3pm every day..

Paddy Cow · 16-11-2013 02:11AM

I once worked for a company where I was paid €8p/hr (cash in hand). I did cleaning/admin at weekends and all was well until my mother got diagnosed with terminal cancer. I asked for as many hours as possible so that I could save up money during the summer to be able to visit my mother in the winter (I'm a student) and they said "sure, you're a great worker, we value you so much we are going to put you on a wage and get you to manage the place".

Turns out managing the place meant working from 7.30am to 11.30pm Thursday to Sunday at the wage of €5 per hour. I did it for one weekend and it nearly killed me. When I told the boss that the hours were too long she got defensive and acted like I was lazy. When I told her that it was too much to expect me to work 60+ hours in four days and giving the easy Mon-Wed shifts to the new girl was unfair, she went ballistic and basically threw me out of the place.

Trust me, I have learned the hard way that having a cash-in-hand job is more trouble than it's worth and I will never go down that route again but how do people get away with this for years? The woman I worked for had two appartments in Spain, a hospitality business, a nightclub, a vegtable business and at least 4 or 5 apartments to rent. Yet she was still able to look me in the face and say that she couldn't afford to pay me the going rate and either I go on a salary or I say goodbye.

Getting back on topic, people who think they know my boss would be horrified to discover that she tried to use my desperation to earn as much money as possible to see my mother in the winter was used against me. Do I think this family don't want the general public knowing that all they care about is money? NO. But life is not fair. They will continue to pretend that they are upstanding members of the comunity and will be applauded for this and that is just the way it is.

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 02:16AM

All "trade unions are evil, should be banned!" believers should scroll up just a small little bit.

Corvo · 16-11-2013 03:00AM

Billy86 wrote: »

Is that just under a certain age? While it's a massively beneficial thing for careful younger drivers to have, I can't see them saying you have to have it installed.

Sorry, yeah, you don't have to have it installed but it does reduce the premium significantly.

From my own work in a brokerage, I ran a few quotes for a cousin, first time driver, 20 years of age, provisional licence and Axa direct with this box blew all competitors out of the water (approx 500 quid less)

pocketse · 16-11-2013 03:02AM

Three summers ago a friend of mine who works in IT got a contract job with a very well known international software company. They in turn had got the contract for upgrading software remotely in every branch of a very well known, now state owned bank. The contract was for a month and he was employed as time was running out and job had to be finished by a certain date (two deadlines had already past). Anyway halfway through his first morning trying to make a good impression and flying through his work he was brought for a coffee with one of his supervisors. He was basically told to slow down, that they were trying to milk the contract for as long as possible. Was told if he hit a target of so many a day he'd be doing fine. He used to finish his work in around and hour each morning and spent the rest of the day sitting in front of the computer. Reckons it was one of the longest months he ever worked.

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 03:13AM

Corvo wrote: »

Sorry, yeah, you don't have to have it installed but it does reduce the premium significantly.

From my own work in a brokerage, I ran a few quotes for a cousin, first time driver, 20 years of age, provisional licence and Axa direct with this box blew all competitors out of the water (approx 500 quid less)

Yeah there's no real specialist there at the minute which must be a right pain for younger drivers. Surprised you didn't have any luck with Asgard though, they're probably the closest to a 'specialist' I can think of off the top of my head.

Oregano_State · 16-11-2013 03:16AM

piplin wrote: »

Chemical plant in Shannon where they pour tens of thousands of litres of chemical waste directly down the drain.

I highly doubt that.

NIMAN · 16-11-2013 03:32AM

Some amount of urban myths and lies on this thread methinks.

PhlegmyMoses · 16-11-2013 03:32AM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Has anyone on here ever had to sign an NDA to keep an employer happy?

I've been on an NDA for the last few months. Not a hard thing to do, tbh.

Gmol · 16-11-2013 03:36AM

Billy86 wrote: »

All "trade unions are evil, should be banned!" believers should scroll up just a small little bit.

No that woman was a disgrace, trade unions are still a joke. There is enough law there to protect employees and I am an employee.

Howard Juneau · 16-11-2013 04:12AM

Gmol wrote: »

No that woman was a disgrace, trade unions are still a joke. There is enough law there to protect employees and I am an employee.

Always, always! join a union, you're taking unnecessary chances if you don't

Cycling Dumbasses · 16-11-2013 04:26AM

Is it true macdonalds workers in killarney once wanked onto burgers?

Gmol · 16-11-2013 04:36AM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Always, always! join a union, you're taking unnecessary chances if you don't

No the time for unions is past my friend.

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 04:47AM

Gmol wrote: »

No the time for unions is past my friend.

Afraid not, and Paddy Cow's experience is exact proof as to why. Over half the employers I have had have taken things to the very fullest limits of the law to f*** employees over and some have even tried stepping over in on more than one occasion. That woman is not the exception, she just happens to operate in a sector where it is easier to hire people 'off the books' and thus screw them over with ease.

Without trade unions, those laws that give protection would not exist. Without trade unions, those laws that give protection would cease to exist before long (companies have every bit as much shady involvement with gov't officials as unions, and if anything more seeing as how they have had the edge in that battle in the last 10-20 years). Hence, trade unions cannot be gone without - too many employers and corporations have proven themselves untrustworthy.

Howard Juneau · 16-11-2013 04:48AM

Gmol wrote: »

No the time for unions is past my friend.

Unfortunately you are incorrect. But I guess you already know that buddy

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 04:50AM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Unfortunately you are incorrect. But I guess you already know that buddy

What you are you trying to get at, guy?

Howard Juneau · 16-11-2013 05:16AM

Billy86 wrote: »

What you are you trying to get at, guy?

That he is wrong fella

Annasopra · 16-11-2013 09:04AM

seamus wrote: »

Used to be a thing in the celtic tiger days, some pubs were known for collecting the slops and pouring them back into a keg.

However 99% of the time they wouldn't be reselling that keg (any punter will know the difference between a fresh Guinness and a weird conglomerate of stouts), instead they would tell the brewery that the keg was "off" and return it for a free full one.

Diageo have since started dipping and testing returned kegs and this practice of collecting slops has mostly died

That was going on long long before the Celtic Tiger.

I worked in a pub 20 years ago and that had been happening for years. All slops from all beer would be poured back into a Guinness keg and returned to Guinness as gone off. Guinness knew well and turned a blind eye for a long time.

The pub owner also poured huzzar vodka into smirnoff bottles and some other cheap whiskey into Jameson bottles and tap water into still B ballygowan bottles.

Shout Dust · 16-11-2013 09:15AM

pocketse wrote: »

Three summers ago a friend of mine who works in IT got a contract job with a very well known international software company. They in turn had got the contract for upgrading software remotely in every branch of a very well known, now state owned bank. The contract was for a month and he was employed as time was running out and job had to be finished by a certain date (two deadlines had already past). Anyway halfway through his first morning trying to make a good impression and flying through his work he was brought for a coffee with one of his supervisors. He was basically told to slow down, that they were trying to milk the contract for as long as possible. Was told if he hit a target of so many a day he'd be doing fine. He used to finish his work in around and hour each morning and spent the rest of the day sitting in front of the computer. Reckons it was one of the longest months he ever worked.

That doesn't make sense, why would they hire extra people if they were deliberately going slow?

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

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