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

Howard Juneau wrote: »

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

Billy86 wrote: »

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.

Unions have their place … but not for all sectors of society….personally my experience of my own union (NUJ) is that they are too focussed on pleasing "London" …. the magazine they produce is UK orientated and they have not (to my knowledge) stood up for anyone in the Irish Market (most recently there was a freelance reporter "sacked" by the Indo for allegedly investigating if the Indo editor had penalty points removed….. where are the union … no-where near this story)

irish_goat wrote: »

They wouldn't necessarily need to fill the slops keg, just add whatever was wasted the day before. Student's union have loads of busy nights as well with plenty of crap staff who waste a lot. Sourness would not make anyone ill either, there are plenty of sour and oxidised beers on the market. I'm not 100% confident it happened but I don't think your reasons disprove it.

Breweries have copped on to the returning a slops keg now as well and take them away for testing. Assumingly they check for beer that shouldn't be in there e.g. lager in a keg of stout. We got accused once of tampering with a keg of Carlsberg once and Diageo said they weren't refunding it. The boss rang them up and said "that's grand, don't bother delivering any more of it". :pac:

Sorry but that is complete bull**** - worked in the pub trade for years - slops were never ever poured back into a keg and then pulled back into a pint for the customer. The customer would immediately know if they were served from a slops barrel because the taste would be really really rotten.

Pogmothone wrote: »

The reason why they call it KFC is because they can not use the word chicken anymore. Why? KFC does not use real chickens. They actually use genetically manipulated organisms. These so called “chickens” are kept alive by tubes inserted into their bodies to pump blood and nutrients throughout their structure. They have no feathers, and no feet. Their bone structure is dramatically shrunk to get more meat out of them.

I don't think its something they don't want the public to know...because I don't think thats happening at KFC. I mean, you link a photo of the modified chicken, and thats proof enough?

I couldn't find a reputable news site that reported this, and on the KFC website themselves say they don't use it. And clearly in this day and age, particularly in the EU, if they said that and subsequently got caught, they'd be fcuked.

Always look at any rumours like this- whats more cost effective, for them to genetically modify a chicken, purchase the equipment and maintain it, keep it under wraps on such a large scale and run the risk of being caught lying- or simply bulk feed a 100,000 real chickens collectively in a massive shed?

Which leads on to what companies don't want the public to know- its the small companies (in general) that get away with the worst sh*t while the big companies are subjected to the rumours. Local chipper- no way of telling where their meat is sourced. % of beef content etc. They could put a marker drawn poster on a piece of A4 saying how good it is, who knows? Big company makes same claim, its gonna be checked and verified. How many local chippers and even hospital meals became involved in the horsemeat scandal? How many McDonalds were implicated-none. Which is a big help in proving at the end of the day who was telling the truth all along.

Smaller companies are more likely to serve food that has fallen on the floor, use out of date things as the owner will be right there thinking of money.

Smaller companies are more likely to abuse staff pay and not give frequent periods of rest between shift.

Back in college, only two years ago, a VERY well known, and "trusted" Dublin hotel where my friend worked didn't pay sunday pay, gave a 15 min break for an 8 hour shift, had him in from 6am til 2pm, then asked him to go home for three hours and come back in for 5-2.

On the KFC chicken topic -

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/kfc.asp

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

A surprising number of politicians are hardworking, honest and decent human beings with a genuine sense of civic duty.

Yes and that number is 0. So no, it's not surprising at all.

If you drive a French car, car salesmen will hide and run away from you if you drive onto their forecourt.

Nurses take strong, prescription only painkillers when they have a hangover.

When you ask a butcher to mince a steak, if he walks in the back, he'll hide it and bring out something he minced earlier.

The majority of retail staff that are in work on Sunday mornings, are hungover, coming down off ecstasy or both.