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

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    #602
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Any key? wrote: »
    We used to use full fat milk in our skinny coffees when I worked in a cafe.....controversial I know:eek:

    Sheer madness! :eek:


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    #603
    [Deleted User]
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    kumate_champ07 wrote: »


    most chippers dont actually use Cod when they serve Cod!
    Might be something to do with the fact that it has been so overfished that it's almost rare these days!


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    #604
    Any key?
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭Any key?


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Sheer madness! :eek:

    The public need to know!!!!


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    #605
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Any key? wrote: »
    The public need to know!!!!

    Name and shame!







    (No. No dont. Not a good idea ;) )


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    #606
    Any key?
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭Any key?


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Name and shame!







    (No. No dont. Not a good idea ;) )

    Not to worry. It's in Australia, those scamps!


    Obviously if you're living in Melbourne worry.


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    #607
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    K-9 wrote: »
    I strip a chicken (kinky) until I get every last piece of meat out of it, sandwiches, curries etc. (the juiciest part is the thigh and wings). I still don't know what part of the chicken they use!

    It's usually poached, giving it its distinctive rubber texture.


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    #608
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I used to work in a very popular hotel, that was very well known for weddings. I worked in the spa but we used to get our lunch from the carvery part of the hotel so wed stand waiting in the kitchen.

    It was filthy!! Cutlery not being washed properly, would still come out with bits of food on, and be just wiped clean with a usual dirty linen napkin.
    One of the trainee chefs that worked with the pastries used to be always picking/wiping his nose, or you'd see him dipping his fingers into different things and licking his finger clean. He was disgusting. Sometimes he worked on carvery and if he was ever working none of us would eat lunch that day. He was always on fag breaks too but I never saw him wash his hands when he'd come back in.

    The bread rolls and desserts were always being mauled by staff passing by. Anytime we got the fruit for the spa from the fridge in the kitchen we had to soft through it to find decent fruit as a lot of it would be mouldy and soft and gross and I assume still used.

    There were two wheely bins in the kitchen, that were down by where you'd leave the dirty plates. The lids were always open. One was for food and the other was for other waste. It reeked.

    Completely put me off eating from places to be honest


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    #609
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    LexieOnRale wrote: »

    Completely put me off eating from places to be honest


    I think a lot of this thread will make me either never eat out again or be doing online background checks on potential places in advance before I do!


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    #610
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    The micro processing chips that Intel make are actually based on a time-traveling cybernetic organism that was recovered in the 80s. How do I know this? I am the Global IT manager at this company and one day I stumbled across an old mail from the big cheese at Intel that was along the lines of:

    "It was scary stuff, radically advanced. It was shattered... didn't work. But it gave us ideas, It took us in new directions... things we would never have thought of. All of Intel's work is based on it."

    Please don't tell anybody about this guys, it's kinda a secret!


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    #611
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    miss no stars wrote: »
    It's usually poached, giving it its distinctive rubber texture.

    Whatever "it" is, its not chicken


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    #612
    sword1
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    you are badly informed about cod stocks


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    #613
    K-9
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I used to work in a very popular hotel, that was very well known for weddings. I worked in the spa but we used to get our lunch from the carvery part of the hotel so wed stand waiting in the kitchen.

    It was filthy!! Cutlery not being washed properly, would still come out with bits of food on, and be just wiped clean with a usual dirty linen napkin.
    One of the trainee chefs that worked with the pastries used to be always picking/wiping his nose, or you'd see him dipping his fingers into different things and licking his finger clean. He was disgusting. Sometimes he worked on carvery and if he was ever working none of us would eat lunch that day. He was always on fag breaks too but I never saw him wash his hands when he'd come back in.

    The bread rolls and desserts were always being mauled by staff passing by. Anytime we got the fruit for the spa from the fridge in the kitchen we had to soft through it to find decent fruit as a lot of it would be mouldy and soft and gross and I assume still used.

    There were two wheely bins in the kitchen, that were down by where you'd leave the dirty plates. The lids were always open. One was for food and the other was for other waste. It reeked.

    Completely put me off eating from places to be honest

    Sounds clean, no cockroaches climbing up walls anyway.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #614
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    sword1 wrote: »
    you are badly informed about cod stocks

    They're not true? Are we being codded?


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    #615
    Captain Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Captain Flaps


    If you drop your pictures into any kind of photo lab that doesn't do an instant service someone is going to see them. This isn't necessarily a sinister thing, the worker genuinely has to check to make sure the machine isn't printing streaks across them or something like that. The number of people who used to come in with a disk saying '2 copies of picture 1, 4 of Picture 2 etc' who then asked 'you didn't look at my photos, did you!?' would amaze you.

    We did have a wall of shame consisting of a smiling family around an open casket, a lad with a broom handle up his arse and 2 elderly white guys dressed as clowns painting a nice young black gentleman.


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    #616
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Captain Flaps wrote: »
    If you drop your pictures into any kind of photo lab that doesn't do an instant service someone is going to see them.

    Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!


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    #617
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!
    Some do. I expect many doing it know full well the workers are looking at them, just another form of exhibitionism. My housemate worked in one and had loads of stories about what was in the photos and the lunatics & oddballs dropping them in. Some would make sure the workers saw them, taking them out and going through them all in front of them as though they were checking for flaws.


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    #618
    stmol32
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    Aldi and Lidl are the same shop.
    That's why they're always built beside each other so that they can build a secret tunnel between them.


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    #619
    Captain Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Captain Flaps


    rubadub wrote: »
    Some do. I expect many doing it know full well the workers are looking at them, just another form of exhibitionism. My housemate worked in one and had loads of stories about what was in the photos and the lunatics & oddballs dropping them in. Some would make sure the workers saw them, taking them out and going through them all in front of them as though they were checking for flaws.

    Actually you've reminded me, for a while myself and one of the other lads used to put a little tick mark on one inconspicuous part of the envelope if it contained any 'racy' pics. If a customer came to collect you knew that not only was there something hilarious/sexy/awful in it, the worst pic of the bunch had 'ended up' at the front. Cue many instances of 'sorry, I have two different Murphys here, are these your pics?' followed by the offending pics sliding out onto tables.

    We were a right pair of arseholes back then :D


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    #620
    Alun
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    Captain Flaps wrote: »
    Actually you've reminded me, for a while myself and one of the other lads used to put a little tick mark on one inconspicuous part of the envelope if it contained any 'racy' pics.
    In the shop I worked in we used to do that too, plus if any hot looking women brought films in for developing, we'd mark the envelope too, to make sure we inspected them when they came in. The oddest set of photos I ever saw was a whole set of nothing but nude archery :eek:


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    #621
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!
    I found an old disposable camera when cleaning a few months ago and the local Boots (which prints digital ones on the spot) had to send it away!


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    #622
    Captain Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Captain Flaps


    Vojera wrote: »
    I found an old disposable camera when cleaning a few months ago and the local Boots (which prints digital ones on the spot) had to send it away!

    Yeah, they've closed down most of the local developer labs in pharmacies, there's usually one large shop that handles all of the development. Hence 1 hour film processing is all but gone, as is 24 hour, most pharmacies will do a 2 day service to allow delivery to another store! It's a shame, when I was working in the lab the printer was leaps and bounds better than one of those crappy little instant kiosks and all the digital stuff ran through it with the film. If you need prints done you're best going to a fuji lab like in Harvey Norman, it's a proper exposure/chemical development system so your prints will last much longer than ink on paper.


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    #623
    Clondalphian
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Clondalphian


    I worked in a childrens entertainment centre. They had a petting zoo on the roof and there was a leak which caused donkey p1ss to leak through to the 2nd floor on one of the main attractions. We were told by management that if anyone asked what the smell was to say it was stagnant water


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    #624
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Clondalphian wrote: »
    I worked in a childrens entertainment centre. They had a petting zoo on the roof and there was a leak which caused donkey p1ss to leak through to the 2nd floor on one of the main attractions. We were told by management that if anyone asked what the smell was to say it was stagnant water

    mmm, warm stagnant water. Yummy, legionnaires disease!


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    #625
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    I worked for sky tv, 3% of their gross per year is subscriptions. They would be more profitable if it was free.

    :pac::pac::pac:

    What absolute $hit, you're trainer must have been fairly convincing to feed you that line with a straight face

    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #626
    Pablodreamsofnew
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Pablodreamsofnew


    I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company, Shall not speak it's name and they dropped cakes face on floor and just packed them anyway. Also all you could eat cakes in the staff room that had been dropped or broken.


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    #627
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    ^^post no good without name


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    #628
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    MrsYelnekoff wrote: »
    I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company, Shall not speak it's name and they dropped cakes face on floor and just packed them anyway. Also all you could eat cakes in the staff room that had been dropped or broken.

    The five second rule is obviously the deciding factor. ;)


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    #629
    The_Captain
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    miss no stars wrote: »
    mmm, warm stagnant water. Yummy, legionnaires disease!


    To be fair, legionella doesn't live in piss and unless the attraction is a steam room, you're not getting legionaires disease.

    Your post really shouldn't annoy me so much :(


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    #630
    cruais
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    pharmaton wrote: »
    worked in a school where the head embezzled large amounts of charity raised cash. investigations took six years, no one knows a thing, to protect her integrity I suspect.

    Was she a nun and school based on south side of city as in extremely close to the city centre?


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    #631
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    The_Captain wrote: »
    To be fair, legionella doesn't live in piss and unless the attraction is a steam room, you're not getting legionaires disease.

    Your post really shouldn't annoy me so much :(

    Oh I meant the excuse didn't even sound that nice! And legionella can live in the water collection from AC units... Isn't that where it was first recognized after the FFL all got struck down with it in a NYC hotel? I could be getting my wires crossed on that, though.


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