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Original thread here..... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88733360#post88733360

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Paddy Cow

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Getting birthday cards from family with no money in it. I don't want your card ffs, I want money riiight.

I got a birthday card and inclosed was a lottery ticket. Nice gesture I thought, until I took it to a shop to check it and realised it was a ticket for the lotto before my birthday, so obviously not even a chance of a winner :rolleyes:

Who sends an old lottery ticket as a gift?

I mean come on, a couple of scratch cards would have been less scabby!

agent graves

my stepfather is the ultimate miser. one incident that will always stay with is when a friend called around, he pulled out a cigarette but had no lighter.. so he turned to the stepfather and said can i use your lighter.. and being completely serious he replies.

No, i do not want to waste the gas.. i actualy hung my head in shame.

Dan Jaman

Hollister11 wrote: »

My friends uncle use to go into shops and take pictures of the newspaper instead of buying it. He still does it to this day.

Must have been a bit pricey for him in the days of film - and he'd have to wait a fortnight.
My uncle never bought a newpaper in his life, preferring to wait until he could nip down to the library in the evening and read them there.

Hollister11

My friends uncle use to go into shops and take pictures of the newspaper instead of buying it. He still does it to this day.

Victor

eternal wrote: »

I actually like the staff getting the stuff that's not been touched.

One has to be careful to not encourage the staff to over-do portion sizes and other bad habits.

If food is wasted because of the system (not because the customer over-ordered), people in the system shouldn't benefit from that waste.

Electric Sheep

johndaman66 wrote: »

Is it not tradition that the parents of the bride that usually pay for the wedding though I would have thought?

Sure after the wedding most likely comes the house; sofas in DFS; bedroom suites in Harvey norman; citroen picasso's at Gowen; then sprog farming - all thats very very expensive and the man is expected to be the bread winner - so I certainly see your friends logic of avoiding more debt.

What century are you living in?!

Shelflife

I went out with a girl who worked as a nurse in a home for special needs children run by nuns.

She told me they used bloom calf milk replacement powder as a milk substitute for the kids.

Sinister Kid

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Was there any change? :rolleyes:

I didn't ask for fear of being asked to contribute towards their flights.

Gloomtastic!

Sinister Kid wrote: »

I asked over the phone if they got it. I was thinking Grand, they got it, I'll get it when I see them next. I didn't see them till Christmas morning, last thing I was expecting was to open it as my present.

Was there any change? :rolleyes:

Sinister Kid

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

What was grand about it? You gave them money, they said they got it and then didn't give it to you when asked. What were you expecting on Christmas morning?

I asked over the phone if they got it. I was thinking Grand, they got it, I'll get it when I see them next. I didn't see them till Christmas morning, last thing I was expecting was to open it as my present.

fleet_admiral

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

I am a chef myself. I was working in a restaurant early February and they loved to recycle food. If someone ordered a meal with chips but the chips weren't touched, they'd go back into a bowl and then refried again. If you didn't eat your salad or veg, it ended up on some one else's plate.

Absolutely disgusting. I ended up walking out of the place because the Head chef had a disgusting attitude towards customers and staff. Place I work in now is miles better. Unfortunately we do see an awful lot of waste there. We try save what we can (within reason) and if there is an extra meal or dessert left over, we do offer it to the rest of the staff. But waste is part and parcel of the industry and tbh, I'd rather see some ones un eaten cold chips go into the bin rather than someone elses plate.

Im a chef in a pub. About 2 months ago I had a funeral for 80 for two course, soup and caesar salad starter and turkey & ham crowns or salmon for main. The guy who booked rang me about an hour before they were due to let me know the numbers had swelled to about 95. No problem I said, I have the stock. 30 turned up. The amount of waste was shocking. I was able to freeze the salmon but most of the turkey and ham ended up being thrown out. The owners wouldnt allow the staff to have it or allow me to sell it as a special. at least 40 crowns went in the bin that day

kylith

johndaman66 wrote: »

Is it not tradition that the parents of the bride that usually pay for the wedding though I would have thought?

Not any more. Both sets of parents often contribute a healthy sum to the pot, but since both the bride and groom are likely to have been working for years their parents are no longer 'responsible' for paying.

Michael D Not Higgins

Sinister Kid wrote: »

December a few years back a family member was going to New York, I gave them dollars to get me a bottle of MAC foundation. When they got back I asked if they managed to get it for me, said yeah that they did. Grand. Christmas morning I open my Christmas present & what is it? Only the bottle of foundation I asked for & paid for myself. Yeah thanks, how thoughtful.

What was grand about it? You gave them money, they said they got it and then didn't give it to you when asked. What were you expecting on Christmas morning?

Sinister Kid

December a few years back a family member was going to New York, I gave them dollars to get me a bottle of MAC foundation. When they got back I asked if they managed to get it for me, said yeah that they did. Grand. Christmas morning I open my Christmas present & what is it? Only the bottle of foundation I asked for & paid for myself. Yeah thanks, how thoughtful.

irish_goat

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

I am a chef myself. I was working in a restaurant early February and they loved to recycle food. If someone ordered a meal with chips but the chips weren't touched, they'd go back into a bowl and then refried again. If you didn't eat your salad or veg, it ended up on some one else's plate.

Absolutely disgusting. I ended up walking out of the place because the Head chef had a disgusting attitude towards customers and staff. Place I work in now is miles better.

I worked in a bar/restaurant that didn't do a Sunday lunch service so the owner's daughter took it on herself, completely unconnected to the main restaurant. Found out after a while that she took all the leftover veg from plates and made vegetable soup for the next Sunday with it. Manager put his foot down and had her turfed out when he found out.

johndaman66

neris wrote: »

mate of mine whos a stingy tight arse wanted to marry his gf but didnt want to pay for the wedding so knew if he asked her fathers permission the father would pay for the wedding. her parents ran the wedding and dictated the whole thing.

Is it not tradition that the parents of the bride that usually pay for the wedding though I would have thought?

Sure after the wedding most likely comes the house; sofas in DFS; bedroom suites in Harvey norman; citroen picasso's at Gowen; then sprog farming - all thats very very expensive and the man is expected to be the bread winner - so I certainly see your friends logic of avoiding more debt.

neris

mate of mine whos a stingy tight arse wanted to marry his gf but didnt want to pay for the wedding so knew if he asked her fathers permission the father would pay for the wedding. her parents ran the wedding and dictated the whole thing.

cheif kaiser

rorymagory wrote: »

I bought a used car from a huge garage in East Galway in April 2014. It had just passed NCT a few days before I bought it. I brought it for NCT in April 2015 and it failed on a visual - the side-lamps (the small headlights beside the main headlights) weren't working. Not to worry said mr nct, easy fix.

Called into a car shop, handed the guy the NCT cert and said 'please help' as I haven't a notion about cars. He sold me 2 bulbs for €1 each and offered to put them in for me.

He did his thing and got under the bonnet. When he finished he mentioned that there were no old/broken bulbs in the sockets when he went in, so he didn't have any old / broken bulbs to throw away....

Basically,right after the car passed NCT in April 2014, the garage went and took out the 2 side lamp bulbs (worth €1 each) and kept them. For a full year I'd been trying to use side lamps that had no bulbs. The headlights bring slightly dimmer than expected was the least of my issues with that car though.

I would say more likely that whoever you bought the car from had put new bulbs in so that it would pass the NCT. Then once they had the cert, they took them back out.

eternal

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

I am a chef myself. I was working in a restaurant early February and they loved to recycle food. If someone ordered a meal with chips but the chips weren't touched, they'd go back into a bowl and then refried again. If you didn't eat your salad or veg, it ended up on some one else's plate.

Absolutely disgusting. I ended up walking out of the place because the Head chef had a disgusting attitude towards customers and staff. Place I work in now is miles better. Unfortunately we do see an awful lot of waste there. We try save what we can (within reason) and if there is an extra meal or dessert left over, we do offer it to the rest of the staff. But waste is part and parcel of the industry and tbh, I'd rather see some ones un eaten cold chips go into the bin rather than someone elses plate.

That's rough in this day and age. I actually like the staff getting the stuff that's not been touched. I suppose their wages weren't great and it was a perk for them. On thing I hate is chips that have been refried till they are like see through. One lazy chef was like constantly doing this and considering how dirt cheap massive stocks of frozen chips were, it was wrong. Even McDonald's have fresh chips usually.

Mozzeltoff

I am a chef myself. I was working in a restaurant early February and they loved to recycle food. If someone ordered a meal with chips but the chips weren't touched, they'd go back into a bowl and then refried again. If you didn't eat your salad or veg, it ended up on some one else's plate.

Absolutely disgusting. I ended up walking out of the place because the Head chef had a disgusting attitude towards customers and staff. Place I work in now is miles better. Unfortunately we do see an awful lot of waste there. We try save what we can (within reason) and if there is an extra meal or dessert left over, we do offer it to the rest of the staff. But waste is part and parcel of the industry and tbh, I'd rather see some ones un eaten cold chips go into the bin rather than someone elses plate.

eternal

sligojoek wrote: »

My daughter works in a restaurant and often brings home the best of half eaten steaks for the dog. I've often been tempted to slice one up and fuck it into a stir fry.

It's the most expensive foods you'd see. And it's pretty disheartening to spend 7 hours preparing fine dining desserts and then see them untouched. They usually ask the customer if everything is alright but it's basically gluttony that they order something they don't even want. Depends on the budget of the place though. One hotel used food from weddings for the lunch menu the next day.

sligojoek

eternal wrote: »

It's a terrible waste. One place I worked had bins for dogs belonged to one of the staff but in the fancy places you could see a fillet steak come back barely eaten. Some of them were 6 course meals and people just couldn't manage all the food but it was a sin tbh.

My daughter works in a restaurant and often brings home the best of half eaten steaks for the dog. I've often been tempted to slice one up and fuck it into a stir fry.

eternal

Dawn Rider wrote: »

I nearly died when I first saw a basket of bread taken from the table and binnned even though nobody went near it.

It's a terrible waste. One place I worked had bins for dogs belonged to one of the staff but in the fancy places you could see a fillet steak come back barely eaten. Some of them were 6 course meals and people just couldn't manage all the food but it was a sin tbh.

Dawn Rider

eternal wrote: »

It was the times that were in it. People screwed money out of others. You couldn't do that in a professional kitchen now. The amount of waste I've seen is unreal and they don't allow employees to take food home either. You would see a 40 euro dinner nearly untouched being thrown out. I remember one manager used to be eating all the leftovers in the corner.

I nearly died when I first saw a basket of bread taken from the table and binnned even though nobody went near it.

eternal

Dan Jaman wrote: »

You're sure it was re-served, and not for the pigs?

Nothing escapes my Girl Guide eyes. The beans were put in a silver food container and put into the fridge. 'That'll do grand for tomorrow' she said to the other nun. They were notorious for being stingy. As sure as eggs is eggs, beans were for the next day's dinner.

eternal

Dawn Rider wrote: »

A friend of mine worked in a hotel kitchen years ago and said the peas that came back from the diners were moved on to others plate's and sent back out. If any veg didn't have teeth marks, that was also sent back out.

Won't name the hotel here even though it has new owners.

It was the times that were in it. People screwed money out of others. You couldn't do that in a professional kitchen now. The amount of waste I've seen is unreal and they don't allow employees to take food home either. You would see a 40 euro dinner nearly untouched being thrown out. I remember one manager used to be eating all the leftovers in the corner.

Dan Jaman

eternal wrote: »

When I was in the Girl Guides (don't laugh) we all went away on a hiking weekend to this cottage type hostel place in the woods. The convent I went to ran the while thing and obviously our parents had to pay them. Anyway I was picked to help with the kitchen duties and basically the nun cleared away the plates of the cheapskate foods from dinner. She got a big container and scraped the leftover beans into it to be used again for tomorrow's meals. So all the scraps of other people's bits were reheated and served up as new. I was so sick, I couldn't eat the rest of the time there. Went home starved.

You're sure it was re-served, and not for the pigs?

Dawn Rider

A friend of mine worked in a hotel kitchen years ago and said the peas that came back from the diners were moved on to others plate's and sent back out. If any veg didn't have teeth marks, that was also sent back out.

Won't name the hotel here even though it has new owners.

eternal

When I was in the Girl Guides (don't laugh) we all went away on a hiking weekend to this cottage type hostel place in the woods. The convent I went to ran the while thing and obviously our parents had to pay them. Anyway I was picked to help with the kitchen duties and basically the nun cleared away the plates of the cheapskate foods from dinner. She got a big container and scraped the leftover beans into it to be used again for tomorrow's meals. So all the scraps of other people's bits were reheated and served up as new. I was so sick, I couldn't eat the rest of the time there. Went home starved.

civis_liberalis

PTH2009 wrote: »

When im at a gaa match i always go through the concession turnstiles because i have a student card but its always full of old people who would not spend christmas .

The concession turnstile is for OAPs, the unwaged and students also. I don't know why it's stingy for them to go through the turnstile specifically for them.

PTH2009 wrote: »

Another thing that annoys me at matches is people who refuse to buy a programme and bring in a newspaper with the teams on it or ask for a programme and take the teams down.

a programme is only 4/5 euro...

If you only want to know the teams and are not interested in the rest of the programme, which is at least 95% of it in many cases, a fiver is a bit steep for a list of names.

PTH2009 wrote: »

...and if its a famous day could be worth something someday.

Not in any of our lifetimes it won't.