[brashleyholland]

Customer support departments for online MMORPG companies DONT automate requests for your account passwords etc...every single one is checked by a real life person

[Liquid Rockface]

Wow, superb post, I just read all 113 pages of it haha.

So here are a few of my own:

Hotels (this might differ from country to country):

Up to 90% of the waiters in the dining rooms are untrained teenagers trying to make a living. They are leased to the hotel via workforce companies and receive no training whatsoever, but rather learn via experience.

All the cutlery and crockery is polished by hand using a clean tablecloth after it has been finished washed by the dishwashers. Washing wine glasses and long juice glasses is the most difficult, and can take up to 20 seconds per glass to polish decently. The bad news? A lot of the cutlery especially arrives looking rather dirty from the dishwashing machine. The scrubbing we do with the table cloth wipes it off, but who knows about the germs...often the stuff is first immersed in boiling water before polishing, so this is more hygienic and probably kills most of the bugs.

Oh and if something falls on the ground after having been washed? Too bad, we'll maybe wipe it with the cloth and that's all. Rarely is stuff sent back to the dishwashers, because it just means more work polishing for us afterwards.

Good news? Hygiene in hotels is pretty good, even in the kitchens. Although I have seen the odd cockroach before. Also nobody tampers with food, and if you are rude to us we really don't care, but don't expect any specially good service in return!

Funny story: We were handing out main courses in the dining room for an event, when a woman asks me to bring her a black coffee. I explained that we're handing out meals right now and I cannot drop that to go make her the drink, but she should remind me in another 15 minutes and I'll gladly bring her the coffee. About 30 minutes later, and I'd already forgotten about her (I was serving 48 people with just one other waiter) and she comes up to another waiter, and claims that she asked for a diet cola (??) half an hour ago and I didn't bring it to her, and she was *cougghghhh coughghhh splutter* chokingggggg *choughhhhh chookkeee* "I was choking!!!! And you didn't bring it!!! *choke cough splutter*.

The waiter told her that she had water on her table freely available the whole time, and he went and poured her some. That was really pathetic, and one of the few and far between strange cases I've encountered.

Concerts:

If you want to get into a concert for free you can try the following: Go to the box office and tell the person there that you have a ticket waiting for you in the name of one of the performers (tell them the name). Make out that you're an acquaintance of theirs and they left you a ticket. 99% of the time the performer DID leave MANY tickets for friends and family, and half of them won't come anyway. In the 0.0000000001% chance that they all came, the management will sort out one more ticket for that person. And in the rare case that there are no tickets in the performer's name, you can insist that they promised you that there would be a ticket. You're almost definitely get in for free, one way or the other. Tell them you travelled a long way, if you want extra effect.

And if you want to meet your favourite performer, go to the artist's entrance after the show, and there should be a healthy line of family and friends trying to get in. Just tell everybody that you're an acquaintance and you want to meet the performers and you'll get in for sure. The performers actually WANT to meet people too, so don't worry that you'll be kicked out.

Don't abuse the stuff I wrote here, and be decent and courteous about it, but if you are in a fix and cannot get into a concert, or if you REALLY want to meet your favourite music star, then you can do the above.

Re computers, yeah computer guys slack off in front of the computer most of the day. I have friends working in hi-tech who are on forums all day. Also in high school I busted our computer technician for downloading huge amounts of porn and clogging up the entire network!!! (we were on like 128k ISDN for like 50 computers) He was fired...I always hated him, he was an idiot and very rude to me, so I was happy to get my revenge!

If I can think of more stuff I'll post later.

[RandomCL]

I'm only to page 18, but my contributions are as follows:

I work in a grocery store, and we cut most of our meat products (IGA is the store, in a small town). From what I understand, these are common practice at most stores, and that we aren't nearly as fucked up as some others.

1. Any ground beef you get is probably not what you are paying for. 75% is scraps and rotten/old meat, with a bit of 75%. 80% is 75% etc. through 93% You are basically getting fucked, especially the lower down you go. We run bad meat through the grinder twice, then mix it with legit rolls of grind, making it look OK.

2. Ground pork/seasoned pork sausage is all rotten/old pork and scraps just ground up.

3. ALL products that go out of date are just rewrapped 3-4 times, until they look bad. Ground beef has a shelf life of 2 days, yet we rewrap it twice or so before we just throw it back into the grinder and mix it with fresh. Sometimes, customers get 2+ week old ground beef. Everything from poultry to pork to beef... it is all just rewrapped unless it looks bad.

4. No one wears any gloves, nor washes their hands except maybe once or twice a day.

5. I'm not sure how other stores handle this, but we have "Pick 5" sales at all times, meaning that you basically buy $25 worth of product for $20. The items run $5 or so legit, but if you buy 5, you get them all for $20. Basically, we take all bad meat, low quality product, etc., and throw it all together, and punch is higher prices to make it look like you're getting a good deal, when you're in fact paying MORE for ROTTEN food.

6. We're supposed to leave as much bulk weight on product as possible. If we can leave some fat on the bottom side of your steak, where you can't see it before you buy it, we will, always. Cuts aren't supposed to be lean, they are supposed to be profitable.

7. Although our vendors give us suggested retail price, we can punch in any price we want at any time. We constantly have multiple items out on the shelf of the same time, all with different prices.

8. One positive thing I can say (because I've did this myself for over a year now) is that the saws and work area is generally kept fairly clean. If a product hits the floor, it is tossed. All saws and grinders are taken apart daily, washed, sanitized, and put back together. All cloths and such are sent to a cleaning facility after each day's use. The floor and tabletops are kept clean.


It is a fucked up sense of morality. We keep shit super clean but sell rotten ass food. The guys I work with are 60-70 years old and have been doing this for 40-50 years, following in their father's footsteps (many of them, at least). They respect their jobs but are forced to turn a profit by management, so cut every corner possible.

[Zanatos333]

Theft is unbelievably easy. The average employee in a super store has almost no power to do anything. It isn't worth the potential liability. The bigger the corporation the more they almost give up on losses. They understand it comes with the territory.

The employees have no power and don't care. The higher ups understand that it is bound to happen. Its a great combination. If you do get caught(which is extremely unlikely) the cops won't be involved unless its over hundred bucks.

Take trips to the bathroom with merchandise. The worker is not allowed to accuse you even if they think you stole something if they have not been constantly looking at you.

[AC Slater]

Chain restaurant info:

1. Busboys are generally hard-workers who get paid very little, and NOBODY likes them. The hostesses think they are too slow cleaning tables, and the waiters think they are lazy. They are more or less "subordinate" to everyone else.

2. Hostesses have the EASIEST job in the world, and they get paid the same as busboys. And EVERY male waiter hits on them. Married or single, it doesn't matter. A pretty girl dressed up is 10x more attractive than a pretty girl wearing a waitress uniform who smells like food. Managers also try to get in the hostesses pants too.

3. Everybody hooks up with each other. Or tries.

4. The food doesn't get as fucked up as you think. A manager is usually present to put the food on the trays and ultimately make the food presentable. You really think you can spit in front of it? The kitchen is very cluttered too, so good luck finding a spot to hock a loogie in.

5. At least 80-85% of restaurant employees, every position, smokes cigarettes consistently.

6. If you are hot, I will tell my co-workers and we will all pass by your table and stare at you. Same goes with big breasts. And then we will go in the back and spend about 10 seconds max talking about how bad we wanna bone you. And this generally goes for ALL hot women.

7. If you are a douschebag, look like a tool, or are funny-looking, the same rules of #6 apply. Except we make fun of you instead of ogling over you.

8. Don't come in 15 minutes before closing. We won't do anything to you, but we don't want you and don't expect good service. And don't be surprised if your bread and french fries are mysteriously cold.

9. Tips are our main source of income. Like 95% of our money is based off of tips alone. Paychecks are generally small and pointless, so your tips is what puts money in our pocket. Not the company. So when you stiff us, in some restaurants, we LOSE money based off of how much we have to tip out at the end of the night.

10. Hate to be mean, but we don't really like you. You make us money, and we whore our fake emotions out so that you pay us. We won't remember you (unless you really are a regular) and I probably wouldn't recognize who the hell you are if I saw you at a bar later that night.

11. "Canadians" or "Ninjas" get bad stereotypes. While my worst tables have come from them, my best tips have come from them too ($20 on a $40 check, or $50 on a $100).

12. Employees are completely expendable in restaurants. You are damn near forgotten by your co-workers if you quit or get fired.


STORY TIME: So I'm waiting on a young couple, probably 19 or 20, and I handle them like everyone else. I obviously don't flirt with the girl if homeboy is there, so I treat them with respect. I get them refills, check on their food quality, and pre-bus appropriately. But I couldn't help but notice how the guy was acting, kinda subtle but being a douschebag. The girl was very nice, but the guy acted like I was messing with his girl or something. So, it's the end of the night and I hand them their bill (about $40), he pays with a credit card and I hand it back to them, pen and all, and give them the usual "have a good night." Well they leave and I check the book and what do I see? Nothing on the credit card slips. The tip slot was blank, so I totally got stiffed on a Saturday night.

But the douschebag made a mistake. See, he left EVERYTHING empty. Including the total and the signature, AND he left his customer copy. Needless to say, I left myself a hefty 25% tip for my excellent services, "signed" it with his signature (his name was on top of the credit card bill), and got myself some nice spending money. And there is NO way he can do anything about it, as I had all the evidence and nothing could be proven. Changed about a $1.50 loss from tipshare in being stiffed to about an $8-9 profit.

Don't stiff a waiter and leave him the tools for a perfect crime.

[johnsic]

Originally Posted by Zanatos333

Theft is unbelievably easy. The average employee in a super store has almost no power to do anything. It isn't worth the potential liability. The bigger the corporation the more they almost give up on losses. They understand it comes with the territory.

The employees have no power and don't care. The higher ups understand that it is bound to happen. Its a great combination. If you do get caught(which is extremely unlikely) the cops won't be involved unless its over hundred bucks.

Take trips to the bathroom with merchandise. The worker is not allowed to accuse you even if they think you stole something if they have not been constantly looking at you.

Shoplifting isnt cool. You are a waste of space if you do that.

[Nihilistic]

Originally Posted by johnsic

Shoplifting isnt cool. You are a waste of space if you do that.

agreed, it actually just ends up with the honest person paying more

[DonVito25]

i used to work at a grocery store....a friend of mine was a bagger. He would do the sleaziest shit...he would put an item of merchandise on the area where you bag stuff ...he would then bag his item with the customers groceries. When he would walk them out to their car, he would comment on the item. For example if they were MACH 3 razors he would say..."oh i love those razors"

Of course the customer realizing that they didnt buy that product would say "oh thats not mine" he would then take it out and make like he was taking it back in the store. He proceeded to put the merchandise in his car. The kid was garbage.

[chorley_fm]

having worked in kitchen and been a chef for nearly 25 years I have never ever seen anyone spit in anyones food.

Its an urban myth

that or i have only worked the classy joints

[The Pink Panthe]

Nearly all Volkswagens are built on the same floor pan.