[Oeshon]

Originally Posted by Valiss

I have a friend that worked there and I can confirm this is true. You can walk in and say "I'm not sure if I like Oreo's and would like to try one before I buy it. Wuill you open this?" And they'll open the box and give you one and you dont haveto buy it if you dont want to. Amazing!

a have a few friends that work at safeway and i have never heard of that before.

i seriously doubt it

[kiridoku]

QUESTION:

Why do managers have such a hard-on for
1)contributing to United Way &
2)to get you to use direct deposit?

Everywhere I've been they're up everyone's asses to contribute to UW & to use DD.

More than just "hey this may be a neat thing to do" they're into it like they (personally) get a piece of the savings or something.
I can't imagine these lowly lower-rung manager schlubs get anything.

They sure aren't so gung ho for the Muscular Dystrophy 5K run etc or for conserving office supplies/not blowing through thou$and$ in copier paper etc etc so it isn't just "company spirit."

Anyone have the same experience or know why they take it so personally that everyone get on board w/ the United Way & the direct deposit things?

[V. Ornatus]

I worked at a coffee shop once, we also served some food. My instructions from the owner were to simply replace the lettuce on cold sandwiches the day they expired, and supply them with a new label indicating that they would expire in two days.

[Metrolou]

Originally Posted by ThinkGreen

Every mexican in the heart of the house(kitchen) who is cooking is an illegal.

same applies in nyc.

[Stringer Bell]

Originally Posted by Misfit23

I knew someone who use to work for the Los Angeles Unified School District as a network admin. He was told frequently to purchase unnecessary equipment so they can be over budget in order to receive more funds for the next year.

QFT.

I had a family member who worked for the networking company that has the contract with LAUSD and they told me that they were often told to come back to a school that they had completed wiring up and tear everything out and redo it.

I'm not talking about copper wire here, this is all FIBER.

They do this because Government uses incremental budgeting instead of zero-based budgeting, which means whatever is spent the previous year is the basis for setting the next year's budget. Therefore, if you have any appropriations at years end, you spend that shit all up in order to have a higher budget next year.

[Stringer Bell]

Originally Posted by Yerg99

Ok now that I'm finally done reading this whole thread i can post:

-Not every pro poker player is on TV making millions (although maybe someday )
-if a pro (or someone you suspect is one) raises all in at a cash game he is 99% positive he has you beat. There are extremely rare exceptions to this
-Don't talk to a pro while you're in the hand with him.
-If you think poker is all luck, go play slots. No intelligent gambler wastes money on house games.
-Poker isn't always glamorous, it is hard work to become a disciplined good player and very stressful. Poker gets boring too
-EVERYONE that plays on a regular basis thinks they're good at poker
-I don't want to hear about your poker stories/bad beats, i've heard a million of them, they are pretty much all boring. Most of the time i'm just listening enough to feign empathy

Awsome post. I spend my weekends at Commerce Casino here in Cali. (world's largest poker casino)

The last one is definately true. All the new players want to tell their bad beat stories. Trust me, if you've played for a while you've seen it all and honestly, no one gives a shit. That is one of the reasons I started bringing my mp3 player, but I haven't pulled it out of my pocket yet because the rest of the conversation is usually filled with good nuggets of info.

- Never show your hand unless you have to.
- Never talk about your strategy and betting patterns at the table (surprising how many ppl don't know this)

[AkaiJiisu]

Originally Posted by Beatdown_Videos

i worked at macdonalds,

the bigmac special sauce... the secret ingredient is acutally semen.

this is a secret?

[Mr. Omoplata]

Originally Posted by NSX-R

Engineering studies is much easier if you have many close friends because everybody helps their fellow students.

Engineering major myself (Electrical) and I can confirm this.

We always look out for our own and we always will take our time to help out a fellow student/friend in the same major. This goes for exams, projects, labs, you name it. Even girls lol.

[CHOLERA]

Originally Posted by Garnett Silk

It's real easy being a NYC school teacher. I teach 5th grade. It isnt about teaching kids anymore it is all about getting them ready to take tests.And hanging up their work to make your classroom look "pretty" The only thing that matters is test preparation. From September to November we prepare for the State Social Studies test. From November to January we prepare for the English Language Arts Test. From January until March we prepare for the State Socila Studies test. After March we do projects and plays and prepare for graduation.Then I get the summer off (while still getting paid the same amount of money that I was making while I was teaching) Not to mention I get paid vacations in December, February, and April. I do overtime (teach after school and Saturday school) basically teaching the same test prep I do all day.....

it's the same here in arizona, people would be shocked at how messed up the educational system is.

[gattaca]

Originally Posted by bobbylight

As a current pizza delivery guy, I will comment.

The people in my pizza place are all legal. I don't think this is the norm though. They all get checks on the books. Actually I heard one guy is illegal but has someone else's papers, so he goes by the name on the papers.

People that tip me shitty don't have anything happen to their pizza. Their is only one family that habitually tips me less than two dollars on about 30 dollar bills, one time he even tipping me 30 cents. I am not mean enough to do something to their pizza, knowing that they have little children.

The thing is they live in a nice house, and we charge a 2 dollar delivery charge, and the guy is actually nice, and he told me he wasn't rich enough to give good tips (he lives in a really nice house, probably costing 700,000 or more, in a rich area. I highly doubt that 3 extra dollars every time he orders pizza is going to cripple him financially), and that I'm getting something from the delivery charge. I was just so astonished that he assumed I got something from this that I didn't even correct him. Luckily he hasn't ordered a pie since then.

Anyway, I have never and don't plan on ever doing anything to anyone's food. Unless some sort of line is crossed, and you would have to do A LOT to cross it, the food will stay just the way it is. I can't say this for everyone though, because a lot of other people probably do differently. I could never, no matter how mean someone was to me, do anything to a pizza that was delivered to a house with small children. Really, its not the children's fault that they are douchebags and don't tip.

I always find 3 or 4 bucks for the pizza guy. Even if I thought I was a little short in the bank account. It's just3 bucks. That middle class guy is up his own ass saying he can't afford tips. If you are ordering a pizza instead of making a home coooked meal, then you shold "afford" a good tip.