[icepick]

Originally Posted by Oeshon

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

i seriously doubt it

it's true, and not just at safeway. all kinds of retailers will do it for you. you just have to ask

[Stringer Bell]

Originally Posted by The MMaster

Hotel a Hilton in Orange County- House keeping won't steal your shit. These are illegal immigrants that have a tough time finding a steady job and work very hard for shitty pay. Stealing a watch or DS game isn't worth losing their job over, so stop accusing them just because they're hispanic and have been in your room.

QFT.

The people work hard and they really don't want any trouble. I'm against illegal immigration and support deportation, but the honest truth is, the housekeepers are mostly illegal, they are the hardest working and most honest people in the whole hotel.

It sucks because one day I was working front desk and a housekeeper found a room (occupant had long-since checked out and paid cash) that literally had shit all over it: on the floor in the bathroom, the bedroom, smeared on the toilet the walls, the linens, everything. The poor house keeper had to go in there and clean it all up.

Originally Posted by The MMaster

If you call guest services and they transfer you almost immediately, they just don't feel like hearing what you have to say.

True. Anyone who has ever worked in customer service knows that the type of people that complain are usually assholes who will find anything to complain about and probably just want to get comp'd.

Originally Posted by The MMaster

If somebody orders porn in the room, we could check to see what the name of the porn you bought was.

This is not true for all hotels, at mine (Hilton-family hotel) it would just say movie, but you could tell it was porn by how much the charge was (I think it was $12.99)

Originally Posted by The MMaster

Nicely dispute any small charge and you'll have it corrected. A $10 charge isn't going to have an investigation launched over it.

Adressed many times, this is true for just about any major service company.

Originally Posted by The MMaster

Auditors that work graveyard shift in the back office of the front desk are sleeping through half of their shifts.

I was a night auditor for about a year and this is Absolutely 100% true. Honestly, there is nothing else to do.


Also, to add another story, it's probably not a secret but those magnetic key cards can be monitored. We had a guy who worked Night Audit before me and he got written up for trying to sneak his buddies into unoccupied rooms to party with girls late at night. He thought he was clever because he would let them go to rooms that were used that day, so the housekeepers wouldn't catch on. However, they caught him because the managers can view every key card that was magnetized in the machine at the front desk and every time the card was used and where. They looked at the ones that were made and noticed a couple for rooms of guest that had already checked out. BUSTED!!!

[Stringer Bell]

Originally Posted by tripnastic

I did some kitchen work at an assisted living facility in high school. It's not a nursing home, it's like an apartment complex, but with dining facilities and nurses on hand if you need anything. Anyway, they had an extremely clean kitchen, and the food was better than most restaurants in the area. I'd be perfectly happy going to that place. Now when I was working on an ambulance as an EMT, I saw my share of "nursing homes" and those places are deaths waiting room.

I worked at an assisted living place and I can vouch that the place was extremely clean. Granted this was a higher-end place, but we had high school working there and they weren't jerk-offs like others mentioned in this thread.

[Shadow (Clyde)]

on wall street:

investment bankers: majority are dumb, but work their ass off, like 16+hour days, especially in M&A.

traders: the market-makers and flow traders are usually great multi-taskers though they all have severe ADD and treat everyone around them like shit, while prop traders tend to be very intelligent and sharp, though socially awkward.

and as a rule, they ALL think they're better than you. seriously.

[CarlBildt]

This thread rocks.

[GerardSmith7]

In film and TV shows you can see the key light being reflected in the actors eye. in close ups this is visible 90% of time. Kind of ruins movie magic doesn't it?
P.S - after a while of doing this, you can start to tell which lights they are using and why.

[AaronT]

For those with pets:

Commercial pet food is bad.

Commercial pet foods are not government regulated.

99% of commercial pet food contains "By-Products". See for yourself. By-Products, the term is not regulated, leaving a big gap for the commercial pet food industry to include whatever they wish.

ie. Tumorous, cancerous meats. Road kill. Euthuanized animals. etc. YES, you read correctly. And it's a fact.

Veterinarians endorse commercial pet foods because they are paid to. Don't believe what they say.

and here's a big one:

The dairy industry wants you to believe you NEED milk to get calcium. The calcium in dairy is almost completely leeched and/or not obsorbed due to the fats and proteins involved, as well as the fact most people don't really digest milk at all. The only think you get from milk is fat and whatever chemicals they pumped into the cow. You want calcium? You'll get way more from dark green veggies and a half-dozen almonds.

Oh yeah... and osteoperosis only exists in dairy-consuming countries. In places like China where they don't drink milk, they have strong bones at 90. Osteoperosis is unheard of. They don't have rampant heart disease either.

Most of those "food pyramids" you see on school walls and such are 90% sponsored by the dairy commission. They often even have the cow in the corner.

[CsRyan]

Originally Posted by AaronT

For those with pets:


and here's a big one:

The dairy industry wants you to believe you NEED milk to get calcium. The calcium in dairy is almost completely leeched and/or not obsorbed due to the fats and proteins involved, as well as the fact most people don't really digest milk at all. The only think you get from milk is fat and whatever chemicals they pumped into the cow. You want calcium? You'll get way more from dark green veggies and a half-dozen almonds.

Oh yeah... and osteoperosis only exists in dairy-consuming countries. In places like China where they don't drink milk, they have strong bones at 90. Osteoperosis is unheard of. They don't have rampant heart disease either.

Most of those "food pyramids" you see on school walls and such are 90% sponsored by the dairy commission. They often even have the cow in the corner.

if this is true you're blowing my mind

[JohnnyBuddha]

Originally Posted by CsRyan

if this is true you're blowing my mind

Hehe, same here. I've meant to do some dedicated reading on milk for a long time now but haven't got around to it.

[DuMaX]

These are some that I can offer;

A lot of nightclubs hire bouncers with absolutely no training or experience (a lot of them are actually friends of other bouncers), and pay cash under the table, so that they don't have to deal with insurance, tax or benefits (or even liability for that matter).

Most companies that train security/hire out Security Guards, Bouncers, Ticket Inspectors, etc. encourage their people to overstep their legal boundaries (which is often no more than that of a regular citizen) because the law will always favour their version of events, which can actually lead to legal consequences for you (eg: they will beat you up for doing whatever, then say that you tried to assault them - so they were defending themselves - then the police bring assault charges against you).

Although I will say that bouncers will often line you up for 'special treatment' if you cause trouble or are arrogant towards their authority (so be nice). Also, many bouncers are also offered free drinks while on the job - great mix eh?

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Most people who work at stores like Dick Smith, JB Hifi, Apple Shop, most shoe shops, sporting goods stores, etc., know almost nothing about what they are selling and will often try to bullshit you into getting the item (so do your own research and don't listen to anything they say because they will say pretty much anything to make a sale), particularly with electronics when they are trying to sell them to people who don't really have much on idea about them (which is easy because the first thing that most people say is "I don't know anything about this...").

Also check around and compare prices from a lot of stores and ask them to beat the prices, which they often do (or offer something free), and don't be afraid to walk away (often they make a last ditch offer before you try to leave), and then just come back in an hour (I got $48 off a camera that was originally ~$300).