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Sohei · 12-10-2007, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by magicman531

There is a legal amount of rat hair and other animal parts that is allowed into each can of tuna. So, next time you're eating a can, that little clump that looks "hairy" may in fact be rat hair. Bon appetie.

Not just tuna, any canned food has an allotted "safe amount" of rat hairs, rat turds, insect wings and eggs.

gracie_barra · 12-10-2007, 05:49 AM

i work at red robins and you'd be surprised. if u ever wonderd if we were unsanitary back there..we're not. everything is sanitary and we have strict cleaning standards for the kitchen. surprisingly. however, like every restaurant if you do somethign stupid the servers WILL notice and they willt ell us cooks, and we laugh at you and call you an idiot. but thats about it... kind of boring.

Mens Rea · 12-10-2007, 05:51 AM

Most high pressure sales are a joke. You should be able to get them down to 20% of the original offer. A job I worked should show the price of $2995-$4995 but sell for whatever we could get, anything was good as long as they put $100 down before leaving the room.

I made $20+ as a cab driver. Some cab drivers make over $50,000 a year, after taxes.

Oftentimes Judges make up their mind before hearing the oral arguments.
I worked for a a judge last summer. The night before she would hear a case the research attorney and I would "brief" her on the situation, the arguments, and how we thought she should rule. Then the next day the attorneys would come in and argue their cases, she'd act stupid (as if she didn't know what they were talking about), and then rule the way she had planned to rule the night before.

MT420MT · 12-10-2007, 06:45 AM

Cutco and Vector marketing is a scam, based on tricking college aged kids to buy overpriced knives from their gullible family and family friends.

Maxwell · 12-10-2007, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Mens Rea

Most high pressure sales are a joke. You should be able to get them down to 20% of the original offer. A job I worked should show the price of $2995-$4995 but sell for whatever we could get, anything was good as long as they put $100 down before leaving the room.

I made $20+ as a cab driver. Some cab drivers make over $50,000 a year, after taxes.

Oftentimes Judges make up their mind before hearing the oral arguments.
I worked for a a judge last summer. The night before she would hear a case the research attorney and I would "brief" her on the situation, the arguments, and how we thought she should rule. Then the next day the attorneys would come in and argue their cases, she'd act stupid (as if she didn't know what they were talking about), and then rule the way she had planned to rule the night before.

I'm sure the lawyers making the oral arguments know that, right?

Braziluvr · 12-10-2007, 07:45 AM

No clocks in casinos - pump oxygen into the air....keeps you awake so you can lose more money - btw, thanks for all the donations.

solkanar · 12-10-2007, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Braz

No clocks in casinos - pump oxygen into the air....keeps you awake so you can lose more money - btw, thanks for all the donations.

If it's a hotel/casino, they usually put extra free coffee in the rooms to keep people up all night. Also they usually don't have a lot of windows so people cannot see the light of day outside. Goddamn we live in a world of trickery.

Braziluvr · 12-10-2007, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by solkanar

If it's a hotel/casino, they usually put extra free coffee in the rooms to keep people up all night. Also they usually don't have a lot of windows so people cannot see the light of day outside. Goddamn we live in a world of trickery.

Free booze too.

The Heretic · 12-10-2007, 08:13 AM

Don't EVER use a credit card when buying a pizza. When someone calls in an order, I have to run the credit card myself. And on a little slip of paper in my hand, I have your credit card number, expiration date, CVV2 number, and card holder name. I've seriously considered using one of these when customers have pissed me off. So do yourself a favor and pay with cash.

And always tip the driver. They live off that tip.

Timetravel_0 · 12-10-2007, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Happy Boy

I used to work in an electronic applicances shop and the stuff I could have done had I had the desire to is frightening. During credit buy applications, I had ALL of a person's info, enough to completely credit card fruad them with almost zero chance of getting caught. On their application form was every single thing needed for ID, all their work info, personal info, credit card info, bank info, salary info, spouse details, everything, and after they signed it it was up to me to file this away. I could have had a photo copy of their signature as well as photo copies of their passport/driving licence and a recent bill or bank statement which had all of their bank details on there. There was nothing stopping me walking to a photo copier first and keeping a huge file with 100's of these docs, they never checked the cameras in the shop and I must have handled over 5000 of these in my time there.

Something to bear in mind next time you apply for interest free credit or something.

I would never do that to someone, but makes me wonder in that company how many people did go somewhere with it. Its an absolutely dire system.

When I worked for Best Buy when I was in high school, there were three girls who did this. They got all the information they needed and bought a refrigerator, TV, stereo, and other stuff before they got busted.

When I worked for KFC in high school we were very good about not doing gross stuff to food and keeping the place clean. There was only one time when we were really busy and I dropped a breast on the floor when we were short on breasts and I threw it into the order anyway.

I worked as an electrician with my dad and was always surprised at how much money he charged them for what seemed like little work and effort to me.

I now work for Intel in the cleanroom making CPU's and it amazes me at how much everything costs. The machine I'm responsible for maintaining and fixing costs $994,000 and there's about 40 of them at my fab alone. In the other machine I work on which puts a thin layer ultra pure gold on the back of the chips has these gold "targets," as we call them, that have to be changed out about once a month and each target costs about $200,000 each. But, each wafer (a 12 inch diameter disc with the cpu's on it before it's cut up into squares) we put out the door has the potential to earn over a million dollars and last week we shipped 10,000 wafers from our fab alone.