[Three Gun Fish]

Originally Posted by Braz

One of the better threads I've seen.

Everyone loves the Secret Information.

[bunzo]

Wireless phones:

Never purchase a phone from an independent dealer. If you're walking through the mall, do not stop at those cell phone carts. They are authorized dealers who are allowed to sell a particular service and charge absurd termination fees and give a very short refund/cancellation period. Go to a corporate store instead.

Secondly, most people who sell phones work on commision. Features pay the most. When I sold phones, features such as text messaging, picture messaging, mobile internet, etc.. paid dollar for dollar. So, if you were given the $4.99 text messaging plan, I would get a commision check for $4.99 at the end of the month. It would be safe to say that every person I dealt with, for whatever reason, left the store with something added to their bill. I would waive the first month and most customers would call customer care as opposed to coming back to the store when they figured out their bill was higher than usual. Most people don't even notice. If they came back and complained, we would tell them that it was a special promotion and they could cancel at any time. This applies to contract extensions as well, I remember a $5.00 bonus for every two year contract that was re-signed. Whether you liked it or not, you were re-signed.

Lastly, when you go to the phone store, do not have anything stored in your phone that is private. I'm talking about naked pictures, homemade porn, text messages, etc.

[DJMicroNaught]

Originally Posted by greenpower

another drugs oriented one: out of all the types of people I've met (and 'given' drugs too) stock brokers are by far the biggest cokeheads. Construction workers also do a ton of coke, and carpenters as well, but all the other tradesmen mostly drink and smoke a lot of weed. I'd say at least 80% of construction workers here smoke weed, the majority on the job.

I had a friend who worked construction and basically his day started with a few beers on the way to work, then when he gets to the job site him and his boss and other workers do a bunch of coke, then on lunch they do more or drink and the day progresses like this. Which was one reason I never got into construction for very long.

[Pro Killer]

Originally Posted by Mithra

What a fucking ripoff

i don't have anything that could qualify as a "secret"..

Planes are easy to fly, you could probably learn how to do it in a matter of days, landing is the hardest but Autopilot can take care of it.

It wouldn't be hard to break into a cockpit even with reinforced doors...

Stewardess quit all the time and their job sucks

But have you ever banged one??

[tripnastic]

Originally Posted by TX911

75% of the Paramedics i know, i wouldn't let take my fucking blood sugar. In the particular area i'm in now, grades do not matter just as long as you pay your tuition bill. The National Registry test is also a joke that even the dumbest of assholes who skated through that class cheating and making shit up could pass.

there is really no QA process as far as the Oklahoma dept of health goes. The state is more concerned with the whether or not your truck or chopper is washed than they are with actual pt care. most actually don't know enough about actual patient care to make an informed decision as to whether an action or treatment was justified. so basically you can kill someone with the wrong drug dose or even abandon patients as long as your truck is clean and you're chummy with the inspector

wow, this is the exact opposite of how it is around here in St.Louis. The EMT-P exam, especially the practicals are nearly impossibe. It takes most people an average of 2 or 3 times to pass.

[APOLLO]

Idon't know, some of you might already know but: If both of your kidneys breakdown you're f***** for the rest of your life. No matter what they tell you to cheer you up. Your life will never be the same. 75% of the nurses can't even take a blood sample correctly...And most of the people who work at a dyalysis clinic are unhappy.

Btw. robbing a bank is so much risk. Stealing a fridge from a dialysis clinic is much easier and can be worth some couple of hundred grand, because the medicine is so expensive...

If you can't afford dialysis, you die. In some countries health insurance pays your dialysis only until a certain age (60 for example). Knowing next year you won't be able to pay the medication must feel like death row.

[heemid]

In high school I worked at a ice cream warehoue. They used "filler" ice cream for the double dutch chocolate. Basically the filler was any nasty old vanilla they had laying around, because the chocolate coverd the foul taste.

[Huesto]

Lets see...

I lifeguarded for two summers and literally we used to work from 8.30 am to 7.30pm and then go out drinking until about 3am. If anything serious happened and we were blood tested or breathalysed we would have been screwed. This also lead to me falling asleep at my post at least twice...God bless mirrored sunglasses!

I've seen food picked up from kitchen floors and served. People reaching in to scoop ice for drinks and cutting their hands on it.

I worked in a mobile phone warehouse/repair centre, once a camera phone that had been repaired by us was sent back to the customer with a picture of an erect penis on it. That made the national newspapers and radio stations.

Currently I work in fund administration but there isn't too many unusual things. The biggest pricks tend to be rich individuals who think they know how the industry works better than I do.

[BayAreaGuy]

Originally Posted by The Heretic

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.

One time I tipped a deliver guy 5 bucks or something (which is about average for me). Next time he came to my house he said "thank you" with a huge look of appreciation on his face like I saved his life of something.

And the food does seem to come quicker with certain people when I tip more.





Regarding fast foods, yeah, McDonalds is nasty like the other people in here have said. I don't eat there anymore, taste like shit. You can taste how processed the meat is. That's the good thing about a place like In N Out, the meat is never frozen and everything (including the bread) is fresh.

[satchmo]

I have worked as a pharmacy technician/intern at CVS for the past 5 years or so. Here's what I've seen during my time:

- If you are rude or pushy, you are going to wait. Whatever time we tell you it is going to be, it is probably going to be 5-10 minutes less than what we said UNLESS you start bitching. Then, we will take our sweet ass time, skip people ahead of you, etc.

- It pays to get to know the pharmacy staff. If you are a regular and are friendly with the staff, we will often make exceptions and do favors. If you come in when it's busy, we'll bump you ahead of people. Come in when it's slow, we'll have your Rx done in a few minutes. We'll be aggressive getting ahold of your doctor to get refills for you. We are also more lenient with filling controlled substances early if you are a regular.

- If you are getting a refill and we aren't busy, it shouldn't take any longer than 5 minutes tops to fill and label. What takes so long is having the pharmacist verify the prescription. Most of the time it isn't their fault because they are stuck dealing with customers or on the phone with a doctor/nurse, but sometimes they are just screwing around, talking, eating, or taking a shit. So don't stare at us while you are waiting for your prescription, it's not our fault.

- We drop pills on the ground (accidentally) all the time and put them back in the bottle. When some of these meds are $10+ a pill, CVS would kill us if we threw them away.

- Some of the meds are dirt cheap, yet we charge $10.99 as our minimum price for any Rx that is not run through an insurance. You could be getting 1 tablet of generic Valium for a dental procedure that costs us pennies and you get charged the minimum price. There are quite a few common prescriptions/medications that this happens with (prednisone, amoxicillin/penicillin, hydrochlorothiazide, various pain meds). In general, the mark-up on drugs that we get from the CVS warehouse is quite high. We just tell the customers that the drug companies are the ones charging so much.

- The district/regional managers are so concerned with customer service scores that they will order store managers to give out gift cards to any complaining customer. So basically come into the store, find something petty to bitch about, and get a $25 gift card.