[Tredogg]

Originally Posted by Mackavelli

You dont think a college student who worked there in high school would admit to it? My roommate did tell me that but he tended to bullshit a lot so i dont know.

The guy who responded in the Snopes article works in Quality Control so he's got a little more on the line than a high school/college kid would.

[mcluvin]

awesome thread-

watch out at 'mcdojo's' and their contracts. they are known to automatically renew themselves every year if you dont specify that you dont want to continue with thier service.

[mcluvin]

also heres a way to get out of your cell phone contract if you dont want to have your bill anymore but dont want to pay the cancelation fees-

first go to a store that your provider is in and ask them what areas in your city they just can't cover due to availability. for example out my way theres alot of dry desert in the mountains so sprint doesnt have coverage over there because there isnt a signal. - so then i'd call sprint and tell them that im moving there and want to know if it's covered. when they say no, they have to break the contract because THEY can't provide you service and can't charge you for something you can't use.

[Wylian]

Originally Posted by jahred

fuckin' right. why anyone would not order a steak even a little rare is beyond me.

because they send u an alive cow when u do that. My friend and I went to a expensive restaurant in NY, he ordered a "medium" and I ordered a "well done". The thing was delicious, but mine still had some blood in it, and his was like the thing was barely cooked.

[jahred]

Originally Posted by Wylian

because they send u an alive cow when u do that. My friend and I went to a expensive restaurant in NY, he ordered a "medium" and I ordered a "well done". The thing was delicious, but mine still had some blood in it, and his was like the thing was barely cooked.

yeah, well i don't want the thing trying to crawl off my plate or anything lol. but a steak needs to be a bit rare to be enjoyed. it's a million times better.

clearly taste is an objective quality, so any who disagree are obviously wrong.

[JoelThomas]

Originally Posted by icepick

Yeah, but the thing is, ALL Chinese restaurants have filthy bathrooms. Don't know why, but all of them are for some reason.

And I like Chinese food.

Hahahaha oh man... I remember during an overnight trip for a cross country meet we stopped at a chinese buffet, a couple of us went into the bathroom to wash up and there was a dude cleaning up a giant pile of oatmeal-consistency vomit with a fucking broom and dust pan. It was so awesome.

[AaronT]

not to scare you ...

Proxy's are used to be annonymous over the internet, they replace the ip the traffic is sent from. Before you post anything on RFD from work the information passes over their LAN/WAN, which the traffic is sent from, to a proxy server, then to the final source. This does nothing to stop the company from viewing, grabbing, and monitoring your daily traffic to and from you machine before it leaves their LAN/WAN. Your illusion of protection is paper thin, Just food for thought

[AaronT]

Retail stores..

The windows and end aisles displays of retail stores are rented out. For example, if you're at a big box computer store and at the end of the aisle they're featuring some new Xbox 360, it's because Microsoft is paying for that shelf space. Essentially any space in the store is available for sale.

When area reps (i.e., Pepsi, Coke, Microsoft, Sony, etc.) visit stores, they move all their own products to the most visible area on the shelves. Then when another rep comes in they'll move the competitors' products and replace it with their company's and on and on with every rep

In the cereal aisles, the bottom shelves are used for kids cereals, and the more adult-themed cereals on the upper shelves. To make them more eye-level for their target customers.

Also low-margin items like milk are in the back, to force customers to walk down the aisles to reach it, hoping they pick up other stuff along their way.

Controlled label products (example No Name and Presidents Choice) are very often made by major companies, and in even more extreme examples are simply repackaged major brand. For example, No Name/Presidents Choice Ice Cream is made by Chapmans. Pick up a box of No Name Ice Cream Sandwiches and then a box of Chapmans Ice Cream Sandwiches - identical, but the No Name version is a lot cheaper. No Name Sour Cream is made by Gay Lea, Presidents Choice Organic Milk is made by Neilson, etc etc.

Your best day of the week to shop is Saturday morning, as all major deliveries arrived the night before, and stores should be in stock for front page items. Not only that, but the major price reductions tend to also come down Friday night for Saturday morning openings.

[AaronT]

Finally

The value chain for fruit:

The best looking fruit are the ones that are shipped to be sold as produce (highest margin)

The ones after that are either frozen or canned

The ones after that are used as juice

The ROTTING fruit are used as jam
(lowest margin)
So in this way, NOTHING is wasted and everything produces revenue

Pretty much most if not all pershiable foods are processed in this fashion.

[G.AnteFilipovic]

Originally Posted by AaronT

Now for my jobs. When I use to work at wal-mart (markham markville to be percise)

- Milk sometimes sat in the back unrefridgerated after a delivery for several hours due to short handed staff to get the job done. The freezers in the back are not big enough to pull the whole skid of milk in so it took 2 employees 1 hour of heavy lifting to get all the milk in there. And like i said, sometimes the job did not get started tell several hours after delivery. And from friends who still work there, it STILL happens today. Do not buy milk from wal-mart.

- Often the frozen foods freezer (the on floor one) used to break down. Once time I helped in the clean up and basically we had to take all the food, file it, and throw it in bins to be disposed of. I threw EVERYTHING I got a hold of out, but there were like 10 of us working on it and the 3 managers kept lots of stuff (like yogurt and maple leaf meat packages which had clearly gone bad because of the broken cooling.) Anything to keep the store budget up of course, cause thats there sole job as managers.

- Employees are told when re-stocking shelves to bring older expiry dates (not expired yet tho) to the front of the shelf and place the new products behind. This makes sense, but it was often hard work to do that and no1 really did, thus the new stuff was usualy at the front. But just incase you shop on a day when an employee is doing their job properly, check behind your products before you buy, you can possibly snag ones at the back which have an expiry date futher away (new stock).

- Mostly all returns listed as defective (despite still working condition) are trashed. I always loved throwing out the defective returns cause it was easy to pocket any items I wanted. Free stuff I got over the years were A PSP, various video games, art supplies, a digital tire gauge and more. I always told the managers that it was wrong to throw out so many returns and that we should be donating them to a charity (Mostly everything was in good working order. Like if a pack of 105 pencil crayons was missing 1 pencil, it would get tossed, rather then being donated). They said they could not donate anything because they needed to trash it so the companies would refund them the money once they write it off (hence why the return policy is so lax)

This is spot on!!! Great post!