[Octavian]

Originally Posted by Hammer_Fist

Just for kicks,

I worked at a shoe store and two things are more true than true...

All mexicans wear size 8 shoes.

If a black guy wants to "try on a pair of shoes" he will not buy them. He just wants to see what they look like on him. If a black guy wants to buy the shoes he'll just ask for them and pay for them, he's already tried them on at a previous visit.

ROFL

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Originally Posted by mahalo

i worked two years as a valet driver. let's just say that from my experience:

1) if you leave any valuable items in plain view or glove compartment, they will be stolen.

2) when your car pulls up, we check for physical damages (dents, scratches, etc) and bring it up to the owner prior to driving away. some people scam the valet company to avoid paying the cost to repair their pre-existing damage.

3) if your car is sporty, we will test drive your car.

4) that mysterious dent or missing cd is our doing.

5) girls love it when you open the door for them. it's a good segue to get name, number, and ass.

6) if you're a regular customer and are notorious for being a no-tipper, we will steal stuff from you.

7) if a new guy doesn't know how to drive a stick shift, we will use your car for practice.

unless it's the only option, don't have your car valeted.

LMAO...I have a buddy who valets for a pretty upscale hotel and they have a spot called the "Shit Spot"......if you are an asshole that is where your car goes because its in the corner of the garage near a giant pigeon nest....use your imagination of what happens next.

[Ronin Rug]

Originally Posted by bigdirty

well lets see:

Bartender:
Majority of Liquer bottles behind the bar are either watered down or "mixed with" another type of similar (cheaper) liquer.

retail clerk at GNC:
the products used for passing drug tests are really for if you "accedintaly" poison yourself and to make matters worse is your paying 39.99 and GNC pays usually 1 or 2 bucks for it. The mineral known as NOSITOL is known for cutting cocaine and GNC is aware of it and quadruples the price.

If I think of more I will post them.

Bartender; The above is rarely true. There is a hell of a mark up. But only shitholes water their shit down with generics.

GNC: This is pretty much true.

[heh8me]

gas station-they would only have the security camera on the cashier on, so you could steal anything from the convience store area. friends of mine would always come in and must have stolen 50 gallons of slurpee's in the month i worked there.

landscaping-mexicans are really funny and do some crazy shit. also if anything goes wrong you can always blame them since they hardly spoke any english

retail store-broken candy bags are fair game, and we took full advantage of this. my store issued box cutter busted into plenty of candy bags.

and the final thing i've learned is that between 90 and 95% of customers are assholes no matter how well you treat them

[AaronT]

Traffic enforcement divisions basically have quotas. Not in the sense that they HAVE to write X amount of tickets per shift.. but management reviews the numbers from time to time and will put pressure on those units if they have lower than average numbers.... because their sole task is supposed to be enforcing traffic violations and then dealing with any other fun **** that occurs during those stops.. (drugs, warrants etc)

All other units, for example patrols.. have no quotas.

Most places like an office have recycle bins for bottle/can, cardboard and paper. However, unlike bottle/can/cardboard, paper to be recycled isn’t really worth anything. So, unless the manager / owner of facilities is willing to take a lost and specifically pay extra $ for the cleaners to take them to a recycling drop off. The paper that you put it the "recycle" bin ends up like any other trash, in the big garbage bin out back

[AaronT]

MORE SECRETS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY:

Back in 2001 when I was an employee at this construction company our boss would come every 3 hours to the jobsite and push us to "work faster", to get the job finished in as little as possible.

At other times he will bring us coffee and donuts and sit down to talk to us.... our 15 mins. breaks became 1 hr long sometimes. He told us to take it "easy" and "go slow, don't hurt yourself going fast".

I was dumbfounded at this contradiction and asked my foreman WTF is going on here? My foreman explained it to me:

"When we get a 'closed' contract project, they pay us in advance, so if they pay us $500,000 for a job, our boss pushes us to finish fast because with each day that passes he loses $10,000 in wages and equipment rental"

"But if we get an 'open ended' contract (the government usually does this) we are paid by day basis..... so we earn $24/hr but our boss charges the gov't $45/hr, so if he has 20 workers he's making almost $1,000 an hour profit, so the longer we take the more money we make"

One time we got a contract from the government for a driveway paving that should had taken 2 days to finish in a "closed contract", but because the canadian government loves giving money away they agreed to a "open ended" contract. We spent more than a week there doing nothing, like 15 guys.

Your tax dollars at work.

[johnsic]

- Bars add water to their beer/booze at special sales ie. "$1 nights"
- Most computer/pc security people at offices dont know anything about computers. Computers are usually working bad because ppl dont run scandisk, disk fragmentation etc. and never reinstall Windows. Many companies just waste money buying new pc:s instead of using little bit of time to fix pc:s.
- If you need any service try to give a good first impression! Compliment, smile etc. Give respect to salesperson/waiter etc. 99% of ppl treat them as servants so you threating them as humans will make them like you.

[johnsic]

More!

Most big companies are watching over their employees very closely. One big office had all of their cameras looking at the employees...

Fast food joints have mystery shoppers visiting their own restaurants monthly. Mystery shoppers have to write a report on everything you can imagine afterwards.

[ThinkGreen]

Just for kicks,

I worked at a shoe store and two things are more true than true...

All mexicans wear size 8 shoes.

If a black guy wants to "try on a pair of shoes" he will not buy them. He just wants to see what they look like on him. If a black guy wants to buy the shoes he'll just ask for them and pay for them, he's already tried them on at a previous visit.

Lol, hillarious

[ThinkGreen]

Originally Posted by johnsic

Fast food joints have mystery shoppers visiting their own restaurants monthly. Mystery shoppers have to write a report on everything you can imagine afterwards.

Almost every type of job has "mystery shoppers" or "secret shoppers"