[JPost]

I worked in the Packaging & Distribution area for the local newspaper (getting the papers filled with inserts and ready for the carriers to deliver). I've witnessed employees deliberately try to sneeze on as many papers as possible as they came down the conveyor belt and they actually held competitions to see how many they can hit with one blow. They're very close together so I'd say getting 100 papers in one cough/sneeze was no problem at all.

People would cut their knuckles while pulling the papers off the belt and get blood on the paper (keeping it going through circulation). You usually don't notice if the blood is on top of a ink filled area.

Not saying this for every newspaper, just the one I was at hired some crazy fucking people.

[Steve Dougson]

I was going to do security a couple summers ago and they told us not to do citizen's arrests unless we had been trained how to. If done wrong you can be sued for false imprisonment or something like that.

From what I can remember it's not to difficult to do but since I wasn't told how to do it officially I'm not ready to risk my nuts knowing I can get fucked over for it.

[Hamm]

Hrmm....

Lots of fast food stuff in here, but havent seen Arbys yet, admittedly havent read it all though.

Arbys roast beef is not a "roast" cut. It is however beef that has been roasted. But it is more of a mush of left over garbage meat collected off the slaughter house equipment. An Arbys roast is not a solid piece of meat, think of it like meat paste, you can stick your hand all the way through it and out the other side. When roasted becomes a solid mass. When cooked it stinks.

The fast food place where I worked had extremely high sanitation standards, that is probably hit and miss however.

[Jimmy POP]

Wine Sales:

The wine you buy at a restaurant has been marked up an average of 100% from wholesale. A more expensive restaurant can go close to 200%.

Ouch.

[Anointed-One]

Originally Posted by massgrunt

Arabs can't shoot.

I beg to differ .... meet Juba, the Sniper of Baghdad !

http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle11282.htm

[Spawned_Fighter]

Originally Posted by Anointed-One

I beg to differ .... meet Juba, the Sniper of Baghdad !

http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle11282.htm

eh.
can you edit your post?

[Philosophighter]

I worked for the top two home warranty insurance providers (the warranty contracts realtors offer after a sale, or you purchase seperately that cover your home, a/c, plumbing, etc.)

#1- it only takes 2-3 solid claims to make your contract non-profitable. The majority of their business is made from people who forget they have the contract, people who just wont call, and people who will get put off with all the phone calling, department transfers, etc. 2-3 claims and the warranty company is already losing money on you.

#2- The contractors sent to your home, no matter the trade, have been bargained down to rates that are a fraction of their original public rates. They are sold the dream of a steady amount of volume work from the company, so they sign contracts at a fraction of their normal cost. Consequently, they hate doing jobs. No joke. Not only is their hourly way lower, but they cannot mark up the big appliances like a/c's and heaters as the warranty company supplies them. So on about 80% of jobs, the contractor is getting very little to do your work.

The way the contractors make the money in most cases are:
1- turn and burn several cases a day and have them denied fast as hell. You hit several calls a day, have them denied for some bullshit like improper shower cleaner erroded the fixtures, and then they move onto the next. Even at their discount rates, contractors will make bank if they do several jobs a day. On this same tip, the larger contractors who work with the warranty companies often know the reasons/clauses for denials far better than the waranty company reps.

#2- Contractors who are located in the sticks can charge whatever they want and not give a shit if they get the job or not cuz they are the only people in town.

Trick to milking the warranty contract- This will work 1000% of the time....Just call the realtor who sold you the house. Realtors not only sell the home warranty contracts, but can get anything, literally anything, covered if you complain loud enough and threaten to back out of the sale.

Sorry for the long post.

[5acrossYOeye]

Who watches sports in here?

Most of the time (85%) or so when you see a reporter on the sidelines...its normally taped.

The show opens are taped. In fact unless its a major event (world series, bowl game, sunday night football, monday night football, super bowl etc) everything is taped up until the game starts.

If it isn't a big event and the begining of the show isn't taped...then there were technical difficulties.

If you really really really pay attention and observe you'll be disappointed in what is actually "live" and what is taped.

Also...if a player is questionable up to gametime a channel will promote he's playing eventhough they already heard the guy isn't playing.

Dont believe me? My ex: Dirk Nowitski vs GSW 2nd to last game of the 06-07 regular season. He wasn't playing. Everyone knew but the fans.

[Col. Angus]

Auto Valet:
When you're having someone park your car, and treat them like shit, it is likely they will haul ass in your car and throw it in reverse just for kicks. Or hock loogies all over the inside of your car.

Investment Analyst:
Investing is both easier and more difficult than it seems at the same time.

[TidusAeon]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

It really depends on the individual store policy. I have worked at dept stores and their protocol with suspected theft was to:

Get on speaker and say things like "security to sector 2" or "security cameras to juniors" etc. Then they would have a male employee walk around. I would catch young black men and white women stealing jewelry all the time. They would just grab things and go into the bathroom, remove packaging, and pocket. The guys would always be shitting themselves when I'd call them on it, but I couldn't physically touch them so nothing would be done. At the price they were paying me, I wasn't about to defend merch anyway.

Other stores have loss prevention specialists who may or may not tackle your ass and hold you for police.

With theft, just consider:

Most min wage workers hate their jobs and life, and don't care
Unless it's a family bodega, you're not getting any heat from a normal employee or manager
The only reason people get caught is that they are retards, which is why they are stealing in the first place

Originally Posted by Philosophighter

Gotta throw some contributions in here after everything I've learned. Starting from the teenage jobs..

Mall retail....Very very easy to steal from. Worked in a major mall in SoCal. Workers were told that they had authority within the store ONLY. Once a thief or shoplifter got outside the store into the general mall, only security could touch them and you just had to wait and watch.

Originally Posted by Philosophighter

You could block someone from leaving, hollar a bunch to the manager and make a fuss, but no one could apprehend you physically. Mind you this is a mall retail, PacSun, during the holidays.

Another one.....In the big malls, there is a series of hallways/tunnels behind every store. 5-6 stores would be connected by one long one, with plenty of 90* turns in it, with each hallway ending at the mysterious double doors located around the outside perimeter of the malls. These halls are used by delivery people for product drop off and janitors. Summed up, no cameras, and rarely a person in them. We would stash inventory in the halls and have one of our friends just walk down and scoop up what was left over. There is 1 access in the mall itself (more mystery double doors)connecting to the hallway behind the stores, with the final exit being the double doors exiting out to the parking lot or trash area. A friend would either be sitting on those general benches in the main mall, waiting for you to cue them that you dropped off a stash in the hall...The friend would enter whichever double door led to your hallway in the main mall, scoop up your goods in the hallway, jump in a ride waiting outside the final double doors. Ridiculously quick and a lot of loot got moved with no trace.

Originally Posted by Philosophighter

^^
The day of our orientation that very issue was posed. The answer? If you physically try and apprehend someone you will be fired and the company can be possibly sued. Plus, the policy was pretty odd. It was technically not a crime unless they left the store with the merchandise, but once they left the store, it was the "malls" authority, not the store. Plus I was 16 and not giving a shit.

Another one- worked at Hollywood Video. Late fees will almost always be erased if you complain enough. Unless you got a documented track record for fees and excuses, they will erase it rather than have you make a fuss in a line and lose the future business you will bring. Also, the dipshits at the counter ringing you up have the same mentality as servers. Remember their name, let them "keep the change", small shit..and they will hook you up with free candy, rentals, coupons, on and on.

I don't know about that.

This happened many moons ago, but I was with a friend when he got caught for stealing shit at a major retail store. He was outside of the store about 2 steps out the store entrance perimiter and a punk ass guard (must have been a very old teenager at the time like 19) grabbed him by the arm and took him inside. Of course, I had to bare witness to all of this as they took me as an accomplice when I was clearly outside the store (albeit like 10 steps) and the guy gave a huge scolding to us. Then my friend had to call his parents and break the news. Boy oh boy was his dad super pissed when he came to pick us up. I think the security guy said that the "store" decided not to press charges on us.

But I was about to high tail and run my ass off out of there, but the guy had physically took my friend in and I couldnt just leave him like that.

But I dont know if this was an unique case or what, because it was a piece of shit mall and still is to this day. So, potentially my friend could have filed a battery and assault charge on the guard for doing that. But in the end, we got banned from ever going into that major retail store again.

I recently went back since I knew that same security guard would not be working there as its been many years, and needless to say the place looks like a whole sack of shit with like an underaged employee working the front. Pathetic.