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Post by Richard on May 9, 2012 20:40:27 GMT -5
Taco Bell instructs its employees to give the bare minimum of meet and cheese and to use lettuce as filler in their tacos. The meat scoop holds about two pencil's worth of 'meat.' I actually like it that way. Gets too messy otherwise, IMO. |
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Post by h on May 9, 2012 21:15:35 GMT -5
I used to work in a couple of restaurants.
In one, sanitation was very important, and I would have no hesitation eating there any time.
In the other, there was a sewage backup in the basement that was just ignored altogether. The entire basement was off-limits to everyone, and management just abandoned the entire basement rather than dealing with the problem. There was a mouse problem (not uncommon among restaurants, from what I've been told), and management's policy was to chase them around and try to cover them with buckets until they starved to death. When cutlery ran low, rather than ordering more, they chose the youngest person on staff and got him to dig through the dumpster until he found enough to get by for a while longer. Sexual harassment from management was a multiple-times-every-shift problem for any employee under age 25. Management was afraid of looking lazy, so they made sure that the only people who got promoted was a smoker, since they wanted to keep their ability to sit around for 4-5+ hours on an 8 hour shift (early on when I was there, a non-smoker got promoted...he actually did work, so they let him go when the staff caught on to the discrepancy).
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Post by Jazzman on May 9, 2012 21:44:14 GMT -5
I've never actually worked in the field but I know enough people who have to say this - most people in the medical profession are hardcore drug addicts. Not the doctors so much, but nurses, orderlies, etc., basically the people responsible for your day to day care are ridiculously drugged up most of the time. If you're ever in Oswego, NY and you get sick, refuse all medical attention until you are safely out of city limits. As someone born in that hospital and having family work there I'm slightly offended, but I do know what you are talking about. There are some good people who work there, but most of them don't have a clue. Also, Wal-Mart.... it's all pretty much true. |
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on May 9, 2012 21:49:52 GMT -5
Radio Station: If you call in drunk or stoned, the DJ in charge of programming at the time will milk that call for what in hopes of getting you to make an even bigger ass out of yourself. So friends, don't let friends request drunk.
TV Station: They don't care what game is on or what show's finale is on, if the president is making some kind of speech, they will cut into programming. No matter how little. Same thing goes for whether. They don't care if there's ONE severe thunderstorm, they will cut into any and all regular programming.
Restaraunt: All those things you've heard about how cooks and servers putting things in rude customers' food are true. Mostly some sort of bodily fluid. It's not just boogers and spit either....
So please, be polite when dealing with waiters and waitresses. A lot of them have other things on their mind as well and they don't need to deal with douchebags on top of it all.
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Post by Toxik916 on May 9, 2012 22:15:32 GMT -5
If someone at a grocery store tells you there's none in the back there really is none in the back or the product you want is inaccessible due to being on the bottom of a pallet. If you ask them to double check all they will do is go to back and stand there for a few minutes so you think they're looking really hard.
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Post by edtheripper on May 9, 2012 22:19:19 GMT -5
If someone at a grocery store tells you there's none in the back there really is none in the back or the product you want is inaccessible due to being on the bottom of a pallet. If you ask them to double check all they will do is go to back and stand there for a few minutes so you think they're looking really hard. As a grocery store worker for 16+ years, I can vouch for this. Also, if you are looking for something you don't see on the shelf, politeness goes a long way. I don't care if I have 46 cases of something in the back, if you're rude you're not going to get the item. |
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Post by bob on May 9, 2012 22:26:00 GMT -5
I used to work selling overpriced knives. Much to my surprise it is almost as political wrestling. Also my boss tried to convince me to quit college to sell his over-priced stuff.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on May 9, 2012 22:31:03 GMT -5
I work at a Gas Station.....A BP to be precise a few things.
~ Each station is independently owned and operated. This means that EACH store is essentially it's OWN separate entity. THERE IS NO "CORPORATE" NUMBER.
~ If your Card doesn't work at the pump.....We can't fix it.
~ We actually CAN turn on the pumps for cash customers, it' just REALLY bad business to do so.
~ If you're in all the time, and generally nice and have a SPECIFIC thing you get every time, we'll try to have it ready for you when we see you.
~ If we're busy, and you have a moment....ask for fresh coffee. Chances are we've gotten behind and not made a fresh pot.
~If you ask for a "Swisher" you're getting a Swisher. If you WANT a White Owl, and are pointing at the White Owls......SAY White Owl. I'm not above selling you a $2 2 pack over 2/1.19 singles if you're insisting on it.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on May 9, 2012 22:38:53 GMT -5
While at Wal-Mart I learned that new employees such as myself were given hardly any instruction on how to deal with certain situations and are penalized for it, also there are points when certain departments have little to no staff at all AND the store manager is almost always an asshole.
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Post by J.O.B. Squad on May 9, 2012 23:06:27 GMT -5
I am loving this thread already. From my time at an indie video game store: We lived and died by bulls*** mark-ups. I believe a Wii Fit was going for $90 somewhere (MSRP, I think), but we sold it for $120 just because. I understand the idea of making a profit, but that seemed excessive and I had a tough time explaining to a customer why our price was $30 above everyone else's. Also, if you are an indie game store and don't build some semblance of a community, you are just f***ed. The place I worked at is no longer around because they didn't care about having tournaments or any events, which is a completely inept way to handle business. People didn't care about us because a GameStop a few miles away was giving good deals and we had nothing to compete with that. The boss also refused to take out newspaper ads or do anything to generate business. What a mess. From my time at a magazine for middle-upper/upper class folks: Nothing shocking here, but there are cool rich people and others who live in a world of delusion and self-hype. This magazine was incredibly mismanaged (I am still owed $2,000 I will never see) and none of our subjects or advertisers could see that. Also, I went through and saw the kind of abuse at my job that I should have sued for. There was sexual harassment (the Publisher implied that he wanted to see a 17-year-old intern naked for a photo shoot, and he also once called someone a faggot, if the story is true -- which it very likely is), racial/ethnic harassment (Pretty sure my boss liked to call Indians "Punjabis" out of spite. He also said we should celebrating the atomic bombings in Japan and didn't like Jews either), and other forms of harassment and badgering (lots of yelling and cursing at employees, plus telling employees that an employee who wasn't there should get over her dying mother and care more about the magazine than her). The place was a hellish scam. Can't believe I stayed on as long as I did; I guess it was some sort of Stockholm Syndrome or something. This sort of stuff seems to happen at Indie Record stores here as well cause I have seen some of the prices at the local one here and it is incredible the prices they make up for some stuff and also the wacky things they make up for store credit as well since it seems to differ from person to person who works there. |
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Post by BearDogg-X on May 9, 2012 23:32:12 GMT -5
Newspaper carriers are considered "independent contractors" like pro wrestlers.
Also don't get much, if any, health insurance.
Barely make enough money to afford gas for the vehicle to deliver the newspaper, especially on a rural route.
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Post by Rolent Tex on May 10, 2012 0:02:10 GMT -5
Restaraunt: All those things you've heard about how cooks and servers putting things in rude customers' food are true. Mostly some sort of bodily fluid. It's not just boogers and spit either.... So please, be polite when dealing with waiters and waitresses. A lot of them have other things on their mind as well and they don't need to deal with douchebags on top of it all. Fess up pal. Name the restaurant so us law abiding restaurant workers can avoid that place like the plague. I worked at a grocery store when I was younger and it was insane the kind of stuff they tried to get away with. They never wanted to give you a raise. Ever. I worked there for four years and only got raises when minimum wage was raised and when I found out someone newer than me was making a higher hourly wage. For bagging freaking groceries and told the manager it wasn't right. Ah high school. The deli used to keep the cheese for salads in our produce cooler. That cheese was always the cheese that was out of date...by months. Instead of throwing it away, dairy passed it over and yeah... My old produce manager and I snuck over to the bakery one day and pulled out a couple things of flan. He told me to observe, pulled the date sticker off and there was an expired date sticker under it. We ratted those bastards out quick. No need to be getting customers sick on that. I observed a deli worker opening a serving tray of pasta only to find a dead cockroach on top. They removed it and served it anyways. The same store had a sewage back up out back and didn't care that we had to wade through it to take garbage out. After a week I had enough and walked across the plaza to the Key Deer refuge. Funny how fast shit gets done when you tell the refuge that an endangered species is eating produce that's fallen out of a dumpster into sewage. One day it was cleaned up. Let's just say I don't shop at that store unless I really, REALLY, have to. |
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Post by hawkfan44 on May 10, 2012 0:10:48 GMT -5
If someone at a grocery store tells you there's none in the back there really is none in the back or the product you want is inaccessible due to being on the bottom of a pallet. If you ask them to double check all they will do is go to back and stand there for a few minutes so you think they're looking really hard. As a grocery store worker for 16+ years, I can vouch for this. Also, if you are looking for something you don't see on the shelf, politeness goes a long way. I don't care if I have 46 cases of something in the back, if you're rude you're not going to get the item. AMEN to that In the dairy dept. of my grocery store, unless I know you and you're a really cool customer, don't ask me for the "freshest" milk. Since most people look through every single carton of milk for the best dates anyways, this doesn't happen too often If I'm bagging groceries (never been register trained, don't want to stand in one spot for 8 hrs), if I know you're a problem customer, I will go out of my way to not bag for you unless forced to. If we're out on stock on the shelf and it is NOT on the weekly Ad, we are likely out of that product until the next grocery truck arrives Last but not least, if at the checkout line, "jokes" like the "if something doesn't ring up... must be FREE" BS, I will no-sell that joke |
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on May 10, 2012 0:25:32 GMT -5
Last but not least, if at the checkout line, "jokes" like the "if something doesn't ring up... must be FREE" BS, I will no-sell that joke On that Note......I sell lottery at my Store..... Don't ask If I "Guarantee it'll win" or some such.....I realize it's a joke....but think for a moment, if I had a magical way to print out a slip of paper worth Thousands or millions of dollars.....would I be working for just above minimum wage? |
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Post by Rolent Tex on May 10, 2012 0:28:05 GMT -5
On that Note......I sell lottery at my Store..... Don't ask If I "Guarantee it'll win" or some such.....I realize it's a joke....but think for a moment, if I had a magical way to print out a slip of paper worth Thousands or millions of dollars.....would I be working for just above minimum wage? Just like the tables that when you ask if there's anything else you can get them and they reply the winning lottery numbers, a million dollars or a briefcase full of cash. My response is always, if I find it, you'll be wondering where I disappeared to. |
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on May 10, 2012 0:34:18 GMT -5
If someone at a grocery store tells you there's none in the back there really is none in the back or the product you want is inaccessible due to being on the bottom of a pallet. If you ask them to double check all they will do is go to back and stand there for a few minutes so you think they're looking really hard. As a grocery store worker for 16+ years, I can vouch for this. Also, if you are looking for something you don't see on the shelf, politeness goes a long way. I don't care if I have 46 cases of something in the back, if you're rude you're not going to get the item. I've never worked in grocery but what you said applies to retail to. Also, the "customer is always right" mentality has to stop with some people. If we don't have an item, then WE DON'T f***ING HAVE IT regardless if "the other store" said we had it in stock. Also, if something is accidentally placed on a "for sale" shelf, then it does NOT mean it's for sale. we accidentally misplace things to, and bitching about it just wastes every bodies time. |
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on May 10, 2012 0:38:54 GMT -5
While at Wal-Mart I learned that new employees such as myself were given hardly any instruction on how to deal with certain situations and are penalized for it, also there are points when certain departments have little to no staff at all AND the store manager is almost always an asshole. This is 1000% True.....they are a Horrible Company. And Sam's Club is kind of worse in way. Sure, the managers are called Coaches  ....and yes, they smile a bit more than Wal Mart managers, but the expectations they put on you are just.......silly in a VASTLY understaffed environment. Plus, despite the fact that on the surface, they are a very customer friendly company, trust me, that company cares nothing more about you than what's in your wallet. They force EVERY employee to push the Plus (a $100 membership vs. a Regular $40 one) and Credit to EVERY member possible, which causes quite a few of them to become upset, and leave the store. It's quite awful. And honestly, as much as I hated the Wal Mart managers at times, the fact that the SC Coaches just smile when they're saying the Same Thing makes it kind of worse somehow. I usually get pretty depressed going in there, as I know that 9 out of 10 times, my night is going to go downhill from there at the horribleness. |
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on May 10, 2012 0:39:13 GMT -5
As a grocery store worker for 16+ years, I can vouch for this. Also, if you are looking for something you don't see on the shelf, politeness goes a long way. I don't care if I have 46 cases of something in the back, if you're rude you're not going to get the item. I've never worked in grocery but what you said applies to retail to. Also, the "customer is always right" mentality has to stop with some people. If we don't have an item, then WE DON'T f***ING HAVE IT regardless if "the other store" said we had it in stock. Also, if something is accidentally placed on a "for sale" shelf, then it does NOT mean it's for sale. we accidentally misplace things to, and bitching about it just wastes every bodies time. I always prefaced, anytime I looked for an Item in stock, when I worked "Real" retail, with "as of Opening/8AM today" and the last count we had on hand. I also volunteered phone numbers for the nearest stores if I thought it appropriate. I was astoundingly helpful as a sales associate...... Quite the opposite of my usual surly demeanor. |
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 10, 2012 1:09:09 GMT -5
- As an ex nightclub Bouncer and Bar Tender...
- Don't tell the bouncer that your friends with owner/manager, Trust me it never works and I got that one a lot.
- Ladies Leggings aren't pants so if you want to get in wear a skirt over them please.
- Social skills are just as important for the job. Its much better to get drunken morons to leave on their own accord then having to drag them out. Not to mention you are supposed to prevent trouble from starting up in the first place, so being about to spot potential trouble makers so they can be kept under control is essential
- Guys I'm a not a babysitter so if your missus gets wasted she's your responsibility not mine.
- Also ladies you do not have the right to dance on the tables and bar front so don't complain when we ask you to get down.
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Post by hawkfan44 on May 10, 2012 1:15:04 GMT -5
oh one last thing. if you are someone who use those reusable bags, BRING THEM with you! getting tired of the once a day "oh I forgot my bags" line or the disgust when you start sacking the items in plastic or whatnot.
off topic- I hate those reusable bags myself, so all I'll say is look up George Carlin's Save The Planet routine for my answer why
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....and yes, they smile a bit more than Wal Mart managers, but the expectations they put on you are just.......silly in a VASTLY understaffed environment. Plus, despite the fact that on the surface, they are a very customer friendly company, trust me, that company cares nothing more about you than what's in your wallet. They force EVERY employee to push the Plus (a $100 membership vs. a Regular $40 one) and Credit to EVERY member possible, which causes quite a few of them to become upset, and leave the store. It's quite awful.
