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Things about places you've worked at that they don't want the general public to know

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Is there anything you remember from a job that they don't want the general public to know?
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 348
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    Worked at a strip club. We would over charge the ugly/fat ones for entry. The good looking ones we would only charge £5-£10 but the ugly or fatties would be charged £20-£50 just to get in. Maybe that is common place in other club environments too. Discrimination at its finest.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,392
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    No supermarket bakes their own bread. It is all frozen and part baked elsewhere.
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    On certain items Argos returns are just binned. I worked at a returns site for Argos and one day we skipped a full 40ft skip of returned scales. Each return slip has a reason for the return. It would often say "faulty". However, when we opened them in 90% of cases the batteries were unopened.
    All skipped, and nothing wrong with them.
  • tenofspadestenofspades Posts: 12,875
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    a place I worked had several prices for every item, and upon checkout and assessing the customer-would pick one of the 3.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,392
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    A £30 set of kitchen knives on the high street will enter the country for about £3.
  • dearmrmandearmrman Posts: 21,504
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    Worked for a company that produced the fresh cream cakes for large supermarkets, Eclairs got sent back from one supermarket after a late delivery. So they just got put back into the freezer, and resent to another supermarket a couple of months later. So fresh cream cakes are not that fresh.
  • NX-74205NX-74205 Posts: 4,691
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    TescoJeans wrote: »
    Is there anything you remember from a job that they don't want the general public to know?

    Quite a few things, but then I do work for a large multinational defence and aerospace firm. So not wanting the general public, or other 'interested parties', knowing about certain aspects is par for the course.
  • WizsisterWizsister Posts: 481
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    Yeah I used to work in a bank but revealing security secrets seems foolish.
  • Alan1981Alan1981 Posts: 5,416
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    Fresh new Zealand lamb, isn't that fresh at all. In fact if the vacuum sealed bags the legs come over in are punctured, you have to carve the rotten bits off. Still it gets sold in certain supermarkets.
  • Nuggets69Nuggets69 Posts: 313
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    *paul* wrote: »
    No supermarket bakes their own bread. It is all frozen and part baked elsewhere.

    Wrong.

    Source: I work in the Asda bakery.
  • dearmrmandearmrman Posts: 21,504
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    Ever wondered why airlines overbook seats...basically because on average about 10-20 people don't check in for a flight, and for the airlines to make money they need to have full planes. so they oversell the aircraft based on the average number of people they hope will not turn up.
  • wear thefoxhatwear thefoxhat Posts: 3,753
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    One of this countries largest national bus companies does all it can to bend and twist EU driving laws to get it's drivers to drive the maximum amount of hours, the depot I work for has recently changed shifts to have drivers out for a twelve hour day, one shift has 10 hours 39 mins of driving, strangely they make a big deal of 'health and saftey', you can't so much as fart without a high viz vest on. Needless to say caffeine is a bus drivers friend, either pills or energy drinks. I've worked shifts where I 've driven a passenger to work, driven them home again and still been driving to take them on their night out!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,232
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    Changing a watch battery (excluding a reseal and pressure test to guarantee water resistance) is pretty much the same procedure whether it's a cheapo £5 market watch or an expensive designer watch. Despite this, many watch repair places will set the price for a battery replacement based on the brand of the watch.

    Also, the batteries themselves cost as little as 10p each, yet most places charge £5+.
  • McMahauldMcMahauld Posts: 1,257
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    Wizsister wrote: »
    Yeah I used to work in a bank but revealing security secrets seems foolish.

    You got that right.

    Link > > HSBC money-laundering
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    "British" Beef isn't 95% of the time...

    It only has to have been in the country for 72 hours to count as being British; I've an uncle in beef farming, he buys in stock from the Irish Republic, grazes it for a week and sells it fully legally as "British" certified beef,.
  • dearmrmandearmrman Posts: 21,504
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    A lot of employers don't understand zero hours.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 68,508
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    During the IRA bomb campaign (I'm pretty sure it is ok to say this now) at Harrods, if a message came over the tannoy saying "Will all buyers return to their departments" it meant "we have just had a bomb threat."

    Speaking of...when I was in the Met police, also during the IRA bomb campaign, we had two designated bomb cars, one north of the river and one south of the river, that had specialist equipment on board, to the tune of one roll of striped plastic tape for closing an area. Nothing else at all. Luckily, because there were only two of them, they were never, ever first on scene, so the striped tape was never used.
  • HarrisonMarksHarrisonMarks Posts: 4,360
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    Can't say too much because 'they' will be watching but let's say - MOD - UFO - Roswell - Rendlesham - Travis Walton - Dave Lee Travis - Jimmy Savile - Stuart Hall - Eddie Waring - Eddie Hitler - Adolf Hitler - Adolphe Sax - Andrew Sachs - Russell Brand - Russell Harty - Grace Jones - Grace Kelly - Princess Diana - The Queen - Prince Philip - David Icke.
    I've probably said enough if you join the dots......
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    Can't say too much because 'they' will be watching but let's say - MOD - UFO - Roswell - Rendlesham - Travis Walton - Dave Lee Travis - Jimmy Savile - Stuart Hall - Eddie Waring - Eddie Hitler - Adolf Hitler - Adolphe Sax - Andrew Sachs - Russell Brand - Russell Harty - Grace Jones - Grace Kelly - Princess Diana - The Queen - Prince Philip - David Icke.
    I've probably said enough if you join the dots......

    That's funny - I get a big rabbit with a beachball...
  • NX-74205NX-74205 Posts: 4,691
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    HarrisonMarks wrote: »
    Can't say too much because 'they' will be watching but let's say - MOD - UFO - Roswell - Rendlesham - Travis Walton - Dave Lee Travis - Jimmy Savile - Stuart Hall - Eddie Waring - Eddie Hitler - Adolf Hitler - Adolphe Sax - Andrew Sachs - Russell Brand - Russell Harty - Grace Jones - Grace Kelly - Princess Diana - The Queen - Prince Philip - David Icke.
    I've probably said enough if you join the dots......

    ....you find out that you're really Billy Joel.
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    During the IRA bomb campaign (I'm pretty sure it is ok to say this now) at Harrods, if a message came over the tannoy saying "Will all buyers return to their departments" it meant "we have just had a bomb threat."

    ALL Northern Ireland shops and shopping centres have a similar pre-arranged signal of some sort ;)
  • xp95xp95 Posts: 2,439
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    jazziee wrote: »
    Worked at a strip club. We would over charge the ugly/fat ones for entry. The good looking ones we would only charge £5-£10 but the ugly or fatties would be charged £20-£50 just to get in. Maybe that is common place in other club environments too. Discrimination at its finest.
    How vexing.... :o
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    Quite a few things, but then I do work for a large multinational defence and aerospace firm

    I know the guy who rivets together the fuselage doors for Boeing aircraft subcontracted to Bombardier Shorts in Belfast.

    I'll never fly Boeing....
  • xp95xp95 Posts: 2,439
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    phylo_roadking wrote: »
    ALL Northern Ireland shops and shopping centres have a similar pre-arranged signal of some sort ;)
    It's a shame as well, because I find Northern Ireland to be the most beautiful part of the UK and like a wonderland of peace and harmony! :cry:
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    You wouldn't believe how many bombscares are still phoned in every day on recognised code words...

    "They haven't gone away, you know"

    ...and strangely the number will spiral up on shopping days running up to Christmas ;)
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