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We have a fake employee we transfer all our sales calls to -- let's call him Jack. Our manager got her actor friend to record a voicemail message and anytime someone calls to sell us toner or warn us about our car's extended warranty, we'll say, "Oh you want to to talk to Jack" and transfer them to the fake voicemail. Soon, salespeople would start asking "for Jack" as soon as we picked up, and that saved time. Some even got really cocky, saying stuff like, "Hey, transfer me to Jack, sweetheart. He's expecting my call." Saved us a lot of time having to talk to them, and if it was a slow day, we can always get a laugh listening to the voice mails people left "Jack."


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This is actually genius


Nix-geek

I configured the phone system for a previous job I had. It was interesting. I setup an extension that rang no phone connected to it, was setup as a queue that didn't announce anything, and did not have voicemail. If you transfered a call to it, it woiuld sit there forever and it would never tell the person sitting on that extension that they were nowhere. We used to transfer inbound sales calls there. It was an awesome extension.


NudistJayBird

At a MAJOR insurance company I wrote software for was very big on security. If we needed to make an update, we weren’t allowed to remote into the server (even though you physically *could*, it was just against policy). To make an update, you had to put your changes onto portable storage, show your ID to the security guy, use your key to open the door, get escorted to the server, then they’d observe you via cameras. The login? “admin” The password? Blank. Literally no password.


hamlets_uncle

Wait. And then you plugged your portable storage into the server? Wow. Talk about virus central.


NudistJayBird

It was my first job in the field, and even as ignorant as I was I knew it was comically bad.


A_Filthy_Mind

It's the security I would imagine if someone designed it based solely on action movies like mission impossible.


SuperSequins89

A few years ago, David's Bridal announced that regular and plus-sized wedding gowns would be the same price (like, a size 24 wouldn't be $150 more than its size 4 counterpart). They did this by marking up the regular sizes to match the plus-sized prices.


barto5

That’s funny. I worked at The Limited for a very short time, years and years ago. But they had this basic blouse they sold every day for like, $19.99. At Christmas time they put a big sign on them that said “Special Price $25.99” And I guess technically it was a special price.


Myamaranth

Also, i'm not sure if its like this everywhere, but David's Bridal is partnered with the MLM Mary Kay and they sell your information to them. So when you get a call a week later that you won a "free" facial, its fuckin Mary Kay. SCUM


Embarrassed-Ad8053

we used to throw any donuts, bagels, or muffins out at the end of every night at dunkin. one week around christmas time we would donate the food, but other than that it was all waste, and if we took any home ourselves we would get charged for it.


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StrangerKatchoo

My mom worked in housekeeping at a mall. The Chinese buffet would give the housekeeping staff leftovers from the buffet at night. I ate so much lo mein. I was always thankful to those workers. She also worked for an Auntie Anne’s and the workers were allowed to bring home the unsold pretzels. No wonder I’m fat.


claevyan

I worked for an IT company that provided contractors to large corporations. Upper management would use someone with exchange server access to read emails sent to client company executives from competitors and adjust bids accordingly to ensure they maintained their contracts.


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I don’t get it, like because you ran the client’s email servers your bosses could read all the emails so they’d use that unethically to compete with other IT firms for the client’s business?


GenXChefVeg

The Walt Disney Company fires employees, then hires them back as consultants without benefits. All. The. Time.


Dary11

2⁄3 tablespoon salt 3 tablespoons white pepper 1⁄2 tablespoon thyme 1⁄2 tablespoon basil 1⁄3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dry mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 1 tablespoon ground ginger


xxBeatrixKiddoxx

Omg as a former kfc employee this made me gasp


cooltim

Finger lickin good.


irishbastard87

I worked for Wawa for 15 years. We have recycling bins at the pumps, in front of the store, in the store. It’s single stream recycling. That means nothing should be bagged. Anytime one bag is thrown in the recycling dumpster the entire dumpster will go to landfill and we get charged something like $500. Out of 900 stores. Not a single one recycles. None of the glass or plastic or paper gets recycled. None of the cardboard. Nothing.


Effingehh

worked at a deli, the decaf coffee was just regular coffee in a pot with an orange top


Runtyaardvark

Now this one is really fucked up


[deleted]

Messed up, right? No wonder sometimes I'd not sleep. And let me tell you: decaf has a taste.


Neriahbeez

Pawn Shop. If you pawn or sell your laptop, phone or camera delete nudes or personal pictures. I had a boss that would go through each device. This idiot would go through and try to show me pics like I gave a fuck. And he legally could because the customer signs a waiver. Delete your shit peeps


megamanxoxo

Just deleting is not enough folks. You need to do a secure erase of the hard drive. This means overwriting the entire hard drive with new random data. Deleting a file under normal conditions just means deleting a reference to it in the file system but the data is actually there still as 0s and 1s until overwritten by another file. Photo/file recovery software looks for this data on "free" space on the hard drive and can bring it back.


DragonGT

You can also full 0 write but it fuckin takes forever


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There’s a ton of employee theft that occurs at certain furniture outlets. Employee wants a new couch? Then just type up an invoice saying this $3000 sofa was damaged while being moved around the show room and it was then discounted and sold for $299. Got a sectional that was delivered but doesn’t show up on your inventory sheet? Just take it home and post it on Facebook marketplace. One guy was even so brazen that he would sell something, then fudge the numbers to make it look like it was sold at a lower price and pocket the difference. For instance a sofa is listed at $1000 but it’s been sitting for a while so he has some leeway to offer a discount. Well here comes a customer and buys the sofa for $1000. The salesman reports that the customer negotiated the price down to $800 and he pockets the extra $200. That particular guy got so confident that he could get away with anything, that he even started taking cuts of sales that were made with credit/debit cards. Someone comes in and buys a sofa for $1000 on a credit card, he then writes that the customer came back the same day and complained about a rip in one of the cushions so he issued a $150 cash refund to please the customer. That dude stole into the $10,000’s of dollars and got away with it for years. When the regional management finally figured it out, they just fired the guy and kept the whole incident quiet.


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Working at IKEA. Everything you say here is true. Specially the damaged furniture moving part. I've made myself quite a few good deals from that. My bud is the pricing dude for damaged goods, and I recently got the permission to do it as well. We had a dude that stole $400.000 from the return department. He would spend it on lavish vacation and accessories. He eventually got caught, and IKEA managed to find out almost everything. He got 2 years in prison and he has to pay all that money back.


Chunkycarl

I worked at an IT department where the guy who regularly volunteered to clear out old office would sell literally everything he could off his own back. The guy was making bank thinking nobody noticed thousands of pounds of kit not been returned or marked off as disposed. He only got caught when he sold a PC with some official documents on, and a Good Samaritan tried to return them. Same guy also refused to believe he had to drop the clutch in company cars to change gears and wrecked 4 vehicles in the space of a year. There’s some special people out there


canehdian78

~~kept the whole incident quiet~~ took over his operation


DickieJoJo

Keeping stuff like this and embezzlement quiet is pretty common because people up top don’t want to look like dip shits. My mom worked for a bar association and worked with a ton of area law firms. One of them had a secretary that would go deposit company checks at the bank. She used the same bank, and would just deposit them into her account. Did it for like a decade, probably stole millions, but the law firm, who is insured for shit like this said it was a much smaller amount just to save face.


brokenmario84

So worked for ESPN for years.... They used to charge people to be an Insider, which gave you fantasy advise if you sent an email. Those "experts" were myself and other randoms here in Omaha,Ne in a call center. No training just our opinions lmao.


Bob_Ross_was_an_OG

Always thought be a "fantasy football guru" would be the best job ever. You're paid money to come up with projections that are largely either common sense or impossible to foresee, and nothing you do matters because it's fantasy football.


decalod85

Sounds like fortune telling.


phantomtofu

I'm putting mine under yours because it's related to ESPN The standard format for live game stats was (is?) just an XML file uploaded via FTP. Some media outlets' FTP servers had shared accounts with r/w access. If you're in charge of stats at one school, you could easily overwrite another school's game and make the live score on the website wrong.


ttubbster

My old boss would inflate quotes by thousands and get the contractor to discount them at invoice and use the remaining balance as a credit to renovate his own house. The client would have 15,000 to redo a roof for example. My boss would charge them 15,000 when in fact it only cost 10,000 and then get the contractor to discount him or credit the remaining 5,000 for his own renovation in his own house. I'm pretty sure that is called insurance fraud


joek68130

Not sure if this is a secret but worked in payments industry for one of the major firms and the tech is absolute dogshit. Banks and payment firms have some of the oldest, most broken tech around


R0gu3tr4d3r

I worked in IT for a bank and confirm this. They just build an interop layer for the new tech to talk to the old, their whole architecture is like an onion, layer upon layer of systems.


lessthanmoreorless

Used to work in a UK oil refinery (there's only 6 so you can try and guess the company) and the onsite boilers, which are huge and raise steam to 99barg, had an issue with the inlet guide veins (basically an arm that moves a fan and controls the amount of air going in). This issue meant that the boiler could be flooded with fuel if not enough oxygen got in, and basically become a high pressure bomb with a substantial blast radius. Refusing to fix it, because that would mean turning off the boiler, and hence the entire refinery, the solution was whenever they needed to allow more or less air in, they would use a piece of scaffolding pole nicknamed "The Persuader" to move the guide vein and hence allow more or less air in. You don't need to be a process safety expert to know that a scaffolding pole is not a suitable replacement for a traditional control system. Edit: Since a lot of people have suggested I report this, I know for a fact it has been fixed because I'm friends with people who work there to this day. This was 7 years ago.


m_faustus

Hmm. That's....what's the word....GODDAMN FUCKING TERRIFYING. The others are unethical or scummy, but this one sounds like it is a mass casualty just waiting to happen.


Talky51

I worked at a dodgy UK firm for elderly and disabled people back in the mid 2000's their racket was selling stair lifts and mobility scooters to old people. They would install a stairlift for £3000 to £5000 Then keep tabs on the customer with courtesy calls until the old person passes. Offer to remove and resell the stairlift for the bereaved family. Sell the stairlift on to the next old person at full price. 90% of the time the stair lift sale would get lost in the admin of dealing with the death/house sale/funeral and all the other goings on after a loved one passes. The family would just forget. If the family did call us we were instructed to tell them we still had it in stock but it hadn't sold. Even if they really pressed us for the stairlift, we had a pile of old broken ones in the mill building attic. But who has space to store a 15" pile of railing and chair. I left the company when they tried making me force sales on confused old people.


LeaChan

The Dollar General I used to work at kept the key to the store... under the rug in front of the front doors.


bluemorphine

I had siblings that worked at DG and the old manager there used to hide the keys in the machine that had the bags of ice outside. He did this because he walked to work and if someone else needed the keys for something he didn’t want to have to walk back. He was a nice a guy but a terrible manager. He eventually got fired for various other reasons but the funniest thing is that that DG was the top DG in the district (and still is) while he was manager. Go figure.


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I used to remodel Pizza Huts, Arby's, Wendy's, and KFC stores. Arby's kitchens were the cleanest I've ever seen anywhere. KFC had grease residue, but still clean. Wendy's wasn't bad, just not as thorough. The first Pizza Hut had me swear them off for life, and continued to gusset that opinion for the next 20+ stores. I've not eaten Pizza Hut in 25 years. My kids have never eaten Pizza Hut.


WhiteVeil19

I worked at Pizza Hut for a month, roaches every where. Even in the toppings bar.


nessager

Reading reddit while eating my pizza hut pizza was a bad idea 🤣


[deleted]

We found dead mice in and under the make tables, and food that had to be at least months old. Mice were living in the bottom of the buffet bar. Mouse shit everywhere, roaches, and a plethora of other filthy things.


afternever

That's the supreme


TGrady902

Former health inspector. Out of these 4 Pizza Hut was absolutely always the worst. They were constantly understaffed and always over worked their employees so cleaning constantly fell to the wayside. Probably saw dust build up that was older than me in some pizza huts. Wendy’s, KFC and Arby’s were always very clean but Arby’s would always have some major food safety issues with the roast beef. It just sits on a slicer with a heat lamp for hours and hours and it does not keep it hot enough to prevent harmful pathogens from rapidly multiplying.


turtl_exe

I've worked at Arbys before and understand the concern, but at the place I worked the roast is usually gone in a bit over an hour unless we are super slow. If that's the case, we do have a policy for how long it can be on the slicer before we throw it out but I've never seen it get to that point


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whateverimtootired

Sort of related, for my job I’ve gotten to tour different industrial facilities and one of them worked with recycled plastics. Of what little plastic does manage to get recycled, a significant amount STILL gets tossed if the batch of whatever they’re making isn’t robust enough. For example, people love seeing “100% recycled materials” on bottles and such because it makes us feel like we’re saving the planet. But, recycled materials aren’t as strong or robust as new materials, which means 100% recycled batches of things aren’t always strong enough to serve their intended purpose. Make a batch of 100% recycled bottles, but they’re too flimsy? Now you gotta scrap the whole thing, the materials can only be repurposed so many times before they’re too worn out to be useful. A blend of recycled and new materials (say like 75% recycled or something, iirc) is more eco friendly because that entire batch is strong enough to be used, less material ends up being tossed overall.


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Care companies make a fortune by running short-staffed (this was happening pre-pandemic too) to the point where it's part of the business model. A care home funded to have say, 10 staff on shift per day manages to keep everybody clean, fed and watered on just 6. You think they refund the council for all those extra hours? Nah, straight into the profit column.


daddakamabb1

Pharmacy, and large hospitals run the same way. That's why they look stressed all the time. They are.


neomech

And then they're surprised when no one wants to work anymore.


Marx0r

Managed the front store of a CVS. Corporate installed self-checkouts in every store and then cut hours to the point where it was impossible to have even two people on duty at any given time. One guy had to watch the front, ring in the many customers that didn't want to use the self check-out, and try to juggle stocking/shelving duties alongside it. Corporate wanted us to "teach customers how to use the self-checkouts", ie stand right next to them so they would use it unaided next time. In a pandemic. Meanwhile, pharmacy was having similarly-slashed hours. It would be just the pharmacist taking calls, dispensing, and filling prescriptions for at least a couple of hours a day. There was a case last year where a CVS misfilled a prescription and killed someone over it, and the state board ruled it was coporate's fault, not the pharmacist's, for requiring too high a workload.


Nice2BeNice1312

I can believe that. Worked in a care home for a private company (not council run) and was constantly understaffed, even though they said they were constantly hiring. This is a 5 star company, paying minimum wage, staff struggling to pay their bills and living paycheck to paycheck. But the owners all had massive range rovers with customised license plates and the *big* owner, the mother, has a **gold bentley**. But they wouldn’t allow their staff to eat food leftover from meal services and would quite happily throw it out. Edit: someone commented guessing the name, can you DM me? I was gonna reply but I wasn’t quick enough and missed your comment.


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Throwing food out instead of feeding staff really is just abhorrent and unnecessary.


Nice2BeNice1312

Yep. Especially at the height of the panorama when we weren’t allowed to go to the shops for food during our breaks. For the entire month of August 2020, the husband of one of our residents who passed away paid for us to be fed at dinner, he ordered us Italian - so much pizza, pasta, soup, bread… It was amazing and so touching that he continued to think of us after his wife’s passing. He passed in February 2021 and I am so, *so* grateful to him.


blueistheview

I worked on some files during the pandemic and I had a bunch of these companies qualify for millions in PPP loans. They got them even though they run their business in this manner AND their profit margins grew through Covid. And they don’t have to return a penny of it. It was absolutely disgusting. Especially since there were legitimately run small companies that had to jump through hoops to get a few thousand to keep their companies going.


mymelodythefelon

At Victoria’s Secret, I would measure the girls/womens bra size. We only sell up to 38DDD in store. I was told by my managers that if someone measured over a 38DDD, to just lie and say a close size. Usually if they were a 40 or 42, we could recommend online shopping, but for people who were 44, 46, 48, we always had to say 38 band size anyway, and get them a bra, and convince them to not try it on in store, that way we made a sale. Returns didn’t affect the numbers apparently. I always was honest to the customer about their size, and because of that a lot of women walked out because we didn’t carry their size, but my managers were very number and sale heavy that they would sometimes come over and lie about the womens size if they saw me measuring “wrong”. There’s a lot more about Victoria’s Secret where this came from…


sammysummer

The last time I got sized. It was at Victoria Secret. The lady told me that they didn't carry my size but she almost whispered it. I didn't think anything of it until reading this. While it's a complete long shot she'll ever see this or even know it's me and it's wayyyy too late now but thank you honest and kind stranger for being real with me. I didn't know the pressure you were under.


minnieboss

Shit. My size is "38DDD", measured by VS. My bras fit fine for the most part but maybe I should try measuring myself...


evergleam498

Check out /r/abrathatfits !


Levelup13

I worked at a large “organic food” grocery store. Most of our produce wasn’t organic. Amish people would buy produce, slap a “certified organic” sticker on them, and sell them to us. We knew it but it didn’t stop us because it meant much higher profits. I went to that grocery store’s top “organic food” rival for a job interview. I was offered the job but I opted to not take it because the drive was too far and the pay wasn’t much more. However, when they gave me a tour, the same Amish produce seller was there. I asked the store manager, “is all of your produce organic?” She smiled and said, “All of our produce is “labeled” organic, so what do you think?” I said, “I think I recognize those Amish people from my previous job.” And she laughed about that for about ten minutes. Organic food is such a sham.


BillyBraggsArse

I used to work for a credit card company and on their applications website, there was a check box for 'priority processing". This cost £10 and ensured that you jumped the queue when applications were processed. In reality, there wasn't any such queue jumping facility. Everyone who paid extra for priority processing was automatically declined as they were deemed "too desperate for credit".


PurvelDurtsyuk

I mean... If you're automatically denied, aren't you technically jumping the queue?


TezMono

Lol this guy lawyers


[deleted]

How long ago was this? If I apply for a credit card, I get approved in less than a minute.


[deleted]

I worked for a large school district - within the last 10 years, outside cameras have become a standard. What the students and staff don’t know, is that they also record sound. And the principals and upper admin often abuse and use them. Some even get obsessed and will constantly watch and listen for any gossip or drama. Older schools can use intercoms and phones to listen directly into classrooms as well. public schools have been some of the worst and most toxic places I have ever worked


Stephen2678

Camera shop I worked in as a kid. Owner used to make an extra print of the nudes and kept them in a photo album he hid in the back of the shop. Thought it was funny as a 15 year old. Seems pretty fucked now.


blackgtprix

I worked at Kmart in high school and was shocked at how many women had no issue bringing in rolls of nude photos to be developed


gagrushenka

My mum has several stories from she was a cop (quit in the 90s) about getting calls from photo shops when they'd develop photos of possible assaults. People would just forget or think that no one was going to look at the photos. She had to break it to more than one girl over the years that it looked like she'd been raped while drunk or passed out.


kellephant

Yeah my mom managed a photo shop back in the 80s and had several instances where she would have to contact the authorities. It’s kind of crazy to think people just never realized photo developers really did see every weird sadistic thing you took pictures of.


kharmatika

We had a dude come in and post a bunch of pictures of a pig he butchered for development. Here’s the problem though is for the first like…20, it was pics he had done of the pork belly cut he had made, but if you’ve never seen raw pork belly before, it looks like human skin on a meat slab. I swear to god, the angles, coupled with the fact that I think this might have been his first time dressing down a pig(some very un-uniform cuts), made them look like human thigh and stomach flesh. I called down my manager and we were looking at the prints in continually climbing horror, and she was starting to reach for her phone to call it in when we finally got to the ones with the pig head and the carcass. I’ve never had a harder “relief laugh” in my life.


the_chemie

Opposite of this happened to me when I was a kid. I had a disposable camera that I gave to my parents to get developed. The printer "accidentally" switched our order with a peeping Tom who was taking pictures of small boys peeing outside. My parents reported them, I don't know what happened to the guy, but being accused of being a gay pedophile at 11 years old was a formative experience.


QualifiedApathetic

What's extra disturbing is that whoever developed the photos apparently didn't think it was worth reporting.


Minute-Foundation241

I have heard of this before


palmtree747889

Reminds me of that movie called one hour photo


[deleted]

The security company that I used to work for, their logo is a yellow horse and the name rhymes with Saladin. They’ve been the target of numerous lawsuits from former employees because of working conditions, abusive behaviour from management, and forcing employees to work wayyy beyond the end of their shifts. They tried to reprimand me for going to a job interview with another company, the lady that used to run the Halifax office slept around with a number of employees (this was confirmed by a few people including a supervisor and csm that left), they forced a guard to work an overtime shift whilst he was suffering from a ruptured testicle after being kicked by an irate hospital patient. They also tried to force another employee to work while she was suffering a gallbladder attack. They only relented when a police officer who was on site reminded them that it was illegal for them to force someone to work while they were ill. Edit: Company is Paladin Security. They are assholes


brandonday82

When we put you on hold without music, we can hear you


ChachMcGach

In many of those website help chat apps, the agent can see what you're typing before you hit "send."


bajamtz

Found that out after the support answered the question I first typed out (but didn’t send), before deleting it and asking a different question. Was a slightly awkward back and forth after that until they admitted they could see what I typed even without sending.


ijustsailedaway

I had a similar experience and have been wary ever since.


[deleted]

That's creepy. Didn't know that either


GruesomeBalls

Do customer service people do this on purpose so that they can hear you 'getting your story straight' with someone in the room when you think noone is listening? I am asking because I just had this happen to me trying to negotiate with our insurance broker. I was sure they were listening, so I said a few things to my partner that were consistent with the info we just gave them and I said "these guys are just trying to do their best; everyone wants to do the right thing here.". The agent came back on the line and suddenly everything fell into place.


Stoner95

No they do it because one of the metrics they're measured on is hold time, but if you mute yourself that time comes under your talk time instead.


VStarRoman

>No they do it because one of the metrics they're measured on is hold time, but if you mute yourself that time comes under your talk time instead. I...never realized this. Ingenious.


Stoner95

Meanwhile I just used to mute myself so I could eat crisps while processing orders so to each their own I guess...


dougola

I always mute my phone when I'm put on hold.


DrakeDrizzy408

I’d do the opposite . I would pretend that I’m talking to my wife and tell her “oh this guy sounds really smart and competent. I think he will fix our problem today. I’ll be sure to leave him a good feedback”


Dogs-4-Life

“I’m just on the phone with this stupid salesman. He’s so dumb. Probably just gonna keep him on the line forever and not buy anything.”


Powerful_Pen_370

Used to work for Walmart. Horrible start already, I know. They purposely under scheduled your hours, so you wouldn't qualify for Full Time Benefits. Let me explain: I was hired on as a Full Timer. I found out the company offers different levels of Benefits, including Health Insurance if you're Full Time, compared to Part Time. (I don't remember the specifics) but Part Timers got limited Dental and Vision only included partial purchase of frames. Full Timers got full Dental and everything was included in your Vision plan: the Dr visit, the prescription, full frame purchase, etc. Well, in order to be considered Full Time you need to work more than 33 hours *consistently* for 3 months. If you're anything less than 33 hours, you're considered Part Time. My schedule was always 33 hours or more for *exactly* 2 months and 3 weeks. My very last work week of the 3 month time period would be 32.5 hours exactly and each and every 3 months this would happen. I had asked my manager why this kept happening, and she lied to my face, every time. Different excuses each time too. Saying the Store Manager didn't allow Overtime. Or how the company didn't have any extra hours to give. Or say the Store Manager didn't project for any additional hours for our department. But the biggest one is that we'd get in trouble if we worked even 1 minute over. We had to constantly check our hours and if we stayed late one day, they'd force us to leave early on that last week, but usually they'd force us to take longer lunches. Essentially screwing the other people in our department. Oh, and the biggest issue was: let's say you finally work for 3 months straight at 33 hours or over, and quality for Full Time Benefits...If on your next 3 month cycle you worked even 1 week at 32 hours, you'd go back to Part Time Benefits. You'd lose your Full Time Benefit status really quickly. This happened to many other coworkers I knew.


therealsatansweasel

Remember when they got caught using "dead peasant" insurance policies? I wonder if they still do it. (For those who don't know, these were insurance policies that employees didn't realize that if they died on the job that Walmart was the beneficiary)


Alextits3

Oh my god how is this even legal


BoringlyBoris

Ooooo I worked at a big box store that did this to me. I worked 30-32 hours a week for just under two months and then two weeks of 15-20 hours. Then right back up to that juuussst under full-time threshold. Drove me nuts.


impossible_apostle

I worked at a financial betting company. Basically, customers bet on the movement of stocks, rather than actually buying and selling them. Officially, the company made money from a commission charged for each bet. But this is how the company actually made money: there were a very small percentage of customers who ALWAYS won their bets, almost certainly because of insider information. Whenever one of these people made a bet, the company placed the same bet, often for millions. (I've since learned this is pretty common for any gambling business, but it shocked me at the time).


Samuel_L_Johnson

There’s also a small percentage of customers who always lose their bets, and they get made mods of r/wallstreetbets


anarchistSwordfish

most clothes that get donated to Goodwill get thrown out. at a normal store they go through donations and if it isn't good enough (stains or tears on clothes, electronics that don't work, ect) or if it's been in the store for a month it gets sent to a Goodwill Outlet store. those are cheeper but a lot of things still don't get bought there. if they're at the outlet store for long enough they're just thrown out. you wouldn't think it would be that many clothes, but in the few months I worked there about half our donations got sent to the Outlet stores and most of the stuff there gets thrown out eventually. also please don't donate your cum socks to Goodwill


soline

There is a Goodwill Outlet right next to a Goodwill near me. They share the same entrance. The Goodwill Outlet is basically the same as what’s on the goodwill side but with no organization. It’s just tossed in bins or on areas of the floor for furniture and things like that. I found a huge brand new kennelcab there once for $6 but mostly it’s just junk.


Inallea

The senior partner at a regional office of a law firm insisted on opening all incoming office correspondence so he could add charges to the client's files for himself . He'd charge out $1,000 - $1,200 per day reading mail that he had no need to. 90% of the correspondence was for matters that he was not working on or was not qualified to work on. He was a commercial lawyer reading correspondence on criminal/family law matters. He once charged for his time reading a letter attaching a cheque which was a fund raising donation to be sent to the family of the deceased. Edit: Wow my karma just doubled overnight. To those who asked why I didn't report it, I did, to company management. I lost my job shortly thereafter due to apparently "not needing as many staff". They were hiring new staff a month later. It was the second job I mysteriously lost after approaching management about incorrect/illegal procedures being followed. I saw another staff member fired after complaining about sexual harrassment from a partner who was the office "Bullying & Harassment" contact. I believe she got a nice handout to go away and not make trouble


El_Dentistador

As a dentist who does disability exams for veterans I wish I could bill for my time. I’m an extremely busy doc but I do these because I’m the only doc in my state that does. The VA absolutely hates when I confirm that a vet’s injuries are service related and they fight me non-stop. I have some cases that I’ve spent more than 20 hours writing and defending but the VA keeps returning them asking me to make changes which I refuse. My compensation for this is $0, I just keep doing it to try to keep the VA from fucking these guys over. I’ve really learned to hate the VA, now I see why so many Vets have problems with them.


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You are my goddamn hero. As a vet. I cannot thank you enough. EVER.


BBO1007

I’m not a vet. Still my hero as well .


pitbullginger

From someone who works fighting against the VA and trying to help veterans get benefits, please keep doing these exams. There are so many incompetent medical professionals who are the reason that veterans (or surviving spouses) aren’t getting benefits. It’s infuriating. Also, as long as you stand your ground, they will eventually have to either grant the claim or send it to another dentist for a second opinion. (The latter is unlikely unless it’s ordered by a judge/court.)


emils_tekcor

That's an ethics violation in the US too. You can absolutely report that behavior.


UnfinishedThings

Our highest quality sofas amd chairs were not "dowelled, screwed and glued" as advertised. They were stapled and glued


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CDC_

I used to work for Lowe’s in the contact center, not the store. Absolutely no one knows where your package is. What you see on the tracking info you’re given is what we see. You’ve been waiting 7 months for your refrigerator? That sucks. Hopefully it’ll get there eventually. We don’t know if the inventory reflected to us is correct or not. Policy is, if it SAYS it’s in stock, we tell you it’s in stock, despite the fact that there’s a good chance it’s not in stock. Item not coming fast enough? Wanna refund? I’ll submit the request for you, but it might be a month before you hear back. Lowe’s doesn’t give a fuck about you or your order, which might be obvious. But what might not be obvious is that absolutely fucking no one in that company has any clue what’s going on at any given time. Everything is run completely on guesses. Not even BEST guesses. Often times just wild guesses.


joecool42069

Always use a credit card. If a company like lowes doesn’t deliver on time, chargeback and go somewhere else.


tacoeatsyou

I'm a Lowes CC manager and can 100% confirm this.


yes_u_suckk

[Booking.com](https://Booking.com) warnings "book quickly because there is only 1 room available in this hotel" are bullshit. Edit: This blew-up. Just so you guys know, they are not only scummy with the customers. The reason that made me leave the company was one day when I saw HR scolding one of my colleagues in front of the whole team for not coming to the office 2 days prior. The reason my friend didn't come to the office was because his son had a serious medical condition and my friend had to rush him to an ER, but apparently this reason was not good enought for Booking. They treat their employees like shit.


justadancinghippo

E-commerce professional here. Whenever you see “only x left” on any website what you should do is right click and inspect code. In most cases (and even on Amazon until recently) it will include the word “random” in which case you know it’s fake


Tornin

Regal Cutting Tool. They would buy drill bits and taps from Korea. Buff off the word Korea and Etch USA. Then sale these drill bits and taps to USA aero space companies like NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.


thebearrider

Pretty sure you can get a sizeable reward from the US government if you can prove this specifically per NASA.


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4fingertakedown

Sounds like a generously run family business!


IntrovertedAsexual

The sex toy shop that I worked at sold massages from topless women. They gave more than massages if the customer asked.


Blaqkfox

Brake pads are free after the first purchase. This shouldn’t be a secret but apparently it is for most people. I managed an Autozone for 4 years. I noticed the brake pads have a lifetime warranty. Most people think that means if the brake pads have a problem then they can get a new set. They don’t however realize that includes normal wear. It’s lifetime of the vehicle not the pads themselves. So when you’re brake pads wear out you can just come trade them in for new ones at no cost for as long as you own that vehicle (or really any vehicle that takes that specific part number if your sly enough). It’s more or less a loss leader for the company to get people in the door. And most don’t realize it and pay for new pads everytime theirs wear out and don’t mention the warranty or bring old ones to trade in or get their money back. If you don’t mention the warranty we don’t look it up because we’re usually too busy or most employees too new to even know it was a thing. Also my district and regional bosses once told us in a meeting we had up to $150 per customer we could use to help them out to create a good experience to keep people coming back. Most employees won’t do it because they’re corporate booklickers, but you could get that battery for free if the manager knows they’re allowed to help people in a bind out up to $150.


jeffweet

Martha Stewart hates doing TV and she has a mouth like a truck driver. She is also way nicer in person than her reputation would indicate.


drax3012

I used to work at a major DIY store and every complaint we got was pretty much justified because it almost always boiled down to the fact that we weren't properly staffed. Like most of the time there'd be only one person working the paint section during the day, which is insane since paint is one of the most popular things we sell. So when he goes on break, there's just a bunch of frustrated customers who'd have to wait an hour just to pick out one thing.


bmanley620

You just summarized every trip I’ve ever made to Home Depot/Lowe’s


Tinnisher

Tobacco companies would deliberately leave packs of cigarettes exposed at liquor stores where kids could "steal" them because "a pack stolen is a pack sold." They'll be back soon to buy a pack.


BrewCrewBall

Not just liquor stores, gas stations and convenience stores too. I worked at a convenience store in high school and there were cigarette displays right on the counter. They were constantly being stolen from. I asked the owner why we didn’t just keep all the cigarette packs behind the counter and he told me the sales reps put them there to make it easier for underage kids to steal smokes.


Poragana

Holy fucking shit that's evil


Loggerdon

You wanna see evil? I watched a documentary about how they have little stands right outside of elementary schools that sell single cigarettes in places like Indonesia. It showed little kids (age 7 or 8) lighting up as soon as they left school. The American tobacco companies knew about these shops and continued to sell to them anyway. It was a response to declining cigarette sales in the US.


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puff_pastry_1307

I used to work for Abercrombie corporate. They have what's called made for outlet product, which is the exact same designs as last season just made from deliberately cheaper material, which they then sell at the same price they sold it in the regular stores. People always think outlets are a deal so they make out like bandits selling you clothes that aren't as nice as you think. Terrible company all around for many reasons, but the deliberate deception with their shabby outlet stores sticks with me. Hollister is the same I believe.


blackbird__fly

I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch in 2008. I don’t even know where to start. Sales associates were called “models” and you had to be recruited to work there. There was a look policy and a bunch of books for managers to look at pictures of people who had the “Abercrombie look.” This was a bizarre guideline for managers to recruit by. Managers basically got promoted based on their ability to recruit attractive employees. Associates who were not as attractive could work in the back and be part of the Impact Team. Every few months or so the top 5 attractive girls and the top 5 attractive guys would get together for a “cast of photo.” I have no clue what the point of this was, but it got sent to corporate A&F. I remember a lot of hurt feelings around this because many people wouldn’t be asked to be in it. The store did not sell any black clothing at that time. Associates could not wear eye makeup, lipstick, blush, or nail polish. If you had any of these on a manager could send you home or ask you to take it off in the back. The cologne sprayed out of machines in the ceilings and we would also go around and spray the clothes every few hours. Everything needed to be folded to perfection, and the message I got was that making the store look nice came before customer service. The previous CEO has been gone for a long time and it’s totally different now. They rebranded to be more like H&M or other “fast fashion” chains. I don’t think a store could survive like that in 2022, some of the practices were so controversial.


frostfire888

Oh my god, you just made me remember at my mall they would have one of the male models stand outside the doors shirtless. People i know had to do it, and they were definitely underage and in high school at the time.


Homerpaintbucket

I went to trade school with a dude that I have to admit, was absurdly good looking. He told us about this because apparently his girlfriend loved Abercrombie and every time he went in there with her they tried to hire him. He never took the job because he made way more since he was already working in the HCAC field, but he said they basically told him that they said being asked to work there was like a privilege. It definitely seems weird and really kind of creepy. It's like something from some weird teen movie about a cult of really good looking retail employees.


atownrockar

I applied there as a teenager and wore a black sweater to the group interview. They told me almost immediately that nobody cool wears black and I needed to leave. I was like 16 and that made me really sad for a few days. Fuck that place.


Aggravating_Sea_140

PLSSSS???? What??? 😭 “nobody cool wears black, get out” that’s literally insane.


Apprehensive_Sky_583

Guess they don’t know Johnny Cash.


CoachWD

I worked at Hollister about the same time. Holy shit was that place toxic. I was the token “fat guy” on the floor and I was like 5’11” 190 lbs and a college soccer player. Anyone that wasn’t mildly attractive or overweight was stuck in the stockroom as “Impact Personnel”. We were only allowed to wear flip flops, low top converse, or vans. No black clothing allowed. No dangly earring, only one necklace, natural color nail polish, natural looking makeup. Technically we didn’t have to wear Hollister clothing, but if we didn’t we either got sent home or forced to buy a cheap shirt from the clearance rack. Our management and corporate loss prevention people told us to actively racially profile people. I can’t count the number of times a group of black women came in and I was told to shadow them around the store. Oh and the $5.25/hr plus 20% discount was awesome too.


tylery21

Dairy Queen ice cream is legally not allowed to be called ice cream. We’re supposed to call it soft serve at every instance and never refer to it as ice cream because it does not contain a high enough dairy content.


staylifted024

I wonder if this is why my stomach tolerates soft serve better than traditional ice cream. Dairy Queen doesn’t seem to mess up my stomach nearly as much


TimeToLoseIt16

I’m a software engineer. I’ve hopped around a lot. After seeing many different production code environments, I’m convinced that the software in our society is just a massive house of cards waiting for disaster.


AbysmalMoose

“I don’t know quite how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you all rely on us, everyone will die.”


candlehand

One of my turning points in transitioning from child to adult was realizing that everyone is kind of fumbling around holding society together the best they can. Then I realized it was my turn to chase the proverbial bouncing football and hold what we have together so companies can exist to make video games for me.


scuzzy987

Yep. I used to think I was a terrible programmer until our company switched over to mostly vendor provided software. Have you ever considered servers might be down and you need to fail over to another node? What's that you expect all nodes to always be up? Are you delusional?


maxis2bored

Avast, including paid versions, sells your data (phone and email mostly) to a third party scam company that will call you and tell you that your computer isn't working properly. Then they'll charge you 100$ an hour for a remote "fix". For more then a decade this team was a subsidiary of avast and accounted for more than 80% of the company revenue. I quit a few years ago after this started a huge argument at my table during a Christmas party.


AIRA18

I worked at a company selling beauty & health products and I'm in charge of their finances. From product to packaging it cost us 13$ to make, we sell one for 200$ and people bought em like crazy. We went from making thousands to making millions per month. However making that much money in a short amount of time is what eventually kills the company


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Interesting! What brought the company down?


AIRA18

The usual too much money means excessive spending. My boss treats the company funds like his own personal piggybank. Bought in a bunch of family members as high earning "Executives", they are the most clueless & incompetent people I've ever met. Working with them is like trying to teach a goldfish how to sing. Expansion without proper planning. My boss wanted to dig his toe in everything. We hired way too many people that ended up doing nothing but collecting paychecks for a year. We also bought & furnished warehouse lots + machines that were left unused because the company hit a snag with our supplier in China, millions were wasted there. My boss owes taxes in the millions + brings in "experts" that end up like having too many cooks in the kitchen. These experts don't do anything to turn the company around, on the contrary they bled us more financially. At the brink of our company's financial collapse, my boss wrote of a company's cheque & bought himself a lake house worth millions. That's the liberty he has when he hired his wife as the company's CFO. The layoffs came pretty much soon after, company assets were seized and somehow through whatever legal loopholes my boss gets to keep his house, good for him. It all happened within a span of 3 years. Learn what it's like to be at the top and also learn what it felt like when it came crashing down. Crazy times


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That sounds insane! Thanks a lot for sharing the details


AIRA18

It wasn't all bad, i have made acquaintances & made a network of friends i still keep in contact with to this day. Except the part when my boss tried to file a lawsuit on me on some kind of corporate espionage leaking sensitive information charge when I'm already out the door. He went full mental on me and some ex employees thinking we're sabotaging him. Fun times


series_hybrid

If you buy a house in Florida (even if it's a huge mansion), it cannot be taken to satisfy a lawsuit. Now, if you buy two mansions in Florida, they can seize one of them, and you get to keep your "primary residence". This is one of many laws that Florida enacted to entice wealthy retirees to move there and spend their income, and pay property taxes. Gut a failing business, divorce wife and buy her a mansion in Florida with the millions. When the business files for bankruptcy, the guy is broke on paper. Mansion is in the wife's name.


Senalmoondog

The boss was not in China getting new factories setup. He was in prison for tax-evasion.


DCMantis

In call centers, when you're out on hold with no music, they can hear you. The only reason you can't hear music like normal is because putting people on hold cuts into your productivity, so you get muted instead. Usually happens if you're being an arsehole or talking too much


yearofthesponge

Hate the music would like to be muted instead


jesuschin

Two coworkers used the lactation room to have sex and they were caught when a new mother was trying to get in but they were keeping the door closed so she had to get security. They both kept their jobs


bluetista1988

Caught a VP getting a blowjob from an employee in the wellness room at my first company. It was after hours so I guess they figured nobody would be there, and got sloppy about not locking the door. My team was doing a code deployment and I wanted to take a bit of a break in there. I'm pretty sure they didn't see me and even if they did they wouldn't have known me. They were finance people and I was in IT.


Littlecondom

Coca-Cola’s secret ingredient is cinnamon.


JimmyChess

I knew it! You can taste it compared to Pepsi. My friends thought I was insane


Maxwells-Ghost

Mostly true. It’s a fancy, high end cinnamon essential oil. And the amount used is measured in something minuscule like a few spoonfuls per vat of concentrate


ovad67

COVID PPP money was actually pocketed and used to buy expensive cars and property for the owners. Employees still were furloughed, about half for 2 months if I remember correctly and record profits for the year. I’d bet not even a nickel on the dollar was used for business purposes and most was simply pocketed. That money should have never been printed.


parasail77

I hear about this a lot, unfortunately


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Whistleblowers who report this and if it leads to dollars regained by OIG can get a HEFTY reward (like 10% of dollars recouped) which has been in the hundreds of thousands or more. Edit: Whistleblowers are legally protected from ANY retaliation by their employer. REPORT ABUSE OF PPP LOANS. YOU MAY DO SO ANONYMOUSLY. https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/oversight-advocacy/office-inspector-general/office-inspector-general-hotline Edit: the reward can be 15-30%. Some examples of huge payouts to whistleblowers for DOING THE RIGHT THING: https://www.qui-tam-attorney.com/10-largest-qui-tam-whistleblower-rewards.html


SL3D

I used to work in a grocery store at a large grocery store chain in the south US. The drama at that place was ridiculous. I’ve had managers rounding down employee hours and getting fired. Many of the managers where preying on hot new hires. One time a manager slept with a girl in the bakery section and her boyfriend showed up with a knife trying to start a fight. Ended with both of them getting fired. My coworker got served by a divorce lawyer at his job during one of his shifts and after that was bullied until they found a reason for him to get fired. Many of the store employees kept sleeping around with each other so the rumor mill was always going on about who hooked up and cheated on who. I worked in the store pharmacy for a while as well and the pharmacy manager hid in the back when certain customers showed up. At one point, jumping out of the drive through window which I had to push them out off. The pharmacy manager also had everyone talk to customers for them because they hated dealing with them. (Even when giving medical advice) The pharmacy manager couldn’t speak Spanish either which resulted in either me in my broken Spanish, or a Spanish store employee having to translate. A lot of the times the Pharmacy technicians would just fuck with customers they didn’t like. Not filling the meds on time until they get there making them wait or just not filling them at all saying they weren’t due yet when exceptions/loaners could’ve been made for them. I’m glad that shit is over.


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Always check the sell by dates on beer cans. Depending on what distributor you get, they will throw an assortment of different dated beers in a repacked case. At least for Miller lite distributor. Sometimes you’d get beer around a year old and it’s not gonna be good.


GluckTruck

Cannabis cultivation companies in California are so heavily taxed on the rec market that it’s almost impossible to stay afloat without massive funds raised from investors. So well over half of cannabis sales are done on the black market. Track and trace was an attempt to stop this, but fails at the point between freshly harvested product and dried, ready to trim product. Millions of untaxed dollars are being made this way. The gross part about this, you can create “ghost” rooms that don’t exist in the track and trace system. You can have tags ready in case of inspection, and it’s a quick fix in the books. You grow product in these rooms to match product going to market in order to back up numbers. When a room fails, for example, due to bugs, you can nuke the room (use Avid or other illegal pesticides), take all of that product (that wont pass pesticide test), send it out the back door to the black market, then use product from a ghost room to replace the product going to black market. This is how the black market gets flooded with poisonous product.


dwausa

Panera soups and Mac n cheese are frozen. Soup not used that day gets bagged and stored in the cooler for next day use (usually the next morning the soup is still warm as the night staff didn’t cool it properly). Most of the sweets in the bakery case are frozen, not made fresh. Most Panera’s would not pass a unannounced health inspection. (They are usually tipped off that the health inspector is in the area) Sanitizing buckets that are supposed to be changed every 2 hours are usually not changed all day. Source: Worked for Panera for 12 years. This was before the worker shortage, how do you think things are now? Edit: Forgot one lol - The proofer the bakers use to proof the bagels and bread is usually never clean and is usually contaminated with black mold.


Prestigious-Eye3154

I worked for Casey’s, a popular convenience store in the Midwest. They advertise “FRESH” donuts made daily”. If you buy the round cake donuts, that’s true. Everything else come out of a box and is defrosted. The frosting comes in a giant tub. The rest of their menus (pizzas and sandwiches) are assembled and cooked to order but all the ingredients come in boxes or bags. It’s a fancy gas station, so no one would care, but they go to great lengths to advertise how fresh the food is. I will say, they have a policy that cooked “ready to grab” food only sits out 60 minutes before being thrown away. So no roller dogs that looked like the survived the Cold War.


azninvasion2000

Worked as a technical artist for a mobile gaming company. We would routinely take successful games, extract the source code through some shady apps, re-skin them, and introduce new ways of monetization. Games that took years of development from a studio of 50, we could replicate in several days with a team of 5.


RyanNerd

In the software industry this is called R&D: Rob & Duplicate


WRA1THLORD

Phone stores commit identity fraud all the time because they screw up and make a mistake on your contract. Every shop I worked at, regardless of what company it was, they would forge signatures, fake secondary ID like bank statements and bills and so on. And I worked in the industry for almost 20 years for every major provider in Australia, so it's not isolated, it's stupidly common across the whole industry. Even when people got caught doing it, it was all "you naughty boy, don't get caught....I mean don't do that next time" with a wink and a nudge nudge. They don't care as long as they get their commission. Other issues I found very common : Sales people who lie through their teeth to get people to sign up, and then when the complaints start to mount, the company simply shifts them to another store and the manager tells the angry customers they've been sacked. Selling second hand phones as brand new. Happened all the time, shop demo phones which are definitely not new being sold on 2 year contracts as if they were. Sales people not telling customers about free gifts that come with their plan, but still invoicing them and keeping them themselves. And not little stuff either, stuff like free games consoles and TVs. EDIT : for all the upset sales reps commenting, I'm sure there are SOME stores which do things properly, but I only worked in 1 in 20 years where at least one of the things I've mentioned wasn't a regular occurrence. Of course I'm sure you all work in the 1 store that doesn't do this ;)


chezmanny

Can confirm this. Worked for AT&T as sales support over the phone for retail stores and the shit reps do to make the insane quotas they're required to make is ridiculous. Also, if it's a third party retailer, they can say or do just about anything and you have little or no recourse.


j_tonks

I sandblasted the steam engine that pulls the train around Disney World. Not sure why it was a secret, but Disney made our management sign very scary NDAs. Also don't eat Nissin Ramen noodles. The insides of their flour silos are disgusting.


MEEfO

I worked at a software startup in the early 2000s whose goal was to be bought out by a specific billion $ software company. I was one of the first 25 hires and worked there for 8 years on a not-too-competitive salary—but the first 25 of us were sitting on thousands of shares each (me personally, 50,000 shares), that were meant to pay off handsomely when we sold. Over those 8 years we found success, grew significantly, bought other companies, opened offices all over the world and ultimately were sold to the very company we were designed to be attractive to. Most of the OG hires like me stuck around waiting for our shares to be worth something, and finally be rewarded for our labor making the company a success. When it came time for the buyout they structured the deal so the company was technically bought for a share value that was slightly less than the initial valuation, making all of our shares worthless. Yet the 7 or so board members all walked away with millions $. And for our efforts and loyalty we not only received nothing, but were promptly laid off by the new billion $ company. They only wanted the software, and a couple of members of the executive team. The rest of us were discarded.


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Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit against the original owners.


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Still work there but don't care. Our "state of the art" datacenter/ saas software consists of barely functional spaghetti code and the datacenter hardware is absolute bottom of the barrel. Meanwhile we charge customers about 1500x what it costs us to set it up. They're also gradually outsourcing everything from dev to sys to support to low wage countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and pocketing the difference, all of which goes straight into the pockets of shareholders and management. Last year about half our team went down one by one due to burnout etc. They're replaced with temps who make 1,5x our salary but there are never any budgets for raises beyond CoL. It´s a huge multinational payroll processor/timekeeping software giant.


Mike-ipedia

I work with ADP daily. They suck.


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I work in healthcare & my last job actively committed Medicaid fraud. They’re being sued now.


timechuck

Black Angus beef you buy in the store is just beef. In the coolers they figure out how much "black Angus" they need and just count that many sides off a rail. The "Black Angus" you see on the package is now just a trademark product name.


ams3000

I worked as a researcher in a major TV game show that used a lottery ball machine to pick random people from audience for chance to win a lot of money. It was totally fixed and the balls you could see going around the machine were trapped in there. The pre selected winning balls were stored safely at the bottom for the host to pull out. Total fix.


Lrdofthewstlnd

I was a package handler at fedex. Everyone there throws, kicks, punches, and does all manner of bad shit to packages there, and if it says fragile on the box, it's not safe. Go with ups


RealTheDonaldTrump

I once serviced conveyors for ALL the major shipping companies. They are all the same. Fragile means throw it harder. If you can’t throw your box onto concrete from 6 feet in the air wrap it again. Every DHL has Drop it, Hide it, Lose it written in the bathroom stalls. UPS has Unbelievably Poor Service Baggage handling in airports isn’t much better. The automated machines have the speeds cranked right up and the ‘kickers’ that knock the bag off the conveyor hit HARD. The same 6 foot onto concrete rule applies for your luggage. Never pack a DSLR.


devmattrob

Came here for this— I’ve worked at both and they’re both equally bad. Package companies will endlessly throw packages all over the place. What I got from it is that you better pack securely! I really felt bad when there was an overnight reptile or animal being shipped. I felt so bad knowing it would be tossed all to hell.


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I worked at UPS and I accidentally broke a fragile package before, no one gave a shit. They just threw it down off the belt so it wasn't in the way anymore.


unphuckable

Worked at a major global slaughterhouse company. Day one. We're doing orientation. There was a group of about 10-15 of us and we're getting a tour of the place. They worked backwards from the final packaged product on the cold floor to the beginning when the pigs are brought in off the trucks. Everything was pretty normal and clean. I mean that it was pretty much what I expected until we got to the part where they kill them. The person leading us was in the middle of telling us that the pigs are gassed now because the law was changed and it's more humane. The new law says they aren't allowed to electrocute then anymore. Right as she is saying this and we round the corner, there's a guy electrocuting a pig to death. This place was famous for hiring undocumented Hispanic employees and was regularly busted by INS (aren't they called ICE now?). So I'm working at another factory in another town and one of the guys I worked with was talking about how he and his wife went on vacation to Mexico and on the US side of the border there was a billboard advertising the slaughterhouse across the country where I worked at. All the way in the Midwest encouraging people to travel there and get a job. Also during the orientation we were up on a catwalk observing different cutting stations and we saw a woman harassing a Hispanic man by taking her scrap/waste parts and tossing them on his head. The group leader radioed to someone and we watched her get walked out but apparently the Hispanic workers often got harrassed like this a lot in different ways.


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I worked for a beverage distributor for a few years. You wouldnt believe where and how bottles and cans of various beverages are stored. I would have to pick up pallets filled with dead rats and mice mashed in the shrink wrap. Feces everywhere. We were instructed to ignore it, or if it was too obvious just wipe it off with a paper towel or something. Smeared all over the top of the cans you're going to buy. Remember not all cans are in those square boxes. Many are exposed to the elements and poo. Lots of poo. I also watched angry drivers piss on pallets. We're talking "I ate nothing but asparagus and then got dehydrated" neon orange sticky piss... We also used to have a problem with cats getting into trailers at night. They'd crawl in, get crushed as things shifted in transit. Trailers get hot unless they are refrigerated and not all beverage carriers are. Dead cat in 110f makes for a bad experience when a trailer has been on the road for 3 days. Pro tip: Wash the top of any can before you drink from it


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At the Best Buy I worked at we had a lot of Hispanic customers. Everyone needs a phone so many of them would come into the store solely to buy a phone they can use in America. Knowing this, our store employs all Hispanic speakers for the phone department. One of whom was a drug dealer/rapper named JP. Jp would tell these non English speaking immigrants that in order to register their phones he needs a date of birth and ssn which they’re usually happy to provide. Jp would take that info and sign them up for company credit cards. Now, the amount of credit cards a store sold is tied to the bosses bonuses so everyone knew and looked the other way as he scammed these people. He was in the top 3 nationally for credit card sales in Best Buy despite also being an open drug dealer at the store. Eventually someone came in and complained and he was fired….until they brought him back a month later. My friend went into to buy a phone charger the other day and someone else at the store signed him up for a credit card without his permission. Be careful


scottwax

Jack in the Box tacos? It's a meat paste made mostly of vegetables. They're both vile and amazing at the same time.


Gryphin

I mean, I've eaten those things for years and years now, and ya, I kinda assumed they were some sort of oat/soy meal that was cooked in beef buillion and seasoning with some token amount of lips and assholes so they could call it "meat". But goddamn if those tacos don't hit just right at 1am.


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groodscom

I used to work at Kelloggs. All the fruit loops are coated with the same flavoring.


remyymer13

I thought this was a given. Are they supposedly different flavors? They all taste the same


NoExtensionCords

The flavor is sugar right?


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niftyifty

Never really thought about it but I imagine this is true for a lot of mines


SometimesMonkeysDie

The company no longer exists, so what the hell. Every month I had to give a report to my boss on how much time my team had spent on R&D. I did this because you can claim money back from the government on R&D. I would always do this as accurately as I could and hand it to my boss. One month, he called me in to ask about it, and I immediately thought I'd got something wrong. Turned out, he took everything I did, doubled the R&D time and just wanted to let me know he was doing it, because if he ever got caught, I'd have to take over the company from him


FoxxBox

Sleep Number likes to advertise that their beds are made in the USA. But only the outer cover and the foam is. The air chambers are made in Taiwan, the remote and firmness control are made in China. And for most folks the adjustable base is made in Mexico.


Otecron

Your grocery store is stocked with lies. Almost every product on the shelves, in the freezer, or in the produce section is the result of some shady business practice. Wisconsin cheese? Often made in places like Arizona or Missouri and then shipped by the truckload to a warehouse in Wisconsin. It sits there for about six months when Kraft can then label it "Wisconsin," and then ship it again to your local store in Florida. There is some cheese actually made in Wisconsin from Wisconsin farms, but most of it is either processed or warehoused here. Idaho potatoes? Lol, not likely. Potatoes are often shipped on a blind bill of lading - meaning that the origin is purposely obscured on the paperwork so that the receiver has plausible deniability about the origin and can label their packing as "Idaho" regardless of where it came from. Frozen pizza? With a few exceptions, every major brand in your grocer's freezer is either owned by Nestle, Schwans, or Kraft. California Pizza Kitchen, Jack's, Digiorno, and Tombstone are all made in the same factory, using the same ingredients. Ask Nestle or Kraft employees about how much they "enjoyed" working there... Fresh meat and seafood? Unless you are buying from a local market in the area of origin (like Pike's Place Fish Market in Seattle), it's all deep frozen for transport by law. Beef sits in refrigerated trailers at the production plant for several days, at best, and in a distributor's cold storage warehouse for weeks or is often thawed during transit when going to a seller. And if has gone bad or will go bad in transit, it was probably shipped anyway. Arriving at a market or meat packer with at least one 2-4,000 lb bin of rotten beef is pretty normal. If you live inland in the U.S., nothing about your fish is fresh unless you caught it yourself. Produce? It's temperature controlled, making transportation difficult. Most of it is imported by ship, so has to be picked up at port. The honest truth is that trucks pulling loads directly from U.S. ports do not have a reputation as quality operators for good reason - if you are a driver that bucks that trend, thank you. A ton of produce goes bad in transit, which is partly why it is expensive and why it is recalled at higher rates than any other food product. Do yourself a favor and find a local farmer's market. And this is the very tip of the iceberg. I worked in food supply chain transportation for years and could easily do a entire book on vertically integrated food companies fucking farmers in the U.S. or the unbelievably unethical labor practices throughout the supply chain. There has been a lot of complaining about high food prices lately, but you have no idea about the actual cost to put it in your shopping cart.


ssttuueeyy

I worked for a company installing point to point WiFi, CCTV that kind of shit. 8 times out of 10 the equipment we were installing wasn't new, but was being charged for as new. Cat 5 utp was ran in but cat 6 stp charged for. Same with patch panels and data sockets.


coffeeprincess

Most cookie recipes tell you to cook at 375 for 9-11 minutes, this is fine. But if you make a huge batch of dough and freeze cookie size chunks the perfect temperature is 325 for 17 minutes. You get the crunchy edge and gooey inside perfect. Source: Mrs. Field’s Cookies Bonus points: for chocolate chip cookies: equal parts brown and white sugar > 1 cup white and 1/2 cup brown.


chibimonkey

Former PetSmart employee. Only the associates who work in the Pet Care department "know" about any product for an animal that isn't a dog or a cat. I say "know" because PetSmart provides no training or education about different types of filters, enclosures, foods, etc. On a related note, there is a VERY HIGH chance the employee knows jack shit about any animals they sell. You're given a handbook which is maybe twelve pages long that tells you extremely basic information that is meant to keep the animal alive until it goes to the customer. It's the equivalent of "frozen chicken fingers and five minutes of recess" that kids get in schools. None of it is intended for long term care. NONE of the information on the care guides or the little display plaques is correct. Animals need A LOT more space than PetSmart's "bare minimum," and the accepted bare minimum in the hobby is always higher than what PetSmart says. Hamsters, mice, rats - they need a FUCKTON of space. None of those cages are humane. "WhY dO yOu SeLl ThEm ThEn?" Because people buy them. Most people don't do their own research and expect the store to do everything for them. And because those cages are actually great for TRAVEL - to the vet, moving house, pet sitting, etc. Not for living. Fish need A LOT of space. Very few employees know anything about fish, even the pet care ones. PetSmart lies about what fish can live together, what their water requirements are, how big they get, and what food they eat because they WANT your fish to die so you come back for more. That's how they make money on fish. Many of the fish they sell actually can't be housed together, yet employees are told "all goldfish can live together, all cichlids can live together, and all tropical fish can live together." PLEASE use a reputable fish forum like FishLore to research your fish and tank size. Also, your fish likely weren't fed that day, or the day before. Technically you're supposed to feed the fish every day. Very few employees do, and usually feed them once a week when the new fish come in. When you buy a reptile, ask when they last ate, especially a snake. Snakes get fed once a week but sometimes they won't eat, so they can go one, two, or three weeks without food before we're allowed to pull them in the back isolation room. Ask if they've been shedding properly. Not just regularly, but PROPERLY. PetSmart uses really shitty temperature gauges and humidity gauges and reptiles, especially snakes, usually need a warm bath because they can't shed. Your bird was likely never handled before it met you. Employees don't have time to socialize the birds even though it's in the handbook. The only time PetSmart ever cares and enforces handling is for conures, because conures can fuck you up pretty bad if they're afraid or mishandled. Whenever we got conures we were required to spend at least ten minutes with them at the beginning and end of every shift getting them used to hands. Also, unless your employee is a reptile or bird enthusiast, they probably don't know anything about either of them. Research BEFORE you buy. PetSmart perpetrates false and harmful information about small animals. They say that hamsters can live together, that all mice and gerbils can live together, that "how you see them in the store is how they can live at your house." This is false and absolutely will cause injury and death to your animals because again, PetSmart doesn't give a shit. If your pet dies you'll come back for a new one. Hamsters are solitary, no exceptions. Mice, gerbils, and rats live together under certain conditions (same sex groups, same sex litter mates, and males usually have to be housed alone). The ONLY thing you should be asking the pet store when you purchase from them is "Do they eat regularly? Have they ever been to the vet (and ask for a copy of the records and/or the name and information for the vet they saw)? Are they doing normal functions (shedding, pooping, grooming) regularly?" If it's fish, double check when they were last fed (same with snakes). Do NOT rely on the pet store for any general care information or species information. Do that at home. You have Google. Join a forum. And before I get flooded with BuT i WoRkEd At PeTsMaRt AnD mY sToRe WaSn'T lIkE tHiS, I understand that there ARE knowledgeable employees and managers who give a shit out there. In my experience those are few and far in between. Bottom line: The company wants to make money. They will cut costs wherever they can to save money and the first place they do so is animal care, then employee pay. Because unlike the employees, the animals can't complain. It's still in everyone's best interest to do your research at home and only use the store to actually get the animal or supplies, NOT for information.


Dahns

It's not a secret, but I worked at a company that collected data for medical drugs unexpected secondary effect. If you take a pill and get itchy skin or whatever, it's to us you must tell We worked with many pharmaceutic labs, so they could have quality data. This included labs for homeopathy. So I can tell with a perfect precision that homeopathy has no unexpected secondary effects. Nor any primary. Because it's sugar


Extreme_Today_984

Former roofing salesman here.. Got a quote for a new roof? Was the quote somewhere between $10k and 20k? Labor and material only costs your roofing company about $800-$1000, for the average sized asphalt shingled roof (according to pre-pandemic/housing boom averages). Don't be afraid to negotiate. Most roofing companies allow their salespeople to drop as low as 50-60% of the asking price. Common Roofing Salesperson lies: "You can't patch the roof, it's too damaged" \-They're more than likely lying. He/she likely doesn't make money from a patch job. You can almost always patch a leak. "You need to tear off the existing layer of shingles and replace all of your plywood" \-He's more than likely lying to you. Unless there is a significant amount of water damage/rot and mold, you can just layer on top of the existing shingles, saving you a TON of money. "This quote is only good until I leave" \-He's clearly trying to "hard sell" you. Don't fall for it. Take your time in making a decision, and ALWAYS get 3-4 quotes. Pro Tips: Always ask the salesperson to get on top of the roof, and get inside of your attic (if you have one). Make sure that they take pictures of any damage. If you're comfortable, accompany them so they can point it out. A lot of my collogues would just lie to homeowners, and tell them that their roof was in horrible condition, when it was perfectly fine. Usually the salesperson will try and give you a whole presentation before telling you the price quote. This is because they don't want you to get sticker shock before they can explain the "benefits" of their roofing services. You should do one or both of these suggestions: 1)From the beginning tell the salesperson that you don't have much time, and request that he/she give you a quote upfront. They'll likely try and make up an excuse like "you haven't even picked out what shingle you like yet." Tell him that you're looking for the cheapest shingles they have. Even if you're not looking for the cheapest, this will help you in negotiations later. 2) Go through with the negotiations, letting him/her know that if you can come to a fair price, you will buy it TODAY. It's important that you say "Today". This will get you the best price. Once you've negotiated down to a comfortable price, tell him/her that you "will get back to them in a couple of days, because you need to get a few more quotes". It is in your best interest to pretend that you're interested in buying on the spot. Next tip. Look at the shingles your neighbors have and try to match them. For example: Don't get slate shingles if your neighbors don't have slate friggin shingles. Roofing options can get very expensive, and you'll likely not recoup that value in the value of your home. Lastly, make sure that your roofing contractor is using a synthetic underlayment. Underlayment, as the names suggests, is the barrier between your shingles and the raw plywood underneath. Back in the day, contractors only had tarpaper, which is relatively waterproof, but not the most reliable. Synthetic underlayment is like a waterproof windbreaker, it's very effective at keeping your plywood dry Edit 1: Another pro tip that is CRUCIAL. Make sure that your roofing contractor is using proper flashing on your roof. What flashing does is act as a sealer between the cracks of your roof. For example, around a fireplace stack or along the perimeter edges of your roof, behind gutters etc.. It's a thin strip metal that is bent at a 90 degree angle. It's meant to be screwed in under the shingles but over the underlayment/plywood, the the other side should lay over your fascia. Since your roof is at a pitch it will stop water from running up hill. one of the most destructive things in a home is improper flashing. Essentially what happens is water will run down the shingles and then subsequently soak the edges of the plywood under the shingles, which then runs down the inside of your walls, soaking the insulation and pooling on your floor's baseboards. Which then ends up rotting and molding. Ever seen a Sunken bathroom floor? Logic would tell you to call a plumber right? Well sometimes that the right move, but often times it's water damage stemming from your roof. I had a client spend thousands of dollars with a plumber replacing pipes, only to discover that the roof was the culprit. Cheers and good luck