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[Pein]

car dealers are usually crooks, not like its expected but I know first hand that a lexus dealer slapped a huge mobil 1 sticker on some nameless off brand tank of oil. So when you get a oil change and you think you're getting premium oil you're not.

The owner who did this owns a fuck ton of dealerships in ny.

 

[oatmeal]

No chance to do that in my job; the office is full of people at all hours. I'd feel weird doing that anyway, but when I briefly had work experience repairing PCs, we'd actively seek out people's porn collections out of curiosity. Some of the methods people used trying to hide it were quite amusing. For example, people hiding it deep within a random system directory.

One that I'll never forget was actually a 4-5GB 'Word document' called something like "Annual report.doc" in 'My Documents'; initially trying to open it as a video failed (I'd assume they'd changed it from '.avi' or another video extension to '.doc') , but I tried changing it to '.zip' and I was in. An archive full of videos and images. Pretty clever, but the file size made it obvious. Would've been better changing it to something '.dat' and putting it in a random software folder..

You gotta post a sign saying something like "Note to employees, no more looking at porn."

Since everyone is doing it, it will freak out everyone, but no one will say anything because they'll think they're the only one.

 

[Foffy]

Man, all of this stuff sounds so bad that I want to get away from every living thing. Surely these types of awful disgusting, heinous practices in all these types of industries aren't the only game in town, right?

 

[The Albatross]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

 

[Whitechocolatekrispies]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

That's a good one.

Does that explain why it always gives off a kind of acrid smoke?

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

Welp, you just mind-fucked me.

 

[enzo_gt]

Man I sure wish doctors could bill for phone time.

They should start taking calls while off-work and while taking other patients then.

 

[The Albatross]

That's a good one.

Does that explain why it always gives off a kind of acrid smoke?

That's exactly why. It was a concoction of cooking oil that would flash at a relatively low temperature, and then some spice. Depending on how old the oil was, it could smell weird. But a lot of people also like that smell.

It was squirted out of one of these bottles right into the pan before bringing it out:

 

[SloaneRisette]

That's exactly why. It was a concoction of cooking oil that would flash at a relatively low temperature, and then some spice. Depending on how old the oil was, it could smell weird. But a lot of people also like that smell.

It was squirted out of one of these bottles right into the pan before bringing it out:

Holy shit

Now these are the REAL deep dark secrets.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

I always knew that was a fucking gimmick

 

[Deleted member 13876]

They should start taking calls while off-work and while taking other patients then.

My doctor does that all the time.

 

[Johnlenham]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

Not entirely true..

That may be the case in America but ive worked in the kitchen as a sues chef in a Mexican restaurant and the sizzling is because the skillet is red hot.

The layer of onion and peppers is what stops the chicken fusing with the red hot metal..
The sizzling/steam is from the cooking sauce and juices in the pan the chicken has come from.

 

[johnny_park]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

Those skillets are super hot and it does sizzle when you first put it on. The "sizzle sauce" makes it look better for the customers.

 

[Karakand]

People are horrible. My question is where the hell are all the whistle-blowers? Are people that spineless? You can bet your ass that if I was privy to this kind of shit I'd spend plenty of time gathering evidence before turning it over anonymously to the press and/or FBI.

This happened to me in the last year, so allow me to give you some insight.

1. No one would have believed me. It was impossible for me to collect written evidence, and all I had was quasi-hearsay from a privileged relationship.

2. If someone did believe me, I am human shit and very easy to destroy in the court of public opinion. My family would have been dragged through the mud, my career would be gone, and as a result of that my family would have had significant financial exposure.

So in summary, be a saint and don't have anyone you care about depending on you if you ever want to entertain the idea of telling the public the truth about something they need to know.

For the record, I would not dispute the spineless label.

 

[jamesinclair]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

Mother of God....

 

[Hot Coldman]

For the record, I would not dispute the spineless label.

Eh, don't worry about it. No-one's automatically a bad person for not exposing everyone else's shit. Just keep your own hands clean, that's priority number one really.

 

[Lonewolf_92]

"Bane was right"

As for clothes, you could always shop at a Salvation Army. I don't know if SA or other thrift stores have their own demons, but at least you aren't giving money straight to these other corps.

Any place but SA: Salvation Army Major: Homosexuals Should Be Put to Death

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

I heard "Sizzle Sauce" is just oil and lime juice.

 

[Karakand]

Eh, don't worry about it. No-one's automatically a bad person for not exposing everyone else's shit. Just keep your own hands clean, that's priority number one really.

Thank you for the kind words, but I'm not sure one can keep their hands clean and keep this shit to themselves, at least not in situations the scale of which I was talking about.

 

[hey_monkey]

I work at a personal injury law firm.

I can't go into details because I'm on my phone, but we break a ton of ethical standards and often even laws, and every time I raise an objection I'm told that I don't have a legal license to lose if we get busted, so I don't have standing to complain.

YES. I worked for one several years ago as a secretary and among the first things they taught me? How to realistically forge any signature on a form.

 

[kirby_fox]

Oh my time at a grocery store has given me a ton of details.

- All of the items in the bakery come in pre-made and/or frozen. Muffins and bread are not cooked daily but thawed nightly and the bread is put in ovens in the early morning to "bake" them. The only things we actually sort of made there were cookies (aka that easy bake stuff people buy) and donuts (frozen and baked and decorated in the bakery).

- We lose money on produce a lot when we put them on sale. This is to entice people to come in to buy those few things and hopefully buy other things not reduced here. Otherwise, the price you see is usually marginally profitable due to the amount of waste.

- Some of the hot food sits there for hours upon hours. If you get a good employee, ask if they can make it fresh.

- My store was actually really clean and safe. If milk was found out of the case, it would never go back in and food items could not be restocked if taken out of the store. I do know however that this isn't always the case, because I have found items with huge stickers on them that say to not re-sell due to a new kid not knowing what to do.

- If I tell you we're out of something, most the time we are. Don't insist to check the back, stock is kept low in order to not cause waste. I would many times go to the back, stand there and then come tell you again we're out of the item. Also, if you come later in the day wanting one specific item on sale and we're out of it- don't be a dick and insist it was all just a joke to get you in. Our supplier does cut us short a ton of times on items that are on sale in order to send more to bigger stores in the area.

- We work in sections of the store. Just because I may be back in pets to go pee doesn't mean I have an idea of what dog food you're talking about.

I think that about does it.

 

[Plinko]

Sorry to disappoint you all.

You know when you're at Chili's or TGI Fridays (or anywhere) and you order the Fajitas and they come out to your table SIZZLING with steam and shit?

That's from something called "sizzle sauce," which was an oil squirted into the hot plate before bringing it out... It's not caused by the plate or the meat or anything else being extra ordinarily hot.

Occasionally you'd bring out a meal where the sizzle had worn off, and somebody at the table might react, so you'd tell them you'd go heat it up... WHich usually meant just going to the back and squirting a squirt of oil onto the dish to sizzle again.

I think most people who worked in restaurants know this, but a lot still don't.

Not true in any experience I've had. That skillet and food has been SUPER hot to the touch. The sizzle is a good effect, though.

Oh my time at a grocery store has given me a ton of details.

- All of the items in the bakery come in pre-made and/or frozen. Muffins and bread are not cooked daily but thawed nightly and the bread is put in ovens in the early morning to "bake" them. The only things we actually sort of made there were cookies (aka that easy bake stuff people buy) and donuts (frozen and baked and decorated in the bakery).

My friend's Mom worked in the bakery section of our local grocery store. Every last thing they made was from scratch. They were there at 3 in the morning.

That said, I can believe it for other places.

 

[Arment]

When I worked at McDonalds I was appalled how many times people forgot to put on the special blue gloves over their normal food handling gloves when touching raw chicken and beef.

My store was a very nice store and well run if I say so myself. But no one is watching you for that most of the time. I can't imagine how it would be at a store where hardly anyone gave a shit.

 

[HiResDes]

I work at St. Vincent Depaul thrift store, and although the company is declared as a nonprofit the I believe there are more than a few shady things I can confirm about the company that would lead me to believe that they are making much more than they are reporting and that they are using the non-profit status merely to avoid paying income taxes.​

First of all I will say that St. Vincent DePaul helps a great number of people and even some they aren't in need. They accept vouchers sometimes with values up to say $200 for furniture or $100 for clothing that allows customers to come and get free items within their limits. However, considering that the voucher limits for individual furniture pieces, the items they get for free are usually the items the stores are trying to get rid of in the first place.​

As one of their most versatile workers, I've witnessed quite a few aspects of production within the company that have made me shake my head. The St. Vincent Depaul in Cincinnati has a bunch of stores, but one main store that serves as the hub for all of the donations. At that store they have three separate buildings, one is the store, the other is storage, and and the last is there simply for processing. The processing plant is very much like a modern take on a sweatshop. It is mostly run by immigrants, many of them are indeed illegal immigrants, who are not only underpaid but are tasked with arguably the hardest positions in the company. They process clothes and brick (everything else) there from humongous steal cages, stacked on top of each 3 at a time, and there are hundreds of and hundreds of these cages altogether down just filled with shit that people don't want but are too proud to throw away. Now the conditions there are incredibly unsafe and poor, but the worst part about it all that the unwanted clothing items, I'm talking thousands and thousands of metric tons worth are shipped out to Mexico through some sort of black market at 27-cents a pound. The profits they receive from this endeavor go largely unaccounted for.​

They also have ebay accounts and hold auctions at various locations for many of the nicer things that get donated. I've had the opportunity to clean out a mansion and the items we received were taken to the "frat house". So when people ask me if I ever come across stuff worth thousands of dollars, my answer is yes, but most of that stuff isn't going to find it's way to the shelf. I no I don't get first pick at anything. We're not supposed to shop on the days we work or hold anything in the back, but everyone around me does it anyway or they send the good shit in to be put on Ebay.​

Bed Bugs in Ohio are also extremely bad, and the company's policy for dealing with them is shaky at best. I'm tasked with spraying down virtually an entire store without any sort of proper mask or protection. I also have to handle bed-bug ridden furniture that gets dumped on us if it's too close to the store. Eventually one of our trucks will come pick up the stuff and dispose of it, but the overall risk-reward in terms of pay at the company is completely atrocious.​

The separation of wealth between the people in the stores and the office executives is quite appalling. I'm an assistant manger that moves furniture, stocks shelves, makes prices, takes out the trash, cleans the floor, answers the donation door, and runs the register and I make less than every assistant manager at McDonalds. Often I run a whole store with merely a cashier to assist me. We have trucks drivers cleaning out houses, and carrying sleeper sofa's up multiple floors who have to work 70-hour work weeks just to pay the bills. I'm twenty-five years old and my back hurts from carrying 40" T.V.'s, oak hutches, and armoires all day. We've went through three different outsourced HR companies in the past five or six years because of how shady things are run.​

One of my former cashiers had been there for four-years and they kept putting off the periods where she was supposed to be up for a performance review (to get a raise) and eventually they cut her hours so bad that she was forced to quit and got evicted out of her apartment. The two new cashiers they've hired are horrible high-school students who they'll be able to keep cycling through without having to pay them for their experience or have them long enough to desire raises.​

 

[Gobias]

QUESTION for the fast food workers.


How much time did you guys spend cleaning? I been a cook for long enough to realize that we are basically janitors who get to make food sometimes. I wonder if that is the same with fast food work. I've actually always kind of wanted to get a job at a fast food place just to see how they operate.

Are you guys taking the mats out back, mopping the floors, wiping down every counter and you coolers each night?

I work at a small chain pizza place and yes, we do all of that.

 

[Akibastman]

This thread may be full of secrets or a big pile of bullshit, it's reaaaaaaaally entertaining.

 

[Sub_Level]

Not entirely true..

That may be the case in America but ive worked in the kitchen as a sues chef in a Mexican restaurant and the sizzling is because the skillet is red hot.

The layer of onion and peppers is what stops the chicken fusing with the red hot metal..
The sizzling/steam is from the cooking sauce and juices in the pan the chicken has come from.

Same thing at Carino's. The sizzling skillets are actually really hot. Some of the pasta even sticks to the pan. Open kitchen.

 

[Calamari41]

This thread and the Reddit thread have taught me that every product I buy is completely fake, every food item I buy is rotten or frozen or completely fake, and every actor/actress/musician I love is being raped as I write this post.

 

[RDreamer]

- Some of the hot food sits there for hours upon hours. If you get a good employee, ask if they can make it fresh.

Please don't do this. Chances are you're just being paranoid. If you're not, just get something else. We really don't want to go piss off the chefs and throw off the whole schedule just because of you.

- If I tell you we're out of something, most the time we are. Don't insist to check the back, stock is kept low in order to not cause waste. I would many times go to the back, stand there and then come tell you again we're out of the item.

Lol, I did this so many times. I worked in a deli for a while and would see a lot of other people doing it, too. Just walk back to the cooler, stand there for a few seconds, then go back. "Nope, we're out." Such a waste of time.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

Alright, come to think of it I have an example of my own. It's not super evil, but it still struck me as dirty. A multimedia/book store was doing a huge promotion action featuring a lottery for people outside their store in a crowded shopping street. I think everyone got one free ticket and you could get more tickets by showing them your receipt and you could win a bunch of prizes.

About 1 in 5 tickets or more was a prize that entitled you a 20 euro discount on a random ass printer. This discount was valid that day only, so a lot of people didn't want their prize to go to waste and bought this printer. One of the clerks later told me they had temporarily increased the price of that printer by 20 euros also that day so lots customers with a winning ticket were actually buying the rather unremarkable printer at the exact same price it was usually listed at. The coming week they'd put the price back the way it was, and no one was probably the wiser.

It's not the most heinous act, but it still struck me as very deceptive.

 

[Calamari41]

Alright, come to think of it I have an example of my own. It's not super evil, but it still struck me as dirty. A multimedia/book store was doing a huge promotion action featuring a lottery for people outside their store in a crowded shopping street. I think everyone got one free ticket and you could get more tickets by showing them your receipt and you could win a bunch of prizes.

About 1 in 5 tickets or more was a prize that entitled you a 20 euro discount on a random ass printer. This discount was valid that day only, so a lot of people didn't want their prize to go to waste and bought this printer. One of the clerks later told me they had temporarily increased the price of that printer by 20 euros also that day so lots customers with a winning ticket were actually buying the rather unremarkable printer at the exact same price it was usually listed at. The coming week they'd put the price back the way it was, and no one was probably the wiser.

It's not the most heinous act, but it still struck me as very deceptive.

This reminds me of how almost every store here in the US is always having a sale. If you've never noticed it before, start paying attention and you'll see it. One of my accounting professors put it best: "20% off.. 20% off of what?"

 

[WARCOCK]

yes, it's catering to all those people who already believe wall street ppl are assholes. the funny thing about most of these is that they aren't "deep dark secrets" at all, but things that everyone believes are true but can't exactly prove

The 2008 crash, the events that led to it are enough proof to validate the truthfulness of the described nature of those personalities.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

This reminds me of how almost every store here in the US is always having a sale. If you've never noticed it before, start paying attention and you'll see it. One of my accounting professors put it best: "20% off.. 20% off of what?"

True, but the extra effort of making people think they've won this great prize was extra skeezy. It targets another weakness of human psychology. There is a perceived unique opportunity attached to the feel good aspect of winning something with a quick expiration date, thereby playing the fear of missing out card. Over here there are or were laws governing when stores can have sales. We have two months a year, January and July in which clothes are heavily discounted. I think the EU actually has started abolishing the law that punished stores for having these sales earlier than competing ones, but it's still somewhat of a thing.

 

[Papercuts]

Alright, come to think of it I have an example of my own. It's not super evil, but it still struck me as dirty. A multimedia/book store was doing a huge promotion action featuring a lottery for people outside their store in a crowded shopping street. I think everyone got one free ticket and you could get more tickets by showing them your receipt and you could win a bunch of prizes.

About 1 in 5 tickets or more was a prize that entitled you a 20 euro discount on a random ass printer. This discount was valid that day only, so a lot of people didn't want their prize to go to waste and bought this printer. One of the clerks later told me they had temporarily increased the price of that printer by 20 euros also that day so lots customers with a winning ticket were actually buying the rather unremarkable printer at the exact same price it was usually listed at. The coming week they'd put the price back the way it was, and no one was probably the wiser.

It's not the most heinous act, but it still struck me as very deceptive.

Haha, that's hilarious.

The grocery store I work at isn't too bad, but I notice stuff like that as well. Something with a big yellow SALE sign, 2 for $5! Then next week I check and see it's not on sale and it's $2.50 each. Some sale that was.

Oh, I will also vouch for the bakery thing above. 99% of the stuff they get is frozen, not made fresh.

 

[HiiiLife]

Nuke this thread.

 

[paskowitz]

Should not be surprising, but google Northwestern Mutual internship. I found out first hand to always google your employer's employment program.

For NWM it is not like a couple negative comments from some disgruntled employees/interns, its pages upon pages. I was asked as part of my interview process to basically sell insurance to my family, friends and relatives. Then when I told the interviewer that crossed a moral line I would not step over and I was, lets put it lightly, yelled at. God know what happens if you are actually an employee there.

 

[akira28]

Should not be surprising, but google Northwestern Mutual internship. I found out first hand to always google your employer's employment program.

For NWM it is not like a couple negative comments from some disgruntled employees/interns, its pages upon pages. I was asked as part of my interview process to basically sell insurance to my family, friends and relatives. Then when I told the interviewer that crossed a moral line I would not step over and I was, lets put it lightly, yelled at. God know what happens if you are actually an employee there.

I would have flipped their desk and strolled out. Bitch I look like Goku. Don't be screaming on me...


edit: but in reality, I just made myself scarce. I shouldn't have to verbally defend myself from desperate and crazy, and certainly not multilevel management or cannibalism sales.

 

[Vice]

"Bane was right"

As for clothes, you could always shop at a Salvation Army. I don't know if SA or other thrift stores have their own demons, but at least you aren't giving money straight to these other corps.

IIRC, Goodwill exploits the mentally and physically disabled.

 

[Plinko]

I'm not surprised about the great cleanliness of fast food restaurants. We were cleaning everything all the time at the Burger King I worked at when I was a teenager. If we weren't making food, we needed to be cleaning.

 

[StoOgE]

That description of the financial industry doesn't make any sense.

Why would a software developer have that much access to the trade floor? Makes zero sense. 99.9% of that software is outsourced OMS systems purchased by the floor. Also, he is describing money managers, not traders. All very odd.

 

[Mully]

I've worked at a nursery for nearly eight years and I have learned a few dark secrets about the landscaping industry while dealing directly with owners of local landscaping companies.

- The owners of the largest landscaping firms (mowing lawns) don't know a thing about lawn or tree care. Most of the time they're going to recommend and use Scott's fertilizer and seed because it's more expensive than most brands. They can charge you $60 a 5000sq ft bag which has a formula and spreading period that's ineffective for most lawns today. This is one of the few things they know, and they can blame the weather when your lawn turns to shit because most people don't know shit about lawn care.

- The really green lawns you see your neighbors proudly display all summer long are not healthy. No matter what they tell you, they're just pumping their lawn with Nitrogenous fertilizer that makes the grass look the perfect green, but also stunts the lawn's root growth. By the time the first frost hits in the fall, their lawn will look like shit.

- Many landscapers will try to sell you on a sprinkler system. Don't buy into it. Most landscapers have good relations with sprinkler system companies. When they successfully refer people to sprinkler system installers they get a massive kickback. You don't need a sprinkler system if you have an average sized house. Daily sprinkling for a lawn and garden cause fungus and a higher landscaping bill because landscapers will have to put down a fungicide. It's better to water 2-3 times a week than to water everyday.

- Most nurseries don't have qualified people giving you advice. I was lucky enough to be trained by an arborist and horticulturalist for the past five years. The three years before that I knew shit and probably gave a lot of poor advice.

 

[Osiris]

Here's one for you:

Worked at a large (possibly the largest in the world) IT hardware / services company, was working on a Y2K compliance project - one of the most difficult as the client was a major bank, and upgrading / replacing some systems was going to be a bitch due to one major fact, outlined below.

At certain "key" locations the bank could not afford to lose connectivity / network services for any period greater than a couple of hours due to the volume of transactions going through these locations, when I say "couldn't afford" I mean we we're told, in explicit detail, that the knock-on effects of a service loss of greater than 4 hours would be terminal for both the bank and the British economy.

The work required was fairly simple, in theory, bring down the server at a pre-arranged time, upgrade the OS, check the servers were OK on the hardware front and if all looked bad, use the mirrored, supplied-in-advance new spare server as a back-up plan but do everything in your power to fit this into the 4 hour window we had been given.

Some of these servers had been running 24/7 for years, so you can guess that some suffered critical failure just by rebooting, and a lot of the spare new servers got used in their place.

Nobody, in the whole multi-million pound, economy-critical project had planned what to do if the old servers died / were faulty and the supplied spares were Dead on Arrivals as well, one regional project manager who got a call from the onsite engineer that both servers were dead actually cried on the phone and effectively shut down in panicked fear. (I know, because I was the engineer that made the call)

Multiple times this happened and the British economy has some very resourceful, absolutely panicked contracted, cheap 3rd party field service engineers to thank as they did everything in their power to make sure that a server was back up at the end of the window regardless. (Not easy, these were, don't laugh, OS/2 set-ups with specific cryptographic hardware used by banks, not something you could get drivers for and knock up a server with easily.)

Both the Bank and the IT services company asked us politely that we not share just how close to collapse the bank and the British economy as a whole had come.

However they we're in such a rush at the outset of the project, that they never actually had us sign an NDA about it.

 

[kirby_fox]

Please don't do this. Chances are you're just being paranoid. If you're not, just get something else. We really don't want to go piss off the chefs and throw off the whole schedule just because of you.
.

Chefs? I'm talking about the hot food sold at the deli counter like chicken. Having actually ate some of that food, I KNOW it was there for hours. It was awful and you could honestly tell by just looking at it.

The food dries out super fast. But that may just be my store, they didn't use water for the steamers...

 

[Featheredkitten]

The modus operandi of successful pedophiles in high places is to ingratiate themselves in a particular community by cultivating a sterling, selfless reputation, so that people will essentially overlook their "misdeeds," that is, raping children, in favor of their invaluable contributions to society. See: professors at Horace Mann, Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky, the rapist profiled in this article in Harper's Magazine (you only get a snippet, unless you're a subscriber, but the important bit's upfront), and of course the dozens or hundreds of Catholic priests tacitly protected by the church over the years.

I had to read the rest of that article, the snippet ended so shockingly I couldn't leave it there. For the interested:
http://www.livingwell.org.au/from-men/memoir-confronting-the-trauma-of-sexual-abuse/
Prepare to squint.

It's interesting how his step dad and his aunt defended the good work his abuser was doing. Reminds me of similar cases that broke. I'm sure we all know which ones I'm referring to.

 

[Autumn Wind]

Glad I never bought anything from American Apparel. I will stick with All American Clothing, All USA Clothing, and Goodwear.

 

[mr stroke]

When I was a teenager I worked at Del Taco and nobody ever washed their hands. Management didn't care either LOL.

I would take a shit then make tacos for hours.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

When I was a teenager I worked at Del Taco and nobody ever washed their hands. Management didn't care either LOL.

I would take a shit then make tacos for hours.

woooooooow

 

[jtb]

The modus operandi of successful pedophiles in high places is to ingratiate themselves in a particular community by cultivating a sterling, selfless reputation, so that people will essentially overlook their "misdeeds," that is, raping children, in favor of their invaluable contributions to society. See: professors at Horace Mann, Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky, the rapist profiled in this article in Harper's Magazine (you only get a snippet, unless you're a subscriber, but the important bit's upfront), and of course the dozens or hundreds of Catholic priests tacitly protected by the church over the years.

Monsters are monsters, but it sickens me to my core to think that the excuses of the people who sat silently by and turned their heads can so often come down to something so utterly worthless - compared to the wellbeing and dignity of other human beings - as skill at coaching basketball.

So whether true or not, and as enraging as the idea is, I don't find it particularly difficult to buy the accusations of pedophilia aimed at Schneider etc., nor the idea that others would go to great lengths for many years to cover up for them.

I agree. The New Yorker piece on that Horace Mann instructor in particular was revelatory, for me.

 

[linkboy]

I'm in the military, telling any deep dark secrets (not that I even know any) would cause me to disappear from the face of the planet, never to be heard from again (and I like being heard from).

 

[RDreamer]

Chefs? I'm talking about the hot food sold at the deli counter like chicken. Having actually ate some of that food, I KNOW it was there for hours. It was awful and you could honestly tell by just looking at it.

The food dries out super fast. But that may just be my store, they didn't use water for the steamers...

I know that's what you're talking about. In my store we did have chefs. My wife worked in some other grocery store chains, and they still had people who cooked and did the salads and prep work, too. Anyway, my problem with telling people to do this was that I got people asking us to do it literally 15 minutes after we put the stuff out there. It would fuck up the chef's scheduling as far as making stuff, and then we'd sometimes be wasting food just because you think the shit's too old. If it doesn't look good to you just get something else.

There's also a reason that shit has sat there for hours if indeed it has. At my store most things only sat in there for a little while, and I know they were perfectly fine tasting (unless you came at the very very end of the night, then things sometimes did get stretched by a half hour or something). Anyway, at my wife's other store when she worked there the reason things sat there was because literally they didn't have the staff to put down more stuff. Deli clerks are typically understaffed as shit and underpaid as hell. That's why, if ever, that stuff sits there. Honestly, just get something else if it doesn't look good to you.

I mean, sure if you really have to have that thing then ask nicely, but do know that you could also be bumping that employee back and making them work a half hour or something later than they normally would (especially if it's late). For God's sake don't order fried chicken or something like an hour or so before close in most places...

And it could be partially your store, too. We kept the water pretty full at ours.