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[wanders]

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.

lol Holy shit

 

[SneakyStephan]

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.

Were you raised by forest trolls? Who doesn't wash their hands after going to the toilet...

 

[Laughing Banana]

Eh, I work in the hospitality industry so stuff like Hotels mocking up the prices for their food and especially drinks. I mean, 500% markup or even more is the custom here.

But that's not really a secret.

Housekeeping gets the best stories though, from finding condoms filled with semen all over the place, finding BDSM stuff left behind by guests (WTF), people not flushing their gigantic turd, etc etc etc.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

STUFF

WHAT?!

Oh and thanks for saving the economy, but WHAT.

finding BDSM stuff left behind by guests (WTF)

That's just part of the Towel Exchange Program.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Housekeeping gets the best stories though, from finding condoms filled with semen all over the place, finding BDSM stuff left behind by guests (WTF), people not flushing their gigantic turd, etc etc etc.

Yeah, a friend of mine worked for a really classy B&B over the summer a number of years ago and she said people just left condoms and shit (literal shit) everywhere and it was totally disgusting. Like, globs of semen on the sink etc.

 

[Magik]

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

Pretty much the standard nowadays. Tim Hortons in Canada has been transitioning to frozen/half-baked goods for some time and the majority of the grocery chains are doing it as well. Very easy way of keeping costs down as much as possible while still maintaining a good margin.

The stuff that goes on at grocery stores can be ridiculous at times especially the stores that are fighting tool and nail for every sale possible just to either minimize their losses or make budget.

I remember one grocery store I worked at would "re-pack" eggs and what I mean by re-pack was when eggs are broken, the ones that weren't damaged would be salvaged and put into either new containers or existing cartons. It would be entirely possible to have a dozen eggs that all had different expiry dates at one point.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

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.

insane

 

[Deleted member 80556]

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.

Holy fuck, this is amazing.

 

[Avon Barksdale]

I only worked at McDonald's for a month, but I saw zero gross food things or people doing anything to orders. The worst I saw was staff stealing food while managers weren't looking.

As a former McDonald's employee, I'm guilty of this.

 

[catmincer]

Not really a secret, i'm sure this is probably easy to verify but "Premium" pet food is generally identical to cheap crap. (You can check the ingredients).

Also Iams use rather horrible methods of testing their products on cats and dogs. It involves needles directly in the bladder and bowel to obtain samples, often multiple times on a daily basis. I know that anything with a Waltham label on it doesn't go through these processes. All samples are obtained through the natural businesses animals do. So yeah, I never buy anything from Iams. Because fuck that shit.

 

[legend166]

People shouldn't be surprised about Hollywood. Look how many of them were willing to stand up and defend a child rapist in Polanski.

 

[gryz]

I have one.


Wendy's- The meat in your cup of chili? It was the hamburger patties from yesterday. You see, whenever hamburgers are made, they have "7 minutes" until we were no longer able to use it for your next burger. So they were put into a tray, and when that tray was full, it would go into a bag into the freezer. Brought out early the next day to be diced into your chili meat.

is this supposed to be gross or something I don't get it.

also the AA story is copypasta

 

[MikeDown]

Okay I have a few of my own, though they prolly won't be that suprising.

Churches often blow alot of their budget on sound/music equipment that sits around and isn't used except for prolly 50mins on Wednesday and Sunday. Shame how they aren't good stewards; spends 500 dollars on a soundboard when that money could be used to fund some sort of week long community kids camp or whathave you.

Also working in a busy school kitchen that is subsidized by a well know international mega-corp I see alot stuff that goes on behind the scenes in terms of what goes into the food, pricing, consumer practices and how poorly relations between district can be managed.


Ask me anything, I'm an open book.

 

[Sky Chief]

I work in the airline industry. If there is a small hole in the skin of an aircraft because a baggage truck hit it or something they use speed tape to fix it which basically really strong duct tape made out of aluminum. Pretty cool stuff but it kind of freaks a lot people out when they learn this.

 

[daniels]

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.

Sounds like pure horror why the fuck would no one test the spare servers

 

[lexi]

I work in the airline industry. If there is a small hole in the skin of an aircraft because a baggage truck hit it or something they use speed tape to fix it which basically really strong duct tape made out of aluminum. Pretty cool stuff but it kind of freaks a lot people out when they learn this.

Can you confirm that smartphones, electronic devices, etc, do fuck all to an aircrafts navigational system?

 

[evilromero]

Okay I have a few of my own, though they prolly won't be that suprising.

Churches often blow alot of their budget on sound/music equipment that sits around and isn't used except for prolly 50mins on Wednesday and Sunday. Shame how they aren't good stewards; spends 500 dollars on a soundboard when that money could be used to fund some sort of week long community kids camp or whathave you.

Also working in a busy school kitchen that is subsidized by a well know international mega-corp I see alot stuff that goes on behind the scenes in terms of what goes into the food, pricing, consumer practices and how poorly relations between district can be managed.


Ask me anything, I'm an open book.

$500 on a mixing console is nothing. Plus music equipment is a one-time buy.

 

[Vermillion]

McDonald's

I know of some people who would have the drunk chicks who came by flash their tits for free food.

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).

I wonder how many people were "killed in action" because they knew too much.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Here is one about pizza delivery guys, a really fun job which I did for a year last year for a local pizza chain in that's pretty huge, it's not the darkest secret just something i though was kind of funny hell it's probably rather obvious. Delivery drivers are not trained at all.

You might be thinking oh but there must be something you guys are taught or explained like etiquette or anything right? Fuckin nope. That scene in spider-man 2 is literally the job. It's a 1:1 representation of the job. Well except for all the spider man stuff.

Besides 15 minutes for learning how to fold boxes and that's it. Our job is literally built like GTA side missions. We show up there are a bunch of orders queued up. We pick as many as we can do in a route. Load up the car, and go.

In fact we had a map in our "terminal room" where all the common orders were listed, who tipped the best, who ordered the most, shittiest tippers and speed traps / traffic cam locations. Learning that map in your down time was the only thing that could be considered training.

 

[CornBurrito]

Texting service actually requires NO extra infrastructure on your phone or on the network. The size of the text message is limited by the amount of carrier signal that your phone sends out normally every few seconds to notify the tower where it is, what time it is, etc. so that the network can keep your call live.

That you pay extra money for texting is pure profit for the phone company. They have never added any bandwidth for texting, it's always been there as the normal maintenance of the network.

This is a secret? I thought it was well known?

 

[MisterFalcon]

This is a secret? I thought it was well known?

It's also bullshit. To be able to use the signaling channel on the network that is indeed there by default to send messages from phones to other phones you need a lot of expensive equipment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service_center

If you also wants something that does not explode every New Year or at major world events when millions of people send messages all at once you've got millions in investments.

 

[Ether_Snake]

It's also bullshit. To be able to use the signaling channel on the network that is indeed there by default to send messages from phones to other phones you need a lot of expensive equipment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service_center

If you also wants something that does not explode every New Year or at major world events when millions of people send messages all at once you've got millions in investments.

Why not just use the same channel as for a call? A text is a blurb compared to talking.

 

[CorvoSol]

Kinda wish there was just one spot where I could hunker down and read all the Dan Schneider conspiracy theories in one go. Stuff's fascinating.

 

[enzo_gt]

My doctor does that all the time.

Belgium, right? Canadian healthcare ain't got shit on European healthcare. ;(

My doctor definitely won't take calls while he's in with someone. Maybe between patients, doesn't usually have anything urgent to do then.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

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.

We just used lemon in my old restaurant. I don't see the problem, long as the food is warm. surely people don't want the meat to be ACTUALLY sizzling right? That would end up causing burns.

 

[thxxht]

talking about practices in my country, might not be applicable.

Restaurant business:

The soup of the day dishes are mostly leftover materials or ingredients.

Construction business:

the backfill of a foundation are made mostly out of rubbish produced at the site. Because disposing the rubbish the correct way would be too costly, so most contractors just dump them into the hole where they laid the foundation.

It's also bullshit. To be able to use the signaling channel on the network that is indeed there by default to send messages from phones to other phones you need a lot of expensive equipment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_m...service_center

If you also wants something that does not explode every New Year or at major world events when millions of people send messages all at once you've got millions in investments.

those infra are from the days of GSM, which is pretty old, they practically made back all their investments. And service providers always oversubscribe their bandwidth, they will always go for coverage before optimization, and they surely aren't gonna spend too much on a once a year event, the rest of the year all that equipment is pretty much a waste.

 

[Lonewolf_92]

Schneiders ability to get his foot fetish through in pretty much every episode of tv he does is impressive.

"Everyone can see my pusssy"
"That was amazing. That's one of the better things i've ever heard"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSFuDzh2-g

She sounds soooooo high.

 

[MisterFalcon]

Why not just use the same channel as for a call? A text is a blurb compared to talking.

The design of the mobile phone systems from the late 1980's were made for speech only. Some guys figured out you could do messages over the signalling channel with the 160 character limit but that still required extra infrastructure built to make customers able to use that channel to send messages.

It's pretty irrelevant now, SMS is going extinct as Internet based messaging systems take over but it gives people who want to rage against the telcos an incorrect but neat story on how they make money for free.

those infra are from the days of GSM, which is pretty old, they practically made back all their investments. And service providers always oversubscribe their bandwidth, they will always go for coverage before optimization, and they surely aren't gonna spend too much on a once a year event, the rest of the year all that equipment is pretty much a waste.

No operator wants to be the one from have their systems crash for American Idol finals voting.

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

Okay I have a few of my own, though they prolly won't be that suprising.

Churches often blow alot of their budget on sound/music equipment that sits around and isn't used except for prolly 50mins on Wednesday and Sunday. Shame how they aren't good stewards; spends 500 dollars on a soundboard when that money could be used to fund some sort of week long community kids camp or whathave you.

Also working in a busy school kitchen that is subsidized by a well know international mega-corp I see alot stuff that goes on behind the scenes in terms of what goes into the food, pricing, consumer practices and how poorly relations between district can be managed.


Ask me anything, I'm an open book.

Ehhh..I work in the video and sound booth of my church every week, and I don't think $500 is a lot for a soundboard that's going to be used about 216 hours a year, Thursday music practices not included. We can afford that and a few family/kid outings and events a year.

 

[hey_monkey]

Probably common knowledge, but: I waitressed for a few years and at every restaurant I worked, staff drank and/or was high on various substances the whole time. We'd smoke cigs or weed and not wash our hands. Cooks in the kitchen smoking at places where they could get away with it. We drank during most shifts. The managers would make us shots on crazy nights at one place.

But our soups of the day were usually planned and fresh.

 

[Jamie OD]

I work in the airline industry. If there is a small hole in the skin of an aircraft because a baggage truck hit it or something they use speed tape to fix it which basically really strong duct tape made out of aluminum. Pretty cool stuff but it kind of freaks a lot people out when they learn this.

After seeing what duct tape can do on Mythbusters, I wouldn't be worried if I found out the plane I'm on had that stuff covering a hole on the outside.

 

[Johnlenham]

Oh yeah having worked in a big supermarket bakery in the Uk Id dispute some of the the claims made.

All the loaf bread is made fresh and so are the soft/crusty rolls,tiger bread, jam donuts and french bread.
BUT
Any specialty bread and pretty much anything out of the sweet counter is from frozen.

Also 9 times out of 10, the reason I couldnt make your photo icing birthdaycake is because we were out of Icing paper but its 100000% easier to just stick a "Machines broken" sign on the monior that customers see than having to explain we are out of icing over and over and over again.

 

[narcosis219]

Sometimes I feel like everything would be better had I not been born with the ability to give a single fuck about another human being. Then I'd be one of those assholes in these stories living it up and giving negative 99 billion fucks about who I'm exploiting.

 

[Symphonia]

I once worked in a [fairly well] known chain of supermarkets in the UK. I was often positioned on the deli counter. It was part of my job to train new people. One thing I was instructed to teach was no matter how much the customer asks for of a certain meat, just give them what you think is right. And it doesn't matter if the slicing machine is dirty, it will do. You think you purchased some honey-roast ham? You did, but you probably have traces of turkey and other shit there, too.

 

[Nexus Zero]

All the loaf bread is made fresh and so are the soft/crusty rolls,tiger bread, jam donuts and french bread.

I used to work in a Sainburys and all that stuff is part-baked when they get it at the store. But that's just at one location. Different sized stores have different methods, the bigger ones make the dough fresh.

 

[zugzug]

I'm fairly sure if someone wanted to verify if Jamie Lynn Spears kid was from Dan Schenider I could get you DNA samples of both people no problem.

I'm fairly sure we could take said DNA samples and drive to I dunno Winnipeg or somewhere with a DNA lab testing facility, or college campus and do it ourselves such that we trusted the results.

Let me know if one of you rich people on this forum want it done me and one or two others can get you the samples easy.

 

[ArjanN]

Not to be a dick, but I thought this was pretty much all common knowledge.

 

[tborsje]

After seeing what duct tape can do on Mythbusters, I wouldn't be worried if I found out the plane I'm on had that stuff covering a hole on the outside.

They actually made a whole plane out of the stuff if I remember correctly. Pretty amazing.

 

[akira28]

She sounds soooooo high.

they all look soooooooooooooooooooooooooo uncomfortable.

....I want more. in 30 years an insane tell all drama will hit the sensaweb about all this shit.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Not my industry.

But when I was at a hospital to visit my dying grandmother, I saw the security guards there watch some random person's surgery instead of...y'know...securitin'.

 

[BHK3]

This thread. I feel like I know too much.

Or nothing at all. I just work in a big name department store, aside from sleazy ways of opening up credit cards my job is ordinary and boring as shit compared to all this.

 

[Johnlenham]

I used to work in a Sainburys and all that stuff is part-baked when they get it at the store. But that's just at one location. Different sized stores have different methods, the bigger ones make the dough fresh.

Oh yeah for sure, if its some tiny village one it will be part baked but all the bigger town sized and up stores its the way I described.

 

[Alx]

I used to work for the car industry about 10 years ago... I don't know if it's still valid, but at the time car manufacturers didn't even know if systems like ESP (Electronic Stability Program) had positive security impacts. It was all provided as a black box by OEM, they were not allowed to know how it worked exactly, and as far as they knew there was no study about their efficiency.
Someone once told me, "on the paper it should work, but we have no way to know if it doesn't cause more accidents than it can prevent".

 

[Boss Doggie]

Reading this is pretty interesting.

With that said, I always thought the small awards are already given that they know about who won. They'd get a letter or something about that.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

I work in IT, mostly on database-related projects. My team's current client is a national retail chain, and sometimes it's amusing to ponder how someone could misuse the access we're given. Millions of customer records with all the information you'd ever need to commit identity theft with ease. The ability to change prices on specific items at specific stores with a few clicks (slash price, purchase, revert price).

Can you confirm that smartphones, electronic devices, etc, do fuck all to an aircrafts navigational system?

If there were any real issue with these things, then security would force you to put them in checked baggage instead of carry-on.

 

[Ziltoid]

If there were any real issue with these things, then security would force you to put them in checked baggage instead of carry-on.

It's just a precautionary policy. Badly designed circuits can emit huge amounts of noise and can affect other systems, but since every piece of electronics has to pass thorough testing nowadays it's usually no problem.

 

[TomServo]

I used to work for the car industry about 10 years ago... I don't know if it's still valid, but at the time car manufacturers didn't even know if systems like ESP (Electronic Stability Program) had positive security impacts. It was all provided as a black box by OEM, they were not allowed to know how it worked exactly, and as far as they knew there was no study about their efficiency.
Someone once told me, "on the paper it should work, but we have no way to know if it doesn't cause more accidents than it can prevent".

I worked at the proving grounds for a major OEM... That's what test tracks are for. They're also for terrifying interns.

 

[TheOGB]

I used to work for an Apple Store in New York, then one in New England. We help people launder drug money into iPhones. It happens all day, all the time. Thugs come in with tens or sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash or VISA gift cards. Technically we were supposed to report any cash payment of 10,000 dollars or more to the IRS, but managers always arrange it so each transaction is only ~9,999 dollars and then say that "we can't keep track of who has paid us what." We were told that the laws are "impossible to enforce" and it's "not our place" to stop it happening. They turn the drug money into iPhones and ship the phones back to their country for sale (since iPhones can be exchanged for cash just about anywhere). Many of them carry concealed firearms in our store. If people are wondering why Apple Stores have such a short stock of iPhones even months after launch, it's usually because these people buy them all and cart them out into unmarked vans. August is the month of tax free holidays for New England stores and if you don't believe me, check into your local store on days when there's no sales tax. We stocked the warehouses with thousands of iPhones specifically for these guys. Apple Stores intentionally refuse to comply with money laundering laws and intentionally assist criminals in hiding drug profits.

alex jones used to hook up with gay men in Dallas then beat them up and take back his money plus whatever else they had

Wut.

Also things we already know about game publishers

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I work in IT, mostly on database-related projects. My team's current client is a national retail chain, and sometimes it's amusing to ponder how someone could misuse the access we're given. Millions of customer records with all the information you'd ever need to commit identity theft with ease. The ability to change prices on specific items at specific stores with a few clicks (slash price, purchase, revert price).


If there were any real issue with these things, then security would force you to put them in checked baggage instead of carry-on.

Sounds very familiar to me. As in my exact situation at work. I probably wouldn't trust a lot of the people I work with to even tip well let alone have such deep access to millions of people's information.

 

[Quackula]

I work in the airline industry. If there is a small hole in the skin of an aircraft because a baggage truck hit it or something they use speed tape to fix it which basically really strong duct tape made out of aluminum. Pretty cool stuff but it kind of freaks a lot people out when they learn this.

Isn't that actually what duct tape was originally designed for anyway? Fast airplane repairs?