linko9
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I assumed it was designed for ducts.
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I assumed it was designed for ducts.
My friend who is a midwife says when they say "oh I know I have to say this about all the babies but he/she really is such a cute little boy/girl", they actually say that about all the babies. Unless they're really ugly and she doesn't think the parents will buy it, then they just get an "awww..."
Wow AA needs to get nuked off this planet.
I worked as a car salesman for a month and 1/2 a couple years back. 90% of what you hear about car salesmen is true.
I sold a ton of cars my first month and the guys at the office worked the numbers so that didn't make shit. The sales guys at my particular dealership love ripping people off. And don't think that being a family member will help you, since normal people trust family, it makes them easier to exploit. I heard one guy brag that a lady called the cops on him. Another said he completely fucked his brother in-law. They showed me some sloppy math for figuring out a monthly payment based on the cars price(it was quick math and it was usually higher then what it was supposed to be). One customer was fixed on getting this monthly payment and didn't care about anything else. So in order to make it happen they changed the deal from 60 months at X dollars to 72 months at his price. The guy said, "good news I got the price for you!" He never mentioned the 12 month increase. Car dealer reviews are usually a really good indicator of how they work. Not all places are like this.
side note: Interestingly enough just straight up giving a customer the best possible price/payment doesn't work(even if the dealership losing money on the deal). Some people even feel ripped off if it happens to them. Some people end up being happier if they fought for their price, even if they actually got screwed. This blew my mind.
I worked as a car salesman for a month and 1/2 a couple years back. 90% of what you hear about car salesmen is true.
I sold a ton of cars my first month and the guys at the office worked the numbers so that didn't make shit. The sales guys at my particular dealership love ripping people off. And don't think that being a family member will help you, since normal people trust family, it makes them easier to exploit. I heard one guy brag that a lady called the cops on him. Another said he completely fucked his brother in-law. They showed me some sloppy math for figuring out a monthly payment based on the cars price(it was quick math and it was usually higher then what it was supposed to be). One customer was fixed on getting this monthly payment and didn't care about anything else. So in order to make it happen they changed the deal from 60 months at X dollars to 72 months at his price. The guy said, "good news I got the price for you!" He never mentioned the 12 month increase. Car dealer reviews are usually a really good indicator of how they work. Not all places are like this.
side note: Interestingly enough just straight up giving a customer the best possible price/payment doesn't work(even if the dealership losing money on the deal). Some people even feel ripped off if it happens to them. Some people end up being happier if they fought for their price, even if they actually got screwed. This blew my mind.
Well obviously. Is any midwife actually going to tell a new parent that their baby is ugly?
Alx
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In Vietnam they do (it brings "bad luck" to say a baby is beautiful, according to a common belief).
And then when the plane crashes the evidence that the duct tape fix was the cause is obliterated. It's cheaper to pay out a few mil every 5 years to the families of the dead than to actually fix stuff all the time.
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Yeah. I think he's an exception rather than the rule though. Guy takes on so much work it's probably to the detriment of his own health. He's always available whenever, whereas if you go to see a specialist at a hospital the receptionist will often tell you the earliest available date is more than a month from when you book the appointment.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Worked for a large national recruitment firm over a year ago.
The way that employee holiday pay was calculated was intentionally set up from head office so that all the tens of thousands of workers would be left short and the company would pocket the money.
Branches were also instructed to sell personal accident insurance to workers even tho the government already covered them on this front.
There were added benefits but it was minimal.
Hope they changed there horrible corporate fuck head ways. Fortunate to have got away from it all.
The way that employee holiday pay was calculated was intentionally set up from head office so that all the tens of thousands of workers would be left short and the company would pocket the money.
Branches were also instructed to sell personal accident insurance to workers even tho the government already covered them on this front.
There were added benefits but it was minimal.
Hope they changed there horrible corporate fuck head ways. Fortunate to have got away from it all.
That Apple one makes an incredible amount of sense from all angles.
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That's exactly what happens over here.
CommieCaptorS
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sorry wat
One summer I worked at a cookie company, mostly putting dough in a giant machine. Every cookie we made had some of amount of sweat in it because it dripped from our forhead into the dough and the boss said it was normal. But what I really fund fucked up was when I got a nosebleed into the dough and it still got put in the machine.
Valjean Lafitte
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Please...next time you post a pastebin link, say what it entails first. There are a lot of disturbing things on Pastebin, and this...this overshadows everything that's been posted here so far.
A few thoughts:
1) Paul Bonacci and Alisha Owen's stories are horrifying, to say the very least
2) Alisha Owen was sentenced from 9-15 years on perjury charges? WTF? Isn't it only perjury if they can prove you lied about something? How the hell can someone can get 15 years for lying to a court anyway? That is so fucked up.
3) I have no problems believing that George H.W. Bush is a creep. But what clinches Paul Bonacci's story for me is this: http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/PhotographerTied.htm
I can't say I'll be able to get any sleep any time soon as long as I keep going down this pastebin rabbit hole..
Used to work at Bed Bath & Beyond. If you complain about ANYTHING, you will get your way. We had a woman bring in a set of pans that were nasty and rusted as shit with a reciept from 2 years ago, she got her money back. The company is one of the few stores where the customer literally comes first. Ordering something at the store to get delivered to your house and don't want to pay shipping? Just complain and they'll throw out the shipping fee.
Also those coupons you get in the mail don't expire. They say they do, but the store'll take them anyways. Just saying.
Also those coupons you get in the mail don't expire. They say they do, but the store'll take them anyways. Just saying.
Worked as a package handler for FedEx out of highschool. It's pretty much like a giant slave machine and you have to hit your numbers. They pretty much want us to unload the trailers as fast as possible and if your things get broken oh well. There are not so stressful hardworking jobs within the place, you have to be there and survive a lot of bullshit for that opening.
Winterfang
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I worked at McDonalds for a couple of months. Food related stuff, the manage run a tight ship. You always had to be cleaning, if the patties had even a tiny part uncooked you have to throw them out.
The cooking thing (forgot the English name), cook the patties in seconds so if you don't put the food properly some bits cab left uncooked.
The only weird thing was non job related, there were a lot of Gays working there. One of them grabbed my ass while I was handling the fried and some oil grassed my hand, It let a nasty burn at the time but us completely healed off now.
A Lesbians couple suggested a threesome to the supervisor because they wanted a baby, I believe they where underage. The manager said he felt flattered by the idea and if they were still together in a couple of years he won't mind it.
Other thing is, I overheard someone said the Nuggets explode if you leave them in the frying pan for too long but I never saw that happened.
On another matter, the beautiful models in the AA pictures seem to be models by me, not random employees.
The cooking thing (forgot the English name), cook the patties in seconds so if you don't put the food properly some bits cab left uncooked.
The only weird thing was non job related, there were a lot of Gays working there. One of them grabbed my ass while I was handling the fried and some oil grassed my hand, It let a nasty burn at the time but us completely healed off now.
A Lesbians couple suggested a threesome to the supervisor because they wanted a baby, I believe they where underage. The manager said he felt flattered by the idea and if they were still together in a couple of years he won't mind it.
Other thing is, I overheard someone said the Nuggets explode if you leave them in the frying pan for too long but I never saw that happened.
On another matter, the beautiful models in the AA pictures seem to be models by me, not random employees.
Snowden's Secret
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The problem is that none of this is illegal, the attorneys technically have a duty to do everything they can (within the bounds of the law) to benefit the client (like how a defense attorney has to provide the best defense possible even if he knows his client committed the crime), and even if I had any relevant details (names, etc) I couldn't share them without breaking attorney/client privilege.
:'(
I would love hear this in detail.
a) You DEFINITELY need to tell your manager about blood anywhere near a food stream. Hopefully you did that, at least kept your end of the bargain.
b) Having said that, cookies are baked, which is a "kill step", meaning technically everything gnarly floating around in your blood was stone dead long before it was in a package, but that's not the point... that batch shouldn't go out the door, regardless.
I used to have coffee every morning at a cafe frequented by the local funeral director. He was a BLAST, guy had been doing it since the 60's and had seen everything. Once you get past the morbid part of it, there's a lot of humor in that business.
He did have great stories about 'way back when'... before the reliability for a lot of the products they used weren't as good as they are now. For the brave:
They were prepping a funeral for an older woman to be held at her church, but since she'd died on a Thurs they had to wait until Monday to hold the service. Not a big deal, got everything ready, moved to cold storage, and drove up Mon afternoon as planned. As they sat the casket out for visitors, the director noticed that the departed was, um, bulging in her abdominal area... a sign of decomposition. Nothing they could address discretely at the church, so they crossed their fingers, opened the casket, and stood near the entrance to welcome visitors and family.
About halfway through the service, as the preacher was giving a lovely eulogy, the body shifted down in the casket- enough movement that some people in the front rows noticed, became slightly startled, and looked around at others to see if they had imagined it. The funeral director saw the whispering, grabbed his assistant (his son) and said "open the doors, NOW!". His son shot him a questioning look, shrugged his shoulders and reached for the door just about the time the smell hit the front row...
He described the next 5 minutes as "like a herd of cows running through a tornado of vomit"
I have NO idea if the story is true or just a good ol' fashioned tall tale, but it was funny as hell when he told it
About halfway through the service, as the preacher was giving a lovely eulogy, the body shifted down in the casket- enough movement that some people in the front rows noticed, became slightly startled, and looked around at others to see if they had imagined it. The funeral director saw the whispering, grabbed his assistant (his son) and said "open the doors, NOW!". His son shot him a questioning look, shrugged his shoulders and reached for the door just about the time the smell hit the front row...
He described the next 5 minutes as "like a herd of cows running through a tornado of vomit"
I have NO idea if the story is true or just a good ol' fashioned tall tale, but it was funny as hell when he told it
Depending on what you mean by rubbish this could be a good industry practice. Reusing construction and demolition waste (crushed concrete, asphalt etc. ) is a sustainable practice for backfilling construction projects. If you mean actual GARBAGE then I am very surprised.
Ofcourse I told the boss and he said it would cost to much to throw away all the dough that was in the machine at the time.
Sanky Panky
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Can't say much about big banks, other than what is already known:
- From what happens in your local branch, to wholesale lending to corporations, the only customers that truly matter and get the best service are the ones with the money. For the rest, it is down to each individual's willingness to provide good service, so...
- Always try to make and maintain a good relationship with a banker. Banking over the phone/online is quick and easy, but nothing beats the perks you can get if a Personal Banker knows you well. Most fees can be reversed/waived if the banker feels he/she can get away with it.
- Personal bankers at branches are often just a few steps away from car salesmen. To meet their numbers, it is not often just the amount of checking accounts they push, but their ability to cross-sell. People usually benefit from having a range of products in the same bank, but bankers get paid for selling X number of products per customer.
- From what happens in your local branch, to wholesale lending to corporations, the only customers that truly matter and get the best service are the ones with the money. For the rest, it is down to each individual's willingness to provide good service, so...
- Always try to make and maintain a good relationship with a banker. Banking over the phone/online is quick and easy, but nothing beats the perks you can get if a Personal Banker knows you well. Most fees can be reversed/waived if the banker feels he/she can get away with it.
- Personal bankers at branches are often just a few steps away from car salesmen. To meet their numbers, it is not often just the amount of checking accounts they push, but their ability to cross-sell. People usually benefit from having a range of products in the same bank, but bankers get paid for selling X number of products per customer.
I think I've told this one before (didn't sign an NDA) so I guess it's fair to post it here.
I worked for a company that was reviewing their system data security. The CIO tasked everyone to perform a little "white hat" testing and report to him by the end of the week.
About an hour later I went to his office with a few pages of an excel sheet of all the credit cards in the system and their billing addresses and said, "Look what I did in an hour. It's just a few pages but I didn't want to print out everything"
The CIO replied, "Who else knows this?"
"Just you."
He took my print out put it in the shredder and said, "Keep it that way."
He never asked anything about it or did anything about it. For all I know the hole's still there.
I worked for a company that was reviewing their system data security. The CIO tasked everyone to perform a little "white hat" testing and report to him by the end of the week.
About an hour later I went to his office with a few pages of an excel sheet of all the credit cards in the system and their billing addresses and said, "Look what I did in an hour. It's just a few pages but I didn't want to print out everything"
The CIO replied, "Who else knows this?"
"Just you."
He took my print out put it in the shredder and said, "Keep it that way."
He never asked anything about it or did anything about it. For all I know the hole's still there.
Why did he even bother asking you to do it, if he wasn't going to do anything about it. :|
He had CCed the CEO on it.
It was obviously a show of "See how concerned I am? Aren't I a great CIO?"
I worked at a local KFC while in high school. We would use exactly the same method to make our chicken pot pies and barbecue chicken sandwiches. Leftover chicken would be "deboned," put in a container, and stored in the walk-in. It wasn't exactly sanitary, as employees weren't required to ware gloves, but it was a good use of food that would've otherwise been thrown away.
ThisWreckage
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I work in an emergency room. I primarily deal with insurance, but I do other things as well. Hospitals are as much of a detriment as they are a boon. They're definitely not safe havens that employee people with the purest of intentions.
Everything goes back to having a low or high census and how gullible people are. For example, census has been low lately and the hospital is business. A lot of patients have been admitted not out of legitimate concern or caution, but because census is low. This is all about the hospital making money and the doctors getting paid. So do not take what doctors say as gospel whatsoever. If you're to be made an inpatient admission then I would recommend you to stay because your condition is likely serious or perhaps even dire. If you're made an observation admission then you'll want to ask plenty of questions because the whole process of observation admission is a crap shoot. It's pretty much a doctor saying, "Listen, you might not need to stay overnight or for several nights. I have no idea, really. But we're doing this just to cover my ass and it fills rooms upstairs."
Also, don't believe for one second that everyone receives equal care. For example, if a family member of an employee comes checks in up front then it's very likely that a star will appear next to their name on the grease board. It's a VIP star. They'll be taken care of promptly.
Everything goes back to having a low or high census and how gullible people are. For example, census has been low lately and the hospital is business. A lot of patients have been admitted not out of legitimate concern or caution, but because census is low. This is all about the hospital making money and the doctors getting paid. So do not take what doctors say as gospel whatsoever. If you're to be made an inpatient admission then I would recommend you to stay because your condition is likely serious or perhaps even dire. If you're made an observation admission then you'll want to ask plenty of questions because the whole process of observation admission is a crap shoot. It's pretty much a doctor saying, "Listen, you might not need to stay overnight or for several nights. I have no idea, really. But we're doing this just to cover my ass and it fills rooms upstairs."
Also, don't believe for one second that everyone receives equal care. For example, if a family member of an employee comes checks in up front then it's very likely that a star will appear next to their name on the grease board. It's a VIP star. They'll be taken care of promptly.
it is illegal. it's insurance fraud.
im sure you dont have to provide all the information, but you HAVE to provide the medical results of the test they specifically requested. otherwise it'd be fucking christmas.
I had a friend who worked there, it's true. He quit eventually because they ran him ragged with long hours and shit pay, but for the most part it is true
There is some seriously tinfoil-hat shit in there.
Still tastes amazing, though!
Valjean Lafitte
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Care to elaborate or do you just designate all insidious allegations as "tinfoil-hat shit"?
ThisWreckage
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Hollywood is a very sick place. Directors like Lynch and Kubrick tried to speak out against Hollywood's machinations and the elite. Dave Chapelle got the fuck out of Hollywood and hasn't looked back. Sure, there's some seriously crazy stuff in that paste bin, but powerful people run things and some of those people likely to have a taste for depraved things.
biggersmaller
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I have a respectible job at a Fortune 500 in the finance industry...
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...most shitty place I ever worked as a kid was for Monsanto as a corn detassler in 1997. Slave labor. Minimum wage, held our water until we hit our spots on the field, $50 seasonal bonus if you didn't miss a minute of work. They treated us like trash.
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...most shitty place I ever worked as a kid was for Monsanto as a corn detassler in 1997. Slave labor. Minimum wage, held our water until we hit our spots on the field, $50 seasonal bonus if you didn't miss a minute of work. They treated us like trash.
Valjean Lafitte
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Katt Williams talks about the Hollywood elite.
Most people will dismiss him as crazy, but I believe him.
Retail is an identity thief's dream--I spent six years working POS/retail corporate software tech support, and it's mind-boggling how much data I had at my fingertips. PCI compliance requirements are a godsend for consumers--until they went into effect there were a number of ways I or anyone I worked with could have pulled credit card data (one client didn't encrypt CC data in their website DB, we had one software product that couldn't decrypt encrypted CC numbers from a different product, so plaintext transmission occurred.) Both companies I've worked for used one username and password for all database installations, and the most recent place offered a service to allow some remote checking on data... By exposing the SQL port to public traffic (fun fact: even after PCI was a thing, you could 'pass' a PCI scan by running SQL on a high-number, wide-open port outside of the scan range. This was the default configuration for installs for years, but scans started failing in 2013 as the scanning companies caught on.) VNC on an open port was also common.
Only a very small percentage of our customers used encrypted card swipers; we could still pass as compliant because we never held on to CC data and encrypted for transmission, but if the swipe isn't encrypted it's just a matter of installing a key logger on an open port and harvesting CC data. Given the number of disgruntled ex-employees, I'm always surprised we didn't find key loggers more often.
ThisWreckage
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I'm inclined to believe him mainly because Dave Chappelle has said similar things. I won't go as far to say Illuminati or any of that, but there are some very powerful people in Hollywood that will break you if you step out of line.
It's like Chapelle said, crazy is one of the worst things you can call a person. Because it's immediately dismissive. It's basically making your mind up without considering any alternative.
Valjean Lafitte
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My favorite part of that Inside the Actors studio is when he said that.
LiquidMetal14
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Unfortunately that is well known if you keep in touch with certain news. It's sad.
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The Everyman
oh shit, was the dough super heated afterwards at least?
FUCK DUDE COME ON MAN
I know man, it's fucked up
Yeah it was super heated.
I also threw up on the floor 6-7 feet from the cookies and it wasn't cleaned up for like 3-4 hours.
What a summer
Deified Data
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Can anyone elaborate? Nothing about his alleged trespasses on Wikipedia.
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