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

IvaBigWun

Any key? wrote: »

We used to use full fat milk in our skinny coffees when I worked in a cafe.....controversial I know:eek:

Sheer madness! :eek:

kumate_champ07

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

most chippers dont actually use Cod when they serve Cod!

Might be something to do with the fact that it has been so overfished that it's almost rare these days!

Any key?

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Sheer madness! :eek:

The public need to know!!!!

IvaBigWun

Any key? wrote: »

The public need to know!!!!

Name and shame!







(No. No dont. Not a good idea )

Any key?

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Name and shame!







(No. No dont. Not a good idea )

Not to worry. It's in Australia, those scamps!


Obviously if you're living in Melbourne worry.

miss no stars

K-9 wrote: »

I strip a chicken (kinky) until I get every last piece of meat out of it, sandwiches, curries etc. (the juiciest part is the thigh and wings). I still don't know what part of the chicken they use!

It's usually poached, giving it its distinctive rubber texture.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I used to work in a very popular hotel, that was very well known for weddings. I worked in the spa but we used to get our lunch from the carvery part of the hotel so wed stand waiting in the kitchen.

It was filthy!! Cutlery not being washed properly, would still come out with bits of food on, and be just wiped clean with a usual dirty linen napkin.
One of the trainee chefs that worked with the pastries used to be always picking/wiping his nose, or you'd see him dipping his fingers into different things and licking his finger clean. He was disgusting. Sometimes he worked on carvery and if he was ever working none of us would eat lunch that day. He was always on fag breaks too but I never saw him wash his hands when he'd come back in.

The bread rolls and desserts were always being mauled by staff passing by. Anytime we got the fruit for the spa from the fridge in the kitchen we had to soft through it to find decent fruit as a lot of it would be mouldy and soft and gross and I assume still used.

There were two wheely bins in the kitchen, that were down by where you'd leave the dirty plates. The lids were always open. One was for food and the other was for other waste. It reeked.

Completely put me off eating from places to be honest

IvaBigWun

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Completely put me off eating from places to be honest

I think a lot of this thread will make me either never eat out again or be doing online background checks on potential places in advance before I do!

KungPao

The micro processing chips that Intel make are actually based on a time-traveling cybernetic organism that was recovered in the 80s. How do I know this? I am the Global IT manager at this company and one day I stumbled across an old mail from the big cheese at Intel that was along the lines of:

"It was scary stuff, radically advanced. It was shattered... didn't work. But it gave us ideas, It took us in new directions... things we would never have thought of. All of Intel's work is based on it."

Please don't tell anybody about this guys, it's kinda a secret!

IvaBigWun

miss no stars wrote: »

It's usually poached, giving it its distinctive rubber texture.

Whatever "it" is, its not chicken

sword1

you are badly informed about cod stocks

K-9

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I used to work in a very popular hotel, that was very well known for weddings. I worked in the spa but we used to get our lunch from the carvery part of the hotel so wed stand waiting in the kitchen.

It was filthy!! Cutlery not being washed properly, would still come out with bits of food on, and be just wiped clean with a usual dirty linen napkin.
One of the trainee chefs that worked with the pastries used to be always picking/wiping his nose, or you'd see him dipping his fingers into different things and licking his finger clean. He was disgusting. Sometimes he worked on carvery and if he was ever working none of us would eat lunch that day. He was always on fag breaks too but I never saw him wash his hands when he'd come back in.

The bread rolls and desserts were always being mauled by staff passing by. Anytime we got the fruit for the spa from the fridge in the kitchen we had to soft through it to find decent fruit as a lot of it would be mouldy and soft and gross and I assume still used.

There were two wheely bins in the kitchen, that were down by where you'd leave the dirty plates. The lids were always open. One was for food and the other was for other waste. It reeked.

Completely put me off eating from places to be honest

Sounds clean, no cockroaches climbing up walls anyway.

Tail Docker

sword1 wrote: »

you are badly informed about cod stocks

They're not true? Are we being codded?

Captain Flaps

If you drop your pictures into any kind of photo lab that doesn't do an instant service someone is going to see them. This isn't necessarily a sinister thing, the worker genuinely has to check to make sure the machine isn't printing streaks across them or something like that. The number of people who used to come in with a disk saying '2 copies of picture 1, 4 of Picture 2 etc' who then asked 'you didn't look at my photos, did you!?' would amaze you.

We did have a wall of shame consisting of a smiling family around an open casket, a lad with a broom handle up his arse and 2 elderly white guys dressed as clowns painting a nice young black gentleman.

IvaBigWun

Captain Flaps wrote: »

If you drop your pictures into any kind of photo lab that doesn't do an instant service someone is going to see them.

Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!

rubadub

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!

Some do. I expect many doing it know full well the workers are looking at them, just another form of exhibitionism. My housemate worked in one and had loads of stories about what was in the photos and the lunatics & oddballs dropping them in. Some would make sure the workers saw them, taking them out and going through them all in front of them as though they were checking for flaws.

stmol32

Aldi and Lidl are the same shop.
That's why they're always built beside each other so that they can build a secret tunnel between them.

Captain Flaps

rubadub wrote: »

Some do. I expect many doing it know full well the workers are looking at them, just another form of exhibitionism. My housemate worked in one and had loads of stories about what was in the photos and the lunatics & oddballs dropping them in. Some would make sure the workers saw them, taking them out and going through them all in front of them as though they were checking for flaws.

Actually you've reminded me, for a while myself and one of the other lads used to put a little tick mark on one inconspicuous part of the envelope if it contained any 'racy' pics. If a customer came to collect you knew that not only was there something hilarious/sexy/awful in it, the worst pic of the bunch had 'ended up' at the front. Cue many instances of 'sorry, I have two different Murphys here, are these your pics?' followed by the offending pics sliding out onto tables.

We were a right pair of arseholes back then

Alun

Captain Flaps wrote: »

Actually you've reminded me, for a while myself and one of the other lads used to put a little tick mark on one inconspicuous part of the envelope if it contained any 'racy' pics.

In the shop I worked in we used to do that too, plus if any hot looking women brought films in for developing, we'd mark the envelope too, to make sure we inspected them when they came in. The oddest set of photos I ever saw was a whole set of nothing but nude archery :eek:

Vojera

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Thank fúck no one gets pics developed anymore!

I found an old disposable camera when cleaning a few months ago and the local Boots (which prints digital ones on the spot) had to send it away!

Captain Flaps

Vojera wrote: »

I found an old disposable camera when cleaning a few months ago and the local Boots (which prints digital ones on the spot) had to send it away!

Yeah, they've closed down most of the local developer labs in pharmacies, there's usually one large shop that handles all of the development. Hence 1 hour film processing is all but gone, as is 24 hour, most pharmacies will do a 2 day service to allow delivery to another store! It's a shame, when I was working in the lab the printer was leaps and bounds better than one of those crappy little instant kiosks and all the digital stuff ran through it with the film. If you need prints done you're best going to a fuji lab like in Harvey Norman, it's a proper exposure/chemical development system so your prints will last much longer than ink on paper.

Clondalphian

I worked in a childrens entertainment centre. They had a petting zoo on the roof and there was a leak which caused donkey p1ss to leak through to the 2nd floor on one of the main attractions. We were told by management that if anyone asked what the smell was to say it was stagnant water

miss no stars

Clondalphian wrote: »

I worked in a childrens entertainment centre. They had a petting zoo on the roof and there was a leak which caused donkey p1ss to leak through to the 2nd floor on one of the main attractions. We were told by management that if anyone asked what the smell was to say it was stagnant water

mmm, warm stagnant water. Yummy, legionnaires disease!

Generic Dreadhead

Temptamperu wrote: »

I worked for sky tv, 3% of their gross per year is subscriptions. They would be more profitable if it was free.

:pac::pac::pac:

What absolute $hit, you're trainer must have been fairly convincing to feed you that line with a straight face

:pac::pac::pac:

Pablodreamsofnew

I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company, Shall not speak it's name and they dropped cakes face on floor and just packed them anyway. Also all you could eat cakes in the staff room that had been dropped or broken.

Rucking_Fetard

^^post no good without name

Gloomtastic!

MrsYelnekoff wrote: »

I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company, Shall not speak it's name and they dropped cakes face on floor and just packed them anyway. Also all you could eat cakes in the staff room that had been dropped or broken.

The five second rule is obviously the deciding factor.

The_Captain

miss no stars wrote: »

mmm, warm stagnant water. Yummy, legionnaires disease!

To be fair, legionella doesn't live in piss and unless the attraction is a steam room, you're not getting legionaires disease.

Your post really shouldn't annoy me so much

cruais

pharmaton wrote: »

worked in a school where the head embezzled large amounts of charity raised cash. investigations took six years, no one knows a thing, to protect her integrity I suspect.

Was she a nun and school based on south side of city as in extremely close to the city centre?

miss no stars

The_Captain wrote: »

To be fair, legionella doesn't live in piss and unless the attraction is a steam room, you're not getting legionaires disease.

Your post really shouldn't annoy me so much

Oh I meant the excuse didn't even sound that nice! And legionella can live in the water collection from AC units... Isn't that where it was first recognized after the FFL all got struck down with it in a NYC hotel? I could be getting my wires crossed on that, though.

conorh91

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Rigged coin waterfalls in arcades.

This is so well known that I cannot believe people still play those things.

Then again, losing money in gambling arcades is one monetary Darwin award after another.

The_Captain

miss no stars wrote: »

Oh I meant the excuse didn't even sound that nice! And legionella can live in the water collection from AC units... Isn't that where it was first recognized after the FFL all got struck down with it in a NYC hotel? I could be getting my wires crossed on that, though.

You're absolutely right, but it terms of transmission to humans, it only becomes problematic when inhaled into the lungs in vapour droplets. You can drink it without getting sick (not that I would, mind). And for some reason, it really only affects old men.
It got its name from an outbreak in a hotel in Philadelphia in 1976 where a big conference thing for the American Legion was being held.


I know far too much about Legionnaire's Disease

IvaBigWun

=MrsYelnekoff;91622169]I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company,

Did they make Exceedingly Good Cakes?

Wompa1

MrsYelnekoff wrote: »

I worked in a factory packing cakes for a well know company, Shall not speak it's name and they dropped cakes face on floor and just packed them anyway. Also all you could eat cakes in the staff room that had been dropped or broken.

Ever pack cakes with fudge in them? Please tell me yes, I need this!

freethearmy

in a portacabin with 3 rooms joining a kitchen which is rat infested, a seating area which is manky and a toilet area which floods.... and the health inspector cant get at it as he prob doesnt know it exsits

IvaBigWun

freethearmy wrote: »

in a portacabin with 3 rooms joining a kitchen which is rat infested, a seating area which is manky and a toilet area which floods.... and the health inspector cant get at it as he prob doesnt know it exsits

Jesus.

Does the public eat here?

pharmaton

cruais wrote: »

Was she a nun and school based on south side of city as in extremely close to the city centre?

she was and it was

tipptom

pharmaton wrote: »

she was and it was

Ah cmon now,we all know that money was just resting in her account.

IvaBigWun

Does anyone fancy a curry in Manchester?

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/bin-bag-full-of-severed-cats-heads-discovered-30514735.html

KungPao

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Does anyone fancy a curry in Manchester?

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/bin-bag-full-of-severed-cats-heads-discovered-30514735.html

A kitten curry? Would be purrfect if you're feline peckish.

IvaBigWun

KungPao wrote: »

A kitten curry? Would be purrfect if you're feline peckish.

Well whiskas away to one so!

cruais

pharmaton wrote: »

she was and it was

It's probably the same school im thinking of (would be a high coincidence that it happened in 2 different schools)

I was a student in that school. We knew all about it but I always thought it was just rumour. Terrible

ardle1

HurtLocker wrote: »

A few years back I worked in a small store for a Summer. Mainly serving farmers and the store had a small agricultural diesel tank for customers. You showed your can you wanted to fill paid for the litres of diesel, drove your car/jeep over and filled up the canister. The tank had no meter .... so in truth nothing was stopping customers from filling the jeep if they wished during a busy time, hell during quiet times as no one in the shop considered the pump their responsibility


They've it sorted out now. But for a time there was a place for €5 you could brim your jeep with diesel and there would be no way of knowing you did. Even if they caught you with the nozzle in your car there was no way of even knowing you had pumped a euros worth or fifty euros worth or even if you had started pumping

Did you, by any chance drink any of the diesel

takamichinoku

When it looks like the expiration date has been crudely removed to hide the fact that the product's gone past it, that's exactly what has been done. Shocking, I know!

From my own long lost work history - there is a reason that "snot shots" and "Gun Powder" looked like a ground up and heavily flavored pieces of left over, stepped on, factory floor droppings from Golf Ball and Jaw breaker chewing gum - and there is reason why every Mr Freeze pack has a single weird flavor put on a single weird color - neither of which ever seems to match to the other.

Jagdtiger

gw80 wrote: »

worked in a place that made parts for nato tanks, it was all hush hush, i think it had something to do with Irelands nuetrality.

dont think they were,nt allowed make the parts iust didnt want any hippy types giving out about it.

Timoney Technology ?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

It's actually pretty common to use low fat milk for all steamed coffees in cafés, three different places I've worked have done it and nobody seemed to notice.

My mother used to work in a BOI branch in a small town back in the eighties, apparently one of the women used to be awful for going through customers' cheques and bank statements and gossiping about who was spending what. She even got moved to a different role but she'd pop in to have a look every once in a while. Probably can't happen anymore but I'd imagine there was a lot of that back in the day.

Cookie_Monster

Rosalyn Huge Banana wrote: »

It's actually pretty common to use low fat milk for all steamed coffees in cafés, three different places I've worked have done it and nobody seemed to notice.

why would they bother?
we use about 5 times as much normal milk as LF in our place, the odd time we'll sub normal in when run out of LF but rarely if ever the other way around

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why would they bother?
we use about 5 times as much normal milk as LF in our place, the odd time we'll sub normal in when run out of LF but rarely if ever the other way around

Beats me honestly, the owner at one place swore blind it was better for coffees because it was easier to steam, and she thought it lasted better in the fridge. In the other places it was always LF in the fridges too, and I worked a few different branches in one of the jobs and it was the same everywhere. I suppose it could be just coincidence but it seems a bit unlikely. I wasn't overly interested in those jobs tbh so I didn't bother asking.

Hootanany

cruais wrote: »

It's probably the same school im thinking of (would be a high coincidence that it happened in 2 different schools)

I was a student in that school. We knew all about it but I always thought it was just rumour. Terrible

And she got away with it terrible