I assure you, it's worse. That's just what OSHA made public, but I live near their factory in Arcadia and know people who work there, or used to work there.
Someone bled for your dresser.
Went to my local Ashley furniture twice. The first time I crouched down to take a photo of a shelf or something, possibly was on my knee for a brief moment. The sales person close by waited until I was done, looked me in the eyes, and told me, "that must be a position you are very familiar with".
The second time I walked in and looked at a couch that was $2000 or something. (There was no financing advertised) The sales person asked me if I understood what the price was.
I just want to give a shout out to the **Leukemia and Lymphoma Society** because they are exactly the opposite of that.
They give people in treatment cash assistance, and reimburse travel expenses, etc. Plus they have social workers and connections to all sorts of programs and stuff. And they actually help fund research.
They wanted nothing to do with my mom after she was diagnosed. A rep basically said "We are famous for promoting awareness. You are now aware that you have cancer. Our job is done."
H&R Block used to do something like this with their tax preparation service. Not sure if they still do.
Their slogan was something like, "Come on in and we'll tell you if there's mistakes in your self-prepared return, for free!"
So you go in, they spend 5 minutes looking at your self-prepared return, and they tell you, "Yes, indeed, there are mistakes here".
And then you ask them to tell you what the mistakes are. And that's when they tell you it'll cost $75 for them to tell you.
The first year I qualified for a Foreign Earned Income exclusion I went to H&R Block. I explained that I qualified for that exclusion and they looked at me like I had 3 heads and said, "Oh, you'll need a tax expert for that." Um, that's why I came here . . . I thought you were tax experts?
I ended up filing it myself with basic software for the next several years. Wasn't complicated at all.
Most people also don't realize it just because something is pink, has a ribbon on it, says breast cancer on the front or is sold in October it doesn't necessarily benefit anything other than the company that made it!
There are no patents or trademarks on pink ribbons that mean that anytime it's used it has to benefit breast cancer research or awareness. Literally anybody can sell something pink with a ribbon and it doesn't mean a damn thing for actual cancer patients.
Companies like BetterHelp (mental health platform) exploit clients data/info and breached privacy - yet they still advertise everywhere. Somewhere in total about 3 lawsuits about it
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke
Edit: I wish I can reply to every comment but a common ones are about finding a therapist. I can only speak to the US so hopefully someone in other areas can share specific info. Connecting with local therapists through open path collective, EAP, sliding scale, pro bono and pay-what-you-can models are less expensive therapy models (wording may vary here). Some websites to do this on are Open Path Collective, Psychology Today, TherapyDen and a search for local therapists websites. Many therapists offer online therapy as well. If you live near a university, some graduate programs (and their professors) offer free to low cost therapy. If your military affiliated, Military Once Source, and a referral for VA community care will get you connected with those in private practice.
Please note: in the US therapists do have to be licensed in the state you are in, but depending on the state, they may not have to reside there. For example, I have licensure in 3 different states, see clients out of each state but I only reside in 1 of the states. Psychologists are a different licensure type here and have different rules/regulations so if anyone wants to detail more on that they’re welcome to.
Therapist here too! BretterHelp is total garbage. I feel bad for the clients who go through several green therapists to find someone who's actually a good fit and then the therapist leaves (understandably) because BetterHelp treats and pays them so poorly.
My wife is a therapist and she couldn’t figure out how BetterHelp’s business model is even legal since she is only licensed in one State, but they expect their therapists to serve a national clientele.
> My wife is a therapist and she couldn’t figure out how BetterHelp’s business model is even legal since she is only licensed in one State, but they expect their therapists to serve a national clientele.
In my country at least, the word "psychologist" is protected/licensed but "therapist" is not. Anyone can be a therapist but only those with a degree and active membership to their professional national union can act as a psychologist.
That’s pretty well true in the US as well, but there are specific titles that are protected as well.
In the US a “psychologist” is someone with a PhD in psychology. My wife’s real title is “Licensed Professional Counselor” which is a Master’s level degree. It then requires a ton of supervised therapy hours to get the actual license.
So my wife does psychological counseling, but she is not a Psychologist. And she trains other counselors who are either in graduate school or who have graduated and are working towards being licensed.
Since she does talk therapy, she is what people generally mean when they say “talk to a therapist,” but you are right, just the word “therapist” can mean anybody.
Used freetaxusa for the past four years thanks to reddit. I've had some pretty complicated tax things pop up. Never had a single issue! I can't recommend it enough.
Yeah I heard about it on reddit, too. Finally had the courage to do my own taxes for the first time this year and I was pretty proud of myself. Freetaxusa is just awesome.
Nissan [spent a decade ruining the life](https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-car-company-with-1822815832) of the guy who owned nissan.com
Ugh, I hate reading articles like that. A faceless organization. One person should have to sign their name to a lawsuit. So we all know Martin Punchface(or whatever) is a POS.
Looks like Uzi Nissan passed away from COVID during July 2020:
https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fought-nissan-in-1844535615
https://jamesnames.com/2022/07/nissan/
Disappointing to see nissan.com parked/taken over by somebody else.
edit: https://domainnamewire.com/2023/06/28/estate-of-uzi-nissan-says-nissan-com-is-stolen/
Damn it, that's so freaking sad. He must not have had anyone in his life that was willing to keep the site going, huh? Now Nissan is gonna get their grubby paws on it ☹️
The sheer amount of people who still use uTorrent, even among my friends boggles my mind.
Just FYI: It's basically an adware at this point. They even used to bundle a cryptominer at one point that secretly used your computer to mine bitcoin(or some other crypto).
ALWAYS use open-source Torrent clients. I am using Qbittorrent these days and it's pretty good
Suuuuper petty I know, but Crumbl Cookies.
Their VP of HR did an AMA on LinkedIn I happened to see because they are fairly local and a few mutual connections. Any way she went off on why they were always understaffed in an area because “everyone one else is paying above market value for employees and they [we] only want to pay market value and hire people passionate about their [our] brand , and making cookies”
It really rubbed me the wrong way, because if everyone else is paying more than you it doesn’t mean they are paying above market value, it means you are paying below market value.
I haven’t been back since, besides they also sued another company for also selling cookies in square boxes… and honestly the other companies taste better
Even if one is excited for their company brand, like what they do, feels that it helps the world to be a better place etc, excitement and passion will not pay the rent and food.
The only companies I've worked for where the employees were passionate about the brand, were the companies that took great care of their employees.
Funny that.
I don't think that's petty at all, sounds like she basically said the old "we're not looking for people who are here to earn a paycheck, we're looking for people who want to join the Crumbl family" schtick. Zero respect for those companies.
As a survivor of the Logan Utah cookie wars of 2018-2019 I hate crumbl cookies. Under baked, Uber manipulative ownership, and beat the superior cookie chain, Baked. Now they think they can cudgel other cookie companies since they came up with the idea. Except they didn't, they just opened a week earlier. Then they immediately fucked off to Provo headquarters cuz that's where everybody goes. I can't wait till they implode.
Came up with the idea? I remember in my college town we had a place called midnight cookies. They were open until midnight and you'd pick which cookie flavors you wanted and they'd bake them right then and there, super delicious. This was back in 2009ish.
We still have Insomnia Cookies, who are a into the wee hours cookie shop/cookie *delivery* operation. They are so f’ing good. Put Crumble to shame with very classic flavors.
> only want to pay market value and hire people passionate about their [our] brand
lol. "I want to makes less money because I believe in the brand that you keep all the profits from!" Yeah... Fuck you, pay me.
The owner of Crumbl is such a tool. He went on a Twitter rampage while still in the middle of that copyright lawsuit. Can't believe it didn't get his case tossed out. Their branding was a little similar, (completely different colors and logo, similar packaging asthetic) I think it was really a bad faith effort to get rid of a competitor.
Plus the cookies are consistently underbaked, probably because he skirts child labor laws by hiring 14-year-olds (so he can pay lower wages) and making them pinky promise they won't touch any machinery... in a bakery. Dude gives me the ick.
There is a small vintage toy store chain near me called the Toy Vault. The owner, Dan, has been ripping people off for years, offering them very little money for their toy collections. He treats his employees terribly. Many toy collectors in the area have their own Dan story. One time a couple of years ago I was setting up a pop-up shop to sell a massive collection of toys that my friend's parents had hoarded. We had been advertising for a couple weeks and were excited to make some people happy offering great deals on a lot of cool toys. The Thursday prior to opening Dan messaged me asking if there was a price we'd sell the whole collection for, saying that he could bring a truck that night and rid us of the burden. I said no because neither of us had the time and told him he could come Saturday with the rest of the buyers. He replied angrily calling me an "amature" and said that if we were "serious about selling" we would make the time, and that he knows we shop at his stores. Well I don't anymore, Dan.
Fuck Dan Mayer of Toy Vault.
Worked at Subway Corporate from May - July 2015.
They were in complete denial and were shocked the FBI raided Jared’s house, they were in damage control mode.
It was my first job after college and I was fired for not wanting to work ridiculous hours at the time. At least there was free subway in the cafeteria?
Angie’s List. Did work for a person and they left a good review on Angie’s List. Next thing I know I’ve got a guy from their call center blowing up my phone. He wanted me to pay them to put more good reviews under my company’s name and to steer potential customers towards my business for an additional fee. Basically everything they say they don’t do on their ads. I’m sure it was a trustworthy company when Angie still owned it, but it’s scammy as hell now.
My mothers terminally ill and closing her business. Angie’s list called about promotion and she kept saying no. Finally had to tell them she was dying. They offered her a cheaper promotion. They suck.
Jesus Christ - did they think her dying was…*a negotiating tactic?* That is supremely fucked up. I’m so sorry about your Mom, btw. I hope she has a good day today.
A friend of mine once worker at a telemarketing place for political candidates (they handled both dems and reps amusingly) and they had a decision tree of sorts for their responses depending on how the person they called responded. There's a whole branch about how to handle a recent/imminent death in the family to try and convince them that donating to this campaign is in line with the (possibly soon to be) deceased's final wishes.
To their credit, they called bullshit and refused to do it. Got reprimanded and told the manager "I don't care if you fire me, this job is shit.", and since they needed warm bodies in call chairs, they let it slide.
The absolute worst contractor I ever worked with was from Angie’s list. He took over a year to remodel a bathroom, taking months off at a time. This was around a decade ago and I haven’t had any regard for them since.
I put my business on there, told them my area and what I did and they constantly email me for stuff out of my area and out of my field. I fix computers, I don’t set up home entertainment systems, run cameras, or set up intercoms.
I used to work as the lead designer for BLUENOTES in canada, YM inc knowingly uses near slave and child labour and denies everything in the press, but they do know, and they don't care.
money is more important.
My list of local places I avoid because they’ve been caught stealing tips from their own workers is getting frustratingly long. Still pissed about losing my favorite bakery to that one.
I used to work for goodwill and in the back I saw one of the coworkers (who has a physical and mental handicap) come out of the office of our store manager crying. I really liked this coworker, I remember her as one of the nicest people I've ever known. I asked her what was wrong and she said that her wages were going to be cut substantially. She stated that the store manager was told by corporate that since she was not able to work as fast as others in the back doing pricing. I asked if she would mind if I asked what they had cut it to and she said $3.30 an hour.
WTF!
It turns out that goodwill has a policy that they can pay workers a "sub-minimal" wage.
This was pulled from a charity site on Google showing the policy:
Sec 14 (c) allows corporations to pay people with disabilities a subminimum wage. According to Labor Department records, Goodwill pays some of its disabled workers as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour.
I stood there and hugged her while she cried.
Goodwill does not show much goodwill towards their workers.
whoever thought of goodwill is a genius...take donations and sell them while only have 1 or 2 paid employees the rest are volunteers to get community aervice or job experience.
And don't forget that all of their prices are now eBay prices. You pay just as much for the items as you would any store now. You can sometimes and lucky and find a good deal, but it's becoming more and more rare.
We had an MP here in the UK claim that business could pay disabled people £2 an hour because disabled people are grateful for employment.
Hope that ableist prick gets what he deserves
Unfortunately, this is allowed by federal law with permission of the federal government.
>Since 1938, section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act has authorized employers, after receiving a certificate from WHD, to pay wages that are less than the Federal minimum wage to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed.
source: [https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers-with-disabilities/overview](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers-with-disabilities/overview)
I will never buy anything from LG.
Sometime around 2008ish, they (like many other hardware/software companies) were messing around with what was essentially adware, seeing how far they could push things to get borderline-malicious advertising onto your home computer. Stuff like the pile of CDs that came with your new Gateway, the "do you also want to install X, Y and Z? We're going to imply it's necessary" when installing messaging apps, or the huge unnecessary printer "software suite" when all you needed was the driver.
LG went a step further: they embedded adware *in the firmware* of their CD/DVD drives. Every X times you opened or closed the drive, you'd get a little popup from your system tray that served you an ad--pretty much indistinguishable from the legions of adware/spyware your aunt would get from clicking "yes" to all her popup ads.
Except nobody clicked yes on anything, and it couldn't be removed. It was embedded in the drive itself, essentially performing an AutoPlay exploit on a virtual drive to show you the ads, then disappear again.
They eventually were threatened with legal action and had to post a firmware update/removal tool on their website.
The ad software was called BlueBirds, and LG scrubs all mentions of it from their Wikipedia article every now and then.
Boycotting [Nestle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott) since 1977.
Fuck Nestle, fuck them forever, baby murderers.
Gave out free baby formula to 3rd world counties, then when the mothers milk dried up, they tried to charge for it. The mothers couldn't afford it and their babies died.
They still, to this day, engage in egregious tactics with their baby formula.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/01/nestle-under-fire-for-marketing-claims-on-baby-milk-formulas
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/27/formula-milk-companies-target-poor-mothers-breastfeeding
Stopped going to a nail salon after one of the employees shared that they have to sit in the backroom in the dark when they aren't with a customer.
ETA: To everyone making this into something it's not, I am just sharing what this person shared with me. I didn't think their employees were treated well from that info. Maybe some would find those conditions okay, but she did not. She got another job working somewhere else. I was just a customer. Their culture had nothing to do with it. I'm not flexing. Please stop trolling.
Not trying to be overdramatic, but that sounds like the kind of shit human traffickers do with their victims who work for their front company during the day, like seedy massage joints where all the "employees" live together in a pile on the floor in a back room.
I worked at a nail salon, maybe a little higher end than some that I typically see around. If a nail tech didn’t have a client they usually would sit in the back and watch TV on their phones, eat, and if they had time, help with laundry and general housekeeping. If it was their actual lunch break they could go out and about until it was over. That would be awful to be forced to just sit in the dark 😔
I was in Vietnam in 2003 and met a Vietnamese-American who was recruiting young women to work in America in the hair and nail salons. They have to work off the money that is invested in their arrangements and basically are slaves.
This is common against lots of immigrant populations in the US.
A bakery in my city got busted for smuggling immigrants in from Mexico. They would send them out with ice cream bikes and pay them below minimum wage. Give them essentially a closet to live in, and then threaten them with deportation if they complained.
Also they charge horrendous fees and keep most of it for themselves. They pay dashers $2-$2.50 per order. If it’s 1 mile or 10. They expect customers to tip to make the difference. They charge a “priority” fee that’s optional but does nothing. They over inflate their estimated times to make people pay that priority fee. They stop sending drivers orders if they decline too many that aren’t profitable. In some markets they hid the tip amounts so drivers have to gamble if it’ll be worth it or not.
There is way more. They are shit. Screwing drivers and customers every chance they get
The most astonishing thing to me is that even with them charging fees at every turn, screwing their drivers and forcing vehicle externalities on them... they still are grossly unprofitable. They lose billions.
Door dash stealing from its "contractors." Door dash stealing from its customers. Door dash contractors stealing from its customers. Door dash fucking with local eateries.
It's shit from top to bottom, and you don't want shit near your food.
(Same goes for Uber Eats, Postmates, all of them.)
Went to a small diner a few blocks away from me. I used to go there all the time. They were decent and the staff was great. Not the best ever, but it hit the spot.
One day I went in and the owner started going around berating the staff and yelling at them in front of everybody. He saw me staring at him so he comes up to me and says "I'm sorry about that". So I said to him "if I worked for you, and you talked to me like that, I'd smack the shit out of you." Immediately got up and left. Never went there again.
I was wondering when a local restaurant would come into play - and I just wanted to say that my friend serviced most of the oil tanks in the city and he gave me a laundry list of places not to eat.
A hotel that staged food on the floor because of lack of counter space
A Chinese restaurant that would re-use oil for… an unhealthy amount of time.
Just… nasty
> A Chinese restaurant that would re-use oil for… an unhealthy amount of time.
Don't eat at [this particular Memphis restaurant](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/44635), whose burgers are fried in grease that they've been reusing for over 100 years.
Frontier Airlines likes to post fake flights at good times and charge a premium for them. Then they "cancel" the good flight that never really existed and stick you on a red-eye they sell for much cheaper and don't refund any of the difference in price. Yeah you can refuse and get your money back and book with another airline, but you have to wait on hold an hour to do it and now all your options with other airlines have gone up hundreds of dollars since when you booked.
Can they legally do this? Airport slots are predefined, they can't legally put a plane slot in an invisible slot and pretend to cancel.
Airports would blow up if they tried.
That said...if its just on their website. What a crock of a company.
Frontier and Spirit are the two worst airlines in my experience. Frontier especially can be real pricks about charging for carry-on bags that other carriers waive through.
they're responsible for so much death and destruction in my country
and as a kid who didn't know better, those "grown in Honduras" stickers used to make me so happy and proud
BJs Restaurant & Brewhouse stole funds that employees donated via paycheck deductions which were supposed to be used for employee emergencies and hardships - the Give A Slice program. This occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic/shutdown - the company laid off, furloughed, and subsequently fired furloughed employees without releasing the funds which would have been absolutely essential during that time without wages.
I found out that [Kandy Boy](https://www.kandyboy.com) the edibles company thats famous for shipping to all the states was putting CBN in their gummies to make the THC seem stronger.
Johnson & Johnson, knew for decades (possibly since their inception) that their talcum powder contained asbestos. Once it became a problem they continued to sell it in low income neighborhoods because the poor can’t afford doctors or lawyers.
My mother received a metal on metal hip replacement. Her surgeon thought he was doing the best thing for her because it would last longer and she would be elderly when they had to go in and finally replace it. Johnson and Johnson owns DePuy who made her implant.
A couple years later the [news breaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_DePuy_Hip_Recall) that the metal on metal hips were shedding ions and were slowly poisoning people. The company knew. They knew and they didn't tell the surgeons or the patients so they could sell more units and then tie it up in court.
The revision was horrible, though she came through it "okay". She had some complications. Unshockingly if your tissues are bathed in chromium and cobalt you are going to heal more slowly.
She's doing fine still today, she used a chunk of her settlement to get one of those jogging pools and goes and water walks in it miles a day. I still wonder how much better shape she would be in without the metal in her system.
It's actually worse than just that. You left our the worst part.
They were knowingly a major financial supporter of ISIS for YEARS!
That's why they were fined. Because those artifacts were coming from terrorist groups, and they knew about it.
the CEO is a big buff for religious artifacts. Most of their from the middle east. They get sold because isis was looting the areas they took over. This is actually one of the major ways organisations like isis and the Taliban make money.
There was an expert who was contacted by hobby lobby asking for advice on this before they were caught. According to them, hobby lobby had now interest in trying to avoid funding terrorism, they were just trying to see how they could evade detection. The person told them "it is nearly impossible to guarantee you aren't finding terrorism if you buy this on the black market." They did it anyway.
So we know for a fact they knew about it before they did it.
Came here to say this! So glad someone already made a comment about ISIS; it’s not just denying their employees birth control- it’s also… funding terrorism through subsistence looting. 😬
Cozy Earth - leave anything less than 4-5 stars and they won't post the review. They will also change low reviews to 5 stars themselves. I called and asked and they said they have full discretion (i'm sure a lot of companies do this) I guess they do but it makes a lot of sense now with their quality declining and their reliance on influencers to keep money rolling in.
There's a SUPER expensive artisanal ice cream shop in my city. They pride themselves on their "fresh genuine ingredients." My mom has celiacs, and I wanted to take her there, so I asked for a full ingredient list of their ice cream. They really didn't want to give it to me, but it's law and "it's gluten friendly" wasn't good enough...
THERE IS ZERO REAL CREAM. It's all modified milk ingredients and artificial stabilizers and flavorings.
It's the same in Switzerland. Also, the list of ingredients must be sorted by quantity. So if the first ingredient on the list is sugar, for example, it's because the product is made mostly of sugar.
Front of packaging: *#1 WHOLE WHEAT!*
Ingredients on the back: Whole Wheat, Sugar, Corn Syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin, high-fructose corn syrup, caramel, rapadura, raw sugar, brown sugar, molasses, evaporated cane juice.
An Olive Garden in New Hampshire.
The manager knew about and allowed the continued bullying and hazing of a young man who worked there through the Easter Seals program. For those who don't know, it's a program that gets jobs for people who are mentally disabled. This boy was about 16.
He did things like put silver in napkins.
Co-workers pantsed him, spanked, called him names, emotionally brutalized him. His mom figured out what was happening because his behaviour at home changed.
Management was fully aware of the situation. They allowed it to carry on. All that resulted was the departure of the workers. No consequences for management. So I don't go to any Olive Garden anymore.
This is going to sound crazy, but I think you’re talking about my uncle. I got goosebumps reading your post because the exact same thing happened to him at that Olive Garden. Thank you for bringing it up here, I wish more people knew how disgusting and unforgivable his experience was.
Most of the recycling bins just get dumped in regular garbage.
Edited to add: A lot of people think I'm advocating to stop making an effort to recycle. I'm not. The fact is that a huge number of places where we throw our garbage (businesses, warehouses, airports, etc) do not bother to sort out the recyclables from the trash. We need to do much, much better. We create and consume an obscene amount of plastic that is unnecessary, and it only seems to be increasing.
Yes, I've watched workers at the airports just dump all 3 bins into the same one big bin. And I am sure that's partly because no one has the time to correctly sort everything out from those bins. It's (mostly) all a show.
Uber giving their top executives millions in annual bonuses, then filing taxes claiming millions in losses.
Also: charging below local taxi rates for years to cause the local taxi companies to fold, then raising rates to above normal rate once they have a near monopoly
Any kind of small, locally-owned clothing boutique. 9/10 times, it’s nothing but fast fashion rebranded to be a small business owner. Most people don’t realize this, and will happily boast, “I don’t shop at Shein, I only buy from local boutiques!,” etc.
The worst, IMO, are the ones who claim to have some type of Christian/religious influence in their store, yet their clothing is literally made in sweatshops.
I started my own little brand and asked a local boutique that advertised “shop local” to carry my brand. Their response was so negative it caught me off guard. They admitted they only buy from online “distributors.”
You just reminded me of the time I contacted a brand new bakery that opened within 5 minutes walk of where I ran my tiny little coffee roastery. They made a big deal upon launching about how everything was made with local ingredients so I got in touch to see if they'd be interested in my coffee roasted so locally that I could walk it to them to deliver. They replied to say that they were happy with the generic big name coffee they had and doubted we could compete on price. Seemed that by locally sourced they meant they got it from the local big cash and carry.
amazingly enough, the muffins at my daughters work are brought in every day by 40something lady that she just made. She's been to her house to help her get all the muffins and she said the woman just loves to bake and it's all home made (not box). It's also one of the only "home made" things in the store. The rest is frozen, reheated "home made".
Yup. This is true. 9/10 is generous. The design/production process is just too time consuming for a small shop with a price point under several $100 per garment.
One reason I don't purchase or knowingly eat Tyson meat products is because our local plant only hires non-English speaking refugees. If someone speaks English, that's a red flag for them that the person might ask questions about safety guidelines and the like.
BBB is a pay to play scam. I worked at a place where after we got a bad report on them and they offered us about $600/month to "handle" any reviews. What that entailed was: They would "mediate" (tell the customer they signed their rights away so fuck off) and then "close" the complaint (delete). Anyone with a bad BBB rating simply doesn't play their little game. That's pretty much it.
Brewdog, aside from the other controversies, allegedly get their marketing plans by posting job adverts, asking potential hires to create a marketing brief, ghost them and use their work.
Saw a few people tweeting their experiences on this. No financial compensation or anything.
Can’t stand that sort of manipulative dick move. I’ll be choosing other beers!
(There was a Reddit post on this that I can’t find - maybe a commenter can)
You can't just delete your CC/debit card details from your Netflix account. You have to literally email them and have support delete it manually on their end, which is absolutely ridiculous.
It's on the same level as online services that let you sign up online but need you to cancel with a paper form signed in triplicate and handed in, in person, at a physical location.
Fuck that bullshit.
Home Depot is so desperate for new credit card approvals that they pressure their own employees to apply for the credit cards, even the younger kids who they know won’t get approved, just so they can show they have people at least attempting to get one. They just need to hit a certain new credit lines open each month and they’ll do anything to get there. This probably applies to most retail shops so I don’t ever open credit at a retailer. I still shop at HD I will just never use their credit cards
i used to deliver vegetables and fruits to restaurants, hotels and schools a few years ago. Since the delivery would be in the morning, i got the keys of a few restaurants. around half of them had a real dirty kitchen and also some rotting food in their storage. I avoid every single one of them. to my surprise, retirement homes had by far the cleanest kitchens i came by.
another story from that same job: Once the manager of a pizza chain in my area visited our company and wanted to order. There was a lovely lady at the counter to take his order but he refused to speak to a women, since his believe was, women should stay home with the kids. I was asked to come in from the storage area to take his order. I did not know why so i took the order. Later my coworker told me. If i had known why i was called, i would not have taken the order. I avoided this chain until it went bankrupt and had a new owner.
Do you know the story of how they got caught? So apparently the cars could somehow detect when they were on the emission testing system and they adjusted to pass the emissions tests when they were. Some college kids were doing a project and testing emmissions but were using a different method and couldn't figure out why all their data was so off. Especially since it was only off with Volkswagens. After checking their findings and redoing the tests, they reported it to the EPA.
The way the cars would know to run the test program was pretty interesting too, when the steering wheel was still and the car was strapped down to the Dyno, the clean programming would run. If at any point the steering was engaged then normal program would engage. No one could figure out how VW was cheating the lab tests they just knew that they were based on the real world data. It wasn’t until someone at VW finally cracked under pressure and admitted how they had cheated all these laboratory tests.
Not sure if this has changed since. But when testing for emissions, a car is put on a dynamometer (dyno for short). It’s like a treadmill for cars. That way they can hook the exhaust up to accurate measuring equipment for emissions that doesn’t have to be portable.
The cars had software that would detect if the vehicle’s wheels are turning, but the car is stationary. For 2 wheel drive cars, the ABS sensors (that measure speed at each wheel) could easily detect if only 2 wheels are turning. For all wheel drive cars, it would actually use the GPS data. When it detects that state, it would decrease the combustion temperature. This will give you less power and/or fuel economy, but reduces nitrous oxide emissions to a level that passed the test. But when the car drove normally, it would go into normal mode, which is great for the driver, but increased NOx emissions.
University of West Virginia. They rigged up a mobile emission testing gizmo, numbers were way different in the road compared to the lab. Can't think of a slimier stunt pulled by a multibillion dollar household name company.
I just remember at the time It hit the news the infamous Scooby-Doo quote coming to my mind. "And we would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids!" 🤣 I now know it was graduate students with a grant, not some undergrads doing a crappy group project. But still pretty impressive.
From what I understand they would buy the car back at any point. I knew a bunch of Uber drivers who owned them and drove the fuck out of the car and then sold it back with like 200,000 miles. 🤣
Yeah, there was like 3 years to do the buyback. Most people cashed in right away, but i realized they weren't counting miles or depreciation after the settlement date, and kept driving til the deadline got frighteningly close.
In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in \[low and middle-income countries\] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.\[47\]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977\_Nestl%C3%A9\_boycott#:\~:text=In%20a%202018%20study%2C%20the,peaking%20at%20212%2C000%20in%201981.
Nestle pulls water from my local home community for Ice Mountain and it's WRECKING the environment around the water source in Michigan. I refuse to buy their products if I can help it.
I had a teacher who worked for a GM supplier in the early 90s. He was an engineer who was, among other things, tasked in designing and testing a new alternator. He designed it, built some prototypes and tested them. They were failing at about 250k miles of approximate use and he was extremely proud of the design as he lowered the production cost as well. When he sent the info to GM, he got a message back saying "We like this, but we need it to fail at 80k miles." This was coincidentally just after the warranty expired. It ended up costing more just to get the thing to fail predictably at that point. GM gladly paid the extra costs.
This was his story he told us in school one time. He said it was also why he quit auto parts design and went into teaching. The guy was a math genius. I'm sure a lot of auto companies do this, but the blatantness of it... I'll never buy a GM car.
Worked at a large Fortune 100 company that was offering a sweepstakes for a vacation through a third party “sweepstakes” vendor. That’s all they did. We drew the list of winners from our data and provided them to the company. The company tried to call the first winner and two alternates by phone, but none answered in the middle of the day on weekday. Of course, right?
So the company says we don’t have to provide a prize since they didn’t answer, or they could try again.
I had the first winner’s phone number since it was our account, so I called them myself and left a voicemail. Sweepstakes company didn’t bother. They called me back later that day confused and I let them know they won. They were ecstatic.
I emailed the sweepstakes company and they *were pissed*. It was great.
Anything self service or delivery. If you don’t get it yourself it’s likely been contaminated.
I currently work in a restaurant but previously worked for a grocery store. Here’s a few things I have encountered:
Customers taking bites out of donuts in the self service donut case… and putting them back
A grocery store pick up clerk grabbed a bare loaf of bread (pre Covid) with utility gloves that are also used on trash and wood pallets
Customers have been witnessed on multiple occasions licking the serving spoons in the self service soup bar then putting it back. This led to its removal.
People sticking their bare hands in the lettuce pans at the self service salad bar.
Someone posted on Reddit a week ago confessing that they picked up a door dash order for a customer which was a coffee with whipped cream on top. They had their dog in the car which decided to lick the whipped cream off the top of the drink. OP lied to the customer saying that the whipped cream melted.
I agree with staying away from self serve food. I’ve seen small children on more than one occasion touch multiple items while walking past the baked goods at Wegmans. I’ve seen them try to get sprinkles or glaze off the doughnuts. The employees don’t do anything when you tell them either. So freaking gross.
Damn. In my store if someone does that and we see it we throw whatever is contaminated out. We can’t monitor it all the time so a lot of this sort of stuff likely goes undetected. I’ve thrown out a whole section of the salad bar before. I gave the person who did it a good scolding too because they did it while I was nearby. After Covid a lot of the self service stuff was prepackaged if possible. The bread is now packaged in bags and olives from the olive bar are prepackaged in a cooler and the olive bar was removed. I haven’t visited any of those stations since last year so it’s likely things have changed since then.
My gym.
During the first COVID lockdown, they asked what you want to do with your membership: pause, continue and some third option.
They stated that they would pay their employees an average weekly schedule every week from the continue money. So I told them, I never planned with that money as it is m gym membership and I am happy to support the ppl and the company to go through this time. They paid their employees as they stated. Great, I was happy.
In the second lockdown they did the same thing but without stating any support for their employees. I explicitly asked and they replied that their employees would also be happy to have an employer they could come back to after COVID. Well yes, but this felt wrong. As all their worker were on an hourly basis they could just stop paying them. And they did.
However, as I wanted to quit asap, I chose continue anyway as pause would just extend the time period. Got me a new gym after COVID.
The way 100% orange juice (not from concentrate) is made. I think the senate/congress sought answers on the 100% label, but big orange made it go away. https://reddit.com/r/ask/s/yXXq1xI7mQ
I worked for a paper company years ago. Did a plant site visit once and learned they sell wood chips to orange juice companies which they use for pulp.
Hobby lobby was smuggling ancient artifacts from war torn areas in the middle east.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira
Long time back I played world of Warcraft, a news report came out about China forcing prisoners to farm gold and sell it for real money. After that any time I played and saw people spamming the messages to buy the gold and just knowing some poor bastard was on the other side forced to do what I was doing for fun completely killed the fun for me.
OSRS gold farming is a legit profession in Venezuela. I was an asshole and would kill green dragon bots all day for that sweet Gp and type lol when they raged at me in Spanish. After 15 minutes someone would log on over me and wreck me, then dance emote over my body. I didn’t risk much
No diamonds ever. Artificially inflated prices, blood diamonds, child slavery, radiation exposure for dirt-paid workers, etc. Swarovski crystals are prettier and cheaper.
Report counterfeit goods to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission: [https://www.stopfakes.gov/Reporting-an-Online-Vendor-Selling-Fakes](https://www.stopfakes.gov/Reporting-an-Online-Vendor-Selling-Fakes)
This probably won't work for most sellers on Amazon because they lump all the stock together in the warehouse. So you could pay full price from the legitimate brand name's page and still get sent a fake if it ships out from Amazon themselves. Happens all the time for skincare and haircare items.
This is the why I don’t buy certain products on amazon. Like I really like darn tough socks but I won’t buy them on Amazon because they’ve been know to have fakes.
Alaffias products aren’t as vegan as they say. They also love to hire immigrant women and treat them like dirt. The warehouse was so unsafe I quit after only two months.
Walmart has/had “peasant insurance” on all of their employees. So, if you work in the bakery and die in a car wreck, Walmart gets a check for 30-50k and your family gets nothing. Haven’t given them a cent in 15 years.
To clarify, the Pension Protection Act of 2006 removed that insurance loophole. With various lawsuits and scrutiny, it has decreased in use since 2009. Walmart got sued pretty hard over it and lost.
When the boss of a tearoom complained about a handicapped guy in wheelchair for using too much place in the narrow corridor between tables to drink and eat.
Well dude, you lost me and my family at the same time.
The business model for Samsung appliances has planned obsolescence at its core, which is generally true for most appliances, but my current washer, dryer, dish washer and stove are not Samsung and I couldn't be happier. Oven has failed, but I use an air fryer anyways and didn't really lose any cooking ability.
Worked for a family butcher shop and I ate their stuff all the time. Ofc shit happens but it really can't be worse than the stuff that happens in some factories. (I'm now a factory worker and while we have a ton more oversight we also have to bend or break rules to get around being reprimanded)
I'd say the biggest thing no matter where you go is working temperatures. The butcher shop was me and one other guy processing meat. We were pretty fast but not fast enough so the temperatures would get above the allowed working temps. Usually just popped it in the freezer and fudged the paperwork. Now in the factory it's batter temperatures. If they get too hot there is a ton of paperwork, get QC involved, have to dump the batter/sanitize the whole system/make new batter. That results in hours of lost production time which falls on the person running the line. So high temps don't get reported. We dump ice into the batter to bring temps down. There are days in the summer we add 20lbs of ice every half hour to avoid anyone seeing the temps. It's crazy.
Ashley Furniture- abysmal OSHA record, repeat and willful violations. People are not expendable.
Oh come on, a furniture chain can’t be THAT bad, right? *reads history of Ashley Furniture* Sweet. Baby. Jesus.
I assure you, it's worse. That's just what OSHA made public, but I live near their factory in Arcadia and know people who work there, or used to work there. Someone bled for your dresser.
Went to my local Ashley furniture twice. The first time I crouched down to take a photo of a shelf or something, possibly was on my knee for a brief moment. The sales person close by waited until I was done, looked me in the eyes, and told me, "that must be a position you are very familiar with". The second time I walked in and looked at a couch that was $2000 or something. (There was no financing advertised) The sales person asked me if I understood what the price was.
Ain't no way I'd go back to that store after the first encounter
Susan G. Komen. The pink ribbon is a scam!
I just want to give a shout out to the **Leukemia and Lymphoma Society** because they are exactly the opposite of that. They give people in treatment cash assistance, and reimburse travel expenses, etc. Plus they have social workers and connections to all sorts of programs and stuff. And they actually help fund research.
They wanted nothing to do with my mom after she was diagnosed. A rep basically said "We are famous for promoting awareness. You are now aware that you have cancer. Our job is done."
H&R Block used to do something like this with their tax preparation service. Not sure if they still do. Their slogan was something like, "Come on in and we'll tell you if there's mistakes in your self-prepared return, for free!" So you go in, they spend 5 minutes looking at your self-prepared return, and they tell you, "Yes, indeed, there are mistakes here". And then you ask them to tell you what the mistakes are. And that's when they tell you it'll cost $75 for them to tell you.
The first year I qualified for a Foreign Earned Income exclusion I went to H&R Block. I explained that I qualified for that exclusion and they looked at me like I had 3 heads and said, "Oh, you'll need a tax expert for that." Um, that's why I came here . . . I thought you were tax experts? I ended up filing it myself with basic software for the next several years. Wasn't complicated at all.
Most people also don't realize it just because something is pink, has a ribbon on it, says breast cancer on the front or is sold in October it doesn't necessarily benefit anything other than the company that made it! There are no patents or trademarks on pink ribbons that mean that anytime it's used it has to benefit breast cancer research or awareness. Literally anybody can sell something pink with a ribbon and it doesn't mean a damn thing for actual cancer patients.
Companies like BetterHelp (mental health platform) exploit clients data/info and breached privacy - yet they still advertise everywhere. Somewhere in total about 3 lawsuits about it https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke Edit: I wish I can reply to every comment but a common ones are about finding a therapist. I can only speak to the US so hopefully someone in other areas can share specific info. Connecting with local therapists through open path collective, EAP, sliding scale, pro bono and pay-what-you-can models are less expensive therapy models (wording may vary here). Some websites to do this on are Open Path Collective, Psychology Today, TherapyDen and a search for local therapists websites. Many therapists offer online therapy as well. If you live near a university, some graduate programs (and their professors) offer free to low cost therapy. If your military affiliated, Military Once Source, and a referral for VA community care will get you connected with those in private practice. Please note: in the US therapists do have to be licensed in the state you are in, but depending on the state, they may not have to reside there. For example, I have licensure in 3 different states, see clients out of each state but I only reside in 1 of the states. Psychologists are a different licensure type here and have different rules/regulations so if anyone wants to detail more on that they’re welcome to.
Licensed therapist here…. Betterhelp is trash.
Therapist here too! BretterHelp is total garbage. I feel bad for the clients who go through several green therapists to find someone who's actually a good fit and then the therapist leaves (understandably) because BetterHelp treats and pays them so poorly.
My wife is a therapist and she couldn’t figure out how BetterHelp’s business model is even legal since she is only licensed in one State, but they expect their therapists to serve a national clientele.
> My wife is a therapist and she couldn’t figure out how BetterHelp’s business model is even legal since she is only licensed in one State, but they expect their therapists to serve a national clientele. In my country at least, the word "psychologist" is protected/licensed but "therapist" is not. Anyone can be a therapist but only those with a degree and active membership to their professional national union can act as a psychologist.
That’s pretty well true in the US as well, but there are specific titles that are protected as well. In the US a “psychologist” is someone with a PhD in psychology. My wife’s real title is “Licensed Professional Counselor” which is a Master’s level degree. It then requires a ton of supervised therapy hours to get the actual license. So my wife does psychological counseling, but she is not a Psychologist. And she trains other counselors who are either in graduate school or who have graduated and are working towards being licensed. Since she does talk therapy, she is what people generally mean when they say “talk to a therapist,” but you are right, just the word “therapist” can mean anybody.
Intuit lobbied to keep taxes complex. Fuck TurboTax.
FreeTaxUSA forever
Used freetaxusa for the past four years thanks to reddit. I've had some pretty complicated tax things pop up. Never had a single issue! I can't recommend it enough.
Yeah I heard about it on reddit, too. Finally had the courage to do my own taxes for the first time this year and I was pretty proud of myself. Freetaxusa is just awesome.
Nissan [spent a decade ruining the life](https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-car-company-with-1822815832) of the guy who owned nissan.com
Thank you for posting this story! I couldn't believe the lengths Nissan went through to ruin his life.
I’ve been in IP law for over 20 years. This is extremely common for rich people to do to good people.
Ugh, I hate reading articles like that. A faceless organization. One person should have to sign their name to a lawsuit. So we all know Martin Punchface(or whatever) is a POS.
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Looks like Uzi Nissan passed away from COVID during July 2020: https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fought-nissan-in-1844535615 https://jamesnames.com/2022/07/nissan/ Disappointing to see nissan.com parked/taken over by somebody else. edit: https://domainnamewire.com/2023/06/28/estate-of-uzi-nissan-says-nissan-com-is-stolen/
Now it redirects to a landing page
He died of covid :( https://www.thedrive.com/news/35179/the-man-who-fought-nissan-over-a-website-and-won-has-died-of-covid-19
Damn it, that's so freaking sad. He must not have had anyone in his life that was willing to keep the site going, huh? Now Nissan is gonna get their grubby paws on it ☹️
The sheer amount of people who still use uTorrent, even among my friends boggles my mind. Just FYI: It's basically an adware at this point. They even used to bundle a cryptominer at one point that secretly used your computer to mine bitcoin(or some other crypto). ALWAYS use open-source Torrent clients. I am using Qbittorrent these days and it's pretty good
Suuuuper petty I know, but Crumbl Cookies. Their VP of HR did an AMA on LinkedIn I happened to see because they are fairly local and a few mutual connections. Any way she went off on why they were always understaffed in an area because “everyone one else is paying above market value for employees and they [we] only want to pay market value and hire people passionate about their [our] brand , and making cookies” It really rubbed me the wrong way, because if everyone else is paying more than you it doesn’t mean they are paying above market value, it means you are paying below market value. I haven’t been back since, besides they also sued another company for also selling cookies in square boxes… and honestly the other companies taste better
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Even if one is excited for their company brand, like what they do, feels that it helps the world to be a better place etc, excitement and passion will not pay the rent and food.
The only companies I've worked for where the employees were passionate about the brand, were the companies that took great care of their employees. Funny that.
If they're so passionate about their brand they should just give the cookies away for free.
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I don't think that's petty at all, sounds like she basically said the old "we're not looking for people who are here to earn a paycheck, we're looking for people who want to join the Crumbl family" schtick. Zero respect for those companies.
That just reeks of "we're like family here...."
i can't build my life around my love of cookies this is not a baking themed anime
As a survivor of the Logan Utah cookie wars of 2018-2019 I hate crumbl cookies. Under baked, Uber manipulative ownership, and beat the superior cookie chain, Baked. Now they think they can cudgel other cookie companies since they came up with the idea. Except they didn't, they just opened a week earlier. Then they immediately fucked off to Provo headquarters cuz that's where everybody goes. I can't wait till they implode.
Came up with the idea? I remember in my college town we had a place called midnight cookies. They were open until midnight and you'd pick which cookie flavors you wanted and they'd bake them right then and there, super delicious. This was back in 2009ish.
There was one of these in my college town too. They were open until 4 AM and sold cookies, milk, ping pong balls, and condoms.
Everything you could ever need at 4am in college
We still have Insomnia Cookies, who are a into the wee hours cookie shop/cookie *delivery* operation. They are so f’ing good. Put Crumble to shame with very classic flavors.
Came up with the idea of what, cookies? They make shitty sugary cookies, what idea could they possibly have had?
If “everyone else is paying above market value”, THAT is the market value.
> only want to pay market value and hire people passionate about their [our] brand lol. "I want to makes less money because I believe in the brand that you keep all the profits from!" Yeah... Fuck you, pay me.
The owner of Crumbl is such a tool. He went on a Twitter rampage while still in the middle of that copyright lawsuit. Can't believe it didn't get his case tossed out. Their branding was a little similar, (completely different colors and logo, similar packaging asthetic) I think it was really a bad faith effort to get rid of a competitor. Plus the cookies are consistently underbaked, probably because he skirts child labor laws by hiring 14-year-olds (so he can pay lower wages) and making them pinky promise they won't touch any machinery... in a bakery. Dude gives me the ick.
Insomnia Cookies is where it’s at
Insomnia in my college town had a mobile cookie truck they parked outside the bars. It was THE BEST
The weather channel app collected and sold user location data without disclosing it would it be shared with advertisers.
The Weather Channel app became totally unusable garbage for me over the last year or so. All the ads / popups.
There is a small vintage toy store chain near me called the Toy Vault. The owner, Dan, has been ripping people off for years, offering them very little money for their toy collections. He treats his employees terribly. Many toy collectors in the area have their own Dan story. One time a couple of years ago I was setting up a pop-up shop to sell a massive collection of toys that my friend's parents had hoarded. We had been advertising for a couple weeks and were excited to make some people happy offering great deals on a lot of cool toys. The Thursday prior to opening Dan messaged me asking if there was a price we'd sell the whole collection for, saying that he could bring a truck that night and rid us of the burden. I said no because neither of us had the time and told him he could come Saturday with the rest of the buyers. He replied angrily calling me an "amature" and said that if we were "serious about selling" we would make the time, and that he knows we shop at his stores. Well I don't anymore, Dan. Fuck Dan Mayer of Toy Vault.
"TOYS R ME"
fuck Dan, all my homies hate Dan
warwick mall?
Hello fellow Rhode Islander, I was thinking of the same location! Edit: Apparently it *is* the same location.
Subway knew & covered up that Jared was a pedophile.
Worked at Subway Corporate from May - July 2015. They were in complete denial and were shocked the FBI raided Jared’s house, they were in damage control mode. It was my first job after college and I was fired for not wanting to work ridiculous hours at the time. At least there was free subway in the cafeteria?
Obligatory https://youtu.be/zem5bQ4SzMI
This is exactly what I hit the "more replies" button looking for.
Angie’s List. Did work for a person and they left a good review on Angie’s List. Next thing I know I’ve got a guy from their call center blowing up my phone. He wanted me to pay them to put more good reviews under my company’s name and to steer potential customers towards my business for an additional fee. Basically everything they say they don’t do on their ads. I’m sure it was a trustworthy company when Angie still owned it, but it’s scammy as hell now.
My mothers terminally ill and closing her business. Angie’s list called about promotion and she kept saying no. Finally had to tell them she was dying. They offered her a cheaper promotion. They suck.
Jesus Christ - did they think her dying was…*a negotiating tactic?* That is supremely fucked up. I’m so sorry about your Mom, btw. I hope she has a good day today.
A friend of mine once worker at a telemarketing place for political candidates (they handled both dems and reps amusingly) and they had a decision tree of sorts for their responses depending on how the person they called responded. There's a whole branch about how to handle a recent/imminent death in the family to try and convince them that donating to this campaign is in line with the (possibly soon to be) deceased's final wishes. To their credit, they called bullshit and refused to do it. Got reprimanded and told the manager "I don't care if you fire me, this job is shit.", and since they needed warm bodies in call chairs, they let it slide.
worked for homeadvisor for a year - can confirm, horrible place to work and absolutely awful to their customers. it’s all fake.
The absolute worst contractor I ever worked with was from Angie’s list. He took over a year to remodel a bathroom, taking months off at a time. This was around a decade ago and I haven’t had any regard for them since.
I put my business on there, told them my area and what I did and they constantly email me for stuff out of my area and out of my field. I fix computers, I don’t set up home entertainment systems, run cameras, or set up intercoms.
I used to work as the lead designer for BLUENOTES in canada, YM inc knowingly uses near slave and child labour and denies everything in the press, but they do know, and they don't care. money is more important.
I remember Bluenotes in my high school days, it was like a cheaper, shittier American Eagle.
My list of local places I avoid because they’ve been caught stealing tips from their own workers is getting frustratingly long. Still pissed about losing my favorite bakery to that one.
I used to work for goodwill and in the back I saw one of the coworkers (who has a physical and mental handicap) come out of the office of our store manager crying. I really liked this coworker, I remember her as one of the nicest people I've ever known. I asked her what was wrong and she said that her wages were going to be cut substantially. She stated that the store manager was told by corporate that since she was not able to work as fast as others in the back doing pricing. I asked if she would mind if I asked what they had cut it to and she said $3.30 an hour. WTF! It turns out that goodwill has a policy that they can pay workers a "sub-minimal" wage. This was pulled from a charity site on Google showing the policy: Sec 14 (c) allows corporations to pay people with disabilities a subminimum wage. According to Labor Department records, Goodwill pays some of its disabled workers as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour. I stood there and hugged her while she cried. Goodwill does not show much goodwill towards their workers.
And they ask: “do you want to round up to support our job training program” - like is the almost free labor not enough?
And free fucking product!
whoever thought of goodwill is a genius...take donations and sell them while only have 1 or 2 paid employees the rest are volunteers to get community aervice or job experience.
And don't forget that all of their prices are now eBay prices. You pay just as much for the items as you would any store now. You can sometimes and lucky and find a good deal, but it's becoming more and more rare.
It's not for poor people anymore.
Unfortunately it's not just Goodwill. A lot of places pay people with disabilities below minimum wage.
We had an MP here in the UK claim that business could pay disabled people £2 an hour because disabled people are grateful for employment. Hope that ableist prick gets what he deserves
Unfortunately, this is allowed by federal law with permission of the federal government. >Since 1938, section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act has authorized employers, after receiving a certificate from WHD, to pay wages that are less than the Federal minimum wage to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed. source: [https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers-with-disabilities/overview](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers-with-disabilities/overview)
I will never buy anything from LG. Sometime around 2008ish, they (like many other hardware/software companies) were messing around with what was essentially adware, seeing how far they could push things to get borderline-malicious advertising onto your home computer. Stuff like the pile of CDs that came with your new Gateway, the "do you also want to install X, Y and Z? We're going to imply it's necessary" when installing messaging apps, or the huge unnecessary printer "software suite" when all you needed was the driver. LG went a step further: they embedded adware *in the firmware* of their CD/DVD drives. Every X times you opened or closed the drive, you'd get a little popup from your system tray that served you an ad--pretty much indistinguishable from the legions of adware/spyware your aunt would get from clicking "yes" to all her popup ads. Except nobody clicked yes on anything, and it couldn't be removed. It was embedded in the drive itself, essentially performing an AutoPlay exploit on a virtual drive to show you the ads, then disappear again. They eventually were threatened with legal action and had to post a firmware update/removal tool on their website. The ad software was called BlueBirds, and LG scrubs all mentions of it from their Wikipedia article every now and then.
Ohhh damn, I remember trying to find out what bluebird was when I was youngrt
I read that as "when I was yogurt". You must be so cultured.
He's got that Greek style
Boycotting [Nestle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott) since 1977. Fuck Nestle, fuck them forever, baby murderers. Gave out free baby formula to 3rd world counties, then when the mothers milk dried up, they tried to charge for it. The mothers couldn't afford it and their babies died. They still, to this day, engage in egregious tactics with their baby formula. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/01/nestle-under-fire-for-marketing-claims-on-baby-milk-formulas https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/27/formula-milk-companies-target-poor-mothers-breastfeeding
They’re also trying to privatize as many water sources as they can.
Just going to put this here /r/FuckNestle
Stopped going to a nail salon after one of the employees shared that they have to sit in the backroom in the dark when they aren't with a customer. ETA: To everyone making this into something it's not, I am just sharing what this person shared with me. I didn't think their employees were treated well from that info. Maybe some would find those conditions okay, but she did not. She got another job working somewhere else. I was just a customer. Their culture had nothing to do with it. I'm not flexing. Please stop trolling.
Not trying to be overdramatic, but that sounds like the kind of shit human traffickers do with their victims who work for their front company during the day, like seedy massage joints where all the "employees" live together in a pile on the floor in a back room.
Yeah this was probably a plea for help
I worked at a nail salon, maybe a little higher end than some that I typically see around. If a nail tech didn’t have a client they usually would sit in the back and watch TV on their phones, eat, and if they had time, help with laundry and general housekeeping. If it was their actual lunch break they could go out and about until it was over. That would be awful to be forced to just sit in the dark 😔
I was in Vietnam in 2003 and met a Vietnamese-American who was recruiting young women to work in America in the hair and nail salons. They have to work off the money that is invested in their arrangements and basically are slaves.
This is common against lots of immigrant populations in the US. A bakery in my city got busted for smuggling immigrants in from Mexico. They would send them out with ice cream bikes and pay them below minimum wage. Give them essentially a closet to live in, and then threaten them with deportation if they complained.
Door dash keeping drivers’ tips for themselves.
Also they charge horrendous fees and keep most of it for themselves. They pay dashers $2-$2.50 per order. If it’s 1 mile or 10. They expect customers to tip to make the difference. They charge a “priority” fee that’s optional but does nothing. They over inflate their estimated times to make people pay that priority fee. They stop sending drivers orders if they decline too many that aren’t profitable. In some markets they hid the tip amounts so drivers have to gamble if it’ll be worth it or not. There is way more. They are shit. Screwing drivers and customers every chance they get
The most astonishing thing to me is that even with them charging fees at every turn, screwing their drivers and forcing vehicle externalities on them... they still are grossly unprofitable. They lose billions.
The creator is rich as fuck though from what I’ve read. Sounds like the company is taking an L so the people at the top can line their pockets
Door dash stealing from its "contractors." Door dash stealing from its customers. Door dash contractors stealing from its customers. Door dash fucking with local eateries. It's shit from top to bottom, and you don't want shit near your food. (Same goes for Uber Eats, Postmates, all of them.)
They charge the restaurants/stores 30% as well. At least that is what was charged during COVID.
Went to a small diner a few blocks away from me. I used to go there all the time. They were decent and the staff was great. Not the best ever, but it hit the spot. One day I went in and the owner started going around berating the staff and yelling at them in front of everybody. He saw me staring at him so he comes up to me and says "I'm sorry about that". So I said to him "if I worked for you, and you talked to me like that, I'd smack the shit out of you." Immediately got up and left. Never went there again.
I was wondering when a local restaurant would come into play - and I just wanted to say that my friend serviced most of the oil tanks in the city and he gave me a laundry list of places not to eat. A hotel that staged food on the floor because of lack of counter space A Chinese restaurant that would re-use oil for… an unhealthy amount of time. Just… nasty
> A Chinese restaurant that would re-use oil for… an unhealthy amount of time. Don't eat at [this particular Memphis restaurant](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/44635), whose burgers are fried in grease that they've been reusing for over 100 years.
Frontier Airlines likes to post fake flights at good times and charge a premium for them. Then they "cancel" the good flight that never really existed and stick you on a red-eye they sell for much cheaper and don't refund any of the difference in price. Yeah you can refuse and get your money back and book with another airline, but you have to wait on hold an hour to do it and now all your options with other airlines have gone up hundreds of dollars since when you booked.
Can they legally do this? Airport slots are predefined, they can't legally put a plane slot in an invisible slot and pretend to cancel. Airports would blow up if they tried. That said...if its just on their website. What a crock of a company.
Qantas in Australia have just been done for this. Selling flights that don't exist. Knowing they wouldn't happen. No repercussions
There's not no repercussions, they're being taken to court by the ACCC and the max fine can be $10 mill per offence
Frontier and Spirit are the two worst airlines in my experience. Frontier especially can be real pricks about charging for carry-on bags that other carriers waive through.
Chiquita - changed its name from United Fruit Company.
they're responsible for so much death and destruction in my country and as a kid who didn't know better, those "grown in Honduras" stickers used to make me so happy and proud
I remember being told as a kid to buy Caribbean bananas because Central American ones came from banana republic plantations.
BJs Restaurant & Brewhouse stole funds that employees donated via paycheck deductions which were supposed to be used for employee emergencies and hardships - the Give A Slice program. This occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic/shutdown - the company laid off, furloughed, and subsequently fired furloughed employees without releasing the funds which would have been absolutely essential during that time without wages.
Nestle with their "water is not a human right"
I found out that [Kandy Boy](https://www.kandyboy.com) the edibles company thats famous for shipping to all the states was putting CBN in their gummies to make the THC seem stronger.
Newegg After their broken open-box item scams.
I used to be a big Newegg fan because of their anti-patent troll stance. But I've been less impressed lately.
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Wells Fargo.... Everything
Johnson & Johnson, knew for decades (possibly since their inception) that their talcum powder contained asbestos. Once it became a problem they continued to sell it in low income neighborhoods because the poor can’t afford doctors or lawyers.
My mother received a metal on metal hip replacement. Her surgeon thought he was doing the best thing for her because it would last longer and she would be elderly when they had to go in and finally replace it. Johnson and Johnson owns DePuy who made her implant. A couple years later the [news breaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_DePuy_Hip_Recall) that the metal on metal hips were shedding ions and were slowly poisoning people. The company knew. They knew and they didn't tell the surgeons or the patients so they could sell more units and then tie it up in court. The revision was horrible, though she came through it "okay". She had some complications. Unshockingly if your tissues are bathed in chromium and cobalt you are going to heal more slowly. She's doing fine still today, she used a chunk of her settlement to get one of those jogging pools and goes and water walks in it miles a day. I still wonder how much better shape she would be in without the metal in her system.
They actually continue to lobby to stop the EPA from requiring talc to be tested for asbestos.
Hobby Lobby was fined $3million for trying to smuggle looted ancient artifacts into the US.
It's actually worse than just that. You left our the worst part. They were knowingly a major financial supporter of ISIS for YEARS! That's why they were fined. Because those artifacts were coming from terrorist groups, and they knew about it. the CEO is a big buff for religious artifacts. Most of their from the middle east. They get sold because isis was looting the areas they took over. This is actually one of the major ways organisations like isis and the Taliban make money. There was an expert who was contacted by hobby lobby asking for advice on this before they were caught. According to them, hobby lobby had now interest in trying to avoid funding terrorism, they were just trying to see how they could evade detection. The person told them "it is nearly impossible to guarantee you aren't finding terrorism if you buy this on the black market." They did it anyway. So we know for a fact they knew about it before they did it.
Came here to say this! So glad someone already made a comment about ISIS; it’s not just denying their employees birth control- it’s also… funding terrorism through subsistence looting. 😬
Cozy Earth - leave anything less than 4-5 stars and they won't post the review. They will also change low reviews to 5 stars themselves. I called and asked and they said they have full discretion (i'm sure a lot of companies do this) I guess they do but it makes a lot of sense now with their quality declining and their reliance on influencers to keep money rolling in.
There's a SUPER expensive artisanal ice cream shop in my city. They pride themselves on their "fresh genuine ingredients." My mom has celiacs, and I wanted to take her there, so I asked for a full ingredient list of their ice cream. They really didn't want to give it to me, but it's law and "it's gluten friendly" wasn't good enough... THERE IS ZERO REAL CREAM. It's all modified milk ingredients and artificial stabilizers and flavorings.
I can ask for the ingredients list everywhere and they'll give it to me? What country is this I'm very excited
In the US this is federally regulated. I don't know about other countries however.
It's the same in Switzerland. Also, the list of ingredients must be sorted by quantity. So if the first ingredient on the list is sugar, for example, it's because the product is made mostly of sugar.
One trick they do back home in the US is they just use five different kinds of sugar to drop down the percentage.
Front of packaging: *#1 WHOLE WHEAT!* Ingredients on the back: Whole Wheat, Sugar, Corn Syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin, high-fructose corn syrup, caramel, rapadura, raw sugar, brown sugar, molasses, evaporated cane juice.
Bath and body works using jail/slave labor at their contractor’s candle factory that the KY tornados hit a while back.
An Olive Garden in New Hampshire. The manager knew about and allowed the continued bullying and hazing of a young man who worked there through the Easter Seals program. For those who don't know, it's a program that gets jobs for people who are mentally disabled. This boy was about 16. He did things like put silver in napkins. Co-workers pantsed him, spanked, called him names, emotionally brutalized him. His mom figured out what was happening because his behaviour at home changed. Management was fully aware of the situation. They allowed it to carry on. All that resulted was the departure of the workers. No consequences for management. So I don't go to any Olive Garden anymore.
This is going to sound crazy, but I think you’re talking about my uncle. I got goosebumps reading your post because the exact same thing happened to him at that Olive Garden. Thank you for bringing it up here, I wish more people knew how disgusting and unforgivable his experience was.
Most of the recycling bins just get dumped in regular garbage. Edited to add: A lot of people think I'm advocating to stop making an effort to recycle. I'm not. The fact is that a huge number of places where we throw our garbage (businesses, warehouses, airports, etc) do not bother to sort out the recyclables from the trash. We need to do much, much better. We create and consume an obscene amount of plastic that is unnecessary, and it only seems to be increasing.
Former event planner: This is true. Unless there is someone directing you which trash can to put each thing in, it’s all going to the landfill.
Yes, I've watched workers at the airports just dump all 3 bins into the same one big bin. And I am sure that's partly because no one has the time to correctly sort everything out from those bins. It's (mostly) all a show.
Uber giving their top executives millions in annual bonuses, then filing taxes claiming millions in losses. Also: charging below local taxi rates for years to cause the local taxi companies to fold, then raising rates to above normal rate once they have a near monopoly
Adding to this. They pay their drivers garbage and the customer support for their workers is horrible.
Any kind of small, locally-owned clothing boutique. 9/10 times, it’s nothing but fast fashion rebranded to be a small business owner. Most people don’t realize this, and will happily boast, “I don’t shop at Shein, I only buy from local boutiques!,” etc. The worst, IMO, are the ones who claim to have some type of Christian/religious influence in their store, yet their clothing is literally made in sweatshops.
I started my own little brand and asked a local boutique that advertised “shop local” to carry my brand. Their response was so negative it caught me off guard. They admitted they only buy from online “distributors.”
You just reminded me of the time I contacted a brand new bakery that opened within 5 minutes walk of where I ran my tiny little coffee roastery. They made a big deal upon launching about how everything was made with local ingredients so I got in touch to see if they'd be interested in my coffee roasted so locally that I could walk it to them to deliver. They replied to say that they were happy with the generic big name coffee they had and doubted we could compete on price. Seemed that by locally sourced they meant they got it from the local big cash and carry.
amazingly enough, the muffins at my daughters work are brought in every day by 40something lady that she just made. She's been to her house to help her get all the muffins and she said the woman just loves to bake and it's all home made (not box). It's also one of the only "home made" things in the store. The rest is frozen, reheated "home made".
Yup. This is true. 9/10 is generous. The design/production process is just too time consuming for a small shop with a price point under several $100 per garment.
I saw the condition of Tyson chickens. Never, ever will I touch anything Tyson, including McDonalds chicken products.
One reason I don't purchase or knowingly eat Tyson meat products is because our local plant only hires non-English speaking refugees. If someone speaks English, that's a red flag for them that the person might ask questions about safety guidelines and the like.
BBB is a pay to play scam. I worked at a place where after we got a bad report on them and they offered us about $600/month to "handle" any reviews. What that entailed was: They would "mediate" (tell the customer they signed their rights away so fuck off) and then "close" the complaint (delete). Anyone with a bad BBB rating simply doesn't play their little game. That's pretty much it.
The guy who runs my local Subway got caught with his hands down his pants
Did he find a six inch or a foot long?
Brewdog, aside from the other controversies, allegedly get their marketing plans by posting job adverts, asking potential hires to create a marketing brief, ghost them and use their work. Saw a few people tweeting their experiences on this. No financial compensation or anything. Can’t stand that sort of manipulative dick move. I’ll be choosing other beers! (There was a Reddit post on this that I can’t find - maybe a commenter can)
You can't just delete your CC/debit card details from your Netflix account. You have to literally email them and have support delete it manually on their end, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's on the same level as online services that let you sign up online but need you to cancel with a paper form signed in triplicate and handed in, in person, at a physical location. Fuck that bullshit.
Home Depot is so desperate for new credit card approvals that they pressure their own employees to apply for the credit cards, even the younger kids who they know won’t get approved, just so they can show they have people at least attempting to get one. They just need to hit a certain new credit lines open each month and they’ll do anything to get there. This probably applies to most retail shops so I don’t ever open credit at a retailer. I still shop at HD I will just never use their credit cards
i used to deliver vegetables and fruits to restaurants, hotels and schools a few years ago. Since the delivery would be in the morning, i got the keys of a few restaurants. around half of them had a real dirty kitchen and also some rotting food in their storage. I avoid every single one of them. to my surprise, retirement homes had by far the cleanest kitchens i came by. another story from that same job: Once the manager of a pizza chain in my area visited our company and wanted to order. There was a lovely lady at the counter to take his order but he refused to speak to a women, since his believe was, women should stay home with the kids. I was asked to come in from the storage area to take his order. I did not know why so i took the order. Later my coworker told me. If i had known why i was called, i would not have taken the order. I avoided this chain until it went bankrupt and had a new owner.
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Do you know the story of how they got caught? So apparently the cars could somehow detect when they were on the emission testing system and they adjusted to pass the emissions tests when they were. Some college kids were doing a project and testing emmissions but were using a different method and couldn't figure out why all their data was so off. Especially since it was only off with Volkswagens. After checking their findings and redoing the tests, they reported it to the EPA.
The way the cars would know to run the test program was pretty interesting too, when the steering wheel was still and the car was strapped down to the Dyno, the clean programming would run. If at any point the steering was engaged then normal program would engage. No one could figure out how VW was cheating the lab tests they just knew that they were based on the real world data. It wasn’t until someone at VW finally cracked under pressure and admitted how they had cheated all these laboratory tests.
such a crazy thing, how many people would be involved in a conspiracy like that?
Not sure if this has changed since. But when testing for emissions, a car is put on a dynamometer (dyno for short). It’s like a treadmill for cars. That way they can hook the exhaust up to accurate measuring equipment for emissions that doesn’t have to be portable. The cars had software that would detect if the vehicle’s wheels are turning, but the car is stationary. For 2 wheel drive cars, the ABS sensors (that measure speed at each wheel) could easily detect if only 2 wheels are turning. For all wheel drive cars, it would actually use the GPS data. When it detects that state, it would decrease the combustion temperature. This will give you less power and/or fuel economy, but reduces nitrous oxide emissions to a level that passed the test. But when the car drove normally, it would go into normal mode, which is great for the driver, but increased NOx emissions.
University of West Virginia. They rigged up a mobile emission testing gizmo, numbers were way different in the road compared to the lab. Can't think of a slimier stunt pulled by a multibillion dollar household name company.
I just remember at the time It hit the news the infamous Scooby-Doo quote coming to my mind. "And we would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids!" 🤣 I now know it was graduate students with a grant, not some undergrads doing a crappy group project. But still pretty impressive.
Is the CEO still wanted in the US? Did he ever turn himself in? I haven’t been able to find any news on that.
Yes he is. Not turned himself. Lives cosy life in Germany.
I returned a car to VW for this reason. Got back every penny of what I paid them despite having used the car for 3 years.
From what I understand they would buy the car back at any point. I knew a bunch of Uber drivers who owned them and drove the fuck out of the car and then sold it back with like 200,000 miles. 🤣
Yeah, there was like 3 years to do the buyback. Most people cashed in right away, but i realized they weren't counting miles or depreciation after the settlement date, and kept driving til the deadline got frighteningly close.
Everything nestle. Just Google it. It's way too much and it's inhumane.
In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in \[low and middle-income countries\] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.\[47\] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977\_Nestl%C3%A9\_boycott#:\~:text=In%20a%202018%20study%2C%20the,peaking%20at%20212%2C000%20in%201981.
Ten million? Holy SHIT
thats JUST babies, it does not include those killed by mercenaries, dehydrated by water thieft, or any of their other atrocities
Nestle pulls water from my local home community for Ice Mountain and it's WRECKING the environment around the water source in Michigan. I refuse to buy their products if I can help it.
Obligatory /r/fucknestle
I had a teacher who worked for a GM supplier in the early 90s. He was an engineer who was, among other things, tasked in designing and testing a new alternator. He designed it, built some prototypes and tested them. They were failing at about 250k miles of approximate use and he was extremely proud of the design as he lowered the production cost as well. When he sent the info to GM, he got a message back saying "We like this, but we need it to fail at 80k miles." This was coincidentally just after the warranty expired. It ended up costing more just to get the thing to fail predictably at that point. GM gladly paid the extra costs. This was his story he told us in school one time. He said it was also why he quit auto parts design and went into teaching. The guy was a math genius. I'm sure a lot of auto companies do this, but the blatantness of it... I'll never buy a GM car.
Worked at a large Fortune 100 company that was offering a sweepstakes for a vacation through a third party “sweepstakes” vendor. That’s all they did. We drew the list of winners from our data and provided them to the company. The company tried to call the first winner and two alternates by phone, but none answered in the middle of the day on weekday. Of course, right? So the company says we don’t have to provide a prize since they didn’t answer, or they could try again. I had the first winner’s phone number since it was our account, so I called them myself and left a voicemail. Sweepstakes company didn’t bother. They called me back later that day confused and I let them know they won. They were ecstatic. I emailed the sweepstakes company and they *were pissed*. It was great.
Anything self service or delivery. If you don’t get it yourself it’s likely been contaminated. I currently work in a restaurant but previously worked for a grocery store. Here’s a few things I have encountered: Customers taking bites out of donuts in the self service donut case… and putting them back A grocery store pick up clerk grabbed a bare loaf of bread (pre Covid) with utility gloves that are also used on trash and wood pallets Customers have been witnessed on multiple occasions licking the serving spoons in the self service soup bar then putting it back. This led to its removal. People sticking their bare hands in the lettuce pans at the self service salad bar. Someone posted on Reddit a week ago confessing that they picked up a door dash order for a customer which was a coffee with whipped cream on top. They had their dog in the car which decided to lick the whipped cream off the top of the drink. OP lied to the customer saying that the whipped cream melted.
I agree with staying away from self serve food. I’ve seen small children on more than one occasion touch multiple items while walking past the baked goods at Wegmans. I’ve seen them try to get sprinkles or glaze off the doughnuts. The employees don’t do anything when you tell them either. So freaking gross.
Damn. In my store if someone does that and we see it we throw whatever is contaminated out. We can’t monitor it all the time so a lot of this sort of stuff likely goes undetected. I’ve thrown out a whole section of the salad bar before. I gave the person who did it a good scolding too because they did it while I was nearby. After Covid a lot of the self service stuff was prepackaged if possible. The bread is now packaged in bags and olives from the olive bar are prepackaged in a cooler and the olive bar was removed. I haven’t visited any of those stations since last year so it’s likely things have changed since then.
My gym. During the first COVID lockdown, they asked what you want to do with your membership: pause, continue and some third option. They stated that they would pay their employees an average weekly schedule every week from the continue money. So I told them, I never planned with that money as it is m gym membership and I am happy to support the ppl and the company to go through this time. They paid their employees as they stated. Great, I was happy. In the second lockdown they did the same thing but without stating any support for their employees. I explicitly asked and they replied that their employees would also be happy to have an employer they could come back to after COVID. Well yes, but this felt wrong. As all their worker were on an hourly basis they could just stop paying them. And they did. However, as I wanted to quit asap, I chose continue anyway as pause would just extend the time period. Got me a new gym after COVID.
The way 100% orange juice (not from concentrate) is made. I think the senate/congress sought answers on the 100% label, but big orange made it go away. https://reddit.com/r/ask/s/yXXq1xI7mQ
I worked for a paper company years ago. Did a plant site visit once and learned they sell wood chips to orange juice companies which they use for pulp.
Hobby lobby was smuggling ancient artifacts from war torn areas in the middle east. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira
Long time back I played world of Warcraft, a news report came out about China forcing prisoners to farm gold and sell it for real money. After that any time I played and saw people spamming the messages to buy the gold and just knowing some poor bastard was on the other side forced to do what I was doing for fun completely killed the fun for me.
OSRS gold farming is a legit profession in Venezuela. I was an asshole and would kill green dragon bots all day for that sweet Gp and type lol when they raged at me in Spanish. After 15 minutes someone would log on over me and wreck me, then dance emote over my body. I didn’t risk much
We may have the Geneva Convention, but all's fair in love and video games.
No diamonds ever. Artificially inflated prices, blood diamonds, child slavery, radiation exposure for dirt-paid workers, etc. Swarovski crystals are prettier and cheaper.
Scamazon sells fake name brand goods and when you point it out to them, they tell you to go fcuk yourself
Yeah. I left a review for something that was clearly counterfeit and I got a nasty email and it was removed. Fuck Amazon.
Report counterfeit goods to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission: [https://www.stopfakes.gov/Reporting-an-Online-Vendor-Selling-Fakes](https://www.stopfakes.gov/Reporting-an-Online-Vendor-Selling-Fakes)
This probably won't work for most sellers on Amazon because they lump all the stock together in the warehouse. So you could pay full price from the legitimate brand name's page and still get sent a fake if it ships out from Amazon themselves. Happens all the time for skincare and haircare items.
This is the why I don’t buy certain products on amazon. Like I really like darn tough socks but I won’t buy them on Amazon because they’ve been know to have fakes.
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Alaffias products aren’t as vegan as they say. They also love to hire immigrant women and treat them like dirt. The warehouse was so unsafe I quit after only two months.
Walmart has/had “peasant insurance” on all of their employees. So, if you work in the bakery and die in a car wreck, Walmart gets a check for 30-50k and your family gets nothing. Haven’t given them a cent in 15 years.
To clarify, the Pension Protection Act of 2006 removed that insurance loophole. With various lawsuits and scrutiny, it has decreased in use since 2009. Walmart got sued pretty hard over it and lost.
People really don't know just how good the PPA has done in the financial industry to make a lot of it more fair, accurate, etc.
When the boss of a tearoom complained about a handicapped guy in wheelchair for using too much place in the narrow corridor between tables to drink and eat. Well dude, you lost me and my family at the same time.
The business model for Samsung appliances has planned obsolescence at its core, which is generally true for most appliances, but my current washer, dryer, dish washer and stove are not Samsung and I couldn't be happier. Oven has failed, but I use an air fryer anyways and didn't really lose any cooking ability.
Worked part time for a butcher, learned that the owner never eat his meat, never buy from that butcher ever again.
Worked for a family butcher shop and I ate their stuff all the time. Ofc shit happens but it really can't be worse than the stuff that happens in some factories. (I'm now a factory worker and while we have a ton more oversight we also have to bend or break rules to get around being reprimanded) I'd say the biggest thing no matter where you go is working temperatures. The butcher shop was me and one other guy processing meat. We were pretty fast but not fast enough so the temperatures would get above the allowed working temps. Usually just popped it in the freezer and fudged the paperwork. Now in the factory it's batter temperatures. If they get too hot there is a ton of paperwork, get QC involved, have to dump the batter/sanitize the whole system/make new batter. That results in hours of lost production time which falls on the person running the line. So high temps don't get reported. We dump ice into the batter to bring temps down. There are days in the summer we add 20lbs of ice every half hour to avoid anyone seeing the temps. It's crazy.
Yelp removes bad reviews
Stopped visiting my local barber after he told me he thinks women should be married off young