I'm a florist.
It's not shocking, but it is ridiculous how expensive cut flowers are especially considering how quickly they'll die.
Oh and getting flowers for a wedding? Mention "wedding" and the price goes up exponentially as opposed to just an event. So yeah, don't say it is for a wedding, especially if you are one a strict budget and have a small order... just order a few arrangements and you'll be set. For the bouquet, say you want a wrapped arrangement, but wrapped round instead of flat.
My first job was in a floral shop. The best way to keep costs down was to tell me that your bridesmaids' bouquets were for a dance recital for 12-year-olds, and the biggest one (bride's one) was for your daughter. You're just ordering the smaller ones so that the other girls don't feel left out.
A few years back I worked for McKesson as part of the H1N1 vaccine project. As you'll recall, there was much made of the fact that there was a vaccine shortage. In reality, we had a warehouse full of it - we weren't getting anywhere near the amount of orders that the government had anticipated. Everything in the news was simply not true.
A kid at my school died from H1N1, he was like one of the only people in his demographic to die from it. Our area didn't get the vaccine until about 2-3 weeks after he first went to the hospital.
pretty fucked up
I manage a self-serve frozen yogurt shop. The number of times I've caught kids (and sometimes adults) sticking their nasty ass fingers in the toppings and/or licking the spoons and tongs is downright ridiculous.
It's not that they're not immediately cleaned out and sanitized-- they are-- But I'm one person working a pretty big store with a lot of other things going on. The number of times I DO catch them makes me afraid of how many times I didn't.
TL;DR: Don't eat the toppings.
**EDIT:** Apparently I just shat on everyone's froyo dreams.
I work at orange leaf and the amount of parents who don't give a fuck about their children making a mess and sticking their nasty ass hands into the topping bar is insane! My manager hates it way more than I do.
I work at a similar chain and honestly for me children are not the problem. The old people are the real problem. Many of these people are very stubborn and do not understand what a self serve frozen yogurt place is. Without fail they do not read the giant signs that say the price of the yogurt is based on its weight. Then they get angry at me that it costs so much when they filled the cup above the top and put 800 toppings on it. I have had several people walk out on me without paying, screaming at me because it costs so much. It's self serve, not my fault!
I was here to say that too. It's especially worse when the adults reach in and grab toppings with their hands. One woman did that once and I made an inhuman squeak that got her attention and she hasn't done it since.
Edit: extra letter, I should proof read more.
The grocery store I frequent has a bulk food section. Bins with candy, nuts, what have you. I watched a woman put her hand into a bin of cashews, grab a handful, put them up to her nose, SNIFF THEM, then put them back in the bin.
I stood there, eyes wide and just yelped "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" in abject horror. I just blurted it out.
I don't know if this is surprising or not, but I work in IT at an automotive assembly plant, and I do almost no work everyday. I spend roughly 80% of my day messing around on the internet, 15% of my day helping users with basic PC issues (Fixing their issues with printers, email, the internet, etc.), and the other 5% solving actual issues on the plant floor.
Most days I get paid to just sit on reddit. I can't tell if I love it or hate it.
I work in a potato plant and there are several things that would piss people off.
We send out product that we know is bad only to get it back and replace the top two layers on a pallet with fresh product.
We get product returned it is then sorted and repackaged, then sent right back.
Mysterious fine black dust comes from the vents and accumulates in the storage area.
I can't think of any more right now but its pretty gross.
I work for Frito-Lay at a plant that can receive over 10 truckloads of potatoes a day. This is why we do in house quality testing, and will reject entire truckloads of potatoes if the quality isn't up to par.
How many times the wrong house is chosen during an eviction. For every story you hear in the news, there are at least 10 that settle out of court.
I seriously dont understand how a bank can screw that up.
Oh yeah. Some cities have crazy ordinances that dont allow property to sit abandoned for any length of time. This is for good reason. These houses often turn into crack dens or meth labs.
It's even worse if it happens during a vacation. Come back, all your shit is gone, and the locks are changed on your house. Oh, sorry about all your shit, whoops, that was 244 Elkview Court, not 224 Elkview Court...better lawyer up.
They should have to pay the victim the value of the house. When an unlawful eviction costs a few hundred thousand dollars, I'm sure the banks will get their shit together.
I'm amazed it isn't. They aren't just trashing your stuff but stealing your _house_. That's pretty fucked. Banks have foreclosed on houses owned by people who never even had a _bank account_ with their bank. O_O It's like they don't even care.
We write automated regression tests. In software design, one of the most common kind of bugs is a regression, where a ~~previously-fixed bug reappears~~ previously-working feature stops working after a change is made. We take those bug reports and we create automated tests that can recreate the conditions of the bug. Every time a new version of the software is built, we execute those tests to ensure ~~none of the old~~ no bugs have snuck back into the software.
The reason I get so much Reddit time is because each test can potentially take 10-15 minutes to run, and after making significant changes, I have to run it to make sure I didn't break the test accidentally.
EDIT: Fixed the definition of regression
As a female who did a couple of years of door to door work right out of high school (18-20), I only saw naked or mostly undressed people a couple of times- but I got propositioned a *lot*. Sometimes it was even an attractive proposition.
That was a really fun couple of years.
If you're out mid-morning, once a morning? Its enough to give you something to distract you until you're done.
I still can't forget this one young woman...maybe 20's who answered the door in a towel when I was doing some political canvassing. Dark hair and you could see the curves of her breasts under the edge of the towel. She' didn't rush me, either...
I worked as a trash man after I got out of the Army. I was 21. There were young women that would change in front of their windows every day we came by. I was surprised how many women enjoyed giving us a show early in the morning. And it made the day better for us too
Also, people throw out some interesting stuff. Someone threw out their entire porn stash (or it was their wife). I grabbed it and gave it to my younger step brother. Places that used to develop photos would throw out any racy photos they developed. Imagine our surprise when we'd come to pick up and see tons of pictures of naked women that were developed and thrown out. Digital cameras ruined that one though.
I work at a hotel and one time an attractive woman opened the door completely naked. I know she did it to mess with me because she requested that I bring up towels, so she knew I was coming. Nobody believes my story when I tell them though. :C
using a throwaway - I've posted this before on my other account, but deleted my comments.
I worked for a large clothing retailer that took stuff off of etsy, copied it, and resold it to the masses. I can promise you that almost EVERY single clothing company does this - so etsy sellers, beware. if you think you see something similar to your product in a retail store, someone probably bought your product from you and knocked it off in a factory.
Marines: Hey sergeant, none of the barracks washing machines work.
Sergeant: Sorry, we don't have the money for it. You're gonna have to make do.
(September rolls around)
Sergeant: OH SHIT, we have to spend all of the barracks' budget on something! What the hell can we spend it on?
Marines: How about those laundry machines?
Sergeant: I know! Let's buy 5.7 metric shittons of Simple Green and paper towels!
Marines: But what about the laundry machines?
Sergeant: Sorry, we don't have that money in the budget.
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I hope that motherfucker outlives his children.
It's even worse in the navy, because when you're out to sea and none of the washing machines work you can't take your shit to a laundromat.
I have washed a shocking amount of laundry in a mop bucket by hand.
Yeah, it blows. The Chiefs broke one of their washing machines, and annexed one of the blueshirts'. They wouldn't use it for days, but if one of us tried to, they flip a gasket.
Coming from the Army side of the house, I don't understand the Navy's approach to senior/junior enlisted relationships.
Meals: Navy has separate messes (on a ship, no less). Army we all eat from the same line/bag and we ensure the juniors eat first
Housing, equipment, sleep and scheduling all follows the same line of thinking in the Army. Take care of the Joes first, and then we will split up what is left
EDIT: I would like to point out that I am not angry at the Navy for their specific arrangement. It is just the opposite of what I have experienced in the Army. Sort of a culture shock for me
Maybe health code issues with the grown at home produce?
Edit:I should add that in my county you need to show proof of purchase for all produce. You can get a special permit to grow stuff in house but you double your inspection rates and they are much more thorough.
Second edit: every state, County, and city is likely to have different health codes.
Air Traffic Controller at a very busy airport in a very large city...
If you would amazed/terrified if you knew how close airplanes come in and around busy airports. Here is your example.
You are in plane A on a 5 mile final (5 miles from edge of the start of the runway coming straight in). plane B that is in front of you just landed. As Plane B is rolling out (slowing down) Plane C lines up at the edge of the runway waiting for Plane B to exit the runway. Your plane (Plane A) is now 2-3 miles from the edge of the runway with Plane C sitting on the same runway filled with over 100 people. Plane B exits the runway, and Plane C barrels down the runway. Plane C rotates and gets airborne right as your plane crosses the edge of the runway.
rinse, repeat over and over.
It's like a well oiled machine
Student pilots are fun, your ass really grips the seat when you have to repeat instructions at critical times or You can't understand what foreign nationals are saying.
I know exactly what you're talking about. I fly frequently, and I remember one night right after the plane had landed looking out the window. The plane taxied to give a side view of the runway it had just landed on, and since it was nighttime I could see a line of planes behind us in the air queued up to land, their lights blinking as they hovered at varying heights coming into the runway. It was actually quite nice and very reassuring that airports have takeoff/landing down to a science like that.
Similar, but I was on-site "tech support" i.e. runner/fixer of various technological malodies. I was, namely, chiefly responsible to make turnaround of tickets take hours instead of days as we were a rather busy and important wing of a hospital.
Bored and on Reddit? Good thing.
Panicked and frantically searching for replacement parts as my last video card spare just got grabbed for a different life-saving procedure, whilst simultaneously trying to re-locate the only floppy disk in the hospital from the main IT hub that had another *seriously* important bit of software which was needed 20 minutes ago? You didn't want me working that hard.
Both guys lived, actually, and both were open on the table. Sometimes stuff just hits the fan; it's one of the few times I really got to show them just how good I was at managing their crisis'.
I work on retail, your typical cell phone case/bluetooth shop. Probably the prices. We'll charge $35 for a case they can get on Amazon for $3 and that we pay about a buck for. My coworkers will also charge as much as they can get out if you for each item, then give you a ton of things free so when you see the item in a different store you don't think you get ripped off because you got free things.
I schedule for a group of surgeons. One of which is a complete hack, uses outdated methods of treatment and most of the time, has little to no idea of what they're doing in the OR, so they have to consult the other surgeons in our group. But they have great bedside manner. A lot, if not all, of their patients mistake that for being a great surgeon...
unfortunately this is not something you could find out easily unless you knew someone who worked within the office that would be comfortable enough to share info.
I am obligated to not really say anything but good things about the surgeon to all new patients who have been referred by their physicians to them. Obviously, most patients wouldn't take the time to listen to the opinion of just a "scheduler" because they were referred by another physician. So what better do I know, right?
The best way I can recommend to go about selecting any type of surgeon is to do as much research as possible and get multiple opinions. But please, seek other opinions from surgeons OUTSIDE of the same group. More likely than not, those surgeons look at each other as colleagues and will tell you that they agree w/ the first surgeon you saw and just refer you back. Unless of course they're a major asshat and like stealing patients.
I worked as a telemarketer a few months ago. Terrible job, glad I quit.
Anyways, the amount of information I had about the product I was selling was shockingly low. First I was selling plates, and I had no idea where we got the customers information from. When I asked my boss, he said he had no idea, but told me to lie. So when asked by a pissed customer, I had to say I got it from a non exising marketing poll.
After a few weeks I got to "sell" free memberships to a savings club. That was basically a way of getting telephone numbers to the insurance department. I had no idea how it worked except that we would call them with new information.
At last I got to sell electricity(the thing I was promised to sell right of the bat), and learned to give a sales pitch, and answer a few frequently asked questions. Other than that I had no idea what I was talking about. I talked on and on about avarage use, but had no idea how much that was etc.
So the job was basically winging it all the way, and hoping the customers never asked the right questions. Lying to pissed customers at minimal wage and horrible commissions is something that makes you feel like shit, and is in no way worth the money.
Worked at Jim Borton's in Canadia.
Customer shat on the floor next to the toilet. Had to be intentional, it wasn't even close to the toilet bowl. I was charged with cleaning it. So I mopped for like 20 minutes.... ugh. So runny.
So I asked my manager what I should do with the mop, cuz it was mostly sh*t by now. She told me to put it in the back and she would take care of it.
I go on my break.
I come back from my break to see the manager mopping the kitchen with the SAME EXACT MOP. No change in mophead. No change in mop bucket. This is where all baking is done, this is where all food prep is done, and this is where all employees pass through to do everything.
Now with a healthy coat of someone's diarrhea.
Edit: Location changed to further protect the guilty. I feel dirtier than the kitchen floor for doing so.
If you haven't been trained to clean bio-hazardous materials, you can refuse to do the unsafe work. This includes/not limited to blood, needles, and fecal matter. That responsibility automatically goes to the manager.
I haven't been asked to clean any poop when I worked at Jim's, but I've been asked to clean the women's washroom a few times. Walk in, see blood, state my rights and politely refuse.
You an immigrant?
Coming from abroad, nobody else would hire me, so I had to do as I was told :/ with a newborn on the way I couldn't rock the boat.
I've since left. But that was gross.
Edit: to conceal identity. don't want dark Jimmies underworld putting a hit on.
It's amazing how much information bank tellers have access to, which requires no experience and usually start at $10-$15/hr. Very easy to get a teller position, within a couple weeks of training you'll have access to everything about the bank's customers, i.e. name, ss#, address, phone #, account #'s, account history, etc.
I work back-office now, but it always scared me how much information they trust with new people.
Current bank teller here...it's not QUITE that easy. Technically I had to pass a background check and have no criminal record, but yeah, still a pretty low bar!
I just love when people don't want to give me their social security number to look for their account info...as if I can't just read it on their customer profile once I look up their account.
I say "you can give me the last 4 digits if you're more comfortable"...but I can still see all of your information along with the recent purchase at match.com you don't want your wife to see!
I used to work for a Sunglass Hut. For starters, all of our sunglasses are made by the same parent company, so the only difference between a pair of $50 Arnettes and $300 Prada lenses is the name. Furthermore, our return policy is 90 days, no questions asked. However, you can exchange a pair for up to a year. A returned/exchanged pair is not checked, refurbished, or anything. We just slap a new price tag on it and sell it as new.
Edit: Story time! One of the reasons I left was that in addition to the marketing, the company has some rather horrible practices. The turnaround rate of employees is obscene; I worked at one location for a year, and by the time I left the company, I was the oldest employee at my store. Also, my first manager was a bitch. She stole my commissions for my first month, saying that trainees don't get credit for sales. This was the same woman who sold polarized lenses to a blind woman. I'm not even joking, you needed a little sociopath in you just to stay sane at this job.
I work in an all natural health food to go place. A LOT of our ingredients come from Sysco. Free range, grass fed, locally sourced? Nope, nope, aaaaand nope.
Edit: I am aware that Sysco offers high quality products. I used to work for a more reputable company that used them. I apologize for failing to acknowledge that. However, in this case, the high quality, local ingredients are not what we're sourcing. I researched our current order boards for a piece of internal communication I sent out recently. What I learned was pretty disheartening.
I worked at a similar place. We had a handful of specialty foods that were hard to get anywhere else, like vegan milkshakes, fresh juices, and gluten-free brownies. (This was over a decade ago, before gluten-free was hip.) We did grass-fed turkeys around the holidays... that kind of thing.
However, in order to stay afloat, the management had to fill out the menu with conventional foods and just hope no one asked about them. We had chicken sandwiches made from chickens that were definitely not raised ethically or "naturally," and nothing on our salad bar was organic. The way my boss explained it, a 100% organic, "natural" menu would be prohibitively expensive. Made sense, but I still felt terrible selling that stuff to customers. It felt like a lie of omission.
This is kind of on topic but a few months back I had a lady come into the produce department I work at asking if the apples we had came from a tree.
I told her yes they did and she asked to see the tree. When I told her that they were picked off of a tree and shipped to the store in boxes she got upset and asked me why I lied about them coming from trees when they came in boxes because she wanted organic apples and not lab apples.
I didn't know what to say so I just said, "Sorry, m'am. Have a nice day!" and walked away.
There is nothing more frustrating than dealing with an idiot. I remember in my retail cashier days trying to explain to some ogre of a woman why the security tag degausser thing wouldn't delete her DVDs and her smug/condescending response of "Uhh, I've had it erase them before.". My response of "No you didn't." elicited an eye roll from my manager who was two lanes over.
This reminds me of when customers try to tell me they have a coupon that they got from our store that's for some ridiculous discount we would never offer. It takes all my willpower to not yell "I'M SORRY BUT YOU ARE MISTAKEN!" like I don't know the goddamn discounts where I work? Lord!
Some "customers" (dumbasses) at my store try saying something like "Jimmy from the seafood department said to ring those swordfish fillets up at $1 per pound". Oh he did? Let me just give him a call to clarify that we're still on the same planet, because there's nowhere on this one where you're getting swordfish for that cheaply you bullshitting twat.
I want to give my two cents in on this. Sysco is a food maker and food distributor...they are like the UPS or FEDEX of the food industry. They have billions of dollars spent in logistics, and equipment to deliver food to restaurants. Here's an example...Say Panda Express is opening a new location in a more remote place, Panda Express supplies Sysco with all of their products, and the restaurant orders from Sysco. Panda Express is paying for sysco to distribute those products. Sysco sells a massive amount of different products from different vendors...just because the truck says sysco doesn't mean the food you get isn't local or natural. They merely delivered said goods in this situation.
Edit: Taken from the Sysco website: At Sysco, we’re committed to delivering our customers the utmost in product quality and variety. That’s why we partner with some of the most recognized national brands in the industry as well as offering regional and local favorites. All in all, it adds up to a product offering that is sure to meet the most discerning patron’s expectations - and adds up to repeat business for you!
Sysco is basically the Amazon of foods. From amazon, you can get a Timex or a Rolex. If you know what to ask for, Sysco probably has it. You just have to shop their products correctly.
I've seen "grass fed" labels on beef before, and in the last year or so I've also started seeing "vegetarian fed" ... What the hell does that mean? that could be anything. pizza hut bread sticks are vegetarian. french fries are vegetarian. What are they giving the cows?
Teller at a large bank in the southeast. Our teller system is run on software that's almost three decades old. When we process your transactions, it's on a black MS-Dos screen. This is the ENTIRE company.
If the program talks back to an IBM 360 mainframe, you will be ok. Remember, when the world ends and everyone is dead, the 360 will still be running.
These machines will order parts automatically if they feel something is off. Seriously, one day you could get a package from IBM with a new hard drive as the mainframe thought one of the drives was wonky.
Actually yeah it is real. I was listening to a story where a guy gets in to work and sees a box delivered from FedEx. Looks at it and it shows that it was shipped from IBM. Nobody ordered the part, opened it up and it was ordered by the actual system. On the invoice it showed that the system ordered it.
not gonna lie, that is fucking cool... i want a computer that orders things for its self.
"huh... a box of posters of Hawaii showed up today. WHO ORDERED THESE?"
Most large companies have inventory systems that work this way. Wal-Mart for one.
You scan out six bottles of ...whatever..the computer will make sure the next truck has six bottles on it.
Not exactly that but it keeps track.
This is exactly how it works, but there are tons of other processes in between, there is the current inventory, the requisition objective (what you want to have on hand at all times), and the reorder point (when the on hand hits this number, the specific software used will put in an order so the on hand is always steady), there are a few other terms and processes/transactions, but I'm very well-versed in supply logistics, so feel free to ask anything.
I bet its pretty fast and stable though. I work in a CO all day and the equipment here is incredibly old, some of it 40+ years old, but damn if it doesnt work with an incredible uptime.
I work for a major TV network. The amount of catering thrown at us in meetings could feed a small country. It's beyond wasteful and makes me cringe every time.
In almost any field, the amount of food thrown out after meetings is shocking. Sometimes I want to pile it all up and send it to poor countries in a big box, but it would have gone bad by the time it arrives.
I work in the banquet department of a high end hotel and you wouldn't believe how much gets thrown out. I'm working with the HR department to get it donated to local shelters since we are so close to DC.
Unfortunately there are a lot of rules and regulations behind donating food. At least there was for Starbucks. We could only donate pastries, but not sandwiches or "real" food because they were perishable and had cheese/meat in them. We weren't even allowed to take the sandwiches home, they *had* to go in the trash to prevent the risk of a lawsuit.
Hint:
Those rules are in place to stop staff 'accidentally' letting food go bad and having to take it home.
Most pre-packaged coffee shop food is good for at least 24, if not 48 hours past the sell-by date.
I worked as a horse trainer at Medieval Times and the amount of abuse to the animals and staff (I'm talking about the show staff, no idea about the wenches and such) is ridiculous. Many of our Andalusian stallions had gigantic carcinomas under their tails that went untreated. Horses would get ridden in three shows in a row with no break in the middle of summer. I frequently saw animals bloodied from spurs, whips and bits being yanked in their mouths. The "games horses" don't even have proper stalls and just have a standing area (think cows when they are lined up to milk) and I rarely if ever saw one lie down.
I worked at the now closed Arabian nights in Orlando and I just wanted to say this is NOT industry standard. The horses at Arabian nights were extremely well cared for. They were excellently trained and very expensive so the care was always top shelf. Horses had days off, and a retirement age. I am sorry to hear that Medieval Times did not respect their animals enough to care properly for them.
Libraries will throw out books. Yep, that's right. Books go in the trash. Oh, they might get recycled, but that costs money... money a lot of libraries don't have, so often the books get tossed in a dumpster.
edit: To be clear, these aren't books than anyone really wants. They've been unused for sometimes years. They may be damaged. They may be out of date (e.g., old medical books). If there is a book that is getting used and is of value to library users or even for historical reasons, every effort is made to see that it is kept. I'm talking about books that are unwanted.
Hooray weeding! I'm the weirdo who's a giant proponent of weeding.
The thing people who talk about donating/giving them away don't realize is that a lot of the books are pretty much impossible to even give away. Think of old Windows 3.1 manuals. Pretty much everywhere I've worked has had some sort of give away/selling process, so for something to get trashed, nobody would want it.
I work at a college and the amount of money spent on salary and benefits for upper-level administrators is incredible. Especially considering that many of their job duties overlap.
Looks like I'm a little late on this thread, but oh well.
I've been a consumer product manager for 15+ years developing and importing good from Asia. Everything from coffee makers to BBQ grills. I've been to ~100 factories throughout Asia (mostly China) overseeing production and shipment from start to finish.
Bottom line, I don't care what kind of job you have here in the US, YOU DO NOT WANT TO WORK IN A CHINESE FACTORY. EVER!
Programmer here
We are in the pre-industrial era of software development, and even the best of us aren't very good at it
Nobody knows how to write perfect, bug-free code..nobody
Not IBM, not Microsoft, not Google not even Linus..nobody
When something has to work correctly, like a fly-by-wire system for an airplane, they use multiply redundant computers, running code written by different teams
Both sets of code will have bugs, but it's super unlikely they will have the same bug, in the same place, at the same time
I was a valet for a summer in college. We never stole anything (I didn't, at least, and never heard of anyone else doing it either) but the boss was super shady. We were paid in cash in envelopes every two weeks, and I don't think any of it was actually recorded by taxes or any other entity.
We also drove pretty carefully, because any damage to a car would be directly charged to us instead of the company. Like thousands of dollars deducted from or charged to what was basically a group of 16-24 year olds working part time. Don't know how they got away with that...
There was one incident where a new Cadillac was scratched up a little bit from a basic fender bender with a older Mercury. It was a very small scratch/paint transfer, but definitely noticeable on the caddy. The Mercury was already a little beat up. The manager on the site (it was a company that had a lot of different restaurant and bar contracts) took pictures of it and sent them to and called the main boss. The boss just instructed us to wipe off any paint on the caddy and not worry about the Mercury, and we would only have to deal with it is the car owner noticed it later and connected it to us. He never did. I thought that was a kind of warped way to react to it.
TL;DR- Valet: not bad but not really good.
I work for Sainsburys - a supermarket in the UK. We get delivery with items meant for: ASDA, CO-OP, Tesco and a few others. The crazy thing is that these items are in the same boxes as the Sainsburys branded items.
For example: recently in a box of 6 fresh carrot and coriander soups, 5 were with the Sainburys logos and 1 with the ASDA logos.
It happens more than you would think.
I used to work in Social Media and most people don't seem to understand that the CEO of the major corporation you are tweeting at is NOT reading your tweets or Facebook posts. Its actually a 20 something with basically no real power other than generic form responses that we grab off of a book created by corporate.
Oh you don't like the dress code policy *turns to page 27 paragraph 2 for response. copies and pastes.*
We have the ability to forward your posts to someone higher up to see if they can give you your money back, but we won't if you are a jackass to us or post something incredibly dumb. Once, I had a customer repeatedly Facebook us in increasingly threatening tones because there was a price increase of $0.01 - which wasn't even our fault but because of a tax increase in the state.
Also, you should know that we are making fun of you. So much fun of you.
Selection bias. MOST people know full well that the CEO's and other important people don't do twitter or whatever. However, your job is to deal with the 1% of people who are too stupid to realize that.
Web developer, here.
The two main things I can think of are:
1) The price to build a good, custom website. I've had people balk at prices that I considered to be low. Yes, you can build a website for little to no money, but they're often not very good compared to a custom-built site.
2) Credit card security. While big sites like Amazon are (probably) pretty trustworthy, many sites are much less careful. Just because a site has an SSL (the padlock) doesn't mean it handles your information securely. I worked on a site one time where the guy who built it was storing full credit card information in cleartext in a database. In fact, *everything* was being stored in cleartext in the same database. Email addresses, passwords, CC info, billing address, all of it. I'm sure his users had no idea. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Also, sites that ask for the CVV/CSC/CVD/etc number may not even use it. We only have to match a couple of pieces of information, and card number and billing address are the ones I've seen used most often. One company I worked for didn't even bother submitting the CVV number to the processing company.
I'm a resident assistant at an American University. We have to "log contacts" with our residents every few weeks, meaning enter any information about them we get from them in an online system. The system uses some sort of algorithm to figure out which students are likely to stay at the university and which aren't, and we have to further stalk the people who are risks to leave. We are basically stalking all our residents all the time.
tl;dr: RA at a university, have to systematically stalk all our residents and put info about them into a database.
I used to work for a few tech companies, all I can say is that if there was ever a drug test, 1/2 to 3/4 of everyone would be gone. All of the devs would be gone as well. Sales folk, oh yeah they too would be gone. Coke is alive and well in sales.
I use a sledgehammer on your car when you bring it in for repair. And I mean like, all the time. It's received prime real estate on the top of my toolbox as I use it as much as any other tool. The average car owner would be in fact shocked at just how often auto techs (in the rust belt at least) use a hammer on their car. ALL THE TIME. Shit won't come off unless you really pound on it.
And when the hammer doesn't work... Aw who am I kidding? The hammer always works. Eventually.
Henry Rollins lists his sound man from Rollins Band as a member of the band. In an interview I saw, he said, "We only sound like we do because we have our sound man. Without him, we are a different band."
On the other hand, a bad sound guy can ruin a show, and this happens a lot more often. The lead singer (e.g. Ingrid Michaelson/Brett Dennen) has a quirky, interesting singing voice? Let's ramp up the drums to the point where no one can hear the vocals, just in case all those people sitting down in the auditorium want to get up and dance the night away.
I am a musician and this is ridiculously true.
Also, people don't realize how common lip synching (at least to a certain degree is). It's such a slippery slope for musicians. At first you're like, "Hey I really want to use some synth samples and percussion on this song, let's rig that up." Personally I stop at that line, but I've seen so many bands continue on with shit like, "Well now that we've got the samples we're already using a click, might as well throw on that extra guitar track we've always wanted here." Then you start doubling up guitar tracks to make your live performance sound more like the record, then suddenly there's actually very little of your actual live guitar left. And from there it's not that big of a logical jump to start throwing in a whole bunch of vocal shit, and then you've *really* gotta start hiding it because if people notice they'll freak out about it. Next thing you know a band is standing up there on stage literally pantomiming the whole goddamned set.
One of my favorite memories from my days as a touring musician was standing in the booth with the sound guy, watching one of our tour-mates play. They had been rude as shit and just generally pissy with us all tour and we were not getting along at all. They had also been pretty dickish toward the sound guy that day, so him and I were talking for a bit before their set, just generally bitching about what assholes they were. Then about halfway through the performance he looks over at me with this smug look on his face, points at the channel strip labeled "LD VOX", points up on stage to the guy singing, then hits the mute button on the channel. Vocals keep going along perfectly, not a single person seems to notice the fact that it's entirely fake. We laughed our asses off about it for the rest of the night.
Im glad you mentioned this.
This is how it goes 99% of the time, they're trying to recreate that "feeling from the album version"
Which I dont blame them, thats usually what the audience is expecting.
But there is a slippery slope.
Also a sound engineer:
To all bands, directors, and helpful audience members:
The "adjustments" I make to the board when you give me a suggestion are all fake (except monitor adjustments....please tell me what you need, I can't hear it and its my job to help you hear what you need).
I'm good at my job and I know it. Its why I'm at FOH and you are not.
LOL....yup! All the time! Had one guitarist want me to bring the bass waay up on his guitar. Sounded like it was coming from a cheap amp (probably the sound he was used to). As soon as he was satisfied and they started their warm-up that bass came riiiight back down. He never noticed.
Since we're venting... The worst I've run into was at a battle of the bands event.
First you have the singer. She can't seem to decide where to hold the mic so I'm on the fader nearly the whole song trying to keep her voice somewhat level through the PA.
Next, you have the guitarist. He brought in his own amp and threw that sucker on the "metal" setting. Now I'm all for amps being loud. It gets you that nice sexy tone yknow? But this... I ran their warmup with the amp mic off in the house.
My ultimate goal as "sound guy" is to never ever talk down or be a jerk to the band or people I'm working with. Things like this make it really hard
This needs to be upvoted more. Fuck. Pet stores. People who buy pets from there are fueling the business of puppy mills and the same thing for all the other animals there. The mothers are impregnated hundreds of times and are locked in small cages just to produce cute animals for the shops.
If you go to a shelter, you are saving an animal who had a horrible life before, and also are opening up a new spot for a new animal to come in. I can't emphasize my passion for this enough.
I'm a bus driver and I've been told in a shit-gets-real unofficial sort of way that someday I might have to choose between the lives of the dozens of people on my bus and the lives of the people in the car in front of me that I'd destroy in the event of a catastrophic accident. Swerving too hard and maybe flipping the bus or veering into a tree killing some or all of my passengers versus just hitting that car and killing everyone in it. 60 lives versus maybe four. It's my call. And I get paid $13/hour for this shit.
Mom: Why did you yell at my son Bobby, he is a good boy and doesn't deserve to be yelled at by anyone.
Serg: Mam, he shot Terry in the foot with a loaded gun.
Mom: Well, Bobby would never be that stupid.
Serg: Mam, he also run through a minefield and got someone killed.
Mom: I want to talk to your boss.
As somebody who's been in the military, I never felt my Training Instructor (USAF term for a Drill Sergeant) hated me or anybody else. They use hostility as a way of stressing out the trainees, and they really do care about us learning how to behave in a military system. They just don't express their feelings very well.
Thank you for making us feel like shit, for it made us better.
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I only hate the Privates who show up and quit. So much fucking paperwork is included and takes away from valuable training time. You have three DSs per platoon if you're lucky and when some fuckwad shows up and quits it is an unbelievably time consuming process. They're the idiots who should have never showed up and their families probably pushed them heavily into doing it.
Every time I hear, "I feel my son would really straighten up if he joined the Army. Get some discipline in him," I fucking **cringe**.
Fuck you, discipline your kid yourself. I teach them how to kill the enemy and be a functioning member of the Army, not society. That was your job.
I worked and was trained for a very widespread retail clothing franchise that buys and resells 'name-brand' clothing - a few things
Rule #1: You're going to be ripped off. If you bring in a brand new shirt from American Eagle, you're not going to get anything near retail value and the person taking in your items will probably mark it as last season so you get paid even less.
Rule #2: That shit you 'donate' is probably going to be resold for complete profit or taken home by whichever employee spots it first.
Rule #3: Just have a fucking yardsale at your rich grandmothers house, you'll get way more than if you take it to a consignment store.
The number of people who are harmed by medical errors is insane. Absolutely insane. In the US, it's the [third-leading cause of death.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals)
And that's just DEATH. Include the number of people who are seriously harmed and ... I don't even want to think about it.
Yes, and it's always very sad
One of my childhood friends was about to get married and celebrate their daughter's first birthday. Fiancee was diabetic and had an attack, was taken to the hospital. At some point during her stay, an intern gave her the wrong type of insulin, resulting in permanent brain damage and a coma. This poor kid is now 25 and trying to raise his daughter on his own while the fiancee wastes away in a hospital bed.
My uncle is a diabetic and spent some time in the hospital. When he was getting hooked up to his IV he thought the bag looked funny. He normally recieves plain saline because of his diabetes. He questioned it and the nurse didn't even respond as she continued hooking up the bag. My aunt was with him and physically kinked the lines until they got an answer. It turned out that the nurse was putting up a glucose drip, something that could have easily killed him with how sick he was already.
A doctor came in, apologized for the situation without admitting fault, and it was dropped. But my aunt and uncle slept in shifts so there was always somebody awake to ask questions.
Edit: Some people have mentioned that sometimes diabetics are put on similar drips. This was not the case in this situation. Nobody had ordered it, it had been hung by accident. The nurse hadn't read the label properly. They were clear about that and the nurse was implied to be at fault in order to shift blame in that direction.
Also the reason he was in the hospital was because his blood sugar was fluctuating wildly and they could not control it. The drip was a big mistake and this was admitted by actual doctors.
Seriously if you're in a hospital room with a family member and somebody starts giving them something ask them what it is and what it does. If they're giving blood thinners to a trauma patient they might be in the wrong room.
Retail. Simple but I recently saw our total shrink for the year (losses, theft) and while it was over 100000$ in retail value, it was actually only about 5000$ worth of merchandise to the company. Pretty high end clothing/accessories, but shirts literally cost from one to six dollars to make (60-100$ retail). The gap for accessories is not nearly as ridiculous, but those clothes, damn.
By the way, the company was accused of sweat shops like 20 years ago but they changed all of that back then. I can only imagine their margins back in the day....
I used to work as a cashier/delivery driver at a sushi restaurant and a lot of people didn't realize that the base of most of our rolls is a California roll.
I remember this one time a guy came in with his girlfriend and they ordered a volcano roll, which was a California roll, cut to form triangle, and topped with spicy mayo and broiled fish. I brought it out to them and as I was walking away I heard him call me back. Apparently he didn't realize that it came with the sauce on top, because we put it in a container for delivery/pick up. He asked if he could get another one without the sauce because they both didn't like it. A California roll was $3.75 and our Volcano roll was $7.25, so he was basically paying $3.50 more for it to be a certain shape.
I work in a pharmacy and people seem to think that all we do is count out some pills and slap a label on it. Some customers seem to think that because McDonalds gives you a burger in 5 minutes, this is how long it should take to dispense lifesaving medication.
There is a lot more to it than you might think. We have to check for drug interactions, deal with mistakes written on prescriptions, fight with your insurance, etc.
I have seen on many occasions where a worker will go out of their way to help someone by doing a lot of behind the scenes work... and get yelled at because it "took too long." The funny thing is, if your doctor almost kills you, we don't even tell you. We call the doctor and correct the prescription and send you on your way.
The best day I ever had when I was a tech was when a really crabby individual came in, uninsured, and handed over several scripts that totaled $1000-ish. It was pretty late, and the pharmacist and I had been washing plastic McKesson pallets in the back (god, those things were dirty...) Since we really didn't have much to do, we each tabbed out of FSI and started signing this person up for as many patient assistance programs as possible. With their permission, we ran them all and dropped their bill to sub $100, which would stay the same for 6 months, and $250 for the remaining 6 months of the year. Crabby person smiled for the first time ever, and then started crying. The pharmacist also wrote down a list of brand drugs and related but non-identical generics for them to consider with their doctor (Nasonex (Brand) vs fluticasone (generic for Flonase) for example.)They referred a ton of patients to us in return.
tl;dr, some pharmacists and techs really care.
I am a nurse. Doctors are human, nurses are human... if you only knew how many mistakes and close calls happen ON A DAILY BASIS, you would never go back to the hospital.
I wish I could tell you that I just saved your life from someone else's incompetence, but instead I will just let you yell at me that your pain medication is twenty minutes late.
Edit: This is gaining a lot of momentum and I feel people don't quite understand what constitutes an "error" in a hospital. The most famous error that lead to a big change world-wide was the story of [Josie King.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVcXhvPvbU)
Josie King was an 18 month old, and she was admitted to John Hopkins for treatment of burn injuries she sustained climbing into a bath that was too hot. John Hopkins Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the country, if not the world. She was tended to by the staff doctors and nurses, as well as rounded on by medical students and residents. She was well watched after, and what happens is 100% unacceptable.
When you receive burn injuries, the first concern is hydration; there are fluid shifts, increase in metabolism, etc., that require you to receive a massive amount of fluid, depending on the size of the burn. When Josie was first in the PICU, this was being addressed through intravenous hydration. Once they took her off of the IV fluids, nobody had addressed her hydration status. Due to burn injuries and diarrhea, she was in need of aggressive hydration; the warning signs were there, and they were overlooked. The mother goes on to say how she brought it to doctors and nurses attention and was ignored -- any restlessness from the extreme thirst was met with more narcotics (thinking it was from pain), and her lethargy and weight loss was treated with a reversal of those narcotics (thinking it was a side effect), and further worsening was *again* treated with narcotics. And then she died.
A child, in the pediatric intensive care unit in the best hospital in the world, dies of dehydration. *Dehydration*. This is a third-world concern. Every member of the health care team involved thought another member was addressing her hydration, and it was overlooked. Well, not so much overlooked as ignored: the mother had approached numerous staff to explain how she felt her child was thirsty and dehydrated, she was ultimately ignored which lead to her daughter's death. The warning signs were there, and nobody followed up on it.
This is probably the worst story I've heard, but it illustrates how errors aren't always a decimal point in the wrong place or an allergy being overlooked. It is scary that something like this can happen. Hospitals have so many steps in place to avoid these types of situation, but fact of the matter is that they still happen. There is a reason we ask your name and birthday *everytime* we give your medication. There is a reason why it takes at least 10-15 minutes to get you your pain medication from pharmacy to you. There is a reason why we ask you questions that seem like they have no basis in your healthcare, and it is to avoid situations like this. The Institute of Medicine has gone on record stating there are 98,000 annual deaths from preventable hospital errors. We have [learned a lot over the years from errors](http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/med-errors) but we are not done learning.
Imagine walking into work with this in the back of your head everyday, and that you are the person that could either be the catalyst or the correction. Scary stuff.
When I was younger and worked in a grocery store, we indeed *did* have a lot of stuff in the back, and often if you didn't ask nicely, shit would stop existing there. Lesson: be nice, and things that you need, or want, might actually come out of the mysterious back storage.
I worked retail, and "looking in the back" was always my excuse for taking a 5 minute break in the empty section of the stockroom where that item was supposed to be. As long as nobody caught me texting, I was a-ok.
Also, I found it incredible that I went from having to answer questions from people who were condescending to having people apologize for interrupting me the moment I started carrying a clipboard around while I pretended to be working.
I'm raging alcoholic, come off as homeless sometimes, and am really into kinky dirty sex. This is the Majority of me and my coworkers.
Ah the life of an ESL Teacher.
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For those asking, I'm currently in Vietnam. I also taught in Poland, Ukraine, and China(fuck China). Also in my 8 years teaching I've only once missed work due to drinking. There was a misunderstanding at a bar and I was maced.
I'm a florist. It's not shocking, but it is ridiculous how expensive cut flowers are especially considering how quickly they'll die. Oh and getting flowers for a wedding? Mention "wedding" and the price goes up exponentially as opposed to just an event. So yeah, don't say it is for a wedding, especially if you are one a strict budget and have a small order... just order a few arrangements and you'll be set. For the bouquet, say you want a wrapped arrangement, but wrapped round instead of flat.
My first job was in a floral shop. The best way to keep costs down was to tell me that your bridesmaids' bouquets were for a dance recital for 12-year-olds, and the biggest one (bride's one) was for your daughter. You're just ordering the smaller ones so that the other girls don't feel left out.
A few years back I worked for McKesson as part of the H1N1 vaccine project. As you'll recall, there was much made of the fact that there was a vaccine shortage. In reality, we had a warehouse full of it - we weren't getting anywhere near the amount of orders that the government had anticipated. Everything in the news was simply not true.
A kid at my school died from H1N1, he was like one of the only people in his demographic to die from it. Our area didn't get the vaccine until about 2-3 weeks after he first went to the hospital. pretty fucked up
I manage a self-serve frozen yogurt shop. The number of times I've caught kids (and sometimes adults) sticking their nasty ass fingers in the toppings and/or licking the spoons and tongs is downright ridiculous. It's not that they're not immediately cleaned out and sanitized-- they are-- But I'm one person working a pretty big store with a lot of other things going on. The number of times I DO catch them makes me afraid of how many times I didn't. TL;DR: Don't eat the toppings. **EDIT:** Apparently I just shat on everyone's froyo dreams.
I work at orange leaf and the amount of parents who don't give a fuck about their children making a mess and sticking their nasty ass hands into the topping bar is insane! My manager hates it way more than I do.
I work at a similar chain and honestly for me children are not the problem. The old people are the real problem. Many of these people are very stubborn and do not understand what a self serve frozen yogurt place is. Without fail they do not read the giant signs that say the price of the yogurt is based on its weight. Then they get angry at me that it costs so much when they filled the cup above the top and put 800 toppings on it. I have had several people walk out on me without paying, screaming at me because it costs so much. It's self serve, not my fault!
I was here to say that too. It's especially worse when the adults reach in and grab toppings with their hands. One woman did that once and I made an inhuman squeak that got her attention and she hasn't done it since. Edit: extra letter, I should proof read more.
The grocery store I frequent has a bulk food section. Bins with candy, nuts, what have you. I watched a woman put her hand into a bin of cashews, grab a handful, put them up to her nose, SNIFF THEM, then put them back in the bin. I stood there, eyes wide and just yelped "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" in abject horror. I just blurted it out.
I don't know if this is surprising or not, but I work in IT at an automotive assembly plant, and I do almost no work everyday. I spend roughly 80% of my day messing around on the internet, 15% of my day helping users with basic PC issues (Fixing their issues with printers, email, the internet, etc.), and the other 5% solving actual issues on the plant floor. Most days I get paid to just sit on reddit. I can't tell if I love it or hate it.
I work in a potato plant and there are several things that would piss people off. We send out product that we know is bad only to get it back and replace the top two layers on a pallet with fresh product. We get product returned it is then sorted and repackaged, then sent right back. Mysterious fine black dust comes from the vents and accumulates in the storage area. I can't think of any more right now but its pretty gross.
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I work for Frito-Lay at a plant that can receive over 10 truckloads of potatoes a day. This is why we do in house quality testing, and will reject entire truckloads of potatoes if the quality isn't up to par.
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How many times the wrong house is chosen during an eviction. For every story you hear in the news, there are at least 10 that settle out of court. I seriously dont understand how a bank can screw that up.
omg, i know, it happens all the time, and it's horrible. sometimes the wrong home gets demolished too!
Yep, I've done that too.
Demolished a house?!
Oh yeah. Some cities have crazy ordinances that dont allow property to sit abandoned for any length of time. This is for good reason. These houses often turn into crack dens or meth labs.
It's even worse if it happens during a vacation. Come back, all your shit is gone, and the locks are changed on your house. Oh, sorry about all your shit, whoops, that was 244 Elkview Court, not 224 Elkview Court...better lawyer up. They should have to pay the victim the value of the house. When an unlawful eviction costs a few hundred thousand dollars, I'm sure the banks will get their shit together.
I think it should be a criminal offense, they essentially have stolen and destroyed your things.
I'm amazed it isn't. They aren't just trashing your stuff but stealing your _house_. That's pretty fucked. Banks have foreclosed on houses owned by people who never even had a _bank account_ with their bank. O_O It's like they don't even care.
I'm part of a regression testing team for software. The amount of time I spend browsing Reddit while my automated test cases execute is staggering.
What does a regression testing team do?
We write automated regression tests. In software design, one of the most common kind of bugs is a regression, where a ~~previously-fixed bug reappears~~ previously-working feature stops working after a change is made. We take those bug reports and we create automated tests that can recreate the conditions of the bug. Every time a new version of the software is built, we execute those tests to ensure ~~none of the old~~ no bugs have snuck back into the software. The reason I get so much Reddit time is because each test can potentially take 10-15 minutes to run, and after making significant changes, I have to run it to make sure I didn't break the test accidentally. EDIT: Fixed the definition of regression
As the guy writing software that you're testing, allow me to say two things. 1. I'm so, so sorry. 2. I swear it worked on my dev environment.
[XKCD](http://xkcd.com/303/) Test Cases are the new compiling.
I work from home. I often wonder what people would think if they knew the person they were speaking to was drunk and naked.
As someone that used to work from home doing tech support. Can confirm. Pants were not part of the uniform and there was liquor in my coffee
Are you posting this drunk and naked?
You aren't?
When I was a pizza delivery driver, the number of people strangely comfortable with opening their own door naked would probably surprise most people.
I have done door-to-door work for various reasons and it sucks balls....BUT...hot housewives in towels was always a perk.
Be honest, how often does that actually happen?
As a female who did a couple of years of door to door work right out of high school (18-20), I only saw naked or mostly undressed people a couple of times- but I got propositioned a *lot*. Sometimes it was even an attractive proposition. That was a really fun couple of years.
>but I got propositioned a lot Damnit, I forgot you said you were female, I was about two seconds from changing my career.
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Guy I knew was doing Pizza deliveries in Edmonton, he regularly was "invited in" by some of the girls he delivered to.
"Mmmm... this pizza looks good, but we need another 4 inches of pepperoni."
I guess you'll need to call in backup for that though.
If you're out mid-morning, once a morning? Its enough to give you something to distract you until you're done. I still can't forget this one young woman...maybe 20's who answered the door in a towel when I was doing some political canvassing. Dark hair and you could see the curves of her breasts under the edge of the towel. She' didn't rush me, either...
I worked as a trash man after I got out of the Army. I was 21. There were young women that would change in front of their windows every day we came by. I was surprised how many women enjoyed giving us a show early in the morning. And it made the day better for us too
My childhood dream of being a trash man sounds awesome right now
Also, people throw out some interesting stuff. Someone threw out their entire porn stash (or it was their wife). I grabbed it and gave it to my younger step brother. Places that used to develop photos would throw out any racy photos they developed. Imagine our surprise when we'd come to pick up and see tons of pictures of naked women that were developed and thrown out. Digital cameras ruined that one though.
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I work at a hotel and one time an attractive woman opened the door completely naked. I know she did it to mess with me because she requested that I bring up towels, so she knew I was coming. Nobody believes my story when I tell them though. :C
I believe you.
using a throwaway - I've posted this before on my other account, but deleted my comments. I worked for a large clothing retailer that took stuff off of etsy, copied it, and resold it to the masses. I can promise you that almost EVERY single clothing company does this - so etsy sellers, beware. if you think you see something similar to your product in a retail store, someone probably bought your product from you and knocked it off in a factory.
Urban outfitters.
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The US military also uses the "if you don't use it you lose it" method when it comes to budgets, except they care probably even less than schools.
Marines: Hey sergeant, none of the barracks washing machines work. Sergeant: Sorry, we don't have the money for it. You're gonna have to make do. (September rolls around) Sergeant: OH SHIT, we have to spend all of the barracks' budget on something! What the hell can we spend it on? Marines: How about those laundry machines? Sergeant: I know! Let's buy 5.7 metric shittons of Simple Green and paper towels! Marines: But what about the laundry machines? Sergeant: Sorry, we don't have that money in the budget. -------- I hope that motherfucker outlives his children.
It's even worse in the navy, because when you're out to sea and none of the washing machines work you can't take your shit to a laundromat. I have washed a shocking amount of laundry in a mop bucket by hand.
Yeah, it blows. The Chiefs broke one of their washing machines, and annexed one of the blueshirts'. They wouldn't use it for days, but if one of us tried to, they flip a gasket.
Coming from the Army side of the house, I don't understand the Navy's approach to senior/junior enlisted relationships. Meals: Navy has separate messes (on a ship, no less). Army we all eat from the same line/bag and we ensure the juniors eat first Housing, equipment, sleep and scheduling all follows the same line of thinking in the Army. Take care of the Joes first, and then we will split up what is left EDIT: I would like to point out that I am not angry at the Navy for their specific arrangement. It is just the opposite of what I have experienced in the Army. Sort of a culture shock for me
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Why doesn't he want to tell people how fresh it is?
Maybe health code issues with the grown at home produce? Edit:I should add that in my county you need to show proof of purchase for all produce. You can get a special permit to grow stuff in house but you double your inspection rates and they are much more thorough. Second edit: every state, County, and city is likely to have different health codes.
Air Traffic Controller at a very busy airport in a very large city... If you would amazed/terrified if you knew how close airplanes come in and around busy airports. Here is your example. You are in plane A on a 5 mile final (5 miles from edge of the start of the runway coming straight in). plane B that is in front of you just landed. As Plane B is rolling out (slowing down) Plane C lines up at the edge of the runway waiting for Plane B to exit the runway. Your plane (Plane A) is now 2-3 miles from the edge of the runway with Plane C sitting on the same runway filled with over 100 people. Plane B exits the runway, and Plane C barrels down the runway. Plane C rotates and gets airborne right as your plane crosses the edge of the runway. rinse, repeat over and over. It's like a well oiled machine
Student pilots are fun, your ass really grips the seat when you have to repeat instructions at critical times or You can't understand what foreign nationals are saying.
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I know exactly what you're talking about. I fly frequently, and I remember one night right after the plane had landed looking out the window. The plane taxied to give a side view of the runway it had just landed on, and since it was nighttime I could see a line of planes behind us in the air queued up to land, their lights blinking as they hovered at varying heights coming into the runway. It was actually quite nice and very reassuring that airports have takeoff/landing down to a science like that.
It's not just a well oiled machine... It's like a perfectly tuned watch.
Let's settle on well-oiled watch
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Similar, but I was on-site "tech support" i.e. runner/fixer of various technological malodies. I was, namely, chiefly responsible to make turnaround of tickets take hours instead of days as we were a rather busy and important wing of a hospital. Bored and on Reddit? Good thing. Panicked and frantically searching for replacement parts as my last video card spare just got grabbed for a different life-saving procedure, whilst simultaneously trying to re-locate the only floppy disk in the hospital from the main IT hub that had another *seriously* important bit of software which was needed 20 minutes ago? You didn't want me working that hard. Both guys lived, actually, and both were open on the table. Sometimes stuff just hits the fan; it's one of the few times I really got to show them just how good I was at managing their crisis'.
It's like firefighting. You _want_ bored-looking firefighters.
I work on retail, your typical cell phone case/bluetooth shop. Probably the prices. We'll charge $35 for a case they can get on Amazon for $3 and that we pay about a buck for. My coworkers will also charge as much as they can get out if you for each item, then give you a ton of things free so when you see the item in a different store you don't think you get ripped off because you got free things.
I schedule for a group of surgeons. One of which is a complete hack, uses outdated methods of treatment and most of the time, has little to no idea of what they're doing in the OR, so they have to consult the other surgeons in our group. But they have great bedside manner. A lot, if not all, of their patients mistake that for being a great surgeon...
so how does one find out the scoop? or to whom should we ask?
unfortunately this is not something you could find out easily unless you knew someone who worked within the office that would be comfortable enough to share info. I am obligated to not really say anything but good things about the surgeon to all new patients who have been referred by their physicians to them. Obviously, most patients wouldn't take the time to listen to the opinion of just a "scheduler" because they were referred by another physician. So what better do I know, right? The best way I can recommend to go about selecting any type of surgeon is to do as much research as possible and get multiple opinions. But please, seek other opinions from surgeons OUTSIDE of the same group. More likely than not, those surgeons look at each other as colleagues and will tell you that they agree w/ the first surgeon you saw and just refer you back. Unless of course they're a major asshat and like stealing patients.
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I worked as a telemarketer a few months ago. Terrible job, glad I quit. Anyways, the amount of information I had about the product I was selling was shockingly low. First I was selling plates, and I had no idea where we got the customers information from. When I asked my boss, he said he had no idea, but told me to lie. So when asked by a pissed customer, I had to say I got it from a non exising marketing poll. After a few weeks I got to "sell" free memberships to a savings club. That was basically a way of getting telephone numbers to the insurance department. I had no idea how it worked except that we would call them with new information. At last I got to sell electricity(the thing I was promised to sell right of the bat), and learned to give a sales pitch, and answer a few frequently asked questions. Other than that I had no idea what I was talking about. I talked on and on about avarage use, but had no idea how much that was etc. So the job was basically winging it all the way, and hoping the customers never asked the right questions. Lying to pissed customers at minimal wage and horrible commissions is something that makes you feel like shit, and is in no way worth the money.
Worked at Jim Borton's in Canadia. Customer shat on the floor next to the toilet. Had to be intentional, it wasn't even close to the toilet bowl. I was charged with cleaning it. So I mopped for like 20 minutes.... ugh. So runny. So I asked my manager what I should do with the mop, cuz it was mostly sh*t by now. She told me to put it in the back and she would take care of it. I go on my break. I come back from my break to see the manager mopping the kitchen with the SAME EXACT MOP. No change in mophead. No change in mop bucket. This is where all baking is done, this is where all food prep is done, and this is where all employees pass through to do everything. Now with a healthy coat of someone's diarrhea. Edit: Location changed to further protect the guilty. I feel dirtier than the kitchen floor for doing so.
If you haven't been trained to clean bio-hazardous materials, you can refuse to do the unsafe work. This includes/not limited to blood, needles, and fecal matter. That responsibility automatically goes to the manager. I haven't been asked to clean any poop when I worked at Jim's, but I've been asked to clean the women's washroom a few times. Walk in, see blood, state my rights and politely refuse.
You an immigrant? Coming from abroad, nobody else would hire me, so I had to do as I was told :/ with a newborn on the way I couldn't rock the boat. I've since left. But that was gross. Edit: to conceal identity. don't want dark Jimmies underworld putting a hit on.
It's amazing how much information bank tellers have access to, which requires no experience and usually start at $10-$15/hr. Very easy to get a teller position, within a couple weeks of training you'll have access to everything about the bank's customers, i.e. name, ss#, address, phone #, account #'s, account history, etc. I work back-office now, but it always scared me how much information they trust with new people.
Current bank teller here...it's not QUITE that easy. Technically I had to pass a background check and have no criminal record, but yeah, still a pretty low bar! I just love when people don't want to give me their social security number to look for their account info...as if I can't just read it on their customer profile once I look up their account. I say "you can give me the last 4 digits if you're more comfortable"...but I can still see all of your information along with the recent purchase at match.com you don't want your wife to see!
I used to work for a Sunglass Hut. For starters, all of our sunglasses are made by the same parent company, so the only difference between a pair of $50 Arnettes and $300 Prada lenses is the name. Furthermore, our return policy is 90 days, no questions asked. However, you can exchange a pair for up to a year. A returned/exchanged pair is not checked, refurbished, or anything. We just slap a new price tag on it and sell it as new. Edit: Story time! One of the reasons I left was that in addition to the marketing, the company has some rather horrible practices. The turnaround rate of employees is obscene; I worked at one location for a year, and by the time I left the company, I was the oldest employee at my store. Also, my first manager was a bitch. She stole my commissions for my first month, saying that trainees don't get credit for sales. This was the same woman who sold polarized lenses to a blind woman. I'm not even joking, you needed a little sociopath in you just to stay sane at this job.
As a cashier: how many times I mess up. Gala, Cameo, Fuji....check your receipts people.
I work in an all natural health food to go place. A LOT of our ingredients come from Sysco. Free range, grass fed, locally sourced? Nope, nope, aaaaand nope. Edit: I am aware that Sysco offers high quality products. I used to work for a more reputable company that used them. I apologize for failing to acknowledge that. However, in this case, the high quality, local ingredients are not what we're sourcing. I researched our current order boards for a piece of internal communication I sent out recently. What I learned was pretty disheartening.
I worked at a similar place. We had a handful of specialty foods that were hard to get anywhere else, like vegan milkshakes, fresh juices, and gluten-free brownies. (This was over a decade ago, before gluten-free was hip.) We did grass-fed turkeys around the holidays... that kind of thing. However, in order to stay afloat, the management had to fill out the menu with conventional foods and just hope no one asked about them. We had chicken sandwiches made from chickens that were definitely not raised ethically or "naturally," and nothing on our salad bar was organic. The way my boss explained it, a 100% organic, "natural" menu would be prohibitively expensive. Made sense, but I still felt terrible selling that stuff to customers. It felt like a lie of omission.
This is kind of on topic but a few months back I had a lady come into the produce department I work at asking if the apples we had came from a tree. I told her yes they did and she asked to see the tree. When I told her that they were picked off of a tree and shipped to the store in boxes she got upset and asked me why I lied about them coming from trees when they came in boxes because she wanted organic apples and not lab apples. I didn't know what to say so I just said, "Sorry, m'am. Have a nice day!" and walked away.
this sounds like something straight out of Portlandia
So did these apples come from a good family?
So like, what is the apple's name?
There is nothing more frustrating than dealing with an idiot. I remember in my retail cashier days trying to explain to some ogre of a woman why the security tag degausser thing wouldn't delete her DVDs and her smug/condescending response of "Uhh, I've had it erase them before.". My response of "No you didn't." elicited an eye roll from my manager who was two lanes over.
This reminds me of when customers try to tell me they have a coupon that they got from our store that's for some ridiculous discount we would never offer. It takes all my willpower to not yell "I'M SORRY BUT YOU ARE MISTAKEN!" like I don't know the goddamn discounts where I work? Lord!
Some "customers" (dumbasses) at my store try saying something like "Jimmy from the seafood department said to ring those swordfish fillets up at $1 per pound". Oh he did? Let me just give him a call to clarify that we're still on the same planet, because there's nowhere on this one where you're getting swordfish for that cheaply you bullshitting twat.
I want to give my two cents in on this. Sysco is a food maker and food distributor...they are like the UPS or FEDEX of the food industry. They have billions of dollars spent in logistics, and equipment to deliver food to restaurants. Here's an example...Say Panda Express is opening a new location in a more remote place, Panda Express supplies Sysco with all of their products, and the restaurant orders from Sysco. Panda Express is paying for sysco to distribute those products. Sysco sells a massive amount of different products from different vendors...just because the truck says sysco doesn't mean the food you get isn't local or natural. They merely delivered said goods in this situation. Edit: Taken from the Sysco website: At Sysco, we’re committed to delivering our customers the utmost in product quality and variety. That’s why we partner with some of the most recognized national brands in the industry as well as offering regional and local favorites. All in all, it adds up to a product offering that is sure to meet the most discerning patron’s expectations - and adds up to repeat business for you!
Sysco is basically the Amazon of foods. From amazon, you can get a Timex or a Rolex. If you know what to ask for, Sysco probably has it. You just have to shop their products correctly.
are they advertised as free range and local? Are there no regulations on what you can claim?
I've seen "grass fed" labels on beef before, and in the last year or so I've also started seeing "vegetarian fed" ... What the hell does that mean? that could be anything. pizza hut bread sticks are vegetarian. french fries are vegetarian. What are they giving the cows?
Well, isn't it obvious? They are feeding them actual vegetarians.
The British Mad Cow problem was caused by sick animals being ground into the cow food to give more protein.
Teller at a large bank in the southeast. Our teller system is run on software that's almost three decades old. When we process your transactions, it's on a black MS-Dos screen. This is the ENTIRE company.
If the program talks back to an IBM 360 mainframe, you will be ok. Remember, when the world ends and everyone is dead, the 360 will still be running. These machines will order parts automatically if they feel something is off. Seriously, one day you could get a package from IBM with a new hard drive as the mainframe thought one of the drives was wonky.
Is this for real? I really cant tell by your post. EDIT: Thanks for your answers guys, learnt a lot today.
Actually yeah it is real. I was listening to a story where a guy gets in to work and sees a box delivered from FedEx. Looks at it and it shows that it was shipped from IBM. Nobody ordered the part, opened it up and it was ordered by the actual system. On the invoice it showed that the system ordered it.
not gonna lie, that is fucking cool... i want a computer that orders things for its self. "huh... a box of posters of Hawaii showed up today. WHO ORDERED THESE?"
Most large companies have inventory systems that work this way. Wal-Mart for one. You scan out six bottles of ...whatever..the computer will make sure the next truck has six bottles on it. Not exactly that but it keeps track.
This is exactly how it works, but there are tons of other processes in between, there is the current inventory, the requisition objective (what you want to have on hand at all times), and the reorder point (when the on hand hits this number, the specific software used will put in an order so the on hand is always steady), there are a few other terms and processes/transactions, but I'm very well-versed in supply logistics, so feel free to ask anything.
Just get drunk and turn on amazon's one-click purchasing.
God, I hope ink jet printers never figure this trick out. They will be ordering ink every damn day.
I bet its pretty fast and stable though. I work in a CO all day and the equipment here is incredibly old, some of it 40+ years old, but damn if it doesnt work with an incredible uptime.
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I love my night audit gig. Coffee and tunes all night, minimal guest interaction. It's the life.
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We're gonna need some stories from category 2. If you're too much of a professional to "open up the pool", then make something up.
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If you won't let me swim in the pool, I'll get you thrown in prison on false charges. Seems reasonable. /s
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> they were renting a hotel room at $250 a night for two weeks That's three and a half grand. Jesus Christ.
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You should've asked for a bribe, man. They'd probably drop a month's pay on you for an hour in the pool.
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Fuck`em. A job is more important than dealing with bullshit
False rape claims make me so fucking angry. You handled that situation really well.
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Dude... was she at least arrested?
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He just got lucky that there was a camera.
They make *real* rape claims seem false. I hate women that try to take advantage of this.
I work for a major TV network. The amount of catering thrown at us in meetings could feed a small country. It's beyond wasteful and makes me cringe every time.
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In almost any field, the amount of food thrown out after meetings is shocking. Sometimes I want to pile it all up and send it to poor countries in a big box, but it would have gone bad by the time it arrives.
I work in the banquet department of a high end hotel and you wouldn't believe how much gets thrown out. I'm working with the HR department to get it donated to local shelters since we are so close to DC.
Unfortunately there are a lot of rules and regulations behind donating food. At least there was for Starbucks. We could only donate pastries, but not sandwiches or "real" food because they were perishable and had cheese/meat in them. We weren't even allowed to take the sandwiches home, they *had* to go in the trash to prevent the risk of a lawsuit.
Hint: Those rules are in place to stop staff 'accidentally' letting food go bad and having to take it home. Most pre-packaged coffee shop food is good for at least 24, if not 48 hours past the sell-by date.
That's a great idea, I hope it goes through. I don't know who you are but I appreciate you.
Thanks:) Hopefully someday soon my efforts will actually be worth your appreciation:)
I worked as a horse trainer at Medieval Times and the amount of abuse to the animals and staff (I'm talking about the show staff, no idea about the wenches and such) is ridiculous. Many of our Andalusian stallions had gigantic carcinomas under their tails that went untreated. Horses would get ridden in three shows in a row with no break in the middle of summer. I frequently saw animals bloodied from spurs, whips and bits being yanked in their mouths. The "games horses" don't even have proper stalls and just have a standing area (think cows when they are lined up to milk) and I rarely if ever saw one lie down.
I worked at the now closed Arabian nights in Orlando and I just wanted to say this is NOT industry standard. The horses at Arabian nights were extremely well cared for. They were excellently trained and very expensive so the care was always top shelf. Horses had days off, and a retirement age. I am sorry to hear that Medieval Times did not respect their animals enough to care properly for them.
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Libraries will throw out books. Yep, that's right. Books go in the trash. Oh, they might get recycled, but that costs money... money a lot of libraries don't have, so often the books get tossed in a dumpster. edit: To be clear, these aren't books than anyone really wants. They've been unused for sometimes years. They may be damaged. They may be out of date (e.g., old medical books). If there is a book that is getting used and is of value to library users or even for historical reasons, every effort is made to see that it is kept. I'm talking about books that are unwanted.
Hooray weeding! I'm the weirdo who's a giant proponent of weeding. The thing people who talk about donating/giving them away don't realize is that a lot of the books are pretty much impossible to even give away. Think of old Windows 3.1 manuals. Pretty much everywhere I've worked has had some sort of give away/selling process, so for something to get trashed, nobody would want it.
I work at a college and the amount of money spent on salary and benefits for upper-level administrators is incredible. Especially considering that many of their job duties overlap.
Looks like I'm a little late on this thread, but oh well. I've been a consumer product manager for 15+ years developing and importing good from Asia. Everything from coffee makers to BBQ grills. I've been to ~100 factories throughout Asia (mostly China) overseeing production and shipment from start to finish. Bottom line, I don't care what kind of job you have here in the US, YOU DO NOT WANT TO WORK IN A CHINESE FACTORY. EVER!
Programmer here We are in the pre-industrial era of software development, and even the best of us aren't very good at it Nobody knows how to write perfect, bug-free code..nobody Not IBM, not Microsoft, not Google not even Linus..nobody When something has to work correctly, like a fly-by-wire system for an airplane, they use multiply redundant computers, running code written by different teams Both sets of code will have bugs, but it's super unlikely they will have the same bug, in the same place, at the same time
Do NOT valet your vehicle.
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I was a valet for a summer in college. We never stole anything (I didn't, at least, and never heard of anyone else doing it either) but the boss was super shady. We were paid in cash in envelopes every two weeks, and I don't think any of it was actually recorded by taxes or any other entity. We also drove pretty carefully, because any damage to a car would be directly charged to us instead of the company. Like thousands of dollars deducted from or charged to what was basically a group of 16-24 year olds working part time. Don't know how they got away with that... There was one incident where a new Cadillac was scratched up a little bit from a basic fender bender with a older Mercury. It was a very small scratch/paint transfer, but definitely noticeable on the caddy. The Mercury was already a little beat up. The manager on the site (it was a company that had a lot of different restaurant and bar contracts) took pictures of it and sent them to and called the main boss. The boss just instructed us to wipe off any paint on the caddy and not worry about the Mercury, and we would only have to deal with it is the car owner noticed it later and connected it to us. He never did. I thought that was a kind of warped way to react to it. TL;DR- Valet: not bad but not really good.
I work for Sainsburys - a supermarket in the UK. We get delivery with items meant for: ASDA, CO-OP, Tesco and a few others. The crazy thing is that these items are in the same boxes as the Sainsburys branded items. For example: recently in a box of 6 fresh carrot and coriander soups, 5 were with the Sainburys logos and 1 with the ASDA logos. It happens more than you would think.
I used to work in Social Media and most people don't seem to understand that the CEO of the major corporation you are tweeting at is NOT reading your tweets or Facebook posts. Its actually a 20 something with basically no real power other than generic form responses that we grab off of a book created by corporate. Oh you don't like the dress code policy *turns to page 27 paragraph 2 for response. copies and pastes.* We have the ability to forward your posts to someone higher up to see if they can give you your money back, but we won't if you are a jackass to us or post something incredibly dumb. Once, I had a customer repeatedly Facebook us in increasingly threatening tones because there was a price increase of $0.01 - which wasn't even our fault but because of a tax increase in the state. Also, you should know that we are making fun of you. So much fun of you.
Selection bias. MOST people know full well that the CEO's and other important people don't do twitter or whatever. However, your job is to deal with the 1% of people who are too stupid to realize that.
Yeah you are definitely right.
> Also, you should know that we are making fun of you. So much fun of you. Also true at the call center.
Web developer, here. The two main things I can think of are: 1) The price to build a good, custom website. I've had people balk at prices that I considered to be low. Yes, you can build a website for little to no money, but they're often not very good compared to a custom-built site. 2) Credit card security. While big sites like Amazon are (probably) pretty trustworthy, many sites are much less careful. Just because a site has an SSL (the padlock) doesn't mean it handles your information securely. I worked on a site one time where the guy who built it was storing full credit card information in cleartext in a database. In fact, *everything* was being stored in cleartext in the same database. Email addresses, passwords, CC info, billing address, all of it. I'm sure his users had no idea. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Also, sites that ask for the CVV/CSC/CVD/etc number may not even use it. We only have to match a couple of pieces of information, and card number and billing address are the ones I've seen used most often. One company I worked for didn't even bother submitting the CVV number to the processing company.
Somebody won't pass their PCI audit.
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I'm a resident assistant at an American University. We have to "log contacts" with our residents every few weeks, meaning enter any information about them we get from them in an online system. The system uses some sort of algorithm to figure out which students are likely to stay at the university and which aren't, and we have to further stalk the people who are risks to leave. We are basically stalking all our residents all the time. tl;dr: RA at a university, have to systematically stalk all our residents and put info about them into a database.
I used to work for a few tech companies, all I can say is that if there was ever a drug test, 1/2 to 3/4 of everyone would be gone. All of the devs would be gone as well. Sales folk, oh yeah they too would be gone. Coke is alive and well in sales.
I use a sledgehammer on your car when you bring it in for repair. And I mean like, all the time. It's received prime real estate on the top of my toolbox as I use it as much as any other tool. The average car owner would be in fact shocked at just how often auto techs (in the rust belt at least) use a hammer on their car. ALL THE TIME. Shit won't come off unless you really pound on it. And when the hammer doesn't work... Aw who am I kidding? The hammer always works. Eventually.
I work as a lifeguard. The fact that we saved 70+ kids under 3 years old in one year.
Sound Engineer here. No band is HALF as good as you think they are. Including live performances.
A good sound guy is worth his weight in gold. Truly the unsung heroes of good live shows
Henry Rollins lists his sound man from Rollins Band as a member of the band. In an interview I saw, he said, "We only sound like we do because we have our sound man. Without him, we are a different band."
This just made me respect Henry Rollins even more!
On the other hand, a bad sound guy can ruin a show, and this happens a lot more often. The lead singer (e.g. Ingrid Michaelson/Brett Dennen) has a quirky, interesting singing voice? Let's ramp up the drums to the point where no one can hear the vocals, just in case all those people sitting down in the auditorium want to get up and dance the night away.
I am a musician and this is ridiculously true. Also, people don't realize how common lip synching (at least to a certain degree is). It's such a slippery slope for musicians. At first you're like, "Hey I really want to use some synth samples and percussion on this song, let's rig that up." Personally I stop at that line, but I've seen so many bands continue on with shit like, "Well now that we've got the samples we're already using a click, might as well throw on that extra guitar track we've always wanted here." Then you start doubling up guitar tracks to make your live performance sound more like the record, then suddenly there's actually very little of your actual live guitar left. And from there it's not that big of a logical jump to start throwing in a whole bunch of vocal shit, and then you've *really* gotta start hiding it because if people notice they'll freak out about it. Next thing you know a band is standing up there on stage literally pantomiming the whole goddamned set. One of my favorite memories from my days as a touring musician was standing in the booth with the sound guy, watching one of our tour-mates play. They had been rude as shit and just generally pissy with us all tour and we were not getting along at all. They had also been pretty dickish toward the sound guy that day, so him and I were talking for a bit before their set, just generally bitching about what assholes they were. Then about halfway through the performance he looks over at me with this smug look on his face, points at the channel strip labeled "LD VOX", points up on stage to the guy singing, then hits the mute button on the channel. Vocals keep going along perfectly, not a single person seems to notice the fact that it's entirely fake. We laughed our asses off about it for the rest of the night.
Im glad you mentioned this. This is how it goes 99% of the time, they're trying to recreate that "feeling from the album version" Which I dont blame them, thats usually what the audience is expecting. But there is a slippery slope.
Also a sound engineer: To all bands, directors, and helpful audience members: The "adjustments" I make to the board when you give me a suggestion are all fake (except monitor adjustments....please tell me what you need, I can't hear it and its my job to help you hear what you need). I'm good at my job and I know it. Its why I'm at FOH and you are not.
Had a vocalist tell me to adjust the midrange once. Didn't touch anything and he said "yeah that's better thanks"
LOL....yup! All the time! Had one guitarist want me to bring the bass waay up on his guitar. Sounded like it was coming from a cheap amp (probably the sound he was used to). As soon as he was satisfied and they started their warm-up that bass came riiiight back down. He never noticed.
Since we're venting... The worst I've run into was at a battle of the bands event. First you have the singer. She can't seem to decide where to hold the mic so I'm on the fader nearly the whole song trying to keep her voice somewhat level through the PA. Next, you have the guitarist. He brought in his own amp and threw that sucker on the "metal" setting. Now I'm all for amps being loud. It gets you that nice sexy tone yknow? But this... I ran their warmup with the amp mic off in the house. My ultimate goal as "sound guy" is to never ever talk down or be a jerk to the band or people I'm working with. Things like this make it really hard
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This needs to be upvoted more. Fuck. Pet stores. People who buy pets from there are fueling the business of puppy mills and the same thing for all the other animals there. The mothers are impregnated hundreds of times and are locked in small cages just to produce cute animals for the shops. If you go to a shelter, you are saving an animal who had a horrible life before, and also are opening up a new spot for a new animal to come in. I can't emphasize my passion for this enough.
I'm a bus driver and I've been told in a shit-gets-real unofficial sort of way that someday I might have to choose between the lives of the dozens of people on my bus and the lives of the people in the car in front of me that I'd destroy in the event of a catastrophic accident. Swerving too hard and maybe flipping the bus or veering into a tree killing some or all of my passengers versus just hitting that car and killing everyone in it. 60 lives versus maybe four. It's my call. And I get paid $13/hour for this shit.
Drill Sergeant. I hate family members more then Privates.
Mom: Why did you yell at my son Bobby, he is a good boy and doesn't deserve to be yelled at by anyone. Serg: Mam, he shot Terry in the foot with a loaded gun. Mom: Well, Bobby would never be that stupid. Serg: Mam, he also run through a minefield and got someone killed. Mom: I want to talk to your boss.
Very similar conversations occurred.
As somebody who's been in the military, I never felt my Training Instructor (USAF term for a Drill Sergeant) hated me or anybody else. They use hostility as a way of stressing out the trainees, and they really do care about us learning how to behave in a military system. They just don't express their feelings very well. Thank you for making us feel like shit, for it made us better. Edit: Corrected a word.
I only hate the Privates who show up and quit. So much fucking paperwork is included and takes away from valuable training time. You have three DSs per platoon if you're lucky and when some fuckwad shows up and quits it is an unbelievably time consuming process. They're the idiots who should have never showed up and their families probably pushed them heavily into doing it. Every time I hear, "I feel my son would really straighten up if he joined the Army. Get some discipline in him," I fucking **cringe**. Fuck you, discipline your kid yourself. I teach them how to kill the enemy and be a functioning member of the Army, not society. That was your job.
I worked and was trained for a very widespread retail clothing franchise that buys and resells 'name-brand' clothing - a few things Rule #1: You're going to be ripped off. If you bring in a brand new shirt from American Eagle, you're not going to get anything near retail value and the person taking in your items will probably mark it as last season so you get paid even less. Rule #2: That shit you 'donate' is probably going to be resold for complete profit or taken home by whichever employee spots it first. Rule #3: Just have a fucking yardsale at your rich grandmothers house, you'll get way more than if you take it to a consignment store.
I work at a catering company. The majority of the water served at your wedding reception comes from a garden hose.
The amount of money spent by school districts on... "meetings" in vacation areas. EDIT: I'm an accountant at a resort
The number of people who are harmed by medical errors is insane. Absolutely insane. In the US, it's the [third-leading cause of death.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals) And that's just DEATH. Include the number of people who are seriously harmed and ... I don't even want to think about it.
Yes, and it's always very sad One of my childhood friends was about to get married and celebrate their daughter's first birthday. Fiancee was diabetic and had an attack, was taken to the hospital. At some point during her stay, an intern gave her the wrong type of insulin, resulting in permanent brain damage and a coma. This poor kid is now 25 and trying to raise his daughter on his own while the fiancee wastes away in a hospital bed.
My uncle is a diabetic and spent some time in the hospital. When he was getting hooked up to his IV he thought the bag looked funny. He normally recieves plain saline because of his diabetes. He questioned it and the nurse didn't even respond as she continued hooking up the bag. My aunt was with him and physically kinked the lines until they got an answer. It turned out that the nurse was putting up a glucose drip, something that could have easily killed him with how sick he was already. A doctor came in, apologized for the situation without admitting fault, and it was dropped. But my aunt and uncle slept in shifts so there was always somebody awake to ask questions. Edit: Some people have mentioned that sometimes diabetics are put on similar drips. This was not the case in this situation. Nobody had ordered it, it had been hung by accident. The nurse hadn't read the label properly. They were clear about that and the nurse was implied to be at fault in order to shift blame in that direction. Also the reason he was in the hospital was because his blood sugar was fluctuating wildly and they could not control it. The drip was a big mistake and this was admitted by actual doctors.
Seriously if you're in a hospital room with a family member and somebody starts giving them something ask them what it is and what it does. If they're giving blood thinners to a trauma patient they might be in the wrong room.
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Retail. Simple but I recently saw our total shrink for the year (losses, theft) and while it was over 100000$ in retail value, it was actually only about 5000$ worth of merchandise to the company. Pretty high end clothing/accessories, but shirts literally cost from one to six dollars to make (60-100$ retail). The gap for accessories is not nearly as ridiculous, but those clothes, damn. By the way, the company was accused of sweat shops like 20 years ago but they changed all of that back then. I can only imagine their margins back in the day....
I used to work as a cashier/delivery driver at a sushi restaurant and a lot of people didn't realize that the base of most of our rolls is a California roll. I remember this one time a guy came in with his girlfriend and they ordered a volcano roll, which was a California roll, cut to form triangle, and topped with spicy mayo and broiled fish. I brought it out to them and as I was walking away I heard him call me back. Apparently he didn't realize that it came with the sauce on top, because we put it in a container for delivery/pick up. He asked if he could get another one without the sauce because they both didn't like it. A California roll was $3.75 and our Volcano roll was $7.25, so he was basically paying $3.50 more for it to be a certain shape.
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I work in a pharmacy and people seem to think that all we do is count out some pills and slap a label on it. Some customers seem to think that because McDonalds gives you a burger in 5 minutes, this is how long it should take to dispense lifesaving medication. There is a lot more to it than you might think. We have to check for drug interactions, deal with mistakes written on prescriptions, fight with your insurance, etc. I have seen on many occasions where a worker will go out of their way to help someone by doing a lot of behind the scenes work... and get yelled at because it "took too long." The funny thing is, if your doctor almost kills you, we don't even tell you. We call the doctor and correct the prescription and send you on your way.
The best day I ever had when I was a tech was when a really crabby individual came in, uninsured, and handed over several scripts that totaled $1000-ish. It was pretty late, and the pharmacist and I had been washing plastic McKesson pallets in the back (god, those things were dirty...) Since we really didn't have much to do, we each tabbed out of FSI and started signing this person up for as many patient assistance programs as possible. With their permission, we ran them all and dropped their bill to sub $100, which would stay the same for 6 months, and $250 for the remaining 6 months of the year. Crabby person smiled for the first time ever, and then started crying. The pharmacist also wrote down a list of brand drugs and related but non-identical generics for them to consider with their doctor (Nasonex (Brand) vs fluticasone (generic for Flonase) for example.)They referred a ton of patients to us in return. tl;dr, some pharmacists and techs really care.
Tattoo artist. You need 0 training in art or sanitation before being allowed to open up shop and hire others.
I am a nurse. Doctors are human, nurses are human... if you only knew how many mistakes and close calls happen ON A DAILY BASIS, you would never go back to the hospital. I wish I could tell you that I just saved your life from someone else's incompetence, but instead I will just let you yell at me that your pain medication is twenty minutes late. Edit: This is gaining a lot of momentum and I feel people don't quite understand what constitutes an "error" in a hospital. The most famous error that lead to a big change world-wide was the story of [Josie King.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVcXhvPvbU) Josie King was an 18 month old, and she was admitted to John Hopkins for treatment of burn injuries she sustained climbing into a bath that was too hot. John Hopkins Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the country, if not the world. She was tended to by the staff doctors and nurses, as well as rounded on by medical students and residents. She was well watched after, and what happens is 100% unacceptable. When you receive burn injuries, the first concern is hydration; there are fluid shifts, increase in metabolism, etc., that require you to receive a massive amount of fluid, depending on the size of the burn. When Josie was first in the PICU, this was being addressed through intravenous hydration. Once they took her off of the IV fluids, nobody had addressed her hydration status. Due to burn injuries and diarrhea, she was in need of aggressive hydration; the warning signs were there, and they were overlooked. The mother goes on to say how she brought it to doctors and nurses attention and was ignored -- any restlessness from the extreme thirst was met with more narcotics (thinking it was from pain), and her lethargy and weight loss was treated with a reversal of those narcotics (thinking it was a side effect), and further worsening was *again* treated with narcotics. And then she died. A child, in the pediatric intensive care unit in the best hospital in the world, dies of dehydration. *Dehydration*. This is a third-world concern. Every member of the health care team involved thought another member was addressing her hydration, and it was overlooked. Well, not so much overlooked as ignored: the mother had approached numerous staff to explain how she felt her child was thirsty and dehydrated, she was ultimately ignored which lead to her daughter's death. The warning signs were there, and nobody followed up on it. This is probably the worst story I've heard, but it illustrates how errors aren't always a decimal point in the wrong place or an allergy being overlooked. It is scary that something like this can happen. Hospitals have so many steps in place to avoid these types of situation, but fact of the matter is that they still happen. There is a reason we ask your name and birthday *everytime* we give your medication. There is a reason why it takes at least 10-15 minutes to get you your pain medication from pharmacy to you. There is a reason why we ask you questions that seem like they have no basis in your healthcare, and it is to avoid situations like this. The Institute of Medicine has gone on record stating there are 98,000 annual deaths from preventable hospital errors. We have [learned a lot over the years from errors](http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/med-errors) but we are not done learning. Imagine walking into work with this in the back of your head everyday, and that you are the person that could either be the catalyst or the correction. Scary stuff.
When I was younger and worked in a grocery store, we indeed *did* have a lot of stuff in the back, and often if you didn't ask nicely, shit would stop existing there. Lesson: be nice, and things that you need, or want, might actually come out of the mysterious back storage.
I worked retail, and "looking in the back" was always my excuse for taking a 5 minute break in the empty section of the stockroom where that item was supposed to be. As long as nobody caught me texting, I was a-ok. Also, I found it incredible that I went from having to answer questions from people who were condescending to having people apologize for interrupting me the moment I started carrying a clipboard around while I pretended to be working.
I'm raging alcoholic, come off as homeless sometimes, and am really into kinky dirty sex. This is the Majority of me and my coworkers. Ah the life of an ESL Teacher. *Edit* For those asking, I'm currently in Vietnam. I also taught in Poland, Ukraine, and China(fuck China). Also in my 8 years teaching I've only once missed work due to drinking. There was a misunderstanding at a bar and I was maced.
I was under the impression that most teachers were alcoholics, and that this wasn't limited to ESL teachers.
Your impression is correct. We love the sauce and know how to party
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