30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees

lovemy suffolk 4 years ago

My SO and I went to a casino once years back. I remember sitting at a slot machine and quickly losing my 30 bucks (all I brought with me and left ATM cards at home). After I ran out of money , I was just sitting , looking around. I remember watching the light of the slot machine reflecting on the eyes of the lady next to me as she stared at the machine and thinking to my self, "it's like she is in a trance." She just sat there , staring, robotically pushing the play again button, over and over, with a giant cigarette ash just hanging off the end of her cigarette. It was horrible and so sad. Like watching a depressing movie. That casino was one of the most soulless places I've ever been. Tried it, didn't like it, never been to another one.

12points

Jef Bateman 4 years ago

I worked in casinos for a few years. While casino ads emphasize how fun they are, almost nobody has fun there, even if they win. I had to move out of Nevada because the atmosphere of human desperation was so prevalent even outside of the casino.

12points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Those vibes I got when I visited a casino, eeeeuw. Been inside casino a total of 3 times, never again!

2points

El muerto 4 years ago

house always wins

11points

rumade 4 years ago

I work for a bingo hall with slots room attached and it is honestly heartbreaking watching people pour their money away. Can't wait to change jobs

7points

Vorknkx 4 years ago

Casinos are designed to make a profit, not to make you rich. Always keep this in mind ;)

6points

FLUXUS DAKOTA 4 years ago

The talk here is almost exclusively about slot machines. We have some where I work that are set to 96.5% payback, but that is over a Million plays (or more); easy to lose everything you wager. What has been ignored is that if you are a good Texas Hold'em poker player, you have an advantage. I've won thousands in poker tournaments. Something I've NEVER DONE in 40 years of playing slots! So, I'm a serious poker player, but consider slots like arcade games; you don't plan to leave with more money than you brought when you play arcade games.

4points

Michelle A 4 years ago

My ex MIL said the tables are where u have a better chanc of winning. She only plays poker and black jack

2points

Gigantor the Bog Monster 3 years ago

Pro Tip: Play within your means.

3points

Calamity Jayne 1 week ago

I look at it as if it were any other form of entertainment I have to pay to enjoy, like going to the movies, playing mini golf, or antiques hunting. I do NOT *expect* to win, especially if I'm playing slots. If I *happen* to win, huzzah! Gravy on the mashed potatoes. If I win enough that my room and board are paid back to me, I consider that winning. Otherwise it's just entertainment. And I enjoy the whole thing! When the alloted cash is gone, it's 'goodnight, Gracie.' And I'm thankful I don't have a gambling a*******n.

0points

Richard Claessens 4 years ago

You have you ever looked around the casino look at that carpet look at that decorations what an amazing edifice beautiful did you ever stop to wonder who paid for all that..... Suckers that's who

3points

ZAPanda 4 years ago

I've walked through a casino twice. I've never played. That would be because I understand statistics.

3points

Chocolate Straw 4 years ago

I had to drive my mom and aunt from Kansas to Vegas once for a family matter involving my aunt. Mom went along for emotional support and because once a year she likes to play nickel slots. I went to the hotel casino once. Another time a college friend and I went out on NYE with a married couple who were mutual friends to a casino, which was their tradition. We just walked around and looked at the various slot machines (I honestly couldn't figure out how you were supposed to win on some of them that weren't just the simple 3 window spinny type). And a year after my mom passed and I was returning from decorating her grave, I stopped at a casino I had taken her to and played $20 in her honor on slot machines. I was back on the road 30 minutes later wandering what the attraction was.

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Anna, who is American, made the video while being isolated during a "super long, strick lockdown" in Toronto, Canada. Making TikToks was her way of passing the time. "Every day, I was just pumping out new TikTok content every day, all day, because I had nothing better to do. I've always loved hearing about my friends' silly jobs that they had as teenagers in high school, so I thought it would be funny to hear other people's stories," she told Bored Panda that she enjoyed hearing about people working at donut shops, dry cleaners, and elsewhere.

"I did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, and I honestly kind of regret posting that video now. I wasn't clear enough in the video that I only wanted to hear the secrets of the silly jobs that people have had and not necessarily lifelong, professional careers. I worked at Hollister when I was 17 and a senior in high school, I would never make a video about any of the career-building jobs I've had in my adult life," she explained that if she were to make a similar video now, she would be far clearer and far more careful.

"I honestly don't really hold any hardcore grudges against Hollister. I was just sharing my experience and telling a story because I was out of content ideas and thought it was interesting because the company was known to be immoral in the early 2000s. I know the business has changed its practices since I worked there seven years ago," she pointed out.

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When you go to a store, for example, you see like Oreo or Kellogg's and then you see the store's off-brand. It's called private labeling. The name brand company is producing the exact same product for the private label, that is significantly cheaper, but just as a different label. If you guys are familiar with the store Aldi, they actually require for their private label brand to have better specs than the name brand. So for example, this company that I worked for, the name brand had a certain standard that they had to hold, but Aldi had a higher standard. So not only are you paying less at Aldi, you're getting a better product for way cheaper. Literally it's the same product in the kettle and they just swap out the labels at the end, but I'm going to make more.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

Aldi is really good. Their products are cheap and the quality is good. I always shop there first and get the stuff they don't sell/have in the other stores. Oh and Aldi has a good selection of wines and cheeses :)

113points

Troux 4 years ago

I love the speed of the checkout process. They will scan your stuff and ring you up like a tornado is coming. No time to bag, just pay up and GTFO. It's sooooo fast!

14points

John Baker 4 years ago

That's the very thing I *don't* like about it.

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A B C 4 years ago

It's been a couple years now, but I read an article about the German consumer association that regularly tests products (Stiftung Warentest for those of you who know it) testing Champagne, and it was the Aldi off-brand that got the highest score on such a "premium" product. Definitely worth it to try their stuff :)

7points

Cold Contagious 4 years ago

I love Aldi. Their products excel beyond standards in all of our local grocery stores and have for the past 15 years that I've been shopping there. All the products, meat, cheese, dairy, fruit, and vegetables, are so good and have a great variety with less cost than all the other stores.

4points

Shashonie 4 years ago

I will never understand why Canada doesn't have Aldi stores. Tragic😭

3points

Shine Caramia 4 years ago

They also have gluten free stuff

2points

HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 4 years ago

And you can get a huge box of saltines for like ¢70. Cheapest guilty pleasure ever.

1point

Auntriarch 4 years ago

Now why am I not surprised you know that 🤔. And it's true. And Troux. Their fruit and veg are good too

1point

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

I miss Aldi.

1point

Plenty Pineapples 4 years ago

Yes Aldi cheese is sooooo good 🤤

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Ellen Larkin 4 years ago

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Monday 4 years ago

I've never found off-brand Oreos that taste right though. They're always just a little bit off.

13points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

There pickles aren't so good either

1point

Nugua 4 years ago (edited)

That's not a completely correct statement about Aldi. At least not in the "motherland", Germany. Yes, many products get made by the same company that's making the brand stuff. But in the Aldi version, for example the sugar content in jam is higher, so the jam gets cheaper. Or they use raspberries from China instead if those from the Netherlands. Or they are using less cocoa in the chocolate bars. It's not this way for ALL the product, but enough.

12points

Pam Pallett 4 years ago

Thank you! That's exactly what I noticed. Aldi can be good, but you need to shop with care. Sometimes you get what you pay for. And for fruit/veg is hit and miss quality and value vs supermarket. I will say at Christmas they sell great almond nog. Which all my experience prior to finding it would suggest it's a contradiction in terms. 😂

1point

howdylee 4 years ago

I'm sorry, but I can tell the difference between store brand products and name brand, for the products that I've specifically tried to compare. Some things I like the store brand better. But many items are very obvious that they are NOT the same product rebranded.

6points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

If you haven't tried Costco's Kirkland Signature or other off-label brands, you'll be shocked when you do. Even with things like hair care products. Our fave Kirkland shampoo and conditioner is actually an expensive designer brand packaged in 32 ounce bottles for $14 each, where the branded versions each sell for $45 for 16 oz. Everything Kirkland that we've tried has been phenomenal. Even their branded whiskey is apparently Jack Daniels! Just private labeled and at a significantly lower cost.

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Nupraptor 4 years ago (edited)

I've read this about "Store Brand" or "off-brand" products for years but I don't believe it. I can't speak to Aldi's quality (it's been years since I've shopped there) but most off-brand products are noticeably worse than the name brand. That said, I'm frugal and still buy the off-brand in most instances.

5points

Pam Pallett 4 years ago

I bought contact solution, the peroxide kind, that was store brand once and guaranteed to be just like name brand or money back. After burning my eyes due to failure to convert fully into saline, I got my money back.

1point

Seabeast 4 years ago

Not always the case. I have bought store-brand products that were awful compared to the brand name version.

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Wal-mart private brands are a good example of just how awful they can be. Even their cleaning supplies are watered down.

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Jennifer Norton 4 years ago

This is true for most things, but not all things. The best way to tell is to check the label to see where it was manufactured. If it's the same as the name brand it will have the same address on it. For example...Oreos do not make anything but oreos so the private label is made by someone else and taste different, but chips.... yeah the private label ones are made by the name brand ones. Trust me... I work in manufacturing and know all about this stuff!!!!

4points

Ruben M 4 years ago

Exactly. I was with Kraft, then Mondelez from 2006 to 2017. No way they do any of this. OP used the wrong examples. I would be surprised if kellogs even did this. Of course, with their big change a few years ago, who knows now.

1point

Anthony Mann 4 years ago

Same here. I worked for two companies that made their own products, as well as private label for supermarkets, big box stores, etc. Including Aldi. And yes, Aldi and others are typically VERY demanding when it comes to quality. The cheaper prices usually come from the lack of advertising that comes with the name brand.

4points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

Plus: Aldi has less costs for unpacking and stacking stuff in the store, as they just put up the boxes the stuff comes in on the shelf. In the US they also safe money on staff to pack up the groceries and bring back carts, as they do not pack for customers and their carts need tokens to get them, both normal in Germany (and Europe I think).

1point

Borealbabe 4 years ago

Store brand cereal is absolutely not the same. People can say it's the same until they're blue in the face but it isn't. My sister and I were given store brand cereal in a Kellogg's box when we were kids and both of us told our mom they didn't taste right within 2 bites. The off brand cereal doesn't even look the same and still to this day the taste is way different.

3points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Aldi also has excellent customer service. I worked for a computer manufacturer who had a contract with Aldi. I've seen some insane shyte of customer service where Aldi really sided with unsatisfied customers. It went as far as paying to replace videocards and allowing customers to trade in computers for newer models at no extra cost.

3points

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In fact, a representative of Hollister had reacted to her video and had this to say: "As Anna states in her video, the brand is different than it once was. We firmly believe her past experience at Hollister is not reflective of our current brand." Anna told Bored Panda: "I think although Hollister has changed its values and hiring process in the past decade, I think my experience there as a 17-year-old in 2013/2014 is still valid."

On the one hand, the viral video "was really beneficial" to growing Anna's TikTok account which she sees as a blessing. On the other hand, she's slightly nervous that she may not have been painted in the most positive light in the media. She thinks that being called a 'former employee who spills company secrets' is "not a great look if I'm ever applying for jobs in the future."

"It's funny, too, because I would love to put on my resume that I started a viral TikTok trend, but the subject of it isn't the best look. I'm now much more aware of what I post on the internet," she told Bored Panda how the video impacted her.

#3

Trader Joe's edition. If you are walking through the store and see anything on the shelf, want to know what it tastes like, find a crew member and they will open it up for you. And you can try it. We were able to give away flowers at any time. So if someone came in saying, oh, they had a bad day, or it was their birthday or something special was happening, we could go pick up flowers and give it to them.

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Love Trader Joe's. Some unique foods you don find elsewhere. Nice employees too.

57points

Randolph Croft 4 years ago

Their Chicken Chili in a can was some of the best food I could afford. Still is, imho.

3points

Patti Bulldog 4 years ago

I was shopping at TJ.s the day after we lost our super beloved German Shepherd, Max, when I was at the checkout a manager was bagging my groceries as the cashier rang them up. when he asked how I was doing I started crying, it just came out of nowhere. The Mgr. said 'you know what to do" and the cashier left and got the most beautiful Monstera plant. I feel good every time I look at it.

8points

Ploploplop 4 years ago

Every Trader Joe's has a stuffed animal that is hidden somewhere in the store. If you find it, you get a lollipop. They change the animal every quarter. Great way to keep kids occupied while you handle shopping.

8points

Luna 4 years ago

In my Trader Joe’s there was a “missing” poster for a horse on the wall and if you found the horse (a stuffed animal hidden in plain sight somewhere in the store) then they would give you a lollipop! Very fun for the kids :))

5points

Mary Lugo 4 years ago

So True. Came in shopping and talked to the clerk during check out. One of my rougher days as a teacher. She went over and brought me a BEAUTIFUL bouquet of flowers. It made me cry. Thank you.

4points

Jo Johannsen 4 years ago

I just wish they'd add delivery or join Instacart. I can't get around easily any more, and I really miss them.

2points

Sarah Fitzpatrick 3 years ago

Jo, look up Dumpling. Find a personal shopper in your area. Don't line the pockets of a billionaire by using Instacart.

0points

Al Christensen 4 years ago

Will the crew members also cook up raw products so you can taste them?

1point

Davo gifman 4 years ago

Really!? Man that's is next level sweet. Rock on Trader Joe's!

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

Best company!! I witnessed a woman break her hip due to her cart abruptly stopping on the newly installed yellow bumps. I took her groceries that she had just purchased back in to the store, explained to them what had happened, gave her the woman’s name, asked them to call the strip mall management to make certain her car would not be towed. Great people, caring, compassionate, good work ethic!!

1point

Rebekah 4 years ago

Aww, this is great! I got a TJ's gift card for xmas, and have never been. Anyone with recommendations?

1point

LisaW 4 years ago

Check out clubtraderjoes . com My favorite thing is their frozen tarte d'Alsace (a flat bread/pizza dish). It's the kind of place you have to go to experiment and try a variety of products.

1point

Musician Anna, from Atlanta in Georgia, started the viral TikTok video off by sharing her experiences working at the clothing company Hollister and how “kinda messed up” things were “back in the day.” There were two positions working at the store: back stock and model.

If you wanted to work the front of the house and interact with customers, you “had to be attractive.” You were rated on a scale of one to ten during an interview and then you either qualified or you didn’t. As Anna put it in her video, everything was based on looks at the time when she worked at the company years ago.

No job is perfect, but there’s a pretty broad line between a soulless and exhausting gig and a calling that makes you proud to work where you do.

In Anna's opinion, everyone has a dream job. However, once you actually get the job, it becomes work. "Everyone has complaints about their work, but I think a perfect job is getting paid to do something you absolutely love and are doing already," she shared her opinion.

"I believe that red flags at a company for me personally would be: employees don't receive respect, discrimination of any kind, communication isn't clear between everyone on the team, your work is not valued."

#4

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees The "garlic butter" we put on our pizza crust is, in fact, garlic margarine. There's no dairy in it at all. I'll get customers calling in every once in a while who ask for soy cheese and no garlic butter, and if I'm feeling nice I'll let them in on the secret you they can enjoy that garlic-y goodness without worrying. "Garlic butter" just sounds more appetizing than the truth. Editing for clarification/disclaimer: I work for a local pizza joint, not a chain. I deliver. I have nothing to do with making any food whatsoever. I know butter is healthier and that margarine isn't vegan, I don't care. You're ordering a f**king pizza, if health is your main concern you dun f**ked up already, son.

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C. Wade 4 years ago

I can't believe it's not butter.

115points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Someone had to make the comment. Thank you for taking that burned on.

11points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

In the UK, they would be prosecuted for false advertising calling it garlic butter

5points

Gaby Almodovar 4 years ago

Margarine is much cheaper, so makes sense. Till a customer report the place, and they get fined.

4points

Marette 4 years ago

Well, I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. And I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe... they both might be butter... in a cunning disguise. And, in fact, there's a lot more butter around than we all thought there was.

3points

CD Mills 4 years ago

I groaned, but you got my upvote anyway. :P

1point

royal_antelope 4 years ago

pizza isn't necessarily unhealthy. just had a pizza today with loads of greens and some lean protein on it.

6points

Sarah James 4 years ago

Except that margerine has milk solids in it unless it specifically states it's non dairy. I have a severe dairy allergy, I wouldn't trust anyone that claimed any old margerine was dairy free unless I saw the ingredients list myself.

6points

Kisses4Katie 4 years ago

Margarine has minute traces of dairy in it. For it to be dairy free it MUST be “plant based butter”. Some people are allergic to milk (like me, I can’t have casein) and this could cause major issues. Please stop.

4points

DC 4 years ago

... why the rude vocabulary? Also, magarine sometimes is vegan, sometimes isn't. Usually labeled, nowadays.

2points

Jeff Striks 4 years ago

Butter is NOT healthier. I wish people would stop saying this. Natural =/= healthy

2points

13 4 years ago

Ordering a pizza once in a while is not done f****d up on your health you f*****g oaf. And the fact that you know zero about nutritional value as proven by your post makes me take you even less seriously. Pizza is food of the Italian Gods and a balm for the soul. Insult it again. I dare you! Grumble.

2points

Juliet Violette 4 years ago

It doesn’t always have to do with health. I’m ethically against harming animals so I’ll still eat a pizza, but I’d prefer not to pay for animal exploitation, thanks.

1point

Wendy Geiger 4 years ago

Margarine usually always has whey protein in it which still dairy

1point

Myxomatosis 4 years ago

Yeah.... You can taste it.

1point

She continued: "Red flags at a minimum wage job or service industry job would most definitely be unsafe working conditions, inappropriate behavior from members of the team, discrimination of any kind, and unsupportive work shoes in the uniform, like what I mentioned in the Hollister video when we were only allowed to wear the flimsy flip-flops."

However, Anna still remains optimistic. "With the right working conditions, I think a 'perfect job' is one in an industry you're passionate about with people you respect and who genuinely care about your wellbeing. I, personally, will always be happy with my job as long as I have the opportunity to be creative in my daily tasks," she highlighted the importance of creativity in her professional life.

#5

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I worked at Subway, which is franchised, so I doubt this is the same for every Subway you visit, BUT: When the meat is defrosted to be used, we had like 3 days to sell it. After that we'd have to throw it away. The franchise owner and area manager would often intimidate staff into keeping the meat on sale for up to 7 days to cut costs. I reported them to corporate of course.

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ZAPanda 4 years ago

ew

42points

Dre Mosley 4 years ago

'Eat Fresh," indeed 🙄. I'd rather just go to a local mom and pop sandwich shop. Plenty here.

8points

B 4 years ago

Wait, some corporate wazzock did something illegal and hazardous to make more money? Say it ain't so.

6points

AD 4 years ago

Can confirm, though this was about 10 years ago and non US subway. "Chicken's starting to smell a bit so make it into teriyaki."

6points

Pam Pallett 4 years ago

Eww

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Would be interesting to know what actions were taken against the franchise owner and the area manager other than : "You should stop doing that."

6points

KatHat 4 years ago

I bet it was so crammed with preservatives it didn't matter. People get hysterical over use-by dates when the vast majority of them mean nothing. NO I'm not saying what they did was OK; if there's a policy it should be followed. But it would be great if people understood more about this. The NUMBER ONE THING that can make the most difference to carbon emissions, that can be achieved by households, is less food waste. (#2 is eat less beef). https://drawdown.org/news/insights/the-powerful-role-of-household-actions-in-solving-climate-change

5points

deathrose 4 years ago

7 days is actually the ServSafe standard for ready-to-eat food.

4points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

We had a franchisee use our branch and I am surprised they were able to do that, our folks had checks that had to be cut to pay for the food, supplies, etc. and they had to buy certain amounts. They own one in foodcourt of a state U and were a top producer. They cut HUUUUGE checks to Subway. Of course their food was fresh b/c people lined up 20 to 50 during lunch rush

2points

Vorknkx 4 years ago

This is an actual health hazard. Old meat can easily cause a severe allergic reaction or full-blown food poisoning.

2points

Mistralok 4 years ago

Well done!

2points

Anna also revealed to Bored Panda more about herself as a musician and a content creator. She's been pursuing both paths since her childhood. "I've been making content since I was 11. Before Instagram and 'clout' even existed," she told us, longing for the carefree days when numbers were completely irrelevant.

"I would just upload videos because I genuinely loved making them, and I'd never pay attention to how many views they got or how many subscribers I had. I've always created and posted silly YouTube videos growing up, and now thanks to how social media has evolved and new platforms have been introduced, I'm turning content creation into a part-time job that actually pays me, which is really fun," she said.

#6

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees Used to work at a waterpark. Nine times out of ten when the pool is shut down for "maintenance" or "low chlorine levels", it means that someone shat in the pool

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yeciye 4 years ago

Never use pool, got it.

70points

Joran Quinten 4 years ago

* as a toilet

8points

HamGoblin 4 years ago

peepeepoopoo

3points

Glirpy 4 years ago

Also, don’t let your kids use the plastic ball pit in any fast food restaurant.

2points

A Jones 4 years ago

The ocean seems much more cleaner. Even if like 100% things that live in it process waste and 'other stuff' in the water.

1point

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

I used to work as a water park lifeguard and back in my Uni days. I can't even tell you the amount of rank things that I saw in the wave pool from people having sex (we called that a "code pink) to the dreaded floating diaper. Also, the amount of people that couldn't swim and would still go down the speed slides was astounding. Yes, I would have saves almost daily--never ever again.

7points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

I hate public pools for this reason. YUK

6points

Annamagelic 4 years ago

Sometimes its vomit.

5points

Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago

“Doody! Doody!” (Extra points if you know where that quote came from.)

2points

Tami 4 years ago (edited)

*sniffs then takes a bite* "No big deal."

2points

Ellen Larkin 4 years ago

Code brown is what we called it

2points

TrashPandaSociety 4 years ago

Kids pee in the pool all the time. They don't want to get out and use the restrooms.

1point

Molly Block 4 years ago

Glad to see the proper past tense usage of 'sh*t.' And 'shat' is such a funny word in one's mouth! Figuratively, NOT literally, hahahah! ......Unless you're into scat, which I AM NOT!

1point

Marco Conti 4 years ago

I could have guessed that if I frequented water parks not called "oceans" or at least "seas". Lakes... the jury's still out.

1point

Buren 4 years ago

I get you, I love ocean, but remember there are lots of dead bodies and all kind of shits in there too, but of course it's more diluted 😁

7points

Sylvia Robinson 4 years ago

Disgusting

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Similarly, Anna has been playing and writing music since she was 10. "The dream has always been to make music my full-time job. I'd love to be a touring musician, and content creation is just a part of that job now in this digital age, which is convenient because it comes naturally to me, thanks to years and years of practice and posting."

For her, music and content creation are her creative outlets. It's all that she's ever wanted to do. However, it's not all fun and games. She takes it very seriously. "I treat it like a job and I show up every day. I post daily on social media, and I work on music for an hour or so every day, even when I'm not in the mood. I'm learning to produce my own tracks, and I love the challenge of pushing myself to create something better every time I release a new song. I just started prioritizing my solo project, and I have a lot of fun songs in the vault that I'm excited to release this year."

#7

You don't have to get a GED. It's just one type of high school equivalency, but GED is synonymous with that concept so people don't know there are other options. Pearson likes it that way because they can charge $120 per test, with most of that money going to Pearson. Pearson doesn't want you to know that, depending on availability, you can also take the HiSET or the TASC battery of tests for half the price or less. Until a few years ago (before Pearson stepped in) the GED cost $10 to $20 in most places. EDIT: Not all colleges accept all forms of high school equivalency. And often the HiSET or TASC can be almost as expensive as the GED. Unfortunately it's complicated and you have to do your research. Depending on where you live, you might be screwed either way. Added context because I didn't expect this to blow up: For decades the GED was dirt cheap because people who need a GED are usually broke. And then magically when education giant Pearson showed up, everybody had to charge ten times as much because one of the easiest ways to get rich in America is to exploit poor people.

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Monica Sargent 4 years ago

Ain't it the truth.

63points

A B C 4 years ago (edited)

Pro tip: don't live in the US. My GED equivalent was completely free of charge. Oh, and my Master's degree as well.

13points

Sandy D 4 years ago

I wish living in a country like you describe, rather than the US was a viable option for my family. Things are going bad in a hurry here in the US.

3points

Katiekat 4 years ago

Retired teacher here: I HAVE ALWAYS DESPISED PEARSON. Crappy formatting of books, they price gouge, their teacher trainings are beyond awful. They are not worth anyone's time.

11points

Julius Zuke 4 years ago

Pearson is one of the greediest test companies on the planet. They're a major culprit in why we are testing kids to death instead of teaching them. If they want to hawk their tests so bad, let them hire their own test monitors to administer the tests instead of adding it the the list of chores for teachers.

7points

Helen Haley 4 years ago

Pearson is evil

3points

Linda Tisue 4 years ago

Pearson's board of directors is mostly Banking and Petrochemical executives with ONE person with an Phd in Education.

1point

Brian bell 4 years ago

Not to be pickyoony, but I might rephrase "get rich" with "stay rich" because "getting" rich in America is fantasy concept.

11points

Huddo's sister 4 years ago

You don't even necessarily need the equivalent of GED to get into uni in Australia. When you are 'mature age' which is basically more than one year out of high school you can usually just apply without it.

5points

Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago

And Pearson doe not put that profit back into the company to pay their employees a living wage.

4points

Abby Harrison 4 years ago

im glad i just stuck with HS till i graduated. sure i was almost 21. but whatever.

3points

NatalieC 4 years ago

I used to work at Pearson and here's a dirty little secret: The are a ginormous company and are systematically buying up and then shutting down smaller publishing houses in order to get a monopoly on textbooks. I've always wondered what supervillain owns Pearson.

2points

Michelle A 4 years ago

Wow!

1point

ZAPanda 4 years ago

What is GED? How is this a customer secret? Isn't GED like an education level? Is education privatised?

2points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Pearson is a private company that runs school testing and sells test prep supplies. The GED is a test for people who dropped out of high school but want to complete it. Apparently, it's one of many options.

4points

Bob Cakin 4 years ago

Another example of how the private sector isn't actually more efficoent or cheaper. As Americans, we gotta deprogram that lie we've been told so many times so that we can actually move forward rather than bavkwards as a country.

1point

Anna currently works in marketing, and she told Bored Panda that even if music and content creation remain her passion projects outside of work, she will still be happy because having these creative outlets fulfills her.

"Most creatives usually have to work a full-time job that isn't their art in order to financially support their passion projects. Creatives can absolutely be happy working a 9-5 to pay their bills and to allow them to pursue their passion projects in their spare time. I think that's something that a lot of artists don't talk about, the day jobs that financially support their art. I think all artists live somewhat of a double life with two different career paths simultaneously," she said that there's the art and the career that supports the art.

#8

The USA famous brand MyPillow and its "official pillow of the national sleep foundation" means nothing since the owner created the group.

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

He is also a lunatic Trumpster

241points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Lunatic, period. And a criminal. I have nothing against people who have done time, but he got out and started conning again.

49points

Losferatu 4 years ago

Lunatic and Trumpster are redundant.

23points

Lavender Oak 4 years ago

I prefer the term trumpette.

5points

Tom Susala 4 years ago

"lunatic Trumpster" - that's redundant...

3points

Chad Armstrong 4 years ago

Beats being a Brandon supporter. Weak little people.

2points

Nimitz 4 years ago

Da Bears!

1point

Jason Cullen 4 years ago

Don't forget he's a crackhead... Which is probably more relevant than his Trump affiliation...

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Silas cope 4 years ago

That's redundant

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Here in the U.S., we live in capitalism, Khaleesi. By choosing how we spend our money, we're choosing what we support. It matters because some people and companies will use that money in ways that can hurt us. For example, Mike Lindell (the My Pillow guy) uses his platform to say that oleandrin will cure COVID-19. (Oleandrin is toxic.) Mike only has his platform because people buy My Pillow, which makes him rich. As consumers, we can all decide if we care more about a pillow or about Mike having a platform that hurts people. Different people will have different conclusions about that, but we should all be thinking about it. Basically, in capitalism, we all vote with our wallets every time we make a purchase. Thinking about who benefits from our money is part of being a conscious consumer.

24points

Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

It matters because he became a cult figure in the lunatic fringe and donates his money to rightwing causes. And guess where he gets this money? From pillow sales

10points

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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago

Official pillow of the 2021 Insurrection!

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Tracie Fleshman 4 years ago

FRUITCAKE NUTJOB!! MY Pillow is crap.

12points

ZAPanda 4 years ago

That's the least problem with the company.

10points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

By now we all know Mr. Pillow quite well.

9points

Paradise 4 years ago

The owner is a nutjob anyway. Never believe generic "award winning" images or "voted number 1" sayings. They probably gave it to themselves.

7points

Monica Sargent 4 years ago

Such a Trumping idiot

7points

John Ryder 4 years ago

Lmao he didn't create the national sleep foundation. The only money the sleep foundation gets from him is he has to pay them royalties to use their logo

6points

Heather Davis 4 years ago

Don't buy crazy trump worshipping mans pillows !!!! He even said he alone had cure for COVID-19

6points

Why Knot 4 years ago

thensf.org The National Sleep Foundation was founded in 1990. The My Pillow guy didn't start selling pillows until 2004.

5points

Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

True but he pays for their endorsement and failed to disclose that. "Lindell also touted that MyPillow was the “official” pillow of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) without explaining the financial ties it has with the organization, according to TINA. MyPIllow received the designation following independent testing paid for by the Foundation. Like many other uses of trademarked logos, MyPillow pays royalties to use the National Sleep Foundation logo in its marketing,” Lindell said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-mypillows-ceo-isnt-resting-easy/

14points

#9

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I work at a big store in The Netherlands and at the end of every advertisement week we have to make sure the shelves are almost empty so it will look like almost everything sold out and the products we sell are popular. In reality we still have a lot in the stockroom but this way people will buy it faster because 1) it's on sale 2) it's almost sold out 3) it's a popular product 4) they think the company as a whole is doing a great job. It isn't really a big secret but I thought it's quite funny.

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

And in other posts store workers get upset that people ask if they have any left in the back, when the shelves are empty... well, guess what...

86points

13 4 years ago

Yeah I hear you. That kind of retail mentality f*****g sucks. '"Yeah I'll look for you in the back" means I'm going to the can and coming back to tell you that "sorry we're all out"'. And then this. Wonderful world we live in!

5points

elSti 4 years ago

i don't see why you would get upset of that. most stores have some stock back no?

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Robert T 4 years ago

Most supermarkets in the UK now have very small stockrooms. They literally have to put everything out onto the shop floor when the delivery lorry arrives. It is now fairly unlikely that they will have any more in the back when the run out on the shelves. Even when I worked in a supermarket nigh upon 30 years ago we couldn't have done this with the space we had available.

3points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

This is why I have groceries delivered. Can't hunger or FOMO buy if you're not in the store. And, although it does have some drawbacks (some retailers load online orders with old or expired items...looking at you, Walmart), being able to sit down and thoughtfully compare products and prices is harder to pull off in store with a ton of Rona Petris all around you than it is from your warm, comfy, down-stuffed sofa.

2points

Molly Block 4 years ago

So then the employees have to bust their butts to restock all of those shelves?? Seems like a bad plan.... am I wrong??

1point

Jeff Striks 4 years ago

So you do have more in the back

1point

Dave In MD 4 years ago

I like to "check in the back" for a product. Gives me a quick break and a chance to hit the rest room.

1point

Steffen Rehm 4 years ago

I do that sometimes at our store. It is amazing what people suddenly buy, if there is not much of it left. :D

1point

Derek Clark 4 years ago

It's not Liddl because there the advertisement weeks run into months.

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Richard Barlow 4 years ago

Sounds right. The way to find out what's on sale at our Kroger is just looking around for where the shelves are empty. Unfortunately, there's not "a few" items left. Just nothing there.

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Tim 4 years ago

In the US, it's the opposite. Empty shelves will keep people away from your store.

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Generally speaking, when people read media headlines about workplace issues and extremely demanding work environments, some of them tend to think of Amazon. Earlier, Bored Panda interviewed an Amazon warehouse employee who spilled the tea about what it’s actually like to work for the company.

The worker, who goes by the username Somethingslightlyclever on Imgur, said that working at Amazon is stressful and lonesome. They opened up that the only thing still keeping them at their job is that they have an earpiece and can listen to audiobooks during work hours in secret.

#10

I used to work for IBM. It was well known within IBM that all projects would be significantly understaffed. This meant that the people working on those projects would work their assess off. We were all salaried employees so we made no more money by working 80 hours per week compared to the normal 40 hours per week. IBM did make more money however since most of our projects were billed as time&materials (effectively hourly). When some internal people started complaining about the excessive overtime IBM offered them the option of becoming an "hourly" employee. This meant that they no longer had access to healthcare, 401K etc, but they would be making significantly more money, in some cases more than doubling their previous salary since they would be getting paid for every hour worked. IBM didn't think many people would choose the hourly option, thinking that their benefits plan was enough to keep people there as salaried employees. Of those that were offered the option, something like 95% chose to become hourly. Every single person that chose the hourly option was fired within one month. That meant that some projects that were already understaffed were even more understaffed. Many projects were cancelled or delayed because IBM chose to use these employees as an example of what happens when you complain too loudly.

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago (edited)

I can't understand how you people fall for the 'salaried staff doesn't get paid overtime' nonsense. I'm salaried, but my salary is based on 32 hours, so every hour over that is paid or compensated with time off. How can you think your salary has to stretch more hours that agreed on? I mean, can you also just work 10 hours and get paid in full? Because apparently hours don't matter...

58points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

It's easy to say such things when you have labor laws protecting you from exploitation and a welfare system that will provide you with enough money to cover for the time you're looking for another job. In the USA employees are wage slaves and their entire existence depends on their job. As stated in the post: without a job you don't have healthcare or a pension plan and of course no income. And you can't keep up the payments on your mortgage and lease car on Unemployment Benefits.

36points

Bored Lizzie 4 years ago

In the United States you can be Salaried Exempt (exempt for over-time pay) Or Salaried Non-Exempt (you get overtime) The laws vary by state and they are really corrupt. For example in my state if your job involves even *touching* a horse, you are exempt from overtime pay. Why? Because there's a huge group of wealthy polo people that lobbied to make it so. Car salesmen are also exempt. For the most part, the law is the law. But most small employees will claim ignorance and qualify anyone they can as Salaried Exempt (which mean no overtime, but also means you can work 10 hours and still get paid as long as your job gets done - In which case, your employer will try to "facilitate" you out of the company for "taking advantage of the system" even though you put in many 80hr weeks without additional compensation) Ask me how I know.....

17points

William Cruz 4 years ago

When I use to work salary I had no problem punching out at my designated time. When told I had to work overtime I asked if I was going to get additional pay, they would say no. I would answer well I don't work for free. If they threaten to fire me I threaten them with the labor department.

13points

Jeffrey Diehl Premium 4 years ago

That's because you probably work in a civilised country and not the USA.

11points

Uhura Goldring 4 years ago

The difference between salary exempt and salary non-exempt: one is exempt from overtime, the other is not. It's in your contact when you get the job offer.

10points

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

I don't understand it, and I've been alive to see it happen.... "Salary means no overtime". The he** it doesn't! IMHO. (American. Pro-union. Anti-unregulated-capiatlism)

9points

Elizabeth Rieck 4 years ago

Is that in your contract? Because most places will laugh at you for trying to be paid fairly like that. Right to work states make it so places will refuse to hire you for wanting it or will fire you as soon as you mention it. Unfortunately the US system has allowed corporates to make slave of the people. You either agree to their way or you struggle to pay rent or buy food :/

6points

Elliot 4 years ago

It depends entirely on your employment contract. Many salaried employee contracts stipulation that you're paid X amount per year. The smart companies make sure not to put a number of hours so they can adjust. This lets them get away with no overtime pay most of the time since you agreed to it. The bait and switch is they assure the potential employee that only 40 hours will be expected with maybe overtime "every now and then" and then require 60+ hour weeks almost every week after they start. I worked for a place that the Controller required 80+ hours every week of supervisor and above after consolidating the accounting department. Someone after about 3 weeks had a rage moment, threw their computer, and quit. Businesses like that count on people not reading the contract in full before signing or believing that be management won't pull stuff like that.

6points

Crystal R 4 years ago

"Well I'm not subject to it, so it must never happen!"

4points

Hiker Chick 4 years ago

It depends on the job classification. With my organization, some salaried employees can get overtime but some are required to work overtime without extra compensation. I'm not in HR so I don't know the specifics. I know I just leave when I've hit my 40 hours for the week.

4points

Graham Baker 4 years ago

my mom’s a teacher, she can’t work overtime because there isn’t any way to. she can plan and prepare for hours on end but school’s not going past 3:15 and there’s no way to get overtime after that.

3points

E Gonz 4 years ago

Depends on job classification. My career is under the ‘creative’ umbrella and has been determined that overtime is not to be paid for. I worked a design job where I put in 25+ hours of OT for a few weeks in a row for a project. I didn’t get paid a dime extra for it, my husband kept thinking I was cheating (this was before remote working) and then the president of the company had the audacity to say I didn’t work the hours I said I did. When I got a rescue puppy and it was more demanding than anticipated and I didn’t work as much, they were more than happy to pay me half a paycheck. OT doesn’t necessarily = more money. Read your contract.

2points

Badonka Donks FluffyButt 4 years ago

Not every company works that way. It should for sure. But doesn't. I worked with a security company that paid salary to the area managers, and one of them was complaining about how he basically lives there, and only goes home to shower and change and sometimes sleep... he said that they expected him to be on call 24/7. His salary was only 75k with 401k plan health vision dental and life insurance... which is definitely not enough to be basically living at the office. Any time he wanted to go on vacation or take time off he wouldn't hear the last of it. And i witnessed some of it.... some companies will be slimy and have you sign the thing that says one thing but make u do more. And if you try and fight back well you're fired. People are to scared to lose their job or open lawsuits or do anything to defend themselves so the companies get away with it.

1point

Bumblebee Angst 4 years ago

Please educate us then on the options lol I doubt they are aplenty in the US

1point

Xenthia 4 years ago

Only in America, man. They're so afraid of anything their pathetic government tells them is communism, that they'll rather suffer than unionise. It's kinda ingenious, really. Tell your stupid citizens that free healthcare and work rights are exactly the same as communism, and they'll reject it themselves.

1point

Barbara Ann Doucet-Kehoe 4 years ago

Many labour laws arent strong enough to protect against this. Happens a LOT in the food industry in Canada. If you make a fuss, you get fired. Salary is the food industry's way of making you work more for less money.

1point

Real Person 4 years ago

American citizen. I have lived in 3 states and never belonged to a union. Every salaried job I have ever had has said this is how many hours a week we expect you to work when offering you the job. In some instances it was only 40 but most commonly it is 44 -50. It also says if you qualify for overtime for any hours worked after that and how it is paid (in some cases it is time and a half like anybody else, sometimes just hourly. One place took what ever amount your salary was per check and divided it by the total number of hours worked to come up with a weird hourly rate and paid that for every hour over the 44 instead of dividing your salary by the 44 hours expected.) this explained when you are offered a position. If it doesnt seem fair or you are not ok with those terms you renegotiate or turn down the offer.

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R.E. Deno 4 years ago (edited)

Because it all depends on your specific contact. Most companies, for most positions, in the US at least, don't offer that. Instead it's a "you're required to work at least this many hours a week, and this many weeks a year, and you're required to complete all assigned tasks." If you can't complete those assigned tasks in that time, you get a sarcastic lecture about needing "better time management" and to "be a team player, were all in this together and all pulling extra hours to get this project finished..."

0points

Thomas Paine 4 years ago

That's not a universal policy, some companies don't have any extra compensation for salaried employees who work overtime. I have worked as a salaried employee at a summer camp and a construction company working an average of 65 hours a week at both and didn't get paid for anything after 40.

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Kelly Boekhout 4 years ago

Obviously if you're salaried you have to work a certain amount of hours to get full pay. That last question of yours didn't make any sense

0points

Bob Cakin 4 years ago

Easy. It's called American Capitalism and we don't get a choice. It's either work a shitty job that treats you like s**t... or become homeless and die on the street. We would all love to have labor laws that protect us from this type of exploitation, but big vorporations simply lobby both Democrats and Republicans to make sure that never happens (which is why both the Democratic and Republican establishments are so against a living wage). And since most healthcare in the US is tied to employment, companies use the threat of losing healthcare to keep employees in line... and they lobby both Democrats and Republicans to make sure both Democrats and Republicans hate the idea of Medicare for All or free universal healthcare. And what little labor laws we do have in the US are rarely enforced so those laws get broken all the time because a law only matters if it is actually enforced... which is why the most common form of theft in the US is wage theft!

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SweetsEve 4 years ago

"Can you also work 10 hours and get paid in full?" Yes. Must years are super busy but there have been times where things like up and there's a diet slow week and there's no pressure to make up stuff to do, but it is a good time to work on something educational within the expertise you're employed for.

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AnxietyRiddenMom 4 years ago

That's the way it's been with every salaried position I've had. Maybe it's different in different places

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Nimitz 4 years ago (edited)

I remember working for IBM. That place was nuts. Understaffed, underpaid, but overmanaged. I mentioned one time, just once, that I had used a Linux testing OS at an old job and boom! They made me the guy for testing their Linux deployment for the province. I made it clear I had only used a few command lines and was in no way an expert or even proficient. They didn't care. My reports were basically "seems to be working" as it worked for taking notes and Googling job questions.

4points

Nimitz 4 years ago

My favourite part was how the managers had told everyone the old "don't tell anyone you're making more than them" line. News alert: we were all being underpaid the same amount!

3points

Danielle 4 years ago

My father worked for ibm. He had 2 more years until getting retiremnet under them. Guess what? He spent the next 6 months training his replacement in India then was fired. Surprise!

4points

Guido Pisano 4 years ago (edited)

In my country (italy) overtime must be paid by law (ok - should - )

3points

Emmydearest 4 years ago

Must be paid AND you're not supposed to work more than a certain amount of overtime hours. Why? Simple. Because if the employees have to work -let's say- three hours overtime every day, that means the company needs more employees, therefore they should hire more people. It makes sense. But unfortunately the common practice is that those extra overtime hours are paid off the books.

4points

Gaby Almodovar 4 years ago

Losing money, just to show dominance! What a bullshit business-plan.

3points

Jeff Striks 4 years ago

If I were forced to work 80 hour weeks on wage pay I'd just get Obamacare. I'm not exactly a fan of it, but I'd sure as hell be able to afford it

2points

v 4 years ago

So...95% of their producing workforce was fired and they didn't go into bankruptcy? What percentage of this story should be believed?

1point

Monkey Spunk 4 years ago

Didn't that go to court though? Along with when they fired all of the older salesforce because they "didn't understand cloud tech because they were too old"?

1point

Dave P 4 years ago

has been law since the 80s you must pay for overtime, that is federal. I am sorry, my BS meter is in overdrive here.

1point

DumYum 4 years ago (edited)

As a past salaried employee, I assure you this is true. It’s one of the reasons I don’t like people saying that well to do people don’t work hard. Because I’ve seen white collar workers work long hours without extra pay. I’ve worked on teams where people are sleeping on the floor at work to finish a project on deadline. So why do we do it? Pride in work and the hope of a generous bonus and continuous raises. All of which I received and career experience to be able to take to the next job and become head of a department. Does it hurt family life? Yes.

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Joe Standford 1 year ago (edited)

Life tip salaried doesn’t mean no over time ever look up your states employment laws.

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#11

Scientist here. About 50% of all published results cannot be reproduced in another lab. A lot of statistics are tweaked with to get results that are 'statistically significant', which is skimming the edge of what's legal and what is not.

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Donkey boi 4 years ago

Right now, with everything going on, I hate the words 'Scientist' and 'Doctor'. They are too vague and being used to push false information and agendas. 'A doctor has said vaccines are bad' That plank is a nutritionist, WTF does he know about virology? And scientist just means 'a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of interest'. We need to do away with the words and only use the field that they are in.

83points

DogMom 4 years ago

A family member was telling me what some professor friend of theirs was saying about the vaccine (nothing good). She made it seem like this person was the authority on Covid because they teach at a university. When I asked what this person’s field was it turned out they were a linguistics professor.

27points

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

I'd give you my credentials, but I doubt it'd help. FWIW, I spent all my days *before* the pandemic debunking the Bad Science BS, trying to advocate the US returnt o patient-centered medicine over profit-centered, and working on a research project to integrate nationalized health with child abuse detection, but.... mostly these days I explain Medical in English, hold hands, and do whatever is needed. I kinda miss just running through datasets. Boredom was good.

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago (edited)

EXACTLY! My son graduated from Uni in 2020 and one of his fellow grads in his major was the former head of Infectious Disease at the CDC (an MD & virologist who decided, after she retired, to return to Uni and study a lifelong passion of hers). She spoke via Zoom at the-private commencement for their particular major, where she told everyone all about SARS-CoV-2 (she also told us they were very close to an mRNA vaccine. They announced the development of the mRNA and plans to start trials about 4 weeks later). It was fascinating to hear, first hand, an incredibly knowledgeable and articulate expert speak about the virus bc it was a complete deviation from all of the pseudoscience BS being jocked by #45 and his cohorts. It made it all the more obvious that Trump and his posse were being incredibly subversive, and using extreme subterfuge to skate around the problem, since there are clearly many expert authorities he COULD have consulted but refused to do so.

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Sage Gusano 4 years ago

As well as the generic title "expert" used in so many news stories. We're All About To Spontaneously Combust; Expert says. But you never get their qualifications, etc.

7points

Gerard Neaux 4 years ago

Donkey boi, you're rushing to embrace anti science propaganda. Medical and scientific qualifications CAN be checked. Research can be checked. Embracing anti science propaganda without judiciously using your brain to think just makes you a denier.

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Richard Claessens 3 years ago

I happen to know a great deal about virology and vector research vector control immunology and viral function..... And I can tell you that this soup mRNA is based loosely on science and mostly on hopeful speculation and fraud and it's no wonder that over 50,000 people have been killed by this (strange that's not in the news) and 100,000 people have been seriously harmed and that's just the ones that have been reported. The current facts for the cove is a fraud and you're a fool to let them inject that soup into your body but go be a guinea pig if you wish I'll pass ..... More information visit Dr Coleman Www.VernonColeman.org

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Mary OKeefe 4 years ago

I get you, and agree that there are many, many profiteers and/or professionals with self-serving motives in every field. Some very highly educated, extremely knowledgeable individuals work for private, profit driven corporations are willing to be complicit in hiding what they know due to employment contracted NDA's ( I am thinking of Monsanto, but surely they are not alone) and probably patent law would forbid publishing much of their product research studies in the professional journals of their field to allow for debate among their peers. Sadly, our government allows and supports that in many cases. However, I highly doubt that the many thousands of scientists, chemist, and medical experts - that had to publish their research theses for peer review, as part of their doctoral designation requirements. Some may possibly fudge in methods used to reach the expressed results of their research, and the theory from which it came, but professionals worldwide would see right through that.

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R Ramos 4 years ago

You're overlooking something. Blindly trusting someone because it IS that person's field is also a big mistake. That is the person whom you will be most likely to believe even when he or she is lying, or inexperienced, or merely mistaken. That's how some mechanics get people to agree to unneeded repairs, for example. "Well, my mechanic told me so, and he's a person who studied mechanics, so it must be true." Wrong.

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

This is a very bold claim to make without any evidence -- which it odd because science tends to be especially in favor of evidence.

13points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago (edited)

Yeah...someone seems to not be aware of: 1) how difficult it is to get the grants and appropriate lab spaces required for most bona fide research, 2) how much work is involved in setting up a valid study-- including securing and prepping facilities, equipment, controls, software, testing supplies and equipment, and finding and qualifying participants or test subjects, and 3) how hard it is to have your work successfully pass the peer review process-- especially since Scientists tend to be some of the most skeptical and fastidious peers in any industry. So just throwing down a blanket statement like this one smacks of anti-science idiocy. No one who is at all familiar with the process of creating, executing, and validating a proper scientific study is going to buy that assertion.

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Gerard Neaux 4 years ago

@ Andy, indeed putting it here on bored panda without context reeks of anti science propaganda.

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Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago

Which is why scientific results are irrelevant and not actually “results” in the plural form unless duplicated and peer reviewed. Something anti-vaxxers understand less than somatic hypermutation.

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

Peer reviewed, right?

6points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Other scientists make some of the worst peers when it comes to validating the work of others, too. So consensus in peer review is highly impactful where research is concerned, isn't it?

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John Baker 4 years ago

This reeks of bullshit.

4points

Glirpy 4 years ago

Umm, published results about what? I know this is not true for everything. I’m guessing this person isn’t a scientist.

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Brett Layton 4 years ago

Personally I only take findings seriously if they have been peer reviewed in an accredited scientific journal and reproduced by another group. There was a recent story about warp bubbles but turns out the guy making the claims is only in therory and has a history of making outlandish claims.

3points

v 4 years ago

Assuming that by published you mean published in general media and not that which is published for authoritative peer review. There's a significant difference between the two.

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago (edited)

This. 100%. These days, a lot of sites make it all up--or extract one single data set from a complex study and twist the interpretation of it completely. That irritates TF out of me, bc most Americans are, frankly, too daft to recognize the issues with that. They just see a citation or reference to a study and accept the non-scientific interpretation given as gospel. We, as a populace, lost our ability to scrutinize information LONG AGO. That most people don't even understand the processes of research--let alone have the skills to recognize how so many non-scientists love to extrapolate tiny sets of data and twist them to support their own pre-conceived opinions (which are usually in no way based on actual science) is incredibly frustrating. It's like watching intellectual zombies to see them all bite in and commit to so much total BS.

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RedMarbles 4 years ago

That has to be the area with the highest degree of difficulty in replicating results. So complicated, involving the organ we know the least about, and reliant to some degree on self-reporting. A lot of people dismiss the entire field because of the ever-changing definitions and categories, but the people who devote their lives to trying to figure this stuff out still know a lot more than the armchair psychologist out there.

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Gerard Neaux 4 years ago

Exactly, this is mostly about psychology, and a little about Chinese life science

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Indeed. And other soft sciences, as well, it took these fields 150 years to even come to some sort of consensus about what the issues ARE or HOW t TO IDENTIFY THEM (and much of both are STILL up for debate), let alone to recognize the plethora of uncontrollable mitigating factors that may throw off replication of results. Hell, we are so used to DNA-speak now that we fail to step back and note that the area of genetics has only been a known factor in soft sciences for about 10 or15 years. Along the continuum of h.s. Sapiens existence, that's just a puff in the wind. We still really have no idea about what we DON'T know in regard to the influence of genetics in psychological and psychosocial development and pathology. There will be a time where we have that knowledge, and it will likely lead scientists to recognize the utter futility of trying to replicate results using people with completely different DNA.

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Thea Grace 4 years ago

Show me the covid-19 strand. Oh wait, no one can.

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#12

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I take donations at Goodwill. We throw away a good 90% of what we get.

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Kira Okah 4 years ago

Because it is in poor condition or soiled to the point of ew. It's not because of bad practices on the charity's part, but because most donations are holey or have skid marks.

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Lavender Oak 4 years ago

Goodwill is NOT a charity. And they have a bad practice of pretending they are.

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Dre Mosley 4 years ago (edited)

A lot of the donations are things that should have been trashed instead of donated. It's not really that the organization is wasteful.

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Rod Egret 4 years ago

Last month I finally got a PS5 so I sold my old PS4 to my local game store and the owner was amazed at how clean and in good condition it was. He then explained to me that the vast majority of people bring stuff in poor shape and he always ask them the same question : would you buy that console used? Every time people answer no and understand. So donate and/or sell stuff because you don't use it anymore, not because it's broken or worn out.

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El muerto 4 years ago

but often because a lot that gets in, is in poor condition. if you are going to sell it, at least it has to be whole

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Kathy Puls 4 years ago

Take your donations to a homeless shelter, not Goodwill. But, be a decent human being and don't donate crap that should be thrown out.

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Robert T 4 years ago

I sincerely hope you don't throw it away. My SO works in a UK charity shop and there are a number of things they can't accept, such as electrical goods, so these are passed on to other charities that do accept them. If you can't sell it yourselves, you should be passing it on to someone who can, unless it is something that really cannot be sold or re-used, then it should be recycled.

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Huddo's sister 4 years ago

Yeah, it really depends on the staff at that particular store. Some are more fussy than others, but even if they can't sell it they try to recycle it, including to places that recycle rags.

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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

Since Goodwill gets a ton of useless stuff ---- broken, damaged beyond repair, etc. ---- this doesn't surprise me.

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Magoomba 4 years ago

If you give to Goodwill you are an idiot. Goodwill is a privately owned for profit company that sells the free stuff you give it to enrich the owner. If you truly want to give to charity give your stuff to the Salvation Army.

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Drew Losure-McDermott 4 years ago

This is wholly FALSE - the SA is a religious organization that uses their profits to lobby against LGBT rights whereas Goodwill is a nonprofit. This can be confirmed with a simple Google search... so you, Magoomba, are the true idiot here.

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Kyra Arkenseed 4 years ago (edited)

Used to work at Goodwill, the majority of "salvage" clothing, doesn't get re-donated to help the less fortunate, it gets sold by pound to the highest bidder local or overseas, and anything that doesn't sell after a couple weeks, gets thrown in the trash, literally thousands of dollars of glass shattered into the garbage. They also accepted a donation of a mint condition WW2 coat and were gonna throw it away without even bothering to price it. I bought it off of them and moved on to find a better job I could be proud of working at. Oh almost forgot about the fact that there's a quota of "found money" that every store is supposed to reach, and if the store fails to reach that quota, the location gets looked into for internal theft.

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yeciye 4 years ago

Sounds like William is not that good.

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Auntriarch 4 years ago

Snort-laugh!

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“We aren’t supposed to have them, but I hide mine. It’s the single biggest factor in staying there. Before getting that, I was losing my mind. The job is as boring as counting change. It’s terrible being stuck in your own head for 10 hours a day over and over. I was talking to myself. Being able to focus on the audiobooks or music has saved my sanity,” they said.

“They constantly come by and tell you where you stand and what you should be at. It’s like a broken record. I don’t mind having to walk 5 or 6 minutes to the bathroom or 8 minutes to the break room. I do mind them getting on me for not being productive during that time,” the employee said that the company could loosen up a bit when it comes to enforcing quotas and efficiency.

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30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees Here's some Domino's secrets. First off, if you don't tip the drivers, they memorize your address and they don't want to take your orders. If you do tip, they'll give you extra toppings, sauces and all that. If you get [bad] food it's because the pizza is put on a scale and you're only allowed to put a certain amount of cheese and toppings on it. If a manager or the owner sees that you're overtopping, you will get talked to. Their marinara sauce is just a concentrate mixed with water and you just stir it in a big tub. The vegetables and meats all come in bags, some are fresh and some come canned. They don't always wear gloves when they're putting your vegetables in tubs. They have this thing called the food pit of toppings that fall below the pizza. They make workers pick that pit and put those toppings back in their container. That's why there's cross-contamination and you'll find random [things] in your pizza. The thin crust comes in a plastic.

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yeciye 4 years ago

Ew. I will make my own pizza, thank you.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

Home made pizza is ALWAYS better than that crap from Domino's.

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Firstname Lastname 4 years ago

So if I tip, I'll get extra toppings, but only if the manager doesn't see it?

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Nimitz 4 years ago

Sounds like US Dominoes. I worked at one in Canada for a while. We kept a very clean store and didn't do any of the stuff posted. We cleaned under the lines and behind the fryers, filtered the oil every night and replaced it 2-3 times a week (Monday and Friday, but sometimes Saturday too if Friday was a major slam). All the food was kept in lidded cambros that we rotated religiously. That place was clean and we were proud of it!

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Jef Bateman 4 years ago

I delivered pizza in the 80s. I got a tip maybe 1/5 of the time--some days not at all. Now they have a delivery charge and you're expected to tip. Biggest tip I got was a guy fresh from New York who was so surprised that the pizza actually showed up in 45 minutes that he called his whole family out front so they could see. It was a 20 and some random ones. For one single pizza.

7points

The Chosen One 4 years ago

aaaand that's why I don't eat dominos. Their pizza is gross anyway.

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Ben Hughes 4 years ago

delivered chinese food in high school. the older drivers took all the big tip orders and avoided delivering to the ghetto areas.. no suprise, you dont want to be a middle aged chinese man delivering to areas predominantly populated by rednecks, bikers and people for whom ordering out is a big f*****g deal. ironically, they were the biggest tippers. if i got one to the more affluent areas, i learned to expect maybe 25 cents tip on a hundred dollar order. in the ghetto, 5 to ten dollars on a 30 dollar order. loved the job tho, free food, and i could sling dimebags of weed while i was out on delivery. kept me in the green through high school.

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Kira Okah 4 years ago

Our Dominos is open plan so I've seen the kitchen stuff from the customer side as well as chatting. No scales in the one I go to, a visual guide is apparently what is followed. They don't wear gloves indeed, but they wash their hands before and after filling the topping tubs as policy. The pits are trays and they are divided by topping so they shouldn't cross unless stuff falls off.

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CHAOS. 4 years ago

Papa johns ftw

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ZAPanda 4 years ago

I have a policy of: if I do not see a wood burning oven, and your staff do not have those plastic baggies over their hands, and i can't see the chefs, I do not buy. Dominos, Pizzahut, etc., isn't really acceptable as pizza, it's basically a large biscuit ("cookie") with toppings.

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Becky Samuel 4 years ago

Plastic gloves are not really helpful in food prep - they're just used for show. Proper hand-washing is far superior to some wasteful gloves.

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Jason Marin 3 years ago

Thank goodness for Little Ceaser's.

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#14

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees This is true of academia in general but you have no idea how much money textbook companies spend on wooing professors. Just to give a couple examples: the last time I went to the big conference in my field, which was held in Atlanta that year, Bedford-St. Martin rented out the Atlanta Braves stadium, bused everyone at the conference there (about two thousand people), gave us a free buffet that stretched through three rooms (we were up in the box seats) with an open bar and they opened up all the games in the back hallways for us to play. Pearson's party was far more modest: they rented out the Coke museum, gave us all free tours and their free buffet only stretched through one freaking room (but with much classier food) but still had an open bar. Just in case you were wondering why those textbooks of yours are so expensive.

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Anna Banana 4 years ago

Pretty sure that's not a thing in my country: all of my professors actively encouraged us to buy used textbooks from older students. Even if there was a newer version they would just let us work with either.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

I think this is a USA thing. I've heard lots of stories about the insane pricing of text books.

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E Menendez 4 years ago

In the U.S. many professors tell you to buy used and will help find cheaper alternatives. I once h ad a professor that "wrote" his own textbook - basically took all that was needed for the text books that he was going to cover in class. He had it printed at the school and it cost $10.

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Nugua 4 years ago (edited)

In my uni the profs actively petitioned that batches of the more expensive textbooks were bought by the university and put into the library. They encouraged sharing and copying the books.

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Huddo's sister 4 years ago

Yeah in Australia (for the course I did at least) we could buy second hand or share textbooks and there weren't that many for each unit because a lot of the required readings came from free online atricles.

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Victoria Kimball 4 years ago

This isn't just about "used vs new." It's about getting instructors to use one publishers textbook vs another's.

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Talon 4 years ago

Please tell me which country?

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

I've been a professor for over 10 years, never once been wooed. Sometimes you get random free books (never interesting ones) but that is about it.

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Jef Bateman 4 years ago

I was an adjunct at a local community college and told them that I wanted to teach without a textbook. They had a list of acceptable options, and "no textbook" wasn't one of them. Also, if a publisher comes out with a new edition, we were not allowed to use the old edition.

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

I was fortunate to go to a college where teachers generally required actual industry books on a topic -- not textbooks. It was more expensive because each class would require multiple books, but at least we didn't have to deal with the premiums put on textbooks. I could usually find the books used or borrow them easily from a library.

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Chocolate Straw 4 years ago (edited)

Even though it would have driven me crazy (I'm an old fuddy-duddy), I'm hoping that when you buy a "textbook" in the future, you don't get a book but access to it through your tablet/laptop/etc. Not only will this cut down the number of trees used as well as hopefully the price of the book, but the large states like Texas who have so much influence over what goes into textbooks nationwide will have less influence. They can get the digital ones they like - the ones that say evolution is "just a theory," omit anything negative about America in history books, have abstinence only lessons in health books - and the rest of the country can leave them in the dark ages and move on with the good version of whatever textbooks Texas buys.

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Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago

No, because then you will still be paying $300 for access, and then you won't be able to resell it and make $30 back! (Think Kindle books)

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

This. Just another example of boomer businesses bleeding younger generations (who they have already failed a million other ways) to the bone. Not that all boomers are bad but, as a Gen-X with boomer parents, I'm constantly shocked at what their friends and peers do to exploit younger generations for profit.

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Mazer 4 years ago

Many professors are creating their own reading materials just because of the outlandish costs of textbooks.

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Susan Williams 4 years ago

I had to buy the course book written by the professor teaching the course. What a racket.

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William Cruz 4 years ago

In college I bought a handful of books everything else I would make copies from other people's textbook. Only one class that I bought the textbook for we actually used it. Read every chapter of that book, had quizzes exams reports from it. Every other class the professor had us by it (9 out of 10 times they wrote it) and would have us read one chapter or worst claim this can be use as a resource.

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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

I've never heard of anyone wooed in this fashion, but even so, there are rarely major changes between editions, and I've known profs who'll just tell you to buy th e old cheaper "out of date" edition, and then hand out printouts of whatever is changed/new. TLDR: New textbooks every year is a con. we know.

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#15

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees (I haven't worked at Homegoods in 5 years so things could have changed in that time, but I doubt it) Homegoods is a lie. You're not saving any money. There are no deals there. These price tags that say "Compare at" and "our store price" - completely made up.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

A Lot of stores do that. We have a huge posh store in the Netherlands and they did a 3 day sale once a year and women were fighting for the stuff. But the store just purchased extra crap specifically for those 3 days and everybody thought is was high end!.

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GoldfishCrackers 4 years ago

Yep. True for pretty much all of B2B (business to business) retail. If a Black Friday deal is 50% off, it’s because the store was able to buy the merchandise at 80% off in bulk last March or whatever and keep it in storage until the “sale”.

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Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

That's very common. TJ Maxx, etc does that (they own home goods) The fake markup and then discount to a regular price, though, keeps people coming back

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

We seem to do well with them. Legitimate savings.

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DumYum 4 years ago

It’s like outlet stores. Inferior products or higher prices that are marked down to regular price in their non outlet stores.

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Maisey Myles 4 years ago

And everything is made in China

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Kristi Durst 4 years ago

Well that's obvious by their prices lol

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Molly Block 4 years ago

Sounds a lot like "Bed, Bath & Beyond." Their prices are SO damn high, it's not funny!

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CatchingZzZ 4 years ago

So...I shop at TJ Maxx and HomeGoods. At least in the bath section you can find some legitimate sales. I price check myself on my phone. A lot of the brand name companies actually make products just for TJ Maxx and HomeGoods. Still good quality though.

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

I thought everyone knew this? Sell crappy, low-quality imported sweat-shop junk but label it to look like it's a great deal. The reason that store is popular is because we Americans are often too daft to see through it, and we are such a hyper consumer society that we're probably just going to trash the stuff for something else a year from now, anyhow.

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Myxomatosis 4 years ago

I bought a "brand new" coffee pot there only to take it home to find it used, full of moldy grounds and water in the basin. The first and last time I went there.

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“Being able to listen to audiobooks while at work is the only reason I’m still able to work there. That being said, there is a rumor that they will be taking our phones away soon. In which case I’ll have to leave,” they told Bored Panda at the time.

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Former sandwich shop employee. They put soy sauce in the tuba salad. There, that's the secret recipe. Manager made me sign an NDA about it. Spy sauce. Shhh. edit: misspelled. Meant "french horn" salad

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

I appreciate the depth of flavor in the tuba salad, especially the low notes. Though I must admit, it's crunchier than I expected.

25points

Susan Green 4 years ago

Tuba salad edited to say French horn salad.lol!!

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Penelope 4 years ago

I usually order the piccolo Niçoise.

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago (edited)

If you have to go wind, go classy.

4points

Char Panda 4 years ago

Upvote for the joke that made me snort-laugh at work.

5points

Vortex Lazer 4 years ago

I would try a trumpet salad if they offers it.

5points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

It would contain Jerusalem artichoke and beans

3points

BorPand8 4 years ago

Huh. I'll have to try that.

2points

Hiker Chick 4 years ago

That actually sounds good! When I worked for Subway 30 years ago it was just tuna and mayonnaise, nothing else. Mixed by hand. When I made the tuna I smelled like fish for the whole day.

1point

Mousey 4 years ago

Even though its not actually fish?

1point

Bob Cakin 4 years ago

I still feel for those "disgruntled store workers" because they are definitely being overworked and underpaid.

0points

Christina Keenan 4 years ago

Tuna ?

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

So....Subway puts soy sauce in their tuna, but not ACTUAL tuna. Huh.

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#17

Our chinese manufacturers will be more than willing to supply us with a certificate assuring us and our clients that the cardboard and paper packaging for our new line of electronics is 100% recycled and eco friendly. 1000% bs.

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Susan Green 4 years ago

This shouldn’t be legal. If it’s not 100% recycled, they shouldn’t be allowed to say it is.

74points

Gavin Johnson 4 years ago

The U.S. store has a certificate that say 100% recycled, they are only passing on the message their supplier has sent to them. In China it’s probably not illegal to lie about that to a client in the U.S., it’s all smoke and mirrors to get a sale. Sad but true.

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Fritz Baumeister 4 years ago (edited)

The Chinese Communist Party and their minions don't give a crap about truth, only money. They lie about everything. I wouldn't believe anything they "certify."

13points

Adriana Loborec 4 years ago

Same thing with USA and most of the world, really.

0points

Johnny Magumbo 4 years ago

You know what else shouldn't be legal? Interning 2 million ethnic minorities and political opponents...

7points

Mathias Viera 4 years ago

Do you really think a law could stop them from lying? They do even worse things with no hesitation and no punishment.

6points

Myxomatosis 4 years ago

Susan - ITS CHINA

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JessRS 4 years ago

It's China, do you really think they care?

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A B C 4 years ago

Do you honestly think this is "legal"?

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Joe Standford 1 year ago

It’s not in the US and if anyone cared enough to investigate it the company would get huge fines, But, its China and no one cares.

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Fresh Big 3 years ago

helloooo, its china. They even make "Made in USA" labels. Now thats true capitalism over nationalism.

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Nicole Weymann 3 years ago

"100 % recycled trees"

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Barbara Ann Doucet-Kehoe 4 years ago

Laws are stringent enough.

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Tee Witt 4 years ago

It is illegal in the UK and many other European countries I think.

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Sunny Day 4 years ago

They didn't say it had to be recycled paper and cardboard. It's 100% recycled trees.

2points

Sawdust 4 years ago

"1000%" BS? I want to see the authenticating certificate for that. :-)

2points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Ha! This is exactly why I struggle, as a scientist first, with the hyperbole of "100+%"! I always end up displaying full dork by saying something like, "I put 100% of my energy into that....except not really, because no one can REALLY put a 100% of their energy into something, since bodily processes require a fair amount of energy..." Also why when people say ANYTHING is more than 100%, I feel the strongest urge to bïtchslap some science into them. 😆

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Andrew Saulnier 4 years ago

Pretty much everything the Chinese say is a lie. I always try to buy American or non-Chinese made products. Not always possible though.

2points

Buren 4 years ago

Don't believe recycle mark/sign easily. Most are untrue

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karl briggs 4 years ago

Money screams!

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CaptainDinosaur 4 years ago

I make corrugated board packaging in the US. If it says 100% recycled, it almost certainly is. Most 'cardboard' boxes are made of recycled paper anyway, so it's not really much of a flex.

1point

Francie Patton 4 years ago

Much like Honey Badger, China don't care!

1point

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Of course they are. Who's going to launch a multinational investigation to prove otherwise?

1point

John Frohlich 3 years ago

Thats China for your,the land of false products

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#18

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I work for a pharmaceutical company. Don't just buy some expensive s**t, you can buy the same medicine for so much cheaper elsewhere.

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Antz Online 4 years ago

I just buy the generic if I'm paying cash.

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Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago

Yeah, I always ask for " or the cheapest generic you have". I've found if you just ask for the specific brand name, they give you exactly that without asking questions because a lot of people are extremely full of s**t about generics. There's only one guy at one pharmacy I go to where I'll ask him for X and he'll ask "Y is the exact same thing for half the price, would you like to try that?" I appreciate him so much.

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Aisling Raye 4 years ago

1) Generics are exactly the same as brand name (you can check the actual chemical make up if you need verification) don't pay brand label prices 2) local, private pharmacies are much more likely to work with you on price than the big chains are 3) if you can't afford your prescription, contact the manufacturer. They can often help. 4) Always ask your doctor if they have samples and I can't stress this one enough 5) The American healthcare system is f*d up

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A B C 4 years ago

Upvote for #5

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Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

They aren't "exactly the same" (query 'generic vs. branded pharmaceuticals' and you'll eventually find some valid research on significant differences in some medications), but 100% agree with much of what you're saying. In order to be marketed as a generic pharmaceutical equivalent, the main condition required by the FDA is that the generic must contain the same exact dose of the ACTIVE ingredient(s). The problem, every once in a while, is that the INactive ingredients in a generic may actually cause unexpected side effects or inadvertently impact the uptake of the ACTIVE ingredient in some users (very rare, but it's happened with a number of medications throughout modern history). All in all, though, by buying the branded version, all you are really doing is paying for doctor-wooing and advertising. I don't trust any doctor who tries to pressure me into a branded med if a suitable generic is available. It's a pretty clear sign they've been wooed by and/or invested in Big Pharma.

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Julie C Rose 4 years ago

1) is the reason why my public healthcare country buys generic. Often when I see Americans talking about prescription medication, I google the generic name so I can see what it’s called in my country.

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J. Strange 4 years ago

However, be aware, that in 2017 EMA (the European Medicines Agency) found that a significant number of cheaper brands are cheating on their bioequivalence testing, where the outcome of the clinical results are too close to the original results or the like.

3points

Pam Pallett 4 years ago

Same in US. That's why I actually stopped buying generic, after decades of buying only generic.

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

Some generics do not work as well as brand name, some, it does not matter at all

2points

Not A Panda 4 years ago

I don't pay for the medication I need, but some medication IS brand specific. Those are actually noted in a list where I am and cannot be brand-switched at all.

2points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

In the Netherlands you pay for OTC medicines. The rest is covered by your insurance minus a small deductible. Also, the doctor decides what brand of medicine you get.

2points

A B C 4 years ago

Same in Germany, although pharmacists can switch brands on some prescriptions (not all I think, but luckily, I rarely need prescription medicine, so I'm not sure) as long as the relevant content is exactly the same.

1point

LynzCatastrophe 4 years ago

I tend to become extra suspicious if a certain drug is pushed at me... more so if I see posters for it.

1point

Michelle C 4 years ago

always buy generic...also if you ask your primary care Dr to write you scripts for the generic versions of medications you can get you insurance to cover it. For example Xyzal is $7.99 for 10 tablets OTC, generic OTC averages $6 for 10 tabs, I got a script for the generic Levocetirizine and got a 90 day supply for 80 cents. You can do this with aspirin, ibuprofen, naprosyn, and many more.

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yeciye 4 years ago

Again, 1. not really a secret, 2. applies to more than pharmacies and 3. I’m being nitpicky.

1point

C. Wade 4 years ago

4. Point 3 made me laugh.

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Talon 4 years ago

My medicine is prescribed and it gets faxed to a certain pharmacy (which we had to switch a little while ago cause the other would mess up our prescriptions, one of my mom’s went missing but they said we picked it up, they overpriced my already expensive medications, etc.)

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#19

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I worked at McDonald's and I learned so much s**t, so much McDonald's. You think that they're just fast food and s**t, but they have so much science behind everything. So for example, your straw at McDonald's is larger. Do you know why it's larger? Because it lets more carbonation hit your tongue and makes the soda taste better. That's why it's better at McDonald's. That's why 7-Eleven little s**tty straws suck. Their grilled chicken is injected with a saltwater mixture to keep it moist, but also flavorful. McDonald's actually commissioned Coke for their own recipe of syrup. That's why their Coke has a little bit more sugar and a lot more flavor. Their ice cream machine is made from whole whipping cream, and it's cleaned once a week. Did you know that Tyson actually makes the chicken nuggets? They're actually not that processed, and they're made by Tyson, and they're privately labeled.

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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago

LOL no one tell them about the conditions at Tysons chicken farms

22points

Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago

Yes. Tyson is one of the worst offenders with regard to humane treatment of animals meant for food production.

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Lavender Oak 4 years ago

I met a guy that worked for Tyson for 20 years. He only buys Perdue.

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Kisses4Katie 4 years ago

Ha, they’re wrong on the straws. It has NOTHING to do with the straws. I was a manager of one. It’s just a special giant cylinder of coke in the back that has its own co2 tank that’s pretty huge. It’s unbelievably fresh is all.

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RedMarbles 4 years ago

Apparently the stainless steel tanks make a difference in keeping the ingredients tasting fresher (rather than being stored in plastic bags). Supposedly their systems also keep the temperature steady at just over freezing at every point the coke passes. Plus extra filtration compared to ther places and supposedly some other differences that I forget. I don't mean to be a commercial for McDonald's, but I do think their cokes are superior and it even seems to me that the big straw helps. On the rare occasion I'm craving a Coke, McDonald's would be my number one choice. Curious if the other stuff sounds accurate to you as a former manager?

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Kira Okah 4 years ago

Pretty much every commercial meat product you'll find has a flavouring and brining solution injected into it prior to cooking, it's not special for Maccas chicken. The Maccas I wored at had the ice cream machine clean every two days at 3am, it runs on a cycle and takes some time. The nuggets are made in a factory that uses custom shaping machines but the factory does produce name brand nuggets too - note I'm British so the nuggets bit is different.

7points

Honu 4 years ago

Even raw chicken from the butcher counter in the supermarket is often pre-brined here in the US. That's cuts or even whole birds, not nuggets or tenders or any sort of heat-and-eat convenience meal.

5points

Rick Hoppenbrouwer 4 years ago

I use to clean a McDonalds when I was much younger and I can tell you without a doubt the Ice Cream machine is not made from whipped cream. Ours was metal.

6points

debrina blackmoon 4 years ago

Well, that's just boring. Not even a fudge topping soda machine either???

2points

Jeff Striks 4 years ago

Has to be fake. McNuggets taste nothing like Tyson anything. The quality is drastically different. And the ice cream machines never work anyway. Wanna know why? As I read it, because they're never clean. "Cleaned once a week" my butt

5points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

I'm guessing they have Tyson specially make them to custom standards. I refuse to eat them because I once found a SHRIMP SHELL in one. A friend who is a biologist scoped it and confirmed the identity. Just reaffirmed my suspicion that processed foods are incredibly misleading and potentially dangerous. Can you imagine if someone had an anaphylactic reaction bc they were allergic to shellfish? McD's started sucking in the 90s, and they just keep rolling along like that.

0points

Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)

Too much carbonation always diminishes the taste in my opinion. Slightly flat but still carbonated soda is tastier. Even better, if they have the two-hose setup that mixes the carbonated water and actual flavor syrup when you press the button, and they’ve set it to mix more syrup than normal premixed carbonated sodas (like from the grocery store) contain, the taste is phenomenal. Yeah, I know there’s more sugar in it, but at least you’re tasting the f*****g calories, and may even drink a smaller amount because of it.

4points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Aren't you meant to suck little shitty straws :D

3points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

This does not AT ALL explain the obvious paradox of why Mc Donalds has some of the least palatable food in the entire industry--although it DOES explain why their food is also the most "manufactured" -tasting and -looking.

2points

Jason Marin 3 years ago

I thought their ice cream machines were broken.

1point

karl briggs 4 years ago

As in like, THE "Iron" Mike Tyson???

1point

#20

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees Victoria’s Secret: they put the prettiest girls on the sales floor and everyone else at register or back room. We were told to flirt with male customers and sign up as many people for the dumb store credit card as we could.

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Antz Online 4 years ago

I think it's a general practice in high end retail

62points

rumade 4 years ago

Victoria Secret is not high end

16points

Pat Bond 4 years ago

It's pretty common across the industry and sales in general.

4points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Or even middle retail. You're right, tho. The schmooze gets obscenely unbearable in high-end "boutiques". Champagne served while your "personal image consultant" tries to convince you to try on only the most expensive attire in the building is probably a pretty clear sign that you are only as meaningful to them as the available credit on your platinum card. But, hey..too many social media users are pimping themselves just to be able to experience that, so...

2points

Jaye West 4 years ago

So true for the coach store as well.

0points

Robert T 4 years ago

So Victoria doesn't really have a secret then.

5points

Monday 4 years ago

This is normal for most retail stores. You put the attractive people on the floor because it's easier for them to convince a customer to buy something. We already know attractive people can get away with a lot more, so it's a safer bet to have conventionally attractive Dolly approach the random stranger with "a great new offer" and have average looking Elise working the back room.

3points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

This almost sounds like an argument in favor of objectification--which, I'm sure, isn't what you intended, but still. Your observations about what good looking people "can get away with" might also be a bit simplistic and reductive. From experience I can testify that, for as many doors that may open based on appearance, at least that many are closed for the same reason. In my military days, I was selected for a unique opportunity (I was the DON's first female "white hat", which required very high tech aptitude and logic skills). I know I was selected mostly because of my excellent grades, test scores, and evaluations. But when I showed up to new commands, they always seemed to expect, based on my PERS jacket, an androgynous automaton--not a petite little blonde with a perky personality and a southern drawl. I was constantly talked to, by both men & women, as if I was an idiot--even tho I'm highly articulate and knowledgeable---all bc, to them, I "looked" like one.

1point

yeciye 4 years ago

Bad practice, but not really a secret. I would be surprised if it was the only store that did this. Try again, Victoria!

3points

Glirpy 4 years ago (edited)

How many men actually shop at Victoria’s Secret? They probably go there just for the reason the OP mentioned.

2points

Jane Jane 4 years ago

Shocking! I mean, yeah... PINK is marketed to tweens and teens and the 'Angels' are blatantly sexualized, but to hire pretty girls that flirt with the wallets, THAT is going too far!

1point

Heather Davis 4 years ago

All the sales women i deal with are bitches.

1point

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

It's a chicken and egg thing. Were they bitches before they got into sales, or did sales make them bitches? I think having to peddle sheiß you don't believe in to people who don't want to be propositioned for a salary that often barely pays your living expenses could turn anyone into a bitch. However, most good sales people are good because they are assertive and don't give up. In men, those are considered highly valuable traits. Women with those traits, however, often get vilified and name called.

0points

Nugua 4 years ago

Shocking. /s

1point

Joe Standford 1 year ago

Also the secret is it’s owned by two Men.

0points

Linda Tisue 4 years ago

Just one more reason not to buy their synthic microplastic polluting clothes

0points

#21

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I worked at Hollister and I think it's different now, but back in the day it was kind of messed up. There were two positions. One was called back stock and one was called a model. And the model was like the customer service people who actually were on the floor and dealt with customers. In order to be a model, you had to be attractive and in the interview process, they rate you from a scale of one to 10. You had to keep your hair and makeup natural. You couldn't paint your nails, and you could only wear their clothes that were navy, blue and white, including shoes. So when I worked there, they only had the flimsy little flip flops and I just had to wear those on my shifts. And the reason they're called models is that apparently Hollister, like all of their ad models, all of the models in the pictures were pulled from the employees, and on Black Friday, they always picked the skinniest girl and paid her more than everyone else to stand in the front with the shirtless guys. It was so much stuff, it was always just on looks.

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

It's called a model specifically so they can discriminate based on looks. You can't not hire a good store clerk because they're not as pretty as you like them to be, but you can totally dismiss a model that's not pretty. And it's not really a secret that most stores want pretty people in the front. That sells.

54points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

I'll stick to charity shops staffed by old lady volunteers

9points

Peter Liddle 4 years ago

Abercombie & Fitch used to do this in Hong Kong.

5points

Troux 4 years ago

In the US also. I don't know if they were the first, but A&F popularized this business model (no pun intended), as well as the scheme of having their customer service people act snobbish. Instead of a happy, smiling greeter, employees would be aloof because they are the cool crowd and customers should wish they were cool enough to talk to them, and therefore buy clothes? I wish I could pretend this is a stupid idea, but it's worked damn well for them.

5points

yeciye 4 years ago

While it’s a bad practice, it’s the same “secret” as the Victoria’s Secret “secret”, and not even an actual secret.

4points

Penelope 4 years ago

I don’t live in a big city and I’ve never heard of this store. This kind of information is useful. For instance, I won’t be online shopping at Hollister after having read this.

4points

Rider 4 years ago (edited)

Hooters does the same, they're models not servers. Paid like servers and not models.

3points

Pistol Guts 4 years ago

Thats exactly why I never shop at Hollister and those types of stores!!

1point

Jennifer Niles 4 years ago

I heard the same thing about places like American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc. back when I was in high school ('99-'03). It doesn't surprise me a bit.

1point

shanna keegan 4 years ago

Abercrombie is the same way. I worked there for 2 days (this was about 12 years ago). They made me buy all new clothes to work there, gave me the run down on natural hair, makeup, nails... etc. My second day a manager told me my makeup made me look cake-faced. I was a teenager struggling with acne and trying to cover it. I was humiliated. Needless to say my dad called and told them I wouldn't be back for another shift, amongst other things.

1point

LynzCatastrophe 4 years ago

I want to know why ANYONE shopped there.

1point

GoldfishCrackers 4 years ago

Another reason I have never, will never, and hope my kids will never shop here.

1point

#22

So I used to work at Target, and when I found this out, I was like damn, this is about to save me hella f**king money. So Target actually price matches all of their competitors' prices, including Walmart, including Amazon, so you can basically just go to guest services, show them on your phone the price for like, a different website or a different company, and they would just go bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop up at the guest service, change the price up for you, and this works best with, you know how when Target sells like the Apple Watches or the iPhones, and they have like the extra one hundred dollars gift card or $50 gift card? Yeah, you can get a better price and you can get the gift card on top of that. So that's what I'll be doing at Target. It saves me hella money.

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Living Example 4 years ago

If a store says they'll match a competitor's price, it tells me they were trying to rip you off and the guy with a good price to start with gets my business.

57points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

I have dealt with this in large appliances. A store will say that they will match a competitors price on a washing machine, except large appliance stores have their own special part numbers for those appliances. No other store on earth has the "same" appliance, so they never need to honor that statement.

9points

kaycee14 4 years ago

The better prices are usually promotional, and manufacturers cycle their promotion through retailers. Meaning, if Apple products are on sale at Target one week, they'll be on sale at Walmart the next week, at Best Buy the next, etc. It's the manufacturers inflating prices so they can have "sales" without sacrificing profits.

3points

Great Panda Mamu 4 years ago

Unless said competitor is someone like Amazon or Walmart who are known for treating their workers badly.

2points

GoldfishCrackers 4 years ago

Maybe, maybe not. Is one a huge big box store, another a small local business? Also, different stores have sales at different times.

1point

Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago

It doesn’t work that way the goods are identical

0points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Not at all. QUALITY is everything. For example, Walmart sells electronics made to WALTON SPECS....which means they have Sanyo, Sony, and lots of other electronics corps make the same products as are sold in Target and elsewhere--except the WALTON SPEC is that it MUST contain X% of USED components--e.g. refurbished, recaptured, reconditioned transisters, capacitors, inductors, resisters, diodes, etc. They have bought, through their extensive lobbying of the GOP, the ability to do this and still call the items new. That's why Walmart has their own VERSIONS (often with serial numbers starting with WM- ) of real products that have been "Waltonized". Not at liberty to say how I know this, but you can search federal court records and find a few cases related to it (most settle out of court). That's why their electronics often die within a year two. Also why lower price often isn't always "more honest".

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Spot on!

0points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

Yes, it always annoys me and puts me off

0points

Leodavinci 4 years ago

And you'd be wrong.

-1point

Vicki Thill 4 years ago

I've noticed that I have to watch the prices at Target more so than any other store I've ever visited. The sale price on the shelf rarely rings up at the sale price. It happens so often that I never fill a cart so I can correctly watch the register for sale prices. I just bought a Ninja Air Fryer and it was on sale for $99.98, but at the register it rang up at $229.99. After a bit of a wait, I was proved correct and got it at the sale price. This happens almost every visit, even on items that are not on sale. I find it interesting that it never rings up less than advertised on the shelf. If you shop Target, keep an eye on the prices as they ring up. Oh, and just so you get the whole story: the air fryer is awesome and totally worth the price, sale or not.

2points

Niffler_13 4 years ago

They only price match if it shows up in Target's system. For example their policy says they price match walmart.com, however that does not include third party sellers on walmart.com, because those prices do not show up in Target's system. Even though their price match policy states that you just need to provide evidence, such as a flier or the webpage, in order to get the price match.

2points

iBlank 4 years ago

i'm going to do this just to hear the employee go bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop

1point

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

Target really does price-match?! OK, this does surprise me.

1point

Neal Evans 3 years ago

Use your savings to buy a dictionary

0points

TG Davis 4 years ago

Awesome! This may be the best advice in here!

0points

Molly Block 4 years ago

I save hella money but just not shopping for the hell of it.

0points

bastillee 4 years ago

Good to know.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

I loathe Target. They started out great but have become a mess of contradictions. The pricing is at times three times their competition and the food they stock..I would not feed to my dead dog.

0points

#23

So I used to work for Whataburger. And if you haven't noticed, sometimes you get a really long receipt and at the bottom it says, if you complete the survey, you get a free burger with a purchase of a medium fry and a medium drink. We don't actually have a way of checking whether you did the survey or not. So you could literally just write down numbers, like six numbers and use a coupon. And this is how I know that we can't even deny it, whether we find out that you didn't do it or not. There used to be this old man who would literally come in to ask for a pen and write six numbers down right in front of us and use the coupon. And we were not allowed to be like 'Sir, I just saw you. I can't take this.'

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Eric Rossman 4 years ago

Same thing at Sonic. The code you get is predictable.

0points

zoponex 4 years ago

I love that old guy!

0points

abby smink 4 years ago

I miss Whataburger so damn bad.

0points

Monkey Spunk 4 years ago

I know MacDonalds in the UK used to be the same, I think they clamped down on it about 5 years ago.

0points

Vanta Black 4 years ago

I'm wondering if they did that so more people took part in the Monopoly promotion. Last time I did it, I bought a double cheeseburger and fries while my friend had a Big Mac and fries. Our prizes? He won a double cheeseburger, I won a Big Mac. It was a good day. Back on topic, I think the popularity of McDonald's Monopoly put a stop to their voucher promotion.

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#24

I work for a Fortune 100 financial office. I wouldn't trust 95% of the people with a cent of my money. There are a few decent people, but the rest dont give a s**t, they want the commission and the policy count. And a ton of them have either been sued, given strikes on their records, investigated for fraud and/or are not allowed to use wording due to their past behavior.

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Next on todays news: Scammers will be scammers and conmen are still stealing your money.

41points

zoponex 4 years ago

Exactly.

0points

Kevin Beard 4 years ago

Reminds me of a facebook ad that comes up a lot suggesting you to can invest in hedge funds like rich people instead of investing in an index fund. My comment every time I see it is, "Rich people can afford to lose more money than I can."

3points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago

Most commissioned sale people are the same way. They could care less whether they’re cheating customers, they just want their commission check. And companies are making Frankensteins out of them by then forcing non-sales staff to take care of the pissed off cheated customers. So the sales staff can lie and make all kind of impossible promises to get the sale, and then walk away and never have to take the beating for it. I processed mortgages (processed, not sold) briefly before the real estate bubble burst, and saw sales staff choose which mortgage package to offer by the amount of commission paid, it the applicant’s credit score, assets, and debt to income ratio. So they would assign high interest mortgages to people who either obviously weren’t going to be able to pay them, or who actually qualified for a much lower interest rate. And all with incredibly overinflated egos. Sleazy m***********s..

2points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Totally 100% why I got out of sales years ago. It was a crazy conflict, too, bc I was not even 20 yet, and I was banking $1,500-$2,000/wk as a sales mgr, with my own sales + up-comms from my team. (Having that kind of bank in 1989 was glorious.) But one day, a pregnant couple who I'd sold a contract to 4 days before came in & wanted to get out of it bc, as it turned out, they already had FOUR kids, only ONE min. wage income, and they CLEARLY couldn't afford the monthly pmts (we offered a goods & services plan). But I couldn't find a way to nullify the contract without going to corporate, so I finally just told them I took care of it, and I bought the contract out myself bc I felt guilty AF. NEVER would have signed them if they'd told me their situation--bc that's just fücked. THAT'S when I started noticing how our Co. targeted & exploited the hell out of people like them. I couldn't go back. Like Plato's cave dweller. You can't do it if you have a conscience.

0points

Random Anon 4 years ago

You mean these cheery folks that calls me up to pitched that 100% return on my investments offer are not real? OMG! Lol. Yeah everytime I ask if they will put that on paper, it's either a revision to "projected returns" or the hang-up tone.

0points

#25

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees Do not ever use one of those milkshake machines. You know where you get the frozen cup then you put it in the thing and it shoots out your milkshake? They don't clean those. I worked at Wawa and I would clean it every shift just because I knew other people weren't doing it. Even from one day not being cleaned, it's all mold up there.

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Donkey boi 4 years ago

At my wife's store they clean every day or every time the milk runs out, whichever comes first. If there isn't a member of staff that knows how to clean it (apparently it's quite technical) they turn it off and and mark it 'out of order' until next shift change.

4points

Bored Lizzie 4 years ago

And that's why pregannt women are told not to eat soft-serve ice cream: the listeria bacteria that lurks in improperly cleaned machines,

2points

Annamagelic 4 years ago

I used to work in a food lab. Local heath inspectors would get food samples from restaurants and we would do a work up of the bacteria in it. Because of that job I stopped eating soft serve icecream/milkshakes from a machine, bagged lettuce and deli salads (potato salad, pasta salad ect)

1point

Annamagelic 4 years ago (edited)

We once got samples from an expensive private school that put a soft serve machine in their cafeteria. They sent in samples 3 times after they failed insisting we were wrong and their machine was clean. Finaly they decided to blame the soft serve mix they were buying to put in. We tested that too. Guess what, it was their machine after all, there was nothing wrong (bacterialogicly) with the original goo.

0points

Christina Keenan 4 years ago

Ewwww!

0points

Ben Dreyer 4 years ago

I'm still stuck on that McDonalds ice cream machine made out of fully whipped cream a bit higher up. Man, thats gotta take some damn skill!

0points

v 4 years ago

I'd be far more worried about the state of the ice maker in any restaurant.

0points

Bob Standen 4 years ago

Same problem with the coffee machines at McDonalds.

0points

kaycee14 4 years ago

Soda machines too. I worked at a movie theater, and there was so much mold in the parts we COULD clean, you just know know the parts we couldn't reach to clean had to be unspeakable.

0points

#26

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees The major gym chain that I worked for actively tries to discourage members from becoming frequent members. How do they do this? They would start by putting treadmills and elliptical out of order, or preventative maintenance. And would keep them out of commission until attendance got to manageable levels where the gym did not feel so crowded and thus easier to sell memberships. And getting out of a membership was damn near impossible.

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Treessimontrees 4 years ago

You can exit a gym membership easily. As long as you've paid what you owe up to the last time you go. You stop any direct debit, and send a letter or email saying you've cancelled your membership. There's nothing they can do after that. Remember they are a gym not the IRS.

39points

Craig Silberman 4 years ago

that's how many places with "recurring monthly revenue" are -- they won't let you cancel your contract, but if you stop paying, they may cancel you for non-payment

6points

Angela Jester 4 years ago

The gym I went to required you to sign a 2 yr contract. It's the only gym in a 35 mile radius, so if you want to exercise you sign.

3points

John Dilligaf 4 years ago

^^this - it's what I had to do. I got the run-around trying to cancel my membership. I simply went to my credit union and told them cancel the automatic payment.

3points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

Some gym memberships have 12, 24, even 36 month contracts. Granted, you would have to be pretty green to sign up with one, but still. Trust that, after the 3-day grace period required by law, those contracts are almost impossible to get out of. Many attorneys have fought over it.

0points

howdylee 4 years ago

"I wanna quit the gym!"

3points

SilentBob731 4 years ago

You do realize that you won't have access to our new full-service Swedish Spa?

3points

Sean Simpson 4 years ago

Easy way to have your membership revoked: jerk off or have sex in the steam room and get caught. They’ll cancel your membership immediately and you’ll get a ban, so while kind of nuclear, it is effective.

2points

Alma Muminovic 4 years ago

My gym tried to charge me 150$ cancellation fee, I called my bank and said i did not authorize that and they refunded me.

2points

Jeff Striks 4 years ago

I briefly worked for Jersey Strong/Work Out World, as a personal trainer. Well, I wasn't actually certified yet so I couldn't train anyone. I was hired while working on my cert. But I was still expected to be on the floor selling our training services. This was commission based work. So any successful sales (I had like 1 cause I'm no salesperson) were going to my coworkers' commissions! I was literally hurting my own chances at making money once I was certified, as that many fewer members would've been available for training... They advertised a fake salary too.

2points

Dre Mosley 4 years ago

I'm glad I joined a small local gym and not one of the major chains.

2points

Tiffany Wilson 4 years ago

I got out of my membership by changing banks completely. The gym wouldn't end the membership any other way.

1point

Ellen Larkin 4 years ago

I just cancelled my card and got a new one esp with PF they were the worst

0points

Jody Whitmarsh 4 years ago

I did maintenance for a big chain gym.. very very busy location. Getting to do preventive maintenance on some of the cardio machines would about start fights. The members would complain about it, but then complain if a machine went out of order because no one did preventative maintenence. Btw, it would take me 7 minutes to replace the washers and fill the bushings on one elliptical. 7 whole minutes. If someone got too snooty about it, that machine world go down for 7 hours, or however long I had left in my shift. Don't mess with maintenance!

0points

Lav Oravaf 4 years ago

many years ago I joined a local gym, very modern and trendy. first thing they get you to meet with a personal trainer, who explains the whole deal and tells you he/she will be there for you whenever you need. So I good hooked like a dumb and signed my annual membership (which came a LOT cheaper than the monthly one). First day I went there I couldnt understand these very super modern machines, so I call the very same PT I talked to, and he said "cannot help you, sorry but what do you think? That I am here for you only?". I asked around but people were not really interested in helping me so I left so very disappointed. I luckily managed to get the membership cancelled with a medical certificate from an orthopedic doctor (still lost about $300 = 1 month payment + membership fee + lock key fee). never ever ever again...

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#27

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees All right, so I worked at Best Buy for the better part of a decade. Ironically, wearing a blue and yellow hat, not on purpose. So the big one is you don't have to buy that protection plan if you go back in the store and your product isn't working within a year. They can actually take it back right then and there and give you a gift card for credit. And if they tell you they can't honor a manufacturer warranty, they're full of s**t. Ask for a manager if you're going to buy a cell phone from them, just know that it's more expensive to buy it from Best Buy than it is in a carrier store. The carrier store, it's going to be about one hundred and fifty bucks off. If you're ever going to buy an open box TV or a big ticket item, try to get it on a Saturday night because they need to hit their numbers for the week and they'll be more willing to work with you to get a deal done. If they try to sell you an HDMI cable, just say no, you can get the exact same thing on Amazon for like four bucks. The last thing is they actually lose money on computer sales. So when they try to give you a bundle deal with whatever accessories they have, you're actually not getting that great of a deal.

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Seabeast 4 years ago

We looked at a computer there and ended up going elsewhere. Was not impressed with all the extras the sale person kept trying to tack on.

16points

Tami 4 years ago

You can find all kinds of cables for a couple dollars or less at a thrift store.

2points

Karen Kaiser 4 years ago

I bought a laptop at BB. Less then a week it stop working and nothing the woman suggested work. She said bring it in for exchange. Went in on a drizzily day. Barely wet, walked 2 yards from car to store. Told them computer didn't work was told to exchange. Without opening the box which I made sure had everything in it including manuals he says we can't accept it due to water damage. I argue he doesn't move. I told my mom who used her card to get it let's go to Sam's for laptop I saw. 1 T and was going for $350 whereas the 1 we had was only 8 g and $595 then we'll stop by the lawyer. That got him and he was willing to exchange but I said no I want to return. She gave him her info yet months later she was still fighting them about a refund. They had the computer and wanted the cash too!!

1point

Jay Son 4 years ago

Also, always check with the price they show on their website. I'm not sure it's it's like this every state, but in Hawaii, things tend to have a jacked up price. They will honor the online price when you do.

1point

Chris M 4 years ago

Also, if you need your computer repaired, you're much better off finding a well-reviewed independent repair shop. They're cheaper, better, and faster.

1point

Karen Kaiser 4 years ago

They complain you voided the warranty. I went through hoops to send it out if state to their repair and they returned saying they weren't going to repair as it was infested. I quizzed them on it and they kept changing story.

1point

Annamagelic 4 years ago

I had a friend who worked for Best Buy years ago. Tge employee discount at the time wasn't based on the retail price it was something like 10% above wholesale cost. On big ticket items, especially computers advertised sale prices were a much better deal. The smaller stuff like cables, ink ect on the other hand she could get for about one tenth the retail price.

1point

Christina Keenan 4 years ago

Never buy the extended warranty.

0points

Freder 4 years ago

Worst service! They also only have a 15 day return policy for most items, and they can refuse a valid return under 15 days if they want (think overstocked or under-performing items)

-1point

#28

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I sell cars. Most of the time you wont find the OTD price on the paper because they want you to get to finance and "include" your warranty in the payment. The verbage makes it sound free. It is not free.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

Nothing is free except kindness and even that comes with a price sometimes.

54points

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

OK, now I need to give you a virtual hug, b/c that just seems so da*n sad.

7points

Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago

I have got loads of free stuff for no commitment

1point

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago

True true.

1point

Gerard Neaux 4 years ago

Yes, sometimes kindness comes with a price and, worse, sometimes it's also you who pays that price.

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

Carl Cato — Please check out the Aurikatariina and Adventures With Purpose YouTube channels.

0points

Craig Silberman 4 years ago

everything at an auto dealer is a rip-off; smart buyers do their homework (so easy in the internet era), and go in knowing what they'll pay before they even speak to one of the salespeople

2points

Hiker Chick 4 years ago

I got banned from a car dealership (in writing) because I went with a friend and insisted they give her the OTD price before she decided.

2points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

My parents bought a used car when I was young using the OTD method, by writing a check (the last check on the pad, and they mentioned that) for the exact amount they had decided ahead of time that they would pay for that car. The only choice they gave the dealer was to figure out how to make it come to that exact price, or there would be no sale.

3points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Illegal in Europe. All costs must be mentioned when buying a car, including but not limited to the costs of registering, delivery costs and making the car driveable and roadworthy. Your warranty also has got nothing to do with how you pay for your car; finance or out of your own pocket.

1point

Jay Son 4 years ago

Cars are also a lot more expensive in Europe...

0points

Great Panda Mamu 4 years ago

Never finance with the same people selling you the car. You will always get a better deal elsewhere.

0points

Jonathan Joye 4 years ago

*Almost* always. Recently bought a CPO car and got better interest rate from the dealer than from my credit union (with whom I've been doing business for 15 years, multiple car loans and a mortgage). But in general, have at least one pre-approval before you shop, that way you can compare the terms.

0points

Richard Hann 4 years ago

Toyota advertising says you get "complementary" service for 2yrs/24,000 miles. This includes 2 oil changes, a few tire rotations, and roadside assistance...read the sticker in the window, that "complementary" service is nearly $1,000. A lot of dealerships say you receive a lifetime power train warranty at no additional charge if you buy from them, window sticker says it's typically $2,000 or more. Warranty is usually valid only if you return to the dealership for service/regular maintenance. They made a killing off you for repeat business. If you keep your car 15yrs 200,000+ miles and your transmission goes out, is it worth fixing?? And they look at you like you're crazy if you tell them you don't want the "complementary" service or lifetime warranty.

0points

Alma Muminovic 4 years ago

Of course it’s not free. Best advise i can give is go to a credit union and get a private car loan never go through the dealer they will f**k u every time especially in finance. Don't add any warranty/insurance except the gap insurance and your good.

0points

debrina blackmoon 4 years ago

So, ve(ga)rbage.

-1point

#29

Dominos pizza tracker isn't accurate. Employees can enter s**t on the computer to make your order to appear at a different stage than it actually is. The horror.

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S 4 years ago

Idk, I still like that feature. Even it's bogus, it gives peace of mind. In my opinion, anyway. It's always seemed accurate enough and arrives on time every time. Might just be my store though.

39points

Kate Jones 4 years ago

i could care less about the cooking process I just need to know when i need to put clothes on and answer the door, so as long as that is accurate they can say it's done in 3 seconds lol.

9points

Futt Buckerson 4 years ago

Has anyone actually ever thought that the pizza tracker was an automated system? We don't quite have that technology yet. Of course the employees are the ones telling you what stage it's at. Why the hell would they want to lie to you about how far along your pizza is? That would just be more of a headache to them if you came in to pick up your pizza and it hasn't been cooked yet. Why would they do that to themselves?

2points

kaycee14 4 years ago

Knew that when the tracker said "delivered," but my doorbell didn't ring until 10 min later.

2points

M Sims 4 years ago

My tracker never shows any progress. Ever.

0points

Nicole Payne 4 years ago

Well no s**t. Someone has to update the tracker...

0points

Tess Molloy 4 years ago

Why you eating Domino’s in the first place? It’s garbage.

0points

Michał Osiecki 4 years ago

how else could it be if not employees setting the status?

0points

Jennifer Niles 4 years ago (edited)

I've never had an issue. It takes less than 5 minutes to get from the local Dominos to my apartment. As soon as the tracker says "out for delivery", I go outside to wait for them, and they are usually here within 5 minutes. Maybe 10 if they have any other stops to make. But it's pretty accurate in my experience.

0points

piper dillon 4 years ago

one time I ordered a pizza for pickup about 30 min before they closed (i know that's kinda shitty, but I didn't realize it was so close to closing at the time) the tracker went through every step and then when I went to pick it up, the doors were locked (still 10 min to close) and no one would answer the phone. just as I get back to my car, which I guess was parked by the back door, an employee walks out. so I flag him down and he goes back in to get his manager who then tells me they never got an order =|

0points

Mrs S Premium 4 years ago

No biggie

0points

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#30

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I worked for a home security company. 2 big secrets: About 90% of the salesmen are lying douchebags that will say anything to get you to sign up and then think they can hold a contract against you, but if you complain enough to the right people, the legal department will cancel your contract outright. The equipment is super cheap despite the fact that they tell you that you are basically paying for the equipment over the length of your contract so that you don't have a huge up-front cost. The parts for an average home with an 8-piece system, panel included, only run about $800 at-cost (if that, but it depends on the stuff you get), but you will pay out several thousand over the length of your initial 3 or 5 year contract. Any extensions on top of your initial contract with no new equipment or services is money straight into the pocket of the company. Monitoring ends up costing the company a few cents a day when you break enough systems across enough operators. If "peace of mind" is worth that to you, then go ahead and sign up. Monitoring service is excellent but the equipment is s**t.

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Chich Premium 4 years ago

I have several small cameras. I can watch live from anywhere, they send notices to my phone if movement/sound detected, record sound and video, keep recordings in the cloud for 2 weeks and/or on a micro SDcard. They are about $40 each.

36points

Beth S 4 years ago

Which ones do you use, if you don't mind my asking?

8points

13 4 years ago

Share please? Which ones specifically did you get? I'm looking for a system and you just named all the stuff I want it to do.

2points

Jay Son 4 years ago

What happens if the power gets cut?

1point

Scott Kelly 4 years ago

When I was signing up for home internet service the company said the router would be $20/month to RENT, or I could buy a router outright for $180 (I would then OWN the router myself). I bought it outright as after 9 months of service at $20 each month would come out to the same $180. But the next 10th month (another $20) would be $200 towards the router. The 11th month $220. And so on because I am still "renting" the equipment. I've had the service for 4 years and that would have cost $960 in "rental fees" verses paying $180 to OWN the router. And I would be expected to give the rented router back if the service was cancelled. So do your math, don't let these companies scam you over the long run. If you can swing the money to own the equipment outright, you'll be better off.

2points

Karen Kaiser 4 years ago

I'd buy from a store brand new. You don't know how old or 'well used' the equipment is. Buying new is much better and no rental crap. I got the equipment and had my cousin install a whole bun h cheaper.

0points

Nolgoth 4 years ago

Be careful who you sign up with too. My grandparents had ADT but werent happy with the cost. Some rando from a company called Fluent came by one day and convinced them to sign up. They did because it was much cheaper. Problem is the company has 0 technical support services and when the alarm did go off on accident we never got a call checking up nor a police dispatch to do health and welfare check. ADT was on that stuff and would send out techs if needed. We got new windows installed, had to take down the sensors because new windows are set differently than old ones, fluent wont send a tech to set everything back up. All they've done is send replacement sensors... doesnt help if we cannot set them up nor the panel properly. Stick with big name, well known home security companies.

1point

Craig Silberman 4 years ago

security companies farm out monitoring to large companies that do it for less than $3/month, then charge $40 or $50 or more to you

1point

Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago

Read contracts before signing them. Make sure there’s a clear and well-defined Right of Recission clause included. It covers what’s known as “Buyers Remorse”—-you make an impulse buy for something you really really want, then come back to your senses and realize you realistically can NOT afford it. Right of Recission means you’re legally able to cancel the contract within a defined time period without penalty. Like it never even happened. I think the standard for big ticket items like cars or houses is 30 days.

1point

Johnny Magumbo 4 years ago

Wait, you mean security companies are trying to turn a profit??? Have you ever heard of overhead and payroll??? Sounds pretty much like what every successful business on the planet does.

1point

Emerald Ocean 4 years ago

My dad put his own cameras up at my parents house. They have an alarm, but the rest he did himself. Even the motion lights

1point

Catherine Spencer-Mills 4 years ago

Bought a house and the local "security" company started calling. About the 3rd time, my husband said, no, stop calling. They asked what you got? 4 Australian Shepherds, the racket when anyone comes to the door.... They said, you don't need us. They don't watch enough youtube when a chihuahua can chase an armed robber out of a store, that is all you need.

0points

Christina Keenan 4 years ago

So, this doesn't include the ring?

0points

Glirpy 4 years ago

90% of the salesmen in the entire world are lying douchebags that will say anything to make a sale. I know, they’re just trying to make a living like everyone else, but many times them sh*t on other people while they’re doing it.

0points

#31

I'm a chemist and throughout my education and career I have observed that scientific fraud is widespread and there is little interest in doing anything about it. I seriously doubt the validity of any sort of scientific data because of this. It's so simple to do really. Cherry picking data can be as simple a just not writing down a number you don't like, or even writing or entering a different number. Any time there is money involved there is strong push to please those paying the bills. Many times I have been asked subtly or not so subtly to repeat things until the desired result is achieved. No one out and out tells you to fabricate things but instead it is usually implied that your work is somehow flawed or you must have made a mistake. Do it again. I can look over someones raw data and usually tell if they are "cooking the books" or "dry labing" but it is all but impossible to prove. You can also tell by someones workload. If you are putting in hard 12 hour days and your colleague spends most of his time reading magazines something is up. Also you could put a full camera crew in front of a lab worker and they could 100% fabricate data and you would never see anything to indicate that they were. It's just so easy. There are legit good ways to detect stuff like this. Things like statistical analysis and blind samples that are independently verified. This is almost never done.

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RandomBeing 4 years ago

*Screams*

1point

Daveychop 4 years ago

If you can see the bullshit then the peer reviewers will.

0points

#32

I work in market research and do quality and assurance. I essentially review all of the data our interviewers collect from respondents. Aside from that I also edit the data so it makes sense because some people say wild things. I also recode responses and often replace open ended responses with what I feel is appropriate. Surveys that were ended too soon due to the respondent hanging up I go into those and complete them. I don't even call the respondent back I literally put whatever I want. We do surveys for political issues like upcoming elections, customer satisfaction studies, and for colleges/universities. We even have a reoccurring study that collects data from people who were impacted from the BP oil spill. We recently picked up a job the IRS wants us to conduct too. It really opened my eyes to look at where data comes from and how honest that company is who collected and validated the data.

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Penelope 4 years ago

This one is really upsetting.

10points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

I think it's safe to say this person may be in the wrong profession...

2points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

The outcome of every study or survey is dependent on who pays for it.

1point

Nadine Debard 4 years ago

It's not how surveys must be conducted. I would fire them if they worked for me.

0points

#33

I work at a VERY large farming company that grows and packages a certain vegetable (Hint: Bugs Bunny) The store brand and the private label brand right next to it are from the same field and there is no difference between the product in it.

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rumade 4 years ago

Branded fresh fruit and vegetables aren't really a thing where I'm from; is it common in the USA?

5points

King Joffrey 4 years ago

It's not just the US though. Try buying bananas that are not Chiquita/Dole/Del Monte...

2points

Cold Contagious 4 years ago (edited)

Most carrots do come in plastic bags with a brand name on them but in the store, they only sell the one brand. They don't have different ones competing to be purchased. Other stores across the states probably have different brands though. Same with celery, spinach, and a few more. Edit: Potato brands compete for sale. Also King Joffrey mentioned 3 different brands of bananas, but stores will only carry one brand that I've ever seen in a few states I've been in.

0points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Nope.

0points

Casey Burns 4 years ago

Broccoli? That's the answer right?

0points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Eh, what's up doc?

0points

#34

Worked Injection molding almost my entire life, my uncle and father build/rebuild molds in a mold repair shop. Almost every mold that has a "Made In the USA" texture somewhere in it will have it removed. A lot of companies do NOT want their parts saying "Made in the USA". Their reasoning is if you know it was made here, then you know there is someone to sue. If it's made in some shop in China your less likely to pursue legal action, wether bogus or justified.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

This suing left right and centre in the USA is ridiculous.

17points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)

But it's understandable. If you lose income in the USA because of some faulty product that injured you, you only can recoup your losses if you sue the manufacturer. In most European countries you have some form of sick leave insurance which will cover your loss of income and of course you do not immediately rack up a $150 000 medical bill.

3points

#35

I worked at BestBuy warehouse. One tip: when buying a tv, make sure the staff in store open and check the screen first before you take it out of store (no matter the size of the tv). During busy season like christmas boxing day or black friday we will drop a lot of products during shipping and packing so yeah.

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#36

Your flight didn't get cancelled due to weather. There's an equal chance it got cancelled because of maintenance issues, staffing, or scheduling problems. If there's a cloud in the sky at either airport they will just code it as a weather cancellation so the airline doesn't have to buy you a hotel room/meal vouchers.

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Stephanie Wilkins 4 years ago

American Airlines did this to me. I'll never fly with them again.

1point

#37

Camera Repair Due to the camera industry (and the entire electronic industry as a whole) actively taking steps to undermine competition, we are barely holding on. Steps the camera manufacturers are taking: Keeping all parts breakdowns private (can't find part numbers) Keeping all part price lists private (even if you have a number, can't get pricing without calling and ordering it - estimates take much longer). Keeping all technical data (schematics, troubleshooting guides, basic information regarding parts) private. Raising the cost of parts to point where repair is uneconomical, while still repairing items at a competitive price. Sometimes the repair cost from the manufacturer is $20 more than the cost of the part. Refusing to sell parts to repair shops. (ie: Fuji, Tamron, Nikon, Ricoh/Pentax, Sony) Canon being the 1 exception, but they are raising the cost of all parts by 35% starting August 1st. Refusing to sell adjustment tools to repair shops (they have them, but will not sell them) Pricing repair and adjustment tools beyond what the market will bare ($250,000 tool "required" to adjust Nikon lenses) Keeping all necessary adjustment software private For the longest time the argument I'd hear from manufacturers was "Well, if we release this information or sell parts, we can't guarantee the quality of our products from inferior repair... Well, if you want inferior repair, that's how you get inferior repair... Now the argument is "We need to protect our intellectual property". The REAL answer is that repair undermines their ability to make sales. Sales drives the ENTIRE industry. Repair actually costs manufacturers money in the end. They have to have extra parts produced. They have to store them. They have to keep track of them. They have to have people to move them around. They need technicians to repair their devices and have staff to manage the repair operations. They need to create adjustment tools and manuals (kept in-house).... The list goes on. This is a power play to get consumer's money at all costs.

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Caro Caro 4 years ago

Thank god we have the "right to repair" laws here in Europe.

7points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

We do, but that doesn't mean that manufacturers are obliged to disclose troubleshoot sheets, diagrams, specifications or sell special tools or parts. So just setting up a repair centre and asking ridiculous prices to repair stuff is enough to comply.

3points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

It's a tactic that's applied in all industries. From car manufacturers asking ridiculous fees to update your satnav system or to enable or disable certain features on your car to companies telling you that your 3 year old smart phone or TV is obsolete so they will not update it anymore.

1point

#38

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees All right, so I used to work at Coles and this was a few years ago, so it might be different now. But when they trained new employees or when they trained you, they trained you to follow their "Yes, you can" policy. So what that means is if a customer is fighting for a discount that is less than 50 percent off of the original item then or the cost, whatever, then we were supposed to just give it to you and say yes. So like, if you were fighting for an item to be 40 percent off, we were supposed to just give it to you, not to call the manager to argue with you or anything. Also, the like, 10, 20, 30 percent of coupons that you can use with the Coles charge. If you only get a 10 or 20 percent, just don't bring a coupon in. Use your Coles charge and say that you forgot your coupon, like in your car at home. And we're supposed to just like, say, you had a 30 and we're just supposed to give it to you. Also, their loss prevention, people are always watching, they're always watching. Don't borrow from Coles. They will catch.

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Riverina 4 years ago

This is the Australian Coles supermarket btw

2points

Cold Contagious 4 years ago

Thanks for the info 😀

0points

Nora Kean 1 week ago

Coles is a bookstore in Canada

0points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

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Dre Mosley 4 years ago

I think Coles is a supermarket in Australia.

2points

#39

I recently started working for a cleaning firm. My boss basically said: "It doesn't actually have to be clean, it just has to look clean."

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

Duh. That's how I clean my house too.

17points

Talon 4 years ago

That’s what we do at my school (I’m on my school’s maintenance team) “work smarter not harder”

0points

Rider 4 years ago

Still an improvement on what my teens do.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Nothing new. Everyone knows that mopping a floor with mud doesn't really make it clean.

0points

#40

One of my facebook friends interviewed for a teaching position at the school district I work for. She was nervous and awaited the news with 100% more anxiety than she should have. The teacher shortage we have here is so bad we'll pretty much take anyone that's completed their certification, including people that have just obtained it and have never stepped foot in a classroom before.

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Monday 4 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't part of completing your certification sitting in on and teaching classes at whatever school you're assigned to?

9points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Don't know about the USA but in the Netherlands you first have to have a number of hours where you actually taught classes and sat in to watch how experienced teachers did their job before you can get your certification.

1point

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Actuallyu, at least one school district is hiring substitutes without certificates or degrees.

1point

Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago (edited)

Michigan just passed a bill that sets the requirement for a substitute teacher as "you have to be an adult".

0points

Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago

Is there a reason they shouldn’t take anyone who’s just completed certification? They’ve completed their certification - they’re certified to teach. How else can they get a job and start working and “step foot in a classroom” unless someone gives them a job? I’m so confused. What other option is there?

0points

#41

Big technology companies providing really slick services, especially where you buy things online, make it look like they really have their s**t together. Most of them don't. Their back end systems are held together by virtual rubber bands and glue and their staff stumble from one fire to another because the management teams never stop trying to develop new features to allow technical debt to be repaid. They public facing end is just fancy enough to hide that all from you. This is as true for AWS as it is for Ticketmaster.

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Dre Mosley 4 years ago

As someone who works in software development, I know this all too well. This is true even for a lot of smaller scale systems.

5points

#42

I worked at Kohl's for a year and I only left about four months ago, so as of December 2020, this is still how things are. So this secret, I have many of them, is about Kohl's cash. You know, when you buy stuff and you earn that Kohl's cash back and then you can come in the next week and spend it as if it was like a gift card. First, I'm going to say never buy anything full price at Kohl's because we almost always have something going on. If it's not a percentage, then it's an earn Kohl's cash thing. And if you don't have the app or you don't have like a physical copy of the coupon, all you have to do is ask them, I know you guys have a coupon going on right now, but I forgot mine at home. Can you please scan one for me? And we will so that Kohl's cash has an expiration date on it of when you can use it, but you can still scan it in store up to 10 days after its expiration date. So don't throw it away just yet. It'll disappear from the app, but you can still scan the hard copy, and if you can't make it in, then buy something, return it and get a blue Kohl's cash, which is good.

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Ploploplop 4 years ago

This combined with their credit card means you get about 70% off retail prices.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

If I buy something and return it I will not settle for some made up currency. I paid with Euros, I expect to get Euros back even if it's just a voucher.

0points

Elwood Schwartz 4 years ago

Reading comprehension. It says if you buy with the coupon, return it and get the coupon back. Not talking about real money

2points

#43

I used to work for a Tax service. I don't want to get in trouble, so lets call them Tiberty Lax Service. The people that they hire to do your taxes have AT MOST two weeks of training. When I was there, I knew people who didn't even have that- usually only a week. They will charge you 99$ PER FORM for your taxes by the way.

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Monica Sargent 4 years ago

I taught myself to do what those monkeys do. I used to go get my taxes done every year by the pop up place inside Walmart. But it cost me $400-$600. Just to get the money earlier. The last time I did it, the person sitting opposite me was not "bright". So the next year I said if you do this yourself, online thru H and R Block's free site, you can afford a brand new iPad. And that is what I did.

7points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Good for you Monica! Saving 400-600 bucks is great.

6points

Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago

They are just using TurboTax, it's easy to buy.

3points

CD Mills 4 years ago

Being married to a guy that sometimes does Algebra for fun. (Yes, I said 'fun'. I don't get it either.) Anyway, he always does our taxes. Well, anymore we do our taxes, my husband is computer illiterate on purpose, he doesn't even have an email and he refuses to get a cell phone, he is a true hermit. I plug in all the numbers he gives me and click all the things that need to be clicked. I will concede that folks with a lot of money probably need a professional to do their taxes but if they are rich they probably have a bookkeeper that can put all of their financial ducks in a row. In our town, they have 'tax return clinics' in numerous locations all over town, they have groups going to the Senior Center, the Library, and the Civic Center, etc. You can ask questions and they will help you with your return as well.

1point

SpookyPanda 4 years ago

I used TurboTax for many years, but the cost was getting to be ridiculous. So I switched to Credit Karma a couple of years ago. I can do both federal and state for free, and it's easy to use. I think another company bought it though, but I understand it's still free. Saves me $200 or more.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

In the Netherlands, log in to the secure tax website, check the numbers, fiddle around a bit to find out what gives you the highest return, click submit. Done. 10 minutes tops, for slow readers.

0points

Donkey boi 4 years ago

I just get paid and don't worry about my taxes, because it's all taken care of by HMRC.

0points

#44

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees I used to be a cashier at Marshall's and I always thought this was the weirdest thing. One time I was working you know, on register and some woman comes up to me and she's like "Hey I just saw this girl steal a whole bunch of makeup put it in her bag, she's over there. And I literally had to be like "thank you, but we cannot do anything about it." And she looked at me like and take like Home Goods, Marshall's, TJ Maxx. If you go to any of those TJX companies we literally legally cannot go up to someone and like accuse them or even keep record of them stealing. Let me explain by their logic we could be putting the whole rest of the store in danger if we go up and confront them. Granted we could still go up and be like did you find everything all right, but that's about, ohh.

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

Stop using "like" so much.

8points

Casey Burns 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure OP had a stroke about halfway through.

5points

Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago

I've worked retail, and you absolutely can keep record of it happening. You have to for the police reports you should be filing. You can't confront them for safety reasons, but you should be taking note of their appearance, date and time, and if they happen to come up to the register try to grab their name from whatever card they pay with (some of them try to hide their theft with legit purchases).

5points

Furgus McGurgus 4 years ago

I worked retail briefly. If we saw someone that we thought was stealing the policy was to "call for Seymour" on the headset (seymour profits - oh, how clever). Then normally you'd get a couple of colleagues, and a manager, hanging around where the suspected thief was, "is there anything I can help you with?" or "can I help check you out?" That would let the thief know that they were being observed - worked most of the time, we had very little breakage.

2points

royal_antelope 3 years ago

i didn't understand this

0points

Ruben M 4 years ago

This must be specific to OP's state or county. My buddy tried to steal a phone charger from there once. Security was waiting for us at the door and they pressed charges. Took him years to get that off his record.

0points

Seabeast 4 years ago

That's true of any retailer. It's for the security staff to handle, not the clerks.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

If you need to factor in that every shoplifter could also be armed with an Uzi, you really aren't motivated to stop them for a few dollars of merchandise.

0points

#45

Optics Insider: Lenses are sold for wholesale cost anywhere from $0.25 to $40 and resold for retail at $150 to $800 depending on different factors. Online retailers, brick and mortar stores, and privat practices all get their lens supply from a handful of lens labs. So you're probably getting the Lenscrafters Equivalent of a $800 lens for $300 at a private practice, but for $50 online. BE WEARY OF MANUFACTURING DEFECTS WHEN ORDERING ONLINE, TAKE YOUR ONLINE PURCHASES TO A LOCAL OPTOMETRIST AND TELL THEM YOU BOUGHT IT AT "COSTCO" AND YOU'RE JUST HAVING TROUBLES WITH - ASK THE "OPTICIAN" to check any online purchased glasses, after receiving them. Brand named frames are often cheaply produced along with non brand frames. When picking frames take a glance at: The hinges: Cheap frame hinges will be composed of two prongs on the "temple" (The legs of the frames) and one prong on the actual frame front to connect the legs. - Other wise known as a cheap s**t hinge. You'll find these on your $600 Tiffany, Chanel, GG, Etc glasses all the god damn time. - If these hinges break, its game over. What you should look for is hinges composed of 5 total prongs coming together. 3 on the temple and 2 on the frame to form a solid connection. IF YOU HAVE A VSP PLAN : LENSCRAFTERS WILL TELL YOU THAT THEY CAN BILL YOUR VSP PLAN AS A "SELF SUBMIT" PLAN. YOU WILL LOSE UPWARDS TO 80% OF YOUR BENEFIT THIS WAY. DO NOT USE YOUR "FRAME ALLOWANCE" AT AN "OUT OF NETWORK PROVIDER" - ASK WHO EVER IS HELPING YOU IF THIS STORE IS AN "IN NETWORK PROVIDER" - IF THEY TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT "SELF SUBMITTING" ------- THEY ARE NOT IN NETWORK

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jessica r 4 years ago

However, my optician does several additional health checks for free and he found out I have a serious eye disease. I pay for his knowledge and equipment by paying for the glasses. I know they are overpriced but it does not seem fair to buy my glasses online and ask him for the additional service and checks.

2points

digitalin 4 years ago

Around here, you pay the doctor for their services, then go to the frame counter, which is often a completely separate business in the same space. So the doctor doesn't get money for in-store frames. So it makes sense to make eye appointments, get a proper checkup and prescription, then enter that prescription online to get the glasses for like 10%-20% what the glasses monopolies charge.

4points

Elwood Schwartz 4 years ago

That is your optometrist or opthalmologist doing health checks. The opticians only deal with the lenses and frames. They are not medically trained in any way.

1point

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

This is something that a lot of people forget. A real optician can tell you that you need to see a doctor, none of these online services will ever be able to do that.

-1point

Wintermute 4 years ago

Out of network, in network, VSP, self submit, frame allowance. These are actually secret code words for "getting scammed by the system."

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#46

I don’t work there, but at Target, they have to match the shelf price, even if something was put in the wrong spot. My roommate and I both got a $35 game for $12.50 because it was put under a $12.50 sticker at THREE different Target stores

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LAWLAWLAW 4 years ago

That would not work in the UK, there is a part of the consumer goods act to protect shops, "any price can be changed at any time without prior notification" stops twats coming in an swapping price stickers

7points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Would work in Europe too because the store made the mistake. But if it's obvious that it's a mistake, the store won't have to sell. So accidentally pricing a €500 TV for €50 doesn't mean that the store has to sell the TV for just €50.

0points

#47

Take your disgusting 7 year old bra with the strap broken and the underwire broken and bring it back to Victoria's Secret, they'll give you $15 store credits for it.

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BMcG 4 years ago

Well off to goodwill to bra shop...

5points

Kent Fletcher 1 week ago

Seeing used underwear in a thrift shop always grossed me out but this makes it seem ok.

0points

Lydia Owen the Bi-tch 4 years ago

Do they have to be a VS bra?

0points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

It's a pity Victoria's secret doesn't sell men's underwear. They would be getting a lot of shorts with skid marks.

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#48

It is currently illegal to autodial a cell number from any equipment capable of autodialing (even in manual dial mode) without expressed written consent. Get name and address of dialing company and have a lawyer send a notice. You'll settle for a few grant per incident. Be a real jerk and get 50 numbers from a high turn over carrier (boost mobile). Then just wait for calls. Then sue everyone who calls because you didn't gave expressed written permission. We got dinged by a guy doing that.

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Adam Jeff 4 years ago

A real jerk? If you do that you're a hero. Anything to make cold-callers pay.

10points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

So using your legal right to stop harassment is being a jerk? How about stopping harassing people by calling them without their consent?

2points

#49

I also worked for Best Buy, specifically selling phones. We often had way better deals than carrier stores on phones and our customer service was better and insurance plans were easier than carriers. The mobile section may have changed since they closed their dedicated mobile sites in 2018, but back then it was 100% better to shop with us. Also Best Buy has a price match guarantee, so that's moot. We would just match a carrier store's pricing if we needed to save a sale.

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Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago

That’s the opposite of what the other Best Buy person said.

9points

Cold Contagious 4 years ago (edited)

What's also funny is this story doesn't have a link underneath it to follow back to reddit like the rest of the stories. Same with the last story in this list that sounds SUS about coffee and pastry tastings with a barista. They appear to have been written by the Bored Panda author that compiled this instead of like the rest of stories. Js

0points

#50

30 Secrets Large Corporations Don’t Want Customers To Know, Shared By Ex-Employees Foolproof way to get a free drink and a free snack. In order for this to work, you have to go into the store, you can't go through drive thru. You are going to go to the barista and ask to do a "Coffee Tasting" with them. They are going to prepare whatever pastry you want with whatever coffee you want. You guys are going to enjoy it together.

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C. Wade 4 years ago

Um, I'm like 90% sure you'll get laughed at if you tried and I think that's true for all coffee shops and most countries lol. But prove me wrong if I'm talking s**t, I'm dead curious haha

20points

Susan Green 4 years ago

I don’t think anyone is going to be able to prove you wrong.

5points

Cold Contagious 4 years ago

What's funny is this story doesn't have a link underneath it to follow back to reddit like the rest of the stories. Same with the story #48 about Best Buy price matching the cost of their cell phones that they sale. They appear to have been written by the Bored Panda author that compiled this instead of like the rest of stories. Js

0points

Guido Pisano 4 years ago

well in Naples (but generically in all south-italy) there is the "suspended coffee" (caffe' sospeso) so you pay a coffee but dont drink it, you pay for someone that cannot afford

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El muerto 4 years ago

another "secret menu" thing, that the staff have to explain is not real to angry costumers. that read about it online.

5points

yeciye 4 years ago

I don’t get it. What’s the point of coffee tasting from the store’s perspective then?

4points

ZAPanda 4 years ago

which shop is this? I doubt any shop here would do coffee tasting.

1point

Bailie Smith Premium 1 week ago

This is Starbucks everyone. I used to work there. We did them all the time. It is a French press of whatever coffee the customer chooses. Everyone in store is invited to join. It is also a learning experience for the baristas as well. You do not get an entire pastry with the tasting. The barista will cut up whatever pastry compliments the coffee chosen and each person will get a small portion. So no, you will not get laughed out of the store. It is real.

0points

Danielle 4 years ago

We did this once a while ago. We wanted to buy coffee beans but didn't know which one. We asked them for a cup to try for that reason (expecting to pay). They pushed a pastry on us. We said we didnt want it (only cuz it was crazy expensive). They said it was with the coffee. Uh. Ok. Fine. The coffee was good. My husband buys a bag of beans. Goes to pay for coffee and pastry. They said it was free. We tried to insist but they insisted. It is apparently common for roasteries. Its better than selling a bag and someone coming back wanting a refund because they didnt like it. Dont abuse it please.

-1point