Tell us a secret you know because of your work that others might not know.

This may already be common knowledge:

Unless you're just looking for an account balance, the call center employees for your financial institution don't want/try to help you... And, are payed better if they don't. In order to recieve an annual raise the number 1 determining factor is the employee's call's per hour, with a required/ideal average of no more than 1 min 30 sec per caller. Also, the entire system of processing credits and debits to an account is built around charging fees. Process debits highest to lowest in the hopes that the largest items will draw the account negative and they can charge you a fee for each and every smaller item after the initial negative. Also, some items "pending/on hold" are in that status intentionally and are applied to an account balance when it seems least beneficial to the customer.
 
[quote name='javeryh']We bill $1 less than the maximum that we think the client would pay.[/QUOTE]

Not a secret dude. Lawyer secret would be something along the lines of, "There is a recipe collection circulating among firms for best culinary uses of baby corpses. (You know, the ones left over after we've slaked our thirst with the blood.) My favorite? Use the discarded heads as a fun addition to tiki kabobs."
 
This thread is great. Some more from my past jobs:

If you ask politely, I will make your drink stronger. If you're a dick, you get a one-second pour.

If you're nice to me, I will give let you borrow my behind-the-counter coupon for this purchase without you asking.

Good stuff.
 
If you call PS3 tech support because games are no longer loading, they'll walk you through a number of troubleshooting steps. These steps don't actually do anything; they only tell you them so you feel like they at least tried something. Once your Blu-ray drive starts to go, it's gone. You're going to have to pay to get it fixed.

If you pay to send your PS3 into Sony for service because it wasn't under warranty, you get a new 90-day warranty after the service. If in 91 days your console stops working again, the tech support reps will tell you have to pay again. Ask to talk to a supervisor. They'll give you a "gesture of goodwill" and fix your console again for free. Unless you have a launch model console, then you're screwed.
 
Tom Cruise pays his employees to cover up his homosexuality. However he's so difficult to work for they'll tell anyone who listens when hey quit.

Scarlett Johanson has a bad painkiller habit.

Gerard Butler alleges he's never been turned down for sex.

Jenifer Lopez is really nice.
 
Unless the collectors that worked there already had it (starting with the most senior staff person at the store and working downwards as far as priority went), there is no way the super rare game you sold/traded into the mom & pop game store I used to manage was ever going to hit the shelves for sale. And we'd lowball you as much as possible so that when we bought the game for ourselves at cost we'd only have to pay a couple of bucks for it.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I wish I earned enough to cover up my homosexuality.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:

Having read that about Scarlett Johanson, I wish I was in the painkiller manufacturing business.
 
There were so many bugs in the Game Crazy POS that were never fixed. There were ways to duplicate deposits, generate credit.. so many. I never took advantage of them. I know of a few who did. Only one was actually fired for it.

The tech support guys had no real prior knowledge of the company. They were more third party consultants with Hollywood Video and Game Crazy handbooks. There were one or two people that new the system, though, and I hoped that they were the ones I'd speak with whenever I had to call.

Most of Game Crazy's upper management consisted of former Pizza Hut CEO's.

As a "thank you" to employees, they added the automatic 10% bonus to trades and 20% off used games to the POS for employees instead of scanning things or putting in MVP numbers. This also gave us 10% more on cash trades (which wasn't supposed to happen) and 10% more for hardware (also not supposed to happen). This bug was never fixed, nor did they care. They were alerted to it and just kind of shrugged.

At the beginning of May, almost all of the CEO's and upper management left the company. A few weeks prior, the CEO walked out. From May until the final store closings in August, there were 3 LP guys for the entire United States. Most of the states/region were split up and were monitored closely by the liquidators.

I still have a ton of the huge triangle posters from the store and have them framed. I love my Fallout and Bioshock posters :D I have a few duplicates like No More Heroes 2 and Bayonetta.
 
[quote name='utopianmachine']I can't be the only one thinking of that Seinfeld episode where George takes the art book into the bathroom, and the book store staff catches him and makes him buy it. :D[/QUOTE]

I was thinking of that too :)
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']Unless you have some self-control.[/QUOTE]

Well if you're in a casino, chances are you don't have much of that in the first place. And the rest of it is obliterated by the free booze they hand out!
 
It's been about 9 years since I worked there, but Home Depot employees were required to at least greet every customer that passes within a 3 ft radius, and could technicality get written up for not doing so.

If a construction project has a minority participation minimum percentage requirement (i.e. certain government funded projects), some general contractors will have the same good ol' boy subcontractors do the work, but bill it through their Haitian cleaning lady to meet contract standards.
 
Most laboratory blood work can be completed and have the results back to you within 24 hours.

Most employees doing this work are 45 or older. (some approaching 70) Unless they're foreign born/immigrants.

I don't know any interesting secrets.
 
Shoplifting can be very profitable or unprofitable. In NY there is a Civil Demand law that if you're caught shoplifting, the retailer can charge you a minimum of $75 and a maximum of $500 for their cost in apprehending you. Damages on merchandise are not included and are additional. This does not keep you from going to jail.

Civil Demand, aka restitution, can be enforced by the courts. Just because you don't pay it up front doesn't mean the courts won't make you pay it.

If you're on tape shoplifting, do not argue your innocence and force the hand of the DA that was going to give you a slap on the wrist violation. It usually gets upgraded to a misdemeanor without the offer of probation when the DA sees the tape.

Sephora has probably one of the best LP programs I've seen. When working at the mall somebody got locked up every day for stealing from them.

Juveniles get arrested when their parents can't pick them up. Also parents are subject to the above mentioned Civil Demand. They're usually not happy about Civil Demand or their child and may make funny requests to the Police, like asking to borrow their nightstick to beat their child.

You can fall down an escalator that is going up, it just takes longer to stop falling down.
 
Let's see. From when I worked for the Postal Service...

Mail is much more disgusting than you think. My hands were pretty much black constantly from sorting mail. Gloves just slowed me down and I washed my hands regularly but it didn't matter.

Priority Mail supplies are free. Sure CAGs know this, but most regular people did not. They'd instead come in and want to buy our horribly overpriced boxes just to ship priority. Unless they were a jerk I'd get a box for them.

Postal workers have better benefits than federal workers. I've been both. With all the flack federal workers get now postal workers got the same ones only they paid much less for them due to the unions.
 
And part 2 now that I'm a Federal Department of Defense employee....

Federal employee benefits are not what they make them out to be on TV. That's state and county workers. My insurance is mediocre at best. My father has better insurance working at a supermarket. I pay an awful lot for my insurance and it's really not that great. I had an emergency room visit 2 years ago that cost me $1,500 out of pocket. Dental and vision are not covered but can be added separately. I have the "best" dental available through my work and it's nothing special. In fact I've been putting off permanent caps for the 3 root canals I have had because they will only cover 50% on ONE per year. But if you listen to the media we have this magic golden plan that covers everything. I will admit the vision plan is pretty nice though. I refer to my own experiences but federal employees stuff is standardized across the board (Except for pay which varies slightly by the area you are in. You'll make more doing the same job in NYC than you will in Alabama) so someone in Alaska has the same choices of health plan that I have in NJ.

Our salaries are not magically gigantic either. These days I am a Logistician. I used to be a Contract Specialist. I'll go with latter in my example since it's easier to compare to the private sector. As a 2 year experienced Contract Specialist right out of finishing my training I could have gone to a number of private contractors for $100,000 per year minimum. Quite a few of my fellow interns did. I did not for job security purposes. At the time I was making about $55,000 per year. If I were still a Contract Specialist now (2.5 years late) I'd still be making far less than 100k (No I don't make that now either). The numbers get skewed because all of the low paying jobs, the Government contracts out. We don't have low paying jobs because we hire contractors to do those jobs and they count as the private sector for figuring out all those numbers.

Some federal employees actually do work! Ok, that's a joke one but it's true. There are certainly useless people working in my job but there are some people that go above and beyond.

There's probably a good reason for that $10,000 toilet. I did Government contracts for 2+ years. Since people don't understand how contracts work they just look at one and say "My god that toilet was $10,000!". What they don't understand is that toilet was a first article that had to go through rigorous testing to meet whatever military requirements they had for it (Maybe it's going on Airforce 1 or an armed Porta-Potty. It's just an example ok ;) ) EVERYTHING that is used on a military vehicle has to meet certain specifications, even a toilet. They may have paid $200 (Just to throw out a random number) for the other 5000 they bought, but the first one includes all those extra R&D and testing costs.
 
Drug store/Photo Lab

Milk, eggs, and bread will always be in the back corner of the store; this turns shopping into a gauntlet of impulse. 70% of our profit comes from impulse buying. Impulse endcaps are either seasonal or full of shit that has been in the store way to long. If a product is damaged or if the box is beat up, tell the cashier it's the last one and ask if you can get a discount (works about 80 percent of the time).

Smaller drug stores are plagued by shopplifting. Because of this our store will call the police for the pettiest of theft including kids stealing candy bars (happens every few days). We have undercover security guards that operate 2 days a week.

Every order you have processed at a photo lab, even if you're just transferring from one digital source to another; gets viewed by me. If you submit a photo order it usually stays in our system for 5 days. If your photos appear to be taken by a professional company or if they contain images of anything that could be licensed they cannot be printed because of copyright infringement. I'm allowed to develop pictures of anything except violence, copyrighted imagery, or child pornography.

If you're applying for jobs that require no experience, apply for pharmacy tech. You don't need any college education. A lot of our techs are damn near retarded. The lead pharmacist always does all the hiring for the pharmacy so if you get a chance, shoot the shit with the pharmacist and be friendly. Pharmacy techs start off a couple bucks higher than the cashiers do and they get raises twice a year rather than once. The reason your prescription took 2 hours is because your doctor forgot you existed.
 
[quote name='utopianmachine']I can't be the only one thinking of that Seinfeld episode where George takes the art book into the bathroom, and the book store staff catches him and makes him buy it. :D[/QUOTE]

(for anyone who missed my first post, here's what she was replying to:
People regularly masturbate in the bathrooms of bookstores way more often than you'd ever guess. I worked at a Barnes and Noble in high school and large stacks of sex/sexuality books would always be found in the bathroom on the floor. Once it's become a bathroom book they can't sell it and the store was losing a ton of books numerous times a week.

Traveling around town to other stores and also out of state, I couldn't help but ask if they've had the same problem, and yes, yes they had. You'd think there was the Fight Club-equivalent of a public masturbation group, making sure they hit all the book stores in the area each week.

They actually caught the masturbator, making it a lot like the Seinfeld episode (except George wasn't jerking off...).

This guy I knew at work, Paul, he worked in receiving and had to handle all of the bathroom books, so he was especially mad and disgusted with the situation. One day he goes in the bathroom and sees someone clearly sitting on the toilet with a huge stack of books on the floor. As he makes his exit, he opens the door and let's it shut. From the noises he heard, it was clear the guy had... resumed whatever it was he was doing.

Paul takes out his walkie-talkie and says loud and clear so the guy will hear him: "Greta, we have a customer in the bathroom soiling merchandise," and he hears a very low, deep mumble... "Oh, shit."

My manager Greta stood outside the men's room for over 40 minutes. He finally came out and tried not to look her in the eye. She glared at him and followed him all the way out of the store. Needless to say, he never came back.

But we still had a problem with porno mags. There was a baby changing table in the men's room, INSIDE the bathroom stall. It seemed almost daily there was a porno mag stuffed into it, sometimes with holes ripped or cut into the pictures of naked women large enough for someone to get their dick through. Removing those was Paul's job, too. Really glad I worked in the cafe ^_^
 
[quote name='johnnypark']
But we still had a problem with porno mags. There was a baby changing table in the men's room, INSIDE the bathroom stall. It seemed almost daily there was a porno mag stuffed into it, sometimes with holes ripped or cut into the pictures of naked women large enough for someone to get their dick through.[/QUOTE]

Damn, I was wondering where I'd left that.
 
[quote name='johnnypark'](for anyone who missed my first post, here's what she was replying to:
People regularly masturbate in the bathrooms of bookstores way more often than you'd ever guess. I worked at a Barnes and Noble in high school and large stacks of sex/sexuality books would always be found in the bathroom on the floor. Once it's become a bathroom book they can't sell it and the store was losing a ton of books numerous times a week.

Traveling around town to other stores and also out of state, I couldn't help but ask if they've had the same problem, and yes, yes they had. You'd think there was the Fight Club-equivalent of a public masturbation group, making sure they hit all the book stores in the area each week.

They actually caught the masturbator, making it a lot like the Seinfeld episode (except George wasn't jerking off...).

This guy I knew at work, Paul, he worked in receiving and had to handle all of the bathroom books, so he was especially mad and disgusted with the situation. One day he goes in the bathroom and sees someone clearly sitting on the toilet with a huge stack of books on the floor. As he makes his exit, he opens the door and let's it shut. From the noises he heard, it was clear the guy had... resumed whatever it was he was doing.

Paul takes out his walkie-talkie and says loud and clear so the guy will hear him: "Greta, we have a customer in the bathroom soiling merchandise," and he hears a very low, deep mumble... "Oh, shit."

My manager Greta stood outside the men's room for over 40 minutes. He finally came out and tried not to look her in the eye. She glared at him and followed him all the way out of the store. Needless to say, he never came back.

But we still had a problem with porno mags. There was a baby changing table in the men's room, INSIDE the bathroom stall. It seemed almost daily there was a porno mag stuffed into it, sometimes with holes ripped or cut into the pictures of naked women large enough for someone to get their dick through. Removing those was Paul's job, too. Really glad I worked in the cafe ^_^[/QUOTE]


what year was this happening? youd think they could just surf the net for their porn like everyone else unless their whole kick about it was doing it in a public place and hopefully getting caught.
 
[quote name='crowbb']And part 2 now that I'm a Federal Department of Defense employee....

Federal employee benefits are not what they make them out to be on TV. That's state and county workers. My insurance is mediocre at best. My father has better insurance working at a supermarket. I pay an awful lot for my insurance and it's really not that great. I had an emergency room visit 2 years ago that cost me $1,500 out of pocket. Dental and vision are not covered but can be added separately. I have the "best" dental available through my work and it's nothing special. In fact I've been putting off permanent caps for the 3 root canals I have had because they will only cover 50% on ONE per year. But if you listen to the media we have this magic golden plan that covers everything. I will admit the vision plan is pretty nice though. I refer to my own experiences but federal employees stuff is standardized across the board (Except for pay which varies slightly by the area you are in. You'll make more doing the same job in NYC than you will in Alabama) so someone in Alaska has the same choices of health plan that I have in NJ.

Our salaries are not magically gigantic either. These days I am a Logistician. I used to be a Contract Specialist. I'll go with latter in my example since it's easier to compare to the private sector. As a 2 year experienced Contract Specialist right out of finishing my training I could have gone to a number of private contractors for $100,000 per year minimum. Quite a few of my fellow interns did. I did not for job security purposes. At the time I was making about $55,000 per year. If I were still a Contract Specialist now (2.5 years late) I'd still be making far less than 100k (No I don't make that now either). The numbers get skewed because all of the low paying jobs, the Government contracts out. We don't have low paying jobs because we hire contractors to do those jobs and they count as the private sector for figuring out all those numbers.

Some federal employees actually do work! Ok, that's a joke one but it's true. There are certainly useless people working in my job but there are some people that go above and beyond.

There's probably a good reason for that $10,000 toilet. I did Government contracts for 2+ years. Since people don't understand how contracts work they just look at one and say "My god that toilet was $10,000!". What they don't understand is that toilet was a first article that had to go through rigorous testing to meet whatever military requirements they had for it (Maybe it's going on Airforce 1 or an armed Porta-Potty. It's just an example ok ;) ) EVERYTHING that is used on a military vehicle has to meet certain specifications, even a toilet. They may have paid $200 (Just to throw out a random number) for the other 5000 they bought, but the first one includes all those extra R&D and testing costs.[/QUOTE]


You working at Picatinny as well?
 
[quote name='distaph']It's been about 9 years since I worked there, but Home Depot employees were required to at least greet every customer that passes within a 3 ft radius, and could technicality get written up for not doing so.
[/QUOTE]


Too funny.. where did they get that from? Sam Walton. Home Depot was fun when I worked there.
 
[quote name='lokizz']what year was this happening? youd think they could just surf the net for their porn like everyone else unless their whole kick about it was doing it in a public place and hopefully getting caught.[/QUOTE]
myfreepaysite.com is where its at :D
 
[quote name='johnnypark']People regularly masturbate in the bathrooms of bookstores way more often than you'd ever guess. I worked at a Barnes and Noble in high school and large stacks of sex/sexuality books would always be found in the bathroom on the floor. Once it's become a bathroom book they can't sell it and the store was losing a ton of books numerous times a week.

Traveling around town to other stores and also out of state, I couldn't help but ask if they've had the same problem, and yes, yes they had. You'd think there was the Fight Club-equivalent of a public masturbation group, making sure they hit all the book stores in the area each week.[/QUOTE]

I've often wondered why bookstores have signs about not taking merchandise into the restrooms and why said signs have increased in size over the years and become more prominently placed. I always assumed it was for fear of water damage to books. Now that I know the real reason, I'm going to feel a sense of disgust every time I see those signs. Thanks!
 
Hell, even if you don't own a computer you can just use the internet at the library like this guy.

I wonder if we'll get any secrets from librarians... :whistle2:k
 
[quote name='Rozz']Hell, even if you don't own a computer you can just use the internet at the library .

I wonder if we'll get any secrets from librarians... :whistle2:k[/QUOTE]

I used to monitor the computer lab at the public library because it was connected to my college and I was doing work study and someone came up to me once and complained to me that and old guy in the back corner was looking at porn.
 
[quote name='crowbb']And part 2 now that I'm a Federal Department of Defense employee....

Federal employee benefits are not what they make them out to be on TV. That's state and county workers. My insurance is mediocre at best. My father has better insurance working at a supermarket. I pay an awful lot for my insurance and it's really not that great. I had an emergency room visit 2 years ago that cost me $1,500 out of pocket. Dental and vision are not covered but can be added separately. I have the "best" dental available through my work and it's nothing special. In fact I've been putting off permanent caps for the 3 root canals I have had because they will only cover 50% on ONE per year. But if you listen to the media we have this magic golden plan that covers everything. I will admit the vision plan is pretty nice though. I refer to my own experiences but federal employees stuff is standardized across the board (Except for pay which varies slightly by the area you are in. You'll make more doing the same job in NYC than you will in Alabama) so someone in Alaska has the same choices of health plan that I have in NJ.[/QUOTE]


Interesting info but the sad truth is thats how Dental works. I sell in 5 states within the country for an independant agency. I myself am appointed with close to 30 ancillary carriers and they all offer their standard benefit at 50% for tier 3 or major coverage. Most have waiting periods for those benefits as well if you didnt previously have dental.

Most small businesses are not offering anything more than health, and even then they actually seem like they would like to offer more, but just cant.

I will say I have come across many business owners that are not meeting the min requirements of covering 50% of the employees portion of the medical insurance. That is supposed to be a mandate, and I cant believe no one is blowing the whistle on these guys as the entire premium is being passed on to the employees...
 
[quote name='Irukandji']Drug store/Photo Lab

Milk, eggs, and bread will always be in the back corner of the store; this turns shopping into a gauntlet of impulse. 70% of our profit comes from impulse buying. Impulse endcaps are either seasonal or full of shit that has been in the store way to long. If a product is damaged or if the box is beat up, tell the cashier it's the last one and ask if you can get a discount (works about 80 percent of the time).

Smaller drug stores are plagued by shopplifting. Because of this our store will call the police for the pettiest of theft including kids stealing candy bars (happens every few days). We have undercover security guards that operate 2 days a week.

Every order you have processed at a photo lab, even if you're just transferring from one digital source to another; gets viewed by me. If you submit a photo order it usually stays in our system for 5 days. If your photos appear to be taken by a professional company or if they contain images of anything that could be licensed they cannot be printed because of copyright infringement. I'm allowed to develop pictures of anything except violence, copyrighted imagery, or child pornography.

If you're applying for jobs that require no experience, apply for pharmacy tech. You don't need any college education. A lot of our techs are damn near retarded. The lead pharmacist always does all the hiring for the pharmacy so if you get a chance, shoot the shit with the pharmacist and be friendly. Pharmacy techs start off a couple bucks higher than the cashiers do and they get raises twice a year rather than once. The reason your prescription took 2 hours is because your doctor forgot you existed.[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure I worked for 8 years at the same company as you (4 of them as a manager) ;) I worked at stores 8,4,41,5,18,72,19, helped build store 18, and maybe a few more. I have a few fun stories about the upper management of the company too. All of our security guards were ABSOLUTE nut jobs or they didn't last. I don't really have any secrets coming to mind except that if you appeal an issue to the store supervisor, they'll most likely bend over backwards to appease you and unless the manager on duty is a real dick they'll meet you at least halfway on video late fees.

I worked for a couple weeks at Ruby Tuesday and we wouldn't send out any dropped food EXCEPT for ribs. If you eat at a restaurant during dinner rush, there's a good chance any cook that's been there for a while regularly takes adderall to get through it.

As an accountant of a private company all I can really say is that anything the owner "expenses" to the company isn't simply written off, it's included in their income and they're paying at least tax on it.
 
OSHA regulations are never followed until an OSHA inspector shows up, then it's time to throw guards on all the saws, routers, etc... and throw some sawdust on them to make it look like you use them regularly (this comes from my dad.)

And from my very limited work experience (I'm 19):
Industrial maintenance get paid half the money and do 5 times the amount of work as the average worker, and most who work in that field are on call 24/7, 365.
 
[quote name='Number83']Size does matter.


~Mrs. Number83~[/QUOTE]

Since this relates to work....you're a prostitute? Or a mechanic. With the wrenches. And such.
 
Verizon gives me 1 vacation day off every 4 months and by the end of the year if i hasnt used them they go away... so if i need to see my family its tough shit and theyll just fire me
 
From working at a library,

It's probably one level above a flea market in terms of how dingy it actually is. The one where I used to work recently got remodeled and it still is a den of about 1,000 respiratory ailments because I knew where the mold, dust, etc. would be, because I used to have to avoid it.

The ladies who work at reference know as much about where something actually is as much as the computer and the signs do. They're basically the human version of LMGTFY.

We keep an insane amount of backlog for magazines and newspapers which you can request to see.

The pay is the bare minimum they can get away with, which in most cases is minimum wage. If the general populace were a tad smarter, I doubt they'd even have workers to be honest.
 
[quote name='loganx1187']Unless the collectors that worked there already had it (starting with the most senior staff person at the store and working downwards as far as priority went), there is no way the super rare game you sold/traded into the mom & pop game store I used to manage was ever going to hit the shelves for sale. And we'd lowball you as much as possible so that when we bought the game for ourselves at cost we'd only have to pay a couple of bucks for it.[/QUOTE]

I used to have a favorite store of mine where I'd hope to trade-in a rare game in exchange for some decent crap I'd otherwise buy like this Saturn I wanted. I believe I got offered $5 of store credit for a complete black label FFVII. This was after I bought a disc only Lunar with a circular scratch. He said it was because the trade-in values were flat across the board. I traded in a ton of original XBox games that I had no idea what to do with and got $200 in credit since that was the rule. I got a Saturn and like new Wii for free.
 
Taco Bell's meat is 88% real beef and the rest are secret spices/ingredients. This exact % combination of meat/spices/ingredients very rarely agrees with your stomach.
 
If you're consistently complaining of a slow machine, or if you aren't appreciative of our work, someone will be monitoring your Internet activity while you're working.

The newest equipment is kept in the IT department...regardless of which department actually paid for the new equipment. You'll be receiving cascaded equipment (and I'll be using the latest and greatest stuff).

Unfriendly to the IT department? Overly obnoxious or demanding? You'll be calling the help desk in India to get the simplest of issues resolved now. Yes, I could've just "pressed a button", but now, you're gonna jump through hoops for it.

And yes, we do have a stockpile of newer equipment (larger monitors, etc.) but none of it is going to you. Also, we'll forever deny we have such a stockpile.
 
UPS Store employees steal (or at least read) your magazines. Their boxes and supplies are also marked up at least 20x over cost, and they order from the same local paper store that is available to you at the same cost they pay.

Cell phone salesmen would rather sell you the most basic phone in the store than the latest smartphone because they're simply more profitable (often by $100+). Many of these basic phones sold with a two year contract are available as prepaid versions at Target for only $15-20 more than the contract price (and are identical in every way). They also hate selling iPhones because the profit margin is so low yet customers often insist on being walked through every step of the phone - the commission is barely enough for a candy bar.
 
Referring back to the first post, I had an IT stint in a cop shop that made me realize a few things.

90%, at least, of police work is dealing with stupid people. This category includes many under the age of 25 who possess high IQs but are severely lacking in judgment. Their brains aren't mature yet and they'll make decisions that will cause their older selves to cringe in recollection if they survive. (This is part of why I'd greatly prefer the minimum voting age to be 30 with earned exceptions such as military service, although there was a time when part of the military function was to keep some very stupid grunts out of trouble by isolating them from civilian life. The requirements run too high nowadays for that.)

But mostly it's just really dumb people from the left end of the bell curve. A major portion of the tax base goes to keeping them under control or paying them to be docile.

There are some smart criminals out there but they make up a tiny portion of the average cop's working life. Being a crook is frequently far more effort than honest work if you've the brains to be capable of anything worthwhile.
 
[quote name='JJSP']
Cell phone salesmen would rather sell you the most basic phone in the store than the latest smartphone because they're simply more profitable (often by $100+). Many of these basic phones sold with a two year contract are available as prepaid versions at Target for only $15-20 more than the contract price (and are identical in every way). They also hate selling iPhones because the profit margin is so low yet customers often insist on being walked through every step of the phone - the commission is barely enough for a candy bar.[/QUOTE]

Are you talking about a corporate store or independent store, though it seems like it shouldn't matter. I always heard it didn't matter what kind of phone they sold you, they always got the same commission but it was the plan they needed to upsale and that is why they would like to stick you with a smartphone so they can automatically tack on that data plan.

Anyways, with the Home Depot greeting thing, at Target we had to do that do, except I didn't care and it seem nobody else did so it didn't matter.

At the grocery store deli/bakery. Not really a surprise, but most of the food there is frozen and premade. Doughnuts, cookies, fried chicken, etc.
 
-Lots of sex happens in hospitals amongst the young young employees to 30-ish old ones. In closets, in worker bathrooms, places ppl rarely go to, ect...
- workers have fun tossing, kicking, and Trying to break your stuff in packages cuz they get tired, are lazy, or don't give a crap.
 
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[quote name='lokizz']people get busy in libraries alot too.[/QUOTE]

Had sex in a library while "studying" for a final.

Work related though. I've worked at bars and other places doing security. If my boss told me to I'd beat you up.
 
Yeah that's from an independent standpoint. From a corporate store standpoint, you wanna shovel however much you can onto that person's plan to up your commission. I used to push the most random things in the world.
 
[quote name='crowbb'] I have the "best" dental available through my work and it's nothing special. In fact I've been putting off permanent caps for the 3 root canals I have had because they will only cover 50% on ONE per year. [/QUOTE]

That's pretty standard. Every place I've ever worked at you had to pay for half of the root canal yourself. I've never heard of anybody having a different plan than that. Most insurance is for maintenance appointments. Discount Dental plans are a rip off and hardly save you any money.

[quote name='Irukandji']Drug store/Photo Lab

Milk, eggs, and bread will always be in the back corner of the store; this turns shopping into a gauntlet of impulse. 70% of our profit comes from impulse buying. Impulse endcaps are either seasonal or full of shit that has been in the store way to long. If a product is damaged or if the box is beat up, tell the cashier it's the last one and ask if you can get a discount (works about 80 percent of the time).

Smaller drug stores are plagued by shopplifting. Because of this our store will call the police for the pettiest of theft including kids stealing candy bars (happens every few days). We have undercover security guards that operate 2 days a week.

Every order you have processed at a photo lab, even if you're just transferring from one digital source to another; gets viewed by me. If you submit a photo order it usually stays in our system for 5 days. If your photos appear to be taken by a professional company or if they contain images of anything that could be licensed they cannot be printed because of copyright infringement. I'm allowed to develop pictures of anything except violence, copyrighted imagery, or child pornography.

If you're applying for jobs that require no experience, apply for pharmacy tech. You don't need any college education. A lot of our techs are damn near retarded. The lead pharmacist always does all the hiring for the pharmacy so if you get a chance, shoot the shit with the pharmacist and be friendly. Pharmacy techs start off a couple bucks higher than the cashiers do and they get raises twice a year rather than once. The reason your prescription took 2 hours is because your doctor forgot you existed.[/QUOTE]

I worked in a photolab and that's pretty accurate, except processing nude pictures was up to the descretion of the employee. If you didn't want to do them, you could have the manager do them. Photo employees have to be at least 18. At the Walgreens I worked at, photo employees were stuck subbing the registers, the worst job in the store, when the teenage employees inevitably called in sick. One hour service takes 30 minutes if it's not busy at all, and up to 45min-1 hour if it's busy. Next day service is usually done just as fast if we weren't busy, but can't be picked up till the next day obviously. Pay gets capped at $9.99/hour in photo if you're not a lead; Night managers made $16/hour and didn't need a degree when I worked there 6 years ago. Their benefits are a joke. The exec manager, or one notch down from store manager who is being groomed for store manager makes the same as the night manager, but shares part of the yearly bonus. A Store Manager can make six figures if the store has good sales. A store manager needs to have a college degree in business.

While Pharmacy techs are entry-level jobs that teenagers can do, it's mostly women who do them (and usually hot ones at that). You can take a quickie course in community college to get certified and make more money. Most retail pharmacies are boring, repetitive jobs. If you stay in that profession, it's better to work at hospitals where the pay is greater and there's more variety.

[quote name='Cantatus']I've often wondered why bookstores have signs about not taking merchandise into the restrooms and why said signs have increased in size over the years and become more prominently placed. I always assumed it was for fear of water damage to books. Now that I know the real reason, I'm going to feel a sense of disgust every time I see those signs. Thanks![/QUOTE]

At the borders near me, they even have detectors before you go into the bathroom.

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Standardized testing jobs are pretty boring and repetitive. All that's required to grade them is that you have any kind of college degree and pass a qualifiying test for the questions. You don't even really need to understand the questions to grade them. Most people who grade them are out of work teachers and people close to retirement. You're always pressured to give the tests high grades when they don't deserve them because the results are tied to a school districts federal funding. It's easy work in a way, but it isn't because it's like mental sweatshop labor. The pay is above average for part time. The lead workers and all people who do the work are temps. Most assignments last 3-4 months. It's work that has contributed to put me in the mental hospital 2 different times.
 
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