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Discussion: Secrets you know because of your job
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Originally posted by kellyc2005
I used to HATE in retail when people asked "Is this fresh?" Of course you have to say yes, you have cameras watching you 24/7.... Bitch, of course it's not fresh! Management wants to sell everything regardless of how old it is... they don't want to throw anything out, they hate marking things down too.
Other things I HATED about customers...
1) They walk in the door and get about halfway through the store, turn to you and say "Are you open?" No, a**hole, we just leave the doors unlocked for the fun of it.
2) "There's no price on it.... oh it must be free!" HAHAHA!"     I swear if I heard this ONE more time  (pretend the computer is a register lol)
3) When you go to check the bills with a counterfeit pen or hold it up to the light.... they either say "I just got it from the bank, it should be good" or they'll say "It's good, I just made it this morning" Your ignorance does not amuse me.
4) People never know how much they have on their debit / credit / or EBT card. Then you go to give them their receipt, and they throw it back at you or throw it on the ground. One time I asked, "Don't you need this for your check book?" and the person said "Nope, I don't keep track of what I spend."
5) When people ask you something that doesn't pertain to your department, and they get mad at you because you don't know the answer. Sorry, I'm not an encyclopedia. Everything comes up to us with a price marked on it.
6) When people leave stuff on the counter and then walk away. There are other people behind you waiting to be rung up.
7) PEOPLE. ON. THEIR. F'NG. CELL PHONES. I am a HUMAN being, not a robot designed to swipe your card. Show me some respect, and I will show you the same back. Where I worked, we refused service to people who were using their cell phone, because it is rude, not only to us, but also the customers behind them. Excuses we heard: "I'm not talking on my phone, I'm listening to music / I'm texting." Same difference "It's important, I have to take this call, it's an emergency." Well if it's so urgent then maybe the grocery store isn't the place you need to be One woman even threatened us, saying "I'm not getting off my phone... you WILL wait on me or I will come around there and put my foot up your a**...." "And if you make terroristic threats against me again, I WILL call the police and they can be here in 30 seconds, they're a half a block away. Have a nice day" and some of the things I've heard people talk about while on their phone 
8) People putting their babies with their poopy diapers on the counter ..... JUST NO!!!!
9) Women who take their money out of their bras / blue collar type men who take wet money out of their pockets 
10) People's clothes.... one woman was wearing nothing but a bra and short shorts, she was probably about 200 lbs. and her bra was held together with DUCT TAPE  I was so nervous it was going to pop open and.... well, you know....  |
ALL OF THIS!! You just literally made of list of all my pet peeves where I work... 
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I was scanning some forms and people have to declare a reason for why they chose the French major and the aspect of French that interests them the most and someone wrote "pretty language" 
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Billboard Magazine & Website is easily the worst run company I've every worked with. Code is a hot drupal mess with java still being used to generate charts and they run a nasty chart creation process every week which is really unstable and error prone.
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Originally posted by ImmaSlave4u
We've found maggots in the candy before.
Granted we completely bleach the area and throw the candy out, but there's no telling how long they'd been there 
And we've gotten new shipments in with maggots already in them. |
Not maggots 
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Originally posted by kellyc2005
I used to HATE in retail when people asked "Is this fresh?" Of course you have to say yes, you have cameras watching you 24/7.... Bitch, of course it's not fresh! Management wants to sell everything regardless of how old it is... they don't want to throw anything out, they hate marking things down too.
Other things I HATED about customers...
1) They walk in the door and get about halfway through the store, turn to you and say "Are you open?" No, a**hole, we just leave the doors unlocked for the fun of it.
2) "There's no price on it.... oh it must be free!" HAHAHA!" I swear if I heard this ONE more time (pretend the computer is a register lol)
3) When you go to check the bills with a counterfeit pen or hold it up to the light.... they either say "I just got it from the bank, it should be good" or they'll say "It's good, I just made it this morning" Your ignorance does not amuse me.
4) People never know how much they have on their debit / credit / or EBT card. Then you go to give them their receipt, and they throw it back at you or throw it on the ground. One time I asked, "Don't you need this for your check book?" and the person said "Nope, I don't keep track of what I spend."
5) When people ask you something that doesn't pertain to your department, and they get mad at you because you don't know the answer. Sorry, I'm not an encyclopedia. Everything comes up to us with a price marked on it.
6) When people leave stuff on the counter and then walk away. There are other people behind you waiting to be rung up.
7) PEOPLE. ON. THEIR. F'NG. CELL PHONES. I am a HUMAN being, not a robot designed to swipe your card. Show me some respect, and I will show you the same back. Where I worked, we refused service to people who were using their cell phone, because it is rude, not only to us, but also the customers behind them. Excuses we heard: "I'm not talking on my phone, I'm listening to music / I'm texting." Same difference "It's important, I have to take this call, it's an emergency." Well if it's so urgent then maybe the grocery store isn't the place you need to be One woman even threatened us, saying "I'm not getting off my phone... you WILL wait on me or I will come around there and put my foot up your a**...." "And if you make terroristic threats against me again, I WILL call the police and they can be here in 30 seconds, they're a half a block away. Have a nice day" and some of the things I've heard people talk about while on their phone
8) People putting their babies with their poopy diapers on the counter ..... JUST NO!!!!
9) Women who take their money out of their bras / blue collar type men who take wet money out of their pockets
10) People's clothes.... one woman was wearing nothing but a bra and short shorts, she was probably about 200 lbs. and her bra was held together with DUCT TAPE I was so nervous it was going to pop open and.... well, you know.... |
oh my god, yes. all of this, 100%.
Another thing is when you're the cashier of an express line and people with more than 12 items come on, and you tell them no, and then they get mad. Like excuse me bitch, you are not some god that can bend the rules because you're too god damned impatient to wait in line. If you're in a hurry, maybe you shouldn't be grocery shopping, because if I make an exception for you, I have to let everyone come.
Another thing that pisses me off, is when people buy one thing that's like 2 bucks, and pay with $100 bill. BITCH. I am not a bank, and I am not a ****ing ATM, nor is the money in my drawer limitless, please do not expect me to be able to break your ****** $100 dollar bill, and do NOT give me an attitude when I ask you if you have anything smaller, or tell you I don't have the money to break that. I'm not about to run out of 20's, 10's and 5's and singles, so your lazy ass can avoid walking 2 feet away to customer service, or 2 buildings down to the bank.
But here are some secrets, not pet peeves.
If you're a bitchy customer I know some employees will purposely mash your bread, stick their thumb in your ice cream and other things, especially for customers who don't bag there own **** as it's piling up, or if I bag and then you rearrange it after I'm done.
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Originally posted by Adonis
Billboard Magazine & Website is easily the worst run company I've every worked with. Code is a hot drupal mess with java still being used to generate charts and they run a nasty chart creation process every week which is really unstable and error prone.
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Wait you work at Billboard? That's like every ATRLer's dream job 
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Grocery store clerks unite?
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I work for apple. the mark up on iPhones are like 6000% I got mine for factory pricing.
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Working at the airport is the best thing ever. We are not allowed to buy stuff there, so everyone just trade everything, from cigarettes, to reduction to buy a ticket for anywhere you want. 
I've not paid one pack of cigarett nor my lunch food since January 
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Member Since: 4/14/2011
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Originally posted by Xalric
Working at the airport is the best thing ever. We are not allowed to buy stuff there, so everyone just trade everything, from cigarettes, to reduction to buy a ticket for anywhere you want. |
Why not? If I were an airport worker I would die to try all the restaurants there
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Member Since: 9/19/2011
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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA
Why not? If I were an airport worker I would die to try all the restaurants there |
Because of the tax refund and everything, if we get caught we get a find of a big amount of money. Almost everything you buy you need a boarding pass.
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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA
Wait you work at Billboard? That's like every ATRLer's dream job |
I used to. I had to quit because it was such a mess. Several guys quit right as I was being hired. Billboard outsources most of their drupal development to the Ukraine. The problem is the code is not up to snuff. No tests, just a HOT mess of PHP all over the place. You can tell a front end guy isn't touching the code because the code base is really hard to change without breaking something. They did the redesign back in 2013 and it wasn't even responsive. I was like WOW! How do you pay millions of dollars for something and get basically a crap product as a result. The management is toxic at that company that's why they barely break even when really they could be doing far better than just breaking even with the information they have.
If Billboard was more engineering focused they could really be a much better company but I've learned that has to come from the top down not the bottom up. They really should be engineering focused IMO rather than trying to rush out a half assed product....
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I've worked in several hotels from a quite famous all inclusive hotel chain multiple times so here's some tea:
-Yes, you should wear that wristband the whole time or you'll be kicked out, yes you can take a shower with it, take a dump, sleep, eat, get int the pool with it, it'll stay on and no, you can't simply add another person to your room if you haven't paid for them, the number of beds inside of the room doesn't matter, you better pay, bitch.
- We hate people bitching about getting a kind of rom they don't like even though that's what they payed for. You won't beive how many times we have to clock bitches left and right showing them in their own papers they've brought with them how they reserved for a Standard Room, just because the hotel is next to the beach doen't mean you'll get an Ocen View, bitch.
- If you were nasty when you made the check in we'll talk **** about you every time you come close to the recpetion desk, doesn't matter if you had a rough flight or whatever, if you're nasty we'll be nasty to you as well.
- If you're a sweetheart we'll be a sweethert to you and even give you tips and extra services we don't usually give to anyone but we should, lol.
- We can give you a free upgrade to a nicer room (be reasonable though, we can't give out a presidential suite just like that) for any reason really but if we have the change to charge for it we'll do it, unless you're the nicest people ever.
- No, we can't remember every single face and name so when we talk to you we usually don't have any idea who you are, we're just pretending we care about you because we're forced to.
- I can't believe when people ask about every single thing in the city, yes we know stuff because we live here, but no, we don't know all the damn prices, schedules or the phone numbers for every single place, that's the concierge's job, he's sitting right next to the reception desk.
- Yes, tips are included but that doesn't mean you're not supposed to tip the waiters or the maids you greedy douchebag.
- The beaches are public spaces, they don't belong to any of the hotels in the zone so don't come here crying if your irresponsible ass left stuff on the beach and someone else took it. Same applies to beach chairs.
- When you check out it is expected you return every single item we gave to you when you cheked in, so go get them and stop whining.
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Some of y'all mother****ers are disgusting, one thing is like "if i'm in a hurry, i wont wash my hands" but y'all be serving food after taking a **** or dropping everything on the floor then picking it back up.
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I used to work at a call centre and you'd be surprised how many people call just to masturbate to the employee's voice |
A Magic Stick tea
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Originally posted by Xalric
Working at the airport is the best thing ever. We are not allowed to buy stuff there, so everyone just trade everything, from cigarettes, to reduction to buy a ticket for anywhere you want.
I've not paid one pack of cigarett nor my lunch food since January |
Trade as in... ?
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I translated for Facebook on a freelance term for a survey they conducted as well as reports. Yes, Facebook keeps a lot of your personal stuff and let people have access to selected information. Apparently I'm not allowed to disclose anything about anyone, but let me tell you, some people are just idiots
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Originally posted by Adonis
I used to. I had to quit because it was such a mess. Several guys quit right as I was being hired. Billboard outsources most of their drupal development to the Ukraine. The problem is the code is not up to snuff. No tests, just a HOT mess of PHP all over the place. You can tell a front end guy isn't touching the code because the code base is really hard to change without breaking something. They did the redesign back in 2013 and it wasn't even responsive. I was like WOW! How do you pay millions of dollars for something and get basically a crap product as a result. The management is toxic at that company that's why they barely break even when really they could be doing far better than just breaking even with the information they have.
If Billboard was more engineering focused they could really be a much better company but I've learned that has to come from the top down not the bottom up. They really should be engineering focused IMO rather than trying to rush out a half assed product....
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This makes me laugh on a many levels.
Honestly we get customers like Billboard asking to do a top down re-write and they usually crap themselves when we tell them what it's going to cost. Management does not know what a responsive UI is they only care about saving money not spending it. So they will squeeze whatever they can out of what they have.
For example Ford was still heavily using Perl for a lot of their applications when I was there and most of their systems are flaky ancient COBOL spaghetti code monstrosities.
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Originally posted by kellyc2005
I used to HATE in retail when people asked "Is this fresh?" Of course you have to say yes, you have cameras watching you 24/7.... Bitch, of course it's not fresh! Management wants to sell everything regardless of how old it is... they don't want to throw anything out, they hate marking things down too.
Other things I HATED about customers...
1) They walk in the door and get about halfway through the store, turn to you and say "Are you open?" No, a**hole, we just leave the doors unlocked for the fun of it.
2) "There's no price on it.... oh it must be free!" HAHAHA!" I swear if I heard this ONE more time (pretend the computer is a register lol)
3) When you go to check the bills with a counterfeit pen or hold it up to the light.... they either say "I just got it from the bank, it should be good" or they'll say "It's good, I just made it this morning" Your ignorance does not amuse me.
4) People never know how much they have on their debit / credit / or EBT card. Then you go to give them their receipt, and they throw it back at you or throw it on the ground. One time I asked, "Don't you need this for your check book?" and the person said "Nope, I don't keep track of what I spend."
5) When people ask you something that doesn't pertain to your department, and they get mad at you because you don't know the answer. Sorry, I'm not an encyclopedia. Everything comes up to us with a price marked on it.
6) When people leave stuff on the counter and then walk away. There are other people behind you waiting to be rung up.
7) PEOPLE. ON. THEIR. F'NG. CELL PHONES. I am a HUMAN being, not a robot designed to swipe your card. Show me some respect, and I will show you the same back. Where I worked, we refused service to people who were using their cell phone, because it is rude, not only to us, but also the customers behind them. Excuses we heard: "I'm not talking on my phone, I'm listening to music / I'm texting." Same difference "It's important, I have to take this call, it's an emergency." Well if it's so urgent then maybe the grocery store isn't the place you need to be One woman even threatened us, saying "I'm not getting off my phone... you WILL wait on me or I will come around there and put my foot up your a**...." "And if you make terroristic threats against me again, I WILL call the police and they can be here in 30 seconds, they're a half a block away. Have a nice day" and some of the things I've heard people talk about while on their phone
8) People putting their babies with their poopy diapers on the counter ..... JUST NO!!!!
9) Women who take their money out of their bras / blue collar type men who take wet money out of their pockets
10) People's clothes.... one woman was wearing nothing but a bra and short shorts, she was probably about 200 lbs. and her bra was held together with DUCT TAPE I was so nervous it was going to pop open and.... well, you know.... |
Don't you just love the supermarket industry?
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"There's no price on it.... oh it must be free!" HAHAHA!"
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