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Discussion: Secrets you know because of your job
Member Since: 5/3/2010
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I work at Applebee's but I can't really think of anything. Other than that we will give you silverware that has been dropped on the floor but it's wrapped in a napkin already anyway so who cares.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by NathanNAVY
Some more retail tea:
If you are annoying or rude in a retail store, then ask a salesperson if they have anymore of that sweater or pants you like in your size - they will to the back, have a drink of water, talk about you with co-workers and generally do everything for the 2-5 minutes they're back there BUT look for what you want. Then they will come back and apologize to you for not having it, when they likely do.
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lol we dont even have to walk in the back. we just scan the item and it tells us how many we have on hand. lol they get so mad when you show them 0 OH. or that it doesn't even come in the size they want.
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How does an application process even work? 
Do you just submit applications and they choose the best ones?
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by ✘Panthera✘
Well lets see, I've worked a few places so I guess I'll just go over each one.
Family Dollar:
There are no security systems apart from the building alarm that would only be triggered after 9 PM and before 9 AM. So you can basically walk out with whatever the **** you want and no one will know unless they saw you or its too big to fit in a purse/your pockets. At least in my store and the other one I've been to, the only cameras are the ones up front by the registers and the safe. You can't see **** in any other part of the store.
We didn't have public restrooms but if you were nice I'd sometimes let people use ours which is back in the stockroom, but if you're a **** you can piss yourself.
Once while there were 3 employees working, someone managed to not only pee in a huge plastic bin, but also ejaculate into a hand towel that was for sale.
Movie Theater:
If you're under 17 and you act like an asshole, you aren't getting into a Rated R movie. But if you don't act like I'm stupid and that I CLEARLY know you're 15, I'll most likely let you into the movie. Unless its Wolf of Wall Street. Leo puts a candle up his bum.....
If you've ever hooked up in a theater before, we can see you from up in the projection booth. Now that we don't have film we don't go up there as much, but anytime teens or couples are hooking up most of the employees will run up there to watch before breaking them up. This old 60 year old manager used to watch the 14 year olds (  )
Also if you ask flat out about going to see another movie when you already watched yours I really couldn't give a ****, but walk around and try and sneak into a theater where you don't even KNOW which movie is playing.... I'll kick you out and threaten to call the cops. (  )
Oh not really a secret but here's a list of things I've found in movie theaters. Used condoms, ***, panties, vodka, needles, chewing tobacco on the floor, A baby in a booster seat, diabetes testing strips, used tampons, a pair of jeans, a pair of dentures, countless credit cards and cash (we usually keep the cash), iPhones (we'll browse through your **** before turning it in).
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A live baby in a booster seat?!? 
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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I worked at a well known insurance company and they had horrible underwriting so people's contracts would be full of tricks on how the insurance company can practically pay the bare minimum for an accident and you pay the majority. Our claims department would always ignore people when they called to report an accident and they would put people on hold for an obscene amount of time until person got so frustrated they would hang up. I just couldn't be dishonest to people so I left that job after a few months.
Read before you sign anything girls.
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Member Since: 9/20/2011
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Originally posted by LilyAllen
A live baby in a booster seat?!? |
Yeah it appears the parents were flustered with there other 4 children and forgot they brought the baby because he was sleeping. I guess they remembered when they came bursting through the doors and were greeted by the cops.
The baby was just chillin though, we were all holding him.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Once, while working at my father's restaurant, I forgot to give the receipt to a woman and she was like "Where's my receipt? I wanna see my receipt!" and I told her I forgot it and that I'd bring it right away and she started telling me (in a really intense way I must say) "No, it's too late now, I'm calling the police" and crap like that. At the end, I gave her her receipt and it was all fine and I ended up serving her more than 10 more times while I was working there.
One other time, I was serving a Greek/Turkish coffee, which is surved at a really weird, small and easy to drop glass, and I accidentally spit some coffee out of it and the old man I was supposed to give it to started yelling at me in front of the whole world and was like "You useless piece of ****". I yelled at him back though and he shuted it up and was coming each morning for coffe there since then. (My lesson from that, is that you need to spap some sense into some people for them to appreciate you)
Oh and one other time, the restaurant was full of people and we had 2 teams waiting for a table. A semi-famous Greek actor and his girlfriend and one other old man with his wife and their friends. The semi-famous guy had arrived first so it only made sense he'd take the first table that'd go empty. But when a table was finally available, the old guy went on and sat on it and he wouldn't get down, because "it was THEIR table, and we were only gonna give it to the other guy, cause he was famous). All that in really loud voices. I screamed at him back but he wouldnt get down but as a punishment I told all the other waitors to not go and get an order from him. And then I moved some relatives of mine that were sitting on the "VIP tables" so the semi-famous guy could sit, only so I could piss that old hug out even more
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Member Since: 3/13/2011
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Some of these stories are just horrid, it's confuses me how managers only want good looking to people standing by the entrance to ''bring customers in'' what kind of stupid theory? 
And people who are working in retail should not be laughing at customers, especially when you're working in a 'grocery store' as well as coffee shops and McDonalds/KFC, the customers are laughing right back at you 
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Originally posted by ✘Panthera✘
Movie Theater:
If you're under 17 and you act like an asshole, you aren't getting into a Rated R movie. But if you don't act like I'm stupid and that I CLEARLY know you're 15, I'll most likely let you into the movie. Unless its Wolf of Wall Street. Leo puts a candle up his bum.....
If you've ever hooked up in a theater before, we can see you from up in the projection booth. Now that we don't have film we don't go up there as much, but anytime teens or couples are hooking up most of the employees will run up there to watch before breaking them up. This old 60 year old manager used to watch the 14 year olds ( )
Also if you ask flat out about going to see another movie when you already watched yours I really couldn't give a ****, but walk around and try and sneak into a theater where you don't even KNOW which movie is playing.... I'll kick you out and threaten to call the cops. ( )
Oh not really a secret but here's a list of things I've found in movie theaters. Used condoms, ***, panties, vodka, needles, chewing tobacco on the floor, A baby in a booster seat, diabetes testing strips, used tampons, a pair of jeans, a pair of dentures, countless credit cards and cash (we usually keep the cash), iPhones (we'll browse through your **** before turning it in).
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 i'm dying
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Member Since: 1/12/2012
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Yesterday a girl's boyfriend beated the **** outta her in the hotel I work at. It gave me Rihanna and Chris Brown teas but only worse, she was histerically cryinng and shaking with her face all covered in blood and a dozen of guests were trying to help her.
She was found in one of the corridors by a band of drunk guys who were returning to their rooms at 6 am. They had to carry the girl from the 5th floor all the way down to the lobby to get some help and then a doctor rushed into the hotel, we called an ambulance and the police to get her boyfriend's ass in jail. He was permanently banned from the hotel and the girl is still in the hospital.
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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Most of us are teenagers still in HS or college, what is their to laugh about. It's more funny seeing an grown ass person getting all their card refused. 
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Thirty All
How does an application process even work?
Do you just submit applications and they choose the best ones? |
When I'm going through applications I usually start by sorting them out by ones with a resume and ones without. After that I pull the resume and check their experience and I see how it relates to the position they applied for. There is a such thing as being overqualified. If you have say, Store Manager experience, and you're applying for say a Sales Associate or like a Shift Lead, I'm going to probably either going to toss your application because you could do a lot better, or I might forward it to our District Manager so that you're kept in mind for future store openings. If I have not gathered enough candidates after I go through the paper applications, I go to our online database to start pulling from there. So when you want to apply someone, I suggest seeing if they have a paper application, as online is usually the last place we go (That's if the store does it, a lot of places only do online applications). After I go through all of that, I give the people I pick to MY manager and he narrows it down even more. Then ones he gives me the ones he likes, I call those people and set up interviews with them at a time that fits their schedule. During the interview, I ask basic questions about their experiences, why do they want to work for us, and things like that.
If I really like you, I'll offer you a position on the spot or I'll call you within 24 hours after the interview. It all depends on the current need.
If I'm feeling iffy about you, I might push you through to a second interview with our Store Manager.
If I see no potential...well, you know the rest.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by ✘Panthera✘
Well lets see, I've worked a few places so I guess I'll just go over each one.
Family Dollar:
There are no security systems apart from the building alarm that would only be triggered after 9 PM and before 9 AM. So you can basically walk out with whatever the **** you want and no one will know unless they saw you or its too big to fit in a purse/your pockets. At least in my store and the other one I've been to, the only cameras are the ones up front by the registers and the safe. You can't see **** in any other part of the store.
We didn't have public restrooms but if you were nice I'd sometimes let people use ours which is back in the stockroom, but if you're a **** you can piss yourself.
Once while there were 3 employees working, someone managed to not only pee in a huge plastic bin, but also ejaculate into a hand towel that was for sale.
Movie Theater:
If you're under 17 and you act like an asshole, you aren't getting into a Rated R movie. But if you don't act like I'm stupid and that I CLEARLY know you're 15, I'll most likely let you into the movie. Unless its Wolf of Wall Street. Leo puts a candle up his bum.....
If you've ever hooked up in a theater before, we can see you from up in the projection booth. Now that we don't have film we don't go up there as much, but anytime teens or couples are hooking up most of the employees will run up there to watch before breaking them up. This old 60 year old manager used to watch the 14 year olds ( )
Also if you ask flat out about going to see another movie when you already watched yours I really couldn't give a ****, but walk around and try and sneak into a theater where you don't even KNOW which movie is playing.... I'll kick you out and threaten to call the cops. ( )
Oh not really a secret but here's a list of things I've found in movie theaters. Used condoms, ***, panties, vodka, needles, chewing tobacco on the floor, A baby in a booster seat, diabetes testing strips, used tampons, a pair of jeans, a pair of dentures, countless credit cards and cash (we usually keep the cash), iPhones (we'll browse through your **** before turning it in).
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especially the live baby.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Firework
Some of these stories are just horrid, it's confuses me how managers only want good looking to people standing by the entrance to ''bring customers in'' what kind of stupid theory?
And people who are working in retail should not be laughing at customers, especially when you're working in a 'grocery store' as well as coffee shops and McDonalds/KFC, the customers are laughing right back at you |
As crazy as it sounds, It kind of works.
Attractive people attract people because people like to be around people that look good. Therefor, they are bringing them into the store.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by ✘Panthera✘
Well lets see, I've worked a few places so I guess I'll just go over each one.
Family Dollar:
There are no security systems apart from the building alarm that would only be triggered after 9 PM and before 9 AM. So you can basically walk out with whatever the **** you want and no one will know unless they saw you or its too big to fit in a purse/your pockets. At least in my store and the other one I've been to, the only cameras are the ones up front by the registers and the safe. You can't see **** in any other part of the store.
We didn't have public restrooms but if you were nice I'd sometimes let people use ours which is back in the stockroom, but if you're a **** you can piss yourself.
Once while there were 3 employees working, someone managed to not only pee in a huge plastic bin, but also ejaculate into a hand towel that was for sale.
Movie Theater:
If you're under 17 and you act like an asshole, you aren't getting into a Rated R movie. But if you don't act like I'm stupid and that I CLEARLY know you're 15, I'll most likely let you into the movie. Unless its Wolf of Wall Street. Leo puts a candle up his bum.....
If you've ever hooked up in a theater before, we can see you from up in the projection booth. Now that we don't have film we don't go up there as much, but anytime teens or couples are hooking up most of the employees will run up there to watch before breaking them up. This old 60 year old manager used to watch the 14 year olds ( )
Also if you ask flat out about going to see another movie when you already watched yours I really couldn't give a ****, but walk around and try and sneak into a theater where you don't even KNOW which movie is playing.... I'll kick you out and threaten to call the cops. ( )
Oh not really a secret but here's a list of things I've found in movie theaters. Used condoms, ***, panties, vodka, needles, chewing tobacco on the floor, A baby in a booster seat, diabetes testing strips, used tampons, a pair of jeans, a pair of dentures, countless credit cards and cash (we usually keep the cash), iPhones (we'll browse through your **** before turning it in).
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I watched The Wolf of Wall Street with my 15 year old cousin yesterday. The cashier didnt even care and he was the one to buy the tickes while I went for the pop corn 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by mindim1000
Once, while working at my father's restaurant, I forgot to give the receipt to a woman and she was like "Where's my receipt? I wanna see my receipt!" and I told her I forgot it and that I'd bring it right away and she started telling me (in a really intense way I must say) "No, it's too late now, I'm calling the police" and crap like that. At the end, I gave her her receipt and it was all fine and I ended up serving her more than 10 more times while I was working there.
One other time, I was serving a Greek/Turkish coffee, which is surved at a really weird, small and easy to drop glass, and I accidentally spit some coffee out of it and the old man I was supposed to give it to started yelling at me in front of the whole world and was like "You useless piece of ****". I yelled at him back though and he shuted it up and was coming each morning for coffe there since then. (My lesson from that, is that you need to spap some sense into some people for them to appreciate you)
Oh and one other time, the restaurant was full of people and we had 2 teams waiting for a table. A semi-famous Greek actor and his girlfriend and one other old man with his wife and their friends. The semi-famous guy had arrived first so it only made sense he'd take the first table that'd go empty. But when a table was finally available, the old guy went on and sat on it and he wouldn't get down, because "it was THEIR table, and we were only gonna give it to the other guy, cause he was famous). All that in really loud voices. I screamed at him back but he wouldnt get down but as a punishment I told all the other waitors to not go and get an order from him. And then I moved some relatives of mine that were sitting on the "VIP tables" so the semi-famous guy could sit, only so I could piss that old hug out even more
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WERKKK
I love stories of employees knocking some sense into their horrible ass customers (although I'm mostly a customer myself.) The poetic justice gave me LIFE
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These people are classless
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Migrate
WERKKK
I love stories of employees knocking some sense into their horrible ass customers (although I'm mostly a customer myself.) The poetic justice gave me LIFE |
ikr? and i'm not a shady bitch that spits on foods like some people in here 
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Originally posted by Cardinal_Luis
Maybe it's just a Connecticut thing then, because only the glass cups in the rooms have to be replaced and the used ones are taken to the dishwasher , which is not in the kitchen, it was on the top floor of every one of these hotels. The dishwasher in the kitchen are for dishes used by customers in the restaurant, at least in the ones I've worked at. The housekeepers are REQUIRED to wash the used mugs with hot water WHILE they're cleaning the room. I walk by everytime and I just can't deal lol
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A CT thing Welp guess that goes me ever drinking out of a mug in this state again :johnny:
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Can't believe I read every page lol but yeah some of y'all in here are disgusting. I understand being frustrated and talking **** cause I do that at my job, but messing with people's food and treating them terribly is so beyond tacky
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Like I said before, haven't you guys heard of treat people the way you want to be treated. I don't care if someone is rude to me, I would never spit in their food or treat them like **** 
Karma will get them, you don't have to do/be Karma, the bitch will handle it on ha own.
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