Tell us something about your job that would surprise most people

01yellercobra

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Avoid buying cars from dealerships that have 18 year olds as lot attendants. When I was a lot attendant at ford all the lot guys abused the ever living shit out of everything. I did many burnouts with brand new 5.0s and focus st’s. This was common at all the dealers on our local auto mile.

One of the guys I went to high school with worked at the local Ford dealership. I really wondered how he kept his job.
 

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If you had any idea about how many things go wrong and how much of it is due to company policy you would think twice about going to a hospital for care.

And if you knew the markups on some things you would be pissed if you are in retail and even more pissed when you found out how much/often hospitals dont get paid..especially if you pay for insurance

My wife teaches nursing at the Masters and Doctorate level, and the stories she “doesn’t tell me” are incredible.

If people were aware of how big of a shit show hospitals can be, they’d never go voluntarily.
 

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I remember bre x. I know one guy basically list his pension in that.

Didn't the founder "fall" out of a helicopter?

Ha ha. Yup, the head geologist 'fell' out of the helicopter. In a heavily wooded area in Burma where it was hard to find the body. Many rumors but turned out to be true?

"The fraud began to unravel rapidly on March 19, 1997, when Filipino Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman reportedly committed suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Indonesia.[11][12] A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, and with the penis "surgically removed".[13] In addition, the body was reportedly mostly eaten by animals and was only identified from molars and a thumbprint.[14] (According to journalist John McBeth, a body had gone missing from the morgue of the town from which the helicopter flew. The remains of "de Guzman" were found only 400 metres from a logging road. No one saw the body except another Filipino geologist who claimed it was de Guzman." (Wikipedia)

The main guy, named Walsh, I think, scarpered with his money to the Bahamas. Held hostage by gunmen looking for their money back, then died a couple of weeks later of a 'brain aneurysm'. The lead bullet in his head was not blamed for his demise. (Or so rumor has it.)

The fraud was huge in Alberta, where I live. In fact, the town of St. Paul, Alberta really got into the stock. Waitresses became multi-millionaires. Most of town were in early and sold high. The ones who missed out often mortgaged their houses to get in late and lost it all. Crazy times.
 

BlckBox04

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Recycling anything but paper goods is a government gimmick, it all gets thrown away.
 

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Was a Corrections Officer coming out of the USAF before I went back to college for Software Engineering. This was in 2000.

We ran an internal investigation into this shitbird older female officer on my old shift. We found her on a porn site that was being operated by the head black inmate of our yard. She was having sex with him right in one of our control rooms we think when she did a double one night into graveyard (we were swing shift).

Don't know exactly what happened to her after that, since I wasn't part of any of the bureaucratic BS that happens after. I assumed she'd end up in prison, since what she did was highly illegal.

Then ****ing two years later around 2002, I was shopping at a grocery store that had a bank in it, and I saw her as part of the armored truck crew that was collecting bags of cash from the bank. She was armed, as the rest of her crew were.

It was a good thing she never found out I was one of the people that helped bust her, since she recognized me.
 

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we send out metals and plastics (1,2, stretch film) to mills.
Glass, Styrofoam etc.. are definitely a myth though

Only a very few high grade plastics make it to reproduction, and the market is more volatile than crude oil.
 

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When I was younger I worked at a seafood restaurant. The restaurant served customers perch, a cheaper fish, when the customer ordered grouper or snapper. At that same restaurant I saw a cook spit in a customer’s food that was brought back.


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When I was younger I worked at a seafood restaurant. The restaurant served customers perch, a cheaper fish, when the customer ordered grouper or snapper. At that same restaurant I saw a cook spit in a customer’s food that was brought back.


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This post has me ****in rollin for real.

****in perch. Hahahahahababababhahahahahahahhabahaha
 

lOOKnGO

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Ha ha. Yup, the head geologist 'fell' out of the helicopter. In a heavily wooded area in Burma where it was hard to find the body. Many rumors but turned out to be true?

"The fraud began to unravel rapidly on March 19, 1997, when Filipino Bre-Xgeologist Michael de Guzman reportedly committed suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Indonesia.[11][12] A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, and with the penis "surgically removed".[13] In addition, the body was reportedly mostly eaten by animals and was only identified from molars and a thumbprint.[14] (According to journalist John McBeth, a body had gone missing from the morgue of the town from which the helicopter flew. The remains of "de Guzman" were found only 400 metres from a logging road. No one saw the body except another Filipino geologist who claimed it was de Guzman." (Wikipedia)

The main guy, named Walsh, I think, scarpered with his money to the Bahamas. Held hostage by gunmen looking for their money back, then died a couple of weeks later of a 'brain aneurysm'. The lead bullet in his head was not blamed for his demise. (Or so rumor has it.)

The fraud was huge in Alberta, where I live. In fact, the town of St. Paul, Alberta really got into the stock. Waitresses became multi-millionaires. Most of town were in early and sold high. The ones who missed out often mortgaged their houses to get in late and lost it all. Crazy times.

Is it me, or does that sound like a Clinton hit?
 

1Kona_Venom

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The military (21 years) is not as disciplined as one might think
24 year old Infantry clowns on TV, are not as smart as the media paints them to be

I work in aviation now. I opt not to fly whenever possible!
 

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If you went to a TX public school chances are an inmate built your desk. Tx license plates are made by inmates and the CO job for watching them is at least a decade long
 

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