secrets from your job

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: mesthead21
Hmm well i work at a tire shop and lets see:
1. If you get a rotation and balance and we are busy, you can be pretty sure you tires are not getting balanced properly.
2. Be nice to the salesman and they will be nice back, you have no idea how many cars i have intentionally made vibrate cause of the bastard that yelled at me for no reason.
3. If you have a large lifted truck, do not come in for a rotation balance because of vibration problems. We do not care and will not balance all of your tires.
4. If we go the extra mile for you we expect a tip, if we dont get one we will definitely remember next time.

A common phrase is "I dont care, its not my car"

How do you go the extra mile? If I pay to rotate my tires, you rotate my tires and get no tip.

 

[Killerme33]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

So anything between 1 & 12 will make no difference? I've always said 3miles when it's been closer to 6...maybe it's time to be honest.

Yup, then when you give them your address when you get into an accident, you are screwed. Real smart.

How does giving them your address have anything to do with... anything?

Fraud?

Well, if you are drivign to work from 20 miles away and total your car and then file a claim, owuldn't it be asy for a company to say"wait a second" ......

I guess ... the point is .... why lie about this when the consequences are potentially serious.

Nonono I understand that lying about the mileage would be fraudulent; I wasn't questioning that.

What I don't understand is how the physical act of giving them your address has anything to do with it.

When they have your home address & your work address if you are more miles apart then you claimed they can call it fraud and not pay for the damage, although I don't see how the insurance company could not have your (home) address.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Raiden256

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: palindrome
The security devices at Staples, Office Depot, Office Max, etc (aka "Spider Wraps") on most items can easily be slipped off because most employees cannot put them on properly. Or you can just crush the packaging to give yourself plenty of slack to take it off. Also, if you want to steal something from a store like this, try buying printer ink, or something that has a security device in it, then you can stash whatever you want somewhere on your body and the employees wont care at all. Best thing to do is be on your cell phone, lol. But you didn't hear this from me you criminals you....

Actually, spider wraps can be taken off even if they are put on properly. I learned to take them off under 30 seconds even if they were digging into the cardboard of the item. It's simply a flawed design. Apparently some guys who work for the security company that makes the wraps came in, and I showed them how flawed the design was, they thought it was funny.

Pray do tell!

It's all magnetic.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

Too bad that comes up if you've ever reported a claim and we check the milege listed on the car. :roll:

Auto insurance secret: Just because people say so, does not make it true. We have common sense.

Also, not so much a secret, but a warning: there are certain auto insurance companies we deal with that we call "substandard".
They intentionally deny claims regardless of fault, take over 2 years to settle claims, and do not, by any means have a person on the other end of the line for us, your claim handlers, to finish/close the claim.

We know which ones they are; we can only do so much as a company, and all we can do is the same that you can do - wait; pray to god that if you ever get into an accident, it is not with those fvckers. It's a pain in the ass for you, and it's definitely a pain in the ass for us handling your claim too.

And if you happen to be an insured under one of those companies; well, **** ***. :thumbsdown:

Why not list the companies? Without names, your "information" is quite useless.

Well, most of the bigger companies are pretty good about being up to date as far as handling claims, but it's more of the smaller, more regional companies like "Magnum", "American Access", "Universal Casualty", etc . . ..

I personally haven't had to deal with Founders Insurance, but from what I've heard, they're not the most caring bunch either (a lot of my coworkers would say they're substandard).

If you ever have to file a claim for auto loss, and hopefully you won't, just ask if the other insurance company, or even your own, if they're a member of the "arbitration committee". National companies like State Farm, Allstate, etc. are in the committee - if they're not, you're in trouble.

 

[jinduy]

we make tons of money off people who can't spell

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Killerme33

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

So anything between 1 & 12 will make no difference? I've always said 3miles when it's been closer to 6...maybe it's time to be honest.

Yup, then when you give them your address when you get into an accident, you are screwed. Real smart.

How does giving them your address have anything to do with... anything?

Fraud?

Well, if you are drivign to work from 20 miles away and total your car and then file a claim, owuldn't it be asy for a company to say"wait a second" ......

I guess ... the point is .... why lie about this when the consequences are potentially serious.

Nonono I understand that lying about the mileage would be fraudulent; I wasn't questioning that.

What I don't understand is how the physical act of giving them your address has anything to do with it.

When they have your home address & your work address if you are more miles apart then you claimed they can call it fraud and not pay for the damage, although I don't see how the insurance company could not have your (home) address.

... my point exactly. The act of giving them your address if/when you have an accident should be completely irrelevant.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

Too bad that comes up if you've ever reported a claim and we check the milege listed on the car. :roll:

Auto insurance secret: Just because people say so, does not make it true. We have common sense.

Also, not so much a secret, but a warning: there are certain auto insurance companies we deal with that we call "substandard".
They intentionally deny claims regardless of fault, take over 2 years to settle claims, and do not, by any means have a person on the other end of the line for us, your claim handlers, to finish/close the claim.

We know which ones they are; we can only do so much as a company, and all we can do is the same that you can do - wait; pray to god that if you ever get into an accident, it is not with those fvckers. It's a pain in the ass for you, and it's definitely a pain in the ass for us handling your claim too.

And if you happen to be an insured under one of those companies; well, **** ***. :thumbsdown:

Why not list the companies? Without names, your "information" is quite useless.

Judging from personal experience, Atlanta Casualty is one of the companies he is describing.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: mesthead21
Hmm well i work at a tire shop and lets see:
1. If you get a rotation and balance and we are busy, you can be pretty sure you tires are not getting balanced properly.
2. Be nice to the salesman and they will be nice back, you have no idea how many cars i have intentionally made vibrate cause of the bastard that yelled at me for no reason.
3. If you have a large lifted truck, do not come in for a rotation balance because of vibration problems. We do not care and will not balance all of your tires.
4. If we go the extra mile for you we expect a tip, if we dont get one we will definitely remember next time.

A common phrase is "I dont care, its not my car"

Why would the guys that rotate and balance tires get a tip?

 

[bmacd]

I'm loving this thread. The only secret from my current job as an Infantryman is...If you see me running, be faster or right behind me.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: compnovice
zipcodes..... they are a sham...

Really? I get a lot of mail that has the right zip code and right P.O. Box number, but wrong state, city, et cetera.

 

[canalcrab]

If you are a field worker in the Arctic, you don't need to run faster than a polar bear, only faster than your assistant. And if you cannot run faster than your assistant, it is less paperwork to shoot them and let the bear eat them than it is to shoot the bear. Alternatively you can just smack your assistant in the knee and let the polar rug have it's way...

 

[Al Neri]

ttt gr8thred

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: canalcrab
If you are a field worker in the Arctic, you don't need to run faster than a polar bear, only faster than your assistant. And if you cannot run faster than your assistant, it is less paperwork to shoot them and let the bear eat them than it is to shoot the bear. Alternatively you can just smack your assistant in the knee and let the polar rug have it's way...

:Q

 

[Aikouka]

I'd prefer to keep my job and not tell .

Although, in my earlier jobs... McDonalds that I worked at... quite sanitary. Don't come in around 5 minutes before we close and order a lot... we're typically trying to clean up at this point and large orders tend to require us to get those nicely cleaned items dirty again. Ask for extra ketchup, you will get a lot of extra ketchup (I believe one person ended up with a bit of hamburger in his ketchup). Also, grilled chicken is probably the most "stale" of all items left on the rack. This may not be as valid since the introduction of the salads, but they tended to sell slowly before, have a 60 minute cabinet life and take about 7 minutes to cook... so to avoid annoying customers, we'd typically keep them for about.. mmm a whole day.

In IT... we love when you bring us your computer with lots of goodies to look at. We're usually bored and annoyed answering dumb questions, so you brighten up our day. Please do not bring in a slow computer, we will hate you and swear about your crappy computer. Also, if you really enjoy Party Poker being on your computer, do not ask us to look at it. You will lose it and any other adware programs or file sharing programs. Check your cables before you call... believe it or not, I do not enjoy walking in the pouring rain about a quarter of a mile to find out that you didn't plug your PC in... this is especially bad if I had to bring a replacement unit (carried by hand) to you. I will curse your name for days.

 

[Syrch]

Computer City - retail sucks

CompUSA - If you bitch loud enough and long enough or to high enough in the management chain you will get what you want. Also...the 14 day return policy is bogus. They enforce it but for the wrong reason. My guess is b/c they do not want to have to deal with the labor charges and other charges that go with a return. But let it be known that the store can return the product to the manufacturer for as long as the warranty is valid. 3 year video card warranty.....you get the idea.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: bctbct
keys to construction vehicles are routinely stored somewhere on the machinery.

Cat has like 2 keys...old one (2 blade) and new one...I used to carry my Cat key around, till my Brother in law wanted it for the farm's tractor


never know when you might need a backhoe to save someones life, or move that pile of dirt

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

I don't think that I have to say this, but the cafes at places like Target shouldn't be allowed to serve food, ever. I've seen dropped burgers wiped off with napkins, I've seen vegetables used until they were pretty much all brown.

The health inspector gives either a green (satisfactory), yellow (warning), and red (unacceptable). If you get 2 reds in a row, your place gets shut down and has to be cleaned and reinspected before it can reopen. The whole time I was there, we got yellow/red/yellow/red/yellow/red etc.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: mesthead21
Hmm well i work at a tire shop and lets see:
1. If you get a rotation and balance and we are busy, you can be pretty sure you tires are not getting balanced properly.
2. Be nice to the salesman and they will be nice back, you have no idea how many cars i have intentionally made vibrate cause of the bastard that yelled at me for no reason.
3. If you have a large lifted truck, do not come in for a rotation balance because of vibration problems. We do not care and will not balance all of your tires.
4. If we go the extra mile for you we expect a tip, if we dont get one we will definitely remember next time.

A common phrase is "I dont care, its not my car"

How do you go the extra mile? If I pay to rotate my tires, you rotate my tires and get no tip.

Extra mile = REALLY rotate your tires

 

[Zenmervolt]

Testing in a production environment is always a bad idea. Even when the vendor assures you that it's OK. Even when the vendor assures you that they've done it hundreds of times before. Even when management agrees with the vendor.

There is always someone who is smarter than you.

There is always someone who is dumber than the dumbest user you design the system for. Usually there are multiple someones.

No matter what you do, somebody, somewhere, sometime, will want it in Excel format. With graphs.

When you tell people that you work in HR as a liason between the touchy-feelies and IT to help make sure that HR is coherent in their requests people don't believe that HR needs enough computer systems to warrant such people. However, if you tell people that you work in HR and your job is "to make people hug each other", they will believe it without batting an eye.

ZV

 

[pmoa]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: minendo
All secrets I deal with are trade secrets so I won't be posting them.

likewise

yup then i'd have to kill you....but who really wants to know who killed kennedy anyway

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Killerme33

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

So anything between 1 & 12 will make no difference? I've always said 3miles when it's been closer to 6...maybe it's time to be honest.

Yup, then when you give them your address when you get into an accident, you are screwed. Real smart.

How does giving them your address have anything to do with... anything?

Fraud?

Well, if you are drivign to work from 20 miles away and total your car and then file a claim, owuldn't it be asy for a company to say"wait a second" ......

I guess ... the point is .... why lie about this when the consequences are potentially serious.

Nonono I understand that lying about the mileage would be fraudulent; I wasn't questioning that.

What I don't understand is how the physical act of giving them your address has anything to do with it.

When they have your home address & your work address if you are more miles apart then you claimed they can call it fraud and not pay for the damage, although I don't see how the insurance company could not have your (home) address.

... my point exactly. The act of giving them your address if/when you have an accident should be completely irrelevant.

My home address and my work address are probably 40 miles apart. Yet I only drive 1.5 miles to work each way.

I drive to the train station in bad weather. Walk when it's nice out.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: mesthead21
Hmm well i work at a tire shop and lets see:
1. If you get a rotation and balance and we are busy, you can be pretty sure you tires are not getting balanced properly.
2. Be nice to the salesman and they will be nice back, you have no idea how many cars i have intentionally made vibrate cause of the bastard that yelled at me for no reason.
3. If you have a large lifted truck, do not come in for a rotation balance because of vibration problems. We do not care and will not balance all of your tires.
4. If we go the extra mile for you we expect a tip, if we dont get one we will definitely remember next time.

A common phrase is "I dont care, its not my car"

How do you go the extra mile? If I pay to rotate my tires, you rotate my tires and get no tip.

Extra mile = REALLY rotate your tires

so i pay to have my tires "rotated", ie looked at and given a :thumbsup:; but i should expect to pay you extra to do the actual job that i paid you for in the first place?

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: elektrolokomotive

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Killerme33

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Abel007
This thread is awesome.

If you are shopping for insurance and the agent asks you "How many miles to work?" Tell them any number <12. Anything >12 will net a surcharge.

So anything between 1 & 12 will make no difference? I've always said 3miles when it's been closer to 6...maybe it's time to be honest.

Yup, then when you give them your address when you get into an accident, you are screwed. Real smart.

How does giving them your address have anything to do with... anything?

Fraud?

Well, if you are drivign to work from 20 miles away and total your car and then file a claim, owuldn't it be asy for a company to say"wait a second" ......

I guess ... the point is .... why lie about this when the consequences are potentially serious.

Nonono I understand that lying about the mileage would be fraudulent; I wasn't questioning that.

What I don't understand is how the physical act of giving them your address has anything to do with it.

When they have your home address & your work address if you are more miles apart then you claimed they can call it fraud and not pay for the damage, although I don't see how the insurance company could not have your (home) address.

... my point exactly. The act of giving them your address if/when you have an accident should be completely irrelevant.

My home address and my work address are probably 40 miles apart. Yet I only drive 1.5 miles to work each way.

I drive to the train station in bad weather. Walk when it's nice out.

Touche!

I also suppose that this type of analysis may also work if you are in a carpool and you only drive to work, say, once a week.

MotionMan

 

[vital]

If you ever buy food at the food court in the mall, tell them you work at the mall for some discount.

 

[wiredspider]

I don't really know what I'm doing