Stuff you know that others wouldn't know because of your job.

gambitt · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:08

Civil servants spend most of their day emailing each other with gossip and waste stupid amounts of public money on trivial things. Although I suspect this is also common knowledge

Vonhelmet · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:12

Masses and masses about tax.

Masses.

dangerstat · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:14

I know....wait for it, ...... how to count....., wait for it,...........all the way,.... wait for it,............. too SWIFTY FIVE

(but it's a secret)

krisboats · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:21

G|mp said:
I know that the London Underground have just signed with Rentokil Initial for multi service.

As a rentokil initial supervisor i can tell you that the company is massively flawed, over-budget, cutting corners and can't get stock orders right to save their own lives.

fishfishfish · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:21

The scientific names and origins several thousand fish.

kylew · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:23

Fegruson said:
Lot's of dirty facts about D**i

That you don't use apostrophes for plurals or words simply ending in "s".

G|mp · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:23

krisboats said:
As a rentokil initial supervisor i can tell you that the company is massively flawed, over-budget, cutting corners and can't get stock orders right to save their own lives.

As someone that deals with most of those things I can tell you you're talking ****

Pants · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:24

I know that getting anything done through T-Systems is stupidly expensive.

Meridian · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:27

The difference between 4-methylmethcathinone and 4-methoxymethylamphetamine. Without looking it up on the interweb.

M

Biohazard · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:27

Meridian said:
The difference between 4-methylmethcathinone and 4-methoxymethylamphetamine. Without looking it up on the interweb.

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Spelling.

I win.

MadMacs · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:42

dymetrie said:
Yup, all things that I deal with on a daily basis, along with Government Policy and Legislation surrounding CCTV.

My comment still stands, £85,000 for just a CCTV system on a pub/carvery is a rip off.

It's a joke. I work for a CCTV company and we do much larger CCTV installs then that for much less. We are doing an airport at the moment and it's not even close to that figure. Maybe someone is telling him porky pies? :confused:

Pez · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:43

Steve2000 said:
I know where all the CCTV cameras are in the Toby carvery I eat at regular. And that they cost £85000 to set up. And they only upgraded from monochrome three years ago.

Per outlet?

Gaijin · 16 Nov 2009 at 20:54

That if you return anything electrical at Tesco its not tested and you'll never be held accountable.

For instance, buy new xbox, swop it with your RROD'd 3 year old release xbox and take back for a refund. You could probably even swap the hard drives.

krisboats · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:01

G|mp said:
As someone that deals with most of those things I can tell you you're talking ****

That's not what the CRM for my retail contract told me in great detail for over an hour over coffee and if it is why have my stock orders been massively wrong for the last 3 weeks straight? I have enough bog rolls to last a year now and they keep sending more!

Xenoxide · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:07

Tesco will accept money off vouchers from any other supermarket as long as they're "conditional spend" vouchers.

(Conditional spend vouchers = £5 off when you spend £50 on groceries. NOT product specific vouchers like 10p off Kelloggs Corn Flakes.)

The person at the till may look at you funny, but tell them to scan the voucher regardless. 90% of the time it will work, and the other 10%, tell them to get their line manager who will (hopefully) know the drill.

G|mp · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:09

krisboats said:
That's not what the CRM for my retail contract told me in great detail for over an hour over coffee and if it is why have my stock orders been massively wrong for the last 3 weeks straight? I have enough bog rolls to last a year now and they keep sending more!

What contract do you work on?

The deliveries will be Bunzl's fault not RI.

arknor · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:12

we pee in the gherkins at mcdonalds , and if you ask for a burger without "lettuce" or whatever we will lick the buger

Minxy · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:13

For an average vehicle bodywork repair, labour accounts for around 40% of the cost, dry goods only 2%.

krisboats · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:14

G|mp said:
What contract do you work on?

The deliveries will be Bunzl's fault not RI.

B&Q, yay!

G|mp · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:18

B&Q :/

I was in a meeting with Dave Reynolds last week, I'll let him know it's not good down there