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

Stolly said:
Most payment cards (credit / debit / prepaid) are not run by the company mentioned on the card. This includes many banks, who do not run their own cards.

They are in fact processed by one of two companies that most people have never heard of.
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SAV?
 
A lot of people here are bound by the OSA (I know technically everyone is but you know what I mean).

Im BPSS cleared because I dont do anything too interesting but the people I work with are SC and DV.

Just wanted to agree with Captain Planet that it's not always easy not to talk about details at work with loved ones.
 
Stolly said:
Even if you phone up a call center and you think its your bank you are phoning up you are in fact speaking to employess of one of these virtually unheard of companies.
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Yeah, I heard of that as well, think insurance companies do that, "rent" call centre so when a call comes in, the other person on the phone has a pop up for which company you are calling?
 
Gaijin said:
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.
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I know this as fact as there is a stall in Finmere market on a Sunday selling Tesco electrical returns and the stuff is really cheap as there are no guarantees because of this.
 
How to get the better 'new contract' deal with a network, even if you are already with them and would usually need to upgrade with a lesser deal.
 
gambitt said:
How interesting. I'd like to know more about how that works!
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google heat pump, but basically the air con works in reverse, taking heat from the outside and releasing it inside.

So long as your not in mega -ve temperatures outside it works pretty well, normally have some other sort of heating to top up though.
 
I know that a popular and expensive cereal produces also manufacturer/boxes the "like-for-like" cereal for a popular supermarket.

It's exactly the same cereal. Made at the same place. The manufacturer boxes half as its own and half as the cheaper supermarket own-brand, then ships both to the same supermarket.
 
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