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

I found out a particular UK bank was in serious serious trouble before it became public knowledge & the share price dropped through the floor.

No I didn't instantly go out and but a load of puts though...
 
krisboats said:
B&Q, yay!
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G|mp said:
B&Q :/

I was in a meeting with Dave Reynolds last week, I'll let him know it's not good down there :D
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If either of you can explain why mice/rats like to burrow into my lawn mowers and how to get rid of them, I'll be a happy... bunny.

Hmm. Something I know because of my job... that wallpaper samples cost us many tens of thousands of pounds a year? That getting netted like a Christmas Tree isn't as much fun as it looks? How to use a WAVE machine? That the fire service race to store in a matter of minutes automatically whenever the fire alarm is set off ('cept when we test them, natch)? That more often than not members of staff buy perfectly working returned pressure washers/BBQs/lawnmowers/ovens/fridges/etc for £10-50 when they should have cost 10-20x that? *shrug*
 
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ecksmen said:
One of the rules of signing that is that you're not supposed to tell anyone you have. so you're in breach...
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Thing is with the OSA - everyone is covered by it anyway whether you sign a bit of paper or not - tis just a formality - the law still applies to everyone regardless of whether you signed the thing or not.
 
if you have posted "Stuff you know that others wouldn't know because of your job." its no longer right due to OcUK knows :p
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Same here. SC.

I know a fella in Special Branch who had to undergo DV clearance for his work and while he didn't go into detail, he did say the process was hard work with real probing questions into his private as well as work life.

The panel knew the answers already but wanted to know if the applicant was being truthful in his answers.

Also, BMW 5 Series ( usually 530d ) bought for police use are about 12k less than showroom price.
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Its the paper work that looks like a right git!

A guy I know filled it in, over a weeks worth of writing and loads of time. Only to make a mistake and have to start again! :p

It isn't meant to be that bad, from what I have heard.
 
Begbie said:
Its the paper work that looks like a right git!

A guy I know filled it in, over a weeks worth of writing and loads of time. Only to make a mistake and have to start again! :p

It isn't meant to be that bad, from what I have heard.
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Costs about £30k to put you through it too :p
 
I can tell you that after years of fitting free smoke alarms, the people we really want to target do not bother phoning for said items.

You can also worry about the public service cuts as time and again it has been shown that any cut in the Fire Service budget results in more fire deaths. This is directly attributable to cuts meaning less firefighters and older\slower vehicles.
 
Cinemas only see around 50-60% of the money you spend on tickets... Distributors take a huge chunk of the box office revenue which is why your popcorn is sooooo expensive!

I also know that The Da Vinci Code almost didn't make it into cinemas because Mission Impossible 3 flopped and Tom Cruise (who owns the rights to The Da Vinci Code) pushed Sony for more money to make up for his losses, who in turn pushed the cinemas for almost all of the box office revenue. Vue, Cineworld and Odeon all agreed to drop the film until Sony backed down!
 
HumbleCoder said:
Software is shipped with hundreds of known bugs, the last major release I shipped had 40 priority 2 bugs, over 200 priority 3 and a hell of a lot more under P3.

And this isn't because I work for a bad software company, it's a very common practice amongst the worlds largest software companies. Some of the things I've been told while working under NDA with other companies makes the mind boggle.
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Everybody knows that though.

Apart from the stakeholders on the project of course. They always believe the final software product you're building will be 'perfect'. :rolleyes:
 
I know how the planet works from mid-ocean spreading ridges to how mountains are formed and everything in between down to the smallest quartz grain on the beach!

Geology is cool :)
 
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