14. Always be careful – ABCs
I used to work in brokerage…
The licensed professionals at brokerage firms (series 6, 7, etc) don’t necessarily know ANYTHING about stocks and investing. The tests to get licensed are very general and deal with math and the history of the markets and things like that, but there is very little in the way of assessing someone’s ability to competently guide your investments.
Assume they are retarded until they prove otherwise.
15. How could you, my love…
Used to work at Taco Bell.
In general I wouldn’t suggest eating there, but if you do, you should avoid anything with the beans or rice, particularly the rice.
You’re supposed to switch out the line items after a certain amount of time, but no one ever does. Unless it’s rush hour, if you order the beans, there will be a 1/4″ thick dried crust on top that we will just mix into the remaining beans underneath before plopping it in your burrito.
The rice is even worse. Very few items have rice in them, so whatever gets made at the start of the day just sits out all day.
The sour cream comes out of a gun/tube similar to a caulking gun. It’s barely refrigerated while it’s out, and anything left over gets put in the walk in fridge to be re-used the next day.
The “meat” comes in a plastic bag that is reheated by immersing it in a hot water bath. It is then poured out onto the line. It looks pretty much like grade F ground beef mixed with shredded particle board.
16. This is illegal, don’t do this, bartenders
I used to work at one of the nicest restaurant/bars in town. Any time anyone ordered a dirty martini or a similarly-heavy mixed drink with top-shelf liquor, unless they were sitting right at the bar we’d use the cheap stuff and mark down the difference to the employee liquor fund, for our own happy hour at the end of the week.
