Companies can be devious but some are good. Here are a few employees who decided to spill the beans...
What about lice?
Worked at a bike rent shop where we told customers we sanitized the helmets we rented via ‘heat treatment.’ ‘Heat treatment’ consisted of having some sorry high schooler run up to the top of the building, essentially the attic of this old wooden structure, and just leave them in boxes, or, if they were wet, hung from nails to drip and dry. (kakejaufman)
Fake Jewelry
I used to work in a jewelry shop that sold cheap silver/gold painted plastic jewelry, none of it being real metal, but every sale I had to up sell one of these $5 ‘polishing cloths.’ You can’t polish a turd; the only thing this cloth did was rub the cheap paint off the plastic faster. I felt like such a con artist. [deleted user]
Want Fries with that?
I worked at [a major chain] and they taught me how to pinch the fry carton just right while putting the fries into them so that it looked full, but actually wasn’t.
I only had 1 customer call me out on it. He shook the fries out into his bag and poured them back into the fry carton himself and it only filled up half way, so I had to give him more fries. I was impressed and embarrassed. It’s been 7 years and I can still see his face. (ExperiMENTALbunny)
Some people want to pay more for the same thing
The cup of soup and bowl of soup were the exact same size. People would pay more for a bowl, and just get a cup of soup in a bowl that was shorter and wider at the bottom than the cup. (angela_bee)
Just like homemade
Worked at a restaurant that also did catering. People would come in for tastings regularly for things like weddings and we’d give them samples of some of our food. The big thing at these tastings was the cheesecake, which was made in-house to be served in the restaurant and was pretty great.
What we didn’t tell them was that for catering events, we bought pre-made cheesecakes instead [….] Basically we’d sell them on our cheesecake then give them something less good that was easier/cheaper for us. Honestly, we were stretching ourselves a little thin with catering. It was always a mess trying to get all the food prepared as well as run the restaurant. (fantastiskandie)
Crash Bang Boom
I worked in car rental in Ireland. We weren’t supposed to sell the extra insurance to Spanish or Italian customers, because they are not known for being great drivers and often damage the cars. Much more profitable to only sell insurance to people who won’t use it. (2007_britney)
