DIRTIEST Business Practices You Should Be Aware Off (r/AskReddit)

doggo is shocked from these business practices what are some of the worst business practices you've seen any company service that allows you to sign up using the internet with minimal verification but requires you to either produce id bills proof of address or show up in person to cancel that service if i can set it up via the internet i should be able to cancel using the internet too you mean planet fitness i heard this one from a friend she worked at a dog kenneling business that would tour prospective clients through the front of the building and show off how each dog would get its own indoor slash outdoor run area and specialized attention etc then when thanksgiving and christmas came and they got more bookings than they could accommodate they set up cages and stacked kennels in a back room and people were paying big dollars thinking that their dogs were in a nice roomy pen while the business crammed as many dogs as they could into these basic cages it was shameful this is why it's good to find ones that give you 24 7 video access how dare they i use the term business loosely but i once did graduate research with the professor who was in the process of trying to get a major order manufacturer to invest in a lab they liked us but wanted an example of some of our work so rather than directing them to some publications of ours my professor gave them a zip file containing all of our recent unpublished research including the basis for a patent application my professor was shocked when they just kept it what a idk how you get to that point in life not knowing that car companies play dirty that's why he's in academia and not in business trying to get employees to quit my managers at fast food didn't want to keep long-term employees due to having to pay them more and firing the means unemployment costs us quitting means no unemployment and not having to give raises i worked at a restaurant that wouldn't let people get a refund on their food even though there was a cockroach in it instead they offered a 10 discount on the food as per their policy needless to say this restaurant no longer exists gosh how many cockroaches did they serve in the short time i worked there it happened four times on my shift and several others when i wasn't working owners did very little in the way of maintenance it wasn't in a good location and the customers weren't rich by any means i guess they just got lucky until they served the roach to the wrong person tbh idk the exact reason they shut down so this store put a massive discount on weighted blankets they were originally selling for 150 but were now being offered for 39.99 the catch you'd need to sign up for free as a vip member online i'm okay no harm done so i signed up and bought the blanket and so did thousands of other people the store cancelled our orders and refunded our money claiming that they weren't able to fulfill our orders and now they had a couple thousand more new names on their mailing list and sure enough marketing emails came pouring through i unsubscribed once but still had emails coming in duck you spotlight australia in the town i grew up there was this guy who ran a music store the kind that sells musical instruments he would sell brand new stuff at 50 60 discount how a friend of mine haggled a brand new gibson guitar off the shelf for maybe 75 off i bought several symbols off him dirt cheap for you drummers out there sabian a not crap turns out his family was filthy rich old money and running the store was his hobby you know just something to do he would sit there smoke discuss which zapper record was the best and basically give stuff away it was awesome and terrible business honestly that sounds like a glorious way to live if you're rich as duck and don't care maybe it's not that he don't care could legit love music would be happy to give the stuff away for free if people would use the music gear by charging half he's making sure people are serious i used to serve at a restaurant where we wore pages that buzzed us when a table's food was ready good idea right well the owners had the policy that you had to immediately go pick up the food no matter what and that included if you were in the middle of taking another tables order they said that people understand and are cool with it of course they weren't though every time i stopped taking a tables order and went and got the food they were totally pissed off i could not believe the owners did not understand why literally no other restaurant on the planet does it that way i went to an independent makeup store because i wanted to support small businesses and the shop girl told me i would need a lot of products because i was ugly i was shook like i know i'm no hall barry but ugly i'm sure you walked your ugly ass right back out the door exactly true beauty is on the inside so please would you mind going outside i worked for a big car rental company in the returns department they would push us to find and charge customers for any new damage on their cars by awarding bonuses on top of our monthly salary we were given mirrors to look for scratches under the cars where costumers would normally not have checked before they rented the car often leading to heated arguments over if it really was their fault or not the company did not care either way and made us charge their insurance deposit if they refuse to pay the daily verbal abuse and stress from being sandwiched between my managers and angry customers has definitely left a mark on my mental health and i will probably never work in the traveling industry again i briefly worked at a fedex shipping center the first hour of orientation was basically if you even think the word union will end your ducking bloodline first job ever was at walmart they too had an anti-unionizing video during orientation to the tune of organizers just want to take your money my wisdom tooth operation was ducked up which they under anesthetized me for so i went back two days later they admitted their fault and that they would fix it there and then but it would cost me equivalent 500 i said no way this is your screw-up they eventually agreed i took the woozy pill they gave me as it was gonna be big work and their operation went as planned and while i was not even with it they charged me the money then booted me out onto the street i was almost hit by a bus as i had no awareness of anything found it all out later on from a a friend who happened to be passing and saw me playing with cars on a dual lane road and b an acquaintance in the waiting room who had watched me pay ironically i was there due to their daughter's recommendation major banks sorting your transactions when you have a low balance in such a way to maximize overdraft fees honestly over draft fees in general many banks will charge you an overdraft and deny the transaction because apparently it costs them 35 to deny transaction my local subway and their perpetual stew of meatballs every day they make meatballs to be used on their meatball marina a sandwich but every day they never use all of them so they put the leftover ones into the refrigerator to be used the next day this is fine you can get away with it since it's held in appropriate temperatures during the day and kept refrigerated overnight the problem comes after they make more instead of keeping the older new batch of meatballs separate they cook off new meatballs and just add them to the old meatball container so technically there could be one meatball floating around in there that is months old before it finally gets scooped up and placed on a sandwich eat fresh is the biggest false advertising hostility towards raises rewarding your existing employees is almost always cheaper than hiring new i've had a manager that scoffed at a single three percent race for someone who had no race for five years good luck hiring a new person with that experience and for less money there's a reason why job hopping gets you more money and it's not because hiring you is cheaper not as bad as some of the practices in this post but a local coffee shop owner near me pressures customers into bringing their own cups normally i wouldn't mind this as hey we all got to do our part to save the environment thing is the owner doesn't do it for the environment he does it because he doesn't want to buy takeaway coffee cups i heard him argue with another customer one day telling her he's sick of her using his cups rather than her own the whole thing came off so cheap and tacky i stopped going there for coffee if the owner is upset about buying 5c cups he's probably cutting corners in other places too i worked as a food service manager for a large hotel chain let's call it chariot hotels the general hotel manager wouldn't approve repair slash replacements of equipment unless we were expecting an inspection in the next two to three months the immediate bad effect of this was a lot of negative reviews our ice maker broke so we had to send employees to the other side of the hotel to get ice from an ice machine to make iced coffee smoothies etc resulting in extremely long wait times for iced drinks we also lost money because a lot of the cold food like chicken salad can be made in bulk and stored for a few days in the fridge unfortunately half of our fridges didn't cool properly so we had to make a lot of foods fresh every day and discard a lot of food lastly i quit when i got tired of requesting repairs that never happened two weeks later they got an early inspection and an exceptionally bad score for a chain they passed but just barely the general manager blamed it on the former food service manager me and i believe she still manages the hotel to this day

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Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 26 2021