30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don’t Work There Anymore

Who falls for that? Bakeries used to smell of actual bakery goods when I was a kid. Now most of them don't because they don't bake in house anymore but get their baked goods delivered from a distribution center. The fake smell is always the same and noticably artificial. The real smell was different every day.

It took me many decades to learn this. After you learn to notice it, you notice it.

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What’s your source for that bit of information?

The smell of freshly baked bread makes people hungry, so they buy more food. Everything in a supermarket is carefully researched. It is fascinating how people (we) can be manipulated to spend more or to buy certain products.

I am not sure if that's a winning strategy tho. I personally smelled "pure" baking scent straight out of the pipe and it's so strong it becomes a human expeller.

Is this just your opinion or do you have actual proof??

We recruit research fellows every year and during recruitment we hire interns (paid) to filter the proposals we receive. We usually receive 800-900 and interns give us about 150 eligible/complete ones.

It's interesting that ebooks have allowed people who would get passed over by traditional publishing an audience and a market. What's even more interesting is not how bad some of the writing is, but how successful it can be. I've read a couple that desperately needed an editor and a proof reader to go over them and make suggestions/corrections. Yet the writer has 19 books on Amazon and has apparently sold millions of copies.

Oh, yeah. So many folks fancy themselves writers, but just because many people like to write doesn’t mean that they should. Most people can’t write their way out of a paper bag. The self-publishing craze has made matters so much worse, because now there is no system for filtering the trash.

Yeah, this is what assistants are for in... every industry? We screen for what we won't be able to help with, for what we can handle or reassign without needing to involve upper levels, and for what does need to be passed on upward. Doing it backwards would be chaos.

Or perhaps the company decided not to charge him because it was someone else in the company that embezzled that money, not the fall guy. Edit: crooked employees are very good at getting innocent employees fired by blaming their crooked dealings on the innocent victims. Happened to me twice.

He probably embezzled because he had a gambling problem or something like it that was causing him to burn through money like crazy. Or another common thread in cases like that is they basically do it on something small planning on it being a one time thing and get like addicted to it and their spending gets more and more extravagant causing them to embezzle more making the budget short fall bigger and more noticable.

If they got paid more than no emzelling

Hey, I worked with one of those. She finally retired and we were finally able to get sh!t done

Perhaps in the right conditions, like a dry, air-conditioned, closed room, the smell was not so noticeable after only a few days.

I worked at wawa and was forced to slice and dump the leftover milk before throwing in the dunpster "so homeless people couldn't steal it"

That's what bothers you!? Not the innocent people getting banged up because their judge was drunk!? LOL

I Norge så selger dem matvarer til redusert pris. Det er enten 40 eller 50 prosent rabatt når utløpsdato nærmer seg, eller på samme dag.

No, it is the capitalist system. On average 10% of all consumer products will not be sold. For top brands it can be up to 40%. In the USSR they made exactly the number of dresses needed, they did not want to make a single piece extra. If no one liked the color or fabric, no problem. Not sold meant that no new production was needed. (Now imagine what happened if 100 dresses were needed, 50 shipped to the east and 50 shipped to the west of the country, but 65% of the people live in the west. They never got any other dresses in the east in the shops, acquaintances and family knew your clothing sizes and when they visited Moscow or St. Petersburg they brought the latest fashion with them.)

I think you mean rewire.

And let me tell you: there IS a difference! French baguettes, are more 'chewy' than Italian pane. Both have their merits 😍, though

I went to Sicilia this summer: bead is poor there (Italian people told me it is like that everywhere in Italia). Best bread ever: french one, in France.

Or anywhere Else in europe

I think the point is that was what was happening at the bakery they worked at.

I eat that so often! It's called garlic bread baguettes and I always have them with pizza!

That makes perfect sense since most people don't want ice cream at 5am :)