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My secret is that I told someone I'd have to kill them if I told them my secret.

And since I just told you.....
 
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes are "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.

 
Originally posted by: AaronB
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes were "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.
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wow...
 
Originally posted by: AaronB
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes are "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.
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I smell a lawsuit soon...
 
Originally posted by: compnovice
Originally posted by: AaronB
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes are "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.
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I smell a lawsuit soon...
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It is not that no one has figured it out, it is just that 99% of people who work these type of jobs couldn't care less about it, and couldn't care less about the company.

Such is the way of the retail world.

 
Originally posted by: Kilim
Originally posted by: compnovice
Originally posted by: AaronB
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes are "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.
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I smell a lawsuit soon...
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It is not that no one has figured it out, it is just that 99% of people who work these type of jobs couldn't care less about it, and couldn't care less about the company.

Such is the way of the retail world.
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Because 99% of the companies do not care about their non-management employees. They pay people like crap b/c most of the jobs simply reuire a warm body and training time is minimal.
 
Originally posted by: Balt
As a Burger Shack employee for the past three years, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you're craving White Castle, the burgers here just don't cut it. In fact, just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one... just makes me want to burn this motherfvcker down.

Oh, and stay away from the special sauce.
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battleshits????
 
Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Fat pregnant women complain a lot. Ok so i guess that's not really much of a secret.
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Men do too!

Bad mouthing the care provided by your previous nurse does not endear you to your current nurse.
 
I could tell you a lot about what you can dispute on Visa cards and how easy or hard each type of dispute is... but legally I can't talk about Visa regulations soooooo I won't. I do Visa card disputes all day at a bank.
 
When using a garrote on someone try to have a short immovable object like a counter between you and the target. It's not as quick as in the movies.
 
Originally posted by: AaronB
Thousands of safes sold to restaurants, payday loan companies, check cashing companies, pawn shops, convienence stores, and a few banks had a secondary access code programmed into their electronic locks that is pathetically easy to figure out. Often these codes are "override" codes that could even bypass the time lock and time delay. The clients were not told about this.

On more than a few occasions these codes were given out to store employees during tech support calls to troubleshoot the locks. The employees were told that they were one time codes and that they wouldn't work after the call was over. Not only were they not "one time codes", they were codes that would unlock any safe at any time in the entire chain of stores belonging to the company the employee worked for.

Some of these chains had hundreds of locations.

There is a "financial institution" that has well over a hundred safes that can be opened with the code 222222. This was due to a miscommunication during the initial ordering process. No one has corrected this. Strangely no one has seemed to figure it out either.
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Another way to get into safes is to use the default setting from the factory. Safes are shipped with a default code. It's surprising how many people don't change the setting to suit themselves. The default code is often an easy way in.

 
Originally posted by: RedCOMET
Probably not much of a secret, but at blockbuster you can return your movie at any time before 2pm for it to count as on time on the day that its due. If you return your video between 12pm and 2pm, walk it into the store and give it to an employee to check it in.
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That may be true today, but about 4 years ago, we returned 3 videos at about 12:05. (although it seems that it was a different time? Whatever; it was 5 minutes late) We took them to the clerk who said, "no problem at all. There won't be a late fee." A month later, blockbuster turned us in to a collection agency for not paying a late fee. I've refused to go back since.
 
Originally posted by: judasmachine
We are allowed to haggle. It seems NO ONE knows this, and we always start high.
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What kind of business? It's funny that many businesses allow haggling; but then every time someone here has someone attempt to haggle with them on price, they immediately run here to post something derogatory about the situation.
 
DO NOT EAT OUT! Watch the movie waiting. I have seen most of what happens in this movie at the restaurant I work at. I have seen the accidental things (dropping food then putting it on a plate) but the intentional wrong doings (spitting, pubic hairs etc..) I haven't seen. The floors that the food is dropped on is not like your kitchen floor either.

edit: The things that happen to the food occur very often.
 
Originally posted by: edro
There are 25.4mm in an inch.
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Correct. I'm tall though and people often ask how tall I am. I find it easier to remember 2.54 centimeters to an inch, or 6 foot 4 inches is 193 centimeters.

 
If you have an overdue book from any of the libraries on campus, you'll get an email telling you that you have a fine. You really don't-- as soon as you return the book, the fine gets wiped off of your records.

When people come in to pay the fine, though, they don't tell them it's wiped from their record when they return the book and that they don't really have to pay.

I've probably got better secrets from my job at the zoo last summer, but nothing immediately comes to mind.
 
I've worked as a licensed aircraft maintenance technician on commercial and private aircraft for twenty plus years. Heavies to helos...

You do not want to hear any of those trade secrets.

Trust me.
 
Originally posted by: iRONic
I've worked as a licensed aircraft maintenance technician on commercial and private aircraft for twenty plus years. Heavies to helos...

You do not want to hear any of those trade secrets.

Trust me.
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Is duct tape a staple of your tool box ?
 
Sally from accounting is having an affair with Joey in management. My boss, Craig, plays WoW 6-7 hours our of his 9 hour work shift. I saw him doing BWL and MC raids. Kyle in accounting has been secretly stealing small amounts of money from customers' accounts and transferring them into his Swiss bank account.
 
Originally posted by: yobarman
Originally posted by: iRONic
I've worked as a licensed aircraft maintenance technician on commercial and private aircraft for twenty plus years. Heavies to helos...

You do not want to hear any of those trade secrets.

Trust me.
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Is duct tape a staple of your tool box ?
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Yes, I will cop to that. I buy it by the case.
 
a few years ago I worked at a jewel/abertsons, he had half price strawberry coffee cake because they mixed up the motor oil colorings and the red filling came out tourquis. Also they spread meat juices on top of jewel bake shop pies to make them look more shinny.
 
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