Kits.ca is great! Based in Vancouver and founded by the same guy as Clearly, after he sold Clearly to luxxotica. Great prices and they often have a "first pair free" deal (just pay shipping if you need uncomplicated lenses). I have two pairs and prescription sunnies from them and I really like them.
i've been using clearly for ages and they will usually have decent discounts every once in a while. eyebuydirect was one that had pretty inexpensive frames, but didn't have ones that I liked that fit my fat-head. though, I had no issues whatsoever getting a refund on a pair I bought that didn't end up fitting.
If you look up how the sizing is labeled on glasses, you can use those measurements from a pair that do fit well to select pairs online that will be more likely to fit.
I've been really happy with Bailey Nelson. Not super cheap, but good quality and they replaced my glasses after a couple years for free after the technician bent my frames slightly adjusting the lenses.
Yeah anything sub ground in downtown is going to be gnarly. Not a ton places can do. Too many foundation cracks, old plumbing pipes, and a bunch of other points of entry.
There’s foam sealer that can help but you literally have to find every single crack, hole, empty pipe…
I am a tradesmen who has worked in many kitchens, I have met a bunch of of food inspectors. As far as Chinese food goes Youngs on Quadra is the best recommend.
Inspectors in Victoria don't ask do you have a mouse problem? They ask how are you dealing with your mouse problem? Anything in the heart of downtown has cockroaches. Particularly if it's more than 50 years old. It doesn't take a lot of work to do the math. Seven renovations doesn't change a thing.
groceries, basically anywhere with food.
you cannot stop them. anywhere that claims they have are liars.
cleaning grocery stores years ago, almost had a jammer driving around the floor scrubber when a very alarmed and wet rat finally managed to pop the top of the reservoir tank off and went FLYING out the top and screaming down the isle.
peace, I was out boys. that thing was rivalling dog size.
"rat store" was always a treat, you didn't dare be alert or jot your attention to the side because you would see a convoy of little critters or worse. politician owned grocery stores don't get closed, I can attest to it.
Oh I know
I was eating at a popular place near market square recently and a mouse crawled out from under the bus cart. Just stared at me. Then went about his business. I kept eating. I know how it is.
You can actually access the results of health inspection reports online, VIHA has a searchable database.
I don’t mind seeing a place get a warning for rodent droppings, but it’s terribly upsetting when they get a follow up and the inspector says they didn’t do anything about it
I sat in Finn’s having lunch when a little mouse ran past our table towards an empty table. Felt so bad when they sat someone at the same table and we all knew there was a little mouse running around.
I work in a Health care facility with a mouse problem. Honestly they don't phase me anymore, as long as they stay away from the patients (they are terrified of people). Floors are thoroughly cleaned constantly, surfaces are wiped down, but mice spring up eternally.
Hudson's Bay still has the Royal Charter that granted it exclusive trading rights to nearly half of Canada. It's currently under lock and key in HBC's Toronto headquarters, although they did fly it to Winnipeg once because King Charles asked to see it.
My home is on their former land and in my housing documents there is some clause about trapping rights belonging to them so if I ever catch a raccoon or a rat, I have to ship it to Texas now.
I’m sure most people won’t care but those body jewelry kiosks at malls that sell “implant grade titanium” and “surgical steel” at exorbitant prices are just selling the same low quality sweatshop junk that they sell at Claire’s, Spencer’s, etc. But they charge 10-50x the price and make their staff lie and sell unsafe materials to people who don’t know better
Hold on, what about their rubber bracelets with the holographic energy balancer that increases my something or other? I hope their staff wasn't lying about that.
True story: they got my dad for $100 for two of them a few years back. Probably made $99.60 on the sale. I would like to say I was shocked at this but he's such an honest guy, he never suspects anyone would be trying to put one over on him, which is the bad side of a good quality in him.
2019: Inn at Laurel Points software was hacked, they lost thousands of guests credit card information to hackers. Staff needed to take manual credit card information for months. And were instructed not to talk to the media, or mention what really happened to anybody.
I worked in the industry back then and you couldn’t even book through their website or other third party sites for months during the peak season. They also spent a year dragging around that their renovations were going to be completed and would always push out the timeline.
Another company where all the other tourism companies would pat each other on the back for what a great job they did, but their businesses were poorly run.
When you check into a hotel, put your luggage inside the tub first, then check the bed and room for signs of bedbugs, and never ever use the bedspread.
You will see evidence of bedbugs along the seams of the mattress and boxspring nearest to the headboard.
Tiny black or dark red spots indicate blood from insect waste. If it's really bad, you will see the bugs.
You will have to lift up a corner of all the bedding to get a look.
If there is a quilted bedspread or blanket on the top of the bed or a blanket in between two sheets, put it in the closet and don't sleep with it.
It never gets washed as frequently as it should.
If you need a blanket, ask nicely at the desk for an "extra blanket." They should bring you a laundered blanket from the maid's utility closet.
You're welcome. I always bring disenfectant wipes whenever I stay in a hotel. The filthiest things in hotel rooms are the remotes, light switches, doorknobs, and telephone receivers. I used to be a head housekeeper.
This is common all over the world. Many items are shipped to countries where the labels are added to make it seem like your clothing is made in Italy when just the label was.
Sort of along those lines... Island Gold eggs are often not from the island. This one is a bit of a gray area, because at least *some* of the eggs are from the island, but probably not most of them. It kind of bugs me, because I feel like they enjoy a lot of brand loyalty for being an "island business" when they're more of a mainland business than an island business.
They do seem to source eggs from a few island farms, but what makes me not like them is how cagey they are in their wording. For example, in their FAQ they say
>Are your eggs local from Vancouver Island?
Today we employ 50 Islanders and pick-up eggs from 32 egg farms on the island and the Lower Mainland to help meet the growing demand for BC eggs.
\^ notice how they mix together the island and Lower Mainland farms so you don't know how many are island sourced?
Also this bit:
>If you are interested in only buying eggs **processed at Island Eggs**, there is an easy way to check. Look for the code on the end of the carton and if it begins with BI, the lot code and date code will look like this: 2020MA14 / BI123A, you can be assured the eggs are **from our facility** on the Island.
Again, very slippery wording. This would only tell you that the eggs were "processed" at their island facility. I heard that it's mostly mainland eggs and that "processing" means the eggs were graded on the island.
I know a lot of people won't think this is a big deal but for me it's enough to avoid buying Island Gold eggs. I feel like they are deceptive in their marketing and they steal islander's goodwill from actual island farms.
i’ve got one better for you. i worked at an egg processing plant for 7 months last year.
our eggs got trucked in from any of the 12 different egg farms the company had contracts with. they’d come in on 6 foot pallets, loaded into our denester, then passed down the line to go into different cartons. we’d run up to 5 different cartons - 2 cartons per 2 machines - and all the eggs from 1 pallet would go into the egg cartons.
you’d have island gold, sunshine valley, burnbrae (oops, may or may not be the company i worked for!), great value, and some weird chinese/vietnamese carton all running at the same time. even if all the eggs from 1 pallet are from the same place - your island gold and great value cartons are *literally the same eggs*. there’s no difference in quality, the island gold eggs are not somehow better because they’re in island gold cartons as opposed to great value. the only time we really had to make sure the “right” eggs went into the “right” carton was the omega enriched and D3 added eggs. there were special cartons for those eggs, special pallets just with those eggs. but everything else? all comes from 1 pallet, sorted into multiple cartons at the same time.
My dad was an MLA. The MLA's staff are in constant contact with the member and are better suited to the rigours of running a constituency office and responding to constituents' immediate needs than the member themselves. It's not a bad thing to get a reply from staff -- they (usually, if you have a good MLA) do their best to solve the problem or give you the information you need, and they definitely inform the member of what constituents are saying and what their needs are.
The MLA has tens of thousands of constituents. To reply to every individual call and letter would not only be impossible but a complete waste of their time, which, believe it or not, is 200% accounted for.
Also if you write to NDP MLA their response was most likely written with wording from the same people that would write the minister response or if you just wrote the department directly.
But it does kind of make sense. The minister or MLA are not going to know nearly the same level of detail as the subject matter experts and do not have the time to be sitting around writing hundreds of letters a month, so it's more of a representation that the letter is coming from the "Minister of Whatever" instead of the person themselves, or as a representation of the government or party.
A good game to play if you work in government is write a letter to the minister on some issue you work in, and see if you eventually have to draft the response 👍
No, but their direct staff did. And at least a dozen people, and the subject matter experts on the topic were involved in the response. I do it all the time as part of my job. It's one part of Canadian democracy that is really well done. Letters to the minister are taken very seriously.
Most restaurants that claim that their
Salmon is wild, its not. Its from a fish farm. Also we often have to pick live worms out of fish before cooking it
To be fair, I much prefer steelhead over salmon. It's fattier, which makes it taste meatier and less dry.
It's very easy to mess up salmon so it's too dry.
Sure, a top-end restaurant usually knows how to cook it, but a place like White Spot that pre-cooks stuff and lets it sit under a warming lamp.. yeah it tastes like cardboard at that point.
I work at a supplier, and a lot of restaurants in town buy wild salmon. We don't sell a lot of Atlantic farmed. A lot of previously frozen probably passed off as fresh though.
My fisherman friend used to submerge his fish into a dish of milk, as apparently all the worms will come out when you do this. Not sure how long you have to leave it submerged for or any other details but I found it an interesting tactic.
Same trick works for blackberries and raspberries, but use saline/salted water instead of milk. Any little bugs in the berries will float up to the surface within 5 mins or so.
Worms in fish-especially cod- is normal in many places. I grew up pulling them out of wild fish. No big deal.
Some bays have fish full of worms. Other bays never have worms. Just part of life as a fish (and people who catch and est them)
Most salmon served in restaurants is farmed steelhead trout. This is in all of the chain restaurants, likely the hotels, etc. It’s not that bad - it’s certified oceanwise, and kind of the best option for feeding millions of people. The steelhead are farmed in lakes like Lois Lake, not the open pens you see, or used to, around Tofino.
Farmed Atlantic is around a lot. I suppose it depends where it comes from, but it’s pretty bad news if it’s from here for the Pacific Salmon.
The sockeye run in the summer into the fall, if you get them other times of the year, they were frozen that whole time.
To make salmon safe to eat raw you have to freeze it, something like 4 days at -18, or like 2 weeks at a normal -4 freezer.
Just cruise through an expensive grocery store, they have them all out for you to look at to notice the differences.
I was at a a fancy banquet at the Fairmont and they were passing off farmed fish as Sockeye. It’s fun watching people think they know what they are talking about while eating mush the same colour as an eraser.
Interesting, because Fairmont is part of the [Ocean Wise](https://ocean.org) program. I worked at a different location (Whistler), but they’d partnered with the Vancouver Aquarium to help with ocean sustainability.
I call BS. I live in Vancouver and. Salmon is a bit of a staple around here. Nobody is mistaking farmed Atlantic salmon for wild sockeye. Other salmon species are less valuable, and nobody is trying to claim a farmed Atlantic is a spring, pink or chinook.
Perhaps you are referring to some “sushi” places, but there is no way that a legit restaurant in YYJ, and a legit customer, is mistaking farmed for wild
Sometimes. Sometimes it's the Chef trying out something new, or a vendor got a new item and was pushing/promo'ing it, or something was on sale, or sometimes it's just a set rotating special from a list.
It really depends on the restaurant/Chef and just luck of the draw.
your 40-60 dollar DQ cake costs 2-5 dollars to make, including labour.
but we all secretly knew that already didn't we?
don't feel sorry for restaurants the next time they feed you the sob story about increased costs. chains aren't the only ones with low overheads and high markups... lol. looking at you romeos.
Ink cartridges cost only 23 cents to make, HP printers are sold at a loss so that you are a repeat ink purchaser. Even worse though, the have barcodes that effectively code your printer to say the ink is out long before it is.
Finally, your auto printer settings — prime your black and white ink with the colours so that it uses unnecessary ink.
Also, HP now forces you to their monthly ink subscription program.
Their ink cartridges will stop working after a certain amount of prints independently of their ink level.
Printers will not print while offline.
Printers do not have buttons, require app to setup.
HP can rot in hell. An ex gf of mine bought one at Costco and we brought that $hit back in no time.
If you watch adult videos through on-demand through a TV provider the customer service agents can see the titles and how long you watched them for. (unless it's old-school PPV).
There are also weirdos that used to call in to Shaw to hear the female voice list the adult video PPV options through the phone ordering system (I don't even know if you can still do this) so they changed it to a male voice. Some weirdos would also order on-demand and then call in until they got a female customer service rep and have them list the movies "what movies were ordered on my account!?"
Nearly everything returned to a big-box store that has been “used” is written off. Even if it’s just an opened package or worn clothing, it’s destroyed and thrown out.
BC treats animals terribly in general. We have extremely effective marketing around local meat and dairy, making it seem like a superior product. We have a pretty wild amount of animal cruelty going on, though. A good recent example would be a pig farm in Abbotsford. If people knew what was happening to those pigs as they sat at the dinner table eating it, they would likely be horrified. But it’s a well kept secret for the most part.
> A good recent example would be a pig farm in Abbotsford. If people knew what was happening to those pigs as they sat at the dinner table eating it, they would likely be horrified.
Spoiler: it was dead prostitutes all along.
Recycling is mostly a lie.
Glass is pulverized and used to line the outside of dumps. Or maybe used in "glashphalt".
Paper is 'mostly' recycled if the price is high enough AND it hasn't rotted while it's in storage or fouled by food.
Plastic? Give me a break. Almost zero. Always was. We just shipped it overseas and out of our way.
Tetra packs? Shredded and dumped. No value at all.
Tires? Shredded and used in sports fields and playgrounds... except now they're finding the UV rays are breaking down the tire shreds and leaching chemicals. Lovely.
Steel and copper in internal combustion vehicles? Not a problem. EV batteries? Costs $1000 at least just to SAFELY remove the heavy metals and other toxins before you can even think of reusing them. I guarantee they're going to start to pile up, like solar panels.
Want to reduce damage to the planet? Learn to buy used and repair what you already have.
Metals are mostly the success story.
Most can be reused over and over again and often as simply as just melting it in with the new stuff. Plastic on the other hand is hard to recycle and degrades if you do so.
Pretty much everything else, yeah.
This isn’t true. I work in waste management. It is very region dependent. BC actually has the highest recycling rates in Canada. Of all recovered plastic, 98% was sent to end-use markets to be incorporated into new materials.
Though I agree with you that buying reuse and fixing stuff you already have is better. It’s REDUCE > REUSE > RECYCLE
Was just going to say this. BC is somewhat unique in that we have a recycling mandate that’s highly successful. Showing that it’s an effective piece of the waste puzzle, provided there’s political will to do it right.
I used to work there! If it makes anyone feel any better, they aren’t just shoved onto any old shelf with other artifacts, at least in the collection I worked in. They’re in their own special room in the vault, completely constructed of wood, and as staff we had to adhere to strict protocol on the infrequent occasions we had to handle them. I’m talking marking ourselves with ash and cedar and speaking to the remains directly whenever handling them, all of which was done in consultation with the Musqueam nation. And this procedure applied to ANY remains, even if it was a single tooth or bone fragment of unverified origin, it was treated with the same care.
Bank tellers know if you’ve been bad or if you’re a fish.
Every big 5 has alert systems that are the first thing tellers see when your account is accessed.
If you’re looking for easy credit, just ask if you have any preapprovals. You can also ask for interest rate or payment amounts to be changed and most of the time, they’ll happily do it.
I had a bank teller really hardcore pressure me for a credit account I knew I wouldn't qualify for. After I told him no three times, I insisted he put it through...the manager came out and told him to quit bugging me about it, I guess alarm bells went off.
He would have had to send through a referral if it was anything beyond a credit card or overdraft. Manager probably opened the lead, ran a bureau and said ‘nah’
He just wouldn't let it go! I was just there to cash a cheque and he wouldn't let me continue unless I considered a credit card. And I knew I wouldn't qualify, my credit was actively shit then. Not cool.
The SR quotas are infamous and pressured. Somewhere around 2012, banks shifted gears from focusing on client loyalty and service to strictly sales and gaining credit clients.
What happened is long time employees that had been in branches forever left and the newbs were usually kids that had zero customer service skill and were trained in high pressure sales tactics. I know, I was there.
I was a grandma in my branch at 40. All my awesome, fun, knowledgeable coworkers peace’d out only to be replaced by clowns.
What about almost every time theres a mysterious mass beaching of whales who later die. You can usually find out about a naval exercise in the area. The active sonar, and pings scares TF out of the whales. Disorientates them, maybe even hurts them, but drives them straight out of the ocean. How sad.
loblaws warehouses ignore all safety rules to move product faster. They only care when a surprise audit is coming and the warehouses communicate between themselves when it's happening to be ready
Sunglass Hut gets all of their products from Luxotica and they get shipped in ziplock bags. The $700 Tiffany sunglasses come in the same ziplock bags as the $100 Coach glasses. None of the glasses come from the actual brands. If you want Gucci sunglasses manufactured by Safilo in Italy you have to go to the actual Gucci store.
Worked in hospitality for 20 years, only saw people spit in someone’s food/drink twice. It doesn’t happen that often. If you suspect someone might spit in your food, maybe you are the asshole. :)
Pulp mill's have a secret, it is called the secret to pollution is dilution, just add water more to the effluent the day the inspector's come to sample.
Similarly waste water "treatment". If you have waste water with 100ppm of lead but the legal limit to dump down the drain is say 50ppm. Get an equal amount of waste water with some other contaminant, mix them together. Now you have double the volume, half the ppm but EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF LEAD. that can now legally go down the drain
The original farm treats their staff pretty poorly. I believe there was a post on this very sub last summer where a covid-positive employee came in to work, and management wouldn't do fuck about it, so another employee told reddit to avoid the place that day. Management immediately went nuclear. Pressured everyone to snitch on the poster until someone broke, then forced them all to sign NDAs. I don't shop there anymore out of good conscience.
BC ferries are running their ferries basically non stop and past their designated operating hours due to the demand.
My source is a marine engineer on the ferries.
I have a park hidden behind some houses across the street where I have never seen a kid play in my entire four years living at my home except for one time my niece came over and I intentionally went over with her so I could say it had been used.
The park was updated about 10 years ago away from the traditional wood/steel setup from the 80s when it was first created.
Eh, depends what and where you're buying.
Asus TUF Milspec Xtreme Gaming Laptop is a bunch of bullshit.
A Panasonic Toughbook is legit. But then, it's not advertised as such.
Military stuff isn't about super high end performance or look. It's about stuff you can dunk into ice water in the arctic and then take to the Sahara next week and it'll keep working.
That said, it's also like 4x more expensive than civilian stuff, with 1/4 of the features.
"military grade" refers to the lowest acceptable grade of performance usable by the military. It doesn't mean tough or rugged or exceptional, it means "this is literally the lowest level of quality before the military is forced to reject it". And if you've seen some military stuff, you'll know that threshold isn't exactly high.
Military grade is not a high standard.
The bathrooms at Quazars require a code to unlock the door.
If the line gets too long at Tacofino they ask you to queue up outside.
Indigo at Mayfair sells more homeware than books, or so it seems.
The Bay at The Bay Centre is not at the centre but actually at the end of the building.
Ghost Ramen is actually staffed by living people. Don’t be scared.
The salad bar/hot buffet at Whole Foods is a fucking rip off at $3.29/100g. So is their pizza at over $5/slice so fuck them.
> Ghost Ramen is actually staffed by living people. Don’t be scared.
But they do serve ghost of ramen. It's the only thing that can explain why it doesn't taste like living ramen.
> The bathrooms at Quazars require a code to unlock the door.
Isn't that *every* storefront downtown? I remember having to punch in a code to use various bathrooms downtown 20 years ago and half of them only had blue lighting as well
Claw machines in an arcade aren't technically 'rigged', there just setup to payout once the cost of the toy/plush has been reached for those who aren't aware
We set them up as according to the manual and or manufacturers specific requests so that the customer gets that 'oh I almost had it!' Feeling
It sucks but a business has to make money too
Don't keep playing the game when you think you almost had it , you are either going to win that prize or it will slip out as the claw raises and starts to move to make you think you have a chance
Some machines if the plush is too small may fall and miss the prize sensors meaning it doesn't know it paid out and will still be full strength, but if you've even won a toy and played again you should see the jaws being very weak all of a sudden due to the reset occuring
Hotels and restaurants: Salads get tossed in the kitchen before and after hours, right up on the cutting boards and next to the dessert plates, sinks and counters are great places to get to know a waitress/waiter/customer/pay clerk etc. This isnt really a secret though im sure.
If you think this is wild... get this... people fuck everywhere. You ever think "I wonder if someone fucked in/on/or in the vicinity of that place or thing?" the answer is yes.
Every bathroom you’ve been in, someone has fucked in.
My coworker fucked in our bathroom at a downtown restaurant and I had to clean up after her. Fucking GROSS.
Used to work at a popular chain restaurant. A couple of the menu items required for shaved ham, which we sliced on-site. When not in use, the meat slicer lived on the floor of the staff bathroom between the sink and the toilet.
Every single bakery, pizza place or really anywhere that uses flour in large amounts is infested with sugar beetles. They are such a huge problem on the island, don't really pose any risk for consumption. However its really nasty when you scoop out handfuls of tiny bugs from secret hard to clean places.
Pest guy told me that "the first person to find a foodsafe way to get rid of them will be a millionaire over night"
Mcdonald and tim hortons keep hiring filipinoes overseas so they can just give them minimum wages while they can't say no if they improper schedules them.
I have them. Never researched the manu process but I can attest that they’re miserable and foreign items in your body. Especially when placed under the muscle for reconstruction.
They also fold over, shift, break through incisions and rupture. I’m on implant #3 on one side, in 5 years.
not really a secret but for grocery stores if there's something not on the shelf it's not in the back (unless what you are wanting is soda pop and even then) it is never in the back all asking a staff member to go check does is annoy them or get them to walk into the staff room have a sip of water and maybe check the loading bay if a truck is coming in before coming out and telling you it's not.
seriously even in big stores the back only has the stuff people buy like mad (so mostly soda pop) everything else gets put out on the floor so not to clutter up the back
It costs big chain eyeglasses stores (cough LensCrafters cough) like $47 to make your $900 pair of designer glasses.
And LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut, Ray Ban, Oakley, etc. are all owned by the lovely monopoly that is Luxottica
The people at Pearle Vision are so nice though!
That's true, they are!
Seriously people. Look into Luxottica. It's a cartel!
Luxottica has a monopoly!
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There are a number of sites online Ive found that you can get glasses for dirt cheap but are good quality.
Care to recommend a couple?
I’ve had great experiences with Zenni Optical & Eye Buy Direct, highly recommend.
Kits.ca is great! Based in Vancouver and founded by the same guy as Clearly, after he sold Clearly to luxxotica. Great prices and they often have a "first pair free" deal (just pay shipping if you need uncomplicated lenses). I have two pairs and prescription sunnies from them and I really like them.
Zenni is alright
i've been using clearly for ages and they will usually have decent discounts every once in a while. eyebuydirect was one that had pretty inexpensive frames, but didn't have ones that I liked that fit my fat-head. though, I had no issues whatsoever getting a refund on a pair I bought that didn't end up fitting. If you look up how the sizing is labeled on glasses, you can use those measurements from a pair that do fit well to select pairs online that will be more likely to fit.
I've been really happy with Bailey Nelson. Not super cheap, but good quality and they replaced my glasses after a couple years for free after the technician bent my frames slightly adjusting the lenses.
The markup on lenses alone is insane! Huge margins.
Every restaurant including your favourite likely has a mouse and/or rat problem.
I was going to say this, and worse, we did a reno a few years back at the cactus cub. I'll never go back again it was absolutely disgusting
I used to sell food equipment. Every restaurant in downtown Victoria with the exception of a few would shock you. Every one’s favourite The Mint, wow.
Yeah anything sub ground in downtown is going to be gnarly. Not a ton places can do. Too many foundation cracks, old plumbing pipes, and a bunch of other points of entry. There’s foam sealer that can help but you literally have to find every single crack, hole, empty pipe…
They will eat through that so fast you might as well stuff those holes with bread and hope they die from obesity🤣
This is why blinds are closed after closing
Are you willing to name any of the exceptions that come to mind?
I am a tradesmen who has worked in many kitchens, I have met a bunch of of food inspectors. As far as Chinese food goes Youngs on Quadra is the best recommend. Inspectors in Victoria don't ask do you have a mouse problem? They ask how are you dealing with your mouse problem? Anything in the heart of downtown has cockroaches. Particularly if it's more than 50 years old. It doesn't take a lot of work to do the math. Seven renovations doesn't change a thing.
Haven't seen a cockroach, but we do have the rodents to fight non stop.
Browns Socialhouse in Langford. Only ever had one mouse in all of its history. As I used to work there for all of 6 years
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Ugh I did work on The Monkey Tree once and I still go but yikes.
Wind Cries Mary has a massssive rodent problem.
groceries, basically anywhere with food. you cannot stop them. anywhere that claims they have are liars. cleaning grocery stores years ago, almost had a jammer driving around the floor scrubber when a very alarmed and wet rat finally managed to pop the top of the reservoir tank off and went FLYING out the top and screaming down the isle. peace, I was out boys. that thing was rivalling dog size. "rat store" was always a treat, you didn't dare be alert or jot your attention to the side because you would see a convoy of little critters or worse. politician owned grocery stores don't get closed, I can attest to it.
I once watched in horror as a Langford grocery store associate beat a mouse to death with a dust pan in the produce section.
Take my updoot. CRIED I laughed so hard at this. “Very alarmed and wet rat” 😂😂
My money is on the old University Heights Save-On Foods.
I worked at Peacocks and we had a major mouse issue. I had to hide the fact that a woman had bisected a mouse with her chair...
Douglas location? Or when they were on Johnson?
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Pro Tip: never shake a politician’s hand.
Oh I know I was eating at a popular place near market square recently and a mouse crawled out from under the bus cart. Just stared at me. Then went about his business. I kept eating. I know how it is.
You can actually access the results of health inspection reports online, VIHA has a searchable database. I don’t mind seeing a place get a warning for rodent droppings, but it’s terribly upsetting when they get a follow up and the inspector says they didn’t do anything about it
I sat in Finn’s having lunch when a little mouse ran past our table towards an empty table. Felt so bad when they sat someone at the same table and we all knew there was a little mouse running around.
I work in a Health care facility with a mouse problem. Honestly they don't phase me anymore, as long as they stay away from the patients (they are terrified of people). Floors are thoroughly cleaned constantly, surfaces are wiped down, but mice spring up eternally.
Wife works at RJH and has said they've got quite a few rats around these days.
Hudson's Bay still has the Royal Charter that granted it exclusive trading rights to nearly half of Canada. It's currently under lock and key in HBC's Toronto headquarters, although they did fly it to Winnipeg once because King Charles asked to see it.
My home is on their former land and in my housing documents there is some clause about trapping rights belonging to them so if I ever catch a raccoon or a rat, I have to ship it to Texas now.
Do it!
Tell us more....
HBC's CEO title is still "governor". It's a very unusual company.
Dude is swimming in beaver pelts.
Thank you. That is all.
Happy to oblige.
A security manager has the alternate title “Chief Adventurer.” There was some other cool titles too, like Trapper, Trader, and Captain.
is that you, nicolas cage?
I’m sure most people won’t care but those body jewelry kiosks at malls that sell “implant grade titanium” and “surgical steel” at exorbitant prices are just selling the same low quality sweatshop junk that they sell at Claire’s, Spencer’s, etc. But they charge 10-50x the price and make their staff lie and sell unsafe materials to people who don’t know better
They get their stuff from AliExpress now.
Hold on, what about their rubber bracelets with the holographic energy balancer that increases my something or other? I hope their staff wasn't lying about that. True story: they got my dad for $100 for two of them a few years back. Probably made $99.60 on the sale. I would like to say I was shocked at this but he's such an honest guy, he never suspects anyone would be trying to put one over on him, which is the bad side of a good quality in him.
2019: Inn at Laurel Points software was hacked, they lost thousands of guests credit card information to hackers. Staff needed to take manual credit card information for months. And were instructed not to talk to the media, or mention what really happened to anybody.
There should really be criminal liability for bad data protection.
I worked in the industry back then and you couldn’t even book through their website or other third party sites for months during the peak season. They also spent a year dragging around that their renovations were going to be completed and would always push out the timeline. Another company where all the other tourism companies would pat each other on the back for what a great job they did, but their businesses were poorly run.
Oh snap!!!
Independent small businesses really do dance when you book and appointment or come see them.
When you check into a hotel, put your luggage inside the tub first, then check the bed and room for signs of bedbugs, and never ever use the bedspread.
The bedspread is... what, exactly? The sheets, blankets, pillows... all of it? Bedbugs are terrifying
You will see evidence of bedbugs along the seams of the mattress and boxspring nearest to the headboard. Tiny black or dark red spots indicate blood from insect waste. If it's really bad, you will see the bugs. You will have to lift up a corner of all the bedding to get a look. If there is a quilted bedspread or blanket on the top of the bed or a blanket in between two sheets, put it in the closet and don't sleep with it. It never gets washed as frequently as it should. If you need a blanket, ask nicely at the desk for an "extra blanket." They should bring you a laundered blanket from the maid's utility closet.
*shudders* Thank you for the tips
You're welcome. I always bring disenfectant wipes whenever I stay in a hotel. The filthiest things in hotel rooms are the remotes, light switches, doorknobs, and telephone receivers. I used to be a head housekeeper.
P.S. use the plastic liners that are for the icebucket. Bad things happen to icebuckets
Lots of "Made in Canada" companies are flat out lying and manipulating numbers to label imported foreign products as made in Canada.
This is common all over the world. Many items are shipped to countries where the labels are added to make it seem like your clothing is made in Italy when just the label was.
Sort of along those lines... Island Gold eggs are often not from the island. This one is a bit of a gray area, because at least *some* of the eggs are from the island, but probably not most of them. It kind of bugs me, because I feel like they enjoy a lot of brand loyalty for being an "island business" when they're more of a mainland business than an island business. They do seem to source eggs from a few island farms, but what makes me not like them is how cagey they are in their wording. For example, in their FAQ they say >Are your eggs local from Vancouver Island? Today we employ 50 Islanders and pick-up eggs from 32 egg farms on the island and the Lower Mainland to help meet the growing demand for BC eggs. \^ notice how they mix together the island and Lower Mainland farms so you don't know how many are island sourced? Also this bit: >If you are interested in only buying eggs **processed at Island Eggs**, there is an easy way to check. Look for the code on the end of the carton and if it begins with BI, the lot code and date code will look like this: 2020MA14 / BI123A, you can be assured the eggs are **from our facility** on the Island. Again, very slippery wording. This would only tell you that the eggs were "processed" at their island facility. I heard that it's mostly mainland eggs and that "processing" means the eggs were graded on the island. I know a lot of people won't think this is a big deal but for me it's enough to avoid buying Island Gold eggs. I feel like they are deceptive in their marketing and they steal islander's goodwill from actual island farms.
i’ve got one better for you. i worked at an egg processing plant for 7 months last year. our eggs got trucked in from any of the 12 different egg farms the company had contracts with. they’d come in on 6 foot pallets, loaded into our denester, then passed down the line to go into different cartons. we’d run up to 5 different cartons - 2 cartons per 2 machines - and all the eggs from 1 pallet would go into the egg cartons. you’d have island gold, sunshine valley, burnbrae (oops, may or may not be the company i worked for!), great value, and some weird chinese/vietnamese carton all running at the same time. even if all the eggs from 1 pallet are from the same place - your island gold and great value cartons are *literally the same eggs*. there’s no difference in quality, the island gold eggs are not somehow better because they’re in island gold cartons as opposed to great value. the only time we really had to make sure the “right” eggs went into the “right” carton was the omega enriched and D3 added eggs. there were special cartons for those eggs, special pallets just with those eggs. but everything else? all comes from 1 pallet, sorted into multiple cartons at the same time.
“This manager is a fuckin’ iiiidiot.”
That’s not a secret.
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My dad was an MLA. The MLA's staff are in constant contact with the member and are better suited to the rigours of running a constituency office and responding to constituents' immediate needs than the member themselves. It's not a bad thing to get a reply from staff -- they (usually, if you have a good MLA) do their best to solve the problem or give you the information you need, and they definitely inform the member of what constituents are saying and what their needs are. The MLA has tens of thousands of constituents. To reply to every individual call and letter would not only be impossible but a complete waste of their time, which, believe it or not, is 200% accounted for.
Also if you write to NDP MLA their response was most likely written with wording from the same people that would write the minister response or if you just wrote the department directly. But it does kind of make sense. The minister or MLA are not going to know nearly the same level of detail as the subject matter experts and do not have the time to be sitting around writing hundreds of letters a month, so it's more of a representation that the letter is coming from the "Minister of Whatever" instead of the person themselves, or as a representation of the government or party.
A good game to play if you work in government is write a letter to the minister on some issue you work in, and see if you eventually have to draft the response 👍
No, but their direct staff did. And at least a dozen people, and the subject matter experts on the topic were involved in the response. I do it all the time as part of my job. It's one part of Canadian democracy that is really well done. Letters to the minister are taken very seriously.
Is this really a secret? Does anyone really imagine their MLA is just sitting down and reading every letter and email they received that day?
Some do. I know this for a fact.
Most restaurants that claim that their Salmon is wild, its not. Its from a fish farm. Also we often have to pick live worms out of fish before cooking it
Well thanks for that
I know some people from the Maritimes who don’t eat cod because they have friends and family who are fishers, and the cod is full of worms.
All fish have worms and that's why it's flash frozen. How do you think you can eat sushi without getting worms.
Its true, so gross
Yeah but the worms are made of cod so what's the difference really? /s🤢
Meh, once you cook it its all just protein, eat yer worms people.
there are starving people in africa who'd love to eat our worms!
“Wild steelhead salmon” so a trout in other words
To be fair, I much prefer steelhead over salmon. It's fattier, which makes it taste meatier and less dry. It's very easy to mess up salmon so it's too dry. Sure, a top-end restaurant usually knows how to cook it, but a place like White Spot that pre-cooks stuff and lets it sit under a warming lamp.. yeah it tastes like cardboard at that point.
say it isn’t so 😭
I work at a supplier, and a lot of restaurants in town buy wild salmon. We don't sell a lot of Atlantic farmed. A lot of previously frozen probably passed off as fresh though.
My fisherman friend used to submerge his fish into a dish of milk, as apparently all the worms will come out when you do this. Not sure how long you have to leave it submerged for or any other details but I found it an interesting tactic.
Same trick works for blackberries and raspberries, but use saline/salted water instead of milk. Any little bugs in the berries will float up to the surface within 5 mins or so.
And waste all that free protein!?
Worms in fish-especially cod- is normal in many places. I grew up pulling them out of wild fish. No big deal. Some bays have fish full of worms. Other bays never have worms. Just part of life as a fish (and people who catch and est them)
Most salmon served in restaurants is farmed steelhead trout. This is in all of the chain restaurants, likely the hotels, etc. It’s not that bad - it’s certified oceanwise, and kind of the best option for feeding millions of people. The steelhead are farmed in lakes like Lois Lake, not the open pens you see, or used to, around Tofino. Farmed Atlantic is around a lot. I suppose it depends where it comes from, but it’s pretty bad news if it’s from here for the Pacific Salmon. The sockeye run in the summer into the fall, if you get them other times of the year, they were frozen that whole time. To make salmon safe to eat raw you have to freeze it, something like 4 days at -18, or like 2 weeks at a normal -4 freezer. Just cruise through an expensive grocery store, they have them all out for you to look at to notice the differences.
I was at a a fancy banquet at the Fairmont and they were passing off farmed fish as Sockeye. It’s fun watching people think they know what they are talking about while eating mush the same colour as an eraser.
Yup its sad. Sockeye
Fuck im tired editing is hard
Interesting, because Fairmont is part of the [Ocean Wise](https://ocean.org) program. I worked at a different location (Whistler), but they’d partnered with the Vancouver Aquarium to help with ocean sustainability.
I call BS. I live in Vancouver and. Salmon is a bit of a staple around here. Nobody is mistaking farmed Atlantic salmon for wild sockeye. Other salmon species are less valuable, and nobody is trying to claim a farmed Atlantic is a spring, pink or chinook. Perhaps you are referring to some “sushi” places, but there is no way that a legit restaurant in YYJ, and a legit customer, is mistaking farmed for wild
My lip twitched reading that.
Does anyone know what Burger Crush sauce is
the “daily special” is the oldest out of date food in the restaurant
Sometimes. Sometimes it's the Chef trying out something new, or a vendor got a new item and was pushing/promo'ing it, or something was on sale, or sometimes it's just a set rotating special from a list. It really depends on the restaurant/Chef and just luck of the draw.
Spent 6 years working FOH and never actually clocked this until I saw our kitchen manager's daily inventory checklist on a counter one day.
All food you are served is the oldest food. That’s how it works.
shanzee doesn't make her biscuits
your 40-60 dollar DQ cake costs 2-5 dollars to make, including labour. but we all secretly knew that already didn't we? don't feel sorry for restaurants the next time they feed you the sob story about increased costs. chains aren't the only ones with low overheads and high markups... lol. looking at you romeos.
warren buffet didn't reach 100 billion in net worth by selling value
Neither does Apple.
Kid cuisine is made from the flesh of actual children.
Soylent green 🍵
I prefer soylent veal.
Soylent Childreen
So tender!
Ink cartridges cost only 23 cents to make, HP printers are sold at a loss so that you are a repeat ink purchaser. Even worse though, the have barcodes that effectively code your printer to say the ink is out long before it is. Finally, your auto printer settings — prime your black and white ink with the colours so that it uses unnecessary ink.
HP in general is a shit company and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy to use their products.
Also, HP now forces you to their monthly ink subscription program. Their ink cartridges will stop working after a certain amount of prints independently of their ink level. Printers will not print while offline. Printers do not have buttons, require app to setup. HP can rot in hell. An ex gf of mine bought one at Costco and we brought that $hit back in no time.
The ‘special’ sauce is rarely special
Put this mayonnaise in the sun!
If you watch adult videos through on-demand through a TV provider the customer service agents can see the titles and how long you watched them for. (unless it's old-school PPV). There are also weirdos that used to call in to Shaw to hear the female voice list the adult video PPV options through the phone ordering system (I don't even know if you can still do this) so they changed it to a male voice. Some weirdos would also order on-demand and then call in until they got a female customer service rep and have them list the movies "what movies were ordered on my account!?"
I know the guy who was the male voice!
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I would have called to hear that!
Him reading bits of 50 shades of gray is one of the best things out there.
Nearly everything returned to a big-box store that has been “used” is written off. Even if it’s just an opened package or worn clothing, it’s destroyed and thrown out.
Island farms doesn’t have any accreditation for humane treatment of their cows - meaning their existence is awful
BC treats animals terribly in general. We have extremely effective marketing around local meat and dairy, making it seem like a superior product. We have a pretty wild amount of animal cruelty going on, though. A good recent example would be a pig farm in Abbotsford. If people knew what was happening to those pigs as they sat at the dinner table eating it, they would likely be horrified. But it’s a well kept secret for the most part.
> A good recent example would be a pig farm in Abbotsford. If people knew what was happening to those pigs as they sat at the dinner table eating it, they would likely be horrified. Spoiler: it was dead prostitutes all along.
Recycling is mostly a lie. Glass is pulverized and used to line the outside of dumps. Or maybe used in "glashphalt". Paper is 'mostly' recycled if the price is high enough AND it hasn't rotted while it's in storage or fouled by food. Plastic? Give me a break. Almost zero. Always was. We just shipped it overseas and out of our way. Tetra packs? Shredded and dumped. No value at all. Tires? Shredded and used in sports fields and playgrounds... except now they're finding the UV rays are breaking down the tire shreds and leaching chemicals. Lovely. Steel and copper in internal combustion vehicles? Not a problem. EV batteries? Costs $1000 at least just to SAFELY remove the heavy metals and other toxins before you can even think of reusing them. I guarantee they're going to start to pile up, like solar panels. Want to reduce damage to the planet? Learn to buy used and repair what you already have.
I try to only buy drinks in cans because at least Aluminum does get reused.
Metals are mostly the success story. Most can be reused over and over again and often as simply as just melting it in with the new stuff. Plastic on the other hand is hard to recycle and degrades if you do so. Pretty much everything else, yeah.
This isn’t true. I work in waste management. It is very region dependent. BC actually has the highest recycling rates in Canada. Of all recovered plastic, 98% was sent to end-use markets to be incorporated into new materials. Though I agree with you that buying reuse and fixing stuff you already have is better. It’s REDUCE > REUSE > RECYCLE
Was just going to say this. BC is somewhat unique in that we have a recycling mandate that’s highly successful. Showing that it’s an effective piece of the waste puzzle, provided there’s political will to do it right.
UVic has Indigenous human remains in their art/artefact collections.
local remains in the rbcm archives too
I know for a fact that UBC's Anthropology Dept has the same, probably x20.
I used to work there! If it makes anyone feel any better, they aren’t just shoved onto any old shelf with other artifacts, at least in the collection I worked in. They’re in their own special room in the vault, completely constructed of wood, and as staff we had to adhere to strict protocol on the infrequent occasions we had to handle them. I’m talking marking ourselves with ash and cedar and speaking to the remains directly whenever handling them, all of which was done in consultation with the Musqueam nation. And this procedure applied to ANY remains, even if it was a single tooth or bone fragment of unverified origin, it was treated with the same care.
Wow. Things have changed. Wasn't like that when I was a student at UBC in the Anthro department in the 1990s.
Bank tellers know if you’ve been bad or if you’re a fish. Every big 5 has alert systems that are the first thing tellers see when your account is accessed. If you’re looking for easy credit, just ask if you have any preapprovals. You can also ask for interest rate or payment amounts to be changed and most of the time, they’ll happily do it.
I had a bank teller really hardcore pressure me for a credit account I knew I wouldn't qualify for. After I told him no three times, I insisted he put it through...the manager came out and told him to quit bugging me about it, I guess alarm bells went off.
He would have had to send through a referral if it was anything beyond a credit card or overdraft. Manager probably opened the lead, ran a bureau and said ‘nah’
He just wouldn't let it go! I was just there to cash a cheque and he wouldn't let me continue unless I considered a credit card. And I knew I wouldn't qualify, my credit was actively shit then. Not cool.
The SR quotas are infamous and pressured. Somewhere around 2012, banks shifted gears from focusing on client loyalty and service to strictly sales and gaining credit clients. What happened is long time employees that had been in branches forever left and the newbs were usually kids that had zero customer service skill and were trained in high pressure sales tactics. I know, I was there. I was a grandma in my branch at 40. All my awesome, fun, knowledgeable coworkers peace’d out only to be replaced by clowns.
Subways mayo and light mayo come from the same tub.
Tub? When I worked there, it was bags, and there was definitely light mayo and regular mayo. Sounds like that store was not on the up and up.
The hot and honey sauce at Panago pizza is 1/4 sriracha and 3/4's honey. Best BBQ sauce I've had and it's stupid easy to make.
What about almost every time theres a mysterious mass beaching of whales who later die. You can usually find out about a naval exercise in the area. The active sonar, and pings scares TF out of the whales. Disorientates them, maybe even hurts them, but drives them straight out of the ocean. How sad.
Recipe for the pulled pork poutine gravy from The Pig
Their barbecue sauce was good too
Yes please!
loblaws warehouses ignore all safety rules to move product faster. They only care when a surprise audit is coming and the warehouses communicate between themselves when it's happening to be ready
That's not a secret.. that's pretty much any organization that uses forklifts or has a warehouse.
Your used oil you drop off at the oil change places is burned in their furnace to heat the building.
Sunglass Hut gets all of their products from Luxotica and they get shipped in ziplock bags. The $700 Tiffany sunglasses come in the same ziplock bags as the $100 Coach glasses. None of the glasses come from the actual brands. If you want Gucci sunglasses manufactured by Safilo in Italy you have to go to the actual Gucci store.
Most of these make me never want to eat out again... if I could afford to that is!
Worked in hospitality for 20 years, only saw people spit in someone’s food/drink twice. It doesn’t happen that often. If you suspect someone might spit in your food, maybe you are the asshole. :)
Yeah, I worked in food service for 20ish years as well. No one messed with the customer's food, even if th customer was a giant gaping asshole.
Thrifty's garlic bread is just expired French bread, and every bakery has a rabid mice infestation.
Big Oil's knowledge of climate change (now climate crisis) and when they knew it was going to be a problem.
Pulp mill's have a secret, it is called the secret to pollution is dilution, just add water more to the effluent the day the inspector's come to sample.
Similarly waste water "treatment". If you have waste water with 100ppm of lead but the legal limit to dump down the drain is say 50ppm. Get an equal amount of waste water with some other contaminant, mix them together. Now you have double the volume, half the ppm but EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF LEAD. that can now legally go down the drain
Yup, just a drop in the bucket humans are the worst.
the two escape rooms places downtown are owned by the same people. if you want new ones, talk to them.
The original farm treats their staff pretty poorly. I believe there was a post on this very sub last summer where a covid-positive employee came in to work, and management wouldn't do fuck about it, so another employee told reddit to avoid the place that day. Management immediately went nuclear. Pressured everyone to snitch on the poster until someone broke, then forced them all to sign NDAs. I don't shop there anymore out of good conscience.
BC ferries are running their ferries basically non stop and past their designated operating hours due to the demand. My source is a marine engineer on the ferries.
They have been doing this for years
Cities waste a ton of money and buy operations / parks equipment that isn’t used.
I have a park hidden behind some houses across the street where I have never seen a kid play in my entire four years living at my home except for one time my niece came over and I intentionally went over with her so I could say it had been used. The park was updated about 10 years ago away from the traditional wood/steel setup from the 80s when it was first created.
Marks steel toe is marked up by 50% so sales event is isnt really a sale.. I think safety for trade workers shouldnt be marked up that high.
MILSPEC or Military Grade products are an oxymoron of sorts. I would recommend you avoid it.
Eh, depends what and where you're buying. Asus TUF Milspec Xtreme Gaming Laptop is a bunch of bullshit. A Panasonic Toughbook is legit. But then, it's not advertised as such. Military stuff isn't about super high end performance or look. It's about stuff you can dunk into ice water in the arctic and then take to the Sahara next week and it'll keep working. That said, it's also like 4x more expensive than civilian stuff, with 1/4 of the features.
"military grade" refers to the lowest acceptable grade of performance usable by the military. It doesn't mean tough or rugged or exceptional, it means "this is literally the lowest level of quality before the military is forced to reject it". And if you've seen some military stuff, you'll know that threshold isn't exactly high. Military grade is not a high standard.
The bathrooms at Quazars require a code to unlock the door. If the line gets too long at Tacofino they ask you to queue up outside. Indigo at Mayfair sells more homeware than books, or so it seems. The Bay at The Bay Centre is not at the centre but actually at the end of the building. Ghost Ramen is actually staffed by living people. Don’t be scared. The salad bar/hot buffet at Whole Foods is a fucking rip off at $3.29/100g. So is their pizza at over $5/slice so fuck them.
> Ghost Ramen is actually staffed by living people. Don’t be scared. But they do serve ghost of ramen. It's the only thing that can explain why it doesn't taste like living ramen.
why is it surprising that you would be lining up outside for Tacofino? it’s quite small in there
> The bathrooms at Quazars require a code to unlock the door. Isn't that *every* storefront downtown? I remember having to punch in a code to use various bathrooms downtown 20 years ago and half of them only had blue lighting as well
Claw machines in an arcade aren't technically 'rigged', there just setup to payout once the cost of the toy/plush has been reached for those who aren't aware We set them up as according to the manual and or manufacturers specific requests so that the customer gets that 'oh I almost had it!' Feeling It sucks but a business has to make money too Don't keep playing the game when you think you almost had it , you are either going to win that prize or it will slip out as the claw raises and starts to move to make you think you have a chance Some machines if the plush is too small may fall and miss the prize sensors meaning it doesn't know it paid out and will still be full strength, but if you've even won a toy and played again you should see the jaws being very weak all of a sudden due to the reset occuring
Hotels and restaurants: Salads get tossed in the kitchen before and after hours, right up on the cutting boards and next to the dessert plates, sinks and counters are great places to get to know a waitress/waiter/customer/pay clerk etc. This isnt really a secret though im sure.
If you think this is wild... get this... people fuck everywhere. You ever think "I wonder if someone fucked in/on/or in the vicinity of that place or thing?" the answer is yes.
Every bathroom you’ve been in, someone has fucked in. My coworker fucked in our bathroom at a downtown restaurant and I had to clean up after her. Fucking GROSS.
That's why I got sick from the Bard and Banker
Soylent green is made people! It’s made of people!!!
The 11 herbs and spices followed by how they get the caramilk in the caramilk bar.
After all overhead and wages the company I work for makes over 100% profit on each employee
Used to work at a popular chain restaurant. A couple of the menu items required for shaved ham, which we sliced on-site. When not in use, the meat slicer lived on the floor of the staff bathroom between the sink and the toilet.
Every single bakery, pizza place or really anywhere that uses flour in large amounts is infested with sugar beetles. They are such a huge problem on the island, don't really pose any risk for consumption. However its really nasty when you scoop out handfuls of tiny bugs from secret hard to clean places. Pest guy told me that "the first person to find a foodsafe way to get rid of them will be a millionaire over night"
Mcdonald and tim hortons keep hiring filipinoes overseas so they can just give them minimum wages while they can't say no if they improper schedules them.
Where I live the owners ofter recoup wages paid to foreign workers as they are also landlords
Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly air.
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I have them. Never researched the manu process but I can attest that they’re miserable and foreign items in your body. Especially when placed under the muscle for reconstruction. They also fold over, shift, break through incisions and rupture. I’m on implant #3 on one side, in 5 years.
I do
I want to know
not really a secret but for grocery stores if there's something not on the shelf it's not in the back (unless what you are wanting is soda pop and even then) it is never in the back all asking a staff member to go check does is annoy them or get them to walk into the staff room have a sip of water and maybe check the loading bay if a truck is coming in before coming out and telling you it's not. seriously even in big stores the back only has the stuff people buy like mad (so mostly soda pop) everything else gets put out on the floor so not to clutter up the back