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  • Googlewhacker
    Googlewhacker Posts: 3,887 Forumite
    If I worked there I'd walk to work and turn up without a bag. That'd shove your Wheel of Fortune up your disposal chute.

    Presumably with pocketless clothing??? :)
    The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!

    If I give you advice it is only a view and always always take professional advice before acting!!!

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  • Elvisia
    Elvisia Posts: 914 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just get everyone to work naked, that way they are unlikely to be able to steal anything.

    I say unlikely because when I worked many years ago for the Disney Store we were always searched on our way out, after one lady was found, I kid you not, with plastic Disney figurines in her knickers.
  • teajug
    teajug Posts: 488 Forumite
    Presumably with pocketless clothing??? :)

    A friend of mine use to work in 'YOUR' well known store where they did searches all the time on staff and one day as she was getting into the lift to go for her break when she was stopped by a male and female managers they told her that they were doing a pocket search, she told them if they could find any pockets in her clothing they were welcome to do the search, she had no pockets. They told her to carry on for her break...
  • 1886
    1886 Posts: 499 Forumite
    At my place of work employees are only searched if the employer has reason to believe they are stealing etc. The employer does`nt just randomly search people unless they have cause. Not a very trusting lot are you
  • MrSnuggles
    MrSnuggles Posts: 156 Forumite
    teajug wrote: »
    A friend of mine use to work in 'YOUR' well known store where they did searches all the time on staff and one day as she was getting into the lift to go for her break when she was stopped by a male and female managers they told her that they were doing a pocket search, she told them if they could find any pockets in her clothing they were welcome to do the search, she had no pockets. They told her to carry on for her break...

    This is the part where a lesbian manager would take advantage and try to find any 'inside' pockets.
  • Emmzi
    Emmzi Posts: 8,658 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    MrSnuggles wrote: »
    This is the part where a lesbian manager would take advantage and try to find any 'inside' pockets.


    Really? No concept how offensive that is?
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  • st999
    st999 Posts: 1,574 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I used to work in a whisky bottling plant and one of the women who worked on the miniature bottling line used to smuggle out whisky miniatures concealed in her body.

    She was caught because one day when she finished working it was snowing and she slipped and fell on the ground and one of the bottles broke and cut her insides and of course the whisky stung her insides as well.

    When she got up in obvious agony, there was blood on the snow so of course she was carted off to the first aid room where the source of the blood was established.

    She never came back to her work.
  • teajug
    teajug Posts: 488 Forumite
    st999 wrote: »
    I used to work in a whisky bottling plant and one of the women who worked on the miniature bottling line used to smuggle out whisky miniatures concealed in her body.

    She was caught because one day when she finished working it was snowing and she slipped and fell on the ground and one of the bottles broke and cut her insides and of course the whisky stung her insides as well.

    When she got up in obvious agony, there was blood on the snow so of course she was carted off to the first aid room where the source of the blood was established.

    She never came back to her work.

    Where they brew Guinness, the employers gave a couple of pints of Guinness to staff every day, it is no wondered that all of them ended up being alcoholics. However, I suppose it was much better than some tat that you get supermarkets flog to staff at a reduced price.
  • Googlewhacker
    Googlewhacker Posts: 3,887 Forumite
    st999 wrote: »
    I used to work in a whisky bottling plant and one of the women who worked on the miniature bottling line used to smuggle out whisky miniatures concealed in her body.

    She was caught because one day when she finished working it was snowing and she slipped and fell on the ground and one of the bottles broke and cut her insides and of course the whisky stung her insides as well.

    When she got up in obvious agony, there was blood on the snow so of course she was carted off to the first aid room where the source of the blood was established.

    She never came back to her work.

    Ouch! I wonder if she sued them for the icey floor...most likely unfortunately.
    The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!

    If I give you advice it is only a view and always always take professional advice before acting!!!

    4 people on the ignore list....Bliss!
  • Googlewhacker
    Googlewhacker Posts: 3,887 Forumite
    teajug wrote: »
    Where they brew Guinness, the employers gave a couple of pints of Guinness to staff every day, it is no wondered that all of them ended up being alcoholics. However, I suppose it was much better than some tat that you get supermarkets flog to staff at a reduced price.

    Again, did Guiness get sued when some of them did become alcoholics?
    The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!

    If I give you advice it is only a view and always always take professional advice before acting!!!

    4 people on the ignore list....Bliss!
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