10. Everybody who’s ever been here needs to sue:
Ruby Falls is fake. Their waterfall is pumped in. It’s artificial. The formations are paint and plastic and styrofoam or occasionally purchases from other caves halfway across the country. They lie about the height of the falls. Like not a little exaggeration, they claim it’s almost twice as high as it is. Most of the stories your tour guides tell you are made up. Unless they have gray hair their funny quips about past tours are mostly bs. The employees are not told any of this and have to piece it together on their own. A lot of management legitimately doesn’t know. The tour guides know and don’t care, the ones that do care quit. They threaten to sue employees who ever reveal any of this EVEN TO FELLOW EMPLOYEES!
Edit: My inbox is blowing up with people telling me about the Wikipedia article. I know. That edit was made as a result of this post.
9. Hint: u/zack_bauer123 is talking about Walmart.
I worked at a certain big-box store several years ago. At the time, it had a yellow smiley face for it’s logo. Now it is a weird star thing.
Anyway, every Christmas, they would put out a bin for customers to donate toys, clothes, etc. to low-income children.
Everything that went into that bin went back on the shelf. If it didn’t have a receipt attached, we “couldn’t prove it have been purchased.” If it had a receipt, we were supposed to make sure it fell off.
Don’t donate anything at that store.
8. GUESS I’M NEVER GOING TO PETSMART EITHER.
The first thing you do every day at PetSmart is dump the dead reptiles into the trash. We treated them as well as we could once they were in the store — given our fairly minimal resources — but they’re mistreated in transit and often die within a day of arriving at the store. We once reordered a chameleon three times because they kept dying. Everyone knew they were too delicate to transport, but head office wanted a chameleon in the store. Most employees aren’t aware of this, since management tries to sweep it under the rug, but I was the morning custodian.
The birds are also neurotic as hell due to sheer mind-numbing boredom, and the rodents bite because they’re unsocialized. Elderly hamsters get put in the back room, where they’ll never be purchased, because they make customers sad. At least in my experience, the employees genuinely try to take care of the animals, but it’s just not a good environment for them.
The cats are okay, though, since they’re not actually sold by PetSmart. The company just rents out display space to rescue groups and shelters. They’re mostly pretty happy and well cared for.
Some further disturbing pet store news:
Current PetSmart employee. The amount of “quiet” (dead) fish we have to throw out by the end of a single DAY is ridiculous. I don’t know how it isn’t alarming to customers, because we’re told to do it right in front of them. Also, I don’t understand why it isn’t allowed to socialize the animals. Nobody wants a hamster or any pet that is going to bite.
7. Ok, can we stop with the animal killing please?
Dupont killed off an endangered species in an area they wanted to expand. Then they laid off some folks who knew they were endangered, and magically the epa inspector didnt find anything, because they had buried up the pits and holes where the frogs had died
6. Is every company ever doing their part to destroy all living things?
When deisel fuel gets spilled in working water front they just spread dish soap. This sinks the fuel to the bottom, where it can’t be cleaned up, avoiding the rainbow slick, 10k fine, and a real clean up.