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xeemzor

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Mar 27, 2005
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Auditors are utterly terrible at catching all but the most obvious fraud. Most large companies are audited by people just barely out of college and with no real experiance.

Good luck investing!
 

Scotteq

Diamond Member
Apr 10, 2008
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4. Restaurant food freebies, improved service, & better quality: Develop a relationship with the waiters & cooks at your favorite restaurants. Working in the food industry is stressful & typically crappy, but having nice regulars who tip well & actually talk to you = bonus points. You usually get hooked up with freebies (especially if you go to sushi bars!) & better service + better quality of food. You don't have to tip a million dollars, but a couple bucks over normal basically gives you VIP treatment because that's a direct benefit to your server. You are taking care of them, so they will take care of you. And knowing the person you usually deal with at a restaurant makes you a familiar face, so they learn what you like, make sure you have a consistently good experience, etc.

This may sound silly from a high-level perspective, because visiting a place often & tipping a couple extra dollars usually isn't a gamechanger in any other industry, but again, as a food industry worker you're usually busy all day & not paid well, so having someone give you some positive attention & throw a little bonus in your tip is always welcome & instantly pushes you to the top of the priority list because that can make a BIG difference in someone's day, especially if they've been shorted on tips & had mean customers all day long.
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Also: CASH TIPS ARE BEST. Seriously: Guys, if you're going to cultivate a restaurant... {Not a bad idea for anyone with an active dating life}. Make a point of tipping in cash when you can. The staff will notice, and will remember you for it.
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Also: CASH TIPS ARE BEST. Seriously: Guys, if you're going to cultivate a restaurant... {Not a bad idea for anyone with an active dating life}. Make a point of tipping in cash when you can. The staff will notice, and will remember you for it.

Yup definitely - a server seeing dollar bills on top of the receipt & remembering your face is +1. That goes straight into the pocket instead of having to be processed at the register too. And it's always nice having a repertoire at your favorite restaurants. I have food allergies, so it's nice going to my favorite BBQ place or sushi place & knowing I'll be taken care of without having to deal with a noob everytime, haha.
 

theevilsharpie

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Nov 2, 2009
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In government contracting, projects of any appreciable size need to be put out to bid. The requirements for the bid are spelled out in a thick document known as a Request For Proposal, or RFP. These RFPs are carefully written so that only certain pre-selected products/vendors will qualify, and the product vendors themselves will provide architectural and engineering specifications that can be copied and pasted into the RFP. The government department that originated the bid request is usually in on it as well.
 

Phoenix86

Lifer
May 21, 2003
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go to a better shop, most shops use a database like AllData for how long a job is so they can bill you properly. if they take longer you save money if the tech is faster it benefits them.
And those databases flag hours never equal the actual hours. Rarely does something take longer.
 

LevelSea

Senior member
Jan 29, 2013
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The cheapest wine at a restaurant is usually higher quality than the next to cheapest.
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
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The majority of makeup and cosmetics that cost a large amount of money are usually little better than the less expensive stuff. You're usually paying for an extra shiny, sparkly cardboard box designed by a capable graphic designer.

Most hand bags that cost thousands are practically identical to ones that can be hand for $100. The 1000% markup comes from stamping a logo on it.
 

brainhulk

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2007
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The majority of makeup and cosmetics that cost a large amount of money are usually little better than the less expensive stuff. You're usually paying for an extra shiny, sparkly cardboard box designed by a capable graphic designer.

Most hand bags that cost thousands are practically identical to ones that can be hand for $100. The 1000% markup comes from stamping a logo on it.

Oh man, I bought the wifey a Louis Vuitton bag last year. That makes me sad...
 

Cheesemoo

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Jun 22, 2001
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This is actually my wife's who is an optometrist. When she first started out she used to work for this incredibly cheap old guy. One time the prescription she wrote was questioned by him because she did not cut it. I asked her why the fuck he would do that. She said his reasoning is people get a headache from getting the full prescription. I called bullshit and she said yeah...he needs people to come back more often because there isn't alot of margin in the business. So pay attention if the final prescription you get isn't as clear compared to what they got you to on the refractor, they are jipping you

OK let's see yours

So what your telling me is that I should keep an eye on my optometrist?

:awe:
 

RagingBITCH

Lifer
Sep 27, 2003
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For the major hotels, there's no difference in price from Travelocity to Hotels.com to the supplier's website, as rate parity requires them to have all the same prices. If you see a lower price, it's normally an independent hotel, or someone doing a no-no and violating trade agreement. Advanced purchase (IE, prepayment) normally saves 5-20% depending upon hotel and chain. If you are staying for a funeral, most hotels have a bereavement rate, but expect karma to fuck you over if you're just looking to save XX%.

Front desk agents can upgrade your room - all you have to do is smile, be polite, and ask nicely. Depending upon availability and occupancy, won't always work. For free, you can upgrade a level of room type. If you slip a $20 in with your license/CC (ie, the old Vegas check-in trick, but at any hotel), at a full service hotel you'll normally get bumped up to an Executive floor or some comp breakfast coupons. All depends upon the hotel, but the front desk agents have some of the most loveless jobs available - some angry travelers pissed off about their flight, cab ride, etc and it gets taken out on them. Having someone being nice to them and slipping them a tip and they'll take care of you.
 

Mandres

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Auditors are utterly terrible at catching all but the most obvious fraud. Most large companies are audited by people just barely out of college and with no real experiance.

Good luck investing!

This one is true, and shameful. Professional auditing is a joke - a carefully walked tightrope of covering your bases while not pissing of the client who is paying you.
 

Humpy

Diamond Member
Mar 3, 2011
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Auditors are utterly terrible at catching all but the most obvious fraud. Most large companies are audited by people just barely out of college and with no real experiance.

Good luck investing!

I don't think that is really a secret. Auditors aren't really hired for the goal of detecting fraud.
 

Born2bwire

Diamond Member
Oct 28, 2005
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Timmy is all about risks.
He braved Hurricane Katrina, plays RISK solo, risks getting banned from websites constantly, and takes the risk of dying alone.
He's Captain Risk.

And he accepted a job offer from Google! He totally rockzorz the internetz!
 
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This one is true, and shameful. Professional auditing is a joke - a carefully walked tightrope of covering your bases while not pissing of the client who is paying you.

From what I've noticed, once you are at any "management" level, you stop actually working/caring about the audit and worry more about the client and finding the next job. Moreso on the latter
 

xeemzor

Platinum Member
Mar 27, 2005
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I don't think that is really a secret. Auditors aren't really hired for the goal of detecting fraud.

Audits are near useless and auditors suck at finding material misstatements in general, fraud or not. Heck, all clients sign a representation letter that basically says the audit firm doesn’t really provide any sort of guarantee over its work. It is also almost impossible to sue audit firms unless there is serious misconduct, which does happen due to the lack of work experiance at all big accounting firms.

There is a reason that almost all fraud and major misstatement is reported by whistleblowers and not auditors.
 

fire400

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Nov 21, 2005
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are you saying you can just make up a coupon over the phone? eg, "i gotta coopawn fo' a large one toppin' fa six dollas"? i highly doubt that, i think most coupons have codes, and they ask for the coupon when you pay. you might get away with that once, if they already cooked your pizza but i doubt you could do that every time you order

rant on behalf of pizza delivery...

can't verify that other stores actually "record" it, versus, just testing the customer "can you give me the code" and inserting it into an adaptive predetermined coupon system (nearly impossible with the crappy programming interface).
however, this was never truly an issue for our area, since i delivered to one of the richest cities in the state, upper middle class region.

most people in our area ordering pizza didn't care what they paid for, so no one took advantage of this, realistically.

and last but not least, the interface on the computers do not track marketing coupons as well as large retailers.

no one on the inside cared enough to actually go out of their way to verify every single coupon, how fast paced the job was, and coupon codes are never redeemed upon delivery or at the register.

the convenience was to make sure customers got their orders processed quickly over the phone as to move onto the next customer.

of all the times i've delivered to dozens of hundreds of customers, no single customer has ever, not once, disclosed a coupon with credit card payments or cash/check or even asked if we needed a proof copy of any coupon(s).

if it's snowing, don't b!tch about the pizza being late. guess some people in minnesota don't drive enough in the snow to realize if they're dumb enough to "always" expect on time deliveries during a snowstorm, every single driver should drive fast in the tundra and risk their lives entirely for one customer (lol), which essentially is what drivers are doing in the winters.

fvck pizza hut, did the math with ratio to profit-income to car maintenance and repairs. it's a scam.

was a part time job for the hell of it, and it was the easiest job ever, except i didn't have night vision goggles (white snow reflection made it easier to navigate in the dark believe it or not). had an awesome car with an awesome after market sound system, 95% never applied the logo-topper on my vehicle (cop magnet; "here's someone we can fvck with..."), and almost got into a car accident only once (worst conditions; 0 degree unsinkable icy roads).

but i could be doing in-building remote access at a software deployment site for $18 an hour, 20 hours a week, installing VMware and deploying software with the press of a button, and still make more money than a driver doing 40 hours on minimum wage + tips, 'cuz all their money will someday go back into their vehicle; transmission ($500+), tires ($400), oil (25x1.5 months), gas (+5 gallons/day on economy car), etc.

$18 x 20hrs = 360/week

$360 x 4weeks = 1440/month

$1440 x 12months = 17,280

$17,280 x .83gov = 14342.4 average after taxes

roughly, 14K cash. won't make you rich, but it's better than bein' someone's delivery-b!tch.
 

drebo

Diamond Member
Feb 24, 2006
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What, you mean that pizza delivery is a job for kids driving their parents' car? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
 

drebo

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Also, if you say you're there to work on a company's computers or phone system and have any kind of tool that looks official (like a punch down tool or something,) virtually any small business will give you the keys to the kingdom and let you go anywhere and do anything. You could pick up a computer, walk out with it, and say you are taking it back to fix it. You could grab their server and go. Most won't question or even ask for documentation.
 

Baptismbyfire

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In government contracting, projects of any appreciable size need to be put out to bid. The requirements for the bid are spelled out in a thick document known as a Request For Proposal, or RFP. These RFPs are carefully written so that only certain pre-selected products/vendors will qualify, and the product vendors themselves will provide architectural and engineering specifications that can be copied and pasted into the RFP. The government department that originated the bid request is usually in on it as well.

May I ask what field you work in?
 
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