Dohnuts
I used to work for a food factory making dohnuts amongst other confectionery products. We used to dump 3 skips with off dohnuts away each day, im talking well over 2 tons of dohnuts. The problem was - there was hardly anything wrong with these. some had slight design faults, some had missing iceing etc. Ok 1 or 2 had been on the floor of an ultra hygenic factory. What a waste.. they could be given to people who were starving, but no, we dumped them in a huge skip after weighin them to calculate the loss.

I also used to work in a well known highstreet car/bike shop. Its name rhymes with halfords... because thats its name. We used to build bikes at xmas for the parents so the parents could pick them up on xmas eve and stash it at home without thier kids knowin. The things is most of the bikes were scratched /chipped/ dinted /seats ripped to fuck. The way they were stored meant they clanged together at every opportunity. We used to cover them up with card board when handing them to the customers as if they had been stored in that manner. We knew few parents couldnt take the bike off the child the next day to take back to father xmas.

in some cases - in the really bad cases you could find me round the back with a can of car spray paint - 'fixing' a scratch with a close match for the paint... which if you have ever worked with paint before will know if its not an exact match stands out and looks awful.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 3 Oct 2007, 11:35, Reply)