ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 13th June 2024

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

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Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe The perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod This is a spillover Little Bit of Pod today Because we had so many people Message in for our anonymous phone What was the naughty thing your workplace did

I know, so many Oh, this is good If you miss it in the big pod Or you're listening in a different order A it in the big pod or you're listening in a different order a girl in the UK revealed that her boutique clothing store

just got a big package from Shein Shein Shein cut off the labels stuck their own labels on boutique yep

probably charged like whereas it's cheap couple hundred pounds Chinese children made yeah yeah it's no good yeah

so we asked you what's the naughty thing your workplace is doing and we covered some of them and they just kept rolling in afterwards so here's a few more Cheap, Chinese children made. Yeah. Yeah. It's no good. Yeah. So we asked you, what's the naughty thing your workplace is doing? And we covered some of them and they just kept rolling in afterwards. So here's a few more. Yeah. And like some of them we know the businesses. Like we're not saying them. Yeah, we're not. We're leaving the names out of it.

And you're just like, far out. I worked for a popular cupcake shop. The coffee machine was plumbed into a bucket underneath. Their milk fridge was at the back of the store. The girls would reheat old milk that had been sitting on the bench since the last order and serve that one up. I quit four days in, so there's a few issues there. Yuck. Because you're only supposed to...

As much milk as you're going to use right then, eh? Yeah. If you've got a couple of flat whites on the go, you do a full jug. A bigger. Sort of situation. Oh my goodness. Where did that just go? Okay, worked at a pizza place.

Yeah. Asshole vegetarian customers got chunks of ham hidden inside their pizza bases. Don't be an arsehole. That simple rule is so bad. Are you hearing this, Cohen? Don't be an arsehole. That's the lesson here.

I don't think I've ever been an arsehole. I've heard you go into a pizza place and say Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi you animal eating pigs Wrong I order online because I don't like talking to people

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That's true That's true That's true workouts, your protein powders. I can guarantee if you walked in... If you bloody bridled into that shop. We have to go in sideways because your shirt is so messy. I can guarantee if you walked into that shop today, all of the stock for sale will be expired. The owner used to make us wipe the dates off the bottom with methylated spirits. People would buy the pre-workout,

it would be rock solid, they'd come back in and the owner would just blame the customer for leaving the product in the sun when it actually had expired months ago. Oh, that cheeky, cheeky, naughty bastard. Cheeky bastard. How bad, eh? You read that one? That was probably my favorite one, actually, about all the sweet treats.

Used to slice ends from the previous weeks, mix that with condensed milk, biscuit crumb and cocoa powder, bake it up. It was a nice, yummy icing. It was a nice, popular slice. What? I mean, I just don't. No. No. No. But that's like nothing dirty or filthy.

And that's how they make Kit Kats. The inside of the Kit Kat is mullied up Kit Kat. Yeah. I know. And I mean, it's not like it's been on the floor. They're not saying it's been on the floor. They're just saying that it's leftover slice. It was the left bits.

Yeah, it was the endy left bits. So that's actually probably quite genius, really. I used to work at a Food chain that has since gone into liquidation Where we'd have to pour simply squeezed Smoothies from their bottles Into our own bottles with our own labels on them It really wasn't a secret as most of the stores

Didn't have a back room so we had to do it at the front Of the counter and it was quite awkward Quite awkward Worked at a law firm, did you read this one? One of the partners of the law firm Used to use his work credit card to visit strip clubs so that his wife didn't find out and he just asked us to deduct it from his salary.

I used to work in an accounting firm and every five minutes of the day was chargeable to clients or the firm depending on what you were doing. After COVID, the firm decided to encourage us to charge our smokers and even some of the admin time to clients to try to claw back the money. Oh my God. They charge them out at 80 bucks, give them 35 whatever. So bad.

And then they keep the stuff on top. Oh my God, someone went to a Fiji resort and went to the shop at the resort to get another pair of togs. There was a black one-piece swimsuit for sale, $259. Look at the tag. And co.

That's Kmart. That'll be like 15 bucks. But because you're at a resort and you probably need them. Don't have a Kmart. That's right, yeah. They've got you. I used to work at a surf store and the owner got a whole bunch of Levi's super, super cheap jeans. Oh, the Levi's jeans, super, super cheap.

Took them to an alterations place, got them cut down to shorts and the Levi label taken off them. Put our shop's label on them, sold them four times what he paid for the jeans. Whoa. Wow. I mean, why wouldn't you just say recycled fashion or something? Yeah. Yeah.

That one we read about the meat being used in the sandwich. The coffee barista one annoys me. Oh, that's about the decaf one that we talked about. I used to work at a hot pools and they never cleaned the private spas and there was a lot of sexual stuff going on in there. Yeah, a lot of jizz in the filters there. Yeah, along with the sewage would overflow

into the main creek behind the pool. There were plenty of other things, but those were probably the worst two things. Oh no, it's a health emergency That's yuck Oh, have you read the dental practice one? No, please go ahead I worked at a dental practice where the boss made the staff go to work

Without paying them during COVID times He said the government was giving them a wage subsidy So he didn't need to pay anyone He later realised that what he did was illegal and made all of the staff sign an NDA. You can't be forced to sign an NDA if it's illegal. And paid everyone in supermarket vouchers. Off the books.

Whoa, that's so bad. That's illegal. That's naughty. There is a pet shop Somewhere And the owner has contracts with other stores and private breeders Where they breed dogs and cats to order And they swap them with other stores so it doesn't look dodgy

Oh, okay I used to work there I have notified the SPCA Oh, yeah But apparently the SPCA is too busy to deal with this. They're dealing with animal abuse rather than this sort of situation. That's why I adopt.

That's why I adopted. That's right. You did adopt. From a breeder. I rescued my cat. From a breeder. From a breeder. Some of these are so feral

we can't read it. Someone said, I've worked for a company that takes tourists' photos in front of green screens. The biggest ripoff in the world. The photos cost less than five cents to print, and they print every single photo. So then when you're walking out of the tourist attraction, they say, did you get a photo?

Groups of four are here. You look. And if you don't purchase, they tell you they recycle them, but they literally just throw them in the bin. Of course they do. The little cardboard cutouts that the photos get slid into are made in a Chinese sweatshop for less than 50 cents each, and they would sell them for $50 with 25 cents worth of photos in them. And how many people do you reckon feel bad because they're like, oh, my God, you've printed out photos?

Yeah. I feel obliged. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Although if it's a great photo of you, it never is a great photo, right? Because you know those ones when you're on a roller coaster and you're like... Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Although if it's a great photo of you, it never is a great photo. Because you know those ones when you're on a roller coaster

and you're like... Oh, yeah. Yeah. Somebody said, I looked into starting up my own hunting and fishing brand. Oh, yeah. And so I looked into like price margins and I found out some of the most expensive jackets

were costing like $600 upwards here. They were pretty much just being drop shipped with a different label on it. Yeah. $85 you could get them online. That's why when you look on places like Timu and those websites like AliExpress, it's so cheap, a lot of the stuff we buy. And it's just being rebadged.

Oh, yeah, totally. And sold with some marketing. I'm a clothing retail business owner and I know of a very well-established and trusted business down south who is buying in from Sheen, calling it their own label, changing the labels.

It makes me so angry and their huge following probably has no idea. Huge following? Wow. I just want to know so bad. Yeah. Almost all of the deli food that I ever dealt with was off the shelf.

Oh, not made in the kitchen? No, you could go and get a pack off the shelf because if it doesn't get sold before the end of the day, it's just going to be opened and tipped into the deli. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, some really naughty workplaces there, actually,

and it's really put me off of just leaving my house. Yeah. Ever. Did we talk about the spray tan one on here? Yes. Oh, did we? We talked about it between us, but I don't think we covered it on here. Oh, do it. Finish. The naughtiest thing my old workplace did was made us tan people with the

darkest fake tan colour we had because they couldn't afford the other tan shades and would always say, oh, the supplier's out of stock. We've got some on order. Right. So, we would have to tan brides who were getting married the next day in the darkest tan we had. Oh, that's

horrible. Because they refused to buy any other tans. You spend the morning like exfoliating yourself to death. I said this is a problem. Three weeks later they went into liquidation. And then you cancelled for blackface. Yeah. To your own wedding day. Producer Shannon, the final one to wrap

up. You used to work in a restaurant yeah same one as previously mentioned on the big pod yeah and we were a byo but quite a classy one not like the ones we like to go to so at the end of the night pretty much every time the bottle would still have about half of the wine in it they would never finish them off and my boss would make us go around each table and pick it up and identify if it was red or white and then find the house bottle for the night and just pour it straight in. So you were having Cab Merlot. It could have been any mixture of anything.

So the next night, the person that ordered red was just getting a king cup of red wine. It was literally a king's cup. From other people's BYO. And this was a super expensive restaurant in East Auckland. So I think the house would have been like 20 plus for a glass of wine. Oh my god. It was expensive and I was like 16 and I didn't

know anything. So sometimes I'd chuck a bit of rosé in between the both of them. I didn't know what I was doing. That's grim. Yeah, it was bad. That's really grim. Thank you for sharing.