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TIL Quakers invented the price tag. They were invented because Quakers viewed haggling as immoral since different people paid different prices for the same item. This innovation actually made retail more efficient because employees needing less training and were able to serve more customers.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 1:18 am

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TIL Darius McCollum, a New Yorker diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, has been arrested over 30 times for impersonating transit employees, stealing trains and buses, and driving their routes – complete with making safety announcements and passenger stops.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 11:45 am

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TIL the reason for the signs that say “$10 if we fail to give you a receipt” at stores. They aren’t for receipt-obsessed customers, they are there to keep the employees from stealing. If employees don’t ring up your purchase and generate receipt, the employee could just put cash in their pocket.

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 3:11 pm

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TIL higher-ups at McDonald’s once created a ‘McResource’ page for their minimum-wage employees. The page included advice on how much they should be tipping their personal trainers, massage therapists, and pool cleaners.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 4:34 pm

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TIL in 1989, a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid held two Domino’s employees hostage at gunpoint for over five hours. This incident has been insinuated to have caused Domino’s Pizza to discontinue advertising using the Noid as their mascot, however, Domino’s has since brought back The Noid as of 2011.

by whatilearned June 8, 2022, 6:50 pm

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TIL A Japanese company has actually awarded it’s non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 1:56 pm

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Escape Room employees, what’s the weirdest way you’ve seen customers try and solve an escape room?

by QuestionGuy May 9, 2022, 6:30 am

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Elon Musk Asks Twitter Employees their Pronouns and Fires those who Answered

by CopyPastaArchive April 27, 2022, 1:50 pm

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TIL The Dominoes “Noid” Mascot Was Discontinued After a Man With the Same Name Kidnapped Employees and Later Killed Himself

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 4:08 am

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TIL of ‘Truck Wages’ or ‘Company Scrip, where an employer will pay employees in company minted money that is only redeemable in company owned stores. It is referenced in the sea shanty ‘Wellerman’ and the last company to get sued for using it was Walmart Mexico.

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 1:02 pm

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TIL South of the Border in South Carolina, just south of the North Carolina border, is a faux-Mexican themed tourist attraction. The mascot is a caricature of a Mexican bandido named Pedro. All South of the Border employees, regardless of race, are referred to as “Pedro”

by whatilearned April 6, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL The US Embassy in Moscow was blasted with a microwave transmitter from 1953 to 1976 and a Spanish 2019 study found that “Moscow embassy employees in 1976 had a higher cancer mortality rate than the general population and a worse health status than Europe’s embassy employees overall.”

by whatilearned March 26, 2022, 2:27 am

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