Secrets of your trade.

maybe deliberately wrote something controversial and is now trying to wriggle out of it. You thought it would be funny to say “smoothies don’t have fruit in them” - admit it.

@MaybeIAmUngrateful

Still makes no sense
Sti nonsense

The factories that make 100% no added anything (not guilty) smoothies don't have any fruit in them

So that ^ was all one long sentence relating to the factories, I get it, butnits very misleading, because they do have fruit, in mushed (smoothies) form, so I don't understand why you made the statement,because it does sound like there is no fruit going in the bottles (if you read it back again)
and the mixture they're made of is flammable
That you call it a 'mixture' rather than a puree (smoothie) again misleading language that would suggest it's not fruit, but a flammable ..... mixture^

Try again to get across what you are trying to say

I didn't say the smoothies didn't have fruit, I said the factories don't.
By the time it gets to us where we make the finished product and bottle it, it has already been processed. We make many other bottles drinks.

People assume when i say I make those that Ian handling actual fruit and I'm not.

I've explained it wrong.

Treating job applicants like merchandise is quite the shit show though isn't it.

I thought it was common knowledge the whole 'buy an Award scam'

Nevertheless, worth spreading around for any that didn't already know what a whole heap of fraudulent tripe it is!

Amazing that some come up with such bollox just because reasons!! What a load of old shite . What is up with some people that would do that?

The one about dental practices etc effectively paying for awards makes me think of that poetry anthology in which the work of every child who enters is published. The parents pay £12 a pop not realising that everyone's a winner!

I used to work as a recruiter and I saw some utterly unethical behaviour... They would tell candidates that they were sending their CV off to the client for a job, but really we were only allowed to send 3 and we would quickly send our full quota. By telling other people their CV was being submitted, it made the candidate refuse to allow any other agency to represent them for the same job. So we were basically trying to fuck up the competition from making a placement...the candidates were just collateral. I don’t think candidates realise recruiters are just salespeople.

Part of my job is as a school attendance officer.

We begrudge sending letters and inviting parents to meetings when attendance is over 95% but below the expected target but are pushed to do it by management. Schools are under so much pressure re attendance.

Some cases are just totally draining and never improve - and usually with those cases every sibling has been the same. Poor attendance and poor outcomes in Y11.

There is some satisfaction in issuing a penalty notice to a parent who has not engaged at all and there is no legitimate reason for their child to not attend school regularly. Even more so when following this the child's attendance significantly improves (which it very often does) and as a result the progress they make in school.

Also satisfaction in catching people out lying - eg. Supposedly ill but actually on holiday. It is usually other parents or students that 'snitch' on them despite our local community being strongly anti 'snitches'. Often it's because they've put photos etc on social media. Or because when you phone them they've left their phone on and we get the international ring tone.
We respect people when they've been honest. Some holidays are authorised depending on the circumstances and we genuinely try to be as fair as we possibly can.

I agree with @Mmmmbrekkie, and yes @Smotheroffive, it is a slur-
like saying McDonalds burgers don’t have beef in them- have you ever seen cows out the back?!

She’s talking BS. Just ignore her

Big containers of liquid would surely be all the pulped fruit for bottling?!

Why would you try to say something so inflammatory (scuse the pun), but its quite a slur, and I'm still not believing it.

I love the thought of a strawberry factory that takes in tonnes of strawberries, then send strawberry mulch on to further factories!!!

Presumably what you mean is that there are several factories - some that peel and blend actual fruit, and some that mix it into smoothies.

So what are you saying?

1. the factories have no actual whole fruit on site?
2. the smoothies don’t contain fruit in any shape or form?

I've worded it wrong.

People seem to think that the smoothies are like the smoothies you make at home but on a larger scale.

Big containers of liquid arrive at the factory and the smoothies are made from that

@needthisthread I don’t think the poster who’s talking about smoothies understands basic manufacturing processes or indeed labelling laws

I read it as there’s no actual fruit in the factory, just various concentrates/pulps etc.

Innocent smoothies are all fruit aren't they?

Director of a philanthropic foundation. Will probably go down in flames for this but......

Whilst it's a popular viewpoint, it's very simplistic to say that big charities = inefficient and waste money on overheads whilst small charities are super-impactful because they spend a higher percentage of money on beneficiaries. "Overheads" include costs of things like research, advocacy and data collection/ monitoring/ managing partnerships (often with small grassroots organisations). Also, small charities get away with low overheads largely because they're small. You can get away with no HR/ accounting function and using gmail/ google drive as your email system/ server when you've got income of 10k - not so much when you've got income of 10 million. Most charities leave it far too late to put in a basic organisational skeleton in place as they grow (which can really limit their growth and impact) and that's largely due to funders being unwilling to fund pretty essential things like IT systems because everyone wants to pin their name to a programme.

There are good and bad charities of all sizes. However, it's hard to become a big charity if you're utterly shit and cant execute a programme reasonably competently. My advice - forget about what they spend the money on and look at the impact on beneficiaries in terms of outcomes (what change did they bring about for those beneficiaries) and ability to bring about systemic change (i.e. is their model affordable at scale and does it build local capability in respect of international development programmes?).

@theyvallgone that made me tear up

Stonemill3 Probably because the strippers who were good on the pole don't need to come for beginners lessons?

Pole at work in a strip club is completely different to pole fitness, you don't need to be good at pole to earn money, in fact, it can often be a hinderence having to go on stage so loads of dancers avoid it. Personally, I enjoyed it, but I came from a dance background and I liked performing tricks and inverts.

*If your dentist has a certificate on the wall with an award for
‘ best dental practice 2018”
Or “ most caring dental team “ or suchlike ,

These are awards in which the dentist PAYS to nominate themselves, they take a table at the “awards dinner” costing up to £100 a head :the dental press are there taking photos.
The “judges” will have never even met the dentist or been to the practice*

This is similar to the “awards” ceremonies going around the UK just now, everyone nominates you, you get invited to a dinner where you pay a fortune, and all go home with something. Hair salons and fitness and the ones who get stung with this!

You practically pay for an award for yourself , and hand this company a meaty profit for a certificate! It’s a scam.

I teach pole dance. Every stripper that’s come for lessons has found it way harder than the average beginner, and I can’t recall many with co-ordination. I do find it interesting as our industry stems from theirs.

A nod to the pleasers over here too. Best work shoes ever

Dense, partially dried fruit sludge would be very flammable.

But they poster said there was NO fruit