What is something you know because of your job, that would surprise others? (My example is gross, thread warning!)

[Mrmen1100]

It can be anything!!

I will start..

I am a food safety inspector (local authority) and have been for over 15 years, working in two large cities, and my current job in a smaller local authority. The same theme...

Food handlers do NOT wash their hands properly after using the toilet / before preparing your food.. lack of antibacterial soap in a toilet cubicle or in a kitchen is common place.... even when I am there, hands are not washed, it is an absolute bug bear of mine.

Preparing with raw meat then handling food ready to eat.. not uncommon

Handling cash / touching screens then handling food.. not uncommon.

Yes it does put me off eating outside of my house unfortunately 🙃

I have come across a LOT worse but this example irritates me.

Your turn!!!!!

before we got the new kitchen, my kitchen was held together by duct tape for years.

Men will stick their dick into anything.

They also will shove all kinds of weird stuff up their asses, and we know it’s never an accident.

This is sad but not surprising. I rejoiced when my lovely vet upped and left a company that rhymes with 'Wet4Nets' a few years ago and set up his own practice with mismatched furniture and a tiny rented building. He's built it right up and does very well. Sadly I had to move away.

Conversely, THREE different vets (as in different practices)told me my dog wasn't in pain, over the last 6 months or so when I thought she was. Eventually we went to a behaviourist who agreed she was and prescribed anti-inflammatories. I've spent quite a bit of money on the process but the behaviourist told me that vets don't examine the animal properly, she noticed as she had me take the dog for a walk while she was with us. Why is it like that? Vets could indeed have got even more money out of me had they recognised that I was right.

My mother who was a nurse told us a story once about how a man came in with a tomato sauce bottle up his bum. She said that he explained earnestly how he had locked himself out of his house, and got in via the kitchen window and landed accidentally on the bottle.

She said he did NOT explain why he was naked at the time. Or why the tomato sauce bottle was wearing a condom.

There's a reason its called Jesus Tape in Finland - it performs miracles

too right!

wets4nets as you put it is a franchise arrangement and owned by vets and vet nurses in the main.

Unless your behaviourist is also a vet it’s illegal for them to prescribe.

seems a bit odd about the pain relief. Generally a pain relief trial course is indicated if it’s not immediately obvious in a consult which it often isn’t due to the adrenaline/distractions/nervousness of the dog and with the best will in the word if you’ve paid for a 10 min or 15 min consult sometimes that’s just not enough time for the dog to calm down enough to show subtle signs. Alas I wish they could tell us!

Aside from various butt plugs and dildos that went up too far, I’ve also seen a pint glass, and a Bicc biro in the bladder via the penis.

I’ve also helped remove intimate piercings from very ‘normal’ looking people, you really can’t judge most ‘average’ people by how they look.

Holy moly a pen in a bladder, I feel queasy!

sorry if this is a stupid question but can they not just poop these things out?

there are one or 2 badly designed butt plugs that have gotten sucked up by the booty, thankfully taking a num 2 managed to release one

Exactly. No different to them consulting a medical encyclopaedia.

I can't decided whether that's an improvement on the Mars bar wrapper.

It was an Egyptian specialist who performed my husband's open heart surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. The same gentleman replaced another patient's heart valves after the patient had been written off by both the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and Ninewells in Dundee.

Where are you ?
Antibiotics are only available on prescription in UK.

I was doing a stock-check in a hospital - there were (still are?) large losses of many items.
I was accompanied by a Senior Manager as we checked part of the Theatre area. There was a blood&gore-spattered Black & Decker type drill on a trolley, & I rather facetiously said "I hope the chippie is OK !"
S.M. said "Orthopaedics today".

That many police officers have not arrested anyone for a long time nor done any actual police investigation work - not for years in many cases. This is because they don’t do police work and shifts because they can get a weekday only 8-4 office job doing projects, training, backroom work etc. There are civilians who do this for much less pay but their jobs have been cut because the ‘number of bobbies’ is a political issue.

Approval or rejection of an application for a planning permission for any reasonable sized development always depends on politics and what council wants. If they want it approved, no amount of complaints and objections would make any difference. Equally, if they want something to be rejected, it will - even if it would be beneficial for the borough if approved.

Complaining about lack of parking or the size of the development is useless unless it goes against local and government policies (it rarely does, by the time its presented to the general public it usually been through several reductions in size already).

Another pharmacy one here.
Prescriptions are sent electronically from the prescriber to the dispensary, it is then made up and the claim for payment by the NHS to the pharmacy can only be claimed when the item is collected
Many people don't realise that some large chain pharmacies now have a "hub and spoke" model which means they need fewer pharmacists and dispensers in stores. An area will have a hub which is a very large dispensary, prescriptions are sent electronically to there, the medications are dispensed and sent out fully made to the local branches who have very little stock and minimal staff, just enough to deal with the trade that walks in. Patients think their medication is made there by their local pharmacist but it often isn't.
If a patient doesn't collect a medication from an independent pharmacy, the drugs are returned to stock and the NHS does not pay for that prescription. I have been told by someone working in one of these hubs that one large company claims from the NHS when the medication leaves the hub rather than when the patient collects it. This means that if one of the patients at this large multiple doesn't collect their medication, which happens more often than you think, the NHS has already paid and the drugs are destroyed.
They claim they cannot guarantee safe storage despite the fact it goes from their hub to their climate-controlled vans to their pharmacy and the same in reverse. They are taking millions of pounds of NHS funds and wasting large amounts of medication to boost their own profits if that is correct

I worked in a prison . One came in with a Stanley knife wrapped in cling film and tape up his bum .

I don't think it's that it was written for those with a reading age of 9 or whatever, it's that analysis of the reading age of the Sun is that it's 9. I just looked it up and the reading age of the Guardian is 14. Go figure.

Yes, when I present the prescription, the pharmacist asks if I'm okay with a generic. I always say, no, I want the brand.

I can't recall who was in post at the time, but I recall that one editor of the Sun stated that his paper was written for people who were 'busy'.

Kelvin MacKenzie ?

I honestly can't recall. It might well have been him, however. I've done a quick search and he was in post at the time that I was on the Media Ed course.

That sounds like a ridiculous and wasteful system. Very different to my country, you go to the pharmacy and the pharmacists don't have to make up the prescriptions for each customer, they just open the correct drawer in the big cabinet behind them and pick out the medication that's already in the manufacturers packaging and then print off the prescription label and stick it on. So if someone doesn't collect their prescription there's no waste because the label isn't attached until they're there. And prescriptions are put into an online system that every pharmacy in the country can access so you don't have to go to any particular pharmacy - very useful if you run out of your meds while on holiday in another part of the country, can just go pick up your next box wherever you are.