I worked for a gas station. Access to the 75000 gallon underground tank is protected by a single lock less strong then the ones on high school lockers. The four-digit password on it was written on the lock in Sharpie, (not that you needed it, it was the store address).

Non-profit that's actually not a non-profit. We claim we donate all of our proceeds to research for children's orthopedics, which doesn't happen. It's really disappointing, as the executive director claims the company is worth $3million..

Target puts up "as advertised" signing that looks just like sale/special signing. The "as advertised" price is almost always the full price.

I used to work at Ritz Camera. They went bankrupt several times and were always cutting corners. After the first bankruptcy the photo labs stopped properly disposing of the printing chemicals. Instead, they poured them down the sink or on the ground outside the store. I watched over 30 gallons go down the drain on my last day.

At my job, I work with all sorts of cylinders which package practically any type of gas. On occasion when we take out the valves, inside we'll find thick oil that has somehow contaminated the cylinder. So we dump trichloroethylene into it, swish it around, and dump the contents right down the drain. No filtration or anything.

State government. The governor can appoint his friends and buddies to prominent positions in state government even though the people don't even meet the bare minimum requirements for the jobs.

When I used to work in retail we had these things called "great values." Every sale we'd put yellow tags on top of items that weren't actually on sale, which we were allowed to do because it didn't actually say "sale" or "special," just great value. It was always funny to see people walk by them and say something like "that's a really good deal," and buy the item even though it was the regular price. I've seen similar stuff at other department stores so I assume it must be fairly common.

I worked for New Horizons, a franchise company that offers computer skills training. They regularly, (and anonymously), advertise great jobs for techies. These jobs do not exist. They collect resumes and use the info to contact job-seekers, saying the hiring company they applied to wants to interview them, but they require more training. If you bite and pay for training, you are told later that the job was filled by someone else. Essentially, New Horizons advertises fake jobs, gives false hope for a job that doesn't exist, charges the poor job-seeking saps for training, rinses and repeats. They are still doing this today, with generic job posts all over CareerBuilder. CareerBuilder knows, but doesn't care because they get paid to place the fake ads.

I used to work in a restaurant where on busy nights, or on nights when staff were sick, they would ring up people to come in for a three hour "trial," and get them to run out food and drinks to the tables. All unpaid of course, followed up at the end of the shift by, "Sorry, you're just not the right type of person we're looking for."

We have a zero tolerance violence policy. Basically we are told that if another employee assaults you, you should just lay on the floor and wait for someone to call security to assist you. If you try to defend yourself, ( blocking punches, kicks, repeated stabbing with a knife), you both get fired. It's completely insane. If I'm on the street and someone attacks me and I defend myself, I can press charges against them, but not at work. They even make you sign a form stating that you cannot sue the organization for damages.

A company I worked for installed 800 fake fire doors in an eight-floor building that is home to police officers occupying important posts in the force. They charged around £1100 for each door. The real doors were just panel doors made to look like fire doors, with everything, (including the men installing them), they cost around 130£. I felt like a criminal, no one cared.

Many retailers put a tremendous amount of pressure on employees and especially managers to open a certain amount of "loyalty accounts," (customer credit cards). I have watched managers outright bribe customers to open new accounts to meet the daily goal, even if they were not likely to be approved, (because the managers still get credit for attempting to open new cards). I have also watched employees basically prey on younger people who don't understand how credit cards work in order to open new accounts.

They hired "temps" for years at a time, just so that they didn't have to pay for healthcare, holidays, paid time off, etc. I guess you can't be 44th richest man in the world by being decent, eh Michael Dell?

Grifols Biomat. They strategically put their donation centers next to or near liquor stores to exploit the fact that it will attract more donors. You get paid roughly 30 dollars to make a donation. You should not even drink coffee for several hours afterwards because plasma donation dehydrates the heck out of you. You absolutely shouldn't drink. But don't mind the liquor store right there. Especially if you're an alcoholic.

Attorney here. I have a duty to protect my clients at almost all costs, which means at times I have to take positions against people who I know have suffered. It doesn't mean in the eyes of the law that the opposing party is necessarily automatically deserving of something in return, but it does take a lot out of you to require a paralyzed little girl to prove her case.

My hardware store uses a loophole in local law that says employees are under a probationary period of three months once hired. They fire a good 60% of employees after three months. Not illegal, but scummy, and most of the fires are students who are just refusing to work the store's nine-hour shifts without breaks. You eat lunch on your feet while doing sales.

Rounding. The government rounds everything. Up. Estimating your budget will be $500K? Just round it up to an even million! Need $1.5M? Make it $2M. Need $5M? Make it $10M. The rounding itself doesn't bother me nearly as much as the forced spending. Got your approved budget of $1M, (that you rounded up from $500K)? Spend it all or you get less next year! My other annoyance is the massive reliance on contracting. You can't get extra budget to hire a single person, but you can get $2M/yr indefinitely to contract that work out.

I used to work at this self-serve Frozen Yogurt shop. Every morning we were required to flip the toppings and literally pick out any bits of dirt or anything else that would make the toppings look dirty. We weren't allowed to throw anything out. Bug in the toppings? Pick out the bug. Baby pacifier falls in the toppings? Pull out the pacifier, shake around, put in a new container, never throw it out. Also, if any of the fruit was moldy we were supposed to pick it out, cut it out, or scrape it off. I got in trouble when I first started working for throwing away a package of strawberries that had about an inch of thick mold growing on top.

US Navy ships throw all kinds of stuff overboard. Paper, plastic, metal haz waste, insane amounts of jet fuel. The casualness that everybody has with it is pretty disturbing too.

My company has no quality assurance. I am an engineer for a biotech company that doesn't hire Quality Assurance Engineers for the product. They are way more concerned about selling it and making money. Our engineering team is horribly understaffed and under-qualified. The CEO would rather invest more in salespeople more than anything. We have been threatened by our customers to be reported to the government but somehow we keep sidestepping the issue. Last week a customer reported that our ECG monitoring product was messing up MAJORLY for kids under one years old. WE HAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES AT STAKE.