I bet they’ve updated this since I worked there a million years ago, but it used to be that Barnes & Noble employees got 50% off cafe items with their employee code, which, get this, was:
- your social security number (lol)
- valid at any cafe in any B&N in USA
- not checked against any kind of database, so any number like 111111111 would work
I used this to get half off cafe for years at random B&N’s after I’d been fired, but eventually I started feeling bad for them and any bookstore just trying to survive.
Also a bonus nugget of info: the discounted books by the checkout stand were the biggest money makers for the store. They buy that crap for pennies and even at 20-50% off, were insanely profitable.
Not my current job but my last one, I was a developer for a major web app used by every employee in the company. I was working on a toast notification system so I had an icon of toast. You clicked it, and it just showed a notification that said “Toast.” This was on our dev system that people had access to if they wanted to try new upcoming features.
People loved this for some reason, but naturally once I ironed out the bugs the icon went away. But if you entered the Konami code on the main page it faded in a giant version of the toast icon with a dramatic “dun-dun-DUNNNNNNN”. This Easter egg persisted into production.
Ambulances have a hidden button in order to shift into gear.
The punch code to ring bar drinks directly.
The code to access the back door.
20% of any number
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