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30 People Reveal Industry Secrets About Their Jobs That Common People Aren’t Supposed To Know
Every industry and profession has at least a few skeletons in their closet. Dark secrets that the layperson might not know but really should. When Reddit user Juaninamillion asked their fellow redditors to share such industry secrets, they started up a viral discussion that really got people opening up about the less-than-stellar nooks and crannies of their jobs.
Check out some of these industry secrets that you may not have known about and remember to upvote the ones that left an impression on you as you scroll down. If you have any secrets that you want to share, we’ll be eagerly watching the comment section.
Unfortunately, it’s not just specific industries that need some fine-tuning—it’s the mentality of the entire job market. One of the most widely known ‘secrets’ is how recruiters responsible for hiring rely on completely unrealistic expectations and having candidates jump through increasingly difficult hoops. While other issues are how new employees usually have limited opportunities for growth and learning within tech companies. Bored Panda spoke about these problems with IT and AI industry professional and founder of FastAPI, Sebastián Ramírez.
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#1
Wearing gloves in kitchens is a goddamn lie. They don't offer any sort of protection, they're actually more prone to spreading germs and filth because people don't wash them between touching different kinds of food. They exist to give the illusion of safety and professionalism. As someone who's worked in kitchens, I'd much rather see a cook wash their hands than throw a latex glove on.
Mica Fiverline 5 years ago
worked in a kitchen, can confirm. Just wash your hands people, its easier than fiddling with the gloves^^
Eliyahu Rooff 5 years ago
There are times when gloves are still a good idea. I always wear them when working with raw poultry, as it's easier to wash my hands afterwards without grease and slime under my nails and cuticles.
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I work part time at a fast food restaurant and I can confirm, the gloves are just to make the customers feel more comfortable. We washed our hands pre-Covid way more than we sanitize our gloves or change them.
Bhuvy 5 years ago
Mary Mallon aka typhoid mary. Do give a google search if you don't already know
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
"...worked in kitchens." Do you realize what a YUGE number of people can say the same? Does not make you an authority but thanks for your input.
Stephen Lyford 5 years ago
The only person being protected by gloves in a kitchen, is the person wearing the gloves.
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
I agree IF they do wash their hands regularly that is not always the case.However, wearing gloves for certain tasks I think a better practice too.
Doubleheader 5 years ago
Yep. I also really hate the amount of waste it creates. My cynical mind almost wonders if they're (the DA) being paid by companies that distribute these gloves. :/ Back when I first worked in the food industry, we were taught that it was fine not to use them. Just wash your hands a lot.
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#2
I work with kids at a daycare and we see babies take their first steps sometimes but we never tell the parents because we don't want them to feel bad about missing it
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
Shame parents can’t put their babies first and stay home with them taking less money to ensure they’re better off with their parents
#3
I'm just going to say it: KELLOGS FROSTED FLAKES AND STORE BRAND GENERIC FROSTED FLAKES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME! Source: myself. I worked in the packing factory and changed the boxes all the time!
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
Yep. Again, this is called private label. I worked in food manufacturing too.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
Gilster-Mary Lee is a food manufacturer in the area where I grew up. The employees will tell you that they produce one type of cake mix and package it in like 10 different branded boxes - everything from Kroger store brand to Betty Crocker. It is all the same.
Pamela Miller 5 years ago
i have done side by side comparisons of Kellogg's and Aldi's and they are not the same.
Valerie Page 5 years ago
Me too, The generic brands are all made by the same manufacturer but Kelloggs make their own ... Oh! I'm talking about Bran Flakes btw. We don't buy the plain ones
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AnimalMetalHeadUK 5 years ago
I can definitely say not all cereal brands are the same, I'm a cereal snob, give me the Pepsi test and I will pick out Kelloggs every time, guaranteed.
Marilyn Holt 5 years ago
This happens with a lot of manufactured items. I worked on a washing machine assembly line once. Only differences were the name plates and some exterior features. Inside--same workings.
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
Maybe MalWart cookies, etc are the same but they taste better because they cost less?
RenaMoonlight 4 years ago
Lots of them are NOT the same. Aside from the flavor or texture, you can spot the differences by checking and comparing the ingredients, calories etc.
According to Ramírez, current recruitment practices are working far from perfectly. Unfortunately, we don’t have any ‘silver bullet’ alternatives to the current system where in order to get a job, you have to meet expectations that are increasingly divorced from reality. However, he believes that there are some things that could help improve the way the job market operates.
Ramírez thinks that developer teams, team leaders, and others directly related to the job opening should get more involved in the recruitment process.
“That shouldn't be left for HR departments to handle alone, it should be a team effort. That's probably even more important as the area/industry gets more technical or complex. The same way athletes, let's say runners, are not hired based on the number of years they have been running, or certificates of the tracks they have run on, in other areas, like technology, we should get the teams and internal ‘experts’ more involved in that hiring process,” the professional explained how hiring practices could become better.
#4
Corporate safety culture is not about protecting you from injury, it's about protecting the company from a lawsuit after you get injured.
80 Van 5 years ago
True, but the law that allows a company to be sued after you get injured was created to protect you from injury.
Monday 5 years ago
and by promoting the safety culture it does have the effect of reducing the risk of employee injury. Sure it's for the company's sake, but the employee benefits as well.
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CatWoman312 5 years ago
I slipped and fell at work before, injuring my ankle. The first thing they did was watch the video to see if there was a wet floor sign. There wasn’t.
Johnny 5 years ago
It's the same reason HR departments exist -- they aren't there to help you, they are there to protect the company. So speak wisely when you talk to HR, they don't have your back, they have the company's back.
Geth 5 years ago
That's a tired cliche passed around by people who don't actually understand what HR does. HR's job IS to make sure the company doesn't get sued, but ALSO to help maintain a productive working environment. If you're being harassed or have a shitty supervisor, and HR department worth their salt will try to help. Shitty managers tank productive work. HR professionals are also human beings and employees just like you.
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Kimberly Brown 5 years ago
The best way to avoid lawsuits is to protect the employee. Ends justify means and everyone benefits.
#5
When businesses like taco bell, petsmart or others ask you to round up to donate to a cause it is 100% for the tax write off they receive. They are allowed to donate money and pay less taxes. Instead of paying from their overall sales and profits they con customers to pay extra to do it for them. This leaves their overall sales intact while increasing their yearly profit by paying less in taxes. If you want to donate just do it yourself and give more then a buck.
Colin L 5 years ago
It gets worse: sometimes they're donating to their own charities, which can have high "administration" costs or have hidden agendas (like religious charities which refuse service to LGBTQI+, or non church members) .
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Jos Tiguidou 5 years ago
Ya that makes sense. Every time I've gone to Maccas and seen that "donate 1$ to Ronald MacDonald fund" option, I would get so mad. I'd be saying like "wtf??? Why the HELL should I be donating to YOUR foundation?? You're a multi billion dollar corporation, YOU donate!!" Like seriously. That kind of s**t makes me want to burn it all down.
David Bowlby 5 years ago
Also, your salary as an employee is an expense line item on their taxes that reduces their overall tax liability, yet they'll make you beg for another 3%.
Johnny 5 years ago
If they give you a 3% raise, but save 20% of that in their taxes, they're still paying 2.4% more for your salary, it's not like your salary increase is free to them since they can deduct it.
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I am a Romanian who has worked for a US military contractor. The DOD doesn’t care about the price of the things the military is buying. I once sold a bag of 240 hex nuts for 9000 dollars ( it’s not a typo) which i got for 25 dollars. The spending the DOD does is really as bad as you might have heard of. The more they spend the better. It is actually scary how much money they throw away.
B 5 years ago
I remember when I was in the army, walking into warehouses full of ordnance and vehicles (even tanks) that were just gathering dust. Stupid money spent on stuff that was being left to rust. Just insane.
Thomas Biorogue 5 years ago
When I was in, we went to a naval depot to pick up some stuff. There were crates and crates and crates, all wooden, almost as far as the eye could see, just sitting out in the open. Label on the side read, "computer." On the other side of the road were brand new engines just sitting outside. Hundred and hundreds of them. We were told no pictures allowed. This was in the Northeast and as we're waiting for our trucks to be loaded, I noticed one of the Navy guys with a freaking nice fur-lined parka. I asked him if they sold them at their PX and he said, "We have a whole warehouse full of brand new ones that they are shredding. I can get you and your whole company brand new ones." They were shredding them! Instead of just donating to police or fire departments or homeless shelters, they just shred them up.
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Dennis Harvey 5 years ago
This is why our military budget is ludicrously high and always getting larger--because it's an enormous source of profit for private contractors in a giant, ongoing scheme of corruption between those companies and their government liaisons.
Jos Tiguidou 5 years ago
Isn't there a saying for budgets? "Use it or lose it?" It's the same thing for the police departments. The reason why they buy all these military grade weaponry is because if they don't spend the budget, it will get cut. I would assume it's the same thing for the DOD. I know a guy out here that is living in a condo that costs 9000$ a month. I can assure you, he does not need a condo that costs 9000$ dollars a month (paid by the DOD).
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
57% of the U.S. economy goes to the military industrial sector. Our tax dollars at work.
Treessimontrees 5 years ago
I can't find the story but I remember the Army music band which plays tunes at half time in the Army vs. Navy football game cost the taxpayer something like $27m per year, with salaries, places to practice, logistics etc.
Sue Clifford 5 years ago
More tax dollars being blown into the air this time.
Load More Replies...He also noted that there’s a problem with people getting promoted: people need clear ways to grow easily within the companies that they join. “It should be way more common than it is. Anyone that starts as an intern/junior should be able to grow professionally to a senior,” he pointed out.
“It would also probably help if there were specific company policies asking or requiring employees to keep learning and acquiring new skills. It could be through courses, by tackling new challenges, etc. People would benefit from acquiring new skills, being able to be more productive, and having better chances of growing in their careers. And companies would benefit from having people more capable, more productive, being able to learn skills relevant for the specific job, while having happier and more loyal employees.”
#7
Olive oil. I work at an olive oil bottling plant in Rome, New York. We had only one oil, but put it in 27 different packages, that sold at different prices. Some of the bottles claim to be aged and imported. Some claimed to be virgin, others extra virgin. Some cold pressed. One brand sold for $30 fir 12 oz., where another sold 128 oz for $12.
All the exact same oil.
Dynein 5 years ago
A lot of the stuff posted here is illegal... the issue is ENFORCING those laws. There are simply not enough people who check that the laws are actually observed. Not sure if the problem is a lack of applicants or a lack of state funding.... probably both.
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Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 5 years ago
In Spain that's totally illegal!!!! Olive oil is our True religion
Lokkie 5 years ago
in Spain, Italy, Greece... i mean, you can taste the difference between olive oil and AOVE, cmon.
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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
He forgot to comment (perhaps doesn't know) that much of the "Italian" olive oil sold in the US is actually Spanish. It's sold to Italy and they bottle and label it as Italian. Italy simply can't produce as much olive oil, but no blame on them. Spanish producers took the easy road and didn't care about export it properly bottled and labelled but for a few brands.
Valerie Page 5 years ago
A great deal of Greek olive oil comes from Spain too
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
"Badging" takes place in every commodity. There are not 200 factories for every item. When I worked at Booth Fisheries (frozen fish sticks), we produced Van de Kamp's, Gorton's, Safeway Select, and specialties for fast food giants and restaurant chains. Most frozen fish product comes from five processors and only one of them is in the United States.
Gehtdich Nixan 5 years ago
uhm might be a US thing, not a European. You can smell and taste good olive oil
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
Yeah, I'm from the US, and there's a good chance that most of us have never actually smelled/tasted the truly good olive oil. Ever.
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Jason Maas 5 years ago
Worked at a kitty litter plant and it was the same way. It was all the same litter out of the same mountain.
#8
Nothing about The Voice, American Idol, etc is real. Your votes don’t matter. Everything is pre-determined. In some cases they even choose your audition song for you, and if they want to tear you down for entertainment, they’ll choose something they know you can’t sing. And with the contacts artists sign, you cannot refuse.
Source: professional musician, I have not been on those shows but have friends who have. I cannot name names, them even telling me that stuff was against contract legalities.
Falcon 5 years ago
I first heard Roomieofficial talk about this. All these shows are there to inflate the egos of the judges, the artists aren't actually the focus. They will use you for entertainment, they don't give 2 shits about you and your dreams.
Treessimontrees 5 years ago
The show Undercover Boss was a total sham. I worked at DIRECTV when they had Mike White go and do an episode. He "rescued" a call center worker from minimum wage hell, and made her head of customer service or some such BS. She was an actor and none of it happened in reality.
Anor Anor 5 years ago
Holy Crap! They should legally require a claimer at the beginning stating they use actors. I think that's EVIL tricking viewers like that. Thanks for sharing.
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Tom Susala 5 years ago
There is no such thing as a "Reality Show" If it's on TV it's NOT "REAL!" If you think differently, you are sadly ignorant.
Surly 5 years ago
I was on a Food Network Cake Challenge episode and it was legit. They did orchestrate some of the interactions and dialogue between teams, but the competition part was completely legit.
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This is so true - my niece went to the UK X Factor - she is a really good singer, quite talented. She didn't even get through the 'first round' of judges that you have to see before you get to the 4 big judges. For her to not get through and looking at some of the people that do get through it is all a total farce.
natie marie 5 years ago
and at the start of the show when they show a reel of the really really bad ones for the viewers to laugh at... they're performers with fake names and stories performing being awful (from knowing someone who was played a bad musician years ago)
GirlFriday 5 years ago
I know with 100% certainty that Master Chef and Master Chef Jr. are faked. After the filming of the second episode of Master Chef Jr. the parents were given a schedule of when their children would be "eliminated" from the show so that the parents could prepare the children so there wouldn't be a lot of crying and such. Master Chef contestants are told how to make themselves interesting so they can stay on the show longer, but after about six episodes are filmed, they are told when they are going home and who the final three will be.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I know someone who tried out for American idol. She didn’t even see the tv judges just random people who told her she could sing, but not what they were looking for. They wanted someone with a story basically. She wasn’t interesting enough. It’s bogus. I’ve never watched that trash anyway
Whatshername 5 years ago
Just Google Glennis Grace. Auditioned for (I think it was) American Idol. They created this background story of a poor single mom etc. But she has been a very successful singer for years now in The Netherlands, where she's from.
#9
Funeral homes are businesses, and funeral directors will absolutely take advantage of grieving people.
The most offensive to me are the cremation boxes. They're literally just big cardboard boxes, and should cost less than a hundred dollars. But they also make really expensive boxes, and directors will say things like "grandma would be more comfortable in this". No, she won't, because she's dead. Some of these boxes reach 1000 dollars, and of course are all just burned.
Little Wonder 5 years ago
I used to work in online memorials and one of the funeral directors accidentally attached a funeral invoice to an email. Which I, of course, read. There was a $400 "transfer fee" to move the body from the chapel to the cemetery, but I know for a fact that particular chapel is on the grounds of the cemetery. Absolute scam designed to cash in on people who are grieving. Also the invoice was written in comic sans, no joke.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Except when they charge for a fancy casket, but then burn her in a cardboard box and resell the casket.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
We were told the box was cardboard, would burn, and were cheap. Less than $50, in fact, twenty years ago. So.... gonna guess we had the only honest funeral director ever?
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
Throw me under a tree if I don't drag myself there to die and let something fill its belly. That's my request. If it's not heeded, it's not my affair.
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
Just look for something like the "Cremation Society." You can get the whole Krispy Kritter package for under a grand, which is fair. The owners have expenses and rules to meet but they are not living in mansions. They are usually trying to make a living while helping regular working folks. The "funeral industry" has the ethics of a Mexican drug cartel.
Marilyn Holt 5 years ago
They capture you at your most vulnerable time and make you think that spending more shows you care more.
#10
This one is a little trivial compared to others in here, but: wine isn't vegan. It's not even vegetarian in some cases. The fining* process uses egg whites, and sometimes isinglass (fish parts). When I worked in a tasting room people would come in and be like "I'm vegan but thank God I can still have wine, amiright!" And I wanted to tell them that they weren't right, but I also wanted to sell them wine.
Ivy 5 years ago
At least in my country vegan wine has a vegan label. I never understood why until now...
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
How do they manage to grow those all grapes without causing harm to some living thing? Even cutting them off is expected to draw a certain amount of blood.
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C Hypercube 5 years ago
One last minor detail...before any vegans or even carnivorous reader jumps to the next comment: I hope you know that (mostly) all the wine also contain crushed insects, spiders, ladybugs, earwigs and wasps...among others. Cheers!
Dave P 5 years ago
All Kosher Wines are Vegan, Kosher wine only used Bentonite which is clay clarifier, if you want to know you wine is Vegan, buy Kosher https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/not-all-wines-are-vegan-heres-how-to-find-ones-that-are/2018/06/15/a596763e-70c8-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html#:~:text=So%20vegans%20often%20look%20for,does%20not%20use%20animal%20products.)
Mathieu Brouwers 5 years ago
Nope. A vineyard my ex-girlfriend used to work, bought good cheap clarified wine. Used clay to filter this already clear wine, because it leaves traces and hides some flavors. All their wine was sold as Kosher.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
On a side note, it is amazing what 'meat flavoured' products are in fact vegetarian friendly. In the UK most beef, lamb and pork flavoured products (crisps, noodles, etc) are made with yeast extract and sometimes even textured soy for the 'meat' chunks. But they will not advertise as vegetarian friendly because it would give the game away. Chicken flavour normally uses actual chicken, and cheese flavouring usually comes with animal rennet so, the go-to veggie option is the one that needs avoiding!
Tom Thumb 5 years ago
when it is machine harvested it collects the lizards, spiders, bugs, snails etc that live on the vines and those things go straight through the crusher. That is why the wine has a protein value.
Kalpana M 5 years ago
I didn't about gelatin.As a vegetarian, I never thought much about it. Turns out gelatin isn't some chemical like glycerin but taken from animal parts - there goes my jellies and marshmallows🤦♀️🤦♀️ I don't have problem with yeast n mushrooms. But I draw line with gelatin 🤷♀️
lenka 5 years ago
Not just jellies and marshmallows - alot of packaged products have gelatin and other products derived from animals - almost all lollies and sweets and even most commercially produced bread!! When you really know what you are looking for you are quite restricted from eating anything that comes in a packet.
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Stéphanie Boulet 5 years ago
Sommelier speaking: most quality wine is vegan. A lot of wineries use vegetable or mineral derivatives to filter. They don't necessarily use egg, fish or milk. And all natural wine is vegan. Because it is not fined or filtered.
#11
The clothes you find at an outlet (more often than not) are not "cast-offs" or overages from the regular store. There's a whole separate entity that designs and produces clothes at a lesser quality for outlet prices.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Also: that expensive t-shirt you bought with that special label, arrived in a container and was bought for 5 cents in China. Add another dollar to have someone sew in the label and suddenly you have a $60 T-shirt to sell. My sister was one of the people who sewed those labels.
Thomas brennan 5 years ago
This isn't true across the board. Fashion merchandising is near to impossible to get right so there is nearly always left over stock, outlet stores are a convenient way for major brands to offload them ahead of the next season. Source: wife works as a buyer
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
I can confirm this at least for my store. Another fun fact, it will never look the same on you as it does on the mannequin... Because the mannequin has clips in the back to make the clothes fit it better. Also our sizes are straight up made up.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Yep. Or a brand "name" produces a crappier version for "outlet sales".
kate h 5 years ago
Something similar: The brand name kitchen faucets you see at great prices at Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. are a separate line made with inferior parts. (plastic fittings inside instead of metal). They look exactly the same. I only know about faucets but assume many other things are the same.
bill marsano 5 years ago
Absolutely true. No manufacturer could stay in business if he made as many cast-offs, over-runs and overages as are necessary to keep his many outlets stocked. This is also true of many sales staged by famous name stores.
LFSchind 5 years ago
As someone who's worked in both wholesale and retail; this is only half true. Yes, some goods are made for off-price, but others are 100% trying to get rid of old season stock of high quality goods. You need to get the old inventory off of your books so you can buy up for the new season and Nord Rack, TJMaxx, Etx. are a GREAT way to move those units out.
Janette Smith 5 years ago
Now, but back around circa 1990 stores hadn’t come up with that idea and outlets really did carry the previous seasons for great prices
#12
Starbucks corporate makes us have those recycling bins in the lobby to present this green image, but most of the time all of the garbage ends up going to the dump anyway because the facility doesn’t have recycling
GirlFriday 5 years ago
I read that the coffee cups can't be recycled because of the lining that makes them stand up to the heat of the coffee.
Marina 5 years ago
That's correct! That's why avoiding to-go coffee cups is advised. It is also cheaper and maybe healthier to make your own at home. Another option is to buy it and drink it there and ask for it to be served in a cup. (A real one, haha)
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Aunt Messy 5 years ago
You can't recycle coffee cups or any other paper container that has had food in it - including pizza boxes. The bacteria content is too high for safety.
Chris 5 years ago
Nope. It's because it's mixed material. Cardboard with a thin coating of plastic that can't easily or cost effectively be separated
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Johnny 5 years ago
Also, people are terrible at self-sorting and will put trash in the recycle bin, so they only way Starbucks could have those bins recycled is if they re-sort them to pick out the trash. Not that it matters much since most recyclables are just dumped in landfills anyway now that China stopped importing most our recyling. Only a few items are economically worthwhile for recycling, I think aluminum cans, clean cardboard and newspapers top the list.
Bhuvy 5 years ago
I read a post few days back that we only have 7 year to reduce CO2 emissions or other wise there it will be impossible to reverse climate change
Bhuvy 5 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/arts/design/climate-clock-metronome-nyc.html
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Kim Lorton 5 years ago
Yeah, cheap solutions as they don’t care anymore than the next retail place!
Picture Queen 5 years ago
I heard it's this way with the garbage pick up as well. That even though they have you put your "recycle" items in a separate container & they pick them up at different times, it's all just an illusion. That all of the garbage including the recycled stuff ends up in the landfill together.
#13
I don't know that this is a secret but flight attendants and pilots don't get paid while boarding, deplaning, and delays. So when you're delayed and angry, so are we. We're not making money and still have to be there.
Dynein 5 years ago
Wait - is this true in every country? Pretty sure there must be a few countries at least where any time you spend doing work for your employer is considered work time that needs to be paid...
bryguy 5 years ago
I thought this too, but after looking it up more it seems to be the case for most airlines, flight attendants pay is from "wheels up" to "touch down" and not in between.
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Philip Malchek 5 years ago
Be nice to your flight attendant. They are not only there to make your flight more comfortable, they are there to save your life in case of emergency.
Gehtdich Nixan 5 years ago
Again: maybe in the US. In the EU we have actual workers unions and contracts and laws and airline staff DOES get paid for boarindg / deplaining etc.
Jess Van Camp 4 years ago
having a husband working for brussels airlines :) the stewards/stewardesses only get paid for flight hours (so... wheels off...) ... the boarding itself is done by other people
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Mathieu Brouwers 5 years ago
It´s like that for all flight attendants around the world. Perhaps not a few countries where they get always the same pay working or not. (But any work will be mandatory.)
Maria Ribaulo 5 years ago
The airlines spend more money on lobbyists than the flight attendants' unions.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Wow, I'm surprised this is so common around the world. Sounds like the next big employment scandal ready to break. I know in my industry, if I turn up ready to work and can't for some reason (which happens all the time), it is the company's problem not mine and I still get paid.
#14
I work in a vet ER. If you check the resuscitate box on our form we will absolutely do our best to resuscitate your pet. And I mean at least 15 mins chest compressions, intubating and manual breathing, heat support and reviving drugs. It's an all hands on deck situation and we take it extremely seriously. That being said, I have never seen it do more than have a pet have a heartbeat and automatic breathing long enough for an owner to say goodbye. I have never seen an animal recover. Basically you shouldn't check that resuscitate box. It doesn't do anything but let us fight for your pet's life and lose. I'm a DNR myself. I don't want to go through that and I don't want the ER staff to go through another unsuccessful attempt.
Katie Garr 5 years ago
when my sister's guinea pig was at the vet with cancer, we checked the box to resuscitate her. we knew she wouldn't come back once she was gone; she could hardly breathe and was struggling a lot. we checked the box because of my 8 year old sister to make her feel like everything that could be done was done to save her guinea pig. later on we asked the vet for the form back and un-checked the box. we didn't want the guinea pig to go through it but we wanted my sister to feel like we tried everything. the guinea pig died quietly and peacefully at the vet's office the next day.
Viviane 5 years ago
That was kind to your sister, the guinea pig, and the vet.
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My ex was an EMT. She said that once you get to compressions, it's almost always a lost cause and they do it essentially for appearance's sake. (However, if it only works once in a blue moon, that's reason enough to do it.)
Mary Dellenbusch 5 years ago
Just make sure you are with your kids when it's their time to move on. They will look for you. They need to know you are there no matter what.
J 5 years ago
I didnt get broken ribs but it hurt like hell. The worse was the paddles, when they hit me, it left two circular burns and I came up fight from the shock
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Eugene Carman 5 years ago
The entire pet veterinary industry is one in which practitioners exploit human frailty.
#15
Animator here. It's coming more and more to light lately, but big animation studios and game companies treat their employees like [crap] and pay them barely anything and expect them to work hard "because of the love for the job". And they can get away with that because there are hundreds of thousands of other creatives who would be more than happy to deal with all of the BS just for a chance to work at a AAA studio. Really it's not just animation though, the entire entertainment industry is this way.
Dynein 5 years ago
(Comparatively) bad payment and working conditions are a pretty good assumption for ANY type of field that is many people's dream career, no matter how many degrees it requires. Doesn't apply to every individual employer, of course - but an upsetting amount of employers prefers to provide work conditions that are juuuuust above the lowest bar possible where they still get enough job applicants and remain withing the lines of the working laws as they are enforced.... and in dream-career industries with masses of people trying to break in, that bar can be very low indeed.
I Liquored On 5 years ago
I decided to quit my tech job when a few days from christmas we are all working our arses off and our department boss, who had already been on vacation for a week and had 2 more to go, sent an email telling us to give the extra 10 percent and how we all in this together. I now have my own buisness in a totally different field and am one much less stressed bunny.
Amy Pattie 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah my professor in digital art worked for Disney. She quit the industry entirely by her mid twenties and decided to become a teacher. Literally does not even draw for fun anymore. Edit: I should add that this is an off-shore company subcontracted by Disney. Lots of production companies do their editing and retouching and other boring stuff in other countries because our unions aren’t as strong as they are in Hollywood.
RenaMoonlight 4 years ago
Please don't believe that EVERY gaming company is like this. There are some that are not, and they will try their best to treat all of their employees fair. It took me years, but I found my place. So can you. Don't stick with a toxic company, just because you think that most companies are like that. Even if it's a big name, it's not worth it for your mental health. (I work in Europe so working conditions and environments are very different from NA.)
Brady Raphael 4 years ago
I'm hoping now that Disney is buying everything up eventually new studios will have to come to fruition and bring us a new era of well known producers.
LangiStudios 4 years ago
I was a 2D digital animator at a now-defunct studio. Every bit is true.
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
Have a look at the contracts musical acts used to settle for. Especially black acts. The real news is that it's not much better today.
#16
That food on your plate wasn't made with love or care, it was quickly made with stress and hate by a cook either swearing at somebody or being sworn at.
bryguy 5 years ago
Not all chefs operate a stressful and hateful environment...This is a matter of perspective and different in every single restaurant
Kerry Alderson 5 years ago (edited)
I once worked in a restaurant where the chef was a large man and he was very loud. He scared me to begin with but when something funny happened he laughed loudly and then shared the joke with some of the customers. He was stressed out but he was also intelligent and kept a happy atmosphere at work. He retained his staff and the restaurant was very clean and successful.
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IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
Look, as long as it gets to me hot, tastes good and doesn’t give me food poisoning, I’m happy.
Pascal Oudot 5 years ago
Really I don't agree at all. I am french, french good restaurants don't work at all like that. We think it is impossible to make good cooking without love. French good cooks are demanding but all is for customers.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Don't get the downvote. Probably from someone who never had a meal in decent restaurant where people sit to enjoy their food instead of eating as much as you can within the given timeframe.
Load More Replies... CatWoman312 5 years ago
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Marilyn Holt 5 years ago
Everyone should work in a restaurant kitchen or as a server at least once. It completely changes your view on everything.
Tammy Ralph 5 years ago
I never understood why anyone would want to be a chef or a cook, it must be one of the most stressful jobs ever,
Katerina Huskova 5 years ago
I can relate to this. I worked part time as a waitress. Every minute counts. The guests do not want to wait for their food.
#17
Doctors spend so much time in their specific niche that they know jack s**t about anything else.
Saara . 5 years ago
But that's what different specialties are for. One doctor can't know or do everything. I doubt you want a neonatologist doing surgery on grandma.
Becky Samuel 5 years ago
That seems fine, but if your GP sends you to the wrong specialist you can get stuck without proper treatment for years. I was on crutches, unable to stand up unaided and headed for a wheelchair because *someone* in the system decided that the problem was in my knees. It wasn't until I saw a physiotherapist for something completely unrelated and she spotted that it was an ankle deformity causing the problem that the issue was sorted out. Permanent damage has been done to my hips and knees, and I spent years battling painkiller addiction and depression, just because doctors cannot think outside of their specialty and pay attention to the patient as a complete human being rather than just a pair of knees,
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Thomas Biorogue 5 years ago
I don't see a problem with this. Like a mechanic that specializes in foreign cars or maybe they just work on motorcycles. They have general mechanical knowledge but know more about motorcycles than they do with say, tractors. The problem comes with trying to see one of these specialist. I have to first go to my regular PCP and convince them that I need this knee specialist or something. They tell me to try this and come back in two weeks and let's see how it is. Come back in 2 weeks and say, I really need to see that knee specialist. Now that they've gotten 2 office visits out of me and two insurance payments, NOW they recommend me to a knee specialist. It's a big scam. Years ago I knew I needed physical therapy for my back injury. Jerk doctor had me make 12 visits before he recommended me to physical therapy. TWELVE! And you can't just go to physical therapy on your own, you HAVE to have the doctor's recommendation before the insurance will allow it. Like I said, a big scam.
Phil Vaive 5 years ago
I'm not sure why this is shocking...I don't go to a dermatologist for heart surgery, and I don't go to a surgeon for my ear infection.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
YEP. And that's okay. I don't want my neurosurgeon to know about Ebola. I want him to know about 2meningioma.
Amy Pattie 5 years ago
I know, the human body is so complex it’s impossible to remember at all. I am just an illustrator, and draw even just drawing all the muscles, skeletal structure is impossible to keep in your memory without a reminder!
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Carrie Roettger 5 years ago
The only time I've found this not to be true is with my nephrology clinic. They run a transplant program at one of the local hospitals. When I had my transplant, my nephrologist became my primary care doctor. Unless he specifically referred me out every bit of my care went through him. Even when I went to the ER for injuries. I walk into that ER and tell them the reason I'm there and that I'm a transplant patient. I get taken straight back and until they hear from my nephrologist I'm only stabilized. Hose doctors at Tarrant Nepgrology are some of the most knowledgeable doctors I've ever met. One of them even told me about he and his dad doing kidney surgery for one of their dogs because the vet refused.
Carole Hamilton 5 years ago
A Mr. (top position in orthapedics) was surprised when I told him that somone had suggested that my 5 year old might have arthritis, he said 'What at her age?' she was diagnosed 6 weeks later at a different hospital, with 'Stills disease' aka childhood arthritis.
NJ 5 years ago
so he didn't know about juvenile arthritis? just wow. ridiculous. as an RA patient myself who had it from childhood but wasn't properly diagnosed until later I'm glad your daughter got a diagnosis so she can get proper care.
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Al Christensen 5 years ago
The old joke about specialization: You learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.
#18
If you’re rude to a Starbucks barista most of the time we’ll just decaffeinate your drink.
Phil Vaive 5 years ago
Thanks for the tip! I frequently get caffeinated when I ask for decaf. I can tell when I get halfway through and have a panic attack
Amaranthim Talon 5 years ago
You could, you know, MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN COFFEE - it's not like it's a real struggle to brew a pot or make a keureg -
Marnie 5 years ago
I find that to be very unprofessional and unethical. I've been in a Starbucks maybe twice, and I try to never be rude, so this doesn't mean anything to me personally. Rude people suck, and I really wish more companies would let employees just tell such people to get the hell out. But this is petty and childish and not the way to handle it. I can't imagine doing such a thing on a job. I've always taken every job seriously - from working at a gas station, to stocking at Target (working very hard for that 5 cent raise), and assembly line, to software development. I would never do something like that. I just can't imagine...
#19
Almost every register nurse has what is called a blacklist of doctors she or he would not want even remotely near them should they need emergency services. People need to take better care and precaution of who they choose to accept as their doctor.
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
That's why if you want to find a good doctor you go to a NURSE, not another doctor or referral service.
Doreen Raia 5 years ago
I agree this is true. When I need a good doctor, I ask a Nurse - if it were your sister, or your mother - which doctor would you send them to? Many times they will let you know the doctor and not feel bad recommending them this way. I was tired of them saying - All our doctors are good, asking them my way now I get the real answer....
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Johnny 5 years ago
"People need to take better care and precaution of who they choose to accept as their doctor." How? Ask a nurse and she'll refuse to tell you (I've tried), and reliable health grades are very hard to find. You can try looking up malpractice claims, but that's not a reliable indicator since a good doctor could have a claim due to bad luck, and a bad doctor could escape having any malpractice claims.
Tia Akimmi 5 years ago
This is absolutely true. I work in the ER and recently had to check in during a shift. I knew which doctors were working and I told the charge nurse to put me with a specific doctor and I requested my friend as my nurse. If the doctor that I requested had already left for the day, I was genuinely going to go and check-in at the hospital across the street. That's how much I didn't trust the THREE other doctors who were working that day.
John Laughlin 5 years ago
You know what you call the student who graduated medical school at the very bottom of the class?... "Doctor"
Marnie 5 years ago
I once knew this immature pothead aged 34 who could barely keep his act together. He needed ACL surgury. He had a bad feeling about the doctor after a couple/few visits. He then went and researched and found another. The second doctor seemed to do a great job. And then later we heard something about the first doctor - I don't remember what, but it seemed my friend had dodged a bullet. I was so proud of him - he was one of those people so much smarter than anyone gave him credit for. Do your research people!
abby smink 5 years ago
S**t, not just nurses, but any healthcare worker that's paying attention. And my time as a radiology tech has taught me that I don't ever want back surgery unless it's the only thing keeping my from dying.
#20
Mobile Homes are cheaply made and mass produced by people making 9 bucks an hour and don't give a [crap] if it's up to code or safe. Hundreds of people in a factory with little supervision, and the main goal is to get as many made as possible, with little care to protocol, codes and fire stopping. I got hired as a HUD admin, ended up doing inspections so we could stop getting fined by the fire marshal and the amount of crap that is overlooked and not cared about is infuriating.
Falcon 5 years ago
Can confirm. In my line of work we visit a lot of newly built houses and the amount of defects that have been "fixed" by slapping drywall in front of it is insane. Also seen brand new buildings with cracks running through the concrete. I feel bad for the people taking a home loan for 30+ years to live in an already broken "brand new" house.
Kim Lorton 5 years ago
We just had our siding redone, and on one side of the house, they didn’t even bother to put down a 2x4 to anchor the siding to! Half the siding on that side of the house had to be replaced! We’ve lived here 12 years, and the house was built in 1985! Also, they put insulation in the walls between rooms, but not on the walls on the outside, so our bathrooms are freezing in the winter! Luckily we plan to stay until we die.
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Christian N/A 5 years ago
I live in what used to be a show home and the quality is jacks***. The cabinets were put on the ceiling without being screwed into the boards, just drywall to "hold them up". That's just one of the many problems with the house.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
The law in Illinois used to be that mobile homes didn't have to be inspected because they weren't built on site. This is why they were so popular. I don't know what the law is now, but I know there were lots of law suits against the manufacturers because of inferior construction.
Donna Leske 5 years ago
My friend is a retired fire inspector (USA). He said it's not unusual to find 30 write-ups on a single building. Then come back for a reinspect and find 28 untouched. These are not new construction but established buildings. One time a lighted EXIT sign was installed [and working[ upside down and backwards shining it's message into the drywall.
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
I know the inspector signs off before the work is finished. He got his job because the county knows he will not enforce building code.
Jessie Ford 4 years ago
Nice, newish houses in low income areas are built by kids between 16 and 24 as a "learning opportunity" usually about 3 to 5 hours a day and they get around 200 every couple of weeks.
#21
I work in the wedding industry. Every single service you purchase for your wedding has a marked up price because we know you’re going to spend it.
Little Wonder 5 years ago
To a degree, but if you book a venue for a 50th birthday party you'll probably pay less than if you book it for a wedding, even if the guest count etc is identical.
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Joshua Seaman 5 years ago
I used to do wedding photography, and while it's true that I did charge more for it than my other events, it's because shooting weddings is STRESSFUL and so much more work.
Michael Reilly 5 years ago
As someone who works in the industry, there is a good reason for this. Weddings are meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience... the couples understandably want everything to be perfect. A photographer might bring extra equipment as backup in case their main equipment fails mid-ceremony. Florists may order extra flowers to pick only the best. etc. Additionally, interacting with the couple is a lot more time consuming as they debate every little detail endlessly, change their mind several times, etc. You're going to have another birthday in a year... you'd like a good cake, but if it's not flawless, it's not the end of the world. That's not the case with a wedding. The risk and time commitment is higher, and as such, it costs more.
Vladimíra Matejová 4 years ago
yes you are buying a buquet with 10 roses? X EUR, you are buying a WEDDING buquet with 10 roses? double the price...never mention it is for a wedding if you can avoid it
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
And this is why, assuming I ever do get married, I'll be doing it like friends of ours who were both on benefits, and get done as cheaply as possible, asking friends for help like cake making or doing the disco
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
It would be one of the highest charged services ( along with funerals)especially with a wedding planner..
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
I've heard that the reason for this is because most weddings are much more stressful than any other type of event.
#22
People always joke that most psychologists become psychologists because they are crazy. I've worked in close proximity to a bunch of forensic psychs for the last few years - it is true.
Dynein 5 years ago
The question is if they are the kind of crazy where they are decent people with just a more personal understanding of the many ways a brain can be effed up, or the kind of crazy where they are too effed up themselves to realize how much they can eff up other people's brains as psychologists.
Monday 5 years ago
That varies. Most can relate, some are just beyond that.
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SheHulk 5 years ago
I know two people personally who became psychologists. One had an eating disorder and severe anxiety and the other is probably on the spectrum (high functioning aspie). Both are highly intelligent and probably became interested initially to understand themselves, but now are successful and really are a fantastic resource for others. Maybe "norms", (whatever that means) aren´t the best at treating "crazy".
Joshua Seaman 5 years ago (edited)
I object to the term "crazy" because it has nothing to do with insanity - it usually has to do with trauma or mental health adversities. And because most psychologists have worked through trauma or mental health adversities themselves, they are better equipped to help others because they understand the process and the pitfalls and strategies experientially. And the term "crazy" is stigmatizing, when we need to be destigmatizing seeking mental health support. But semantics aside, this is totally true.
CatWoman312 5 years ago (edited)
As a recipient of a BA in psychology...yes it’s true. Mostly because we want to find a way to adapt better. It takes one to know one isn’t just a cliche quote. It’s true
Ulio Prudencia 4 years ago
For the rest of the world they are crazy because they understand stuff the rest of the world don't.
Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago
Oh, good God. I am a master's level therapist, and my peers are like the rest of the world: Good, bad, etc. What a stupid generalization by some unidentified person who "worked in close proximity." Shouldn't even be included here.
#23
Other academics will steal your work for themselves and publish it under their name.
Hans 5 years ago
...risking to lose their job, and definitely losing their merits, and thereby their career. The more serious problem is the imbalance of junior and senior researchers, quite often leading to publications with the names of senior researchers on it in addition to that of junior researchers, who actually did all the work.
B-b-bird 5 years ago
Uni professors are stealing ideas (and even done material) from their students all the time (Talking about creative professions). When I was student, was walking with my uni friend and stumbled over street billboard with advert ripped off of his graphic work for uni class. He was speachless but could not do anything. When enrolling, they even give you legal paper to sign, which is saying that everything what you will produce during academic years (all rights to intellectual property) will belong to uni. You graduate... you leave it behind... basically for teachers to use it. I heard of one teacher who has lectures 1-2 times a week... not because she needs uni job, but to collect all ideas for her main job as freelancer. Sad
Ruth Peacock 5 years ago
This is country-specific. You do not sign-away your intellectual property rights in Germany as a student and postgraduates are offered training in good scientific practice which includes how to protect yourself and your work. The kind of system described here is the result of universities being run for profit in countries like the USA, UK, and now also Australia. It is not the norm.
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
This happened to my boss. During his PhD work a collaborator in another lab had HIS postdoc replicating all the experiments my boss did, and then they published the manuscript just days before my boss's dissertation defense. The theft caused the collaborator to be considered a cutting-edge expert in the field, and led to a stellar career full of awards and funding. My boss despises him to this day, and has learned to be very guarded with our work in progress.
Kungfu Asian 5 years ago
This is common, especially if it’s from a reputable institution. The juniors will do most, if not all of the work but the senior staff will get first author because they have a bigger name and will give the study (and institution) more credibility and notoriety. It’s insane...but ppl do it because they figure they’ll be the “senior” eventually and reap the benefits then.
#24
Hospitals are not clean
The only really clean place in a hospital is the operating room, other than that the place is crawling with germs and whatever else has mutated on the floors and walls.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I object. Thi s varies hospital to hospital. I've seen some where you can hit them with the luminol and you'll be like, "Oh, okay," and others where it's like, "Do you never have soap around here?!!"
miten sasmita 5 years ago
Agree, therefore you should never take your toddlers or frail elders to hospital (unless they're the patient ofc). And always sanitize your hands after touching anything, really. Drop any food on the floor ? Toss it in the trash. In my country a toddler had died of amoeba infection after he licked the hospital floor
Deb Johnston 5 years ago
I was in the hospital for 3 months earlier this year. Started with a normal surgery, but I kept getting one weird infection after another. I ended up in the ICU at one point. My nurses were great, my doctors were great and all the staff were wonderful. But hospitals are just germ factories.
DogMatic 5 years ago
Shocking that, what with them being full of sick people.
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Isak Nygren 4 years ago
This is common knowledge in Sweden. If someone gets sick while they are at the hospital, we simply call it "the hospital sickness". But I was at a hospital in Vietnam for several days. I think the cleaning staff were very detailed in their cleaning.
Joyce Brazel 5 years ago
ROMENRIEL...NO THEY USED TO BE CLEANER BECAUSE OF ORDERLIES WHOSE ONLY JOB IT WAS...WAS TO CLEAN.
bill marsano 5 years ago
There's even a name for it--'iatrogenic' is an illness you get from the hospital stay itself.
Ashley Dimacali 5 years ago
Just don't sit on the floors, theres always that visitor that likes to sit on the floor; nurses/doctors step in a lot of body fluids and it tracks everywhere. Yea there are Janitors but there is sooo much foot traffic around the hospital, its nasty...
#25
I worked for a movie theatre. A large bag of popcorn that cost the customer $5.99 (at the time) cost the movie theatre six cents to produce, including the butter, the kernels, the bag, the power used by the popper and the time it took the concession employee to fill up the bag and give it to the customer.
Linus Nilsson 5 years ago
Yes, but in America, the concessions is pretty much how the theaters make their money. They only get to keep a very small percentage of the ticket sales, the rest goes to the movie company
CatWoman312 5 years ago
If I’m not mistaken the concession stand is their bread and butter
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Little Wonder 5 years ago
The reason the food at movie theatres is so expensive is because there's basically no money in selling tickets. At least in Australia. It costs so much to screen the movie, they'd need a packed out theatre every show to make any money on it. So the food is expensive.
Sue Grigg 5 years ago
This is true in the U.S. too. I had a movie theater manager tell me that snacks are the only money maker in the business.
Load More Replies... natie marie 5 years ago
yeah but nothing beats that bulb heated popcorn that's shipped into the cinema in those huge see through sacks. there's something so delightfully shitty and cinemar-y about it.. that is like ..yes.. we are at the cinema now..
Neva Nevičica 5 years ago
Yeeees, i noticed that myself. That's why you stuff your big purse with goodies you buy at a nearby store and tell them to go to hell with their &6 popcorn.
Geth 5 years ago
That popcorn is what's keeping the doors open. They make almost no money on tickets.
Load More Replies... James Mills 4 years ago (edited)
american's get their popcorn for so cheap!! in Australia its like $20 for popcorn. which is why most people bring in food from a supermarket.
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
In our Aust. movie theatres the costs of popcorn and all movie theatre treats is outrageous ..never buy it. But pleased for the vendors I suppose for those who so!
Tony Rozensky 5 years ago
In 1968 I worked at the Woods Theatre in Chicago for 2 days. Part of the orientation tour was the basement where large bags of popcorn were kept. Lord knows how old they were.
Jamie Edwards 4 years ago
Bullshit on the cost of labor. It takes at least a minute to fill it up, put popcorn on it and ring it up if the person is EXTREMELY fast. At 7 bucks an hour that would be 12 cents. Then someone has to MAKE the popcorn in the first place, clean the machine daily, sweep up the popcorn in the halls and theater. Order the popcorn. The container costs about 15-35 cents
#26
I make super expensive stuff that is bought by several governments and some high-end consumer product manufacturers. One of the machines that every bit of product has to go through only works right if you stand there and poke at it with a stick. We don’t even have a special stick. It’s just a metal rod that fell off of another piece of equipment that we wrapped some tape around to make a handle. We always make the new guy do it, because it is super boring.
80 Van 5 years ago
It’s hard to imagine that it’s cheaper to keep hiring someone to poke the machine with a stick than to figure out how to fix this issue.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
If "fixing the issue" required a $30,000 machined rotating assembly, then hiring a stick-poker seems pretty good.
Load More Replies... Al Christensen 5 years ago
My brother worked briefly at an automobile assembly plant. There was a place on the assembly line where an overhead conveyor carrying partially assembled bodies made a sharp turn. It was a guy's job to stand at that corner and give each body a shove to keep it from swinging out and hitting the wall.
BG 5 years ago
At a vehicle manufacturing facility in North Carolina. There is a guy who works at the automated paint spray booth. His only job is to climb a ladder after every third vehicle and wipe a drip of paint from a nozzle on the ceiling. He is a union employee and makes a TON of money to play solitaire on a computer all day long.
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
I honestly don't know why this one us in the list at all. It basically just says "some companies have equipment that's falling apart, and they don't fix it until they absolutely have to". There is no new information here.
Daniel Callaway 5 years ago
I used to count coins at one of the Federal Reserve Banks. The machine would spin the coins top0 thew outer edge of the spinning plate and line up to go through a counter. I had to make sure that the plate was waxed with a cheap candle to grip the coins so they wouldn't stop moving with one hand. with my other hand I had a butter knife that I used to unjam the coins if they stopped moving through the counter. Did this all day, Week after Week. Luckily it was only for 3 months through the summer till I quit and started Tech School.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 5 years ago
As someone who works in a field that produces equipment with superfluous actions - 99% of the time it's requested by our clients' administration (either be human resources, either accounting department or CEO in general who loves seeing some random statistics)
#27
When renting a storage unit you do not need to get the insurance they offer. Even if they say it's "mandatory", it's illegal to force you to get insurance. Also the rent will increase yearly, forever.
PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
Pretty sure those are beach huts. We have some fancier and more stereotypical ones down my way, but they also can be in this design.
Amanda Covet 5 years ago
IDK why you're getting downvoted because it's absolutely true. If you're using a storage unit for anything other than very short term use you're just throwing your money away.
Load More Replies... Wyndmere 5 years ago
Too true. regular renters insurance with your own carrier is fine. You must supply the storage company with a new declarations page showing your policy is still in force every time it automatically renews or they will start charging you for their insurance anyway, Rent increases constantly - no end in sight, except to move it all out of storage.
Shelley McKinney 4 years ago
I work for a storage facility. We offer insurance (through a 3rd party insurance company) but it's not mandatory. We don't insure the contents of peoples units because we don't know what they are storing in there. We tell people that often home or renters insurance will cover but check to be sure. Some people get it with us because they are between homes. Some places to make you take it but I don't agree with that.
Shelley McKinney 4 years ago
We also put it in your lease that you sign that you are not covered for theft or fire and make you initial that you were offered insurance but declined it.
Load More Replies... Carmen Honacker 5 years ago
Yep, which is why I got rid of my storage unit. They actually raised the rent by over 25%!
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
If they didn't raise prices, you'd have no storage unit. Why does everyone think everything should be free? (Nothing is free, seriously.)
Lisa Shelton 5 years ago
I've had my stuff in a storage unit for 13 years and the price has not gone up once.
#28
At a hospital the straight cash price discount for many outpatient tests (MRI, CT, X-Ray, Ultrasound, Labs, etc.) can often be cheaper than using insurance and dealing with deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and on and on. I’ve seen test billed for thousands of dollars to insurance cost a cash paying patient less than $400. It’s insane.
Bhuvy 5 years ago
I watched a documentary about us health system where a person said that if you get a emergency room bill ask them to give a detailed bill like how much everything cost. And mostly this will be few hundred dollars cheaper than main bill
kate h 5 years ago
I've read this as well with people posting first-hand experience. It was thousands taken off the bill. One person even posted photos of the bill before and after.
Load More Replies... bryguy 5 years ago
It's amazing how people in the US just see this as normal. How about not having to pay anythinggggg when you need to go to the hospital??
kate h 5 years ago
It is unfortunately our forced normal. Most of us would LOVE to have a medical system like certain other countries.
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Joanne Haywood 5 years ago
I am wearing a smug grin. Guess where I live! Yes, I pay to fund the NHS through tax and National Insurance but at least I know that the CT scans I continue to have are provided regardless. And no, our nurses are not paid enough.
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
Please don't be smug. It's the rich who ensure the country stays this way. Many of us are in dire need of Healthcare that we may never be able to receive. The politicians are evil, and us citizens pay the price. And no, we can't just vote smarter. They're ALL corrupt.
Load More Replies... Marcia Cash 5 years ago
The high cost of insurance pays all those bureaucrats working in insurance offices, not the doctors
Isabella 5 years ago
US is just shitty country to live in. Pretty places, but shitty country :/ How do ya'll still agree to that?? Here in EU we see US as XIX century capitalistic amusement park.
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
Who says we all agree? I'm not even sure that half of us agree. Our "democracy" is really just a farce at this point. The rich run this country.
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Calane E. Vanya 5 years ago (edited)
I wonder why you won't change this system in the USA. public health care systems in Europe have many weaknesses but they don't get many people into debt. even in countries that aren't rich or big.
kate h 5 years ago
Because it's too profitable for the US medical system to remain as it is. It's really disgusting.
Load More Replies... Kim Lorton 5 years ago
A yep! When I found out what an MRI cost at the hospital, or one of their outpatient places, I just about s my mom used to say, s**t a brick! Hen I found this very cool and accurate place called American Imaging. About 1/3 to cost! And they are always efficient, clean, print me the disc, and I rarely have to wait more than 15 minutes! So, now I just tell the ordering doctor to send the order there. Also, their imaging skills are always clear and never have to be repeated.
Susan Price 5 years ago
Being a diabetic I need syringes for insulin. With insurance they are $4 each. If I buy them over the counter they are 50 cents each. Such a crock
#29
In academia, you create content for privately owned journals like Science and Nature, but still you have to pay them. Also scientists who review journals articles for the peer review process do it for free.
If you don’t participate in this process, you can’t get papers and if you don’t have papers you don’t get funding and subsequently starve and die.
Hans 5 years ago
That is why more and more funding givers enforce so called open access (OA) publications. In that case, a fee is paid for the publication process, but the finally typeset and published article is available to the public. For example, the European Comission mandates this now for research generated through its programs. Similarly, the Norwegian state has undergone comtracts with major publishers like Springer and Elsevier, mandating OA, whenever an author working for a Norwegian institution is the corresponding author.
Out of chocolate 5 years ago
If you’re going up for tenure or full promotion, if your publication record is mostly/all open access, that counts against you in the US, at least I know this is the case at R1 institutions (Universities with top tier research programs) In addition to making people pay to publish, they also sell advertising, rely on an editorial board and reviewers who are all volunteers. It’s a f*****g racket. AND most of them are owned by the same parent corporation. If everyone decided to publish Open access, they would go out of business, but research culture has to change majorly to make that happen.
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Dynein 5 years ago
It's a sad and stupid fact, yes, but I'd like to point out that this is not true for all journals, so it's possible to vote with your feet and publish at least some of your research in non-payment-requiring, open-access journals. And since a lot of the literature search these days is done electronically via services like google scholar, papers published in lesser-known journals aren't as likely anymore to be overlooked.
Mark Divoky 1 year ago
So academic scientific research is now a profit-making business? This isn't the football team, you know.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Hence, publish or perish. And it sucks. BTW, at least those journals peer-review...
#30
The official policy for customer dissatisfaction at a particular Canadian coffee franchise I worked at was, "offer them free stuff until they stop complaining."
Lisa Shaw 4 years ago
Probably, that's what my manager did, when I worked there.
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Lindsey Judd-Bruder 5 years ago
And this is exactly why we now have so many Karen and Ken customer service nightmares. We've trained people to be entitled and self-serving.
EA 5 years ago
It is cos customers will cotton on and complain about ANYTHING, and lie constantly just to get free stuff. Not a good business plan
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Laura Thomas 5 years ago
I complain when it is warranted and will turn down offers of free stuff. I ask instead that they make sure that the problem is addressed. Unless, of course, it is something chocolate!!!
Barbara Baldwin 5 years ago
Safeway clerk wouldn't give my friend the $.10 they overpriced her for ice cream. For ten cents they lost a $200. a week customer. Payless gave the item to you for free if they didn't ring the correct price. I got 2 free lead crystal lamps. Would have also got free seeing machine and stereo tv if I'd let them..
#31
At stores that magical backroom where you can just go and pick up anything is actually a huge mess where things go missing all the time.
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
I used to work as a stock controller for one of the above stores and I used to write off around $1million of stock a month. No that isn't a typo.
The Harry Potter person 5 years ago
Mostly IKEA. Just about everything was sold out even though it never said it was.
#32
Most pet stores are really sketchy when it comes to where their pets are coming from. Usually it's large industrial breeders where the animals just breed more than they should and definitely don't have the environment they deserve. They pretty much never live their entire life span.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Exactly! If you want a pet, go to the local shelter/humane society. Or take in a stray. Or contact a rescue group if you want a particular breed.
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MyrkurDragon 5 years ago
When you want a pet it's way better to go to a professional who really cares for their animals and makes sure you can take good care of the animal. At pet shops they just have animals to sell and the animals don't get a lot of attention besides their cages being cleaned. I've worked at a pet shop and the animals like hamsters, mice, birds were always scared of humans. Of course that can change after you buy them but often people don't take good care of them after buying as well because they don't do enough research and don't get enough info from the pet shop. It's sad
Viviane 5 years ago
I was glad to see an earlier article about celebrities with rescue pets. I like that a lot better than someone buying exotic pets from a dealer. Animal trafficking is pretty horrible. One celebrity wisely donated money to a sanctuary that lets donors "foster" primates. It's way cheaper and far more humane than trying to have one as a pet.
#33
Huawei takes employees pay for mistakes made, I had a company wide 'corrective email' sent to me with a picture of the guy that messed up, his team leader and the line manager, a description of what they did wrong (some security issue, like sharing a password if I remember correctly), as well as the fact that one month's pay has been taken from each of them.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Yep, another thing that would be illegal in most European countries. You can give people warnings, write-ups or a probation. You can even fire them if they really messed up, but you aren't allowed to bully them or steal their wages from them. In Europe Huawei would have to pay a lot on damages and compensation to the employees.
CORLEONE 5 years ago
I worked in some places when they get money from your check if you make a mistake. I know many of you disagree, but people think twice about what they process and what they do at work. Now I work in a big corporate in US and some people make mistakes almost daily for years and they are still working like everyone else. People should take proud of what they do. Thank you for reading my message.
#34
IT support people (help desks, computer repair shops, Geek Squad, etc.) are mostly just better at Googling than you are.
Ian Smith 5 years ago
This is such a BS trope to denigrate IT by folks that don't get it. Sure, google is a resource but experience and aptitude are just as valuable for IT as any other profession.
Monday 5 years ago
knowing exactly what to google is important too. And understanding the instructions google throws back.
Load More Replies... Johnny 5 years ago
That's not true - they know a lot more how the software works and the reason they are better at finding answers on Google isn't because they have better googling skills, but because they know what to search for. A typical user might search for "Browser keeps crashing", while they might search for "Firefox media helper causing segmentation faults when loading mp4 files over tls"
Jouni Hakkarainen 5 years ago
So IT support mostly knows better, how to use IT and applications? I am pretty sure, that is what they are paid for....
Stephanie Did It 5 years ago
Not true. I worked IT support for 9 years, trained by studying/mentoring/OJT. Helped build the database used by those following my team. Then the company let every single one of us go to hire contractors with no knowledge or skill to parrot scripts.
#35
Credit companies will raise your interest rate for no reason and wait for you to call and complain to get it lowered. Check your statements and review ALL notices that come with your bill.
bryguy 5 years ago
They also blame a lot of "computer calculations" -- I usually pay the balance every month but one month I missed around $35 remaining, the next month I seen an interest rate charge of around $8. That's around 25% interest per month, not the 19.99% interest per year they state. I called and they fixed it but only after arguing for a while and explaining the math. They kept saying "the interest rate factors will depend on the amount of days and the outstanding balance" blah blah blah. It was less than 30 days. It was $35. No previous balance. No way should that equal $8 interest.
#36
The amount of toilet paper, random items, and bills used as bookmarks that are left in returned library books.
Neva Nevičica 5 years ago
....and condom wraps, toothpicks, letters, those ear-cleaning sticks, sanitary pads (the thin daily kind, clean, fortunately), matches, postards, photographs and once even money. Yes, we returned it :)
Little Wonder 5 years ago
We once had someone return a book with a winning lottery ticket in it. Not for millions, but for a few thousand. Unfortunately it had gone out on loan again and the person who had it said there was no ticket...
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#37
Used to be an unloader at UPS, putting fragile/shockwatch stickers on your package doesn't do [crap] with how carefully we handle packages especially when you're expected to unload at a rate of 1000 packages an hour.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Seeing all the posts where people showed how they got their packages delivered by UPS this isn't surprising at all. I'm happy to live in Europe where the sender is responsible for the package until you have accepted it. If things get broken in transport the sender has to settle the matter with the courier service. You as a customer get a free replacement.
#38
Half of technical support going on in the background of major platforms is convincing the developers to care about the issue enough to fix it. Also, every platform that interacts in any way with Facebook, hates Facebook. It's so f***ing broken.
Romenriel 5 years ago
I see a title that said: "Facebook mods have PTSD from their work" the other day. I totally believe it, that whole site is messed up.
Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
Can confirm. I know two of them. One quit after just a few months and the other one lives on medication to cope with work
Load More Replies... EA 5 years ago (edited)
Yes! It might take Dev 2 days to fix but it will save countless hours for support who will no longer be answering the same phone call over and over about the problem! And FB - I worked for a company that did tech support for car dealerships, and supported the stock exchange to things like FB and Autotrader. FB is a steaming pile of crap with so many bugs but they are a huge company who don’t care and never fix anything.
Honu 5 years ago
I think that really depends on company culture and business model. Where I work, anything that is causing customer contacts is automatically top of the priority list. We have people that monitor social media for mentions of quality issues, too. We're selling a service, though, so we need that customer to continue to feel it's worth giving us money every month. When it's a one-time purchase with no ongoing revenue, then it can seem less important even though it may kill your product in the long run. The immediacy isn't there so it's easy to kick the can down the road.
athornedrose 5 years ago
omg working with Dev teams can be so frustrating for this exact reason. ours likes to pick on people for outdated terminology. if a more senior person uses technical terms that are out of date, the dev person tends to say it's impossible because that's no longer what it's called and uses that as an excuse not to pick it up rather than ask a clarification question to do it right.
Charlie Kelly 5 years ago
Yeah facebook really wants to take a look at all the peadophilia going on within their site. it's awful. I reported a page and the report came back saying it does not go against their guidelines. right..
#39
Worked for a chemical manufacturer and Adding as little as 0.1% of anything allows you to label a product NEW AND IMPROVED.
EA 5 years ago
There is no such thing as new AND improved. If it’s new, it’s a brand new recipe. If it’s the same recipe but with with a few minor changes then it’s improved. It’s like saying something is “very unique” - it’s unique or it’s not. It’s a small thing but it reeeeally bugs me!
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
New and improved usually means "We changed the package, we reduced the content and raised the price. "
#40
Terrible and illegal things go on in every strip club. Owners only hire people for upper management who they have trusted for years because they all know this.
Amy Pattie 5 years ago
I wants had a friend who worked as a stripper. Once. I think it did some damage to her, and she was barely there for a month.
#41
Yep, that product that you use might say not tested on animals on it, but the raw materials used to make it may well have.
#42
All those beautiful fashion photographs that make photographers famous? They're put together by more talented people in photoshop from usually dogs**t rough photographs from the photographer. I've yet to meet a fashion photographer who could justify their ego.
Phil Vaive 5 years ago
What? First of all, this post was grammatically incoherent, and secondly, if I'm able to decipher it correctly, it's just plain wrong. Most of the fashion photographers I know (and I work in the industry) are awesome folks.
cpetry 5 years ago
As someone who works in the fashion editorial and e-comm world, this is completely wrong. I thoroughly appreciate retouchers. But they aren't needed on most jobs. I think your comment here was intended to be directed at instagram photogs claiming to be fashion photographers and murdering image quality with VSCO presets.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Digital altering of photographs and videos will be the greatest challenge for future generations. It's not that difficult to alter a video of your political opponent to make him look like a drug addict saying all kinds of racist stuff.
#43
Retail: we do have those shoes in your size, but that’s my size and I hid those f***ers in the back til they go on clearance. Yup, all athletic shoes make a [ton] of profit. But the more expensive sport specific shoes really do have better materials. Really nice soccer cleats and running shoes used to be made out of kangaroo. Yes I see you shoplifting. If you’re not super obvious there isn’t much I can do about it. And then even if you are really obvious I can’t do anything.
Monday 5 years ago
^ and even if I could do anything about it I wouldn't because they don't pay me enough
Light 5 years ago
More of I do not know if you have a knife somewhere, I will not get myself hurt just because of a freakin' shoe.
Load More Replies... Thomas Biorogue 5 years ago
I was shocked when I saw how people are just blatantly stealing stuff. These two women walked into a department store and each had an armload of clothes and just casually was walking out. Security guard got in their way and they were like, "You can't touch us! You can't touch us!" And just walked out the store. Why even have security? Their policy should be, Tackle anybody trying to steal from us.
Deb Johnston 5 years ago
Decades ago I worked at J.C. Penny, and we had this one security guy who was super into his security job and catching shoplifters. We called him J.C. Penny Vice.
Mimi777 5 years ago
I worked at a clothing store called Buckle for many years it was in a mall. We were one of the few stores that actually did prosecute for shoplifting. And also we never kept anything in the back. Everything was always out on the sales floor. I really did enjoy working there. I miss it.
#44
I worked at a Dairy Queen when I was 16 and found roaches. I got fired because I was “too slow” when I was cleaning, when in reality I was actually scrubbing [crap] down because everyone else half assed it. That being said, don’t go to dairy queen.
Amy Pattie 5 years ago
That freaked me out until I remembered I don’t live in America. I love Dairy Bell, an Australian company.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Dairy Queen has locations in more than 15 countries...how do you know this was in America?
Load More Replies... Olivia Agave 5 years ago
This is a huge location by location thing. Got a Maccas in the next town over from my hometown that was really bad with the cleaning and you don't want to eat there, but take the mile trip into my hometown and you'll find some of the best hygiene and cleanliness you're going to find in a Maccas.
#45
Businesses offer rebates rather than cash discounts because they know the odds of you going to the trouble of mailing in a rebate coupon are minimal. Then they don't pay the first time, because they know the odds of you complaining about it are infinitesimal. But they usually will pay off if you complain.
BG 5 years ago
And your gym membership is $11/month because they know you're not going to show up.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And they hope that you won't notice so you forget to cancel your subscription.
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#46
It's not necessarily a secret, but I think its is not well known. When you call the 800 line to complain about an experience at a retailer that message is just sent directly to that store where it is reviewed by the same people you are complaining about. 99% its laughed at, you get a fake apology call, and nothing happens.
Stephanie Did It 5 years ago
Exception: mystery shoppers. Their reports, good or bad, go directly to the CEO of managing director of the company. They are the only feedback that matters.
#47
Some Bars actually task Bartenders with stock rates of 104% -110%. This basically means that with every pour that should be 25ml to 50ml they actually tell you to underpour on every drink to ensure were actually making back stock on every purchase. This also means some bartenders are instructed to make more "head" on beers by swirling the glass or intentionally holding it so more head is produced, saving more stock. I started a job that told me this and quit the next day.
Cinders Hunch 5 years ago
I got trained to produce a significant froth on beers and couldn’t understand why (I don’t drink beer). Now I know!
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago (edited)
But real beer drinkers won't accept this practice. In my parts of the Netherlands they will tell you that if they wanted foam they'd order a bubblebath.
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#48
A lot of restaurants have rats. Maybe not in large quantities and visible all the time, but they are there. When it closes down, their tiny little rat feet are running all over the tables, counters and kitchen equipment. Especially in old, historic buildings and buildings near waterfronts.
MyrkurDragon 5 years ago
Almost impossible to fight as well. If there's food in large quantities, there's rats and mice
#49
I work in healthcare. The amount of narcotics theft by health care workers is ridiculous.
Kim 5 years ago
Also ILLEGAL. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US, but where I’m at you’d lose your job if you did this. Yes everything is monitored (here).
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
You lose your job in the US if caught doing this as well, this is not something being done in front of everyone or that is legal.
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Leah Woodard 5 years ago
I work in pharmacy, specifically tracking that issue in my hospital. The scariest part is how often they take part of a dose intended for the patient. Always watch your nurse draw up and administer your pain meds, especially in the er.
#50
Makeup testers in store are DISGUSTING. People will frequently use mascara wands right out of the tube on the shelf. When we see it happen we are required to throw them away because there safe diseases that can spread pretty easily including ocular herpes.
Sue Grigg 5 years ago
Something tells me the age of Covid will put a stop to a lot of this unsanitary crap.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
If only... There are still people denying that Covid exists. Yesterday another influenza who "didn't believe in Covid" died from it. He was 33 and was very fit....
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#51
A used car is priced based on what it will sell for but the margin is calculated by how deep they are into it. So if a car was just traded in, and they haven't detailed it or advertised it yet you can pay thousands less if you ask. And so e car dealerships have reward systems based on numbers for the salesmen and the dealer and management so if you are there at the end of the month you can sometimes get a screaming good deal because even at 0 profit, the sale bumps them up to a big bonus.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Another myth. With the internet at hand it's easy to find out what a car is worth. I don't care what a garage charges for a wash and shine and advertisement of a car. Just walk out if they don't want to come down to what you are willing to pay. There are millions of cars on sale and some of them are even better than the car this garage has to offer.
#52
Graphic design for fashion industry: no matter how incredibly good at artwork and creating you might be, you will still be asked to rip off some other artists’ work but to make it “not too obvious”.
#53
Not that anyone listens anymore, but never call a radio station to request a song. Playlists are researched to death and scheduled days in advanced. If a station plays your song, it’s because it was already going to be played.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
I gave up on radio years ago. Now I listen to CDs or MP3s.
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Sardonic Scribe 5 years ago
Radio/TV worker here... your request will only be played if there is an in-house announcer on-air, and IF the song fits into the specific requirements of that particular day part. (In Canada we are required by the CRTC to follow specific guidelines for Canadian content, etc.). Since the majority of stations are now moving to syndicated shows, the likelihood of you hearing the song you request are slim to none. And yes, we hate the commercials just as much as you do.
#54
Wheat flour is not actually white. We use chlorine to make it look more attractive. This also increases the gluten level in flour, and this is why people are more gluten-sensitive today.
Cinders Hunch 5 years ago
Whole-wheat flour is beige and beautifully flavoured. Why bleach it white!!
Corey Smith 5 years ago
Probably the same reason sugar is white. Apparently it's prettier.
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Anony Mouse 5 years ago
This seems pretty... Well,. wrong scientifically. Maturing agents can affect gluten content, but I can't find anything that states chlorine or bleaching agents can do the same. And then to speculate on a generality "people are more gluten sensitive today" and apply this wrong theory to it? I think this one should be removed for general disinformation.
Honu 5 years ago
The modern dwarf wheat strain that's been in wide cultivation since the 1950s and 60s also has a higher level of immunogenic gliadins (a component of wheat gluten) then the strains that were in use before. I'm not familiar with the chlorine thing, but the difference in the haploid dwarf wheat from the old strains like emmer, einkorn and durum is a pretty common theory on why wheat sensitivity is more prevalent today. I wouldn't be surprised if chlorination is making a bad thing worse.
#55
3D movie conversions are done only a handful of big companies. One of the big ones moved their office to India so they could literally put together a sweatshop of workers working 14 hour days on these things while possibly permanently [screwing] up their vision. They took millions from both the American and Canadian governments and ran.
Sardonic Scribe 5 years ago
Why anyone prefers 3D movies is beyond me... I may be biased, seeing as I'm a glasses wearer.
Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
3d movies are terrible. I avoid them as much as possible. I find it breaks immersion.
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#56
Used to work in Walt Disney World, there are secret tunnels underneath both Epcot and the Magic Kingdom (Probably other parks too) to enable the Cast Members to travel across the park pretty quickly and easily.
CultOfBambi 5 years ago
They have them under Nuka World too! Just watch out for the feral ghouls and radroaches.. :)
#57
If you're eating in a restaurant at a very busy time, your vegan burger has most likely been cooked using the same tongs as raw chicken wings.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
I'm not, but I would still be mad. So yeah.
Load More Replies... Monday 5 years ago
Ignorant meat eater here, is that actually a problem? I know for the sake of Halal food using the same equipment is a no-no, but is it a big deal for vegans too?
Jon S. 5 years ago
Nope, most veggies I know (me included) wouldn't give a crap about it. If you didn't have to kill an extra animal to put it in our stomach, then a little cross-contamination is fine. (There is one hardcore vegan I know who would get pissed off. He had to cook everything in vegan-only pans, even a really good scrub of regular pans would not be enough for him.)
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Almost everyone in the TV and film industry is winging it.
BabaBizzle 5 years ago
Not true. I’ve worked in media (News, Radio , Video production) for over three decades. We’re far from “winging it” since it’s live and there’s no room for error when it comes to delivering news. Ratings depend on how accurate your reporters are, how likable your on air staff is and how integrated your station is with the community. Winging it and you’re fired. We have hundreds of people sending unsolicited resumes on the daily to get a chance to work in the industry. We strive to honor journalistic integrity so people continue to tune in, advertisers continue to buy air time and our ratings beat the competition. If we’re owned and operated by the big 4 networks, we get bonuses and more national ad revenue based on accuracy and ratings.
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
One of my good friends used to work as a video editor for a local TV news station and I know he spent hours before the news aired editing the videos that got aired on the news that early/late evening. He was certainly by no stretch of the imagination "winging it".
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Random Panda 5 years ago
True, one of the top reporters in my country was recently caught on live camera saying they would "just make something up" on a hot topic they didn't have any new info on.
#60
Pretty much nothing on the nutritional label is accurate. It's close, but not very.
Kim 5 years ago
What? Bullshit. (Again maybe in the US it’s true I don’t know, but in Europe we can actually trust what where buying.)
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Foods are made from natural products. There is no way to ensure the exact nutritional value of the item in an individual package unless that was the one subjected to testing. Portion size WILL vary, so will ingredient proportions, and their respective nutritional values. They must not deviate beyond a certain percentage, but it's unlikely that a "170cal" portion will contain precisely 170 calories.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I worry more about the "ingredients" ---- the code words for stuff are freaky.
Artoonist Corine 5 years ago
Buy products marked as "Kosher" or with the American Heart Association logo. They have MUCH more strict rules to follow and have to prove themselves to earn those logos.
Ben Smith 5 years ago
Lol. No...they pay the American Heart Association and get the label. End of story
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In an auto shop, what your mechanic tells you may not be in your best interest, but instead what is most convenient, and what is the least amount of work to do.
Christian N/A 5 years ago
I don't trust Firestone anymore, because everytime we would go we would arrive with one problem and leave with another. We got scammed out of a lot of money because of them
M O'Connell 5 years ago
This is true, however your mechanic is interested in retaining your business. The "right way" to fix something is rarely what a customer will be willing to pay for. OE parts are almost universally better than aftermarket parts, but customers prefer not to pay OE prices.
Jon S. 5 years ago
My brother in law worked for a large chain mechanics shop in the UK. It is definitely true in their case. They were supposed to get through a certain numbers of customers each day and had adjusted pay scales based on that figure alone. They didn't have enough time to even do basic safety checks that would have been required at his pervious garage. All so they could offer the lowest quote on the market.
Olivia Agave 5 years ago
And this is why our car died just down the road with a messed up fly wheel a few months ago - turns out one of the the mechanics noticed that it had issues a year ago, but it was easier for him to fix the minor problem (and got him more money with less effort), than charge the 200-odd that he subsequently said it would have cost to fix said fly wheel a year ago because it was too much effort. So instead it's a 600 quid fix that is a pest to source - evn more so with the beer bug - and we're stuck in a rural town with no vehicle until it can be found.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I'm convinced that the garage who does the maintenance on our cars isn't like that. If things are broken or faulty they will replace them. Sometimes with second hand parts if new parts are too expensive. There are mechanics who really love their job and are committed to give you the safest car they are able to give you.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
In my personal experience, the reliability of used OE parts usually exceeds that of new aftermarket parts.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
ANd that's why you learn car maintenance, folks, so you can tell 'em, "BS!" to their face
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Except that traditional "car maintenance" can only get you so far. Anyone can do that. What the average person (and the average mechanic) lack the skills to do is detailed and conclusive diagnostics. The best thing you can do is ask them how they know those parts are the ones that need to be replaced, rather than allowing them to load up the parts cannon. Also, demanding that any non-core parts be retained is important too, in case that mechanic is incorrect.
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Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
My mechanic employs a full-time welder to repair small defects instead of replacing expensive (whole) parts.
#62
Your mortgage has been transferred so many times that the odds are that your payment records are incomplete.
Agfox 5 years ago
When we finally paid off our mortgage, the bank couldn't find the document. Seems it had been sent interstate to the Corporate office years before - no-one could explain why - & couldn't be found there, either. Ultimately, the bank had to create a replacement document to give us but we never felt comfortable until we sold the property involved
#63
Hotels are held together by more superglue and duct tape than you know. Doesn't matter how nice they are, unless you're talking about ultra rich type places.
BG 5 years ago
I work in the construction industry. Hotels are often built in a rush because we must first build four small houses on the property and tear them down before we can build the hotel. This has been a problem in the industry for decades, but until the rules change... here we are!
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
I must admit, took me a while to realize this is a reference to "The Family and Friendship destroyer". Good one, I tip my top hat to you, sir.
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As a previous pharmacy tech, I can attest to the fact that pills in all shapes & forms are often dropped on the floor for one reason or another. You should know they are never discarded but instead collected & put back in the prescription bottle or original container.
Kim 5 years ago (edited)
From Europe and I’ve never seen this happen. Everything is prepackaged before even arriving at the pharmacy. (Sealed so the pharmacist can’t drop them on the floor and put them back, lol.) Super dangerous and should be illegal btw to put a pill back. Could be the wrong pill and kill the patient. Definitely not hygienic.
80 Van 5 years ago
Hopefully they blow on it first, you know, to remove the dust before putting it back in the prescription bottle.
Yvonne Blau 5 years ago
I'm sure they spit on them and wipe them on their sleeve to make them shiny again... if necessary
Load More Replies... Olivia Agave 5 years ago
To someone sick or immune compromised lik you're going to get in a pharmacy, it's a very big deal. This is why ours are packaged in a way to specifically prevent this happening.
Load More Replies... #65
Those online petitions are really just mechanisms to collect your email address so the charity can spam you later.
Charlie Kelly 5 years ago
Again don't believe everything you read. Those online petitions are real petitions, usually put forward to a higher authority to demand change. Plus it's 2020 you should know by now that you can opt out of emails lmao
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Next you'll say that voting by mail is just a scam to get your private data.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Not all of them are! If you get junk mail, you can contact them and ask to be removed from their lists. Same with e-mail - it's easy to opt out.
#66
There is no such thing as Free Shipping. The cost of shipping is absorbed into the cost of the product.
Aldhissla VargTimmen 5 years ago
The reason I go for free shipping still is because if there's an issue with the product, you get the refund for all you paid. Otherwise, shipping cost is not included in refund :)
#67
Daycare workers say rude things about your family (usually just the parents and not the kids)
Vorknkx 5 years ago
In my country, there have been several cases over the last few years when parents secretly planted microphones on their children, and the recordings revealed some pretty nasty abuse going on at daycares - like staff yelling at the children at full volume, insults, humiliation, unfair penalties for kids who don't even understand what they did wrong... Many unsolved cases of stress and anxiety in children suddenly found their explanation.
Melissa Hudson 5 years ago
Some of us actually conduct ourselves as professionals.
Load More Replies... Azure Adams 5 years ago
Nope they will say all sorts of s**t about your parents in front of you no matter what your age. The after school care I went to as a young kid did. I hate that c**t who ran it and have plotted her ill health demise as a result (she was also an emotionally abusive f**k)
#68
If you ask a manager at a restaurant to turn the thermostat up or down, we literally don’t do a goddamn thing about it.
Kim 5 years ago
Why would you ask the entire restaurant to adjust the temperature just because of you? Who are you, the queen of England? 😂
Geth 5 years ago
Maybe the thermostat is set for the comfort of the wait staff, who are walking around, and all of the customers are freezing? And maybe customers who freeze won't return to the restaurant? Why not ask?
Load More Replies... Out of chocolate 5 years ago
If the restaurant isn’t busy and you’re next to a vent, whether it’s blowing hot or cold, and you’re uncomfortable, they’ll move you. Or close the blind. They won’t change the thermostat but they’ll try to make you more comfortable if they can.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Understandable. Even at the office you can meet people like me that believe that 28ºC (84Fº) is the ideal temperature for working.
Ivy 5 years ago
What’s the point of asking? It would take forever to notice a temperature change in a space that large.
Sarah Tate 4 years ago
Meeting planners do this too. I will tell you to your face that I'll change it but the truth is I won't even ask the venue to do it. Otherwise the temp would have to be changed about 50 times a day, because no one is ever comfortable.
#69
Community Moderator: If a game tells you they've 'punished' a player because of your report, its usually not a ban but either a mute or a warning. Hence why they don't publish the punishment; people wouldn't be satisfied with a slap on the wrist thing like that.
Rah Soft 5 years ago
ah that comes to mind of a particular online tank game in Europe( and North America , Russia and SE Asia) . You can report players for cheating, abusive language( that is illegal) and they will tell you that punishment has been administered and the next day you will see that they are still playing ( you look them up),especially if they pay for the premium service
Gwinevere von Ludwig 5 years ago
This isn't 100 percent true - I imagine it depends on the website. I've been a mod on a website (not a gaming one though) since 2002 and we will absolutely ban people if they step over the line enough.
#70
All the pre-made foods and processed meats that people eat multiple times a day contain phosphate. Phosphate comes in a big 20kg bag with a huge MSDS label all over it that states "Toxic Do Not Consume."
Dynein 5 years ago
Too much phosphate ingested from processed food is in fact a problem, but the fact that it's toxic when purified and in large amounts should not be concerning. A lot of what we eat (if not most) , including completely natural products, contains traces of chemicals that would be toxic if purified and handled in large amounts. It's the dose that makes the poison.
Monday 5 years ago
Example: Oxygen. We need to breathe it in order to live, but pure oxygen would kill you.
Load More Replies... Olivia Agave 5 years ago
It is labelled toxic because you have it in a 20kg bag. That much will kill you, even water can kill you in high amounts. The amount placed in food is of no concern and is recognised as a safe level.
#71
When someone is fixing your computer, they also often look through the data on your hard drive searching for something funny or embarrassing. So, before you give your computer to an IT service, clear your browser history, and copy all the important data to an external drive.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
If you're busy just run this from the command prompt: dir /b/s *.mp4
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Bart S 5 years ago
Another IT Pro here, what a bs comment. We don't have time to go through hundreds or thousands of someone's photo just to find something funny. I go to Bored Panda to look at funny stuff. All I care is to fix the problem to get my money and then onto another problem to get more money.
Kim 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah I don’t believe this. He who wrote it probably thinks what he does applies to everyone. And he’s probably 10.
Kit Tan 5 years ago
Someone fixed my computer, downloaded loads of porn and forgot to delete them before returning the gadget to me.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
A guy who used to do this in my small home town is now stacking groceries at the local supermarket.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Proof that he didn't go though all the data. He would have found lots af "interesting" photo's and videos that their owners would pay for to not have them published. ;)
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 5 years ago (edited)
It's MUCH more common for the IT pro to discover that the virus you have no IDEA how you got came with the ton of porn you downloaded and didn't even bother to try to conceal you dummy.
What do you think ?
Hans 5 years ago
This series desperately needs fact checking. Some of these are true, some only apply to the US but would be illegal for example in Europe. Some would be illegal almost everywhere and may only be rare cases. And some are outright wrong.
Eepe 5 years ago
... yeah, but it’s only a problem if they get caught. And if they get caught, they get fined, straighten up long enough to pass the next inspection, then go right back to what they were doing. Doesn’t matter where they are, people who would do something like that are going to do it...
Load More Replies... Ben Smith 5 years ago
This is mostly “my business does this particular thing” so I’m going to badmouth the whole industry despite having zero idea what actually happens outside these walls.
Ruth Peacock 5 years ago
This is not about different industries, it's about what industries do in the USA. I am getting so sick of the assumption that what happens in the USA is standard world-wide.
80 Van 5 years ago
I don’t think that’s the assumption, at least in this post. People are sharing their experiences on Reddit, and BP is reposting. I don’t think were meant to assume this covers every experience everywhere, but that there are trends that these particular posters noticed. And, while some certainly have marks of being in the US, none of them say that they are only from the US. These might be experiences in other countries besides your own as well, even if they don’t match your own experience.
Load More Replies... Phil Vaive 5 years ago
This is an entire list of people who work for shitty companies, and assume that the rest of their entire industry is as shitty as theirs.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
I think that most of these are "I worked for a crap company that did bad things so I am going to apply this to an entire industry". I worked at a Dairy Queen. Our store was so clean you could lick ice cream off of the floors if you wanted to. I have worked at bars that tracked stock and knew if you weren't pouring correctly and would talk to the bartenders because correct pours kept customers coming back.
SheHulk 5 years ago
This post needs more genuine insights rather than cynical comments on stuff we kinda already know. Also some fact-checking as Hans says below. I was mildly surprised by #6 and the revelation that Starbucks lies to their customers. No, sorry; that was a lie. I wasn´t surprised at all.
Peter Ioannou 5 years ago (edited)
I just find it baffling as a concept, that in US you pay for basic Healthcare. My mother had a heavy stroke last summer so she is constantly doing tests and getting medication. She has spent in total 50days in hospital within a year. For the nights in hospital WE PAID NOTHING! For the many exams she does, we contribute a little just because we use private exam centers. For example for a €400 CT and full blood tests set, we pay €35. If we went to a hospital WE WOULD PAY NOTHING. For her pills that would cost us €250 we pay €25. How can you as a society allow people to die just because they can't afford Healthcare? I don't know man, its just sad what unchecked capitalism can do to societies...
Carmen Fox 4 years ago
#24 is NOT true. As a hospital's environment care tech (housekeeping) I can tell you I make sure those rooms aren't going to harm the next patient. I do think my hospital isn't the only one with stringent room cleaning requirements.
Hans 5 years ago
This series desperately needs fact checking. Some of these are true, some only apply to the US but would be illegal for example in Europe. Some would be illegal almost everywhere and may only be rare cases. And some are outright wrong.
Eepe 5 years ago
... yeah, but it’s only a problem if they get caught. And if they get caught, they get fined, straighten up long enough to pass the next inspection, then go right back to what they were doing. Doesn’t matter where they are, people who would do something like that are going to do it...
Load More Replies... Ben Smith 5 years ago
This is mostly “my business does this particular thing” so I’m going to badmouth the whole industry despite having zero idea what actually happens outside these walls.
Ruth Peacock 5 years ago
This is not about different industries, it's about what industries do in the USA. I am getting so sick of the assumption that what happens in the USA is standard world-wide.
80 Van 5 years ago
I don’t think that’s the assumption, at least in this post. People are sharing their experiences on Reddit, and BP is reposting. I don’t think were meant to assume this covers every experience everywhere, but that there are trends that these particular posters noticed. And, while some certainly have marks of being in the US, none of them say that they are only from the US. These might be experiences in other countries besides your own as well, even if they don’t match your own experience.
Load More Replies... Phil Vaive 5 years ago
This is an entire list of people who work for shitty companies, and assume that the rest of their entire industry is as shitty as theirs.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
I think that most of these are "I worked for a crap company that did bad things so I am going to apply this to an entire industry". I worked at a Dairy Queen. Our store was so clean you could lick ice cream off of the floors if you wanted to. I have worked at bars that tracked stock and knew if you weren't pouring correctly and would talk to the bartenders because correct pours kept customers coming back.
SheHulk 5 years ago
This post needs more genuine insights rather than cynical comments on stuff we kinda already know. Also some fact-checking as Hans says below. I was mildly surprised by #6 and the revelation that Starbucks lies to their customers. No, sorry; that was a lie. I wasn´t surprised at all.
Peter Ioannou 5 years ago (edited)
I just find it baffling as a concept, that in US you pay for basic Healthcare. My mother had a heavy stroke last summer so she is constantly doing tests and getting medication. She has spent in total 50days in hospital within a year. For the nights in hospital WE PAID NOTHING! For the many exams she does, we contribute a little just because we use private exam centers. For example for a €400 CT and full blood tests set, we pay €35. If we went to a hospital WE WOULD PAY NOTHING. For her pills that would cost us €250 we pay €25. How can you as a society allow people to die just because they can't afford Healthcare? I don't know man, its just sad what unchecked capitalism can do to societies...
Carmen Fox 4 years ago
#24 is NOT true. As a hospital's environment care tech (housekeeping) I can tell you I make sure those rooms aren't going to harm the next patient. I do think my hospital isn't the only one with stringent room cleaning requirements.
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