People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers)
A non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, is a legal document that keeps the lid on any sensitive information. Think of it as a way to keep things like secret recipes, proprietary formulas, and manufacturing processes under wraps. NDAs can be used to protect innovative ideas, maintain a competitive advantage, but also to cover more shady aspects of a business.
So when someone asked “people who have signed NDAs that have now expired or for whatever reason are no longer valid, ‘What couldn't you tell us but now can?’” on r/AskReddit, the thread blew up with 54k upvotes.
Employees of all industries are now spilling things that were not supposed to come out in broad daylight. Let’s see some of the most interesting corporate secrets right below.
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I worked for a popular national pet store chain. We told our customers that we got our puppies from 'reputable breeders and not puppy mills'. We got them from puppy mills, and I can't express how many came in on the back of a large, pitch dark freight truck, malnourished, scared and sick.
We also adopted the cute kittens from the local sheltered and charged customers outrageous amounts of money. Most of whom just felt bad for the kittens.
Don't support national chain pet stores that sale puppies that do not come from local shelters folks.
It's illegal to sell dogs in pet stores in most civilized countries. You'll get there one day.
all the breeders now do it as a business scamming people out of thousands for a dog worth under a grand
Load More Replies...You will find it very difficult to find cats and dogs for sale in pet shops where I live, including places like petbarn and petstock.
Petbarn partners with RSPCA to help animals get adopted.
Load More Replies...I was an adult before I realised pet shops were a thing, all of my pets have been rescues.
Rescues make the best pets, whether from a shelter/pound or right off the street. Best cat I ever had was a stray I took in.
Load More Replies...The PetSmart near me partners with the local SPCA and helps cats anto kittens to find a home.
I work at PetSmart and all our dogs and cats are from local shelters and fosters. Also, if you buy any of the sale pets there is a two week "satisfaction" guarantee. If your parakeet, turtle, beardie, snake, mice, hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, etc, get sick before the 2-week period bring it back. The pet are team will take it to a specialty vet for care. Don't just wait and let it die! But if it does, bring it and your receipt back to PetSmart and they'll refund or replace. If your fish (not comets) dies before the 2 weeks, bring your receipt with you AND the dead fish in a ziplock bag and you'll get a refund or replacement. Also, when you adopt a dog or cat from a local shelter, PetSmart will give you an "adoption kit," a book with $500 worth of coupons to help with setting up your new companions home. Dog food, bed, crate and crate pad, puppy pads, bath, leash or collar, name tag, bowls, etc. Just go to PetSmart with your folder from the shelter and ask for it.
Load More Replies...Here in the UK, Pets At Home were found out for mistreating and/or neglecting their animals which were for sale. I hope they have changed their ways but I will still never set foot in the place and will happily tell as many people as I can about there dastardly ways. All in the name of money.
Pet stores often buy from brokers so they can say they don't buy from puppy mills.
Very true. I live in Indiana and there was an expose’ recently after a privately owned pet store had a fire, which of course killed dozens of animals. The pet store owner slipped up during an interview with the reporter about where he obtains the puppies. They are from an Amish owned puppy mill in Odon IN….a tiny farming community about an hour North of me. I knew the Amish and perhaps the Mennonites were heavily into puppy mills in OH and PA, but had no idea one was so close to where I live.
Load More Replies...I'm glad this kind of puppy and kitten selling is illegal here in Finland
I was a model for a few big name/well known make up companies. I did several print ads for magazines and a few television commercials.
The makeup artists do use the product advertised, but MINIMALLY. Like that mascara they're touting? It's over REALLY GOOD fake eye lashes and they also used another brand of mascara along with the one they're trying to sell you.
Also - the clothes in the ads you see are pinned to high heaven on the model. They fit nothing like they look. It's not you. It's not your body. It's fake advertising. Most of us models look just like you wearing that cr*p without all the pins and tucks and double sided tape.
Ads in nz now have to say if the model is using any kind of lash extension 💪
The last thing should be widely known already. I mean, there's plenty photoshop fails around where they forgot to remove the pins from the picture. And this shouldn't be surprising, either. Clothes fit badly not necessarily because company aren't trying, but because you can't make an "average" size that perfectly fits everyone, because people aren't scaled versions of each other. People of the same size are almost certainly going to differ on their exact shoulder/bust/waist/hip width, proportion of arm-to-torso and leg-to-torso length, muscularity, ... SOME people might be lucky for being average for all of these traits - but most people aren't, and that includes people with desirable proportions (I'm skinny, but that mostly means that instead of asking "does this make me look fat" I ask "does this make me look like a fashionable stick". And since I still have "curvy bones", I still get stuck in some trousers... and get weird creases in those that do fit over my hips.)
One day technology will solve these problems, and we'll be like, "There was a time when it was difficult to get proper fitting clothes".
Load More Replies...People need to know more about body types and tailoring. Clothes from the rack fit absolutely no one.
Ye# correct and learn to sew. It's great to create your own fashion
Load More Replies...My sister modeled as a teenager, and I used to tag along, there is SO much staging, that comment is 100% correct. They also use hair pieces for fuller body, I’ve seen them use smaller bra’s to enhance cleavage, and even different models for the different body parts (close up of a model touching her face? Might not be her own hand!) Marketing does NOT work on me, and I absolutely detest influencers that play up their “normal and relatable” lives when I can see a pic took days or weeks of planning and the shoot itself takes a day or more.
they do the same s**t with pretty much any product imagery/advertisement
I was a translator (contractor) for the US military. I also translated Marvel comic books. Marvel had tighter security.
That is very interesting, why such tight security for Marvel comics?
I can attest to this. I worked on a Marvel project and in order for it to be awarded we had to revamp our ENTIRE security protocol at our studio. Just for 1 year's worth of work. Insane.
Well the military is trained for well fighting Stan Lee weeel not so much
Exactly, rather break into a guarded comic book store or a military area full of men and women who can remove your pelvis with relative ease?
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I work tech conferences so I have to sign (agree to) NDA's all the time.
I saw the Google Chromecast before the public did, chrome books, phones, Apple phones, MacBooks, Nvidia shield, even some games like Call of duty, Titanfall, and have sat in some meetings with the worlds richest .01% or fundraisers with celebrities.
Most of the time it's boring the best one I can remember was meeting Robin Williams, he was at fundraiser for the local zoo, the biggest donor got to spend the day with just Robin in the zoo, and name their new baby Tiger. So I mic up Robin, he jumps up on stage and says let's start the bidding on naming the new baby Tiger, come on folks think about it, how many times do you get to officially name a pussy!? If I remember correctly the highest bidder got into a bidding war, Robin is running around getting the crowd pumped up and laughing their asses off as only Robin could do and the highest bid ended around $50,000.
It was one of the most memorable and fun things I've ever got to do at an event was work with magnificent man.
The more stories that come out about him, the more we can see how he just gave us chunks of himself until there was nothing left to give. Rest in peace, O Captain, My Captain.
How do you know there was nothing left to give? Until he got sick, it seemed he was doing well. Lewy body dementia is a horrible way to die. I watched my Dad die that way, and I would only wish it on my worst enemies. I wish my Dad had died suddenly, instead of the horror of the last two months of his life.
Load More Replies...If this is the only auctioning-of-tiger-name Robin Williams did, it's Jillian! (which I honestly find a bit of a disappointing name for a tiger) https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-xpm-2013-may-27-la-trb-sf-zoo-tiger-cub-gets-a-name-20130524-story.html
Load More Replies...A quote of his I read one time just broke my heart and in a way I think he was at the time baring his soul to us. We just didn't know it at the time. "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make other people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that." Why do you think he was an amazing dramatic actor? Felt it all so very deeply.
He killed himself to avoid the horrible death from Lewy Body dementia, not for the usual reasons. It's a good thing, too. It's a horrible way to die. I watched my Dad die that way.
Load More Replies...It's as though a light went out in the world when he died. How much he have been suffering and yet gave laughter and joy to millions?x
He killed himself to avoid the horrible death from Lewy Body dementia, not for the usual reasons. It's a good thing, too. It's a horrible way to die. I watched my Dad die that way.
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Signed an NDA when I worked as a fit model for Katy Perry’s shoe line. Basically a fit model is used for their good proportions to test out the fit of garments. I’m a solid size 7.5 so hooray for being average. I was hired on two occasions and got to hang out and give her my opinion on the fit, feeling, and comfort of different shoes.
Didn’t think she’d actually be there but both times she was present and totally running the show. Super nice woman in person and remembered me when we met again.
She and Taylor! Yes, I know they were feuding but they made up!!
Load More Replies...It's so good to read not only is a celeb actually human and nice, but they are closely involved in launching their range of whatevers.
That’s really cool. A lot of celebrities wouldn’t really care about stuff like that
“House Hunters” guest checking in, I never made the show because I didn’t close on the house.
1: I had to have a house under contract before going on the show.
2: They would select the other houses we were “interested” in.
3: I was assigned another SO who was more “interesting” than my actual SO.
#3 made me laugh hysterically! *closes on house, moves in with tv husband, leaves SO on the couch by the side of the road*
And pwan shops. And truckers. And ancient aliens. Particularly ancient pawning truckers.
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I used to work at Frisch's as a hostess/busser/drive-thru attendant, that place was filthy and corrupt as f**k. No one in the kitchen wore gloves and the cooks loved making people eat old food/food that had been dropped on the disgusting floors. The manager loved to steal the waitresses tips and blame the customers or the sketchy looking bussers. The most corrupt thing the awful manager did while I was there was around Christmas time. He would take $100 out of each of the new/younger employees cash drawer, call your parents saying that their kid stole the money and they needed to be brought in to be questioned. When I went to work the next day I found out the same s**t happened to a few of the others, we all got pissed and snagged the key that locked the box to the camera controls, re-winded to the following day and watched until we saw the f***er start doing his thing. Every single one of us reported his a**. He got insta-fired. It was glorious.
they are just people... human nature at best.. greedy, corrupt and full of s**t.
Load More Replies...But none of you reported the people feeding customers food from the floor?
...and everyone slow-clapped. How is this covered by an NDA? Do some of these posters even know what an NDA is?
That part about calling parents makes no sense at all. Makes me suspicious of the whole story.
I read it as - he swiped the $100. Then he called the parents, who he hoped would freak out and offer to pay back the "missing" $100 in order to keep the kid out of jail.
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I worked at Dairy Queen, the collection box supporting children with cancer hanging out the drive-thru window was a discontinued charity, my manager pocketed all the donations. Disgusting in a different sense.
Why would this be nda, they could have reported this just based on it being a discontinued charity.
Right. Can't use NDAs to hide criminal activity.
Load More Replies...Turn them into the IRS. With non reported wages, even if they were collected illegally, they could be looking at tax evasion. The IRS will also have all the records of the charity and so will be able to estimate how much was never paid in taxes. You might also get a percentage of the amount collected as the whistleblower.
I worked at a salon where the hair people who donated for wigs for cancer patients was just piled up in a bag in the back for months. I don't know if it was ever donated. Be careful when donating hair!
hope he burns in whatever religions bad place he believes in. what a asshole
There’s no hell. If society doesn’t regulate mega-assholes like this, there will be no other consequences.
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Most American Idol contestants have agents that got them on the show, and 90-95% of it is pre-cast before the “audition tour”.
I've heard from an inside source that the winner is always predetermined. The votes have no weight. Totally a scam.
Load More Replies...They also want someone with a certain kind of backstory. The normal everyday person who just happens to be good at singing isn’t sellable. I had a friend who auditioned and was told that.
This is 100% true. My wife tried out for AI about 15 or so years ago. Now I'm obviously biased, but my wife is unbelievably talented. She sang in operas, musicals, with a philharmonic orchestra, and can even sing the blues like Janis Joplin. She made it through phase 1 and stopped at phase 2 right before you actually got to sing for the judges. Simply put, she didn't have an interesting back story and she didn't have "the look". The only people you see on that show are the truly awful ones that they use for comic relief, and the ones that they know they can market.
Load More Replies...I'm sure most adults know but not young people. These posts are for people that don't know. Idk why it's that hard for you to understand. Not everyone knows everything. People have to learn and not everyone is always as cynical as you seem to be. Some people need to learn on their own. A lot of different people in the world in case you don't understand that like most people do.
Load More Replies...Every truth is coming out now, do you ever see all the crowds in line waiting for their turn, it would’ve taken months
I stopped watching America's Got Talent when I happened to see in the end credits that the winner of the million dollar prize would receive it in increments over FORTY years!!!
I mean, that's still 25.000 per year. Seems like a much better deal than getting it at once, to be honest. Would hate to go through the whole fake bullshit, though
Load More Replies...LOL..I love how they used an SNL sketch mocking American Idol for the pic....
I always figured this when they started doing more in-depth info on some contestants.... like yes they definitely already pick this person or they won't be talking about her home life and family.
I've never seen the show, but still knew it worked like that. Because I've seen YouTube videos from both contestants who were accepted and those who weren't. Those who were accepted were given a four or five question mini-interview before their performance. Those who failed were only asked their name and age, nothing more.
When I was a kid, I visited the dentist for a cavity. While there, the dentist slipped while drilling my tooth and drilled a hole under my tongue. My mom saw me tense up, and my dentist said “oh, nicked her there a bit so you might see a little blood.” I got home and after an hour, my entire neck was swollen up like a frog and my voice was squeaky because of the air pressure. A pocket of air was pressing against my heart... dirty air, at that, because of the bacteria in my mouth. I was admitted to the hospital as a “code 4,” with a “code 5” being dead. When my mom tried to sue the dentist for damages, he claimed I was kicking and screaming and “out of control” during the appt, even getting his secretary to vouch for him and testify. (Total BS.. I liked the dentist, and I was a people pleaser. Also, laughing gas). My mom’s lawyer was super pessimistic and told her just to settle and sign an NDA because she had a “small chance” of winning. So my mom settled, being naive and scared to take on an office full of liars. She could never disclose who the dentist was, and we’ve heard other horror stories throughout the years about this dentist effing up other people’s’ mouths. It sucks because every lawyer we’ve talked to after-the-fact says we had a very strong case and it’s likely we would have won. Like really won.
I'm not a lawyer and have no firsthand knowledge, but I suspect that lawyers have figured out a way to insulate themselves from such claims.
Load More Replies...That's why I turn my audio recording on every time I see a doctor. Most of them are OK, some are butchers and lie to you.
My boyfriend has gum issues because when he was younger his orthodontist used some kind of new tool on him and it’s caused him gum pain ever since. I’d have to get more details from him but that’s all I can remember off the top of my head. His mom didn’t want to sue because “it’s not the Christian thing to do.”
Huh. I wonder if it was the same as my dentist growing up. Total nightmare. Drilled without novacaine, drilled on non-cavities....
Please, please, please. When this kind of thing happens, report them to their governing body. Follow up with them frequently to find out what is being done with your complaint. Don't let go of it. Drunk on the job? Would hopefully lose their license. As for the writer, if you were being so uncooperative that this happened he had a professional obligation to stop before it ever got near to the level he claimed, and to go get your Mom. Not a Christian thing to do? It very well is a Christian thing to do. It is not a Christian thing to do to let someone get away with this.it is a Christian thing to hold others accountable and hopefully prevent this happening to someone else. Also, Moms, if your child is a minor you have every right to be in the room with them during dental work. It's not a sterile procedure and yes, there is room for you in there.
The medical data make absolutely no sense in this story. That's not how anatomy works.
Agreed. I’m a dental hygienist and none of the after effects sound correct. 🤔
Load More Replies...That BS. Utter nonsense. We are not some inflatable/deflatable creatures that take in air. Those devices also are not capable of hurting soft tissue. You might get a nasty infection from bacteria involved in tooth decay entering you bloodstream if it does hurt you, but air pockets from damaged tissue? That's not how it works. Also that's not how coding works in a hospital. Those are for suddenly destabilizing patients to quickly get more staff on board. God at least make some of your story realistic.
My orthodontist tightened my braces too tight and killed my top front tooth. He told my mom I must have fallen on my face and not remembered it.
R Kelly's lawyer was on his death bed and told reporters R Kelly is "guilty as hell" regarding his child p*rnography case.
The NDA was still valid but he was given a short time to live and I guess as a lawyer, you need get this stuff off your chest.
I don't know the case but what I know is that advocates protecting paedophiles is totally effed up
I share your sentiment, but I surely don't want to live in a society where people, regardless of the crime they are accused of, don't get a lawyer and a fair trial. I also have to add that being a paedophile is not a crime. It's acting on it that's criminal. I know paedophilia is a disgusting thought, but people should never be sanctioned based solely on sexual preferences, as long as they don't commit an actual crime.
Load More Replies...Watch the Netflix documentary. Everyone knows he's guilty at this point, folks.
Lawyers are bound by a legal principle called 'privilege', not NDA's...and privilege never expires, it can only be invalidated by the actions of one or both parties or waived by the client...and it extends past the death of the client AND the lawyer.
He's been doing this s**t since the early 90s everyone knows he's guilty.
This is a pretty illegal thing to claim actually. I think it's irresponsible media practices to let anyone post whatever they want with no verification . He was totally guilty imo , but this is slander , and slander on two people
This was a pretty big news story back in 2019, not someone just making it up and posting it. Google it.
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I was actually an actor in that commercial that said I wasn’t.
Even if I'm not a fireman, as soon as I put out a fire, I'm a fireman, even for just that one fire.
There was a bad car accident on our road and my neighbors and I were the only ones to help. It was at the beginning of the Pandemic and no one would get out of their cars that saw the accident. Even the police weren't helping, luckily a nurse showed up. We call ourselves first responders. We had no masks or gloves. Later we had to wake up same neighbor because his apartment building was on fire but the fireman and his other neighbor didn't alert anyone else. So again we joked about being the first responders. I'm not an emergency worker but I play one in real life sometimes.
Load More Replies...Took a while to get my head around the sentence. We don't have commercials that say "real people, not actors".
Yeah i found that strange too...Is this American? I haven't seen it in Europe but ok i haven't been everywhere in Europe
Load More Replies...We all know that "real people" in adverts are just paid actors. No shock here
A huge part of The Bachelorette was scripted. The company I worked for at the time was a major tourism service provider and featured prominently in one of the seasons. We were all pulled into meetings with the higher up managers, given a speel about what was in our best interest... and spilling any secrets was punishable by a $5mil lawsuit, "Please sign here".
The "Bachelorette" herself was clearly there to further her public profile or "acting" career. The scenes were always "set up" before filming. Behind the camera nothing was happening. The cast were told where to go, what to do and how to do it.
If half those guys weren't on their phones texting their real girlfriends most of the time, I would be surprised.
So fake... so 100% fake.
Because it's stupid and the world is sad and serious many times. So it's nice to have a dumb distraction. At least that's why I sometimes like it.
Load More Replies...All of “reality” TV is scripted and fake as f**k. Yet enough gullible people continue to believe it’s real, and get incredibly invested in its outcome, so it continues to be produced long past what should’ve been its expiration date.
I work in the business and can tell you that practically every element of reality TV is scripted. Directors will even yell, "cut", So they can reset the scene and have the 'actors' do different versions
I was an extra on Murder on The Orient Express, for the Istanbul scene (over a week of filming, and it's literally about 20 seconds of the film)
Michelle Pfeiffer had to be fed her line reading on each line by Kenneth Branagh, which I thought was weird. Like every line, she'd be like 'how do you want me to say this?'
And then at one point Johnny Depp snuck onto set the day before he was due to film with a baby doll's head in his hand and snuck up behind the car Michelle Pfeiffer was in to try and scare her with it. Weird dude.
The Johnny Depp thing doesn't seem too weird. He seems like a fun guy trying to pull a joke on a coworker.
Feel like if this Depp story was before all the controversy it would have been 'He's a hilarious guy' but now he can only be weird, crazy or creepy... sad, I think...
Load More Replies...Does Pfeiffer need to ask the director how to say every line, or does Brannaugh want to tell his actors how to say every damn line? Pfeiffer has done enough good work with enough directors that I suspect it's the latter.
That's what I was wondering, asking "how do you want me to say this?'" is much different than just getting lines fed to her. He may be really picky about how he wants her lines to sound, so she's just making sure she understands his expectations before filming.
Load More Replies...My hubby loves to watch movies, and tell us when he spots a scene where it's obvious the performer has to be fed lines or is looking at something with their lines written on it.
I always wondered why films had such huge budgets, a week of filming for 20 seconds of usage.
Truth is, filming a big movie requires A LOT of time, people, and gear. The big names get payed a lot, that's for sure. But not just that. A big studio film production can easily last 6 month or more, with 200 people on set at all times. You have to pay all those people. And also the people working post-production (editing, sound design, VFX, ... ) again, a couple of months/ years. So it's a lot of qualified people that need to be paid and fed (it's a big chunk of the budget). And that's not counting the sets you need to build (sometimes, huge complex sets) or the locations you need to rent out for weeks. And the gear. On big movies, lighting is massive in scale, imagine hundreds of special fixtures, pumping thousands and thousands of watts. You sometimes have a few massive 20kW, 40kW, 60kW lamps attached on a giant crane (search "once upon a time in hollywood highway bts" on Google). All this stuff needs to be rented or bought for months at a time. So yeah, movies are expensive
Load More Replies...If trying to scare someone is weird than I am potentially the weirdest human on the face of the earth.
They have long days of ding nothing so they have to do something to brighten their day. I would hope they do something. Sitting in their "space" all day would drive you crazy.
Johnny Depp is really cool. He was awesome in Pirates of the Caribbean
The fajitas sizzle because we pour oil and water on a hot plate not because we grilled anything.
Bullshit. I used to work in a Mexican restaurant and I can tell you that we 100% grilled our meat, peppers, and onions!
Ditto! ("Me too" for those that don't know what ditto means)
Load More Replies...Okay so what’s the NDA here? Fajita Inc. made you sign a non disclosure agreement about fajitas? What is this?
I used to make fajitas and I don't remember pouring water on them, ever.
Worked for a self-storage place in Rocklin, CA. They made every customer sign a "lease agreement" that said that you wouldn't hold them responsible if your unit was broken into and things were stolen. I found out that we had 7-8 burglaries a year. The owners would get sued but they would always get off because they'd produce the "lease agreement" in court and the judge would dismiss the case. One day I came in from vacation to pick up my paycheck, and I found the owner and the manager loading up a truck with the contents from a unit that wasn't theirs. I went around the corner to an area where the fence allowed me to look in, and saw that they went to another storage space, cut off the lock, and proceeded to load up the truck with a telescope, big screen tv and some power tools. I came back the next day and asked one of my co-workers. He told me that the owners of the storage space would sell the stuff they stole from renters, and that the manager and owner did the same thing with another property that they owned in Granite Bay. I quit to go back to Sac State. I called the Rocklin cops to tell them what the owners were doing, and they said that there was nothing they could do unless they were caught in the act.
It’s also disgusting that law enforcement would immediately say they wouldn’t do anything unless the owners were caught red-handed. Considering the fact that they could trace fenced goods—-and who fenced them—-by any serial numbers that the renters of the storage units could provide. Unless, of course, they’re in on it.
Load More Replies...That's the common problem with law enforcement: Sorry, as long as there's no proof, it didn't happen. And even if you've got full HD video of a crime in progress, chances are likely that the police won't even look at it.
I dunno, we had a porch cam that caught a car tipping over (not as exciting as it sounds it was slowest motion tip over). The police asked for our footage. So, maybe it depends on what the crime is and what police department or officer you get?
Load More Replies...They could actually set up a simple sting operation. Rent a storage unit, fill it with expensive stuff and a remote set of cameras. Then when they break into it, you have the proof that they are stealing on video.
Could the employee have taken pics on phone maybe? As proof. And as others above said, set up a sting!
That, or call the cops while OP was watching through the fence as stated. Dunno why one would NOT call the cops immediately.
Load More Replies...Typical police excuse. All they have to do is put up a secret camera
I've always believed that all the thefts from storage units was an inside job.
I was in the first test screening audience for John Wick 3 (and I think the NDA has expired since the movie is now out). The visual effects were still unfinished (and several scenes had just placeholder cards that described what occurred in the missing scene). It was really interesting being able to see the animal handlers running along with the animals, wearing full-body black spandex suits, before they were digitally deleted from the final film.
I thought it was really interesting and it's just not something you'd think about being there.
I think I would actually enjoy watching stuff like that. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is very fascinating. When I still lived in New England in my late 20's, my wife and I were invited to a dry-run, so to speak, of a musical that was trying to get on Broadway, in a small theater in CT. It was a small audience (about 30) and all of the actors sitting in front of us, and a piano. They sang their parts while reading lines from books that honestly looked like galley proofs. So, no costumes, no sets, not even a dress rehearsal. But it was really intimate. Had a blast. The musical was, I believe, Take Flight - about the history of flight starting with the Wright Brothers and including Amelia Earhart and other notables (this was around the turn of the millennium, so the 100th anniversary was coming up). Not sure if it ever made it to Broadway, but it was a fun evening.
I would love to be able to see this stuff! It's always really cool.
Load More Replies...Probably more interesting than a lot of movies. I like the "behind the scene" things.
That movie was just so very terrible, there's was literally a very VERY small amount of actual dialogue. It was such a letdown.
my dad's job gives him access to films before they're out, so i saw one once. super interesting. the special effects were only half-done.
That does seem really cool actually. Now I wanna see what movies look like without all the effects
Wow what a fascinating NDA story. Who knew that movies with special effects used a green screen and people with suits before being digitally edited. This is brand new information.
We all know it, but it's interesting to know which scenes in our favorite films are built that way.
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My boss refuses to hire anybody but white women, and he uses rubbing alcohol to wipe the expiration date off of product if it expires. He just puts it back on the shelf. Including dairy product. I hate him.
I'm sure they could anonymously report the boss to the authorities. So I don't know who is the bigger jerk here.
So many of these have nothing to do with an NDA. If you see Illegal or dangerous activity it's a criminal matter, and it's not "protected" by anything. A lot of NDAs are just things written up by people who think a signature is some kind of legal paper. If you went to the police, or called the Health Department, or even took photos and documented things, they'd be in for a big shock when they pull out an NDA that is supposed to make you look like you're violating something. That's also what "Whistle Blower" laws are for....for anonymously protect those who might even have solid, legal NDA but want to report illegal or abusive activity. NDAs shouldn't cancel out being a decent person
I'm not quite sure if the BP author knows what exactly an "NDA" is. The Reddit question this post was taken from reads "What disgusting secrets does your employer keep from its customers?", it's got nothing to do with NDAs.
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If I can’t see or read the expiration date, I do not buy it. I do not want to tempt fate.
What a stupid question! Because people need money to pay for the rent, electricity, good, etc? Is that a good enough reason for you? Perhaps where this person lives there are not any other jobs available, so she has to put up with it.
Load More Replies...WE don't believe it, what would her boss have to gain from doing such an act? Nothing!
A small-business owner for whom I worked several years ago kept deducting the employees' health insurance premiums but never sent the payments in to the carrier. After 2-3 months of this, our insurance was cancelled, right before one lady's teenage son was in a fairly serious car accident. She finds out at the emergency room, during what is of course an extremely stressful time, that she has no insurance whatsoever when she and her dependents had been fully covered.
The next day she went into his office, very upset, to find out what happened. He gave his usual song-and-dance and made excuses for not having been able to send it in, and this normally mild-mannered lady picked up a stapler and threw it at him! (He wasn't even injured.) While doing that was of course unacceptable, I totally understood her frustration with this weasel. He spent thousands of dollars a month of company money (coding it to company expenses) at Sam's Club on groceries and big-ticket items for his house. On top of his already generous salary.
Then to top it all off, he actually TOOK HER TO COURT for the stapler-throwing incident. After hearing the story, the judge dismissed the weasel's case and made a comment to the effect that if he were in the same position as her, he probably would've done the same thing.
Aren't there any laws to prevent him from doing that? Where I live you can have your business closed for good, among other things, for not paying your employees benefits.
It would be Classified as embezzlement in any reasonable state/country.
Load More Replies...I'm not getting this. Besides having a totally different sytem of healthcare and social security, in Germany (and pretty much every other country in central europe) this is a serious criminal act. That would not even need a report from a individual, authorities would investigate something like that automatically. This guy would probably have to enjoy some (justly) jail time over here. AND: I do not know if that is different in the US (Is it???): You can never, never ever cover any kind of criminal /unjust activity by having someone sign an NDA. FunFact off topic: The stock-photo used for this was obviously taken in Germany. (I can tell by the ambulance and roadsigns)
This must have been some time ago. Assuming it’s in the USA, once an employee is no longer covered by employment funded health insurance, the insurance company is required to notify the state and employee (whom the state will also notify) & give them an opportunity to roll their plan into a state funded plan, Cobra or the ADA market. If this occurred and the business was required to provide some form of insurance as a benefit, the state would come after the employer.
Isn't that fraud or theft? If somebody takes money from your salary to pay for insurance and they don't pay for it, it should be a crime.
Same thing happened to my ex, with both child support and health insurance; payments were deducted from the paycheck but were being stolen by the company. Found out at the ER that he and his coworkers had no insurance. No one ever cared.
I worked for a gelato shop that made us dig through the so-called "RECYCLING" bins to fish out used plastic cups and spoons to wash and give to new customers. Even if the spoons had bite marks from other customers and were coated in chewing gum, we were told to wash them up and only throw them out if they were really unpresentable, because "these things are expensive!" Furthermore, all the other stuff in the "recycling" bin that people so good-heartedly placed there.. yeah, ALL of it got thrown in the dumpster. Customers ATE IT UP and told us regularly how GLAD they were that we are a "Green" business who "cares about the environment enough to recycle". It didn't take long before I just couldn't keep doing this with a clean conscience, and I turned them in to the health inspectors, who were absolutely horrified this was happening. About two months later, I got laid off and the business closed it's filthy doors forever. :)
Technically washing and reusing is recycling. Obviously this isn't ok but they did recycle. :)
Finally, someone actually did something about it! Thank you for the closure with the end result as well!!
Yes! I read all of these and thought, no one is doing anything about it? What? Why? Finally an ending where something was done and fixed.
Load More Replies...If you can't afford basic supplies to run a business - INCLUDING a real wage for your workers, you shouldn't have a business.
Well said, but also there is a way to give your customers incentives to properly reuse AND save yourself a pretty penny - like my favourite froyo shop, they sell nicely made sturdy reusable cups in 3 different sizes, you buy one and each time you want froyo you can bring that same cup to be reused and they give you a bit of a discount on every froyo purchase... it's a win, win!
Load More Replies...Once i saw how in a restaurant they used metall spoons and forks - even the knifes were from solid metal. After the customers were gone, they took the dirty cutlery to the kitchen and just washed the dirt of. That worked that well that they started using porcelain tableware and washing it too .... :)
The difference is you cannot wash plastic with the same high temps that you can with metal
Load More Replies...still slightly better than Victorian glass cones. Which is why i always rip up the thrown stuff. Inherited this habit once i saw that homeless people fish out used face masks...
I did some research on small scale agriculture in South Appalachia. As part of living with and studying the community I stayed with, I was sworn to secrecy for five years after submitting my research to the happenings and names of those I lived with.
I saw arson of federal property, and impersonating officers of the law and clergy. Grand theft auto, meth cooking and moonshining. Cockfights, kids getting coerced into pr****tution, dogs getting shot full of rocksalt for laughs. I had to sleep in a junkyard for a few nights and found dried human scalps hanging in an old bus, ate rotting meat from a dumpster and had to hide for my life from shotgun-wielding thieves in the dead of winter.
Its not all horror shows in the hills; theres good people, tightly knit communities, and beauty in nature I've never seen since. But whats there is very much real and very much a danger. When I finally returned, I submitted my write up and dropped the project at the advisement of my sponsor, delivered over a bottle of mezcal.
Respecting that agreement after seeing/experiencing all of that says a lot about a person, though. I wouldn't have. Not after seing children forced into prostitution.
To my knowledge, nonclosure agreements are for protection against "insider trading"/ blabbing about internal procedures, not for protecting criminal ongoings anyways...
Load More Replies...Sworn secrecy to who? The King of the Rednecks? This is made up crap.
There's a lot about this story that doesn't make sense. Doing research for who? Sworn to secrecy by whom? Why sleeping in a junkyard and why eating rotting meat from a dumpster? So bizzar.
Scalps. F*****g hell. I hope now she can speak something can be done. And dogs? Jeezus there must have been at least one serial killer in her midst
This person should have reported all of this, no matter the agreement!
I work in designer clothing retail. The clothes are quite expensive and the assistants are required to only wear full priced garments. So we (the whole team) just pick clothes off the rack, wear them all day (including lunch and bathroom breaks) and at the end of the shift, replace the tags and put the clothes back on the shelf for the customers to buy at full price.
I know I was grossed out my first day there.
Must be some high quality clothes if you can neither see nor smell that somebody wore it a whole day before.
Yes, add to that the cumulative effect and the results would be horrid.
Load More Replies...Now this pisses me off. Not that the employees took clothing off the rack to wear then put it back to sell, but that their employers, who probably only paid them a f*****g pittance, expected them to wear the company’s line—-clothing they clearly could not afford to buy. What the company should’ve done was provide clothing samples, in a variety of sizes, that employees could wear to work in. Of course, they’d have to have a set of guidelines about keeping it clean and in good repair, etc. I mean FFS, if they sell such expensive high end merchandise, one would think they could afford to both provide and maintain a sample rack for employees to wear.
I worked in a super pricey clothing store for many years, it was encouraged we buy the clothes but they could be on sale or whatever. We could also wear stuff from other stores as long as it had “the look” we had. They were pretty chill about that. But it was hard to work there and not shop cause we got a huge discount and the clothes were super cute and usually good quality. BUT, they were super picky and pretty much discouraged employees from returning stuff. If we really had a good reason we could but overall they didn’t like us to. We definitely did not take stuff off the rack and wear it all day. We were encouraged to try on new clothes when they came in so we could better describe how it fit to guests.
Did you work at Cache? All of that sounds familiar.
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Load More Replies...I worked at J.C.Penny decades ago, and they let the Teen Department do this all the time.
I worked for a vet in Vancouver and I ran a whole month of raffles, nail cuttings for donations and pet pics with Santa for the SPCA. When we added up the last of the money from the month, I put it in the safe. The practice owner's wife deposited the money and bought herself some new chanel makeup. W.T.F. I quit in disgust.
And that's the problem unless they had video of documentation to prove it.
Load More Replies...I worked for a vet that would charge customers for so many procedures that were not needed often causing the animals death. I quit wrote multiple Yelp reviews they went out of business thank god. I had a hand in other people coming forward about their experience. Horrible people
The restaurant that was a few doors down from where I worked paid their waitresses $2.35 an hour regardless of how many tips they made. He submitted pay information to the department of labor saying they girls were getting the $7.45 minimum wage while not giving them the tips he collected from Credit Card slips. When one of the waitresses tried to get food stamps, it required her to get copies of her pay stubs from her employer. He refused...so she couldn't get them. I tried turning him in, but not only was I told the girls would have to turn him in (which they never would because of how hard it was to find a job,) but the local labor dept rep was the mans nephew. The owner just bought a 4 million dollar home 5 years ago.
There seems to have some truth to saying, 'No one becomes a millionaire with honesty and hard work'.
Load More Replies...I briefly worked for a dentist who would have the front desk—-where I was working, and which was conveniently run by his wife—-post cash payments in a column that did not save at the end of the day, then he’d just pocket the cash. When I was trained on the system, this was presented as the “Cash Column”, and the fact that it didn’t save wasn’t mentioned. However, it only took me a couple closings that included cash transactions to realize they weren’t being saved as revenue for the practice. So, he was hiding that income from the IRS. The reason I briefly worked there is because I asked why cash payments weren’t posting as revenue for tax purposes. I was fired for “not working out” a couple days after that. I considered reporting them to the IRS, but hadn’t thought to collect any proof before I was fired. I wish I’d gotten screenshots, or snapped pictures of the screens on my phone. Would’ve loved to have nailed them for tax fraud.
I suspect that is pretty common, a lot of people have mentioned to me that they get a significant discount if they pay cash at certain businesses.
Load More Replies...I hope you also reported her. Your disgust is admirable but a snitch is what we need here.
I would’ve quit- but first wrote a letter to her asking what kind of f****d up, totally selfish and disgusting person would think that taking money that would help ease the suffering of a poor animal was okay. Handed to her as I walked out the door obviously
I was going to start an internship with the Boys and Girls Club. One of 2 issues was they said they had a huge display to show the money raised and how far to go. They exceeded it but did not want people to know. At least the funds were still going toward them and nothing shady, but I did not like the lie. I was going to keep on since it was borderline, but the second issue-nothing to do with honesty- happened the same week, I decided not to intern with them.
A friend of mine got a job at a prominent local distillery that makes an extremely popular flavored whisky. They literally buy whisky from a 3rd party distillery and dump torani flavoring syrup into it.
Someone needs to take a whiskey course. This is common practice and a known fact. It's also common to mix liquors from different distilleries. All to get that certain taste.
Yeah, that's why a bottle of blended scotch whisky is gonna cost you £15 and a single malt is £30+
Load More Replies...That is common, and common knowledge in the Whiskey world. About 1/4th of all US made liquors come from MPG, which makes everything from Bourbon, to Rum, to Gin, etc. They have a list of styles, barrels, etc, that you buy by the 1,000 gal min load, then bottle it even for you with your label. You can also get them to blend for you, add in flavors, etc. They also do custom runs for companies, where rather than use their main stock, they will do a custom one (though that takes a few years till it is ready). If yoru bourbon in the US says made in Indiana, 90% chance it is MPG https://www.mgpingredients.com/
Wait! A distillery advertising flavored whiskey sells people a whiskey that's been flavored? Oh the horror
They didn't distill the whiskey themselves is clearly the point.
Load More Replies...If I want my vodka cucumber or raspberry flavored I'll put a slice of cucumber or a dang raspberry in it!
Lots of distilled liquors are not sourced by the brand name on the bottle.
Also all car batteries are made by the same company with different company stickers put on them. Kind like how I used to work at a company that made all kinds of switches for cars (cruise control, heated seat, the stuff on a turn signal arm or anything on a steering wheel or in it like air bag wiring.) we did these for every car company.
A government, in 1972, identified a terrorist by his wife's breasts.
From satellite images.
His children will now have to endure "yo mama so big, she can be tracked from space" jokes.
Guantanamo, what is happening to Julian Assange right now, shooting down an Iranian passenger jet, the list goes on...
Load More Replies...Yep, have to be at least a C cup to be discernable from a satellite image.
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Common knowledge now, but in early 2000's Hewlett Packard would have their inkjet printer cartridges turn off even though they weren't empty.
Each cartridge was put in a machine and a memory chip glued to it. The machine would make all the nozzles 'spit' on a piece of paper, a camera would look at it and then correction parameters would be programmed into it (some nozzles don't work, spit too little or too much, spit off to the side, etc.) The correction parameters were read off the chip and the printer would adjust the voltage and timing for the highest quality print. It was also trivially easy to write 'disable' to the chip after 4,000 pages and it wouldn't work in any HP printer. To ensure high print quality yadda yadda yeah right. And of course, only 'genuine' HP cartridges will work in the printer.
Got taken to court and lost which is why you can now buy much cheaper cartridges on eBay. But if you buy a used printer from the right years it still won't work with cheap ones.
Pretty sure this is still going on. I got tired of having to replace so many cartridges on my Epson printer (4 separate cartridges, blue, yellow, pink and black) so I set up to print just monochrome as it's just business paperwork. A couple of weeks later it notified that the blue had run out and wouldn't print the monochrome print job until I replaced the blue cartridge, which audibly sloshed when I shook it. OKAY THEN.
Epson still does this. Mine has rejected actual epson ink saying it's counterfeit.
Load More Replies...I will never own an HP because of all the BS with the ink replacement, total garbage
and who is not doing that exactly? wake up, sweetie!
Load More Replies...You can find really cheap ink for CYMK printers like ones by Brother. They don't have chips on the ink cartridges. I did before trashing the printer after a move and went full e-paper.
I've never even heard of e-paper until now. I just Googled it and WOW! I had no idea something like this existed!!!
Load More Replies...I refuse to buy HP products after I got a couple crappy ones back in the early 2000's. And they wanted me to pay for the shipping for them to fix their defected item, which didn't make it worth doing. Screw that company.
same for epson for me. the heads need replacing and it was just better to buy a new one for the cost.
Load More Replies...Yup - I switched to a brother toner printer and couldn't be happier. When I go to print, it actually prints! And for the occasional color print, I go up to FedEx/Kinkos and get a better quality printjob anyway, and I'm STILL ahead financially!
Load More Replies...Printer scam still exists with the cartridges. The printer says it's empty, but I can still print another 50-100 pages BW or about 30 using color cartridges. The other scam is never using the same kind of cartridge for a new model which means all the leftover cartridges that you have are useless when your printer decides to die. And the prices of those cartridges are freaking unbelievable.
Ink cartridges have chips and are intentionally programmed this way. In my job, I have to inspect goods before they can be imported and while investigating printer cartridges, I was presented with a leaflet stating all the traits of that particular type of cartridge; registering as empty when half full, using copious amounts to empty the cartridge faster and layering ink. Obviously not a leaflet designed for the final customer to see.
That we can see you,
I look after instant photobooths remotely, I see all your stupid faces, all of them, everyday.
Crap. One time when I was little(ish) I had to get dressed in one of those bc I puked in a store and couldn't walk to the bathroom all the way across the mall. 😳
Ohhh noooo!!! Finding out now that someone could see you makes that memory so much worse. Ugh so sorry!!
Load More Replies...ewww--Now I know why I prefer the ones from the 70s and 80s that are mechanical
I bet anyone who has ever had sex in a photo booth is now horrified.....
Previous pharmacy chain I worked for. Always at risk of robbery for opiates, and we are always taught to give the robber what they want with no questions asked. Have heard of times that pharmacists instead gave bottles of oxy with Tylenol in it instead and other things that were reckless and dangerous due to possible retaliation when and if they figure out they have been duped.
New policy and nda comes out where specific opiates were placed in safe with GPS tracker and charger so when it is removed from radius of origin, it issues remote notification to third party that tracks location and works with local LEO to find the wanted party.
Yes, lets warn the thieving drug addicts/pushers so they don't get caught...seriously this helps no one but the bad guys.
You're worried about deranged meth addicts reading BP now? You're a hoot.
Load More Replies...uhhh. oxy with tylenol is called Percocet. still a CII opioid. If you're suggesting they kept bottles labeled oxy sitting around with tylenol tablets in them, I'm not buying. I'm a pharmacist and no way in hell - we'll lose our license in a heartbeat for intentionally mislabeling something, regardless of the reason.
Best advice I ever got and ever gave when I worked in retail. If someone comes in with a weapon and demands money just give it to them, the company has insurance, and your wellbeing is worth more than however much they manage to get off you
Most chains will fire an employee who resists being robbed, even if the robber initiates violence.
Load More Replies...I never heard of pharmacy robbery in Germany before. I wonder why, I mean we have our share of drug addicts too.
Does Germany stock their's with irrisponsibly large amounts of strong opiates at the retail chains? 27 pharmacies got looted in the Baltimore riots andthey flooded the east coast for 2 years
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Worked store security - there are peep holes above the ladies changing rooms at several major retailers. Supposed to be for female security agents to monitor the dressing rooms, but we had no female security agents. Lots of creepy voyeurism/ fapping going on.
And that you did not call the police day one makes you as bad. Some of these are just vile.
Los prevention is serious business, but I'm pretty sure peep holes are very illegal
Load More Replies...The worst part is even if you report it, authorities won't even bother because a peeping hole is not as important as other things they have to address. Most countries have the same problem: poorly written laws and not enough people to make sure regulations are followed, so they end up choosing which ones to overlook.
I shop online. If it doesn't fit, it gets sent back. The only peeping is from my SO
Ladies don't forget to touch your mirror . If your finger tips touch eachother then it's a regular mirror , if it's double sided there will be a space between your finger tips
We had an incident that was really big news for where I live where someone was recording women in changing rooms at our local old navy. After that I always avoid changing rooms if I can and if I do have to use one I look around for any suspicious looking holes or possible cameras. I also refuse to use dressing rooms that have attendants since the chances that they could be a voyeur are there.
Well this is absolutely fudging disgusting, let alone illegal. And yes. If you knew about it to the point of knowing that "fapping" was involved, not reporting it makes you complicit. Disgusting.
I would like to know which major retailers these are at so I don’t change there. Seriously wtf?!
I just want to say that if you have ever worked at a water park, it will turn you off of visiting any kind of public pool or park for the rest of your life. The s**t we pulled out of those filters, man... no. Just pour so many chemicals into the water that literally nothing can live in it and call it a day.
Meh, natural bodies of water have waterfowl and fish feces in them and no chlorine to kill the germs. It's what you have an immune system for.
Yeah, but the dilution by volume makes all the difference, assuming you are talking about natural bodies of water, used for the same purpose.
Load More Replies...They also find tons of money and jewelry. My friends ex worked maintenance and they would split up all the stuff they found. Lots of watches before cell phones😂
It’s swimming in a giant toilet. I absolutely hate public swimming for this reason. I’m kind of a germaphobe
If the chemicals kill the bacteria then its fine? I dont really get it.
Right, isn't that kind of the point of pool sanitizing? Pour enough chlorine in it so nothing can live in it.
Load More Replies...We have an amusement park right up the street , that has a tiny water park area. It is always totally packed. That lazy River is 90% pee . I felt like I needed to go get a bunch of hepatitis shots when I got in the water . So gross .
I NEVER swim any more. All creatures who live in oceans and ponds and rivers, poop, pee, die and rot and various bodily fluids are released, not to mention people who pee in them too, and who always seem to pee in swimming pools. A friend of mine, when I said that to her, was "so, it is just a 'little" and I said, ok, get a bucket, pee in it, add some water and let's throw in a couple of dead fish and in a couple of days you wash in it. She say "eww, no that's nasty." And I said, "how is it different from 'natural' sources of water?"
You think the germs in these places sound bad? Think about the money in your wallet, purse or pocket - how old is it and how many pairs of hands has it been through? How many of those people didn't wash their hands after using the toilet and the. Touched the money? It's the stuff of nightmares and the more you think about it the worse it gets.
Mini Cooper/BMW replaced our car because the high pressure fuel pump failed 6 times within 6 months. However, the recorded reason for the replacement of the car was because of “stained interior from dirty mechanic hands”, so it wasn’t replaced via the lemon law.
Never been a fan of BMW. The cars are nice enough, but the local dealer here is just abject chaos. Horrible experience the one time we test drove an X1 (ultimately went with another brand at a different dealer - completely different experience, too). But BMW and Mini are both iconic, so people will continue to buy them and put up with the experience.
Check your bills/records of work done and point out immediately. That's not the work that was done. Correct it. Also so not even close to the issue, report the dealership to the manufacturer. Date, time, and always get the name of who you spoke with.
It's an open secret.....but Mini's front air intake will suck in water and destroy the engine in very heavy rains. I mean VERY heavy rains, like Texas thunderstorm rain. If this happens, they replace the car. Why? It's cheaper to give someone a new car than it is to hire crews of engineers and retool factories to fix the flaw. ...///... This is not a Bad Thing. This is a responsible company being responsible.
and keeps customers happy so they are still a paying customer... and hopefully a return customer in the future
Load More Replies...My friends car is like that. Different brand but it was bad and had been redone and they never told her the truth about it.
Well, if they fix it (or patch it, or whathaveyou) and sell it again, not being registered as a lemon law replacement means that they could dodge disclosing that it was returned as a lemon, which they do have to disclose.
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Early spy drones (large petrol powered remote control helicopters, back then), deliberately covered in a wire mesh with lights to make them look like UFOs, when up in the air. Tested in populated areas at night.
Well known base, in the north of Scotland.
This is a better conspiracy theory than the government is hiding UFOs. The government disguises high tech aerial weapons as UFOs to keep them secret because no one is going to believe that UFOs are just casually flying by.
The timing is perfect 🤣 Maybe we should send the Pentagon a Reddit/BP link.
If your father was in the Navy, what on earth was he doing in the desert? ;oP
Load More Replies...This is a B.S. story sent in by the mole people to cover up the fact they e been in contact with alien lifeforms for years ...the end is nigh... REPENT...plagues , mole people, aliens, the zombie apocalypse cometh!
I saw a 'UFO' above Sennybridge training area (Wales, Black mountains) over Christmas 1984/5, I always suspected it would be provable/explainable in the right quarters, there was maybe 50, 55 of us and we were told to say nothing ". . . as people won't believe you"!
I find it very interesting that people truly believe that Earth is or can only be the only inhabited planet in the entire universe.
Amazon made me sign one when I worked with a company that painted their airplanes before the public knew they had them. (I did the FAA paperwork.)
I was literally only one of like 7 people to see their airplane fully purple with their logo on it.
I was actually taken off of the project for a day because they thought I lied about not having a facebook.
They meant business
Wow, be careful. You really narrowed down their search to know exactly who you are..
Is this one bad? I don’t get why painting the airplanes is bad. Can someone explain please?
I think it's about Amazon having planes before the public knew they had them
Load More Replies...I had to sign an NDA to visit Amazon’s warehouse, but I don’t think I saw anything? It just struck me how weird it was that there were no chairs anywhere and how big it was.
In 2009 my professor was doing some consulting work for Blackberry and told us 'This doesn't leave this room, but Blackberry actually actively slows down the release of new products, because they are developing them so fast that they want the customer market to keep pace with the rate of change.'
That's what all manufacturers of electronic devices do, because otherwise they would become too expensive. They've go to recoup the development costs of every model and you can't do that when you release an improved new version before you sold all the old models.
This is probably also why "mil-spec" tech is usually a generation or two ahead. The Military just pays the cost, no questions asked.
Load More Replies...I had a friend who worked for RIM (Research In Motion) and if she was having a bad day, she was allowed to go down to QA and throw phones at the wall just to see how much abuse the product could take.
We stopped getting Blackberry when they didn't have Bluetooth and couldn't support the new law about hands free driving. I LOVE the physical keyboard, and if they had one with 5g, sd card, and earphone jack, I'd leave Samsung in a minute.
I think most people work this out...funny with electronics how a new concept or idea will come out slightly better or slightly different from the competitor...primed for eod sales, xmas market..etc..everytjing is preplanned...
My dad did some top-secret contract work for the DOD back in the 1960s, and he signed a lifelong NDA as part of that job. He's dead now so I guess it's safe to talk about it. The thing is, he never did break the NDA in any context; the strange part was that the NDA specifically prohibited him from using certain words ever again. The trouble is, some of the words are common vocabulary and it became obvious over the years which words he did not use. Words I know he could not say (because he would find other ways of saying them instead) included ball, balloon, briefcase, bomb, and nuclear. It would have made more sense for him to just say "There's a balloon," instead of "There's an inflatable latex object," but you gotta do what you gotta do. Eventually he did gradually stop avoiding those words for the most part, although he would not discuss the NDA.
I call BS on not being able to say certain words for the rest of your life.
My work is having a casual Friday Imma inflate this nice colored latex pouch with helium untill it is a nice round circular shape and tie it to my large folder I use like a suitcase but for my papers instead of clothes for fun. I did that last week and made my boss laugh (Joke)
Google doesn’t hire direct support employees, they open small projects in the US, hire up to 250 contract employees of varying support positions for the project. Once they get the stats needed to run everything efficiently, they have mass layoffs and outsource their jobs to a country (Philippines/India) that’s willing to accept much less than their US counterpart. At the same time Google rakes in a huge tax cut because they’re ‘creating’ jobs in the local communities.
hate the loopholes that allow them to dodge tax , the rich use the same ones so you know the rules won't change any time soon
That happens when corrupt politicians accept money from those people. One can offer to bribe anyone, but not everyone takes the bribe. And when the one taking the bribe took an oath to serve their country, they should just be jailed for treason.
Load More Replies...No, it's corrupt politicians making laws that benefit whomever's bribe they took.
Load More Replies...Not me, but a guy I know was on Cash Cab. A lot of it was faked. He was told he would be on a travel food show and would get picked up by a fake taxi at a certain location at a certain time. There were camera crews all over outside the taxi and there's no way on earth you might mistake it for a real cab.
WE KNOW IT'S FAKE!!! It's still cool to know exactly what's going on BTS. You don't have to make this comment on every single post that is reality TV related.
Load More Replies...Are you telling me FakeTaxi is more real than Cash Cab? (Do not google FakeTaxi at work or around kids)
That’s so disappointing. I legit thought they were real and hoped when I visited the area I might get lucky. 😏😏
Worked at a matchmaking company... it’s all bulls**t it’s just throwing darts at a wall until something sticks. There’s no science or magic to it alt all. I didn't work for a internet matching company, so they may have a different process. What we did was get a paid client and set him up on dates, the dates we found were from a pool of women and we would just keep picking one after another. I quit because I felt like the women were just being used, and I became uncomfortable profiting off of people's hopes.
I worked at one in the late 80s for a few days, it wasn't women being ripped off it was men, I quit when i was sent to the bank with a male client to get his sign up money, not only was it so shady but not a crime that I saw, just men taken advantage of. Then 6 months later I sat watching tv a current affair type show reporting on them for massive fraud.
I was considering signing up for a matchmaking service and it cost $1000 to sign up and then $100 a month afterwards. I found that ridiculous, told them so, and just found love on my own. I ended up meeting my now husband on Instagram, which isn’t even a dating app and is free. Go figure.
Look up 'placebo'... you'd be surprised, but it works. Clients just give the candidate more of a chance because there's expert advice telling them they suit.
Wait. Do people actually think a "matchmaking company" would do things differently?? Are people that naive? I'm not saying it's ok, but really people, if you sign up for that kind of service...
In the world still a good fraction of marriages get arrranged... Not that differently from such service. Two pools of candidates, and make the max number of fitting couples. Divorce & happiness percentages no worse than for 'love marriages'!
Load More Replies...Used to sell cars at a major dealership. The unofficial sales contest was to see how much over [manufacturer's suggested retail price] they could sell the car for by confusing the customer on the price with payments/financing, manipulation of trade value, and sometimes outright [manipulation] (like promising manufacturer rebates, then not applying them.) The "winner" for the two months I was there was over by $10K; selling a car that should've been [approximately] $20K for over $30K. The sad part is, the customer might never even know because they still got the PAYMENT they wanted. Please do yourselves a favor and don't shop solely based on payments, and if you are financing, then make sure you are aware what the final selling price of the car is. There is a major difference between $400/month at 60 months at 0% interest and $400 per month at 84 months at 0.9%.
I did one of those little scratch off things that car dealerships send out in the mail and I won 2 dollars (I was like, 8) my mom took me in to get it and the guy went off to get the money but we stood there for 20 minutes and he never came back.
I use to work in collections for auto loans and the things I saw would have you physically sick from how much they took advantage of people. Most people know what they can afford, but the car salesmen wants that commission and their job is to get as much out of you as they can even if they know you can’t afford it. So many people got their car repoed within a year because of s**t like that. Their car would be worth anywhere from $15k-$20k less than what they owed.
I was in the Super Bowl half time show as one of the extras when it came to my state. Let me just say that the two weeks prior to the week in the stadium were fine, they just tried to teach a bunch of marching band kids how to take even steps for two weeks. The week of rehearsals in the stadium was hell. They promised to feed us but had nothing for people with allergies (me) or diseases like celiac (my friend) or other dietary restrictions. They gave us these hand held radios so we could listen to instructions but it ended up being six hundred high school students sitting in the stands listening to the music while they talked with the star and guests. They constantly changed what jobs we had and no one knew what was going on. The part I was in required us to run off the stage, out underneath the stadium, all the way to the back gates and to the outside. This run was about a half a mile and we practiced it fifteen times a day (minimum) for the entire week up until the game. Oh, and the shark (yes the one from the meme) was only there for the actual performance, the person in the suit missed all the practices and I felt bad for them when it became a meme.
Don't feel bad, they were the ones who missed rehearsal. Either they didn't care enough to do them, or they don't care they're a meme now!
This was posted 2 years ago on Reddit. You can't talk to them from a completely different website.
Load More Replies...See folks, this is what your kid grows up to be when you expect the school to manage their allergies and dietary needs. Teach them to be responsible for themselves and they won't grow up to be an adult expecting others to anticipate and cater to their personal restrictions.
Exactly. If you have dietary restrictions or severe allergies and you're attending a meeting, class, or conference where a meal is provided, assume they won't have anything safe for you to eat, or they'll have very little that's safe. Be prepared and bring along some snacks or meal replacement bars. Sure, it sucks, but these kinds of things are set up to work for the majority of a huge group of people, not like a restaurant where they can cater to individuals.
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Tim Horton's Smile Cookies
Pay an extra dollar for a chocolate chunk cookie with a smile drawn on it "all proceeds go to local charity". Unfortunately store owner would just go into the system, void all cookie sales and replaced with regular chocolate chunk cookie sales.
Disgusting. Also that head office would not realise no donations were happening and not be suspicious sucks.
A good Head Office would have questioned why not one single charitable cookie had been sold and a good business would have questioned whether it was right to continue the campaign or not.
Load More Replies...I don’t understand how the franchisee wouldn’t get busted when the local charity turns up and finds no/ very little smile cookies were sold. Don’t they have a target goal? The Smile Cookie charity drive is something all of us Canadians know about, and I’ve seen many Tim’s proudly display how many they have sold
Basically the more I read these I think if you want to donate to charity you should do so directly to the source as it seems the stores are just a front and not actually giving them the money
I'm not really sure if what I saw was declassified or expired so I can't give specifics. I participated in arming and training some militia groups in Iraq to fight ISIS that had highly questionable motives and very little vetting done on them. I'm pretty sure that if we didn't need the cannon fodder for the siege of Mosul that we would probably be bombing and drone striking some of the groups that we were busy passing out guns to. Also I once had an IED dog alert on a truck that had a highly concerning amount of brain matter in/on it. I mean yeah, any amount would be suspect, but there was like 5 or 6 peoples worth of brains there (I've seen head-pops and know how much brains get around, and there was a lot more than that present.) We had dragged him from the vehicle and were preparing to conduct a more thorough search. We were ordered via radio to stand down and let the guy (who was eerily cheerful about driving a truck plastered from bed to hood in human brain matter) continue on his way. He gave me a pack of smokes, smiled, and said he took no offense to our search and understood how troubling the situation must appear, that he felt that we were welcome guests in his country, and that he hoped we had a nice day, then drove off. No clue wtf that was about.
its a simple fact the iraq war was just a cash cow for america. heres a load of money to rebuild your country we bombed back to the stone age, but you can only hire american companies. the so called world bank is just as bad. poor countries get given massive loans they can never repay so they get foreign military bases instead of the help they need
Shady government business, you're best not knowing and would've been better not repeating this. Assuming it's true.
Nicaragua, Mujahedeen, all those Middle East factions... we Americans cause a lot of trouble by trying to "help".
Because it's not "trying to help." It's sabotaging legitimate governments to control populations.
Load More Replies...Nah, he was just the driver. Most likely that truck was used in a war crime sanctioned by the US.
Load More Replies...When you call for tech support or customer service at APPLE or AT&T/Verizon/T-mobile (and many others), if you answer negatively to ANY question on the post call survey/email survey, it affects the rep you were speaking with negatively, even if the question had nothing to do with the rep, or if you answered rep-releated questions positively. Also not doing the survey eventually impacts the rep negatively since they're scored on the average of amount of surveys taken as well. The entire Customer Service/Tech support telecommunication sector is an absolut
This is also true for banks. B of A gives out surveys and they are kind of confusing, part of it is B of A in general, and a couple of questions are about the person. if they get below a 9 (out of 10) they fail. but the problem is if someone is pissed at the bank and not the person it still counts. it's crazy.
So that’s why I get follow up emails after the call to do surveys. I didn’t realize this. I’ll try and do better
If you are a low value customer (e.g. basic Directv package vs. someone who has all the channels + HBO etc.) you get routed to different call centers where you will experience far longer delays before getting your call answered and there's a higher probability you will also just be cut off. Also, the more you call the more you will be sent to the slow line.
I try to do them. The link I get sent is usualky a bad link, and it makes me sad. All the TMobile csrs I've had were wonderful.
We have a roach problem. And gnats are everywhere. Customers can see the gnats flying around the salads, fruits, and pies we have out, but I guess it doesn't disgust them enough to not come back. More than a few times, customers have complained about bugs in their drinks that ended up there after they [passed] in our ice machine. The worst was a live cockroach in someone's salad that was on the fork as they went to take a bite. Whole cooked turkey breasts and roast beefs have been dropped on the floor and served without any of the managers and employees giving two f*cks. I've realized most restaurants are so much more dirty than shown, but I've eaten out my whole life. I guess my consolation is that I'm probably building up some immunities to all the ickies out there!
It was posted 7 years ago on Reddit. They won't see this.
Load More Replies...Cockroaches tend to hide - mostly in walls. When you see a roach or two sitting out in the open it often means you have a serious infestation. They're braving it out in the open because their usual hiding places are overcrowded. There's no more room at home.
Wow. A live cockroach. Personally, if that ever happened to me, I would report their butts. Cockroaches are evil demon bugs.
Ice machines are the most disgusting thing at a restaurant. They are almost never cleaned. And yes, if people knew about a lot of standard practices regarding the food restaurants serve, they wouldn't want to go out for a meal in a long time
This makes me feel better for turning down the drinks at any fast food for beer at home!
Load More Replies...Recycling company would throw away a lot of stuff. They collected the money from government subsidies, while leaving the employees to a s**t salary in a hazardous workplace that included having dirty syringes (thank god I didn't get stabbed by one!) where people would sort the materials. It was awful.
I know for a fact that recycling trucks dump recycling onto the tip face, the part that is restricted access. That's all I can say (I don't have a nda but still)
We have a recycling bin that gets picked up. Many rules about what is and isn't to go in. I honestly think these places make money by 'contamination charges'. "Hey, we need a new printer for the recycle centre" "OMG! Look at that! A milk container in the bin and it will all have to be tossed. Send them a $75 charge... OMG here are three more 'contaminated' bins... that cover it?"
I work for a garbage company and we have a MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) there are lots of restrictions because we are restricted on what we can recycle and people put all sorts of crazy stuff in those recycling bins a lot of those crazy items will mess the sorting machines up big time, such as garden hoses or are dangerous to our employees, like bowling balls.
Load More Replies...Husband says recycling good. I remind him it's a jobs program at best, and the stuff sorted will mostly get tossed...
I'm pretty sure the company is bankrupt now, since it's been almost 15 years and the product hasn't seen the light of day. I was interviewing with a company that was working on a new design for a public toilet that was going to change everything. It consisted of the following: - A pair of toilets, back to back. One would rotate up into the wall, where it would be thoroughly cleaned, and then rotated back down so the other (recently used) toilet could be swung up into the wall for its turn in the washer. - The toilets wouldn't have the traditional water pool, but would instead have a conveyor belt that would carry the poo (and whatever else) back to an open pipe. Clog free! I quickly saw that this product was going nowhere, so I declined to work for them, but sent them a two or three page email about the pitfalls of the design: - What happens when the auto swapping toilet machine accidentally activates while someone is on the loo? - How much more expensive will this be than a regular porcelain john? - How hard will it be to retrofit all of the machinery and plumbing for the auto-wash into existing architecture? - How do you intend on cleaning a conveyor belt that has been exposed to human waste (plus whatever other trash that gets put down onto the unit)? - What will an open vent to the sewer smell like, if you don't have the water separation like you do with a regular toilet?
This happened years ago, but I was a receptionist for a chiropractor for about six months. One day, our first appointment came in. I went in the back to look for [the chiropractor]. I walked in on him having [relations] with a co-worker on the table. The same table the patients sometimes would lay face down on. I went back to the front and said, "He'll be with you in a couple of minutes." God, I was disgusted. He was married with two young kids. I didn't work there long after that.
Sony got hacked over that north korea movie because of a 5 year old account they didn't delete or monitor from an ex employee
There was a comedy spoof of tourists killing the 'Great Leader', they (NK) then hacked Sony and put millions of files online.
Load More Replies...That it happened because of an ex-employee's account or the incident itself???
Load More Replies...I went to a hackathon at a very large and well known company two years ago that made us sign an NDA and now actively uses the program my team made. We didn’t even place in the competition yet were the only group who’s product is used and I can’t even put it on my resume. And from what the people who ran the hackathon have told me since then, they use it a lot. Bunch of cr*p.
there are legal options here, since they are using your product. Talk to a lawyer, you can talk to a lawyer even with a NDA because that is protected
Dave. They posted this on Reddit 2 years ago. They're not going to see your reply here.
Load More Replies...You CAN line out and change sections of an nda that might cause you harm. Make sure you get a copy, even if you have to sneak a copy with just your signature on it with your phone. If they don't give you a signed copy, it's on them to prove you are bound. Do they even keep all those ndas? I worked in aerospace legal, we had a HUGE store room full of ndas going back decades.
sure you can change it before you sign it... they dont have to agree to it, or allow you to participate in their event.
Load More Replies...why do you think they hold those events? of course its a benefit to them. when did people start thinking google is a charity?
I worked at Betfair.com, a British gambling company that received two Queens Award for Enterprise, it operates the world only decent sports betting exchange. We lost all of our customer's credit card details and didn't tell them. Our exchange was broken by a rogue programmer who managed to bypass all the account balance checks and bet millions on a horse race a while ago.
OK, just gonna go ahead and cancel my cards. Thanks Betfair. Not only do I lose hundreds of pounds gambling, but there's also a bonus round where I can lose the contents of my bank account as well? Without even being told? I feel a strongly-worded-letter coming on.
One of my friends' brothers was on the MTV show Room Raiders. Everything in the show is staged. All of the items that they would find were planted. At the end of the show, the prize was not a date with the girl that he "picked", he just got her phone number.
It bums me out that MTV pretty much dropped the "M" for reality TV--a bunch of terrible shows showing human beings at their scripted worst.
Same. I quit watching after they quit showing actual music videos. I don’t watch any of those shows.
Load More Replies...So much fakery with these MTV ones, like Cribs, so so much foolery, best one was from Redman, he kept it real, so funny you gotta look for it
not just MTV... Reality shows are very far from Reality.
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I worked as a chef at an addiction treatment facility that went under.
Meh. Everyone was ripped off by the counselors. "No ton, you didn't sign in with 1000. You had $700. You are still a junkie and nobody trusts you."
Everyone thought they were big shots but it was mostly low level canadian politicians, strung out soccer moms and the step dad of the singer of a universally hated musician.
North Carolina “all woman’s addiction center” was ill equipped to handle anything they claimed they could. Girls had their boyfriends meet them when they had a group outing, not one ‘counselor’ did anything. Girls bullied other girls. They took money for services NOT provided. Dana Taylor should be in jail!
I really want to know who those low level politicians are so that I don't vote for them.
I sure hope you don't experience being eternally judged for your worst moment in life. Also, consider how much better and stronger a person is when they come through an ordeal like addiction.
Load More Replies...My mom was on a home renovation show, I was a teen at the time and camera shy was an understatement... Me and my brothers got the news a month beforehand so I immediately planned a lan party with a dozen friends, luck would have it that it was a few weeks into summer break. The date came around and the lan was party was on track, I had my pririties straight even then, but the production company wanted some before interviews and a few shots of us doing stuff, so I promptly complied and just as promptly f****d off when it was done. So 3 days later and the planned filming is done, so was the lan and what I returned to was anything but a renovated house, it looked like the aftermath of the barn fire we had years later, though I didnt know it then. Materials and scrap scattered everywhere, cracked windows, some new ones dotted haphazardly around the main building, seemingly without order. The impression didnt improve inside, it looked like a set from an interior design show from afar, on one side of any one room that is, the other side would have looked at home in fallout... The reasoning was simple, they only had 3 days and only required enough of each room to be done for it to look convincing on camera, this also explained why only some windows were changed. The floors werent even done, the living room was down to bare earth in half of it and the feiling was open to the master bedroom above in 2 places, one accidental. They did pay for all the materials needed to finish it and the certified people for water and electricity but we eventually had to finish it ourselves. We scrapped a lot of the work they did and simply billed better materials for the floor and ceilings as well as new lighting.
I feel like I'm missing something here. What is an Ian Party? They said it a few times, so not a typo. Like... who is Ian? (This is probably a really dumb question, but I need to know!)
Its not IAN its LAN - Local Area Network party. Lan Parties are where bunch of friends gather under one roof and play video games over LAN. Explained best I could for better explanation just google LAN party.
Load More Replies...Lots of missile launchers around DC. Literally dozens.
That is well know. There ate 3 air defense batteries at the WH, not to mention the rest of the DC air defense system. WH has between 8-12 snipers at any time, 3-5 machine gun posts with 50 cals, etc. This is what is public, who knows what is private. Remember last summer when the WH came under attack from rioters and over 60 Secret Service agents were inured? the media found out after that had the WH fence been breeched, USSS agents with full auto weaposn and hidden machine gun nests would have opened fire. The only thing that breeched the fence was one molotov cocktail.
GM spends more money paying pension/retirement benefits than they do building cars.
That's all old, big companies, state or private, it's why the Thatcherite-Ragnomic last 42 years has been about minimizing, limiting and ending new-entry pension schemes, money which was 'deferred earnings' has been lost to fat cats, privatisation, de-mutualisation, early release schemes, early retirement/half-pension schemes, shares for pension-pot turn-overs (Standard Life - I'm talking to you!) and the rest, great promises back after the war proved unsustainable in the long run . . .
But they aren't exploiting their workforce as Amazon does, only enriching one bald dude.
Load More Replies...I used to work in a major movie theater and we would recycle hot dogs. Basically, if the links were on the spinning rack all day and didn't get purchased, they would be thrown in a bucket and re-frozen. We poked a fork hole in one to see how long it would stay in rotation, 7. f***ing. days.
I used to work for a local children's charity where a good majority of the money was skimmed to pay for the owners for-profit business.
Yeah, but I get why. Unfortunately sometimes the whistleblower is the one who gets hung out to dry.... You never know what kind of connections a person has.
Load More Replies...There IS a website for verifying how much money goes into helping people, and how much to "overhead". You can choose better charities!
Macys: Men return used underwear and we repackage it and put it back on the floor to sell. I just quit so Idgaf.
report to who? i love this imaginary authority everyone seems to think exists. coming in to save the world, one anon report at a time.
Load More Replies...I used to work at Macy's too and in intimate apparel. There was period blood on one of the shapewear. When I took it to the back for it to be tossed out and replaced, Corporate came in, took off the tag that was marked 'damaged' and hung it back up. We also weren't allowed to throw out panties with pubic lice. Never go to Macy's.
Another reason to wash new underwear in antiseptic detergent. The first reason being that parts are sewn on different machines by different people. Add the cutters, quality control examiners and packers and your new undies have been handled by a lot of people.
Former employer was charging clients for a WAN backup solution that wasn't even running. I was still actively developing it when I quit. Client called up and asked to see the records of the backup, I said it wasn't running and that we didn't have any to my knowledge. Client flips out, calls boss, boss flips out at me for not lying.
Any fan of Supernatural here? Do you look at the new title card intro of each season frame by frame to find clues about the rest of the season? Well it was made by a single person who knows no more than you what’s gonna happen next.
In 1990, I signed an NDA at Chili's when they showed me how to make their new Awesome Blossom. No other restaurant in town had anything like it and it was hugely popular at the time.
The first ones were invented in the 1980s by one of the founders of Outback
I remember the to-do over those 2 companies and their "unique" onion appetizers!
Load More Replies...Kraft Macaroni and Cheese are coming out with a more "modern and upscale" version to expand their market from lower income folks to higher income folks. It is almost entirely the same product as the 69¢ blue box, but will have a lighter, less orangey color, they will be sold as "shells" and not macaroni, the box will be shaped differently, and it will go for $2.50 or more. Stated to be released by 1995.
It is out now. It's not as high a seller as the traditional Kraft dinner!
DND 5e had a kick a** online character builder that made character creation a breeze. It listed all of the possible skills etc per race and class that was intuitive and made theory crafting for characters easy.
Personal conjecture: they canned it because it took away from the pen and paper aspect of the game and they were afraid with an online tool it'd take away from book sales.
And now they've got a website where you pay monthly and still have to buy every single book
Even though you can find all the info on the web for free, I still have 6+ 5e books due to the feel and the bits of lore.
Load More Replies...Saw the new Ferrari Hybrid tech by employee error and couldn't speak or mention it until today as they launched a new hybrid model. I can now tell you that Ferrari intends to have a car with 3 hybrid motors and that's pretty much it.
We used an extract to flavor our peanut butter porter. God, it feels good to get that off my chest.
I think most flavors these days are extracts made with chemicals unless otherwise stated.
and you'd be AMAZED at what gets called "natural flavoring" vs "artificial flavoring"
Load More Replies...Yumm, peanut butter porter... Didn't really think you actually used peanut butter, lol.
We have a blend of vegetables called California blend, the vegetables come from Mexico.
Not so odd, the california roll sushi i had for lunch today didn't fly over 20 hours to get to me.
If u are implying that it didnt come from japan, that’s because it is understood that it is not a japanese original. It is inspired by japanese sushi.
Load More Replies...I order the California burrito a lot at Mexican restaurants the California aspect is the avocado which obviously doesn’t come from California
and that chinese and Mexican food you get isn;t from their either. Whoopty-f****n-doo
NDA's do not cover anything illegal. You absolutely can and SHOULD report any company violating laws, regardless of any NDA you signed. If they try to bring you to court, the NDA absolutely can be ruled unenforceable.
You serious under estimate how much law enforcement cares about this. Relative of mine reported the defense contractor he worked for all sorts of BAD stuff - fraud, sending restricted military docs out of the US for translation, etc. FBi/DoJ looks at it and decided the company not worth prosecuting because the owner had sunk most of the ill gotten gains into stuff that could not be recovered (food, vacations, shitty timeshare, etc.)
Load More Replies...They did a home renovation show in my neighborhood where "homeless and needy" families competed to get a home. The "heartwarming twist" was they all got homes. Yay! Except... none of them were needy. Or homeless. The family that got the home near me never spent a day in it. They immediately sold everything that wasn't nailed down and then sold the house, as they already had a home. Also, the production crew came in and wrecked the house before filming to make it more of a transformation - they busted windows, pulled down gutters, killed the lawn, broke the garage door, you name it.
So-called reality shows are hella fake. I have read many articles revealing what takes place off-camera. A lot of situations are staged, people are coached, etc. Plus, people behave differently when they know they're on camera.
Load More Replies...most of these don't mention the company, or location so how in the hell is it "spilling corporate secrets?"
Even if the NDA is expired, big companies can still make a leaker life hell. Look at the stuff eBay did to a journalist who was getting leaked info... Mailing dead animals, bribing local police to harass them, etc. Yeah ebay got caught, but it was no big deal, a few employees got tossed under the bus. In certain sectors - if you cross one company, no other one will hire you because of interlocking boards, JVs, supply chains, etc.
Load More Replies...Very few of these had anything to do with nda's. Most were hearsay rants by ex employees.
Most of these are people being obtuse by not reporting illegal activities that are never covered by NDA's. Also, what kind of person actually believes tv shows are real?
My mom does, but she's no longer 100% with it due to illness. I've had to explain things were fake because of her emotional overload at times. She'd tell me during a phone call about something in those "reality" shows and it's so hard to get her to believe me, so I just gave up.
Load More Replies...Wow. TV shows are fake, and corporations can be evil. I am.... dying of not-surprise...
IN Germany, there's a recent case of a "Reality show" ("social porn" is what it's called among the people who hate those shows) where a poor family is suddenly transplanted into the house of a rich person and a rich person to live in the poor one's shoes. Except in this case, the rich guy went public about many terrible things, no matter the NDA, (he's rich enough) because the show-runners chose a family with severely traumatized children (from previous domestic abuse) and the kids were clearly in danger of psychological damage. The poor mother had been mostly pressured into doing the swap by promises and promises until she agreed. The payment for the home-invasion and privacy-theft and child-endangerment? 1200 € for all the time filming, plus 4000 € to be spent while at the rich house. The rich guy? Well, he would have been paid 40 000 € for participating! The poor families are selected to look especially poor, or really dumb or whatnot, and because of the NDAs, usually (cont)
2) usually none of them speak up because the legal trouble would be just too much. Only the rich are rich enough to get up and fight. It's not the first time something like this has come to light, but it'#s usually been some of the less wealthy victims of those shows, and any outrage trickles down quickly. It's absolutely disgusting. Something like The Bachelor/Bachelorette is harmless in comparison and I wish that guy going to court will change something. I fear not, but I hope
Load More Replies...NDA's do not cover anything illegal. You absolutely can and SHOULD report any company violating laws, regardless of any NDA you signed. If they try to bring you to court, the NDA absolutely can be ruled unenforceable.
You serious under estimate how much law enforcement cares about this. Relative of mine reported the defense contractor he worked for all sorts of BAD stuff - fraud, sending restricted military docs out of the US for translation, etc. FBi/DoJ looks at it and decided the company not worth prosecuting because the owner had sunk most of the ill gotten gains into stuff that could not be recovered (food, vacations, shitty timeshare, etc.)
Load More Replies...They did a home renovation show in my neighborhood where "homeless and needy" families competed to get a home. The "heartwarming twist" was they all got homes. Yay! Except... none of them were needy. Or homeless. The family that got the home near me never spent a day in it. They immediately sold everything that wasn't nailed down and then sold the house, as they already had a home. Also, the production crew came in and wrecked the house before filming to make it more of a transformation - they busted windows, pulled down gutters, killed the lawn, broke the garage door, you name it.
So-called reality shows are hella fake. I have read many articles revealing what takes place off-camera. A lot of situations are staged, people are coached, etc. Plus, people behave differently when they know they're on camera.
Load More Replies...most of these don't mention the company, or location so how in the hell is it "spilling corporate secrets?"
Even if the NDA is expired, big companies can still make a leaker life hell. Look at the stuff eBay did to a journalist who was getting leaked info... Mailing dead animals, bribing local police to harass them, etc. Yeah ebay got caught, but it was no big deal, a few employees got tossed under the bus. In certain sectors - if you cross one company, no other one will hire you because of interlocking boards, JVs, supply chains, etc.
Load More Replies...Very few of these had anything to do with nda's. Most were hearsay rants by ex employees.
Most of these are people being obtuse by not reporting illegal activities that are never covered by NDA's. Also, what kind of person actually believes tv shows are real?
My mom does, but she's no longer 100% with it due to illness. I've had to explain things were fake because of her emotional overload at times. She'd tell me during a phone call about something in those "reality" shows and it's so hard to get her to believe me, so I just gave up.
Load More Replies...Wow. TV shows are fake, and corporations can be evil. I am.... dying of not-surprise...
IN Germany, there's a recent case of a "Reality show" ("social porn" is what it's called among the people who hate those shows) where a poor family is suddenly transplanted into the house of a rich person and a rich person to live in the poor one's shoes. Except in this case, the rich guy went public about many terrible things, no matter the NDA, (he's rich enough) because the show-runners chose a family with severely traumatized children (from previous domestic abuse) and the kids were clearly in danger of psychological damage. The poor mother had been mostly pressured into doing the swap by promises and promises until she agreed. The payment for the home-invasion and privacy-theft and child-endangerment? 1200 € for all the time filming, plus 4000 € to be spent while at the rich house. The rich guy? Well, he would have been paid 40 000 € for participating! The poor families are selected to look especially poor, or really dumb or whatnot, and because of the NDAs, usually (cont)
2) usually none of them speak up because the legal trouble would be just too much. Only the rich are rich enough to get up and fight. It's not the first time something like this has come to light, but it'#s usually been some of the less wealthy victims of those shows, and any outrage trickles down quickly. It's absolutely disgusting. Something like The Bachelor/Bachelorette is harmless in comparison and I wish that guy going to court will change something. I fear not, but I hope
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