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“I Wish I Never Knew This”: 41 Workers Share The Creepiest Things About Their Professions
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Sure, there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ job with no stress, but that’s not to say that all of them are equally good. Some professions are far more emotionally exhausting than others. And they aren't always what you think of straight away.
There are lots of hidden aspects and layers to doing any job. But not all of them are pleasant surprises.
Workers took to a thread on AskReddit to spill the tea about the creepiest parts of their professions. It’s the kind of stuff most people don’t talk about, unless they’re anonymous.
Scroll down for their stories and to get a new perspective on the job market. Meanwhile, check out Bored Panda's interview with the author of the thread, u/Raiseyourspoonforwar. Just keep in mind that some of these stories can be triggering.
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#1
I run pools. We make sure our swimming instructors have good training in spotting the signs of child a**se because we see so much more of your kid's body than most other folks in their lives. Bathing suits don't do much to cover up suspicious bruising.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
My mom always told the pool lifeguards/my swim instructors "Oh she's just really clumsy!" about all of my bruises ...in the 80s, no one questioned her. I'm so glad that that has changed :)
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Sarah Mezei 5 months ago
I taught swimming lessons in my teens and early 20's, then I was a Girl Scout leader for a decade. Yes, we are trained to look out for the signs.
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
Meanwhile, Ireland recently extradited a 70 year old former swimming instructor from the US to stand trial for secksually a$$aulting kids in the 80s and 90s
The American Institute of Stress states that at least 2 in 5 workers in the United States see their jobs as “very or extremely stressful.” And at least a quarter of employees say that they are “often or very often” burned out or stressed at work. Meanwhile, over half of American adults report that they feel like they have little control over their stress. They’re also extremely fatigued in their jobs.
High levels of stress can lead to burnout, depression, anxiety, health issues, injuries, and make it difficult to function both professionally and in your personal life.
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#2
Am a nurse. I’d say it’s probably the fact that people know when they’re going to die. They will straight up tell you “today is my last day, thank you for being kind” and you reassure them because their vitals are good, they are taking to treatment well, nothing happening that would indicate a drastic decline. Then, inevitably, you will hear a flatline on the machine and run in and sure enough that patient has passed away.
If it hadn’t happened SO many times, I would chalk it up to a few people who just didn’t have the will to live anymore, but I’ve seen it enough, I know that’s not it. Really creepy when you think about it too hard.
KnightOwl86 5 months ago
My great aunt died 2 weeks ago, she arranged her own funeral in advance and called the funeral home one night telling them to come get her in the morning. She called them back a few hrs later and said she changed her mind and decided to stick around for one more day. She was more lucid and alert the following day than she had been for months and died after breakfast the next morning.
Cathy Jo Baker 4 months ago
A lot of times people will suddenly become lucid and seem totally fine before they pass.
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Edda Kamphues 5 months ago
My dad decided when it was time for him to go. He said to my mum 'this is it', then fell asleep. No struggle, just him letting go.
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
I don't think it's creepy at all. In fact, it's very nice of them to express their appreciation for you—which is a mild form of love—as one of their last acts in this world. You should feel grateful, and wish them a pleasant journey and that you enjoyed working with/for them.
Kalevra 3 months ago
Respectfully, expressing appreciation for you loved ones and those that helped you in your need is not mild.
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Plentyofoomph 5 months ago
Has anyone actually tested this? Like to make sure it's not confirmation bias?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
Yes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38134428/ ---https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/terminal-lucidity --- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21764150/
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WA2DK 4 months ago
Nurse here as well. Yeah...... I once had a cancer patient with metastasis everywhere but otherwise "fine" (talking, eating, moving around with a walker etc). She went to the bathroom herself one evening, then call me because she couldn't get herself back in bed and just wanted to stay out there. While helping her, she kept saying she was gonna die that day, and I just thought she was being a bit dramatic because she couldn't get herself back in, so I jokingly said "Nah, you're not dying today, and even if were, that's the more reason to get you back in bed so you don't die out here". The patient DID indeed die a few hours later....... in said bed.
Rich Black 4 months ago
They just decide to stop pressing the "call" button when they should. Its a passive form of s*****e
#3
All of us including the biggest toughest ranchers all have a baby voice they use when talking to livestock Weird but totally adorable!
Dlgredael:
Jesus Christ thank you, this is like a checkpoint in a horror game.
Gingersnap In Iowa 5 months ago
My Dad use to raise hogs. Every sow was named Margaret. He raises cattle now and all the heifers are named Elsie.
Carol Hobbs 5 months ago
My dad hunted, he always had 3 dogs. 1 female, 2 males. The female was always Lady, the males were always Pete and Sam.....
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Julia Ford 5 months ago
I hope that means they actually care somewhat. I’ve seen horrible videos of ranchers kicking small cows, hoping that’s the exception not the rule.
Papa 5 months ago
That is absolutely the exception. I've been around cattle my whole life.
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The jobs in the US that require the most stress tolerance, according to The American Institute of Stress, are the following:
- Urologists
- Film and video editors
- Anesthesiologist assistants
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
- Telephone operators
- Acute care nurses
- Obstetricians and gynecologists
- Public safety telecommunicators
- First-line supervisors of retail sales workers
- Nurse anesthetists
- Nurse midwives
- Transit and railroad police
#4
How many 911 calls that come in with screaming or other horrid noises on the other line, where we can't make voice contact to confirm the location before they disconnect.
There are a lot of things we can do to find where a call came from, but every now and then there's a perfect mix.of variables where there's nothing we can do. And it's heartbreaking. 😞.
Bewarethere@gmail.com 4 months ago
I want to say THANK YOU for all ur kind words, compassionate hearts and enduring strength at times when we none!!!! 🥰🥰
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#5
Hospice nurse here. We can smell death coming. Also we can tell, with eerie accuracy, when. Every now and then we get surprised but ultimately, we're able to tell what's up and arrange things so the family (if any) can be close by them. If they have no family, we stick close to them. Nobody deserves to feel alone at the end, but also.... people tend to die when nobody's looking. We can leave the room for 3 minutes and not be surprised a bit if we find out pt has passed in that short window of time. Happens with family too. My great uncle asked his wife to go get him a cup of coffee. In the 2 minutes it took for her to do so, he passed. Some folks just don't want to be stared at as they die, and I don't blame them.
Colleen Glim 5 months ago
I wish this had happened. I had a dream that my mum died a week before she did. I was going to go and visit her on Monday because the dream had really upset me. She died Sunday afternoon
Shelli Aderman 5 months ago
I think there’s a bit of internal control to some of it, to be honest. At least I hope so.
Chrystina Sumpter 4 months ago
My aunt was so upset when my uncle, her husband of over 50 years, died when she left the room for a short time. She was just wrecked that he died alone. I pointed out that he wanted to spare her and this was his final act of love.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
I had been rushed to hospital when I almost died in the city when I was going to a show with an old friend of mine and my mum. They left me in the hospital hallway while they waited for a bed. I was there for about 40 minutes but they kept checking on me every 10 minutes or so while I was slowly recuperating from a very low hypoglycaemic drop amongst septic kick in amongst other things… Anyway, there was an old man on the other side of the hallway from me. He was maybe 85 to 90. He was sick as hell as well. He was not doing well, they were not checking on him as much as they were checking on me. Now again, I was sick as shít and I was going downhill again fast and they knew it so they were rushing a bed for me but they weren’t rushing for him because I think they knew he was dying. But they didn’t know I knew it UNTIL he started doing what is known as the death rattle – – he started gasping for air and doing that noise they do. I remember it from when I was in hospital for a year and .
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
I had my own room but I used to have to listen to the people in the room next to me die all the time… It wasn’t fun. I still hear it every night when I try and sleep amongst other nightmares… Anyway… He started doing an and he was TERRIFIED! And I couldn’t reach him from across the hallway. I was one, too far away and two, I was too sick so I was trying to reach out to him but I was too crook and I couldn’t move anyway. So I called out to the nurses and they just chirped out that they would be with me shortly. On the fourth time I called out to them one of the nurses finally came to the hallway to check on me and I just said as loudly as I could “would one of you please f*****g stand and hold his hands so he doesn’t have to die alone. I can’t reach him!“ And 6 nurses and drs ran out and surrounded him. they didn’t work on him as he was a do not resuscitate, but they all stayed him and comforted him as he passed away and then they wheeled me away from him QUICKLY.
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Mahiera Etsuhae 5 months ago
I can still remember the smell. When I was 4 or 5 my grandmother and I stopped by, a couple of times, at the nursing home she worked at. It was the most horrible place I've ever been to. It was clean and well lit enough; but the clients were frightening to little me. Alzheimer's; dementia; oxygen masks; people whose family never came to visit, and just wanted to dote on me like I was their grandkid (but it was creepy to me). And the smell. Oh god, the smell. It's been 40 years and I can still remember the smell of medicine, urine, unnamed illnesses, desperation, and death. I distinctly remember curling up in a ball under a counter and crying until my grandmother had finished what she came for.
Ginger ninja 2 months ago
Its quite common that people will wait until they are alone to die. They’ll wait until people step away for just a moment and then slip off
Jac Carr 4 months ago
My dad was dying but the day he did, the nurses were stunned; they said he was fine 45 minutes before and there was no sign he was going to die that day. I'd flown in from abroad and was literally 20 minutes away from the hospital when he passed; I'm pretty certain that was deliberate and he didn't want me to see him the way he was
Jane Hower 4 months ago
Souls often don't want to be seen leaving. It's considered a kindness to the living actually. So do respect it.
#6
I work in an 'eco-friendly' importer who imports, well, eco friendly products that replace disposable or single use products, especially plastics.
The amount of plastic involved in production, shipping, storing, and packing those items is insane. It's just all stripped from the finished product before it lands in the customer's hands. There's also issues with ordering from abroad - everything from factory waste to the fuels to get it here. It's really, really sad, and nobody addresses it. Ever. It's not talked about - we just strip off the plastic and toss it before shipping to the customer.
Not really 'creepy' but sad, and so very obviously ignored.
Plentyofoomph 5 months ago
But it's packaging for long use products. Surely a single instance of packaging is better than repeatedly having that packaging for single use products.
TFH 5 months ago
Consumer plastic usage is a small fraction of the plastic waste generated from industrial sources like manufacturing and shipping.
Load More Replies... Justbecause 5 months ago
I worked in a clothing boutique and the amount of plastic those clothes were packed in was insane, each item had its own bag often with tissue paper or a coat hanger that we threw out, each colourway was bagged together, then bagged into each style and the whole lot was bagged then boxed. Small skip bin of plastic each week. But we used to put customers clothes into a paper bag so shop front looked good.
As per the American Institute of Stress, urologists score 100 out of 100 for the importance of stress tolerance in their profession.
“Urologists are medical doctors specialized in treating health disorders in the urinary system and men’s genitourinary tracts. They diagnose and treat the kidneys, bladder, urethra, prostate, and reproductive organs. Illnesses involving these organs are typically painful, debilitating, and psychologically exhausting.”
The Institute notes that urologists must treat their patients with compassion and empathy. At the same time, they have to inflict the least amount of pain on them as possible.
#7
The amount of s*****e rates in the veterinary profession. Eight years after graduation and 2 of my classmates have committed s*****e.
High stress, not fantastic pay, poor coping mechanism, bad clients, etc will wear anyone down after a time.
megabeth 5 months ago
Note to self, gently check on BFF.... She's the type to play it close to the vest.
Hidden Tracks 4 months ago
But what I don't get about the social media generation is why share that thought out loud? Or this one.
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Otto Katz 5 months ago
I talked to my vet about this. That the worst time for a vet is 10-12 years into the profession, because when they first start out, all their new patients are puppies and kittens, and then 10-12 years in those first patients are coming in to be euthanized. And the amount of depression really hits hard.
Misha Writer 4 months ago
Considering many vets prefer animals over people, and then have to see how people treat their animals at the end of life, either with little regard for the animal, or the full spectrum of grief...and everything else they have to deal with, I can see how this would be a difficult profession. To this day, eight years later, I still say leaving my vet of 20+ years was the hardest thing about moving. The doctor and two of his assistants were on the floor crying with me when I had to put my 15 year old dog down because her quality of life was gone. I respect my vet here, but when I had to put my cancer ridden baby down, they didn't know me or my baby, so there was no real connection there. That only made me miss Dr C all the more.
Shayna 4 months ago
I knew this, and that's why I gave a vet a thank you card and a gift card after him catching a heart murmur led to finding out he had a nasty bone infection that had been causing him pain, likely for the entire year and a half I had him. If he hadn't heard the murmur and given me the option of having a radiologist look for anything noticeable in his xrays or differences from the ones that were taken 2 weeks prior when he was diagnosed with pneumonia, my poor little guy would still be in pain. He told me it would cost a little more to send them out, but I was happy to pay that, and the 9k I spent seeing a veterinary neurologist getting him all fixed up. The hospital that treated him also refunded me 1/3 of his surgery costs because it ended up not being as invasive also.
Megalodon Meg 4 months ago
I feel very fortunate to be in vet med, my career legitimately fills me with a lot of joy every day. However, as in any medical field of course there are dark times. You just have to ensure you have a strong support system at work and at home and really cling to the 90% of the job that is lovely and fulfilling. It absolutely breaks my heart that a lot of my colleagues struggle, check on the people around you. If someone has a hard client, check on them. If a patient is lost, check on them. If they just had a euth, check on them. I can assure you just that little glimmer of humanity and support goes a long way. Lord knows I've needed it several times too.
Rich Black 4 months ago
If you love animals you probably dont want a job where you have to euthanize them regularly
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
And, unfortunately, animal abuse/neglect, common in divorcing couples.
Matt from Canada 5 months ago
I can guarantee nobody practicing veterinary medicine is spending 80% of their time euthanizing animals.
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I drive trains. Statistically speaking a driver in my country will drive over two humans during a career. What really haunts you is the sound. It's a loud thud.
andyjim17:
In Britain I think the train company will retire you after you run over 3 ( could be 2. 3s the max) due to the emotional stress.
Earonn - 5 months ago
That's a good thing Britain does here. Nobody should have to go through that. And actually, I despise people who commit s*****e that way. Take your life if you think you must, it's yours. But you have no reason to harm others in the process. And yes, I'm talking to you, Panda, who might read this and be s******l yourself. I was where you are and I never considered making my issue someone else's trauma.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
I feel like we're missing the point that they are not mentally well and are no longer making rational choices. They probably WERE thinking about others at some point, which helped stave off s*****e attempts. It's not the most stable life line, though and erodes given enough time. It's up there with people not understanding why s******l people don't just max out their credit cards and have a field day before they go. Anhedonia is such a common symptom of depression, so it's likely they wouldn't enjoy ANYTHING, regardless of how fun it was. By the time someone's done doing the mental gymnastics needed to justify s*****e, there's no energy left to care about bystanders.
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Howl's sleeping castle 5 months ago
My colleague's uncle was a train driver. He drove over a bunch of people. Investigation revealed that it happened because of his negligence. They didn't terminate him but when he retired, some money was deducted from his retirement money. My colleague is still sour about that deducted money and actually said 'People die everyday. If not the train, they would have died in some other manner' So yeah i don't talk to her anymore.
Mari 5 months ago
Even if they want to die, how could she do this? She doesn't have a heart...
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
Ditto truck drivers, I had a friend with massive trauma because some person interested in Ending It All walked in front of an 18 wheeler.
Ace 5 months ago
The 3-strike thing is a myth, but a comprehensive care and support system exists, such that if a driver is unable to return to work as a result of mental trauma they're treated in the same way as a physical injury in the workplace would be, so they may be entitled to a pension due to early retirement on medical grounds.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
Note: I did not delete my own comment. Apparently it was deleted against my will or without my knowledge or approval. Just wanted to put that out there. I was talking about my own feelings about what this post talks about and apparently that is unacceptable to BP. It's okay to post a comment where someone is talking about hitting people with trains, but it's not okay to talk about my own thoughts and feelings about it, apparently.
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Codswallop 5 months ago
I was in the first car when we all felt it. Two thuds, you can really feel it
Jrog 5 months ago (edited)
Doesn't checkout. Since 2009 there were on average 290 "strikes" per year on the British rail network, 95% being suicides. A conductor career may last at most 35 years, so let's say there are 10k events during a conductor lifetime. There are 27.000 train drivers in the UK. That means that each driver has 1 over 107 chances to be involved in an accident each year, thus the real chance over a career would be running over little more than 1/3rd of a human (37,5% exactly), or we can say ONLY ONE OUT OF THREE CONDUCTORS would likely be involved in an accident during their whole career, "statistically speaking"
#9
Sometimes when we deliver a stillborn baby that passed a while ago the head may come off in delivery.
Fortunately it usually doesn’t.
Mrs. Kay 5 months ago
I was working in a women’s health clinic and one day some of the doctors and nurses were crying. Found out a baby they’d delivered came out in pieces. No one was ever the same.
Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago
Holy f*****g s**t. Enough internet for today
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Upstaged75 5 months ago
It can happen in live births too. There's a woman in Ireland who has a terrible story about it.
Margaret Wartime 5 months ago
That’s a different situation though, that was the doctor decapitating the baby
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 4 months ago
Ok this one might need a warning ⚠️ 😳 I felt my heart do something I'd never felt before when I read these words... how traumatic for anyone dealing with this, whether it be the parents or the medical team or those who clear up afterwards... thank goodness that some people are able to cope with this and be strong enough to keep it separate from what they're dealing with in their life...
Rebecca O’Donnell 2 months ago
My belief is God made us, gave us free will and let us figure it all out.
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You f*****g let her. Wrap that baby in a blanket and let her hold them for the only time she gets to.
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The American Psychological Association notes that the most common sources of work stress are excessive workloads, a lack of social support, and having few opportunities for career growth or advancement.
Other major stress-inducing factors include work that isn’t engaging or challenging, not having enough control over job-related decisions, and getting conflicting demands or unclear performance expectations.
#10
Worked 10pm to 8am shift at a gas station. The number of construction guys, factory workers, big truck drivers, basically “heavy machinery” guys who buy two pints of vodka (one for each pocket) every morning at 6am in their way to work is quite scary.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
My stepbrother was fired from his last job, as a forklift driver, because they caught him drinking vodka while working. He was drinking it daily on the job, hidden in a water bottle. Not sure if they knew he had at least one bong each day before he went into work too.
Miss Ann Thrope 4 months ago
That is scary. It's way cheaper to by a big bottle and refill the smaller ones.
Roxy222uk 5 months ago
Woah! I do literally the same job and all they buy from us is bacon and cheese turnovers and a latte, or else a couple of energy drinks. I have never been asked for alcohol by a construction worker etc on the way off to work.
Svenne O'Lotta 4 months ago
You probably work in a nicer area than the OP.
Load More Replies... Bruce Strickland 4 months ago
Saw an article once about nightshift workers at nuclear plants getting lubricated before heading into work.
Salty Wild Hair 4 months ago
The claim is that vodka does not have a smell. That when its metabolized by the body, it does not come through the pores like other alcohol does. Its really hard to detect until they start acting drunk.
#11
Probably too late for anyone to read this but I work for a social media “influencer” who everyone praises for “keeping it real” and being such a nice and lovely person.
Reddit, she’s a huge bully and a total psycho. What you see in her posts is so fake. It’s scary to me that so many people look up to her and even say she has cured their depression or made them feel happy again. I’m glad that those people feel better about themselves but this girl is not a good person and has contributed to the mental breakdown of more than one person IRl. I wish people wouldn’t believe everything they see on social media. It freaks me out how she’s able to make herself look like such a saint when she’s so nasty.
megabeth 5 months ago
It always amazes me when a TON.of people are conned by the same con/sociopath. They are remarkable at their craft.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
Just look at the number of people who voted for America's Number One con artist and sociopath, the Rapist Donald Trump. How has he conned half a nation? 🤷 (okay, okay, so only about a third of the electorate voted for him - but from my side of the pond, it makes no sense at all. He's so very obviously a self-serving con-man who lies as readily as he breathes, who cares for nothing and no-one but himself. How come he got voted in?)
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
Wait, wait, I literally just had an epiphany - this is EXACTLY how my mom acts and has acted my entire life. Complete bully/psycho, ab.used me (in every single way) during my childhood, used to beat me and throw me across the room while screaming in rage, but her public persona was charming, nice, "down to earth" - basically suburban Awesome Mom. I guess this kind of thing is nothing new - influencers can just do it online whereas my mom had to keep her REAL self contained publicly until we were behind closed doors at home.
Phantom Phoenix 4 months ago
It astonished child me that my mother could be shouting & belting into me, then instantly shift to sounding as sweet as pie to answer the phone
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 5 months ago
You’ll have to comment on reditt, they won’t see this.
Load More Replies... Bewarethere@gmail.com 4 months ago
Look, I hate these kinds of stories. Either name names or leave it alone. What's the point in saying anything?
Ffion Jones 5 months ago
I have a friend who worked for a prominent “momfluencer”. My friend left after about 6 months because her boss was a total b!tch
Terri Rowland 4 months ago
I've stopped using social media for the amount of unpleasant things being said and done. I had been using it to stay in touch with my family as I'm housebound and live too far away from them to travel by taxi to visit. They're not in the best of health and I can't ask them to come to me as it would put a huge strain on their health... Life is very unfair in some cases, and very sad that people feel they need to tell lies for others to like them 😔
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 months ago
I worked for a woman like that. In private she was a pill-popping psycho b*tch, but in public she was all sweetness and light. I'd love to tell you who she is, but I am positive she'd sue me.
Rich Black 4 months ago
Reddit a safe space for white supremacists, pedophiles, antisemites, anarchists, conspiracy theorists, marxists, and identity thieves. Reddit's business model involves selling its user generated content to AI (large language models) to train systems on how to more easily impersonate actual humans
E Weisenfeld 5 months ago
folks who run into my mom often say "she's such a saint", and to be fair, she can be, but nobody is a saint... she's my mom and we had our moments...
#12
I’m a dog groomer and I can’t tell you how many men ask “how much to wash me?@ that s**t isn’t funny.
Mark Tapply-Composer Producer 5 months ago
Tell them it's free, pause, and then tell them they need to be neutered first.
Tara L. 5 months ago
Yup, lot of gross comments from guys as a dog groomer. I'd just stare at them with a disgusted look on my face, & not say anything back, until they got uncomfortable & left. It works rather well lol.
Megalodon Meg 4 months ago
It does wonders to ask them "Why do you think that's funny?" And watch the two braincells try to work overtime.
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Karen Bryan 3 months ago
A skillful, caring groomer should be treasured and compensated fairly. I say this as permanent host to a grumpy long-haired cat.
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
I wonder if BP would censor the British/Aussie spelling? Just a test: shite.
Redditor u/Raiseyourspoonforwar said that they were happy to share their thoughts on the topic, including dealing with workplace stress.
"Firstly, you need to identify what aspect of the job is causing you the stress and then look at pathways to resolving it. For example, if it's because you aren't getting paid enough to have a life outside of work, then you either ask for a raise, look at moving up the ladder in your current company, or look for better-paid employment," they shared their perspective with Bored Panda.
"Secondly, understand that if you were to die today, your employer would be advertising your job within a week. If you're not married to your work, then consider taking your foot off the gas a little. Make yourself look busy whenever you're outside of your office. If you have a job that will take you 10 minutes to complete and your manager doesn't know how long it should take, then it should take at least an hour instead. Also, take little 10-minute breaks at random points through the day, provided your job role doesn't require you to be mentally switched on all day," they suggested.
#13
The amount of teachers who sleep with students. Every school I’ve been at there has been a story of “Mr. so-and-so got fired for having s*x with one of the students a few years back.”
I’ve talked to teachers who make remarks about 15 year old girls’ bodies that would be embarrassing to retell. I’ve heard rumors of students who get a little unwanted attention from some teachers.
Improper stuff happens far more than you hear about on the news.
Shane S 5 months ago
Statistically, kids are safer at a Drag Queen Story Hour than they are at school or church.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
Well, yeah - because Drag Queen Story Hour is a public event with all eyes on. At school? People assume that it's all safe and proper - but it's all out of public view. Having said all *that* - I'd sooner trust a child to the care of a random drag queen than a random priest under any circumstances. (what I'm trying to get at is: most teachers are pretty okay, if not better. Only a tiny minority are bad 'uns. Most priests too. But drag queens? They live in the lime-light... Bad teachers are often covered up or at least shuffled on to another school. Bad priests are *usually* covered up. A drag queen going wrong? They know they'll have no friends anywhere - so... Perhaps my view is cynical - still, try to find any drag queen anywhere who's a child a****r. Perhaps I have a point?)
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Jane Hower 4 months ago
At age 15 I made a pass at one of my teachers, a good looking right out of college guy in his 20s', and for sure it COULD have been a big mistake BUT he had the good sense to not move on it. When I got older I could appreciate what he did.
Evelien Stijger Martens 4 months ago
I had a friend that acted aroused by looking at my 9 year old daughter. Not a friend anymore
Senjo Krane 3 months ago
omg. I hope you warned all your friends about him. Actually I may have shot him..
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Robert Beveridge 5 months ago
Partner has at least two stories i can remember from her early high school years in San Diego in the mid-90s...
Ginger ninja 2 months ago
I had an IT teacher I loathed (she humiliated me more than once in front of the whole class because I didnt know stuff that had been taught during the previous year, when I had been at a different school) who a few years after I finished secondary school was in the news because she had groomed and had a sexual relationship with a boy in her class
Kalevra 3 months ago
I love how the stories are always "Mr X Did" and not "Mrs. X Did" as if the the stories in the news are being ignored.
Queen Boudicca 2 months ago (edited)
It's the pronoun things. Americans are afraid of them.
Load More Replies... KieLeaHar 4 months ago
I find it scary that these days there’s more and more female teachers are getting caught with young boys. It used to be the male teachers that were sleeping with all the young girls but now it’s all the female teacher sleeping with the young boys. Unless the male teachers are just getting away with it now.
#14
I work in college admissions. We are forced to admit kids who pay full price over more qualified kids. Talking about kids as “full pay” or “need” as they’re trying to better their lives is horrible.
Littlemiss 5 months ago
Thats what happened to my husband. He had the grades but missed out because the school found 'more deserving' students than the kid from the ghetto trying to escape poverty.
R Dennis 5 months ago
But he should have tried harder... to be born into a wealthy family. /s
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 5 months ago (edited)
I had an uncle who was a professional college student, he collected more than 15 various degrees. Interesting man to talk to, but the way he considered the fact he could pay full tuition and therefore should be preferred over scholarship students definitely made him one of my least favorite relatives.
Roxy222uk 4 months ago (edited)
Once upon a time in the UK tertiary education was free, and students got a grant to help with living expenses, means tested to meet need. It wasn’t perfect (unfortunately the misogyny and racism that underlaid some rejections was yet to be properly examined). But now our governments have systematically destroyed over this to the point now that parents are dissuading their children from going to uni and running up huge debts.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Most full fee paying students in Australia are international students and they have recently had their max quotas changed by government. Thankfully, with our HECS payment program, the rest of the places are generally there by merit.
Karen Bryan 3 months ago
My late dad blew a gasket when my brother didn't get into the UCLA dental school (which at the time was tuition-free). UCLA saw that my brother had far more resources than many of the other applicants, and gave its slots to those who needed them most. My brother ended up at USC, and had to take out loans to do it. Despite the fact that, by the time he graduated, he had a wife and two kids, my brother managed to pay everything off by the time he'd been practicing for about five years. Just goes to show UCLA was right: my brother didn't need it.
Rich Black 4 months ago
If nobody pays full price the system goes broke. Your complaint is the same as dissing McDonald's for selling meals at full price to most people instead of always giving food away to the homeless
Verena 4 months ago
Unless you want to study a high demand profession, it is highly unlikely that your admission is denied. Our education system is funded by taxes, so you cannot pay anything but the standard low fee per semester (something between 500 and 1000€) everybody has to pay. The high demand places are awarded on merit, which is the grades of your high school diploma and all kinds of additional effort you did to gain experience, like summer jobs or internships in the same field.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Well yeah, how else will they maintain the caste system... 😒
#15
As a teacher, we know (but don't talk about it) how many of our kids have very f****d up lives. We know which kids have emotionally a*****e siblings. We know which kids have no friends. We know which kids' parents pay no attention to their accomplishments.
When it's something that crosses the line (sexual a**se, unsafe living conditions, etc), we will report it to CPS. Hell, as far as I am aware, we are required to in every state (certainly are in mine). But, there are so many horrible, horrifying, things that kids have to go through that don't cross the line in to reportable territory.
For example, one of my students two years ago was the only boy out of five children. His mother, her husband having walked out after baby #5 was born, took all of her aggression out on my student. It was never a*****e, to our knowledge. But, he confided in me that his mother just didn't care about him. Any accomplishment of his sisters' was praised and celebrated. His accomplishments? Ignored.
The kid was one of the sweetest boys I have ever taught. All he wanted was to make his mother proud of him. She couldn't have cared less though, because to her he was just a reminder of the man who left her. The kid was emotionally neglected and starved for positive attention.
We also know about the kids who have had seriously f****d up s**t happen to them (r**e, molestation, severe physical a**se, even t*****e). One girl I taught was r***d by her father and her uncle for years. Her uncle moved out of the country and her father is in prison. The situation has been "resolved" legally, but she is still facing years and years of psychological problems.
So, to end my rambling...the creepiest thing about my profession that we don't talk about is how many of our students are messed up and facing years of therapy because of things beyond their control.
JB 5 months ago
I see it on the regular :( plus, it's a trip to see someone with cool talents or limitless potential basically get ruined because their parents enable their selfish entitlement. Like, it's wild to look at a young kid - like seven or eight - and know that unless something drastic happens soon, this kid is going to be harassing women and blaming everyone else for their problems because Mom or Dad didn't know how to say "no" and put reasonable boundaries and expectations on them.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 5 months ago
Now let's talk about the teachers who let the effed-up things happen right under their noses, like bullying, and they just shrug. Source: me. Came within a hair of offing myself at 14 because of bullying in high school. The teachers all knew; not one stepped in. According to them, it was my own fault. PS: All I did was turn up in school, but, HORROR! I ''fat'', I was quiet and shy, friendless, and had horrible cystic acne. I was a walking target.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
It is absolutely horrifying that my first thought on reading the phrase "We know which kids have emotionally abus!ve siblings" was to think "wow, I wish MY sibling was ONLY emotionally abus!ve!" My older sister learned from the best (my mother) and was just as physically abus!ve to me during my childhood as my mom was.
Shelli Aderman 5 months ago
From Reddit: “As a teacher, we know (but don't talk about it) how many of our kids have very fúcked up lives. We know which kids have emotionally abusíve siblings. We know which kids have no friends. We know which kids' parents pay no attention to their accomplishments. When it's something that crosses the line (s*xùal abüse, unsafe living conditions, etc), we will report it to CPS. Hèll, as far as I am aware, we are required to in every state (certainly are in mine). But, there are so many horrible, horrifying, things that kids have to go through that don't cross the line in to reportable territory. For example, one of my students two years ago was the only boy out of five children. His mother, her husband having walked out after baby #5 was born, took all of her aggression out on my student. It was never abușive, to our knowledge. But, he confided in me that his mother just didn't care about him. Any accomplishment of his sisters' was praised and celebrated. His accomplishments?
Shelli Aderman 5 months ago
Any accomplishment of his sisters' was praised and celebrated. His accomplishments? Ignored. The kid was one of the sweetest boys I have ever taught. All he wanted was to make his mother proud of him. She couldn't have cared less though, because to her he was just a reminder of the man who left her. The kid was emotionally neglected and starved for positive attention. We also know about the kids who have had seriously fúcked up shít happen to them (rápe, molèstation, severe physical abuşe, even torturê). One girl I taught was räped by her father and her uncle for years. Her uncle moved out of the country and her father is in prison. The situation has been "resolved" legally, but she is still facing years and years of psychological problems.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 5 months ago
I understand this only too well. I see it in my work. The problem is that you can't always get the help and support you need, without potentially destroying your career at the same time. In a lot of cases you have to weigh up if the parents are the problem or the solution. You have to go through them to get the help, and if they choose not to see the need, it goes nowhere fast. Or if you have management who don't care enough to acknowledge the teachers struggle, it goes around in circles too.
Raen Jayda 4 months ago
I don't 100% believe this. I was horribly abused as a kid, all types, and me and my sister missed so much school that my sister's teacher came to our house and taught her. Not a single teacher ever called CPS. Even with the bruises.
hannahbahngswife 4 months ago
I second this. My school's rector was aware that I was s******l and even made me show him the marks on my arms, but didn't do anything to help. But sure, let's give therapy to the (sorry for my language) s**t who smokes in the bathroom!
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
I'll never forget one of my teachers telling me they were aware of my situation at a reunion and feeling seen. They all wete aware. I had no idea.
Earonn - 5 months ago
And you know what? No rap*ist has to pay for the damage he causes. Not for the police work, not for the jail, not for the intial medical care, not for the therapy. That's all you, you , you. think of that, next time they whine about how people with a certain lifestyle should pay for it, or that a young boy only made a "mistake" and we "shouldn't ruin his life". Certainly ruins your taxes!
Matt from Canada 5 months ago
Clearly the answer is universal basic income
Load More Replies..."Third, get professional help. It's like a personal trainer for your mental health. Talking to someone is a great way to process your emotions, but with the added bonus of getting legitimate advice," u/Raiseyourspoonforwar urged workers.
"Lastly, and more importantly to me as I have ADHD, if you are neurodivergent, look at what reasonable adjustments your place of work can make for you. I have successfully been able to reduce my work days. My management knows to give me regular breaks, and I have been given a quiet area to work in due to my audio sensitivity."
#16
The amount of dead bodies you have to deal with/walk in on. Property management for 5 communities with 2400 people. 95% college students, 60% of those in high stress, high octane majors. I've walked into 4 s**cides in 5 months, and these have been people I've gotten to know, toured, worked with to cater to interests. I couldn't imagine it was going to be like this, but I probably should've.
Idk how to fix any of it, but it makes for a hard time now and again.
kansasmagic 5 months ago
I had a student die by s*****e. We weren't particularly close or anything, but I had a hard time going back in the class, like it made me physically ill. The only thing that kept me going back is that there were only two weeks not school left. That and alcohol.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
::hugs:: That's normal human empathy and sympathy. You knew a person, and suddenly they are gone from both your life and existence itself. It's jarring even if you weren't close to the person. Hope you are doing okay now and there's no lingering nightmares or anything <3
Load More Replies... The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
I'm interested to know where this person is. I was a property manager for almost 10 years and only walked in on one, and that was an older lady who passed peacefully (we assume since nobody heard anything and she looked like she was napping).
Kalevra 3 months ago
Pick a major collage in the united states and pretend its there. Considering his tenants were 95% college students.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 4 months ago
My theory is that most student suicides arise fron failed relationships and narcotics use, not someones choice of major
Kalevra 3 months ago
The fact is that these kids think life has nothing to offer them when its time to be an adult with responsiblities. For some reason these last few generations just dont believe they can make something of themselves or that there is no way back from a mistake they made. I dont know the answer but i know that checking in with them often can be a factor in whether they choose to stay. I wish i hadnt had been so stuborn.
Load More Replies... #17
The smell of burning Human flesh. I'm an industrial welder and occasionally have a molten blob of steel land on exposed skin. We don't mention it outside of work because of obvious reasons.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
As an amateur welder, I learned that you cannot outrun a piece of red hot metal in your shoe. You can do a pretty good Hokie Pokie though.
Jrog 5 months ago
As an amateur welder, I invested pretty early on in a fire-resistant heavy cotton jacket, a leather apron and some leather sleeve and spats (the shoes I get through my job, so I just repurposed an older pair)
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
I had a pre-cancerous mole biopsied and the surgeon cauterized the incision afterwards. He only used a local, so I was awake. It is true that cooking human flesh and skin smells like delicious cooking pork. In my case (since I was raised in a Hispanic family) my burning flesh smelled exactly like pork carnitas. I have not been able to eat carnitas since XD
Upstaged75 5 months ago
My 9th grade English teacher once had a Vietnam flashback or something and shouted at us about "the smell of burning human flesh". It scared us in to complete silence.
#18
Honestly, the fact that most stuff we deal with causes cancer. Generally, you can be quite safe as a chemist, but it's the long term exposure that's an issue. Being somewhat not safe over time causes lots of issues. Sure, you always hear of someone who got a litre of solvent to the face, or got a toxic powder on their arm and was fine, but it's the sum of all your exposures, not the day to day stuff that k**ls you. Be smart and be safe: wear gloves, wear a lab coat, don't breath anything in, and work in a fume hood with everything.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Same goes for the trades (not chemicals) because of the repeated "small" injuries they cause themselves every day just standing, bending, lifting, and being around loud machines.
Ian Cummings 3 weeks ago
Yes, I once worked in an archaeological conservation lab.The standard treatment for copper or bronze objects was to clean them with a glass bristle brush and scalpel if needed, and then soak them in benzotriazole under vacuum, to get the bubbles out, and the benzotriazole into the object. My boss, Kate, had been to a conference in London, and when she came back, about 11am, she walked into the lab, and immediately screamed at me to get my paws out of there! Once I had, I asked the reason, and she told me that the d****d stuff was carcinogenic. After that we had to wear gloves in the lab all the time!
Rich Black 4 months ago
Imagine how the scientists at the Chinese wuhan virus lab fekt when they were told to enhance the covid 19 virus
The author said that, initially, the reason they asked the question was to actually find out about any paranormal or supernatural experiences that people had at work. It's something the author said they've been interested in since childhood.
According to u/Raiseyourspoonforwar, they've personally experienced creepy behavior at work before. Namely, when they were in their early 20s, a coworker in their 40s made increasingly uncomfortable comments about "what she wished to do to me and what she wanted me to do to her."
"At the time I was engaged and, whenever I brought this up, she would say something like, 'What she doesn't know won't hurt her.' She would only make these comments when no other coworkers were around. In the end, I had to complain to management, and as far as I'm aware, she was only moved to a different department."
#19
This isn't necessarily creepy, but unsettling. I used to work in the travel industry. You'd be surprised at how many people seriously injure themselves or even die while on vacation. People tend to think they're invincible when they're abroad. Spoiler alert: You are not. Buy travel insurance.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
A guy I used to babysit was overseas when he was 20-something and tried to dive into a body of water. Boke his back and is paralysed. Thankfully he had travel insurance and was able to be flown home once he was stable enough.
Littlemiss 5 months ago
You need to get insurance so if in the event of death your body can be bought home. So many people travel and don't think beyond holiday vibes
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
And if you get told the waer's dangerous, DON'T DRINK THE WATER. You'd be amazed how nasty dysentery is.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
Australian’s, especially younger, tend to be morons when going to Bali etc and drink too much and get poisoned, go swimming while drunk, but worst is when they get on those scooters without helmets and have accidents all the time and nobody seems to THINK to get insurance!!
Laserleader 4 months ago
In my tourist town one year we had three floatplanes crash, dozens dead. Every incident was unique and unrelated causes. But some years are worse than others. This year we've only had three bus crashes, and dozens injured, but no casualties.
Misha Writer 4 months ago
On a cruise, my dad fell and c*****d his head. He was stitched up and sent on his way, but then had an episode in the airport before we got on the flight home. He was in hospital on the other side of the country for two days for severe dehydration, yet insisted he was drinking plenty. The airport episode was insanely scary, because it could have been so much worse.
Verena 4 months ago
People jumping in the ocean, despite warnings and many more freaky ideas. Search andcRescue pulls out at least ten dead people every season and hundreds that were immensely lucky. Tourists think that the ocean is a pool and the Beachwatch will pamper them. They won't Theycare there to help in case of need and put up warning flags. It is up to the people themselves to read information and follow instructions
#20
I worked as a Marine electrician for a while (fishing boats mostly) and no one said anything weird for 3 months. Then one day my coworker told me about how he had been on a job where a boat crew member fell into a machine that was on and it crushed the guys hand, the captain came around to see what the commotion was about and told the guy to get back to work.
The whole crew said they would walk off the boat if the captain didn’t get the man medical attention.
I heard stories of people flipping breakers while people were still working inside switch boards, which makes the switchboard effectively explode with lightning and fire k**ling people.
Stories about people throwing themselves down flights of stairs to collect unemployment or LNI.
Or people jumping into the ocean because of depression.
Those boats were nightmare inducing. Rusty and disgusting.
Theres no OSHA if OSHA isn’t physically there with their eyes on something. Captain would get tipped off OSHA was coming out or the fire chief and they would cease dangerous activities. Captain would order a welder to weld up a guard rail on a set of steep stairs for when OSHA would show up. As soon as OSHA would leave the captain would tell someone else to cut the guard rail off with a grinder. It was never there for safety, but for the illusion that safety protocols were being followed.
Earonn - 5 months ago
Now imagine if we had universal basic income and the whole crew could walk out. Just so. Not having to fear for their livelihood. And no one else had to take the jobs. What would the Captains (have to) do? but a lot of people rather see people die than changing their ideology.
Ace 5 months ago
There are better, easier solutions that actually exist. Unions, for a start...
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Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Lock. Out. Tag. Out. D**n it, it's supposed to be industry standard across all industries. If that power switch isn't locked in the off position by a physical pad lock, you do not work on the machine. To be clear though, I totally blame management on this one. They're probably not supplied the standard kits to actually perform LOTO properly.
#21
In the work comp insurance industry, each body part has a predetermined monetary value. So if you lost, say, a thumb or a foot on the job, they just check their price list and cut a check. Sometimes there are different values for the same body part depending on if the part that was lost came from your dominant hand or side.
Another fun fact is that it can be cheaper to insure roofers who work on 5 or 10+ story jobs than those that work on lower structures because the insurance companies figure in the event of a fall they’ll only have to cut a simple check for a pre-set death benefit for the high rise workers - it’s when someone falls from just a couple stories that leads to years of expensive medical treatments and disability payments since they’re much more likely to survive.
I’ve always found it a little bit creepy how easily our lives and body parts can be reduced to just a few numbers and dollar signs.
Mike F 5 months ago
I can remember when I was in grade school we got a notice to take home every year. The notice was about an insurance policy available on us kids that had that kind schedule on it. I can remember reading it and thinking that it had to be some kind of joke: loss of a hand or foot, loss of an eye, loss of one hand/foot and one eye, it was crazy to a little kid and it's crazy that nothing has changed.
Otto Katz 5 months ago
I REMEMBER THAT!! Blast from the past! Dust flying around my brain from those particular brain cells!
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SouthernGal 5 months ago
The movie “Worth” is about the man who had to determine how much the family members of 9/11 victims received - the value of each person’s life. Very powerful movie and I highly recommend it.
Rich Black 4 months ago
Airlines do the same thing in crashes. They have a payout menu based on age, educational attainment, current salary, and lifetinmnecearnings potential. Otherwise every victims family would demand $200 million in a crash
Richard Pennington 4 months ago
My brother (a GP = family doctor, now retired) told me that he was told never to jump from a building anywhere between the third and eighth floor. Up to the third floor, you usually won't be too badly injured. Above the eighth floor you will probably be killed outright. But in between, there is too great a chance of surviving as a vegetable.
What is the creepiest and most stressful part of your job, dear Pandas? What are some hidden aspects of your profession that most workers tend to keep quiet about? How do you manage work-related stress and toxicity?
If you have a moment, grab a cup of coffee and share your experiences in the comments below.
#22
IT security at a lot of places is a joke. You’d be horrified how at some high profile/hold a lot of your personal data there isn’t really an emphasis on security. Sure they do just enough but it’s more aimed at protecting their image and whatnot than your data.
Robert Beveridge 5 months ago
IT security is a joke in general, and this is unavoidable. If you build a better mousetrap, etc. One of today's big security movements is multi-factor authentication. Google "2fa breach" for a recent highly amusing ZD article. That's the tip of the iceberg...
Igor914624 4 months ago
The problem is that IT does not make money for the company. It is an expense they HAVE to pay. So like any other expense they want to spend as little as possible on it. That means management will always cut what they don't understand to make them look good on the P and L tables. Things that anyone who knows IT would consider essential get cut because they are too expensive. IT can recommend this firewall or that intrusion detection software, but end up settling for an open source solution because the recommended one is "too expensive". And then we get fired when there is a breach, not the exec who said it was too expensive.
Igor914624 4 months ago
It applies to people too. They will cut the person with decades of experience and expertise, in favor of the guy with 3 years experience because he is cheaper to pay. The Wally World retailer is notorious for this. They hire only recent college grads, pay them c**p, then let them go after a couple of years because they are too expensive to keep.
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 4 months ago
Lol yes. I used to be an IT journalist. People do not know what they're doing.
Bob Brezniak 4 months ago
I just left an IT Admin role at a surgery/medical company. Security was a joke, and they would not let me make any changes because it cost the doctors too much money. Unbelievable.
#23
A small percentage of people getting tattooed have HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis, etc. and they are not always honest on their release forms. I was taught to always treat every client as if they have Hepatitis C, so everyone gets the same precautions, safety measures, and equipment sterilization. It's tough though, because we'll have sketchy people that probably use d***s, or come in wanting their house party tattoo fixed and we have no idea if they were sharing needles. We either make a judgment and deny them service, or treat them like everyone else and use precaution. I've only had one person be honest and tell me they had HIV, while they filled out their paperwork.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
Same with the police in UK. if you treat everyone as a risk, then everyone is safe.
Jac Carr 4 months ago
Same with men; they're all a risk when you don't know who the risky ones are
Load More Replies... Rich Black 4 months ago
Its human nature. You can either be honest, or tmyou can lie and get a cool tat to impress your friends
#24
The number of deaths and injuries. Industrial Maintenance isn't a really safe career path. I personally know 4 people that have been seriously injured and 2 that were k**led on the job.
Shelli Aderman 5 months ago
Big, heavy machines with lots of moving parts. It may be annoying at times, but safety checks and OSHA are important!
megabeth 5 months ago
OSHA literally saves lives. They're not popular w everyone bc they're worried about lives not dollars. Read your history and you'll understand why unions were so crucial.
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 5 months ago (edited)
Indeed. We had a guy the other month... he's part of maintenance at the foundry we work at. They were doing work on the blast machine. For those who don't know anything about foundries, 'blast' is where we send castings to give them that even somewhat-pocky finish? It's like the generic look of metal that has not been polished, bumpy but uniform. This is done by putting the piece in a machine and 'blasting' it with tiny shot (Kind of like a shotgun, but obviously not a single blast). What the composition of that shot is varies, but it's enough to wear down metal. He's in the machine and the door closes. I'm not sure what led up to this, clearly lock-out tag-out procedure failure, but the machine starts up. Took them over a minute to get the machine shut down as it pelted him with shot normally used to as an abrasive for metal. He did survive and isn't like crippled or anything, for the record, but holy hell. I can't even imagine the panic when that hatch closes.
Rich Black 4 months ago
I hope these aren't the same guys buying 2 pints of vodka before operating heavy construction equipment
Amy Force 4 months ago (edited)
There is this absolutely HORRIBLE video out there... of some factory worker (I believe country of origin was Russia)... He was working on a LATHE; His arm got trapped, and in a matter of seconds he was yanked into the machine and SHREDDED beyond recognition... Just GONE. It's TRULY disgusting and horrifying. Imagine the horror that went thru that guy's head when his arm got clamped down, knowing he only had seconds to live. I can't imagine. I imagine the work floor where the accident scene was must have permanent stains. So SAD.
#25
Pilot here.
It is possible for an aircraft at high altitude to depressurize fast enough that nobody has time to put on an oxygen mask before losing consciousness. In this case the plane will continue to fly on autopilot until it runs out of fuel. At that point the aircraft will descend. Once it’s low enough everyone will wake up (edit: I did some more research. Waking up is extremely unlikely.) disoriented onboard a doomed plane minutes from impact with the ground.
Here’s the kicker. There’s a rule that at least one of the pilots must wear an oxygen mask at all times above 35,000 feet. I have never met a pilot that follows this rule.
Have a great flight!
Jrog 5 months ago (edited)
It happened a few of times, most notably an Helios flight that crashed in Greece, but it is an EXTREMELY low probability of this happening. Even in rare cases of sudden decompression, the pilots have the time to wear their mask and set an automatic descent to 6000 ft.
Jrog 5 months ago (edited)
Also, OP is wrong on the rule part. He is referring to U.S. FAA, 14 CFR 91.211, that is 1) a US only procedure and 2) a very outdated one, originating in the late 1960s and basically superseded by the introduction of modern oxigen masks. If your plane is equipped with [direct quote] "a quick-donning type of oxygen mask that can be placed on the face with one hand from the ready position within 5 seconds" you are exempt from the requirement of wearing a mask at all times. ALL the masks are designed to be quick-donning nowadays, including the passenger's.
Load More Replies... SouthernGal 5 months ago
This happened 20 years ago and the plane crashed in Greece. Also, golfer Payne Stewart lost his life in something like this in the late 1990s.
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
God, I remember the Payne Stewart one. It was terrible.
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Game Guy 4 months ago
It's the opposite that gets you. Sudden decompression, there's a loud noise and you feel the air rushing out. You know what's going on so you put on the mask. Slow loss of pressure and the pressurization alarm doesn't work? You don't notice anything as you slowly lose consciousness.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
For whatever it's worth: I've read Concorde could maintain adequate pressurisation with a single window blown out - and Concorde flew far higher than any other commercial airliner. I'm not sure how it's possible for a pilot (properly trained with proper practice) to lose consciousness so fast they can't put on an oxygen mask.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
P.S. Concorde's flight deck was equipped with positive pressure oxygen masks. It flew so high that 100% oxygen at ambient pressure wouldn't get oxygen into your blood - so if Concorde ever had lost pressurisation, the pilot(s) would have had to have reduced altitude very quickly to save the passengers.
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The fact that human organs are shipped like regular packages at FedEx. I see them almost everyday, its most a company called Cryolife I think. It's for organ donation. But we are very professional and careful with these packages in particular for obvious reasons.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
I mean, if you've got the license, it really is just another delivery. You don't even need a license for certain things like cleaned bones. This is in the US, for reference. I want to say that if the bones are cleaned (no meat hanging off) they are just considered a different class than 'human remains' because 'human remains' as a designation is more about the biological hazard than them being... well human remains. Not sure how it applies to other things like ashes and whatnot.
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
Archeological remains are in a different class, worked at a museum setting up an Egyptian exhibit once and we didn't need the state's blessing for bones over 300 years old. Always wondered how they figured the cut-off.
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 4 months ago
I mean they're just not. Organs are delivered by courier, sometimes even flown in by helicopter if time if of the essence.
#27
I've been working as a waiter for years now. And whew boy lawdy are there a bunch of issues that are simply not addressed. Workplace sexual harrassment of women in the industry is f*****g rampant, both from coworkers and customers. D**g and alcohol consumption and a**se amongst restaurant workers is insane. The huge racial and gender disparity that exists in earnings due to tips. It's a pretty toxic business behind the scenes.
Earonn - 5 months ago
Again, imagine the women could just walk out because we had universal basic income, and the sexist swine were left to themselves. But nah, better to whine that money "must be earned" and have some young women sexually harassed and worse.
Queen Boudicca 2 months ago
Young women who wear their hair in pony tails earn higher tips.
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 4 months ago
Had one guy lock me in a walk-in fridge because I refused his "you're only a lesbian because you haven't found the right man let me show you what I mean" offer. Also had a customer grab my b@@b and my @ss while I was taking his order. Had a female customer point her fingers at me like a gun and tell me I better watch myself going home that night - because I refused to let her take her margarita out of the restaurant in a to-go cup. Serving is not a game for light-weights, I tell ya.
E Weisenfeld 5 months ago
I do not miss my days working in a restaurant kitchen. Lots of ick in the experiences with my coworkers.
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
And don't think the same thing doesn't happen in gay bars, !ale or female, they're worse.
#28
The ethical implications of being a programmer.
I used to work in the financial sector, but I had to leave because I heard too many serious discussions about how much it cost to buy a governor without getting arrested.
Ace 5 months ago
This is presumably some meaning of the word "programmer" with which I'm unfamiliar; I was intrigued as to what ethical issues would be faced by someone writing computer code.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
I feel like the OP meant more along the lines of software development in general at a big tech firm. Since the field is rapidly changing at pretty much any given point in time (and certainly now that AI is a big thing), the desire to be in control of shaping legislation around it probably seems more urgent.
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Rich Black 4 months ago
The problem is governors, not the people offering them money. Look at Trump
#29
Sexual a*****t in the US Military is a huge f*****g problem. Everyone inside knows it and pretends to take it seriously. The reality is that it’s always treated like it’s a problem in another branch, another unit, another squad - never ours. We’re good guys! Those statistics couldn’t possibly apply here!
Roughly 80% of female service members report being sexually harassed and 30% s****************d. Male on male sexual a*****t is also significantly higher than in the civilian population, outpaced only by the estimates for inmate sexual assaults in prisons. A huge majority of this is never formally reported. Know why? Because more than half of the people who did formally report have experienced retaliation in some form afterward.
We have classes every year. We talk a good game. It’s not enough because we’re not willing to actually punish the perp and not the victim. It’s not just the brass either. It goes all the way down to the private who just joined. It’s a group mentality.
KC Lancaster 2 months ago
Everyone in and out of the military is aware of the r*apes of women soldiers by those who should be their supportive teammates, but unfortunately not the same r*pes of men. It's a systemic situation, especially for new recruits, with silence enforced by fear of more violent retaliation, as in any domestic violence situation. There is gaslighting, victim blaming, with reports to superiors filed and dismissed, s*****e notes disappeared, investigations either go nowhere or find a single "expendable" scapegoat. It's a truly revolting situation that needs to be overhauled immediately. It's something that Pete Hegseth, the current head of the US DoD should be taking on instead of his idiotic "distraction" of fitness and physical appearance of the military. But then he works for a (multiply charged) rapist, so unfortunately, we must wait for a thorough investigation by an independent department at a more intelligent time.
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
What's "s****************d"? BTW I was in the military decades ago. I woke up one night to a guy fondling my private parts. (how will BP censor this, I wonder?)
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago (edited)
s*xually *ssaulted. BP has this weird connection to Mumsnet and heaven forfend they see a word that offends their delicate sensibilities.
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Huddo's sister 5 months ago
There was a royal commission in Australia looking into s*****e rates in the army as well as things like hazing and sexual harassment. Like all royal commissions, there were numerous recommendations, but who knows how many have been enacted as they never report on it.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
We have known that for decades. But we should be safe amongst our comrades.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
And it happens so often we would have to prosecute enough military members we couldn't make the required numbers if. they were found guilty.
#30
I don't know about "creepy" but A LOT of dietitians have/had eating disorders. It can attract people who are 1) obsessed with food and 'health' and 2) looking for better ways of staying as thin as possible.
Ekyou:
On a similar note, I studied psychology and every therapist I've met had some sort of mental illness. But really it makes sense that people would want go into a field that they are personally invested in.
Luke Branwen 5 months ago
Everyone is soooo quick to point out fat people are "uNHeALtHy" but nobody seems to acknowledge that extreme thinness, fad diets, eating disorders and malnutrition are just as dangerous, if not more. Nobody gives a d@mn because apparently skinny = good no matter the cost.
Dragon mama 5 months ago
Wish I had way more up votes because you are so right!
Load More Replies... KieLeaHar 4 months ago
I have NEVER met a dietician under the age of 40 that DIDN’T have anorexia. It’s quite sad. And they sat there telling me what NOT to eat and what’s healthy and I did ask them what they ate in a day and they told a buIIshít list and I told them I knew they were lying. They all pulled the pikachu face as though they’d never been called out before! 🙄 come on!
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
They are usually called 'lived experience' hires in Australia and it's meant to be a positive thing, so people can be treated by those that truly know what they have gone through. Sounds like there needs to be more oversight though.
Melanie Johnson 2 months ago
SENCOs too - all have something diagnosed and so do their children
Laserleader 4 months ago
Honestly, I've worked in multiple industries with cognitively disabled groups, and studied everything about cognitive development disorders I have come across, all to learn about my own issues with "learning disabilities and attention disorders", that I was diagnosed with as a teen.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
The last one is interesting to me. I always wanted to go into psychology as a profession, but felt I wasn't qualified because I have a mental illness (or 2...)
Devin Schmitt 5 months ago
Three out of five of my personalities claim that we are not mentally unstable.
#31
In education as an administrator. The reality of the frequency of child sexual a*****t or child a**se and lasting trauma resulting from it is enough to make you drink.
It is so shocking the level of incompetence in parents. This is across both private schools, well off demographics and high needs, high poverty districts.
It is really hard to come to school each day and mask positivity some days.
JB 5 months ago
Every year I've got 3 or more who are members of the Sh*t Dad's Club. Their dads: they're sh*t. Dads who get too high to care, dads or mom's boyfriends who are sexually a*****e, dads who play favourites, dads whose hateful words come out of their kids' mouths, dads who would do less damage if they just left... And the kid suffers for it.
Karen Bryan 3 months ago
I am thankful every day for the kind, attentive, loving dad I had.
Load More Replies... Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
True. But it's ok at the moment, yeah for August.
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I work for a student loan company. A lot of people’s ‘repayment plan’ is to pay the absolute minimum/defer their loans as long as possible and then die. It’s usually for older people but I see it with folks in their 20s/30s also. Their interest is sometimes more than they make in a month. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve had to reassure that their kids won’t have to pay the loan if the parent dies. It (usually) can’t be discharged with bankruptcy either. It f*****g sucks that DEATH is the only way out for people, we literally have to have a protocol for how to handle someone threatening to commit s*****e so they don’t have to pay it.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago (edited)
When my parents separated, my mum was only able to pay off interest on my childhood home each month. She really struggled for a few years. It was only because prices skyrocketed when she was ready to sell, that she was able to pay off the loan.
Rich Black 4 months ago
Giant student loans to teens is the entire business plan of higher education.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Yep, graduated many years ago and have always magically made just little enough to pay $0 on my loans. I dread the day I make enough to have to start paying on them because it will likely be more than my mortgage each month.
#33
Starbucks, the amount of mainly men who decide that if a female barista does their job, she’s into him and he’s now going to make her really REALLY uncomfortable by either refusing to take a hint and leave them alone or really gross comments. Seriously guys, she’s paid to be nice. She doesn’t want your testiculars. Goes for anyone in the service industry. Good customer service doesn’t mean they want to see you romantically.
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago (edited)
And waiters. And saying you're an actress, especially in the midWest, paints a target on your back.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
TF did someone downvote you? Came here to say the exact thing. The amount of men who thought I or my coworkers were "hitting" on them by doing our jobs, or that because we served drinks for a living meant they could say whatever they wanted (or touch whatever they wanted) was disturbing on so many levels. Still f***s me up how desensitized I became to all that.
Load More Replies... ROSESARERED 4 months ago
Happens in retail too. I'm good at remembering names, and there was a guy who thought I liked him because of it. One day I had a queue of people at my counter, he was behind the lad y i served. .greeted her with her name, and she said it must be great to be able to remember people's names. No, not always, was my answer..told her it was a blessing and a curse, some guys think I like them because of it. I saw the guys face, David, waiting behind her go from a smile to no smile really quick. Thankfully he stopped bothering me, following me around, chatting, getting way too close, after that. If someone is serving you, is nice, smiles and remembers your name, don't take it to mean they care for you more than just another customer...they are doing their job
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
When I was a teenager it started for me, but it wasn’t guys my age.. it was guys double to three times PLUS my age.. I still shudder at the thought!
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Some of the people who go missing in the woods just aren't found. We don't know what happens to them. Forest rangers are always wary about missing persons in the woods.
Horosho Bodka 5 months ago
As a SAR team member, this is depressingly true. And while many ARE found, many are not. And far too many are found too late..
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
My adult daughter, who lives with me, is an avid and experienced hiker. Even so, I bought her a Garmin navigator, she only hikes with one experienced friend, and she always texts me their campsite location and site number, the trailhead location, and the number of the nearest ranger station. We're in New England, so she's also always wary of the time of year, altitude, and potential weather events.
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Jude Corrigan 4 months ago
There are a lot of cave systems in the US that are very close to where people have gone missing.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
Also a lot a serial kiIIers and just random people looking for a thrill attack. I’m just saying. 🤷♀️
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Not really creepy, but I work at a woodshop, and it is an absolute OSHA disaster. Safety guidelines are rarely (if ever) enforced, and corners are cut constantly to get stuff built on time. I'm talking fire extinguishers buried behind scrap wood and other things, almost zero use of safety equipment, and just a general disregard for what should be standard practice. Really the only reason injuries are rare is because the vast majority of people who work here are experienced and know their s**t.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
They know. They just don’t care. They don’t think anything WILL go wrong..
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The company likes to pretend we do an honorable job making strategically important things for the United States military to protect us all with.
We make weapons. It's quite possibly the most lucrative industry in the world.
#37
I work in Marketing. We know so much about you that we purposely tone it down as not to freak you out.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
I'm assuming our shopping habits and how they can use mental manipulation to persuade us to spend more? I just watched something about how big box stores try to trick you to spend more in those stores. It makes me want to go to IKEA just to break all the "rules" they want their customers to follow. I would not follow the arrows around the store. I would be making my own short cuts. Actually, I would go the opposite way of the arrows. I would eat nothing. Spend nothing. I would point to everything and say how ugly it is very loudly. I would at least take a basket or cart and take the small items from the furniture displays rather than from the small items department. I would climb into one of the beds, under the sheets and try to have a snooze. (Actually, I have already done that.)
#38
My previous job was at a canine lodging/training facility. The training was 0% positive reinforcement, only negative. One of my coworkers walked in on a trainer choking a dog out on a prong collar until it passed out. Trainer followed her out and said "there's a reason why you don't go in the training room" like he was out of a mafia movie or some s**t. SPCA was called on this place at least twice, but someone there is buddies with the owner and always gives him a heads up before they come investigate.
Not as creepy, but anyone paying for a large run during the busy season will usually just end up with their dog in a carrier crate. People will still be charged nearly $100/night for their dog to stay in a large run even if they're not actually ending up in there.
All in all, I highly advise just hiring a dog sitter on Rover. Most upscale boarding kennels don't have max. capacities and often lie/cheat their clients of money (they don't ACTUALLY read your dog a bedtime story, or give them doggie ice cream, or give them pamper tuck-ins). If you INSIST on bringing your dog to a boarding kennel, smaller is better. Don't let large upscale facilities fool you with the looks, it may LOOK nicer, but 100% chance the run-down looking one is more honest and likely to cater to your dogs needs.
EDIT: I've gotten questions from a few people asking how to tell a legit kennel from a dishonest one, and my best advice is to look at employee reviews on indeed/glassdoor/etc. Employee reviews will give you about 90% more insight than any customer review typically could. Key complaints to look out for is "profit hungry owners", "understaffing", or "overwork&underpay". These typically indicate a poor employee:dog ratio, and no maximum capacity (in states that do not have strict laws regarding a capacity).
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
My dog Fenring has been attending a training facility since May. He goes 3 days a week for 8 hrs a day. They allege they are "no pain, no fear" and are positive-reinforcement only. Not only has my dog NOT learned the things I sent him there for (pulling on the leash, jumping to lick people in the face when greeting) he has actually BECOME reactive and dog-aggressive since attending this training facility. He used to never even bark or react to other dogs before except for "let's play!" wagging. Now he lunges at other dogs, scream-barking, and has pulled me off my feet twice. He also now barks aggressively at people - something he NEVER did before attending this place. He snarl-barked at my neighbor, who he's known his whole life. I'm furious at this facility - they literally caused my dog to have negative behaviors. I'm currently gearing up to go to war with them to get my money back, but my poor dog. I can't even walk him without worry now.
Rosemary . 5 months ago
I hope you tear the place apart on social media and post warnings on Yelp etc.
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#39
The amount of s*****e among doctors.
Physicians have among the highest rates of s*****e worldwide, but I didn't understand how significant it was until I was in the field. I assumed it wasn't a big issue - the career seemed great with prestige, high job security and income. And it is great, but I didn't know about working 60 days in a row, operating after being awake for 72 hours on call, cutthroat competition in training bottlenecks, the constant expectation and pressure to be the best and know it all from seniors and patients alike, the harassment and bullying from colleges that eat their young.
Now that I'm working in hospital networks, I don't go more than a couple of months without hearing about another doctor who attempted or committed s*****e. There is more open discussion about the crisis, but most remains unspoken. Many doctors in my country won't disclose or seek help for their mental health problems out of fear they'll be reported and have restrictions on their license.
And if you are taken to hospital for the s*****e attempt, the field is small enough that your colleagues and friends will hear about it, no matter how much staff maintain confidentiality. I visited a friend in ICU who attempted s*****e, and he was mortified that he had been transported to the hospital he was employed in. Everyone knew and he moved across the country. And you hear about funerals for an 'untimely passing' of a 30 something year old doctor, while nobody talks about how or why they died. We are very uncomfortable talking about s*****e.
Colleen Glim 5 months ago
People need to understand that doctors are also people. And the also need to eat, sleep, destress, and relax. Better work life balance = better doctors
SouthernGal 5 months ago
They are literally making life or death decisions constantly. That would have to cause an enormous amount of stress.
megabeth 5 months ago
That's absolutely tragic. This wasn't handle anywhere near correctly. A little common sense would have gone a very long away. What a terrible set of circumstances that lead to the death of young person.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
The colleague that OP spoke of did not die.
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I work in tv news and some viewers can be veryyy creepy. People subconsciously feel like they know us, because they see us everyday, in their homes. Some of the mail my coworkers receive is so questionable. Like one guy (a well known and beloved weatherman) regularly gets postcards from the same dude that hates him and berates him. Another guy acts as if he actually knows one of our weekend anchors, in his letters talking about how they used to go to various concerts together (nope). Once I opened a package with all these random objects (bandaids, leis, a pair of socks, conversation hearts) and five valentines each detailing how the person would storm the building.
Once I did a story vaguely related to vaping and within minutes a guy tracked down my personal facebook and sent me three videos cussing me out and a long rant about how I was a "p**s ant w***e" and a "f*****g moron".
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
I got the w***e and f^^^^^g, but what is p**s? maybe pīssant with a typo?
Princess Possum 5 months ago
"p i s s a n t" an irritating or worthless person. In the southern US, I grew up hearing it used as "you little pissant.". (not directed at me!)
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I used to do a lot of independent IT work in rural areas before I moved to the bay, and have endless stories about utterly f****d up people.
Yes, I always reported it if I could prove it was illegal, but here's just some of the greatest hits:
Was asked to install a hidden web camera in a child's room once, under the guise of it being for a baby, then find out it's the room of a 16 year old girl.
I meet a retired judge who is like the nicest guy ever, instantly find insanely long histories of mock snuff films and poetry about severing female heads.
Went to a hog farm and helped install a monitoring system for a series of pens that included couches inside and real toilets. He stood behind me the entire time breathing down my neck while I worked.
Seriously, so done with the Midwest bruh.
Queen Boudicca 2 months ago
I don't think hogs were in those particular pens.
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I used to comb though the computers/drives of people being charged with crimes in the Air Force. A lot of times it would be someone who downloaded child p**nography and we'd have to find all instances so they could be properly charged. It was very frequent and caused me to quit because of how disgusting it got.
#43
Military - a lot of people I served with were *really* f*****g dumb, including officers. Also, cancer rates among retirees are insanely high.
Luke Branwen 5 months ago (edited)
Well. Joining the military basically means to become a state-contracted morderer willing to obediently k!ll anyone their government points its finger at. So the two kinds of people in the military are either too stupid / propagandized to realize that, or the are intelligent but morally depraved enough not to mind.
Lee Gilliland 5 months ago
Excuse me, but before Trump ruined things, some of us thought we were defending our country.
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That we've been hacked. Repeatedly. Any data you trusted us with is out there now. Either for sale or just to freely download if you find the right site. The only reason your identity has not been stolen is that the thieves chose to steal someone else's today, and there are orders of magnitude more honest people than there are professional identity thieves. Pure random luck is the only reason your credit rating is not in tatters right now.
None of this is publicized, because the laws were deliberately written in such a way that we decide what constitutes a breech and that decision is never meaningfully accountable to anyone. So ... surprise! We have never declared that any of the times that we were hacked constituted a "formal breech".
#45
From the veterinary field: animal waste doesn't have any special rules about proper disposal. More often than not, if you were to dig through the dumpster behind a clinic you'd find whole body parts if not entire bodies.
Jrog 5 months ago
Don't know where OP is from, but veterinarians are subject to the same biohazard handling procedures as hospitals under EU directive 2020/C 375/01. Vets must use the same PPE and waste disposal procedures as the ones used for human medical waste.
Jrog 5 months ago
There are special provisions for disposal of pet's bodies, that are typically incinerated but can be released to the owners if they have either a space on private grounds for a burial or a lease on a pet cemetary or similar.
Load More Replies... KatWitch57 5 months ago
I can't vouch for everywhere but the veterinary hospital I worked in used a burial nd/or cremation service and anything more 'medical' than toenails was disposed of professionally and empathetically.
Julia Ford 5 months ago (edited)
This is not true. Also how often are they cutting off body parts?
Neb 4 months ago
I guess they are cutting off body parts pretty often - spaying and neutering comes to mind immediately.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 5 months ago
There's a special section of the local dump for them here. I asked as a kid and was horrified to learn that.
#46
That your medical records, paper or electronic are not actually secure. Many, many people have access to them and you just have to trust their integrity.
Also, store loyalty cards give companies a record of every last thing you buy from them. That's you with the condoms, lube and bunch of flowers.
Serena Myers 5 months ago
I recall the police officer that bought some condoms and a jar of marmite at the store I worked at. No comments from me, her business, not mine!
#47
The deli section is littered with frozen flies that couldn’t escape the coolers.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Oh! oh! I can relate to this one. Worked a deli section in a local grocery store as my second job. If the meat simply sitting in open trays. Don't buy it. At the end of the day, those trays are covered with a flimsy amount of plastic wrap, pushed into the refrigeration room, and then wheeled out the next day. The cutting machines do at least get cleaned on a daily basis, though probably not between cuts for that day.
#48
I work in the photography business for a corporation. A lot, and I am using that word lightly of older men love hitting on the young models so much that there is usually someone around to always distract higher business CEO's who are around on set.
Its kind of weird cause I would never thought this was an issue till i overheard someone higher in the company ask a young 22 year old model out for dinner sometime...at first seeming like a joke, but then realizing he was serious.
He has a wife and 3 kids.
super weird.
#49
I'm a mailman, and sometimes peoples houses just creep me out. Sometimes you walk up to a really run down place with their mailbox hanging sideways and you just get a bad feeling like "bad things happen here."
It's also creepy how bad some people's houses smell, and I can smell that from outside. If you're a hoarder with 20 cats I can smell all the cat pee and sweet rotting smell as soon as I go up your walkway.
Also delivering mail to sketchy businesses that are clearly fronts for something else is never really fun, can make you pretty uneasy.
#50
There are a lot of nasty a*s bugs in shipping.
f*nFRANCHtoast:
Oh yes. Silverfish! Centipedes! Cockroaches! Scorpions! My personal favorite was when we'd get product in from China and some bugs just come hauling @ss out of the boxes to go start a new life or what the f**k ever they do.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Yes, I believe they censored the apostrophe. f ' nFRANCHtoast. Really didn't do much to hide the language, though.
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I am a teacher in Japan and it's very common for Japanese teachers to f**k their students, nothing really happens, they apologize and then just get relocated to another school, seen it happen on more than one occasion.
#52
I'm a CNA and for me the creepiest thing (more like unsettling) is we don't really acknowledge the dead. By that I mean once a person dies we just clean out the room and we don't talk about him/her. We just move on right away. It's almost like they were never there. I understand that in the medical industry you can't have deaths affect you TOO much so that it wont impair your work, but I still find it unnerving.
#53
As an aircraft mechanic I can’t count the number of times I’ve pulled serviceable parts off of deadly crashes. It’s a common practice with parts that aren’t damaged. However it always makes you think when moving parts around from plane to plane what they’ve been through and how many lives they may have touched or helped take.... and now they’re keeping you or other people in the air.
Note this is specifically on vintage private planes not airliners!
#54
I wish I never new this, but I was a hair dresser for a while, and at one point was working in a not so good area. I had just started at this new salon, and the owner warned me to watch out for an older man who would come in after a young girl. That in and of itself was kind of strange, but nothing too jarring.
Its also important that we had almost no staff, do i work many 6-7 hour shifts by myself. Well, one day a young woman, maybe 25 years old, came in, and an older man behind her, who said absolutely nothing. I took her to the chair, and like everyone else, asked her what she wanted. She pulled me close to her and said "that man there thinks I'm getting my head shaved, he gave me $100, but just trim it."
I look back at the man, and there he was, starting to m**turbate in the corner. I told him to leave and called the police. The girl started crying in the chair. It was by far the creepiest thing I've seen.
I never knew people had fetishes like that. I wish I never knew.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
The sad part is that it totally is a f****h with actual p**n videos of it. I can't say I understand it, but at least most of the people with it tend not to indulge by masturbating at the local salon.
Ginger ninja 2 months ago
Absolutely foul, glad OP called the cops. Did he know the girl or was he just picking random young women?
Luke Branwen 5 months ago (edited)
Every single thing in the world is someone's fet!sh. Compared to some other stuff, cutting hair is pretty tame.
#55
I'm kind of new to corporate life and find it really unsettling. As a friend put it: there's something bizarre about a thousand people gathering together in a building for 9 hours a day, over and over, for their entire lives. Like think about it. Humans spend most of their time with their families which is pretty middle of the road for us as mammals and sentient being consumed by love of each other.
But in some weird Hunger Games arrangement, to sustain that wholesome natural life, we spend like a third of our time gathered in building with all these people. All the deep, intimate work relationships you develop... you and a thousand people only do that day after day because someone is basically taking your family hostage and will only let them eat if you go to this place every day to stand in a room alongside a thousand people.
And as someone's kid put it when they visited the office: Do you all just message each other all day?
It's a profoundly perverse thing we do for a third of our time that is alien to how we spend the rest of our time.
And then there's all the cultural indoctrination. Sanitation of language and expression. Meaningless tribalism emerges between teams and these really hostile 'us and them' emotions contaminate your minds and you treat the other humans with more contempt than empathy.
And the pooping rituals! Where shoes are visible and through sound you learn that there are many different ways that people can scrub their a******s with toilet paper.
And whatever Causal Friday means after they switch to allowing jeans as part of business casual. The fascinating apparel double standards of male conformity and female individuation.
And they're like 'Here's your allotted number of vacation days... and I f*****g DARE you to take them. Go on do it, you won't. You gonna answer email and run your reports those days? Somebody's gotta... you gonna make your coworkers work harder to cover for your filthy, slothful use of these vacation days that I insist you take? You gonna do that to them? Huh b***h? You gonna ask me if you can take them like a little b***h or have the AUDACITY to merely inform me when you're doing it."
But all the humans with their loving little baby humans don't awknowledge any of it... that's the part that's creepy.
seanpar0820 5 months ago
I loved sociology in college. Crazy stuff when you pull back your view and see how primitive we are. I personally think this is why anxiety is rampant. We were farmers, merchants etc and now 150 (or so) years later we live with noises and electronics all around us. 150 years isn't very long
Jennifer Rice 2 months ago
one of the best pieces of advice i was given, and give people is to ZOOM OUT. if you're overwhelmed with your life, your situation, your job, your kids, whatever.....zoom out. pretend like you're watching yourself on a surveillance cam, or in a sitcom or movie. (you really have to dissociate from your SELF and pretend that's some stranger) what do you see, as an observer? what are you yelling at the idiot on the screen? what would YOU do differently than the person you're watching?
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#56
Idk if it’s really *creepy* but d**g and alcohol use on the job in construction is a big issue that’s almost never explicitly addressed in the industry. To keep up or relax a little during the day some guys will use stimulants or drink on their breaks and lunch, and because max production is the goal on most jobs it tends to be left alone until it causes problems. It’s not nearly as widespread as it once was, but it’s still a big problem and the amount of supers and foremen (typically older guys, many of whom have done the same at a some point in the past and would definitely know how to recognize it) who are willing to look the other way for the sake of production when one of their guys is taking pulls of Jameson/snorting lines/popping adderall in the parking lot on their breaks/lunch is downright scary.
#57
The entire consulting industry preys on businesses who think they're hiring "experts" when really they're spending 10x as much on randos who don't know anything than they would on hiring/training their own randos who don't know anything. Most clients of consulting firms even let their consultants expense ridiculous sums of alcohol & other sketchy behavior.
Seriously, how has no one picked up on this. It's insidious.
Ronnie Beaton 5 months ago
It baffles me. Management would rather ask a bunch of strangers what's wrong with the company, rather than the people who actually do the job day in day out.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
Because if a minion came up with a solution, the manager would appear unnecessary, whereas if it's so bad that only an outside "expert" can solve it, then the manager is safe
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It's all about covering their arsés. Making decisions based on external consultants' advice means that a manager feels safe and can't be blamed when it all goes pearshaped. Of course, in practice most such decisions are not properly researched and therefor the tendency for them to go wrong is much higher, so managers are then even more careful to distance themselves from the decision-making process, which they do by hiring more external cosultants.
#58
There are things about my clients I know that I shouldn't, some of them don't know that I know, and some of them know I know.
Things unrelated to the job I provide for them.
I'm a gardener.
#59
Chemist:
In d**g discovery, biochemistry etc, where they try to find new d***s against cancer or finding treatments for other illnesses, usually your d**g has to be toxicologically tested by law.
There are contract labs for this, where they usually keep dogs (beagles because of their robust body) cats, monkeys (macaques) and other animals. Basically, the animals get different doses of the medics and they look how much the o******e would be. The Animals of these facilities never see daylight in their lives and they also die there, so they leave these labs only dead. And there are often issues because of low/no law enforcement resulting in a high grade of animal cruelty. When an animal is suffering, they should euthanize it, but when no one is on night shift, nobody can take care of this. And the monkeys also are often treated like small humans in a concentration camp.
The intention to find new d***s and treatments is good, but as soon as laws, economics and taxes play a role, things can go out of hand. There is a current case of a swiss company, which gave a test assignment to a german animal testing facility (most likely because it is cheaper) and Germany's laws to protect these animals are less strict than swiss laws. An undercover animal's rights activist got as an employee into the german facility and he recorded terrible things.
Queen Boudicca 2 months ago
Of all the awful things on this list, the horrors that children and animals face daily are soul crushing.
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Wij 5 months ago
What i hate about humankind. The audacity that human life is much more important than any other creature. 8 bln. Of us viruses destroying nature and the balance of the planet
Plentyofoomph 5 months ago
Don't all animals think their species is the most important?
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I work part time EMS on a reservation. I have my normal fire gig, but help out a department a few towns over that’s on a reservation that couldn’t staff their ambulance every day. My full time jobs runs 10 times the calls, but I see way more death on the reservation. Last shift we had a 7 fatality car accident, a hanging, and someone’s face smashed in with a piece of rebar. I’ve only ever gone 3 consecutive shifts without having some kind of r**e or sexual a*****t call. If it was in the town I live in the local news would have covered it, it would have gone around Facebook, etc. not a single person outside the reservation knows that it any of that happened. Not a single obituary in any of the newspapers near it. It’s a lawless, violent, cesspool or m***er and r****ts, but the only thing anyone hears is about the Casinos.
Rinso The Red 5 months ago
They work an ambulance part time on a Native American reservation when they aren't working their "normal" job as a fire fighter. That'd be my take
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Trucker here.
R**e by trainers, particularly men, on female trainees is kind of an issue that has only really started to come to light.
#62
In cathedrals, abbeys, or parish churches, sometimes there are crypts and vaults containing deceased notable individuals - even canonized saints.
There's something eerie about practicing the organ at night in those dark, vast, reverberant spaces - especially when the sexton takes pleasure in commenting to the organist that he should "practice quietly, or risk waking the dead.".
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
OTO, the thought of an organistic 'Chopsticks' echoing down those hallowed halls is sepulchrally delightful.
#63
I work in the healthcare industry as a data analyst. The amount of information I have access to is mindboggling.
#64
Working in the theatre/comedy world. If you’re a woman (and even if you’re not), you’ll probably be sexually harassed/assaulted at some point. Not really question of if, more of when and how badly.
#65
The way that some patients with mental health conditions (especially schizophrenia) try to explain what it's like having their condition. Things like "I'm playing snakes and ladders but there are no ladders."
Or when they explain their auditory or visual hallucinations to you, those are usually pretty creepy too. But overall it's sad that some people live in those realities.
cnn57t8278 5 months ago
Once I got a call from a housing unit where the supervisor was like, “You weren’t just here a few minutes ago, hovering over the landing? No? Then you better come, this guy’s hallucinsting real bad.”
#66
The amount of male managers who groom young crew at McDonlalds. I was only 15 when a 21 year old manager took my number off the crew sheet and began to txt me. I was young, had never had a boyfriend before and was being teased for my looks by all the boys at school. The attention I was receiving from my manager made me feel special. We ended up dating for 3 years. For the first 2 years he made me keep it secret. When I turned 17 we finally told the Resturant Manager, who thought we made a cute couple and nothing else was done. Eventually we broke up, and to no bodies surprise he started dating another young crew person.
When I first started at Mcdonalds there was a strict non-fratenization policy between managers and crew. Managers where not allowed to drive crew home and could not hang out with crew outside the work place. If a manager and crew person become involved, this is what was supposed to happen: No changes to the crew persons rostered hours or position are to be made. The manager is usually moved to a different store. If another store is not available the manager will not be rostered on with the crew person AT ALL. Both manager and crew must sign a form to say that their relationship will not affect their work performance or behaviour.
I can not begin to tell you how lax this policy is in some stores. It definitely depends on whether the store is run by McDonalds its self or a franchisee. My experience is with a franchisee and in all the years I worked there, the amount of male managers who dated and slept with young crew, and the lack of action from the Supervisors was sickening.
#67
How much s**t goes WRONG in surgery. Everything we do, every checklist, every precaution, is all to battle the biggest threat to our patient, human error. I've been doing it for ten years, and it's amazing how you can do every single thing you are supposed to, and someone else can walk up and throw a wrench in it. A mislabeled item, a consent not signed, an implant expired, or a specific size missing and not communicated. These arent exactly commonplace, but they happen often enough to have experienced it, and also why new policies and procedures are constantly being put into effect to battle them. Everything we do is because someone has made the mistake before without it.
Ace 5 months ago
I forget the numbers now, but there's a good reason that when you got in for surgery, for example on a knee, they draw huge arrows and marks on the appropriate leg, some hours before surgery before you're sedated.
Erik Biesemeier 5 months ago
A lot of times they'll have the patient themselves do it, because they know which one hurts. You don't run into the "My left or your left?" situation.
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#68
I wish that nursing school would prepare you for how many people you will walk in on while they are masturbating. Or full-on having s*x.
I have seen a grown man being given a hand-job while he had a Foley catheter inserted. That was not pleasant to remove later.
I wish I was joking.
#69
Apparently "your test results were inconclusive, we need a retest" means "we lost your biopsy".
#70
Patients’ perception of their doctors is almost entirely based on our people skills/communication, but this does not correlate very well to the quality of our medical decision making. The reality is that there is a huge range within the medical community as far as motivation to learn and improve, being up to date with the latest research, etc. And sometimes friendly doctors are terrible decision makers. Likewise, some have no people skills to speak of, but are some of the smartest and hardest working people on the planet. The best way to assess your doctor’s decision making is to go off the recommendations of other doctors, but even that is not 100% reliable because a lot of us are hesitant to publicly criticize our colleagues.
Edit: After reading comments, I would like to note that I wasn’t trying to say that nice doctors are less smart or that mean doctors are smarter. In general, people who actively develop their people skills and also actively developing other skills, and will be better practitioners on average. However it’s the outliers that creep me out, specifically because patients have no reliable way of knowing who they are (i.e. the friendly dumb doctors or the mean brilliant doctors).
Gg 5 months ago
My husband has heart surgery by one of the top cardiac surgeons in the country. He made his rounds to meet us and he had zero bed side manner but saved my husband's life so it was alright with me
Neb 4 months ago
Probably no bedside manners because he spends most of his time in surgery, with patient that is quiet and does not care about bedside manners.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 5 months ago
My pcp is one of the coolest doctors I’ve ever met. I’m so lucky. When my husband called to tell him that my mum had passed (also a patient), he called to extend his condolences and talk about how she affected him
Justbecause 5 months ago
I test drs on my long term medical stuff before i let them anywhere near my kids.
#71
I work for a company that (amongst other services) provides carpet cleaning. Vacuuming is one of the easiest corners for janitorial providers to cut so it rarely ever gets done to adequate levels. This means that office carpeting is absolutely FILLED with dirt, skin flakes, and literally any other nasty tiny thing you can picture. Carpeting is like a sponge/filter and if you don't clean it out regularly it gets f*****g nasty and can majorly impact indoor air quality. Sick Building Syndrome can be caused by carpeting alone.
Also, people in general are nasty too. In one night, in one facility, my team cleaned up p**s, vomit, and blood stains on the carpet (wearing PPE of course.). The amount of skid marks we clean off office chairs is bonkers too.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
Contrary to common myth, in reality "skin flakes" account for a tiny proportion of dust in peoples' homes, let alone in an office environment. Which tells me that whoever wrote this doesn't really know what they're talking about, at least wrt their description of what's contained within a carpet.
Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
And how do you get skid marks on office chairs? Sitting naked or full on shïtting yourself?
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Working in law enforcement, the last thing I like to talk about is dead bodies. That is, the state at which they are discovered. The smell, the fluids, the bugs, the state of decomp... these are not things I like to talk about unless absolutely necessary. Bodies can do some really creepy things and take on some really creepy positions after death.
Ask just about any cop what was their worst "welfare check" call they had and watch their face. Those are the worst calls to go to because you know what you will find. I'd be willing to bet that cop will just say that they found a body without mentioning the state it was in.
#73
A *lot* of attorneys are high-functioning alcoholics and addicts. Also, many of them are not very good and they represent some of the most marginalized individuals in society. It’s extremely depressing.
#74
I work at a geriatric psychiatry so imagine walking down a dimmed hallway in the middle of the night with schizophrenic people just sitting there whatching you, while you're about to enter a room with a dead body in it.
After some time it feels normal but sometimes I still get the chills.
#75
Rampant p********a.
I work at a popular kids hangout type place. Think a Chucky Cheese-type arcade, but the majority of our customers fall between 11-15 years old. Meanwhile, all of my coworkers are **at least** 18. When I started working there, I decided I was too cool to befriend the customers, which definitely makes me a cold b***h, but at least nobody will ever call me creepy.
Most of my coworkers don't seem to feel the same. Most of them hang out with these young kids outside work, befriend them on social media, text/call them. A bunch of them are dating younger kids. I can't prove any of it, and neither can anyone else who matters, so it just keeps going.
#76
Im in client relations for a largish logistics company, I know a lot of people who have slept with clients to get a contract signed and the hefty commission that comes with it. Ive been asked to do some weird favors for some of them before as they all come from out of town and we wine and dine them here in Miami and they treat it like a vacation and REALLY cut loose. However it is a subject that is always swept under the rug when it is brought up which is hardly ever.
#77
Teacher: if a person with guns entered our building we would be woefully unprepared and people would die. lockdown drills, putting locks on doors and having unarmed guards on campus aren't nearly enough to prevent a tragedy.
Colleen Glim 5 months ago
This is really only an issue in the US. The rest of the modern world doesn’t have active shooter drills in schools
Matt from Canada 5 months ago
We have lockdown drills in Canadian schools.
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Peta Hurley-Hill 5 months ago
Strict gun laws would help.I live in Australia. We don't have "Active Shooter Drills" or any of the other things mentioned.People are not allowed to "open carry"either,thank F%$k. People still have guns but no one needs an automatic or semi automatic gun,ever.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
That's because the right wing's answer is to avoid dealing with the actual issues and just slap bandaids on the problem.
#78
How many babies/toddlers die while at child care centers. It is absolutely sickening, some were preventable, some were not.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago (edited)
As an educator, it is horrible how many of these are in he media at the moment, mostly in my state. Not just deaths, but horrible abuse, injuries, and children 'forgotten' and left on a bus all day! It's not like there aren't enough policies and regulations to prevent it, some people just don't care.
Overstimulated Underregulated 4 months ago
What state if you don't mind me asking?💗
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#79
The amount of threats we get (I work for an electrical company). We get a lot of threats to our main building and meeting places, as well as our worker's building (where the work trucks are parked) because people just don't want to pay their electric bill. I have had someone almost find me on FB, just from my first name.
Malor Brycington 5 months ago (edited)
I agree with the fact that Power companies are a monopoly, however OP doesn't control the electrical grid, it's not directly his fault. He is just doing his job and trying to make a living, just like someone in customer service would do. Just because he works for the company does not make him directly responsible even though, as in customer service, since he deals with the customer most of them assume he is, by default, responsible for the entire company.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
*Can't* pay their electric bill. You control the electrical grid for the city with an effective monopoly which generates no shortage of distain on account of the fact that people don't really have a choice but put up with your price. Not saying they should be sending threats and doxxing people over it, but no point in sterelizing it, either.
#80
Some dentists are creeps. Most labor laws don't apply to dental practices because they have less than 40 employees. So, creepy a*s dentists get away with mistreating their (overwhelmingly female) staff.
Dental materials are expensive, and some practices reuse things that should be thrown out. Some products are stretched longer than they should be.
Oh and root canals are like 80% effective if they're done *well*. If I ever need one, I'm just having the tooth extracted and going straight to implant so I can save the 5k in between those two things.
All of the stuff that doesn't go into your mouth, ie, pillows, blankets, safety goggles, tablets, whatever are cleaned whenever the dental assistant has time. I've never seen a practice that had those things being cleaned on a schedule. I bring my own sunglasses to the dentist.
If you trash-talk one dentist to another dentist, odds are, those two dentists know each other and your complaints will freak out the new dentist. No one wants to work on someone who is trash talking the last person who worked on them, you're a liability.
The fluoride we put on your teeth is extremely helpful and good. It costs us, around $1 per little pot. We bill insurance like $25-$50 for it, though.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Aren't implants more expensive tha a root canal? My dad just pay about 10k for 2-3 implants.
cnn57t8278 5 months ago
I think the point is that ultimately, you’re probably gonna have to get the implant anyway, so may as well skip the expense of the root canal and go right to the permanent fix.
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Teachers who a**se children, statistically someone in my district does and nobody mentions that.
#82
Here's a small sampling of what I can say about the legal profession:
* Personal injury attorneys who advertise are typically good businessmen and terrible attorneys. They will do a great job negotiating with the insurance company, but can't litigate a case to save their life.
* Home cooking is a real thing. You are generally better off hiring an attorney who regularly practices in a certain circuit or district than hiring someone your friends recommend that would be considered an out-of-town attorney.
* The s*****e rate among attorneys is incredible. The rate of d**g and alcohol abuse is terrifying. This is what happens where you work in an adversarial environment with no formal mentoring programs and are forced to work 80+ hours a week to keep your law firm partners happy or have to take cases you don't know how to handle just to afford to keep your doors open as a solo/small firm attorney. I had been in practice less than three years before the first of my classmates OD'ed.
* Many solo/small firm/mid-firm attorneys can't afford to retire. They have to work until they die. You'll see attorneys in court that can barely walk, but they keep taking cases so they can afford to live. It's very sad.
* The money isn't there like people think. My first three years of practice I made less than $35k per year. I was in practice for six years before I made more than $50k (gross) in a single year. And I was not some sort of anomaly. I had classmates who have been in practice over ten years and still make less than $50k a year.
Olive 5 months ago
I'm a lawyer, and agree wholeheartedly with #2. "A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge."
Stephanie A Mutti 5 months ago
Another unadvertised benefit of a having a public defender is we do know the judge. We've been infront of this judge 1000x. We know what makes the judge happy, we know what makes the judge pissed. A happy judge treats your client better. I saw so many 'paid' attorneys come in and p**s off my judges. But you paid for that,,,
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Teachers know all about the s*x lives/d**g lives/intimate lives of the student's families. The little ones especially have no filter and will tell us about daddy being in jail, about momma's "boyfriends " (read customers), about how grandma likes to drink and uncle likes to touch.
And we talk to each other, both to gossip and to vent to other people who understand the stress of being often unwilling witnesses to exactly how f****d up people can be. I'm afraid there are very few secrets in a school.
#84
Not necessarily creepy, but I work for a gaming company and, if someone reaches out telling us they want to commit s*****e and we have reasons to believe that's true, we send the police to check on them. Also funny just how much personal data we have access to.
Edit: I'd rather not say precisely which company, as I wouldn't want my job to get hurt in any way, but it's one of the big guys for sure.
#85
Not exactly in the creepy category but it is something in the "hush hush" category:
The amount of money wasted by humanitarian organizations for the sake of a "score" (accomplishment report). Example, an organization donated 3 big cold chain (or fridge for vaccines) to a small village with no access to electricity.
Another waste of money they do is ordering a sh**load of medical supplies and half of them will be lost due to expiration.
Mophead 2 months ago
The amount of 'rubbish' thrown in medical bins because one packet was open but the rest of the medical product is sterile and intact but no all the products get binned. Or a new more modern diabetic blood tester is brought out, the still sealed and expensive last years model thrown away. Why when there are charities who would use this for aid and rescue
#86
Used to work at Sprint. There was a guy who had an archive of nudes he found on people's phones.
#87
Well, it’s pretty creepy that we don’t actually know how our inhaled anesthetics work. We know that they work, we know how to monitor people, and we know how much we need to administer, but we don’t actually know the exact mechanism of action.
We also get you naked before we prep and drape for surgery, sorry everyone. Oh and if you’re under general anesthesia, we tape your eyes shut to keep them from drying out.
Ace 5 months ago
To be clear, they do know how inhaled anaesthetics work, it's just that there are so many routes for it to get into the body systems and so many ways it affects different tissues and organs that it's simply not possible to describe _exactly_ how it is distributed and activated at a cellular level. I worked with Pharmacokinetics scientists long enough to understand that it's nearly always a lot more complicated than you would think.
Senjo Krane 3 months ago
You tape our eyes shut so we can't open them and signal to you that we're actually awake but paralysed and can feel everything!! It happens very seldom, but it does.
#88
I'm a graduate student in a STEM field. Your lab notebook is there for 2 reasons. Everyone says it's for recording experiments so that later they can be reproduced or used as documentation in patent applications. But also it's for your protection. Your advisor is the one with a reputation in the scientific community and has the prestigious position of operating a lab at a research university. They're credible. You got your bachelor's a few years ago and no one knows who you are, which means no one knows if you lie cheat and steal. Which means if your lab puts out something (a paper, a grant application, etc.) that is fraudulent, it wouldn't be difficult to throw a grad student under the bus. If the accusation sticks, you'll never be able to work in science again unless you can prove the fraudulent material definitely did not come from you.
This type of fraud is rare, but it does happen and you don't want to be the one without a future in the field you got your degree in.
This power asymmetry also leads to the type of corruption that happen in every relationship between those of different levels of power. Again, it's rare, but it's a big world and lots of people, some of whom are bad people.
#89
I’m a homeless outreach worker. You’d be surprised how many of your friends from high school end up homeless.
#90
Not my profession really, but I am tangentially aware of it. Claims people at insurance companies are looking at your social media after a car accident claim. If you appear to be living an active life, that will be used against you in any argument that you need money for medical bills due to a car accident. ANY tiny little thing that contradicts what you say will hurt your case.
#91
How many people leave for mental health reasons. Where I work, a lot of people start their careers doing what is basically call center work. Just answering phones all day for 8 hours.
We have a pretty low overall turnover rate, but the most common reason we get for people leaving is "I'm resigning because I feel my overall mental health has declined since starting this job."
That shouldn't happen, and we do what we can to help prevent burnout and make sure people know that management has their back when it comes to abuse from customers. But, it never seems to be openly discussed.
#92
Creepy....knowing a patient’s diagnosis or prognosis before their physicians have discussed it with them.
It’s taught me how to keep a good poker face. Sad, but true.
Serena Myers 5 months ago
Even so, the eyes will tell a lot more than a poker face ever could.
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Mike F 5 months ago (edited)
These were certainly depressing. ETA: thanks for not having some mindless poll at the end.
Ace 5 months ago
I guess the mindless poll was only added after you wrote this.
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Greg Deibler 4 months ago
There is lot of one offs, one bad apple, and almost true antidotes here . A few are just not accurate.
Mike F 5 months ago (edited)
These were certainly depressing. ETA: thanks for not having some mindless poll at the end.
Ace 5 months ago
I guess the mindless poll was only added after you wrote this.
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There is lot of one offs, one bad apple, and almost true antidotes here . A few are just not accurate.
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