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Insider information is a great thing, especially in today's world. From insiders, we learn everything we need and don't need to know. From Charlie D'Amelio's personal breaking news to stock tickers, from the Lakers locker room to the White House.

In addition to established insiders who have made gossip their job and main source of income, there are also other types of insiders. These are just people who not only do their job, they are well versed in it - but at the same time, they know something about it that an ordinary person could hardly guess.

And, to be honest, we would hardly have thought of it, if not for this thread in the AskReddit community, whose topic starter asked both a simple and non-standard question: "What are the facts about your job that general public has no idea about?" To date, the thread has over 11.6K upvotes and almost 8.5K comments, where people willingly reveal all the light and dark sides of their work.

Bored Panda collected for you the most interesting, surprising and unusual revelations from representatives of various professions. Some, perhaps, you already knew well, and some will probably shock you. Either way, feel free to scroll to the very end of the post not to miss something really interesting. And now, a little inside info from our work - more than anything in this life, we love your upvotes and comments!

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#1

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver That as a trucker, that space I left in front of me is so I don’t kill anybody, NOT your personal invitation to jump in front of my bumper because you forgot your exit or whatever reason. So many want to get in front of us and slow down and park in front my bumper.

YSK: Don’t believe the billboards those ambulance chasing lawyers put up about big truck accidents mean big bucks. Only survivors get money, most likely not you. If you do survive, more than likely your quality of life is going to be miserable.

Also YSK: these trucks can weigh up to 80,000 pounds, 34,000 pounds empty and around 20,000 pounds without the trailer. How does that compare to your SUV or even your lifted pickup. Do us all a favor and give us some space, leave us room so that you can live and go home to your family

One final thought, NEVER assume the other driver sees you.


Wow! Thanks for all the upvotes. Glad you found it helpful.

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James016
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also don’t cut in front of a large truck and brake. Because physics.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Public defender.

I don’t do this because it’s the only job I could get. I do it because I’m passionately invested in making sure poor people have access to the courts and because without us, there would be absolutely nothing between them and the awesome power of the government. The vast majority of us are there for the same reason.

The perception that we’re not as good as private attorneys is just wrong. In fact, most PDs have done many more trials than privates because we have many more clients. The difference is that we can’t pick and choose our clients as private attorneys can. We have to work with what we get so our win/loss ratio isn’t as impressive as theirs. Ask a private defense attorney what they think of public defenders- most will tell you that some of the best attorneys they’ve known are PDs.

While we can’t take the time to hold your hand and take every one of your calls, we actually do care about you and your case. I work nights. I work weekends. In fact, every weekend I’m at the jail, seeing my guys, because I don’t have time during the week.

We are excellent attorneys who chose public service.

madcats323 , Surrey County Council News Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Public defenders are the unsung heroes of the American criminal justice system. The system supposedly provides fair trials, but it falls to PDs to keep some semblance of fairness actually in the courtroom. If nothing else, PDs require DAs to do their jobs, rather than railroading one of the 'usual suspects'.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I work in IT support.
Legit about 80% of all problems are solved by rebooting the computer/terminal/phone.

If not, 20 percent is pure detective work.

Sarato88 , FHKE Report

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver ER Nurse.

People get seen by severity, not the order they came in the door... Also, just because you came in by ambulance doesn't mean you immediately bypass the waiting room.

Stoopiddogface , Vladimir Morozov Report

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Aisling Raye
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can this be number 1? Please? Waiting sucks but waiting also means that you're not actively circling the drain. Your broken arm can wait long enough for the guy with his brain bits exposed to get stabilized. Just sayin'

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Kusotare
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not "first served", it's "worst served". As in worst condition, most likely to die.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you're waiting, count your blessings. Yeah, your arm may be broken... but people are actively dying in the next room over.

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SupernaturalPanda
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again this is true. Just because you took ambulance to er for a pregnancy test don’t show shocked face when your a*s is wheeled straight to lobby . People need to learn what a true emergency is.

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abby smink
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or better yet, stop coming to the ER for dollar store pregnancy tests and STD checks

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Dando
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That saved my life at 42 years old. I had a complication from a procedure unexpectedly and went to the ER as soon as I felt pain. There were at least 20-30 people in the waiting area. The staff took one look at my face and the way I walked in, and took me straight back past admissions to a doc, who did a CT scan, and came back moments later with a tray of IV meds. He said I was septic already and if I’d waited 20-30 mins, he couldn’t have saved my life.

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Kim Kermes
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be painted on all walls in all ER waiting rooms in as many languages as possible. And ER nurses should run hospitals.

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Stannous Flouride
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are couple of scenes in M*A*S*H where it's pointed out that being the last in line is a _good_ thing.

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T J R
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I walked into the hospital, very obviously in labor, unable to stand up straight or walk much longer. I got in line at the checkout counter. A guy currently checking in told the front desk lady that he could wait and to let me go ahead of him. Tere were 2 people ahead of me, plus him, and none of them appeared to be having a real major ER issue. The front desk woman told him I could wait my turn. Him and the 2 people in front of me all walked out of line and got behind me. I was willing to wait in line and hadn't said a word (just grunts through contractions). It was such a sweet gesture by them that it made me cry. The front desk woman did get in trouble for not calling to at least get me into a wheelchair while I waited to check-in since I was doubled over and shuffling along. TL;DR: Being in labor does not put you ahead of the rest haha!

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Shy Hendrie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah but why did my dad who came in by ambulance for a STROKE get left in the waiting room for 2 hrs but a broken ankle went in immediately 🤔

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T J R
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Dad came in by ambulance DOA. They left him somewhere in the back and waited 4 hours before coming to tell us that he had died. 4 hours of holding out hope and wondering if he was okay. I'm not trying to trump your story, I'm adding mine to show how bad some of those places are. It's the worst hospital in our state. The other 2 are wonderful, but smaller so they sometimes have to send people to the bad one for testing or procedures that they don't have the capability of doing. It causes instant fear for the people that were trying to avoid going there.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was brought in by ambulance and due to her being on blood thinners, the cuts on her face bled terribly and looked much worse than it was. Another person was going to be brought in just as we were told we were next. We absolutely get it, triage order, not first in. They knew the condition of the 32 yr old pt, post dialysis that morning and mom went in to check on him that afternoon since it was past time for him to eat and he was not breathing. We could hear them discussing what the EMTs were reporting and they were prepping the bed next to us for all scenarios for someone in his condition. I heard them say once he was there(along with hearing the thumping of cpr), his blood gas test came back 'not conducive with life'. It wasn't long before TOD was called. To hear his mom when they had to tell her he didn't make it, was heart wrenching

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I almost died because of this logic. I came in throwing up from sever side pain, I couldn’t stand, I could barely talk, spent three hours in the ER waiting lobby puking my brains out... waiting waiting waiting… finally get seen and they give me morphine for the pain and I told them it made me dizzy and sick, and their response was - oh good you’re not a junkie. fast forward to my CAT scan results, I had a large abscess on my kidney and they said if I waited much longer in the waiting room it would’ve ruptured and I would’ve died. This is how my grandmother died as well.

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Sandra Givens
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My late husband was an RN who worked in flight, ICU and ER. He often had to talk down an angry person in the ER waiting room whose child had a fever or a person with a rash because they were busy coding four different patients in the back. I called him from my work after having chest pain for a couple of hours, he consulted with a doc he worked with, and told me to go to the hospital. Shocked that when I stated my symptoms and age, I was whisked into the back, hooked up to the machines, kept overnight, and had a stent placement the next day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course, I would hate to think that someone suffers and/or dies who could have otherwise been helped. Due to someone making a lot of noise over a trivial thing. They can afford to wait, severe cases can't.

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Erik Ivan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, if you are sick/injured that little while you are waiting for the doctor may be the longest minutes of your life. Time can come to a virtual stop, waiting in the hospital. But it does not kean you had to wait a long time in real life.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean if you know someone has a broken arm, you know that. If you don’t know what the persistent headache is, it’s going first

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UK - this is sad and I know it's true because I live it. Certain people will attend A&E after 6.30pm for a common cold as they know any meds given after the hospital pharmacy closes at 6.30 will be free. These people literally overrun A&E with their families for free medication because if they went to their dr and was given a prescription they would have to pay.. that then blocks up A&E with a 12 hrs wait for triage but more so blocks up ambulances delivering a patient in dire need (cannot leave patient for another call out until they sign the one waiting on off) but also mental health patients who need diagnosing but cannot get to even triage to be assessed. All because someone didn't want to pay for a prescription and just see their GP. Disgusting.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dont be disgusted at the patients who are willing to wait hours for free meds , probably because they cant afford them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is true, then why did I have to wait four hours when I had sepsis?

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funkybluegirl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry that this happened to you. But I can't answer your question or make a judgment call without knowing all the details from all perspectives. It could have been neglect, or there could have been an emergency that you were unaware of.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depends on the hospital they took my ex with a child in before the little girl bleeding

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Cory Tollman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quite a few years ago my dad went into the ED bleeding profusely from the hand. He got seen very quickly. Also, the staff found his injury more interesting and exciting. :-D His wound was a little abnormal. His bandsaw threw a piece of wood at the web of his hand. It caused the bleeding with a small, blunt square piece of wood. So blunt force trauma that punctured the skin via force. The really fun part is that he worked at that hospital. So after he got his hand bandaged up he went down to the pharmacy (where he worked) about his mishap. His shirt was covered with blood and his hand was wrapped up with bandages. :-D A decade or so earlier he had been sent home from work because he'd gotten himself scalded from the over heating radiator of his car. 80s Volkswagens were not designed for Arizona.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An RN friend of mine gave me a little tip. You'll be seen a lot faster if you pee yourself. Not something I've tried or plan to. I mean it's bad enough waiting in a hospital but having to do it in pee pants? Having to wear them home? Yuck!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a rating system- if you can’t breathe or are bleeding severely you go before headaches and broken bones. Broken. Ones go before viral infections etc. perhaps an ER person can be more detailed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True to point, there is still a factor of sexism that needs to be addressed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, never underestimate eye injuries as minor things and go to the ER, don't wait for your GP. I live in Europe and I was surprised, because from personal experience from my SO to my friends experiences, even for minor eye injuries, waiting time was no more than 15 mins, because eye injuries are counted as a priority. We found this out from our family doctor.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was allowed to bypass waiting in the ER as I was in labor. I guess they didn't want a baby born in the ER.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver When you call 911, please say your address before anything else. It doesn’t matter if someone is actively dying, say your address first. (I’m from a rural area so this might just be a problem where I’m from) but if you’re calling on a cell phone sometimes it can ping in a completely different spot then you are. If you call and don’t say where you are and we get disconnected, I might not have any clue where to send rescue/police/fire and therefore I cannot help you. Say your address (if you don’t know then please give like a cross street or notable location) first, then preferably your name, THEN tell me what’s going on.

A lot of people assume that we automatically have a precise location where they’re at, and the systems can be pretty accurate but you can’t always rely on them. If you say the address and we get disconnected I can at least send someone to the area to figure out what needs to be done.

(Source: I am a 911 dispatcher and I have so many people scream at me for not automatically knowing their location)

imscaledandicy , Sybren Bruneel Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you are on a cellular telephone, the phone can be connected with the 9-1-1 dispatch where you live, so if you`re roaming several hundred kilometres from home, the dispatch will be unable to help you! TELL THEM WHERE YOU ARE! (They can transfer your call to a local 9-1-1 dispatch!) Do so even if you are on a landline, because some people have their landline outgoing location data blocked! (In some cases, automatically because of where the phone is - like a Shelter for Abused Persons!)

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#6

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Chef here.

80% of us are alcoholics or addicts

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Husband worked in restaurants for 10 years. Kitchen staff were always doing lines to keep up with the grueling long hours

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver The bags of cement are not filled by a robot. A person handles every bag. I can fill 2500 bags in an
8 hour shift.

DasPuggy , Mark Wilkie Report

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Ex-security guard here.

We're not there to protect you. We're there to observe and report. Don't assume that just because whatever building you're working in has security that you're safe. Especially if security is of the unarmed variety.

dragon_book_hoarder , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ain't that the truth. One of the security guards where I used to work was this little old lady who was as sweet as the day is long, but lord help her if she was called on to do her duty. It took her a good 30 seconds to get out of her chair. I don't remember her name, but everybody called her "Maxine" because she looked like the cartoon character.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I’m a nanny and most people think the kids are what bothers me the most or what would lead me to quit. It’s never the kids, always the f****d up parents. People with too much money who don’t intend on raising their own kids are far too prevalent.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True for teachers as well. Parents are the most stressful part of the job.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Bridge carpenter.

When you drive by 6 people standing around one guy working, the group is usually comprised of inspectors, superintendents, subs, engineers, and foremen all standing around a laborer to talk. You can differentiate by the hardhats and how clean they are.

If you want to get upset at someone for your commute being slowed, don't pick the dirty guys.

wayweighdontellme , DiAnn L'Roy Report

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I was a licensed Cremationist for 8 years. Regardless how hard we tried, that wasn’t just grandma or grandpa in the urn….

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to be cremated when I die and I personally don't care. I wouldn't care if it wasn't just my mom in her urn either. After you die your body is just that - a body. It isn't what makes a person imo.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Chef here. The reason you love our food is salt and butter... and a lot of it.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I have worked for the US federal government.

Every time Congress waits until the 11th hour to pass a budget or a continuing resolution (a temporary "budget"), the government spends an unknown amount of money, probably millions of dollars, preparing for a government shutdown, whether the shutdown happens or not. If the government actually shuts down, even if only for a few hours, it wastes millions more tax dollars. Taxpayers get no benefit from these expenditures, and the money is simply wasted.

When Congress holds the budget hostage, they're not actually hurting political rivals. They're punishing taxpayers and anyone who relies on government services directly or indirectly for anything.

Edit: One more thought:

If your Representative or Senator engages in this, **vote them out at the next election**, because they're burning your tax dollars to deceive you into supporting their careers. You get nothing, your tax dollars are thrown in the trash, and a bunch of stupid rubes get duped into voting to keep a do-nothing politician in office, earning six figures.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Term limits. Anyone who has been in elected office for more than a decade, is out of touch with the people.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I'm a massage therapist. I don't care if you didn't shave. But please wash your feet.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I work at a large biotech/pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The medication you take or buy from your local pharmacy are so insanely and meticulously regulated & inspected at every step of the journey - from petri dish to pharmacy shelf, that you could take a pill from a bottle and it can be traced back to the exact room it was made in, the exact equipment that was used, who was responsible for each step, and the time it was made down to the very second. Seriously, there is no misteps when it comes to GxP.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn straight... not only do we pay enough for that level of attention, but our very lives are at stake.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Retail worker so this may not be surprising

A majority of food waste/waste in general are from customers. Yes, leaving that cold f*****g food at the other side of the store because you decided you didn't want/need it and were too lazy to put it back correctly, that s**t adds up and is a majority of what we throw out. Cannot tell you how much good food went to waste for no good reason, just because people were too lazy to put it back


But, at least we donate our meat to animal shelters.

Oopsiedoopsieuwu , U.S. Department of Agriculture Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was at a Kroger once where a customer had left a pack of chicken in an empty cooler at the front of the store. Someone opened the cooler several days later (the day of my visit) and the entire front of the store was unbearable because of the smell.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I currently work the line at a recycling facility.

Y'all m***********s throw a lot of s**t away when it could have been given to a charity.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver As someone in construction, statistically speaking, I have a bigger chance of [passing] on the job than police officers do in their line of work. It was even more dangerous when I did scaffolding at an oil refinery.

I think people abstractly know construction is dangerous, but sometimes you have to put it in perspective for them.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I work with the developmentally disabled. While we are allowed to encourage our clients to make good choices and try to talk them out of making bad ones, we are not allowed to stop them from doing what they want. They are people first, and everyone is allowed to make poor choices and suffer the consequences. The United States government calls it "The Right to Consequences."

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Healthcare worker - part of the reason your doctors appointments are so quick is the amount of documenting we have to do so we get paid. We can be the most brilliant clinician and save your damn life but if we don’t write a note that’s complete enough or have the right elements, your insurance company will pay less. We get nothing for being smart, correct or compassionate….only what we can “document” and takes time away from you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed. But, please, don't blame your Coder, if you have one (and get a good Coder, if you don't). Your Coder should be able to give you advice on minimizing your documentation, while still hitting the requirements to get get you paid, fairly. Source: 11 years as a medical coder (CPC).

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Working for giant companies, it’s comical how many systems are raggedy messes of bare-bones functionality. All available money gets thrown at certain projects, leaving everything else to work on complete shoe-strings.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very true. And everyone gets the standard build laptop/PC, no matter if you're a receptionist or a programmer

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I’m the spray tech at a golf course. We use green dye on our putting greens.

The grass at Augusta national is sprayed green as well; “any grass you see on camera has been sprayed green”

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#23

If you ever fall off a ship/ferry at sea and were lucky enough to be spotted - don't try to swim your way to safety. The more you try to swim, the lesser the chances of survival. Just try to keep afloat and conserve energy (and body heat) while the rescue team does what they're supposed to. Unless you are in hypothermic waters, the best bet always is to stay afloat without trying to swim to 'somewhere'. This information about falling overboard, hypothermia and conditions, survival at sea etc are based on my own experience of many years sailing on [mega container ships]

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver In newswriting, if we like you we don't quote you exactly. If we don't like you, best believe you're getting a 'sic'.

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#25

Government worker here. You know how you all have the opinion that government departments are massive bureaucracies that take forever to get anything done efficiently, if at all?

It's true. And we hate that, too. It can take me 2 months to get an answer that would normally take 1 day in the private sector.

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#26

I'm in pharma. So. Much. Paperwork.

Also we use a lot of single-use stuff, so the pharma industry's probably responsible for a not-insignificant amount of the world's plastic waste.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Structural Engineer

We take materials we do not entirely understand, form them into shapes we cannot precisely analyze to resist forces we cannot truly assess in such a way that the public at large has no idea of the extent of our ignorance!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why there is so much redundancy. Still, it's a solid (hopefully) point

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Crisis hotline. Sometimes we get really disturbing prank calls. I always encourage people to call back if they are ever in crisis. A lot of times, they (the prank callers) do.

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#29

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver US based flight attendant here. Unless you’re flying on Delta, your flight attendants aren’t getting paid during boarding and deplaning. We’re just as annoyed as the next person that the flight is delayed because of a mechanical issue, weather, etc. If the boarding door is closed we (usually) don’t mind though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked for Delta a while back as a flight attendant and I only got paid when the plane took off and landed. Everything in between I didn't get paid anything except per diem.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Radioactive contamination can often just be cleaned with Windex or even water

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#31

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver i work with recycling

i can assure you that recycling is WAY more dangerous than it looks like

people throw away loose razor blades, glass (sometimes even whole knives)

there's also the problem with human excrement ,if you're cut and get an infection from human fecal meter ,you're f****d

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was wondering how human excrements get into the waste, but then I remembered that diapers are a thing...

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#32

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Paramedic here

Me and a shocking amount of my medic friends learned vital, life saving skills off of YouTube. The schooling just isn't always what it should be and often we are left on our own to figure things out while we are learning. More often than not that leads to YouTube video tutorials (they have one for everything) so more frequently than you'd think people are learning how to give needles and read ECGs from the same place we all learn what the proper time to hard boil an egg is

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#33

Martial arts/self defense instructor

"Women's self defense" is a waste of time. Unless you're taking real classes regularly, that seminar you took that taught you what to do if a man tries to kidnap you is really only good for getting away momentarily.

I know it's not necessarily the point but you'll NEVER fully stop an attacker with anything we can show you in an hour. If you can, take a normal martial arts class. No reason that what works for the men won't work for you.

Edit: Boxing and MMA are also martial arts. Pretty useful on the streets

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's spend more time teaching people, often men, not to attack women... Then this becomes moot

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Copy/print industry.

I have signed a lot of NDA's and copied/scanned many jobs that I wasn't allowed to 'look at'. Medical documents, documents for law suits and such, and helped a few people with patent application.

Had a few print jobs they guy had to sit there the whole time. No one was allowed to look at the printouts. Had to show him how to take the prints out of the copier and make sure no customers came back by the copier.

I couldn't copy the files if the DVD, and had to sign a document no copies of those documents - physical or digitally were kept by my company. I think the guy was a defense contractor, so that was interesting.

Also - the pulp to make paper mostly comes trees specifically grown for making paper. The rest comes from leftovers from the lumber Industry. Recycling paper into reusable white paper is WAY worse for the environment that making new paper. Making brown paper goods from recycled paper isn't so bad, but still not great.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Modern photocopy machines have a hard drive that stores documents it scans for faster duplication. Remember that the next time you want to send a photo copy of your magnificent ta-ta's.

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#35

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Most fossils in museums are plastic replicas. Not always the whole thing, but any full dinosaur you see more than likely has at least some plastic components.

There's only a handful of businesses in the world that make the replicas and, at least in the US, they're pretty small operations.

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#36

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Software developer here. Only a minority of companies take data security seriously enough to prevent leaks. For every publicly announced leak, there are 20 that were swept under the rug. Proper security requires that the whole structure, from the top down, has an understanding of the issues. It's not just down to the techies, it's down to their managers, and their manager's managers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, no real data privacy for ordinary people? Why am I not surprised?

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#37

When your Nan or pop passes away in a nursing home, often they're still in their bed for over 12 hours before the funeral home picks them up. We just quietly close the door and continue our shifts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's ok, my dad wasn't going anywhere. Coincidentally, the guy who came to pick him up was an old HS friend of mine, so it was nice to see a friendly face at a sad time.

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Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Worked at an automotive assembly plant. Every 60 seconds the assembly line is shut down, the plant is losing $10,000. Missing parts, incorrectly sequenced material(a red bumper shows up next in line when it’s a blue car in bumper install), broken lift assist devices, 1 person running off the line to bathroom(it’s happened), chains breaking etc.. could all shut down the line.

Tensions were incredibly high and the stress was unbelievable on some days. Other days it was super easy and chill. Good pay. High school degree is the only mandatory requirement to be a supervisor, and with the mandatory OT(usually you work 5-6 days, 10-12 hour shifts) you’re making at least 100k.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mandatory OT, what a great way to say: we refuse to hire more people so you can have a normal working schedule and will grind you down first...

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#39

I'm a supervisor at a home health company. I may actually have the easiest job in the entire world and I get paid decently for it too. Because of Medicare/Medicaid regulations the company has to send a supervisor out to all the homes our employees go to so we can make sure things are going well and the client is being taken care of well. My time is spent either driving to someone's home and asking them maybe 15 questions about their care or sitting in the office doing paperwork about those questions. That's it. That's all I do.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm glad you like your job, but as someone with social anxiety and agoraphobic tendencies, your job sounds extremely difficult and stressful. 🙂

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#40

People dont realise how much work goes into making boxes or binders for products. Huge machines are used, tens of thousands are made in the matter of days. I have made the same binder about 70,000 times roughly in the 6 months since I started on the job. If you receive a box with your product and its still in good shape, consider reusing it for something? As a production operative, i know how much anger and frustration goes into making a simple box. Honestly you wouldnt think its that hard. But when 1 box goes wrong, every single box following does too. Its hard work for a job that should be simple

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife and I have our own business, which has evolved into making branded items for other small businesses, including boxes. The most time consuming aspect can be gold foiling (laminator feed is slow and it can take multiple passes) but when everything goes smoothly, making a 10x10x2.5 cm box takes 2 A4 sheets of 180g/m card stock, two A4 sheets of 280g/m posterboard (reinforcement) 3x2cm square of gold HTF. Foiling can take 1-3 minutes, die cutting the box shape takes 15 seconds per piece (4 pieces per box) Assembling the two pieces takes less than 20 seconds, and hot gluing top and bottom pieces inside takes another 30 seconds (2 pieces per box). 3 - 5 minutes (and 20 seconds) to make one small box by hand, which we sell for $3 apiece. Material cost is less than 10 cents. The most we've done in a week, was 2000 which sucked as it was one of many clients, 500 is a comfortable output (44 hours of labor split between us) where we still have time to sleep and fulfill orders for others.

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#41

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver I work for a department that does tolls by mail. A robot may take your picture, but a live human ends up processing it. We can see inside your car... even in the dark tunnels.

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#42

I'll share a few different facts from my experiences;

Most fast-food is kept around much longer than it is supposed to be. Bacon from the previous night will be reheated and used the following day. Anything that's heated and not a burger or fried good is microwaved. Grills and fryers aren't cleaned as well as they should be.

If you want to check quality on furniture, look underneath. Most places won't clean the underneath of their furniture. If there's a lot of excess glue or chipped/scratched/dented parts the manufacturer cares about quantity over quality. Good quality furniture will last forever.

Bulletproof helmets have very little QC done to them other than ensuring they will stop a bullet and even then it CAN be hit or miss depending on the thickness and quality of the material used to create the helmet. Some helmets were born from styles that were created for a contract that was terminated before completion. I.e. we have 1000 helmets that the customer no longer wants, what should we do? Shape em a lil differently and call them a new type of helmet.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Writer went from bacon to furniture to helmets. They must change jobs every few years. As a 20+ restaurant manager I call BS on microwave and other items. Our restaurants didn't even have microwaves. Strict nightly schedule on grills and weekly on fryers at any national chain. I think he just likes to make stuff up. Check under "new" furniture to find chipped or dented? Where is he buying? Who buys bulletproof helmets? Guess he had one and it failed.

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#43

I'm a truck driver. I don't listen to country music.

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#44

Teachers 100% are generous/not generous with grades depending on how much of an a*****e you are to them.

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#45

Someone Asks: "What Are Facts About Your Job That The General Public Has No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Deliver Electricity is fun to play with and can create a multitude of phenomena

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