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30 People Who Don’t Work For The Company Anymore Reveal What They’re Hiding From The Public
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Nearly every profession has secrets that the general public is unaware of. Many businesses claim that their goods are fairtrade, hand-made and eco-friendly when, nine times out of ten, it’s not. However, humans are curious by nature and are always trying to find out what’s going on behind the curtains.
So when the popular Twitter account UberFacts asked its 13.6M followers, “What company secrets can you reveal, now that you don’t work for the company anymore?” the thread quickly went viral. From bankers to hospitality workers, people started opening up and sharing some insider knowledge about their former jobs.
Take a look at the best tweets we have collected from the thread and upvote the ones you may not have known about! And if you’re hungry for more posts where people spill their industry secrets in plain sight, be sure to check them out here, here and here.
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Why are they allowed to return them? This is a disgusting policy, and impacts badly on small business, which can't afford returns of unwanted goods. I think Americans get a bit of a shock when they try this s**t on in other countries.
It’s no news that every company has its own skeletons in the closet that remain virtually invisible to the general public. Chances are that you will probably never look at the companies mentioned in this post the same way ever again. But the more we know, the better—that’s why shedding a light on these dark secrets is the first step of dealing with them.
Bored Panda has contacted one of the Twitter users who replied to this thread. They preferred to stay anonymous but were kind enough to discuss the bad practices that some businesses carry out and why we are so eager to learn about them.
They told us that they were previously employed in the hospitality industry: “I worked on and off at a few bars for some extra cash when I first moved out at 23.” Finding out what was happening in the background was quite shocking, so they tried talking about this with some of the other servers.
a diamond obtains its monetary value not from any intrinsic property or usefulness, rather from the value we give it in society, which itself was manipulated by marketing campaigns from mining conglomerates advising people to gift diamonds to their partners for weddings, it's like a successful scam like the whole apple a day thing
And there are LOADS of them. They have folks out here thinking that they are "rare"...um, no.
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Diamonds themselves are one of the biggest scams out there. They are far, faaaaaar more common than jewellers would have you believe, and their price is entirely arteficial. Many diamonds are also mined through slave labour.
Diamonds aren't rare, we know this, but a diamond with better clarity and fewer flaws etc IS rarer than a cloudy diamond with many flaws. Of course a distributor will sell diamonds to many different retailers, but the quality is VASTLY different between Walmart and Tiffany.
I seriously doubt this person worked at Tiffany if they are implying that the quality is the same at both locations.
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Well there's only about 3 diamond distributors so that's not a huge surprise
Tiffany’s and other high end retailers USED to sell quality items. Beautiful, elegant, well-made—-and they had people on staff to repair and/or resize the jewelry, or tailor the clothing to fit you better (and the clothes were made with better cloth, plus a couple to a few extra inches of it at the seams and hem to allow for alterations). Nowadays, though, it seems like even the expensive stores are selling the same cheap, low quality, tacky, practically sheer or cut out or printed on s**t as the discount stores, only the label’s different and they’re charging a fuckload more for it. The last time I saw that was the mid-eighties when I bought a really nice coat at the Miller & Rhoads store in Raleigh NC, but it was too long, and the staff seamstress/tailor came out and measured how much she would have to redo the hem. A couple days later, I went to lick it up and you could not tell it had been altered! Wore that coat for years, and that hem never gave out.
Not totally true, but they are different grades and quality. Talk to a GIA Certified person, different grades and quality rankings affect price. Further its a myth that Diamonds are not "rare" and therefor value is "fake" most diamonds are industrial grade, a quality used in heavy industry but would never be able to sell. Jewelry quality diamonds are not as common as people realize and their value is assessed based on a whole list of criteria from luster, to clarity to size, and imperfections, etc. Which is then graded against how rare such a diamond is.
Don’t think you are investing when buying fine jewelry. Good luck getting back half what you paid for it.
I'm not fond of diamonds. They look like glass and glass cut the right way will look like a diamond.
The same goes for many "brand name" clothes. It's all made in the same factories.
I've never understood the fascination with Diamonds. they're supposed to be rare yet can be bought in any jewellery shop on the planet, and they do nothing except maybe sparkle which can be easily replicated with glass for a much cheaper price.
Got my 1st Tiffany chain as a present. Wore it half dozen times. Broke when I flipped my hair. Solidified my 1st impression of Tiffany
Apparently, “they said they’d experienced the same at every bar they’d worked in. We worked out between us that most of the bars in the area did the same thing—some were really established places.”
“After I worked there, I had table service a handful of times at other bars, each time the bottle came out already opened with a pourer in place and a sparkler. When I looked closer at the bottle (as I knew what to look for), the foil seal looked really old, the bottle was chipped and scratched,” they explained that it looked like it had been around the block a few times.
My frames just broke for the third time and the eyeglass place told me "oh, well, you bought the cheap ones, nothing we can do unless you spend $100 to replace them." My dollar store readers have lasted longer than my prescription frames!
Looking at how many Twitter users contributed to this viral discussion, it seems like people not only like spilling the tea about their jobs but also think it’s relevant to get a little sneak peek into the profession. The former bar worker believes that people are mostly interested because there’s a suspicion that “companies are not always run above board.”
“I did notice a lot of people replied to my tweet in denial of the goings-on and I think, socially, people hate having to accept they’ve been conned,” they mentioned. “I think my tweet was particularly interesting because people are usually drunk and, therefore, vulnerable in a bar/club environment.”
Depends on the store. Two of my regular stores keep stock in the back (different sizes of clothes, additional products that ran out on the shelf).
Many people replied to the user saying they could tell the difference between alcoholic beverages which, for very few people, could be true. “However, after a few drinks, most people will happily drink whatever you give them without question.”
The user hopes that people who read this thread would actually take this new information into account and “maybe make better decisions” in the future. “Just buy a drink at the bar and have fun with your friends, there’s no need to look flashy,” they advised.
I went to a taping of America's Got Talent with Howie Mandel and Scary (Mel) Spice as judges. EVERYTHING is completely fake, and I do mean EVERY PART OF THE SHOW. It is all pre-planned and pre-scripted. While I knew some of it was, I just didn't know to what extent. Never will watch any of those type of shows again!
When it comes to bad practices, sometimes businesses purposefully ignore or even enforce them. From the user’s experience, the companies (especially the clubbing and drinks industry) practice a “take what you can get” attitude.
“I’m not speaking for all bars and clubs at all but just a few that I’m aware of,” they specified. “There’s not many checks or inspections, maybe once a year, and—let’s face it—people can look above board for one day of the year.”
Nope, not in all. Many times call center workers are grateful to put you on hold because we don't have to listen to the customer's whining, it gives us a sanity break.
The former server also wanted to discuss things they saw from a client’s point of view: “There have been many times, as a customer, that I have witnessed sexual assault, drug-taking and men being aggressive and highlighted to security and [the establishment] completely ignored it—paying customers are the main priority it seems.”
They added, summarizing their thoughts about the thread: “I’m sure there are plenty of companies, in all industries, still practicing a zero-hours contract, not adhering to the minimum wage for cash in hand jobs, no contracts, dodgy tax dealings, etc.” So if you don’t want to be exploited and serve corporate interests, it’s important to call out such behavior whenever possible.
Joining a union is one of the very best things to ever happen to me. I’ll be a teamster at my new job. Union busters are untrustworthy despicable selfish people.
Also, why are they charging me $10 for a single generic tablet that probably costs them 15 cents to manufacture?
Gross! At my place, the housekeeping is bringing down the glasses from the rooms for the dish-washer every single day.
I always assumed it was just an animated gif. I would be amazed if it was actually connected to your pizzas progress.
I'm pretty sure that in my country they'd wake you up to avoid bad publicity. "Woman dies in Ikea show room bed. Goes unnoticed till closing time."
Airlines are stealing your s**t too. Dumb s**t also, like 1 shoe just to f**k with you.
Sounds like a lot of people should just be fired immediately. They should rather be working at a trash facility where they can throw stuff all day without ruining people's stuff. I had packaged that contained several hundred dollars that were destroyed because of these lazy bastards.
Ah yes... Fraud because you don't like someone. That makes it okay.
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But, but, what about the biggest corporate secret: WHAT'S THE RECIPE FOR THE SECRET SAUCE??
F*ck it, it's 1am. As a former flight attendant that flew for Endeavor Air Inc, a midwest regional carrier that flew under a major airline that rhymes with "Smelta"...I once worked a 20 min flight on a CRJ 200 aircraft with a main cabin door that did not properly close. Rather than cancel the flight and wait for another crew to bring in another plane the next day, my Captain didn't want to miss his brother's wedding so the two pilots bungee corded the door (the same cords you buy to secure a car trunk). There's a partition wall between the door and the first row so we moved everyone back so they couldn't see the pilots apply the ties. Captain assured us that by flying under 10,000 feet nothing would would happen. My jumpseat is perpendicular to the door and I held on for dear life like Captain America holding his shield being smashed by Thanos' sword in Endgame. It rattled the entire time. Passengers were oblivious. We landed safely and Captain wrote the plane up for repair.
Feel like this is the "Bash on Americans" post. We are not all Selfish Evil Villains any more than the countrymen of where you come from. This is why ppl can't get along. Pre-Judging everyone as the same. Breaks my heart
It's not really "Bash on Americans" when an American website selects American Tweets and Reddits of Americans talking about bad stuff in America...?!
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F*ck it, it's 1am. As a former flight attendant that flew for Endeavor Air Inc, a midwest regional carrier that flew under a major airline that rhymes with "Smelta"...I once worked a 20 min flight on a CRJ 200 aircraft with a main cabin door that did not properly close. Rather than cancel the flight and wait for another crew to bring in another plane the next day, my Captain didn't want to miss his brother's wedding so the two pilots bungee corded the door (the same cords you buy to secure a car trunk). There's a partition wall between the door and the first row so we moved everyone back so they couldn't see the pilots apply the ties. Captain assured us that by flying under 10,000 feet nothing would would happen. My jumpseat is perpendicular to the door and I held on for dear life like Captain America holding his shield being smashed by Thanos' sword in Endgame. It rattled the entire time. Passengers were oblivious. We landed safely and Captain wrote the plane up for repair.
Feel like this is the "Bash on Americans" post. We are not all Selfish Evil Villains any more than the countrymen of where you come from. This is why ppl can't get along. Pre-Judging everyone as the same. Breaks my heart
It's not really "Bash on Americans" when an American website selects American Tweets and Reddits of Americans talking about bad stuff in America...?!
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