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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren’t Supposed To Share, Here’s 30 Of The Most Surprising Ones
It’s not just detectives, wizards, and FBI agents who keep secrets at work—lots of professions have open secrets that regular folks like you and I don’t generally know about. Reddit user HannibalGoddamnit was interested to find these secrets out, so they asked the online community to share some of these mysteries with the internet.
We’ve collected the very best trade secrets, so scroll down and upvote your faves, dear Pandas. Be sure to share the open secrets from your own professions in the comments below! HannibalGoddamnit’s thread on Reddit got a lot of attention: they got 3 awards, over 11.5k upvotes, and more than 9.3k redditors left a comment.
Bored Panda reached out to HannibalGoddamnit and spoke to them about their viral thread. “As an engineering student who’s about to graduate, I have always been concerned that I may not be ‘fully’ aware of the day-to-day job details of my future position. Especially when it comes to how comfortable I will be dealing with the real professional secrets that no one would ever teach you at school and you will figure out once you start working,” the redditor told us about what inspired them to start the thread. Scroll down for the full interview.
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#1
Your dog or cat is much more comfortable when you are there with them during euthanasia. It's really hard when people say, "It's too hard for me to be here with him." And leave the room for it. It is one of the hardest things ever, but they need you there with them. They look around for you sometimes. That being said, if we do the euthanasia without you, we always have one staff member whose only job during the procedure is to cuddle and comfort your pet and tell them how much their owner loves them, and what a "good boy" they are.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
I cried rivers when I had to put down one of my rats. The vet told me I could leave and I told her there was no way. You do not abandon your animal in their last moments. You don't.
Laugh Fan 5 years ago
100% spot on. I am so thankful that, so far, I've been able to pay extra for the vet to come to my home - their home. You make it as easy as you possibly can. They deserve that. They deserve to be with the people they love until the very last moment.
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Yeah, I never leave. My husband leaves when they fall asleep, so they won’t know he left, but I hold them until they are dead. And then for another while. It’s really hard, but I can’t imagine leaving them alone with the vet. They always hate going to the vet, they are anxious and scared and to leave them alone while getting injections and... no, I could never.
Cori 5 years ago
THIS. As a former veterinarian assistant, This. Is. So. True. We had people who would drop them off and leave. It was especially hard on us if it was a pet we saw frequently. I will NEVER forget the feeling of a beloved pet going limp and still in my arms. It is a literal trauma memory for me. I got to revisit it when my 11 month old son had to be sedated for an MRI and it caused a small panic attack. My logical brain knew my child was fine, but my BODY remembered all those limp, dead pets. I know it's difficult for you, but please, take a second to think of your vet staff. Our hearts are hurting too, even if we're too professional to let you see it.
Kate Kyffin 5 years ago
Being with both my Doberman and then my cat when their times came was heart-breaking. Cried for days, but I could not have let them go without being loved and cuddled.
Lama 5 years ago
Our dog is 17... And he's my best friend. He doesn't eat much, he's shaky on his legs, we bring him out in the garden every few hours or else he "forgets" himself on the floor. He pretty much only accepts hot dog sausages for food. I have to bring him to the vet and I'm crying right now. I've been pushing the moment for a few weeks now. I will stay with him
Amanda Hartley 5 years ago
I'm so sorry you are having to go through this, but you are putting him first, always remember that xx
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Mystery Egg 5 years ago
I am truly shocked that anyone would just leave their pet to be euthanised!? It was the hardest thing to be with my old 17 year old doggie during her time, but it never even crossed my mind to let her go through it alone. I find it horrific that people don't do this!
Lama 5 years ago
I feel ya... My dog is 17 and I've been pushing the moment. I will stay with him
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Now I'm crying. I NEVER leave the pet alone. Heck, we didn't even do that to animals that were "just farm animals"... We take responsibility for the life, and when we take the responsibility for death, we owe it to the fellow creature to be there.
zims 5 years ago
My mom still rages about a terrible vet that just stuck our dog with a needle without giving us time to say goodbye, or even all be in the room with her. Never went back to that vet.
Doggo Georgia 5 years ago
Omg I'm so sorry. What the hell is wrong with that vet?
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Maria Rohlen 5 years ago (edited)
This is so heartbreaking, I couldn't believe my neighbour when I took their dog to the vet and they didn't came as well, so I hade to take the dog for her last walk and sit with her crying until it was over. It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking of her.
CorgiGirl 5 years ago
Dearest Maria.. I am so glad that you were there for that poor pup. You know that she appreciated that so much. Thank you
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#2
Vet worker here. Probably doesn’t count as a “secret” but we absolutely do pet your cats and dogs a lot when you bring them in.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
How could you not? Unless you are allergic, that would mean you are in the wrong profession.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
I can't imagine doing your job. On one hand it seems like all my vet techs love animals, but other than routine physicals, they really get them when their ill or injured. It must break your heart.
Laugh Fan 5 years ago
I asked my vet about that and she said that it was because they cared that they could cope with the tough moments - that the animals were absolutely worth it. I still wouldn't be able to though - would howl my eyes out each and every time!
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desert29rat 5 years ago
I noticed on "Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER" that the patients get a lot of kisses too, especially the bunnies.
#3
I am in IT We don't always know WHY the fix worked and we don't care.
Nicole Lawler 5 years ago
oh this is so true. 9 years in IT and i still don't care if it works as long as it works
Laugh or not 5 years ago
As someone with a bad history with computers (like I can get a bsod just by looking at a computer), I honestly don't care what IT guys do or how, just that they solve my issues.
Max L. 5 years ago
And believe you’re the kind of user we all love unconditionally.
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Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
I am a bicycle mechanic and have been for over 30 yrs. (not my only job mind you). Sometimes we just bend $#!+ to make it work. And that makes it work perfect most of the time.......don't try this at home.
“So that made me wonder, out of mere curiosity, why can’t people just share some of whatever they have been holding back as ‘open secrets’ related to their professions? Secrets that can be interesting to know and fun to speak about, with no harm at all!” HannibalGoddamnit said.
The redditor admitted that they never expected their thread to go viral. “I was expecting perhaps to get some funny jokes about how big named professions are actually so boring, but not thousands of ‘Oh God, have mercy’ secrets!” they explained.
“I have received messages from fellow redditors saying they have spent a lot of time reading the thread, and how it was ‘a good read,’” HannibalGoddamnit shared how happy Reddit’s reaction to their thread made them. They told us that the most shocking comment for them personally was the freelance ghostwriter’s tale about how Russian and Middle Eastern men publish ghostwritten romance or erotica books under female pen names and flood the market.
#4
Bartender here: if you're cool I will absolutely bend over backwards to make sure your night goes amazing. That means extra stiff drinks, remakes if you don't like something, faster service, etc. You don't even have to tip THAT well, just treat me like a human and maybe have a funny story to make my night go faster. If you're mean to me you get exactly what you ordered and not a mL more.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
It's sad some employers don't pay a fair wage which would negate the "need" for tips
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Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
Same approach I take to my customers... if I get treated well, I will go the extra mile. If not, I won't. Good manners cost nothing.
Rachèl Seerden 5 years ago
Last year a senior bartender told me I was the most polite customer he ever had. I asked why. It was because I'd always say: "sir, could I please have a ...., thank you." I guess my parents raised me well.
Lynne Stankard 5 years ago
Don't often get out for a drink - being a V.O. lady - but if I go to the bar for drinks I LOVE chatting to the lovely young bar staff - you can have such a giggle with them. But you'd be amazed how many young folk think very old ladies don't have a sense of humour and enjoy a giggle!!!!
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
That is almost every relationship -- personal or professional -- in life. I worked at a nightclub and needed specialty bulbs for some dance floor lights. The customer service guy was tied up on the phone and a guy from the warehouse saw me waiting and helped. I asked if he was 21, yep! I gave him passes for free cover and drinks. He told me not to bother coming into the store for replacement bulbs, if I set up an account, he would deliver them free. He ended up working in the band room a couple of nights a week doing the light show.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 5 years ago
Apart from the fact that every human being deserves respect, I think it's really stupid to behave like an a...hole with the person who's in charge of your food/drink. Every time I see a person being rude to a waiter I remember the "chocolate" cake in "The Help". If you don't understand, read the book or watch the film. You will be extra nice to waiters afterwards.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I grew up in a family of restaurant workers -- it was my first job. I've ended relationships (romantic, friendship, professional) when people are disrespectful or ungrateful. ///// I've also had servers who were in a bad mood, and I've said quietly, "I hope that I didn't do something to cause your mood, and that whatever it is works out in the best possible way."
#5
Work in telecommunications. 5G does not cause Coronavirus
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
No, but I am beginning to develop a severe rash all over because of it - you see, I am allergic to certain kinds of stupidity!
tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
Lies! Lies I tell you! It does so cause Coronavirus. By the way, 5G also causes pink eye in possums.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I read a meme: "I work with 5G and accidentally bumped the switch for Coronavirus. I've switched it back to Make Everyone Gay, so you can relax."
XianJaguar 5 years ago
I cannot even believe that people think that. I mean, where in the world is the correlation even? It's like saying that your land-line gives you the flu, or that you can catch herpes from your car.
#6
Former psych ward tech here. Patients and visitors alike used to frequently complain about all of the ridiculous and specific rules that we had on the unit (patients can’t use the TV remote themselves, use a standard regular sized hair tie, etc). We don’t make those rules just because. Each and every rule has a very real story behind it that we cannot divulge to you. People are terrifyingly creative when they really want to hurt themselves. These incidents may never happen again, but we don’t want to take that risk. And so, a new and seemingly stupid rule is born.
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
Um, sometimes those of us who are mentally ill aren't doing these things to be "stupid". I know I've needed the help of these facilities several times and some of the people there need help and compassion, not to be looked down upon and called less.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Many years ago I was part of a two-person team responsible for keeping the red thread at a group discussion event once a week at the psych ward at the local hospital. It was a two-hour thing with a coffee break in the middle and before the break one day this young woman, about my own age, asked if she could borrow some money to pop down and get some cigarettes since this would be much faster than first going all the way back to her room and she'd give it back to me after we finish. She was late to come back. She missed the coffee. She came back with both wrists bandaged. She did not use the money to buy cigarettes.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I work in a behavioral crisis unit and that's exactly what I tell people. We don't just make up rules to make up rules. We make up rules in response to something someone did. But you can divulge the reason for the rule as long as it doesn't break patient confidentiality. But I'm not usually inclined to do so because most people don't really care. They're just upset that there are rules.
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
I used to work for a peer support agency run by people with mental health issues. Every year before the holidays, bargain gifts were bought to give to mental health clients, some of whom lived in board and cares or worse, locked facilities. One day, there were piles of cheap sweatpants in the office; my colleagues were removing the drawstrings. I asked them why. Someone said, “Because they could hang themselves.” I asked, “Why not give them sweatshirts instead?” The same person said “Because they like the sweatpants.” Obviously, the gift recipients had been given these cheap sweatpants in prior years, and had expressed gratitude, as any polite person would do. Just because they DIDN’T say “What cheap crappy sweatpants with no drawstring!” DIDN’T mean they LIKED the sweatpants! “Because they like the sweatpants” was the only person in our office who had never been treated for a mental health issue, so she was patronizing and thought she was better than the rest of us. >:-(
Rani Johnson 5 years ago
Exactly. No belts, shoe laces, hair ties, hoodies or zippers. Can be used to choke or garrote someone. No razors. No brushes. No pencils, pens or sharp objects. Crayons maybe.
Cody Eriksen 5 years ago
Kinda like the warning on curling irons, Do Not Use In Shower. Like Wert der ferk
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Same as in Elementary school where I used to work. Someone even sued for an employee, volunteering in their child's class off the clock because it made them feel like they needed to do things for free. UGH!!!!
Bored Panda asked HannibalGoddamnit what would happen if everybody found out everyone else’s professional open secrets. They said that this would have a “considerable” impact on society. “I really hope that no one will take advantage of it in a bad way.”
They added: “It was really brave of all of the people to share what has always been untold. The thread needs to [be shared] as widespread as [possible], for it is a national treasure. I thank everyone who contributed to the thread. I was just the conversation starter.”
#7
There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I don’t understand the cloud so I don’t use it. If I get too many photos or videos etc on my device the I transfer it onto USB, SD or CD.
María Hermida 5 years ago
I do understand it (kind of); that's why I don't use it. I don't want my stuff in somebody else's computer. I transfer the really important things to different devices that I keep in different locations. Of course, offline.
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Shelby P 5 years ago
that's essentially what the internet is. a bunch of "someone else's" computers all connected in one way or another...
Bored Birgit 5 years ago
... and you don't know where ita physically is and who has access to it.
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Don't use the cloud if you warnt to keep full control over your contents.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Indeed -- especially for content that may have sensitive information or images.
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Kevin Beard 5 years ago
Working IT, I always finding it interesting everyone wanting to sell you their cloud service. No thanks, I want it running on my servers not yours. But it'll be safer on the cloud. No... So you'll cover any lawsuits when you are breached? No? Then I think it will stay on my server.
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
It's true. In fact I've got a bunch of your photos on my computer and I've got to say, that shirt isn't doing you any favors...
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
I've always wondered when the weather is clear, how can my stuff be on a cloud
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
The "cloud" should be secondary, not primary storage. It's very useful for transferring files when moving between workplaces or sharing a project with others. Depending on it for primary storage is begging for a "File Not Found" or "Account Not Found" notice, along with customer service reminding you that they are not responsible for lost/deleted/corrupted files. I learned this THE HARD WAY.
Sybil Holiday 5 years ago
It's my understand the Cloud is being replaced by OneDrive. Huh. At least that's a tad more accurate, One Drive to conquer all!
#8
I work in a nursing home. Your sweet little Meemaw and Pawpaw are as***es. I worked at Walmart before my nursing home and I had way fewer problems with rude, entitled, and plain malicious people than I do now in nursing. Almost all of the men sexually harass the female staff too. Including, but not limited to, sexually explicit comments and requests, grabbing, groping, flashing, masturbating, etc etc. This is, surprisingly, much more common amongst completely cognizant residents than it is amongst those with dementia. Its an extremely difficult job and no one gets paid enough, especially not the aid because we’re the ones exclusively dealing with almost all of the stuff mentioned above.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
I always found it weird that people always think of old people as sweet, loving, caring people. Those people who have been a******s their whole lives, will be old a******s as well. They don’t suddenly drop their racist, sexist, mysoginist, etc views just because they aged.
Mike 5 years ago
I read somewhere that as you get older you loose your filter. So that little voice you have that says, "Don't say that" gets quieter and quieter.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Yep. My mom dealt with this as a nurse. All. Her. Career. Forty years of that. And the nursing home was worst. BTW, the sexual harassment is often worst among the "cognizant men", but in the dementia ward? My mom quit b/c the law forbids restraints, and the patients were free to wander up and punch people (each other, nurses, etc.) And families freak out about sedation... Well, take care of Grandpa or Mum at home, and get a cheekbone broken when you say, "Hello." Tends to change perspective. BTW, my mom has said if she is diagnosed with dementia to please sedate her, and never put her in a nursing home. It's in the legal paperwork I will follow that wish.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Nursing homes are so expensive (often thousands per month, no kidding) that people sometimes resent the workers for getting so much money and not taking more care of their grandpa. Workers in those places get paid horribly; somebody else is making all the profits. This even goes for certified nurses and doctors working in them. People work in nursing homes because they are either compassionate people or in a situation where they can't get other work. I suspect most of them have some sort of PTSD from what they have to go through.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Coroprate HQ makes the $$$, and often double-bill Medicare/aid (or whomever) and rarely get busted.
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I used to be the director at a geriatric nursing facility and some of my employees would harshly judge the adult children of some of our residents for rarely or never coming to see their mother or father who seemed so sweet. I had to remind them that we don’t know the adult child’s story. We don’t have any clue what reasons they have now for not wanting to be around. It’s not our place to judge.
Nannychachi 5 years ago
I've worked as a nurse in a nursing home for 13 years. This is allll true.
ispeak catanese 5 years ago
I worked in a nursing home for two months and witnessed masturbation & groping. We had to park one man who was not demented in such a way as to make it difficult for him to get around, otherwise he would masturbate ladies who were aphasic. Any time one of us saw him getting close to anyone, we'd have to move him away and point him in a different direction. It was easier to do that than to get him to release his hand.
Malcontent 5 years ago
That's because old people don't want to be locked up in a nursing home and want to retain their independence- a carehome isn't much better than a prison. My Mother worked in one many years ago and you'd be surprised just how upsetting it is for the people who have to move into one, and the ways in which they display their displeasure to the carers.
Lemonclouds20 5 years ago
Well typically their Brains are decaying, so it's not surprising. Although, some people are just vile and always have been.
E Menendez 5 years ago
My mother had to tell my grandmother that the nurses she hired to help care for her were provided by the state because she knew how horribly they would be treated if she knew my mom paid them. My mother told the nurses that too so they wouldn't slip up and one was shocked that it would have been worse than it was.
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago (edited)
Agree with care home staff being underpaid... those extortionate fees do not filter down to those who do the hard graft. I have read about residents (men) abusing female residents... despicable behaviour. That kind of person needs to be segregated from the rest of the residents- like on a secure wing where they have no free access to others (who have the right to live free from harassment and abuse). And sedate them if need be. You have my support.
#9
I’m a furniture upholsterer, and the amount of times other ‘professionals’ just recover the old fabric and filling drives me mental. If you’re paying for reupholstery, ask for progress photos. Nobody needs all that nasty old fabric hidden underneath and it’s not fair to the client as they don’t necessarily know any better (nor should they have to)
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Oh... re-cover. Cover again. Not recover as in finding something again.
Chris Wade 5 years ago
Haha I was so confused as I read the text 3 times and still didn't make sense. Decided to give up and as I scrolled down I saw your comment and went "ohhhhhh that's what they meant". Thanks, kind stranger.
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SAF saf 5 years ago
Yes and....my parents were upholsterers and as i kid had the job of removing staples/tacks. It's pretty nasty work at times. We also did classic car interiors. It wasn't uncommon to have to repair the $100 jobs that had used carpet padding as foam. I've seen crumpled up news paper as filler come from cars/furniture that was done in TJ.
Adam Belaire 5 years ago
Having worked for my father's upholstery shop for many years before he retired (due to cancer) the most fabric I've had to take off one couch was 3 layers. It's a pain in the a*s.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I had no clue that was an "option." I wonder if reupholstery can be done cheaper if the old padding/fabric is left in place, such as for staging purposes or as a set piece on stage or film.
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
I upholstered furniture for 15 years and never once had a complaint about leaving the old fabric on, where applicable. Sometimes stuffing needs to come out, but usually it doesn't; and you'll never get the same feel if it's removed. My mom's been doing it since the 70's and it's not sloppy or lazy work. This is like saying that someone not pulling up old flooring is irresponsible; in some cases it needs to come up and in others, it's far better if it didn't.
Up All Night 5 years ago
Yeah, but do they know? Given you don't even see the old fabric if you cover it, how could you say they are OK with it? They pay for REupholstery.
Load More Replies...Some of these secrets blew our minds. As it turns out, things like dummy thermostats actually exist to stop people from fiddling about with the temperature. Not all IT specialists know (or even care) why the fixes they attempt really work. While most regular broadcast radio shows play prerecorded music and song requests from callers and the DJs have no control over what songs play: if you call in to request something, you’ll find that the lines are busy.
Some professions can be chock full of things that ordinary people know nothing about. For instance, The Guardian talked to a whole bunch of people to learn more about the mysterious things that go on behind the scenes.
A priest told The Guardian that a lot of people “don’t really know if you’re a real human or not.” People look at you weird if you’re dating someone or when you go to the gym with your collar on. While getting professionals to listen to you is incredibly difficult during meetings because you believe in God.
#10
I worked as a retail a manger in the past. A customer’s attitude and approach is about 99% of the reason someone would help them solve a problem. Sale ended yesterday? Your return is past the date? You want a better price on a clearance item? Be a normal kind person and you’ll usually get your way. If you start off being sh***y or demanding then, “Sorry, I can’t help you, it’s store policy.”
Nadine 5 years ago
Of course. You catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar. ;-) It's also common decency to not be a pr*ck.
John C 5 years ago
yeah, but look how many flies you get with a pile of poop! :)
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Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago
I usually see the opposite. It seems like a-holes get their way and nice people finish last. Be nice anyway.
Jasmina Pavlovic 5 years ago
Oh yes ... glad I'm working no longer retail. Some people are rude as hell.
Bradford Johnson 5 years ago
good customers get good service. this is a rule everyone should live by
Garrincha 5 years ago
Well in my experience if you are too nice then you also may not get your way. Sometimes you have to be abit mean and stand your ground until you get what you came for.
Fulsome Kitten 5 years ago
You can still be assertive without being mean. But yeah, sometimes you do have to elevate to get a manager cuz the employee is just being stubborn or ignorant.
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Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
My mother when first came to Europe, starting asking for discount everywhere like she was in a African street market. I was so embarrassed. But due her kindness and innocent attitude she was having 10%and 20% discounts.
Caroline Farquhar 5 years ago
I was a travel agent back in the day and booked a high end honeymoon for a very demanding couple to Tahiti. While on their flight, a hurricane hit the islands and damaged the property they were staying at.The only damage to their room was a ripped screen so bugs got in. Instead of closing the window and making the best of it, they called the front desk to change rooms, which was impossible at that point. They were accommodated at another resort the next morning and the rest of the trip went without incident. When they got home they demanded a refund for the entire 14 day trip. They had bought insurance but it didn’t cover “acts of God”. I asked how the rest of the two weeks went and the husband only kept screaming about how there were bugs in the room and lizards as well. I said “Oh, they’re geckos, they eat the bugs”, to which he replied “That’s what the b**ch at the front desk said!” Could I have helped him if he was respectful? Probably. Did I? No
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago (edited)
I'm ashamed of him for this, but my dad is the s****y, demanding a-hole, but he'll look up the store's policies and will go off on a 30-minute tangent and rant, and berate the employee for "trying to rip him off". He'll force them to help him, even if it takes an hour to do so. Then he'll stomp out of the store, get into the car in a rage, and then burst out laughing because of how "stupid and inconsiderate that employee was", and how he totally put them in their place, because obviously they didn't know it before then. I just want to slap him across the face every time.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Makes me wonder what kind of upbringing people had when they are demanding, rude or insulting to someone they supposedly want a FAVOR from.
#11
Teacher here. I learned early on in the game that there are a lot of supplies we don't have to pay for if we just know where to look and how to ask nicely. Want to have a lesson about plants? Go to a grocery store/florist a few days ahead and ask if they can set aside their dying flowers for your class. Need cardboard? Ask a store for their old boxes. I've even heard of my colleagues just going to stores and asking for donations and explaining why, and getting new stuff for free. It's amazing how much people are willing to go out of their way to help educate kids.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
And the teachers do that on their own time. So let's not hear anymore about how they only work 9 months out of the year. Those nine months usually have 60 hour weeks when you account for things like this. Add to that, that this is not part of their job, it makes it that much more important.
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
That's a great tip for teachers! :-) There used to be a debit card commercial with an actress playing a kindergarten teacher. She said her class kept running out of supplies like "paint" and "hamsters," which she would then have to replace using her own money. The debit card could be set up to put a certain amount of money in a separate account when you bought something with it. Teachers buying school supplies with their own money IS ONE OF THE WORST NATIONAL DISGRACES IN THE U.S.A. and the commercial acted like it's normal!
Susan Mercurio 5 years ago (edited)
"Won't it be great when schools have all the money they need and the Air Force will have to have a bake sale to buy a bomber?"
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Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
And yet it's also amazing how frequently conservatives are willing to cut funds for public education at every opportunity. It is long-term investment in the future. After WW2 the US repaid its service members with a subsidized education. 20 years late the nation enjoyed an explosion in prosperity and progress the likes of which the world had never seen. Our present president (who says he "loves" the troops) wants to repay the National Guard troops who have been helping with the pandemic by dismissing them ONE DAY BEFORE their benefits would kick in.
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
My local hardware store has a section at the front that is filled with decent cardboard boxes
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
HERE'S A BIG ONE: In towns and cities with WEB PRINTERS (newspapers and catalogs), there are gigantic rolls of paper (often measured in kilometers, they're so long). When rolls get down to a certain point, they aren't loaded on the press, because running out would require redoing the entire press set-up. These are sent to recycling for pennies on the dollar, mostly because the industrial cardboard core weights about 40 lbs. Establish an agreement with the plant manager or owner to pick up end-rolls and return the cardboard cores -- and offer a letter of donation for the paper received -- and teachers/students will receive astonishing paper with which to work. A few of my teacher friends I've turned on to this spend an afternoon -- often with student helpers -- measuring off lengths of paper, trimming and rolling up the stacks for easy inventory. Then the cardboard cores can be returned right away -- make contact during the return, keep a note w/ date-time-name. Send thank you notes!
Noel Bovae 5 years ago
Unethical Life pro Tip: Go to stores, pretend to be a teacher, get free stuff. ... Totally JK. ...Don't actually do that. Teachers have it rough enough as is; they need all the help they can get.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
So you're saying I never really needed the ski mask and shotgun to ask nicely for things?
#12
That most of those "3 people have booked this hotel today" or "4 people are looking at this prodocut right now" pop-ups on travel agency website and ecommerce sites are lies. Totally static and made up.
Pamela24 5 years ago
I know that. And yet - whenever I'm booking an accommodation through booking.com (which has taken over the market, more or less so I don't see a better option) I get stressed. I'm so pissed at myself for not being able to overcome it. But it just works.
Diana Gandraman 5 years ago
There is an easy way. Research on booking.com and then find the hotel's direct website and book with them. Most of the time you will be able to get a discount because the hotels pay booking.com at least 15% commission. It's a win-win situation for you and for the hotel.
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Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
Or "only one left and its in 3 people's carts!" So it's like all 3 of these people expect to buy it, but I can sweep in and literally 'take' it from their cart?
Bored Birgit 5 years ago
Everybody knows. Also "XYZ in ABC has just bought this item" is always fake.
Shelby P 5 years ago
also there are algorithms built in so that you are competing with yourself if you happen to browse multiple sites at a time and are going back and forth. I tried to book a quick trip once and every time I hit "book it" the website gave me a "sorry that deal is no longer available" message, then if you go back and try again, the price has increased. This happened over and over again in a loop style on the same trip. Finally I got fed up and booked everything separately through the actual airlines/hotel's websites and ended up with the original price.
Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
I've run into this on eBay: I bid on something and I get an immediate message that my bid is winning now, but it's going to be outbid in a minute so I'd better raise my bid. I fell for it at first, but then I realized that I was just bidding against myself and stopped. They just want to get the highest price possible for their sellers.
Load More Replies... Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Oh I hate that. I was ordering nuts the other day and a popup said 444 other people where browsing the site. Like, why tell me this? Why should I care? It’s not like you suddenly have a shortage of nuts.
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
I hate that Etsy puts the "x people have this in their cart" ....yeah until the end of time.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
Same with the discounts, which last only one more hour. Go back the next day and same discount and only 1 hour left.
Panda with Heart 5 years ago
Of course it is. Fear and greed drive people's emotions. Don't want to miss out on a "good" deal
Meanwhile, an undertaker told The Guardian that it’s a cut-throat business that’s very competitive. However, the job itself isn’t depressing, according to that one undertaker: they feel happy to learn so much about humanity doing the job that they do.
A judge revealed that behind closed doors, most judges (even the most experienced ones) are way more anxious about their jobs than we realize. The decisions they have to make weigh heavily on their shoulders because they’re supposed to make sure that everyone receives justice. We have a sneaking suspicion that it’s not just these ‘exotic’ professions that are full of secrets—everyone, from janitors to call-center employees is bound to have something to share.
#13
We don’t actually know how general anesthesia works at the molecular level. There are theories but nothing concrete.
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
Nothing scary about it at all, the anesthesiologist is the highest paid doctor in the operating room for a reason.
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Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
We paid extra for an anesthesiologist for our dog's dental. It's tricky in pets. Horses have a real hard time with it.
Leodavinci 5 years ago
As long as I'm not aware, it's fine. Heard stories of people who have "awaken" during general anesthesia and, although not feeling any pain, were unable to move or give any indication they were aware of what was going on. That's scary.
#14
Cinema theatres are full of bugs. No matter how much you clean, bugs will live off the food dropped and are very good at hiding, even exterminators can't get them all. Plus, with all kids of people coming in, they bring in bugs, fleas, lice etc and we can't refuse service just because someone absolutely stinks. Think about that next time you sir down. Not unheard of for cinema workers to keep your lost property and cash they find. Though most staff won't, one or two deffo will. High value lost property gets given to managers to 'deal with'. And yes this absolutely includes 'upmarket' fancy cinemas.
Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago
Yeah, this one I didn't need to read. I prefer to be willfully ignorant.
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Jessica Cifelli 5 years ago
That's definitely true. Roaches, bed bugs, fleas, head and body lice, you name it. Movie theaters are breeding grounds for all kinds of nasty.
Ann O'Riley 5 years ago
On Oahu, in Hawaii, a local theater (10-plex), got one of its theatres infested with bedbugs. You can imagine the outcome.
#15
Most people who work in IT support really aren't more tech savvy than the average user. They just know how to Google.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Imposter syndrome. Just because you Google a lot, doesn’t mean you’re not better than users. You can Google it because a) you understand the problem, you know what is wrong and b) you understand and can apply the solutions you find. That is waaaay more than the users can do.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
It would take me AGES even with google because I would need to learn all the tech speak and other mumbo jumbo before I even start learning how to fix any issues. I am to impatient to go through all that so I just call my brother lol.
Walter Brameld 5 years ago
That's the impression I get any time I've had to ask them for help. The first 10 minutes are always wasted on them telling me to do the things I've already tried from my own googling. When I try to explain the parts of the problem that I've already figured out, they have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm thinking, you're just some guy they hired off the street and gave a script to
Max L. 5 years ago
Correct. What do you want the client know about this guy ? See, the manager was a tech that learn he could show you a banana and tells you she just came from harvard holding a tech master. You would start to be worried if you think to the first thing that gets broken, and the banana slips away.
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Kurtz Frausun 5 years ago
When I've done IT in the past, and the client is next to me while I'm on the phone with a supervisor, if they ask if I fixed the problem I will say "All taken care of. It was a PICNIC." aka "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer."
ChrisZAUR 5 years ago
Don't forget PebCaK error, Problem exists between Chair and Keyboard
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Hans Felsh (TheRealMoleman) 5 years ago
Former (now retired) computer network security engineer here. This is absolutely true; I spent a good half+ of my career cleaning up the mess other people made. Or worse, after I had set the entire network up and kept it running, the company would let me go (or end my consulting contract) because "we don't need you any more", and I would warn them that it looks easy but it's not. More times than I can count I would get a call ~6 months later about them needing me to come in and "fix the issues", and my rates would be double.
Joel Emmett 5 years ago
For every profession, learning the vocabulary is half the battle. Nowadays, with that vocabulary, you can Google things.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
Drives me crazy. I am retired 20 years in IT. Before I call you better believe I have researched it up down and sideways. Just transfer me to Tier III okay?
Stille20 5 years ago
It shows. I call the help desks when I hit a brick wall. If they start reading me the documentation I just read, I get annoyed, Especially because they usually come at it with a superior attitude.
Shelby P 5 years ago
that's more with phone tech support in other locals than someone in IT. Because the initial phone tech support person you reach is more of a customer service person and trained to filter the calls not actually fix problems.
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My friend is a doctor. He said that hospitals always overcharges the patient. One solution to this is to ask for an itemized invoice, and more often than not, there will be a significant reduction in the invoice.
fainasKeturatis 5 years ago
in EU you don't need to ask for the recipe - you may even don't care at all but the recipe will be printed because it's necessary by law.
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Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
I've read that elsewhere. It's good to know that your friend is a doctor and has verified that fact. But the itemized invoice could still show overcharges. In the 1970s, my grandfather was on his deathbed in the hospital. My grandmother spent a lot of time at his bedside. One day she had a bad headache and asked a nurse for two aspirin. After my grandfather passed away, my grandmother saw this item on the hospital invoice: 2 Aspirin: $10.
Tiny Dancer 5 years ago
What is this thing called a hospital bill? Signed a very grateful Canadian-Aussie.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
A "hospital bill" is what Americans get, because there's this hysteria that people in Canada and Australia have to "wait in line" for some non-emergency procedures. So in America, for many people, there is no line. They just suffer or die... or lose their house to pay medical expenses. (Special note: I was discussing LIVING WAGE and brought up Australia's. People were nodding along, then I threw in: "Remember, Aussie workers have basic medical coverage that includes vision and dental." Their teeth fell out.)
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Keley Babs 5 years ago
a doctor AND a patient here (my car accident was when I was in between jobs so NOT covered yet by health insurance). It was INSANE the difference in the bill when I asked for an itemized list of charges. And trying to talk to someone to ask what charges were for and why helped reduce it EVEN MORE. You wanna be a good patient that "pays it back"? Look your doctors and nurses and ancillary staff (the janitors, house keepers, techs, volunteers)... look them in the eye, genuinely tell them you appreciated their care and compassion. It doesn't pay the bills, but it gets me through the harder days.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
When my itemized bill came in from a month-long stay, my brother-in-law looked it over and began highlighting items. He got 20 pages in and said for me to show them his notes: there's no way some of the procedures could have taken place simultaneously, yet I was billed. Some days there was billing for 20 finger-prick blood sugar measurements. He said, "If you can pay cash, offer 12%. If you need to set up payments, offer 17% and settle for 20% tops." I got it settled for 14% with a payment program.
Nancy Kaylor 5 years ago
Think about how much lower your health insurance would cost if hospitals just charged for actual things.
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago
Another solution is to immigrate to a country with a civilised health care system.
#17
If you ever hear your local morning radio guy interviewing someone that seems too famous to talk to a local radio guy, that's because that celebrity recorded an interview and their audio was sent to radio stations everywhere, then the local guy rerecords the questions.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I stopped listening to radio a long time ago. Mostly because of the ads. They're way too loud and talk as if everyone listening is a complete moron. The ones trying to be funny actually aren't. The other reason is the limited playlist. You're playing "Jack and Diane" five times a day while not playing any of hundreds of far better songs at all. So I just roll my own playlists and skip the radio completely.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
This also happens with news and cultural columns. There are dozens of questions and answers from many people involved, and the columnist (print or web) rewords questions and inserts answers verbatim.
Fred Bigox 5 years ago
Ues i did know this. As a trucker for 30 years i have heard the same "special imterview just for us" on stations all over the country
#18
If you see twelve different sellers for an item on Amazon, in all likelihood the total number of sellers is probably three to four, all of whom have multiple names selling the same item at different prices.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
eBay too. Price is lower but shipping cost is higher. But the end cost is the same.
Elly Essenberg 5 years ago
I always click free international shipping and then compare the article on other sites. My choice is always cheaper.
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
Shady tactics... I refuse, on principle. to buy an item that is cheaper but ends up costing more with S&H fees. I also try to never 'impulse buy' but leave items in my 'basket' for a while first.
E Menendez 5 years ago
Amazon is just a terrible company all around. It is the epitome of capitalism and plays on the desire to acquire as much cheap c**p as possible.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Same on eBay and other auction sites! ALWAYS check auction prices against online availability -- I've had eBay purchases shipped directly from Amazon because high volume users save a few percent, don't have to pack or ship, and pennies pile up in their accounts.
Eva Zaqqum 5 years ago
Well my insurance cover almost everything. I've never paid a single cent in the Hospital or ER soo...that doesn't really bother me, sorry.
Jace 5 years ago
Because these “markets” are a laissez-faire capitalism scam. Also: there’s no such thing as a “FireWire to USB adapter”. Don’t buy one. It’s a scam fake product. It will either do nothing or DAMAGE your equipment. Amazon and eBay refuse to shut down the sellers of s**t like this.
#19
I work at a jewelry store that produces custom pieces. Diamonds and other precious stones get dropped and lost, by everyone, constantly. 3 or 4 times a day you will hear "Fu*k! Nobody move! Get the flashlight!" I saw the owner drop a whole tray of sapphires one day. Pretty sure part of his soul died. We're usually more careful with customer's stones, though. Usually.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I'm a model-builder and work with very small parts - similar to small gems. I learned a long time ago that the easiest way to find something is to turn off the lights and lay a flashlight on the floor. As you move the flashlight the part will quickly reveal itself by casting a shadow - even VERY small parts. Also always work over a hard floor - never carpet, and sweep the floor often.
Blarrg 5 years ago
Once a guy in the shop dropped a customer diamond, and *poof* it vanished. We spent forever searching because it had to be within about a 5 foot radius, right? Finally found it. It had dropped into the cuff of the salesman's slacks.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
when that happens get a flashlight and turn out the lights and put the light on the ground and slowly spin it in a circle, the object you lost will produce a shadow, and you'll be able to find it. (thank you reader's digest)
JeffC 5 years ago
It does happen but not quite like this with my work; I'm a watchmker by hobby and there have been numerous times where a small part has been lost in the abyss....I sigh then search until it is found yet I do say, "stay out of the area" as it could be potentially stepped on/crushed!
Allan Clipperton-Boyer 5 years ago
DeBeer's CEO called diamonds "intrinsically worthless" in an interview.
Brandy Grote 5 years ago
A good video of treasure hunters in NYC jewel district. They dug dirt out of the sidewalk cracks, panned it out, and found a lot of gold, gems, broken chain pieces. Amazing.
#20
Teachers do have favorites.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
My favourite changes daily. It depends on who is the best behaved that day.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
This is very true, I knew I was a favourite for about 3 different teachers and in the top 5 for a couple more. All in Primary school coz I was a goody two shoes, never got detention, never got black spot, always got rewarded even going to lunch with my teacher 2 years in a row, first year was pizza hut, second year was McDonalds. High school was a different story, I was a favourite with my english and drama teacher (same person) but after year 8 I went down hill. 3 detentions, 1 in school suspension, wagging, swearing and backchatting at my teacher, lying, getting into fights etc. Was in a dark place then. I also had some AWFUL teachers in high school.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
Honestly same, and all my LA teachers love me. I was some teachers favorites even if I didn't have them...
Load More Replies... fainasKeturatis 5 years ago (edited)
I had many teachers who hated most of the kids equally... except some, who were hated more heavily.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
The good ones are well aware of their prejudices and try to make amends. The bad ones are in denial, as in ''It HAS to be the student's fault''.
Shelby P 5 years ago
then they're all bad. all teachers I've encountered with my child (and those that have talked to other parents I know) blame everything on the student. "Wait a minute, everyone is failing your class?" Yeah, I wonder who is really having a problem...
Load More Replies... CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
I've subbed and can strongly confirm this, and that we have those students who are strongly disfavored. Sorry but we're only human. It was said above about nursing homes: 'Your adorable meemaw or pawpaw may really be a raging sexist/racist/homophobic/groping a**hole or b***h'. In the same vein: Your "little angel" son or daughter may actually act like an insufferable, disruptive, little brat all day.
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
Oh yeah anyone who's ever been in school will say this is no secret
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
I was not a favorite, because the teacher had both my two brothers, and two sisters, and didn't want another one. Even though they were all different students. One brother was a complete brainiac, and the other was a complete troublemaker.
Paper A 5 years ago
Yeah, a couple of teachers hated me because my they had my older brother before me. 🤷♀️
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The majority of regular broadcast radio shows are pre-recorded. If a DJ is broadcasting live (usually the morning shows), they still have no control over what music plays, it's all pre-programmed. They'll usually record phone requests and replay them during the voice break before the requested song is scheduled to play anyway, to make it seem like they're playing/taking requests. When the studio is empty, all phone lines are set to "busy", so no one calls and realizes there's no one there to answer.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
We have a radio station here that brags about their massive collection of music, but their actual playlist in extraordinarily small. I wish we still had locally-run stations with DJs who are free to play what they want. I think KTHX in Nevada is still like that, but I haven't lived there for a while.
NMN 5 years ago
The radio I like uses WhatsApp and Facebook (phone calls, really? In which decade are you?) And they do answer requests and change stuff on air, sooo don't generalize
Fred Bigox 5 years ago
If you read the post it says the majority, not all
Load More Replies... Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I don't know how long this has been true. Back when I listened to radio I would call in requests sometimes for songs they never would have played otherwise and they usually got played. I would never call in for something that was already on their list because it was going to come up eventually anyway.
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
One or 2 companies own radio stations here in the US. That's why you hear the same 500-800 songs over and over again. Radio stations are afraid of playing more less mainstream thinking you will change the station and not listen to advertisements. You can be in Chicago, LA or any other city in the country and hear Stairway to Heaven or Boston's More Than a Feeling 5 times a day.
fainasKeturatis 5 years ago (edited)
it's not veeeery common thing. lots of radio stations still have many live shows and take those requests (most likely not at night or early morning but still)
Allan Clipperton-Boyer 5 years ago
NOT totally true. Boom 97.3 FM in Toronto, actually has an answering machine from 12am-5am, and they take SOME recordings from that and play the requests. They also have the "Boom Lunch Box Request" where you can call in and request a song, and it's usually played. Sometimes, Maie will play the artists and not the song, but it's generally "ask and get" at that time. NOW, Jack 102.3 FM from London, ONT, has a trio of DJ's in the morning, and nothing else all day.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I used to drive a lot for my job and weather breaks would come on: "It's gonna be sunny and hot!" Meanwhile it was foggy and spritzing outside.
Dana Hill 5 years ago
When I turned 16, I called the local station, told them it was my birthday and I was getting my license that morning, and could they play "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar. They asked me where I was from and may the usual joke about staying out of that area since I would be a new driver. The song did not play by the time I went to school. The next morning I heard the exchange on-air and they played my song. The day AFTER my birthday. Oh well, at least they played it. (that song would not have been a song that would have normally been on the playlist, so I assume someone got approval for it but it took a day?)
Shelley Mackay 5 years ago
I call BS on this one. I'm sure some things are prerecorded but shows vary..
#22
At the airlines, we generally have no idea where your bag is at any given time. It follows a chain of events to get to the right place. If it ends up missing, no one is "looking" for your bag. Your file gets loaded in a computer and when your bag is eventually scanned somewhere, a person is notified to grab it before it moves on to somewhere else. This also means, if you jump to an earlier flight, there is a strong chance that your bag is going to fly on the original flight. The time is usually too little to go find it, retag it and get it to a new flight. If you jump to another airline and we have already retagged it/ handed it off to a different airline, it is done. We are not going to be able to retrieve it. It is flying on that flight. Just because your bag tag shows CLT on it does not mean it was accidentally sent there. We often send bags through multiple cities as it will reunite you and your bag, hours faster than the next direct flight. Sometimes, we even send it on other airlines that you never even flew on. We may even send it the other way around the globe. Ex. LAX to DXB(Dubai). You may have flown through London on British Airways, but the fastest way for me to send your bag may be through Seoul, South Korea on Delta and Korean air. We try our best but it's a question of volume, staffing, time, and technology.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I've only lost a bag once and it was a flight chartered by the military when I was in the service. I never stressed about it. The bag showed up about a week later probably a little less than. What did bug me was when we flew to Egypt and they "unloaded" the baggage by dropping it from the plane about 40 feet up straight to the ground. I always knew to carry on my expensive electronics but I never thought they would be that careless.
Gwinevere von Ludwig 5 years ago (edited)
This one is not necessarily true. I was once dealing with traveling on a day with massive delays and was sitting at my gate waiting for a 9 PM flight... it was 8 PM at the time. An agent came over and asked if I wanted to get on a flight that was leaving right then which had a much earlier departure time and I said sure. I walked over, got my ticket changed, got on the plane, and we pushed back. As soon as my ticket changed, my bag was immediately transferred from my 9 PM flight to the earlier one - as the flight attendant said, they really don't like people's bags travelling separately from them (for obvious security reasons).
Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
one of my biggest traveling fears is losing something such as my bag
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I learned from reading Readers Digest that if you're traveling with someone, to put 1/2 of each persons things (clothes mostly) in case one bag gets lost. That way the other isn't at a loss of wearing the clothes they're wearing for x amount of days with no need to shop for more.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Wonder if this will still happen when we can eventually transport instantly? Surely there are scifi stories about this?
Keley Babs 5 years ago
it's annoying to lose your bag, sure, but I am NOT envious at all of having to deal with the logistics of it all. I'm SO grateful I don't have to lug my heavy suitcase all over the terminal with me.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
When possible, I like to SHIP stuff to my hotel or destination with insurance, and carry on enough stuff to get me through a day or two.
Froganit Gamesy 5 years ago
To avoid bombs on planes, flights should not go with bags of people that are not on the plane. So when flight is delayed because some passengers did not bored, its because their bags are already on the plane.
#23
I can fix most people's computer issues by doing 3 things: run a free scan from malware bytes open up msconfig.msc from typing it in the start menu, then going over to all the services and startup items and turning off so much crap that is either a virus (says Unknown or a blank, for the manufacturer name) or unnecessary (you can google if you don't know, plus click the box that says hide microsoft to dumb it down a bit). Make them a new user account that doesn't have admin rights (they'll need to put in a admin name and password when they really want to install things, no need to always be logged in as an Admin.. click bait will kill your pc). Then doing a few reboots... i teach this to family
elfin 5 years ago
Only to get the answer that they can't turn it on and off 'cause the power is out.
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Jace 5 years ago
None of this fixes my real issues. The real issues are s****y design/bugs. I’ve completely given up on Windows and Apple’s products aren’t far behind in sheer number of bugs that go unfixed year after year.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Every time I wipe my computer and reload from scratch, the first thing I do is turn off unnecessary services. I've always wished there was a way to save it as some kind of configuration file so I could just make it an automatic operation. I suppose if I really wanted to do the work I could create an install disk for the OS after I finish.
MagicalUnicorn 5 years ago
oh yep, i learned it after few years doing administrative work in IT company
Aileen Grist 5 years ago
I've copied this one down - it may come in handy - all the family seem to think I can fix computers - I can't
Origami Chik3n 5 years ago
Yes. But how do you deal with "last week i saw a pop up. I don't remember what it said (that person doesn't even speak English, actually). What was it?" situations?
#24
I let my students cuss around me as long as they use it properly and it isn't offensive. They don't know this rule, only I do.
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
I'm the same as a Mom. They don't abuse it when it's not a rule they have to follow or can break.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I wonder how old they are. It seems that it could make other students uncomfortable.
TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
At most schools you can’t avoid it, it’s kinda unfortunate but true
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
Probably a good policy to filter out as much as you reasonably can... otherwise you'd never get anything done, beside telling off the students who are using foul language.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
My mother cursed by using animal terms. "Great Horny Toad" "Giraffe spots" "Monkey's or cat's pajamas" "Cat tail" etc. When I did the same as a teenager, my friends would laugh and not take me as being seriously angry due to my cursing phrases.
Aileen Grist 5 years ago
When my stepchildren were young I always made sure that a) they knew when NOT to cuss - grandparents, teachers etc , b) they had to know what the word meant. Until I made them look it up they called one another - and others - bu**ers they were disgusted when they knew what it meant and stopped using it.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
...butters? Buggers? tell meeee I genuinely don't know what the word is
Load More Replies... Steve Cruz 5 years ago
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#25
Dummy thermostats are pretty common. It basically works like a placebo where people feel more comfortable when they think they have control over the room temperature. It results in way fewer complaints.
BG 5 years ago
Also, the crosswalk buttons are often dummies, as well as the "close doors" button on elevators.
N S 5 years ago
Crosswalk buttons are not dummies, just that most buttons are disabled during rush hour and only work during off-peak hours
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Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
brings business to psychologists, too. People keep showing up wondering why they,re still sweating at work after they've turned the thermostat WAY down. Must be anxiety.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Why don't they put in thermostats that only operate within a certain range of temperatures relative to the outside temperature?
Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
I'm staying in a motel for the pandemic and I was amazed that the thermostat in my room actually worked! The front desk staff told me to turn it down because it was too hot in here.
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
Some nursing homes in Australia have wall mounted air conditioners that are just empty shells to impress potential residents and appear to comply with regulations.
Pamela24 5 years ago
I've heard these are often installed in offices where there are a lot of people who can try to change the temperature. There it makes sense. At home - not really.
Emi A. 5 years ago
Oh yes it does at home too. Between my husband and me, yes it DOES.
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The recycling market is way down in the US because China had stopped accepting most of our recyclables. So, a lot of what you think you're recycling is just ending up in the landfill anyway.
Shelby P 5 years ago
I have yet to understand the benefits of recycling when I hear how much energy it uses and costs and whatever else. SO, why aren't we forcing manufacturers to use biodegradable materials? Why aren't we putting the responsibilities on the source instead of the consumer... Between costs of items and the increase in online shopping the consumer is the last person concerned with these materials... *duh*
nanashi 5 years ago
I think I read somewhere that at the beginning they really meant to do that. but somehow they launched a campaign against littering instead, shifting the blame to consumers for "using their products and made the trash".
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Maria Rohlen 5 years ago
Why not start recycling yourself instead of increasing the pollution by transporting it?
DE Ray 5 years ago
Cost and localized pollution. Recycling takes a fair amount of energy, which is expensive. There are a lot of smelly, smoky or disgusting side-discharges during recycling which local residents object to. If you're not able to sell the recycled product for enough to cover the cost of the energy used and to mollify the neighbors over the foul or dirty emanations, then you can't afford to recycle.
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Shellia Ventura 5 years ago
We just learned that here in Cleveland Ohio. Mayor is still charging for pick up of recyclables only and it's going straight to the landfill! BS, I say!
Human #1,232,867 5 years ago
China was not recycling anything. Just taking the money and put in landfill.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There will be a market for it when the producers and the consumers are forced to pay for the environmental costs. Until then we can try to prefer buying things with less excessive packaging, buy in bulk, buy larger sizes of cartons and bottles of stuff, etc.
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The sheer magnitude of criminal cases that detectives have that will pretty much never even get looked at, much less investigated due to a massive lack of staffing.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
One big issue is that over 25% of prisoners are non-violent, low level criminals with low risk to public safety that would be better off with community service, probation or education. That is approx 364,000 people in the US alone. That would save about $20billion annually which could pay for more investigators, police, probation officers, education programs, school teachers, doctors etc.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
You're forgetting that a lot of our Prison system is privately owned and operated with Federal Guidelines and their contracts with the Fed. I'm pretty sure we have more Privately owned prisons than State or Federal ran ones. This usually mean's their Incorporated, so depending on who and where their owned the states are going to be getting more back from them from their taxes, which that 'funds' everything else, along with bribes. I hate this and how the entire system is using people for profit, it makes me sick. There's two links here. https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/capitalizing-on-mass-incarceration-u-s-growth-in-private-prisons/
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Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Let's say it again people, prisons in the US are a business and it takes lots of prisoners to make them money. Thus, lots of low level offenders who can do s**t work for the prison owners.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Several states have instituted "no parole" for certain crimes. The reason for this is that prisoners represent $$$. Prisoners with solid sentences are "assets" as much as buildings and real estate. Prisons and stock are bought-sold based on occupancy, scheduled turnover, etc.
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Juliette Dauterive 5 years ago
Yet they still won't relinquish their gravy train: prosecuting people for marijuana possession.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Colorado law enforcement and courts have reported immense savings and docket relief for not arresting people with amounts equivalent to legal purchase -- an ounce a day. I was shocked to see how much an ounce of pot is -- about 1.5 cups of bud. STUPIDLY it took nearly a year for judgments and sentences of petty possession without intent to distribute to be struck down and expunged, and incarcerated people to be released.
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F. H. 5 years ago
If you ever needed the police, you'll know this. A construction vehicle almost totalled my parked car. Several neighbours were witnesses, the driver fled. The police sent me a notice that they closed the case one week after I had called them.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Contact the District Attorney. Collect as many witness statements as you can, along with all details. If you want to do things the right way, use a recording device with removable media (chip, microcassette, cassette tape). Record your interviews with people, transcribe it with day-date-time. SAVE EVERYTHING in case there are any questions. Keep copies of everything if you are asked to turn over your materilas.
Load More Replies... Barbara 5 years ago
True, but I still think that if you would walk into a room of untreated cases you'll be blown away by the amount of them.
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Amanda Hunter 5 years ago
True in all city and county level jobs, when someone leaves, the rest have to pick up the slack.
CbusResident 5 years ago
A related point: almost every homicide is a 'cold case', they nearly always go unsolved. 'Getting away with murder' may in fact not be that hard - which doesn't mean people should try to do so of course.
Juliette Dauterive 5 years ago
Obviously most people hope to get away with it, and also know it’s likely, if convicted, deals will be made so they don’t lose THEIR life. Not much incentive to not kill someone.
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Most hospitals are actually crazy trusting about who they release dead bodies to when people die. Often times I show up with just a gurney, and someone’s name scribbled on a post-it note, and they just let me walk out with somebody’s grandma without asking my name or getting ID or anything.
N S 5 years ago
Who in their right mind goes to steal a fresh corpse? Besides, you would have to know the name of the person and the fact he/she died recently. Sure that does not happen all that often, even in America.
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago
How many people want a dead body? Please don't respond if the answer is more than 2.
Charlotte Cottrell 5 years ago
I'm a nurse who has NEVER released a body to anyone without ID and verification that it's the correct funeral home. It also must be signed for before release.
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago
Once I'm dead, I couldn't care less what happens to my now non-functioning, unused, biological, bipedal transport mechanism.
#29
That just because something is patented doesn't make it any good. Stupid [crap] is patented every day.
Anna Solan 5 years ago
Yes, but I think the point in bragging that something is patented is to say it is unique enough to recieve a patent.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
No but it’s important to patent an idea in case it proves useful later on (especially with tech ideas). It’s also important to not let your patent go out of date. There are professional patent trawlers that wait until something is out of date (or near enough) and swipe that invention to make money off.
#30
As a freelance ghostwriter, most of my clients are Russian or Middle Eastern men who publish five to ten ghostwritten romance or erotica books a week under female pen names. They spend 10k a month and double or triple that by flooding the market. At one point one client told me he had six of the top ten Regency Romance spots on the paid best seller list.
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
Case in point: This quote from A Gronking to Remeber: “My sewing could wait, I thought—could go to hell for all I cared. Suddenly all I wanted to do was watch Gronk do his thang-thang in the zone place there.”
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Serious question, Is this because of the culture and risk of condemnation?
Miss Cris 5 years ago
So do you know why in fnac and other libraries porn books are soted in "romantic" shelves?
Giovanni 5 years ago
They market it as romance because middle aged women would be embarrassed about buying from the "cheap erotica" shelves
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#31
90% of the time your computer trouble is entirely your own fault.
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
Yeah did you really need to know that one crazy trick to burn belly fat overnight
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Wait... there's a crazy trick to burn belly fat overnight??? Got a link?
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J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
same with life. it's either happy or not.... 100% dependent on your outlook.
María Hermida 5 years ago
Go and repeat that in a refugee camp with little food, no electricity, no running water, no sewage, no doctors, no school for the children, and no hope of improving your situation for years and years because no country wants to receive you. It's easy to speak about happiness when your life is comfortable, but it's not a wise thing to do. Some people's lives are so difficult that no amount of "positive outlook" can improve it.
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Master Electrician and former shop owner. The standard household outlet has enough current to kill the largest man. It just has to take the right path across your heart to ground. Water alone does not conduct electricity. It lowers an items resistance. Lights flickering or turning on & off is never ghosts. We go into conversations with clients knowing we have to let them feel like they know what they're talking about. Average electrician goes to school and trains for 5 years. After 10 he can study to be a master. They're more educated than most people think. I'm no longer in the trade. Theres more of these. This just came to mind.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
The worst nightmare of any electrician is a DIY wiring job ---- every electrician I ever met. (Former union member IBEW.)
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Germany has higher voltage service than the US, but the outlets are harder to stick random things (keys, paperclips) into. Overall, I don't know which is safer.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
My husband is a plumber. He had to do the same schooling. In addition, (at least in our state) plumbers are the only ones required to be licensed by the State Health Department. Remember, your plumber can be the only thing between you and dysentery.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Last thing is country depedant. Here the training is MBO-2, which apparently is called vocational school and is about the lowest education after high school.
#33
Software developer: a lot of large financial systems are held together with duct tape code and have no real documentation or specifications also there's a good chance that a large number of the staff are fresh out of uni and are just mudling along. I did my student placement at a major insurance software company which handled billions in transactions, at one point the entire support team was a single student with no oversight.
Gogubaci 5 years ago
This is a common trait for all companies, there is always a hodge podge of code slapped together by various people that basically solved the problmes the way they saw fit, and more often than not they'll say the guy that did the job before them was a moron.
Shelby P 5 years ago
because who on earth can foresee all the variables... seriously we are human not perfect and nothing produced by a human will be perfect. and all computers are produced by humans so... endless loop
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Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
How to run a business so no one really makes money but the upper few, any business in the world with large profits and fewer employees to management. When that domino stack falls it's going to be horrendous for everyone.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Unfortunately IT isn't an ideal situation just like almost nothing else is. Something isn't working that needs to be working then there isn't a professional team of developers on-site to correct the bug(s) and write robust code with commenting and documentation. They need to fix it which usually means some kind of work-around addressing the exact thing that went wrong instead of fixing the global issue. For example, a subroutine causes and error only when one dealing with one specific form. The subroutine should be fixed for any other forms that come along that might have the same issue but instead the programmer will write code to check for that one form and do something different for it. It's the wrong way to do it but it will work and get the software running again.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah, this scared me when I worked at a debt collector’s agency. They handled mortgages and debts and had no idea about the state of half of them, because the systems just sucked. Some people didn’t pay interest for years before someone accidently found out.
#34
Former profession: Catholic school principal. Open secret? Private schools lower their costs and increase their test scores by expelling students with special needs or low grades. Anyone with a disability costs extra because you have to spend more on support services, and private schools like to brag about being academically better than public ones. Instead of helping vulnerable kids, many such schools abandon them for better optics and more money.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
My Catholic school took the speical needs kids and speical cases the public schools tossed out, and gave them free tuition. So while that rule may apply to private schools in general, my alma mater of K-8 at least did good.
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
Also in the first place they attract a higher socio-economic class of students, lower status parents are far less likely to even consider private schools. Also, public schools do similar things: e.g. public schools purposely don't enforce truancy laws on the most truant students, figuring those are also likely the most disruptive and resistant students who would just drag down avg. standardized test scores and start fights and drama. The schools figure: 'If they don't want to come then great!' I don't blame the schools for that at all. I've subbed in rough urban high schools, any liberals or conservatives who think you could just 'fix' such schools, try teaching in one for a day and then tell me about your little fantasy.
Eden-Rose Huntsman 5 years ago
My friend's little brother has autism and he was expelled from his old school for "being disruptive"
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Not just private schools. My public school repeatedly "lost" paperwork for kids with low grades so they weren't enrolled for the national exams.
Jessica Bertram 5 years ago
LET'S ALL WORK TO MAKE THIS HIGHER. it truly is sickening. (Teacher here, and yes, this happens).
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I went to a private high school and that never happened. The only kids who got kicked out did something pretty serious to make it happen. I think they were just more selective in who they took in the first place. We had small classes and always got the individual attention we needed so it was easy to learn whatever was being taught. There was no good reason to walk out of class confused about what you were just taught.
#35
I used to work in daycare (I have worked at several, I’m American) The law in Washington state was 14 toddlers to two staff, and most daycares try to run at the max amount which provides a terribly stressful environment for children . Even if you enroll your kid in a daycare with less children to teacher ratio, the daycare is usually trying to raise it and a couple less kids being there is temporary. State regulations can be bizarre, and cause even less ratio of care... For example every child must have their diaper changed every two hours or more, all day, and be documented. Multiply that by 14 kids, so changing all 14 diapers/ potty training some every two hours for 8 -10 hour days.. The two staff rule is really just one person watching the kids for most of the day while the other person is changing diapers. A good environment being provided is almost impossible when one person is watching 14 toddlers. The state taxes daycares for breaking any small rule, so they struggle to make money and pay people fairly/ hire more staff.
Monday 5 years ago
What government actually believes 14 toddlers to 1 adult ratio is a good idea? We have a 4:1 ratio here and it still gets crazy.
Melissa Hudson 5 years ago
Teacher/child ratios vary from state to state. Here in NC we have daycares with "enhanced ratios" and daycares classified as "developmental day". The ratios in these centers are much lower. However they only account for about 10% of daycares. The other 90% are jam-packed with children. It's not good for the kids or the teachers. 😐
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
This diaper-chaning rule is an example of stupid govt. regulations, forcing day care to be more expensive than it needs to be. My ex had a baby boy who was 10 mos. old when I met her, 2 when she and I parted ways, wore diapers the whole time. I guarantee you we went more than 2 hours without changing him at times. Why? B/c sometimes his diaper was still clean after several hours. Of course we changed him as soon as he needed it based on common sense, which is what govt. should allow for day cares. That increased expense of staffing and diapers is imposing a a huge cost on day care service that gets passed on to many working and middle class people. This is why people become Republicans and Libertarians.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
Don't forget that those rules exist because people were trying to run daycare with 1 adult and 20-30 kids or more. Diaper maybe never changed in 9 hours. No attempt at toilet training or anything. That was pretty common less than 50 years ago.
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
This is true. The ratios are also supposed to change based on the age of the youngest child. I worked for a center that frequently promoted 1 year olds (6 per teacher) to the 2 year old group (11 per teacher) at age 18 mos so she could bring in another, higher price paying 1 year old. The 18 mos old would not be potty training usually, (I focused on potty training in my class cause they couldn't go to the 3's without it) and we were also supposed to go off of the 18 mos old's age. So my numbers should have dropped to 6, but this happened all the time, and DCF rarely responded to complaints.
Amanda Sherland 5 years ago
That's ridiculous. I can't afford daycare in Oregon- they want over $2000/ month. I tried it and my kid hated it. The food was awful too, canned garbage.
#36
My family owns a peach garden. Peaches are really delicate fruits. They’re soft and watery, perfect for any insect to lay eggs. So you need to take good care of them. But sometimes the weather doesn’t care about that and stuff might happen so now all your peaches have bugs. What do you do? You can’t sell spoilt peaches but you need money. Sell them to juice companies for 5 cents a kilo. Enjoy your wor- peach juice.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
People need to stop being so squimish about eating insects. Nothing wrong with that, it is quality proteins. There was this ridiculous post about washing strawberries earlier and it is like people are expecting us to be cut off from nature. Ingesting insects won't kill you - in most cases, don't try wasps - the pesticides and other c**p from industry will.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
When the zombie apocalypse happens, if the only thing there is to eat is bugs them I'm gonna die. I'll eat bark and leaves and shoe leather but I just can't imagine eating crunch bug shells and legs. Now if someone can make something from bugs that I can't tell is bugs and it tastes decent enough then I can probably do that. But there is no way I'm popping a grasshopper or roach into my mouth.... probably. We'll see how I feel about it when I'm actually starving.
Load More Replies... LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
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Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I like "fruit by the foot" and the main ingredient is peaches. Any product that contains fruit or vegetables I've always assumed uses the "ugly" stuff first that isn't ready for prime time at the local grocer. I've always thought that would be a good use of it because it's still food and it's not going to waste.
#37
Going to the hospital by ambulance doesn’t mean you’ll see a doctor any quicker.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
It does mean you'll see a medical professional more quickly though, as you can get medical care while in the ambulance.
Shadow 5 years ago
So to explain this a little better... triage still happens at the hospital and they will see whichever patient is the most critical first; so unless you are in immediate danger of dying you are put in the queue with everyone else. Also because you already received some medical attention while in the ambulance they have more information about your condition and know exactly how stable you are, so again unless you're in critical condition, you going to be waiting just as long as you would have if you had drove yourself to the hospital.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Who gets seen when in the ER depends on how serious your injury or illness is -- in the US, where an ambulance ride can cost you thousands of dollars, odds are you're pretty badly hurt or sick (or rich) -- so you may well jump to the head of the line.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
What will get you seen right away is being a child. Our emergency room has a special admittance system for young people. It must have to do with liability(?) Somebody who knows should explain.
Joanne Hudson 5 years ago
Nor the hospital. In many areas ambulance services are privately owned. If you aren't on death's door, you may get taken by the scenic route and charged for each and every mile.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Dripping blood does though (almost got my finger cut off), so does apparently looking white as a ghost (internal bleed, that one got me to the back in about 30 seconds and 2 IVs going within 1 min (and I am a hard stick) )
#38
Anyone who's job is to transport a dead body has dropped one at least once or twice.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
guess that means THEY'RE fine too 😂
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Brenda Vierra 5 years ago
This happened to my grandad. The guy who was carrying him dropped his feet. The guy was embarrassed. My sister explained that was just the shell, what was Granddad was no longer there. The guy felt relieved. It's more about the respect for the family than the dignity of the deceased.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
I have the sudden urge to be someone who's job is to transport dead bodies now lmao it kind of sounds funny, in a dark way haha
Anna roberts 5 years ago
and sometimes it looks like a Laurel and Hardy routine, like that time with the 300 lb guy on the 5th floor with a broken elevator........
#39
I am not a therapist myself but when I was job shadowing at a clinic, the therapists who were on lunch break would gossip about their patients and joke about how screwed up they are. I am certain that not all therapists do this but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common thing.
Daria B 5 years ago
Same with customer service. But, I mean, to be honest, it really doesn't offend me. I mean, they're human too, and whatever they talk about in their free time is none of my business. As long as they keep the privacy and don't expose sensitive personal information....
Miss Cris 5 years ago (edited)
But therapists only work with sensitive personal information of their customers :(
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago (edited)
Most therapists need their own therapists, so yeah, you get talked about. Edit: I know this because my last two Therapists talked about how hard it is to find one for themselves because they can't just go to someone they know or work with.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
And some people do look at you when you are knocked out for surgery, but only if there is something special to look at. 97% of us have no worries LOL
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
It's called "debriefing". It's important, otherwise the therapists would go nuts themselves.
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
That makes me sad. And here I was just considering seeing someone. I'll pass on the judgement even if I am unaware.
Animal lover❤ 5 years ago
That is just wrong, they come to them for support. They shouldn't be therapists in my opinion.
#40
Automotive technician here and maybe I've been extremely fortunate but the shop is usually not out to screw you. A lot of the upsells people scream about are the fact that I have to take these parts off to get to the part I have to fix/replace. The parts that came off have 100,000 miles on them, let me save you labor and replace them now instead of 6 months to a year later. The other upsells that cause people to cry foul are usually maintenance recommended by the manufacturer at that interval. And in my personal experience, when someone is getting screwed at a shop, it's because of a service writer or service manager trying sell un-needed work, not the mechanic.
Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago (edited)
Mechanic here. Was about to write the same. Bonus: We are people, too. If you treat us anywhere near decent, we will usally go out of our way to help you fast and to a reasonable price. If you treat us like lowlife service scum you pay for everthing we can legally charge you without scamming. And you wait for your car as long as we can delay it
María Hermida 5 years ago
The lesson many people need to learn: treat other people with respect, for two reasons. One, because it's the decent thing to do. Two, because the people who "serve" you have the means to make your life more difficult...
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Just curious... I go to a female service tech because she'll actually listen when I say x,y, or z appears to be happening. How many male techs actually listen to women when they bring in their car?
Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago
Tough question. No two people are the same. If I am totaly honest: there is a lot of bias in the trade. Some think women dont know what they are talking about. For some its people of a certain age or who come from a certain part of town or whatever. If you ask me how I treat the issue: I don't know. I am not a people oriented type. If you describe your problem to me I tend to recreate it in my head, without regard of who is talking to me. But if you start with something I KNOW is a common user mistake and tell me it started after your last visit, or something like that I tend to see everything else you say in the same way. And yes, sometimes that leads to missing actual issues. In other words: If you cover me in bullsh.. before giving me the actual info, I might take it for more bullsh...
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I don't know jack about cars but I have a mechanic who is a good guy and I trust. When I take my car to him I know I'm getting what's necessary at a fair price and I don't stress about whether or not I'm getting screwed.
DogMatic 5 years ago
I've always had good mechanics, but some are let down by the garage they work for (poor management, pricing etc.) I discovered that when moving to a new area, a good way to find a decent garage is by finding out which one the local taxi drivers use. It's stood me in good stead so far.
#41
Wash your fruits and vegetables. If a box breaks open, and produce falls out, we rebox it and ship it.
Bill 5 years ago
a little water won't remove something that was designed to survive a summer full of rain.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Just wash it because it comes from the soil and there are things you don't want to eat in there.
Annabeth Chase 5 years ago
There is proof that the 5 second rule does not work
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#42
your kid did not start talking at 4 months old. a "first word" only counts as such if it is an approximation of a word in the language AND used as such. a child saying "mama" while reaching for her mother counts. a child saying "doos" while reaching for juice counts. a child saying "daunting" while babbling does not count. they have to be intentionally communicating an idea.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
And then there are kids like mine that didn't say a peep until 2-1/2. But they were twins, so they didn't need to communicate with me. Just each other.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
This should be no 1. So tired of people insisting their kid could say full sentences with perfect grammar at 8 months, and read The Times by 15 months. Why aren't there any videos of this on YouTube, I ask?
CbusResident 5 years ago
"But my kid really is extremely smart!!!!" - Says 95% of parents. Just like if you ask people to rate themselves as drivers: 'Above average' - something like 90% of drivers will say.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
"Oh my gooodddddd, little timmy here, my baby boy bless his heart, started talking from the MOMENT he slipped out of my flower! He said "A goo goo, a la gaga.", and I studied ancient (gibberish)(on wikipedia), so I knew what he meant, which was "vaccines cause autism and essential oils are the cure to everything. What is the meaning of life? I believe it is-". Oh my gawwwd he's gonna be a genius."
#43
Addictions counselor here: a lot of police drink too much, a lot of childcare providers use opiates.
Monday 5 years ago
Most truckers use pretty hard drugs. Helps them stay awake on the long drives in the middle of the night.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Would that not make most truckers safety hazards for everybody else? Most, or some?
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Hello Dolly 5 years ago
I used to work in child care. It’s also flipped too. We would never accept a sleeping child chances are the person handing off the child gave the kid Benadryl or another sedative to keep the kid calm. If they got dosage wrong they could blame the provider if something happened. Never accept a sleeping child even if it seems like it would be easier.
#44
Worked as a McDonalds Manager, and pretty much the entire store had the understanding of telling the customer that the ice cream machine was broken. When the reality is that usually the machine goes into a heat curing cycle for the ice cream mix. Its easier to say its broken than to explain this. And during the summer days, when everyone ordering sundaes or cones, the machine goes into a lock mode until it can freeze the ice cream again. Or else you just getting lukewarm liquid ice cream mix.
Monday 5 years ago
Can you imagine if they told people the truth? I'd bet they'd get a lot of "well unlock it and make it freeze faster then! My child DESERVES ice cream!".
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Shouldn’t you have at least two machines then, who don’t do this at the same time?
Dave P 5 years ago
1) they take up massive amounts of limited space. 2) franchise owners have to purchase every piece of equipment from McDonalds, so it is also very expensive.
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See I would rather be told this then "the machine is broken". I only go to McDonald's when I get a craving for their milkshakes (maybe once every couple of months, summer or winter) and I have stopped going to the MD's closest to my house because every time I went there, their machine was "broken" and I had to drive to the next closest store. If they had told me "oh the machine just needs an hour to freeze the new mix" I would have been like "cool, mind if I hang out until then?" or I'd just go for a walk while I waited.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
Easy fix. Put a countdown timer on the front of the machine that says "Ice cream in xxx minutes." QED No jokes. No complaints. Explaining the problem so often makes the problem go away.
#45
Almost every elderly person living in a retirement home wants to die. There’s a grace period if the person is relatively healthy but as soon as they realize they are destined to live in the same room the rest of their life they are quick to ask everyone around them to kill them.
Just today I was asked by about 4 members if I would kill them.
Edit: to clarify, the wing I work in is assisted living where most everyone in there is unable to live on their own and requires assistance around the clock. Most people have some form of dementia and most of their families stuck them there because they couldn’t deal with it.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
If I had dementia, was in pain or uncomfortable and needed round the clock care then I would want to die to. I really wish euthenasia was legal.
Valinka 5 years ago
Here in Belgium where euthanesia is legal, if you suffer dementia you cannot be assisted in your wish of death, because you have to be fully in conscience when it happens. My mom is on a vegetative state due to Alzheimer since 2016 and despite that she clearly stated she wouldn't want to end her life like this when she was still conscious, there's nothing that can be done for her.
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Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Most disabled people who are not elderly who need assistance or are in pain do NOT want to die, but are presumed by many, INCLUDING DOCTORS AND FAMILY, to want to.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
If the person suffering does NOT verbally and contractually agree to euthenasia then it is not allowed. The person also has to be of sound mind. The decision can’t be made by relatives or Dr.
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LaDonna Hulcy 5 years ago
Euthanasia should be legal for the patient to do themselves, NOT some jerk son-in-law who just doesn't want to pay to keep gran alive. That said? I have known people who enjoyed their lives in assisted living. It all depends on the place and how much money you have. So save for when you are old and can no longer care for yourself.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
My mom has been wanting to die since 1988, I on the other hand have been wanting her to die since 1976 LOL
CbusResident 5 years ago
We need euthanasia so damn bad in our society. If old people want to go let them go damnit! It'd free up Medicare and Medicaid dollars those, both young and old, who want to live.
#46
Classical musician - lots of us at your local symphony are drugged up on beta blockers when we perform.
Barbara 5 years ago
Googled it and yes, it is to make sure that they're nerves don't affect the playing
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Zoe Murphy 5 years ago
It might not be because they get super nervous, but more so that it affects their playing. I know cause I play the bassoon that if you’re the tiniest bit nervous you’ll be SUPPPER sharp: ######
satan hears a scream 5 years ago
my piano teacher plays in a symphony and he says 70% of the time theyre just bs-ing it and most of the stuff you see them play they're playing together for the first time, with barely any rehearsal
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Whoa, beta-blockers can have some serious side-effects, and should NOT be used flippantly
#47
Nurse manager here. We nurses aren’t saints. Generally, most of us are caring, hard-working people. But we have the same people-problems as the general population: opioid addiction, affairs with married men, DUIs, timecard fraud... the list goes on.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Where I live, a DUI or failed drug test revokes your nursing license, just an FYI. The timecard fraud is usually being paid for the hours allowed ,not hours worked. I can't speak to the married men thing. But if a nurse locks herelf in a bathroom for even five minutes to get her stress out healthily? She gets in trouble b/c that's always the five minutes someone pages her or one of her assigned cases goes haywire and then? ... Yeah. My mom was a nurse over 40 years and loved it, but hated it, too.
Eden-Rose Huntsman 5 years ago
My mom is a nurse and she tells us about all the drama that goes on between the nurses
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Kinda worries me that you lists those as things general population has problems with.......
Shelbs 5 years ago
every nurse i've met is the mean girl that bullied you in high school. then gossips about your needs as a patient to her nurse pals in the back. then makes a tik tok about you and makes fun of you for needing to stay in a hospital. nurses are a******s. if you hate your job and the people so much find a different one.
María Hermida 5 years ago
Nearly the same with teachers... A few care about their students, the rest are mean people that couldn't care less about their students. A lot of them even hate children.
Load More Replies... Idontwantto 5 years ago
Many of the nurses I've personally known gossip and complain about their patients like they absolutely hate them. Definitely not saints and very few are "heroes."
DogMatic 5 years ago
Not really, from a nurse point of view everything is just body parts, genitalia generally aren't particularly interesting unless that's the bit they're trying to fix, & then it's just part of the job.
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Gallows humor is how many in 911 call centers and emergency services handle some of the [crap] we deal with.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
This is true of people who work in the funeral industry, too. Some people say that people with a macabre sense of humor must not be familiar with death, while the opposite is true.
Carra McClelland 5 years ago
This is not surprising. In fact, I would worry if y'all didn't find some sort of outlet like this.
Isabel Care 5 years ago
Have a chronic illness and a sick sense of humour, it horrifies some people
Anna roberts 5 years ago
I was in the ER with a shattered wrist ( 7 places + a 4mm demolished piece of bone, laughing and joking with the nurse, Dr came in and asked if someone had given me pain meds already, nurse quickly said no, she just knows it will hurt more if she starts crying (used to be a surgical tech) learned not to laugh about the pain until I got out of the ER LOL
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#49
Do some research before buying paint. Most companies do something called "cross pouring" where one of their more expensive paints is the exact same paint as one of their cheapest. One company, let's call them Durbin-Shilliams, sells two products, Superpaint and A-100. They are the exact same paint. The cost difference is about $20/gallon.
Jan Feline 5 years ago (edited)
I used to work at a vitamn store I'll call GN Sea. The vitamins from Brite-Aid are made at the same factory, and are the same exact vitamins. You can save a ton of money buying the Brite-Aid brand.
#50
It is not difficult to get super realistic details in CGI. I see people look at stuff like the stitching on shirts and how there's some fuzz on a peach or something like that in animated films. It looks impressive, but those details are super easy to make, just slap on a normal map and a particle system. Of course some details like cobwebs are more complicated but overall the tiny little things are just a texture or particle system. The actual hard stuff goes completely unrecognized if it's done well. Compliment the character rigging every now and then, its much more difficult :')
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I am always awed by Monsters Inc. when Sully falls in the snow and the wind is fluttering his fur.
#51
Your doctor has literally no idea how to perform any lab test that you need. TV shows make it look like the doc just runs down to the empty lab and has results in a moment, but it takes qualified lab technologists to get the tests done. Also, 9 times out of 10 if your doctor or nurse says they need to collect a sample a 2nd time because of something the lab did, it's to cover up that they (the nurse/doc) messed up something in the collection process.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I'm meidcally trained. I'd say 30% of medical personnel can't administer common tests properly (nasal swabs) but for things like bloodtests or urine samples, the blood is taken by a qualified tech, and the urine is self-sample (the patient has to obey instructions, good luck with that). Also, about 30% of medical personnel can't take an accurate blood pressure even with high tech devices, in my experience. It's ridiculous, but there it is. THey're in a hurry, and ... Well, there we are.
BG 5 years ago
I was referred to a cardiologist because my GP was closely monitoring my HBP over the course of a year. My cardiologist surmised that I don't have HBP, my GP was using the wrong-sized blood pressure cuff.
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Not my profession but as someone who is interested in it, runway models are all very underweight (in other news water is wet). Usually BMIs in the 15-16s, and they're often told they're too fat getting towards the upper 16s. But they don't say weight stuff usually for plausible deniability reasons, they'll use measurements and inches. Certain other kinds of models are more like 16s-17s, high fashion/runway models are the skinniest. If you don't know, a BMI of 18.5-25 is the "healthy range". In terms of categorizations of anorexia according to the DSM, above 17 is mild, 16s is moderate, 15s is severe anorexia, and under 15 is extreme. although the most common shock photos of anorexics are like bmis of 12 or 13, most anorexics don't even get that thin. It's a problem and adds to many people with anorexia not feeling "sick enough" because they're not so thin their organs are shutting down and they look like an actual skeleton. That level is rare, many people at higher weights are still very sick. Of course, there is more to eating disorders than just a low weight. But I am certain that a very large amount of models are anorexic, and do everything they can to hide that. Those rules some places have put out about models having to be a healthy weight or over a BMI of like 18 are an absolute joke, because clearly none are remotely near that "high". We're so used to this that we often don't realize it's unhealthily underweight. Even most actresses on TV etc are a little underweight or ranging close to it, though not nearly as much as runway/ professional models. The standard in hollywood nowadays is probably doing massive amounts of exercise and hovering right around the borderline between underweight and healthy (18s BMI), so that they look underweight despite being maybe not, because of being fairly muscular and usually getting some minor plastic surgeries/lipo/fillers. Although a good amount of actresses are just plain underweight. It just depends on if they try to focus on being "healthy" or don't really care. Probably in the 1990s is when it was the most about being just skinny, but more recently there's the added pressure of maintaining both a healthy weight and standards that most people would have to be underweight to match. The underweight route is actually probably easier than staying at a healthy weight yet maintaining the standards they feel pressure to. Fun fact just because someone is "still attractive" doesn't mean they aren't unhealthily underweight. Not talking about instagram "models" and the like here at all though lmao, or certain "models" who have gotten into it through family connections, because those aren't real models.
Isla Goulding 5 years ago
The severity of an eating disorder shouldn't be measured by BMI. You can be starving yourself and still have a BMI in the 'healthy' range.
Carra McClelland 5 years ago
Yup, BMI is b******t. It was created by a mathematician that has really no clue about how the human body works and only used men in his calculations.
Load More Replies... Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I was surprised when a girl I know was hired to do a modelling shoot at 16. She showed up and was told that she was portraying the mother of a family. Her "son" was a couple months older than her. They sort of fixed her hair and makeup to make her look older. She said most of the models you see in Target or Walmart ads are actually teenagers.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"In countries like France, Italy, Spain and Israel, models are required by law to meet certain body mass index (BMI) requirements to prove that they aren't dangerously thin. In France, agencies who use models with a BMI of under 18 could even face jail time." https://www.bravotv.com/blogs/models-open-up-about-the-scary-reality-of-eating-disorders
Becky Samuel 5 years ago
Funny how people are so quick to judge and get pseudo-offended by an obese person because "they're so unhealthy, OMG, let's not pretend that an obese person can ever be happy or healthy", but the reaction to people so underweight that their reproductive, mental and physical health is severely and permanently compromised is "...so...?"
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Libraries throw away, pulp or otherwise recycle a LOT of old books. We get a lot of awful, tatty stuff donated. We have old, manky books that we need to get rid of to make shelf space for newer stock. And we have standards for anything we sell off at library stock sales. It's just easier to throw things out. Sometimes things go to the workroom for 'repair' or 'cleaning' - straight in the bin. We do this because if customers knew, they might damage things that they wanted to buy from us.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
Well from what I see, this isn't true in children's libraries, where some books are little more than rags and sellotape.
#54
The sauna only gets cleaned out once a week. Twice of your lucky. Also the pools are never emptied for “cleaning” they have filters for that. Essentially a gigantic fish tank for humans. The chlorine sterilized any fecal mater or any form of bile that comes out of the human body. All we do is scoop the chunks and send y’all back in.
Nadine 5 years ago
Hmmm... Dunno about this. The gym where I go has five swimming pools and I've personally seen them empty more than once for cleaning and maintenance (especially the kid's pool...). They also have those robots that scrub the sides and bottom. Maybe the law is different where I live.
Miss Cris 5 years ago
Once a child did poo in the swimming pool. We were all invired to go out at the moment and the pool was emptied and closed.
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Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
I guess that's the sauna where you work. Because, I actually witnessed, as a client, not as a worker, the emptying, cleaning, and the refilling of the pools. When my husband and I were broke students, we used to sleep in the same sauna on our days long trips (cheaper than hotels/motels/etc. here in Korea). They actually have a daily schedule when only showers are available, due to, indeed, cleaning. And they have notices about it too.
Miss Cris 5 years ago
Just curious: how can you sleep in a sauna? At night? How much hours? What about the hot temperature ? In France, hotels put the thermostat really very hot in the morning in order you wake up with enough time to leave.
Load More Replies... Shelby P 5 years ago (edited)
yes, but that's entirely what those chemicals are for... people need to realize that a sterile environment will kill you just as quickly as a nasty cesspool. we have microbes and bacteria all around us all the time. and most of it is good for us. people who are germ phobic are not necessarily cleaner or healthier... *sigh* it's time for people to go back to school and relearn basic biology. Especially now. Fear thrives on ignorance.
#55
The amount of salt and fat in your food, especially at high quality restaurants. We kept a large hotel pan full of clarified butter behind the line, itd be empty by the end of the night.
Whatshername 5 years ago
I'm always shocked when tv chefs say "a dash of ..." or "a drop of ..." And then they empty buckets of salt/oil/butter etc in the pan!
John H. Russell 5 years ago
I would never go to a restaurant that did not use salt and butter.
#56
When temperamental artists ask us to adjust the sound and we pretend to twiddle knobs.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
There is nothing "temperamental" about a request for more cowbell. It's always just the right thing to do.
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Matthew Gorka 5 years ago
I had an audience member at a fundraising event walk up to the booth and tell me the music was too loud and asked me to turn it down. I apologized, pulled down an empty slider, and asked if that was better. She smiled and walked away. I'm the Lighting Director...
JP Doyle 5 years ago
My favorites are the one's who purposefully sit in front of the very large speakers, then complain because it is too loud.
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Current profession: Tabletop RPG designer. Open secret? The pay is crap. You cannot make a living this way unless you are extremely lucky. (I have a day job and very understanding wife.) What's worse is how some game companies purposefully target folks wanting to break into game design by offering them work at super low rates. $0.03/word is common (but still low), but I've seen asshats offering $0.005/word (yes, half a cent) or the scam where there's no pay because you'll receive "exposure".
Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
Ages ago, used to work as an artist for RPG companies. The pay was unbelievably bad, for the reason above. Artwork that could take days to produce being covered at ten bucks.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
As a model-builder, non-modelers keep telling me that "There are people out there willing to pay tons of money for models". Yes, I've been doing this my entire life and have heard of these mythical people the entire time yet I've never met one nor do I know anyone who has met one. So yeah, there may be a thousand people in the world who pay high prices for well-built models but your chances of ever doing business with any of them is about zero.
Idontwantto 5 years ago
Did you seriously think you could make a living as a table top RPG designer? That's not really a secret. In fact it should be totally obvious to any adult.
#58
Ex-model: If you're looking at brandless and cheap lingerie online, especially those from (country I've worked in), theres a good 60% chance that the models aren't 18.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I wish I would have read this before posting about the age of models in the comments to a previous post, except that it is not just cheap lingerie that uses teen models (at least according to a person I knew who worked in the industry).
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
In the original text of Romeo & Juliet the narration refers to Juliet as 'in her 13th year' - meaning she's supposed to be 13 years old. It's silent on Romeo's age, but scholars have guessed that, based on the activities he does, it's implied that he's likely a 20 or 30 something, or at least that's a very plausible interpretation.
Juririn 5 years ago
You do realise that age 13 there might be a metaphor for purity ( Shakespeare's plays are literature, not documentaries).
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All gallons of house paint regardless of quality cost about 5$ to manufacture.
Orillion 5 years ago
You mostly pay for the brand. This is true for a lot of products, not just paints.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Look at the paints for models that come in those little glass jars (1/4 fluid oz) @ $5.89. To make a gallon that's 4 to make an ounce and 128 of those to make a gallon times 5.89 = $3,016/gallon. I suspect most of the price is the glass jar, not the paint but still.... All that said, that's a pretty high price for this paint and it's available cheaper. Even so it's hundreds of dollars a gallon. https://www.amazon.com/Testors-1103TT-Enamel-Bottle-25oz/dp/B0035LHENW/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=testors+model+paint&qid=1590084741&sr=8-10
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
There is a lot of markup, but it's not as bad as in the perfume industry! Cheap perfume and expensive perfume are often made in the same factory but branded differently by fashion-industry companies.
#60
That reinforced glass and that security camera may not actually be unbreakable or being monitored or recorded, respectively. If you can see the monitor showing the camera feed, it doesn't actually mean it's being recorded, too. These things can just be there to make people guess whether it actually works or not. Go ahead, roll that dice. People typically just go somewhere where there isn't a camera or glass, instead.
zims 5 years ago
If someone really wants to break in, they'll break in. The goal is to scare away casual opportunists.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Just like the bear story. You don’t have to outrun the bear, you have to outrun the other guy. For breakins and stuff, you just have to make it harder to get in than at the neighbors.
Load More Replies... Kesam 5 years ago (edited)
Saw an art installation next to the entry to a public toilet once. It was a monitor showing CCTV images of an empty toilet cubicle. Using that toilet was a bit of a leap of faith. Needless to say, it wasn't actually the toilet being filmed in real time but pre-recorded, looped footage. Pretty clever. 😀
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Everywhere I have worked (retail) had specialty security hired that pretended they were just ordinary shoppers, you could not tell that they were scouting the area. Only few staff knew who they were. One of the shops did have fake video cameras.
#61
For some reason medical device prices are inflated beyond the stratosphere against what it costs to make them. I understand there are more regulating organizations that are applicable for medical devices and not other products (automotive, electrical, petrochemical) but WHAT THE FU*K ? An item that costs us 700 USD to make is sold to our dealers in 3k, then they sell those to hospitals in 7k, then the hospital sells them the client/patient in 10k.
Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
I do hot glasswork. An oxycon (oxygen concentrator) for me is a tenth the cost it is for a patient. It is the same device, sold to different people.
Annie Fullmer 5 years ago
Medicare pays $299.00/month "rent" on my electric wheelchair. That's a car payment. Of course after 13 months, it becomes mine. $3,887 total. And that $299 is the Medicare payment. Not what the company charges: That is $599.
Ksenia M 5 years ago
I work in that field too and a lot of that money goes towards paying the for all the bureaucratic nonsense that surrounds all things medical. Basically if you produce something that costs 50c to make you could sell for about 2 dollars to make a decent profit, however getting all the needed papers to be allowed to sell it to a hospital would cost around 25 thousand. If you are shipping it overseas it's another 5 thousand just to bring it across he border. Prices might be different for US, but you get the idea.
Joe Blowe 5 years ago (edited)
A good example of this would be hernia mesh (used for hernia repair surgeries). It costs the manufacturer approx. 50 cents to make, the patient pays on average $5,000 for it.
Aileen Grist 5 years ago
If you look for waterproof clothing for a wheelchair user you pay a lot more than if yoou look for waterproof clothing for a motorbiker.
Dave P 5 years ago
because the dealer needs to meet certain gov requirements to sell it to the hospital, between all the paper work, lawyers, storage costs, drivers etc, and needing to make money, they mark it up (not as much as you think, average profit is 20% of what they sell the item for), then the hospital sells it to clients based on prices set by Medicare and Medicaid for reimbursement (so much of our Health care pricing is actually set by what Medicare and Medicaid will pay for, would be much cheaper otherwise), etc. It is a complex process, most of the costs in US Health Care are connected to regulatory compliance and Medicare and Medicaid rates.
#62
This isn't a secret, but everything is Photoshopped. I am constantly pointing out to people a bad Photoshop job in an ad, and people will say, "what are you talking about? Looks real to me!" Trust me...everything is Photoshopped, put through a filter, shrunken, stretched, brightened, just to make you want to buy it.
Conrad Strucker 5 years ago
that beautiful golden syrup in commercials? motor oil. the milk that seems to just flow out of the can? glue. ads are gross guys
#63
Large non profit have no vested interest in solving the problem they are raising money for. There is little accountability for actual results. The larger the organization the further they are from real solutions.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I would have to see some concrete examples. The Gates Foundation, the Carter Center, Doctors Without Borders, etc. have a track record of success and are enormous institutions.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Non- profit pays more than any other in the field, mostly across the board
#64
Advertisers can show you ads that are related to what your wife / husband / girlfriend etc. has been looking at online. If you have acknowledged your relationship (I.e marital status on facebook) and are often in the same location, advertisers assume you’re talking about getting a bike or planning a trip etc and will serve you ads even if you haven’t been the person looking them up. Edit: I should clarify it’s not down to the specific advertiser or brand that know all this information about you, and it’s not associated with you as an individual (ie they don’t know your name), but rather it’s the program that collects data and sells ad space based on that data.
Monday 5 years ago
Lots of people get upset by targeted ads, moaning about privacy and data collection...personally I really like seeing ads for things I actually care about instead of random c**p. I'm much less annoyed by the evetech gaming ad boredpanda is currently showing me than by the makeup ad I got on my mom's computer.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Yes, this sucks so much. I planned a secret trip to Rome for our anniversary and Facebook decided to show ads for the hotels to my husband. Don’t they understand how f****d up that is?
#65
Nursing homes have no [friggin] clue how to order medication for their residents.
#66
Every electronic signal CAN be intercepted and translated. Not all of them ARE
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
A lot of transmissions are encoded so "translating" them could be practically impossible depending on the type of encoding used.
#67
"Military grade" literally translates in to "the lowest bidder." A lot of military personal, especially the Marines, use stuff from the Vietnam War, hand-me-downs from the army, etc. The government spends as little as possible on outfitting its troops in 99% of cases
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Yet they spend more (Discretionary) money on defence (approx 52%) than non-defence (approx 48%). Last year that was about $680 billion.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
OK, this is a lie by omission. The person who gets the contract is the lowest bidder who MET the specification AND has the capability of actually doing the job. That means if the specification is correct then the military will get a properly working thing. Most experienced contractors will try to get the lowest bid because there will be problems with the spec. When that happens the bid is out the window and they can make a ton of money because they are no longer making the thing specified. They had to fix it and make it right. That way they make a huge profit even though they were the lowest bidder. But just saying "lowest bidder" makes people believe that the military only gets low quality stuff which obviously isn't true. "Military grade" usually means pretty good.
#68
Real Estate agents do not believe their job is to get you the best price. To agents, there is an unwritten understanding that you have a realistic expectation when buying a property. They can consult you, guide you, and employ some basic negotiating tactics, but they aren't interested in wheeling and dealing at the chance of a paycheck, even if they make you believe they are hustling hard to find you a diamond deal. If you start to become unrealistic, many agents will just start to frame everything as a great deal and once in a lifetime to get you to buy, to avoid having wasted their time.
#69
If you buy an antique or a vintage piece it most likely went through ~5 hands, each one at least doubling the price.
SAF saf 5 years ago
naw....i go to the source and cut out the middlemen lol. I grew up in a retirement community and you'd be surprised at the amazing pieces you could get for $50-$100. It's true though, I've been to the Rose Bowl antique market and it's crazy what they're asking for stuff after it's passed through a few hands.
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
But in truth the online markets like eBay and other venues (legit auction houses), etc drive the prices in a meaningful way. I mean for touristy locations where people aren't paying attention, but there are many (MANY) people who know the real value of antiques.
#70
Insurance agent here, to all home buyers. Make sure you buy some sort of mold coverage. When pipes burst or you have a leaky faucet or some sort of water damage. We’ll write it off as non covered mold. Save yourself an extra hassle and get some limited mold coverage. Heed my warning. Edit: Also when we stress saying in the event of a “covered loss” it really means it’s a 50/50 chance of it depending on how claim adjusters see it.
#71
Construction- piss bottles everywhere
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
That's not an open secret. THat's an open stench known to anyoen walking past a construction site, and NEVER DRINK THE GATORADE
#72
Architecture is a LOT of copy and pasting. Creating a catalogue of details and ideas and adapting them from one project to another.
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
Someone once said to me that coding is a lot of copying, but you have to make it look like you didn't copy it
Shelby P 5 years ago (edited)
not exactly, just give credit to the original coder (if given) when you copy it. But this is how it should be. If someone figured out how to code for a certain process, why try to recreate it every time...
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The process of home installations by big companies will almost always be worse than going straight to liscensed contractor. Not the install of the items themselves(cabinets, floors, tile) but the schedualing and sales of products is terriblly orchestrated. Because they have so many clients and use 3rd partys for measurements, installation and the fabrication of products there's so much that can go wrong and nothing ever goes to plan, almost always because of the lack of communication. A company I worked for left in 85 year old woman without a kitchen for 2 months before I finally came in and installed her cabinets, she then waited another month for the countertops. If she would have gone straight to my company then she probably would have had the entire thing done in a weekend
#74
Your prescription drugs might be cheaper if you don’t use your insurance. This won’t be the case at most chain pharmacies (some exceptions), but an independent pharmacy might offer a generic medication at a cost significantly less than your copay as assigned by your prescription insurance company. In some states it’s illegal for a pharmacist to tell you this, so you might want to ask directly. Also, the cost of a drug can vary significantly from one pharmacy to another because the acquisition cost can vary for each pharmacy due to a number of factors. So shop around.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
My doctor uses a program that shows her all of the cash-pay prices for drugs at all the various pharmacies around the area. It's pretty neat to see how my $238/month pills at the chain pharmacy are only $36/month at Costco. It really does pay to shop around.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
It is illegal for a pharmacy to charge you more than a cash cost on any script. Say you have a $10 deductible but the cost of the script is $7, they are required by law to just charge the $7. I have noticed that this is only the case if you know it is because the pharmacist (at least in Az) does not follow this law. They were much better about it in Ohio, but that was 20 yrs ago
#75
If you take an actual IQ test, your results will rarely, if ever, be provided to you. The only information you will likely receive is whether you are in an average range or not. Whatever the number is (even when very high), the only typically meaningful results are when an individual scores below 70 IQ, or two standard deviations below the mean, which is the cutoff for a diagnosis of an intellectual disability. Also, psychologists are unable to take IQ tests once they're trained to administer them. This might seem obvious but most don't realize this is the case; the results would be totally invalid.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Mine used to be 128 ( according to various IQ tests, but not official) but I know I have gotten dumber. I don’t know why. I wasn’t hit in the head or anything, I haven’t taken another “IQ” test coz I already know it has dropped.
Monday 5 years ago
It's not just psychologists. Once you have any kind of psych training/qualification you can no longer take an IQ test cause you'll see right through the questions.
that_one_girl 5 years ago
i already see right through the questions and i have no psych training/qualifications........
Load More Replies... LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
That's weird. I got my IQ test results from a psychologist and I can tell you I got an exact number back and it definitely wasn't in the range of a mental disability...
Whatshername 5 years ago
Same, we had our son tested (because he needs extra -or actually different- work to keep him interested) and got his exact number/value. Fun fact: with young children the result is only valid for max. 2 years.
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#76
Grocery stores make very little money from the middle of the store. Most of the profit comes from the produce department.
CbusResident 5 years ago
It's a low-profit margin bus. in general. That's why grocery retail folk don't get paid well: the groceries would have to cost way more for that to work. And no, CEO pay couldn't change that. Do the math: for Kroger there's squabbling right now about the CEO making $20M a year. 'Give it ALL to the rank and filers!' Some say in the articles. But these same articles say Kroger has about 480,000 workers. Assume that of the 480,000 about 470,000 are the rank and file. If you gave the CEO's total annual pay to all 470,000 rank and filers equally they would each get a whopping $42.10 more per YEAR. (Assuming Kroger can function w/ out a CEO). Sorry, but they don't make much b/c they're in a gig which can't really do that for people. And yes, I've worked many min. wage jobs, including as a grocery store rank and filer, and my fam growing up was middle-middle class, not poor, but certainly not rich (I have to anticipate the stupid, false ad hominems).
#77
In development aid projects (by the big players), the "need" for the project and the "design" to bring about desired change, is often just crafted in drawing rooms based on assumptions. Rarely do people actually visit the sites before a project starts to ask the community what they truly need. Once the funding comes in, the communities are told that you need this and you'll benefit out of it, but TBH, the people who benifit the most are the development aid employees and few government officials. Or if it's an USAID project, those who benifit are the US corporations often at the cost of the communities' livelihood (and the environment), especially in developing countries.
#78
Not mine but my aunt is a teacher, the public charter schools in our area wait until after the district has counted their students to expel them and send them into the public school system. Our district has a day where they inspect the school’s attendance and allocates money for the year per child in attendance. The charter schools pocket the difference while the public schools are over crowded and under funded
#79
Insurance rep here. Your credit score matters more than people realize. It can affect your auto insurance premium by as much as $100 a month. And if you're a renter, I can pretty much ballpark your credit score by running a renters insurance quote for you. The higher the monthly premium for your renters insurance, the shittier your credit score.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Weirdest thing in the US. Credit score. And it gets better when you go in debt, and repay. Here we have our debts registered and the more you have, the less you can lent. If you don’t repay, you get registered as such and won’t be able to get loans or mortgages. Not having any loans is best though, you can get max loans and mortgages then. And interest is never dependant on ‘credit score’, only the amount you can get.
#80
Depending on the state, security guards can't actually detain you if they suspect you of a crime.
Stick Man 5 years ago
Some states that is the justification used for security guards but it can be a slippery slope into holding someone without the authority.
Load More Replies... #81
Red light camera citations are tied to the car and not you. Change either the color or the license plate, and it's a different car.
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago (edited)
I find it odd that someone would spend $500 to paint their car just to try to get out of a $125 ticket.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
I believe it's a criminal offence to change your registration plate or car colour without informing the DVLA (in UK). Sure, you might avoid a red light ticket, but you've committed a more serious offence. So good luck with that.
#82
I work at a fabrication shop and the number of times something isn’t to spec and still gets sent out is unbelievable
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
I worked in a warehouse once where they kept a pile of broken items to "mix in" with unbroken ones. The contracts allowed for a certain amount of breakage, so they managed their losses like that. I felt bad about it, but was just a temp.
#83
I have worked in enough restaurants that I can say with absolute certainty, that no matter where you go to eat, nearly every person in the kitchen is high as f*ck while cooking your food, I’ve even worked at places where we would sometimes go in the walk-in cooler to shotgun beers after the lunch or dinner rush. Kitchen staff do not give a single f*ck about rules other than food safety
Bill 5 years ago
most restraunts kitchen staff sneak off for a joint or take a couple shots before dinner rush in the US. Even the high end ones
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Private Custard 5 years ago
I've only worked in one kitchen, and for my experience, this is entirely true. A brand new flagship Pizza restaurant in a new entertainment complex waay back in 1995. We were all new starters, we were all 16 and burning the candle seriously at both ends. We would often do 3am finishes followed by 7am starts, with nothing but hard drinking and clubbing between (all free courtesy of Rank Leisure!). We worked hard, we partied hard. We had beers stored in the ceiling of the staff toilets. A break consisted of four or five smokes at the same time outside the back door, two bottles of beer (downed with the aid of a bendy straw), and back to the madness of a 120 degree kitchen, staffed by three lunatics, serving 150 customers for ten hours straight. I look back on those times fondly!
buckwheat z 5 years ago
I can vouch for this. Worked as a line cook in several restaurants, including one well-known Italian chain that grew no olives nor had any gardens and we were all jacked up or high AF most of the time, including the servers and the occasional manager.
Sue Prewitt 5 years ago
Worked in a lot of restaurants - this never happened. Where the hell did you work?
#84
Well, it's not a secret, but I've found some people to be surprised by this when I explain them. The majority of technical articles you read on specialized commercial press, even interviews and such, are created by comms and marketing teams of corporations. Also, lots of similar stuff in generic press too. Like, don't know, "Why multiplayer games are better than SP" or whatever, published in WhateverPCGaming or the like. Signed by a member of that publication. People like my overlords determined the subject and the opinion we want to form into people. THen people like me craft that text, or content or whatever, and then we send it to our press partners.
#85
Teachers have favorites and talk sh*t about the students they don't like all the time. I was a teacher for 10+ years and ate lunch in the teachers' lounge like 4 times because I just couldn't stand it. I'm talking about kids as young as kindergarten. Same thing with parents. Teachers talk sh*t about them. "PITA parent" is a common name given to parents who DARE to contact teachers about their kids (though parents who call and demand better grades for their kids - fully entitled and truly assh*les, usually).
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I must be good fodder then lol. Although I don’t call about grades etc. I have 2 kids with disabilities so a lot of the time we chat about how they are coping, what I can do to help, any behavioural issues or triumphs etc.
Anna roberts 5 years ago
What can I do to help. I guarantee 97% of the teachers love you
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
I'm sure I'm a PITA parent, mostly because my kid is a PITA. I don't know how many times I've said something along the lines of, "That behavior is not one I have seen at home, so apparently it's special for you. Here are three strategies that might deter my kid from using this special behavior, but I don't know because I literally have never seen it. I will talk to him about the importance of not being a jerk, and you are welcome to call me during the day if you need me to tell him off, but ultimately you are going to have to figure this out on your own because it's not my job and I am not there, but it is your job and you are there."
Geth 5 years ago
It's your job to parent your kid and make sure that he doesn't act like a f*****g a*****e It's not the teacher's job to teach your kid not to be an a*****e. If your kid is acting out in school, it probably means he feels safer doing it there than at home. Maybe you need to look into your parenting technique.
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#86
If you're at at a cheap burger place in a poorer part of town or understaffed. There's absolutely a chance people don't wash their hands before cooking, or don't wear gloves. I've seen plenty of buns hit the dirty ass floor and still be used.
Dave P 5 years ago
not true, there is no statistical difference between rich or poor ares with resturaunt cleanliness. I live in a very nice middle class area, have seen several place shut down by Dept of Health, meanwhile there is a white castle in the Bronx, in one of the poorest areas that won an award for having a perfect inspection for 10 years of a 15 year period, and near perfect for over all 15
Anna roberts 5 years ago
White Castle used to (not sure about now) offer good benefits profit sharing and other benefits. Not your normal fast food job
Load More Replies... Monday 5 years ago
Actually the right bit of dirt on your burger definitely could kill you.
Load More Replies... #87
We don't have time to call your references or old employers unless you're interviewing for a more prominent position. Lie away.
Maria Rohlen 5 years ago
Not true, my references have recieved calls whenever I have applied for a new work.
Kesam 5 years ago
Same here. And I have also been involved in hiring processes myself and we ALWAYS call the references. It's one of the most important sources of info about the applicant.
Load More Replies... Rani Johnson 5 years ago
Local famous gym was hiring for minimal wage housekeeper. You bet they called all of my references & asked about my personal life &how that person knew me. For $8.25 an hour housekeeping job. So it depends.
Jef Bateman 5 years ago
Educational institutions usually call all the references. It turns out for years I had been putting down a reference that had no record of my employment (I was an independently-contracted senior education instructor). Finally, an employer let me know, and I was able to provide pay stubs. I don't know how many jobs I missed out on in the meantime because of this.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Maybe where you work or live. Every job I have had my references were called.
#88
that remodeling only actually costs about 1/3rd of what people typically pay for and almost none of the work is actually particularly difficult or dangerous. people think its some mysterious profession frought with plumbing and electrical perils and scary equipment. the real magic ive seen is older contractors who can bid a job within five minutes of seeing the work. anyway, learn yourself a youtube to learn remodeling and DIY.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Calling BS. DIY work is often done so poorly that contractors come in and are endangered by it. While I am medicall trained, I also worked construction (including home reno) to pay bills.... And DIYers are a professional health hazard. What I've seen, in my time alone? Scare the hair off you. And, no, it's not 1/3 the cos (if you pay for the proper tools and protective equipment and such, of course) and YES IT IS DANGEROUS. ... For those of us coming in after, especially. Intuition and "Common sense" aren't a substitute for training, skill, experience, and, oh, yeah, *knowing the job*....
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
Couldn't agree with you more. My husband is a plumber (4 years apprenticeship; 2 years for training for journeyman). Our state requires testing by the health department before being able to worked as a plumber. And you must have a license. If done incorrectly, pluming work can make you quite ill.
Load More Replies... LaDonna Hulcy 5 years ago
Utter BS, most people can't tell the right side of a hammer let alone a saws-all, get a pro to do it and you'l get better quality and sometimes? if you stay out of the way? it'll be done faster!
What do you think ?
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
Delivery driver here- the time you are told it will take for delivery is not exact, so please don't leave your house. No matter how long it takes to get to your house the food will never get cold. Your doorbell doesn't always work. Stop sending your small children to the door. Unless you ask for something, we are not going to bring it. We know what the weather feels like because we are already outside. We don't care that your dog is just playing, we still don't want to deal with it. Please wear clothes when you open the door. We remember the people who don't tip. Just because you paid with a credit card doesn't mean we can just leave your food sitting around. So just open the door. Delivery drivers are not allowed in certain places such as jails, mental hospitals, plants, and factories. If you order at these places, you will have to come out to us, no exceptions. Most importantly: I am a female, so please don't say something that will make me afraid or uncomfortable to deliver to you.
Phil Vaive 5 years ago
I think a lot of these were written by people who worked in one crappy place, or who are just crappy employees themselves, and assume that the whole industry is just as crappy as they are.
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
I agree with you because some of these just sound like excuses for not doing a good job. The IT ones really don't make any sense. If you don't know what you are doing then why are you in that job?
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William Teach 5 years ago
New car dealers sales here: the secret is that we want to sell you a car, and we want you to be happy with the purchases. We are here to help and guide. You, the buyer, have the control at the end. Most are professionals and not here to screw you, we want repeat business and referrals. Work with us. 80% of the problems occur because customers hold on to information needed to help you with a big purchase. They build that "wall".
JeffC 5 years ago
Cannot agree with you more and this is why I always go to the same person. Just gotta watch some of these sales managers out there because I've personally encountered one that played so many games, they lost the sale.
Load More Replies... Tamera Gardner 5 years ago
Retired nurse: 1. In nursing school, we spent a day in each department of the hospital. One day in central supply, no one was around so I began thumbing through some inventory/order books with cost and charge prices. This hospital was charging an average of 800% more on every item the patients were “given” during hospitalization. 2. You will never know everything that goes on in a hospital and how many times nurses have saved you from negligent harm or death.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Medical information and advocacy volunteer with medical training here. MOST PATIENT ADVOCATES WORK FOR THE HOSPITAL NOT THE PATIENTS. That is why I am an unpaid volunteer. If htey don't pay me, they don't own me. (or the others in our group, most of us retired or former MDs/NPs, etc.) A hospital-paid patient advocate will be there to shunt you to social workers and protect the hospital from legal action. No rat's butt given for a patient or their family, no medical knowledge. That's why our group formed. Patients need voices and translation, not another person handing over the number for local social workers...
KombatBunni 5 years ago
I make and print 3D models from home and the number of a-holes I come across in this business is frightening. Can't seem to understand why something takes so long/costs so much when it comes to printing and don't get why the model looks like it does when it comes out of the printer (the print lines etc) and get all s****y when I try to explain there's only so much detail a printer can do. Or ask me why I can't print it as cheaply as X-site online..and I tell them because there's only me doing the work and I only have one printer. Oh and also? Be a prick to me when you're ordering and guaranteed I'll up the price a little. Be a complete condescending twat and you'll get told to shop somewhere else. I have enough work that I can refuse an order at least once a week :)
Neill Powell 5 years ago
Ditto. I always overcharge against my cost to avoid exactly that. If you agree to the price, you get the discount and I work on shaving printing time and support costs in your favor. The worst kind? People who have seen 200 hours of printing and finishing on a model, and want it in 3 days... Sorry, go somewhere else. The look on their faces when you turn people down is priceless...
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Micah Pettit 5 years ago
Former technical support rep, the company I worked for had a $30 allowance per customer. What this means is, on any given call/customer, we could provide up to $30 of complimentary service, including free shipping upgrades, shipping refunds for late delivery or miscommunication of shipping estimates, return shipping labels, etc. Most companies should have similar policies, though not all. And yes, if the customer is pleasant to deal with, or if they had a technical problem that required a long, drawn out call (we could often have upwards of 3 hour calls on our team, potentially longer), I would do my best to use that $30 (sometimes more with supervisor approval). I would also go out of my way NOT to use that $30 if the customer was a d**k.
Neill Powell 5 years ago
Corporate IT here. You have no idea the power we truly wield. We'll never tell you. Your nightmares pale in comparison to what we see and can do
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
Doctor's Office. Don't pull the "I'm going to tell the Dr. you won't help me and they'll fire you." If you think you're more important to the Dr than their office staff or have a better relationship, you're going to be sadly disappointed at the inaction you'll receive. I've had Dr's throw patients out of the office because they were harassing the office staff. Regardless of what you may think, most Drs have more patients than they need. Getting rid of one little blowhard who is a pain to their staff is a good thing.
Mama Llama 4 years ago
I feel #19 so hard. The amount of time I've spent crawling around the floor looking for diamonds is ridiculous. Also, diamonds are not rare at all and are so ridiculously overpriced. Quality craftsmanship, however, is worth every penny.
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
Delivery driver here- the time you are told it will take for delivery is not exact, so please don't leave your house. No matter how long it takes to get to your house the food will never get cold. Your doorbell doesn't always work. Stop sending your small children to the door. Unless you ask for something, we are not going to bring it. We know what the weather feels like because we are already outside. We don't care that your dog is just playing, we still don't want to deal with it. Please wear clothes when you open the door. We remember the people who don't tip. Just because you paid with a credit card doesn't mean we can just leave your food sitting around. So just open the door. Delivery drivers are not allowed in certain places such as jails, mental hospitals, plants, and factories. If you order at these places, you will have to come out to us, no exceptions. Most importantly: I am a female, so please don't say something that will make me afraid or uncomfortable to deliver to you.
Phil Vaive 5 years ago
I think a lot of these were written by people who worked in one crappy place, or who are just crappy employees themselves, and assume that the whole industry is just as crappy as they are.
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
I agree with you because some of these just sound like excuses for not doing a good job. The IT ones really don't make any sense. If you don't know what you are doing then why are you in that job?
Load More Replies... William Teach 5 years ago
New car dealers sales here: the secret is that we want to sell you a car, and we want you to be happy with the purchases. We are here to help and guide. You, the buyer, have the control at the end. Most are professionals and not here to screw you, we want repeat business and referrals. Work with us. 80% of the problems occur because customers hold on to information needed to help you with a big purchase. They build that "wall".
JeffC 5 years ago
Cannot agree with you more and this is why I always go to the same person. Just gotta watch some of these sales managers out there because I've personally encountered one that played so many games, they lost the sale.
Load More Replies... Tamera Gardner 5 years ago
Retired nurse: 1. In nursing school, we spent a day in each department of the hospital. One day in central supply, no one was around so I began thumbing through some inventory/order books with cost and charge prices. This hospital was charging an average of 800% more on every item the patients were “given” during hospitalization. 2. You will never know everything that goes on in a hospital and how many times nurses have saved you from negligent harm or death.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Medical information and advocacy volunteer with medical training here. MOST PATIENT ADVOCATES WORK FOR THE HOSPITAL NOT THE PATIENTS. That is why I am an unpaid volunteer. If htey don't pay me, they don't own me. (or the others in our group, most of us retired or former MDs/NPs, etc.) A hospital-paid patient advocate will be there to shunt you to social workers and protect the hospital from legal action. No rat's butt given for a patient or their family, no medical knowledge. That's why our group formed. Patients need voices and translation, not another person handing over the number for local social workers...
KombatBunni 5 years ago
I make and print 3D models from home and the number of a-holes I come across in this business is frightening. Can't seem to understand why something takes so long/costs so much when it comes to printing and don't get why the model looks like it does when it comes out of the printer (the print lines etc) and get all s****y when I try to explain there's only so much detail a printer can do. Or ask me why I can't print it as cheaply as X-site online..and I tell them because there's only me doing the work and I only have one printer. Oh and also? Be a prick to me when you're ordering and guaranteed I'll up the price a little. Be a complete condescending twat and you'll get told to shop somewhere else. I have enough work that I can refuse an order at least once a week :)
Neill Powell 5 years ago
Ditto. I always overcharge against my cost to avoid exactly that. If you agree to the price, you get the discount and I work on shaving printing time and support costs in your favor. The worst kind? People who have seen 200 hours of printing and finishing on a model, and want it in 3 days... Sorry, go somewhere else. The look on their faces when you turn people down is priceless...
Load More Replies... Micah Pettit 5 years ago
Former technical support rep, the company I worked for had a $30 allowance per customer. What this means is, on any given call/customer, we could provide up to $30 of complimentary service, including free shipping upgrades, shipping refunds for late delivery or miscommunication of shipping estimates, return shipping labels, etc. Most companies should have similar policies, though not all. And yes, if the customer is pleasant to deal with, or if they had a technical problem that required a long, drawn out call (we could often have upwards of 3 hour calls on our team, potentially longer), I would do my best to use that $30 (sometimes more with supervisor approval). I would also go out of my way NOT to use that $30 if the customer was a d**k.
Neill Powell 5 years ago
Corporate IT here. You have no idea the power we truly wield. We'll never tell you. Your nightmares pale in comparison to what we see and can do
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
Doctor's Office. Don't pull the "I'm going to tell the Dr. you won't help me and they'll fire you." If you think you're more important to the Dr than their office staff or have a better relationship, you're going to be sadly disappointed at the inaction you'll receive. I've had Dr's throw patients out of the office because they were harassing the office staff. Regardless of what you may think, most Drs have more patients than they need. Getting rid of one little blowhard who is a pain to their staff is a good thing.
Mama Llama 4 years ago
I feel #19 so hard. The amount of time I've spent crawling around the floor looking for diamonds is ridiculous. Also, diamonds are not rare at all and are so ridiculously overpriced. Quality craftsmanship, however, is worth every penny.
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