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35 People Reveal The “Dark Secrets” About Their Jobs That Common People Aren’t Supposed To Know

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Let’s face it—almost every profession has a few secrets that the rest of the world would be surprised to find out. When faced with challenges, some businesses may decide to take the easy way out, which often leads to enforcing bad practices. And there’s no way of knowing about them… unless you’re a part of it.

Thousands of workers decided to share their stories on the r/AskReddit page. One after another, members spilled their industry secrets that companies keep from the general public. From paramedics and teachers to skincare specialists and SPA workers, these people did not pass the opportunity to share their knowledge.

As people say, the more you know, the more you’ll understand, so make sure to read these stories below, upvote your favorites and let us know what you think!

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#1

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I worked at a White Castle from 2000-2003.

It was clean. Nothing super disgusting at all. All of the equipment got a thorough cleaning every 24 hours. The floors were mopped regularly, walls were wiped down... everything.

The food was always fresh. If the burgers cooled enough for the buns to get hard, they were trashed. If fries/sides sat under heat lamp for 15 minutes, they were trashed.

We threw away a lot of food. We had to track it all for inventory purposes, and filled up a couple pages a day of stuff we through out.

Even when the bulk of the crew was teenagers, we really were trying to work fast and do a good job. Every year or so, they made us get timed on the griddle by a regional manager. Everyone had to do it. Starting with a clean griddle you had to fully prepare, box and bag 30 hamburgers as fast as possible without cutting any corners.

I know not all locations are like that, nor are all fast food restaurants, but when I was working there, we did a really good job of everything.

wpmason , Deborah Lee Soltesz Report

Final score:

387points

Mazer 2 years ago

Nice. For once a place with high work standards and ethics I like it!!! Too bad we don’t have a White Castle near us I’ve heard their burgers are pretty good

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Bored Panda contacted Jenay Rose, an online business expert who has gained enormous success after quitting her job in 2017, to talk about unethical business practices and why people decide to talk about them.

One reason why some former or existing workers decide to reveal secrets from their jobs might be because they are not satisfied with their role or do not have respect for the company at all. And the expert totally agrees.

“The great resignation accompanied by the rise of social media has created so much more transparency in the workplace via “whistleblowers”, TikTokers, and people who are no longer willing to work for a job they hate, for a boss they don’t respect, at a company that doesn’t care about them.”

#2

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know When purchasing items on the internet (especially airline tickets), use incognito mode on your browser.

We use your own cookies against you: raising the price on tickets the more times you check, as you shop around for better deals. That way you'll think the price is going up or that seats are being actively sold - thus increasing your urgency to buy, and punishing you for trying to get a good deal.

Valendr0s Report

Final score:

359points

AutisticMum 2 years ago

Or empty your cookies after you decided where and what to buy

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Some of the stories shared on the subreddit are really eye-opening, not only from the consumer perspective but also from the potential employee's point of view. “Knowing the good, bad, and the ugly gives us the ability of “hindsight is 20/20" TODAY. This allows us to make better decisions, find better jobs or opportunities, and creates connections (where we realize we’re not alone in things we’ve experienced),” Rose explained.

“It also puts the power back into the hands of the people, because with more information and transparency, more can be done to fix these dark company secrets and actions.”

#3

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Cleaning up animals after an oil spill is feel good propaganda to make the public think they are helping. 90% of those animals will be dead within a few days or weeks. They've ingested enough of the oil that they are moving corpses, they (and you mr. nice person with a bottle of Dawn dish soap)just don't know it yet.

Real oil spill work is done by trained professional crews, not volunteers. If you ever tried to help, you were given busy work to keep you out of the way.

Skalite4 , Peter Ma Report

Final score:

302points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

This is so sad...

178points

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#4

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I used to work for a large smart phone company.

During development, we used to go through phases, Engineering Verification testing stage, Design Verification Test, Production Verification Test, and finally Mass Production. Each stage was meant to have checkpoints in order to ensure that the final product was built with good quality and any known bugs would be able to ironed out before the product launch. Any bug that was not resolved would potentially have the ability to delay the launch.

Except that there is a thing called Waivers. So the PM could request that certain bugs be granted a waiver delaying the fix of the problem to a later date. No big deal, every project has a few minor bugs, right?

For each stage there would be hundreds of waivers. Some would be minor, to be fair, but sometimes they were definitely not minor.

I will never, ever, buy an electronic device in the first 3 months of mass production. Wait for the second wave of production, the quality of the product increases ten-fold.

Project2r , camilo jimenez Report

Final score:

302points

Mazer 2 years ago

The erosion of the ethical workplace. Disappointed not surprised

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When trying to maintain a successful business, companies come across a variety of obstacles every day. While some decide to work harder, others start to use unethical practices or turn a blind eye to the already existing ones. “For most companies, the bottom line is priority over their people, when it should be the other way around,” the self-made millionaire said. “If you take care of your people, the bottom line will naturally improve.”

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#5

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Airline pilot here.
You know those blankets that we give you on the flight? The airline never washes them. Ever. We just shake them out and shrink wrap them for a later flight. Every once in a while we toss one that's unusable.

_JackStraw_ , Aleksei Zaitcev Report

Final score:

263points

juztme 2 years ago

True! I worked at a laundry and they washed(well no) airplane blankets. We had to check for dirt. And if it was really visible they got washed... But... And yes.. Ewwww!!! We had blankets with sperm in it and they diddent get washed! So... Bring your own blanky in the airplane...

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#6

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I'm a special education teacher, and the amount of injuries people sustain while working in this field is staggering. I teach high school and the kids can go until they are 21. So most of the violent students are adult sized. We get concussions, bites, broken wrists and arms, scalped, as well as sexualy assaulted by students who will grab you by your breast, pull out their d**k and start masturbating.

BTW I like my job very much and enjoy working with the students. However, there is so little public knowledge of how dangerous the position is.

Ihadacow , Taylor Wilcox Report

Final score:

248points

Carey Cole 2 years ago

My wife is a para in the school system and I cannot tell you how many times that she has come home with bites, bruises, cuts and scrapes. Once, her entire left breast was black and purple for two weeks because one of her kids grabbed, twisted and squeezed it very hard before she could get him to let go. Also, I paid more in taxes last year (over double) of what she was paid. An SE teacher or para are VASTLY underappreciated and grossly underpaid.

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According to the expert, one of the factors why many companies have been willing to ignore these issues is because they were able to get away with it for a very long time: “Then came social media, the pandemic (which triggered an entirely new “work from home environment” and changed the way careers look), and the great resignation. These are three core factors that led to the shift in our work environments and the exposure of bad practices with actual recourse.”

Another thing that big corporations fail to realize is that “people are not workhorses. They can’t just keep us in a cage and expect us to throw our lives at them. We are dynamic and deserving of work-life balance.”

#7

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Worked in a no-kill animal shelter. The thing is, no-kill still does mean you have to put animals down sometimes. Especially behavioral issues are terrible. When is a dog too dangerous? Can you rehome a Pitbill with a bite-history? What if they get too dangerous for staff to handle?

Especially when it 'gets out' that we had to put a specific animal down and all those Facebook warriors start rioting and calling you names. It's not like we make those decisions for fun...

reddit , Sasha Sashina Report

Final score:

243points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

It's sad but I can understand why this is done. I don't think I could do it but I have high respect for those who have to do it.

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#8

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I used to work in skincare: None of the products cost more than $2 to manufacture, but would retail at anything from $20 to $150 per product.

Always amazed me how much people would shell out for anything with volcanic clay or snake venom cream

DWeb338 , Mathilde Langevin Report

Final score:

242points

Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

Pff, blue Nivea since 1987...

141points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago

Nivea and Vaseline never lets you down.

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GirlFriday 2 years ago

Noxema and Nivea here. I spend $12 per month.

7points

MagicalUnicorn 2 years ago

can relate, although i switched to rosehip oild after 35 :D

7points

Dilly Millandry 2 years ago

I'm allergic to so many of these things but I finally found something that works without causing a reaction and it's £8!

4points

Bronwyn Marsh 2 years ago

Nivea actively employs animal testing

3points

Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago

Lava hand soap, head to toe. 50 cents.

3points

Jess Thompson 2 years ago (edited)

Kinda overpriced too! Great cream though, especially for more melanin gifted folk 😉 my mom swears by it for “ashy elbows”

2points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

Superdrug own brand. (Superdrug is a chain pharmacy, in case anyone is wondering)

1point

Rijkærd 2 years ago

That s**t has a cultlike following.

1point

Caro Caro 2 years ago

I love Nivea but use argan oil as well.

1point

Amaranthim Talon 2 years ago

100% Spot on!

0points

Rissie 2 years ago

I use Nivea express these days. Good for everything!

0points

M O'Connell 2 years ago

A SUPER common ingredient in skincare products is Bentonite clay. Products which contain it charge a premium for that fact. If you want to save some cash, it's the exact same powdered clay that is used in drilling water wells. It's about $4 for a 50lb sack of it.

12points

Eleanor Schlosser 2 years ago

In case you don't need to drill a well, it is also common non-clumping cat litter. $.98 for 14 lbs at the supermarket

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Stay out of sun. Hydrate. Free skincare!

6points

Mazer 2 years ago

Runaway capitalism at its finest. 🤢

5points

Id row 2 years ago

A fool and their money are soon parted. If you don't know that industry is a scam, then that's on you.

4points

Mary Peace 2 years ago

The TV adverts of perfect-looking women, with a silky-sounding voiceover, stop me giving them my money.

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September 2 years ago

Soap and water is all I need.

3points

Linda Rogers 2 years ago

Years ago I worked for a company that made colouring and ingredients for makeup, they used the same ingredients for the cheap lines and the expensive.

2points

Lorrie Rothstein 2 years ago

It's all the same ingredients no matter what brand

2points

Brian Bennett 2 years ago

Most household things can be substituted for these absurdities!

2points

Lyone Fein 2 years ago

Labor is always the biggest cost of any product. It is inaccurate to just add up the cost of the ingredients. There are other costs too.

2points

Laugh or not 2 years ago

Except the products are manufactured in low cost countries. From 2 to 20, you can say it is the labour costs and transport. From 2 to 150 (often for the same product) is due to the brand on the packaging.

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Robert T 2 years ago

A large part of the cost is the R&D to create the product in the first place, then futher R&D to get the manufacturing costs down, packaging design, sales and marketing, and then actually making and distributing the product. Yes, there will be a profit margin in it, but it is completely unfair to imply that a $150 product only costs $2 to make. There is also such a thing as economy of scale, and the premium brands will sell far in far lower volumes than the cheaper brands.

4points

AnnaBanana 2 years ago

MARKETING is the biggest cost!

3points

Sal Minella 2 years ago

You can easily find recipes for any of these products and make them yourself for SUPER cheap.

1point

stacey knutson 2 years ago

I use a $10 face oil wash and the original Olay and that's it. My face is extremely dry. That's what happens when you get older.

1point

Mer☕️🧭☕️ 2 years ago

Fwiw, Jergens All Purpose Face Cream is a great cleaner/moisturizer (apply, rub, wipe OR rinse off) - it's "heavy" but great for dry skin. (Think "Pond's Cold Cream" but not drying.)

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Thomas Sweda 2 years ago

Good friend worked at a custom cosmetics/shampoo factory. In most cases , the container holding the product cost more than the product ingredients!

1point

A Jones 2 years ago

In the end: lotion is lotion. But being hydrated is essential for skin care.

1point

Riley Quinn 2 years ago

Udder cream and Bag Balm have been my "beauty" secret for decades.

0points

Mer☕️🧭☕️ 2 years ago

Jergens All Purpose Face Cream - heavy but effective...Pond's Cold Cream...Vasaline...Aldi's versions of face care products...they all work great. Of course resting a warm, wet cloth on your face for a while, blotting, then applying a thin coat of pretty much any "face worthy" oil or cream feels fantastic and "hydrates" skin.

0points

Mary Jaye 2 years ago

they always do this stuff. but in fairness to them they have to pay for basic expenses of running a business including taxes, wages, heat etc. still they always push the envelope

0points

Susan Hojdik 2 years ago

Yep. Buy from the drug store.

0points

Petra Biedermann 2 years ago

coconut oil is great for the skin.

0points

Csaba Horvath 2 years ago

"but would retail at anything from $20 to $150" This is called profit :) Who is surprised?

0points

Chris Omer 2 years ago

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0points

MysteriousLegBruise 2 years ago

I was working at a day spa before the pandemic hit. The mark-up on product is astounding

0points

Mushroomlover 2 years ago

Noxema since I was 10! I’m 40 now and most people think I’m around 30, it’s great!

0points

Curry on... 2 years ago

Do the math on the cost per volume. More costly than a bar of gold.

0points

celery g 2 years ago

astral forever! Had to use nivea *ugh* when it wasn't available!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#9

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I worked at UPS ages ago. The word "FRAGILE" on a box meant nothing to us, so make sure you pack your stuff properly.

Kevoguy , Kevin Woblick Report

Final score:

238points

Rissie 2 years ago

Industry secret my big behind!

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Often, one of the main reasons why unethical behavior happens at work is the climate of the organizations. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence conducted a survey of more than 14.5k American employees across different industries to find out how often workers felt the pressure to act unethically and if they were afraid to speak about it at their workplace.

#10

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Worked in management for Trader Joe's for 8 years and boy have a I got a doozy for you: the employees are ACTUALLY that nice.

truthpooper , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

234points

Brandy Grote 2 years ago

Even the President! Hub met him, asked about things that are not available, he laughed and said yeah, he has a wish list of past favorites too!

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#11

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Viagogo are just corrupt, straight up. Not a little thing here and there, they are just a criminal company.

They will take your money for tickets even if they have none of those tickets, assuming they will eventually have tickets to sell you. If they don't get them, you get the ticket money back. An example of this was when a guy in the UK bought tickets to the Superbowl in 2013, booked his air travel, flew to the states, booked his accommodation, was staying in a hotel he paid for, and was calling us every 15 minutes to ask where his tickets were. We were told to lie to him and say someone will meet him at the stadium. We let him know 30 minutes before the game started that he wouldn't be receiving any tickets. Viagogo refund the ticket cost, but the travel, accommodation and time wasted? Nothing at all. And they never had the tickets.

Same for festivals: I took loads (LOADS) of calls from people who were told to get to the middle of the wilderness in Eastern Europe for a dance festival, having booked time off work and prepared for a 5 day festival. When they got there they were told there were never any tickets. Just go home, write off the time off, write of the ticket costs, write off the transport, write of the preparation and deal with feeling s**tty for 5 days because they were ripped off by a company...except it isn;t that simple, because now they are in the middle of a field in Eastern Europe for 5 days, the bus that took them there has gone and they have no admittance to the festival...so essentially Viagogo were responsible for just dumping around 100 people in a field in eastern europe with no provisions and no way of getting back.

Far from discouraging the practice, they LOVE scalpers and give them preferential treatment ('super sellers'). They get discounts, skip phone queues, and get a higher price for tickets than honest customers with a ticket to sell.

If an event is coming up soon, the seller can meet you at the venue to pass the ticket over. What this means is if you show up and the seller isn't there for whatever reason (illness, decided to use ticket themselves, just can't be arsed etc.), you have paid and have no proof they did not meet you. Byebye money.

If you buy a ticket from Viagogo, I would honestly say you have a 40-45% chance of getting it.

reddit , Nirmal Rajendharkumar Report

Final score:

215points

Mazer 2 years ago

Hateful hearts. So many people can’t just “write off” those expenses. I hope some regulatory agency takes them down. S special place in hell for those aholes

83points

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#12

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) throws away literally tons of edible produce, deli and bakery food every day at individual stores. Mainly because it doesn’t look picture perfect. Most wasteful company I’ve even seen. We have homeless people stealing food everyday and being prosecuted when we could just give them the food. But no,It all goes to the garbage compactor.

Beezlegorp , Jason McHuff Report

Final score:

214points

Brian Bennett 2 years ago

This world is just one bad state of affairs!

83points

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Some of the most common experiences the participants encountered were rule violations, lying and an unhealthy work environment. Although less frequent, sacrificing safety, discrimination, stealing and bullying were also mentioned as examples of bad practices at work. “While it often goes undiscovered, this behavior puts too many businesses—and, unknowingly, their customers—at risk,” the researchers wrote.

#13

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Worked for a private school. Grades were definitely bought. We were discouraged to give anything lower than a B. Had one principal that told a teacher to take the final for a student that went on summer vacation early. She called it a shadow final and said nonchalantly that it's no big deal, just answer how you think the student would answer.

This school is expensive, and these kids go on to fancy colleges because of these grades.

dwarvenmonk , Taylor Wilcox Report

Final score:

199points

buttonpusher 2 years ago

Makes sense why there's so many idiots in high profile jobs.

299points

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#14

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Our secret sauce is just Thousand Island dressing.

PrettySureISharted , Airam Dato-on Report

Final score:

186points

C. Wade 2 years ago

Which in turn is just equal parts: mayo, ketchup and mustard with diced pickles in it. Make sure to try it at home because it's amazing. Go the extra mile and throw in: a pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika. Yum.

149points

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#15

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I guess it's not really that dark or a big secret just something very few people know about. In the 70s and 80s most commercial beekeepers in Canada poisoned all or almost all their Hives to death every fall. The hives were then replaced by packaged bees in spring from the US, used for the summer and then killed again in fall.

This was done just because packages from America were cheaper than the medication and labor involved with over wintering your hives. Especially as you can lose anywhere from 5% to 50% of your hives over winter.

This doesn't happen anymore as the price of packages now vastly exceed the cost of wintering your hives. Even if it did become economically feasible again I can't see it happening as the public out cry would likely be huge if people found out this was happening.

Like I said not really a secret. Just something few people remember.

Bokin0 , Wolfgang Hasselmann Report

Final score:

180points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

So if bees go extinct one day, we can all blame Canada!

82points

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When it comes to speaking up about these issues, four in five employees said that they felt constrained to speak the truth at their workplace. “Forty percent said that they were often or almost always afraid of voicing any criticism in their organization. Our research also shows that those people who feel afraid to speak up are also likely to be the ones who are under pressure to act unethically.”

#16

Reality TV is anything but.

Ever seen House Hunters on HGTV? The couple "looking for a house" actually already bought and live in one of the houses that they're "looking at." The other houses are usually friend's houses, or houses that have sold but not closed or moved in yet.

Final score:

180points

Grant Barke 2 years ago

All reality TV is in some way a set up.

134points

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#17

I work in a public library. Sadly, since we're open to all, we get a lot of indigent customers. In this day and age, that means a lot of opiate users, many of whom shoot up in our restrooms.

We've had many overdoses, most of which are treated quickly and effectively by administering Narcan. However, that's not always the case, and some people are either beyond saving, or are found too late.

In 2019 alone, we've had 13 deaths. Security and the EMTs are always careful to make it appear that the body being wheeled out is only ill, so as not to freak out the patrons. The actual number of deaths is even 'hidden' from the staff. (I'm friends with a few of the folks in security, which is how I know about it.)

NastyLittleBagginses Report

Final score:

177points

Mazer 2 years ago

This is exactly one of the reasons why we need to embrace the Swiss concept of having drug cafés. Places where people can shoot up and be safe and not destroy the environment and not worry about whether or not they’re going to survive the experience or not.

104points

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#18

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I worked at Whole Foods. Your cookies and bread were heated in store, not baked. Oh. And in AM meetings, you're referred to as "basket size", not customers.

sauerpatchkid , Karsten Winegeart Report

Final score:

170points

Rissie 2 years ago

They are finished in the store. Heating up is a different proces. And having lingo for your customer base? You do you. It's not personal.

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So if you feel stressed out or just generally unhappy about the company that you work for, Jenay Rose would like to give you a few pieces of advice. “If you’re unhappy with your job or career—right now is the time to do something about it,” she suggested. “There’s never been more opportunity to leverage your expertise and passion to find work that aligns with you and facilitates the kind of life you want to live.”

#19

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know A "high class" spa I worked at used epsom salts and vegetable oil for their $65 salt scrubs.

captnfirepants , SUN STUDIO CREATIVE Report

Final score:

169points

Brian Bennett 2 years ago

You shouldn't know what exotics hairdressers put on your hair for that wonderful classic sheen for 175 dollars!

45points

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#20

I used to work in a factory that produced pillows. Let me be the first to tell you, some nasty stuff goes into those pillows. Tell me, have you ever seen those pillows labeled "Memory Foam Cluster"? Do yourself a favor, and avoid them like the plague. What we do is, there is a bale of old, recycled memory foam brought behind the grinder. This bale consists of everything from old mattresses and pillows, to those cooling memory foam pillows. Except they are all old and dirty. We cut the bigger pieces into more manageable bits and toss it into a grinder that chops the foam into small, fine cubes. These cubes are stored in a large tank, and then blown into an empty pillow casing using pneumatic pressure. Now we made good pillows too, but for the love of god, stay away from anything labeled "cluster."

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161points

Troux 2 years ago

The pillow is sealed, so isn't this just a good example of recycling?

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#21

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Volunteer paramedic ... when we find an old person who clearly has been with no pulse for hours we close the doors, shut relatives out and pretend to do something to avoid useless legal action.

pantograph23 , Mat Napo Report

Final score:

159points

Panda Kicki 2 years ago

I was taught to never stop until a doctor with proper instruments had declared someone dead, only exception "in case the head is separated from the body". Cold, poison, vaious condition can make someone seem really dead and age is no reason to jump the gun there. Unless someone clearly stated beforehand that they dont want help in those situations you do your best until a proper examination declares them dead.

167points

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#22

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I worked at a car dealership. The $1200 car care system that we would discount to $900 was “applied” with about 15 squirts of a spray bottle. Many times I’d hang out with the detail guys so the customer wouldn’t get suspicious at a quick turnaround.

DirtynDurham , SCREEN POST Report

Final score:

158points

Nadia Monteira 2 years ago

This is just scam. Pure scam. Infuriating

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#23

The icecream machine isn't broken it just needs cleaning which takes a long time. BK worker here

Final score:

155points

Brian Bennett 2 years ago

You mean it's cleaned??????????????

56points

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#24

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Wash your fruits and vegetables very thoroughly a lot of them will end up being scooped off a disgusting warehouse floor and put back in the package after falling out

x740xWastedx Report

Final score:

154points

September 2 years ago

When I was a child, about 8 years old, I had asked my mother why she washed the food like it was dirty dishes. She told me, Because people are disgusting and alot of people touched this food before we got it. A week later we went to the store for groceries. We had just walked through the front doors, the produce section was displayed prominently in front of us. There was this giant scraggly looking man that wasn't wearing a shirt, had jeans and old tennis shoes on. He kept picking rapidly thought the fruit, would stop, stick his hand down the front of his jeans, rub and scratch vigorously then continue at the fruit. Over and over again. Why is he doing that, Mom? He probably has a disease down there. Lesson learned. I've been washing my groceries since the 1970s, thanks to that experience.

142points

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#25

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Apple: All techs and “Genius” employees are fully aware of wide-spread issues well before they are officially released to the public. They are NEVER discussed at the morning staff meetings with management present but are ALWAYS a source of discussion in the 3:00-3:30 tech staff meeting.
For example: It got to a point where I would replace an iPhone 6+ for the “display” issue and sometimes had to replace the replacement 2-3 times while the customer was waiting. It was embarrassing and frustrating that the official release from the company was that the issue was caused by customer misuse. We all knew the truth and the techs with any sort of conscience would bend over backwards to do what we could to right the wrongs. That is one of several manufacturing issues masked as user error or misuse that we tried to work around.

MrFrankReynolds , Laurenz Heymann Report

Final score:

154points

John Baker 2 years ago

Just one of many reasons why I'll never buy an Apple product.

107points

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#26

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Former Geek Squad here - most of the people that work there, aren't really technical at all. We usually just walk it over to a bench, hook it up to a corporate VLAN and run just run some software. If there are real issues - people remotely connect from India or somewhere else.

We are basically just salesmen with a clip on tie.

Moots_point , Paul Swansen Report

Final score:

146points

Mazer 2 years ago

Not surprised given the blank looks of the reps when computers were brought in. Fortunately we have a couple of local independent computer repair companies who give s**t and do excellent work.

56points

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#27

You always want to order your drinks without ice.

I've seen icemachines inside at fancy places and you definitly do not want anything in your drink what was inside there before. Ice cube machines are a real s**thole in general.

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Final score:

135points

Ozacoter 2 years ago

It is similar with orange juice machines at least in Spain. My father does health inspections and he always told us to never use them because they are most of the time full of mold inside.

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#28

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Former Starbucks partner here. I've worked at a variety of different stores during my stint as a barista, and I can't tell you how many times I've gone to clean an espresso machine and have found mold. I've only worked in one store that followed cleaning protocol correctly, out of a total of six (all in a major U.S. city).

Also, don't be a d**k when you place your order, otherwise you will without a doubt be decaffed. I've even witnessed assistant store managers do this to customers.

crimewavedd , Ricko Pan Report

Final score:

133points

Stefan 2 years ago

If you like real coffee, you don't go to Starbucks.

173points

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#29

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Applebees; on the tabletop computers, go to "Extras" and tap and hold the little white space on the top left of the screen. When it gives a password prompt, it's 4321. Lets you change the table numbers or play games for free.

Atrrophy , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

123points

Mazer 2 years ago

Our Applebee’s did not survive the first six months of the pandemic

33points

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#30

Ralph Lauren's outlet clothing is made for outlet, not from the main stores.

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118points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

I think that is typical for most outlets

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#31

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know It has been several years, but when I worked at certain satellite tv company, they had a value system for customers.

You are valued at 1-5 stars, based on how much you spend, and how much they value you as a customer. If you are are a higher star value, they will do basically anything to keep you. You will get a ton of services and equipment for free, and they will bend over backwards to keep you from cancelling.

If you are a 1 or 2 star, they don't give a s**t. Especially 1 stars, because it usually means that you are late all the time, or that you don't spend very much. If you call in asking for deals or credits, they won't give it to you. If you threaten to cancel, no one cares.

Also, there are special phone lines for people they consider "VIPS". They never have to wait on hold, and only special employees are allowed to take the phone calls.

mermaidsthrowaway , Eric Lumsden Report

Final score:

109points

Allen Garcia 2 years ago

Who would value a customer who is always late and can’t afford the company’s service? I’d go with the big spenders, too. It’s called business.

64points

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#32

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Idk the legality of this but it always seemed wierd. But we would get bags of another company's product (animal premix) and manually transfer that product into a bag of our own. We would give these products lot codes of our own and sell them to customers.

DrMadlove , David Gabrielyan Report

Final score:

97points

Ozacoter 2 years ago (edited)

That happens often with fancier food brands. The product gets done exactly in the same place and condition as a cheaper white brand but then it gets packaged differently and you get charged much more for the same product

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#33

If you see rabbits or chickens at a zoo, they're food.

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96points

T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago

Most of us are aware chickens are food? I just ate a chicken sandwich? And I'll still coo at that if I see them at the zoo...

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#34

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know We didn't meet the contractual obligations to entirely destroy the laptops Google sent to us for decommissioning. We shredded the HDDs and sold the laptops for a profit.

Couldn't do s**t about the servers though, Google branding all over them

septic_tongue , freestocks Report

Final score:

86points

C. Wade 2 years ago

And why would you? Destroy the HDDs, RAM is volatile anyway = clean slate.

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#35

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I used to work for a major card service company, and before the law changed if you bought a gift card to say a red lobster and didn't use it for like say a year. It was a distinct posibility that the entire value of that card would be gone due to monthly service charges. So picture me the guy trying to explain to the guy how his 50$ gift card was worth nothing, and you can imagine how that goes. Weirdly enough I ended up loving that job the most due to other types of accounts I used to handle. That was one of the worst parts of my job honestly.

Memetic1 , Tiago Scharfy Report

Final score:

83points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

I am glad they changed the law. I think it's messed up to charge monthly service charges to something that was already paid for but not used.

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#36

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know I worked for a cold storage company that held products for Good Humor. The inside of the freezer was -20°.

One day a friend of mine caught some boxes on the racking causing popsicles to go everywhere. When he stepped off his lift to look up into the racking to evaluate the situation he stepped on a popsicle causing his feet to fly up in the air and busted his head on the ground. He lasted a few days in ICU and eventually passed.

Instead of this being a freak accident and giving us time to deal with it we were all brought into the freezer to look at the frozen puddle of blood to show us what could happen if we aren’t careful.

chrisman0004 Report

Final score:

38points

Mazer 2 years ago

Clearly the actions of a compassionate management. SMH. What the hell is wrong with these people?? **Don’t answer that

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#37

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Wal-Mart would make us work past our shift and then force us to clock in late the next night to avoid OT. The managers got so paranoid about OT that they started accusing us of going over 40. I was docked 4 hours when I had no overtime and had to use my PTO to get back to 40.

Edit for clarification on my state. This was in 2012 and I live in Oklahoma. The labor board is a f**king joke and the keep you from going over your hours happened at two stores I worked at. Both stores also did shady s**t like having maintenance work both cleaning and stocking. I had to stock the first half of the night and clean five bathrooms the last half and had to get them all cleaned before 7.

I will never work for Wal-Mart again and I warn my friends not to work for them.

reddit , Mike Kalasnik Report

Final score:

35points

Robert T 2 years ago

Messing with workers hours is illegal. In civilized countries, they would be in a lot of trouble, with big fines. If there is a union for shopworkers in the US, join it, as they will have a lot more bite than you do as an individual.

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#38

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know If you ever hear "Code Brown" over the walkie talkies at Target, it means they found s**t on some of the clothes in softlines.

EDIT: Most of the time, it was people coming in and trying on clothes while not wearing any underwear. It sounds disgusting. and thats because it was. Few times someone would just dump in the changing room, but most of the time its because after they tried on the clothes and decided they didn't want it, they would give it back to the employee at the counter to put back, and thats where the doodoo was found.

Sharkbyte12 , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

34points

September 2 years ago

While shopping at Wal-Mart, I saw a man in the women's section, by himself, take a shirt from a rack, loudly blow his nose in it, put it back and carry on. There must have been security cameras because not two minutes later two guys with security shirts approached him from different directions, talked to him for a moment then escorted him out of the store. A female employee came and retrieved the shirt after they had walked away.

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#39

At the hospital they have "secret" employees who walk around to make sure doctors and nurses sanitize their hands before entering and existing a patient's room. You'd be surprised how many dont follow protocol and end up getting written up in a day.

Final score:

34points

Mazer 2 years ago

The stories I have about crappy hospital employees. Shameful

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#40

I used to work in the meat department at Whole Foods. Hopefully things have changed, but our manager was insistent on using past due meat to make grinds for burgers, sausages, etc. I once got in trouble because I threw out the ammonia scented chicken tenderloins that had expired two weeks ago, rather than grind them up for chicken patties.

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32points

The Scout 2 years ago

Ist the FDA that lenient that something like this goes through regularly? Meat labels are one of the most strictly supervised items in Germany - leading to the longest single name for a law in the german language: The "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" (abbreviated as RkReÜAÜG M-V) - which sets the rules for transferring the jurisdiction of supervising the administration of beef labeling, which then does not only contain the best before date, but also provenience and some other information. But what do you expect from a country that until recently had a special law for the correct handling of meat grind. It looks like we need a law for everything.

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#41

I used to work in a butter factory. As far as bricked butter is concerned, buy the cheapest s**t you can find. It's literally the same stuff. There are like 3 butter factories in the US, and they send them off to get packaged. That's what the company I worked for did. The butter came in 22kg boxes and were put in a giant churner for freshness, and that churner pushed it through the pipes to 16 different labelling machines. We had 200+ labels we would put on them, Land O'Lakes, Crystal, Great Value... Literally same butter, same machines. Have to fill 4 pallets of Great Value today? Put the labels in machine 4 for a few hours.

Salted and unsalted, that is the only difference.

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31points

Mazer 2 years ago

I buy from a local source. No mass manufacturing. I drive by the cows who produce the dairy products I use, and have toured a number of the dairy ranched. So I get to see production from start to finish

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#42

People sometimes die in Hotel rooms, as soon as the body is out, we clean the room and put it back out for rent. Doesn't happen often, but there's a chance your bed had a dead person in it less than 2 hours before you checked in.

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Final score:

31points

Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

I´m ok with that.Tell me if it was a murder...

24points

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#43

KFC has teenage kids cooking with industrial pressure cookers that could blow their f**king heads through the exhaust canopy if they f**ked up. I literally have seen cooks bread their own hands up in flour and dunk them in 175 degree Celsius oil as a lark. I have seen kids use boiling hot urn water to clean the caked on flour and oil off their work boot and that water ran into their boot giving them serious burns. I have seen kids pick up huge pots of boiling oil and tip them to refill a cooker as a short cut to the slow melt method. Minimum age at the time was 14 and 9 months though they’d hire them at 14 flat with parents permission and you could be supervisor at 17/18.

Stuff may have changed in the last ten years since, I dunno.

Teenagers watching teenagers with that type of equipment was nerve racking. Not saying teenagers are stupid...just the ones I had to work with.

Final score:

30points

Big Blue Cat 2 years ago

Teenagers aren't stupid, their brains are just still developing and that's why they shouldn't be working in any dangerous environments, with or without adult supervision.

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#44

Worked in retail jewellery in Australia. This would apply pretty much everywhere.

Most all items for sale (the exception would be promotional pieces, or special collections) has a “minimum” and a “maximum” price.

Don’t take for face value that the price is what you have to pay. Ask straight up “what is the min on this item”. Say it like you know what you are talking about. Sometimes the “min” price can be hundreds lower than the displayed price.

Michael Hill jewellers will clean all jewellery for free.

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Final score:

30points

Grant Barke 2 years ago

Selling jewellery in Australia is a scam.

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#45

Name brand eggs are the same thing as the store brand, you are essentially paying up to a dollar more for the name. They come from the exact same farm one just gets a stamp. Also same with milk. Source: Dairy manager

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29points

Mazer 2 years ago

Not where I live. Choices range between large companies who could care less about their livestock to small local places who have gone the extra mile to care for their livestock and products properly

11points

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#46

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Used to work for a coffee shop who's claim to fame was that all food items were made from scratch in house. All of their pastries were made using Pillsbury dough, and every other kind of dessert was bought from a grocery store.

Desperate4Potato , Pillsbury Report

Final score:

28points

Mazer 2 years ago

That false advertising is going to get them in trouble at some point in time. I worked for a restaurant that only serve to Coca-Cola and one of the customers with an attorney came in asking about Coke versus Pepsi and ended up suing the restaurant for false advertising. The restaurant had to replace all of its menu is costing them hundreds of dollars

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#47

The Canadian Tire in Port Coquitlam Canada blocks their emergency exits with metal bars to prevent theft and, consequently, prevents a quick exit in case the overly stuffed and flammables-filled building catches fire.

Someone use this knowledge to make some money. I'll take 5%.

TheRedLayer Report

Final score:

28points

Jebediah Chamberland 2 years ago

I live an hour away and yep our Canadian Tire did this too

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#48

90% of the time when you call Xbox for support you are talking to a person who is at home. If the person you are talking to was anything like me they were 100% not wearing pants.

tff_silverton Report

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28points

Dilly Millandry 2 years ago

Why would we mind? Don't wear anything if you don't want to! Just know your stuff. Though if we're going to do a video call... I might mind then! 😉

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#49

I work in the hazmat industry. Mainly spill recovery. Holy s**t, if you work in industry, you need to look at your companies environmental policies. The company I work for works pretty closely with the EPA and our state environmental management agency, so we do a lot of jobs where other companies screwed up.

Lead contamination is stupid high in so many places.

I've seen visible Mercury literally swept under a rug so that companies don't have to pay for remediation. This will get on you, track throughout, and it will stay on your clothes or shoes for so long.

Acid spills where the company wants to save some money, so they wash it off into public fresh water sewers.

Tl;dr Large companies don't like to spend money on environmental clean up, so they do a lot of illegal stuff.

Final score:

28points

G0blinGard3n 2 years ago

I can't even trust my water-

4points

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#50

I work at a major chemical plant up river from a major city. If it came out how old, run down, and poorly maintained literally all of the equipment that we use to make sure that hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water don’t leak or straight up spill into the river, the EPA would shut every plant on the river down.

However, the EPA is aware of how inefficient and poorly disposed all our waste products are. The plant I work for has a yearly budget dedicated to paying fines.

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Mazer 2 years ago

I’m glad I live in a place that gives a s**t about the environment and the health of its population

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#51

Not me but my Dental Assistant teacher once had to cover for a new dentist. He pulles the wrong tooth on a patient and she told the patient that they missed some decay on the tooth next to it, and since they missed it, it was free. So they pulled two teeth and the guy thinks he got a deal.

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27points

Jess Thompson 2 years ago

No…..

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#52

I work for a company that sells auto parts online. We have about 25 different store names, so whichever company you think you're buying from on eBay or Amazon or any number of .coms, there's a very good chance it's actually us. There are any number of products on Amazon where every single seller on the list is us. It's also comical how many times people will say 'I bought from so and so and it was terrible, so glad I went with you instead.' Little do they know they're talking to the same customer.

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Robert T 2 years ago

This is as old as the hills. Back in the days of Morris and Austin, a lot of parts were common accross many marques. If you needed a spare you could buy the same part from less prestigious marque supplier and pay less for it. Same trick still being played with Amazon marketplace.

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#53

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Most sushi places will use the same distributor and have the same quality of seafood.

The difference between a fancy sushi place and a hole in the wall is pretty much the environment, and the price.

DayGloMagic , Riccardo Bergamini Report

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26points

The Scout 2 years ago

In the US as well as in the greater part of Europe, "sushi grade" fish has to be frozen before consumption, thus reducing the amount of potential parasites (E.g. see https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2658/sushi-grade-fish.html#fda). As distributors for this are limited in most places, the biggest difference between different sushi places definitely is in the skill of the Itamae who prepares it.

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#54

-Regal Cinemas movie theatres has something called a "per cap". Per caps are calculated by dividing the attendance by how much concession sales there are. For example a low per cap is anything under $3, but a higher one is over $4. If there is a fifteen cent variance from one day to the next, you had to fill out a report stating why. You couldn't state things like the obvious. For example if I manage a theater in Minneapolis, and per cap sucked this past Sunday because everyone was at the SuperBowl, I could not use sports as an excuse even though it was so obvious. Instead I would have to say something like, "large groups in attendance who didn't purchase concessions". I'll also shatter another myth that nobody cares if you sneak drinks or bootleg candy in, just make sure you throw it away after the show so as to make cleaning the auditorium easier.
-It is marginally true that the theatre makes most money from the concession stand as we only profit about fifteen cents from a movie ticket, the rest goes to Hollywood. However, in the summer, running all that AC, neon, ice machines, etc it wasn't uncommon for the electric bill to hit $30,000 or so. Plus rent to the mall was another $60,000 a month so ya know.

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25points

Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago

Israel got it right with the "popcorn law".

2points

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#55

Sometimes students are given a better grade than they should because we are too tired to really give a s**t anymore.

Sometimes they are given a worse grade because of this, but those teachers suck.

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Mat O'Dowd 2 years ago

Agreed in some ways, writing this as I'm in the middle of assessing students !

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#56

I have sat in the board room of a major industrial agency, during the planning for a very major project, and watched a lot of faces go pale as the budgeting section for 'expected loss of life' came up.

In my experience, the CEOs who talk about safety being number one for their company, aren't kidding. They're often very much on board. It's getting the rest of the staff to get it through their skulls and follow suit that can be difficult.

Anyway. They budgeted for three deaths, in the course of the project. When asked why three, they said that statistically, the manhours involved said 3 was the conservative estimate, and there was a reserve for up to 6 deaths.

Each of those deaths were budgeted to cost the company 1.7 million dollars, factoring in fines, fees, loss of productivity, legal fees, etc.

It was a good meeting. It made it very clear to those who value money over human life just how much money a human life costs. And how much worse it can be if there's a major incident!

One death is bad on the bottom line. But a mass casualty incident? (Anything more than three?) means a worksite shutdown. Which can cost the company easily twenty million or more a day.

Believe it or not, the Occupational Health and Safety teeth that the government has is long and sharp. Long and sharp enough to even make massive petroleum companies think very carefully about their priorities.

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W C 2 years ago

My brother works in the oil field. He's told me about a lot of deaths. He saw one guy get decapitated when a tie down snapped These companies keep things very quiet so the public doesn't find out. And if you are injured on a job, some higher ups tell the workers to lie and say the injuries happened at home, and they will just pay out of pocket so OSHA doesn't shut down producion. Plus that helps keep their liability insurance premiums down.

10points

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#57

Try to avoid going to dental chains. (Aspen Dental, etc.) They push you to get procedures done you don’t need and your appointment times are usually as fast as the doctor can find the first thing that’s wrong. Doctors are overworked and this increases the chance they will mess up. If you can’t pay, they help you finance, but you’ll get hit with a 20%+ interest rate when you miss your first payment. They also overwork and underpay staff. Which leads to disgruntled staff who don’t care. And like all public service positions, there’s no backbone against s**tty patients, you have to bend over backward and kiss their a**es.

The only way it works (and it does) is when you have caring, skilled skilled staff across the board. This rarely happens due to high overturn.

I had to get out when the new doctor at our office pulled too many teeth in a procedure and had to give a patient a full denture instead of a partial. He blamed the assistant and she was fired. The lab was overwhelmed with extra work from his mistakes. I didn’t feel the doctor cared about anything but money and I couldn’t morally do it. I couldn’t say he was a good doctor when deep down I knew it was a lie.

Reasons I hate commercialized medicine.

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22points

Mazer 2 years ago

Apparently arrogant medical doctors who care more about money than their patients are a dime a dozen these days

7points

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#58

The chicken bites aren't cooked to order.

The fries look darker today not because they're "extra crispy," but because the shift manager was too lazy to change the oil (which should be changed every 5 hours).

The house sauce is just mayo, ketchup, paprika, and pickle brine.

The sticky patch outside the bathroom might be pee.

Final score:

22points

A Nelson 2 years ago

Short guide to fast food joints lol

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#59

I used to work at Whole Foods, in our bakery department. Almost nothing, aside from the bread is made from scratch there. This shouldn't be too shocking, considering they're a multi-national chain now, but really it'd be more correct to say that our cakes are "assembled" in house.

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21points

celery g 2 years ago

Their "meals" are crap too!!

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#60

AT&T does have secret phone plans. Depending on how long a customer you have been and how much you b**ch (always threaten to quit your service) they can hook you up.

You have to go to an AT&T store. NOT an authorized dealer, authorized dealer can't do s**t. They just sell the phones/planes and can't really do much else.

Also check to see if you can get a company discount. More than likely if your company is decent sized they have a discount. Also if you are a farm or something you can get a company discount.

OVERALL AT&T will rip you off. They are betting you don't check all the charges on your bill and will try and slip some bulls**t in there. It's not the store that sold you your plans fault it's 100% AT&T corporate.

I sold them for a while and just go get straight talk from walmart. It's cheaper and if you don't have the money it's no big deal unlike AT&T that will fee you out the a**. Also the "I got a free phone" is bulls**t or "I have an upgrade" you are paying full price. It's just broken down into monthly payments. You might have walked out of the store paying nothing but you will be paying full price for that phone. The "upgrade" is a trick to get you another $500-$1000 in debt with the company so you remain a customer until that amount is paid off because you can't close your account until that phone is fully paid for.

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Final score:

21points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

AT&T lost my trust years ago before cell phones were a huge thing with them. (I am old, I fart dust haha) I would find extra charges on my bill for stupid things such as a user fee, a LD fee, and a fee if I paid early to name a few. I would be charged an arm and a leg for LD calls and for LD calls I was charged for that I never made. Their customer service was horrible and I refuse to ever use them again. I advise anyone using them to end their contract asap.

13points

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#61

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Red Cross makes a ridiculous amount of money selling plasma to makeup/skin care companies.

And Buffalo Wild Wings, wings are always frozen never fresh. And they cook them before hand and keep them in a warming drawer. The motto is “they come for the sauce not the wings”.

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20points

September 2 years ago

Didn't figure ANY wing joint was slaughtering chickens in the back room tbh

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#62

We're supposed to be teaching "information literacy," but none of us really checks to see if our students' sources are legit or not.

Edit: A lot of people are commenting about turnitin (we use Safe Assign). Those are only capable of flagging for plagiarism. What I'm talking about is checking to see if when a student cites a source for a claim if that source actually said it, and if that source is at all reliable. There's no software for that.

Final score:

20points

Mazer 2 years ago

It’s sad that so many people working in education today are not setting these kids up to succeed. I hate that our educators are not paid enough money…it’s criminal

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#63

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Every, single, automotive parts company will let you return anything if you simply call the district manager. I have yet to see anything not taken care of when it reaches their level. You think your battery is under warranty but its not showing up? Call the DM. They'll tell the store to take care of it. 100%, everytime.

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19points

Rissie 2 years ago

Oh right, let me flip through my contacts and find this person I don't know how to get a hold of.

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#64

Guys guys guys, you know at the bottom of fast food receipts it has a 'do a servay to fill in the code for a free (item)' I worked at culvers and they told me the algorithm. It's always a 4 digit code. The middle two numbers add to 9. That's the code. Example? #09# #18# #27# #36# #45# Any of these will work I've been getting free cups if ice cream from culvers for years with this information. It also works for A&W Yeah the company is like 'I don't get it, they have the right code, but we didn't get a survey...' but who cares?

This at least applies in Wisconsin

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Final score:

19points

#65

Worked in a small hospital. We had a room titled, "Utility Closet" which was actually the morgue or "body hold". Our ER was significantly far away from that room, so to transport dead bodies, we'd wheel the gurney down there with piles of laundry covering the body. Yep, that happened. I guess the hospital didn't want to tip people off there was a dead body passing them in the hallway.

cheechsfeist Report

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18points

September 2 years ago

I go to the VA Hospital, for care. On occasion, as will happen, a veteran dies while at the hospital. They wheel the body slowly to the morgue, down hallways that are being used and the body is draped with a US flag. Everyone steps aside and is respectful.

35points

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#66

i worked in a store for building supplies and - as many people already suspect - we, the service personnel, truely try to dodge out as many customers as possible. we're basically like store ninjas, running from shelf to shelf and hiding from customers. that is though because we're also the people to refill all the shelfes, take care of the gardening section with all the flowers, make sure everything looks properly and we just wont get finished if we would deal with every question.

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18points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

Hmm I wonder if this person works for Lowes lol. I can never find anyone to help me when I go there.

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#67

Receptionist: calling to reschedule you due to "schedule constraints" or because the doctor is suddenly traveling usually just means they decided to take the day off on a whim and now we need to clear off the schedule.

Final score:

18points

Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

Worked for lawyers for 22 years. Once had to go to a court hearing in lieu of my boss who wanted to spend the day with his mistress. Got bitched out by the Judge. Quit shortly after.

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#68

Liberty Mutual insurance puts every claim through an algorithm to determine whether to fight dispute it in court. The algorithm is able to guess the lawyers and judge that will participate and decide based primarily on their records.

Edit: I have another one. They chose their latest ad campaign by 1. Selecting a color no other major insurers were using (Yellow), and 2. They choose their slogan’s key word by finding words other insurers used most often but none featured in their slogan (Responsibility). I think they might have changed the slogan but I left a couple years ago.

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17points

Bill 2 years ago

Liberty Mutual also uses outside vendors for their call centers which they claim they don't.

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#69

I work in technical support. The vast majority of the time I know the fix immediately and it's something I deal with a dozen times a day. If I say "I need to put you on a quick hold whilst I research that" it means I'm Googling the answer to your problem. If I say I need to put you on hold for a few minutes it means I'm asking a coworker if they know what the answer is. If I say I need to call you back because I have to research more it means none of us has any f**king idea what the issue is and I'll actually have to do some real work.

Also, stop blurting out your passwords to me. I don't need to know what it is. Nobody does. If I need to log into your account I'll just ask you to type it when I remote into your machine. If you can't get in I'll reset it to something else and we'll deal with the password change later.

Final score:

17points

Bobby 2 years ago

And dear God after you give me the cliffnotes version of your problem shut up and let me ask my questions. I'm probably not even in your account yet and need to find it

0points

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#70

Worked in a library for two years. We don't make diddly squat from your book or DVD fines; they're designed to be a deterrent more than anything else, and under the right circumstances we're very amenable to just making them go away. If you had a tough week and couldn't make it to the library to return your books? We can work something out. Laughing about being too lazy to bring them back/forgetting you had them entirely? Yeah, those fines aren't going anywhere.

That being said, libraries don't like to penalize people who can't pay their fines. If your kid has so many fines that the computer locks him out so he can't do his homework, we're usually more than happy to help you get logged on for the day.

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Final score:

17points

CaptainDinosaur 2 years ago

My local library has just gone 'fine free'. No late fees! Pretty cool.

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#71

All of our videos are made by the same people, in the same building, and we just change the text/logo. All of the interviews are scripted too, they literally feed the lines to the subjects. Because they don't want to pay us a fair wage or give us benefits, we also don't have to sign anything meaning no NDA.

Dodo/Thrillist/NowThis

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Final score:

17points

Busy Panda 2 years ago

I'm a fan of The Dodo. I don't mind if they're scripted. The video subjects are cute animals and the stories feel goods and heart-warming. They never declare themselves as "reality" show anyways. Watching their videos give me joy and shooting feelings, and 100% more benefiting than watching "reality" crap-shows like KUWTK or Real Housewives of Whatever

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#72

We claim to be a leader on the technology front..... but we are literally running off of excel macros with random codes that no one knows how to understand/correct without causing the entire company to crash.

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Daniel Fekete 2 years ago

Let me guess, almost any company ?

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#73

Worked for a place where the IT manager took dozens, maybe hundreds, of computers home for his own personal use and to give to the religious school where his kids attended, his wife worked, and he was a deacon. He also gave computers to the school district superintendent and some of the other execs. He and these same execs hired their relatives to put them on the payroll. The IT manager had his mother placed in one of the schools as an IT tech though she was completely and utterly incompetent with fixing computers. She was unable to pass the simple test that all the other techs had to pass under risk of termination. One summer he fired our linux administrator and brought in his 16y.o. sister and cousin, and two daughters, both 17y.o., of the execs to work on the district's payroll. He also hired his brother in law, a recently unemployed banker, to be a "database administrator". This DBA then went to his BIL's construction site and worked on it all day long.

The levels of system nepotism and corruption - or corruption and nepotism - were shocking and intolerable.

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15points

Busy Panda 2 years ago

Government job, right? The public service kind?

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#74

Local coffee shop. Unscheduled maintenance meant that there were rats upstairs. Owner was a cheap a** and didn’t want to close the entire shop down, so we kept the downstairs open for what could have forced his business to shut down forever had anyone found out. I quit that day.

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13points

#75

35 People Reveal The "Dark Secrets" About Their Jobs That Common People Aren't Supposed To Know Used to work in a business hotel. If You get scrambled eggs on sunday morning, You can be 100% sure it's left over from friday morning.

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13points

Gaby Almodovar 2 years ago

Maybe in USA. In civilized parts of the world, no way!

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#76

I worked at a YMCA as a lifeguard it was often that the chemicals were off. There were a couple of times that the chemicals had to much or no chlorine. This is dangerous for swimmers and could cause people to get really sick. It was often that my manager would keep the pool open although the chemicals where dangerously low or high and people would swim in the water.

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13points

Marco Hub-Dub 2 years ago

The chemicals are what keep a pool from being a giant vat of pathogen soup.

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#77

At least half of the people who handle your food, both in restaurants and retail, and really any other retail, have some sort of cold or flu at the time, and are probably contagious. Very few retail or service industry job pay well enough or have benefits that make it possible to take sick days, and the management will guilt people into working even though they're sick, because the company can't handle being short staffed.

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13points

Karl Baxter 2 years ago

When I worked in catering there was no sick pay so no one could afford to be ill. I recall one day where 90% of the kitchen staff had gone down with a stomach bug and the galloping shits but we did food service as normal with everyone having to take part in diarrhoea relay to use the only toilet. Bon appetit! 😋

6points

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#78

Goodwill has their own landfills for things that don't sell. Things sit on shelves for weeks with continuous price decrease, then one last shot at selling at the outlet stores where everything is price per lb.

Final score:

13points

Mazer 2 years ago

When Goodwill turned into a for-profit company I stopped donating to them. They have done very little to help anybody in our community. The Salvation Army steps up on a regular basis. So they get all our donations.

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#79

Even if it's a nice vet clinic, sometimes "doggy daycare" is just putting your dog in a very small kennel with a bowl of water.

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13points

Missy Moo Moo 2 years ago

Noooo! My dog's Day-Care takes photos all day of all the dogs every day and posts them online. There's special birthday photos for special days. Plus there's cameras in the lobby where you can see the 5 separate groups (ordered by age/energy/size) where you can see them all playing with their carers. Chasing bubbles, sloshing in the pool, hanging out. It's actually amazing, I'd like to go there for fun. But its $45 per day so maybe you get what you pay for?

15points

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#80

Your prescriptions are filled by unqualified people who don't always wear gloves or masks. The controlled substance pills are especially dirty. If a pill is dropped, there is a lot of paperwork to fill out that the pharmacists don't feel like doing so they'll throw it back into your prescription vial and send it off. I work in a distribution pharmacy.

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13points

AnnaBanana 2 years ago

My partner is a pharmacist. He had a guy on staff putting the methadone doses together, but the guy didn't wear gloves. He spilled a little methadone on the counter and some got on his hand. He was hospitalised for an overdose not too much later!

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#81

I write software for a large credit union.

We don't use any version control. No git, no SVN, nothing.

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12points

RNA 2 years ago

Ok, now this is ridiculous. Even if you write it alone it would cry for something more agile than end-of-day backups. How is that even possible to integrate the code from differen programmers into still functioning software without causing mayhem every week or so?

4points

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#82

Olive Garden Server: You can get 3 free wine samples every time you go.

Final score:

12points

BasedWang 2 years ago

but there is absolutely no f*****g reason to step foot in an olive garden

2points

#83

The only thing not made on site at Cheesecake Factory is, ironically, the cheesecakes. They come in frozen and are thawed out.

They go through the trouble of mixing all their sauces and even salad dressings, but not cheesecakes.

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12points

Mazer 2 years ago

That doesn’t bother me in the least. IMHO (never humble) The Cheesecake Factory is a great place to eat. The place is always clean the wait staff is always wonderful if they’re running late on anything they let you know. I’ve never had a problem with them not once. When you were raised with one of your parents owning a restaurant you become very picky and you know what things to look for so that you will avoid a bad restaurant. First thing I do is check the windows to see how clean they are, then bathrooms because those are the two things that are last on the list to be cleaned.

9points

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#84

Pizza Hut have a can of spray on garlic that they spray on their all their pizzas. At least they did in 2012.

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11points

A B C 2 years ago

Wait, there's something as awesome as spray-on garlic? GIMME IT!

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#85

Subway. My franchise owner owned a coffee store right next to the subway too. He would get the subway cookie dough, and use 2 cookies to make a cookie cube. Those cookie cubes were sold at the cafe for £2.50, whereas you could walk into subway next door and buy 3 cookies for a pound. What a snake.

Final score:

11points

Neal Patrick 2 years ago

Actually if people want to pay that price at his coffee shop then fine…free market. How he sources the ingredients for his products will change if nobody wants to pay more next door. Not a snake.

6points

#86

I can assure you most things in Tim Hortons are not fresh. Unless you show up at rush hour, then you might get just brewed coffee.

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Brian Bennett 2 years ago

Now they have added Justin Beiber(probably spelled wrong) name to products - why your making a bad thing worse!

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#87

Friend of mine worked for a US Post Office for a summer.

You know when you go into the post office, and there's those slots for you to drop mail into? One slot for "Local" and one slot for "Out of Town".

Both slots go into the same bin.

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10points

The Scout 2 years ago

This might be just a relic of times when letters were handled at the local post office instead of being collected in a distanced sorting center. I doubt those redundant slots are installed in new post offices.

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#88

People used to pay the janitor to steal other people's lunches for them.

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10points

Norma 2 years ago

Wait...wha???

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#89

Worked in a radio station. Made up texts and comments to add humour to a discussion or allow hard questions be put to politicians etc.

Was over 15 years ago so that has been tightened up since but likely still widespread in smaller operations.

Final score:

9points

Parthania Dawson 2 years ago

Personally, I thought this was the norm for radio call-in shows.

2points

#90

I used to work a small company and the secretary was "shared" among the owners, salesmen and some of the workers. The worst thing is that she acted all high and mighty like the owned the company, and I guess in a way she did.

She got preferential treatment and often the owner would pay her bills if she got behind, and rumor is that the owner paid off her car when she threatened to tell his wife. She was always invited to Las Vegas for trade conferences even though she had nothing to do with the trade besides answering phones and making appointments. We all knew what really happened on those trips.

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9points

Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

I knew a company like this. Caused 2 divorces, an unwanted pregnancy and eventually she was tossed on the street.

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#91

At Planet Fitness, we do judge you. Especially the manager at the PF you go to.

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8points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

I go to Planet Fitness and I am sure everyone judges everyone else, they just don't verbalize it. And this is perfectly normal. I know I am fat and that is why I am at the gym working out. Judge me all you want, it will never affect me in a way that would make me stop working out.

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#92

At least 4 people have died here in the past 4 years, and the local Gov't is in Cahoots with the CEO. My own dept manager was involved in a huge embezzling scandal a few years ago but managed to wiggle free.

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5points

Mama Panda 2 years ago

Would be good to know either the business name or the industry for this one.

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#93

The mark up on HDMI cables are insane (any retail employee who works electronics)

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5points

Susan De Nimes 2 years ago

And the cheapest is as good as the most expensive. There was a difference with analogue signals but with digital it either works perfectly or it doesn't work at all. Don't overpay!

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#94

Not a big company, but I worked at a flower shop. I would fill up the vases with the clients own water from their hoses outside before delivering their vase.

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Ellis Reed 2 years ago

Most hoses are in the backyard. I find it hard to believe this guy climbed over fences or whatever to do this.

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Ieva is a writer at Bored Panda who graduated in Scandinavian studies from Vilnius University. After learning the Swedish language and getting completely lost in the world of Scandinavian mythology, she figured out that translating and writing is what she's passionate about. When not writing, Ieva enjoys making jewelry, going on hikes, reading and drinking coffee.

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Michelle Terrones 2 years ago

At Best Buy, no one knows what they're doing. The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF.

7points

Rylee Baker 2 years ago

hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing

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Vorknkx 2 years ago

As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it.

7points

A Jones 2 years ago

Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier.

6points

albernistuff 4sale 2 years ago

30 year IT career here: Google. That is all.

3points

DonS 2 years ago

I've worked in a museum, but part of it is an old patrimonial chapel open to all which means a lot of homeless use the chapel just to get warm during winter when the shelters are full, and that's okay. And yes, I saw a couple of unsavory things going on IN the chapel: someone with a mental condition trying to pick fights with people coming to pray, drunks peeing all over a church bench, themselves AND in the alleys and another one masturbating on a bench. Just so you know, those cases represents like less than 1% of the homeless people coming in the chapel. Most of them are extremely nice and happy that we don't kick them out (like another church not too far from where this one was). But we do have a blacklist of those unsavory characters that are banned from the chapel and procedures for the more troublesome one (special task force of the police with social workers who knows how to de-escalate and providing the help needed).

3points

Tamera Gardner 2 years ago

You have no clue how many times a nurse has saved your life from a doctor’s mistake.

2points

Caroline Driver 2 years ago

Or a pharmacist

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Angeline Shalyn 2 years ago

I used to work housekeeping for a hotel, the bed spreads never get washed , only the sheets , only time we'd wash the bedspread is if it got REALLY dirty

2points

Paul Busse 2 years ago

I worked fast food in HS with a boss who was also a USAR mess sgt. Everything had to be kept spotless! One of his sayings was "I want to be able to eat off that floor!" Not sure where to find that standard now--

1point

Jdawg 2 years ago

I work in tech sales, and 90% of what I know is from Google searches or my own experience. People pay us to do transfers that they can do for free at home. And we don’t have anything special. We literally use the free software. Also, if you’re rude or mean or don’t listen to us, we will not go out of our way for you. I had a discount code that made a $300 product free, but only if you weren’t a d**k. Dunno why that’s hard to grasp. Also, the mother company I work for will tell you the same thing I do, and you don’t have to wait on hold for three hours to talk to me.

0points

Christina Uhlir 2 years ago

Not surprising at all.

0points

Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago

For a company that makes billions, you would not believe how cheap Amazon can be. There is a particular brand of label printers they use in the warehouse that are over twenty years old, and have to be coddled like a sickly infant because they don't make replacement parts any more.

0points

Michelle Terrones 2 years ago

At Best Buy, no one knows what they're doing. The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF.

7points

Rylee Baker 2 years ago

hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing

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Vorknkx 2 years ago

As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it.

7points

A Jones 2 years ago

Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier.

6points

albernistuff 4sale 2 years ago

30 year IT career here: Google. That is all.

3points

DonS 2 years ago

I've worked in a museum, but part of it is an old patrimonial chapel open to all which means a lot of homeless use the chapel just to get warm during winter when the shelters are full, and that's okay. And yes, I saw a couple of unsavory things going on IN the chapel: someone with a mental condition trying to pick fights with people coming to pray, drunks peeing all over a church bench, themselves AND in the alleys and another one masturbating on a bench. Just so you know, those cases represents like less than 1% of the homeless people coming in the chapel. Most of them are extremely nice and happy that we don't kick them out (like another church not too far from where this one was). But we do have a blacklist of those unsavory characters that are banned from the chapel and procedures for the more troublesome one (special task force of the police with social workers who knows how to de-escalate and providing the help needed).

3points

Tamera Gardner 2 years ago

You have no clue how many times a nurse has saved your life from a doctor’s mistake.

2points

Caroline Driver 2 years ago

Or a pharmacist

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Angeline Shalyn 2 years ago

I used to work housekeeping for a hotel, the bed spreads never get washed , only the sheets , only time we'd wash the bedspread is if it got REALLY dirty

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Paul Busse 2 years ago

I worked fast food in HS with a boss who was also a USAR mess sgt. Everything had to be kept spotless! One of his sayings was "I want to be able to eat off that floor!" Not sure where to find that standard now--

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Jdawg 2 years ago

I work in tech sales, and 90% of what I know is from Google searches or my own experience. People pay us to do transfers that they can do for free at home. And we don’t have anything special. We literally use the free software. Also, if you’re rude or mean or don’t listen to us, we will not go out of our way for you. I had a discount code that made a $300 product free, but only if you weren’t a d**k. Dunno why that’s hard to grasp. Also, the mother company I work for will tell you the same thing I do, and you don’t have to wait on hold for three hours to talk to me.

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Christina Uhlir 2 years ago

Not surprising at all.

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Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago

For a company that makes billions, you would not believe how cheap Amazon can be. There is a particular brand of label printers they use in the warehouse that are over twenty years old, and have to be coddled like a sickly infant because they don't make replacement parts any more.

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