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“It’s A Moral Dilemma I Struggle With Daily”: 50 Secrets That Companies Keep From Their Customers
What if we told you that steakhouses and sushi restaurants are 62 times more bacteria-filled than your preferred fast food joint? You will likely rethink your dining choices and stick to burgers and fries over high-end otoro tuna.
This is just one of the many industry secrets that certain professions would rather the public not be aware of. Today, we’re revealing more of these hidden pieces of information through responses in a recent Reddit thread.
You’re about to read anecdotes from different professionals working in hospitals, software companies, crime labs, and casinos, and their stories are compelling, to say the least. Enjoy reading through!
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#1
Abortion pills are available by mail in all fifty states of the US, regardless of state laws. There are doctors and legitimate websites that will send pills out and there are many numbers to call for guidance. Plancpills.org is the best website to find the pills, and abortionpillinfo.org is the best place to learn how to use them.
Detroit Citizen 4 months ago
Im a man, Ill give you my upvote. Its the womans choice, always. And ffs men, no is a full f ing sentence. I hope my two adult sons remember what i taught them about women and respect, I was taught by my mother. Men, its not hard, be better.
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Daphne Y 4 months ago
Posted on my socials! I'm in Canada, but every woman everywhere deserves the right to choose.
Steve 4 months ago
Right now, Texas is trying to extradite a doctor in New York for prescribing abortion pills to a woman in Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/27/new-york-texas-abortion-doctor-pills/
David 4 months ago
Bc the doctor violated federal interstate laws, as well as legally practiced medicine in Texas without a license in Texas, bc the patient was in Texas when the prescription was written
Load More Replies... David 4 months ago
Actually it isnt, bc under instate commerce laws its illegal to ship items to a state where it is banned. Further a doctor needs to be licenced in the state of the person they are prescribing too. New York , my state, has a doctor they are protecting from Federal Marshalls for giving prescriptions for abortion pills in Texas, and has an arrest warrant out for practicing medicine without a licence in Texas (bc she is only licensed in New York) and a federal warrant for assisting in the violation of interstate commerce. Its fully illegal, and you can get prosecuted, both the person receiving and the person helping. You need to legally live in a state where it is legal.
22wkzp9rks 4 months ago
I’m so glad I live in the uk, they allow me body autonomy to make my own choices
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#2
Yes, some of the workers are undocumented. Yes, they do a lot of the work others will not or can not do. We also do a lot of the work they will not or can not do. In our season they show up at 6am and leave at 7pm every day of the week. Twice a month they also cook huge meals for everyone, out of their own pocket. Some of us have to hide money in their bags and things to get them to take it. Ive watched them make and serve their own food to people in MAGA hats, with a smile. I love them. Every single one of them.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
I work in construction (US) which the workforce is mostly Latinos. I love working with them. They are hard working enthusiastic and are generally really good people. When its a large project and we have Saturday work often times their wives will come to the jobsite to cook and they are very generous and genuinely appreciate that we (management) sit and eat with them all the while im grateful to be fed awesome food. MAGA a******s can f**k right off
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 4 months ago
Unless you’re native Americans everyone of us started from a line of immigrants. So… we are all immigrants.
antoinette maldari 4 months ago
Te President of Germany even brought along tRump's grandfather's birth certificate to the oval to show him that, he too, was in fact a product of immigrants.
Load More Replies... turk 4 months ago
The new MAGA plan for replacing the work undocumented workers do, mainly like picking our food on farms, is to make senior citizens who are on Medicaid work for their benefits that they have paid into their entire lives. Can't make this s**t up. MAGAts are as cruel as they are stupid.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
turk, the MAGA plan is also to get children back to work. Look at Florida right now.
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CP 4 months ago (edited)
The funniest part is, the only reason many of these people are American is because they got lucky to be born here. Immigrants have earned their way to this country in a much more real way than anyone born here. Stop being an AH about being lucky. Be thankful and compassionate instead.
ColdSteelRonin 4 months ago
I just came here to say that if the walking OSHA violations in the picture were on my jobsite they wouldn't be there for long.
Scott Rackley 4 months ago
I saw that too. At least someone is holding that thing they're calling a ladder.
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Cydney Golden 4 months ago
They often pay taxes and into social security. They can never collect from these, no SS, no medicare or medicaid.
Kalis VarKrom 5 days ago
I have worked Mexicans many times. And most of them get off by their employers. Can not say all do this. But I know of one. He puts them up in Bunk house, they give them supplies for cooking food, that is mostly floor, rice and beans, to make their own meals. Each worker gets about $200.00 a week, for their own needs and that is it. They will work under a supervisor who makes around $2,000.00 to $3,000.00 a week and has their own Ranch house to stay in. There are a few place's like this all over the south, like Texas.
#3
Every day the postal service moves over 20 million parcels around the country with a staff of about 500,00, only 200k of those being actual letter carriers. That’s not including every little postcard or advo the thickness of a hair that touches 25 sets of hands and numerous vehicles before it gets to your house without somehow getting lost under a seat cushion along the way. We have a 99.2% success rate on parcel delivery. Nobody thinks about all the hundreds of packages they’ve received, only that one that got lost that one time. USPS is exceedingly good at what they do, and we do it using only proceeds from stamp sales. We do not receive federal dollars in any capacity so that we can remain stable during political upheavals or budget crisis.
200,000 people hand deliver 24,000,000 packages. Double that during peak season. Every. Single. Day. I just think that’s cool as s**t lol.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
USPS is by far the most popular government agency. They do an incredible job and the only time ive heard people really complain was in 2020 when fat loser Trump lost and he lied about mail in ballots.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
It's not a government agency, and evidence has been trickling in that mailing ballot fraud was more prevalent than barely-there Biden was told to tell us.
Load More Replies... CP 4 months ago
And people will complain a service doesn't make money. Do you have any idea how much economic value the USPS provides. The government should be adding services like this instead of getting rid of them all the time. The government does these activities more efficiently as well. Don't have to pay for executive Yachts.
David 4 months ago
However they could be very profitable, Fred Smith published a paper 15 years ago on how the USPS could make billions, improve effiency, etc. However being a federal company, no one wants the reform, as well as the fight with the postal union bc the plan would lay off 1/3 of the workforce, as the USPS still is heavily manual sorting for things everyone else uses Machines. The NZ Postal Service and the German ones are the only 2 profitable postal services in the world, and Smith used them as examples.
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Anonymouse 4 months ago
When I was younger, I remember USPS slogan, "Neither rain, sleet, nor snow, will hinder the delivery of your mail"... Now, my mail person arrives in a mail truck and will not even step out to put it mail in the mailbox if there is anything in the way. Our street has mail consistently delivered to the wrong houses, we just hand deliver it. Neighbor says he has called about it several times, to no effect... So yes, mostly they do a good job... until they don't. Mark Twain famously worked at a post office for less than a day, saying when he quit, "he did not like being bossed around by anyone that could afford the price of a stamp" so there is that!
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
As much as I dislike Bezos, USPS last mile rural Amazon delivery has helped them stay relevant.
LovesBerk 4 months ago
I live in an area where we have a delivery guy who works for Australia Post in NSW Australia. I think he does an amazing job. Every package looked after and put in a place that people can't see if I'm not home which is most of the time. If it needs to be signed for, it goes to the post office if I'm not there to sign. I haven't got a single complaint about deliveries in our area. Awesome guys.
Rebecca O’Donnell 4 months ago
While the USPS previously generated surpluses, the agency began experiencing losses in the early 2000’s with the most substantial losses occurring after the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. That Act mandated the USPS to PRE-FUND retiree health benefits, requiring annual payments of $5.4 billion through 2006. This means the USPS was paying retiree health benefits basically into a savings account for people not even born yet, let alone working for the USPS. The USPS is a self-supporting establishment since 1970. Mr. DeJoy has endeavored to bring changes in updating our equipment and altering how fast some mail gets delivered with raising some costs to get the USPS to break even. USPS looks to earn $82.9 billion in revenue in 2025, a $2.4 billion increase from 2024. With the huge growth of parcels to deliver it’s going to take some time, effort and major change to accommodate what it takes to deliver all this to Every. Home. In. The. USA. Everyday.
Rebecca O’Donnell 4 months ago
UPS, FED EX and Amazon use the USPS to deliver their parcels to all those homes they don’t want to deliver to. This is called Last Mile Delivery. This is the most expensive and challenging part of the delivery process. Without the USPS as it is now (not privatized) rural home owners would be probably have to pick up their mail at the post office as it is not cost effective to deliver to their home.
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 4 months ago
trump complains they do not make a profit. They are not supposed to.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
D**n it, that's the entire point of this post! OP literally addresses that exact expectation in the post 🤣
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A*****e parents are way more common than you think. Way, way more common. *Soul-crushingly common.*
polly6119:
As a teacher for 23 years I absolutely agree. People give CPS a hard time. But they don't realize how horrible a lot of parents are. CPS is trying to just get the physical abuse stopped. They're overwhelmed with physical abuse problems. But there is widespread and evil emotional and psychological abuse that is almost impossible catch because it doesn't leave visual scars.
There are parents who will starve their children just enough to torture them but not enough to get caught, there parents will put tons of salt in their child's dinner just so they suffer through the night and won't let them have anything to drink, their parents who will make children do exercises like wall squats and arm lifts for so long that it's literal torture and if the child doesn't agree or stops doing the exercise then they don't get to eat the next day, there are parents who keep a child up all night "cleaning" the house. I could go on there's so much and so many. Not to mention the horrible degrading things they say to their child.
And you know what's really insidious is that a lot of these people are your nicest neighbors, the parent who volunteers, the parent, who comes to school and laughs with the teacher so that the child sees that they have nobody that they can talk to.
Sorry, I've just seen a lot. I don't get to talk about it much because, well it's depressing. It's not really a good conversation starter or party banter.
Merty Robinson 4 months ago
Retired teacher here. I worked in schools in different countries, places with highly educated, high income parents and also in some really deprived areas. There were horrible parents in all of them. I wonder why people have kids when they hate them so much.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 4 months ago
Because to some of them, children are just possessions, and of course they *deserve* all the possessions they can lay their hands on.
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Lucas 4 months ago
This is absolutely true. When I read comments like 'parents always want the best for their children' I always think 'oh if only that were true'. There are a lot of parents who don't care at all. It goes all the way through from disinterest to utter cruelty. That's not to say that there aren't good and very decent, able parents. Of course there are, but it's a very, very mixed bag and it's horrible just how many there are that really shouldn't have had children.
Kim Kermes 4 months ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight. I couldn't. If you really need to vent, maybe post anonymously? What makes those "people" so vicious? Were they abused and think it's normal?
CP 4 months ago
Sadly it is a cycle. I catch myself being an AH dad because that is what my dad taught me. That is how our parents acted. I have to actively coach myself not to be an AH like my dad. It isn't easy. We are all a victims of our circumstances.
Nadine Debard 4 months ago
I'm proud of you, keep going. You're a good father.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 4 months ago
Abusers, in front of others, are often the nicest people you could ever wish to meet. The sort of people that you would never think capable of such things. That's why it is often so hard for victims to be believed.
#5
Prescription d***s (in America) do not need to cost anywhere near what they do. Pharmaceutical companies waste money like nobody else. In most cases, the company is just charging the absolute maximum amount the market will bear. It's a moral dilemma I struggle with daily.
JB 4 months ago (edited)
But...the freedom! So much freedom! They're free to charge whatever and I'm free to die if I can't afford it! Collective buying that enables negotiating of lower prices, such as through a single-payer insurance, is commie socialism!!
detective miller's hat 4 months ago
Proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm one diagnosis away from financial ruin.
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Jill Jones 4 months ago
I was released from the hospital last week and was looking over the bill. Just medication was over $12k. A specialty d**g I get for $5 a month at home cost $1470 per pill in the hospital. Crazy!
Billo66 4 months ago
Yes. I take a chemo pill once a day that's $28,000 per month.
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Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
The discrepancy between what any given d**g can cost between hospitals, pharmacies, countries, insurance companies and government coverage is mind blowing. There is no way the average person can be a conscientious consumer.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
If they would stop with those god awful ads on TV maybe they can cut some of the costs. I hate those f*****g ads.
joseph legatt 4 months ago
I've heard stories of how big pharma spends more on marketing than on research in the U.S. I don't know if it's true but it is believable.
Rinso The Red 4 months ago
That's very VERY likely. They use "R&D" as the excuse for high costs but most of the research is being done at the university level, funded by government grants. So yeah, you're paying twice.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
Though I will say, I was quite surprised when I let my local pharmacy know my 45 working years have been deemed 'waste, fraud, and abuse' by the Orange God and his congressional minions (I'm covered by ACA) and that I may no longer have scrip coverage in 2026. My Lisinopril and Metformin will cost about $20/mo out of pocket.
Xxxzyyy 4 months ago
Metformin is dangerous. Please be careful. Research.
Load More Replies... David 4 months ago (edited)
Actually most of the cost is Govt Regulation and corruption to keep out generics in the US, not actual profit. Professor Robin Feldman had a great book on it Dr ug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market and another Dr ugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Dr ug Prices. Basically just eliminate a small section of US Patent law, certain protections for the industry caused by govt corruption and collusion, and prices will drop. Great podcast interview she did on explaining the system, https://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-d***s-money-and-secret-handshakes/ https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/robin-feldman-on-d***s-money-and-secret-handshakes/id135066958?i=1000434412441 as well as https://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-d**g-patents-generics-and-d**g-wars/
#6
It's not the strangers/drag queens/LGBTQ people that you, or especially kids, need to worry about. It's the men in the family. After working 11 years at a crime lab doing DNA, I don't know if I've come across a kid r**e kit with a trans person as the suspect. But there are thousands of them from the dad/stepdad/moms bf/step brother/grandpa/etc. If you want to protect kids, start there.
So, bathroom bills aren't really protecting kids, just diverting attention from actually threats.
Edit: woah! Really glad this sparked some discussion.
With most every r**e kit comes r**e kit notes (and police report) which tells you relevant info, such as suspect and relation to victim. Rare that it is an “unknown” stranger kid r**e. That’s how I know the relations between the suspect and victim. When we see kid cases, there usually is a listed suspect.
DNA is DNA. “Trans” DNA is not a thing. We can tell s*x by the DNA. So if that doesn’t match up with what’s in the submission info, we look into it. It has happened that we have had trans individuals who are listed as their preferred s*x, which is in contrast to their DNA. That’s something we’d like to know up front cause it matters….cause it’s DNA. Many times it is in the police report.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Not all men is a given. But the whole trans people as a threat to kids/society is so overblown.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago (edited)
Family, friends, priests, and teachers are a far greater threat to children than drag queens. Since when have you heard of a drag queen harming a child? Me? Never - drag queens aren't a threat (okay, yes, there's always *someone*, but have you ever heard about them? Me neither). Family, friends, priests, and teachers are a very different matter - I read about them abusing children every week (and it's not just the men - yes it's mostly the men, but not only. A rápe kit won't tell you about a female abúser 😬). Just remember that next time you hear someone frothing at the mouth about drag queen hour at the local library. Meanwhile: we can't tell the s*x of everyone by DNA. Yes most people are XY or XX and most such people are definitively male or female - but that's only "most".
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Just like how murders are committed by people the victim knew and why having a gun in the house increases the chance that somebody in the house will be shot to death not decrease.
Orysha 4 months ago
Trans people are only scapegoats like gays in the 1980's, Muslims after 9/11, Jews in the last century.And the Fanta Fuhrer badly needs scapegoats since even the most stupid members of his cult start asking questions about the Epstein's files.
Roxy222uk 4 months ago
I’ve read that the number one danger to children (in the UK, at least) is their stepfather. To be clear, as always, the vast majority of stepfathers are loving parents but if the child is åssaulted the stepfather is by far the most common perpetrator.
Ann Tiques 4 months ago
New men the mother brings into their lives are the biggest threats to kids.
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Earthquake903 4 months ago
There's a handful of p e d o s in my family. One of them is female. I left their raggedy a s s es in GA and moved to WA. Good riddance!
Lousha 4 months ago
When living in the UK, I met an abundance of LGBTQ people. At some point I was having a mental image of that In&Out scene with Joan Cusack screaming "Is everybody gay?!!!!". (Not like they have more LGBTQ people, they are just lucky enough to have more freedom to be themselves and not have to hide as much.) And I could not help my visceral, unintentional reactions. I was bothered by the sight of same s*x people shoving their tongues down each other's throats in a bus stop. I found this old, ugly man who used to come into our shop badly dressed and made up as an old, ugly woman pathetic. But how many times I felt THREATENED by either of them? Zero times. I kept my opinions to myself, I was glad that they could live the lives they wanted, I appreciated their right to feel and express themselves the way they wanted. And kept grabbing my self defence items more tightly in my pocket to the sight of loads of "proper", hetero, "normal" men I encountered.
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I would be bothered by opposite s*x couples "shoving their tongues in each other's throats in a bus stop." For Christ's sake, get a room!
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Gerry Higgins 4 months ago
Just listen to the news; who's getting caught sax-ab*sing kids? Preachers, teacher, family, camp leaders and Politicians! I've never heard a single news story of a drag queen or trans persons azzaulting a kid.
William Gibbons 4 months ago
Why are the words r**e, s*x .... Hidden? You people need to get a life.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
William Gibbons: it's not us people commenting who redact those words - it's the BoredPanda censorbot. The best guess so far seems to be that it's to avoid problems with advertisers - keeping the revenues high. Algorithms and all that, y'know. 🤷
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Old people are just like you and me, they are witty, smart, wise, sexual, sarcastic, cynical, generous, considerate, patient, frustrated….all that and more, please treat them with the respect and love you would your best friend, not like a toddler. They may be a little bit deaf or slower to talk than you, but they are not stupid. Oh, and they have a name…it’s not dear, love or darling…use their name!
Michael Largey 4 months ago
When you look at us old people, you're looking at you - and sooner than you think.
WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
Some co workers of mine basically talk baby talk to the residents and it makes me wanna slap them on the residents behalf.
Bobbie McMasters 4 months ago
And some of us find it to be extremely irritating to be referred to as "years young". I am 65 years old, thank you very much. Save your condescending cuteness for your own family and see how they like it.
Lyn Wood 4 months ago
Wasn't it only yesterday that I was 30 and feeling on top of the world? Now I've just celebrated my 64th birthday and looking at how few years are left. That thought is gut-wrenchingly terrifying and so very very sad.
Marlene Ricker 4 months ago
I'm lucky enough to have grandkids and great-grandkids who talk to me and treat me like I am a friend, not some weirdo! My grandsons friend told him he doesn't know what to say to me. My grandson told him he talks to me just like everybody else!! Yes, I am one lucky grandma!
Schmebulock 4 months ago
They are certainly not all stupid, but there are a LOT of them and age is not an excuse.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
As my dear wife reminds young people, whatever you are now, when you get old, you'll become more of it. If you want to be a nice old lady, you need to be a nice young lady.
#8
It is entirely possible that your veterinarian will kiss your kitten’s belly when you are looking.
Melissa Gallo 3 months ago
Exactly - in fact, I don't trust a vet who doesn't compliment and pet my cat :)
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Andrew Arons 4 months ago
I'd be able to tell because my cat Percy would claw the bejebus out of them!😝
Serena Myers 4 months ago
A very nice vet was checking on our Rossi after his castration, but he hissed at her, she said she didn't blame him!
#9
Human teeth are not white, they're yellow.
Stop bleaching your teeth.
Susie Elle 4 months ago (edited)
And they will yellow with age, kind of to the color of old paper, which is a very normal process. Porcelain white teeth are not natural.
geezeronthehill 4 months ago
My dental implant tooth is nearly ready to go. One of the steps is to match the shade to my existing teeth. Dentist is being very picky about that, because this one will show in my smile.
Rinso The Red 4 months ago
I ended up having to get full upper implants and they do the same. Medication I was given as a child gave my teeth a slight blue-grey cast and these match that, so I don't have bright white top teeth and then my regular bottom color
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
My teeth are very white and I have never bleached or treated them. Im almost 50 and have never been a smoker, have never drank coffee or tea. So don't assume all people with white teeth are treating them. Some of us just do things that make our teeth yellow.
Robert T 4 months ago
And veneers look hideous. Yes, we know they're not real, Rylan. They look stupid.
WindySwede 4 months ago
Also that they need to grind down your normal teeth... 🤢😬🙀
Load More Replies... Schmebulock 4 months ago
This is not true. They are not pure white, but they definitely are not yellow. A simple Google search will prove this fact.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
My dentist was making a crown for one of my wisdom teeth (less costly and less painful than extracting it), and he was using color charts to match the rest of them. I told him he could make it any color he liked, since he's the only one who's ever going to look at it.
Richard Head 2 months ago
https://youtu.be/POJvJ1F2MKc?t=84 Turned his teeth snow white overnight they say....
Rimjabbathehutt 4 months ago
No they're not. Fun fact: if you're not a disgusting human being and actually brush them twice a day for 2 minutes each time, they'll stay just as white as when the first came in.
firecrackershrimp 4 months ago
Wow so you're saying all teeth come in white? Because mine sure didn't even as a kid . And as a child I didn't smoke drink or have coffee tea
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I work in materials testing for industries like automotive, aerospace, defense…
Our secret? We. Don’t. F**k. Around. Specs are holy writ and *will* be followed. We fire people for cutting corners on paperwork. I once got dragged into a conference room and chewed out for two hours not because I used equipment that was out of calibration, but because I was in the same room as someone who did. *That* person got suspended for a week without pay. We regularly get audited for compliance to standards and regs that are enforced internationally.
Why? Because when people in my field cut corners, people die. Horribly.
Edit: Almost forgot to add…falsifying documents in my line of work is actually a felony.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
This is what scares me about deregulation as a cost-cutting measure. Who is going to hold companies accountable? One MAGA guy said consumers will. Are you kidding me? What do we know about product safety?
David 4 months ago
you know materials testing like this person mentions, all those standards are done by private firms the companies hire, and only select spot govt inspections and audits, but most of the audits and inspections are private firms, the govt takes the private firms at their word. I know a retired QA Manager at a major defense contractor. They dealt with the feds 2-3 times a year at most, nearly everything was through private agencies
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 4 months ago
Someone asked an astronaut what scared him most about space flight. He replied "Knowing that every part in this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
Kim Kermes 4 months ago
This is the reason for the ring worn by the Order of Engineers, to remind them of their obligations. All major projects should be overseen by a member. I drove over the 35W bridge in Minneapolis hours before it failed. My sister beat the disaster by 30 minutes. Death and destruction from substituting truss plates.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
Mmm. There was more to it than that - the bridge was exceptionally heavily loaded for various reasons and the inspections which should have spotted the problems had been deficient. If the bridge hadn't been overloaded (in part due to resurfacing) or the inspections had been competent leading to corrective maintenance, the collapse wouldn't have happened. Also, "In 1990, the federal government gave the I-35W bridge a rating of "structurally deficient", citing significant corrosion in its bearings. Approximately 75,000 other U.S. bridges had this classification in 2007". Think about that if you're in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge#Maintenance_and_inspection
Load More Replies... BarfyCat 4 months ago
My brother works in aviation maintenance, and what scares me the most is the fact that he struggles to hire new workers because after mari juana legalization no one wants to work in a field with regular dr ug testing.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Unforeseen consequences. That's too bad, because it's a good job!
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 4 months ago
I've made parts for aero and it's insane the paperwork that goes along with the part. Full CMM scan, MDS, Material testing, documented machining methodology, paper trail back to NIST for all machines used, etc.
Seadog 4 months ago
The problem is, the end user will and does cut corners even when the manufacturer tells them not to do something. Don't think so? I suggest you look at the space shuttle Challenger. Then of course comes the fact that nearly everything is built with the cheapest parts from the lowest bidder. In the end, no matter how safe the engineers design things, it all comes down to money and if the manufacturer can save a buck, they will, regardless how many people it endangers.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
What really matters is that the parts are made to spec; not what they cost. Overpriced parts can still be substandard.
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Michelle C 4 months ago
Falsified documents are also illegal in my profession and I wonder why anyone would want to falsify documents in any industry. How wouldn’t guilt and shame get to them??
#11
The number of completely incompetent employees working in health care settings is appalling.
mentalissuelol:
Seriously. I’ve met people who take care of patients and are concerningly dumb. I had a travel nurse yell at me for being concerned about a patient’s temperature because he didn’t “feel that cold”. He was hypothermic.
Zealousideal-Low455:
When I was working as a bedside nurse i was shocked and appalled at how many nurses would refuse to escalate a clearly deteriorating situation until it was life threatening. these people were teaching new nurses too.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
This is across the board for healthcare in the USA. We don't do anything here until it's time for urgent care or the actual ER because our healthcare is an absolute nightmare. This is women who are dying because they are experiencing a miscarriage and the doctors and nurses are afraid to abort the fetus until it actually dies. It's getting really bad here.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
That's absolutely false, because otherwise there'd be national news coverage everywhere.
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Alexia 4 months ago
It was shocking to see so many doctors being antivaxxers; some of them out of wickedness and interest (they are paid by political entities), others out of sheer stupidity: "I never learned about mRNA vaccine while I was in medical school 30 years ago".
Elaine Harley 4 months ago
Medical personnel as anti-vaxxers blows my mind..
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 4 months ago
During a recent hospital stay, I saw how lazy and how morbidly insensitive some of the nursing staff could be. I was in the ICU for monitoring, but I was actually in good shape and alert. I think I was the only conscious person in the unit. There was one nurse who had a very dark sense of humor and made inappropriate jokes about her unconscious patients or complained that they were just a waste of time. Several times, I heard other nurses reminding her that I could hear her and she needed to tone it down. I was upset about a woman who was in my direct line of sight and was obviously dying. The one good day nurse arranged a private room and told me that the night shift would take me. The night nurse lied and said that the doctor said I had to stay put. The next day when the good nurse asked why I was still in ICU, I told her what the other nurse said. Good nurse said that doctors don't decide room placement and took me straight to the room, saying how she was sick of "that lazy b***h".
Susie Elle 4 months ago
My infant nephew couldn't eat because of a short frenulum, which the hospital should have noticed but they didn't. When my sister told them and that they needed help because her infant baby literally couldnt eat and was losing weight, the hospital staff (including the nurses and surgeons) were too busy shoving the blame around instead of helping a baby.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
There's lazy and incompetent medical workers all over the world, not just here in the US. My mother was a nurse for 33 years and worked with nurses from other countries and she told me about a couple of bad ones and wondered how they passed any nursing exams.
Billo66 4 months ago
I complained of bad back pain for years. Always sent me home saying chronic back pain, take otc tylenol. I know they thought I was substance seeking. I was not. Finally, when I "luckily" caught pneumonia they found the cancer. Right in my spine where I said it was hurting. Multiple Myeloma. 16 fractured bones. 9 compressed vertebrae and 7 ribs. Yeah, I was in pain. I lost 3 inches of height ffs. Anyway I guess it's in remission now but the damage is done.
BrownEyedGrrl 4 months ago
As a person with chronic back pain, I cannot fathom the pain you were in. I sincerely hope you're much better now. Hugs.
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Anonymouse 4 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday_(NHS) In the United Kingdom, Black Wednesday is the first Wednesday of August when newly qualified doctors enter their first postgraduate positions in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. It is also the day that most junior doctors rotate to different wards to begin new roles. It is thought that this sudden influx of inexperience and unfamiliarity increases the risk of medical errors.[1] A study using retrospective hospital admissions data from 2000 and 2008 found that mortality rates of patients admitted on the first Wednesday of August were 6 - 8 % higher than patients admitted on the final Wednesday of July.[2]
Scott Rackley 4 months ago
That setup sounds like it was designed for failure. Why not spread that out over the year?
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Sudeep Sarkar 2 months ago
And how many times do you have to repeat instructions to the young nurses before they get it?
#12
Nobody at the vet is “in it for the money.” The veterinarian is likely the only person in the building making a livable wage. Be kind.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
And there is an incredibly high rate of su icide among veterinarians. It's not an easy job for many reasons. Yes, be kind.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Could part of the reason be that they have such free access to substances that can produce a quick and painless death (like they use on animals) and know how to use them?
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Lousha 4 months ago
In absolutely every profession there are terrible, greedy, evil or just stupid people. No job attracts only saints. I had the misfortune to take my cat to a greedy b*** who caused irreversible harm to be able to charge more. Another one almost ended the life of the same cat years before with their total incompetence. That said, in the 20 years that precious cat was my companion, apart from these two I've only met dedicated, conscientious, great vets and assistants who lived for the animals. One told us honestly a dog of ours was poisoned and likely won't make it, but they are willing to fight as long as possible for her if we are. And he did, day and night, for long weeks, with basically no hope, until he saved her. Grateful forever for the extra years she got.
Anonymouse 4 months ago
Most Vets love animals and rather than euthanize them bring home many of them... Having said that - it is tough because they get into the job because they love animals, and end up putting them down...
Ace 4 months ago (edited)
Really? I mean obviously this is US--specific, but are salaries for vet nurses and assistants really that low, or is this comment just a reflection of the general feeling across all working people?
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
It's not a hugely profitable business, so yes, for the amount of schooling it takes in a medical field, the pay is really, really low.
Load More Replies... Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
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Richard Head 2 months ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-vet-corporate-ownership-1.7438239 That used to be the case.... Until corporate greed took over!!!
Tim Crowhurst 4 months ago
The vet is only making a livable wage before you take out the cost of student loan repayments.
#13
I work in prison and see a lot of people sentenced for causing a death or serious injury while driving drunk who otherwise don’t have a remarkable criminal background. You think of prison and you think d***s, violent crimes, etc. but this is one of those crimes that can take you from being an average Joe to a felon in an instant. So, not a secret but don’t drink and drive. Or text and drive!
Sarah 4 months ago
I watch Christina Randall on YouTube. She says exact same thing. Normal person like you or me.. one day we are distracted momentarily, nurse gives wrong injection/ someone else check a text whilst driving etc.. resulting in fatalities and the ‘normal person’ jailed for years and years. It can happen to any of us
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
Accidents happen. That's why we have a word for them. It was when every accident was treated as a crime scene that we all became pre-felons, just waiting our turn.
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howdylee 4 months ago
My MIL was killed on her motorcycle. 16 year old girl simply didn't see her and ran into her. We the family told the judge that the girl didn't deserve juvenile jail time, it was a horrible mistake, but not one that jail is going to fix as there was no behavior to correct by sitting in cell. She got community service, lost her license, etc, but not jail time.
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I hope she got some mental health counseling, too.
Load More Replies... CP 4 months ago
It is a shame we throw so many people's lives away over mistakes. If we were logical we would charge all people for manslaughter while driving drunk. Only luck prevented you from killing someone. Just think about that, we punish people over luck.
Grenelda Thurber 4 months ago (edited)
I think it's the "driving while drunk" part that we don't consider a mistake. That's a choice to commit a crime.
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Seadog 4 months ago
Don't text and drive but using a stupid touchscreen they now have in most cars is okay. This is the dumbest thing to ever be installed on a car. I always got a kick out of the video someone posted showing a CHiP officer riding his bike on the interstate at 60?mph while 2 hand texting. Yet they throw the book at anyone even talking on a phone.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
One of the things I learned during my years as a criminal defense paralegal is that most of the people in prison aren't different from you or me. A friend of mine, a psychologist, did a prison study using the MMPI to test both prisoners and staff, and discovered that their scores were indistinguishable.
Two Cat Studio 4 months ago
Hello. There is a distinct difference between being a criminal & committing a crime. It has to do with a person's mindset. Being a crimin al is committing to a LIFE of crime. Committing a crime, such as vehicular hom*c*de (dr*gs or not), as you stated, can happen in an instant. Hopefully, that person's mindset will be to humble themselves, take responsibility for their crime, serve their sentence to the best of their ability, making amends where & when necessary, & not repeating the crime, thereby indicating they are not criminally minded. In this state of Georgia USA, it is considered a serious, violent crime, carries a long sentence, & 90% of that sentence is usually served. Today, the average cost to house an inmate, ranges from $27,450/yr. to $34,000/yr., depending on their gender, age, & health upon entering the "system." Also, this crime has the lowest recidivism rate in the state (GA D.O.C. 2020 stats).
#14
A little air bubble in your IV is completely harmless.
JulietAlfa:
My late hubby had cancer for three and a half years. I remember we’d watch a little air bubble go through the line and he would go “oh noooooo” and then pretend it killed him dramatically. He also once wore a dog cone on his neck to treatment. His nurses loved him. Many came to his memorial including the director of radiation oncology at Rush, they were pals.
Anonymouse 4 months ago
but, but, in the movies the bad guy puts an air bubble in there to get the good guy, you mean that is not true?
Robert T 4 months ago (edited)
No, it is true. There is such a thing as an air embolism. Whilst a few tiny air bubbles in an IV might be fine, injecting air into a vein or artery can easily unalive you.
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A lot of us truckers suffer from soul crushing depression from loneliness and speaking as an owner of my own truck, a lot of us are always one break down from loosing everything 💔
PeepPeep the duck 4 months ago (edited)
Well now I don’t feel so weird about travelling and the amount of random truckies I’ve dined with cos they were alone 😂 honestly thought I was being a little too weird
GalPalAl 4 months ago
Maybe start a meetup or facebook group to connect with others. There are plenty of people who drive for a living and you would think it would be easier for them if they travel the same routes or for the same suppliers to make it feel like camraderie
Remi (He/Him) 4 months ago
Facebook might not work as well as a voice based social media would, because you can't use it on the road. A discord channel with voice chats might be better
Load More Replies... Seadog 4 months ago
My son is an owner/op. Makes about 1/4M a year and can't buy lunch most days. He's on the road 320ish days a year, gets to see his son less than once a month. The shipping pay has not kept up with the rising cost of fuel and repairs. It is not a paying profession. He's been driving 15 years and has absolutely nothing to show for it other than the memories of things he's seen and a rig that as OP said, is a breakdown waiting to happen. And don't get me started on insurance companies refusing to pay damages when someone hits him. And I don't care who your provider is or how great you think they are, I have news for you, they're all crooks.
#16
We all talk about what s****y parents you are (if you are) and how much your kids suck because you are raising them to be mirror image a******s.
Working-Tomato8395:
However much we hated the classroom brat, we hated the parents 10x more.
Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)
As one of my principals said about an increase in enrollment, "The good news is fifty more students. The bad news is one hundred more parents."
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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 months ago
The amount of times we have a kid with some kind of issue, parents are called in, and next morning the teacher says, “Yeah, well, about Tommy — I met his dad last night. I think I know where he got it from” …
James016 4 months ago
My wife is a teaching assistant and the parents are the biggest problem. Some are in denial about their kids possible being SEN or they just don’t care. Toilet training, they see it as the school’s job. One family was making excuses to not send their daughter to school. It was a cultural thing for the parents and against the law in the UK.
Sonia J-Coffee 4 months ago
Some students miss more than 60 days of school , the other days arive late:what are you teaching and modeling to your kids.. and yes they tell us all your problems and repeat the comments you make about the teachers.
#17
S*x and relationship therapist here - The thing we cannot say, but want to with maybe 50% of couples, is JUST GO GET A DIVORCE ALREADY!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
One of my old Anthropology professors said that "The USA practices serial polyamory" and it's stuck with me ever since. One partner at a time but many partners over a lifetime. Made sense to me and that's what I do. That's what most people do as far as I can tell.
Seadog 4 months ago
First wife wanted to go see a counselor. Ok. I had my doubts about this so called counselor because she'd spoken with the ex but not with me beforehand. We go in and it's immediately a bash me session. I just sat there and let them get through their little spiel. Eventually this counselor asked me what I had to say. The moment I was waiting for. And I let 'em have it, with both barrels. I was pissed and I didn't hold nothing back. Left eh counselor speechless. We left and the counselor actually called me 2 days later to apologize, admitted she should've talked to me alone first and had no idea how many lies ex had told her until I cut loose. She said she'd like to see us again to which I told her it was okay with me but ex would never return because the counselor has seen through her BS and is no longer on her side. Unfortunately I still have to see and contend with her because of the grandkids. I have no doubt she'll try to turn them against me too as they age.
#18
You need two coats of paint. The advertisements are lies.
platinumarks:
Or if you're a low-cost landlord, twenty coats.
Panda McPandaface 4 months ago (edited)
Even with decent paint, 3 coats is better. Also, what is the guy in the photo standing on?
David Morgan 4 months ago
His feet are wedged in his partner's jeans pocket, obviously. /s
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago (edited)
Or if you live in a 100 year old building, you just keep painting. There's a smoke detector (I think that's what it is) in my bathroom that looks like someone painted a pie tin attached to the ceiling.
Kit Black 4 months ago
Those are usually used to cover an old wood burning stove vent
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JB 4 months ago
Also, don't buy the cheapest s**t either. I've had a few landlords buy such cheap paint that command hooks didn't stick to it and it sweated on hot or humid days. Buy the stuff that works!
Gin 4 months ago
Had a customer buy terribly cheap paint once - after three coats my husband insisted that he go and get some decent paint. Fortunately, she agreed!
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Antony Aston 4 months ago
I work in paint and get so tired of telling people that there is no such thing as a one coat paint.
Oskar vanZandt 4 months ago (edited)
Undercoat is a MUST... prime those walls before applying new coats of paint. PS much new plaster is painted without being primed in The UK- the paint just falls off.
Rachel Pelz 4 months ago
Depends on surface imo. And on the quality of the paint. On our 100 year old buffed brick walls, one coat is absolutely sufficient.
M O'Connell 4 months ago
"one-coat coverage" is dependent on an application rate that is not physically possible to achieve. Perhaps if you were spraying it onto a horizontal surface, but definitely not on a vertical wall.
Billo66 4 months ago
Why do teenagers always want to paint the room black? I mean, when the song came out by the Stones, maybe. Don't let them talk you into it. Remember, they are temporary and will move out, now you have to fix it. Source: 3 kids
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
If they'd listened to the song, it's a red door that he wants to paint black, not the whole room.
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#19
Healthcare worker in a hospital setting here (resident physician).
If you go to the emergency department or are hospitalized, call and ask for an itemized bill. It’ll make your actual cost lower since there are otherwise a lot of bs fees. You can also ask to speak to a financial advocate. Your can negotiate for a lower price or see what financial assistance programs or payment plans you can use. Many hospitals also have hardship waivers, waivers for a few days of short-term rehab, or supply for short-term medications. They also have charity care programs and can offer sliding scale discounts.
Regardless of if you have insurance, you can ask about these options. I always share these with patients since I hate the upcharge with a burning passion.
Poppy 4 months ago
I'm guessing this is a US only issue. Most countries only charge minimal fees or in some cases, don't charge at all. But yeah, universal healthcare is SOCIALISM and 'Merican's don't want it!
Sarah 4 months ago
And some are still convinced their country USA is GOAT.
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Euro here: I never see a bill when I go to the hospital, except maybe for some medication I need to pick up. Not to rub in in y'alls faces, just that getting a bill from the hospital is so dystopian
2x4b523p 4 months ago
I recently had planned but necessary abdominal surgery on the NHS. There were complications and I had to be rushed back to hospital by ambulance. Can’t imagine worrying about the cost on top of being sick as a dog. When they discharged me I simply walked out with a bag of medications, sick note for my employer so I can claim sick pay, and went home focused on getting better.
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Ahnjunwan 4 months ago
Negotiate for a better price in healthcare... I do not know what to say to that
Nadine G 4 months ago
That's true: at least in EU we don't see any bill unless we go to our patient info to look how much the state has paid the hospital for the procedure. If you pay taxes, you are safe. In some countries (like Finland) one has to pay a fixed amount of money for a doctor visit or treatment. Not that huge money, but it may feel a catastrophe for a below poverty level strugglers. Ambulance is free in every country for every EU citizen or legal inhabitant.
#20
Licensed Massage Therapist. We are genuinely not judging any person's body. After the first few massages in our career, we literally only see your body as groups of muscles. I hear so often about people not going for massage because of the way they feel about their body...I wish this massage "secret " would be shared far and wide.
North-Version4944:
And we don’t care if you didn’t shave lol I had so many women apologize for not shaving their legs.
elisun0:
This is so true! I've been a licensed massage therapist for a couple decades and I've worked on people who easily weigh 300+ pounds. In addition to that I can say that the same body I might think is the hottest person I've ever seen, in public, is really just another body once it's on the table.
Also, I don't care about shaved legs, gray roots, cellulite, or any other body part you think is too much or not enough. Ditto for that weird, hairy mole you try to keep out of sight.
I just want to know I'm doing the job you hired me for whether that's relaxing the world away or helping you with painful muscles. When you're on the table I couldn't care less what you look like.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Same for any kind of health provider. They've seen it all and don't care!
Ahnjunwan 4 months ago
Well.....there is one thing...😬 It is people who are really dirty. If they are for any reason not able to shower, that is another thing but a person who is otherwise in a fairly good physical condition and is reeking trough the whole building is something entirely different. Honestly, if you have a doctors appointment, please take a shower, i am begging you 🙏 It is very hard to focus on your whatever problem when everybody in the room is about to gag.
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Tammy Malone 4 months ago
I need to do this. I've put it off my entire adult life for the reasons discussed above. I'm not a big girl but just never really felt comfortable in my own skin. I've been missing out...
Andrew Arons 4 months ago
It gets kind of awkward when I have to tell the massage therapist that my vestigial tail isn't something I was born with. 🤪
GalPalAl 4 months ago
This is comforting to know. Ironically, when I was 14 (a hundred years ago) I worked as a cashier at Publix. After seeing all of the food being scanned over a shift really turned my stomach and I often went home feeling nauseated. After spending so much time on one task can really detach your emotions from the task at hand
BookFanatic 4 months ago
I figure I'm not the worst person they've ever seen. And if I am, then I'll be a good topic of conversation when they go home to dinner! Lol
kitteh floof lover 4 months ago
massage therapy has saved my life! i've lived with chronic pain for the past 35 years. getting a 90 minute massage every other week helps enormously!
LovesBerk 4 months ago
That's BS. I know when my husband was learning, there were definitely body types that some of the students did not want to massage. Even my husband who was a professional at the time, was doing extra diploma courses, was rebuffed by some of the "lady students" because he was overweight. The teacher was appalled at their attitude and told them so. People are human and they judge. But if you are massaging for money, they will do it grudgingly.
#21
The amount of waste that is created in order to fill stores like Walmart and Target with stupid novelty products should make you second guess your buying habits.
AussieMazza:
A friend once said that when buying a product, you should think about its end of life first (e.g. will you donate it, sell it, dispose of it etc)
I now think this way about stuff I buy and try to only buy what I'll need or will definitely use (and also think about buying things that can be passed on to others when I'm done with them).
If more people thought this way and acted accordingly, the world would be a better place.
My wife and I will generally refer to those novelty or trinket stores as 'landfill shops'.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Gah, for kids - the amount of useless, shiny, plastic things they play with for a second and discard ... it makes me hurt for the planet.
Little Bit 4 months ago
I only buy exactly what I need and stuff that I know will last. I reuse, repair and recycle. However, I do know from when I used to work in a department store that most unsold items end up being crushed and sent to landfill. It broke my heart to see perfectly good, perfectly usable things wantonly being destroyed just because they hadn’t sold quickly enough. I asked the store manager why they did this and he jusf shrugged his shoulders. It was his way of life and basically he didn't give a s**t. I hate our wasteful throwaway world.
Otto Katz 4 months ago
We call it Cheap Chinese C**p. We buy no special decorations for any holidays, except glass ornaments for the Christmas tree, and I have enough of those now. I'll get a wreath made of real branches, or real flowers. I don't buy the plastic c**p for Easter, Labor Day, etc. Just a waste of money, plastic, garbage.
Queen Ix 4 months ago
They also have strict policies on items that need to be kept at safe temps that customers decided to not put back. The soda coolers at the registers are 1. Not dairy temp safe and 2. They do not know how long that item was in your cart and out of temp before you stashed it in the cooler because you changed your mind. It will be thrown away. Millions of dollars per store per day are tossed from people leaving meat on the cereal shelf or frozen pizza by the toilet paper. Those loses also get passed down to the consumer through price increases. It takes 5 extra minutes, just go put it back.
Hassel Davidhoff 4 months ago
My wife and I don't buy much of anything. We just pay our bills and sleep.
Seadog 4 months ago
That being said, now you can be mad at the cleaning products companies. If soap was sold in pure form you could make a gallon from a teaspoonful of soap etc. Cleaning products are diluted so you can use them right out of the bottle/can. Liquid soaps/detergents are mostly water because people would never believe they could do a load with a teaspoonful, laundry powders are full of sand for weight. Without the sand the box would be so light weight, people wouldn't believe it's a good buy.
Cydney Golden 4 months ago
We stopped doing obligation gifts years ago, like for birthdays or holidays. If I see something that's perfect for someone in my family no matter what day, I get it. We need to show love everyday and forget looking for perfect gifts.
#22
Working in behavioral health taught me that if someone grabs and starts choking your neck all you have to do is grab their thumbs and twist them back. The person will release and you can basically control them just with the thumbs. If someone or something bites you then you "feed the bite". Push the limb they are biting farther into their mouth will hit the gag reflex and they will stop biting.
Dee Rutherford 4 months ago
I’ve used this technique. It works, even in animals. Mostly.
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If someone tries to choke you and you can free yourself fnish them off with a shovel (or anything)!
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
This is particularly frowned upon in a mental health facility, but fairly applicable elsewhere, I guess.
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Tara L. 4 months ago
Also, if someone is choking you from the front, jab your thumbs/fingers into their eyes with as much force as you can. They WILL let you go because that hurts like heck. I'm speaking from experience here, the guy who grabbed me was much bigger & stronger than I am but he was on the ground, screaming & holding his hands over his face while I ran away after I put my thumbs in his eyes.
Hilary 3 4 months ago
My father said to grab the little finger and pull as it’s the weakest and to pull both back till the crack
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
Unfortunately this won't remove the choke, it will just cause pain. A person who is in psychosis, on certain d***s, who is highly motivated to attack or just has a very high pain tolerance won't be put off in the slightest.
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DC 4 months ago
A classmate tried biting me once. Of course, the aftermath found it to be my fault, but regardless - I've tried just that, pushed him on the wall by the head, and he got unconscious for like 10 seconds or so. My fault? Cos it always was. He didn't even know why he tried, at least, he didn't say any about that.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 months ago
In the movies they always show someone being choked (from the front) and them trying to grab their hands. If someone has their hands around your neck, quickly and as hard as possible, thrust both your hands up through their arms to break their hold.
Scott Rackley 4 months ago
Not "back", down. Don't go against the strength, go with it. You can try it now, grab your thumb and try to push it back to your wrist. Doesn't work so well, does it? Now try to bend it down or towards your palm. Nothing your thumb or wrist can do about that.
#23
Not from my current job, but when I was an economist working for the department of housing and having meetings with treasury etc.
It was an open secret that ending homelessness (or, at the very least, all but doing so) was cheaper than not. However, it was deemed political s*****e and not dealt with.
The 2 biggest reasons are, it would take a larger upfront investment (but not as much as you'd think, i'd be recouped rapidly) and governments are notoriously short term thinking as they care about the next election not down the road. So something which gets the biggest results in 4+ years is a no go.
Plus there is a not insignificant, but very influential number of voters who will instantly be turned off by it. Giving people something for free is often seen as a negative by many (I didn't get it that easy, I worked for my life, low lives leeching on us hard workers, etc) even if it actually benefits them too. Reduced homelessness has a significant ROI for governments and needing to spend less later which means everything is better all around, which benefits everyone.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I don't care who you are, everybody will take a handout if offered. Those that need support should get it if it will raise them out of poverty. If that means I pay higher taxes, I am fine with that! I want everyone to thrive!
Alex Kennedy 4 months ago
I have found, those few times I have tried to just hand out money, that in fact very few people are willing to take it. As an example, I saw a somewhat poorer-looking mother and son with big car problems the other day who seemed to need a tow. I practically had to beg them to let me pay for the tow for them.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
What blows my mind is the amount of people who think Medicaid is about lazy people who don't work. Not so. The vast majority of recipients work near full/full time and their company either cannot afford coverage, or rely on the Government (think Walmart) to cover their employees. Next time you're in a Dollar store, or other large chain, keep that in mind. Those folks are paying into the same system they draw from.
liam newton-harding 4 months ago
Oh, a certain small percentage of the population views “hand outs” as evil Socialism…unless those “hand outs” go directly to the coffers of the companies they own, because that is “capitalism”.
S P 4 months ago
Ever done table fairs? Well dressed rich folks losing their cool because they didn't get a free fidget spinner or smoothie sample? All "nothing free unless it's free for me".
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 4 months ago
I love how so many problems we have in this country (and maybe others) are often due to politicians and thieir clan getting paid instead of putting towards helping the population live better lives. The whole system needs an overhaul and a coup to destroy the greed problem we have
Game Guy 4 months ago
Yeah the "I didn't get it so no one should" attitude is a central feature of capitalism run amok. Companies have incentive to get us in a race to the bottom rather than a fight to the top. If I'm busy trying to take something away from you I don't have time to demand that thing from my employer.
#24
Major financial institutions are held up by a very old version of excel.
krdleo96:
THIS! I converted an internship to full time role at my first job because I learnt how to automate a lot of basic excel work using VBA and Python. 6 years since I left that job and they still use the programs I put in place though they now have a couple of engineers to develop it more. Still in the industry and every new place I go to work, this is the quickest way to make myself valuable to the organization.
Ben Aziza 4 months ago
I heard horror stories about arcane unfathomable spagetti code that is propping up entire banking systems...
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Or worse COBOL. It's harder to do math with than Reverse Polish Notation because it uses actual Polish notation. The operator is listed first then the two numbers to be operated on. 2+2=4, is ADD 2, 2 run, and it outputs "4". This is software still in use by many of the financial institutions in teh world.
Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)
My sister owes much of her career and all of her job security to being a COBOL cowboy.
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Day Andie 4 months ago
You don't want to know what the IRS uses and what bubble-gummed mess the infrastructure of the US runs on. And hospitals have jammed fancy new programs on top of ancient hard/soft wares that are one short electronic or human error from really screwing up the data they need to operate.
#25
Pilot here.
We're not flying the airplane unless we know it's safe. Not ever. Ever.
We're not interested in dying either.
_austinm:
Aircraft maintenance technician here. All planes have to be maintained under a rigorous schedule. I’m talking specific inspections every 6 months/100 flight hours, more at 12 months/200 hours, and so on. Plus heavy checks (usually labeled by letter– A check, for example). Each one of these checks has a fairly long list of inspections that have to be done. And this isn’t even taking into account the walkaround inspection the pilots have to do before takeoff.
Basically, you have nothing to worry about when you board a plane. Due to the vast amount of government regulation, air travel is as safe as it can possibly be.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
That government regulation is the important part. some people are busy taking that away as fast as they can.
CP 4 months ago
And a good government would have regulated Boeing when they fired all the safety people to increase profit.
Load More Replies... rorschach-penguin 4 months ago
Okay, I get that flight is highly regulated and incredibly safe, but what about the crash in DC back in January where a helicopter and airplane collided? What about last year when a Boeing plane literally lost a panel and had a gigantic hole in its side and depressurized while in the air? Those both seem awfully preventable to me; we're not talking about bird strikes.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
rorschach-penguin: the collision had nothing to do with regulation of the safety of the aircraft. That was a failure of flight operations. The Boeing 737 Max problem you mentioned was a manufacturing defect caused by Boeing management getting sloppy about safety. I don't know enough about the regulatory environment to comment on whether the FAA has any blame in the matter. btw, it was a "door plug" which fell out - basically a panel fitted instead of a door. It didn't affect the structural integrity of the aircraft, which is part of how come the pilots managed to land safely - that, and the fact that the pilots were well trained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_1282
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
The claims made apply to airliners run by airlines based in developed countries with proper regulation. It doesn't apply to light aircraft. It doesn't apply to dodgy airlines based in countries with dodgy regulation. No nation's regulations are perfect. The USA (sorry, I just happen to know about this) has had periodic problems with sloppy regulation by the FAA - most recently with the Boeing 737 Max, but also in the 1970s with the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 (hence the nickname derived from the "DC" part of the name: "death cruiser") : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Cargo-door_problem
Sapna Sarfare 4 months ago
Considering what happened in India recently and the amount of mudslinging against the pilots, it is scary. But i would really believe the pilots. They dont want to die. Also, the conversation between the two pilots has thrown up a new pandora's box.
Laura Cook 4 months ago
Yeah it’s the decreasing amount of regulation and trained workers that terrify me
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
This is entirely true for major airlines, especially in the US. Other kinds of flights - check their safety record.
#26
You know how in movies, people take out an old, rare book and immediately are wearing gloves to handle it?
You don't actually need gloves to handle old books in rare/special collections. Having freshly washed, dried hands is best practice. Why? Because when you wear gloves, it's more likely you may accidentally rip a page because you can't feel them as well as you can with bare hands!
The ONLY time we wear gloves is when handling artifacts, mouldy items, poison books (arsenical usually--check out the Winterthur Poison Book Project!), and photographs! And they are NOT the cotton white gloves you see in media. Just a pair of nitrile gloves that fit well!
Also, your old bible is not as rare as you think it is, nor worth as much as you think it is. Same for your book collection. You'd be surprised how many people think the bible they have is super rare when it's really not! The Bible is like THE most printed book! WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF BIBLES IN OUR COLLECTIONS. STOP GIVING US BIBLES 😭.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
But the Donald Trump bible cost me and my sister cousin $50 whole dollars! Yeah I went there. Can't wait to see who downvotes me first.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
$50 whole dollars - yep. $2 to the Chinese supplier, $1 to the retailler, and the rest to Trump.
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Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
I've heard the explanation: "Because when you wear gloves, it's more likely you may accidentally rip a page because you can't feel them as well as you can with bare hands!" - and seen people handling ancient books that way. But I've also seen some old books being handled with white cotton gloves in various documentaries. It seems to depend on the nature of the book and the rules imposed by the owner of the collection.
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
The documentaries where they're using coton gloves are most likely older footage, before they realised and changed to more modern practices.
Load More Replies... Orchidoclaste 4 months ago
The bible is the second most printed book. N°1 is the IKEA catalogue
BookFanatic 4 months ago
I took a rare books and manuscripts course in grad school. On a visit to the university's rare book collection, my professor caused mass hysteria among my classmates by picking up a book from the 1400s barehanded and handing it around the group. It was amazing, and I remember it smelled a bit like bacon (it'd been bound in pigskin).
#27
Antibiotic resistance is a lot worse than most people know and could eventually result in an extinction-level event.
bElLa sTairZz 4 months ago (edited)
were banking on there being a lot more completely new ones to discover, when every one could realistically be our last
Julia Ford 4 months ago
It’s not being overprescribed, the overuse is due to it being fed to chickens, pigs, cows that we then eat. Factory farming is the problem!
Missy Moo Moo 4 months ago
Vets are now doing cultures on animal infections to work out exactly what bacteria is present rather than use a broad spectrum antibiotic
Richard Head 2 months ago
Well the attack on science is also an attack on accurate data. So we can all die without knowing about it!!
Lsai Aeon 4 months ago
I have Hidradenitis, I've also lost a lot of weight. Saggy baggy skin is causing MORE infection in the hidradenitis affected skin. I've been trying to clear the infection for the last year and a half with the only 3 antibiotics that I'm not allergic to (switching every month or so). The real solution would be surgery to remove the hidradenitis-affected skin and the extra skin, but it's "Not bad enough to need surgery," according to the surgeons I've begged to fix this. This is one of the main reasons we are ending up with antibiotic resistance, not just overprescribing them, but also refusing to do the hard work of removing the root cause. Warning: Do NOT look up Hidradenitis if you have a weak stomach and can't handle disgusting open wounds.
#28
Rinsing your produce with just water knocks down 99% of the bacteria on it. It's the best thing you can do to prevent food borne illness.
Dane-ish1:
Don’t rinse raw chicken though, it just spreads the salmonella every where.
whydatyou:
Learned this when I was working in restauraunts. the chef was adamant about the prep cooks washing the produce. when I asked why he replied; "you know on those vidoes of people working the fields and picking vegetables? well I never see a porta potty close by."
been washing vegetables ever since.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I only use natural products in my vegetable garden. But do I rinse my produce every time? Absolutely! There's bug cr ap and oils and splashes from the manure I plant my vegetables in. Who wouldn't wash their veggies?
Remi (He/Him) 4 months ago
Not to mention zucchini etc that's growing directly on top of the compost. Oh and bird poop
Load More Replies... PeepPeep the duck 4 months ago (edited)
Omg so when I stayed in (rural town QLD) I was bartender for the fruit pickers 😂 so the seasonal ones are all your foreign backpackers, but the guys who were the permanents / supervisors, were half scary half cool, they are all ex junkies from the city trying hard to stay clean, most were awesome but one stalked me to the point other pickers started walking me to my car after work, like he tried to glass me over the bar for rejecting his very abrasive advances. But yeah that who mainly picks your fruit, these boys aren’t the cleanest generally speaking, pretty rough men run it generally speaking. One got me an eggplant bigger than a human head, it made an awesome mousakka
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
I have been told by folks that they will not eat spinach due to e-coli concerns. If you are eating out, that's most likely valid. I buy bagged spinach, and each time I use it, it is rinsed in a sealed container (fresh water, shaken hard) and dried with paper towel. Ate salad for lunch for 4 years, never a problem.
Norm Gilmore 4 months ago
I didn't eat spinach for a very long time because of the crunch I felt, and on spitting it out found an earwig.... :-)
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 4 months ago
(I don’t rinse chicken for the record, because I understand science, but this post makes no sense). Rinse vegetables: bacteria goes down sink. Rinse chicken: salmonella splashes around everywhere. Okay.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
Salmonella is an organism. It does not simply pop into existence when the word 'chicken' is used. Unless that meat is already infected, there is no salmonella to be spread around the room.
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
And unless you've swabbed that chicken and cultured the results on a petri dish you have no way of knowing if it has salmonella on it.
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JK 4 months ago (edited)
As someone who works closely with groups that plant/harvest on farms - there are portacabins/portapotties. Ive seen the invoices for the rental of them. They just dont include them in promotional videos/pics for obvious reasons. Granted there probably arent any proper sinks/hand washing stations, but toilets - definitely
#29
As a hospital nurse, I've been asked more than once by doctors, "Ok....uh.... what do the other doctors usually do for that?"
Doctors who are willing to ask are the good ones. If you have a doctor that never admits they don't know something, we know they're one to stay away from.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
Smart doctors listen to the nurses. The doctor sees the patient for five or ten minutes during the visit. The nurses see the patient for much longer and know what's going on.
Day Andie 4 months ago
Asclepius help us when AI starts polluting the results even more so than already is happening. And just wait till Big Med decides to dump live doctors for the AI versions. Happening already in a dystopia near you!
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I work for the department of labor in our state. Yeah, there's quite a few corrupt employers who will not pay their workers, close up shop, then reopen under a different name, or fraudulently put all their assets under someone else's name.
NotBradPitt90:
My old boss did this. Before running the restaurant I worked at he was a plasterer and he has over 10 plastering businesses under his name cause he would get payments up front and then just disappear, change business names and do it again.
Me and a bunch of people took his to court for loss of wages at the restaurant and he got forced to pay $300,00 in damages for both workers and suppliers who were owed money. Sadly I never got my $2k back and last I saw he was back plastering. Somehow not in jail.
BarfyCat 4 months ago
Last year a student told me that she hadn't been paid in SIX MONTHS by the local cafe she worked for! I made sure she was equipped with the knowledge of how to file a complaint with the authorities.
WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
6 months?!?! Why didn't she leave that place? I get everyone needs a job, but when the job isn't giving you the thing you need it for it's time to move on. I got paid late a few times back when I was starting out in construction and I immediately began looking for a job with another company. I don't wanna work and if someone isn't paying me on time I'm sure as hell not gonna work for them.
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It’s incredibly dangerous to cut in front of a tractor trailer. We try to keep at least a 2.5 second follow distance because we aren’t able to stop if anything happens suddenly on the road. My gross vehicle combination weight is usually at or around 100,000 lbs. It takes more than a football field length to stop.
Lew k 4 months ago
I dont drive a tractor trailer but a 20,000 pound utility truck. Daily people race to cut me off to immediately slam on the breaks to make a turn. If I'm not paying attention or can't stop you will die. My truck will crush your civic like a beer can and I can't do anything about it. If your driving habits force those around you to slam on their breaks, please change your habits. No one needs your death on their conscience.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
Do not cut inside a tractor trailer (HGV, semi truck, whatever you call it) on a bend. The driver is that far out because the vehicle needs all that space on the inside to make it round the corner. If you're there, you'll get hit. Give them space. Pass on the straights.
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Arthur 2 months ago (edited)
Not exactly a "tractor trailer", but this is not AI. There are multiple configurations, but this is a valid one. https://www.instagram.com/fazendaestrelaboscoli/reel/DOWtUc2EuMG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DEzUf6GOjsL/ https://www.okfarmbureau.org/district-9-the-imgarten-family/
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
Just experience talking here: If you are coming up on an on-ramp, if possible, get to the left lane? Merging traffic will thank you, and everyone behind you will as well. That goes double for semi's, give them gap so they can get over. Just a common courtesy thing.
Lazy Panda 2 4 months ago
In the UK there's a common thought that you have to give way to traffic joining. You don't, it's the joining vehicle that has to give way. Sure, if you can let them out without causing chaos, then do so. But too many times I've seen near accidents because people have panicked with traffic in the slip road, and slammed on brakes or swerved lanes.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 4 months ago
I dated a long haul trucker for a while. He let me tag along on a couple of shorter hops. Seeing all the s****y things he has to put up with from smaller/faster vehicles convinced me of two things: 1, I do not have the patience to be a trucker. 2, respect the truck!
ROSESARERED 4 months ago
So many people cut infront of trucks, no idea that they nearly lost their life, and would have it the truck driver didn't use their brakes....idiots.And a truck without its trailer can take longer to stop, no load to help slow it down. If you are behind a truck, of you can see its mirrors, the driver can't see you.
Day Andie 4 months ago
LOL that BP pic is not a tractor trailer or even a 'tractor trailer.' That is a big tractor pulling a piece of farm equipment. Now that farm equipment could have been on a trailer, and then it would have been a tractor pulling a trailer, but it would never be a tractor trailer. A real tractor trailer is a large truck, usually diesel, pulling one or more cargo or flatbed trailers. AKA known as semi-trailer, semi-truck, just semi, sometimes eighteen-wheeler. Other places they might be a lorry or an Artic, short for articulated lorry, a juggernauts, or an HGV- Heavy Goods Vehicle. Americans like to tack on more trailers for doubles and triples or maybe an extra short 'pup.' Aussies call 'em road trains. Thank you for coming to my story hour on trucks.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
Always remember the Rule of Wheels when it comes to accidents: The vehicle with the most wheels will usually be the winner.
Jonathan Setter 3 months ago
Yeah but truck drivers will happily cut US off when we about to overtake them on a 100km/h hill, because they are "more important" and the truck in front of him is doing 2km/h less than he thinks he can go. respect and patience works both ways, and most of the drivers that have been a*****e and tried to run me off the road have all been big truck drivers.
EJN 4 months ago
Whoever chose the photo to go with this comment does not understand what is meant by "tractor-trailer". 😁 BTW Don't ever stop suddenly or pull out suddenly in front of a cement mixer. They cannot stop the truck very quickly especially if they have a full load of cement inside it! And your car or pickup truck will lose any battles with a mixer.
#32
The nurses are recommending what docs need to order and often times are the ones catching big mistakes in orders.
cnn57t8278 4 months ago
This is why nursing shortages/high patient ratios are such a problem. We can’t catch things if we don’t get a chance to see the problem, and we can’t see the problem if we’re just running from one alarm/med pass to the next.
#33
Most modern homes (er, residential construction, inc apts) are built with the cheapest ingredients and I'm not sure they'll last more than 30 years without requiring a substantial level of exterior refurbishing.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
I think this comment must apply to the USA - here in the UK, most modern homes are made out of bricks. Quality in recent years has often been sloppy, but you've got to do a really, really bad job for a brick built house not to last more than 30 years.
detective miller's hat 4 months ago
The first time I came to the US when I was 12, I could not believe my eyes when I saw houses that were being built out of what looked like cheap plywood. Haven't any of y'all read the Three Little Pigs??
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Peeka_Mimi 4 months ago
My house was built in 1951 and that's one of the reasons I bought it because it will hold up.
Tim Gibbs 4 months ago
Mine was built 350 years ago and survived WWII bombs
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
I have a friend who's living in a townhouse that was built fairly recently in the burbs. First the AC broke. Then the plumbing started to fail. Then the wood under the floors started to swell. She's working on getting out ASAP. Her roomates, who have kids, are somehow oblivious to how s****y it is and the landlords aren't doing anything. The whole neighborhood is cookie cutter tinker toy houses. I'm doing what I can to get her out ASAP.
Nathan Lewis 4 months ago
They were building a new apartment complex across the road from my old house. the entire front side of it fell off during an average rain storm.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
It's called "good enough to get beyond the home warranty." There's no upside in a contractor installing 30 year appliances, etc. They just have to be good enough to see you beyond their liability.
Multa Nocte 4 months ago
I will say there is a slight difference between the houses we lived in while we were in the US versus the two houses we've lived in since we've moved to France, one of which was built when Napoleon was tooling around and the the other that was built significantly before then.
AP 4 months ago
quality of wood has changed. they used to build with older growth trees, their rings close together. now they're built with speedily farmed wood. much weaker and less dense.
nottheactualphoto 4 months ago
For some reason, there don't seem to be any old-growth trees anymore.
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Huddo's sister 4 months ago
I was told about 20 years ago that in Australia we went from having houses built to last at lest 50 years, to ones predicted to last only 10-20 because it is cheaper. Even brick houses are built with sub-standard bricks, often with render over to hide issues.
Devin Schmitt 4 months ago
Within the first ten years we replaced the siding, roof, water heater and furnace. The builder went out of business during the housing market crash of 2008.
BarfyCat 4 months ago
When I was ready to buy my first home, I consulted with my uncle who is a carpenter. His advice was to never, ever buy a house that was built later than the 1960s. This has turned out to be great advice! I'm always appalled by the people on those House Hunters shows that want everything to be brand new!
#34
DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.
Don't rely on verbal recounting when you go to management at work. Document it, print it, and bring it with you. Just saying that you have documented something, especially when it's multiple things that all point to an issue, management is going to be a lot more cooperative. Sometimes because it shows initiative, calm consideration, and intelligence, but more often because you have the start of a legal case if things go poorly.
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
An e-mail file called 'CYA' is what I used. All sketchy directives and refusal of action went there.
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
This is so underrated. Made a phone call? Jot down the time and outline details of what was discussed. Noticed a pattern of problems starting to arise at work? Diarise every incident. If you keep a notebook this way, then you can be taken seriously when you do need to follow up.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Always allow yourself to be put upon at a meeting and agree to take the notes. The person who controls the meeting notes controls the meeting narrative.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
I never do anything at work unless it's been requested through email or the ticketing system. Even a "quick question" gets nipped in the bud: if I have more than two clarifying questions, I ask for either a meeting request or email with the information, which ill then respond to with an answer or a meeting. I use Copilot to transcribe, so everything has a paper trail. Even outside of work with family, write things out. If money is involved, you need a written agreement. And when your sink by says, "What, you don't trust me to pay you back?" Just say, "Of course, I know you'll pay me back. But what's protecting you from me saying you owe me more money?" Now you've made them the hero and they're thinkers by having a contract is a really good idea.
Christiane 4 months ago
I got a lot of negativity recording my SN daughter being ignored during a school play off to the side. I should have stopped recording and gone to her. That's exactly what I wanted to do. But without the recorded evidence, I would face denial again. Having the evidence made the school sit down amd listen and make changes.
#35
Librarian here - if you come in to talk to us about book damage or call to give us a head’s up that it’s being returned damage, we will be a lot more amenable to working with you about forgiving damage fines than if you return it and hope we don’t notice.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
This reminds me of my very favorite "destroyed book" experience. A little girl clutching a shredded picture book came up to the check-out desk with her mom. Mom explained they were still working on the concept of "borrowing" books and the little girl had thought Mommy had bought it for her to keep. Since it was hers, she'd torn out all the pictures she didn't like! Mom made her kick in a couple of dollars from her allowance to help pay for it.
Richard Head 2 months ago
Grew up in a house with a sizable library. From earliest memory had concept that all books were sacred.
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Kristen Johnston 4 months ago
As a library clerk who today both charged the person who returned The Stand wet in the drop box and laughed off the fine for the Series of Unfortunate Events that was hand delivered by the lady who was embarrassed on behalf of her puppy, I can 100% verify this is true.
#36
When there’s a fire the only sprinkler that goes off is where the actual fire is. They don’t all go off like in the movies.
ryguymcsly:
And the water in them is usually so gross you’d wish for the fire.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Depends on the setup. Sprinklers in most places have a wax plug that releases the water when it melts. Some more flammable places use a system where the release of one valve triggers a change in water pressure that triggers a pump to kick on that is strong enough to blow out all the valves and shower water everywhere. These are really only used in industrial facilities like sawmills and woodworking facilities. So hero dude triggering it with a lighter in a movie, is still total BS.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
I've heard that Notre Dame cathedral in Paris has been rebuilt with a very high tech "misting" system in the roof space which will - I gather - fill the entire void with fine water droplets if a fire is detected anywhere up there. So, yeah, if you're up there above the ceiling of Notre Dame in Paris, you could set off the entire misting system with a lighter. I can't begin to imagine how much trouble you'd be in if you did. 😁
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Wang Zhuang 4 months ago
In my dorm home in college, when one sprinkler went off, they all did
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
THe water in them is SO GROSS! Its black and oily and smells really bad.
#37
Most people that work in government agencies are not evil guys in suits discussing how to screw you over in a dark room. They are regular people that happen to be really passionate about a specific field and could be making way more money in the private sector if they wanted to.
I wasn't surprised at all at how many government employees rejected Elon Musk's offer to pay them out because they aren't in this for the money lol.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Not evil guys in suits. Frequently overly sassy middle-aged women who are sick of your b******t and the horse it rode in on and all the horses in the stables where that horse is kept.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 4 months ago
That's certainly not true of the UK Civil Service. They have meetings about meetings about meetings about how to avoid taking any responsibility. Anyone I know who has left and gone into the private sector has been shocked by the sheer level of work that they are expected to do compared to previously. And they get gold-plated pensions and pay-offs that are absolutely outrageous.
Beaker72 4 months ago
Like a friend of mine who used to consult in the UK public sector would say: "the civil service - employing the unemployable"
Load More Replies... EJN 4 months ago
That was not the reason so many rejected Musk's offer to pay them for early retirement. It was because they wanted to continue to do their work and were not interested in making it easier for the d**n Trump administration to throw them out! Many instigated lawsuits for unlawful firing from their work.
Jane Hower 3 months ago
BS, the buy outs were way over their usualy salary. Above was written by someone with TDS
LovesBerk 4 months ago
If you have a government job, you are pretty well set for life. I worked in a job where I basically only had something to do at the end of the month where I sent out the newsletters to trainee doctors. At morning tea, we'd sit there for over half an hour talking and get an hour for lunch. There were people who genuinely did do a fair bit of work. I was bored silly with barely anything to do. Left there in the end because I lived too far away after moving house. At the end of the financial year, they had to find thing to spend their allowance on so that they could get the same amount of funding for the following year.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
Because a cushy job that you basically can't be fired from no matter how poorly you perform and a fantastic retirement/pension plan isn't worthwhile.
#38
High school students are really, REALLY, behind on reading… it’s frightening.
No_Mirror_3867:
I’m a high school teacher in Australia. I really, really fear for our future. Kids’ attention spans are shot, they don’t read anything that takes more than one minute and when they are given an activity to complete, they just stare at you until you model the answer on the board. We are seriously in trouble.
bElLa sTairZz 4 months ago
as someone in highschool currently its terrifying. actually HAVING to read anything is so rare, from a mix of kids not wanting to and not being able to. But I cant say most adults are reading any more than us
EJN 4 months ago
The older adults still read. Although I have also gotten my own electronic reader in addition to real books, I still prefer reading books to watching TV, online media, or comics.
Load More Replies... Anonymouse 4 months ago
As a parent, when we put the kids to bed at night, they could stay up for a bit if they read quietly. They always thought they were putting one over on us by reading for 30 or 40 minutes, lol... BTW, they all still read..
K Barnes 4 months ago
I teach middle elementary, right after kids learn to read and are becoming good readers. I don't send homework- the only homework is daily reading. The number of parents and kids who tell me that they don't have time to read for 10-15 minutes a night, or even every second night, because they're too busy (but have time for gaming and tv) is really scary. I had sport, I couldn't read. You had sport for 5 hours straight and couldn't read in the car on the way there?
#39
On a good note, the secret I’d like people to know is that anesthesia as a field is incredibly safe. We get super sick patients through surgery everyday. Young, healthy people you’d almost have to try to make something go wrong to have a bad outcome. The d***s and safety monitors are so much better than 20 years ago. We are really good at putting people to sleep and waking them up. You are safer in the OR than you are on the road driving to the OR, statistically.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
I went through back surgery where the anesthesiologist nearly cost me the sight in one eye because she was not paying attention to me. (It was being compressed from pressing into the sugery table.) And then she tried to tell me it was my fault. Lady, I was unconscious at the time. You made me that way, and it was your job to protect me from the effects of that. Fortunately therecovery nurse was a former student of mine and took the steps necessary. The head surgeon was not pleased at the subsequent meeting with him.
LovesBerk 4 months ago
Tell that to our friend who died on the operating table because of the anesthetic they gave him. Not their fault because they didn't know he was allergic to it and neither did he. They had to do CPR on him to get his heart going again and broke 9 ribs doing it. He is alive thanks to them, but still.
Seadog 4 months ago
The only 2 times I had to be put under was in my teens and both times I scared the anesthesiologist. I didn't wake up when I should have, not even close. I didn't begin to wake up until 24 hours later and it was quite a while after that before I was coherent. It's not a cut and dry calculation of body weight vs time. Some people are more affected by d***s than others.
Missy Moo Moo 4 months ago
My friend lives across the road from an anesthesiologist who complain to her that because her son was playing music at 9:30pm on a Friday night, he was going to end up killing somebody. Sounds like anesthesia might be safe but the doctors using it aren’t
Day Andie 4 months ago
Well then, why doesn't he turn the music down or use some headphones? Most anesthesiologists have to be at the hospital at the butt-crack of dawn, which means that they're up stinkin' early. It's a stressful job and they need rest. Give them guy a break. Maybe if it was your friend's son on the table they'd want a well-rested doc?
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Personal trainer turned doctor of physical therapy: exercise makes you healthier not skinnier.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
There are so many benefits to exercise ... the goal is not to look ripped - it's to strengthen your core to prevent falls, strengthen your bones, improve your mental health, and increase your stamina among other things. Get moving!
Remi (He/Him) 4 months ago
So true. I was in such a bad shape in my 40s before pokemon go came out. Haven't really lost weight compared to that time, but now I can do something like a 10km hike with no problems. And I can get up from a low stool without help, which, let's face it would have been a serious issue soon. Better your muscle tone, more independent years you have left
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
The reason I haven't driven a car in 20 years. I'm turning 45yo this week and I can ride a bike 30 miles a day. I'm not "ripped" but I have endurance.
Little Bit 4 months ago
I like to be active and exercise is important to me but thanks to my naturally short stocky build, exercise makes me bulk up, not lose weight.
#41
Your sinks and toilets are not garbage cans. For the love of all things holy, stop flushing wipes!
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
Or an idiot like my mother who would clean out her fridge and flush it. She always cut melons into big pieces. Me and my husband kept telling her to stop because she was going to have a problem. She didn't listen and it cost her over $2000 over 20 years ago.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago (edited)
$9 a month isn't as bad as you're making it out to be. I've paid more than that for Netflix.
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LovesBerk 4 months ago
Exactly. A few years ago the drains backed up in our house and we had sewage coming out of our bathroom drain, shower, sinks etc. The plumber came out and uncovered the sewage line. Basically water and sewage, tampons, wipes etc came fountaining out of that hole up to 4 ft high. Nearly everything in the vicinity of the drains in the house was affected and carpets and furniture had to be thrown out. It was an absolute s.hit show as you can guess. Thankfully we had a fantastic insurance company that was there for us through the whole process of replacing flooring, furniture etc. What an absolute fkg nightmare. Out of the house for over 6 weeks in hotels, motels and B&B houses.
#42
I worked for a large bank. My teams job was to figure out how many additional fees we could add before losing customers. Losing some customers was fine as long as we made it up in revenue.
LovesBerk 4 months ago
Me neither. I am with a building society and never ever had any account keeping fees. I am still surprised when I tell my friends that they still opt to go with the banks only because they've always been with them.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 4 months ago
In it's purest form. Credit unions used to be the cat's a*s as far as where you wanted to keep your nickles and dimes, but now they're aspiring to be just as s****y as banks, except with folksy advertisements.
Load More Replies... Richard Head 2 months ago
And the powerful capitalists have everyone convinced that communism is evil. And socialism is a threat, well it is, But only to the greedy!!
Seadog 4 months ago
I've worked for 2 banks. They have ways of taking your money you never dreamed of. And when they can't take it legally, they will just flat out steal it. I refi'd my house when the rates were down, they assigned it to a loan officer they knew was retiring and would be unable to complete it. A simple refi of a loan they already held took 3 months and in the end roughly $5000 vanished into thin air. Welcome to Truist Bank. The result of BB&T merging with the second worst bank in the US (Suntrust) and as everyone suspected, The wicked ways of Suntrust prevailed even though BB&T was the primary bank in the deal. One of the first things a bank will do to take your money is they process checks/debits before processing any deposits. This helps overdraw your account.
#43
Therapist, here. Clients are only (supposed to be) hospitalized when they pose a clear and present danger to themselves or others.
1. If you're scared to tell a professional how badly you're hurting, start every sentence with, "I'm not going to hurt myself, but..." It'll ease their nerves and help them focus on how to help you hang on.
2. If you're going to hurt yourself, say so. A short stay in the hospital beats eternity in the grave.
S P 4 months ago (edited)
When I did differential diagnosis I used to start each assessment with "I have reviewed your chart and I'll be asking you a lot of questions. Some of them you may have answered before, but I need to make sure they wrote the answer down correctly, and if anything had changed since the last time you answered these questions. I will be asking you about self harm and aggression. I have no interest in having you hospitalized if you don't need it, but those thoughts are a symptom and I need to know about them. In the future, so will your counselor and doctor so that we can tell if you're improving with treatment. I will let you know if I'm concerned by anything you share. " Clear is kind.
Hollerfloozy 4 months ago
This needs to be higher. So many folks are scared to tell their therapist the truth because they dont wanna be locked up. But that isnt the case at all. Be honest. They can only help if you tell them everything. ( Speaking as someone who has been in therapy for decades and I praise my care team as often as I can, they are awesome and have saved my life a few times over the years)
Deep One 4 months ago
I will never go for therapy or answer the doctor questionnaires honestly. One of my greatest fears in life isa losing my freedom/autonomy. I am routinely depressed and have s******l ideation but am too logical to actually do it. I KNOW I am being irrational. The only things that would cause me to s*****e would be blindness, loss of my arms, or loss of my freedom.
#44
The federal government is generally made up of people who want to work and serve the public. There’s no more waste here than in any other job I’ve ever been in.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
What is called "government waste" are usually programs that protect the poor from the rich. True government waste is found in those many programs that subsidize the rich.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Truth!! It's not a swamp that's deeper than any other company's mess except that they're not out to make a profit!
Michael Largey 4 months ago
The politically appointed head of our DMV (owner of a chain of hardware stores) got tired of hearing complaints about wait times. His solution was to remove all clocks from the walls in every office. Patrons responded by staring at the clerks. His solution was to turn all the chairs in DMV waiting rooms away from the clerks and nail them to the floor. The governor sent him back to the hardware store.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
True. Have seen more waste and mind numbing bureaucracy in some of the private sector than Gov't. Have worked in both
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
One person's narrow, subjective experience is all that's needed to prove there's no waste in an entity that hasn't had a balanced budget in 30 years and in 2022 just arbitrarily printed $1 trillion dollars that nearly tanked the world economy.
#45
Anonymous employee surveys aren't really anonymous. I spent almost 50 years in market research - if we really want to know who did that survey badly enough, we can figure it out.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
Same. I'm not putting in a survey anything I wouldn't say out loud anyway -- pu$$yfooting solves nothing and exists to create more anxiety. And if they fire me, they fire me. They're only screwing themselves and likely proving the very points I addressed.
Load More Replies... Jaymi 4 months ago
I’m a teacher so I work for the government - (in public education) - and I keep saying this to my colleagues. Your answers are not anonymous, your administration / boss / employer is most certainly reading your feedback about them and knows exactly who wrote who’s answers.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
When my last principal finally agreed to an "anonymous" staff evaluation after years of ducking it, the glare he gave me afterwards told me that he knew which comments were mine. Which was my intent.
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Jan Rosier 4 months ago
That's the reason I always add some snarky or sometimes even offending remark on one of the subjects in question if there is a freetext space to fill in. Let them come back to me about my remark, please do, so I can point a the anonimity...
geezeronthehill 4 months ago
Got fired after an anonymous survey. It didn't help the company, they still tanked within a year.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
And that's why I never really give my true feelings or opinions about the stupid employee satisfaction survey every year at work.
#46
The US' education system is far more f****d up than you could ever fear.
Every single metric used to measure success is beyond biased: Many students get literally-twenty tries to pass basic tests, so as to keep graduation rates looking strong. The 'standardized' tests your state employs have backup tests, and backup-backup-backup-backup tests ready to go, just for emergencies.
The problem is that those emergencies equate to about a third of the entire student population. But you would never know that because all of the results are lumped together so that there's always lovely pass-rates.
Since COVID first broke out, I have personally witnessed dozens of students graduate while not being able to spell their own names or tie their own shoes; and I work in one of the most prestigious counties in the country. Whoever teaches in the lowest counties deserves infinite money and praise.
Most of these issues are perpetrated by parents who refuse to accept their children's failures, many others by governmental entities who want to look good and lower standards to do so, and the rest by students who cheat 24-7 and get away with it because teachers have no supported ways of detecting/reporting such things, even though the cheating is insanely obvious (For as to why, see the previous reasons).
Even, right now, Reddit's spell-check is trying to tell me that, "children's" is incorrect. We're so f****d.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Modern government tests sometimes can be more about politics than education. The first year my state gave a state-wide public school test, the results were rather good. The state secretary of education, who wanted to ride his position into the governor's mansion, arbitrarily changed the test the next year so more students would fail and he's have a crisis to campaign on. Politics aside, these tests are often made by people who have no clue about the course material. I was asked to preview a proposed state standardized test on Precalculus written by a university professor unconnected to the public schools. Thirty percent of the questions were on subjects not in the state Precalulus curriculum or in any of the required state textbooks. But guess who would get the blame if the test had been given in that form and caused a huge number of "failures"?
Katiekat 4 months ago
Retired teacher here, and people have been moaning "O tempora, o mores" for millenia. Think back to time of Socrates, and yet somehow we all muddle through. Michael Largey's comment is spot on. Politics infect testing far more than actual knowledge does. You also can't readily spot hunger, tiredness, just don't wanna take this stupid test, fights with family, fights with friends, a sugar high, and on and on. So much depends on whether an individual kid just happens to test well, or if they are just not feeling it at all that day. What kids know vs what tests measure are two very, very different things.
BarfyCat 4 months ago
Since they don't receive a grade for the standardized test, the kids have no incentive to care or try.
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Jonathan Setter 3 months ago
spell checks can be really weird. For example, they always insist "whinging" is not a word, but if you check any online dictionary, it d**n well is. Other times you can input 90% of a word, and it still won't autocomplete it for you.
Seadog 4 months ago (edited)
The US has the worst education system in the world and at the bottom of that barrel of sludge is Virginia. Kids would probably be better off just getting a job at the age of 5 and learning life and hands on skills. Virginia uses SOL tests and that's what they focus on instead of teaching. The teachers waste the whole year coaching the students how to pass the SOL test. Which is still useless because Virginia also ahs the no child left behind rule. So the only way to not pass and graduate is not show up at all.
DC 4 months ago
I've cheated in school since forever. Read basic math from a blank page, calculated on the spot, because it was so fücking easy. Most of this happened in the mid-branch of german education ("Realschule"). In Uni, I have not cheated, and success was not a given for the bare minimum of effort, like in school, but it would have felt wrong, and we were allowed a formula sheet of our own making, or any books/scripts we desired, depending on subject - cheating on a "suitcase exam" effectively (so that your grades are better) would require means that, then, weren't present. And also, would have been actually serious, if caught. PREPARING to cheat, often, is among the best methods to learn. Doping you up ... let's just say, whatever makes you fast and thirsty will, exactly, consume the time you won by bathroom breakes, and these look susp.
Saltypepper 4 months ago
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nottheactualphoto 4 months ago
Can you please make this less legible? Thanks.
Load More Replies... Alex Kennedy 4 months ago
Teachers who talk this way, as if the problem is that we’re just not *tough enough* on the students, are usually very poor teachers of the chalk-and-talk school who just can’t understand why rote memorization and almost zero helpful interaction doesn’t work as well as “back when we could beat the little SOBs”. One of the reasons I left teaching.
#47
Your air conditioner rarely needs a full replacement. A lot of private equity has gobbled up many small and locally owned HVAC companies and push full replacements because there’s more profit on a $10,000 install compared to $500 to replace a fan motor or capacitor.
Susie Elle 4 months ago (edited)
My AC manufacturer said: just take out the filter and give it a rinse, as long as you don't smell mould it's fine, lmao. EDIT: oh and the fan unit thing needs to be cleaned from leaves and stuff,
BookFanatic 4 months ago
Hm. Tell that to my 25 yr old A/C that up and quit during the last heatwave. Sometimes s**t just needs to be replaced.
M O'Connell 4 months ago (edited)
The key question is "Why, specifically, did it quit?" It's important to get to the bottom of "why" since technicians cannot be guaranteed to be knowledgeable at the component level. My mother's furnace "quit" a few years ago, two HVAC companies shrugged their shoulders, said "I don't know, that'll be $5000 for a new one please." The problem was a crack'd solder joint I found on the control board. $0. If they cannot tell you why you should replace something, find someone else.
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When I built my house in 93, the unit they installed was a Bryant (division of Carrier). Within a year it was failing and they refused to fix it even though it was still under warranty. I had to pay another company to fix it. Within 5 years ever component of the system failed except the condenser fan motor. When I had a new system installed i told them no more Bryant. Little did I know at the time the unit they installed was still made by Carrier. It too failed in less than 10 years, 3rd system? Trane. Yep failed and not my first rodeo with Trane. 4th system I made it clear I wanted nothing made by Carrier or Trane. They installed Amana. That was 15 years ago and the only problem I had, they replaced free of charge. Ironically, we have Carrier units at work and they break down every year. To be the original AC manufacturer, they have become the worst made.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
I had to have my 22 yo HVAC system replaced 3 years ago and paid $6,600 It was the lowest estimate but a Trane system, I had never heard of the other systems that didn't have good reviews.
nottheactualphoto 4 months ago
For a central (AC or HVAC) system, the installation expertise is at least as important as the hardware itself.
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When we tell you we don’t have any more of an item in the back, it’s because we really don’t have more in the back. Sometimes we don’t even have a back at all.
Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago
Heh. During Holiday rush, I wouldn't even flinch. "Do you have more product X out back"? Nope. "You're not going to look?" Nope, because I know we don't have it. Used to make customers soooooo mad.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Very few retail establishments have a business plan involving hiding merchandise from the customer so they can't buy it.
Verfin22 4 months ago
Commented on another thread about this. Our store may seem huge, but we don't keep excess merch for a reason. Our backrooms are designed to hold that day's deliveries until they're stocked to the shelf. My chain specifically has the overstock on the very highest shelf, assuming we have it. The dairy dept doesn't keep much out of fear with expiring product. I can even prove the amount of something we have on my phone without "looking" for it. If it's popular enough to sell in a whole day, you might get lucky.
ROSESARERED 4 months ago
After 35 years I'm retail, I'm amazed how many people don't get it...if the shelf is empty, we cannot sell the product, so if there is more' out the back' we have filled it....that the job.....customers cannot go out the back to shop, and we cannot sell empty air on shelves.
Faelwolf 4 months ago
My local Dollar Tree is the exception to this. Usually, I mention that they appear to be out of something, they'll go check for me and often come back with the item. They are understaffed, and don't always get everything out on the shelves. But they are the best customer service of any stores in my area.
EJN 4 months ago
Stores used to stock products. Now, the system has changed so that stock is not as important and "last minute deliveries" are. The stores not only do not want to invest in warehouses, but also they do not want to tie up cash flow by ordering in advance and in quantity. If a product turns out not to sell well, you are stuck with it if you ordered in big volume in advance.
Dariusz M. D. 4 months ago
I am not sure about that. If a popular item is on sale, and the sale is running for a week, the whole inventory is divided into seven daily parts to maintain supply for the duration of the sale. Most likely they will tell you, come tomorrow in the morning, when shelves are restocked.
Seadog 4 months ago
Most people don't understand this isn't the 80's and before. Stores don't receive their product the way they did back then. Most stores either don't have backstock or it's such a small amount it'll fit on one 4' section of shelving. And computer tracking of sales and restocking means the shelves are restocked every day at least once. Unless you're buying all of a product on the shelf and want more, there's no reason to ask about backstock.
#49
Donating money to a library >>>>>>> donating books to a library.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
I give books to the library because I don't have money to give to the library because I spent my money buying books.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
Books donated to libraries get thrown out. I've never kept a single book donation for the library (some for myself, co-workers, or friends), because it was either a book we already had (best sellers or classics), super obscure that even librarians didn't know it, or just plain gross -- there's no know what environment the books were in, so it's safer to toss them than, say, someone having an allergic reaction to the peanut dust you left on the pages (sure, that's a possibility anyhow, but at least we know our books are at least clean on day one). Sell the books to a used bookstore and give the money to your library. I mean it, we don't want your books.
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Gracie Mae 4 months ago
my library has a 'for sale' section - some of it is donated, but some of it is stuff they've taken out of circulation. I donate or buy every time I go, and the kids think a 'new' book is awesome!
#50
As an Architect, now retired: 50% of married couples who take on a major, like down to the studs, house remodel end up in divorce.
Fellfromthemoon 4 months ago
50% of marriages end in divorce. House remodel doesn't affect the proportion, according to OP.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Right. But that still can be a useful piece of information.
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XenoMurph 4 months ago
I nearly bought an old 18th century barn to renovate. I did my maths and we could just about afford it. but if something went wrong, we couldn't. So we didn't. But my sister in law did. They needed to take down one whole side of the barn and put in new foundations. They were divorced before the barn was finished.
#51
Worked IT outsourcing for 2 decades. If you knew the outdated programming, lax report security and general disdain for tech that the biggest financial institutions have for their data production, you'd stick your money in mattresses.
#52
If you have a feeling of impending doom, come to the ED. It could save your life.
TribalMog:
Literally happened to my husband. He had refused for days to let me take him to the hospital for pain/illness. He woke me up one night at like 2 am to tell me he loved me because he just knew he was dying. I told him to shut up and put on pants. Several hours and 1 emergency surgery that bumped everyone else on the schedule later and now I get to make the call of when he has to see a doctor lol.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Ah, US pants, not UK pants. Just in case, in the US, pants mean trousers, in the UK pants refer to underwear, aka knickers.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I personally find that a feeling of impending doom gives me ED, too. I'm sorry 😂 if you use the acronym ED with someone not in the same field, there is a SOLID chance that their mind will immediately go to erectile dysfunction due to d**g commercials.
#53
As a casino dealer: We are standing at the same table you are sitting at, we can absolutely hear you talking about all those sensitive/incriminating topics.
As a nurse: We already know your medical history you don't need to lie about addictions or embarrassing health issues, we aren't going to judge you over details we need to do our job properly.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
The nurse quoted is not always right. We once brought my mother-in-law into a hospital she had never been to before. But a family member with the same first and last name had been treated there several times - and was now diseased. We stressed at the admitting desk that my mil was not the person in their records but an entirely new patient. They said they would make sure they got it right. When she got to see a doctor, he examined her and at one point said "You look pretty good for being 91!" My mil was 73 at the time. The admitting staff, despite what we had told them, had given the doctor the medical records of the dead relative.
Kalis VarKrom 5 days ago
The hospital I go to, I have been going there now for 8 years. I know they keep complete details on me. Many of the Nurse's know very well. But some do not. One time a Nurse I did not know came in to my room with coffee, and asked if Wanted some Chicken soup. I was bit surprised they knew my most asked for items. I asked how the knew what I liked. And He replied, You fames around here. Your records go back 8 years and most every Nurse you have had say your best patient to have, and put down your most asked for items you like. And right at the top you want black coffee all the time. It said if we our out you get up and go over the next ward to get if you want it.
#54
Your child's daycare teachers really do clean them throughout the day, they are just dirt magnets.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
Honestly, that's probably not far from the truth.
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Former fast food manager. Believe it or not, nobody is intentionally trying to screw up your order. We are generally making thousands of orders a day, with constant pressure to be faster. Every once in a while, things go wrong or we miss something.
We’re happy to fix it if you bring it back, and even more so if you aren’t a complete a-hole about it.
Ahnjunwan 4 months ago
I dear, that reminds me of a experience i had in germany. Ordered a big burger with bacon and extra cheese and took it to the table to eat it. I eat a little bit, no bacon. Usually i would just eat it anyway and would not care but this day I WANTED BACON!!! Went back to the counter, waited until no other customer was there anymore and said there is sadly no bacon on my burger. The man at the counter told me he will bring me a new one. Next thing that happened was the manager coming to my table, literally dropping the burger in front of me and taking the old burger apart at my table to prove there is actually a tiny bit of bacon on my burger 😰 That was so embarrasing, i am still not sure if i am a horrible customer or he is a horrible manager 🫣
BookFanatic 4 months ago
My dad and I got the wrong order at the drive-thru once. I (12 at the time) went back in, twice, to get them to fix it. The third time, Dad went in. Don't know what he said, but he came back with our food and a whole bag of apple pies.
Kalis VarKrom 5 days ago
Not all employees are the same, I worked fast food for a time. I have seen some who clam we were out of something just for the fact, they did not want make it.
Erik Hedenskog 4 months ago
You forgot my ranch I'm going to go over that counter and k**l you
#56
IT just googles s**t all day long. The secret is that we're much better at Googling than most.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago (edited)
I did IT before Google. I'm not going back and you can't make me!
PeepPeep the duck 4 months ago (edited)
I do prefer someone with a passion for the job myself ⭐️ so thank you. Can’t imagine IT before google, imagine the stress of studying that
Load More Replies... Jonathan Setter 3 months ago
Def this. Except. if you are a hardware repairer trained to repair specific manufacturers computers, then you learn all about the actual faults and stuff that breaks. and the special procedures for diagnosis and repair.
#57
Painter here
Residential and commercial painting bids are almost always inflated. Never pay to hear a bid, they should always be free and make sure to get multiple from different places.
Unless you are requesting a unique service or an art mural, the material and labor costs are easily calculated per square feet of specific surfaces. Ask for an itemized bid if you feel the contractor is being shady, any that give you push back for an itemized bid aren't willing to put good effort into the project.
Don't accept "we don't do that" when asking for itemized bids, it's a cop out for poorly managed businesses.
- industrial and commercial coatings specialist
#58
Water operator. Everyone should be aware of the dangers of forever chemicals in the water. Also some bacteria are becoming more and more immune to antibiotics.
john doe 4 months ago
PFAS is going to be a huge issue in the future, ditch the Teflon pots and pans.
M O'Connell 4 months ago
Never mind the Teflon pans! Thermal-printed materials (shipping labels, store receipts, etc) are chock-full of bisphenol S.
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An Emergency Room doctor told me: “when the elevator doors are closing, let them close.”
edit: a number of people have pointed out that this is a great metaphor as well. Take it however you want. However, at the time the guy told me, he was telling me literally.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
If you're in the hallway of a hospital and you hear a CODE BLUE get against the wall because the code team will literally be running to the code. I've told that to people several times.
#60
I work at a vet clinic, and i got a few:
yes your dog or cat needs the rabies vaccine. rabies is transmissible to humans, and it's deadly.
yes your pet can have fleas, even if they never go outside, or if your yard is fenced in, or if you live in a gated community. fleas have no concept of property lines.
your local veterinarian is not always the best place to take the turtle you found on the side of the road. many vet clinics don't see wildlife, and many don't see reptiles at all.
Auntriarch 4 months ago (edited)
If you have a greyhound, make sure the vet is aware that they can't use the normal weight calculation for anaesthetic. Greyhounds have extremely low body fat, and using the normal amount of anaesthetic for their weight will be an o******e.
Missy Moo Moo 4 months ago
Anything other than spaying or teeth cleaning should be done by a specialist vet, otherwise you are just wasting your money
#61
Maybe not so much of a secret, but I work retail. My section alone generates like 5 peoples worth of garbage for every restock. Which is pretty often.
So every time you're trying to find a plastic free alternative at a store, remember that there's probably someone in that store right now throwing out 40x more trash. Lol.
That being said, always strive to reduce your garbage load.
#62
I don't know if it's really a secret, but when an animal shelter lists a dog as a certain breed + mix we are 100% guessing. We aren't even sure the breed we listed is accurate.
A lot of doggy DNA doesn't show physically and most breeds share their various physical features with other breeds, so it's actually incredibly difficult to identify without a DNA test. And those are far too expensive and impractical for a dog shelter.
But if it looks like a husky and barks like a husky, it's probably a husky!
I only mention it because I do see a fair number of posts of people being surprised their rescue isn't the breed that was listed.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Our rescue kinda looked like a Burmese Mountain dog. Did a DNA test. Pit and Shar Pei, dalmatian, cocker spaniel and something else. Total mutt, but we love his goofy self.
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
BTW, the majority of Pits I've met are sweethearts. I walk a lot for exercise and have encountered them bounding out to greet me. I am concerned until they roll onto their back and want pets. Some are d**n scary, but most are just like a big ol' goofy Lab.
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Janeybent42 4 months ago
Our rescue said border collie and she is a pit German Shepard mix haha! Best dog ever!
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
My brother had a cairn terrier mixed with something else. We all wondered, because of behaviour and looks, if it was part dingo!
geezeronthehill 4 months ago
"Purebred" strains and the associated registries have only been around for a couple hundred years. Before that, people bred dogs for their ability to do their jobs, not what the parents looked like.
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
What scares me is how many rescues, even nationwide ones, seem to have no idea about dog breeds at all. They list dogs completely inaccurately, which makes me worry about what else they are misrepresenting and why their knowledge is so poor.
#63
Maybe not a big secret but after 30+ years as a therapist and clinical supervisor, almost everyone (excluding children) are their own worst enemy.
Whatever struggle, issue or problem you have, the solution starts with you doing something differently. But far too many people prefer to either blame others or are unwilling to change or both. Kids and adolescents are often more amenable to change and to take responsibility for themselves than many adults.
Second, that despite this, therapy has the same outcomes as most chronic physical health problems, typically between 40-60% positive outcomes for patients. And the reasons for unsuccessful outcomes are also the same, unwillingness to make changes, especially lifestyle changes that lead to healthier outcomes. Doctor prescribes a medicine, it will only work if you take it. You and therapist develop a plan for change, it will only work if you try it, give it some time and make adjustments when needed.
Cheryl May 4 months ago
Also a therapist and supervisor; can confirm. My team has a saying about the clients/families we are working with: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't waterboard the horse."
#64
Software developers actually need time to write code, keeping us locked in useless scrum ceremonies and endless meetings doesn't get your work done.
EDIT: Just a fun fact, I calculated the past 5 months of meetings, our dev team had an average of 29 hours of meetings *per week*. No that’s not a typo. No management is not receptive to any kind of streamlining. Yes I’m looking for a new job.
#65
Landscape designer- all plants require maintenance, sorry.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
At the same time, getting plants that are native to where you live will mean a lot less maintenance. We're in high desert, and the yucca plants and cactus on our property require absolutely no care at all.
#66
Tugboat captain pushing barges on the rivers.
Every one of those tugboats is being steered by a very bored pilot who is looking at their phone 95% of the time. Maybe even doomscrolling Reddit. They glance up every 20 seconds or so, then right back to their phone.
If you're a recreational boater out there, stay out of the way. Do not assume they see you because they do not. They're on their phone.
I'm shocked more weekend warriors don't get run over.
Kim Kermes 4 months ago
Doesn't matter how often the captain. ook, it takes forever for a change of direction, please tell us how long. Also, they have right of way in the deep channel, and can't leave it.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
There's no accurate way to determine without a set of variables that change widely based on individual barges (size, weight, condition, speed) and the body of water (current, mostly). However, I did find one statistic that it can take up to a mile and half for them to stop a fully loaded barge. Considering this and an average barge speed of 4-12mph (we'll go with 8mph for convenience). Even assuming they had no deceleration (They go 8mph across 1.5 miles and then suddenly stop, as a slowdown would add extra time they would need to warn them in time.) it would take about 11 minutes and 15 seconds for them to come to a complete halt. The best you could possibly hope for is for them to divert course to avoid you if for some reason you get stuck in their path, and that's almost impossible to account for due to variables in captain reaction. The good news is you'll have plenty of time to get out of the way, but best to not be in a situation where you have to calculate it.
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Everything you do online is traceable and fed into advertising platforms. Speaking for myself, I'm aware how much of my anxiety comes from the targeted content, organic by the algorithms but more insidiously paid content by advertisers. People selling you bs over email or phone, know more about your online activity that you think of. ABM platforms, if the user is careless enough online, show me company, user name, job title and when they visited my client's websites, which products they saw, clicked..., sometimes contact info, IP etc.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Reminds me of something I read a few years ago when some bloke complained he was getting ads from p o r n sites and didn't know why. I think someone suggested the reason to him. All I get is weird ads for something I've never heard of in binary code or Leamington Spa. I think my searches must be fairly innocent!
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
What's equally annoying is researching a product, buying it, and then being deluged with ads for the same thing. When I purchased a garden shed a few years ago, I did online research first. After building it, I got ads for sheds for the next two years. Do they really think I'm going to build a subdivision of sheds on my property?
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#68
Theatre tickets are very expensive (because making theatre is very expensive) BUT if you have a local professional theatre whose shows you’re interested in, there’s likely many opportunities to get free or discounted tickets.
• Volunteer ushers usually get to see shows for free.
• Look for “Pay What You Can” nights — sometimes it will be a certain night or they might open up tickets to PWYC at a certain hour before the show to fill seats.
• Theatres post discount codes on their social media pages.
• They’ll do speciality discount nights like previews, college night, etc.
• If you’re a local library card holder, they might have passes you can check out to see shows for free.
There’s a handful of people working at theatres focused on getting the bills paid so they do focus on ticket sales and donors. We love them and value them. But as a collective everyone working at a theatre wants full houses and for as many people to see a show as would like to see the show. Finding out a show you worked hard on is getting full houses is like h****n for people who know how to play zip-zap-zop.
Missy Moo Moo 4 months ago
University with acting degrees have very cheap theatre, and some of it is AMAZING
#69
The name brand eyewear like Gucci, Versace, and Coach are some of the worst quality. I would never ever recommend them to anyone. Total waste of money. You’re paying for the logo. That is it.
Also, sometimes if your glasses come back too quickly, we will hold onto them for a few days longer so you think the lab took their time making them. Too quick of a turnaround makes it feel rushed. Rarely seen as a good thing.
Twidder Sux 4 months ago
Those glasses made by Gucci, Versace, and Coach are also owned by a monopoly in Italy. Those SOBs are the reason why the cost of prescription eyeglasses are so price gouge-y.
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
Last pair I got I put on in the optometrist's office, couldn't see a d**n thing. "Oh, they made the whole thing bifocal strength"..well THERE'S your problem. Do not allow them to say you will get 'used to it'.
Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart 4 months ago
The lenses are what make the quality and you choose lens materials and features (like anti-reflective coatings, etc.) separately from the frames. So the quality will be the same whether you get Gucci frames or not. Just pick the frames you like.
Eliyahu Rooff 2 weeks ago
When my wife was visiting Korea recently, she found eye clinics that make the glasses while you wait.
#70
Restarting your computer or updating your system solves half of all problems, the next 25% is pure user incompetence that you create yourself, then 10% hardware failure, and the rest is a bug in the program.
bElLa sTairZz 4 months ago
25% being incompetence also means that you can usually go to IT if you need to get out of something. real easy to click the wrong link a few times and just have no idea why it wont work!
Michael Largey 4 months ago
If you're a Windows user, you know that updating your system can introduce more problems that it solves.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Loved my brother's description of his first day: in IT at one place They're doing a tour and get to the server room. Guide starts listing some facts about the hard drives and one of the people on the tour hears the guide COMPLETELY wrong. "Oh, they're hot-swappable?" (Able to be disconnected on the fly with no serious reconfiguration) and everyone just turns around in horror to find this guy who just asked that is holding a disconnected drive in his hand. The guide just looks at him with absolute horror. "No. No, I did not.". What followed was having to reset the entire server system. I believe they were able to get everything fixed up with minimal loss, but for the love of god people: Wait for a response before you pull out an active piece of hardware.
#71
I can't speak for all Hotels/Motels.
We at the property will not freely cancel a reservation if the date of the reservation is within 72 hours of when you're trying to cancel(like trying to cancel a Saturday reservation on Thursday).
However! We will move the date of a reservation (as long as it was made directly with us, not through a third party like Booking.com) for free. This is entirely an oversight on our part. I assume most Hotels have their s**t together enough to fix this loophole.
So just move the reservation out to next week. Ok, now it's more than 72 hours away? Cancel for free. Give it a shot.
#72
A lot of times in retail, particularly popular “beauty” brands, when they do a big sale on “bestselling” favorites or have a brand artist claiming fav products…these are actually products they are having trouble selling. Not all and not always…but very often.
#73
Always ask for a discount when you shop at a pawnshop, at least 20%, they should be able to do that. Also, check dates, when an item has been there for over 6 months they want to sell it.
Jill Jones 4 months ago
The best time to shop at a p**n shop is the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. They have to pay taxes on everything in stock as of January 1st. So they want to get rid of as much as possible.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
I just want to know if you originally typed p0rn shop or p@wn shop because BP's censorbots amuse me.
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#74
Go to freaking class. Even if you don’t pay attention you will accidentally learn. Don’t skip, it doesn’t work.
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
I am one of the last who was able to drop out and 'succeed' Went into the service without a diploma, got a GED after I got out. Classwork was SO much easier at that age. I am still convinced if you can read and comprehend, that is 75% of success.
#75
Our field is being taken over by private equity, we work with kids with special needs. you'll get overworked analyst, overworked therapist with poor training and supervision, and your kids will suffer for it. some things shouldn't be ran for profit.
also there is some fraud in terms of users, there are agencies that train people to play up their kids' symptoms and use us as baby sitters. This needs to be addressed as well but it won't b/c there is PROFIT to be made on both sides.
#76
We do NOT “psycho-analyze” random people that we meet in social settings, or acquaintances, or even close friends.
Our parents & sibs? Yes, yes, we very much do diagnose them in our heads.
Cheryl May 4 months ago
Speak for yourself...I became a therapist cuz psychoanalyzing random strangers, close friends, and extended family members is fun! xD
#77
It’s remarkably easy to become a “bestselling” author. It’s a simple trick of gaming the market.
1. There are multiple lists that authors aim for, the two big ones being USA Today and New York Times. USA Today is easier to get onto because it counts ebook sales, whereas NYT does not. Publishers often offer various exclusive benefits to preorders to drive week-one sales, which is crucial for list placement. Think exclusive content, swag, etc.
2. Publishers sometimes bulk-buy thousands of copies of a book, which they then report to the lists as bona fide sales. These books are then trashed.
3. Publishers will partner with various organizations (corporate, educational) to bulk buy books, which appear as authentic sales to the lists.
4. Publishers will pay bookstores to showcase the book, often under guise as a "staff pick." Those "staff favorites" at Barnes & Noble? Probably paid for.
5. Publishers will create multiple versions of the same book to game the Amazon lists.
6. Authors (like pastor/human piece of s**t Mark Driscoll) have been known to use shady marketing firms to literally lie their way onto the bestseller lists.
7. Publishers use manipulative category choice to place their books in categories that don't offer much competition, meaning it's easier to become #1.
murmelinpaiva 4 months ago
Why are ebooks so expensive? The seller has no printing or shipping costs.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
For libraries, I can tell you a lot of the cost is toward the licensing. Librarians pay a licensing fee (ours is about $125/title) in order to add an ebook to our collection. Some publishers are talking about making libraries re-purchase the license after so many checkouts. Why? My unofficial thought is that publishers don’t like the fact that ebooks are a “one and done” purchase. Physical books wear out and replacements need to be purchased. Ebooks don’t.
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You know how every movie about a profession gets that profession hilariously wrong.
Well I used to be a journalist, and most movies about journalism, is pretty accurate.
I think it’s because whoever wrote the script probably wasn’t a firefighter, or bomb defuser, but they probably were a journalist.
murmelinpaiva 4 months ago
All the President's Men. In those days, editors cared about truth in journalism.
#79
Restaurant Worker ,if you’re rude to the waitstaff, don’t be surprised if your food takes longer. We’re not spitting in it, but no one’s in a rush.
#80
Most grocery stores will get the same products from the same distributor as other grocery stores.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I know some people hate Walmart and for some very good reasons. But OMG they are so much cheaper than other grocery chains. My frugal sensibilities will not let me shop elsewhere for basics.
Fluffypanda 4 months ago
In my area, and not some tiny town either, they have the biggest gluten free selection.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
'Most' private brands are as good as name brand. Will never buy 'Great Value' frozen corn again, Meijer is SO superior.
#81
Hospitality workers usually don’t care as much as you care, but if you’re kind to them they can work magic for you.
Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago
Hospitality worker here - can confirm. We take care of people that are nice to us. If you're an a*s, well...I'm sorry, there's just no way for me to do that.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Just be decent to everyone. Please, thank you, it's not your fault you were late/the carton/bottle was broken/yes of course you can deliver early/you are just doing your job and so on. People do their jobs, and get some verbal abuse. Be nice.
#82
If you pay your kitchen staff enough to care enough about properly cleaning and maintaining the equipment in your restaurant, it’ll last a WHOLE LOT LONGER.
#83
You know all those corporate emails and Teams/Slack messages you think no one else can see...... sorry, we see them all. Same story with your browsing history.
Jonathan Setter 3 months ago
why do they even include stuff like this? There is no way to understand what this person is talking about. Who is "we" and what sort of things are they talking about. Any "story" of one or two sentences will not give you enough information to be comprehendible.
#84
You don’t have to top off your refrigerant(Freon) in your air conditioner every year. If someone is telling you that ask where it’s leaking at.
Don’t trust a plumber who bites their nails.
M O'Connell 4 months ago
But you can trust an upholster who bites their nails, its often a necessary part of the job.
Load More Replies... Jonathan Setter 3 months ago
never heard such a thing. Never had it done, either at home or in car.
#85
Hospice- we don’t k**l or assist or do anything to hasten DEATH.
Majority of home hospice pts IMPROVE if over 3 weeks care.
Hospice doesn’t make much money, more of a community service.
Hospice is there to teach all present how best to care for your person. No, is ALWAYS an answer. But GUILT lasts forever.
Candice Robinson 4 months ago
You would be surprised. Watch some of the youtube videos from hospice nurses.
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Generic and name brand medications are NOT the same. They only contain the same active ingredient. Some companies care a lot about the quality of their generic, others don’t get consistent results and do not care.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
My insurance company would not cover the cost of a name-brand medication that worked well for me. I tried the generic, and it had terrible side effects. I asked my doctor who pushed to get coverage for my original medication because, he said, the generic had differences that made it not work as well. He was denied. I hate US healthcare.
Earthquake903 4 months ago
Luigi hated them for the same reasons. The insurance companies are predatory and pure evil.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 4 months ago
Sometimes the "filler" ingredients can wreak absolute havoc on people.
Tim Gibbs 4 months ago
Whoever voted me down you are a complete cockwomble!
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Cemetery manager. If your cemetery requires you to buy a vault, buy the cheapest one—they ALL get waterlogged; none are waterproof no matter what they’re lined with or coated/“sealed” with. Don’t fall for that s**t.
Jamie Peterson 4 months ago
Such a (modern) date of land. Historically significant gravestones are fun, educational. Entire families buried on top of one another. Uncle John Joe in a Cedar Casket next to a strip mall - Hard Pass. Save the fields & Forests.
#88
In those cremated remains glass sculptures, and cremation diamonds, almost all of the remains have been burned away so its really just the glass.
-funeral home worker.
Annabelle 4 months ago
For me, it's the 'almost' that matters. If any part of my loved one is there, it's them and they're with me. And, really, as long as no sadistic pr!ck tells me that they are 0% there, I'm going to think at least some of them is there, so leave me and the assumed presence of my loved one be.
#89
Dental professional here - we can’t always tell if you floss or not.
In most cases it’s very evident when someone has great oral hygiene and flosses. But some people can get away with skipping the floss, likely related to having good genetics!
#90
Most people that work at a library are library associates. A librarian requires a masters in library science. Also, no….library workers don’t even get close to reading all day, if at all.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
But at least it's a very calm and quiet place where nothing ever happens, right? RIGHT? (says a librarian)
STress (I/me) 4 months ago
But, they collect and keep stuff like the Sword in the Stone, or the Grail, right?
#91
Hairstylist here. If you always end up with a "crooked" haircut no matter how many different salons you go to, you probably just have a crooked head. Never in the history of the human race has there ever been a perfectly symmetrical face; everyone has one ear or eye that's slightly larger/smaller, higher/lower, bigger/smaller, etc.
The difference is that great stylists know how to create the illusion of symmetry.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Thanks, I'll just continue to cut my hair every few months with scissors. You do you, as always.
#92
Worked a few professions in my life.
- Restaurants cut corners wherever possible. Margins are thin and most places will use things right up to and maybe beyond the point of expiration.
- Any accountant will tell you that every company, no matter what it is, wastes gobs of money of random things while also penny pinching in equally random ways.
- Company leadership often hide their shenanigans deep in the back of corporate books. So deep that even if there is strong suspicion that something off, most will be driven mad before finding anything specific.
- People joke (or are legit paranoid) about the government knowing everything about them. I can assure them that not only is this true, but companies know WAY more and profit off it. The only comfort I can give is that you (and everyone around you) are "average" and there is nothing so special that will make them "come after you.".
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
What amuses me is people don't want the 'Gummint' to know their business. Private companies know WAY more and are not constrained by Constitutional law.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
And won't obey the law unless they get caught and taken to court.
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I work in clothing at Costco. You know how you grab the shirt from the bottom of the stack because you think it's the cleanest? Sorry, it's not. They move tables around so much that it's very likely the bottom of the stack was the top of the stack yesterday and so on.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
Same. They don't feel like mine until they smell like my detergent. Yes, I'm weird.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
If you buy clothes, wash them before wearing. If they're new, the fabric's probably never been cleaned and you've no idea what sort of stuff's been left over from making the fibres into thread, making the thread into cloth, then making the cloth into clothes - then packing it and shipping it (etc, etc). If they're second hand they might have been washed before going to the charity shop or whatever - but then they get handled...
Jan Rosier 4 months ago
Donot forget fumigation if you're buying clothes that were made oeverseas and shipped to you. Parts of that stuff might sill be in the fabric and might cause huge irritation.
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Airline Ticket and Gate Agent:
* When we tell you we don’t know why a flight is delayed or cancelled, we REALLY don’t know. You often get updates on your app before we know there’s a delay.
* We think the bag fees are exorbitant, too. We don’t make them, it’s just our job to collect them.
* We want you to get on the plane as much as you want to be on it. It makes a lot of extra work for us to re-book.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
There is no advantage to being an a sshole to ticket and gate agents, and it often will work against you. Being super nice and patient can often pay off!
Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)
And there's no reason to crowd the boarding gate to try to get in before it's your turn. All passengers on a flight take off at the same time.
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Heavy equipment operators tend to be tired, surly, and addicted to at least a few things, it’s genuinely good practice to just stay way the f**k away from any piece of heavy equipment.
We love it when you’re not around.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Make sure the JCB/tractor/HGV drivers/in fact any drivers of large and heavy vehicles can see you before you move into their path. Don't assume you can stand there scrolling on your phone without taking a blind bit of notice and they will see you. Make sure they know where you are. At all times
#96
Exercise a lot. Eat fruits, vegetables and a handful of nuts each day. Don’t smoke or drink alcohol. And I would be irrelevant. -Cardiologist.
#97
Just admitting your turning in an assignment late because you were at some college party and had a bit too much will generally get you much farther than some tired excuse like your eighth grandma is in the hospital on death’s door this semester. We were one students too.
#98
Threatening violence won't get you released from a psych unit sooner. Our job is to help you NOT hurt yourself or others.
#99
Your kid's teacher cusses a lot and probably was a big partier back in the day.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Your kid's teacher probably has excellent reason for cussing. And they did their partying back in the day because they knew they couldn't afford it in the future on a teacher's pay.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
A bunch of my college friends went on to become teachers. Can 100% confirm.
Serena Myers 4 months ago
Mrs Dabs never cussed, but that was 1960 ish, and we were taught the A is for Apple thing on a blackboard and arithmetic on an abacus, not saying that that was any better or worse than what is taught today so don't yell at me, lol
#100
Christian Clergy here.
Many of us don’t believe what we are preaching. Yet they truly care about the folks they work with.
Also, most of them are broke and struggling just to pay bills and survive.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
Have a friend who was a pastor in name only who just needed the job for health insurance. She genuinely cared about her church members and was good at what she did, but hated the farce. Thank goodness she was able to get out of the field. Note- this is different from the charlatan preachers who are in it just for your money. That's a whole 'nother subject.
nicholas nolan 4 months ago
Dude, I get the desperation, and this is largely the fault of the US healthcare system, but your friend sucks. She is also a charlatan, you're just justifying her charlatanism because she's your pal.
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IT departments generally emphasize getting the product out the door to please the managers, rather than getting it right.
#102
An appraisal of your home is literally and legally someone's opinion. Yeah, there are loose rules that apply but within that framework it can vary widely.
Alex Kennedy 4 months ago (edited)
Wha??? There are very solid processes used to determine market comparables for a residential property, and good appraisers know how to adjust values up and down for the specific value of the home. Even Realtor market estimates are pretty good in a large market. I feel like this person isn’t talking about actual appraisals, but some kind of non-official estimate.
Grenelda Thurber 4 months ago (edited)
Agree. Maybe they're talking about a tax appraisal (which applies general info across a wide area of similar properties) versus a mortgage appraisal required for a loan, which usually requires the appraiser actually inspect the home, inside and out, and measure the square-footage. Real estate appraisal is actually a highly regulated industry, with strict rules and licensing requirements, for good reason. If someone's "opinion" is acceptable, all sorts of fraud will be the result. DH always said if you're a licensed appraiser and you submit a bad appraisal, it's due to fraud or incompetence, nothing else. (married to a former residential appraiser)
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Most big companies that write their own internal software are one bad day away from entire systems going down and their public image shatter, because the code is poorly implemented or the folks who developed it were laid off or left.
#106
Don't mess with the mailman. We know everything about you.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
Not a problem here I like Melissa and leave a package of muffins, cookies or candy in my mailbox for Christmas.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
My mom told me I was the mailman's baby, thinking I was old enough to realize it was a joke. I was not, and she had to tackle me before I went off to talk to him. Lol
#107
If you eat blue bell ice cream, there is a solid chance rainwater seeped into the packaging and it was sent out anyway.
#108
Notaries in most states are not trained, and pretty much wing it.
If your notary screws up causing you to have to have the signature notarized again, and you end up with a financial loss because of it, you can sue the notary for your loss.
Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
I don't know about other states but here in NC you have to go to Notary Public classes and pass a state test and then go to the county you live in to be sworn in.
Julia Ford 4 months ago
In Illinois you fill out a form and send a check.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 4 months ago
No. In Illinois you have classes and have to be re-certified every so often.
Julia Ford 4 months ago
You can’t charge a fee more than $1 as a notary in Illinois, BUT you can charge for your travel. So most charge like $50 travel fee. If I messed up as a notary, I’d re-do it for free.
#109
Vinyl records are far less expensive than you think, but only if you're a record store or retail outlet. Distributors will sell records at nearly cost with a suggested MSRP (suggested retail price) that's 30-40% more.
#110
Military grade means the cheapest products possible that you overpaid for.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago (edited)
This one's flat out wrong. Military grade electronics and the like is made with higher spec components than usual (in some cases 100% tested for compliance), in designs that are validated with extremely harsh testing to be able to cope with military conditions - extreme temperature ranges, extreme shock, pressure variation, and (often) enough radiation to kíll a human inside an hour or few. With electronics, there's "consumer grade", "industrial grade", and then the military and aerospace grades - in ascending order of toughness. *Sometimes* the military and industrial grade components are nearly the same, just with different specifications - that is, the industrial kit will be specified to work at higher power and speeds because it doesn't have to cope with such a wide temperature range as the military kit. The military components are also more likely to have been 100% tested and possibly "burnt in" to ensure reliability.
Alyce 4 months ago
Having been in the military, I wish it were so. For us, it usually meant "whatever we couldn't sell to discerning buyers", but that WAS 25 years ago. Maybe its better now.....
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CP 4 months ago
Like a lot of complaint lists these days, it seems like capitalism is the culprit for a lot of problems. Hurting people just to increase profits isn't good for society.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
But hurting people for the good of society is, got it. Please, just go and live in China for a few years. Seriously, until you do, you have no idea how much worse it is for so many more people. This isn't a "If you don't like it, then leave" comment, but a true request to engulf yourself in a non-capitalist, non-democratic (socialism is such by design) society for three to five years -- if you can (think about why you never hear stories about people from West Berlin ju!mpng to Wall to escape into East Berlin). It's less than poverty, it's less than being alive, it's less than even existing. You're often not even there -- you're nothing, because nothing is all you can muster. You only exist at the discretion of the state, which is likely how you'll d!e. Unless you're already in the elite class now, you're not going to be in the elite class if socialism ever happens; which is the irony: there's only so much leadership to go around, so its best for those that have it keep it.
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CP 4 months ago
Like a lot of complaint lists these days, it seems like capitalism is the culprit for a lot of problems. Hurting people just to increase profits isn't good for society.
At Least I'm Not You 4 months ago
But hurting people for the good of society is, got it. Please, just go and live in China for a few years. Seriously, until you do, you have no idea how much worse it is for so many more people. This isn't a "If you don't like it, then leave" comment, but a true request to engulf yourself in a non-capitalist, non-democratic (socialism is such by design) society for three to five years -- if you can (think about why you never hear stories about people from West Berlin ju!mpng to Wall to escape into East Berlin). It's less than poverty, it's less than being alive, it's less than even existing. You're often not even there -- you're nothing, because nothing is all you can muster. You only exist at the discretion of the state, which is likely how you'll d!e. Unless you're already in the elite class now, you're not going to be in the elite class if socialism ever happens; which is the irony: there's only so much leadership to go around, so its best for those that have it keep it.
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