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“Dirty Little Secrets” That Companies Hide From The Public Get Revealed By These 35 Ex-Employees Online

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One of the most, if not the most, important factors to a successful business is building trust with your customers. Unfortunately, it’s not always in their best interest to give us the whole picture and tell the truth. Only when we become a part of the company and get to peek behind the curtains can we grasp the reality of the situation. And as it often turns out, your workplace hides many things they wouldn’t want you sharing with friends, family, or people online.

But unless you’re bound by strict confidentiality agreements that last forever and a day, you’re welcome to spill all the juicy dirt about your experiences after you walk away. Ex-employees took to various Reddit threads to anonymously share the big and small "dirty secrets" within their industries that companies don't want regular people to know. But as the public, we really should.

Members of the Ask Reddit community started up discussions that really got workers opening up about the illuminating trade secrets and spicy tidbits from their former jobs. We at Bored Panda have gathered some of the best responses and put them all in one place for you to read. Obviously, we can’t guarantee whether these tales are fact or fiction, so remember that everything on the internet has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Continue scrolling for what happens behind the scenes at some major corporations, upvote your favorite stories as you go, and if you have any secrets you want to share, tell us all about them in the comment section below! After you’re done, be sure to find even more insider information in our earlier publications right here and here.

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#1

Large chain bookstores: so so so many perfectly good books get thrown out...

Mass market paperbacks are cheap to manufacture and get shipped out in huge volumes. For some publishers (particularly ones that put out new mysteries or romances quarterly) when the bookstore wants it off the shelf to make room for something new, it's just not worth the cost of taking them back and finding someone else to sell it. But they don't want anyone getting them for free. So as a bookstore employee I spent hours ripping the front and back covers off of books, then tearing the book at least in half so that no one could read it later. The covers get sent back to the publishers, and the books that could have been donated to a library or school get put in a locked recycling container out back. A manager had to come back and check my work to make sure the books were not left intact.

I almost cried the first time I had to rip up a load of kid's books (in a city with high child poverty rates and underfunded schools).

allosaur , cottonbro Report

Final score:

315points

censor 2 years ago

This definitely does not happen in Africa, you would be on the front page of the newspapers as a national disgrace. We have tons of poorer schools and willingly accept any donations except "adult" "romance"

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#2

Call center here.

Just because you hear music when I put you on hold, doesn't mean I do.

I can hear every profanity you utter.

pride_of_pyongyang , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

278points

Bittersweetie 2 years ago

Unpopular opinion loading...My dear old dad taught us to go into these calls with honey rather than vinegar and I got to say it's made a huge difference in my life. I've only had to go apesh*t maybe twice ever and yes it was getting technical support for cable. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE!?🤣

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#3

If you own your own business, never and I mean never do any work for anyone with the promise of more business later on, if they want you to do it free the first time. Just drop them as clients and move on.

anon , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

259points

Thomas.Rudd 2 years ago

That makes sense. Sadly :(

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#4

Nurse assistant here. If you have taken any illegal dr*gs, or prescription dr*gs to get high within the last 24 hours... F*****G TELL US. It could save your life. We won't judge you for it... But we would judge you for bullsh**ting us even if your life could be at risk.

anon , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

258points

ejfs 2 years ago

I forgot I'd had a new medication added to my regime and nearly fell into a coma after I was given a sedative for a minor procedure. TELL YOUR DOCTORS EVERYTHING.

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#5

I don't have tons of free time.

I am unemployed and despite contrary f**king belief I am neither lazy nor have tons of time.

Searching for a job is a full-time job by itself. In parallel, it's hard to keep searching for a job because really there is no reward. Usually, when you do something there is a result. You go to the gym and you burn calories. You sell sh*t and you make money. You study and you get grades. Even if you fail at something. You f**king learn something and try a different approach, you gain experience.

When you search for a job there is no result. You try and you try and you try....and nothing happens. Like drilling a hole in the water.

In parallel. You can't plan anything. You cant buy a f**king washing machine because you don't know where you will be staying tomorrow. I cant plan a trip back home to see my family because I need to be on stand-by for interviews and even be here to answer the f**king phone.

So no. I don't have tons of free time. Not having a job also f**ks with your biorhythm. Meaning it's hard to wake up early and sleep early. When I had a job I could easily wake up by myself at 7. Now some nights I don't sleep at all.

And this is just a part of being unemployed. I am the lucky one. Because I still have money left and a supportive family.

RubberDong Report

Final score:

255points

censor 2 years ago

been there. it's really tough.

87points

Ozacoter 2 years ago

Hugs my friend. Being unemployed is really tought. Specially with people judging you as lazy or similar things. Best of luck mate

19points

Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

Sorry. Experience required. Well, if no one will hire you how in hell will you get said experience.

16points

Heidi Northrop 2 years ago

Right????

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AmAndA_Panda 2 years ago

My husband never got this until I started looking for a job after being a stay at home mom. He assumed I was being lazy, he could not understand how I still hadn't had any interviews, no job offers after 6 months. Obviously I wasn't trying. And I was using it as an excuse to not keep the house quite as orderly. Until I showed him my email. Over 100 email confirmations of job applications a day sometimes. And never any responses. I think I had 3 interviews in 6 months. Didn't get any of the 3 jobs and never even got an "I'm sorry, we're going another direction" email after the interviews. I worked harder trying to get a job than I ever have actually having a job.

14points

Taryn Wallace 2 years ago

The most frustrating part is the not hearing ANYTHING... no one saying they are going in a different direction, or they found a different person. The radio silence is deafening.

9points

Snowfoxrox 2 years ago

And that wreaks havok on you emotionally after a while. I have been fortunate to be employed more often than not and my stints of employment tend to be long. But, when I have to look for something new its 6 month min. and once over a year! Its rough!! Keep yer chin up!

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g90814 2 years ago

been looking for 4 years here. I do IT support, but I'm nearly 60 and too much experience. the gray ceiling is real.

9points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

My dad has been in the same boat for years- no one wants to employ someone over 60, but the government agency that pays the job seeker payment can't accept that as a reason for you not getting anything. Time just makes it worse, because then they make you do 'work for the dole' programs where you have to do mindless work for the same payment, while still looking for work!

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Grady'sRaider 2 years ago

1. Go out on your own. 2. Take freelance or contract jobs, or 3. One of my buds uses an agent lining up term project work for him. Generally these pay way higher and are more interesting. It seems scary at first, but there is lots of work for people who will do quality short term gigs. Job security is a myth; every company can drop you at any time with 2 weeks notice. With a project contract you know everything upfront.

1point

mulk 2 years ago

ooooh god! Sorry for you! Stay strong!

0points

Heidi Northrop 2 years ago (edited)

They are talking about how there are so many jobs out there. I have an A.A.S, B.S. and M.S.Ed. from well known and respected institutions. Due to a TBI, I am unable to work in the fields which I hold degrees. It's been difficult to accept. I have applied to many jobs that don't require degrees and are low stress but no one has been in touch, not even a dog walking/pet sitting business. I have pristine references and am a hard worker so this whole, "there are many jobs" thing is total B.S. especially for people with a disability. I too am extremely lucky to have a partner with a great job and a supportive family.

9points

Tamara 2 years ago

Also, you have no weekends if you don't have a job.

9points

OhForSmegSake 2 years ago

Constant rejection is demoralising, having to fake being confident and happy in interviews is soul sucking...

6points

LagoonaBlueColleen 2 years ago

It's super tough and stressful, and very scary. You know you're not going to receive employment insurance for long. One time I was looking for a job, a daycare and a place to rent. There's no clocking out, no weekends, and all the conversations with family is about how your doing with job hunting.

4points

Alexis 2 years ago

Very very true! My then bf at the time, who was still in college, berated me during that period of time. He said I was lazy and not sending enough applications. He asked me how many applications I had sent daily and that maybe I should just pick up any job that would hire me instead of applying to the field that I studied for and wanted to go in. I was honestly quite depressed. A year later, he got out of school and EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING. When he finally got an offer, I brought this up. He admitted that he was being too harsh on me and was glad that I didn't put any pressure on him to get a job as he did on me.

4points

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

We also need to stop equating "you're home" with "you must not be busy and can, therefore, give up your time to me."

4points

Craig Silberman 2 years ago

this is NOT an industry secret

4points

Memere 2 years ago

No, but it sure seems to be a huge secret being kept from a lot of judgemental a$$holes who are calling the unemployed "lazy".

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Karl Baxter 2 years ago

Applications - esp. online ones - are tests of endurance sometimes. I’ve spent the best part of a day completing an app for a job I didn’t get.

3points

Data1001 2 years ago

So, uhm... what if you're unemployed *and* lazy? Asking for a friend...

1point

Mike DeGeorge 2 years ago

Being unemployed is an ego shattering time. You feel like a failure every time you check the email and no one responds to your applications. Every time your spouse asks “any luck on the job search” and you have to disappoint them destroys your soul. I’m Going on interviews, filling out the same forms over and over, it’s just hell.

0points

LSR 2 years ago

Lot of sense in this one.

0points

Loretta Hines 2 years ago

Yes totally get this. Really depressing it’s more work than working looking for employment.

0points

Lisa Intally 2 years ago

You can everything "right," get multiple college degrees and still get rejected because, oops, you're a girl. There has been talk of eliminating names on resumes and treating pay as level classifications not up for negotiation and that would be fairer to women and minorities.

0points

Julianne Hannes 2 years ago

THIS

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Pandaroo 2 years ago

Omg so true, especially if those applications involve selection criteria. Those things take ages to write to.

0points

Jaguarundi 2 years ago

Well spoken indeed.

0points

Peryton 2 years ago (edited)

I've been in that situation. And I take any job. Slinging sandwiches with a Masters degree. Then I found a great job 2 months later. Never stay unemployed. You think it gives you time to search but it doesn't. It just undermines your confidence and isolates you. I've never been unemployed for that very reason.

0points

Rocky Mom 2 years ago

Fyckkkin truth

0points

Alessa Gillespie 2 years ago

It's rough... Especially when you invest so much time completing assignments and projects that are part of the application process

0points

A. 2 years ago

I hope you find a job soon.

0points

Joshua Williams 2 years ago

There is still the reward of experience. Finding a job is in fact a skill.

0points

BreGerEu 2 years ago

So right.

0points

Marcus Karlsson 2 years ago

Amen to that. I'm in the same situation

0points

Jessica Allred 2 years ago

My husband started doing Door dash while waiting to hear back from employers. Had to do it for 6 months before finally landing a job. Paid the bills though. (I was also working full time.)

0points

Stephanie Foldy 2 years ago

The sad part is, this very fact is why it's easier to look for a job when you don't have one vs when you do. I've been out of work 3 times, twice from lay-offs and once after leaving a toxic job. Between spending 8-9 hours a day finding and applying to jobs I don't necessarily want but meet the criteria for unemployment assistance, looking for jobs I actually DO want, or driving all over town trying to buy the cheapest groceries you can, when is there time to actually WORK at a job?!?!

0points

Béla Kun 2 years ago

7 ahh hahahahahaha, I would love a job where I can wake up at 7.

0points

Elsie 2 years ago

This is a needless rant. And does not fit the story at all! I agree getting a job is hard especially one that you like or can at least tolerate. My advice to this person find a part time job even one you don't LOVE keep looking for the right job

-1point

donna peluda 2 years ago

I should be looking for a job, but it sounds like to much work to me!!! I just take anything. I haven't been unemployed for years now but back in the 90s my jobs were seasonal. Of season I've done anything. Burger flipper, roller blinds repair. ouncer a at a whore house, labouring, painting. I could get dole money but it drove me made not having a job.

-1point

Hypoxia Smurf 2 years ago

Depends on what you mean by 'job'. Early on, I worked whatever casual ('day') labor tasks I could get for minimum wage. Loading trash trucks; unloading boxcars; schlepping heavy loads. Taking a high-turnover position as a downtown bicycle courier was a step up. All those 'jobs' paid me (somewhat) to exercise. No fat on my frame, nope.

-2points

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#6

Teacher here.

Your child's success depends mainly on three things: the child's will, the parent's support, and the teacher's skill. If your child doesn't want to learn, he won't learn. If you don't f**king feed your child properly, he won't be able to learn. If your child gets his way at home, he will be a terror in class and won't succeed.

I am only a part of your child's education. I can't do anything if he refuses to learn or if you refuse to support him.

reddit , CDC Report

Final score:

248points

censor 2 years ago

speaking as a teacher this is not entirely true. You can be interesting to the child by engaging them and trying to find out what they're interested in. I've very seldom found a disruptive child that could not be saved.

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#7

I was a deep sea diver for 10 years in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge oil spills happen and are covered up hundreds of times a year by every company. The entire industry is in on it. The bottom of the gulf is a disgusting garbage dump. Every boat dumps their trash into the gulf no one obeys the laws and the coast guard doesn't enforce s**t.

*I had a bunch of requests for an AMA so I'm doing one now if anyone has more questions.

Diverdave76 , Pia Report

Final score:

240points

Thomas.Rudd 2 years ago

Sad :(

52points

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#8

School photographer here. Do not coach your children on how to smile. I can normally get them to smile naturally with a funny word or simply by smiling at them. I have seen MANY kids that have obviously coached smile because they are afraid mom will take away their Playstation. Remember that school photos are a marking of time, love your kid for who they are at that moment. And NEVER tell your kiddo to not show their teeth. Second graders are supposed to have lots of missing teeth-- it's charming. Seventh graders have braces-- that photo will remind them of such a tumultuous time in their life. And lastly, there is always re-take day.

ladyofreasons , cottonbro Report

Final score:

211points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

Retake day? Not in the schools here in the U.K. You get one day once a year to get a professional school photo. If it looks bad it’s tough luck.

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#9

The groundbreaking scientific results published by the mainstream media bear little resemblance to the results published in the actual scientific article.

anon , ThisIsEngineering Report

Final score:

208points

Robert T 2 years ago

Of course they don't. Such articles would be so dry they would be positively crunchy! You'd lose the general public in the first couple of lines.

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#10

I work on a farm. When they say you should wash your produce thoroughly at home, they're not joking.

geekmuseNU , Tom Fisk Report

Final score:

208points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

Depends where you farm I guess. In America you can bet I’m washing that apple to within an inch of its life because of all the pesticides but some pesticides used in the USA are banned in the EU so most fruit is ok to eat straight from the tree/bush.

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#11

A lot of people know this, but, the police can lie to you. About damn near anything. If you are ever arrested, shut the f**k up. Request a lawyer. I can repeat this, but you dumb motherf**kers will still talk to the f**king cops. You are soooo much better off just not talking to them.

a_sad_sad_man , Kindel Media Report

Final score:

203points

censor 2 years ago

That's in the USA. In our country, if the cops show up it's a miracle, and if they actually ask any questions that's even more amazing. Mostly they just round everyone up and take statemetns at the station. They are so indifferent to their job that you can fill in your own statement and put there "I murdered donald duck and buttf*cked mickey mouse" and they will just read over it and not notice it.

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#12

911: Location first, say it twice and say it clearly. Then allow the dispatcher to lead the call. I know you think you know what needs to be said, but I promise you everything will go more smoothly if you let me take the lead. I'll be gentle.

Also, yelling at me to "Get them here! Get them here!" does not actually make them get there faster. The police drive cars, they don't teleport. Me asking you questions doesn't slow down the response, another dispatcher has already sent them. Me asking you questions helps make sure the officers are informed when they get there so they don't waste the first few minutes on scene playing catch-up.

Calling from a landline usually gives me your name and address from the moment you call. Calling from a cell phone does not. I can geo-validate your call and get a close location, but it isn't 100% accurate. Calling from a disconnected cell phone makes it impossible to call you back OR geovalidate your location.

If you dial 911 on accident, stay on the line, don't hurriedly hang up and hope the call didn't go through. I'm going to have to blow up your phone AND text you if you don't take 20 seconds to stay on the line and let me know it was an accident.

Don't give disconnected cell phones to children to play with, unless you remove the battery first. I can't tell you how many parents just let their 2 year old play with an old phone because they assume she can't call anyone. She can call 911. Over...and over...and over again.

Interfering with a 911 call is illegal. If you're fighting with your girlfriend and she calls 911, do not try to take the phone from her, yell over her, disconnect the phone line, etc. You can be arrested.

Seriously people, learn your address. Be aware of your surroundings. You should know your address before you move somewhere. If you're going to a party, maybe try to just know what street the party is on, just in case. If you're in an emergency at a residence and don't know the address, look for a piece of mail. I know this sounds like ridiculously obvious advice, but you'd be surprised.

911 is for emergencies only. You should have your local non-emergency police and sheriff's department numbers saved in your phone. If you don't, please do yourself a favor and look those up right this moment and put them in your phone.

nola911 , CDC Report

Final score:

198points

Neal Patrick 2 years ago

This all assumes the person is not in a stressful, dangerous situation where they are trying to hold it together. If you are calling 911 it’s not a calm situation where you are necessarily thinking 100% clearly.

65points

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#13

It is impossible to crawl through ventilation shafts. Professional duct worker here.

kilimanziaro , Athena Report

Final score:

197points

Zoecat 2 years ago

There goes my childhood 😞

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#14

I work in the space industry and I am happy to report that there are no tricks here, everything must work with multiple redundant systems.

FutureIsMine , Kenneth Lu Report

Final score:

177points

Robert T 2 years ago

There are some tricks in the way that malfunctions are described, such as "made contact with the ground prematurely" or "mission was successfully aborted".

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#15

From my former job: The US military has a tradition where you spend your entire budget by Oct (the new fiscal year) or you risk losing that portion of your budget. I've been in units that would go out and purchase $200,000 worth of useless s**t just to avoid having a budget surplus. Multiply by the number of units in the military (a s**t ton) and you have all your fraud, waste and abuse.

f*ckarme , Somchai Kongkamsri Report

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175points

censor 2 years ago

This is all branches of government everywhere in every country. Your budget gets cut if you do not spend it entirely.

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#16

Harley Davidson is in pretty bad shape, they store the lion's share of their new motorcycles in some warehouses in Montana because they don't want to stop production just to keep shareholder happy. They are a ticking time bomb.

Oh also for the last few years they force retailers to buy some new bikes every year even though they don't change. If the retailers don't buy them they lose their licensing to sell Harley's.

So basically all their sales have been made up for the last five or so years.

anon , lilartsy Report

Final score:

160points

censor 2 years ago

Er that's their own fault for targeting a very specific demographic, namely white guys having a midlife crisis. If they didn't have an image of being a gang vehicle for old conservative white guys, they'd sell more. I can afford one, I'd never buy one or drive one. The image of a harley basically says you support the confederacy. They are dead unless they get adverts with black young guys riding them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDmsxQVxIM

47points

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#17

Retail here!

For people who LOVE to return items. That little policy on your receipt is interpreted by me, the cashier. If you are polite and kind to me I am more than happy to bend the rules in your favor for one of the world's largest retail companies that can probably afford to lose a little money here and there.

IF you are a d**k to me I will use any excuse to deny you a cash refund and my company is not known for customer service, so my management will almost always back up whatever my claim is and support my strict ruling of our refund policy.

TL:DR: be nice to cashiers and we will be nice in return

serendi_pity Report

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158points

John Smith 2 years ago

So don't be a d**k to people you want something from.. sounds like a plan for life in general.

116points

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#18

Emergency room doctor here.

I really do want you to get better, I really want you to not d*e. I get spat on and cursed at and am the recipient of several stink eyes daily. If you actually show that you care about your health and listen to me or show me the slightest bit of respect I will bend over backwards to help you get better.

If I'm not sending you home with a six month supply of dilaudid it's because you are better off without it. I'm sorry you have a boxer's fracture because you punched your door, but fractures hurt and I can't take all the pain away and keep you breathing at the same time. Man up and deal with a few days of discomfort, it goes away eventually.

I ask probing questions about your sexuality and drug history and the consistency of your poop because its important. I am legally prevented from sharing this info with your boss, your wife, the police. Just tell me the truth. The guy on the other side of the curtain has a curling iron stuck up his a*s, the herpes you got in high school doesn't shock me.

My paycheck is my paycheck. I don't get paid more or less because I prescribe a name brand antibiotic, or decide to do stitches instead of glue, or admit you instead of letting you leave AMA. I get paid the same if I see one patient this shift or forty, most of my decisions are based on medicine, or to decrease the chances of getting sued. This isn't true for every doctor or even every emergency doctor, but consider giving your physician the benefit of the doubt.

3rdopinion , Online Marketing Report

Final score:

153points

John Smith 2 years ago

Never understood why people go to the doctors, or any professional. Then when they are told "X is wrong, you need to do Y to fix it". Get abusive and say they are wrong. No one forced you to come here. You can just leave without the abuse.

54points

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#19

Graphic designer here. For the last time, just because we have Photoshop and Illustrator doesn't mean the design process is on auto-pilot. So when we say we need an extra hour to work out your problem, we mean it. And yes, we need the vector file of your logo, or at least a PDF copy of it.

Jeremehthejelly , Thanzi Thanzeer Report

Final score:

143points

Dave Classen 2 years ago

Fellow gd from germany saying: hell yeah!

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#20

Video editor here for reality TV. It's fake for the most part. They usually do multiple takes of the "reality" scenes that are staged beforehand. The most recent egregious use of this is Duck Dynasty. They pass the show off as reality tv and they actually have table readings for that show before shoots. Not saying that reality TV isn't sometimes entertaining. I'm just saying that you shouldn't be fooled into thinking that this is actually reality and the camera just happened to be there when these people were doing what they normally do.

arpeggiator13 , Erik Mclean Report

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137points

censor 2 years ago

In other news, water wet.

144points

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#21

From my time at the IT help desk: 90% of the time I'm not "a genius who magically knows how to solve problems". I just google whatever you told me and followed the steps from the top result to fix it.

Final score:

137points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

We all know this that’s why we struggle for hours to fix the issue ourselves. Trust me. IT help desks are the last resort, not the first.

76points

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#22

Got an interesting one for you: The New York Times Bestseller List is Curated Advertising.

Yup. While it is based on sales, there are some nifty little loopholes left in the list to allow publishers to "choose" what gets on the list.

Here's how it works. What shows up on the list is the top sellers from set locations in a period of time, right? So a publisher comes out with a book, and they want it to go right to the list on day one. So they call the seller and place an order in advance to buy all the books that seller has that they haven't even shipped out yet. The seller takes the money, and all those books are now "sold." So they need more books to sell. So they contact the publisher, who agrees to sell them more stock, which happens to be the stock they just bought back.

The publisher then calls the seller and buys the stock again. The seller calls the publisher and orders more. Repeat until you've got the numbers you need (which you know, since the big publishers swap info freely so that everyone knows how many sales will take what spot on the list). You can "sell" 30,000 books this way while only having 2000 printed. The whole time the stock sits in a single place.

There's no rule against this. After all, the publisher does pay the seller each time. 50% of that money comes back to them, however, so it's basically low-cost advertising.

And that's how you get a book on the NYT Bestseller list. But only if you're with a big publisher. In the last few years, indie and self-pub books like The Martian started getting on the list, both through legit sales and the creators using the same system ... So the NYT restricted the list. You're only qualified for it if you're one of the big publishers now.

And now you know.

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134points

censor 2 years ago

100% believable.

42points

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#23

I worked for a political consulting firm and was completely floored when congressmen/women would come in for media training (learning to be "normal" on camera or in front of constituents). Nearly every politician who came in for training was clueless and literally had "their views" on the issues fed to them by my boss (the media strategist). Sounds obvious, but it's really horrifying to witness.

HeavenHasTrampolines , Antonio Prado Report

Final score:

131points

censor 2 years ago (edited)

No to the rest of the PLANET it is obvious that your congresspersons are muppets. I mean look at Klan Mom, and her buddy Bimbette I mean Boebert for f**k sake. And Teddy "schools need one door" Cruz. What a bunch of fucktards. Literally only "the Squad" have any brains. Especially AOC and Ilhan.

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#24

Car dealership. WE ARE SCAMMING YOU.

Knobbs , Sourav Mishra Report

Final score:

130points

Mark Alibozek 2 years ago

Mark ups are out of control and not for the sales people to make a living. They can make their commission on the list price. Some dealerships are marking up the values on some in demand vehicles by tens of thousands in some cases! That is why manufacturers are starting to rethink how they sell their vehicles. Ford for instance is considering selling from factory online because dealers are refusing to abide by the rules and people aren’t able to buy vehicles at the rate they want. They manufacturers don’t get the money from the markups

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#25

I work at a US lobbying firm, and I'm sure no Redditor would be shocked to hear that US legislators are ignorant. You might be surprised just HOW ill-informed a lot of them are, though. Like the Congressman who believed David Cameron was a member of the Socialist party. Or the one that asked me why we called it Russia now, not the USSR. Or the Senator who told me he'd grown up drinking sea water, and it was healthier for you. Or the governor who thought all Jews were k**led by Hitler. The list could go on.

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126points

James Crosbie 2 years ago

For the most part, the people who want to lead are motivated not be an altruistic vision to make the world a better place, but by the simple desire to be at the top. Pride, arrogance, and a strong desire to wield power are the primary motivators for running for office. The issue isn't that our politicians are ill-informed and self-centered; that should be obvious. The issue is that so many people put absolute faith in political leaders as though they were superheroes with the ability and the will to save the world. Politicians are elected to do the will of the people, but many in democracies around the world seem to think they are elected to do the thinking for them. A healthy democracy is dependent on a well-educated, accurately informed, and engaged populace. The quality of the politician elected to office likely reflects the degree to which that is actually the case.

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#26

If more citizens knew how often U.S. Military individuals said things along the lines of, "F**k civilians, they can suck my d**k." People might lose some of their unrelenting support for the troops.

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Final score:

122points

John Smith 2 years ago

The UK has a few choice phrases for civilians in a warzone. "Acceptable Losses", "Unfortunate Individuals", "Unexpected Non-combatants". They all usually mean, "Oops, shot a civilian"

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#27

Recently retired trucker here. A fully loaded semi-truck traveling at highway speeds takes approximately 100 yards to come to a complete stop. Which means that the fun game of slamming on the brakes at the last minute in front of a big truck is just one of several ways you get referred to by the phrase "dead man driving."

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122points

Ricardo Ferreira 2 years ago

Or, how it's commonly named, "idiots on cars"

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#28

I work in visual effects for large hollywood movies. We do so much digital cleanup and enhancement of practical effects, yet get no credit for how it looks. We only get sh*t on when a director or studio forces us to make cartoony CG characters or un-photorealistic backgrounds. We're the only department that doesn't have a union, yet we're in charge of upwards of half the movie's budget. Life of Pi was shot mostly on green screen, yet the cinematographer got an Oscar, even though most of those shots were created later in VFX without his input.

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122points

Sander 2 years ago

Aside from the gaming industry, the SFX industry is basically slavery.

54points

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#29

When you pick your dog up from the kennel after a splendid beach vacation and he/she smells like dog shampoo (probably because you requested a grooming session), that's because we have a spray that smells like dog shampoo.

Your dog has been in his cage, frightened by the foreign environment and loud barking/growling dogs. He probably s**t himself or peed and then laid down in the puddle. This made him feel extremely guilty because he knows he's supposed to go *outside* for that. He's a mess, mentally and physically.

So when you come to pick him up and we realize "oops, Fido never got over to the groomers", we have a spray bottle of doggie febreeze. We wipe any s**t off as best we can, tie a festive bandana around their neck, and hope you don't notice the completely manic excitement they're exhibiting when you're finally reunited.

*I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I love you, I love you, please let's leave, let's leave, let's leave, leave, leave, leave, I trust you, I'm sorry*

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Rosesinmyhair 2 years ago

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#30

I don't know if it's a dirty secret as much as common sense when you think about it, but having worked in a warehouse that stores beer cans, I'd say that you should wash the top of any can you drink from, as it may have been sat on climbed on, touched by filthy hands and had mice run across it, and if nothing else was probably covered in layers of dust.

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108points

Bittersweetie 2 years ago

I'm going to need a beer after reading this. And a wet wipe.

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#31

Most people who say this are ignored as kooks, but having worked in pharmaceutical research, I can confirm this:

We already have developed better, safer medicines than most of the c**p currently on the market. However due to the following reasons, most of it will never reach the market.

* FDA Approval costs a fair amount of money and time, and for a "new drug" to be approved takes bloody years. The slightest f**kup in testing and back to the beginning.

* Money. If a new drug discovery is not going to be as profitable as the stuff currently on the market, it will simply be patented and sat on.

* Research funding: Not enough of it anymore to properly explore all the possibilities.

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Final score:

96points

Robert T 2 years ago

There is an element of truth in this, in that it does take a long time for new drugs to be approved, simply because they have to go through rigorous testing.

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#32

I'm in radio. We don't get to pick what we play on air, the pd schedules it and we just talk in between songs. The closest we get is when we play a request, that's usually something we wanted to hear and no one actually requested it.

The guys down at the talk station ironically can play whatever they want but think the last good song came out in 1975.

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90points

Monday 2 years ago

That's definitely different for every station though. The local ones here have plenty of control over what they play and when they play it, it's just the ads they have to stick to a schedule for.

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#33

Fiber Internet Service Provider here - bandwidth is not a scarce commodity like they want you to think it is. It is all about profit margins and over subscribing the network.

static74 Report

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90points

censor 2 years ago

yep, and the speed of your line is controlled by software/firmware on the fibre card in the router. They can change your speed to 1 GBps easily if they want to. They just don't, so they can justify future bargains and special deals etc.

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#34

RMT here,

90% of your upper shoulder/neck problems can be solved by stretching properly daily. Same thing with headaches.

Stop slouching.

Final score:

89points

censor 2 years ago

Also position your computer and chair properly. If you have a pain in your kidneys it might just be that your computer is not directly in front of your chair and you are leaning over/down to type.

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#35

When you climb into a helicopter and the rotors are turning, you can't reach your arm up high enough to lose a hand....but we don't want anyone trying to test it or prove us wrong.

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77points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

I wouldn’t even get in a helicopter. Whirlybird’s of doom.

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#36

Casino dealer here.

If you throw your chips or bills at me, I'll automatically think you're an a**hole who tries to look like a thug.

You can complain as much as you want about being down 5K for the day. I honestly couldn't care less. If you're stupid enough to waste that much money on gambling and tell anyone who will listen, you kinda deserve it.

The casino doesn't cheat, but the house obviously has an edge on every game. Duh. As if we would run a business based on 50/50 chances. Our goal is to make a profit while providing you with a fun gaming experience. We're not a free ATM and we don't owe you a dime. Stop complaining that I'm not paying out enough.

If I greet you, it doesn't take much effort to reply rather than ignore me, throw your chips on the table, and grunt "Green chips". If you don't feel like acting decently and treat me like a machine, we have those neat electronic Blackjack tables instead.

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34points

Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)

Amen. My mom had a great time in Vegas for the following reasons: she divided up her gambling money for each day and put them in separate envelopes. That's it for the day. If she lost all the money alloted for that day, as soon as it was gone, up she gets, does something else for the rest of the day. She was always nice to the dealers. When she came across one's she really liked she made sure to go back to them if they were working. Had a really great time.

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#37

Accountant here. It is actually ridiculously easy for about 90% of you to calculate and file your taxes.

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31points

Bianca Saville 2 years ago

It's easy to cook your own dinner but people still want take away. People want the convenience of paying someone to do a job they don't want to do themselves.

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#38

I work in lingerie and ladies, there's a 70% chance you're wearing the wrong bra size if you haven't been measured in the last 3-6 months. With any weight gain or loss, your breasts are the first thing to fluctuate in size. Also, don't argue after a bra fitting by saying "I am NOT that size!" Yes, you are. I do this for a living. Please trust that I know how to do my job.

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Final score:

30points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

Eh it depends on the person doing the fitting. I’ve had some terrible fitters. I’ve had some excellent ones too but trust me some people clearly don’t like doing this for a job.

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#39

The Olive Oil Industry is controlled by the Mafia. In 2007 only 4% of italian olive oil leaving italy was actually pure olive oil. Fake olive oil has the similar profit margins as cocaine trafficking with none of the risk. About 70% of the olive oil that comes into the US is thought to be a fraud.

EDIT: I've posted a couple links already for people if they want to read about it, there is also google.

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Final score:

29points

Ozacoter 2 years ago

I assume that this happens in countries with very loose regulations about food. In the EU you cannot sell Olive Oil with other things mixed without listing them in the label. Also Italy is not the only country exporting oil.

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#40

I work in non fiction television and have made shows for History and Discovery. The execs at these companies grew up watching these channels and actually want to make educational informative documentaries. Unfortunately no one watches documentaries anymore, so we have to appeal to the lowest common denominator and make reality tv trash to remain competitive.

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censor 2 years ago (edited)

Not true. Look how many subscribers veritasium has on youtube. Just make interesting content.

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#41

Nursing homes somehow always know when they are going to be visited by the state. They have plenty of time to get their sh*t together, and overstaff for days. The administrators and office people will actually work on the floor that would never do otherwise. Things are great until the moment the state reps leave then you're back to being understaffed and overworked. It's a common complaint but people are absolutely not getting the care they need.

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Final score:

28points

Paul Davis 2 years ago

And the state inspection system is pretty much owned and run by nursing home operators. Most states in the U.S. take no measures whatsoever to prevent corruption by the inspection agency. So if you ever see a nursing home with anything other than a wonderful rating, that nursing home must be horrible, indeed.

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#42

Half of the so claimed 'services' they offer at Jiffy Lube never get completed, either by laziness or it may be impossible to do it the proper way on certain cars. The store's hours distributed for employees are directly affected by 'average ticket sales', which means (at least when I was store manager at one) that if we didn't have an average of $65+ at the end of the day per car, then we got wrote up. Jiffy Lube is a dirty, evil company that takes advantage of people, and that's why I left to take a lower position elsewhere. Even though I made less money, I knew I wouldn't be selling people things they didn't need. Felt good quitting that f*****g place.

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26points

Paul Davis 2 years ago (edited)

Jiffy Lube has for decades been the absolute worst place to take your car. If you look it up you'll see a very long list of scams they like to pull on customers. It makes me very angry that after all this history the executives of that company have never been sent to prison for their obvious criminal conspiracy.

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#43

I'm in the games industry, so I know a lot of people in movie effects...and it just makes me so mad how you guys are treated.

I know people who worked on Life of Pi and got laid off while the movie was getting rewards and all the accolades.

These studios want high budget effects for a low budget price and it's a damn shame because you guys are freaking killing it with no credit.

I always stay after the credits at films to look at the various studios that were involved because man...so much talent involved.

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26points

Tami 2 years ago

The extras on DVDs often have a segment on the CGI talent, always interesting to see how incredibly detailed that work is.

4points

#44

If people would brush and floss once or twice a day really well and correctly, 90% of us dentists wouldn't have a job except for maybe oral surgeons for wisdom teeth.

Edit: Ya know... I wish I didn't make such a hyperbolized statement out of humor and good natured "go brush your teeth" attitude.

I'm a restorative dentist. That mean most of my work is to fix decay and it's repercussions in the mouth. I meant this statement from a restorative dentist standpoint and what my patients come in for.

Orthodontists, oral surgeons, periodontists, endodontists, pediatric dentists, prosthodontists... they all do things that involve and don't involve decay. There's congenital conditions, systemic conditions and all these other factors that I didn't take into account when I made my one-sentence self-depricating statement at my particular field in our profession.

I apologize, sincerely.

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John L 2 years ago

Not at all, most people underestimate how important oral health is to overall health. Wish I had learned that in my 20's, but I was still immortal, then.

15points

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#45

Funeral home worker for 5 years.

That casket has a huge markup and it is illegal for a funeral home to not let you source your own casket. In my area Amish make them and their prices run from reasonable to unreasonable and here's another tip - Walmart sells caskets. They are still slightly overpriced but usually better than what your director is probably selling.

Shop your casket options.

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Final score:

24points

Robin DJW 2 years ago

Shop cremation services, too. We actually got a really good price for our father's cremation by getting the local funeral parlors involved in a bidding war. He would have laughed his @*s off. Love ya, Dad, even though you have been gone for 35 years.

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#46

About half of the imported honey on the shelf is really rice syrup illegally transhipped from China through another country and relabeled as honey and the only testing the FDA has for this is effectively meaningless.

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23points

censor 2 years ago

Buy from a local farmer near you who has actual hives.

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#47

In almost every labor job I've worked, including being a valet, people smoke and drink on the job. The valet service I worked for never even asked to see my driver's license.

XiiXSNB , Tadson Bussey Report

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23points

censor 2 years ago

In our country drinking on the job is a fireable offence except for DJs.

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#48

Nurse- Don't lie to us or the doctor! We're not out to get you, make you feel bad, get you in trouble, etc. The answers you give us will directly impact the care we give you and oftentimes, if the information we're given is wrong, it can affect your outcomes.

Yes, herbal meds need to be mentioned, yes, you should tell us exactly what happened (even if it's embarrassing).

Also, the gauge of your needle likely has a lot less to do with how much I like you and a lot more to do with the particulars of why you're getting a needle inserted into you in the first place.

Edit: Just for reference, most of my experience has been in a hospital setting. I'm not advocating lying in an office setting by any means, but you are also under no obligation to fill your doctors in on every illegal substance you've ever imbibed either unless there's a possibility it's contributing to your current issues.

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23points

John Smith 2 years ago

This swings both ways though. I have stopped counting the times I have been asked How much do you drink? smoke? have takeaways? drink sugary drinks?. Answered I don't to all only to see them enter "occasional drinker" or equivalent on the forms. I can see the answers on the screen and there is a none option right there. I don't drink, so don't put me in the Occasional bracket just because it suits the metrics.

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#49

When you rent a vehicle to go one-way. You will most likely be getting a car that's either high mileage, has a weird smell/stain or has a possible mechanical issue.

The branch has to pay to fix the car so it's usually easier to pass the buck

Make sure you do a thorough inspection before leaving the lot.

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Final score:

23points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago (edited)

Common sense. Check first. I drove across the USA years ago and got a brand new car from the rental but only after refusing to take the 150k mile lemon they offered.

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#50

If you always wrap your cord around your laptop AC adapter, you bend the wires in a tight curve. Back and forth, back and forth, bending at the same spot each time you wrap. Then they break off inside. If it's too expensive to just throw away, I'm repairing them. The same goes for expensive earbuds or phones: if you must wrap the cord around your music source, UNPLUG FIRST, otherwise, you're slowly working at snapping off the wires at the spot where they dive into the plug.

Final score:

22points

censor 2 years ago

do NOT operate power cables coiled up. There's this thing called INDUCTION. it is how motors and generators work. You will burn. Especially in areas with 220 Volts. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/192923/why-is-it-dangerous-use-a-coiled-extension-cord

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#51

911 operator here. Most of our technology is dangerously outdated. We got our current radio system in 1997.

And it's not just our center, any 911 center you go to will have software and equipment that should have been replaced years ago. It's scary. Only about 80% of our cell phone calls provide a usable location, and even that can be off by hundreds of feet.

Most states add a 911 service fee of about $1 onto your monthly phone bill. That money is supposed to go to the 911 center exclusively and provide funding for equipment and software upgrades. But there have been widespread cases of those funds being diverted elsewhere. We don't get much from tax revenue, either. We're a footnote on the budget, and our technology reflects that.

Bonus note: If you call 911 for a medical call, it might seem like a game of 20 questions. Rest assured that help is almost always dispatched as soon as we have the address, any other questions we ask are to determine a priority and update the units en route.

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22points

B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 2 years ago

Always give the address first!

2points

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#52

I'm a celebrity event photographer in Hollywood. Most of the smaller award shows winners like the MTV VMAs, Teen Choice Awards, etc...already know they are going to win. This motivates the talent to come to the event. During the show they are backstage talking with friends and take a seat during a commercial break just before their award is announced. The few exceptions are the Oscars and Golden Globes where the audience is mostly celebrities.

bridow , Jim Yi Report

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21points

Paul Davis 2 years ago

I don't get why people watch any of these award shows at all. The winners are so obviously based on what the studios are trying to promote, rather than having any sort of actual merit.

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#53

The chances of you surviving cardiac arrest are only between 5-10% with the proper application of life-saving measures. people seem to be under the assumption that most people come back... They don't.

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21points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

You also end up with a ton of broken ribs, other internal damage and a life expectancy drastically shortened.

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#54

Former bartender of a nightclub here-- if you are going to be ordering drinks all night, buy your first drink and leave a decent tip. The first impression counts. If you do this, and I speak on behalf of all bartenders, we will definitely make sure you will be taken good care of. Ordering mixed drinks? I'll make sure they're loaded with alcohol. Long line to re-order? Wave at me and I'll go out of my way and serve you first. Hell, even sometimes when someone cancels a drink, I'll give it to you free on me.

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Final score:

21points

PalmKitty 2 years ago

fair enough

2points

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#55

Similar situation with audio production. The sound mixing and the music are critical to engrossing you in the story, but most people don't realise just how true that is until it is off.

And then there are totally unrealistic sounds that you are supposed to create, simply because it's what audiences expect. Punches don't whoosh loudly through the air and land like you just threw 30 kilos of meat onto your granite floor, but people are so used to that sound that anything else sounds wrong to them.

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Final score:

21points

Sander 2 years ago

Movie sound effects: punches are way too loud, gun shots way too quiet. In all fairness, making the latter realistic would deafen the audience. Not that that's stopping Nolan when he's making a movie about Dunkirk.

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#56

I cooked at Crapplebee's for a short while saving money to move out of state. They microwave pretty much 80% of the menu. And the food is a small step above burger king in quality.

Final score:

20points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

Most chain restaurants just reheat food. Applebees are not unique in that regard. 🤷‍♀️

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#57

If you get the slightest stain on your mattress, the manufacturer's warranty is voided. If you buy a mattress buy a mattress cover.

Returning a mattress to a mattress store is hellish, no one wants the mattress you bought without testing, who knows what you did on it, so vendors make it nearly impossible to return them. (It costs a vendor a lot to recondition a mattress.)

Vendors often have to rent storage lockers/trucks to store soiled mattresses that delivery guys pick up anyway. My company has two trucks filled with mattresses marked "BF", wrapped in plastic that the manufacturers will not take back. We have to eat the cost.

Bedbugs aren't as big a problem (yet) as the media seems to suggest.

Before you purchase a mattress, spend at least 30 mins, more like an hour, laying on it in your normal sleeping position. If the store gives you a hard time, go somewhere else.

DO NOT buy the plushest bed you find. It might feel good at first, but that thing will turn in to a mushy hole that causes your back to spasm so that you pray for de*th.

Don't give the mattress store a bad review cause you bought the wrong mattress, p**sed on it, and then they wouldn't take it back.

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Final score:

20points

John L 2 years ago

"Bedbugs aren't as big a problem (yet) as the media seems to suggest." I am guessing you've never dealt with them, directly. They are like roaches....if your neighbor has them, then you have them. It's not so much how wide spread they are, it's how it's near impossible to get rid of them, without a large fumigation, effort.

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#58

Hotels are so paranoid about getting a bad review that if you complain about anything they'll give you something free, especially if you're a member of their rewards program.

Never use the cup that's in the bathroom, it's not cleaned.

You're just as likely to find bedbugs in high end hotels with international travelers as you are at a motel 6.

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Thomas.Rudd 2 years ago

As a person that travels alot, this is true :D

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#59

When renting cars, the cost of your rental is whatever I can get you to pay for it. Need an SUV today? It might be $75 a day. Need one when it's snowing? Could be $300. Don't have a reservation? I'm taking you to the bank. Get the app on your phone and make a reservation...even if it's 5 minutes before you get to the counter. Don't blow off the offer of the loss damage waiver or collision waiver. You may not think you need it until you do. A couple of dollars may save you tens of thousands of dollars and/or a lot of heartache and paperwork. Also, rental prices are 3 times higher Monday through Thursday morning than they are Thursday afternoon through Monday.

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20points

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#60

That if everyone being charged with a crime insisted on it going to trial, no plea bargaining, the system would crash.

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20points

censor 2 years ago (edited)

This is true of all government functions. In SA, our government is required to answer every email. If you want to bring us down, all you have to do is email queries at a rate of about 10-20 per day from different accounts and demand service and response to those emails, and follow up every day with a follow-up mail. It makes the staff fret and work on answering you instead of doing government work. Result: crash. It's unsustainable. These are systems (business systems) designed for the paper and quill pen 1700s era when most people charged with crimes were petty pickpockets, streetside prozzies and swindlers, who had neither a car, nor a phone, nor an email address, to fight back. They'd have to walk from the poor house to the court, queue for hours with other poor people, etc. Hence it was possible to run this stupid system in the 1700s. Now, no. The backlog on courts is phenomenal. Our ex president zuma is great at this. He basically just throws procedural objections at every hearing, and then generates a new hearing on the procedural objection. He's avoided jail for like 20 years doing this.

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#61

I worked at a high end furniture store in college. 75% of high end furniture is assembled in the back of the store by a hungover college kid the same way you would if you bought something from Ikea.
The difference between a $99 dresser and a $1000 dresser is a hungover college kid.
EDIT: Just for clarification, I should have said what the *average* person would consider high end. Most people on Reddit are more educated about consumer products than an average person. I've received comments and messages from people giving examples of why this isnt true and listing brands which would retail for $5000 dollars. I'm speaking about a store an *average* person would go into and assume they are getting nice furniture.
In regards to the quality of materials, yes the materials are better, but not as they seem. The hardware, sliders etc are better, but that oak dresser you are buying (at a $1000 price point) is often one piece of oak on top, and then lined with pine on the sides/interior.
I'm just saying know what you're buying, dont assume a higher price means higher quality.

Final score:

19points

Paul Davis 2 years ago

I often like to assemble my own furniture because the people at the store doing it often don't give a c**p and frequently will strip the screws, overtighten and split the wood, and so forth.

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#62

I work for a UPS store. Here is a few things I have learned since working here...

Writing fragile on your package means nothing.

Your package WILL get thrown around, dropped, and beaten up; if it is breakable then according to our guidelines for properly packaged items it needs to withstand 1000lbs of pressure and a 4ft dtop.

UPS capital claims is terrible as well they will do whatever they can to not pay you the amount you insure your package for.

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19points

ADHORTATOR 2 years ago

I am working at customer service of a big logistics company... I hear it almost everyday "I wrote fragile on it" - so what? Wrapping a vase in one sheet of paper isn't packaging...

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#63

Retail here. If you argue about the price of something and I don't have an easy way to check it I will probably give it to you for your price....but if you do this I will be silently hating you, at least until you leave the store and I forget you exist.

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censor 2 years ago

In our stores (SA) this would never happen. The price is on the shelf. You get it scanned at the Till .if you don't want to pay it, the staff are utterly indifferent to you and will shrug. The manager will shrug. They will walk as slowly and passive-aggressively back with the item to the shelf to check the price, confirm that you are wrong, and ring it up. Never try haggle in SA. You will not win and you will cost yourself a lot of time.

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#64

I work as a statistician in the healthcare industry. My company does consulting work for hospitals all over the country, and I sometimes go with our consultants when they present our findings to the hospitals' executive teams. I have yet to see an executive team that was concerned with patient care, even at not-for-profit hospitals. No matter how poorly they were doing, all they cared about was cutting costs so the hospital could make more money. Our consultants were good about explaining how poor patient care can ultimately affect their bottom line, but it's disheartening to see people running hospitals who don't care about people dying in their facilities.

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19points

Paul Davis 2 years ago

I found this true when working at hospitals - that the medical staff had to spend an enormous amount of time and energy fighting to keep the executives from literally murdering the patients and putting the hospital out of business with their greedy, short-sighted and ignorant cost-cutting and exploitative decisions.

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#65

My Walmart had cats. Most days there'd be a cat somewhere in the back. I suppose it kept the mouse population down.

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Pink Dahlia 2 years ago

I went to an antique store the other day that had a store cat. It made my day. lol What is it about cats?!?!!

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#66

Supermarket produce worker- 90% of the time I go in the back to check for a product that isn't on the floor I'm just doing so to placate you. I already know we don't have the product.

That 10%, though, is me being thorough and good at my job.

The rest I'm taking two seconds to look and see the empty spot and then two minutes bullsh**ting with a co-worker.

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B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 2 years ago

Yep. Sometimes customers insist you check the back, even after you tell them you already know you don’t have any more product back there. I always shrugged and said “if you insist” and then kept them waiting for 3-4 minutes while I chatted with a coworker in the back or had a few puffs on a cigarette.

0points

#67

IT guy chiming in here:

Google.

Edit:
I appreciate everybody's comments that there's more to it than that, and that I shouldn't undersell myself. You're absolutely right. We spend years building knowledge and skills that enable us to know how and what to Google based on potentially obscure or obtuse symptoms, and then how to apply the information we've found without breaking things. Knowledge and skills forged in the crucible of pissed off customers and toner dust.

I also don't feel super bad about the amount of money companies are charged when they call me for help. It's an opportunity cost thing. The $185 it costs them per hour is far cheaper than what it would cost that same company to have one their account managers spend 4 hours trying to figure out how to center the company logo in their signature, or not realize that backup jobs are failing, or that replication is failing.

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John L 2 years ago

Garbage in, garbage out. You can put anything in google. The talent lies in knowing what's relevant and what's not. Never sell yourself short in that regard. I get a lot of satisfaction from those difficult problems, where I spend a day doing google searches and find that one sliver of information, in one article, that leads to a solution.

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#68

High school teacher here. The public education system isn't actually broken. Trace most reform efforts back to their source, and you'll find someone pushing it to profit. Kids are the ones who end up paying the price, though.

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John L 2 years ago (edited)

"No child left behind", I can't think of one worse policy that has such a ripple effect....oops, forgot about the "war on drugs", the "Monroe Doctrine".....meh, never mind....

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#69

This is no secret, but I still find it astonishing how many people think they have even a remote chance of winning (over time) at a casino. It's entertainment. The amount you bet is the price you pay. Whether you count cards, play the outside on Roulette, or bet 7's on Craps: You. Will. Lose.

I have nothing personally against the casino/gambling industry - I think it's great for entertainment purposes, but the illusion of winning is a trap to many.

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censor 2 years ago

well this is obviously true otherwise casinos would go out of business in a single weekend.

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#70

I've worked for a very popular italian chain restaurant for years, I'll let you guess which one.

Those fresh baked breadsticks you so desperately desire are not actually baked in house. We receive PALLETS of already-baked white breadsticks. We just toast them, and then smother them with liquid margarine and garlic powder and salt.

Those cheese graters we use to grate the copious amounts of cheese on your fettucini alfredo are extremely dirty. Most servers grab the cheese with their dirty unwashed hands when placing it in the grater. The graters are sometimes left in random places in the restaurant FOR HOURS and when somebody finally gathers them up they are put right back in this holding container on the counter, with the probably-bacteria-ridden-and-expired cheese still in the grater.

Our salad dressing is manufactured by McCormick and Schmick's and is given to us in big plastic bag container things. Our salad is mostly iceberg lettuce, canned black olives, (suprisingly) fresh roma tomatoes, pre-packaged and sliced red onion, canned pepperoncinis, and garlic croutons. When you tell me that you LOVE our salad I judge you and your poor taste in food.

Surprisingly, our alfredo sauce is very high in quality. We use a flour base combined with manufacturing cream, actual cheese, minced garlic, black pepper, etc. to make it. This is a surprise because most of our sauces come from a concentrate and we just add water/oil/veggies to make it saucy. Our soups are also made from scratch every morning. Each does have a starter base, but all of the vegetables, meats, cream, etc. are fresh and cooked daily.

As I think of more I'll add them.

EDIT: Here's some more I can think of:

ALL of our meat comes frozen and most comes pre-formed (as in, shaped to fit the entree it is meant for).

95% of our pasta was dry pasta that Barilla actually made for us. 95% of our pasta is still dry pasta but is provided to us now through an anonymous distributor.

All of our desserts come frozen and are manufactured by a dessert company that operates only B2B. Chances are the tiramisu you eat at our restaurant is similar, if not the same, as tiramisu you may find at other restaurants. I actually went to a food trade show for a friend's catering business and found the maker of my restaurant's desserts in a booth. Our tiramisu was definitely on display.

Something else I thought of thanks to the comments:

It isn't parmesan cheese that we are grating. It's pecorino romano.

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donald ready 2 years ago (edited)

I love reading these kitchen nightmare things when its written by an active worker that's enabling the issues through inaction. If you see an issue, fix it. If you don't care enough about the job to do that, work elsewhere where you do. Your customers health is in your hands one way or another...do you want to be treated that way?

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#71

I worked as an RN in a large health system, and quit because this attitude was obvious - even from the bottom of the organization.

Management wanted us to use "scripts" to try and manipulate patients into saying good things about us on the surveys. And would rather spend money on trainings for that than even discuss safe staffing levels.

Your direct caregivers probably want you to get well. The higher decision makers couldn't care less.

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Doreen Buccigrossi 2 years ago

I'm also an RN & this is 100% true. The higher-ups only care about the almighty dollar & making their 7 figure salary. While nurses are working like dogs in understaffed units creating dangerous patient environments. It's cheaper to settle the occasional lawsuit than provide safe, quality care.

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#72

Livesound: at any concert, you attend the best sound will be directly in front of the engineer at the main sound board.

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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

Do not follow the advice regarding cotton or tissue in your ears, you’ll wreck the sound and possibly you ears, buy good quality ear protection, either ear plugs or if you can stand the stares a pair of ear defenders. Plugs cost a tiny amount compared to the cost of losing your hearing. As for best sound at the sound board, that’s just not true, a decent sound engineer knows how to fill the room, there may be unidirectional speakers on stage that converge in the middle of the room, the sound desk can easily be off to one side.

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#73

Worked in a restaurant as a hostess through high school: restaurants are divided into sections. Each server has a section. As a hostess, I don't just seat people willy-nilly wherever the hell I want.. there's a method to my madness. I seat tables in a rotation to keep things fair for the servers and so that you get fast service. If you request a certain type of seating, I will do my best to accommodate you, but don't just sit yourself down at a random table, or worse, move to a different table after I've already sat you somewhere else.

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17points

Robin DJW 2 years ago

You can, however, ask the hostess to reseat you if there is a problem with the location. Example: I really hate being seated where the ceiling vent points cold air right down my neck. I will be miserable for the entire meal. I'd far rather get the table by the door to the kitchen than to sit in a cold wind.

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#74

Any expensive pair of sunglasses you buy are cheaply made

Source: work at a chain sunglass store

EDIT: 9/10 customers that come in with broken sunglasses bringing Ray Bans.. Yes, Maui Jims and Persols are good, but designers like Versace and Gucci really aren't all that well made (we had to read a book about the different designers while being hired and how each sunglasses are made)

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Phil Rubin 2 years ago

Almost all glasses and sunglasses are made by Luxottica. Gucci? Luxottica. Oakley: Luxottica. Sunglass Hut, as Perlvision and other chains are owned by Luxottica. They own 90% of the market.

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#75

Don't hang up on telemarketers. If the dialer program they use works like mine, that just puts your number back into the database. If you don't want to be called again, just say so. We're required by law to comply.

EDIT: It looks like not every telemarketing company follows these rules. All I know is that these are the rules I've been working under for the past month and a half, so I'm sorry that this doesn't always work. We are a very small company (like 15 employees total) and only call people who've given out their number on various forms of debt relief inquiries online to see whether they're actually interested in talking to the companies concerned (again, not us) and to collect a little more specific information about the potential customer's situation for the salespeople at these companies. As a result, we're expected to make around 10-15 leads a day, so if a caller isn't interested in the service we move on pretty quickly until we find one that does. It probably does work differently at firms that are actually making cold calls to sell services directly.

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Sander 2 years ago

Telemarketing is banned since june in The Netherlands.

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#76

As someone who has worked as a TA at an American University, we hate reading and grading your papers as much as you hated writing them.

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Hiram's Friend 2 years ago

AMEN

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#77

Yeah, you know how that chiropractor 'accidentally' billed your insurance twice? Mmhm, he's just waiting to see if you catch it, if not CHA CHING for him.

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censor 2 years ago

chiropractic is a cult, it is not the same as physiotherapy. chiropractic is the belief that ANY disease can be cured by manipulating specifically the spine. It is voodoo. Stop supporting it.

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#78

Parking ticket office in Toronto is so backed up that trials are set more than 2 years away which exceeds the statute of limitations and they get canceled.

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Leodavinci 2 years ago

Well, there's your problem. You're having trials for parking ticket violations. They simply aren't a trial-worthy offense. Set fines for the type of parking violation. Then, when people are caught in violation, guilt is evident and no trial is needed. Leave a citation on the car, and if the car gets cited again before the first fine is paid, the car gets towed, and the offender only gets the car back after paying the fine and tow charge.

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#79

The chips/circuitry on printer cartridges are made, maybe not necessarily to fail, but to such low quality, that f**k it, close enough. HP is the biggest culprit right now. Also, I'm about 99% certain that they're sending out firmware updates to disable older models of printers to prevent you from using aftermarket cartridges. If you've got an HP Officejet 6210/6310 connected to an internet accessible computer, try to use an aftermarket 95 cartridge. None of my customers that have that printer connected to an online computer can use them. The one guy who has one of those printers connected to a computer that isn't internet accessible can use them just fine.

TL;DR Let HP d*e their horrible, slow, self imposed de*th.

Edit: I'm getting a lot of questions about what to buy. There is no catch all, good for everyone printer. Likely, there never will be. My recommendation is to get a good idea of your usage, and go from there. If you're just the average home user that doesn't need anything special, a Brother that takes the LC71, or a Canon that takes the PGI225/CLI226, or PGI250/CLI251 should be perfectly adequate. The Brother cartridges don't have chips or circuits. The Canon's *do*, but guys like myself will have resetters for the 225/226, and a rep from R-Jet Tek told me that one will be available for the 250/251 in a matter of months.

If you're a college student who needs to print off a lot of reports, but doesn't necessarily need color or advanced features, a Brother HL series printer will suit your needs. They're small, so they won't take up a lot of dorm room real estate. When you need color, just go to the computer lab.

If you need an inexpensive wide format, I'd lean on an Epson. They're not the most consumer friendly printers, but have some nice entry level wide format machines. They've made some strides in more cost effective cartridges lately too. Everyone has, honestly, if you do your research.

If you need a small business printer, with high yield cartridges, but not enough volume to justify an expensive full color laser, I typically recommend a Brother that takes the LC79 series. These printers are HUGE though, so be forewarned. They're nice machines with a lot of features. Also, I have been turning people away from the LC103/105/107 printers due to chips on the cartridge, but R-Jet Tek has a resetter listed on their website now, so once again, guys like me should be able to do those cartridges here soon. Buy away, especially if you need a printer with a smaller form factor.

Samsung and Oki make great machines, but they can be costly and hard to find supplies for. Customers of mine who have Oki's LOVE them. You get what you pay for though, and damn, you're paying for those things.

If you need a full color laser, I have a customer who is very happy with his printer that takes the Brother TN315's. S**t is EXPENSIVE though, but he prints a lot of technical manuals, and needs the speed and quality. We see him every few months, and he loves the thing. He's our only customer that gets them though, so I am taking the word of one man.

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John L 2 years ago

Yep, the world saw evidence of this when they had to tell everyone how to bypass their DRM, due to the chip shortage. I just print most things, at work.

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#80

In tax people will tell you to report cash receipts for a side business like mowing lawns. Cash receipts that the government has absolutely no way of knowing exists unless you tell them. Cash receipts that would never trigger a lifestyle check, and even if somehow the government knew you received them they wouldn't be able to prove it because there's no trail left that's appropriate for legal purposes.

Just food for thought.

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15points

censor 2 years ago

Common low-level crime here in SA. Most small businesses will offer you a tax discount if you pay cash. VAT is 15%, so if you would pay ZAR 1150, say, they will offer you ZAR 1000 for cash. It's basically tax evasion, and a crime. Our high-level criminals often also deal in cash. The way for governments to solve this one and collect all the revenue is to simply cancel cash. It's a really archaic system that supports criminals.

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#81

I worked for several years in book publishing.

Being a published fiction author almost always isn't a real job. A good number of books to sell for an author would be 3,000 in a year. (Only a ~1% of fiction authors hit this. Non-fiction is higher.)

But royalties on a $16 trade paperback or a $4 ebook come out to about $1 per book for the author. (50% royalty for ebook. $2 for Amazon, $1 for the publisher, $1 for the author) and (10% royalty for trade paper $8 for the bookstore, ~$7 for the publisher, $1 for the author. Note publisher has distribution and other costs that come out of that $7.)

So selling 3,000 books (which puts you in the top 1% of fiction sales) nets you a whopping $3000 a year.

Final score:

15points

censor 2 years ago

Hence do not bother, just self-publish on the many self-publishing sites and get a higher revenue share. Who cares who the publisher is? No one. They all sell thru amazon anyway.

8points

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#82

ATM tech...If you see someone working on an atm, it's generally faster to find another open machine. Also, don't honk the horn, this ain't curb service.

P.S. Don't come to knock on the door of the kiosk, we won't answer it.

P.P.S. Don't get pissed off at me, if I wasn't here to fix the thing it would never be available for you to use.

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censor 2 years ago

In our country guys working on ATMs carry machine guns, military grade. That's because they are often robbed at that moment. You will get mowed down if you f**k with the guys fixing an ATM.

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#83

I'm a designer in the toy and novelty gift industry. I work for one of those companies that make things like farts in a can, or heat-sensitive mugs with funny messages on the side. We make versions of beer pong and miniature table tennis. If you're buying a stocking filler at Christmas it's probably from a company like mine.

Literally, everything we make is copied or ripped off from somebody else. It is made in the cheapest possible way over in China, with very little testing. It's poorly conceived, poorly made, and poorly marketed. Most of the people that create and sell this sh*t admit that it's good for nothing but the landfill. However, amazingly we manage to turn over several million a year in sales

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14points

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#84

Am a valet. Will drive your personal car gently. Rentals will try to get air on speed bumps. Also, (at least at my location ) we're not gonna look through your sh*t. I don't care what's in your glove box, although I will judge you if your car smells like garbage or farts.

Final score:

14points

#85

I'm only supposed to put six olives on your Footlong.

You all deserve to know.

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

But but they're only slices 🥺 please sir, could I have some more?

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#86

If you're buying a mattress at an actual mattress store (not sams), buy it in the middle of springtime. That's when it gets INCREDIBLY slow for us and when we have the best sales. Also, buy the mattress you want brand new but get an outlet box. The box won't matter because you don't see or sleep on it and you get up to 100 bucks off! Don't buy pillows or sheets, buy them somewhere else because we overprice them. One more piece of advice, HAGGLE. Find the price of your set that they offer, tell them you have 100 bucks less than they offer, and wave money in their face. During the slow season, you could get up to 200 bucks off your set by that.

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Bruce Mardle 2 years ago

The last time I bought a mattress I thought I'd do lots of comparison shopping. I never found a mattress that was available in more than 1 store. Cunning!

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#87

Jack in the box-- Don't order lemon with your ice tea/water. Those lemons are by the drive-thru window because people will ask for some last minute. So they sit there all day, sliced, and the drive-thru cashier who is handling all the money will often put their dirty hand in there and touch your lemon before giving it to you.

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John L 2 years ago

This is one of the reasons, I rarely eat out. Granted, I understand that there is a certain amount of leeway needed to serve the public, but that doesn't mean, I have to subject myself to it. I know most restaurants are gross.

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#88

A lot of published academic research, especially in the life sciences, is wrong and based on shoddy data or outright fabrications. Occasionally you'll hear about a case that forces a prominent research centre to wipe some egg off their face in the media, but in general, far more of it is swept under the rug, dismissed along with the "bad apple," or just allowed to persist. Practically to a man, every scientist I've talked to about this issue can recall multiple papers that they know couldn't possibly be based off legitimate experimental results, often from notable journals and prestigious laboratories. It's no surprise to me that the pressure to publish and the intensity of the work environment drives some people to cut corners and make ethically dubious decisions -- we scientists aren't any more or less honest than the general population really. That's the big misconception people have about the supposed nobility of science -- yes, science is a very noble pursuit and scientists are often very altruistic and regimented and honest, but not overwhelmingly so.

I think people would be truly staggered by the volume and provinence of unreliable data, and the number of people who've built solid careers, funded huge projects, and even built massive laboratories off the back of it. That's not to say we're funding loads of c**p science and we should shrink our scientific enterprise at all, but rather that institutes and Universities and government agencies need to do more to prevent it. And the productivity expectations and publication statndards for researchers need to be made more reasonable, such that they're not compelled to cut corners or make stuff up just to keep their jobs. I think many people are afraid to speak up due to fears of retaliation and the nagging possibility that their books aren't entirely in order either. Find me an investigator with a periodical-length CV, and you'll probably find a suspect figure somewhere if you look long and hard enough. If someone digs it up and gives it legs, his/her career can be basically over and most people would rather let sleeping dogs lie. Sometimes things do get retracted, but not often enough. This is a problem that very few people are willing to talk about openly, but it's getting to be an elephant in the room very rapidly as publication volume grows exponentially.

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12points

censor 2 years ago

Depends on the research area. Psychology is notorious. Google "psychlogy replication crisis"

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#89

There are so many mice and/or rats in and around grocery stores. We are required by law to take measures to control the population and dispose of contaminated products, but short of a full-blown infestation no store is going to be shut down for having mice

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BonnyDK 2 years ago

At a high end grocery store near my house I found all their sweet potatoes had rat bites. It was very obvious. I called over the grocery stocker for that area and showed him the marks and told him what they were. I don't think anything was done. Yumm. Right at Thanksgiving.

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#90

Millions -and I mean millions- of your tax dollars are absolutely, totally, wasted and/or stolen from United States embassies by almost everyone involved in any number of ways. Actual theft of property, actual theft of money, embezzlement, frequent extravagant parties, travel expenses, etc etc.

I made a throwaway in case anyone wants any specific examples. I honestly wouldn't even know where to begin right now.

Source: I spent a number of years working in the embassies of Moscow and Beijing.

Edit: The US Embassies in Moscow, Cairo, and Beijing (and some medium size ones elsewhere in Europe) employ and also *house* tens of thousands of people. Mansions outside of town, drivers for kids for school, there's all kinds of things happening.

**Edit #2: Here are some stories I told in the replies. I have no documented evidence other than ID. Simply telling you what I've seen and experienced during my time there.**

1) There's a number of ways people, not only Americans, steal things and waste money endlessly.

There's a great deal of very valuable materials (tools, cables, machine parts, chemicals/fuels, and all kinds of little gizmos I couldn't name). All it takes to resupply anything is a simple work order form or submission to GSO (general services officer), which next to no one will scrutinize, and you've got it. This invokes theft of everything not cash.

2) The big physical property theft happens at the off-compund storage sites. They can't possibly store everything at the actual embassies, so they contract out a storage facility in the host country to store their very expensive new stuff in. Ranging from 4th of July bbq pits (custom made, thousands of dollar price tag) from the personnel's housing furniture (expensive [and ugly] couches, tables, dressers, etc). Plus, every year (or every other year) there is a massive kind of embassy estate sale where a lot of things that were paid for but were never used are up for auction to the public. In Moscow the place was called Dorozhno, and very little was returned once sent there, including things that could have actually been useful.

3) In one of the Moscow embassy buildings, there is a corridor that is filled with HUGE pieces of Chihuly glass bowls and other pieces, some that were easily 6-7 feet tall. It was a giant, art display (at least 12-15 pieces of Chihuly art of that size is worth god knows how much) for a small fraction of people (less than 75 people) who had the clearance to get to that corridor.

[Here it is](http://moscow.usembassy.gov/art-in-the-embassy/the-new-chancery-art-collection.html). It's a small picture, but that room is huge and the pieces have changed since it was taken. In their defense it was pretty spectacular. The biggest Chihuly display I've ever personally seen.

4) Outside of Beijing are suburban neighborhoods that look like San Diego. McMansions in gated communities (that I'm sure weren't built for free) outside of the city where the people/press can't see that it's ALL white expats. They have their own libraries, pools (in the winter, ice rinks), and American fooderies. They get special Chinese guards on patrol day and night around the walls of these communities.

Watching how you live on the government's dime while watching the Chinese suffer was probably one of the more lasting memories. Grocery store employees will walk a white person's dog while they shop then carry their stuff home for them if they live close enough by. It's somewhat shocking to see. If anyone in Beijing wants to visit the Jenny Lou's in Chaoyang district, please let me know if it has changed.

5) The embassy in Moscow owns two large vacation homes (dachas in Russian, though dachas in general are small and belong to families). The rent on them is easily hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not more, and only embassy staffers are allowed to use them. There are hedgehogs in the little yards around them and are very cute.

6) Right before I left, ambassador Burns was a special guest at the wedding of a Dagestani crime lord's daughter's wedding, which was attended by Ramzan Kadyrov, the brutal tyrant dictator of Chechnya.

I'm not sure why one of our ambassadors would be a guest at such an event hosted by such evil people, but I can imagine why we didn't hear about it. Fun stuff. There was a leaked cable about it, he didn't seem very pleased with Kadyrov and his ilk.

7) Marine security guards threatening kids with disassembled M4s, people forced out of their TDY for no reason (many expats don't own a home so when their contract goes sour for whatever reason, things can be very very bad), and the guards grew pot outside the walls on the backside of the compound in Moscow.

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PVR 2 years ago

Having grown up in embassies, I can confirm most of this.

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#91

Manager of a lighting business.

If you're a band and rent a light for more than an 18 week tour, you basically paid the full retail price of that light for us, and we continue to rent it out making profits off of it for years.

I can't tell you how many lights (some with price tags of over 10,000 to 15,000$ per light) a car company have rented from us that we bought new from manufacturer just because said car company would be renting the lights for 5 months to do car shows. They basically bought the light for us, then paid us more money to have them for another few weeks. The even crazier part is they will rent them again the next year. They could have just as easily bought these lights and kept them in a storage facility, but I think the justification for it is that moving lights are very complex machines and we maintain them after every single show/event that they go to.

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11points

Mrs S 2 years ago

Your company's support is an invaluable aspect of the contract to the client.

0points

#92

Most people already have the tools I use lying around, and would know how to fix their problem if they watched a five minute youtube video.

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11points

John L 2 years ago

True. My parent's sump pump died. I bought a new one and installed it. Then had a plumber come to properly secure it. He asked me if I was a plumber....no, I just follow instructions well.

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#93

A lot of times, when you request modifications to your food in a restaurant, the cooks are often making fun of you or becoming irrationally angry.

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Firstname Lastname 2 years ago (edited)

If y'all want me to stop asking for no cheese with my omelet, start using shredded instead of slapping a plasticy slice on top of it. I love omelets, and stretchy cheese, but eating a slice of still cool cheese isn't cutting it for me.

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#94

Pretty much everyone, everywhere, has no idea what the f**k they're doing and are bullsh**ting and half-as*ing their way through their careers.

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censor 2 years ago

everyone knows that, and that's not industry-specific dude.

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#95

people working in a liquor store almost always are drinking on the job.

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Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

I never did. I actually hate most alcohol.

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#96

Worked foodservice for 15 years in plenty of places. Never seen an ice bin/ice machine cleaned.

EDIT: I don't mean the bins ice is transported to; i mean the bin where newly created ice is deposited. Also, i do remeber them being cleaned-but only when the machine went down and all the ice was used. Certainly the exception, not the rule.

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donald ready 2 years ago

That means you didn't clean it either....and there's the issue. You know there's an issue...but whatever, not my job.....

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#97

people that work in call centers often hit their mute buttons to tell their co-workers about the total r****d on the phone.

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9points

Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

That’s ok when we hang up we tell our loved one the person in the call centre is a douche.

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#98

Little secret. When you buy carpet you usually need less square footage of pad than carpet. But most companies bill you the same square footage for both and often send less pad than you paid for.

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#99

If a mechanic fixes your car and fixes the wrong thing first they will just talk you in circles and make you soak up the cost for their f**k up. Most mechanics are really good talkers and can easily fool a customer and most times the service manager. No one is on your side at a dealership.

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Sik One 2 years ago

Mechanic here. It sucks that people think we’re all crooks and liars. I’ve always been fair and honest. And most people I’ve worked with have also. It’s a lousy stereotype.

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#100

If you printed nudes at a 1-hour photo lab, everyone who works there seen them. Some people may have made themselves a copy.

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censor 2 years ago

Well duh. When I did this the staff even commented on them and asked questions like who was who etc. "Art shots". It was a bit embarrassing but in retrospect hilarious.

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#101

Porn stars are generally good people and great to be around

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John L 2 years ago (edited)

The fact you have to say this, underscores that most people are judgemental @sshats....

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#102

Retail Outlet for a major sporting good company:

-$XX.00 Regular Price
-$XX.99 Outlet Price
-$XX.98 Temporary Price Reduction (As in, this may only last a week or so)
-$XX.97 Permanent Price Reduction (As in, the price may go lower but it'll never go back up)
---Green price stickers: Store level markdown
---Orange price stickers: Company-wide markdown
---Price stickers are on a 5 color rotation based on how old the product is (can't reveal any more on this one but the most common color you see is the most recent)
-We always price check if you complain, just policy
-BUT there is always a manager that will give you a 10% discount for that streak on your shoe
-We accept returns no questions asked for damaged items like the sole falling off your sneaker, etc. Receipts help your case significantly but you'll most likely get some sort of discount
-If you have your receipt you can return it long past our policy. I returned a shoe 4 years old, unworn with receipt no problem before
-Buy the day before black Friday, come back with the items and wait in line and we change the price for you - saves you the trouble of fighting for sizes
-Ask the employees when the big clearance sales and promotions are changing, they are normally high schoolers without real care for policy
-Fill out the surveys. Ask to split up your purchase. Two opportunities to gain more surveys and two opportunities to use the gift cards from those surveys (only one allowed per transaction)

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Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago

What store, please?

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#103

As a software engineer, the first version will probably always be bad.

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PCW10101 2 years ago

like the first pancake

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#104

Summer camp director. No one on staff is ever 100% sure what’s going on, there’s a 70% chance we think your kid is an a**hole, and losing kids for 15-60 minutes at a time is a little more common than we’d like admit.

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Scarlett 2 years ago

Summer camp counselor here, please tell your kids to ask for help if they don’t know where their next activity is and for the love of god, tell them they can’t go back to their cabins to sleep without telling anyone. The first few days of the new session is always when we get missing camper calls

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Bored Seb 2 years ago

I'm a manager, in a hotel. I will never make your stay worst (even if you're an a** I'm not). But you have no idea how much I can make your experience unforgivable if you're a nice, kind and respectful guest.

5points

the_anonyMrs_Mir 2 years ago

Unforgettable?? Lol

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censor 2 years ago

some plausible stuff here.

4points

Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago

Banks are a business. Your house deposit is to protect the bank from losing money. If you tell the bank to send money to someone as part of a scam that's your choice. The banks business is to loan/send money not to examine your choices and decide if they are right for you.

1point

Bored Seb 2 years ago

I'm a manager, in a hotel. I will never make your stay worst (even if you're an a** I'm not). But you have no idea how much I can make your experience unforgivable if you're a nice, kind and respectful guest.

5points

the_anonyMrs_Mir 2 years ago

Unforgettable?? Lol

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censor 2 years ago

some plausible stuff here.

4points

Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago

Banks are a business. Your house deposit is to protect the bank from losing money. If you tell the bank to send money to someone as part of a scam that's your choice. The banks business is to loan/send money not to examine your choices and decide if they are right for you.

1point

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