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48 Seedy Secrets From Different Industries That Are Kept Hidden From The Public
It's widely accepted that shady sh*t is happening behind the scenes of some industries, even if it's not publicly broadcast.
The entertainment industry, for example, may dazzle with red carpets and flashing lights, but behind the glitz and glamor, lies a world of exploitation, power games, and cover-ups.
But what about the industries that appear squeaky clean from the outside? What if we told you that many professions have a dirty underbelly, including some that you'd least expect? Seedy secrets that outsiders are not supposed to know.
Someone once asked people to share the dirty, little happenings in their chosen professions and netizens didn't hold back. From shady business deals, to questionable ethics and even criminal activity, many of the answers might make you rethink what you once thought you knew about the world and its workers. Bored Panda has put together the top responses for you to scroll through while you wonder what's going on behind closed doors at your own company...
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#1
You know those calendars with all those hugely muscled firemen in provocative poses?
Yeah, most of us look *nothing* like that. Sorry, ladies.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
No, no. Rats can't carry the heavy gear. They might be good at finding people in rubble, though.
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Lila Allen 3 months ago
Considering Steve Buscimi is a former firefighter I feel like we all had advanced warning on this
If we were to ask you what profession was the most ethical, what would you say? Priests? Doctors? Lawyers? Vets? Police?
Most Americans believe that nurses are the most honest and ethical human beings around in this day and age. That's according to the latest “Americans’ Ratings of Honesty and Ethics of Professions” Gallup poll. 79% of American respondents rated the ethical standards of nurses as high or very high.
"Nurses have earned the highest rating in every year but one since Gallup added them to the annual survey in 1999," noted the polling company. "The exception was 2001, when firefighters -- included only that year -- earned a record 90% trust rating after their heroism in responding to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers."
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#2
Third Party Reservations. I work in Hospitality. Property side.
Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, all that, they're complete s**t. They pay us nearly full price for the room in the first place, and then charge you. Guess what that means? No real discount. Just that you don't notice it as much, because when you arrive you only use your card for incidentals. Quick note about that.
THEY DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT, GIVE YOU PROPER INFORMATION. About anything. Requested a king? Oh they sent the reservation over without any notes about that. Didn't get told we'd need a card at check in? That's because they don't care about customer service, and yes every hotel (that you actually *want* to stay in) in the world requires it.
I mean, the majority of people honestly don't know much about travel in the first place, but these kinds of websites let that ignorance stagnate. Do yourself a favor, book direct, talk to the agents and ask questions even if they're stupid ones, because it will save everyone a lot of trouble later.
Lost Panda 3 months ago
The number of times I called hotels after looking on one of those sites and got a better deal is enough to tell me that I don't need/want to use them. That and I can actually request things from the hotel (and by request I mean ask if they can do XYZ. Usually they do)
Lame Llama 3 months ago
This is such a lie. I've been on both sides of the business and this is so far from the truth.
Glenn Phillips 2 months ago
Here's a tip. Check the hotel room prices on Expedia, Trivago, etc. then call the hotel direct. Tell them Expedia is offering the room at this price. They will always match it. If you book through a third party and have a problem, the hotel isnt so willing to help you.
Mario Clouâtre 3 months ago
I use them for reference only then look the the hotel phone number. Worse case scenario I got the same deal. Quite often i found that the hotel had more more available.
#3
Wanna know why candy is expensive for the average joe? It's expensive for the theater too. As long as you don't show it to us, just bring candy in your pocket WE ARENT CHECKING FOR IT. someone brought in 5 pizzas in the boxes, I applauded.
Datsuyama 3 months ago
Brought in burgers and fries from Cheesecake Factory once because my date was running late leaving work. Guy at the ticket booth said, "Cheesecake Factory?" I said, "Yeah, leftovers, you know...." He was like, "cool." And, we enjoyed our burgers while watching the movie.
NotAThreat (he/her) 3 months ago
i literally only pay for the popcorn, the (frozen) drinks run out too fast and the lollies are WAY overpriced, just buy ur lollies n drinks at Coles b4 you go inside :/ (if ur aussie ig)
tori Ohno 3 months ago
We had a local drive in years ago that tried that BS. No outside food or drinks they said, so pop open the trunk and let us search your car. Cops can't even do that without due process, so people threatened to sue them. It was legally considered the same as searching a woman's purse or a man's pockets. They don't legally have the right. Pizza and soda in everyone's trunks after that!
Datsuyama 3 months ago
The protection from search and seizure only applies to the government. Private entities can enact such policies. That's why you get your bags searched at stadiums, airports, concerts, etc. By attending, you agree to allow that process - it's probably outlined in some fine print nobody reads.
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Huddo's sister 3 months ago
I never got food or drink from the theatre when I was growing up. Cans of drink and packets of chips and lollies in our backpacks (usually bought from the supermarket a couple of doors down) was always the expectation. No one ever checked the bags. It wasn't until I was in high school that I went to the movies (at the higher cost one, by friend's choice) with anyone who bought from the snack bar. I much prefer the old way.
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I'm not against this. The price of a box of popcorn can sometimes cost more than the actual film ticket. Then there's food allergies.
tori Ohno 3 months ago
That attitude is why so many of us don't go to theatres anymore. I want my nachos and popcorn while I watch the movie, and I Demand they be affordably priced.
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Many lobbyists, members of Congress and TV reporters apparently cannot be trusted, according to the results of the poll. More than half of U.S. adults believe their ethics are low or very low.
It's interesting to note while doctors came second in 2023 poll, trust in them has steadily fallen. "After reaching a historical high of 77% in 2020, doctors’ ethics rating not only returned to its 2019/pre-pandemic level of 65% but, at 53%, is now the lowest since the mid-1990s," Gallup reported.
#4
Used to work for a company that made software that runs on cars. The company develops the software and hardware for each series of car manufacturer (hence why all the Honda cars have the same stereo layout in a given year) and then ships a finished unit to a big car manufacturer to include in the car. I overheard some engineers talking
A "I found a bug where a rare combination of commands will make the volume stuck at maximum"
B "That sounds dangerous, are you going to report it?"
A "No, I already send the code and the product is ready for shipping, I am not delaying anything unless someone complains"
So if your car is ever stuck on max volume now you know.
StPaul9 3 months ago
Had a great uncle (I think) who worked on cars, and when they knew cars destined for the police were coming down the line, they'd slip some nails or something into the door so you could hear them rattling and get a heads-up.
Bacon Tentacles 3 months ago
Not all heroes wear capes. Or maybe your great uncle did, in which case I hope he totally rocked the cape. Anyway, he's a hero.
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As a SW developer who has been doing his job for 30 years - this is pretty much the same for all SW companies. We are NOT delaying the roll-out of any version for a bug unless the world is on fire. And sometimes, even then. Hotfixes are expensive and suck. That being said, sometimes politics rears its ugly head and the customer affected is a VIP (i.e. they have paid us an asston of money for the product and/or are very vocal when they complain) - in which case we hotfix until the cows come home. Thankfully that decision is, and always will be, well above my pay grade.
sfgothgirl 3 months ago
Just one example of why this is dangerous: it's difficult to hear emergency vehicles with stereo at max volume. If it's daytime, you're not likely to see those flashing lights. Not so great for long-term hearing.
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There are Bad Doctors / Nurses / Healthcare professional etc.... (By bad I mean any kind of bad, ranging from slightly unprofessional to "nearly" too dangerous to be allowed to practice)
The thing is, if you ask us, we can't blatantly tell you they're not good. So if you want to know if your future surgeon is good, either try to find other of his/her patients or look him/her up on the internet. The reason is that Since I'm not a Doctor, I technically have no right to criticize them and it would be considered "Damaging his/her reputation" and could be sued / lose our jobs for that.
However, you can also try to ask anyone you know in the hospital to try and find out. You'd be amazed what is said between nurses and other professionals behind closed doors. You can bet that if a surgeon is REALLY bad, even the janitors will know.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
We have our current Doctor due to the rating of a nurse, they know.
cnn57t8278 3 months ago
My partner’s neurologist once said of a colleague (working at another hospital), “let’s just say she *applied* here. My partner was confused as to what exactly was being said. I’m an RN and had to explain afterward just how much shade was thrown by our neurologist — the colleague has to be BAD. It was glorious.
Lila Allen 3 months ago
Our neurologist won't let out little guy be seen by the pediatric ER doc and routes us straight to the PICU which could be because he's rare but?.... I find that concerning.
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Q: "What do you call the person who graduated last in their class in med school?" A: "Doctor."
Suby 3 months ago
True, but you can still get some info from people's reaction. If the doctor is bad, staff might not say that, but they certainly won't go on and on how wonderful the doctor is. A lot of time you get a general response, like "he has been doing this for a long time," "she wants her help her patients," or whatever.
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I have a real rant about this... My specialist for my calipers etc? It went all on for quite a few months. He lost my shoes, he'd sent them to the wrong department. It took weeks to find them, eventually they did and I went to pick them up then??? He said my calipers needed replacing, they did, but he didn't measure my legs correctly. My new calipers were about an inch and a half too short. There was a lot of other stuff but if I've to go back to the physiotherapy hospital? I'm now going to see a different specialist. I'd said to them that I'd spoken with a medical legal adviser and that yes, they know. But it's just? None of this should've ever happened in the first place. It's necessary disability equipment and you can't be all "Oopsie! I made a mistake!" about it. Which he was like when I was phoning up about it... And yes, he had a reputation which the nurses knew about
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago (edited)
My shoes were adapted for my calipers, sorry! Forgot to mention that! Also... He's g*****n lucky that I'm not the type of person who would've gotten him struck off. I had to really think hard about whether or not to take it further because it wasn't just about me. Others may have been waiting for various orthotics. It was so difficult because I was, friends were - Knee jerk angry response. But I guess... At least I did what I did... Is "Had to do" appropriate?
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I work as an actor at a haunted house and some of the other actors are actually scarier out of character.
Dragon mama 3 months ago
And some are just lovely theatre kids that sing show tunes during breaks so maybe chill out a bit
Sly Schlang 3 months ago
Where was this "not chill"? This was not a hateful rant or something.
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Jesha 3 months ago
There was a dark one a few years ago with an uneven path and I was a cane user. I heard ahead that there was a guy chasing people and quick asked a rando zombie if they could make sure not to do that and he was super nice about it. Dude it was SO MUCH WORSE how he stalked after me. He then stood and S T A R E D while my friends and I waited for our other group. It was the worst. It was amazing.
Americans also seem to be losing faith in the judicial system, with judges seeing a 10-point decline to 28% in their honesty and ethics rating. It's the lowest ever score for this profession.
"The high court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade as well as various legal cases against Donald Trump since 2020 could explain declines in these ratings by both major parties," notes Gallup.
#7
You'd be surprised at how many flies commit s*****e in the fryer.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago (edited)
As a boy scout, we ran an apple juice stand at a historical recreation event where we fed apples into this enormous old fashioned shredder/press. It was mostly apple juice, the rest was bees.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
I'm more worried about things with gluten being put into supposedly separate gluten free friers. Just this week I heard someone ask a food truck about the gluten free fish and chips on their menu. First server didn't know and referred them to the manager, who said they were cooked in a separate frier. Then another worker pipes up and says 'actually we did use it for things with gluten today'.
#8
I offer middle of the road customer service which almost never results in a customer survey.
Really we don't often care about making you happy, we care about getting rid of your problem so we don't have to deal with you anymore. Only extremely good customer service or extremely terrible customer service will result in a survey, so I do enough to get rid of your issue, as quickly as possible, so you go away.
Heffalump 3 months ago
That is exactly the customer service I want: sort the problem well enough, and quickly. That's all anyone wants.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
If you fix the problem….that was all I wanted in the first place. I never do the survey unless the service was spectacularly good or spectacularly bad.
Jessi O'Brien 3 months ago
I understand, but this is worded so rudely. if you despise the job that much, quit, no one is forcing you to work there. how are you so angry because you have to help somebody?
Zelda McLink 3 months ago
I assume they like to live under a roof and eat food.
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They are not necessarily fixing the problem. They're giving you just enough of an answer to make you go away. This is very common now. It's hard to get a consistent, true answer.
Barbara Hill 1 week ago
Always follow up with an email, reference the reps name , time, date and of course the issue. what they said, what you asked and what was to be the expected result. even better if it's a chat. screenshot it and email it to yourself.
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago (edited)
Downvoted because - if you are not suited to be in a customer service position? Then you shouldn't be in a customer service position. Some of the things I had to sort out and deal with were unbelievable and could take hours if not days. But we got there in the end. Why? Because it's another actual person on the end of the phone.
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I've worked as a CSR at a call center, and I took pride in my job and world class customer service. I think you're just a bad person. Change careers.
#9
Do any of you buy bras from Victoria's Secret? You know how they're $50ish? Well we sell a good load of our inventory to discount stores like TJ Maxx and Marshalls, and they put them up for like $5. Those are the exact same bras that are in our stores on the same day. We just print over our logo so that discount store customers dont know its ours. We want to hold that "expensive" image, but we still like the money we get from those store buying in huge lots! So the next time you want a "lux" VS bra, just hit marshalls.
Rob D 3 months ago
These posts are 10 years old. I think this model has changed; now cheap clothes are manufactured for the discount stores and you get what you pay for. Name brands are licensing themselves to bad quality specifically for them.. People are hurting and discount stores saw a demand spike. Qualify overstock couldn't keep up.
Barbara Hill 1 week ago
No worries, I buy mine in a packet, 6 for 20 bucks. same with underwear. I refused to buy from VC, high end department stores, because they use to let women try on the underwear, and hang it back up. Don't know if they still do, don't want to find out. Get your swimsuit in a plastic bag too if you can.
And while one would like to think that religious leaders are seen as trusted, stand-up citizens, the latest poll results paint a different picture. "Clergy have lost another six points in public esteem since 2021, continuing the long-term downward trend in trust in that profession," reports Gallup.
The polling company says that there a few factors at play here, with one being the scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades.
#10
I'll start with one from my former profession. I am a teacher now, but used to be in banking.
In banking, violations of the law (state and federal) are commonplace. There are so many banking regulations to ward against theft and money laundering, but most bankers are under such high pressure from their higher-ups that they will willingly violate the law in order to keep a customer (always a *rich* customer) happy.
"Oh, Mr. Millionaire, you want to withdraw $50,000 cash from your wife's account that your name isn't on? Well, since I know you and your wife, I'll allow it even though you aren't legally allowed to. I'll also skip reporting the large cash transaction to the Secret Service so you won't get mad and pull your millions out of our bank!"
Now, it's not every banker, but it is *a lot* of them. Violations of the law are common, all in the name of customer service...for the rich. Wire transfers, overt withdrawals, cashing of checks made out to business entities, large cash transactions that aren't reported, etc. It's everywhere.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
I can believe it. I once worked for a major regional bank. Most of the people who worked there were not very smart, and pretty unscrupulous. I walked away from that job feeling concerned about the world’s financial future.
Bacon Tentacles 3 months ago
Why do rich people get more free stuff? That one never made sense to me. It's expensive to be poor.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Not surprising. And small potatoes compared to what goes on at the corporate level. Like, say, Western Union.
#11
Used to work at a inpatient state mental health facility. A LOT of the doctors there were absolutely clueless. I've actually seen them actively avoid contact with patients because they're afraid of them. I've seen the patients try to stop the doctors to speak with them and sometimes they don't even acknowledge the patient. Most of them don't go out onto the floor with them more than 15 minutes within a week. And there were usually around 20-ish patients on the long term ward. How you are supposed to treat a patient diagnosed with severe schizophrenia when you aren't even present to observe the full range of symptoms is beyond me. I have a BS in Psych and while I'm absolutely NOT qualified to make ANY diagnosis, what I DO know about it tells me that some of them were misdiagnosed. And IMHO, it's because the doctors didn't want to deal with patients any more than necessary.
Please note this was my experience in one facility and HOPEFULLY not the case throughout government-based mental health. But if you have a family member/loved one in a facility such as this, PLEASE advocate strongly for your loved one because those patients at that facility were the ones that actually got better care.
#12
We in the recycling industry actually pollute a s**t ton.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Yes, separating plastic and the rest is a pain, but it ensures less work for sorters. Had an exchange student from Denmark (to US). Her parents told me they incinerate municipal refuse and heat homes with it?
Ace 3 months ago
Burning refuse for heating and.or power is nothing new, but the pollution it generates means it's not done so much these days. As for recycling, in France they accepted that customers sorting it was never well enough done, so they've built factories where all the sorting is done. Means we can just put plastics, cartons, paper, tin cans and all sorts of packaging together. Glass is separate, of course. In Switzerland they take the opposite approach whee it's expected that correct separation is done by the consumer. Swiss people generally do things by the book, so...
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Recycling plastic creates massive amounts of micro/nanoplastic waste that gets into nearby water. We're probably just better off burying it forever in landfills where it will act as a huge carbon sink, as the economics of plastic recycling don't make any sense anyway.
Manos 3 months ago
If you do the math it is better to put everything except maybe cardboard in the dump.
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In a separate study, 24/7 Tempo compiled a list of the 20 most unethical professions by consulting various online sources, including job review and news sites. Arms dealers, unsurprisingly, ranked among the most shady professions.
"Those engaged in the sale and trade of weapons and military equipment may be said to be contributing to the proliferation of violence and the prolongation of wars and civil conflicts, and thus to human suffering," explains the site.
#13
I work for a Fortune 500 company that sells medical devices.
Believe it or not, the big companies really are the ones you can trust. Why? Because they have so much to lose, they've learned to be 100% on the level with regulatory bodies. They don't cut corners or push the boundaries of the law to get their product to market sooner, and most actually self-impose stricter requirements for the products in terms of quality and consistency than the regulatory bodies require. This of course isn't out the goodness of the their heart, but because the potential cost of even a single mistake can be in the billions.
The smaller startups, on the other hand, have no multi-billion-dollar business to lose, and as such often play fast and loose with the law. They frequently do the bare minimum in terms of testing and validation, and will often quietly market their products off-label (meaning they advertise uses for a product without having the clinical data to verify its safety).
This isn't all startups by any means, most are perfectly legitimate and hold themselves to the same standards as the big boys, but there are quite a few who operate this way.
Rob D 3 months ago (edited)
Can vouch this is 100% true. Not to say the medical device company isn't turning staggering profits. But they are compliant and go through great lengths to legitimately prove efficacy and ensure safety.
David 3 months ago
I have a relative that works for the worlds second largest manufacturer of medical eqipment as an engineer, the years of work and testing before a slightly modified version of the product gets to market is staggering. They really test it and make sure nothing goes wrong. This is a multi-billion dollar company with R&D facilities all over the world, they dont want a bad product tainting their reputation. They also are more expensive than the cheaper brands, but you get what you pay for
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Dero 3 months ago
The trick is, get your company big enough that you can lobby and influence the government to write the laws to benefit you
Skywitness 3 months ago
I will reference the book "No More Tears" about J&J. I didn't work for them. The standard practice for that company was to squeeze all the profit out of an often defective product line and then pay millions in fines after billions in profit. I too worked in medical devices. A combination of low wages for employees and very low cost of the end product made for serious profits.
#14
This is going to get a little obscure, but lawyers that also serve as bail bond agents for their clients. Most people don't get how this system works so brief explanation. When you're arrested you're supposed to be held until trial unless the judge determines you can be released on your own recognizance or you post bail. Bail is an amount of money you post to secure your appearance at trial. Basically, post bail, get it back if you come to trial, lose it if you don't. Most defendants are poor so they can't plunk down hundreds or thousands in cash for bail so they get a bond - basically an insurance product where the bond agent says he's good for the bail money if the defendant doesn't show up for trial. The bondsmen gets roughly 10% from the defendant, which they keep regardless, and write a bond promising they'll pay if defendant doesn't show up.
Well in Texas, a lawyer can post bond for his client and charge his client money to do it. This is a big f*****g conflict of interest and I have no idea how it's ethical or allowed. Our communications with clients are supposed to be privileged and confidential. We are supposed to have the utmost loyalty and good faith in dealing with clients. So what happens when that client blows off trial, thereby committing another crime and putting the lawyer on the hook for thousands of dollars in bail money? If you ask the lawyers that do this shady s**t, they'll tell you they'd never help the cops find their client or hire a bounty hunter to find their client (a clear violation of their ethical duties to clients as lawyers) they'll just eat the thousands of dollars for their f**k-up client. Of course when anyone has a economic incentive to to do something and an ethical obligation not to, you can pretty well predict which will win out. There is no reason whatsoever that a lawyer should be able to post bond for a client in anything above a traffic offense. It's an inherent conflict and the lawyers that do it are super shady.
Ace 3 months ago
TBH from where I'm looking just "America" is enough. The whole bail-bond system is fundamentally flawed, set up just to make sure that wealthy people aren't kept in jail while awaiting trial.
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Rob D 3 months ago (edited)
Cash bail for nonviolent crimes is disgusting. Our "justice system" is a direct reflection of how much money you have. It plays an outsize role in our poverty cycle. No workers rights, so poor people lose their job if they can't post, digging a deeper hole. Public defenders that have crushing caseloads. All to feed privated prisons. There are literally stories of poor people who started with a parking ticket and snowballed into jail.
#15
"Best Professional Judgement" means that your kid's marks aren't always based on the work they do, but on how we feel about their progression... Some s****y teachers take advantage to crush some kids and prop up others. Some great teachers use this to make things right.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago (edited)
I've never heard that phrase before, despite being a teacher for 11 years, so I'm assuming this is from the US. In my state in Australia, your child's marks/progression are measured according to where they are expected to be for their age group. Rather than just an A-E grade they are placed on a graph showing where they sit. Parents learn more about their child's ability and progress from this and the teacher's comments that are also on the report.
Rebecca A. Corvello 3 months ago
I always did my final grades like this. You could fail the tests, flunk the final, but understand the material in class and be a good person. That counts more to me than any stupid number on a test.
fly on the wall 3 months ago
The bell curve isn't the standard anymore; teachers have to report in such diplomatic terms that even the biggest dolt students don't get any critical assessment, and "failure" isn't even a consideration. Staying with the age peer group takes president.
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Tobacco industry execs also made it onto the list. As did debt collectors.
"Companies and individuals have a right to collect debts fairly owed to them, but some individuals working in the debt collection industry use aggressive, harassing, or unethical tactics to pursue overdue payments, causing distress and financial hardship to already vulnerable individuals," reads the site.
#16
Animal rescue organisations are rife with abuse towards volunteers. Lots of emotional blackmail by telling the volunteer that an animal will suffer if they don't do something. Therefore volunteers end up fostering more animals than they can cope with, working 14+ hour days. Volunteers who are very trusting or afraid/unable to say no get the worst of it and are pushed well past their limits.
Less common but I have seen multiple occasions where a volunteer will be reaching the end of their rope and they'll be asked to foster "one more time" and it will be a near unadoptable animal, that animal will then be left with them and the organisation will cut all contact or pretend you agreed to adopt that animal.
This happened to me once and I was left with two 1 year old feral cats in my two room apartment where I have another cat. I was only meant to mind the two for a weekend. Another person who worked with a different organisation was left with 8 extremely sick kittens which she had to pay for the medical treatment for out of her own pocket.
Marilyn Holt 3 months ago
Maybe some animal rescues. Definitely not all. And as with any job or position, you have to stand up for yourself. If you can't keep an animal, take it back to the leader of the organization. Fostering is difficult and time-consuming work. Definitely not for everyone. But do encourage people to donate $. These groups run on donations alone.
Alex Kennedy 3 months ago
Good and solid employment standards and regulations make it much easier to “stand up for yourself” — in fact, you might say that it’s not really about individual “guts” but instead about the power relationships our societies set up.
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I worked for a school in Australia. Every year, each principal gets a confidential copy of the confidential 'Do Not Employ' confidential document that is a complete 10-15 page confidential list of all of the teachers who are not to be employed because they are either medically retired, or have done something inappropriate with students.
Some of the names had one or two ominous-looking asterisks next to them but unfortunately the paragraph on the front (explaining the reasons for someone being on the list) did not mention what they meant.
Only the principal is allowed to read it but as a young sh*tkicker, my job was to open all of the mail and document the mail in the mailing book, so I got a good look at the list on a few occasions. It certainly answered a few questions about certain teachers in my past who 'just weren't there one day for no apparent reason'.
Also, I may have accidentally photocopied the list accidentally and accidentally taken it to my (other) school where I accidentally showed everyone accidentally.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
They need a similar list for principals and superintendents. You won't believe what you'll find out if you look beyond the application. S*x abuse of employees, faked professional credentials, embezzlement, ...
Bacon Tentacles 3 months ago
The higher up in the food chain you go, the worse the depravity.
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Suby 3 months ago (edited)
I've seen a lot of teachers being blackballed and leaving the district for minor things or nothing at all, for example if they annoyed a coworker who later became an administrator, or losing out on positions just because the administration had a different favorite (who wasn't nearly as qualified). It's mindboggling how much power one administrator can have; just one can poison the well for years. And then those teachers, some of them really good, leave the school, district, or the profession. It's a big problem.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
I have never heard about this, but there is a very public version going on in early childhood education in Australia at the moment. After a man was charged with over 2000 offences against children in his care, major problems came to light with Victoria's (and possibly other states) working with children check system. Ther are educators who currently (despite numerous reports about why they shouldn't be and the politicians assuring the public they are stopping it) on active working with children checks (WWCC) who should have been suspended or expired. Educators with reports of a***e from multiple workplaces who could still be employed, because when their WWCC status is checked by the workplace it says they are approved. Also there are major flaws with having state based check systems rather than a national one.
#18
Used to work in food service. I would strongly suggest *not* going to some restaurant or what have you when there is a special deal or promotion going on where there's going to be a huge crowd.
Being really busy trying to keep up with such a high volume of customer demands makes it very hard to keep up with standard health code practices.
Tabitha 3 months ago
My husband has 25 years’ experience in pest control, and has serviced plenty of restaurants and fast food places. I hesitate to eat out now, unless he’s had the place as a client at one of the pest companies he’s worked at (we now own our own pest control company), and can vouch for their cleanliness. You would be absolutely sickened to hear some of his stories about some restaurants and fast food joints.
Jason 3 months ago
I've worked in plenty of restaurants and grocery stores. 100% you at some point eat floor food. One time I dropped a potato and someone said it was gross I picked it up and washed it off. I simply said they grow in the dirt and if you don't like that don't eat anything. Learn where your food comes from and quit being a wimp.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
A lot of people who work in restaurants have been in trouble with the law. People who have been in jail or been on probation have limited choices; restaurants seem to be one of the few places that will hire them.
#19
A surprisingly large amount of online service providers blatantly employ what we in the industry refer to as [dark patterns.](http://darkpatterns.org/) Basically, not all the frustrating interactions you find online are based on bad design. Often, it's a deliberate and calculated approach based on human psychology.
Fortunately, the majority of people I've worked with have a pretty strong ethical bias against this. Unfortunately, I've also met plenty of people who have zero qualms with monetizing deliberately deceptive patterns of online interaction.
Anonymouse 3 months ago
wow! from the link: HP - ink cartridges that stop working when users cancel their subscription AT&T - alternates the meaning of on and off in their email preferences page Skype - tricks users into uploading their address book
Ace 3 months ago
Well Skype has just closed up shop, so it didn't work out for them in the long term. HP printers? Well, nobody forces you to buy a subscription-based ink service, so...
Load More Replies... Bacon Tentacles 3 months ago (edited)
Dark patterns combined with ambiguous options. Yeah, that is absolutely a thing, and even as a SW developer with some solid UX experience, I still fall for it on occasion (doesn't help that I am neurotic AF and tend to overanalyze s**t to a fare thee well). Pisses me off. Oh, and shaming. When you try and steer away from their narrative they have for you, they start taking pot shots at your morality. Gives me a bit of a hatred for sales and marketing people.
Jason 3 months ago
Welcome to the world kiddo. You have to be aware and look out for yourself. Learn some way, any way to protect yourself from predatory behaviors. It can be as simple as believing a reality shown is real. It is all a lie and their business is to fool you and get your money or data. Fight against it forever and teach your kids.
#20
I'm a DSP (direct support professional. I assist in the day to day lives of those with mental and physical handicaps.)
It's all about money. Not the people we support, not the staff, just profits and funding. They kept a guy around for months while he was injuring both residents and staff because he was bringing in decent funding. They will put people in homes they don't fit into just because they are well funded. (A full care individual in a home that is short staffed and has 15 other people to support.)
We get paid far less than the job is worth, and usually have to fight to get time off and taking a sick day brings on world War 3. We are about 9 staff short throughout the agency, and no one is willing to pick up shifts anymore, but they will gladly take on more supported people to keep the funding coming in.
I love my job, and I love the people I care for, but it's blatantly obvious now that this company doesn't care about anything but funding.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
This is why there are so many problems with Australia's disability support programs. The government is cutting more and more conditions from their National Disability Insurance Scheme because the costs keep increasing, because there is so much need in the community. Then there are all the support agencies that tried to fleece the system, billing the NDIS for support they weren't actually providing. The support workers I know are mostly in groups/businesses they started because of the shocking conditions they were expected to work in in bigger companies. They are now at risk of being shut down because the government wants all support services to meet certain criteria and registration that they are not sure they can afford to meet.
#21
I'm in health insurance. The company I work for is very transparent and honest, imo. We have the market share that it doesn't matter.
But your HR people are playing games. On two of the plans I service we cannot print a document that says a procedure is not a benefit. We cannot state that ink. If you call in, I will tell you your shingles vaccine is not covered. But if you look at your plan documents, we can't tell you there that the shingles vaccine is not a benefit, so we just don't mention it at all. It's nowhere to be found. Doesn't matter that it's one of the most commonly requested services by retirees, were pretending it doesn't exist so it doesn't say "no" anywhere. And it's your HR team that is making that call when they set up your benefits.
Also in almost every case having two corporate insurance plans is a waste of money. (IE, "my coverage is primary, my wife's is my secondary") you're wasting money. Medicare is a totally different story.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
D**n, the U.S. sucks. Trying to get even the most basic things done is always a big complicated hassles.
#22
I was in executive sales for an OTC pharmaceutical company. Just selling Aspirin and things like that to giant retailers.
Part of the job is "entertainment." This really means taking your buyers out to str*p clubs and buying them h**kers. lol.
David 3 months ago
It has been for years, today its mostly taking people to luxury boxes at sports events, hard to get concert tickets, etc
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Business (at least in the U.S., probably in most places) is the most corrupt, morally bankrupt institution that exists.
#23
Work in a law office. For the hourly rate that gets charged by attorneys, you would rightly expect that they would lovingly pour over every pleading and piece of correspondence to be sure that it is crafted in the most meticulous manner possible.
90% of practicing law appears to me to be cutting and pasting. For a firm that specializes in one area, the same things come up over and over. At every firm I have worked in/talked about with its employees, there is an enormous "Samples" file in their office/on their computer for every pleading, letter, etc. that regularly comes up in the course of business.
You've probably heard that the legal system is clunky, slow, and inefficient. A tremendous amount of the delay in cases is caused by sloppy attorneys cutting and pasting, say for instance, a request to produce documents, and forgetting to change the due date from the last time they used the form. And, lawyers being lawyers, they wait until the last possible minute legally permissible to inform the other attorney of their mistake. And just like that, your attorney delayed settling your case for a month because they sent out a defective request for discovery.
I've gotten declarations from opposing counsel in cases where their client is female and the name at the top of the declaration was a man's name. I've been sent answers to Form Interrogatories (standard questions to be answered within a short time by the opposing party) that were very obviously the responses to some other client's case, including their Social Security number, their place of employment, their address, the names of everyone living with them, etc.
Long story short: tons of lawyers out there recycle their work product, bill as though they prepared it anew, and at times, are not even careful enough to check that they aren't sending your social security number into the world, or even that your name is displayed correctly.
Edit: Could have been clearer, I guess...my point, and emphasis throughout, was on the inattentiveness, not the use of samples in itself.
Tl/Dr: Lawyers recycle their work from client to client, sometimes with exceedingly bad attention to detail.
Ian Cummings 2 months ago
I would expect “someone who works in a law office” to know the difference between pour (liquids) and pore (to examine closely)
#24
Ive worked in call centers for a couple of different companies. One that I worked for was for one of the largest cell phone carriers in the US. At the time, they had just launched their television services for certain markets throughout the country. My job was once I fixed whatever issue the customer was having with their cell, to talk them into giving up their current TV provider and switch to the cell companies product. We were told outright to lie to the customers about how this service was better than C*x, Charter, Time Warner, etc, and that it would save them money as well. Alot of times, the people we were supposedly "saving money" were often retireees and pension based elderly folk who were lucky they could afford both food and their oxygen. For me, the worst part was the constant feeling that I just gypped someones gramma. The company also had it set so that if you didnt sell x amount of subscriptions a month, you were put on review. I lasted about 4 months after that regulation came out. Stood up at my desk, ripped off my head set, and told my boss to go f**k himself.
Olive 3 months ago (edited)
BP will censor "c**p" but not the slur against Romani people? That's. . a choice.
Kelly H. Wilder 3 months ago
Agreed, but TBH, I have never made the connection between the verb and the people. I did not realize until you just pointed it out that the words were even related. Thank you for teaching me something new.
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Peter Bear 3 months ago
I had a similar 'tech support' job that was really just high-pressure sales tactics. We weren't rated on anything but the sales portion of the job; I was fired despite being in the top 10% of my group in customer satisfaction, because I was in the bottom 10% of the sales. Never again will I go near this industry.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Corporations are going to…..corporate. Don’t ever make the mistake of expecting them to treat anybody fairly.
#25
Not my current job, but a previous tech support job.
You have probably given your name, address, social, phone number, etc to a non government agency at some point. There may be some who have access to information without anything as much as a background check. You can do the math here.
Peter Bear 3 months ago
The simple and depressing fact is that if you've been on the internet, ever, in your adult life, your entire life is out there for anyone with even rudimentary skills to find. There is no privacy or security from even random people, much less governments or law enforcement, and you have no protections. None. Not legal, not otherwise.
Bacon Tentacles 3 months ago
Privacy is dead. The newer generations at least have acknowledged this and moved on, knowing they pretty much can't do a g*****n thing about it.
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I work as a bench tech
You don't hide your p**n nearly as well as you think. And we judge you for it.
Joy Chapman 3 months ago
I worked on a lesson plan for probation officers to look for p**n on s*x offenders' computers. I always worked on the lesson after business hours to not distract other workers, but the janitor opened my locked office and walked in on me with p**n up on an offender's computer. I got a call that the Commissioner (about six levels up from my position) wanted to see me at 7 AM. He kept me waiting until 830 and then started ripping me apart about p**n on a state-issued computer on state property on state time. When he finally demanded what I had to say for myself, and I explained, he just looked at me for a minute, and then said, "Get out." Got to love government to play government, man.
#27
I work in an institution for mentally challenged children. It's the "special school" jimmy was sent to after one too many bites. Well, first? The children can be pretty d**n demonic. I had this 10 year old girl pinned to the wall, so she bashed her nose in, flipped to look at me, and spat a mouthful of blood. The second is that sadly, abuse can be easily overlooked. I worked in this one for about 2 months. Turns out they just locked "difficult" kids into unused rooms. That's why I left. I've got more than my fair share of HorrorTales.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
There have been numerous videos of staff in Australian special schools (usually special development schools, which handle primarily intellectual disabilities, rather than straight special schools which are for physical disabilities though students may have both) restraining students in inappropriate ways or outright abusing them in the past 10-15 years. I believe there was a royal commission which led to changes in training and approved methods of restraint but it doesn't stop every thing.
#28
I worked for a phone s*x website. My job was to go through photo sets of Eastern European models that we bought online and then make up s**y names and profiles for them. New operators could pick from a selection of pre-made profiles with photos. We even wrote blog posts for them so they didn't have to do it themselves. All they had to do was talk dirty and collect checks.
Some of the models did custom photos, so if a caller asked for a special picture we could get it for them no problem.
The money was really good for actually taking calls, but I tried for a couple of nights and realised I was going to end up hating men if I didn't stop.
#29
I worked for a certain well-known scientific organisation. I was not a scientist but a designer trying to make their shiny new machine look like something that customers would actually want to buy instead of a pile of tubes and wires in a plywood frame.
Without giving anybody ideas about how to get a bowie knife onto an aeroplane, a regular metal detector has two major weaknesses that could in theory be exploited to sneak in a metal thingy. Our new design used a cryocooler to overcome these weaknesses.
The major application for our metal detector was in the food industry; I was given a confidential book from a major food manufacturer that was basically a summary of every "I found this [thing] in my box of [food product]" phone calls the company had received in a certain time period.
One of the nasty ones was a couple of people ended up with the tips of hypodermic needles stuck into their tongues or the roofs of their mouth.
This is because when cattle are injected with things to make them bigger or healthier, they can move and snap the needle off.
Nobody is going to be bothered digging through the skin of a pissed-off cow looking for the end of the needle so the cow heads off to Bovine University with the needle still in there somewhere.
Abattoirs have x-ray machines but you can imagine how hard it is to find a tiny sliver of stainless steel in something that is not a nice consistent density, so the needle occasionally ends up in food.
One of the funnier ones was a caller who found a complete Parker stainless-steel pen in her packet of noodles. No, it wasn't a giveaway.
#30
Engineering Company: We basically try to intimidate people to cover up our mistakes. We once constructed a 7 million dollar unit out of improper material, and just made up a bunch of excuses in why it failed, and why it is their fault. In most cases people will settle well worth the value, or be intimidated with a prolonged legal case. For example, we would do stuff like "well to refund you for your vessel you need to ship it back to us for us to access its value."... bull s**t like that. Makes me feel like a piece of s**t when involved with these types of issues.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
A bridge replacement was just extended by a few months as the span beams they got failed testing (or had some issue with them). Gonna be the safest bridge in Michigan, I'm sure.
#31
You know that old financial system called checking? Write just about any name in the signature line, you will be stopped by 1 bank out of 5.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Worse, I just had to redo the PIN on my credit card. Never asked for ID or anything to confirm who I was or that the card was mine. I could have walked in with one I found on the street.
Patsy Robins 3 months ago
I just watched an episode of The Middle & one of the teenage characters was being taught by her parents to balance a chequebook. WTF? Australia is phasing cheques out completely in the next couple of years, I haven’t had a chequebook for about 15 years, & my nieces (all between 18-30) wouldn’t know what a cheque was if they saw one. Blows my mind that people over there still pay for their groceries by cheque (or that they’ve ever been able to, frankly) when my 90 yo mother tap & pays for everything!
#32
I work at an office supply/electronics store that will offer free computer scans to check for viruses, and if we detect a virus we'll urge the customer to pay us to fix the problem.
Thing is, regardless of whether or not the computer has a virus, the scanning program will report a virus. Every time.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
Sadly, this doesn't surprise me, in fact I've assumed that was the case and steered away from them because of it.
#33
A lot of attorneys are idiots. No, I mean it. Actual, legitimate idiots that are the idiots whom college-students-of-Reddit may wonder at in class. They have some mental processing power or else they wouldn't have passed the LSAT highly enough to get admitted into law school, but a lot are really dumb and/or careless.
Teachers are grown-a*s high school kids, and there is a lot of politicking and petty infighting that is worse than any CW drama.
K Barnes 3 months ago
I'm a teacher. Our school counsellor when I first started at my school was shallow, immature, and drama-obsessed. We had a lot of young starting teachers that went along with her antics. When she left the school 95% of the drama and cliques stopped the next year. Thank goodness. Some people are so toxic.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
George Carlin said, “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” And, every graduating class of every profession does have that one person who came in absolutely last, at the bottom of the class.
#34
You know those car sale ads you see in the newspaper? Whatever sale they are advertising is most likely total b******t. The dealer sends over a list of stock numbers and someone at the paper comes up with whatever b******t sale theme that hasn't been used too recently and goes with whatever stock graphic they could find with the least amount of effort. The rep just wants something the dealer will approve quickly and the dealer usually wants more fireworks. Always with the d**n fireworks...
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Bait and switch.."Ohhhh...THAT vehicle. We are sold out, but we DO have this model for $2k more".
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 3 months ago
That's not what the OP is talking about. They are only saying that the flashy advertising isn't handpicked by the dealer, it's just slapped together out of bits and pieces by the ad person.
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Those textbooks you buy for school that cost hundreds? Doesn't cost the manufacturer but a few dollars most of the time.
The Goo King 3 months ago
Printing it might be relatively cheap, but writing it may have taken a year or more of someone's life, plus months for editors and layout specialists. When you only print a few thousand, that makes cost per unit high. There are some that are massively overpriced, but the printing costs are not the important factor.
Northlander72 3 months ago
Wasn't that long since there was an article on here about a guy who was awfully proud of himself for earning millions by mass producing books made with the help of chat GPT/AI.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 months ago
I taught a course where I was the author of the textbook. I made it available as a pdf on-line, and each student got a printed out copy of the pdf on the first day of class. Of course I had to get approval for the photocopy expense each year from the department head. It was one of the few times i enjoyed being the department head.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago (edited)
One of my lecturers puled articles and diagrams and things that we would need from other sources and then compiled them into a booklet (though almost the size of a regular textbook) and printed them for us for free. It is a reference I still use at times, even though I don't work in that field. Actually, I had another lecturer that did similar, but it wasn't quite as useful, except maybe if I was a PE teacher. Either way, during the unit I used both more than most of the textbooks I paid for for other units.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
It’s highway robbery. They move a paragraph or change one word for another that has the exact same meaning, call the book a “new edition,” jack up the price, and make people buy a new book every year.
Glenn Phillips 2 months ago
I loved it when my profs put a $600 text book on the MUST have list, then never referred to it. I had one prof tell us after everyone bought the Physics text $400, that we didn;t have to buy it, 3 weeks after the course started and we coudn't return it.
#36
Late to the game, but if people knew how much 'insider trading' went on in the art world, it'd be disgraced. Literally, millions upon hundreds of millions of dollars are laundered from rich individuals, often through public institutions (though more often through auction houses and temporary art fairs) into commodities that are then heavily over-valued for a short period before being sold on.
In fact at the present time, a major precentage of large sales (of top-name artists) are bought and sold from clients in emergent economies (Middle East, Russia, China, Brazil) in order to expand networks of connections into the west. Clients have no pressure to reveal their identities, and can often claim tax relief if work they handle goes through a public institution (a musuem exhibition, for instance).
Grenelda Thurber 3 months ago
Buying and selling art is really useful if you need to launder money.
#37
Studio musician/producer here. Most of us make our living playing on projects that are soul-crushingly bad and will never see the light of day. Random redneck dude who just came into some money, rich people's bratty a*s delusional kids, mind-numbing commercials, etc. Sucks, but it pays the bills.
#38
I work in finance/wealth management. My first job out of college was a legitimate boiler room operation . So I actually worked at the Seedy Underbelly of the industry. Basically, all we did was cold call, non stop, 7am-7pm cold call people and try to get them to buy stock of a company in the hope this would lead to further business. We would feed them "inside" information that was actually not real in hopes they would buy the stock (completely illegal). We were taught how to talk to receptionists to get past them and speak to the business owner themselves saying "its regarding a package I sent". The name of the company was extremely similar to a real bank so it could slip by people and they could be conned into thinking this was legit. Yes, the client did own shares if they bought, but the info we told them was not accurate and completely fabricated. I was there for about 1 week before I spoke to my uncle who is a legitimate financial advisor and he told me to gtfo as soon as possible before I get marks on my licenses and have trouble finding a job. The turnover there was unreal, the guy I started with quit before me. There was also a lot of low life, arrogant guys who thought they were the s**t so the training for the 4 days was painful. Overall, it was miserable but an eye opening experience.
They did let you wear shorts after 530pm though, that was cool.
Toothless Feline 3 months ago
So you think that people who work during the day should have to take time off from work to do anything involving another business, like shopping? Such an ignorant statement.
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#39
I work in the firearms community.
By and large, LEOs in my area aren't just anti gun, they are extremely opposed to anyone but law enforcement having access to them.
Our community has an unhealthy/dangerous obsession with blind hero worship, it's a legitimate problem that people don't want to address in fear of being labeled as anti-cop/unpatriotic/etc.
AmazingUsername 3 months ago
I think just about all sane people think only police and military should have guns
Peter Bear 3 months ago
Police shouldn't have guns either, except for SWAT or equivalent specialist groups. The moment you give someone a gun, lethal force becomes an option where it shouldn't be.
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Everyone outside the USA thinks only LEOs should have access to guns 🙄 Plus farmers.
#40
I used to work for a UK (actually German) Gas & Electric company; and I can say I have probably killed an old person indirectly.
I had a old man 89 I believe who had just got out of hospital from a heart attack on the condition that he had heating at home (he had a meter you top-up to keep it going) I told him that we needed to get him a card and that the closest shop was 3 miles away, this was January so it was cold. I rang numerous engineering companies and spoke to the people who were above me in the company to see if we could get someone to go and take him a card or put money on the meter.
No one would go, the last thing he said after I gave him a reference number to collect a card was: "I'll either have to ring an ambulance and I'll die from cold waiting for it (we had been trying to resolve this for 3 hours) or I'll walk to the shop and die on the way due to cold.
I felt so bad but big companies really don't care about you at all and some of the things that I have had to say to customers because it's "company policy" are just outrageous.
I left there shortly after this incident as it just seemed tog et worse and worse, never been happier now. Really hope that old dude is ok though.
TL;DR might have killed an old man because of "company policy" and no one wanted to help him.
#41
I'm not in the US so I imagine banking is different, but don't get me wrong, shady s**t goes on here as well. There are just so many controls in our retail branches that most of the stuff you saw just couldn't happen without there being more than one person involved.
What annoys me is when customers get s****y because of the controls. Like dude...they are there to protect you!
#42
I work for a non-profit and with that law that was passed recently that required even non-profits to pay over time, we were all instructed to lie on our time sheets and say that we had worked (in some cases) 30 hours less that week than we really did. It was explained to me that theyre doctoring the records now that way when the law comes into effect next year, we wont be examined that closely.
We basically told them to f**k off. If I am working 60+ hours a week, I am getting paid for every minute of it.
#43
I used to work at a machine shop that made car wheels. A lot of the cheap cast wheels we sold came with casting defects. Most of them were sold anyways.
Another note, most people would be surprised at the condition of many of the machine shops I've seen. Emergency stops that have been circumvented with a paperclip because 'the machine still works fine.' Also, tons of people missing fingers.
#44
I used to work for a drinks company in the UK that made things from juice to smoothies
While working there I discovered that they actually put the rotten fruit in with the normal fruit as its "easier" to just let it slide than take it off the conveyer belt that takes the fruit to a huge blender type machine, and because in a grand scale it was unlikely to cause you any health problems (probably 1 in 10 fruits had some rot in them so mixed all together would not really matter)
They also never bothered cleaning insects off the fruit and let it get cooked and mixed in with juice and smoothies, like in the summer ther were a lot of wasps
So yeah, next time you have a smoothie from a supermarket just remember what might be in it.
George Costanza 3 months ago
Meh. "Rotten" fruit often isn't actually bad for you in any way. And neither are insects. People may find them gross, but they won't harm you.
#45
(This is in the U.S) Grain is harvested from fields by farmers, then transported by truck or rail car or barge. Most of it is Federally inspected as it is loaded into conveyances. Good so far. There are standards for how many live insects can be in the grain, they're quite strict and they're actually carefully enforced. Good so far.
But there are no standards for dead insects. A hopper car could literally be half full of dead bugs and nobody would care at all. They wouldn't even make a note of it. As long as an infested barge is fumigated, it's all fine from then on. Dead insects aren't even mentioned in Federal grain inspection standards.
Lost Panda 3 months ago
I know some people might say I'm gross, but... the dead bugs aren't going to hurt anything... The wheat will be prepped in a way the germs are killed off... Live bugs however run the risk of destroying the whole crop by multiplying and eating it...
#46
Unclaimed Property Researcher - a few things I find shady about the state level system:
- When dormant financial accounts are received to be "held" by the state for the owner to claim later, it actually is immediately liquidated into the general fund, spent like tax revenue, and exists only as an IOU. No more capital gain, interest, or dividends for the owner after its transferred to state.
- Only about 20% of funds ever get reclaimed successfully by the owner or heirs of owner. The red tape gets thicker the higher the dollar amount. They often require claimants to purchase a surety bond protecting the state as part of their claim, about 3% of the claim amount. Probate estates ($$$) are required for deceased owners, and original proof of ownership for ancient stocks are required, even tho many corporations destroy records beginning after seven years. The average person is overwhelmed and quits.
- Revenue to the larger Midwestern states is in the hundreds of millions per year each.
- Lastly, many larger unclaimed property items, $25,000 to $100,000, are owned by deceased individuals with living heirs who are fully aware of it, but won't claim it because they risk losing their social security disability benefits. The state is cool with not paying back the dead person's money of course...and the Feds continue to pay the heir disability with taxpayer funds.
Grenelda Thurber 3 months ago
Inheriting money doesn't cause you lose your Social Security disability benefits. The only thing you can lose by gaining money/assets is Medicaid, but that has nothing to do with Social Security.
The Chronic Insomniac 3 months ago
I think they were confusing SSI with SSD.
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#47
In any 3d modeling and texturing, the texture image is usually the first image that pops up in google. The same textures I've used, others have used in video games, animations, and movies. Nobody wants to put extensive effort into texturing a steel barrel.
#48
I work in the auto salvage industry..
so, pretty much the entire thing.
murmelinpaiva 3 months ago
I had to pay to get a car towed to a wrecker lot. Later I saw it being driven around town.
#49
Web designer/developer here.
We have something called 'a*****e tax'. If you're an a*s, we'll charge you like 20% more just because we can.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
An old saying really applies here, “You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar”. After working in customer service type jobs for a while, I decided to be firm, but nice and understanding when dealing with customer service. I understand the first person I talk to has the least amount of authority, so if they can’t solve my issue, I ask to talk to their supervisor, but make sure I tell them it’s not a reflection on them, I just need someone who can OK stuff they can’t. You would be amazed how much better service you get when you’re nice. When anyone goes above and beyond, I make sure to talk to their supervisor and give them a glowing review. I’ve had supervisors tell me they love getting good reviews of employees, but it’s so incredibly rare that a customer takes the time to make sure the boss knows their employee is doing such an excellent job. However, if something doesn’t go the way the customer wants—-and it’s usually something impossible to do or something the customer isn’t entitled to—-oh boy do they hear about it right away! So good reviews for good work are very much appreciated, if only to break the monotony of unfair bad reviews from a******s.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
I once got such good service from a Target employee that I wrote to the store manager and mentioned her by name.
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I used to work at a research facility and we once had identifiable HIPAA data sitting on our servers for several years until one of the sys admins stumbled upon it. Standard procedure for using identifiable data is for each node it touches to be nuked and rebuilt but I guess somewhere along the way someone forgot and there it sat for anyone who knew where it was to browse if they so wished.
#51
The internet is held together with the equivalent of dollar store duct tape and twine. Somewhere in your ISP is a mostly forgotten piece of critical infrastructure powered off a $10 power strip somebody bought at home depot.
#52
Oil and gas is 10% actual work by decent people 90% greasing the wheels of self entitled consultants. I'm f*****g sick of dealing with these power tripping pricks I'm making it my life's work to make life as hard as possible on consultants that just want a hand out from contractors.
#53
I don't know if it's the entire 'profession,' but I worked at a gas station, and sometimes people would come in with a card to pay for gas, but my boss always had to check them out, stating there was training involved to handle the special gas cards.
I did a lot of digging around, asked people, the whole lot.
Turns out that company sells gas through the black market. Extremely cheap gas prices for certain people. After some snooping, I was then fired for "calling in too many times" when in reality I called in maybe 2 times through the 3 months I was there.
Lost Panda 3 months ago
I've heard of some stations (even chains) in Japan that dilute their gas with water to give the appearance that their prices are so much cheaper than others. Don't know if it's true or not, but it sounds like something people would do...
The Goo King 3 months ago
If you dilute gasoline with petrol it will split as they have different densities. When that water reached the engine, it would stop, quite possibly causing catastrophic damage if the generated steam is high enough pressure. You cannot just water down fuel.
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Libraries throw away/recycle a lot of books.
Susan Reid Smith 3 months ago
Books in a lot of subjects become out of date. Others become unpopular. A library has limited space.
Marilyn Holt 3 months ago
Yes of course they do. Space is limited. But iff your local library doesn't have the book you want/need, ask them. They'll find it for you.
Lost Panda 3 months ago
The local libraries back home (the two counties that I lived it) would sell them for pennies. There was a room dedicated to old books out of circulation for one reason or another (damaged, no longer relavent, etc.) These rooms on good days were organized, but there would be some times you'd go and it was stack after stack of old books needing a new home
#55
That we are not really all that smart and our training is not as rigorous and intensive as you imagine. We just learn as we go along and bull s**t the rest.
Tabitha 3 months ago
More like overpaid executive suite types whose hairbrained ideas always cost the company truckloads of money to fix when they inevitably crash and burn—-because no one ever thinks of talking to the people on the floor who put policies into play, and have a good idea what will and won’t work, as well as longtime employees who can tell them what was already tried X number of years ago—-maybe even a couple times a few years apart—-and failed miserably back then too.
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I work in a prison. All of it is a secret. We are supposed to keep things confidential for multiple reasons.
#58
Work in a kitchen, I know what to buy from restaurants and what not to f**k with. We sell this ground beef at my job, it's fresh and all but if you see it an hour after it cools down, you'll never eat that s**t again.
#59
I'm a public school teacher, and it takes YEARS to fire one of us for incompetence. It actually takes a while to fire us for almost anything -- alcoholism, mental health issues, etc.
One alcoholic teacher I worked with couldn't get fired until he was in jail for a DUI so long that he used up all his sick leave. Then the school district still had to wait a certain amount of days after that to officially fire him.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
Where I live, most teachers are on 12 month contracts. You don't have to fire them, just not renew their contract. They can just say they don't need you anymore, regardless of actual reason.
#60
I'm an auto technician. We make fun you and your car but don't really mean it. sometimes if you have a big bag of jolly ranchers or other candy we will take a peice. We generally get into all kinds of unprofessional shenanigans but nothing that will actually affect your repair. Some people honestly are totally incompetent, but they are generally given easy jobs that they can't mess up too badly.
#61
The dish you're eating off of may or may not be as clean as you think it is.
DoomsdayUKgirl 3 months ago
I've seen crumbs stuck onto plates and bowls as a customer, so I already knew this. Still gross though.
#62
Every piece of code produced in my office is completely ridden with bugs, vulnurabilities, spaghetti code and ugliest workarounds.
Ace 3 months ago
Tells me more about the poster than any given industry. Yeah, I produced code for several decades, with proper testing, proper validation (not the same thing) and version control, etc. etc. No, my code was never full of bugs and spaghetti code, nor was that that I was writing code to control these processes
#63
I'm a server at a restaurant. Apart from the fact that all of us are nice to your face and then immediately walk into the back to tell everybody what an a*****e the customers are, we also make up names for the customers, like "Send the salad over there to the Unibrow Family". "Order of Foccaccia for Literally The Fattest Woman I have ever seen". "Dessert to that table of Stupid White Girls."
Yeah, we're nice to your face, but we hate every one of you.
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
I was a waitroid many years ago and we never did this, not even once. I am sure it happens, but it is certainly not universal.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
Even if it’s not said out loud, you know if there’s an unbearable a*****e sitting at a table, their server is at least thinking it.
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Savannah greenleaf 3 months ago
Pretty sure this is universal. You really have to vent sometimes so you can remain nice to their face. As long as no tampering with food or drink I could care less. As long as I know I was decent they can say whatever.
#64
Molecular Biologist
It varies from field to field, but roughly 50% of all published scientific results cannot be reproduced in another lab. Also there's a lot of tinkering going on with statistics, which often borders on what is falsifying data and what isn't.
Peter Bear 3 months ago
As Mark Twain said, there are three kinds of lies; lies, d**n lies, and statistics.
#65
Work in a call center. Everyone smokes weed/does other d***s of varying potency. Everyone drinks. No one likes dealing with your s****y f*****g problems. We hate you as customers, you are the worst. You want your cable bill lowered? Sorry. We look at your account for about 5 seconds and then promptly forget about you.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago (edited)
You need to be mildly stôn*d or drunk to do a lot of jobs without losing your mind.
#66
Worked at the cafe in a high end department store in Europe. You know that sandwich the snobby d****e is about to drop about 25 Euros on?
We knew the were only sitting here to be seen. This will be the one of the worst sandwiches that could legally be made and they will probably think it's great because there's a lot of expensive brands in their line of sight and the lighting is pretty good.
The managers used to buy all the cheapest junk from suppliers. Whatever was on discount, end of line, in bulk etc. All the fridges ran too warm to pass an inspection. I worked there one summer and by the time I left I was the longest serving staff member. Once one of the chefs cut his hand doing prep but still tried to send out three baguettes that were smeared with blood. I had to tell him that it wasn't okay to do this. Another time we were about to serve and I noticed a plate was sort of glittering... turns out there were a lot of tiny shards of glass. We traced it back to the bagged salad leaves.
People made serious money getting rich dummies to pay a lot of money for the equivalent of wonder bread sandwiches prepared with expired cheese and off brand soda.
What do you think ?
Ace 3 months ago
Scraping the bottom of the barrel today much? Ten year old posts, nearly all of which are complete BS, and even if some of them were true 10 years ago are completely irrelevant today.
Peter Bear 3 months ago
And you clicked on it and read it. So that's on you, buddy.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I got to about 30 then had to quit. I'm adding though? The laws etc regarding some of these things in the UK are different to the USA or elsewhere. Best thing to do is keep a note of whatever has happened, screenshots or write down what's said in a call and put in official complaints to an ombudsman
DB 3 months ago (edited)
Auto parts. There are only a few manufacturers for most parts that everyone buys their products from. The only difference between a Diehard battery from Advance Auto and a Duralast battery from AutoZone is the label. And that part you returned that you swear you didn't install but we know you did goes right back on the shelf to get sold to someone else.
Ace 3 months ago
Scraping the bottom of the barrel today much? Ten year old posts, nearly all of which are complete BS, and even if some of them were true 10 years ago are completely irrelevant today.
Peter Bear 3 months ago
And you clicked on it and read it. So that's on you, buddy.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I got to about 30 then had to quit. I'm adding though? The laws etc regarding some of these things in the UK are different to the USA or elsewhere. Best thing to do is keep a note of whatever has happened, screenshots or write down what's said in a call and put in official complaints to an ombudsman
DB 3 months ago (edited)
Auto parts. There are only a few manufacturers for most parts that everyone buys their products from. The only difference between a Diehard battery from Advance Auto and a Duralast battery from AutoZone is the label. And that part you returned that you swear you didn't install but we know you did goes right back on the shelf to get sold to someone else.
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