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People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was a model for a few big name/well known make up companies. I did several print ads for magazines and a few television commercials.

The makeup artists do use the product advertised, but MINIMALLY. Like that mascara they're touting? It's over REALLY GOOD fake eye lashes and they also used another brand of mascara along with the one they're trying to sell you.

Also - the clothes in the ads you see are pinned to high heaven on the model. They fit nothing like they look. It's not you. It's not your body. It's fake advertising. Most of us models look just like you wearing that cr*p without all the pins and tucks and double sided tape.

Bella54330 , LOFT184 Report

Final score:

564points

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If I could I would live under water 3 years ago

Young teens need to know this!

236points

NPC_forsale , US Embassy Kabul Afghanistan Report

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was a translator (contractor) for the US military. I also translated Marvel comic books. Marvel had tighter security.

Final score:

526points

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Samantha Power 3 years ago

That is very interesting, why such tight security for Marvel comics?

54points

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I work tech conferences so I have to sign (agree to) NDA's all the time.

I saw the Google Chromecast before the public did, chrome books, phones, Apple phones, MacBooks, Nvidia shield, even some games like Call of duty, Titanfall, and have sat in some meetings with the worlds richest .01% or fundraisers with celebrities.

Most of the time it's boring the best one I can remember was meeting Robin Williams, he was at fundraiser for the local zoo, the biggest donor got to spend the day with just Robin in the zoo, and name their new baby Tiger. So I mic up Robin, he jumps up on stage and says let's start the bidding on naming the new baby Tiger, come on folks think about it, how many times do you get to officially name a pussy!? If I remember correctly the highest bidder got into a bidding war, Robin is running around getting the crowd pumped up and laughing their asses off as only Robin could do and the highest bid ended around $50,000.

It was one of the most memorable and fun things I've ever got to do at an event was work with magnificent man.

SoulMechanic , Steve Jurvetson Report

Final score:

514points

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James016 3 years ago (edited)

RIP Robin Williams. You are missed

229points

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Signed an NDA when I worked as a fit model for Katy Perry’s shoe line. Basically a fit model is used for their good proportions to test out the fit of garments. I’m a solid size 7.5 so hooray for being average. I was hired on two occasions and got to hang out and give her my opinion on the fit, feeling, and comfort of different shoes.

Didn’t think she’d actually be there but both times she was present and totally running the show. Super nice woman in person and remembered me when we met again.

okbyeokbyeokbye , marcen27 Report

Final score:

465points

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Sasy 3 years ago

That is nice to hear.

165points

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) “House Hunters” guest checking in, I never made the show because I didn’t close on the house.

1: I had to have a house under contract before going on the show.

2: They would select the other houses we were “interested” in.

3: I was assigned another SO who was more “interesting” than my actual SO.

delicious_tomato , HGTV Report

Final score:

416points

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AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 3 years ago

Wow, this is just... Wow.

168points

BrittneyRageFace , Mr. Blue MauMau Report

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I used to work at Frisch's as a hostess/busser/drive-thru attendant, that place was filthy and corrupt as f**k. No one in the kitchen wore gloves and the cooks loved making people eat old food/food that had been dropped on the disgusting floors. The manager loved to steal the waitresses tips and blame the customers or the sketchy looking bussers. The most corrupt thing the awful manager did while I was there was around Christmas time. He would take $100 out of each of the new/younger employees cash drawer, call your parents saying that their kid stole the money and they needed to be brought in to be questioned. When I went to work the next day I found out the same s**t happened to a few of the others, we all got pissed and snagged the key that locked the box to the camera controls, re-winded to the following day and watched until we saw the f***er start doing his thing. Every single one of us reported his a**. He got insta-fired. It was glorious.

Final score:

401points

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Samantha Power 3 years ago

What a dreadful man, what is wrong with people

117points

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I worked at Dairy Queen, the collection box supporting children with cancer hanging out the drive-thru window was a discontinued charity, my manager pocketed all the donations. Disgusting in a different sense.

ChiefQueefer , Raysonho Report

Final score:

396points

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Sasy 3 years ago

Why would this be nda, they could have reported this just based on it being a discontinued charity.

221points

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Most American Idol contestants have agents that got them on the show, and 90-95% of it is pre-cast before the “audition tour”.

brenton07 , Josh Hallett Report

Final score:

345points

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Shelp 3 years ago

That shouldn't be surprising but still disappointing somehow

174points

#10

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) When I was a kid, I visited the dentist for a cavity. While there, the dentist slipped while drilling my tooth and drilled a hole under my tongue. My mom saw me tense up, and my dentist said “oh, nicked her there a bit so you might see a little blood.” I got home and after an hour, my entire neck was swollen up like a frog and my voice was squeaky because of the air pressure. A pocket of air was pressing against my heart... dirty air, at that, because of the bacteria in my mouth. I was admitted to the hospital as a “code 4,” with a “code 5” being dead. When my mom tried to sue the dentist for damages, he claimed I was kicking and screaming and “out of control” during the appt, even getting his secretary to vouch for him and testify. (Total BS.. I liked the dentist, and I was a people pleaser. Also, laughing gas). My mom’s lawyer was super pessimistic and told her just to settle and sign an NDA because she had a “small chance” of winning. So my mom settled, being naive and scared to take on an office full of liars. She could never disclose who the dentist was, and we’ve heard other horror stories throughout the years about this dentist effing up other people’s’ mouths. It sucks because every lawyer we’ve talked to after-the-fact says we had a very strong case and it’s likely we would have won. Like really won.

s1ng1ngsqu1rrel , pololofreack30 Report

Final score:

337points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Should've sued the shïtty lawyer for the bad legal advice

172points

#11

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) R Kelly's lawyer was on his death bed and told reporters R Kelly is "guilty as hell" regarding his child p*rnography case.

The NDA was still valid but he was given a short time to live and I guess as a lawyer, you need get this stuff off your chest.

SlattBaker , Mike Nerheim Report

Final score:

320points

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Shelp 3 years ago

I don't know the case but what I know is that advocates protecting paedophiles is totally effed up

119points

#12

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was actually an actor in that commercial that said I wasn’t.

VivaSpiderJerusalem , Intel Report

Final score:

284points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Shocking! 🙄

68points

#13

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) A huge part of The Bachelorette was scripted. The company I worked for at the time was a major tourism service provider and featured prominently in one of the seasons. We were all pulled into meetings with the higher up managers, given a speel about what was in our best interest... and spilling any secrets was punishable by a $5mil lawsuit, "Please sign here".

The "Bachelorette" herself was clearly there to further her public profile or "acting" career. The scenes were always "set up" before filming. Behind the camera nothing was happening. The cast were told where to go, what to do and how to do it.

If half those guys weren't on their phones texting their real girlfriends most of the time, I would be surprised.

So fake... so 100% fake.

FlyAdesk , ABC Report

Final score:

279points

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Adam C 3 years ago (edited)

I think the roses are real.

177points

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#14

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was an extra on Murder on The Orient Express, for the Istanbul scene (over a week of filming, and it's literally about 20 seconds of the film)

Michelle Pfeiffer had to be fed her line reading on each line by Kenneth Branagh, which I thought was weird. Like every line, she'd be like 'how do you want me to say this?'

And then at one point Johnny Depp snuck onto set the day before he was due to film with a baby doll's head in his hand and snuck up behind the car Michelle Pfeiffer was in to try and scare her with it. Weird dude.

Final score:

279points

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Tacocat 3 years ago

The Johnny Depp thing doesn't seem too weird. He seems like a fun guy trying to pull a joke on a coworker.

189points

#15

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) The fajitas sizzle because we pour oil and water on a hot plate not because we grilled anything.

THE_CHOPPA , Sarah Stierch Report

Final score:

279points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Common practice

36points

#16

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Worked for a self-storage place in Rocklin, CA. They made every customer sign a "lease agreement" that said that you wouldn't hold them responsible if your unit was broken into and things were stolen. I found out that we had 7-8 burglaries a year. The owners would get sued but they would always get off because they'd produce the "lease agreement" in court and the judge would dismiss the case. One day I came in from vacation to pick up my paycheck, and I found the owner and the manager loading up a truck with the contents from a unit that wasn't theirs. I went around the corner to an area where the fence allowed me to look in, and saw that they went to another storage space, cut off the lock, and proceeded to load up the truck with a telescope, big screen tv and some power tools. I came back the next day and asked one of my co-workers. He told me that the owners of the storage space would sell the stuff they stole from renters, and that the manager and owner did the same thing with another property that they owned in Granite Bay. I quit to go back to Sac State. I called the Rocklin cops to tell them what the owners were doing, and they said that there was nothing they could do unless they were caught in the act.

guido_pilot , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

274points

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Shelp 3 years ago

That's disgusting

126points

#17

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was in the first test screening audience for John Wick 3 (and I think the NDA has expired since the movie is now out). The visual effects were still unfinished (and several scenes had just placeholder cards that described what occurred in the missing scene). It was really interesting being able to see the animal handlers running along with the animals, wearing full-body black spandex suits, before they were digitally deleted from the final film.

I thought it was really interesting and it's just not something you'd think about being there.

TheFoxAndTheRaven , Lionsgate Report

Final score:

248points

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Norma 3 years ago

Wow, that is really cool...and thought-provoking...

37points

#18

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) My boss refuses to hire anybody but white women, and he uses rubbing alcohol to wipe the expiration date off of product if it expires. He just puts it back on the shelf. Including dairy product. I hate him.

lessadessa , Ben Schumin Report

Final score:

242points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

I'm sure they could anonymously report the boss to the authorities. So I don't know who is the bigger jerk here.

148points

#19

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) A small-business owner for whom I worked several years ago kept deducting the employees' health insurance premiums but never sent the payments in to the carrier. After 2-3 months of this, our insurance was cancelled, right before one lady's teenage son was in a fairly serious car accident. She finds out at the emergency room, during what is of course an extremely stressful time, that she has no insurance whatsoever when she and her dependents had been fully covered.

The next day she went into his office, very upset, to find out what happened. He gave his usual song-and-dance and made excuses for not having been able to send it in, and this normally mild-mannered lady picked up a stapler and threw it at him! (He wasn't even injured.) While doing that was of course unacceptable, I totally understood her frustration with this weasel. He spent thousands of dollars a month of company money (coding it to company expenses) at Sam's Club on groceries and big-ticket items for his house. On top of his already generous salary.

Then to top it all off, he actually TOOK HER TO COURT for the stapler-throwing incident. After hearing the story, the judge dismissed the weasel's case and made a comment to the effect that if he were in the same position as her, he probably would've done the same thing.

crazykitty123 , pxhere Report

Final score:

240points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Aren't there any laws to prevent him from doing that? Where I live you can have your business closed for good, among other things, for not paying your employees benefits.

94points

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#20

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I worked for a gelato shop that made us dig through the so-called "RECYCLING" bins to fish out used plastic cups and spoons to wash and give to new customers. Even if the spoons had bite marks from other customers and were coated in chewing gum, we were told to wash them up and only throw them out if they were really unpresentable, because "these things are expensive!" Furthermore, all the other stuff in the "recycling" bin that people so good-heartedly placed there.. yeah, ALL of it got thrown in the dumpster. Customers ATE IT UP and told us regularly how GLAD they were that we are a "Green" business who "cares about the environment enough to recycle". It didn't take long before I just couldn't keep doing this with a clean conscience, and I turned them in to the health inspectors, who were absolutely horrified this was happening. About two months later, I got laid off and the business closed it's filthy doors forever. :)

queenbeecharmer , hojene Report

Final score:

229points

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fire bug 3 years ago

Technically washing and reusing is recycling. Obviously this isn't ok but they did recycle. :)

49points

#21

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I did some research on small scale agriculture in South Appalachia. As part of living with and studying the community I stayed with, I was sworn to secrecy for five years after submitting my research to the happenings and names of those I lived with.

I saw arson of federal property, and impersonating officers of the law and clergy. Grand theft auto, meth cooking and moonshining. Cockfights, kids getting coerced into pr****tution, dogs getting shot full of rocksalt for laughs. I had to sleep in a junkyard for a few nights and found dried human scalps hanging in an old bus, ate rotting meat from a dumpster and had to hide for my life from shotgun-wielding thieves in the dead of winter.

Its not all horror shows in the hills; theres good people, tightly knit communities, and beauty in nature I've never seen since. But whats there is very much real and very much a danger. When I finally returned, I submitted my write up and dropped the project at the advisement of my sponsor, delivered over a bottle of mezcal.

Sticky_Paws , Willmeyer1020 Report

Final score:

227points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Respecting that agreement after seeing/experiencing all of that says a lot about a person, though. I wouldn't have. Not after seing children forced into prostitution.

139points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#22

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I work in designer clothing retail. The clothes are quite expensive and the assistants are required to only wear full priced garments. So we (the whole team) just pick clothes off the rack, wear them all day (including lunch and bathroom breaks) and at the end of the shift, replace the tags and put the clothes back on the shelf for the customers to buy at full price.

I know I was grossed out my first day there.

Liquid_Sky , Edgars Kisuro Report

Final score:

219points

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tiari 3 years ago

Must be some high quality clothes if you can neither see nor smell that somebody wore it a whole day before.

132points

DieZauberflote , Austin Community College Report

#23

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I worked for a vet in Vancouver and I ran a whole month of raffles, nail cuttings for donations and pet pics with Santa for the SPCA. When we added up the last of the money from the month, I put it in the safe. The practice owner's wife deposited the money and bought herself some new chanel makeup. W.T.F. I quit in disgust.

Final score:

218points

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

Pretty sure that is charity fraud if you could prove it

153points

#24

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) A friend of mine got a job at a prominent local distillery that makes an extremely popular flavored whisky. They literally buy whisky from a 3rd party distillery and dump torani flavoring syrup into it.

bobethy , Lovely2912 Report

Final score:

188points

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Stein-Inge Kummeneje 3 years ago

Someone needs to take a whiskey course. This is common practice and a known fact. It's also common to mix liquors from different distilleries. All to get that certain taste.

102points

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#25

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) A government, in 1972, identified a terrorist by his wife's breasts.

From satellite images.

points_of_perception , pxhere Report

Final score:

185points

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Gosia Buczek 3 years ago

I need to know more

161points

#26

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Common knowledge now, but in early 2000's Hewlett Packard would have their inkjet printer cartridges turn off even though they weren't empty.

Each cartridge was put in a machine and a memory chip glued to it. The machine would make all the nozzles 'spit' on a piece of paper, a camera would look at it and then correction parameters would be programmed into it (some nozzles don't work, spit too little or too much, spit off to the side, etc.) The correction parameters were read off the chip and the printer would adjust the voltage and timing for the highest quality print. It was also trivially easy to write 'disable' to the chip after 4,000 pages and it wouldn't work in any HP printer. To ensure high print quality yadda yadda yeah right. And of course, only 'genuine' HP cartridges will work in the printer.

Got taken to court and lost which is why you can now buy much cheaper cartridges on eBay. But if you buy a used printer from the right years it still won't work with cheap ones.

ConspTheorList , Akinom Report

Final score:

180points

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Nat Hedley 3 years ago

Pretty sure this is still going on. I got tired of having to replace so many cartridges on my Epson printer (4 separate cartridges, blue, yellow, pink and black) so I set up to print just monochrome as it's just business paperwork. A couple of weeks later it notified that the blue had run out and wouldn't print the monochrome print job until I replaced the blue cartridge, which audibly sloshed when I shook it. OKAY THEN.

75points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#27

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) That we can see you,

I look after instant photobooths remotely, I see all your stupid faces, all of them, everyday.

MrWigglemunch , Eric Dickman Report

Final score:

176points

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James016 3 years ago

That’s an invasion of privacy.

91points

#28

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Previous pharmacy chain I worked for. Always at risk of robbery for opiates, and we are always taught to give the robber what they want with no questions asked. Have heard of times that pharmacists instead gave bottles of oxy with Tylenol in it instead and other things that were reckless and dangerous due to possible retaliation when and if they figure out they have been duped.

New policy and nda comes out where specific opiates were placed in safe with GPS tracker and charger so when it is removed from radius of origin, it issues remote notification to third party that tracks location and works with local LEO to find the wanted party.

DumperdRx , Ciell Report

Final score:

174points

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Sasy 3 years ago

Yes, lets warn the thieving drug addicts/pushers so they don't get caught...seriously this helps no one but the bad guys.

70points

#29

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Worked store security - there are peep holes above the ladies changing rooms at several major retailers. Supposed to be for female security agents to monitor the dressing rooms, but we had no female security agents. Lots of creepy voyeurism/ fapping going on.

Angrymanspokane , WestportWiki Report

Final score:

168points

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Sasy 3 years ago

And that you did not call the police day one makes you as bad. Some of these are just vile.

262points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#30

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I just want to say that if you have ever worked at a water park, it will turn you off of visiting any kind of public pool or park for the rest of your life. The s**t we pulled out of those filters, man... no. Just pour so many chemicals into the water that literally nothing can live in it and call it a day.

thebloodofthematador , 魯班 Report

Final score:

161points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Those things are disgusting.

53points

anticipatory , Tokumeigakarinoaoshima Report

#31

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Mini Cooper/BMW replaced our car because the high pressure fuel pump failed 6 times within 6 months. However, the recorded reason for the replacement of the car was because of “stained interior from dirty mechanic hands”, so it wasn’t replaced via the lemon law.

Final score:

148points

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Bill 3 years ago

This means they will sell the car again with a clean title

78points

#32

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Early spy drones (large petrol powered remote control helicopters, back then), deliberately covered in a wire mesh with lights to make them look like UFOs, when up in the air. Tested in populated areas at night.

Well known base, in the north of Scotland.

AnnaVeepeen , Will Porada Report

Final score:

148points

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Tracy Costa 3 years ago

This is a better conspiracy theory than the government is hiding UFOs. The government disguises high tech aerial weapons as UFOs to keep them secret because no one is going to believe that UFOs are just casually flying by.

74points

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#33

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) Amazon made me sign one when I worked with a company that painted their airplanes before the public knew they had them. (I did the FAA paperwork.)

I was literally only one of like 7 people to see their airplane fully purple with their logo on it.

I was actually taken off of the project for a day because they thought I lied about not having a facebook.

They meant business

Delanorix , Patrick Feller Report

Final score:

139points

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WhoAreYouToSayPandasAreBored 3 years ago

Wow, be careful. You really narrowed down their search to know exactly who you are..

49points

#34

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) In 2009 my professor was doing some consulting work for Blackberry and told us 'This doesn't leave this room, but Blackberry actually actively slows down the release of new products, because they are developing them so fast that they want the customer market to keep pace with the rate of change.'

toxicbrew , Plage67 Report

Final score:

127points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

That's what all manufacturers of electronic devices do, because otherwise they would become too expensive. They've go to recoup the development costs of every model and you can't do that when you release an improved new version before you sold all the old models.

73points

#35

People Who Had Signed NDAs That Have Now Expired Share What Secrets They Were Supposed To Protect (35 Answers) I was in the Super Bowl half time show as one of the extras when it came to my state. Let me just say that the two weeks prior to the week in the stadium were fine, they just tried to teach a bunch of marching band kids how to take even steps for two weeks. The week of rehearsals in the stadium was hell. They promised to feed us but had nothing for people with allergies (me) or diseases like celiac (my friend) or other dietary restrictions. They gave us these hand held radios so we could listen to instructions but it ended up being six hundred high school students sitting in the stands listening to the music while they talked with the star and guests. They constantly changed what jobs we had and no one knew what was going on. The part I was in required us to run off the stage, out underneath the stadium, all the way to the back gates and to the outside. This run was about a half a mile and we practiced it fifteen times a day (minimum) for the entire week up until the game. Oh, and the shark (yes the one from the meme) was only there for the actual performance, the person in the suit missed all the practices and I felt bad for them when it became a meme.

PonchoPie , Huntley Paton Report

Final score:

30points

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago (edited)

Don't feel bad, they were the ones who missed rehearsal. Either they didn't care enough to do them, or they don't care they're a meme now!

15points

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Doctor Strange 3 years ago

NDA's do not cover anything illegal. You absolutely can and SHOULD report any company violating laws, regardless of any NDA you signed. If they try to bring you to court, the NDA absolutely can be ruled unenforceable.

57points

Teufel Wulf 3 years ago

You serious under estimate how much law enforcement cares about this. Relative of mine reported the defense contractor he worked for all sorts of BAD stuff - fraud, sending restricted military docs out of the US for translation, etc. FBi/DoJ looks at it and decided the company not worth prosecuting because the owner had sunk most of the ill gotten gains into stuff that could not be recovered (food, vacations, shitty timeshare, etc.)

5points

A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

They did a home renovation show in my neighborhood where "homeless and needy" families competed to get a home. The "heartwarming twist" was they all got homes. Yay! Except... none of them were needy. Or homeless. The family that got the home near me never spent a day in it. They immediately sold everything that wasn't nailed down and then sold the house, as they already had a home. Also, the production crew came in and wrecked the house before filming to make it more of a transformation - they busted windows, pulled down gutters, killed the lawn, broke the garage door, you name it.

20points

Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago (edited)

So-called reality shows are hella fake. I have read many articles revealing what takes place off-camera. A lot of situations are staged, people are coached, etc. Plus, people behave differently when they know they're on camera.

11points

iblowsheep 3 years ago

most of these don't mention the company, or location so how in the hell is it "spilling corporate secrets?"

17points

Teufel Wulf 3 years ago

Even if the NDA is expired, big companies can still make a leaker life hell. Look at the stuff eBay did to a journalist who was getting leaked info... Mailing dead animals, bribing local police to harass them, etc. Yeah ebay got caught, but it was no big deal, a few employees got tossed under the bus. In certain sectors - if you cross one company, no other one will hire you because of interlocking boards, JVs, supply chains, etc.

1point

Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago

Very few of these had anything to do with nda's. Most were hearsay rants by ex employees.

13points

Chris Lee 3 years ago

It doesn't seem like this post understands what a NDA is or what disclosure is. This is a lot of conjecture with no real revelation as to who these offenders are.

8points

Eslamala 3 years ago

Most of these are people being obtuse by not reporting illegal activities that are never covered by NDA's. Also, what kind of person actually believes tv shows are real?

8points

Amanda Reicha 3 years ago

My mom does, but she's no longer 100% with it due to illness. I've had to explain things were fake because of her emotional overload at times. She'd tell me during a phone call about something in those "reality" shows and it's so hard to get her to believe me, so I just gave up.

4points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Wow. TV shows are fake, and corporations can be evil. I am.... dying of not-surprise...

7points

Chich 3 years ago

Many of these were not NDAs, just people outing the place they worked at.

6points

A B C 3 years ago

Half of these were not about expired NDAs, but about people who were too craven to report illegal business. Seriously, BP authors should have the title of the list they're compiling in mind. 🙄

5points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

IN Germany, there's a recent case of a "Reality show" ("social porn" is what it's called among the people who hate those shows) where a poor family is suddenly transplanted into the house of a rich person and a rich person to live in the poor one's shoes. Except in this case, the rich guy went public about many terrible things, no matter the NDA, (he's rich enough) because the show-runners chose a family with severely traumatized children (from previous domestic abuse) and the kids were clearly in danger of psychological damage. The poor mother had been mostly pressured into doing the swap by promises and promises until she agreed. The payment for the home-invasion and privacy-theft and child-endangerment? 1200 € for all the time filming, plus 4000 € to be spent while at the rich house. The rich guy? Well, he would have been paid 40 000 € for participating! The poor families are selected to look especially poor, or really dumb or whatnot, and because of the NDAs, usually (cont)

4points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

2) usually none of them speak up because the legal trouble would be just too much. Only the rich are rich enough to get up and fight. It's not the first time something like this has come to light, but it'#s usually been some of the less wealthy victims of those shows, and any outrage trickles down quickly. It's absolutely disgusting. Something like The Bachelor/Bachelorette is harmless in comparison and I wish that guy going to court will change something. I fear not, but I hope

4points

Craig Silberman 3 years ago

it's common practice in the automotive battery industry to sell used batteries as new, because customers with shorts in their cars' electrical system make warranty returns of perfectly good batteries; companies buff the posts, clean the case, and sell them to stores with ones just manufactured

4points

Demon Child 3 years ago

This proves that you really can't trust everyone, but what really pissed me off was the fact that so many people never sued or reported to the police. NDAs don't cover illegal things, like @Doctor Strange said. Who the f*ck would not tell anyone about animals being killed, and children BEING FORCED INTO S*X.

3points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Most of these weren’t NDAs

2points

Chris Hardtke 3 years ago

Almost none of these have to do with NDA’s.

2points

Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago (edited)

I worked for a well known tableware company in Seattle. The owner was one of the most narcissistic women I've ever met in my life (but I answered to her husband, so it was cool). She was literally a pill popping diva. She was on local talk shows all the time and had told the public that during the month of October a certain percentage of sales would be donated to breast cancer research via the Susan G. Komen Foundation. I was the bookkeeper for 4 years and never ONCE cut a check to SGK or any other cancer research facility. Just one of a hundred examples, but - she had a fit when I told her the $200 haircut & color, the $400 shoes and the $1500 dress she had charged to the company VISA for a friend's kid's wedding wasn't a "company expense". I created a special GL account where I coded all those kinds of things and at the end of the year added the total to her income to ensure she had to pay taxes on it. She couldn't read a set of financials to save her life, so never had a clue.

1point

Jo Choto 3 years ago

My current job requires a confidentiality contract, which is fine, because nothing bad goes on. But we do quite a bit of work in the entertainment industry, so I get to find out about movies and actors and things like that way before the general public. E.g., I was working on interviews with JK Rowling talking about the Fantastic Beast movies way before anyone even knew there was going to be one, never mind sequels. And I don't say a word to anyone about it, until way after the fact. Oh, the things I know....

1point

ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago

Some of the stories are just rumors about "a company".Not gonna say that there aren't true stories but you can't say for sure what is true and what not.

1point

Sasy 3 years ago

Ugly situations most of them, thanks for the few nice ones.

1point

Joris Rombouts 3 years ago (edited)

Boy, if these NDA contracts are expired, try to get into pharmaceutical NDA contracts. I've worked at a pharmaceutical company, just internship. Still get reminders that the NDA is running. Worked full time at a chemistry company, making goods for pharmaceutical companies. It's 5 years ago , still valid. In any case NDA are only valid if the information isn't publicaly available. Saying 1+1 = 2 isn't such a protected secret ;).

0points

Bryn 3 years ago

My sister's friend did a science fair project about the cleanliness of water fountains. She tested Walmart's. Walmart threatened to sue if she said where the water came from.

0points

Lana Salberg-Schwickerath 3 years ago

Pointless. The "author" clearly doesn't know what an NDA even is.

0points

Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago

As someone commented before : I'm sure they could anonymously report the boss to the authorities. So I don't know who is the bigger jerk here.

0points

Linziaj 3 years ago

Rubbish article because most of it is peoples daft stories !!

0points

Little Wonder 3 years ago

"Why didn't you report this when you worked there?" is a reasonable question, but for a lot of people the risk of being found out as the whistleblower and the resulting loss of income when fired is too much of a risk.

0points

Janus Sanders 3 years ago

people are messed up

0points

Shelp 3 years ago

Most of those were depressing as fnck

0points

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Doctor Strange 3 years ago

57points

Teufel Wulf 3 years ago

5points

A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

20points

Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago (edited)

11points

iblowsheep 3 years ago

most of these don't mention the company, or location so how in the hell is it "spilling corporate secrets?"

17points

Teufel Wulf 3 years ago

1point

Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago

Very few of these had anything to do with nda's. Most were hearsay rants by ex employees.

13points

Chris Lee 3 years ago

It doesn't seem like this post understands what a NDA is or what disclosure is. This is a lot of conjecture with no real revelation as to who these offenders are.

8points

Eslamala 3 years ago

Most of these are people being obtuse by not reporting illegal activities that are never covered by NDA's. Also, what kind of person actually believes tv shows are real?

8points

Amanda Reicha 3 years ago

4points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Wow. TV shows are fake, and corporations can be evil. I am.... dying of not-surprise...

7points

Chich 3 years ago

Many of these were not NDAs, just people outing the place they worked at.

6points

A B C 3 years ago

Half of these were not about expired NDAs, but about people who were too craven to report illegal business. Seriously, BP authors should have the title of the list they're compiling in mind. 🙄

5points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

4points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

4points