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People Are Anonymously Revealing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren’t Supposed To Share (30 Answers)
Most companies require their employees to agree to some level of confidentiality. Whether you work for a retail store or a powerful tech company, you probably signed paperwork prior to your first day limiting what you’re allowed to share with friends and family, on social media, and more. But as the public, we’re naturally curious about companies’ practices and what goes on behind the scenes. Lucky for us, many current and former employees are happy to satiate our curiosity.
We’ve gathered a list of some of the most eye-opening bits of insider information people have shared on Reddit, some of which are certain to change the way you view these industries. So enjoy this list, and let us know in the comments if you have any juicy secrets about your profession that you can share with us. Then if you’re looking for even more insider information from businesses, check out Bored Panda’s last publication on the same topic right here.
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#1
Emergency room doctor here.
I really do want you to get better, I really want you to not die. I get spat on and cursed at and am the recipient of several stink eyes daily. If you actually show that you care about your health and listen to me or show me the slightest bit of respect I will bend over backwards to help you get better.
If I'm not sending you home with a six month supply of dilaudid it's because you are better off without it. I'm sorry you have a boxer's fracture because you punched your door, but fractures hurt and I can't take all the pain away and keep you breathing at the same time. Man up and deal with a few days of discomfort, it goes away eventually.
I ask probing questions about your sexuality and drug history and the consistency of your poop because its important. I am legally prevented from sharing this info with your boss, your wife, the police. Just tell me the truth. The guy on the other side of the curtain has a curling iron stuck up his ass, the herpes you got in high school doesn't shock me.
My paycheck is my paycheck. I don't get paid more or less because I prescribe a name brand antibiotic, or decide to do stitches instead of glue, or admit you instead of letting you leave AMA. I get paid the same if I see one patient this shift or forty, most of my decisions are based on medicine, or to decrease the chances of getting sued. This isn't true for every doctor or even every emergency doctor, but consider giving your physician the benefit of the doubt.
Wilko Lunenburg 3 years ago
My GP has saved my sons life and my life, I trust her with everything.
Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago
i have un-diagnoses issues that are probably more severe then mine says because she refused to listen and i have been dealing with those issues for years
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Hedgeh og 3 years ago
It makes me equal parts sad and incandescently angry how medical staff have been treated during the pandemic. So many absolute ignorant as*holes being horrendous twats to exhausted medical workers because somehow they believe TV personalities and "shock jocks" over the actual medical experts. You think they're all liars? STAY THE EFF HOME AND TREAT YOURSELF WITH BEETS AND COLD WATER. You go to a hospital and ask for treatment? Listen to those people and maintain basic courtesy.
Christine Will 3 years ago
Only IF that doctor also treats me with basic courtesy. Sadly, many doctors do not.
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eeeeeeeee 3 years ago
I think one of the best ways of honouring the people in the medical sector is by maintaining your health. The systems are overrun often by those who are unwilling to take responsibility for their basic health, and that impacts those who really need assistance.
JMC5003 3 years ago (edited)
Yep. When I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a severe traumatic injury, the emergency room was so overwhelmed by people with COVID (most of whom had probably refused to take responsibility for their health by refusing the immunization), they tried to x-ray the wrong leg, then sent me home saying I sprained my knee. The doctor looked ragged. My injuries were actually so severe that I wound up in a wheelchair for 5 months and had to learn to walk over again. Delays in treatment due to COVID causing a shortage of providers left me with permanent nerve damage. Oh, and I have post- concussion syndrome that was left untreated because I couldn't get an appointment with a neurologist for almost a year. I'm really angry at the disrespect for others shown by those refusing COVID immunizations. It doesn't just affect the unimmunized person; it also affects everyone in the medical profession and anyone seeking care for unavoidable illness and injury.
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Weed in the Garden 3 years ago
And, there's at least one nurse running interventions and attempting to eliminate as much of that as possible BEFORE the patient gets to the doctor. Being a demanding distrustful and dishonest a--hat does not change your medical condition. Avoiding/twisting the truth or making your healthcare provider figure out what's wrong because you're 'testing' them see if they know what they're doing is dangerous and a waste of everyone's time.
D K 3 years ago (edited)
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 As a nurse who gives a damn, has been through personally and seen some sh*t. Please be honest with your medical providers. Doctors, nurses, whom ever is caring for you. No matter how despondent we feel toward the system, we really still do give a damn about you.
It’s understandable for companies to desire a certain level of privacy, but this day in age, when we have unlimited access to the internet, it might be more beneficial for businesses to be transparent. Former employees have more resources than ever before to call out companies and spill secrets, especially if they are bitter about the way they left a job.
But it’s in our nature to keep secrets and to be curious about the secrets others are holding. Psychologist Michael Slepian broke down the hidden world of secrets in a piece for the American Psychological Association and revealed that there are 38 common categories of secrets people keep, “ranging from infidelity and illegal behavior to pregnancy and planned surprises for others”. “We all keep the same kinds of secrets,” he said. “About 97% of people have a secret in at least one of those categories, and the average person is currently keeping secrets in 13 of those categories.”
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#2
McGraw Hill makes practically every text book allowed in america's school. At the end of every year they throw away the tens of thousands of books for the tax write off because it's going to a recycling plant.
I am talking text book for k thru 12, college books of every type, teacher editions, and class sets of short stories and books for kids in process of learning to read. A normal text book costs a school 60 to 80 bucks a pop, but they throw enough away to educate every child in Africa. When I worked at the recycling plant I wasn't allowed to take them because it was considered illegal to distribute them.
I truly lost all hope for the future of humanity after that. And quit my job.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
There should be a penalty for disposing of them in any way if there's nothing wrong with them. Stuff like this should be treated like fast fashion.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Businesses should not be allowed to dispose of inventory without an acceptable reason.
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Ruth Riegler 3 years ago
That is disgusting, if unsurprising. It's not limited to that publisher or to the publishing industry. either - the amount of still edible food deliberately thrown into bins by supermarkets and other food retailers at the end of every day could easily feed the world.
Steffi Rose 3 years ago
I always picture Tim McGraw and Faith Hill running some seedy textbook empire
Kay Kelly 3 years ago
Why can't they be sent to 3rd or 4th world countries? Hell, they send christans (?) there, why not send something that could really help?
Jp@nda 3 years ago
God has nothing to do with this, every person has free will and they get to choose whether or not to be an ãsshole
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HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
I would venture a guess that all of the books that have now been BANNED from Florida schools will be incinerated.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
They SHOULD offer them to schools that need them. If losing sports teams can do this with their t-shirts and merch that say "We Won!" (oops, we didn't), we can da** well do this with textbooks.
M Rob 3 years ago
Where is the profit in that? If they keep the poor uneducated, they will make much better prisoners (sl4ves)
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Slepian went on to explain that, although we all do it, keeping secrets can be a burden. “It’s not how much you hide a secret that’s harmful, but how often you find yourself thinking about it,” he says. Apparently secrets that we feel shameful about are the ones we tend to dwell on the most. Slepian then makes an important distinction between shame and guilt. “Guilt is more adaptive. When you feel guilty, you can make amends or decide to do something differently next time,” he explains. “Shame is more about feeling like a bad person. It can make you feel helpless or powerless.”
Having someone to confide in can help lessen the weight of a secret, Slepian notes. The conflict of wanting to protect ourselves while simultaneously wanting the weight off our chests is what can cause inner turmoil. But according to a study Slepian conducted with online participants, “Confiding a secret predicted improved well-being, both because the participant received social support and because the act of revealing the secret seemed to minimize the amount of time the person spent thinking about it.”
#3
Diamonds should be worth much less than people pay for them.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
I don't get how they have any value at all. Someone convinced people having something shiny on their hand is a good thing and now they're going bankrupt to pay for it.
John L 3 years ago (edited)
Marketing....it's how "buffalo wings", went from soup stock ingredient to the most expensive part. How lobster went from being unfit for prisoners to luxury food. How pork belly (bacon) went from a butcher's nightmare, to being peoples favorite food, etc. You get enough people telling you that something is valuable, it will be.
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NHL37 3 years ago
They are not as rare as we are lead by the industry to believe. Especially when one company had control of the market and could set the prices.
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
Since the monopoly fell apart in the nineties DeBeers see about 1/3 of diamond rough go through their hands, and only a small percentage of that is from their own mines. Of course there are rarer materials, but in the greater scheme of things diamonds (especially gem-quality) are incredibly rare
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Molly Block 3 years ago
A jewelry salesman once told me that this is true. They are overpriced. And if you want something that looks just as nice, and costs 1/4 of the cost, get a white sapphire. So I did that, I bought 3 pieces that had pretty large white sapphires in them. But they never did have the sparkle like a real diamond. And then I discovered aurora borealis stones, and now that is the only kind I buy. You know--that mid-century jewelry with the stone that has a rainbow like finish on it? So much prettier than any big diamond.
chaotic_charlie (they/he) 3 years ago
taaffeite, which is a purple gemstone (it's very pretty!) was discovered in 1945. it's said to be a MILLION times rarer than diamonds. it costs several thousands of dollars per carat
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
Yes, but with only a few pieces ever found (and look up musgravite for it's even rarer cousin) this is an even better example of people paying for availability. It's not exceptionally hard, nor exceptionally useful so people solely pay for the exclusivity of owning a piece of something that's incredibly rare which causes prices to be set at "what someone is willing to pay"
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Barbara Kayton 3 years ago
The murder and abuse of people that goes into mining them should devalue them entirely.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
The De Beers Mining company, after finding the Motherloands in Kimberly and Botswana, needed a powerful strategy to create an artificial value in diamonds "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" and "Diamonds are forever" were blasted over all media as slogans from De Beers. Diamond were the least-valued gemstone prior to this. Diamond as well as platinum only really has industrial uses and should NEVER have been considered for jewellery. Cubic Zirconia has a higher refractive index than diamond and costs a 20th of the price. Diamond (carbon) actually will eventually evaporate.
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
They were never "the least valued gemstone", I don't know where you get that. Also, platinum is the most durable of all precious metals so if anything it's much better for jewellery than gold or silver. Od you're worried aboit your diamond eventually 'evaporating' you should be worried a little bit more about CZ scratching, chipping and fracturing
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Carl Watson 3 years ago
Diamonds, as dental burs or grinding discs, are great, as jewelry it's a scam.
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
Sorry for the multitude of comments on this post people, it's honestly not to insult but things here are seen a bit too simplistically. If anything, other mined products should be more expensive instead of diamonds being cheaper
#4
I was a deep sea diver for 10 years in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge oil spills happen and are covered up hundreds of times a year by every company. The entire industry is in on it. The bottom of the gulf is a disgusting garbage dump. Every boat dumps their trash into the gulf no one obeys the laws and the coast guard doesn't enforce s**t.
DC 3 years ago
THESE are the laws we need to enforce the most. These, not the ban on cannabis or opium ... that's not even something that should be allowed to prohibit in the first place, but this, actual and real damage causing behaviour, needs to be as stopped as possible! Violently even, maybe... If other means were tried in a reasonable scale, to no avail, then ... sink the trashers!
John 3 years ago
Actual and real damage causing behavior happens to the families and communities where drug use is present. Maybe not with occasional cannabis use, but certainly opium and other hard drugs. I'm all for cleaning up the environment and being good stewards of the planet, but let's put things in their proper place.
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SelkieBlackfysh 3 years ago
Go look up pics of dead coral reefs. That's what we're gonna leave behind.
Aside from taking a load off our shoulders, sharing secrets can also strengthen our relationships. Postdoctoral researcher Sarah Ward mentions that, “Sharing secrets is often a way to build trust or closeness. Knowing which people tend to share can help to identify who is likely to build close relationships, and who might be missing opportunities to foster closeness and trust.” She went on to note that people who are particularly polite tend to be less willing to share secrets, but this can be a hindrance for them. Ward mentions that these people “might be missing out on an opportunity to get comfort or relief from other people, which could alleviate their negative emotions”.
#5
It feels like it shouldn't be a secret, but a lot of people just don't get it. If you find yourself waiting forever to be seen in the ER, that's probably a very good thing. We get the serious stuff back there pretty dang quick.
Edit: For clarity's sake, a whole lot of pain doesn't automatically make something serious. A broken arm or something hurts like hell, but we're going to take the guy who's sweating and says his chest feels a little tight before you. Because he might be dying and you definitely aren't.
Pryjmaty 3 years ago
My local hospital is so bad when my friend was choking, they left him sitting in the waiting room and he managed to get the food out by forcing himself to throw up. For clarity's sake, hospitals in the US aren't like Grey's Anatomy.
KM 3 years ago
How did you get to the er in time for choking? A partial blockage would definitely be told to wait.
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
Let me add that going by ambulance DOES NOT get you seen quicker. If there aren't rooms and you're not critical you go to the waiting room. If there are rooms you probably go to a room but will just be waiting there instead of the waiting room.
Cody Rhys 3 years ago
Hospital made me wait 6 hours with spinal meningitis. After I told them I kept losing my vision when standing up. After I told them I couldn't bend my neck. After I told them I was losing balance and falling into objects. Finally, after hours of indescribable pain, I got to that point where I felt like I was going to violently vomit everywhere and my dad told me to puke all over the nurses' station. And just like that, I had a gurney in less than 5 minutes and a spinal tap in less than 30. And then my own private room for quarantine. Then the doctor told me I would have been dead within 24 hours had I not come in when I did. Most of the time the ER's really are prioritizing, but sometimes they just make you wait because they don't care because
j miller 3 years ago
I understand this and it makes perfect sense but having had to sit in several ER rooms for hours with kidney stones pretty much made me curse every SOB working in the hospital!
Lyes Wecan 3 years ago
In France we consider kidney stone as a painful emergency, it means you will be taken full priority for painkillers and you can wait for the rest when you are relieved of the pain. Kidney stones are one of the most powerful acute pain but its so easy to calm. One ibuprofen IV and it's ok 99% of times. And if it's not you became a surgery emergency cause it's probably threatening your kidney
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Brook Schmidt 3 years ago
Yes! If you can survive for 8hrs in the waiting room, then just go home and call your doctor in the morning.
Tom Lippert 3 years ago
I'm in an empty er I get bring back turns out I need Staples in my head wound. I gotta wait for the pink eye junkie to be seen. It isn't always the patients being bitchy. I think a bleeding scalp wound trump's conjunctivitis.
Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Funny how I had pinkeye twice and functioned perfectly fine. Same when I had a sty at least once.
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Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Hmm, I was taken back fairly quick when I could hardly breathe or speak, more often without coughing, only to be told by at least 3 ppl after the after the x-ray there was nothing wrong!!! No real treatment, over 3 hours.
#6
A bottle of Windex is basically 95% water 4% ammonia, and 1% blue dye / fragrance. The most expensive part of the product is the bottle.
A Jones 3 years ago
Vinegar and water does a pretty good job and ya' can reuse the spray bottle. Vinegar is like less than a bone ($1USD). Mix with water and ya' got a decent glass/bathroom cleaner.
Molly Block 3 years ago
The pretty blue color makes us humans automatically envision clean clear sparkling windows. If the color was orange, or even pink, it wouldn't sell very well, would it? But that blue color.... it's almost magical.
Good Luckas 3 years ago
Bro literally use a glass of water and blue dye. It’s better than windex
Cathy Jo Baker 3 years ago
That's a new one. It's fabulous for getting stuck rings off fingers
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jon gilbertson 3 years ago
i buy car window washer fluid and refill the windex bottle. way cheaper
Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago
So if I buy some ammonia (what concentration?) mix it with water I could easily use this instead of paying for that stuff?
When it comes to company secrets, they often seem to be locked up in a vault. But with social media, employees can now expose employers for keeping toxic behavior and practices behind closed doors. Throughout the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in recent years, many companies have been called out for racist practices, including Tesla and Amazon.
Earlier this year, former employees of a Tesla plant in California filed the largest racial discrimination suit the state has ever seen. The lawsuit, which is on behalf of 4,000 former employees, details a horrifying environment where Black workers were constantly called slurs, placed in a corner of the factory that was referred to as “the plantation” and repeatedly subjected to unsafe working conditions. The employees shared that after informing the company and complaining about racist treatment, their concerns were brushed under the rug.
#7
As call center employee I can assure you that ALL of our calls are recorded not for training purposes, but to protect our own a**es.
Spellflinger 3 years ago (edited)
And if you insist we will review the call but in my experience 99.99% of the time the call did not go as you remembered it.
Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago
Excuse me, I was accused of racism on the phone and they hung up on me. I created and made them listen to the recording, I was not racist, no bloody apology even for something that could easily have landed me in prison in the UK
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I have nothing but respect for help desk folks. I know too many IT folks who started their careers there.
Remington Greer 3 years ago
Former and current call center employee: Supervisors are likely going to tell you the same thing whomever you spoke to before did. (In some instances, the agent will have more working knowledge because of doing that thing every day) I've worked in tech support and bank call centers. Be honest with whomever you're speaking (from tech support, your issue will be fixed a lot faster if you just admit you don't know, or at very least don't pretend you know more about it than you do, I don't know how many times I've had to waste more time only to figure out the person has no idea what they are talking about). We don't care if you don't know what you're doing, that's why you're calling us but being dishonest or having an ego really exacerbates the process.
Alison Peters 3 years ago
Former call center rep here...even when you’re on hold...we can still hear you! 🤣🤣
Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
"mute" I could hear them. "hold" I couldn't.
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Robyn Bowns 3 years ago
No offence but .... Duuhhhh. Just like human resources is not for employee protection...
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Fact: Any company that requires you to go through hoops to get a recording is NOT recording the call. Either that or they KNOW you have then by the balls. Any company that can immediately begin the process to supply you with the call recording (which should be available for ANY interaction), either has their liability covered, know you are mis-remembering, or really has nothing to hide. Write that one down.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
To add to this, "All calls are recorded for quality and training purposes" DOES NOT mean you are given a right to receive a copy. Quite the opposite. You're giving THEM the right to use your call INTERNALLY as part of their CONFIDENTIAL up-skilling processes.
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Spectrum actually made you listen to do many calls per week with your supervisor. They did believe in Training but holy cow, you had to take at least 100 calls per day, no lateness, no excessive bathroom breaks, no exceptions. Even going under their quotas once would get you pulled into the supervisor office
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
That's insane! I can honestly say that I have never had a bad experience with Spectrum's call center employees. I might not always get the answer I want, but at least they have done what they could to help.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I think we kind of all know that. That's right up there with "go report it to HR". Yeah, so they can call the corporate attorneys before responding.
#8
I work in the space industry and I am happy to report that there are no tricks here, everything must work with multiple redundant systems.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Except for the staff, management and most important, the politicians.
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
Both Challenger and Columbia disasters were caused by humans. More specifically, in both cases, decision makers ignored the warnings of engineers and overruled them for the sake of "expediency". It goes to show that if you ignore margins of safety in order to score political points you will meet with disaster sooner or later.
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Record labels and producers sometimes use 'ghost vocalists' for pop stars who really can't sing. Ghost vocalists are like singing impressionists who come into the studio and re-sing the song in the style of the popstar, but better. Often the popstars in question don't even know that their vocals have been replaced.
Oh and, for the record (no pun), terrible singers can't be fixed with autotune, it is only used to polish slightly untidy vocals. This is why ghost vocalists are used.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Marni Nixon was one of the best of these for film. The list of actresses whose singing she ghosted is impressive.
Richard Grant 3 years ago
Marni was great singing in the original West Side Story. I've downloaded a number of songs where it's her voice they used.
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Lee Macro 3 years ago
Milli Vanilli are/were a famous duet who did this. They were the frontmen and had ghost singers sing their songs. It all came out when they were in concert singing "live" and the CD started skipping/jumping. They ran off stage halfway through the gig
Chelsea Poole 3 years ago
I was literally just about to post the same comment. Have it on good word that J-Lo is worse than terrible in the vocal department. So it goes.
Load More Replies... Molly Block 3 years ago
Why does a pop star have a singing career if they can't sing? And what happens during a live concert they put on?
jennifer johnson 3 years ago
Jlo, she can't sing and she's a terrible person. I'd say Madonna as well for the same reasons.
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Amazon has also come under fire in recent years for fostering a culture that's less welcoming for Black employees. Recode published a piece in 2021 dissecting some of Amazon's issues to make the public more aware of what's happening within the company. Interviews with former employees and diversity managers frequently reported that Black Amazon employees are "promoted less frequently and rated more harshly than non-Black peers". In 2018, only 14.5% of Black employees received a "top-tier" rating for their work at Amazon, compared to 21.8% of white employees.
A current Amazon diversity manager even told Recode, "We struggle to bring [Black] folks in because there’s not a whole lot of desire, in my opinion, to go outside of our normal practices. And then when they do get here, it’s harder to get promoted, harder to get top-tier rated, and easier to get lowest-tier. All those things combined make it so folks don’t wanna stay. And folks will leave Amazon and go take on more senior roles elsewhere.” While that quote was followed up by Amazon spokesperson Jaci Anderson disagreeing that it was representative of the company and providing a more politically correct statement, that diversity manager's quote still speaks for at least one person's opinion.
#10
From my former job: The US military has a tradition where you spend your entire budget by Oct (the new fiscal year) or you risk losing that portion of your budget. I've been in units that would go out and purchase $200,000 worth of useless s**t just to avoid having a budget surplus. Multiply by the number of units in the military (a s**t ton) and you have all your fraud, waste and abuse.
CP 3 years ago
That is true at most private companies too. There was a goo episode of The Office that dealt with this very subject. I have always wondered what kind of safe guards you could put in to stop this practice but I can't come up with anything.
Robert T 3 years ago
Allow them to carry over unused budget into the next year and base the budget on the average of several years spending (allowing for inflation).
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Mark Fuller 3 years ago
That's called the public sector. Happens in the U.K. too. Use it before you lose it.
Sareaesque 3 years ago
yup, we always get a rush of new contracts before the end of the financial year from clients using up their budgets
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Adam Belaire 3 years ago
I believe it wouldn't be so bad if they altered the way budgets are allocated. Public Sector, if you have X amount left over, your next year's budget is cut by that much. If they didn't do that, I don't think there would be a huge rush to spend the money. Any additional money left goes back into the coffer to redistribute to the departments or if it's possible, allow unused money to be given as rebates to the public. during tax time.
Brenda 3 years ago
Yup, all government agencies do this. If they don't, they risk losing that money on the next budget. Hubby works for a government agency and the waste is unreal. Things that sit in inventory for years and never used are written off (after about 5 years). We're talking still in original packaging. And then they are supposed to destroy it. He has brought home some amazing stuff that was useful to us or family. Often we'd donate it as there's nothing wrong with it, it's just an older version of whatever. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. Unfortunately we can't do that anymore.
Stymied Egan 3 years ago
I've known places where this could cost you your job. Its so wasteful. I heard of one place that replaced things yearly and the old, perfectly good, items were buried so no one could use them.
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Seadimo Monnapula 3 years ago
This is true for non profits. Theres a budget allocated for living wages but we only earn $100 a month and the company just had a surplus and had their budget taken which means they refused to pay us anything livable because suddenly theyre broke. And we basically got demoted to volunteers during the second year of FULL time service. Thank you USAID. Your policies only line the pockets of Non profit and the real people doing the work here are getting poorer and poorer as our wages lose against the inflation. Investigate all your practices in Africa, especially Lesotho.
Paul V Fleming 3 years ago
i experienced this several times as a naval officer in various departments. so sad that this happens.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
This is what happens when lazy organizations allow everything to be managed by accountants instead of their leaders having the integrity and intelligence to make real decisions.
#11
Patient confidentiality just means your name isn't in the story, not that your story won't get told.
Sawdust 3 years ago
Or tell the funniest anecdote at the doctors' convention. :-)
Load More Replies... Mimi M 3 years ago
Absolutely true. I tell stories about my patients/clients all the time, but with no identifying information. These accounts and anecdotes are useful!
Bobby 3 years ago
It's even things you may not think of. "Well looks like you have strep. Must be going around, I've had at least 10 patients with it this week" is a recent example of my doc telling me about other patients
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Kim Bush 3 years ago
Thankfully this is true. My best friend has been written up in medical journals due to his very unique case, and there he is only a case number. The local news called him "the miracle man"... A label that made him very uncomfortable. I lost my history making friend, exactly a year ago today May 17th 2021, and I miss him more every day.... Stan, you still owe me that dance 💔
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
I mean, as long as my identity can't be discerned from the information given about me, I'm a-okay with that.
#12
I work in visual effects for large hollywood movies. We do so much digital cleanup and enhancement of practical effects, yet get no credit for how it looks. We only get s**t on when a director or studio forces us to make cartoony CG characters or un-photorealistic backgrounds. We're the only department that doesn't have a union, yet we're in charge of upwards of half the movie's budget. Life of Pi was shot mostly on green screen, yet the cinematographer got an Oscar, even though most of those shots were created later in VFX without his input
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Visual effects folks do amazing work and are underappreciated.
Scarlett Fox 3 years ago
Life of Pi also bankrupted the first VFX studio it contracted, which is why the project was on hiatus for so long
Alex Ernst 3 years ago
CG workers are horrendously overworked, rushed, and underpaid. No wonder this stuff sometimes comes out bad (looking at you Cats).
Contrary to what they might believe, increasing transparency might even be beneficial for companies. (Assuming they’re not doing anything sketchy or illegal…) Michael Weinhouse, a Forbes Councils member, reports that being upfront with clients and customers actually sets businesses up for success. It can also increase companies’ efficiency. “For example, we give our clients access to a reporting dashboard that allows them to see exactly what we’re doing for them. As a result, we don’t waste time shaping and packaging our results to look better than they actually are. Similarly, because we set realistic expectations with customers from the start, we don’t need to spend time making excuses for why we weren’t able to achieve unrealistic goals.”
Lastly, Weinhouse notes that honesty builds trust with customers. He mentions how social media and review sites make it harder for companies to conceal secrets, so they might as well own their truths. “Every company has a choice to make. Do you put on a show and hope the facts about your business don’t come out? Or do you own those facts and put them to work for both you and your customers?”
#13
Your children tell us nearly everything about what goes on in your home.
Source: Preschool Teacher
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
They also tell us everything you ate, said or all the faces you made at school, and how often they see you smoking around the corner. So I guess we're even.
donna peluda 3 years ago
I was asked once as a kid, "what does your daddy work as?" I replied, nothing his a teacher!!
Scott Crowe 3 years ago
Kid: "My daddy can eat a whole window-blind !" Teacher: "He can ?" Kid: "Yea because last night my parents were in the other room and I heard my daddy say to my mom "Honey....you pull down that window-blind and I'll eat that thing....".
Stephanie Adamson 3 years ago
When I was a high school teacher, students would also volunteer info about other teachers without my asking. They have no problem telling you if they love or hate the principal too. I hope they said nice things about me! Lol
Stolas 3 years ago
oh if we hate a teacher we talk about it and it gets back to them so i think ur safe
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Tigerpacingthecage 3 years ago
I don't doubt it. Children are little spies with super emotional senses.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
Previous retail worker here. I can confirm. A little girl once told me that her mommy and daddy fight and he screams at her and they have to hide from him or something to that effect. Mom was embarrassed and it was awkward.
Stymied Egan 3 years ago
This includes, my mom took my medicine today. My dad's in jail again. They have no filter and will talk about things that the family treats as important. Good or bad
#14
Casino dealers really do want the players to win. We don't work for the house. We get paid s**t hourly rates and rely on tips. Unless the player is super nice, they only tip if they win, so we really do want you to win.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
This is common-practice in larger casino's at "slow hours". The chances of a dealer getting a tip is higher during quieter hours from more discerning/casual players. Called "Tiggers" being friendly, casual and and generally out for having a good time. Casino Tip: Being casually friendly to all staff is a good start to getting a better experience. Casino staff are treated like dirt, a good, friendly player usually is a highlight of their slow-hours. Dealers talk to each other, remember that.
Cass Malone 3 years ago
I've never been to a real casino so I wouldn't have thought to tip the dealer
BasedWang12 3 years ago
had a few spinners on cruises that knew well what they were doing and my pops and I are tippers so they aimed to give us hits. It was a great time
#15
Nursing homes somehow always know when they are going to be visited by the state. They have plenty of time to get their s**t together, overstaff for days. The administrators and office people will actually work on the floor that would never do otherwise. Things are great until the moment the state reps leave then you're back to being understaffed and overworked. Its a common complaint but people are absolutely not getting the care they need.
Kiss Army 3 years ago
Absolutely... and I lost my sh!t when I complained at my FIL's nursing home because his depends were soaked to the point that his t-shirt and the bed was even covered in dried urine and her excuse was that he was "not assisting in his own care". He had Alzheimer's, Dementia and Stage 3 Lung Cancer, there was extremely little he could do to "assist in his own care".
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
That's disgusting. My own father was sent to one that doubled as a rehabilitation center. It's heartbreaking to see how a small percentage of the staff actually give a darn.
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Kady LaHaie 3 years ago
Worked in 4 homes and yep. Spot on. We knew state was coming for at least a month in advance. Suddenly new pipes were installed in the laundry, we got new security cameras, and the entire place got quadruple cleaned.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
Worked in nursing homes for years as a CNA and then nurse and this is absolutely true. They wouldn’t do stuff any other time but when the state is around they suddenly feed and take residents to the bathroom.
v 3 years ago
It's the same thing with the inspection of military units/bases. The various command staff generally knows anywhere from 6 to 12 months out when the inspection is going to take place. Relatively easy to get good marks but it does absolutely nothing to demonstrate or verify the operational capability of the base/unit.
Kim Bush 3 years ago (edited)
Can definitely vouch for this. I worked at one for 7 years. Sometimes surprising things still happen to tip off the state.. Like them walking into a resident's room and there's a cockroach sitting on their pillow right beside their head. (True story) Inspectors will look a lot closer and longer when that happens.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
If it's anything like child care centres, spot checks you don't know about, but are then given x number of days to fix things, full accreditation assessments are planned and you get the date 3 or 4 weeks ahead of time.
Stymied Egan 3 years ago
We've been very lucky with the Assisted Living place our mom is, but the staff is dwindling more each year. We've had to hire a private nurse to help her. We can't really afford it but it's impossible to just let everything go. The employees are very nice but overworked and our mother has become harder and harder to care for, she's angry, won't eat without a fight, and thinks everyone is trying to kill her. Can't thank the people that care for her enough.
Some companies, however, are notorious for concealing great amounts of information from the public, and act swiftly to punish any employees who might compromise their secrecy. Silicon Valley’s tech giants are great examples of such companies, including Facebook and Google. In a piece by the Guardian examining this topic, former employees of Google and Facebook divulged some of the frightening reactions the companies have to any hint of disloyalty.
One former Facebook employee described an interrogation he received after leaking some inside information to a journalist. There was no need for the questioning, however, because the “rat-catching team” had records of the screenshots, links he had clicked or hovered over, and access to the chats between him and the journalist even before he had started working there. “It’s horrifying how much they know,” he told the Guardian. “You go into Facebook and it has this warm, fuzzy feeling of ‘we’re changing the world’ and ‘we care about things’. But you get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with Mark Zuckerberg’s secret police.”
#16
Juries can return a not guilty verdict even if they agree that the defendant broke the law, if they feel the law itself is unjust. This is referred to as jury nullification and judges do not want jurors to know about it, even going so far as to hold people handing out literature about it in front of courthouses in contempt of court.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Furthermore: knowing this can technically exempt you from jury duty, and telling anyone while on jury duty can land you in jail. Also, if the person who posted this an attorney in the United States, he/she can be disbarred.
DC 3 years ago
What? There are laws to cover up that laws exist? How can a jury be functional if they aren't supposed to know what they can or can't?
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Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
Judges have entirely too much, unchecked power. They can literally order anything they want and there is no one to challenge them. You would need to get a lawyer to get another judge to overturn it. Our system of government is supposed to be based on checks and balances of the 3 branches of government, but there are no checks on the judicial branch. They are like 16th-century kings and queens. Their authority at the moment and the extended moment is ridiculously absolute.
KimB 3 years ago
Appellate court! They literally overturn other judges/juries decisions...then there's the Supreme Court
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Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Jury nullification gets into some very risky areas. It is an essentially unavoidable loophole in any jury-based justice system, but it is nothing more than a group of individuals deciding they don't like a law. It is essentially no different than a police officer deciding they won't arrest someone because they disagree with the law. Sometimes we think "oh, cool!", but when it's releasing people committing crimes we disagree with (think hate crimes maybe) we sing a different tune.
Tiffany H 3 years ago
Jury nullification is a discretionary act, and is not a legally sanctioned function of the jury. It is considered to be inconsistent with the jury's duty to return a verdict based solely on the law and the facts of the case. The jury does not have a right to nulification, and counsel is not permitted to present the concept of jury nullification to the jury. However, jury verdicts of acquittal are unassailable even where the verdict is inconsistent with the weight of the evidence and instruction of the law. See U.S. v. Thomas, 116 F.3d 606 (2d Cir. 1997).
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
I have heard of this in the US before, but is it true in any other countries?
#17
I am a professional tattooist.
Many of my peers tell customers how expensive the supplies are, saying that just a basic setup to do one tattoo costs like $30-$50.
It costs more like about $3.00. Including everything I can factor into it, including rent and bills.
Needles cost less than 50 cents usually.
A big bottle of black ink lasts me 6 months or so and costs $20.
We don't charge so much because the supplies are expensive and I wish my peers would stop saying that, it's a cop-out. We charge so much because it's a difficult skill to learn and we deserve to be compensated as tradesmen.
Also the hourly rate for tattooing has hovered around $100/hr for 27 years, since 1989. Tell me one other thing that costs the same as it did in 1989.
And in 1989, the needles were far more expensive because the Chinese factories hadn't started making them yet. They cost over a dollar each in 1989.
We tattooers make less money than ever, but it isn't because of the cost of supplies.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I'm happy to pay the "expensive" price for the skills of an artist and craftsman dedicated to his craft. I mean, it's permanent.
Martina Moreau 3 years ago
Thank you for saying this, it needed to be said. Tattoo artists deserve to be paid more based on their skill and artistry, not the cost of supplies.
Douglas Neuman 3 years ago
I do think inkers are artists and should be paid as much. But in 1989 the number of people getting tattoos was a lot less than now. Now every kid over 18 is getting some type of tattoo.
SealOfDisapproval 3 years ago
I've happily paid my chosen tattoo artists whatever they happened to be asking. That kind of skill takes countless hours to develop, and I'm not just paying for the work they do, but also for the work they did to master their craft.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
I would ask my clients if they would buy a cheap parachute. Don’t be dumb, spend the money.
Bobby 3 years ago
I dont even look at the cost when I need to find a new artist. This things are permanent and if I'm budget shopping I'm gonna regret it. I just look at their portfolio, find the one I like, and go with them. Sometimes it's the most expensive guy in town, sometimes he's in the middle
Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
"Tell me one other thing that costs the same as it did in 1989". Sure thing! People's salaries to companies, because in some fields, wages have stagnated since then. A job that paid $19 per hour in 1989 should not still pay $19 per hour in 2022...
Kay Kelly 3 years ago
Some tattoo artists are just that, artists, and deserve to be recognized & rewarded.
Joe Brody 3 years ago
True. But it only happens when the customer is required to pay more for the services. If the artist requires more. the customer will pay more, but only if he' has to. Do you overpay for items? Do you look around for the best prices? What are the things you pay more for? Geez, people still haggle back and forth over the price of grams of weed wee
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#18
Rocket science is like 90% plumbing.
Sky Render 3 years ago
I think it's more accurate to say that it's 90% engineering logistics. A LARGE part of it does qualify as plumbing for the fuel systems, but the design of how those fuel systems (and of the exhaust systems) integrate with one another is essential as well.
Scott Rackley 3 years ago
Incorrect, it was thermal induced seal failure because the operating environment exceeded the o-ring's performance envelope
Load More Replies... donna peluda 3 years ago
That's like saying playing the piano his hitting white or black thingies. There are some docus on the the german V2 rockets on youtube, worth watching.
Robyn Bowns 3 years ago
Many rocket scientists are everyday people. Pianists tend to be pretentious.....
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Well, not really, but you go ahead. I'd like to see you try to remove & replace a screw in zero gravity. You know, without that whole pesky "dying" thing.
“When you first get to Facebook you are shocked at the level of transparency. You are trusted with a lot of stuff you don’t need access to,” said the former Facebook employee. “The counterbalance to giving you this huge trusting environment is if anyone steps out of line, they’ll squash you like a bug.”
Former employees also mentioned a meeting in 2015 where Zuckerberg addressed a leak about Facebook’s new messaging assistant. “We’re going to find the leaker, and we’re going to fire them,” the CEO told employees. A week later, the mole had been caught and fired, and employees in the meeting celebrated.
#19
Midway games at carnivals or fairs purposely let people win early on in the day. This way people carry around the prizes and advertise them for the rest of the day.
Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago
There will now be huge queues at the start of the day LOL
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
You think this is bad, there's a gambling town where the joints have pictures of winners - painted on the walls from the day they opened. Which tells me no one ever wins anything in those places at all. And of course you hear about how people who DO win get arrested or thrown out of these places. Gambling is an IQ test that shows you failed.
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Do you think they're going to go back and repaint new people every year? Gambling is statistics. The odds change based on which game you're playing. It's fun for people and can also be addictive, I don't think that makes them have a low IQ.
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Kerri Russ 3 years ago
I was a carny for years and never heard this before... yup, worked the games all the time. I think this one is made up.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
From what I've seen as of late, most of these games are rigged.
Molly Block 3 years ago
Does the op mean the games where they have barkers? Or did the op mean these claw games? I always heard they could adjust the tension on the grabber, so it won't grip the prize too well. Can they also adjust the timing of the tension on these claw games?
Pudgy Panda 3 years ago
Reminds me of the diet doctor I used to work for, who plastered the walls of his clinic with before and after pictures of patients. People should have asked how long those “after” results lasted; in the majority of cases, not long at all.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
This is true. I worked a carnival every Spring when it came to West Seattle. The amount of horseh*t we were expected to sell was mind boggling.
#20
You use too much dawn dish soap. That stuff is ridiculously concentrated.
NHL37 3 years ago
If you can use it to clean wildlife after an oil spill, one would think you shouldn’t need much for your dirty dish.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Years of reflexive training from using watered down dish soap...
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Robin Virga 3 years ago
If your pet gets fleas use Dawn, not flea shampoo! It works better, is non-toxic, and it actually smells good!
Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
We use this on tiny kittens and it always works a treat! Just make sure its the blue kind!
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otplus 3 years ago
I dont know how it works around the world, but here the ads clearly stated use only one drop, so i just did that, you know what it really works with a really small anount, not a drop but a really small amount. The con is on toothpaste, the ads shows a person using way too much.
Joe Brody 3 years ago
Hey. What they "tell" you to use and what's done to cause or influence you to use, are two different things. The phrase "Wash, Rinse, Repeat.", didn't just fall out of the air.. it came out of a multi million dollar ad campaign, back when a million meant something.
Load More Replies... Kady LaHaie 3 years ago
It works so well I use it to clean toilets, ovens and dogs.. But don't even try to buy me off brand dish soap. That s**t is all glycerine and coloring.
Wax0nWax0ff 3 years ago
Initially, I thought this was a skin-on salmon filet and was very confused about the soap
Mimi M 3 years ago (edited)
Get the fancy sprayer dish liquid and use up the bottle. Then fill it with mostly water and a bit of Ajax or Dawn liquid. Keep re-using the nice sprayer.
Zero 3 years ago
I do that with the foam pump. 2 parts water, 1 part dawn gets a good foam, of which only a tiny bit is needed.
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Micah 3 years ago
I needed to hear/read that. I use way too much dish soap, and Dawn is usually the brand I use.
Joe Brody 3 years ago
We all do. Even though we try not to. And every Marketing and/ or Advertisng MBA, learned that before his sophomore year in uni.
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In sofa/couch commercials they use smaller actors/models to make the sofas/couches look bigger.
Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago
/////////yes, I can also feel the wood sticking into my head through that poorly padded arm.
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Catherine Binder 3 years ago
The same is true for handbag and jewelry photos both in catalogs and online retailers.
Sarah Schumm 3 years ago
OMG. I can't believe I didn't know this! I went to modeling school in the 90's (to "improve my self esteem") and I was too short for runway, but they said I was perfect for catalog. 17 year old me would probably make furniture look huge!
Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
That also goes for hand models -- small hands make anything look larger like tacos and diamonds.
Employees of Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin have also mentioned the toxic culture of paranoia that exists in their offices. One employee told the Guardian he signed a contract granting the company “the right to monitor and record his social media activities, including his personal Facebook account, as well as emails, phone calls and internet use” and agreed to “random personal searches of his belongings including bags, briefcases and car while on company premises”.
He also mentioned that security teams would leave “mouse traps” to test employee loyalty. For example, a USB key containing data would be left somewhere waiting for an employee to turn it in. If the USB was plugged into a computer, it would immediately alert security and whoever plugged it in would be escorted out of the building. Employees even mentioned they would message one another in codes for fear of being monitored constantly.
#22
It is impossible to crawl through ventilation shafts. Professional duct worker here.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Of course it's impossible! Neither the ducts themselves nor the support structure are designed to hold the weight of a person...just air.
Chelsea Poole 3 years ago
I've also seen him speak reasonable words and behave sanely on camera, buuuut...
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New plot twist for the next Die Hard movie. McLain falls through duct work landing on bad guy killing him.
Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
Actually, that's mostly but not entirely true! It depends on a few factors. The size of the shafts, the size of the person, and how the shafts are supported. Very, very few ventilation shafts can support the weight of even a child. They aren't designed to because that is not their purpose. Looks great on TV, but real life, is well, real life...
#23
Funeral home worker for 5 years.
That casket has a huge markup and it is illegal for a funeral home to not let you source your own casket. In my area Amish make them and their prices run from reasonable to unreasonable and here's another tip - Walmart sells caskets. They are still slightly overpriced but usually better than what your director is probably selling.
Shop your casket options.
NHL37 3 years ago
As uncomfortable as it may be, plan ahead. Unfortunately the funeral industry takes advantage of people in a time of grief. There are always affordable options, they just don’t want to show you those. Instead they sell you all kinds of upgrades no one needs because only the best for dear mom and you don’t want to feel like a cheapskate. Also, in most cases you don’t need embalming either.
John L 3 years ago
And never bury anything valuable with them. It won't make it into the ground with them. My father took off all his jewelry when he went to hospice. I thought he was paranoid. I found out differently when my mother was buried and someone pointed out that she didn't have her wedding ring on. They mentioned it to the funeral home who then took it out of a bag (of other rings) and put it on her finger. Then apologized saying they forgot.
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Grace Noyes 3 years ago
I've been mulling the option of donating my body to science. I have MS, and if my brain can help advance the science behind the disease, then they can have it. If the rest of me goes to a body farm for the study of forensics, that would be a good thing too. I have to admit that the idea of my body decomposing in the heat for the study of forensics is a bit creepy to me, but why should I really care?
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Yeah that part of my body decomposing really messes me up, that's why I want to have every organ that's usable harvested and then just be cremated
Load More Replies... Adam Belaire 3 years ago
For those who want to know more, Look up Caitlin Doughty on youtube. She is a mortician and has a metric ton of great information and death positivity (as she calls it)
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
She has also written a few books and they're all amazing. 1000/10 would recommend every one of them.
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Wyn Williams 3 years ago
I would also add embalming is useless as the body is refrigerated anyway and buried fairly quickly and sealed caskets and vaults result not in preservation but in the body exploding in the casket yet another dirty secret
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
Embalming is also incredibly toxic to the environment. TBH I don't know why anywhere still does it.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
You should make your wishes known to your family and in your will. My dad prearranged to donate his body to our local medical school, then be cremated by them. All I had to do was make one phone call and the entire process cost nothing.
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
It's never too early to make arrangements or at least talk with family about your wishes. It's an uncomfortable topic but it's an important one. I've known my parents preferences for years and it made everything much easier when my father passed. I made arrangements for myself years ago for reasons I don't like to discuss publicly
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Kookamunga 3 years ago
I'm all for cremation, myself. Or a Viking Funeral, if at all possible. viking-fun...380b58.jpg 
Adam Belaire 3 years ago
Viking Funeral: Yes and No. You can't do it for a full body with a full-sized boat, but you can have your body cremated, ashes put on a small boat and light that boat on fire.
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#24
I keep reading that advertising is leading people to be more woke or multicultural. Companies don’t lead; they follow. They do lots of research and know where the future markets are. I worked for a very conservative global brand. Five years before gay marriage became legal, they told us it would happen, and we needed to start targeting the LBGTQ community.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Same with media. People say the "media doesn't want you to know". Media, especially media corporations, want $$, and they get $$ from advertising, and the more views and clicks they get, the more advertising $$ they get. So they report what people want to see.
Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
Advertising isn't leading people to anything but to spend money on stuff they don't really need and likely didn't even know existed before it was advertised.
Lewis Fisher Wells 3 years ago
no the company dosnt give a shiit about gay people they just want money
Load More Replies...If you’re interested in a documentary exposing company secrets, you’re in luck. There are plenty available online. Netflix’s collection includes White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Rotten (which exposes truths about the food industry), Take Your Pills, What the Health, and more. Other groundbreaking documentaries exposing corporations that can be found on other sites are Roger and Me (Michael Moore’s film following his attempt to track down the CEO of General Motors), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The True Cost (which examines fast fashion), and Crude (which details the 2006 class action lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador).
#25
The groundbreaking scientific results published by the mainstream media bear little resemblance to the results published in the actual scientific article.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Reporters are not scientists. They're trying to make a relatable summary out of a relatable summary of the abstract of a scientific article.
Everything is fascinating. 3 years ago
And sometimes they just want it to be as fantastical as possible, for the clicks
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Article: Eating Butter is Bad for Heart Health! Study: Used a cohort of 42 heart patients from a tiny region of Italy and no control patients. Moral: Always check the methodology of a study.
María Hermida 3 years ago
The big problem here is that non-scientists are, in general, painfully illiterate when dealing with even the simplest scientific concepts. There's no better way to show how bad schools are than analysing how difficult it is for most people to understand simple stuff, such as percentages, ratios and the like.
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otplus 3 years ago
Scientist manages to cultivate kidney cells in a small controlled specially designed environment, press: new kidneys for everyone. Few months later normal people: why no kidneys they must be held back in a complex conspiracy to target specifically me. So they do a lot of harm, making this whole wave of anti science people.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
If you really want to know what the science is you have to read the statistics in the articles.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
I wish reporters would like to the actual journal articles they are reporting from. Most of the time the reporter has limited knowledge of the subject and only an hour or so to "read" a multi-hundred page journal article and summarize it in simple language. A simple "go here to read the report this article is based on" would be really nice.
ThatOneWriter 3 years ago
As a former health science writer, there were several headline topics I had to throw back to my editor because, after reading the actual research, the headlines were too sensationalized compared to the actual results.
#26
Not sure if this is an industry practise, but a very popular online retail company in my country has no in-house web designers or any other IT staff beyond your generic networking techs. Any time their website or backend systems need work they simply advertise a permanent position and give the job of sorting out whatever they need done as a "trial" for the candidate. Once completed, they then inform them that the position is no longer available and send them on their way. They've been doing this for years.
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
Yeah, I've been on the receiving end of one of these scam positions. Never again.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
No matter how desperate I have been for a job I could never work for no pay. When I was in my 20s I took a job as one of those flower sellers that are set up in a parking lot. I was supposed to get paid the next day but was "let go" instead. Since it was under the table they probably thought they could get away with it. I went to the Labor Board. I got paid.
#27
Monday's chowder is the weekend's seafood leftovers.
Edit: To answer some questions, yes this is just one example of the overall theme in most restaurants: ZERO WASTE! Any veg trimmings, chicken trimmings, beef bones get boiled to stock. Left over entrées are usually tomorrow's open-faced lunch sammy special. Plastic containers are cut in half so everything is able to be scraped out. Second only to quality and consistency of food, zero waste is the credo to live by.
Matheus Oliveira 3 years ago
Fast food joints don't do it because they're international franchises, but many of our local supermarkets use their not-so-pretty-but-not-yet-expired vegetables to make pizzas and other things on their deli section. And they're actually pretty good!
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
To be fair, assuming good food hygiene practices where maintained, I can kinda cope with that. We do it at home. Why not in industry? I hate waste.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
As long as it wasn't served to someone else before me and it was still good to be used, I have no problem with this.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Don't we all do this at home, though? IDK why anyone would be surprised or put off by this.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Also: Good Eateries are quick to get a slow-selling dish into the chiller. Not frozen, but that temperature where food doesn't go off, but can be reused for a more "budget-conscious meal" the following day, particularly the "Slow Mondays". A good Sous or De Cusine will retire a meal as "sold out" for the day simply to ensure the entire batch doesn't sit and go to waste, but can be safely and tastily repurposed into something else the next day. Waste means money down the toilet, but if the discount is applied through to the patron everyone wins. 80% of a buffet is paid for by the first 30% of patrons.
Randy Sanders 3 years ago
My market near me saves "uglies". That's produce that doesn't look picture perfect. The sell it for 10cents on the dollar or sometimes just give it away. I love stews and soups, and stir fries so this really works for me, being on a fixed income.
DC 3 years ago
I boil stuff to stock, too. Whatever isn't nice enough to make it on the plate, but too good for the bin, goes in the stock. A lot better than instant, too!
otplus 3 years ago
I agree, you make stock from the leftovers, and from those leftover's you can feed your pet if no bones are on there.
Load More Replies... Randy Sanders 3 years ago
We do this at home. If a big meal is cooked on a particular day, we will eat some sort of variation of that meal until gone, maybe adding things like rice or more veggies. 66 years old, and we remember hard times when we were young.
It’s hard to say if transparency between businesses and consumers will continue increasing over time, but one thing that’s certain is our never-ending curiosity about what we don’t know. Customers deserve to understand what they’re supporting though, so it’s great for people to have platforms like Reddit to share these insider secrets. Don’t forget to upvote the secrets you found most shocking, and let us know in the comments if you have any industry secrets you can share with your fellow pandas!
#28
How f**king often bodily fluids get on food, and I mean intentionally. Wash your damn produce.
Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
I wash everything even iceburg lettuce. Friend of mine was over and he was baffled that I was washing the lettuce. He stood by the sink mystified that I was washing water with water and didn't understand the point of washing everything that had touched it from the moment it sprouted in from the ground.
Dadolwch 3 years ago
And don't assume frozen veggies are any cleaner. I once found the tag from a pair of Hanes underwear in a bag of frozen spinach. (Unfortunately I found it IN MY MOUTH.)
jon gilbertson 3 years ago
crops are often grown in manure rich soil, and field workers relieve themselves wherever they are standing. leafy greens are usually the worst culprits for E. coli.
KDav 3 years ago
Ok, when you say "bodily fluids," I instantly think semen or butt juice. I hope they just mean saliva or urine because my brain can handle that. The other makes me never want to eat fresh foods again.
A Jones 3 years ago
If it's not packaged, people touch with their hands. Not every one washes their hands. Someone with clammy sweaty hands might have touched your produce. Thing is you'll never truly know unless you can speak to vegetables.
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Rinsing your produce with water or "washing" isn't a guaranteed practice. Think about it, if you urinated on your hand and rinsed with water, you still have traces on urine on your hand as well as most of the bacteria and contaminants that were on before you "washed".
madbakes 3 years ago
I use a fruit and veggie wash and/or distilled vinegar
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Lori E 3 years ago
The washing mushrooms myth! So glad I didn't fall for that. That was probably the easiest "have to wash" decision for me washing produce. And then I heard, simply wipe with paper towel. No way! I'll take a little soggy mushroom any day! And they never were really soggy anyways!
#29
I work in a shipping company. I'm a merchant marine engineer working on mega container ships. Lot of unethical shipping companies. They dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste, contaminated water, and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore because it's cheaper to do that than land the waste to correct shore reception facilities. There are only a few handful of players (I can count them on my fingertips) today who are actually executing business trades, while still keeping the carbon footprint and environment as one of their core policies.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
I'd love to know the names of those companies so we can catch them being good.
M. A. McKnight 🇺🇦 3 years ago
A life-long sailing friend of mine told me that almost all the ocean freighters switch over to bunker fuel once they enter international waters. Bunker fuel is made from the dregs of the oil refining process...contains a lot of sulfur. Very environmentally harmful.
Bobby 3 years ago
US navy will discharge oily waste overboard if 25 miles from shore and radioactive waste at 50 or 75 can't remember which(though we really do only do that if we have no other choice. In 6 years I only had to do that once and it was just enough to get the over full warning on the tank to clear)
#30
Printer ink cartridges are meant to signal that they're empty after a certain number of pages, even if they still have some ink left.
GODDAMMIT ALL THAT INK I WASTED
A B C 3 years ago
And for both inkjet and laser printers, ask the internet for tips on how to reset the counter. Some need a specific key combination to be pressed, mine for example needs another toner cartridge (cause it reads the S/N and notices if you just take it out and put the same one in again), but then "forgets" the old one, so I keep an empty one at hand to swap them for a minute. Boom, another 5000 or so pages.
Load More Replies... Drea Benoit 3 years ago
There’s a great company in the US called Valuetoner. They refill used name brand cartridges and sell for a fraction of the cost. And they provide a paid eco-friendly envelope to send back your empty cartridges for reuse.
Kristin M. 3 years ago
A small one but at the grocery store where I worked the secret ingredient in our chicken salad was an entire bottle of honey for about 6-8 cups worth of chicken salad. One customer asked me what was in it once during a closing shift so I told her. She disagreed about the honey saying she’s been buying it for years there and there has never been honey in it. The chicken salad was made earlier that day according to our deli’s recipe we HAVE TO use. She came in the next day and complained about there being honey in chicken salad. My boss got beyond pissed at me that I revealed the “secret ingredient” customers aren’t supposed to know about. I said honey, especially that much, is the last thing one would think should/would be in chicken salad and the ingredients in the deli salads weren’t displayed to customers. Hypothetically, a diabetic, one who isn’t familiar with the chain I worked at, orders the chicken salad and has a big sugar spike. They should know. Manager didn’t care.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Why? Those print heads move over a piece of paper whether they print a dot or an entire page of a single color. There is a considerable level of wear-and tear to the microscopic print heads, even if not dispensing ink. The durability of print heads have greatly improved and brands like Canon have now ensured that cartridges run dry, WHEN THEY ARE EMPTY. They even allow the non-colour printing should you be missing ink in a cartridge. no before. Also, given the demise of print, ink cartridges are actually now reasonably economical for home printing, given you use your brains on the over-use of colour.
Maggie Fulton 3 years ago
This explains the HP printer at work that always runs out of color ink even though we almost never print color copy on that machine. I always suspected as much.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Added bonus attraction: in the U.S., the courts have ruled that the printer/cartridge manufacturers may NOT do anything to prevent you from reloading your cartridges with bulk ink or toner. Most they can do is deny warranty or responsibility for the results if it gets botched. Serious savings, easy to do, and well worth it. Been doing it for *years*.
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Just shake the cartridge to get more out of it. Shake it like a Polaroid picture.
#31
Relative of mine was a mystery shopper and did a lot of car garages. He would get sent in with a car and had to get it serviced and reported on how well it was completed/if they found all the faults/ if the customer service was up to scratch etc. The results were usually 6/10, until suddenly every garage was a 10/10 continuously. He investigated as it was a bit suspicious and found "MYS" (Mystery Shopper) written on the bottom of the car he was given. One of the garages sussed him out and wrote it there for future garages to find, and make sure they have it the best possible service.
Tl;DR: Write "MYS" (Mystery Shopper) on the bottom of your car when you get it serviced to ensure it gets the best service possible
Edit: This generally refers to large car garages such as Skoda & Seat who work on their own model cars for their customers. Going to your local mechanic round the corner, he isn't going to expect a mystery shopper anytime soon. It's more the corporate garages who hire MYSers
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
So the lesson here seems to be "find a local mechanic and avoid corporate shops." Mine is within walking distance of my house, which is convenient. They always call to tell me what they found and how much it'll cost. And I always get my car back the same day.
Bobby 3 years ago
Shopper hired by the company to basically spy on a particular location. Send someone to a hotel to make sure all hospitality stuff associated with the brand is adhered to. Or call the cable company to set up new service and submit a report on if all the requisite offers were pitched, etc
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Pheebs 3 years ago
Lol. Used to work for a chain bookstore that got mystery shopped - by phone or in person - like once a year. Managed to get one on my first day working there. Did the best I could, but finally had to admit it was my first day and I couldn’t answer all their questions. It was a fellow employee who figured out it was a mys. They were at least nice about it. I’ve seen some mys go in and purposely act like an a$$.
#32
A lot of animal donations get binned because it can’t be used. I would say around 10% is usable. For example, open packets of dried food, old toys, bedding, and towels. Most of the time, it’s checked and then binned immediately. There’s a risk of contamination with open food. We have no way of knowing if it’s been tampered with or not. With bedding, it’s often because it’s not clean. People bring items in that have been sitting around in bags since the dawn of time, and the smell hits us as soon as the bag is opened. It should be talked about because often people have no idea about these things.
Kiss Army 3 years ago
Our shelter has a "wanted" list and a donation bin at the local pet store. Whenever I go to buy for my pets, I check their list and pick up some things in for the shelter as well. Then I just drop them in the bin on the way out the door. It is so much easier than having to arrange things with the shelter during their open hours and around my working hours.
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iseefractals 3 years ago
It's nice to donate things, if you take the time to make sure they're clean/new. Otherwise, animal shelters need money, because they know what they need better than you, or they simply know they are going to need something in the future that they won't be able to afford. In romania, when you pay your taxes you can earmark 2% of your payment to a variety of charities, we always opt for the animals. My wife and i both independently donate money to our local animal shelter and pretend that we don't know the other one is doing it, despite the fact that i already spend a sizable amount of time and money taking care of the depressing number of strays on our block. We also run campaigns in our store a couple times a year raising money for the animal shelter, of which we keep the cost of materials and donate the remaining 95% because anytime we ask any shelter or animal clinic what we can do to help, they always say the same thing " we need more money"
#33
Call center here.
Just because you hear music when I put you on hold, doesn't mean I do.
I can hear every profanity you utter.
BG 3 years ago
I worked in insurance and we would put people on hold when we suspected fraud and listened to them scheming with other people in the room.
iseefractals 3 years ago
Good. What the hell do you, or your company expect when it's become commonplace to implement a labyrinth automated system that takes 10 minutes to cycle through when you already know you need to talk to a person, only to be disconnected before said person ever gets on the line. Meaning you call back and go through it again, usually more than once, and once you do get that human being on the phone they stick to a script, try to upsell you, ignore all mention of wanting to decrease the amount of money you're being handed, or simply pass you around from supervisor, to manager, to service department, to billing, to tech department, to appointments round and round and round simply because your company provided something that isn't living up to its promises and none of you want to deal with it. Every interaction with a call center has been horribly stressful and unhelpful...so if you're hearing a lot of vulgarities consider the problem just might be you.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
This is called a "Side Channel" , Usually for Auditor investigations. Good companies Audit their own staff for call quality after the transaction and often face penalties for poor delivery. NEVER lose your temper on the line with the agent: You lose a lot of credibility if it ever reaches a legal level. An uncooperative client is a hammer-blow to that client, worse so than a poor experience with the agent. Stay calm, remain concise and keep it clear and simple. Be as direct and polite as your voice can muster. This weaponizes your conversation in your favor. For REAL companies, remember there's a human being on the other side of the line, they have recourse as well. Don't be the Douche.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
Good. And here's a tip in return: Sometimes the music doesn't connect or is very soft. Then I can hear you chit-chatting to your neighbor about weekend plans while you make me wait. Hope you hear every swear we utter.
#34
I work in payroll. The number of payroll reports I see where people are conned out of their overtime is saddening.
Bobby 3 years ago
I had a boss once who thought because he paid biweekly he only had to pay OT if the pay period exceeded 80 hrs. Ex. I worked 75 hrs in a post period that would be straight pay even if week one was 45 hrs and week two was 30. Highlighted the part of the "all employees must know" poster that is required by law that said OT is determined weekly and not by pay period and walked him over to it. No wonder he didn't keep me on when the business moved to a new building
Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
Company I work for had a bad habit of shaving a few minutes of everyone time cards. It wasn't much for each employee but over a hundred or so people a day it padded the numbers for the building. 1 guy got caught and fired then rehired 6 months later.
Susan 3 years ago
Well, as a manager I've seen staff clock in then take 20 minutes or so to put their stuff away, get coffee. Years ago worked with a girl who would sit in a chair next to the time clock until it was 8 minutes after she was supposed to be off because the company rounded up to the quarter hour.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
How much of your time as a manger was spent 'not doing actual work'? A typical day for me consists of 4-6 hours worth of actual work spread out over the course of an 8-hour day because I am obligated to be here for 8 hours. Also, we have quarter-hour rounding too, but it goes both ways.
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#35
I don't know if it's a dirty secret as much as common sense when you think about it, but having worked in a warehouse that stores beer cans, I'd say that you should wash the top of any can you drink from, as it may have been sat on climbed on, touched by filthy hands and had mice run across it, and if nothing else was probably covered in layers of dust.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
Mom taught me that when I was a kid. She expected that we would ingest a reasonable amount of dirt when we were little, but the possible germs on a can wasn't ok.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
I had a friend growing up that their mom would wipe the tops off with a baby wipe. I specifically remember the taste of baby wipe ruining the taste of my soda! Isn't there also a health concern as well with the soda dispensers in fast food restaurants?
Darla Taylor 3 years ago
I use dish soap and a brush to do this, matter of fact I currently have a 6 pack of pop air drying on the counter now
Dash Blue 3 years ago
I have known that the top of beverage cans are probably dirty for many years. I bet that someone has probably peed on a load of cans in a warehouse. Just for fun. Still, I do not clean unless the top of a can is noticeably dirty. Thanks for the reminder. I think I will start cleaning those cans today.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This is also why you should rinse and pick through your rice before cooking it. Those brown bits aren't dirt; they're rat poop (and sometimes tiny rocks). And if there are rat poops, then they've also peed on your rice.
#36
Every programmer in the world occasionally writes a very bad code that sticks with the app/program forever.
oktopus 3 years ago
Very true - I am directly responsible for a small, obscure server application which gets used in a lot of places which, let's put it this way, was chronically under-resourced during its development. And while the organisation I work for is very good at letting me fix the bugs when I hear about them, the places which use it are often mind-numbingly awful about actually updating the software. And by "places" we're quite often talking about financial institutions. Which you have probably heard of.
Neill Powell 3 years ago (edited)
"Gandalf code": We don't know why it is here, but if we try and remove it, things break. Many dev's especially if they feels they're being screwed, or have a bone to pick add this code to retain some control over the code. IP in the code, especially those involving algorithms created by the DEV's contain this code.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
True enough, though the definition of "bad code" varies with the application. If it is poorly structured or overly complicated, but still results in the correct output, maybe it isn't *that* bad to begin with. Buggy code is worse, and all apps/modules/programs have bugs.
#37
The fresh chocolate chip cookie scent that can be smelled outside of the Magic Kingdom bakery is artificial. It's piped out there to draw you into the bakery.
NHL37 3 years ago
Grocery stores have been known to do this too, they know that if you feel hungry while shopping you will put more in your cart. This is when you get home a realize you bought fruit roll ups, a bag of chips and some donuts as your ingredients for dinner.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
grocery stores also have different lamp colors. spx-35 over the meat to bring out the red. sp-30 over the greens. always move your package of meat out into the general store lighting to view it before purchase. works for me.
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#38
Nurse- Don't lie to us or the doctor! We're not out to get you, make you feel bad, get you in trouble, etc. The answers you give us will directly impact the care we give you and oftentimes, if the information we're given is wrong, it can affect your outcomes. Yes, herbal meds need to be mentioned, yes, you should tell us exactly what happened (even if it's embarrassing). Also, the gauge of your needle likely has a lot less to do with how much I like you and a lot more to do with the particulars of why you're getting a needle inserted into you in the first place. Edit: Just for reference, most of my experience has been in a hospital setting. I'm not advocating lying in an office setting by any means, but you are also under no obligation to fill your doctors in on every illegal substance you've ever imbibed either, unless there's a possibility it's contributing to your current issues.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
It’s ironic we shouldn’t lie to the worst liars on the planet.
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Monica Michelle 3 years ago
Who are these caring humane nurses and doctors and where can I find them? Screams in chronic illness and disabled
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
If they ask you questions that make you uncomfortable you can always decline to answer. I have to do this with my gynecologist every year. Sexual trauma. The question they ask will not effect my healthcare and I wish they would quit asking. Ive gone to the same place for years too.
Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
Being an a*****e does affect the care you receive. There are things that can be done easier and still 100%acceptable that make for a significantly less comfortable patient.
#39
Professional bbq competitor here: All those world famous, secret-recipe bbq rubs and sauces are 99% the same, and you can make bucket fulls of them yourself for 1/10th the money and never notice the difference.
So when a bbq person brags about how their rub is a family secret, it's a wheelbarrow full of brown sugar, salt, paprika, chili powder, cumin, and garlic powder, and then a teaspoon here and there of something like cayenne or long peppercorns or something else you probably couldn't identify in a test if your life depended on it.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
https://www.barbecuenews.com/barbecue-events-calendar/ You're welcome.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 3 years ago
It's not just about the parts that make up the whole, it's the ratio of those parts within the whole. I've made a lot of different rubs and sauces (just for funsies) Garlic, brown sugar, mustard powder, ground Sichuan pepper, white pepper, old bay, onion powder, smoked salt, oregano, thyme and dried carolina reaper (flesh not seeds) is currently my favorite, doesn't taste like any of the heavily marketed rubs (which all essentially taste like salty brown sugar)
donna peluda 3 years ago
I sometimes throw a small spoon of vanilla on my pork ribs rub. Vanilla is very aromatic but no one can pin point what it is. I won't tell you what else goes in ;-)
#40
In healthcare, the average patient or family member would be terrified to know what a sh**show everything is behind the scenes. You think it's bad the doctors are always late? In the past, I had to drive across town with medical supplies because an operation is in progress, patient sedated and opened on the table, and they realize there is something they need and forgot to check for before cutting open a human being. This is one of the higher-ranked organizations in the world.
John L 3 years ago
Always remember, EVERY profession has it's exceptional people and its screw ups....Perhaps the only exception is Astronaut.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
Why would astronauts be an exception? Even if the range starts at "exceptional" for them, the ones that barely made it in are the relative "screw ups" of the astronaut world.
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Katie Fink 3 years ago
Can confirm this has happened, where supplies were driven from another hospital. But not because someone forgot to check if we had the tool. All pans are supposed to be open and checked and tools counted before the patient is 'put under'. If it's a unique surgery that is only done sporadically (like once every 3 months) a hospital may only own one set of tools for that procedure. (Surgical tools are organized into 'sets' like an hip replacement has six 30lb box sets of sterile tools for the one surgery and each box is sterilizes separately with the tools for steps 1-3 in one box, 4+5 in another and so on) If a specialty item is dropped or damaged during the surgery and can't be sterilized or an alternative used, it can be quicker to drive the new, already sterilized supplies over from the nearest sister hospital. The choice is close the patient back up half done (not really a choice) or maintain the patients status while someone breaks speed laws driving
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I can't imagine what would have happened if my eye surgeon dropped the blade he was using, because he had to design it himself as there were none that did the specific job!
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I work in lingerie and ladies, there's a 70% chance you're wearing the wrong bra size if you haven't been measured in the last 3-6 months. With any weight gain or lose your breast are the first thing to fluctuate in size. Also, don't argue after a bra fitting saying "I am NOT that size!" Yes, you are. I do this for a living. Please trust that I know how to do my job.
Kookamunga 3 years ago
So, I recently went to an actual bra shop/boutique. It was a game-changer to get an exact fit and the lady knew just by looking at me what would work for my girls. I'm from US, but my bras are from Germany! They cost a bit more, but I cannot believe that I waited this long for this. No more tugging, pulling.....it's incredible.
iseefractals 3 years ago
I really wish my wife would accept that reality. She's shy when it comes to any of the more invasive aspects of being a woman so she never has been fitted for anything. She also hates spending money on stuff like that. She rarely wears a bra at home, but any time she's forced into strapping one one it's clearly far to small, and the problem has been more pronounced after the weight we both put on during the pandemic. She went from 85lbs and a b cup when i met her 10 years ago, to 120 and probably a D cup. I actually figured out how to do the measurement to do it for her, so while she has a better baseline...she still refuses to invest in something that's actually good because it costs to much and is left wearing the cheap c**p that isn't sized how it claims to be.
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Bobby 3 years ago
My wife will not spend money on herself so I paid for her to get 3 bras at a lane Bryant(actually a gift card but it made her spend it there) . Not sure if they are really quality or not but I had heard good things about them and they gave her a professional fitting. Wasn't the cheapest but she was happy. her words were I didn't know a sexy bra could be so comfortable, and the comfy one I can hardly feel
Ani Hearth 3 years ago
That may be true, but bras are expensive and I cannot afford to buy news ones so often.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago (edited)
I never wear actual bras. I honestly don't know my size. Sports bras and bralets only for years.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Even when measured, especially if in cheaper stores, the measured size doesn't always match with the size of each bra. You should always try on in store. Plus, if you find a bra that fits, you are less likely to have to 'gotta take it off as soon as I get home' feel.
#42
99.9% of the guys/girls that you see in ads selling workout supplements don't actually take that c**p and are high dosing anabolic steroids.
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
That and doctors in commercials, they should not be allowed to use actors, only real professionals with their real names.
Bobby 3 years ago
At least for medical stuff. If sony wants to use a dr as a character in a commercial for a ps5 I don't care if they're an actor
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The Deez 3 years ago
One of the reasons that I have used the BeachBody company for workouts is because I knew one of the men in their infomercial! (He was our daughter's orthodontist!) He actually ended up being IN a couple of the P90X workout videos as well. (I never took part in the MLM aspect of the company, though, just bought the work out videos.)
#43
Grocery store bakeries do not bake the cakes they decorate. That stuff comes in frozen. I can't bake you a carrot cake. *
On top of that most of the baking in grocery store bakeries is just pulling frozen pastries or muffins or whatever out of a box and panning it up, then putting it in the proofer /oven. We don't really make things anymore.
*edited for politeness
AngryRobotsInc 3 years ago
Yeah, working as a baker in Kroger, the closest I actually got to...making something instead of just panning up and topping baked stuff was the pepperoni rolls. Those use the defrosted dough for the Italian bread, cut into pieces, flattened out, and then rolled up with pepperoni, optional cheese.
Enothor 3 years ago
As someone who lives in WV, I imagine you do as well since Kroger and pepperoni rolls don’t exist in tandem in most places
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Emily Ashley 3 years ago
The bread comes in par-baked as well. We just pull it from the freezer at night and warm it in the oven in the morning.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Does it matter, they obviously get bought, so people must like them. Nothing wrong with freezing and defrosting baked goods.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Most Large (Hypermarkets) grocery stores in my country have fully transparent Confectionery/baking areas. You see the cookies coming out, you see the dough being made, you watch the toppers do their work. How does this work in a "s**t-hole" 3rd world country, but not in the modern, western world? In fact, smaller chains pride themselves in being owner-run and all have a fully functioning bakeries and butcheries built-in to the shops, all with their own specialties.
Kim Bush 3 years ago
Worked as a baker at Bi-Lo over 15 years ago. The parbaked breads (over a dozen specific varieties) were pulled from the freezer the night before and placed in a retarder, prepped the next morning (added sesame/poppy seeds, etc.) placed in the proofer to let them rise, then baked, cooled and packaged. It was a full day's work.
#44
That if everyone being charged with a crime insisted on it going to trial, no plea bargaining, the system would crash.
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
I think that's a very American thing because the penitentiary system is profit making they have a vested interest in long sentences. You're kinda emotionally blackmailed to chose between an horrendous option and a f**king awful, TRULY horrendous option. So you take the lessor of the two horrendous options and forgo a jury based trial, and still end up with a perversely poor outcome, but it's saved the state money.
Bobby 3 years ago
Then, at least on the federal level, you're intimidated by 2 facts. If you don't take the plea they say you didn't accept responsibility and that increases the sentence, and of the cases that actually go to trial over 95% result in conviction
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Nearly every caller you hear on top 40 radio is either an intern or someone else close to the studio, everything is fake. Especially that war of the roses s**t.
jon gilbertson 3 years ago
love that show! and a way with words . public radio is amazing
Load More Replies... Pink Milk 3 years ago (edited)
To the people commenting that they've been on or won something or whatever.. They're not taking about that. They're talking about stuff like the skits or prank phone calls.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
remember the woman that wanted them to move the 'deer crossing' signs 'cause deer were getting hit by cars there? i think that was fake - still funy though.
Load More Replies... Enna S 3 years ago
"War of the Roses" is a popular radio skit. It's basically an attempt to determine if your partner is cheating on you. It's usually a woman calling into the radio station to have them check up on her boyfriend that she suspects of cheating. The radio host calls the boyfriend and pretends to be calling from his phone company. They tell him that he has won a dozen long-stem roses with no strings attached. Then they ask him for an address of who he'd like them sent to and what to put on the accompanying card. If he's cheating, he'll usually end up sending them to his side piece with a note like, "To my Shannon-pooh. Thanks for the wild time last night. Thinking of that booty all day. Love, Mikey." Then the original call jumps on the line and drama ensues. It's entertaining enough -- just so fake, fake, fake, fake, fake.
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Cat Palmer 3 years ago
Doubtless the case in some countries but in the UK radio stations can get fined massive amounts for doing this, particularly where prizes are involved.
Brian Michael 3 years ago
This doesn't add up, my little brother used to have 3 burner phones with the radio stations on speed dial and he has one so many free concert tickets, swag, and only once money. This was his hobby in high schools and college. I honestly don't think he bought a ticket to a main show for years.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
There was a thing here (Australia) a while ago where a Melbourne station would chat to a competition winner, but the Sydney sister station would chat to the same winner with the same phone call, just the DJ would be dubbed in. Sneaky sods.
CelticElff 3 years ago
In 1996 radio stations were holding a contest where you would win a trip to the Grammys in NYC. I was a young airman in the USAF at the time, and won from my local station, so NO, not all of these are fake! (I had a friggin BLAST)
#46
Google is still there.
If you type something into Google, and then you click a link provided to you by Google, you're not leaving Google. You're still in, they're still tracking you- they're registering how long you're on the site, where you go on the site, if you're buying anything *(and all the details of what and how)*, etc.
They provide this information to their customers if it benefits Google in their business talks.
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You can probably use 50% less shampoo and toothpaste than you use. Your hair doesn't need to be a palace of bubbles, and you're not supposed to have a glacier sliding off you're tongue when you're done.
howdylee 3 years ago
well the joke's on them because i can leave a tab open for months... track that timing suckers! :D
oktopus 3 years ago
Nah, they can register activity in the tab, if there's no activity e.g. mouse movement generating Javascript events etc., it's easy enough to determine it's inactive. Try putting Youtube on autoplay in the background, after a while it will pause and ask you to confirm you're still watching.
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Nimues Child 3 years ago
I highly recommend using a non-tracking browser. I was a big Google fan until they clearly abandoned their "Do no evil" mantra. I went looking for a new browser immediately.
#47
Customer service text chat can see what you're typing in the box before you hit send.
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
I really did not need to know that whoever I'm talking to can see me repeatedly rewriting every response in case I accidentally offend or confuse them. (Anxiety sucks.)
IDK_Something 3 years ago
I feel your pain! They can see what we type so they are able to respond/resolve issues faster. I know it probably won't help the anxiety in initiating contact, but just a bit of info.
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
That's creepy. In fairness, I'm only ever polite but had no idea. Me thinks I might have to have some fun next time....
Haunting Spirit 3 years ago
It's true. Have worked at a couple of companies where we used chat software that showed the message before sending.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Actually, this is considered an Illegal practice and has been exposed now.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
I'd guess in most cases (assuming you aren't talking to a bot) they are managing several chats at once. The fact that it can take 2-3 minutes for them to respond "yes" sort of clues me in on that one.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
They're already searching for the appropriate "canned" response to copy and paste before you press Enter
#48
The popcorn bag is worth probably about 10x the cost of the entire vat of popcorn.
J-Words 3 years ago
Can confirm. When you get movie theater popcorn, you're essentially just paying for the container. I worked at a movie theater and management didn't care how much popcorn we were popping, but those buckets and bags were meticulously counted and tracked because they were actually worth money lol
Sean Stimson 3 years ago (edited)
The buckets and cups were counted for inventory purposes when I worked at a movie theater as a teenager. Since sales tax was included in the price and every price was rounded to 25 cents it was really easy to not ring up an order and pocket the money. So at the end of the shift the manager counted the containers to make sure the number missing matched what was sold. Containers that had to be thrown away for some reason were put in a special bin so they could be counted too. The count was always short but only by a few containers so they never did anything about, just accepted that if you hire teenagers they are probably gonna steal from you 😆
Load More Replies... Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
I thought everybody knew this! Same is true for buying soda at a fast food place.
Bobby 3 years ago
I know movie theaters can charge less than they do for everything. The big theater near me charges like$15 a ticket. Then there is the Phoenix theater the next town over. They charge $5 for matinee and$9 for evenings. Snacks are about the same, but a little cheaper, and popcorn and drinks have free refills. Also the seats there are heated and recline. The arm rests can go up too so you can snuggle with your date. Didn't plan on writing an testimony for the company but I really like them
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Popcorn seeds (in my country) cost about $0.05c per POUND. From about 1930-1985 Concessions were an add-on to get you into the cinema, sold at perhaps 2% more than a supermarket price. They were there to enhance the experience by rattling the change out of your pocket, not be a rip-off industry on it's own. from the 90's it became an independent industry as a revenue stream for the cinema. Cinema's currently run on very slim margins, so much in fact the 2 major cinema companies in our country had to go into financial rescue during lock-down.
#49
Customer service also have mute buttons, and they use it to laugh at you and/or call you names while you're busy complaining.
Bobby 3 years ago
Having worked in a call center it isn't the complaint so much as the person has already given enough detail that you know the problem, already have a potential solution in mind, but they won't stop talking long enough for you to present that
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Remember that the person taking your call is not responsible for the thing you're complaining about. Treat them well and they'll help you.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
No, sometimes they won't, no matter how polite you are.
Load More Replies... A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
Exactly what I was thinking! We get some crazy stuff at the Vets office but I never make fun of the client. They come here for their pets not to be made fun of by staff.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 3 years ago
So you're saying that not only are you bad at your job, but also a vile person deserving of all the vitriol thrown in your direction? Good to know, we'll keep it coming.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
Veterinary reception here. I am afraid to say anything regarding the client while still on the phone with them. I swear that will be the one time the hold button doesn't do its job. Sometime sit is better to play it safe. Pet owners can be extreme on their own! No need to escalate it!
#50
I work at Kohls, we raise prices on items with white tickets 3 weeks before a sale.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
No kidding. FYI, everyone I know who shops at Kohl's knows that you should NEVER buy anything there that isn't marked as "on sale." A lot of customers really aren't as stupid as retailers think.
#51
911 operator here. Most of our technology is dangerously outdated. We got our current radio system in 1997. And it's not just our center, any 911 center you go to will have software and equipment that should have been replaced years ago. Check out this map of text-to-911 coverage. It's scary. Only about 80% of our cell phone calls provide a usable location, and even that can be off by hundreds of feet. Most states add a 911 service fee of about $1 onto your monthly phone bill. That money is supposed to go to the 911 center exclusively, and provide funding for equipment and software upgrades. But there have been widespread cases of those funds being diverted elsewhere. We don't get much from tax revenue, either. We're a footnote on the budget, and our technology reflects that. Bonus note: If you call 911 for a medical call, it might seem like a game of 20 questions. Rest assured that help is almost always dispatched as soon as we have the address, any other questions we ask are to determine a priority and update the units en route.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Your radios aren't outdated just because they are from 1997. Narrowband FM in the 150-157MHz (or 460-ish MHz) has been the standard communications means for fire/police/ems dispatch since the 1950s, and will remain standard for decades to come. The equipment hasn't changed.
Wyn Williams 3 years ago
Yes they are outdated, the range,power and reliability are all outdated it isn't about the frequency
Load More Replies... Kim Bush 3 years ago
My husband helped map out our county for the 911 system... Over 30 years ago. And it has not been updated since. There are roads in my area that are not named and lead to deep hollers (hollows for you city folk lol) that are only fit for rattlesnakes. When a dispatcher asks you if there are any landmarks to help emergency personnel find you quicker, be specific!
Yugan Talovich 3 years ago
The government has money to buy police tanks but not to provide 911 with better equipment. Priorities.
#52
When a movie trailer has shots that turn out to be "missing" from the actual movie, that's not because scenes were cut. Those shots never existed in the movie. The trailer didn't test as well as they wanted, so the studio inserted scenes specifically made for the trailer during "additional photography."
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Then there are the trailers who contain the only good parts of a movie. So disappointing when that happens.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
Yes, I find that happens ever more frequently. Now I always wait until the movie is out on DVD.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Trailers nowadays seem to either (1) give away the plot; or (2) be so obscure that you can't figure out what the movie is about.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
So that explains it. I believe that's properly called false advertising.
Laurence Thomas 3 years ago
I actually don't mind that. I'd rather see a trailer to get a gist of the movie than have a summary that spoils all the major events before it's even out.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
Is this what happened with Orange County? Cuz that movie didn't have the trailer scenes and turned out that was all that was funny
#53
Nothing Bundt Cakes is not made with natural ingredients or fresh everyday. They can be kept frozen for a few weeks and our eggs come out of a giant bag, premixed. You do not even want to know how much red 40 dye goes into that damn red velvet cake.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
All red velvet cake contains food coloring. Otherwise, it would be brown velvet cake.
Skitty 3 years ago
No! “Real” red velvet does *not* have dye! The red color is caused by cocoa powder reacting with buttermilk. Most cocoa today is processed ‘Dutch’ cocoa which doesn’t react therefore needs added coloring. The special frosting is called ermine. It’s cooked flour, milk, and sugar.
KDav 3 years ago
Ok, but in all honesty, red velvet cake HAS a lot of red food coloring in it. Like 3-4 bottles. And people need to stop with the cream cheese frosting! That's not the right frosting. It's supposed to be some kind of cooked frosting (can't remember the name of it) that has flour and sugar and you heat it in a pan on the stovetop. I think people switched to cream cheese because they'd rather have something easy than take the time to get it right. Sorry; sometimes things really heat up in the frosting fandom.
Darla Taylor 3 years ago
Fortunately for me I don’t eat or like chocolate cake, always too dry.
#54
I attended a songwriting workshop at berklee school of music, and Anna Wise (Grammy winning songwriter, Kendrick Lamar collaborator) told the audience during a presentation that whenever someone "magically" blows up on soundcloud or YouTube, that it's not authentic. A label will sign the artist in secret, and then suddenly boost their viewership tremendously to make it look like the independent artist did it on their own.
Matt Upchuck 3 years ago
Yep. Totally true. The organic small town artist "discovered" on SoundCloud or (back in the day) My Space was a massive PR con-trick.
donna peluda 3 years ago
Before it was the radios stations playing tracks till they got in you brain and to number one. Before the top 10 rankings where based on wholesale record shops so the companies would advance the records to the retail shops to bump them up the charts artificially. I had a friend that had a radio show on a station on the cost, about 250.000 listener and he could on play 2 tracks of his choice the rest was "artistic management" who decided. He left because he hated not being able to play what he liked.
#55
Screenwriter here. If you're established and well connected, it's very easy to coast and be a TV writer for YEARS and do very little actual writing. Most of TV writing is just talking in a room with other writers spitballing. This is why there's so many old, unfunny dudes still 'writing' on TV shows. They're hired by their friends, and in TV, a lot writers don't actually do much 'pen-to-paper' writing. Plus, everything gets rewritten to death.
Stephanie Wittenberg 3 years ago
This is why I am down to watching 1.5 to 2.0 hours of TV a week. And for the oddly curious out there, that's "The Good Doctor," "Young Sheldon," and maybe the odd sitcom rerun.
iseefractals 3 years ago
When i'm really bored, i'll catch up on The blacklist. House was the last of the network shows i watched every week, shameless was required viewing for 11 years...but now everything is pretty much streaming services. Haven't actually watched anything on TV since 2012
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#56
There is no minimum rest required for aircraft maintenance. My record is 46 hours on the clock for an engine change. Could have stretched it out, but went home to shower and sleep instead of sleeping in the shop/plane/truck.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
There IS HOWEVER a maximum hour count for aircraft engines for in-flight time before inspection/service. So there's at least that.
#57
People die in hotel rooms all the time, and unless it’s public record, they’re going to clean and resell the room. That day, if possible. So better check the closet and under the bed.
Francisco Manuel Teruel Gutiérrez 3 years ago
Of course they are going to clean and resell the room. What should they do? What do you expect to find in the closet and under the bed? Weapons? Poison? Should they burn down the hotel and build a new one? And what about hospitals?
Martina Moreau 3 years ago
suicides and drug overdoses are common causes of death in hotel rooms. Former hotel manager.
Yugan Talovich 3 years ago
People in Asia say that many Japanese hotel rooms have had people commit suicide in them.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
"Lyle Stevik" comes to mind. There is also "Bobby Copeland", and "Becca".
#58
When you climb into a helicopter and the rotors are turning, you can't reach your arm up high enough to lose a hand....but we don't want anyone trying to test it or prove us wrong.
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I mean... people have lost limbs to rotors... so.... maybe not every helicopter, but some present danger!
Chich 3 years ago
Not all helicopters are the same and anyway, you can get whacked walking away from/to it. The rotors dip quite a bit.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
yeah, i've seen videos of this happening. This person isn't being specific enough, and for this kinda information, could result in something dangerous
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Scott Baysinger 3 years ago
Okay, in general, it is the tail rotor on smaller helos, like that AS-350 in the pic, that is the greatest hazard. They can cut quite low. People take a shortcut around the rear, even though warned not to, and sometimes something terrible happens. Lightplane props are low as well, so no shortcuts through them!
InfiniteZero 3 years ago
Yeah after hearing about Vic Morrow I've never considered messing around by a helicopter.
Kim Bush 3 years ago
Not to mention the two small children he was carrying at the time
Load More Replies... Miguel justino C 3 years ago
The ducking while under the rotors always made me laugh. Same with gunshots, you’re hit before the pop even comes.
#59
I work in the print industry. We print checks for companies, and there is so little security involved in hiring, keeping the materials secure, running the actual work, and shipping the work to customers. I'm shocked we haven't had a problem with stolen checks.
Piper L 3 years ago
Bear in mind that not everyone has/lives near reliable Internet. So for some people living on the outer edges, checks are extremely beneficial. Not saying they never go online, just that if you live in a community that say only gets supply runs twice a month, and the only way in or out is by boat/plane, checks are probably preferable and somewhat more reliable.
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#60
Don't hang up on telemarketers. If the dialer program they use works like mine, that just puts your number back into the database. If you don't want to be called again, just say so. We're required by law to comply.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Yeahhhh, but they don't comply. We used to do that, but kept getting calls from the same spammers anyway. Now we have fun messing with them instead. Using my third-grade teacher voice from a previous life, I even got one to apologize for calling.
iseefractals 3 years ago
In 2004, my dad was getting calls from a collection agency everyday. It was for some medical bill that the VA had already taken care of, but a collection agency bought the debt somehow. Any way, we ignored this daily call for like 2 straight months, until i decided to pick up the phone. They asked if they could speak to (my dads name) i said "yeah" and proceeded to keep the guy on the phone for 2 and half hours....waiting for him to get exasperated enough to say my dads name so i could say "i said you could talk to him, i didn't say you were talking to him" It is delicious to have a collection agency hang up on YOU
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Tatiana Kouzmanoff 3 years ago
Unfortunately, most telemarketers are scams run from other countries and they spoof local cell numbers to make it appear like they are local, so they don't really care about our laws.
Kim Bush 3 years ago
I've had scammers call using the cloned number of someone that I know to be dead. Freaked them out when I started screaming, asking if they were in heaven or hell...
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
AT&T: We'd like to offer you a special rate for switching from Verizon. Me: I'm sorry, but I don't have a phone. *hangs up*
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
Or just speak a language they don't understand. Somehow the calls stop quickly. I know how to ask to switch to certain languages, nothing more, but when I ask to switch to Dutch, they hang up on me and disappear.
El Dee 3 years ago
Don't lie or be rude, as OP says just ask to be taken off the database. Stay on the line to confirm it's happened. You can also be removed from ALL sales calls too, this does take some time to implement, though..
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Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
Problem is, there are telemarketing agencies calling from other countries, like from Mexico to USA.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
He’d died in an accident last week, please leave us alone. It’s magic.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago (edited)
Also be careful when price shopping for health insurance. Got scammer call mobbed for weeks! Unless it is healthcare.gov... RUN! They would call me 20 times a day on different numbers.
#61
Former Dunkin' employee here. We don't check the survey codes at the bottom of your receipt. Any random 5 digits in the space, you've got a free donut with purchase.
#62
I'm a visa agent. I’ve seen people be refused because the manager didn’t like their face.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Always appeal. Always follow up as well, even if they tell you it’s not necessary. Always get the name of the people you speak with and keep a log with notes. Americans - no you do not have the strongest passport and will not just be ‘waived through’ even for other similar western countries.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Sigh. Those who insist on behaving like "Ugly Americans" make it so difficult for the rest of us. We're not all selfish, entitled a**holes. Maybe there should be an "Ugly American" stamp on their passports to help sort the wheat from the chaff.
Load More Replies... Neill Powell 3 years ago
ALWAYS treat any security at an airport with respect. Not Grovelling, but respect. We have AK-47 armed security at OR Tambo, but a courtesy downward-nod, recognizing their authority goes a long way. A courtesy, quiet "thank you" is probably the only gratitude they get that day. They'll probably throw themselves in front of you before anyone else if s**t gets real.
#63
Any restaurant food menu items that you can't customize means that it's pre-made. Servers are typically told to say they are "made fresh daily."
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
Some chefs do not allow modifications because they worked hard on the flavor profile and feel proud of the what they've put together. They would rather you not eat it than (in their minds) spoil it.
#64
Used to work at Claires, I will never buy earrings from them anymore without first cleaning them like crazy because employees use them during the day for their outfit and don't clean them before putting them back. We are also told to superglue any product back together before damaging it out to try and sell it still and lastly, every camera is fake unless it is manned by a mall camera operator because Claires does not have a security camera operation to watch anything going on in their stores.
#65
I work in IT. Most of, if not all of the solutions to tech issues you run into can be found on Google, but we are really good at phrasing the search though, to get right to an answer quickly.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Defending you here: there are, by a factor of 100,000 to 1 vs cars, that's how varied computers are vs vehicles. We DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE THE ANSWERS FOR YOUR UNIQUE PROBLEM. "Trade secrets" in IT are based on a problem vs resource issue and YES, YOU CAN FIX YOUR OWN PROBLEMS, just by phrasing your google searches and having a good antivirus present.
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ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
All of the information to do my programming job is available free on the internet, but you can also learn how to overhaul a train engine on the internet. That's no help if you can't apply it practically, which is what we do.
#66
Fast food workers don't wash their hands as often as they should and rarely call in sick even if they are sick.
Susan 3 years ago
They don't call in sick because we have to work. Can't afford to miss the time. At least pre pandemic that was the way. Now they know they won't be questioned so EVERYONE has a fever. Especially when it's nice weather out.
DC 3 years ago
Uh, really? You know, if it is common that workers lie to their company, it may be that the company is in the wrong, but rendered the workers' means to stand up for themselves useless.
Load More Replies... Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
Most fast-food workers live paycheck to paycheck, so losing a day's pay can literally mean not being able to pay the rent.
BusLady 3 years ago
It can also mean getting fired for missing even a few days work.
Load More Replies... #67
I cooked at Crapplebee's for a short while saving money to move out of state. They microwave pretty much 80% of the menu. And the food is a small step above burger king in quality.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I refuse to pay restaurant prices to have someone heat up frozen food and put it on a plate. Try your local mom 'n' pop restaurants instead, because the quality is much better and it's likely everything is made from scratch.
iseefractals 3 years ago
I ate there once, 20 years ago. Took one bite of my chicken wing app and left. Always disgusting how did it exist so long
#68
Summer camp director. No one on staff is ever 100% sure what’s going on, there’s a 70% chance we think your kid is an as***le, and losing kids for 15-60 minutes at a time is a little more common than we’d like admit.
Alan Gale 3 years ago
"How many did we start with this morning?"and "How many have we got this evening?" "Meh, close enough!"
Piper L 3 years ago
Oddly enough, I had exactly that thought when marshaling some Stormtroopers once. Counted heads to keep track and at point was saying "1, 2, 3.....um didn't we start with 4?!".
Load More Replies... #69
Ask to have the late fee waived. I literally cannot do anything with it until you specifically ask. "So you have a late fee of $30 on this." "Gee that's a lot. Why is it so much?" "That's the late fee we have. I do apologize for that inconvenience." "Well I guess I'll have to pay it then..." "Ok, so your bill is $150." "Do you realize how much that is?" "Yes, and I do apologize for the inconvenience." "Well, can you do something about it?" Yes. Now I can because you asked. Please stop making me feel guilty that you paid your bill late. Edit: since so many are asking, I work in insurance for business owners. I'm sorry I'm not the cell phone/ bank / mortgage/ hospital/ etc company. If it makes y'all feel better, I'd waive all of your late fees!
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Pro tip: If you have underpaid for a silly reason and are a long-standing customer, get to a manager immediately. Have them pull up you history. If it was simple finger-trouble on a payment, ensure you pay the balance immediately (you meant to pay the full amount, right?), Then overpay by about 5% over the next 3 months. DO NOT NEGOTIATE TO PAY THE LATE FEE. SHUT THEM DOWN. This wipes out your transgression on the computer because it works out you CAN PAY MORE. Next time they offer you a credit increase, demand a better interest rate, someone *might* call you back to do so.
#70
A lot of people probably know that when a tv show goes into syndication that some scenes will be cut from episodes to make them slightly shorter, to fit in more commercials. What people don't know is that the show can be slightly sped up as well, to squeeze in just a little more advertising.
Wilko Lunenburg 3 years ago
Stopped watching TV a long time ago, because of advertising. Tried Netflix for some time, returned to reading a book.
BusLady 3 years ago
A fellow book lover! So many books, and so little time.
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Arthur Waite 3 years ago
This thing rally blew my mind - - There was a British police/detective program called 'New Tricks'. Very popular for years. It took a while to cross the Atlantic, but TV Ontario picked it up and I taped every episode I could get (remember video-tape?) and played them, showed them to my family and friends for years. Big fan. Then one of the 'British Import' stores had the first season on DVD, and I grabbed that. Each episode was 58 minutes and some seconds, just short of an hour. All my old, worn, tired tapes had episodes that were 46 minutes and some seconds! Every one was clipped! Broke my heart, damaged my mind. Still loved the show, and now I'm trying to get the Other Eleven Years on DVD.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It is a fantastic show! I have a few random seasons on dvd- I just buy them when I find them in op shops. I imagine the ones you recorded sped up the bits between speaking parts, like I do when I'm trying to fit a 45 min show into 35 minutes!
Load More Replies... Nimues Child 3 years ago
Oh, we notice...and grumble about the extra ads cutting out favorite parts.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
I remember channel 10 in Australia used to cut out bits of Roseanne where no one was talking. If there was a scene where someone was walking from one side of the room to the other, but no dialogue, that person would teleport.
Dadolwch 3 years ago
Some tv networks are especially egregious about this (looking at you, TBS!)
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
the amount of stuff they take out of movies like Talladega Nights. The scene with Ricky Bobby's first car the ads on it were just so funny.
Load More Replies... #71
Merlin Entertainments, the company that runs a wide variety of midway attractions like Legoland Discovery Centers as well as Legoland itself, pays most of their American employees less than Walmart. Oftentimes, employees love the job, but ultimately can't afford to keep it. This causes a near 90% turnover rate.
#72
When you rent a vehicle to go one-way. You will most likely be getting a car that's either high mileage, has a weird smell/stain, or possible mechanical issue. The branch has to pay to fix the car so it's usually easier to pass the buck Make sure you do a thorough inspection before leaving the lot.
Chich 3 years ago
And don't fall for the extra charge because its a one way and "we will be short a vehicle" nonsense. Had that while renting a Uhaul. The local depot was going to charge a few hundred extra for a cross country trip. I had to call the main office about something and mentioned it and they were "What?!"
Chris 3 years ago
U-haul's business is almost solely based on long one-way rentals.
Load More Replies... Brenda 3 years ago
Had a car rental place get upset when I took 30 minutes to go over a car, documenting and photographing anything I found. Guy got pissy about it. Went inside and called corporate when management did nothing. Corporate upgraded the car, cut the cost by almost 30%.and gave us 2 days extra. Went over the upgrade the same way.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
DO NOT skimp the inspection. Make this a full-checklist. Spend an hour. Just do it. Your're taking on something that has been abused, guaranteed, by someone else in the past... I have saved my own bacon about 3 times. The Rental companies KNOW they are move a dodge car. THEY KNOW. Spend that hour. please just do it.
BonnyDK 3 years ago
We rented a car to get around Maui when we were there. We're told in no uncertain terms to not drive it up to the observatory. It would not make it there or it would break down on top and we would be stuck up there. Driving down you better pray the brakes work or don't catch fire.
#73
If you get involuntarily bumped from a flight you can get paid out 200-400% of the flight's cost back depending on how late you get to your destination. If this happens to you they'll offer you a bunch of vouchers, but be persistent and they'll pay you out. * If the airline arranges substitute transportation that is scheduled to arrive at your destination between one and two hours after your original arrival time (between one and four hours on international flights), the airline must pay you an amount equal to 200% of your one-way fare to your final destination that day, with a $650 maximum. * If the substitute transportation is scheduled to get you to your destination more than two hours later (four hours internationally), or if the airline does not make any substitute travel arrangements for you, the compensation doubles (400% of your one-way fare, $1300 maximum). EDIT: When a flight is overbooked they come over the PA and start handing out a few hundred dollar vouchers and put you on the next flight, if you take one of these vouchers you have voluntarily given up your seat. If no one takes them the first round, they keep on going up in voucher amounts, but eventually if no one takes them they're going to have to involuntarily bump people off the plane. If this happens to you make sure you follow above rules. Personally in my experience I had a SWA flight from Phoenix to Chicago on 12/23 at 10am. They came over the PA offering a $300 voucher and a spot on the next flight. I had nothing special to do except hang out with family so I took it and they put me on the 12pm flight. 30min before boarding that flight the same thing happens, well I'll take another $300 and they put me on the 3pm flight. Guess what? It happens again but this time they gave me $500, and I'm on the 6pm flight. And you guessed it, they ask for volunteers again and I got another $500 and now I'm on the 8pm flight. So I spent a day in the airport and sampled all the great dining options at Sky Harbor and ended up with $1600 in SWA credits to use over the next year. Was able to go on 3 trips with my girlfriend with out paying for flights! Moving forward if I ever travel before Thanksgiving or Christmas I'm booking the earlier flight and racking up the vouchers. EDIT 2: If your flight is cancelled due to weather or mechanical issues you are SOL except them getting you on the next available flight. Flights are frequently canceled when there isn't enough seats sold and most of the time the airlines say it was a mechanical problem so they don't have to give you anything.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This doesn't explain why airlines will change literally everything about your flights AFTER you've paid for them. They'll change departure and arrival times, add layovers (sometimes several hours long), etc. This should be illegal. I paid for one product and you're providing me with an inferior product.
Older 3 years ago
It's not a product. It's a service, and the quality is likely the same. They just changed when you're going to receive it. This happens all the time for lots of different things because the world is not run by robots.
Load More Replies... DC 3 years ago
How can they even be allowed to do that? Customers pay to get somewhere. Companies offer to get them somewhere ... we both agreed to this contract - by no means should they even dare to involuntary bump out anyone, but have a secondary, smaller plane on hand or so ... or, just ... DO NOT SELL STUFF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE, including seats ... ?
#74
Former Goodwill employee, they throw 85% of the stuff you donate into the trash. They also care more about production numbers and money then you think.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
This is why I stopped donating anything to Goodwill. Instead, I go to the local St. Vincent de Paul charity shop. A survey of charities rated them "exceptional" because the donations actually go to people in need.
Shane S 3 years ago
I bet this is also based on geographic area and population. I’ve seen broken dishes on the shelves before in a smaller city. And not fine China like for an art project- just regular old broken plates.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
All charity shops will sell items based on the region. They will often ship things they don't think will sell where it was donated to somewhere that will. Also, as you say, some areas and managers are more forgiving of chips on glasses etc. In my current area, they will also sell damaged/stained blankets specifically as dog blankets, and bags of mis-matched jewelry for craft, because there are lots of people interested in them, but where I used to live they wouldn't even think of it.
Load More Replies... Dadolwch 3 years ago
Goodwill should not be considered a nonprofit. They're a huge business with a tiny bit of client services thrown in to make it seem like a charity.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Reminds me of Savers, which only recently started operating in my country. I refuse to give them my business.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 3 years ago
And they raise hell when you look in their dumpster. I managed to sneak a lovely corner shelf out of there when they were especially busy once.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago (edited)
Former Goodwill employee as well. Can 100% confirm! Also a very high turnover rate. The quota is insane even if they are short staffed. I literally ran until my sides hurt putting new clothing out just to meet their daily quota. As a cashier you are also expected to put out shopping carts of stuff, clean dressing rooms, and check out customers as just one cashier on staff at a time. They never have more then one person on the sales floor for some reason. No music for 8 hour shifts. They purposely schedule you open, close, open shifts so you can't have a life outside of Goodwill. They allow problematic employees to stay employed for some reason but will fire good employees for minor policy violation mistakes. People often think we wash the donated clothes but we do not. Wash anything you get from Goodwill when you get home. Next time you go to one take a peek in the back and see the mountain of bags of donations and understand why we can't launder these. We also weren't allowed to wear gloves when touching donations.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago (edited)
Continue- they need to make sure the items aren't wet, greasy, etc. That means we are exposed to so much bacteria, bodily fluids, sweat stains, and even dried blood! It also is very common for people to donate nasty, dirty, and holey socks. Those are the worst to sift through. Also front end staff gets verbally abused on a daily basis. People yell about the prices, that they cant find you, that there is only one cashier and register open at a time "get someone to open the other register!!", and other nonsense you have no control over. People will treat you like you are beneath them often. Goodwills I have worked at are always in a high class expensive part of town. Another awful part of the job is people urinate in the dressing rooms ALL THE TIME! And remember the part where we aren't allowed to wear gloves? I could write a novel to be honest. I left because I was being targeted by a manager from hell. Long story short a bleeding customer was at checkout. I call manager up. Protocol is they wear gloves and check out the customer. The manager decides to do an "investigation" assuming the...
Load More Replies... BusLady 3 years ago
Yet they sell electronic items that don't work because they apparently don't test them first.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
The goodwills I have worked at have "tested" stickers but to honest they only look for lights coming on so that doesn't always mean the product is functional. They don't have a return 0olicy either so it is a gamble for sure
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The chances of you surviving cardiac arrest are only between 5-10% with the proper application of life saving measures. People seem to be under the assumption that most people come back ... They don't.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
The chance of you surviving a heart attack, however, are between 90% and 97% (with the proper application of life-saving measures).
Judy Reynolds 3 years ago
My bil was brought back, but he suffered brain damage while he was "dead". Accept the recommendation to stop working on a person when the hospital offers it.
Lambchop 3 years ago
The best thing you can do to survive a heart attack is to admit that you need help. Don’t pass it off as “heartburn”, or ”out of shape”, or ”must have pulled a muscle”. Listen to your body. It’s trying to tell you something bad is about to happen. Call an ambulance. Don’t drive yourself. If you arrest on route, the EMTs can probably keep you alive long enough to get you to the hospital. They can’t help you if they aren’t with you.
Tatiana Kouzmanoff 3 years ago
The single thing you can do that is most effective when you first feel a heart attack is to chew up an aspirin. Call 911 and take an aspirin.
#76
I used to work at a college, and everyone thinks that textbook prices are determined by the college, but they are not. They are determined by the publisher, and we have no say in it. We weren’t allowed to tell this to the students, and I have no idea why.
#77
Our printing department printed your t-shirts wrong, and right now they're filling in the missing ink spots with Sharpies.
#78
I work for a web design / development agency in Canada. Clients think they pay us to do the work. The reality: * We charge anywhere from $5,000 to $200,000+ for web projects * We take 90% of those projects and outsource them to India for $200 * The projects come back built so poorly, we spend months fixing them * The CEO laughs to the bank I don't agree with the process, but that's why I quit and start a new job next week.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
Doesn't that still mean that you do all the work, if you have to spend months to fix a poorly built project? It sounds like it's just being made to be more work than it initially could have been.
otplus 3 years ago
Yep fixing a poorly made thing is normally far more time consuming that actually writing the damm code from scratch, but perhaps its easier for him in the sense he has the proyect ready in less time, and after that is "maintenance", of the system but the proyect is "done", and there os the poor programer trying his very best at understanding the names of the variables because they are probable in hindi ans there is no comment on the code itself
Load More Replies... #79
There are almost no winners in sports betting. Those prices and the sports book are put together by highly educated mathematicians in such a way as to always turn a profit. Anyone who "wins big" has 99% of the time invested far more than their big win over their gambling history.
Anyone who does win is extensively investigated for how they might have inside knowledge and these people are stopped from betting.
Anyone who is just stupidly lucky and wins a few times, even if we can't find confirmation that they're connected to the industry/event is also barred from betting in the future.
Turn a profit in betting and the bookie doesn't want your business, cya.
edit: All the reddit "experts" below disagreeing. Thanks for your input but I work at one of Europe's biggest sports betting companies and the above is absolutely true. Anyone consistently beating us is simply restricted on how much they can bet, and eventually told to leave entirely. And to clarify, I was referring specifically to online betting against a bookmaker. Anyone can walk into a shop with a fake moustache and be a long term winner (although that's still not likely). Obviously betting against another person (peer to peer) can be lucrative, thanks captain obvious.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Sports betting, online or at vegas, always makes the house money. The house always wins.
Jupittance 3 years ago
I would think you'd want the winners to come back and lose their winnings.
#80
I'm only supposed to put six olives on your Footlong. You all deserve to know.
John L 3 years ago
Reminds me of a story I read about. A customer ordered a supreme pizza (internet order) and removed everything, except pepperoni. The customer ended up getting a pizza with 8 pieces of pepperoni on it. They explained to the customer that a "supreme" pizza only comes with 8 pieces. The customer was trying to be cheap by getting the "supreme" on special, instead of just ordering a pepperoni pizza. They expected the place to give them essentially free toppings to replace what they removed.
#81
That you can take a gallon of paint and give it a different label, price point, and warranty depending on the store it is sold in.
El Dee 3 years ago
The cheap paint is cheap (obv) and doesn't give great coverage) The 'trade' paint is a little more expensive and provides good coverage. The really expensive paint isn't as good as the 'trade' paint and you're being charged for the name only. This was recently tested and the results shown on TV in my country..
WoodenLion 3 years ago
years ago a 'poloron' brand ice chest sold for $8. exact same ice chest with a 'ted williams' sticker going to the store 'sears' cost $15
#82
Companies have quarterly targets. Including shops. So if you're buying - for example - a fancy watch, go in at the very end of the quarter and lowball them. If they haven't hit target for that quarter then they're often likely to cut you a deal. Something they probably won't do at the start of the quarter. If they've hit target, just wait.
Francisco Manuel Teruel Gutiérrez 3 years ago
Oh, you're like the guy in the friendzone, waiting for your crush to break with her bf.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
This is explicitly relevant in the middle-to-high-end. Especially of you have purchased there before. Wait for a store to be busy and walking in (being a moderately now recognized face) can lend a bit of credence. Especially if Privately owned. This not only gives the store leverage (to new customers) but you can play games with them. One of them is Haggling on something expensive you genuinely intend to buy. Don't bother if you're not.
#83
Hospitals and doctors office bills in the U.S. can be negotiated, and many will offer huge cash discounts if you pay at the time of service. But once the insurance gets billed, there is much less room for negotiation. If your bill gets applied to the insurance deductible, then the facility, by law, is supposed to collect the full amount that was applied to the deductible from you. Also, if there's a co-pay, the facility, by law, is supposed to collect that as well. For the average person on a high deductible plan ($1000+), you'd have to get cancer, or be in a huge trauma for the insurance to kick in any meaningful payment. Insider advice: when you make an appointment at a doctors office, ask if they have a "point of service" discount. Also, if you go to a hospital, don't let them know you have insurance until after they give you the bill. Do the negotiation first, then do the math and see if it's cheaper to pay out of pocket. If not, the facility has 6 months to bill your insurance after the date of service. Edit: this whole thing doesn't work for providers that strictly see in-network patients, i.e. HMO's.
Brenda 3 years ago
Insurance companies have preset amounts that they agree to pay for specific procedures. That doesn't mean you can't negotiate the costs. Most hospitals require your insurance upfront during check-in. Even if you don't have your card or don't give it to them right away, they will wait to do certain procedures or tests until they know one way or the other (unless its necessary to save your life). Yes, they use the information for billing, but also to get medical records, prescriptions you're on, who your Dr's are, procedures you've had done, allergies etc.
Shane S 3 years ago (edited)
For lots of smaller or simpler services, the self pay discount can be cheaper than a deductible with insurance. However, I disagree that the only use of insurance would be cancer. If you go to the hospital, even with a high deductible plan, you’re better off with your insurance’s negotiated discount versus a $100,000 self pay medical bill. We all know US hospitals are ridiculously expensive. For high deductible plans, it really is more of a safety net than effective insurance. To get a better plan, you (or your employer) have to pay a higher premium.
Shane S 3 years ago
Oh but if you have any kind of insurance at all, take advantage of preventative care like your yearly physical. Thanks to Obamacare your insurance HAS to cover it 100%- even if you have a high deductible plan. Just tell your doctor at the time of your visit to discuss doing anything extra that wouldn’t be considered preventative to avoid a surprise bill.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Also, if your insurance company lists a doctor as a "preferred provider," that doctor has contractually agreed to accept what the insurance pays for a particular service. If your appointment costs $250 and the insurance pays $125, that doctor cannot bill you for the remaining $125. It's a violation of their contract with the insurance company and it's illegal (at least in my state).
#84
Ever done an online insurance quote? That's just a slightly watered down version of what your insurance agent is working with. Seriously. We just put in the info and the computer spits out a price. Unless coverage or rating information changes, the price you get is what you get. 20-30 years ago, an agent could tell you how much different rating factors impacted the price, etc. Today's agents aren't privy to any of that information. TL;DR: Insurance agents don't just pull a price out of their asses and hope you'll take it. The computer does that for us.
Shane S 3 years ago
I don’t really understand the point of local agents anymore. Everything can be done online and a call center can handle my claim 24/7 instead of an agents office hours. I figure they will go the way of the travel agent.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
I have a friend who is a travel agent and she is busier than ever. Many people have been stuck trying to deal with schedule changes and cancellations when booking on their own and are finding their way back to someone to handle the hassles for them.
Load More Replies... #85
If you have a Bank of America credit or debit card, and your card gets declined and you call and find out it was because of a data breach, the fraud department that you speak to is forced by the bank to tell you that they can't see where or when the data breach occurred, but we *can* see it. It shows us right there on our computer. It's really f*****g annoying for everyone involved, other than the bank apparently since they're the ones that enforce this. It's a major problem because your card gets completely shut off right there over the phone, and we have to send in a request to have a completely new card and card number sent to you. Then, you wait about two weeks to receive it in the mail, and have to change everything you pay your bills on to the new card number. But if you go back to the store with that new card that had the data breach and they still haven't resolved the problem with the breach, then your card will be shut off again. Rinse and repeat. Please try not to get too angry at the people you talk to on the phone, they don't work at BoA, they're just lowly call center workers, and they're fired if tell you where it happened. The bank is saving their own a*s to not p**s off big companies that don't want that info to leak to the public.
#86
RVs are horribly built for the money they cost. Material is cheap, but looks good. They're not cleaned as well as you'd want (behind cabinets where you wouldn't readily see it unless you took the cabinet out), and repairs done to the units are usually done as quickly as possible.
#87
That David Walliams doesn't write his books, he uses a ghost writer and doesn't declare it.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Ergh James Patterson is the one that strikes me the most! I don't read any of his anymore because of the inconsistency in tone and humour etc. As soon as I read the first one that seemed a bit off, I looked at the title page and found out why. At least he does declare it there, but because he writes the broad outline, his name still goes as author.
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#88
I'm in radio. We don't get to pick what we play on air, the pd schedules it and we just talk in between songs. The closest we get is when we play a request, that's usually something we wanted to hear and no one actually requested it. The guys down at the talk station ironically can play whatever they want but think the last good song came out in 1975.
#89
A lot of times, when you request modifications to your food in a restaurant, the cooks are often making fun of you or becoming irrationally angry.
El Dee 3 years ago
I have worked in a kitchen, a few of them. Cooks and chefs are often angry and irrational people prone to outbursts. Not a great place to work..
iseefractals 3 years ago
Cooking ain't easy. Especially when you're doing for extend periods in a confined space filled with half a dozen other people for little more than minimum wage while idiots treat your co-workers like c**p because they don't understand that food takes time to prepare, and even more when you make minor changes that require starting from scratch. To people that find satisfaction in cooking, it's art as much as skill....and when you come to eat somewhere and second guess the skill, let alone devalue the art of someone you're supposedly there specifically to enjoy, it's annoying.
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PunkRockDuck🤘🦆 3 years ago
What if I actually need to remove something to prevent myself from getting a migraine?!
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Let me add some spice. I once waited for a rare steak that took 30 minutes and came out well-done. I had these awesome "steak colour tabs from a pro-bistro" and sent it back to the kitchen. I heard a shout. 11 Minutes later I was served a perfect rare steak. PS: it was a printout of THEIR OWN STEAK options from their website. Sometimes the Sous or De Cusine need a smack on the back of their heads to bring their ego's down a bit.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
As long as they only give me well cooked onions, no semi-cooked and definitely no raw onions, I'm happy.
#90
A good proportion of ambulance protocols are not supported by evidence based practice, and the industry is slow to adopt new evidence. Good studies in prehospital care are expensive, long and often really hard to justify ethically. Using adrenaline in cardiac arrest is a good example. There have been a few recent studies that show that adrenaline is not effective at improving survival to hospital rates, and in some cases decreases survive to discharge rates. These studies are controversial because essentially all services give adrenaline in all arrests and to do a randomised double blind trial, some patients would have to be given a placebo. Which is super sketchy ethically when you are assessing a life saving drug that might work, but might not. State run services aren't great at adopting new guidelines and private ones are even worse. And in my experience, it is a problem in most 1st world countries.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
they gonna' give me fake "start your heart back" medicine in the syringe ?
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
It was a study. If you sign up for a study, you are made aware if a placebo is a possibility.
Load More Replies... #91
Most MMA fighters get on very well, and only lob insults at one another to promote fights, with a few exceptions that genuinely hate each other.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Most if not all are actually on better terms than boxers or WWE "fighters" fact.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Good. I would hope it's this way. Even if they aren't buddy-buddy, I would hope they at least respect each other.
#92
This ones pretty obvious, but Raising Canes Chicken fingers Canes Sauce is just ketchup, mayo, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and maybe some garlic powder. They claim it to be a super secret recipe that only the managers know, but if you work there you see the managers make it in the back in a tub all the time.
howdylee 3 years ago
they make it on site?!?! i would have thought it comes in a pre-made tub so that it's consistent at every restaurant! I do love the sauce...
Shane S 3 years ago
I’m kinda grossed out that they make it on site. I get nervous with bulk products like that because it’s so easy to taint a batch and then affect a TON of people, if you hate your job or are just an unsanitary person.
Load More Replies... Rahul Pawa 3 years ago
Isn't it basically the same recipe for every fast food "secret sauce"? I'm mostly thinking of In-n-out, McDonald's (big mac sauce), and Freddy's.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
Worked at a small pizza shop and our secret marinara was just watered down with a dash of cumin powder.
#93
Panera Bread soup isn't made in the restaurant. It's brought in in flash frozen bags. And they reuse the leftovers from the night before .
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I mean... it's fast food. I don't really expect them to be chopping carrots and roasting chickens in the kitchen.
Neill Powell 3 years ago
Flash-freezing is an incredibly intricate part of fast food and is moving into the restaurant business. There is a lot to be said for flash freezing in the way it still delivers quality, while maintaining supply.
Daniel Williams 3 years ago
and your point? do you really think the have eight giant kettles cooking sour in the back of the house?
Shane S 3 years ago
Dairy Queen would use leftover chili from the day before reheated with a fresh batch. We were never supposed to hold it over more than one day but it was really the honor system making sure that rule was enforced. I always did.
#94
My sister was on The Biggest Loser. Jillian and Bob were there two maybe three days a week. They make it seem like they live there.
iseefractals 3 years ago
It's a "reality" show, and one of the most morally bankrupt at that. On average, contestants on that show regain 70% of any weight lost during the show. If you trust something you see on reality tv and discover it to be false...the problem isn't with the show.
GirlFriday 3 years ago
The show was cancelled after it was discovered that they were giving the contestants diet pills and having them to other very unhealthy things.
#95
At Subway my manager never once bought real mayonnaise. The Light Mayo and the Real Mayo are both Light Mayo. Investigate those f*****s.
What do you think ?
Shane S 3 years ago (edited)
Your health insurance company, whether it be private or through the government knows everything about you. There’s a code for everything- your current condition, your habits, past addictions, family and personal health history, STDs, sexual preference (if it’s ever been discussed in a drs office), and much more. Your doctor’s staff encode all the details of your visit onto claim forms which get submitted to your insurance. Insurance (again private or government) can also request your medical records. Insurance can then data mine the data to determine what your risks are in an effort to try to keep you healthy. I.E. they know you have diabetes and live alone so you may need tips on healthy eating. They know you have high blood pressure but also an alcohol problem, so they need to make sure your pharmacy claims indicate you're taking your meds and also recommend rehab programs. Etc etc and on and on. This is why a health insurance data breach is a BIG DEAL.
Michael Se 3 years ago
At Whole Foods, they made us bake off more bread so the shelves looked full two hours before closing. The rich snobs can't be allowed to think they're getting the bottom of the barrel at 8pm on a Tuesday. And then once everyone was out of the store... they made us throw. it. all. away. every. night. Gallons upon gallons of soup thrown away every night, too. Whole Foods is joke, and anyone who shops there deserves to get their money taken from them. The bakery is filled with the exact same product as a regular grocery store bakery, you're just being charged to cover the cost of all the food that's thrown away at the end of the day. It's gross.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
Why don't they give it to a homeless or domestic violence shelter? So much needless waste.
Load More Replies... Miguel justino C 3 years ago
I worked as a fly fishing guide for years and it’s a very hard skill that takes years of practice. The number of people that think watching A River runs through it makes them an expert was frustrating. If you didn’t catch a fish with me you’re not listening.
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
When Bank of America forecloses on a home, they require the agents who sell the properties to send them a picture of the house keys. That means BOA has a way to copy the keys of every home they foreclosed on and had someone sell. Change your locks if you bought a foreclosed house! Change your locks anyways because realty companies probably have copies of your keys too.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
If you post your gofundme to a company facebook page, it'll be deleted as spam so don't bother.
Shane S 3 years ago (edited)
Your health insurance company, whether it be private or through the government knows everything about you. There’s a code for everything- your current condition, your habits, past addictions, family and personal health history, STDs, sexual preference (if it’s ever been discussed in a drs office), and much more. Your doctor’s staff encode all the details of your visit onto claim forms which get submitted to your insurance. Insurance (again private or government) can also request your medical records. Insurance can then data mine the data to determine what your risks are in an effort to try to keep you healthy. I.E. they know you have diabetes and live alone so you may need tips on healthy eating. They know you have high blood pressure but also an alcohol problem, so they need to make sure your pharmacy claims indicate you're taking your meds and also recommend rehab programs. Etc etc and on and on. This is why a health insurance data breach is a BIG DEAL.
Michael Se 3 years ago
At Whole Foods, they made us bake off more bread so the shelves looked full two hours before closing. The rich snobs can't be allowed to think they're getting the bottom of the barrel at 8pm on a Tuesday. And then once everyone was out of the store... they made us throw. it. all. away. every. night. Gallons upon gallons of soup thrown away every night, too. Whole Foods is joke, and anyone who shops there deserves to get their money taken from them. The bakery is filled with the exact same product as a regular grocery store bakery, you're just being charged to cover the cost of all the food that's thrown away at the end of the day. It's gross.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
Why don't they give it to a homeless or domestic violence shelter? So much needless waste.
Load More Replies... Miguel justino C 3 years ago
I worked as a fly fishing guide for years and it’s a very hard skill that takes years of practice. The number of people that think watching A River runs through it makes them an expert was frustrating. If you didn’t catch a fish with me you’re not listening.
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
When Bank of America forecloses on a home, they require the agents who sell the properties to send them a picture of the house keys. That means BOA has a way to copy the keys of every home they foreclosed on and had someone sell. Change your locks if you bought a foreclosed house! Change your locks anyways because realty companies probably have copies of your keys too.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
If you post your gofundme to a company facebook page, it'll be deleted as spam so don't bother.
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