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Initially, a job may seem straightforward but once you immerse yourself in it, a whole set of new surprises emerges in front of you.

Interested in the professional nuances that hide behind initial impressions, Reddit user Acrobatic_News_9986 made a post on the platform, asking others "What was an industry secret that genuinely took you aback when you learned it?"

From retail to event planning and sales, the answers they've received lifted the curtain from a variety of sectors; even if it's just a glimpse, there are plenty of intriguing tidbits.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out I feel like it just surprised me in general once I entered the world of work to learn how disorganised things are behind the scenes, even at the biggest of companies. From the outside looking in it always looks super official and clean cut but really it’s just a lot of people behind the scenes fumbling around and not really knowing 100% what is going on.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like wanting to attend the meetings because you want to know what's happening and then you start going and find out the answer was nothing. Nothing is happening.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked for the biggest e-commerce store in my country. Passing on important info (process changes etc) just ... didn't exist. Everybody did stuff how they thought it was done. Nobody knew what the sh*t was going on. It was as stable as a house of cards in a tornado. Last time I checked they started losing a lot of money, sounds about right.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was absolutely spoiled by joining the military at 18. Say what you want, it’s a well-oiled machine with every answer to every part of life. NCO’s get leadership training at every new level, ffs. The regs cover every possible scenario. I miss that every day here in the civilian world.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS. You’d think a big company with offices and people with titles would be organized and well-put-together but I’m surprised to find that that’s actually rare. Those are the good places to work for.

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Premium 8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work at a Fortune 500 company and can confirm this is 100% true

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Management. The rank-and-file (most of them; not all) are what make a company viable. Management makes it all hell on earth.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some Said to me once, big corporations are like swans on a lake, beautiful, elegant gliding through the water. Below the legas are paddling frantically trying to keep moving.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Everyone is trying to fake it. It's a surprise any company actually gets anything done. Least until the shareholders and suits get the itch to buy a new house in the Hamptons. Or a new yacht.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out 99% of web traffic to a client’s commercial that they upload to YouTube is fake.

That 1,000,000 views within the first few days for that new Bud Light commercial? Most are BoTs paid for by the ad agency that made the commercial.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out That if you are asked to rate someone's customer service (eg your bank lender, salesperson etc) out of 10, anything less than a 9 in some places may as well be a zero.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rating system might as well be thumbs up/thumbs down, then. Why should an almost perfect employee suffer from a literal thinker giving them an 8?

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Worked for a health insurance company that provided coverage for people with Medicaid and used the DRG reimbursement method to pay some providers. The charges on a hospital bill were literally meaningless, all that mattered were the diagnosis codes/procedure codes. Hospital could have charged $5 dollars or $15 million dollars, payment would have been the same regardless. Another one of the many ways in which US healthcare is just so whack.

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are mandated to use the DRG code method by Medicare and Medicaid rules if they accept those coverages. It is hard for the hospitals/clinics/nursing homes to cover what a patient actually needs under those rules. I worked in oncology and many times the dr*gs we used weren't what was best for the patient but what the government decreed was covered. Not what the oncologist thought was best. It gets so tiring fighting those battles. I know other specialties have the same problem.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out As an electrician, I'm amazed more houses don't burn down every day. I do my best, but many others just work as fast as they can and leave behind shoddy work that (sometimes literally) falls apart when you touch it.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why trades such as electricians and gas engineers have trade standards bodies. I would never employ someone without the appropriate accreditation, as your life could very much depend on it!

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out I work in IT security, for a vendor. I am constantly surprised by how terrible so many organizations’ security practices are. There’s outdated equipment, no accountability, and most of it is run on Excel.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My personal opinion. Ever since remote access desktop was invented, some time before the year 2002, there has been no computer security.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out The use of microwaves in mid-range restaurants. I knew it was common in fast food, but seeing all the hot sides in a steakhouse with $50 entrees being cooked in a microwave was a little jarring.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I don't go to a lot of chain restaurants. I know that stuff is coming out of a Sysco bag.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out I don't know if it's a secret, but I remember hearing someone ask a doctor why they specifically say to "turn your head" before coughing, when assessing for a hernia.

The doctor said there wasn't a medical reason, but "it's so you don't cough on me.".

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Not sure if this counts, but when I was in car sales I learned real quick that the actual car itself isn’t where the real money is at, but the backend is. So like warranties, getting work done, etc etc.

Most dealerships will still put up a fight on the actual price of the car though because they know most people are focused on the car itself. This is also done to help wear you down so you’re less likely to fight on the backend when they say they’ll discount the car price down to X amount but you have to get a warranty or 2 with it. More often than not, most people will cave because they got 2-3k off on the car and don’t realize the warranties are adding on 2-5k and warranties are often straight profit.

Different dealerships tweak the above strategy to their market but generally they all play it to some degree.

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why when I'm buying a car I tell the salesperson "I'll pay X dollars for this car, and by that I mean that's the total I'll pay. You can add whatever taxes and fees you want, as long as it adds up to that amount."

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out When I found out those Judge TV shows are just game shows and the show pays out the winnings. It's not really court, it's more of a game show at that point.

Plus those shows fly you out and pay you $500 to be on them. So both sides get paid to be on them.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean there are people who think Judge Judy is a real court room? Wow!

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out A lot of aisles in grocery stores are sponsored. The soda aisle for example, the store didn't buy that merchandise, it's stocked by a vendor.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why walmart makes as much as it does. It doesn't buy the merchandise. It basically just rents shelf space.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out I don't know if the rule has changed since I left, but you CAN 100% bring in candy at the movie theater. I worked at an AMC and was tearing tickets one day, a slow day. I was chatting with my manager when a lady came in with a grocery bag full of snacks. I tore her ticket, directed her to her room, and asked the manager about the candy. She said it's ok. You aren't allowed to bring in "hot food". I believe it's because it's a health code violation.

So stop doing that stupid s**t like using a huge bowl to pretend you are pregnant. You aren't a f****n' rebel. You are basically j-walking. No one cares.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Different theaters have different policies on this.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out College Admissions here: we absolutely discriminate when we read applications, and your chances of getting in are not equal. Some of the ways are legal, some aren’t, but good luck proving any of it. Most selective options will let you know about the legal ways (in broad terms, not in specifics), but plenty goes on behind the scenes that won’t make it to the information session.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All applications should be edited to remove all identifying characteristics like race, religion, gender, age, before admissions gets them. The best person is the best person.

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When a political campaign texts you, anything you respond with gets read by an actual human.

So continue with the funny, cheeky, and even mean responses. But the death threats will get reported to the police.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Whenever you fill out a survey like "how did you like our website today", most of the time an *actual human* does read your response, and it doesn't disappear into a black hole

tldr; fill out surveys. Your perspective is critical to understanding what you guys actually want.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But it is not critical TO ME! The company wants me to work for free, instructing them on how to runt their business. "It only takes a few minutes". Well, I charge by the hour, so how much for my opinion? I don't work for free for commercial businesses.

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Guess how much of your vet bill goes directly to the vet’s salary? About 22%. The rest goes to operating costs and staff salaries (which are never as high as they deserve).

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! I loved when people would say "well,I guess I just bought you a new car." No, no you didn't. But thank you for helping me provide your best friend with advanced medical care and pay my employees (who spend their days getting kicked by your livestock or bitten by your little "pookie") a well-deserved salary. This is why I don't miss having a practice. I "retired" at 37 and have spent the last year 1/2 in my mobile clinic doing private farm calls, zoo work, & a free Rabies vacc & neuter clinic every few months. I still get to do the work that I love but without all the hassle.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out The guacamole that you eat at TGI Friday’s is a giant envelope of dry stuff, mixed with a 5 gallon bucket of sour cream. And it’s pretty freaking good.

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Customer Service in Call Centres - We WANT you to swear at us...The second you swear AT me, NB not just swear, or be personally abusive or whatever, no matter how right you are, you're wrong and no matter how bad a blooper I made, you've just handed me a 'free pass'....

And I get to cut your call off - Cheers.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm always nice to customer service reps. It's amazing how much they can help you if you're just nice to them! Like my phone bill, one rep gave me $40 off per month until I cancel my plan because I was nice even though it was their fault. They can give you a lot of perks!

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Cable TV “customer service” the “Assumed Close”

Basically I was told to interview customers and ask if they thought that they might like to have this product or that product, and then this service or that service, what ever service they said they responded positively to I was to make a check in the corresponding sales order and have them sign before I left the house. Then in a day or so tech would show up at their house with their order and their signature showing that they did indeed order it.

Never could bring myself to do it. Scummy as could be. Time Warner Cable for those curious.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why, in the UK, at least, there's a fourteen day cooling off period with any contract giving you the right to cancel without penalty.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Lots of musicians buy their records in bulk. 500k units sold is almost platinum, then they turn around and sell it back to distributors.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only recently discovered this concept, since I thought this was normal practice if you didn't have a publisher, but to think that the sales numbers come from the publisher sales and not the shelf sales changes everything. That means that every New York Bestseller is just people who have the wealthiest investors, betting on the resale value after its declared a best seller. What a scam.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out From a nursing home with fractured leadership:


CNAs often times have to speed run their cares which is abusive at times.


Patients will spit on and hit staff and face no consequences.


Patients will call black staff the N word with no consequences.


Morbidly obese patients will require routine cleaning of all their yeasty folds by up to 4 staff and will reject weight restriction diets. They'll request a commode at the bedside so staff have to rinse their p**s and s**t into a toilet multiple times a day.


Mentally ill patients in general will abuse staff and face no consequences. Only thing taken seriously is if a "vulnerable adult" is hurt or afraid.


EMS professionals who wanted to save lives become cab drivers for anybody who falls on the floor or they take calls to pick fat people off the floor. EMS > HOSPITAL > NURSING HOME cycle becomes a way to drain taxpayer dollars from government. It can't be plugged cause a death/injury will be made into a big deal to necessitate caution.


There are rich people who seem to just move around the country and be piles of s**t instead of changing themselves.


Majority of salary people do about 8 hours of work a week and keep employment by "BEING POSITIVE!" and sucking up to power.


Staff will disable call lights on problematic residents with mental health problems and inability to communicate because otherwise the alarms beep 24/7 and all the mentally ill patients start going psycho. Out of touch HAPPY salary people will cry wolf and point fingers while doing their 8 hours a week. Meanwhile direct care staff do 70 hour weeks contracting life altering fungal diseases from all the morbidly obese folds and a*s cracks.



The point where nursing homes, software, hospitals, EMS, bureaucracy, pharmacies, colleges, and federal reimbursement intersects is a weird mess of power struggles, failures, apathy, and lies/omissions that piled up for decades to the detriment of direct care staff and residents. For example see the opioid crisis for an extreme example but similar stuff is everywhere.


Then covid happened and it guess what, the people doing all the fuckery were unscathed while many hardworking decent people got sick and developed morbidities, died or lost family members.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out As a former Walmart cashier, a lot of people were surprised when I told them that we were given a 2 minute time limit per customer .

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would seem to be a pretty pointless rule, as when I worked in a supermarket, I often used to have customers with two trolley loads and there was no way you could scan all of that in 2 minutes. You had to be able to keep up a decent speed, but at that time, I don't think they had any real way of monitoring it. I was frequently somewhat faster than the customer could bag, so I would help them bag their stuff. You just keep going until its all done and hope that the customer doesn't wander off with the first trolleyload before you're done (it happened to me once! Had to chase after her out into the car park! She was most embarassed).

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Years ago, I worked adjacent to the tobacco industry. My area's RJ Reynolds rep was telling me he went to a retirement party for a colleague who had been with RJ for decades. She was drunk, spilling all kinds of tea, including the fact that cigarette shippers (cardboard displays) use to be placed in the lines at grocery stores specifically to be stolen by children. They knew we couldn't buy them so they counted on us to steal. And we did. And my gen smoked. .

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can top that. My generation could go to the corner store and buy packs of cigarettes for our parents as young children! How young IDK 10?

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out The software industry is in shambles. I don't know when it happened, but certainly before 2007. Either it's been like that forever or happened before that year.

If you have time, read through this for an idea of what software development is like.

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

The digital world as we know it is held up together by a conglomeration of toothpicks, empty toilet paper rolls, and chewed up bubble gum.

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know what the software industry is like. It started going downhill the moment that development work was outsourced to the lowest bidder.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out A lot of bands, I mean a LOT (including your favorite) use prerecorded tracks in their live show. Even ones you would never think. In fact, I would say MOST do today to some degree.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to pour water on the notion of them live, but how would you expect them to jump around a stage AND sing? Especially those of a more 'advanced' age... Hell, I can barely walk and breath...

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Supermarket shelf space is a cut throat market. Notice that the name brand stuff is always at eye level, whereas generic items are near the floor? That's not by accident

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad thing is most generics are the same as name brands, just in different packaging!

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out I work at Waffle House & im a vegetarian so there’s not much I eat there. Money is taken out of my check for food. It doesn’t matter if I eat or not they’re still gonna take it out. Doesn’t matter how much or little it’s still taken out. The price varies on how many hours you worked that day I think.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Warranty work is purposely delayed.

Lets say you have a product that has a manufacturing defect and is covered by warranty. Companies accept the warranty repair work yet sit on ordering the actual part needed to affect the repair until financials support that part purchase. Often it's better to use money (or on hand parts) for new customers as that's more profitable than fixing their mistakes/error.

Personally, I always thought supporting your existing customers was more important than getting new ones, but that's not how most businesses operate. It genuinely surprised me when I found out. I see it all the time in construction, manufacturing, and retail.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah I call b******t here. I have done warranty repair work. It did not sit around. Maybe in specific industries but this is the first I have heard of it.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out A large majority of "loading screens" in commercial software and to a lesser extent games are fake. In the modern world most software tasks happen almost instantly, but older/less technical users assume if it was done quickly it wasn't done well, so artificial loading bars are put in to appease those people. Really common in all kinds of "corporate software" that older people are likely to use.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing more annoying than a progress bar that moves quickly to 99% and just hangs there

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Billboards promoting tv shows are not for the consumer but for the advertisers we want to sell time to.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure all advertising is this. When have you EVER sat through an advert during a YT video without clicking SKIP? Or Watched Netflix and thought "HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO GO ON?"

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Law school admissions. Applicants seem to think that we want to know your standardized testing scores and GPA back until kindergarten, all of your extracurriculars, etc.

I really only need to know one number: LSAT score. The number of applicants we get and what we can charge depends in no small amount on US News ranking. US News rankings have shifted slightly, but a disproportionate amount of rank rests on the LSAT average of entering classes. The higher your rank, the more students apply and the more those students are willing to pay. GPA also matters for USN rank but high GPA students are a dime a dozen. So don't let your 2.1 GPA dissuade you from applying to law school. With the right LSAT score, you'll still get a scholarship to a T1 school. Extracurriculars kind of matter, but typically only in close cases or if you have some truly outstanding achievement.

Take the LSAT as many times as you can. A few points higher can be worth tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is good info for students to have. And if you have serious test taking phobia, get some help! Don't just give up.

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1) How much plastic is used in surgery. No amount of paper straws is going to come within neutralizing the sheer volume of plastic that a standard surgical department will throw away in one day. Not to say that I have an alternate solution, but it was disconcerting to say the least.


2) How rough surgeons can be with someone’s body while they’re performing surgery. I think the phrase “surgical precision” is kind of an oxymoron now, unless you’re talking about vascular or neurosurgery.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm willing to let medical use of single use plastic slide while better alternatives are researched as long as we put real systemic changes in place to get rid of them everywhere else

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My experience, teaching for an online university is like the great clips of teaching. You do it because they have minimum vetting and you get experience. My stipend per course equates roughly to minimum wage. I have 25 years in my field but needed classroom experience for future opportunities so online school helps.

A third of the students don't care at all and cheat at every turn. A third care enough to get by. And a third seem like they care enough to put in a good effort. For anyone who wants to cheat - at least cheat smartly. Don't pull things from the Internet that I can find in two clicks. Don't use references to past versions of the course. Don't hand in c**p one week and perfection the next. And most of all, don't complain about a bad grade when you have clearly cheated, you are wasting my time and that means a bad grade.

The university doesn't care if you fail. You've already paid.

If you make it easy for me to give you a good grade, you will get a good grade!!!!!!

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I started professionally developing software back in 2011. Every website/app/program you use is held together with toothpicks and duct-tape. If buildings were built like software, nowhere would be safe.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Production programmers generally have to go with the first solution that works, not the best or most elegant. You always tell yourself that you'll come back and clean it up, but you never get time to do it.

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The stripper pole rotates.

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Going from an undergrad to a grad student/TA who grades papers was pretty eye-opening. As an undergrad, submitting a late assignment is a *huge* deal. As a graduate student, I could be as late as I want with little-to-no consequence at all. Not a word of a lie: one of my profs was so chill, he said, "Why don't I just enter a C for you in the course now, and then when you can get the paper in, I'll make it an A." I handed in that paper *seven years* late, and he made it an A. (I suffered depression, my wife had a medical crisis, and all sorts of things happened to make me take so long.) Meanwhile, undergrad students ask me for 2 or 3 days extra, and I feel like the biggest hypocrite, putting on this show: "Hmm, I don't know. It really needs to be in soon... Do you *promise* Monday by noon?" (As if I'm grading anything at noon.) The truth is that the main reason you need to have it in "on time" is for my convenience and for the sake of giving you useful feedback before the next assignment is due. There's no real reason I couldn't just grade everything just before the grades are due at the end of the semester.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow! Things sure have changed since I was in grad school. You DID NOT turn things in late, and you couldn't get below a B to pass the course. For one class, the entire grade was one paper which was to be of publication quality. Heavy reading and writing in most classes. AND a Masters thesis to top it off while teaching as a TA.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Ranch dressing is a lot of mayonnaise. The first time I made buttermilk ranch I was like, “Excuse me, the whole fugging jar?!” Buttermilk and spices, stir. I’ve been eating spiced up mayonnaise milk for 30 years.

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Exxon knew the impact of burning fossil fuels in the 70's and still continues to deny it.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/#:~:text=Projections%20created%20internally%20by%20ExxonMobil,team%20of%20Harvard%2Dled%20researchers.

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It doesn’t matter what ABC agency you work for. From top level government agencies to secret spy stuff, there will always be an excel sheet, or hand jammed document, behind all decision making. I’m not talking about talking points type of document; I’m talking about documents with day to day operational stuff. Source: I’ve worked at various top level government agencies and private sector!

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So? It just means that all decisions are hands on, rather than heavily influenced by some hidden black box of dubious parentage.

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Generic store brand is made in the same lines as regular brands. They just made a deal to put a generic bag in exchange for more shelf space/better position of name brand.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may use less expensive formulations with cheaper ingredients or processing techniques. Cuts of meat, quality of produce, sweeteners, real spices versus artificial flavorings all play a part in quality and price point. Private label also doesn't spend millions on advertising and that's reflected in the name brand product cost. It doesn't mean private label is not good, just that they made different choices to make that private label product financially viable.

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Digital marketing - how most marketing these days is just basically playing a game with Google. Only a very small amount is about customer experience and making flashy content, most of it is just SEO which is fundamentally messing around with really niche aspects of a website’s content to appeal to Google and therefore make them show that website higher on the page when you search certain things. That can be as little as rewriting a few sentences on a page, or adding a specific word to a page title. I knew that was an aspect but it took me by surprise as to how prevalent it is.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is outdated. User experience is a huge part of ranking now on google. Keywords and SEO content are not nearly as important as they used to be. Website content and attention to keeping it updated is far more important these days. source - our company goes between first and second in our key word groups.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Optometry is a scammy business in the United States. Profit margins are enormous. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/great-american-eye-exam-scam/602482/.

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Online betting places like TAB in Australia artificially lower the odds for people who win too often. Seems dishonest to me.

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The reason science is so expensive is that after the consumables are manufactured they are sold to distributers who increase the price by 12000% .

Makes me sick.

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There is no real recycling outside of aluminum.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All metal, not just aluminum. I sold some scrap metal last week for nine cents per pound. They don't pay good money for it without using it.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out That financial institution don’t buy the stocks I give them money to buy on my behalf. They only say they do and that most institutions owe 65 billion in assets (each) called “Sold not yet purchased” where they owe that much in stocks to people but have zero obligation to really buy it. All together they owe trillions and the entire system is rigged.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one sounds like a pretty wild conspiracy theory from someone who doesn't understand how the stock market and futures trading really works. It's gambling, basically, but with someone else's money.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out A lot of IT hardware is metal on metal. Thermal paste is "too expensive". Your switches are ticking time bombs.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most parts are surface mount. If the part gets hot, the designer can increase size of the pad on the board to make a heat sink, they can add sinks on top of parts, use heat wicking materials under the board or use fans. Most of the time, that chip is designed to operate at 100 to 200C for years. Paste increases the amount of material making contact with a heat sink, if the part is operating at designed temps without paste then it isn't needed.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out Pharmaceutical reps who go around pitching the latest prescription d***s to doctors.. yeah they will often f**k the doctors.

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Many chain hotels (Hilton, etc) are owned by individuals/SMEs and operated on a franchise basis.

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30 Industry Secrets That Genuinely Took People Aback When They Found Out All the milk in stores is produced by forcibly inseminating cows, then separating them from their young, repeatedly, until they stop producing enough milk, at which point they're killed despite having quite a few years left to live.


Does it make ice cream taste any worse? No. But I definitely eat less of it now.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its ridiculous to say that cows are "forcibly" inseminated. Makes it sound like the cows should be asked for consent. Daisy are you feeling like seeing the vet today? sheesh. I'm an animal lover but you have to be practical on a farm.

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Most therapists aren’t equipped to deal with trauma, which definitely begs the question, what exactly are they doing??

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst therapists are abysmal. The best therapists are superb. Shop around.

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