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Not all work-related secrets are bound by confidentiality agreements; especially after an employee leaves. That’s why some of them don’t mind disclosing information previously unknown to the public, be it upsetting, shocking, or everything at once.

Quite a few redditors recently shared their crazy workplace secrets now that they don’t work there anymore. Their answers covered all sorts of scenarios from pj’s-wearing judges to corporate fraud and things that happen in restaurant kitchens that no customer would ever want to know about. Scroll down to find more of them on the list below and make sure to upvote the ones that surprised you the most.

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Used to work at an ice cream store part time.

We made our waffle cones from scratch and at regular intervals. Not just because of the demand. The strong scent could be smelled from outside the building and draw people in. Also, people were more likely to buy waffle cones or increase their serving size when we were cooking up a fresh batch.

Good business strategy. And hey, made my clothes smell nice (I had a jacket that smelled like fresh waffle cones for 3 months after I left that place)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of stores with in-store bakeries pipe the scent of baking out into the store and to the entrances.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore For the most part, it’s not executives and agents that read scripts, but their assistants. By this standard, it is the assistants of the entertainment industry that are primarily responsible for what actually gets made. Still blows my mind

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read book manuscripts as a trainee. And yes, it makes sense to assign this to the lowest rung employee, because the vast majority of what comes in is so bad it wouldn't even pass as a 6th grade essay assignment. The stuff that is well written and at least somewhat engaging, is passed on to higher decision makers. I literally passed on only 2 manuscripts in 3 months. Out of hundreds.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Our VP embezzled 7 million dollars. The company decided not to charge him because then it would be public news. Months after he was fired he contacted my boss asking for a reference lmaoooooo

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore yes, x did die in his office and nobody noticed for four days.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've worked with people whose death would have been immediately noticed because of the sudden rise in productivity.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Ex Victoria’s Secret employee: we used to have to cut up products that didn’t sell after a certain amount of time and soak them in bleach before throwing them out. And no, employees weren’t allowed to just have them.

I have to say, back when I worked for them they actually did treat their employees very well. Benefits and PTO, even for some part time employees. And we did get tons of free stuff all the time and great discounts. They rly did take care of their employees.


I also used to work for a superior court judge who usually wore pajamas under her robe and occasionally drank at lunch lol

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Bakery.

The French bread and Italian bread are the EXACT same thing with different scoring designs on top - but one is two dollars and fifty cents more.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore from many years ago when i worked at mcdonald's:

the ice cream machine isn't raggedy and always broken. at some point it has to go into cleaning mode, each day i think, and this takes 4-5 hours. so when they tell you its down or broken, the machine is probably just sanitizing itself. i don't know that the stores can program them to do this at a certain time of day.

when people in the drive through ask for their fries to be cooked fresh and they don't mind waiting, a lot of times workers will take food that had already been sitting out, and re-drop it into the grease for like 15 seconds so they come out piping hot & shiny again. (this mostly happens on late/overnight shifts)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The thing with the ice cream machine is true, at least in this country ime. You're more likely to hear it at a 24h place - ours was on a set cycle at 5am every day.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I worked pizza delivery for a major corporate pizza brand. The quality of the ingredients used even over 15 years ago is of such poor quality that the heat from the pizza over is the only reason you're not going to the hospital due to heat killing the bacteria. When I went to a popular local shop. You could eat off the floor it was so clean. THAT place was amazing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone who is frequently in restaurant kitchens almost all chains are that bad. Stick with fast food or owner ran place.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore A good portion of charter schools are one medium size repair away from bankruptcy. Many are mismanaged and misuse funds, and require teachers to spend even more than their district counterparts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's a charter school (apart from a school that has a charter, whatever that is)?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A school taking in government funds but not being part of the public school system.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And their performance is worse than public schools, which isn't a very high bar. Just another scam to take taxpayer money.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You sound like a teachers union representative. People should be allowed school choice in this country but if you say that you get labled a trumpster.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teachers are not paid enough. They should not spend their own money on school supplies or anything else. That encourages the bureaucracy to skimp even more. If every teacher at a school refused to spend even one penny of their own money on supplies. Things would change fast once kids and parents started complaining. I also don't think children should be going door to door soliciting for donations for anything school-related. Parents have their own school expenses to deal with and non-parents shouldn't have to support other's. That's what school taxes are for.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At one charter school in our town, it was discovered that the principal was stealing the money withheld from the teachers paychecks for state and federal taxes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sounds like it would cause done severe tax issues for those teachers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea a lot of the time charter or private schools aren't better than public schools

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our older public schools in NEPA are so badly maintained it's surprising the kids & staff have not had major health issues. The Scranton School District had school board people arrested for not fixing the problems within a certain time period. Mold, asbestos, & lead are still a serious issue.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah we sent out kids to a charter school for a couple years only to find out when one needed help that they didn't have the resources to help him even a little, they used the excuse that schools don't do that until 2nd grade. We switched to the state school less than a mile away and they gave him all kinds of help.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to one for a year and they never helped with bullying their teachers were horrible to me and others.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're telling me a for profit school might have profit be it's highest priority not education, and just act like education is important to get more profit? Also public schools the teachers are typically part of a teacher's union while charter schools never have union teachers as a way for anti union politicians to hurt the teachers union because as you know teachers are greedy and way overpaid, jk

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, its not supposed to be a way to sidestep the public school's education policies and resource management. Ideally they are allowed in order to give safe, legal, and licenced alternatives to families, but just like any other line of work, there are dishonest people who promise one thing and give another - its often a good idea poorly executed.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore My old boss takes cash so he doesn’t have to declare the money and I mean thousands of pounds. He claimed furlough off the government even though everyone was in the office working. He broke every covid rule going which was damaging when their were only 20 people on site. I reported him for all of the above but nobody cares.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I walked in on a coworker taking underwear selfies in the restroom to send to a girlfriend or something. He forgot to lock the door. He was very embarrassed. I acted like it never happened.

I never would have expected him to wear little yellow bikinis.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be a bro and take the photos for him. Let him pose and strut his stuff

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore From the bookstore: We tear covers off magazines and paperback books in order to get money for them and then chuck the books in the recycling bin, coverless.

Books that don't sell in 90 days are returned and the store will likely never sell it again unless it is special ordered. The system is designed to churn out best sellers and classics and nothing more.

Speaking of bestsellers, authors can just buy themselves onto the bestseller list and get their book on a front shelf with prime real estate. This usually costs about $250,000 although you can pay more if you want it to be #1. It is why books that are just printed will have a sticker or designed with a cover that says #1 bestseller. They knew it would be a #1 bestseller because they paid for it. Publishers can also pay to have their books put on the various tables in the store.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stripped books are recycled - they won't be accepted by recycling companies if they have covers because the binding of mass market paperbacks (the only books that are stripped) cannot be recycled.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Not sure if it’s that crazy but at the place I work at now, every single close doesn’t have a single adult scheduled. I am always the oldest on shift and I just turned 17. They basically only employ teens. The policy for breaks also violates labor laws.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The town I grew up in actually has a small, successful place food shack type place, that is staffed primarily by high school kids, with some young college kids to help when the high school kids are at school and the place is open. However, the workers tend to like working there, even though the only interior is the kitchen, which is a tiny shack-like structure, and bathrooms, with the rest of it being open air. It also always gets A ratings on health code inspections. They have good food too.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore The office manager who was married to a male doctor at the same practice was also hooking up with the female patient care supervisor

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, maybe they had an open marriage. You'd think someone who wants to cheat would do it farther away from their spouse's place of work.

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Anytime a food item that was on our menu being advertised as "NEW RECIPE" just meant the owners found a cheaper version of it from a new distributor.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't surprise me. I've lost count of the number of times 'new recipe' on a supermarket product has meant that I stop buying it because it now tastes awful

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore So as someone who works/worked in a tax law firm in the holy grail country of bureaucracy (Germany), I can gladly tell you: Many rich people/companies are just rich bc they can afford us to twist the numbers just the right way (aka. we might be helping certain people to commit tax evasion/fraud). We also had a car dealer, who pulled so many black market deals and other illegal stuff and we still had to fake his numbers/books against our morals (so the Finanzamt wouldn't find out)...

The sad thing is many smaller companies had to quit during Covid (or even afterwards and before that) just bc they couldn't afford someone who knew the in-and-outs of our bureaucratic system (aka. how to file for financial aid from the state), while the bigger ones used those aids to do ~~not so necessary~~ renovations (which they could file as "expenses")...

It's a really s****y system (the bureaucracy stuff in every aspect of the country) and those on top will always benefit from it or know the loopholes, while the more unfortunate ones aren't able to help themselves...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's within the tax code it's legal. If they were operating outside the code and obfuscating it, then it's illegal and unethical. If they were doing it at the behest of the client, it then becomes conspiracy to commit fraud.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I was told to never call CPS on a parent because the owner didn't want the "bad press".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I am, teachers are mandated reporters. Means that if we suspect abuse/neglect, we are legally (not just morally) obligated to call Child Protective Services. Had a principal that insisted we report to him and then he would make a judgment call as to whether or not to call CPS. Uh, no. I am not risking my license and a child's well being because you want to buddy up to their a-hole parent

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My old boss who we will call Maryellen was only 27 when she started at ACME. She quickly rose in the ranks and by 30 was the HBIC. She had made the company millions, they trusted her implicitly. ACME gave Maryellen a company credit card to pay for various expenses, as well as a stipend to do things for the employees such as a cake for birthday months, company cookouts, employee outings to team build, etc… none of which ever happened. Maryellen would take the stipend and go to a Costco and load up on bread, meat, Mayo, chips, drinks, and make brown bag lunches…..which she would then sell to employees for $5 a bag. You could also buy extra chips or drinks for $2/each. She did this every single week, for almost 15 years. They never caught on, or if they did, they turned the other cheek. She then left the company, moved across the country, retired before 50, and now lives in a mansion, travels the world, and has three luxury vehicles.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If ACME is that dumb, it may soon lose Wile E. Coyote's business. (And he's got to be at least a quarter of their revenue stream.)

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I worked at a popular auto parts store. Corporate was incredibly sexist towards women and if you complained to HR about that or anything else you were guaranteed to be fired

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Worked at a seafood restaurant that was infamous for their house clam chowder. Dude literally bought cans of chowder from the store, poured it into this huge 5 gallon container, and then it sat in there getting pulled from, heated, dumped back in to. S**t never got cleaned or fully replaced, super super super gross. Anything we didn’t use that day would get dumped back in with a couple new cans added.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Infamous doesn’t mean famous… maybe it was infamous for causing a spate of food poisoning cases?

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore It's me.

Yes, me and that coworker were indeed hooking up.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I did internship at a restaurant kitchen and my boss asked me to slice some mushrooms, but he forgot to tell me to save the stems so I threw them away, then I saw my boss bending over the trash can and he picked out the stems and threw them from the trash can in a pot of soup, then I don’t wanna know what else happened to the food there..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I repaired restaurant equipment for 25 years. I have so many stories.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore The attorney I used to work for would plot with the area chiropractors in order to inflate their medical bills and thereby inflating their asking amounts for their injury cases. Of course his take home was 40% of the total award amount.

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Most prisons are dangerously understaffed, with many sleeping while on shift. Also, most guards aren't the power hungry people you hear about, they're just there for a paycheck.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the same with most jobs that are "evil". The job itself might suck but there can be genuinely good people working there because they don't want to starve. We all have the best morals online or when it isn't ourselves making the decision, but money is money and we all need it to survive

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I used to work at a very popular clothing store and a woman from corporate came in one day and fired the assistant manager. A few months later one of the managers was doing payroll and I noticed the assistant manager, the one that got fired, name was still on payroll. I thought that was very weird. The manager tried to hide it from me but I definitely saw it. A couple of weeks after that, the other manager got fired. Apparently, she still had the assistant manager that got fired on payroll and she was still receiving checks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Affair partner? Didn't want them to whistleblow something? So many questions

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All of the fancy glamping tents at Terramor Outdoor Resort in Bar Harbor, ME are going to fall apart soon.

The timber frame tents don't have foundations or pads to sit on, instead each piling is sitting on top of a foam block buried just under the surface. This means that they could declare them temporary structures and cut a bunch of corners to get around plumbing/electrical codes. The foam blocks compress over time and the pilings will start to shift. Some of the tents were already shifting badly when I left in the summer of 2021, not even one year after the resort had opened.

But the owners, KOA, don't really care. They're already planning bigger Terramor resorts in a few other states and will likely just abandon the prototype property when it gets too expensive to maintain.

Give me 10 more days to start my next job and I'll come back and spill all the tea about Alyeska Ski Resort.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

looked that place up and wow $450 a night for a tent.......a tent for 2 people $450 a night

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I worked in a superstore bakery department. The bread plant that mixed and shaped all the dough had a horrendous mold problem because idiots wouldn't clean it properly. The practice was to pick chunks of it out as you caught it. Chances are a fair amount passed through undetected, baked, and consumed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's disgusting and makes me want to save my money and eat at home

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I ran a daycare for a church (more like a cult) for a few years. The building’s roof was ripped off in a hurricane and the building was flooded.

Behind my back, the church leaders went to a smaller church and arranged our center to be housed there until the building was back up and running. They didn’t tell me that we were uninsured and running outside of state licensing. AND they were insisting parents pay cash to avoid a paper trail. They were also claiming interruption of business on the insurance, and paying the employees cash as well.

It ended up being my responsibility to write receipts (and sign them), so if anything did come out, it would all fall on me. To sum it up, these people were committing fraud, insurance fraud, and going against the states child care policies, as well as having other people’s children under our care with no insurance.

I cut my losses and quit with no two weeks notice, and I’m waiting to hear about the fall out that will inevitably happen. They just got their new building up and running after 2 years of operating this way.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By any chance is this grace community school? I recognize the "cult" church and hurricanes lol

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Former principal had an affair with teacher (they were both married). Principal leaves to new school. A year later principal’s wife comes to the school and works along side the teacher her husband had an affair with, without even knowing.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore When I was laid off, the production team was one more petty retaliation from unionizing. I hope they did. But almost everyone else in management would rather shutter the factory than have to even acknowledge the production team.

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Ya know how the dealership will discount your trade by like $500-1000 if it’s been smoked in? We had a $200 machine that gets the smoke smell completely out of the car. Takes about an hour, but only 5 minutes or so of labor (then leaving it run in the car for the hour). Other than a small amount of electricity, and the initial $200 cost for the machine, it costs the dealer nothing to make it a nonsmoking car.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ozone machine I expect - gets rid of nicotine and hydrocarbons absorbed into the fabric. Doesn't do a thing for stains and some surfaces, are toxic as heck, and not approved for enclosed spaces. It could still result in asthma from the surfaces that it couldn't penetrate, so by labelling it as non-smoking (which is misadvertising), the company is at a huge liability/getting the company shut down/getting everyone who knows thrown directly into the slammer risk if they try this very much illegal stunt.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Passwords are all the same still and I haven't worked there in almost 8years. I can still log into everything. Fidelity title, mrmls, the managing website they still use, the website where all Of their contacts are. All of it.

Best part is if they ever change a password, they just put the numbers in front instead of at the back.

Fidelity title is f*****g sick to still have access too. I can look up a property, see how many owners it's had, when it sold, who the current owner is now and I can see what other properties they own, if they own multiple. Not good to let people still have access too.

Mrmls is nice too. if the mrmls ever found out that the acc is being shared that person would have their brokers license revoked.

Then there is the zip forms acc I can still log into. This so the most useful. I have direct access to the actual forms used for real estate. It's f*****g wonderful. I've written up several lease agreements for friends and myself. It's so nice having that direct access.

F****n real estate world. Loose as a goose and more money than most other professions. They are just lucky I'm not evil. I could edit their contracts to have my bank info to be used and they wouldn't even know until the money is sent to me lol.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that you can do It, doesn't mean you have to... You no what I mean?

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore I worked in tech sales, and everyone was sleazy. We were a big company and a competitor with Google, Facebook, etc. primarily sold to small business owners. It didn’t matter what you did, how you did it, or who you screwed, as long as you got them to put down their cc. People who were successful there took advantage of anyone, and everyone. Once in training I watched somebody sell almost 10k in commissions by convincing an hourly employee to put down his own personal cc, and then tell him that the business owner would praise him for his ambition to help the business grow. I obviously didn’t last, because I couldn’t do it, but nonetheless I saw some pretty nasty behavior. Also everyone was doing drugs in the bathroom between calls, with literally not a care in the world.

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When I worked at Holiday Inn Express, our entire reservation database got hacked. Like the whole database for all Holiday Inn Expresses was being held for a ransom. This went on for almost a whole week. We had to revert back to paper logs.
They had access to credit card info, guest info, everything. They initially ended up deleting a huge portion of guests info and reservations. That week was hell.
The funny part was, the password that was used to secure the database was P@ssword!. Wild.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have tried using, 'ThisIsNotThe password!1*' ---> the '1*' makes it uncrackable!

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Used to be an insurance adjuster years ago.. Usually the goal was to settle for 3x the medical bills. So whatever your medical bills are, likely you’re looking at 3x that for pain and suffering unless you’re a woman or child with visible scarring. Those get more. Attorneys never meant much more, they were all very friendly to us and played the game (so never assume just getting that attorney will mean a higher settlement). I didn’t love that job and paid generous settlements on most of my claims until I could get outta there! Lol

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Life insurance agent was forging signatures and attempted to reinstate policies on dead people... three times. Those were awkward calls. Couldn't fire him though because he'd racked up so much debt to the company that firing him would tank the entire agency he worked with.

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A married coworker was having an affair with our boss at an old warehouse that I used to work at. Every hour during lunch break I'd notice this female coworker go sneaking into our male bosses office. He put black construction paper over the window so that nobody could see in. One day I went in to his office to ask him something and walked in on them having relations.

I also once worked as a secretary for a CEO who had issues. I only knew because I had to remind him every day of his appointments. Bob, don't forget you have anger management @2pm and sex addicts anonymous @3:30.

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Used to work for a large corporate company. There was a department supervisor who was in her mid-50s who was married to another department’s manager who was in his late-20s.

There were rumors going around that the husband was getting sexual with one of his employees, it was kind of well-known by everyone and I think the wife had suspicions.

So on his 30th birthday, the husband thought the wife was still away on a business trip so he invited his girlfriend/employee over. The wife shows up unexpectedly during sexy times and the husband freaks out and makes the other woman hide in a closet. The wife is going batshit crazy looking for the woman in her house shouting things like, “WHERE IS SHE? I KNOW SHE’S HERE!” The husband’s denying everything. The wife finally gets to the bedroom, then goes to open the closet door, and sees the naked woman.

The wife asks her, “What the hell are you doing here?” And the other woman responds, “I’m his birthday present, you old b***h!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't funny at all, it's someone's marriage. And the "you old b****" comment? Young girl, you will grow old too and will maybe then be hoping a 20-something doesn't sleep w your husband just because she can.

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-My former manager at an ice cream stand was arrested for possession/distribution of child porn.

-The (married)owner of the first salon I worked in was having an affair with the graphic/web designer. Also, 1/3 of our staff had serious substance abuse issues

Both businesses are closed now 🫠

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30 People Share Crazy Secrets From Their Workplaces Now That They Don't Work There Anymore Apparently one of my former employers didn't pay their taxes one year and it took them about 3 more years to resolve it. We were delisted from public stock exchanges for a time and that. The CEO was replaced. It was not a big secret if you just looked at records. But, a lot of people working there didn't know anything about it.

Another employer of mine flat out plagiarized other companies' materials and then resold them. I quit as soon as I figured that one out.

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Where I was working the divorced director was hooking up with the married assistant director. The director was being verbally sexually inappropriate with the teachers. One day he put his hands a bit to low on a teacher who finally had enough and reported him. Once she reported him a bunch of other teachers followed. because he had already been warned about his behavior and made to apologize publicly he was fired for it. The assistant director then became principal (was given her own assistant) was then mad at everyone for him not being there and she was a tyrant who treated the teachers so bad she made half of them quit because they just couldn’t do her threats anymore. She ended up falsifying legal documents, embezzling thousands out of the centers credit cards, she stole all the big fancy equipment the place had just bought and blamed it on an office worker who ended up getting fired for it, before it was proved it wasn’t her. She left the center in such a way that legally it shouldn’t have been opened. She was then fired but because the previous director had just been fired less than a year ago they let her get away with everything because they couldn’t do the bad press. Her then assistant became director in a daycare where they didn’t have even half the teachers they needed to keep it open. They tried to force some of the teachers to assume the role of teachers with an assistants pay when they refused those teachers got fired. She was last I heard lashing out at everyone because the director before her neglected to do most of the legal paperwork. Licensing had them under investigation. They had two lawsuits going on. Parents where super unhappy with the care of the place. Last I heard they still had a huge lawsuit in their hands they were trying to pay off. And they were waiting for that to happen to rebrand the place with a new name. From the last coworker I have that still works there I know that they are still short staffed and the last few teachers there are already looking to get out.

There was also tons of cheating going on between teachers, parents and therapist when I was there. And that’s just part of the drama I got to witness while working there.

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I (in mgmt) accidentally caught my boss stealing from a fast food restaurant. The person was ringing up sales and applying coupons for weeks, except there were no coupons active at the time. I happened to notice it on a report and mentioned it to the district mgr. Woops, sorry thief, it didn't dawn on me what was happening. Thankfully I wasn't working all of the days this was going down so I wasn't suspected.

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Banks make most their money on how much they can tell the government they have on hand via fractional reserve lending. Thus many banks will be slow to clear checks out of your account but fast to authorize transfers in to them. They are trying to maintain what they call the "float" or "Floating Balance" on the banks overall books.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, the opposite of what many say, where they run expenses before your direct deposit? Or am I misunderstanding this one?

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I worked in 7 star hotel. Bar manager who looks over all bar staff was making its own whiskey in the pool disinfection room.

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Research labs at NIH are extremely dirty. Scientists, researches don’t wear proper protection in the labs. NIH still performs a lot of tests on animals even though they had no breakthrough in over a decade.

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A few years ago I work at a restaurant with a gimmick that offers table top games to play while you wait for your order. The owner felt really shady and would barely pay his employees. Turns out he was shooting up drugs in his office after a friend of mine confirmed seeing band aids and needles on the floor. I wasn’t even surprised when this happened.

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I used to work in a Arbys a few years ago and people banged in the back

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Arby’s, we have the meats” now has a new meaning

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It was medicare fraud telemarketing.

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