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Every year, thousands and millions of people submit their resumes, pass (or fail) interviews, and get new jobs. Their success largely depends on how the new work team will turn out, how entitled or not the boss will be and, of course, on the level of wages. But sometimes these aren't the main success factors.

There are various professional secrets at almost every job, and knowing them in advance greatly facilitates your workflow. So we do think that this compilation of random professional behind-the-scenes secrets may very well be incredibly useful for you.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets I'm a nanny. And no, your child will never say their first word in front of me without you around. Your child will never take their first step without you around. Your child will never hold their bottle by themselves for the first time, crawl, pull themselves up, or achieve any other milestone for their first time when you're not around. I will only ever say "You should keep an eye out, I think they're going to .... for the first time soon!" I always do my best to allow parents to experience that First Time on their time (even if it wasn't actually the first time).

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets If your hotel charges a cancellation fee within X days, Don't call and cancel within X days. Call and change the date to something distant and then cancel shortly after. It's obviously gaming the policy, but it's an obviously game-able policy.

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

Oh wow, I never thought of this one. I have too much anxiety to even try this. lol

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Everyone who did night shift at the lab I worked in slept for the majority of the shift. We were there at night in case any samples turned up, which was usually twice in a 12 hour shift from 6pm to 6am. There was an old unused office with a mattress under the desk, you'd bring your own sleeping bag, we all kept it secret because who the f**k doesn't want to make 120k a year while sleeping...

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In part, any professional secret can be called know-how of a sort. Some of them can be disclosed, and others are an absolute secret, because they could become a real game-changer in the industry. Moreover, this has always been the case regardless of in what sphere and in what epoch. For example, in the Middle Ages, the ability of Venetian glassblowers to create mirrors was such a unique skill that divulging a professional secret to anyone, even for the biggest money, was punishable not only by exclusion from the corporation, but even by death. Fortunately, our times are not so bloodthirsty...
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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Entry Mercedes vehicles such as the GLB have a Nissan engine.

Edit: I’m referring to the A220, GLA, and GLB.

The downvotes make me think Mercedes owners are hella mad lol. I sold them for many years. I changed industry for a reason.

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

My 2008 Nisan has never been in the shop for anything and it's as tight as the day I bought it. I'd buy any car with a Nissan engine.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Absolutely no one, and especially nothing cares about your package when you ship it. Fragile? Hah! Orientation arrows? Pffffft. Even if you managed to somehow get the dozens of human hands that touch you package to care; the conveyor belts don’t give a fuuuuuuuuuck.

The safety of your package is entirely up to how well it’s packaged.

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

eBay seller here - Anything (and I mean ANYTHING) that is breakable always ships box in box, with plenty of padding in BOTH boxes.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets The dirt underneath the concrete or asphalt is usually more important than the thickness of the structure topping it, well-prepped subgrade is king if you want to minimize concrete cracking, asphalt flex, and structural movement.

It’s a secret because nobody gives a damn about dirt and no matter how often I explain how our subgrade in an area is f****d I always hear “what if we make the concrete thicker?”.

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

If you make the concrete thicker and place it on bad subgrade then it will.probably fail more quickly

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Of course, today, in the era of pervasive social networks, thematic forums, YouTube and TikTok, it can be incredibly difficult to keep a secret without divulging it. However, excellence in any position is made up of so many complementary little things that knowing any of them makes you more competitive. Remember Tony Romo's first season on TV, when he successfully predicted what combinations the team would play just from his own experience and deep understanding of football? It was impressive, wasn't it? But this is not magic, just a set of skills and professional secrets.
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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets As a social worker, there will NEVER be a time when you "finish" all your work, because the field just doesn't work like that. So clock out when you go home - don't do any work. You'll survive a lot longer in this field and be able to help a lot more people if you, yourself, are taken care of.

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

It also doesnt help that most systems are still paper heavy, rather than digital which would take less time and less errors, and that in the past 30 years Social Worker training has been so gutted and the licensing standards lowered, we send them out half trained and poorly equipt for their job, because we had a shortage and some idiots thought the solution was pumping out more social workers in bulk through gutting the profession

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The Catholic Church is running out of priests in the US and has to import their priests from abroad, not many want to enter priesthood these days. The Catholic churches pedophile problem is/was much worse then you probably thought.

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

People wanting to enter the priesthood isn’t the issue - it’s the priesthood wanting to enter people!

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets If Im out of a beer/wine/grocery item, Im out; I know this for a fact. I just go “look in the back” to shut you up.

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

At many stores / certain times this is not true. But when I ask I ask politely with realistic expectations. "There is no (item) on the shelf, is there any chance there is some more in the back?" If they say no I accept that. But there have been other times where the answer was "We just got a shipment in, let me go check" followed by me getting item. Also true of cold items like dairy / creamer. The cooler shelves you see are often just the edge with back stock stored in the walk in cooler behind it. Often they just have to go open another case and refill the shelf. Something they do anyway but sometimes they were too busy to get to it yet. TLDR: Ask nicely, accept whatever answer you get.

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"In fact, the personality of any of us is a unique set of habits, knowledge and skills, and the professional aspect is no more than one facet of our personality," says Alexei Shkurat, founder and CEO of Peach art studio, who was asked by Bored Panda for a comment. "The very sets of hard and soft skills that personal development coaches love to talk about. And the fact is that it is much more difficult to develop the latter than the former."

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"What is the use for collections of professional advice on a variety of topics - that you will never guess whether this knowledge will be useful to you, and whether it will be useful at all. It was only Phileas Fogg, the character in Around the World in 80 Days, who took a random set of items, and they invariably helped him each day. With an ordinary person, this does not happen - but sometimes, who knows - perhaps this random knowledge will help you in your work or in life in general."
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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets We decide what influencers say and most of it is exaggeration or lies. You cant trust a single sponsored post by 99% of influencers

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Nanny here. you have no secrets. Your child tells me everything you do.


If mommy and daddy fought over daddy’s friend, we know.

If daddy sleeps on the couch, we know.

If you have something negative to say about us and you say it in front of your kids, besides being a d**k move on your part, your kid will tell us.

If you’re pregnant and want to wait till youre further along don’t leave c**p out on the counters or tell your kids because, you guessed it, we know.

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

I think this can be applied to a lot of household staff if a family can afford one. If someone cleans your s**t, you can bet that they know a whole lot about you.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Most oncologists with terminal cancer will forego palliative chemotherapy.

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

This one strikes me as "No s***." You're terminal and chemotherapy is one of the most miserable things you can do to yourself. Better to spend what time you have left with your family and friends, doing the things you love than to spend it puking up every single thing you swallow, laying in bed with aching bones as your hair falls out in clumps.

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Of course, human memory is not unlimited, and we cannot remember absolutely everything that we read. But anyway, we believe that some of the facts and tips read today may be of great use for you. Or at least you just enjoy reading, so please feel free to scroll this list to the very end and who knows, maybe unveil some of your own professional secrets in the comments below - to make this selection even more educational for everybody.
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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Take a *deeeep* breath before opening the cathouse door, shovel two shovelfuls of lion dung and catpiss-soaked bedding into the wheelbarrow, sprint out the door before you run out of breath, make sure you're 10 feet away from the door, inhale again, run back in, repeat.

You puke **instantly** if you inhale in there...

source: New zoo intern 🤮🤮

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Some actors really deserve the roles they get. Some really, really don’t. What’s most disappointing is watching auditions knowing they’re giving the best performance you’ve watched so far but knowing they’re not famous enough to get the role.

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

This really stinks. Some directors will actually choose unknown actors on purpose though.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets you can go to home depot, walk into the break room, grab a spare apron, write your name on it, and walk out with anything you want. staff isn't notified of new hires. just say you're taking s**t for curbside pickup. You can probably only do it once per location, but go nuts. also, staff is specifically instructed not to stop shoplifters.

home depot is anti-union and a s****y place to work, so f**k them.

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

It's not that Home Depot is anti-union that they have the policy of not stopping shoplifters. Every retail outlet has this policy. They say it's to protect YOU, but I'm reality it's to protect their backsides from lawsuits in case someone were to get a little overzealous in stopping a shoplifter. It's why you automatically lose your job in most places if you do decide to stop the shoplifter.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets If you ask a Barkeeper to make you a strong drink they’ll say „sure thing“ - and make you a standard one.

Unless you’re a well tipping regular.

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

If you want more booze, then order more booze. I mean, you can't go to a pizza place and order a small pizza and say "make it bigger" and then have them give you a large one for the same price.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets In animated shows in the US, even ones for adults, people riding bikes must always have helmets and people in cars must have seatbelts on if the car is moving. There's a department called Standards and Practices whose whole job is to prevent "imitatable violence" or other acts that children could imitate and be hurt from. This includes removing things like climbing into a washing machine (Lilo and Stitch on Disney+) or leaving the park with a stranger (early Sesame Street episodes.) Blood is a huge one, as are most body fluids - dogs can pee, but you can't show urine, and puke has to be a certain color or it won't pass. Fire is also one for preschool shows, apparently.

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

Actually makes sense. I had a friend dive off the couch onto her head because she wanted to be an Olympic diver when she grew up.🤷‍♀️

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Almost no plastic actually gets recycled. It ends up in landfills after sitting on barges because the market value is s**t.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Politics is a lot less mean on the inside. I'm friends with many other staffers from the other party and most members get along/work together way more than the media wants you to think.

Oh, and if you think offices don't talk to each other, they do.

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

I work in politics, and all the local Republican and Democrat leaders have each others private numbers, many are friends (except the month leading up to elections). They all run in the same circles. I remember when I was an intern in DC, there is a softball league of all the think tanks, and I remember when the Koch Institute (Charles Koch's private think tank) played against Center for American Progress (One of the most left-wing places), and not only were many of the people on both sides friends, but they would tease each other before the game (the Koch people burned a petagram with a picture of Charles Koch saying "Praise Satan" as a joke, and CAP people made s shrine to Marx and put incense in front of it kneeling as a joke. All before the game. Joking about how the other side views each other.) They are all friends, even the politicians. People in the know say AOC and Matt Gaetz are friends behind the scenes, they are caught meeting and talking all the time

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets When a guest is told their room that they booked has had to be taken offline due to a maintenance issue and they have been found a room in another hotel close by means the hotel f****d up and overbooked the hotel or the room has bed bugs.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Sometimes thermostats in offices are only there to make the occupants feel good. They appear to change the temperature but on the back end of the system they are locked out or limited to 1 or 2 degrees. This placebo keeps people happy because they have some control over their environment. Other times, the unit is just broken.

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

I used to work in a place where the temps were controlled remotely off-site. Our thermostats would allow us only +/- 2 degrees. We revolted when we had a viciously cold spell and called to complain about the office temps. Their response of "Well, it's 68 here, so what's the problem?" enraged us all. Yes, Karen, it may be 68 there in San Diego, but it's friggin 47 degrees in our office right now. Fix it or we are going to start burning furniture to keep warm!!

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People really DO listen to the recordings of your phone calls that “may be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.” There’s an entire industry surrounding aggregating and analyzing the data from those calls and how they went from a compliance and QC perspective.

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

This is only partially true, because most places don't listen to every single call. The company I work for listens to 10 calls per month from each agent, unless there's a specific complaint/issue that necessitates a specific call being reviewed.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets That product you purchased a few months ago that's been on backorder that you called about the other day?

Uh...it's not still on backorder. Well, it is, but we had to reorder it because it came in the other day and no one put your name on it and it got sold. Sorry.

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

I worked in handling and logistics for years, that's bad stock management, not all companies work that way.

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Hospitals are f*****g disgusting

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

You want to go into the labs (I worked many all Iver the country as a field engeneer). I've seen public toilets and portal loos cleaner than them!

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets One of my funniest secrets as a teacher is using a 'magic word' that makes all my students immediately stop making noise and pay attention to me. That word is 'cookies'! When I say it, everyone instantly freezes and looks at me expecting me to get a tasty snack out of my bag. Of course, I don't always get cookies, but it helps me keep control in class and make learning more interesting and fun.

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Shutting down a nuclear plant is far easier than you think (or the movies have you believe). I know of a dozen ways I can shut down our plant -- none of which require access to the control room.

My favorite one was someone closing a 3/8" valve on the roof of a building, causing a plant trip.

The hard part is keeping a plant running! Everything is so finely balanced that it takes very little to shut it down.

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

Idk why the bad rap on these plants, honestly............. lessest of many evils imo

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets I no longer work there, but I try to spread this info every time, because it helps the bottom-line.

AutoZone: Return-swaps (when you return an item you previously bought, for a different item) and warranty-swaps (a warranty item is damaged and swapped out for a new one) count as sales.

AutoZone's warranty policy covers ANY damage *taps a baseball bat against the counter* aside from general use wear and tear. *drops a hammer on the floor* Whoops, how clumsy of me.

All I'm saying is it would be a real shame if your used break pads got snapped in half, by accident. Something about Auto Zone break pads... They're the same as the ones in every other store, and at the dealership, but they somehow keep coming back snapped in half, just before they're worn down into the "red zone." Oh well, gotta honor the warranty.

So would you like a warranty on those break pads, sir or ma'm?

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets When I fix your car there is no magic plunger to magically suck the dents out. I have to do lots of stuff.

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

PDR is pretty magic - although usually rods to push rather than plungers to pull.

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Your mobile telco runs a lot of telemetry on their networks and already knows about the issue you're experiencing. It'll get fixed when it's worthwhile to do so.

Running a call centre and accepting coverage or speed complaints is a PR exercise and regulatory requirement. These complaints never make their way to engineering.

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

What annoys me more is the data usage charges. Your provider only has to pay for the initial connection not the amount of data you consume e.g. it costs them no more for you to spend 3 hours doom scrolling through social media (if you remain connected to the network) that it does for you to spend 30 seconds checking your bank balance. If this has changed I am happy to be corrected but you'll use a lot of data searching for info

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets You would probably not eat out so much if you could see what is going on behind a wall in the kitchens of most food establishments.

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

I don't know about this one. I've spent almost 30 years working in restaurants and the vast majority are super duper clean. Even the smaller or more casual places have had really high cleanliness standards.

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You probably don't need a new personal computer, it probably just needs to be repaired (OS re-install) or something relatively simple like its memory upgraded.

Selling new ones is far simpler and more profitable, though.

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

When I replaced my laptop it had 10years on it and was missing parts of its casing. There really wasn't anything to save. Got another Lenovo and hoping for an equally long run.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Elevator door close buttons do not work like you think they do. ADA specifies how long doors must stay open before closing to allow access for persons with disabilities.

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

US-specific, In many parts of the world the standard opening time is far too long but the close button will have immediate effect and override it.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets If you want an upgraded room, just give the front desk a nice tip while asking.

Keep you door latches shut whenever possible, another guest or staff could walk into your room at anytime. It doesn't matter how high class the hotel it happens all the time.

People die in hotels all the time

Bed bugs are very common occurrences

You never actually book a specific room, you only book a number on a spreadsheet

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

"People die in hotels all the time" I hope you didn't work in the Advertising Department.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Climate change is way beyond the tipping point. Hold on tight y'all.

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

It is annoying when you get the 'holier than thou' lot who demand everyone else should stop doing x,y,z and yet do all the things and more, The ones who say we all should switch to solar and wind power, drive electric cars but then it turns out they live in a property with zero insulation drive vehicles that use fuel as fast as a rocket launch, take 4/5 holidays a year and don't even recycle and don't even have as much as a solar calculator never mind heating/power.

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Actors at every level are all a bit crazy. I honestly think you have to be to do that job. It can range from quirky/nice crazy to full blown god-complex crazy.

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

But what about Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Will Smith... nevermind.

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That a lot of the buildings you go into are comically unsafe, designed by engineers without much oversight and built as cheaply as they can get away with/hide.

And a lot of buildings are perfectly safe and so over engineered that they could survive a nuclear explosion and be open the next day.

And it’s almost impossible for the public to tell the difference

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

My mother and I used to walk through the houses in the new suburb just down the street from her house, right when they were being built. Cheap pine, particle board, what we used to call slap/dash. Slap it up and dash out the door.

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We don't read your Cover Letters :)

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When a press release mentions a quote from the CEO of a company, a PR person made that quote up. CEOs can’t be bothered to provide generic “we’re very excited for this new chapter for our company” quotes every time something happens

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets I'm a lawyer, I currently work in employment law. The price of a lawyer can be entirely dependent on your case. If you have a very strong case and with a high likelihood that it will be paid out in a significant amount of money, then chances are a lawyer will be willing to take it on at a low retainer or even on a contingency basis (as in they don't get paid until the case is resolved and they only get paid part of the judgment/settlement).

If a lawyer is going to charge you a lot of money upfront or request a high retainer that means the case may either be not as strong as you think it is, or the chances it gets paid out will be somewhat small. Sometimes it might be because the defendant doesn't have that much money to pay it out (for example a smaller business with small assets, or a business with an HR department that followed the guidelines to a T and acted well enough to dismiss themselves from the lawsuit meaning Dave from accounting will be solely responsible for the judgment).

But yeah, if you make a post on Reddit and all the commenters are saying "You have a strong case, go to a lawyer and get paid." And then the lawyer wants to charge you a high fee upfront, take this advice into consideration. I always try to be upfront and straight with all clients about the fee arrangement and will even bluntly tell them the reason I am charging a $5,000 retainer as opposed to working on a contingency basis is that either it is a weaker case or a case unlikely to end in paid judgment.

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

nearly all lawyers charge a retainer, average is 2500-5000, if a lawyer doesn't charge a retainer, it usually is a redflag that they are working on bulk contingency and the quality is very low. And actually many of the strongest cases do not work on contingency, most top lawyers don't want to deal with all the legal paperwork. What you want to see if what they are asking for on contingency, if they want a high percentage, it means they are unsure of how much will get paid out, so if it is low, they will still get a nice amount, if the percentage is low, it means a strong case. Maybe it this persons one narrow field of employment law that is the case, but every other area it is not, I deal with lawyers daily in my work

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets I’ve learned this applies to basically every industry.

But almost every brand of filter is made by 1 of 3 manufacturers.

Ford doesn’t make their own filters, neither does CAT or John Deer or any of the OE’s.

Big 3 being Baldwin, Donaldson, Fleetguard. Baldwin having the most market share. Carquest is also made by Parker hannifin.

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

How about Fram, Royal Purple or some other brand I've actually heard of?

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Most small, liberal arts colleges and universities are governed by boards dominated by right-wingers. Don't believe me? Pick your favorite university, go to the 'About Us' section and look up their board, then start plugging names into opensecrets.org and see who they donate to.

Remember that the next time you hear right wingers whining about how "liberal" and "woke" colleges are, and know that they are only that way *because their governing boards support it*.

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

Much as I hate to admit it, I often think "these people can't die off fast enough"

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets Financial institution here. Our entire operating budget is covered by the overdraft fees we collect.

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

Tbh: financial institutions know that a fee-based business must end. It’s on our roadmap. We also pay fees, so in your court!

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets No one knows what they are doing. No one produces anything of value. Whenever something important does come up, there are several meetings spanning weeks, and it's passed around until someone is forced to work on it.
I've overheard managers complain about how no one reads anything that's actually being produced and if our branch shut down nothing of value would be lost. And I agree. The more time I've spent in this job, the more I realize it's just a house of cards.

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From Nannies To Lab Researchers To Car Mechanics, Folks Online Are Opening Up About Their 30 'Behind-The-Scenes' Work Secrets The National Energy Code isn't a code, it's just a suggestion.

There's no "energy police" or anyone enforcing it. (There probably should)

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