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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren’t Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread

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It’s no secret that the real action always happens behind the scenes. Think of how little we know about things unless we actually become a part of it; in that way, you are likely to never play slots if you've ever designed a slot machine.

Sounds like a metaphor, but it isn't. Recently, one Redditor posed the question “What’s an industry secret in the field you work in?” and amassed 82.4k upvotes. Comments started buzzing and reached a count of 38.3k, with people spilling all their industry secrets in plain sight.

From dentists to auto insurance agents and librarians, these workers couldn’t miss the opportunity to share some insider’s knowledge on simple things, like buying clothes at Goodwill.

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#1

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I’m a teacher. If you as a parent will read with your child often and early, your child will thrive in school. I’m talking daily books read together from newborn to about third grade. Every single day. No teacher can replace that.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I'm not training your dog, I'm training you.

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It’s no secret that every industry has its own secrets that remain virtually invisible to the people outside of it. So Bored Panda has contacted a US Goodwill employee who preferred to stay anonymous, to find out whether it’s true that half of the donated goods end up in the trash, as stated in the thread.

The Goodwill employee said that the staff has always followed guidelines and if anything is unsellable, it gets tossed. “People donate bags of clothing, some are stained, have holes, or are in some way unpresentable. Donated electronics are a hit or miss. Sometimes we test them and if they don’t work, garbage.”

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#3

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I'm a server. No matter how much we insist it's "okay" that you are keeping the entire restaurant open after we've closed, please know we are 100% lying. We will get fired if we deviate from anything other than pure delight that you are keeping us from going home. We dread it. Please don't believe us.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Human Resources: we exist to protect the agency from the employees, not the other way around.

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Other unsellable stuff which gets thrown away includes anything that has “major cosmetic damage” or anything else that “would prevent its sale.” This may be “that pair of earbuds in the bottom of your donation bag.”Once, “I had a set of speakers covered in what I hope was maple syrup.”

Sometimes, it's “wares or household items: if it’s damaged in any way, it’s tossed.”The Goodwill employee says that “Bottom line is, people find it's cheaper to donate things rather than throw them away.”

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Sadly, according to them, “it is rare to find newer items with tags on them.”But it also depends on the demographic. “For example, a Goodwill will have less valuable items in Detroit than upstate New York,” they explained.

#5

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Plumber here. There's no such thing as a flushable wipe. The package lies. You drains WILL clog, and fast; your landlord will charge you; it’s going to suck. Throw wipes in the trash if you use them; toilets paper is the only acceptable wipe.

Not a secret at all, just not common knowledge somehow.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread A lot of librarians will waive your fines if you have an excuse and you don’t ask too frequently, even large fines. Also, librarians DON’T CARE about your fines and aren’t judging you. Please come back. We personally have more fines than you. Librarians are ALWAYS overdue with their books.

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#7

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I'm an attorney. The secret is shut the hell up.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Knowing how to research the answer to a question is at least as or even more useful than knowing the answer to begin with. I made a living in IT for a decade with that mindset.

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#9

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Managed boarding and grooming kennels for 8 years: the secret is that the employees actually do love your pets too. Even the difficult ones, most of us realize they just miss their people. The number of times I’ve weeped when a pet died, or spent way too many hours comforting a dog with separation anxiety, or spent hours off the clock with a boarder who needed to be rushed to a vet office...wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Some pets just suck though, not gonna lie.

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But these are not the only secrets in the donated goods industry. The Goodwill employee said that “where I worked, there were no price tags, so you had to select the price written on it at the cash register” and it “took forever.”

Moreover, “people rub off the prices all the time and ask for it to be repriced.”Oftentimes stuff sold in charity and non-profit shops get scouted by resellers. “There are always resellers checking values of everything on eBay. Speaking of resale, it is a known problem that people run “kahoots “ and sell stuff lower to employees who resell it online. Strict rules at my Goodwill stopping that, but issues elsewhere,” the employee commented.

Meanwhile, if you’re wondering why there are so few better-value goods in your local American Goodwill, it may be because “anything of true value gets sent off to a blue boutique store (owned by goodwill) to be individually priced.”

#10

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I design slot machines for casinos... Don’t play slots.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Teacher: The parents are more of a hassle than the students.

I doubt that is a secret, but there it is.

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#12

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I’m a dentist. Here’s the lowdown on toothpaste.

As long as it has fluoride they are all basically the same.

When I was in dental school, the [Tooth paste brand] lady came by and said that everything that says [Toothpaste brand] on it is all exactly the same, the only difference is the packaging. So whether it says whitening, or gum protection, or whatever else, it is all exactly the same.

The exception is sensitivity toothpaste typically does have an extra active ingredient. KNO3, which helps with sensitivity.

Don’t ever feel obligated to buy the expensive toothpaste because you think it will be better for your teeth, just buy whatever you like best.

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#13

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread As a beginner counselor I worked with a lot of children and adolescents. Consistently the discussion with my colleagues was how it was the parents who were the biggest problem and the kids were just adapting to a crazy environment.

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#14

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Not an industry I work in per se, but I used to be in a sales role. One of my customers was a milk bottling plant. I was somewhat surprised that they were putting the exact same milk in both organic and non-organic cartons. Turns out all of their milk is organic, but in order to not miss out on the sales of non-organic milk, they just bottle them differently and sell them at different prices.

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#15

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Piss off one nurse; you piss off ALL the nurses.

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#16

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I’m a fossil replicator and apparently the industry secret is the fact that we exist. So many people are blown away to learn that most fossils they see in museums are replicas.

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#17

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Scientists: We disagree with one another a lot more often than the media would often lead you to believe.

The reason we're good at our jobs though is that (ideally) we like disagreeing with each other and we are able to move on when proven wrong. It's a part of the job.

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#18

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I’m a musician. It’s not really a secret but 90% of of our revenue is from merch. Spotify plays, show guarantees, etc, everything is menial in comparison to shirt sales. In fact, a big reason bands tour as often as possible is because we can sell more shirts when we’re in front of people.

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#19

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Construction boy here. If your windows or sliding doors are tough to open and close. 9 times out of 10, we put your own dish soap on tracks and the thing works perfectly. It take 5 minutes and we charge 150. Dish soap people, its better than WD40 sometimes.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Former aircraft fueler. Don't check your pets in kennels. Especially in summer or winter. They are submitted to some very harsh environments, left on belt loaders in the sweltering heat right next to a running APU that's loud enough to deafen human ears, let alone a dog's. It's terrible. I always feel so sorry for them.

American Airlines will destroy your luggage. They get overloaded on carts, fall off on the way to the plane, and are left there to get run over by tankers and yes, fuelers, and rained on, then dragged to the edge of the ramp to sit all night while you arrive at your destination and wonder where the hell your bags are.

If your departure is delayed, 90% of the time it's us (the fueler). Look out the window to the right side if it's a small plane, left side if it's a really big plane. If there's a truck sitting under the wing, we're the reason you're late. Sorry.

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#21

This seems to be a secret to many customers; it actually pays off to be patient and polite if you need the staff at a store to resolve an issue or help you with something.

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#22

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Some therapists/counselors are on the wrong side of the couch, so to speak. If you feel your mental health provider is unhinged, they may very well be.

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#23

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Used to screen resumes for small companies. Job "requirements" are more of a wish-list situation. Never let some unchecked boxes deter you from applying - you have no idea what the applicant pool is like. The biggest boon, especially at small companies, is someone who legitimately cares.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Former industry: commercial radio.

It's never caller 5. It's the caller who sounds best on air.

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#25

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Auto insurance agent. Please, for the love of god, don’t tell auto insurance agents more than you have to. They ask you a question, just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and answer the question as straight as you can. If you go on and on about your life story, you will probably end up saying something you don’t have to and making your rate higher, or getting yourself declined. We WANT to get you that policy as cheap as possible, only tell us what we need to know and don’t say anything else.

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#26

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Former bath and body works associate here. The scents they “discontinue” will come back with a different name and new marketing. They’re just recycling the scents.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread I'm a massage therapist and the biggest secret is stretching if you stretch properly you will get rid of effectively 90% of the problems but no one is taught how to stretch properly The best stretches are actually the stretches you learn in middle school hold still count to 10 take deep deep breaths move on.

I'm not going to lie this post has blow up a lot more than I expected and I'm just going to give a guess a little more information. The whole point of stretching is to do the opposite motion of what the muscle does whenever it's in use and the whole point of stretching is also to alleviate pain and bring circulation to the area and regulate the muscles basic systems. So here's the basic rule if you hurt somewhere do not stretch that place find the opposite muscle in the opposite movement and stretch THAT ONE. The way the body works is kind of like a giant game of tug-of-war muscle actually controls the movement of bone and helps with your posture , no one has perfect posture though. so stretching make sure that nobody wins the tug of war and that your bones remain in place is close to perfect posture as possible, which means that your bones and ligaments don't take any damage from gravity or any other force that affects your body during your daily life. I will not lie however if you do have injuries like if you broken or torn or dislocated or separated something that pain will never go away it will dissipate and it will get to a lower level in which your body will be able to tolerate on a daily basis but it will never go away The body can never correct something that's been broken. this should help you be able to search your own stretches online but apparently I need to make a YouTube channel. just thinking opposites if you're back hurts look for stretches for your front like in your chest in your core if the front of your legs hurts you need to stretch the back of your legs if the front of your arms hurt stretch the back of your arms just do the complete opposite of wherever you hurt and start stretching that area and you should notice pretty quickly that it's tighter when you stretch the side that does not hurt then versus when you stretch the side that does.. if I make a YouTube channel I'll make the post here somewhere in the comments so people can find it good luck!

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#28

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread There is way more butter than you think in almost every dish you eat at fancy restaurants, and that is usually the reason you won't see the amount of calories in each dish.

Source: 5 years as a chef in Italian cuisine head chef, 8 years in an Italian kitchen.

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#29

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread At Goodwill, we don't clean anything that we sell, and we get some really gross stuff that touches everything else so next time you buy something from Goodwill, wash it well.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread As a former TSA worker airport security is alot of theater. TSA is constantly failing plain cloths inspections. I worked with a guy who got fired because someone showed him an ID with a picture of Micky Mouse on it and he let the person through because he wasn't paying attention.

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#31

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread The ice cream machine isn’t broken, the f'*ckers were just too lazy to clean it, or more likely, none of the people working that day know how. It’s a b*tch and takes like 4 hours. It shuts off and makes you clean it, so rest assured it’s gonna be clean. Just not when you need it.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread A huge portion of online reviews, ratings, social media presence, etc that you see for any given company are fake, paid for, or done by multiple accounts controlled by us. This includes a company’s Glassdoor page (fake reviews about how great it is to work there so that the million negative reviews don’t crush their page).

I’m not saying it’s every company out there, but it’s been a lot of the ones I’ve worked for.

Source: am copywriter. What are ethics? I surely don’t know anymore.

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#33

Federal HR here, if you put the words from the vacancy announcement about what you need to qualify in your resume you’ll almost always be qualified, we search for those words instead of reading an entire resume.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread The fruits and veggies you buy at the grocery store... Wash them.

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Amusement park ride operator here. If your kid is crying and you want us to stop the ride, even if we want to it’s not gonna stop immediately. The carousel will spin a few more circles or the ship will swing a few more times before stopping. The only exceptions is the emergency stop which will absolutely f**k up the ride for a while if we press it. Hence we only use it in actual life threatening situations. The best thing you can do is try to get your kid to calm down as the ride comes to a stop and no, yelling “Stop the ride” at us does not make it stop any faster.

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Also, by jelling "stop the ride" you confirm to the child that it is in danger and needs to get out as soon as possible. Which could lead to some panic moves that could seriously injure the kid or even worse.

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Fred L. 3 years ago

If the emergency stop is prompt enough to mess up the ride it will surely mess up some of the people as well.

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

AND - how about maybe making sure your kid is old enough/secure enough to even go ON that ride.

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MalP 3 years ago

I discovered I was terrified of heights on my first ferris wheel ride. Fortunately the operator saw me bawling and stopped to let me off. I'm always nice to ride operators now!!!

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

Educate your children. Period.

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María Hermida 3 years ago

I was thinking exactly that. Not so much "educate", but teach your child slowly and patiently, and be aware of your child's needs and fears. I've seen parents nearly force a child on rides as a "joke" or because they want to go on that ride themselves, without thinking it can be terrifying for the child.

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backatya 3 years ago

how about not putting the kid on the ride he might be afraid of

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Jill Tremblay 3 years ago

Good to know this. They should make signs saying this.

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Mama Panda 3 years ago

I was talked into riding that stupid ship. We boarded and then my nerves got the best of me and I wanted to exit. The ride had not started yet and the asshole operating it, smiled at me and told me to sit my butt back down and then ran the ride for an extra 5 mins. He laughed at me the whole time while I puked my brains out (I was aiming for him but kept missing). I was so pissed off that I decked him square in the jaw. We got free passes for the next night when everyone told the owner what he did. He got fired on the spot too.

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nad krut 3 years ago

Then everyone clapped

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Zophra 3 years ago

Surrrreeeeee.....

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Lexy RiRi 3 years ago

Tall tales about a tall ride

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#36

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread In Microsoft office, word specifically, you can upload recorded interviews and it will transcribe it and ever have speaker one and speaker two, three and four! Basically, eliminating a huge annoying part of the job.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread At goodwill 50% of what you donate ends up in the trash because we don’t have the space for it or we just deem it too ugly.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread The off brand products are created in the same factories as the name brand products a surprising amount of the time. The product itself is the same with different packaging and a lower retail price.

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#39

When it comes to retail:

If you're night crew, day crew just dicks around all day, and doesn't get anything done, leaving all of the work for you.

If you're day crew, night crew just dicks around all night, and doesn't get anything done, leaving all of the work for you.

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#40

Firefighters are trained on several areas and can specialize deeper into certain disciplines. Most of the emergencies we get called to are situations we have never been trained on, but with 4 of us on a firetruck we can normally figure out a solution.

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I'm in Cybersecurity and deal mostly with the largest companies and government's in the world. Every one of them has been breached, to carrying degrees, by the Russians and Chinese. Almost daily. It's not a matter of if they'll get in It's a matter of how long they'll be there, and how much damage they'll do, before you find them.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread The cocktail you just bought might cover the cost of the entire bottle we used to make it.

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#43

New construction.

That $3k/$4k "luxury apartment" you're renting is slapped together in a rush just like everything else is.

Also, if you're on the 3rd floor or above, you have water bottles filled with urine stuffed inside your walls because the elevators are typically finished last.

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#44

People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Weight loss industry. This might be obvious, but most of our business comes from return clients after they've gained their weight back (and then some). To be clear, the plan isn't rigged to make you gain it back, but the fact that it happens easily as a result of dieting keeps us in business.

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I know a lot of people get annoyed when a store employee pushes the credit card, but at the kids clothing store I worked at, if you didn’t get at least x amount per day they cut our hours. I wasn’t pushing you a sh**ty credit card to be an as**ole, I was scared to lose my hours.

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If you're someone who purchases bulk nuts, grains, etc. Just know that those bins are probably rarely cleaned, and even when they are "cleaned", odds are they were just rinsed out/wiped down to look clean.

I used to be a bulk buyer at Whole Foods Market and when I took over our bulk department had no cleaning logs or sanitizing procedure. The bins had moths/insect colonies and mold in them. Our store was opened nearly 5 years prior.

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#47

Healthcare. Homemaker.

If your grandparent or parent gets in-home care, please know that your family member could live in a cockroach infested house and not have to move if they didn't want to. It's not up to the company to give your loved ones environmentally safe places to live, it's up to the family. They can certainly try to persuade, but they can't force.

Why do I know this? Because I've been to the cockroach infested house where an 80 year old woman lives. I have a mentally ill client that put bleach in his dog's water to help with it's breath. I have a client who never cleans his cat box. I have a client who has a caved in ceiling. I've called it in, but there is no help from the company. All they say is, "There's nothing we can do. It's up to the family members."

It's a sad sad thing because there are sooooo many family members and friends who really don't give a [damn] how some people are living. Sure, they'll visit. But do they clean the litter box? Do they make sure there are no cockroaches, do they make sure the house is stable and not falling apart? Nope. They say they care and that they love the person, but they don't care enough to make sure they live in a healthy environment.

It really worries me, because if I imagine my own mother having such a deteriorated mind and there were no other family members to help her, she could live in a run down, cockroach infested house if she was stubborn enough. It frustrates me, because whereas the client does have rights, should they really have the right to live somewhere where their health could be at risk? Where their caregivers could be at risk as well?

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#48

Vodka is really, really, really cheap to make: the glass bottle costs more than the juice

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#49

Everything at the Container Store exists and is cheaper at Lowe’s.

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People Are Anonymously Sharing Secrets From Their Jobs That They Aren't Supposed To Share In A Viral Online Thread Almost every hairstylist gets the heebie jeebies when we shampoo your hair and you just stare up at us. CLOSE. YOUR. DAMN. EYES at the shampoo bowl!

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#52

The guy who shows up at your house to make repairs is usually the guy who decides how much to charge you. Standing behind him while he works cost extra. Treating him like [stuff] cost extra. Being nice to him can save you a lot of money

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#53

A lot of successful artists at a certain level of success do nothing more than create a concept and employ several assistants, who are either current or graduating art students, who actually make the art itself, its reproductions or both.

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#54

I used to work in jewelry. Most of the prettiest gemstones are also very affordable. Tanzanite is a beautiful purple and looks nicer than amethyst. Topaz comes in lots of colors, including a pretty blue color which can be as nice as aquamarine. Opals aren't as brightly rainbow hued as they look in pictures.

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#55

Library Worker here: the majority of donations we recieve do not end up in circulation (on our shelves) no matter how much you demand we put them there once they're donated. The reason why this is, is because we only add items to the collection that we think will circulate (be checked out). Most libraries get funding based off of statistics. We don't want to waste shelf-space on items that people aren't checking out, as it won't improve our stats. So, unless the donated items are brand new, or by popular authors we will not add them to the collection. We will also weed unpopular items from our collection with extreme prejudice for this reason, much to our patron's horror. These books usually end up being sold at book sales to help generate funding for other library programs.

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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#56

If in doubt, lubricate....I'm a machinist.

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#57

Whenever you tell someone to check in the back of a grocery store they go back there and stand for a few moments and come back out... 99% of the time of its not on the shelf we are out but we know you won't believe us so we go "look" for it so you feel a bit better even though we already knew there was none back there.

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#58

Banks don’t have millions of dollars in cash in them. Their insurances rates would be way too expensive. They keep enough on hand to do weekly traffic plus some extra.

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#59

Structural engineer here. Everything has a chance of failure. It's too expensive to build everything to be 100% safe

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

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#60

The cheapest bottle of wine in the restaurant has the biggest markup.

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#61

RV technician here. It is designed to start breaking after around 44 uses. Most RV owners use their trailers on weekends. But not every weekend. So that 44 uses on average stretches between two and three years.

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#62

Used to work in menswear and I got one that’s pretty morbid. Most of our tailor shops are filled with suits that were made years and years ago. This is because most of them were made for people who died before they could be picked up. The others are often for weddings that got canceled after the suit was made.

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#63

Ugh I hate to say this.

Hospitals aren’t as clean as I personally want them to be. A lot of my ex coworkers would clean “high-touch” areas (doorknobs, lightswitches, the stripped bed) but don’t you dare look under the mattress or the corners of the floors or under that easily rolled out couch or on the sides of toilets, dust on light fixtures, etc...

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#64

If you order a pizza but like to choose your own toppings, it’s often cheaper to choose an existing pizza like a Meat Supreme or something with loads of toppings, then swap out all the toppings for ones you want, than to go for the Create Your Own option in the menu.

Note, this is much less awkward if you order online than on the phone.

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#65

Every client thinks architects are unnecessary and they can draw the plans themselves but they are just too busy.

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#66

I work in the blood industry (for medical/research/manufacture use.) When you donate, your Red Blood Cells and most Platelets will actually be used for medical purposes, but about 85% of the Plasma donated will be sold to makeup companies and other manufacturers. Roughly 20% of Platelets will also be sold to manufacturers. Your White Blood Cells will either be sold for research or discarded, since they're basically useless for medical or manufacture purposes. Overall, about 50% of your blood will be used for treatments, and the rest will go to makeup/manufacturing and research companies. I'm not saying don't donate, it still helps people, but it's just something nobody really thinks about when you have that needle in your arm.

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#67

Not really a secret but some wholesale nurseries will sell plants for a fraction less then public nurseries and big box retailers. Like 1 gallon of a shrub will sell for $16 at home depot, but at a wholesale nursery that same plant will cost like $2-6. Edit: some wholesale nurseries are open to the public

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#68

[California] Cannabis concentrates: don't trust that the test results are accurate at all. We were demanded (by the business owner) to use some dirty methods to cheat on potency testing and pesticide testing. Turns out, those tests can be pretty easy to trick if you know what you're doing.

This is ultimately what led to me leaving the industry. Eventually, all of our chemists stopped smoking concentrates altogether for these reasons.

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#69

Pilots f**k up all the time. You only notice though if you know what to look for.

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#70

Nobody uses bots to inflate metrics more than the most major players in the entertainment industry. All the numbers are fake, including sales.

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#71

Musical theatre: The set looks gorgeous only from the angles and distances the audience can see it. Up close and/or to the side AT ALL and it looks like a toddler built it.

Also, unless it's Broadway, there's a pretty good chance that there's at least one musician in the pit who is sight reading the music at any given performance.

maestro2005 Report

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#72

We don't actually enjoy carrying people down 11 flights of way to narrow stairs because they have a stubbed toe.

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#73

They lie to their customers about saving their credit card information because we arent supposed to. We also save their social, addresses, and 5 of their most recent phone numbers and bank account numbers.

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#74

The kind donations people give hoping they go directly to the clients in shelters actually end up at the Salvation Army or Goodwill to be resold (even though we’re instructed to tell them that won’t be the case) and this is done before the clients are even given the chance to decide if they want some of the donated stuff.

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#75

I work in logistics for a massive manufacturing company, money's not [freakin'] real. $1000 for 8 lightbulbs.

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Tammie Braggs 3 years ago

I'm a teacher. If a student is bullying other students it's because they are being bullied or ignored at home...either by a sibling, or by one or both parents. Remember that. No matter how nice the family seems when they're sitting in front of you always remember that, and then find a way to bond with that student.

10points

Jackie Walters 3 years ago

Disagree. I was bullied at school for a physical feature that runs in my family. We didn't bully each other at home.

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Sherryist 3 years ago

Here's a little known fact about having surgery: seen one you seen them all seriously. But here's the main one: yes, we will ask you 100x what surgery are you having done today. You want to know why? We want to make sure YOU know. We all know what you're having done but we are legally required to confirm it with you at every step along the way. Also, we keep asking you when you had something to eat or drink because we've given you a drug along the way that relaxes you. Eventually, you'll start telling the truth and then we will have to cancel your surgery if you ate within an 8-hr period...because you could die.

10points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

EXACTLY. People lie, and their families sue when something goes awry even if the patient lied and it's on videotape.

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YouDontLikeMe? 3 years ago

How about the little known fact that the "smoke" seen coming out of coal fired power plants is not smoke but STEAM. In fact it is cleaner water than that in most bottled water.

3points

Annie Niemands 3 years ago

Why does this have this many upvotes. The "smoke" from the cooling towers of coal fired power plants is steam, of course, but you can't just ignore that every coal fired power plant has at least one chimney, and that is for the SMOKE. It sends enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more so than any other fossil fuel. A coal power plant must burn coal to work, and those emissions are put into the air. The cooling tower is irrelevant in the matter of cleanliness of coal. It's like saying your AC in your car is in fact not exhaust but air. Like, why?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Secret: Hospital patient advocates are hired by the hospital, and focus on social services/legal. Volunteer advocates who are not paid a dime by anyone (like me and a few others across the US, a very few, alas), with medical education, have no paychecks at stake. So when a hospital's patient advocate comes to you? They're there to cover the hospital's ass, not yours. it's why I started doing this. I got the worst so-called advocate about ten years ago. A few years later, I transitioned from online presence to in-person. As it happens, the hospital doesn't mind me, b/c I can stand by the nurse station and answer a lot of questions like, "What does this word mean?!" and spare the nurses/staff miscommunications/etc.

2points

CatWoman312 3 years ago

I work in collections for car payments. We have help to offer, but if you are overly rude or demanding we “forget” to mention the help to you. In fact if you’re extremely disrespectful we go out of the way to make sure your car gets repoed quicker. Don’t be a d**k to someone just because you’re broke. We didn’t make you that way and we’re just doing our jobs.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I thought collection companies had gone with robocalls?

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Patricia Sloan 3 years ago

Word of advice. Don't be rude or piss off your doctor's' receptionist. Cause guess what? We are the ones who have the most power, not the doctor.

0points

Rachael Marrast 3 years ago

Just goes to show that you cant trust anything and to do whatever you want at your own risk.

0points

Thomas brennan 3 years ago

These 'secrets' are a heady mix of of common knowledge, massive generalisations and incredibly dubious. I think a lot of them are either from people who have never worked in these jobs and are guessing for a bit of Karma or have spent a week there and think they know everything. If you're going to make your whole site about stealing content from Reddit, why not use some of the more interesting subreddits like TIL or askhistorians. Hell, Hobbydrama has a lot of hilarious anecdotes that'll fuel articles for a week! Askreddit is the dregs alongside amitheasshole and relationshipsadvice.

0points

Tabitha L 3 years ago (edited)

My current reddit obsession is LeopardsAteMyFace.

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Teucer T 3 years ago

Terms like "overqualified" mean you blew the interview. The most common way to blow an interview? Not knowing enough about the company or position you're interviewing for. Do your research.

-1point

boredkitten 3 years ago

Overqualified - this means someone is too experienced for the role which means they might ask for a lot of money or not stay long to build a career

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Gene Perry 3 years ago

Unless asked a specific question (i.e. "does that hurt?"), don't talk to the dentist.

-3points

Salty Old Woman 3 years ago

Why?

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Tammie Braggs 3 years ago

I'm a teacher. If a student is bullying other students it's because they are being bullied or ignored at home...either by a sibling, or by one or both parents. Remember that. No matter how nice the family seems when they're sitting in front of you always remember that, and then find a way to bond with that student.

10points

Jackie Walters 3 years ago

Disagree. I was bullied at school for a physical feature that runs in my family. We didn't bully each other at home.

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Sherryist 3 years ago

Here's a little known fact about having surgery: seen one you seen them all seriously. But here's the main one: yes, we will ask you 100x what surgery are you having done today. You want to know why? We want to make sure YOU know. We all know what you're having done but we are legally required to confirm it with you at every step along the way. Also, we keep asking you when you had something to eat or drink because we've given you a drug along the way that relaxes you. Eventually, you'll start telling the truth and then we will have to cancel your surgery if you ate within an 8-hr period...because you could die.

10points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

EXACTLY. People lie, and their families sue when something goes awry even if the patient lied and it's on videotape.

8points

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YouDontLikeMe? 3 years ago

How about the little known fact that the "smoke" seen coming out of coal fired power plants is not smoke but STEAM. In fact it is cleaner water than that in most bottled water.

3points

Annie Niemands 3 years ago

Why does this have this many upvotes. The "smoke" from the cooling towers of coal fired power plants is steam, of course, but you can't just ignore that every coal fired power plant has at least one chimney, and that is for the SMOKE. It sends enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more so than any other fossil fuel. A coal power plant must burn coal to work, and those emissions are put into the air. The cooling tower is irrelevant in the matter of cleanliness of coal. It's like saying your AC in your car is in fact not exhaust but air. Like, why?

6points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Secret: Hospital patient advocates are hired by the hospital, and focus on social services/legal. Volunteer advocates who are not paid a dime by anyone (like me and a few others across the US, a very few, alas), with medical education, have no paychecks at stake. So when a hospital's patient advocate comes to you? They're there to cover the hospital's ass, not yours. it's why I started doing this. I got the worst so-called advocate about ten years ago. A few years later, I transitioned from online presence to in-person. As it happens, the hospital doesn't mind me, b/c I can stand by the nurse station and answer a lot of questions like, "What does this word mean?!" and spare the nurses/staff miscommunications/etc.

2points

CatWoman312 3 years ago

I work in collections for car payments. We have help to offer, but if you are overly rude or demanding we “forget” to mention the help to you. In fact if you’re extremely disrespectful we go out of the way to make sure your car gets repoed quicker. Don’t be a d**k to someone just because you’re broke. We didn’t make you that way and we’re just doing our jobs.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I thought collection companies had gone with robocalls?

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Patricia Sloan 3 years ago

Word of advice. Don't be rude or piss off your doctor's' receptionist. Cause guess what? We are the ones who have the most power, not the doctor.

0points

Rachael Marrast 3 years ago

Just goes to show that you cant trust anything and to do whatever you want at your own risk.

0points

Thomas brennan 3 years ago

These 'secrets' are a heady mix of of common knowledge, massive generalisations and incredibly dubious. I think a lot of them are either from people who have never worked in these jobs and are guessing for a bit of Karma or have spent a week there and think they know everything. If you're going to make your whole site about stealing content from Reddit, why not use some of the more interesting subreddits like TIL or askhistorians. Hell, Hobbydrama has a lot of hilarious anecdotes that'll fuel articles for a week! Askreddit is the dregs alongside amitheasshole and relationshipsadvice.

0points

Tabitha L 3 years ago (edited)

My current reddit obsession is LeopardsAteMyFace.

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Teucer T 3 years ago

Terms like "overqualified" mean you blew the interview. The most common way to blow an interview? Not knowing enough about the company or position you're interviewing for. Do your research.

-1point

boredkitten 3 years ago

Overqualified - this means someone is too experienced for the role which means they might ask for a lot of money or not stay long to build a career

1point

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Gene Perry 3 years ago

Unless asked a specific question (i.e. "does that hurt?"), don't talk to the dentist.

-3points

Salty Old Woman 3 years ago

Why?

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