90% of the time your computer trouble is entirely your own fault.

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Master Electrician and former shop owner.

The standard household outlet has enough current to kill the largest man. It just has to take the right path across your heart to ground.

Water alone does not conduct electricity. It lowers an items resistance.

Lights flickering or turning on & off is never ghosts.

We go into conversations with clients knowing we have to let them feel like they know what they're talking about.

Average electrician goes to school and trains for 5 years. After 10 he can study to be a master. They're more educated than most people think. I'm no longer in the trade. Theres more of these. This just came to mind.

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Software developer: a lot of large financial systems are held together with duct tape code and have no real documentation or specifications also there's a good chance that a large number of the staff are fresh out of uni and are just mudling along.

I did my student placement at a major insurance software company which handled billions in transactions, at one point the entire support team was a single student with no oversight.

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Former profession: Catholic school principal. Open secret? Private schools lower their costs and increase their test scores by expelling students with special needs or low grades. Anyone with a disability costs extra because you have to spend more on support services, and private schools like to brag about being academically better than public ones. Instead of helping vulnerable kids, many such schools abandon them for better optics and more money.

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I used to work in daycare (I have worked at several, I’m American)

The law in Washington state was 14 toddlers to two staff, and most daycares try to run at the max amount which provides a terribly stressful environment for children . Even if you enroll your kid in a daycare with less children to teacher ratio, the daycare is usually trying to raise it and a couple less kids being there is temporary.

State regulations can be bizarre, and cause even less ratio of care... For example every child must have their diaper changed every two hours or more, all day, and be documented. Multiply that by 14 kids, so changing all 14 diapers/ potty training some every two hours for 8 -10 hour days..

The two staff rule is really just one person watching the kids for most of the day while the other person is changing diapers. A good environment being provided is almost impossible when one person is watching 14 toddlers.

The state taxes daycares for breaking any small rule, so they struggle to make money and pay people fairly/ hire more staff.

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My family owns a peach garden.

Peaches are really delicate fruits. They’re soft and watery, perfect for any insect to lay eggs. So you need to take good care of them.

But sometimes the weather doesn’t care about that and stuff might happen so now all your peaches have bugs.

What do you do? You can’t sell spoilt peaches but you need money.

Sell them to juice companies for 5 cents a kilo. Enjoy your wor- peach juice.

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Going to the hospital by ambulance doesn’t mean you’ll see a doctor any quicker.

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Anyone who's job is to transport a dead body has dropped one at least once or twice.

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I am not a therapist myself but when I was job shadowing at a clinic, the therapists who were on lunch break would gossip about their patients and joke about how screwed up they are. I am certain that not all therapists do this but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common thing.

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Automotive technician here and maybe I've been extremely fortunate but the shop is usually not out to screw you. A lot of the upsells people scream about are the fact that I have to take these parts off to get to the part I have to fix/replace. The parts that came off have 100,000 miles on them, let me save you labor and replace them now instead of 6 months to a year later.

The other upsells that cause people to cry foul are usually maintenance recommended by the manufacturer at that interval.

And in my personal experience, when someone is getting screwed at a shop, it's because of a service writer or service manager trying sell un-needed work, not the mechanic.

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Wash your fruits and vegetables. If a box breaks open, and produce falls out, we rebox it and ship it.

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your kid did not start talking at 4 months old. a "first word" only counts as such if it is an approximation of a word in the language AND used as such.

a child saying "mama" while reaching for her mother counts. a child saying "doos" while reaching for juice counts. a child saying "daunting" while babbling does not count. they have to be intentionally communicating an idea.

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Addictions counselor here: a lot of police drink too much, a lot of childcare providers use opiates.

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Worked as a McDonalds Manager, and pretty much the entire store had the understanding of telling the customer that the ice cream machine was broken. When the reality is that usually the machine goes into a heat curing cycle for the ice cream mix. Its easier to say its broken than to explain this.

And during the summer days, when everyone ordering sundaes or cones, the machine goes into a lock mode until it can freeze the ice cream again. Or else you just getting lukewarm liquid ice cream mix.

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Almost every elderly person living in a retirement home wants to die. There’s a grace period if the person is relatively healthy but as soon as they realize they are destined to live in the same room the rest of their life they are quick to ask everyone around them to kill them.

Just today I was asked by about 4 members if I would kill them.

Edit: to clarify, the wing I work in is assisted living where most everyone in there is unable to live on their own and requires assistance around the clock. Most people have some form of dementia and most of their families stuck them there because they couldn’t deal with it.

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Classical musician - lots of us at your local symphony are drugged up on beta blockers when we perform.

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Nurse manager here. We nurses aren’t saints.

Generally, most of us are caring, hard-working people. But we have the same people-problems as the general population: opioid addiction, affairs with married men, DUIs, timecard fraud... the list goes on.

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Gallows humor is how many in 911 call centers and emergency services handle some of the [crap] we deal with.

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Do some research before buying paint. Most companies do something called "cross pouring" where one of their more expensive paints is the exact same paint as one of their cheapest. One company, let's call them Durbin-Shilliams, sells two products, Superpaint and A-100. They are the exact same paint. The cost difference is about $20/gallon.

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It is not difficult to get super realistic details in CGI. I see people look at stuff like the stitching on shirts and how there's some fuzz on a peach or something like that in animated films. It looks impressive, but those details are super easy to make, just slap on a normal map and a particle system. Of course some details like cobwebs are more complicated but overall the tiny little things are just a texture or particle system.

The actual hard stuff goes completely unrecognized if it's done well. Compliment the character rigging every now and then, its much more difficult :')

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Your doctor has literally no idea how to perform any lab test that you need. TV shows make it look like the doc just runs down to the empty lab and has results in a moment, but it takes qualified lab technologists to get the tests done. Also, 9 times out of 10 if your doctor or nurse says they need to collect a sample a 2nd time because of something the lab did, it's to cover up that they (the nurse/doc) messed up something in the collection process.

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Not my profession but as someone who is interested in it, runway models are all very underweight (in other news water is wet). Usually BMIs in the 15-16s, and they're often told they're too fat getting towards the upper 16s. But they don't say weight stuff usually for plausible deniability reasons, they'll use measurements and inches. Certain other kinds of models are more like 16s-17s, high fashion/runway models are the skinniest.

If you don't know, a BMI of 18.5-25 is the "healthy range". In terms of categorizations of anorexia according to the DSM, above 17 is mild, 16s is moderate, 15s is severe anorexia, and under 15 is extreme. although the most common shock photos of anorexics are like bmis of 12 or 13, most anorexics don't even get that thin. It's a problem and adds to many people with anorexia not feeling "sick enough" because they're not so thin their organs are shutting down and they look like an actual skeleton. That level is rare, many people at higher weights are still very sick. Of course, there is more to eating disorders than just a low weight. But I am certain that a very large amount of models are anorexic, and do everything they can to hide that.

Those rules some places have put out about models having to be a healthy weight or over a BMI of like 18 are an absolute joke, because clearly none are remotely near that "high".

We're so used to this that we often don't realize it's unhealthily underweight. Even most actresses on TV etc are a little underweight or ranging close to it, though not nearly as much as runway/ professional models. The standard in hollywood nowadays is probably doing massive amounts of exercise and hovering right around the borderline between underweight and healthy (18s BMI), so that they look underweight despite being maybe not, because of being fairly muscular and usually getting some minor plastic surgeries/lipo/fillers.

Although a good amount of actresses are just plain underweight. It just depends on if they try to focus on being "healthy" or don't really care. Probably in the 1990s is when it was the most about being just skinny, but more recently there's the added pressure of maintaining both a healthy weight and standards that most people would have to be underweight to match. The underweight route is actually probably easier than staying at a healthy weight yet maintaining the standards they feel pressure to.

Fun fact just because someone is "still attractive" doesn't mean they aren't unhealthily underweight.

Not talking about instagram "models" and the like here at all though lmao, or certain "models" who have gotten into it through family connections, because those aren't real models.

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Libraries throw away, pulp or otherwise recycle a LOT of old books. We get a lot of awful, tatty stuff donated. We have old, manky books that we need to get rid of to make shelf space for newer stock. And we have standards for anything we sell off at library stock sales. It's just easier to throw things out. Sometimes things go to the workroom for 'repair' or 'cleaning' - straight in the bin. We do this because if customers knew, they might damage things that they wanted to buy from us.

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The sauna only gets cleaned out once a week. Twice of your lucky. Also the pools are never emptied for “cleaning” they have filters for that. Essentially a gigantic fish tank for humans. The chlorine sterilized any fecal mater or any form of bile that comes out of the human body. All we do is scoop the chunks and send y’all back in.

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The amount of salt and fat in your food, especially at high quality restaurants. We kept a large hotel pan full of clarified butter behind the line, itd be empty by the end of the night.

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When temperamental artists ask us to adjust the sound and we pretend to twiddle knobs.

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Current profession: Tabletop RPG designer. Open secret? The pay is crap. You cannot make a living this way unless you are extremely lucky. (I have a day job and very understanding wife.) What's worse is how some game companies purposefully target folks wanting to break into game design by offering them work at super low rates. $0.03/word is common (but still low), but I've seen asshats offering $0.005/word (yes, half a cent) or the scam where there's no pay because you'll receive "exposure".

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Ex-model: If you're looking at brandless and cheap lingerie online, especially those from (country I've worked in), theres a good 60% chance that the models aren't 18.

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All gallons of house paint regardless of quality cost about 5$ to manufacture.

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That reinforced glass and that security camera may not actually be unbreakable or being monitored or recorded, respectively. If you can see the monitor showing the camera feed, it doesn't actually mean it's being recorded, too.

These things can just be there to make people guess whether it actually works or not. Go ahead, roll that dice. People typically just go somewhere where there isn't a camera or glass, instead.

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For some reason medical device prices are inflated beyond the stratosphere against what it costs to make them. I understand there are more regulating organizations that are applicable for medical devices and not other products (automotive, electrical, petrochemical) but WHAT THE FU*K ? An item that costs us 700 USD to make is sold to our dealers in 3k, then they sell those to hospitals in 7k, then the hospital sells them the client/patient in 10k.

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This isn't a secret, but everything is Photoshopped. I am constantly pointing out to people a bad Photoshop job in an ad, and people will say, "what are you talking about? Looks real to me!" Trust me...everything is Photoshopped, put through a filter, shrunken, stretched, brightened, just to make you want to buy it.

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Large non profit have no vested interest in solving the problem they are raising money for. There is little accountability for actual results. The larger the organization the further they are from real solutions.

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Advertisers can show you ads that are related to what your wife / husband / girlfriend etc. has been looking at online. If you have acknowledged your relationship (I.e marital status on facebook) and are often in the same location, advertisers assume you’re talking about getting a bike or planning a trip etc and will serve you ads even if you haven’t been the person looking them up.

Edit: I should clarify it’s not down to the specific advertiser or brand that know all this information about you, and it’s not associated with you as an individual (ie they don’t know your name), but rather it’s the program that collects data and sells ad space based on that data.

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Nursing homes have no [friggin] clue how to order medication for their residents.

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Every electronic signal CAN be intercepted and translated. Not all of them ARE

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"Military grade" literally translates in to "the lowest bidder." A lot of military personal, especially the Marines, use stuff from the Vietnam War, hand-me-downs from the army, etc. The government spends as little as possible on outfitting its troops in 99% of cases

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Real Estate agents do not believe their job is to get you the best price.

To agents, there is an unwritten understanding that you have a realistic expectation when buying a property. They can consult you, guide you, and employ some basic negotiating tactics, but they aren't interested in wheeling and dealing at the chance of a paycheck, even if they make you believe they are hustling hard to find you a diamond deal. If you start to become unrealistic, many agents will just start to frame everything as a great deal and once in a lifetime to get you to buy, to avoid having wasted their time.

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If you buy an antique or a vintage piece it most likely went through ~5 hands, each one at least doubling the price.

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Insurance agent here, to all home buyers. Make sure you buy some sort of mold coverage. When pipes burst or you have a leaky faucet or some sort of water damage. We’ll write it off as non covered mold. Save yourself an extra hassle and get some limited mold coverage.

Heed my warning.

Edit: Also when we stress saying in the event of a “covered loss” it really means it’s a 50/50 chance of it depending on how claim adjusters see it.

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Construction- piss bottles everywhere

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Architecture is a LOT of copy and pasting. Creating a catalogue of details and ideas and adapting them from one project to another.

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The process of home installations by big companies will almost always be worse than going straight to liscensed contractor. Not the install of the items themselves(cabinets, floors, tile) but the schedualing and sales of products is terriblly orchestrated. Because they have so many clients and use 3rd partys for measurements, installation and the fabrication of products there's so much that can go wrong and nothing ever goes to plan, almost always because of the lack of communication. A company I worked for left in 85 year old woman without a kitchen for 2 months before I finally came in and installed her cabinets, she then waited another month for the countertops. If she would have gone straight to my company then she probably would have had the entire thing done in a weekend

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Your prescription drugs might be cheaper if you don’t use your insurance. This won’t be the case at most chain pharmacies (some exceptions), but an independent pharmacy might offer a generic medication at a cost significantly less than your copay as assigned by your prescription insurance company. In some states it’s illegal for a pharmacist to tell you this, so you might want to ask directly.

Also, the cost of a drug can vary significantly from one pharmacy to another because the acquisition cost can vary for each pharmacy due to a number of factors. So shop around.

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If you take an actual IQ test, your results will rarely, if ever, be provided to you. The only information you will likely receive is whether you are in an average range or not. Whatever the number is (even when very high), the only typically meaningful results are when an individual scores below 70 IQ, or two standard deviations below the mean, which is the cutoff for a diagnosis of an intellectual disability.

Also, psychologists are unable to take IQ tests once they're trained to administer them. This might seem obvious but most don't realize this is the case; the results would be totally invalid.

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Grocery stores make very little money from the middle of the store. Most of the profit comes from the produce department.

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In development aid projects (by the big players), the "need" for the project and the "design" to bring about desired change, is often just crafted in drawing rooms based on assumptions. Rarely do people actually visit the sites before a project starts to ask the community what they truly need. Once the funding comes in, the communities are told that you need this and you'll benefit out of it, but TBH, the people who benifit the most are the development aid employees and few government officials. Or if it's an USAID project, those who benifit are the US corporations often at the cost of the communities' livelihood (and the environment), especially in developing countries.

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Not mine but my aunt is a teacher, the public charter schools in our area wait until after the district has counted their students to expel them and send them into the public school system. Our district has a day where they inspect the school’s attendance and allocates money for the year per child in attendance. The charter schools pocket the difference while the public schools are over crowded and under funded

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Insurance rep here. Your credit score matters more than people realize. It can affect your auto insurance premium by as much as $100 a month. And if you're a renter, I can pretty much ballpark your credit score by running a renters insurance quote for you. The higher the monthly premium for your renters insurance, the shittier your credit score.

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Depending on the state, security guards can't actually detain you if they suspect you of a crime.

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Red light camera citations are tied to the car and not you. Change either the color or the license plate, and it's a different car.

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I work at a fabrication shop and the number of times something isn’t to spec and still gets sent out is unbelievable

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I have worked in enough restaurants that I can say with absolute certainty, that no matter where you go to eat, nearly every person in the kitchen is high as f*ck while cooking your food, I’ve even worked at places where we would sometimes go in the walk-in cooler to shotgun beers after the lunch or dinner rush. Kitchen staff do not give a single f*ck about rules other than food safety

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Well, it's not a secret, but I've found some people to be surprised by this when I explain them.

The majority of technical articles you read on specialized commercial press, even interviews and such, are created by comms and marketing teams of corporations. Also, lots of similar stuff in generic press too.

Like, don't know, "Why multiplayer games are better than SP" or whatever, published in WhateverPCGaming or the like. Signed by a member of that publication. People like my overlords determined the subject and the opinion we want to form into people. THen people like me craft that text, or content or whatever, and then we send it to our press partners.

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Teachers have favorites and talk sh*t about the students they don't like all the time. I was a teacher for 10+ years and ate lunch in the teachers' lounge like 4 times because I just couldn't stand it. I'm talking about kids as young as kindergarten. Same thing with parents. Teachers talk sh*t about them. "PITA parent" is a common name given to parents who DARE to contact teachers about their kids (though parents who call and demand better grades for their kids - fully entitled and truly assh*les, usually).

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If you're at at a cheap burger place in a poorer part of town or understaffed. There's absolutely a chance people don't wash their hands before cooking, or don't wear gloves. I've seen plenty of buns hit the dirty ass floor and still be used.

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We don't have time to call your references or old employers unless you're interviewing for a more prominent position.

Lie away.

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that remodeling only actually costs about 1/3rd of what people typically pay for and almost none of the work is actually particularly difficult or dangerous. people think its some mysterious profession frought with plumbing and electrical perils and scary equipment.

the real magic ive seen is older contractors who can bid a job within five minutes of seeing the work.

anyway, learn yourself a youtube to learn remodeling and DIY.

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