Few people know all the ins and outs of an industry without having ever worked in it. That’s because there are things “outsiders” should never know, and if you’re wondering what kind of things we’re talking about, it’s details no customers should ever hear—for example, the information that certain things are only cleaned once a year or that the “different” things you are buying are all made by the same manufacturer.
These are just a couple examples of secrets redditors revealed after one of them started a thread on the ‘Ask Reddit’ subreddit. They were curious to learn what people’s jobs prohibited them from telling customers about, and if you’re curious, too, scroll down to find their answers on the list below.
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We are highly advised against telling parents about milestones like first steps, first words etc happening at our center because it could cause numerous negative emotions in the parent and we know the child will do it again soon! It’s a very special moment and we want the parent to experience it as authentically as possible. I’m a daycare teacher :).
Thankyou for being kind.... Shame our nursery decided to post pictures of our kid standing, while their mum was in hospital for ongoing post birth issues... She's fine now...
The comments here agree, let the parents find out and enjoy it themselves. I don't see anyone saying, "Tell the truth. If a child has reached a certain milestone, the parent must be informed." That could get really complicated anyway.
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I work for a major US brewery and we have one beer that we put into two separate cans. One of them is a “premium” beverage (one of the most popular in the US top 5) and the other is an “economy” beer. It’s the same stuff.
So I guess that Simpsons joke about Duff, Duff Lite and Duff Dry was actually accurate
And the Family Guys Pawtucket beer being the same as Duff!
Load More Replies...There's a local chicken company in my country that does a similar thing. They have a standard brand and a free-range brand, which is more expensive. You're probably all thinking they are cheating on the free-range aspect. In fact, it's the other way round - ALL their chicken is free-range but they just charge more for the one that is actually identified as free-range.
It is. I have first and second-hand experience with a range of items. OEM oil filter? Internally identical to the cheap ones on Walmart shelves. Oil? Some 80% comes out of the same vats with coloring added. Many foods (animal and people)? Change the label and keep running. Water heaters? Knew someone who picked one up at the factory and was asked which label pack he wanted. Tires
Load More Replies...My third job when I was young working in a chicken place where they produce eggs. The company I worked for had different stores they would supply to. All the eggs came from the same place.
No surprise here, same goes for many generic grocery store items, just different packaging
Top 5 beers in the US are Budweiser, Modelo, Michelob, Corona and Coors. None of these are expensive beers. I don't know what cheaper bear they would replace one of them with. I call BS on this.
Non branded, like chain brand. Target or Walmart own brand of beer.
Load More Replies...Not really. Say a cereal company makes both a 'premium' and a 'house' (and maybe a 'savers') brand, they will really cut corners & have cheaper ingredients for the lesser products. Try blind testing. I'd say mass market 'premium lager' is an exception, because there's indeed not much difference to make except for branding.
Load More Replies...I don't. I have family who work in both MolsonCoors and AB InBev breweries and they have all shared same beer, different bottles/cans.
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Your loved one is dead. You should let them go and stop making us fill him/her/it/them with epinepherine just to keep their heart beating.
As a believer, i don't get why people want to keep this person alive, or even appearing alive. If it's their time, if what remains of their life is a misery, show mercy and let them go. My one rule is not "life comes first" but "compassion comes first". Don't let someone you profess to love suffer because of your selfishness. Yes, it's a hard choice, but sometimes the last gift you can give them.
As a non believer. I completely agree. Let us return to the atoms from whence we came and then become part of another form of life.... The cycle of energy and matter is endless.
Load More Replies...The ICU doctor was so grateful when we told him we didn't want to treat my 93 yo father's infection. I could tell that he and the staff had really been traumatized by being forced to treat patients that they knew wouldn't survive, couldn't stand the treatment, and/or would not fully recover anything like quality of life. (I was also grateful that my mom, sister and I were totally on the same page about this.)
My 90 year old father was comatose on his deathbed. The only possible thing that might have saved him was an organ transplant. When asked I declined to pursue the transplant. It was sad but I felt he would have actually suffered with such a procedure at that point. Within two days he was dead. I didn't inquire (would rather it seem natural) but I truly believe after my decision the hospital gently ended his life as compassionately as possible
The way we treat dying people is almost entirely governed by our own fear of death.
It’s legal to let our beloved pets suffer no more, why should it be any different for humans?
Air being moved through lungs by use of a machine and a heart beating through use of a chemical is not life.
Here in the US you can get a DNR or Do NOT Resuscitate form and designate an advocate. I have them on file with our two local hospitals, my clinic, my three Advocates and one on my wall and in my wallet. I'm 65 my health is rubbish, if its my time to move on so be it. This is a very important discussion to have with your family, my mother would never honor that DNR no matter how bad off a person is, so she isn't on it.
I sell new homes. I've sold about 1500 of them.
Get a home inspection if you buy a new home.
Fewer than a hundred of my buyers have gotten home inspections. Probably fewer than fifty. Every single one has found something important that we wouldn't have addressed otherwise.
I’m not sure which country this is, but Australia and NZ banks basically insist on an inspection for mortgage and insurance
Also EU & UK. And you can find independent inspectors!
Load More Replies...Examples: we hired an inspector for our new house, and found that one of the supports in the crawl space was not actually attached to the house frame. The floor could have collapsed during an earthquake. Another time, for a different house, we found a shower drain was leaking under the house, causing wood to rot.
EDIT: Also, as I think about it - why would this be something they can't tell the buyer? In the USA anyway, the buyer's agent is legally required to be working for the buyer (and same for seller's agent). At least one of my agents recommended I hire an inspector. == Finding / hiring a good independent home inspector is good advice. I've used one for two different homes. I'm pretty good at looking at things pragmatically rather than through rose colored glasses and I did find some things on my own. Even so, both times the inspector found some things I missed. They didn't turn out to be 'deal breakers' but they were things I wanted to know about.
In the UK, we have something called the National House Builders Guarantee, which is effectively a 10 year warranty on new build properties for serious defects.
Sort of. The builder has a two year defects liability period where they’ll make good any issues (and fight tooth and nail to avoid doing it). Then there is an 8 year insurance period from the house builder company that should cover any serious issues. The standard of work on volume house builder schemes is very poor, but your house won’t fall down, at least not in the first ten years….
Load More Replies...Unfortunately -as you no doubt know- these days (in the US at least) if you, as a buyer, require an inspection it usually means you don't get the house due to the sheer number of bidders and cash offers. This country...
Its compulsory back in my natal Northern Ireland, UK, and France. Level of insulation is one of the high priorities.
About 20 years ago I was visiting the Atlanta area and a new neighborhood was going in across from my relatives house. They were thinking of buying a new home. So we went in to take a look during construction. There was Tyvek wrap and vinyl on the outside and they were starting to Sheetrock the inside. No insulation, no plywood! Needless to say, my relative kept their old house.
In the US you can make an offer on a home with the stipulation that you will not require an inspection. This is done when the offer is far below the asking price and the potential buyer has other collateral to back up the loan or is paying cash.
I worked at a historic penitentiary in Phila., PA.
At the bottom of the children's waiver, in fine print, it states that there are cell blocks that have not been abated for asbestos, and the old lead paint leaves a film of dust on everything. I got written up for pointing this out to a pregnant woman.
It's far from ideal but it is historic after all. And iirc both substances need some degree of extended exposure to do harm so I think you'd be OK as long as you don't go around licking the walls.
Unless said asbestos or lead is being stirred up, it’s not doing visitors any harm by just sitting there.
I was going to say this if someone else didn't. Oddly enough my son & I just discussed this place yesterday.
Load More Replies...It's the Eastern State Penitentiary. I've been there for a tour According to their website "Eastern State opened more than 180 years ago, it changed the world. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of prisoners. The building itself was an architectural wonder; it had running water and central heat before the White House, and attracted visitors from around the globe." They stopped housing inmates in 1971. It is a very interesting site: https://www.easternstate.org/
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I worked in retail management for many years, and can confirm that the average consumer has a 2nd grade understanding of math.
**Black Friday sales are not really sales**.
If an item costs $30 normally, they will run a promotion that is "3 for $90," and people will come in droves to buy out a product.
If a shirt is $20 and is normally "Buy 1 Get 1 50% off," (so $60 total for 4 units) the Black Friday Sale will be "Buy 3, Get 1 Free!", which is $60 for 4 units.
You would be genuinely surprised by how many people don't do simple math and get excited by big signs.
Impossible in places with actual consumers protection laws (the EU evidently) : you cannot legally call « sales » all these fake deals.
In EU it is legally required that any sale article be actually on sale at the previous higher price for some weeks before the sale at the discounted price.
Load More Replies...This is an exaggeration. Many things on BF sales are actually on sale. Some are on sale for other reasons - like clearing out model X to make room for new model Y. But I've seen things that I was interested in and price tracking go on sale on BF. "$30 or 3 for $90" might fool some people and of course those are the ones you will see flocking to it - but not everyone is a total idiot. On the whole, BF sales are not enough to get me down to the mall at 6 AM. But once in a while I'll purchase something online that I was already looking at before the sale.
This is why I start my holiday gift list in June. I keep a list of items and including their prices at that time on a sheet and occasionally check to see when it has gone down from the price I have listed. It sounds a bit insane but it helps me to know when it has actually gone down in price and its not a fake sale. I dont shop on black Friday, there are great sales through the year that I dont need to wait to make my purchases. There are even sites that you can check what the price was previous to the sale to see if you are actually even getting a deal.
The truth about Black Friday sales (in the U.S.) is that they are generally not as good as other sales around that time, such as "Pre-Black Friday" sales. Retailers rely on the hype of Black Friday to generate sales and sell merchandise for more than they did just a couple weeks earlier.
Back when I was a boy in Philadelphia - before any semblance of consumer protection laws - there was a store that had been running a Going Out of Business sale for the past seventeen years. It was known as "Going Out of Business & Son".
We have quite a few of these types of furniture and mattress stores.
Load More Replies...Years ago people rejected the 1/3 pounder over the 1/4 pounder (hamburger) bc they thought it was smaller.
I'm sure this happens a lot. Here in Australia, stores promote "50% off " ..... off what ? Boxing Day ( the day after Christmas Day ) sales are the worst. People assume they're getting some fantastic bargain. The store has a price ticket on the article, which is actually more than the regular retail price, then another label stating 50% off. Ha, ha ,,,, what a rip off.
I was in charge of all of the keys for a navy base. Signing them out to contractors and TCNs, n such. There were probably around 300 keys for the whole base and every single one was the exact same key. When they set up the system no one realized that when they bought the same 300 locks it came with the same 300 keys. So I was basically giving out master keys to the base without no one ever knowing and I'm sure they have never replaced the locks. It passed a high level government inspection, those f****n people didn't even notice all the keys were the same.
There's a reason Feynman could make a hobby of picking, in use, locks during the Manhattan Project. It hasn't gotten better.
I grew up in the state park system, my Da was a park manager. He had an extra lock left over and gave it to me for my bicycle. Turns out that exact same key was used by EVERY state padlock for over 20 years. I was working grounds maintenance in college and the foreman forgot his keys so we couldn't get into the groundskeeping shed. I asked "Is that lock a 2462?" he said yeah, so I pulled out my key and unlocked the shed. Then I had to explain why I had a key that could open every outbuilding on campus.
Go watch the Lock-Picking Lawyer on YouTube. You will quickly despair of ever locking up anything securely.
A company for which I worked for 29 years had a locked wages office. When we moved to a new factory, I was responsible for collecting up all the keys to the old offices. I collected 126 keys that fitted the wages office!
How do they not have a locksmith with the ability to re core the locks? Our facility has one
I worked at a fancy hotel and was out front to greet people and assist upon arrival.
We weren't allowed to say "Welcome back!"
This was in place to protect those that decided to bring another spouse/partner/mistress/etc day after day to the hotel during their stay.
It's not about protecting them. It's the fact that it's none of your business.
Load More Replies...I worked in a fancy hotel when I was younger. There are lots of illicit things going on that guests have no idea about.
And where do those adulterers do their grocery shopping? I sure don't want to be buying my peanut butter there!
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For reference, I work at a trampoline/adventure park.
We don't clean the ballpit like ever. Some kid peed in there once, and they just told an employee to stick a mop in there. When we do clean it (like once a year), the number of phones, vapes, socks, ect, is actually disturbing. We're supposed to clean it like 2-4 times a year. Also, we never clean the baby changing stations. It didn't click to me to maybe wipe it down. If I'm on the bathrooms, it's now added to my to-do list.
I would expect a ball pit to be cleaned at minimum once a week... not once a quarter 😲
My parents never let us play in ball pits when we were kids. Now I understand why.
Load More Replies...Eww. I'd design something like this with a drain so you could fill it with water and disinfectant, and swill everything around a bit, then pull the plug and hose everything down to rinse it. Checking for stray small children first, of course.
That is not true of all places..my husband was maintenance head at a local "fun" pizza place and he did it every two weeks. He hated doing it because it was a huge pain in the a*s and he'd have to come in after hours but at least got good overtime every two weeks! My son (5 year old st the time) thought his dad was the coolest human being on the planet because twice a month my hubby would bring us while he washed the ball pit, gave us a huge handful of free tokens and turned on all the machines.My my son and I had the entire place to ourselves. We always had a blast!
They don't clean it "like ever" but when they do clean it once a year?
Perhaps "rarely" would have been a more appropriate word to use...
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I worked for a small family owned business that was famous for their old fashioned pies…they were bought in from a large company and baked there. That was it. I had so many customers tell me how we have the best pies ever and that the baker does an amazing job, when in reality all she did was put them in the oven.
Pretty standard and has been for decades, sadly. In all types of food service. If you're paying less than like $20-40 per menu item (large city on the west coast pricing), you're very likely buying what is essentially a fancy TV dinner. It's not necessarily a ripoff, since the higher end food service factories use MUCH higher quality and fresher ingredients than, say, Hungry Man or Stouffer's. Hell, a lot of it is even made by actual hand, just in an industrial assembly line type kitchen in the Midwest somewhere. Plus you're paying for labor and overhead. But you're kind of blindly trusting the restaurant to actually sell the high quality factory-made stuff, and not dog food rejects from Nestlé.
Company I used to work for did live chat support. Unbeknownst to customers the support engineers could read what customers were typing before they hit send... Be careful what you say to tech support is all I can say!
Glad I've always been polite! I'm always just happy to find it genuinely is live chat support and not a bot.
same with my job. i'm in a semi-supervisory role and i can see what my agents and the customers are typing before they hit send, if i need to monitor the chat. which is why now, if i'm chatting with customer support as a customer, i type it in notepad then copy and paste
It depends on the chat program. Had one where yiu could and another you couldn't. It's quite funny though when you see people losing their sh¹t and then back spacing and being a bit nicer before hitting send!
You can express frustration without resorting to verbal abuse and insults...
Manners cost NOTHING - especially online as well, just because you can't see the person, doesn't mean they aren't....
being able to read what the customer is typing, allows the agent to prepare a potential response, thus increasing both productivity and efficiency and making the interaction more positive for the customer. BTW, we really don't care about your spelling, as long as we can understand what you're saying, so no need to correct a small typo such as their vs there or to and too. Just don't give us incorrect maths, as then we have to use our math brains lol
And yet if you're not typing in the box, if you're editing your words in a text editor, the lazy "service" fogduckers will assume "you're not there" and cut you off.
I’m a contractor, so I guess it’s more of a trade secret. In sports broadcasting, you only see the interviews that have been approved for air. So, all the horrible language, political statements, extremely awkward answers, etc., get screened and buried so nobody sees them.
But I see them, and they’re very entertaining.
Having a friend who worked for a famous sport media, I can relate it's highly controlled. Even some written interviews in newspapers are fake. The journalists sometimes don't even meet celebs. They agree with their agents to create questions and answers that fit a convenient public image, with fake confidence to make it sounds real. This is done because some celebs don't have time for all the interviews, but also sometimes to avoid real problems to be known by the audience, as they may show in a real interview (dr. u.gs, family problems...).
Glad to read this. I just wish you could block out some of the brainless interviews done during hockey games by some young woman with one inch eyelashes who knows nothing about the sport.
The job you applied for does not exist. If the website you applied on has the word job in the url, it's just data mining, at least 70% of the time. Job applicants will give up some of the most valuable data without hesitation and every fortune 500 spends upwards of 90k a year harvesting this data so I know it's high yield value content. What they do with the data idk but I do know it's packaged and sold.
this may be true for some companies but i just double checked at my company and our job listings do have jobs in the url and the jobs listed very much do exist. in fact we had a conversation in a meeting today about taking down the one for my department because we got so many applicants in 5 days and interviews have started. so don't lose heart or quit applying for jobs just because the url has "job" in it.
Not entirely true. Maybe some do but my company uses a website called TracJobs and they are definitely all real jobs with real people shortlisting. I would suggest use the contact details for the job to call the location you want to work in and ask for a tour/walk around. Most places will say yes, you get an idea of the job and environment so can tailor your application, you know they're real and they tend to remember you better when shortlisting.
I miss the days of walking into Personnel with your resume and applying for a job. Our HR department is a joke. No one knows what the one person there does all day.
Also, the job you applied for may be one that is basically intended for someone else. Some guy who already works for the company has a boss who wants to promote him, but can't get it done through the usual route, so a "new position" with a higher job title gets posted. The boss tells his employee to apply for it, but he is also required to interview a few external candidates. So he goes through the motions and does the interviews, knowing he is just going to give the job to his existing employee anyway.
Perhaps this is true somewhere but certainly not at my company. We're handling tens of thousands of applications per month for a company smaller than 2k employees. We've got hundreds of openings and they are all very much open. It's just a sad fact that the clear majority of applicants won't get hired.
I work at a university and we're heavily discouraged from telling students to drop out. We're also discouraged from telling them to change majors if it's going to make them take longer to graduate. The second one really bothers me.
I would think they would encourage anything that would increase tuition to the school.
A selling point for colleges is being able to tell prospective students that they will graduate in 4 years.
Load More Replies...I worked for a major university where zoology was the main major for pre-med/dental/nursing/etc students. University also has several medical professional schools (DO, LPN, RN, PT, etc). The first required course (Intro to Zoology for Majors) was 4 sections of 700 students (2800 total). They built a lecture hall just for the course. For close to 40 years, the first lecture was a discouragement to keep the major saying only 1 in 9 would make it to the end of the year and 1 in 65 would make it to graduation. The lecture was a survey of all the required courses (Chem, Physics, Biol, Tech writing, medical ethics, etc) to see what you'd have to do. Then COVID hit. The incoming freshman saw first hand how the public treated our caregivers. Its now one section of 400 students. That first lecture has been cut because they are worried they won't have enough people graduate to apply to the professional schools.
that is because they get rated on a 5 year graduation rate, rather than students graduating overall. If it takes longer than 5 years, it hurts their ranking. There is a University in NYC that takes a hit in the rankings because they have a program to help lower income and working people get degrees where only 60% finish within 5 years, many doing part time take 6 or 7, so it hurts their rankings. It is a problem with the ranking system
i was once at an information day somewhere in the Netherlands and they told us "9 of 10 will drop out" well, good bye then, geezz
But you're encouraged to have them apply for more student liloans, right?
Funny. I had an advisor that bluntly (and rudely) told me to change my major or change schools.
It's all about the money! The longer the students stay, the more tuition they pay!
Someone who thinks a student shouldn't waste more time (and in some countries money) on a subject he/she will never get the hang of.
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In my country there are 2 main distributors of the products my employer sells. Us and the other company..which buys their products from us to sell them as theirs. I deliver a truck full of products every week to them. But we have to deny every connection to the other company.
I think this is an AI generated image according to the credit on the bottom? But yes, I do see some nightmare meat back there
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Old job but that our “house beer” is one of the most common lagers in the country.
I don't want a beer that tastes like a house, but to be fair, I also don't want a house that tastes like a beer.
Here is a disgusting FYI.... Many bars and establishments that sell draft beer RARELY clean their lines. Most have a petri dish of bacteria and green sludge coating the hoses from the kegs to the taps. Not sure how to ask or verify cleanliness before ordering. Can't trust 'em. So sorry. Bottle for me.
I drink premium beer in bottles when I indulge occasionally... Have recently found a strong beer in a can I like: Oranjeboom 8.5 🙂
Our warranty is as long as it is because it will fail after the warranty.
I'm not sure what the situation is in other countries, but in NZ the Consumer Guarantees Act protects consumers even if the warranty has expired. Consumers have the right to expect products to last for a "reasonable lifetime". There are guidelines for this - it varies according to the product. It's a waste of time buying those stupid extended warranties because you are protected anyway. And there is legal recourse of a company tries to avoid their responsibilities.
I worked for a plumbing company. Older water heaters would have a 10-20 year warranty and would usually last much longer. Newer ones have a 6 year warranty and it was not uncommon to see them fail before their 7th year.
We bought two TVs three years ago, both died within a week of each other shortly after the 2yr warranty expired. A coincidence? I think not.
Almost nobody follows the rules of the warranty to the letter - think about all the things that the manual says to "thoroughly clean after every use or X days"! When's the last time you've cleaned the condenser coils on your refrigerator or air conditioner or the filters on your microwave/oven/whatever if they seem to be working properly? The fans on your GPU, or replaced the thermal paste on your CPU?
There's a sticker in the window that we have ADT security, but we stopped paying for it since covid.
Technically it's best to have an unbranded sticker or one from a company you don't use. That way potential intruders can't lookup known vulnerabilities with your system.
That's what I have in my yard. However, having a sign or sticker, branded or not, is at least a small deterrent, even if you don't have a system at all. Criminals are brazen and it won't stop them all, but the one thing they don't want is attention on themselves, so some of them just won't risk it.
Load More Replies...We've never had it but we put up the sign anyway. For most thieves that's enough of a deterrent. If someone REALLY wants to break in to your house they'll find a way. Safety is an illusion. ;)
I heard somewhere that Beware of dog signs deter more crooks than home security.
I have to assume our dogbell is also quite a deterrent. Doorbell doesn't work but that's fine, dog'll let you know someone's here! She's a good girl.
Load More Replies...The best thing I did for myself is install CCTV... Nuisance behaviour dropped almost immediately. The infrared cameras are definitely a deterrent at night (and sure help when you can see things that are invisible to the naked eye).
We have fake cameras on our house. At one point they did work when we lived in the city next to a meth head neighbor, but when we moved to a Mayberry town we just hung them and never fully installed them, partly because we found out after the move they broke. Btw my spouse is in IT and what people pay monthly for these adt like services, he was able to set up our security system to do the same thing for free, other than the cost of buying the cameras.
I worked for a big Japanese electronics manufacturer in a call center back in the early 90s. We were not allowed to say that a line of our tv's had bad tuners even though we all knew it and sent out countless free tuners to repair shops all over the country even for out of warranty products. I typed it so many times I even remember the part number, 1465371-11. EDIT: since so many people asked, it was a whole line of Sony tv's.
Sony stood for Soon Only Not Yet in the broadcast tv world when I worked in the industry
Probably the one we have. We told Dish to screw off, and now are OTA (antenna). The amount of times we have to re scan the channels is annoying, like 2-3 times/week.
Tried something similar with samsumg. I used to install cable tv. And would often install several outlets in homes. One costumer i had, bought 4 samsung screens. A couple of days after the installation they called me because they kept losing the signal. I tested everything and could not find anything wrong. Until i noticed the screens would not lose signal at the same time. Turn out that when the tuner was locked on a channel for about 5 min it would turn off. If you then hanged the channel it would come back on.
When I was in retail maintenance, I wasn't allowed to let the managers see the bill. That was for corporate eyes only. My theory was that if they knew how much I was making to change a lightbulb they would quit and go do that. Or maybe they would be good employees and change the lightbulb themselves, thus increasing the companies liability. .
For a period of time I used to scan and index invoices at the pension company I worked at. I don't think HR realised that meant EVERY invoice, including accounts for corporate events. Some were breathtaking, like £20,000 for a famous sports coach to give an hour long speech at a meeting!
Some politicians here in the US get unbelievable fees for speaking at an event. Only the super rich can attend; I wouldn't even want to.
Load More Replies...What country is this? In the good ol' USA, I am frequently climbing a 12' ladder to change light bulbs, signs, and freight/stock. Of course the pay is way less than my manager's pay. Also, I live in an state that is anti union.
The reality is that the invoice should only be seen by the person who is going to pay it.
Cumbersome to send out every invoice to the stockholders.
Load More Replies...Maybe they just want the managers to put customers first, and not get distracted by administriva. There's no value added by having someone review paperwork they can't act on or pay.
Yes, the managers salary is used to figure out his WC premium. He isn't supposed to be climbing ladders, etc. If it comes out that he was doing something like that for the company, during audit, that WC premium would skyrocket as they'd be reclassified.
I grew up working for a family ice cream business. The restaurants that we sold bulk tubs of ice cream to thought it was home made by us. While we did make our own ice cream the 3-gallon bulk containers was product that we purchased from another company and sold at a high markup. I was under strict orders from my father to never reveal this to the customers. One of our customers would then sell this regular ice cream as gelato, even though it was just ice cream.
In Italian the word 'Gelato' is used as a generic term for all types of ice cream.
Ace, in English, 'gelato' has a specific meaning. Gelato is make with milk, and is churned whilst freezing. Ice cream is made with cream and is churned whilst freezing. Semifreddo is made with cream, and is not churned.
Load More Replies...That's shady... If I as a customer cottoned onto this, I would have boycotted the company and let everyone know. I don't mind paying a premium for a premium product (Unless that other company produced the bulk product with the same ingredients and at the same standard, it's downright duplicitous).
If a software salesperson says a feature is "in Development", that likely means they sent the dev team an email saying 'wouldn't this feature be great?!' 6 months ago. Until it hits the roadmap, it isn't real. And once it's on the roadmap, add 6months to a year for actual delivery. Roadmaps are estimates by management and they align with profit goals, not actual dev time.
I would argue that many times no email or communication to development of any kind is done entire after some promise has already been made.
This is one of the biggest problems Disney has with their parks. They say these exact words. In development. but have not even made a game plan for it. And than in the same breath they ask for more money so they can change things but not actually use it for things that need fixing or renovations.
If a software company doesn't release a product because it isn't ready, I say good for them. Game software companies might take note.
I used to work for a medtech startup, writing an algorithm to detect if someone has passed away. Since we were not allowed to proclaim someone dead, we notify the healthcare workers that the person in question is showing 'unusual inactivity'.
Another way to express that is 'unresponsive, zero vitals'. _______ When a friend was working in a hospital for geriatrics, a patient died. When dealing with elderly patients, this is not surprising in the slightest. One nurse phoned the doctor to come pronounce death. His reply was, "Keep monitoring the vitals every 4 hours, and if anything changes phone me straight back."
„Unusual inactivity“ sounds like the BP bad word police got there .
Not sure I follow the business model. Do we need urgent notification once nothing further can be done?
I'm guessing on the one hand yes, on the other there are legal circumstances that make it so that only a certified healthcare worker can announce death. So the software would notify the healthcare workers to come and do just that, based on how OP described it.
Load More Replies..."the reason I'm giving you smaller portions is because manager says so. Yes you had bigger portions another day because a different kitchen lead was in the back monitoring who didn't care. No we are out of that item, it'll be 10 minutes. No I can't grab from the other line. Yes I know the other day we grabbed some for you but the other manager allowed it and this one doesn't. ".
When you work in restaurants there are two manager types. One who micromanages even the number of ice cubes in the glass and the one that doesn’t.
I was shop manager over a group of electronics techs and the other people it takes to build and ship the product. (Industrial x-ray systems). I had worked with most of the people in our last job. Anyway, I believe that if the people you've hired are qualified and/or trainable, you shouldn't have to constantly keep an eye on them, just check in now and then and see if they need anything. If you can't trust your employees to do the job you hired them to do, it's your failure.
Load More Replies...I'm sorry. Context is not given with this manager. Yesterdays manager was reprimanded for giving too much context.
Load More Replies...Not just restaurants. Many eons ago I worked for a then well-known copy / print chain. 1 general and 3 assistant managers all with vastly different policies on employees duplicating copyrighted material.
This is why you need standards and managers not interpreting them according to their whim... Portion control is also important to the bottom line.
The issue here is that one manager adheres to the standards and the other one doesn't. That's what the entire post is about.
Load More Replies...Consistency is key--they need to get on the same page, either way. I wouldn't frequent a business like that!
None of our food is fresh. Yes, even the food listed as made fresh daily. No, we don't actually make the soup, in fact it's often refrozen and a day old. The food used to be fresh, but corporate phased that out during COVID and raised the prices.
OG stopped making fresh food yeaaars ago. Back in the day it was so good. Anymore it's not worth the money.
Load More Replies...COVID is the standard excuse these days for ripping off the public.
I used to work at a restaurant in a seaside town. People raved about the clam chowder. It was from a can. We did add cream, yesterday’s leftover baked potatoes and extra clams. So many people would ask to have the recipe, even offering to pay for it
I used to love lemon rice soup from this place back in my college days. I knew it was from a five gallon bucket. but I didn't care because usually I wasn't a fan of lemon rice soup. I knew they were almost out of soup when all I would get was black pepper in soup. So I knew to wait a day or two and they would have a new bucket open of that soup. Sometimes that was the only thing I ate. It was cheap and it came with a piece of bread. Good times. People think to was a kitchen but it was just a reheating meals place. We had that same soup in a pizza place I worked in. But I had to pay for meals there so I never ate there so I would just go to the kitchen at the school.
I used to work for an adult live streaming site. A lot of women would complain that they weren't getting enough traffic. It's because we would curate the front page and put certain women at the top. We were told to do this for women with large social media followings or worked for agencies that we had partnerships with. A woman could also get their stream pushed to the bottom of the list for reasons too (looks, bad camera quality, bad wifi connection, etc). A lot of us also had "burner" accounts and the company would load up our wallets with tokens so we could tip certain women and make them think they were getting a lot of traffic/engagement.
That you overpaid on your insurance deductible, co-pay, or co-ins which is a credit on your account. If you don’t know then you won’t ask for a refund.
As a Canadian, this is a strange concept to me. I have health and prescription benefits through my employer and pay a small yearly deductible for my family. Once it's paid, it's paid. The system does not allow for the possibility of additional charges.
Even if I have a co-pay, the co-pay goes to the insurance company, and not the doctor. Then they pay the doctor. A $40 co-pay is always collected, but if I only see the nurse practitioner (95% of the time) the insurance company refunds me $35.
That is not true in the US. The copay never gets paid to the insurance company. That would not make any sense. They would just pay your doctors office $35 less on your claim instead of having money flying back and forth. If you only see a nurse practitioner, you shouldn’t leave that office until you get your $35 back. They are overcharging you.
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From my buddy who worked at a factory that boxed and made cereal. The only thing that will change on production lines is the box the bag gets into.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Malto Meal and Walmart versions have a different texture and taste. Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and Malto Meal's have a different flavor or amount of sugar. Lucky Charms and several generic brands have different textures in the cereal bits, although the marshmallow bits are the same.
Agree. What OP said is likely true for some off brands but it's hardly universal that all of a particular type of serial is the same. I can taste the difference.
Load More Replies...Maybe true for some cereal products, I'm sure but generic Cheerios do taste different. That doesn't mean they couldn't be made in the same factory, of course...
I was coming to say this. Generic “Cheerios” are so gross.
Load More Replies...This is partially true I would guess. Kellog's and General Mill's both make Wal-Mart's "Great Value" brand cereals. So if you are talking about the Great Value equivalent of Kellog's or General Mill's products, it quite likely that the box is the only difference. There might be a tiny difference like a little more or less sugar or flour or whatever. Things that can be adjusted on the fly, but that they can run on the same line. The company I work for makes equipment for both Kellogs and General Mills on occasion. Malt-O-Meal is owned by Post, so I would bet that some of their cereals are very similar as well, although I believe Malt-O-Meal is all made in it's own factories, industrial bakeries, whatever you want to call them.
There's a brand name cereal and a Kroger brand that are absolutely identical. Kroger brand 1/3 price. Says "brown sugar" in name, looks like overgrown life. Have given cereal up, don't remember name. Too lazy to look up.
True for some products and companies depending if they have contracts with say the major multiples etc... In food manuf when a food goes 'out of customer spec' it gets repacked and packed as a cheaper brand sometimes. By out of spec I mean size of product sugar fat salt content for example amongst other things.
As someone who recently bought Kellogg’s corn flakes on sale after YEARS of only eating off brands- I concur. The Kellogg’s flakes are lighter, thinner, and crispier. The off brand has a noticeable, gritty cornmeal texture the Kellogg’s do not. For years I convinced myself they were the same, and I was really shocked by the difference.
Load More Replies...I worked for a fruity phone maker. Despite claiming phones cost 100s of dollars to make, in actuality the phones cost $9.50 (including shipping) (in 2015 money) and the rest was just tacked-on "R&D" to make it *seem* like customers weren't being ripped off by a x100 markup.
This rumor has been constantly debunked. The cost of making an iPhone is roughly50 to 60% of the retail price. https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx
This is a myth, and quite a stupid one at that perpetuated by people that have never designed or manufactured anything, nor been in charge of anything more complex than a coffee order. Some people are aware of how much silicon fabs charge per wafer, the expected yeilds of that process, and the size of the silicon going into a given device.. which is enough to debunk that idiotic figure in and of itself. Besides that...guess what? Development costs, directly factor into the price of the product. If you've spent $10 billion, 100,000 man hours over multiple years bringing a product to market, it doesn't matter if the production cost is only ten dollars or ten cents, you don't eat the costs involved in getting to that point, and consumers aren't being ripped off by having those costs factored in.
R&D costs can be huge. Prototypes aren't made on an optimized assembly line. New features can take years to properly developed and test. Those costs may be exaggerated, but are not nearly as insig ificant as this post makes them sound, and the company has to recoup them somehow or they won't stay in business
Things have changed. In the olden days where they had to hang nets at the Foxconn factories, the profit margin was this high. However, bad publicity caused relatively better worker conditions and more expensive components (titanium costs more than thermal plastic to make a case), means the new phone prices are "only" 2-3 times the manufacturing costs. It costs about $55 to make those $560 AirPod Max. You don't become worth $2.91 trillion by having 15% profits.
Imagine being handed an iPhone and being told to duplicate it. Happens in China. Causes grief.
Try telling the truth next time so you can find out how it feels to do that.
Considering a protective case for an Android smart phone costs at least $9.50, I doubt the veracity of the OP...
That electrical part you returned to the auto parts store you swore you didn't install but we know you really did goes right back on the shelf for someone else to buy.
I always look at threads, nut faces, and anywhere else a part would get wear during installation. I've only caught used parts a couple of times, but still worth a look before you leave the store.
Load More Replies...Your health insurance knows much more about you than you probably realize. There are codes for everything that your doctor sends to your insurer. Diagnosis, vital signs, sexual history, living situation, family medical history and so much more. That one time you got a rash after that one-night-stand? Yeah your insurance knows about that. Or when you admitted to your doctor that you had been drinking a lot lately? Yeah they know about that too… Also, before I get any anti-US-health insurance comments, this is true regardless of whether you have private or government insurance.
No it’s not. Complete b******t. Just because you live in a place that doesn’t care about privacy doesn’t mean it’s the same everywhere. A doctor using codes to inform ANYONE, especially interested third parties, about any aspect of your health would have their licence revoked. Stop with your delusions.
Load More Replies...That electrical part you returned to the auto parts store you swore you didn't install but we know you really did goes right back on the shelf for someone else to buy.
I always look at threads, nut faces, and anywhere else a part would get wear during installation. I've only caught used parts a couple of times, but still worth a look before you leave the store.
Load More Replies...Your health insurance knows much more about you than you probably realize. There are codes for everything that your doctor sends to your insurer. Diagnosis, vital signs, sexual history, living situation, family medical history and so much more. That one time you got a rash after that one-night-stand? Yeah your insurance knows about that. Or when you admitted to your doctor that you had been drinking a lot lately? Yeah they know about that too… Also, before I get any anti-US-health insurance comments, this is true regardless of whether you have private or government insurance.
No it’s not. Complete b******t. Just because you live in a place that doesn’t care about privacy doesn’t mean it’s the same everywhere. A doctor using codes to inform ANYONE, especially interested third parties, about any aspect of your health would have their licence revoked. Stop with your delusions.
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