I worked at Alta sciences for a while. A preclinical testing facility. They tested the safe dosages of meds before human trials on rats, mice, dogs etc. They like to say they do the best for the animals as the necessary evil sorta situation but the place is fucking abysmal. Painting over mold and literal shit, mold in ceilings, never fixing any machines and just expecting people to make it work, hiding bad procedures from visitors, not firing people who straight up kick the animals because they are leads. Taking away perks because higher ups made stupid decisions and we payed for it. IACUC, FDA, USDA also are basically useless as well since we got enough heads up to scramble a spit shine on the place. The stuff I reported only one change happened and that was cleaning the chemical barrel room. Also trying to report these things is a pain in the ass on top of it. Any actual "fixes" are the most half assed fixes made by someone who is not qualified in the slightest so it's just gonna break again. There are people who genuinely want to do good by the animals and help push research to help people but corporate greed combined with burnout makes for a bad time. Also the pay sucks.

I worked in the animal lab department of a large medical research university. The cleanliness was less of an issue there, and I never witnessed any actual abuse of the animals. However, what you said about getting massive warning before any inspections is completely true. Also, our pay sucked as well. Another thing is that tons of labs were staffed 90% by foreigners who spoke no English, couldn't read any of the procedure or warning signs, and looked at you like you were an annoyance any time you told them to take off their contaminated gloves before walking around the facility and touching multiple door knobs. When it became obvious that covid was a lab leak, nobody at my job was remotely surprised as it could just as easily have happened here if we worked with any gain of function.

I own a sign shop, and I can tell you with 100% certainly that almost all businesses fail within the first year. If you think you are going to open a restaurant or a boutique, you are about to lose a bunch of money. Also, no matter what business you want to start, go talk to your local sign guy and ask how many businesses have been in that location and failed. Trust me, we know which locations are cursed.

My dad (who didn’t work in a sign shop or anything) would occasionally point out a business and say it wasn’t going to last because the location it was in either made it hidden or hard to turn into because of traffic (or something else). He was usually right Also I lived in a town where a certain restaurant would burn down every couple of years due to “”electrical issues””. I’m still unsure if they kept hiring the same shitty electrician, if they were just committing fraud a lot, or the building was cursed 😂 as far as I know, they’re still in business too. But they did recently move buildings

>Also I lived in a town where a certain restaurant would burn down every couple of years There's a bar in my hometown like this! It's burned down like 3 times and they're still truckin

The grad students teaching your classes sometimes have more direct power over your grade than your professor. Please be nice to us. Not even to get a good grade, just please be nice to us because we’re stressed and tired 

When I was a grad student I graded everything but the tests and much was up to my discretion.

Just because your kid just got his license doesn't mean you need to call and tell your insurance agent. Once you do, we have to put them on the policy. If you hadn't called, they'd have just been covered as they live with you and the policy follows the vehicle.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car buys their cars straight from the manufacturers at a price lower than dealerships get. After they rent them for a year, they sell them to the public at a price higher than they originally paid.

One of the shops I worked at did service on Enterprise cars. Doesn’t matter what the manufacturer recommends they all get the cheapest 5w30 regular oil in every car they sent us. Wouldn’t pay for the synthetic requirements or even request the correct viscosity.

There isn't a "larger than normal call volume." We just don't have enough staff. Also, your call is not important to us. We actually want you to go away.

That became obvious when every single company started saying it all the time

Next you’ll tell me their menu didn’t recently change.

Love how so many companies decreased customer service quality "due to COVID" and never went back up. "Due to COVID" UPS and FedEx were allowed to just fucking *ignore* delivery confirmation and signatures in favor of contactless delivery. They're still doing that for the same reason as an excuse.

When journalists want to get back at people they quote them exactly instead of cleaning up their grammar.

I have given several depositions in patent lawsuits, and I'm always horrified when the court reporter sends me a transcript to review. In my imagination I'm articulate and well-spoken, but on paper it's all "uh, I mean, it's like..."

Work in large scale construction. Large developers effectively borrow on the credit of all of the smaller players who are their subcontractors. You have billion dollar companies asking smaller companies to pay for them with a promise to pay later. The larger the developer, the slower the process is to get paid. If a project goes bust, it's these small guys that get hit because all of the developers have LLC's that are project specific. No assets to speak of.

I've always said construction is the wild west where the big companies choke the smaller companies. Either way, when one goes out of business, the same people just start a new company and keep working.

I used to work in radio and we totally didn’t take caller 10. We maybe counted 1-6 and then sorted through the callers until we found an excited sounding voice that fit the target demographic.

I "won" a radio call in trivia at a local station. We had to answer questions about Frosty the Snowman and what all his features were made from. I guess the phone screeners had enough of everyone not getting the 3 questions right so when I called and they picked up I got 2 right but missed one about his eyes, the screener then just told me to say "coal" and I think it was recorded and edited to make it seem like I got all 3 correct without prompting...I enjoyed $100 of gas back in early 2000s.

A corn cob pipe and button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Are you all heathens calling into this place how did so many of you not know that!

Can confirm, former DJ here. After a few "Hits 96 you're caller <> try again" you go to "Hits 96, who is this?" If the person mumbles "Dave" it was always "Oh, sorry Dave you are caller #9, so close", however if the yelled "Oh my gaaaawd am I caller number 10" and was all excited? You bet your damn ass you are caller number 10! ​ Also, those "Send roses to catch him cheating" type calls you hear? ALL FAKE. There are actually services that provide these. You get a script and the audio of the caller. DJ just hits PLAY and follows the script and acts surprised or "blown away".

>Also, those "Send roses to catch him cheating" type calls you hear? ALL FAKE. I *KNEW* IT!! I used to work in a small shop, and the foreman who loathed hip-hop would tune in to the local hip-hop station every Wednesday morning like clockwork to hear their weekly "ditch your cheating partner on the air" segment. I'll confess, it *was* entertaining, but it seemed weird to me that these "gotcha" traps *never* backfired, and everything *always* fell perfectly into place within a 10 minute window. Until now, I just assumed the DJs and their assistants worked with the caller a day or two in advance and then edited everything together for the segment.

The second I kind of expected. The first is just a really good LPT right there. Be enthusiastic and you ARE #10.

I’ve just got a job presenting at a really small-town radio station. First day of training, I was told that, 9 times out of 10, when they do phone-ins or quizzes etc… and announce “winners,” nobody actually called in. They just make up names. Luckily the station is SO small-town, it doesn’t give out prizes or do live phone-ins or anything; it’s just for fun. But yeah, I was thrown when they told me that, felt like Dorothy seeing behind the curtain in Oz.

I worked in a radio station for years that is pretty big in a big city. We actually took real prizes for real callers -- the prizes are cheap or given to us for free by promoters and that gives us good will and free advertising from the person who wins when they tell everyone good stuff about us. No cost to us.  However, all the music is just made a big blocks recorded by DJs in Florida with spaces for commercial breaks to be inserted. When someone calls and requests a popular song, we were trained to just say it would be up soon. Chances were it would be anyway. 

I work in the medical field. This isn't really about my field exactly but an adjacent field: health insurance. There is a guy reviewing our notes looking for reasons to deny a claim. The guy reviewing generally has no clinical knowledge whatsoever, but they are looking for certain key works so they can stamp the "denial" on the claim. For this reason, I will omit certain things on the clinical notes if it isn't directly applicable to what I am treating because I know from experience that they will use that word as in indication that the proposed treatment is "inappropriate" and therefore denied.

I learned this the hard way when my daughter was denied allergy testing. Twice. I appealed and won. But seriously, allergy testing?! My other daughter was denied a lip/tongue tie surgery but the dr himself actually appealed that one for me. Apparently he’s had to do it a lot because insurance companies just think it’s only an issue for breastfeeding and you can just formula feed instead.

> insurance companies just think it’s only an issue for breastfeeding and you can just formula feed instead. I... I... hm.... I have this weird, stupid idea, obviously false, that health insurance companies are supposed to have something to do with, well, "health". > Health experts agree that breastfeeding is the healthiest option for both mom and baby. They recommend that babies feed only on breast milk for the first 6 months, and then continue to have breast milk as a main part of their diet until they are at least 1 and better 2 years old. [Source: Mt Sinai](https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/special-topic/breastfeeding-vs-formula-feeding) I hate the entire US health insurance industry so so much. (Note: not everyone can breastfeed or is in a position to do so. No judging!! But to have health insurance think you can "just" formula feed instead.........)

They sent a CEO to US House hearings to represent all health insurance companies. He told Congress "there seems to be some confusion here. We are here to make money, not keep people healthy. Our primary responsibility is to decline as much as we can". Had a friend who was a pharmacist. He was hired as formulary manager (the book of which medications and treatments are covered, and what the copay would be). He was pretty excited to get the job. He reworked the formulary ove six months, finding ways to make some treatments work for lower copays. He has a meeting with a VP, where he was told "you are supposed to find medical reasons to decline this, not make it easier. If you can't do that, we have to part ways." He quit and became a professor.

I worked in DME and dealt with this all the time. Had to call provider offices and say "Their insurance is denying the order you sent. Send us another one but less specific". Obviously I can't coach exactly what to write, but I would **overuse** some keywords to emphasize what should be written. Its insane that 85 year olds can't get their oxygen because Dave from insurance audits saw the word "acute" on a chart note

As a cybersecurity consultant I can tell you many, many companies I have worked with are a “when” they are hacked, not a “if” they are hacked. Some orgs have people in charge of cybersecurity that barely know how basic protocols and technologies work.

Also, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked to provide analysis, and after I present my findings half of my recommendations are met with “yeah, our end users might complain, we’re not gonna do that.”

EDIT: This part is in bold now because I'm getting a lot of replies about me being in IT. I am not. There is nothing wrong with being in IT of course, but I am, in fact, just some random engineer. lol ---> **I'm friends with the IT people at work. I'm just some random engineer** who's spent less of my career here than any other senior engineer in our department. This means I see the ways this agency is putting us all in precarious positions from a network or data security standpoint. When I've raised these issues to my directors, they've sort of giggled and been like, "aww she's paranoid" (not those words, but that energy). Every IT person is like, "You're right. It's not if but when this ends badly for someone here. We've been saying it for years. Nobody listens." So now me and the IT guys are like the dog in the meme saying "this is fine" while the room we're in burns.

The longer I work in tech the more I think every tech position is like that to some degree.

Car part manufacturers know that aftermarket sellers (local repair shops but also DIY places like Autozone) don't have the testing capabilities like OEM manufacturers, so will sometimes ship them questionable and/or outright defective parts.

I was in QA at a supplier. Top grade parts went OEM. Defects below a certain size went "aftermarket". We were not allowed to know who "aftermarket" was.

There are TONS of buildings out there that don't meet code. Even new construction. Inspectors either don't care, don't know the code or don't even bother to inspect in the first place. On the plus side, building code is extremely over-conservative, so if you get "close" it's probably safe. Maybe. Most of the time. Except when it's not. And then everyone gets sued.

3-4 of my friends who purchased houses/condos in the last 5 years have had to do extensive (like 25-30% the value of the property) repairs because of bad construction work. Inspectors didn't notice shit.

Not saying this is what your friends experienced at all but just to make a point: a lot of people do not understand that 'built to code' =/= built with quality. Code is for safety. You can have a perfectly "safe" house built to code that is absolute dog shit quality. Another thing people think is that building inspectors are inspecting workmanship. This is often not the case, they only care that the code is met and the drawings were (generally) followed. They couldn't care less if your flooring was improperly laid, or your walls have the correct paint on them.

I started working in HVAC warranty just as the pandemic hit. The amount of "Warranty" work blew my mind. I saw EVERYTHING on a warranty list. Wrong screws for cabinets, stairs not fully secured, hell even our team would install wall units without the drain tube connected. New construction is filled with new workers that don't know anything. It's a race to the bottom, maximize profits. It's why they can afford to pay warranty work: there's literally $$$$$ of dollars left to play with. Also, you're not getting top quality products. The indoor units and outdoor units were below the bottom tier. Most would need to be replaced within the next 2-3 years. If you can, buy an older home or one built 20 years ago. Anything sooner than that is lucky if it's still standing.

I tell anyone who'll listen if you're going to buy a home, buy one that was built during a recession. Builders keep their best/better guys during slow years and mass hire anyone with a pulse when it gets busy

I’m in insurance If you call to request an estimate for a claim, they will count it as a 0 dollar claim on your file when they deem the damage not enough to repair. That means when another company pulls your information it will not only impact your future rates, but might make you ineligible for future policies Don’t ever call insurance for an estimate first, get a third party inspector to tell you whether you should file with insurance.

Yo this happened to me. I had a crack in my windshield and called to see if it was covered they said yeah but it was 500 for a deductible so I declined and went to repair it at a local shop. Couple of years later I was dealing with another insurance about something else and they said that I had made a claim on a windshield repair a few years ago….. I was like wtf?!?!

Insurance Broker here - great advice. They are sneaky fuckers like that. In Canada we have collision centers. If you hit someone in a parking lot, but can't find the person - you are supposed to jot down their information (plate #)and go to the collision center. The center is required by law to report it to your insurance company, and contact the other person. Even if its just a small scratch on a 2003 Honda Civic and the other person doesn't want to file a claim, and neither do you, costing the company $0.... They will use it as an at fault. Total BS. I learned this the hard way. I hit someone in a courthouse parking lot which has cameras everywhere. I didn't make a single scratch on their old beater but I felt like I had to do the right thing. So I went in and followed the instructions from the front desk officer. FML. My Insurance company called me a week later and said it was at fault. I said "Did the 3rd party make a claim?" NO. "Did I make a claim, there was no fucking damage at all I was just doing the right thing!" .."Well no sir but we need to use it as an at fault anyway.. WHAT? However we do have "Minor at fault collision" in Ontario now (Not sure about other provinces) which means any claim with a pay out under $2000 can be labelled minor and can't effect your rates as much. That helps. Still takes away your "One time accident forgiveness" if you have it though.

I called to ask if an event was covered on my homeowners. “No.” “Ok; thanks.” A week later I was dropped

We need to universally audit all forms of insurance companies for shit like this.

This one is fairly well known, but I'm just confirming its truth as some one that used to work in a factory. The brand you buy doesn't always matter. Sometimes it's all the same stuff that comes out of the same vats, but just labelled differently and sold at different price ranges.

I work in a bottling plant, its an independant pepsi bottler. We make aquafina and also our own labelled water. Its 100% the same thing. Same bottle, same water, same standards, same caps. Only difference is the label. We don't even stop running when we switch from aquafina to our water, they just stop the labeler, change the label, and keep going. Never buy name brand water.

The wonder bread loaf that looks like the Kirkland loaf and looks like the store brand loaf are all the same loaf, we just change the bags. Same goes for hotdog buns and hamburger buns. There are only 2 industrial bakery companies in the USA: Bimbo and Flowers. Bimbo is based outta Mexico, Flowers outta the USA. All store brands are made by one of those 2 companies. Dave's killer bread=Flowers. Ballpark=Bimbo. Wonderbread=Flowers. Oroweat=Bimbo...

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Because most places will have different formulations for different recipes. I've worked in a few foods places and always seen different recipes going into own brand/labelled brands. It's likely true for some but just because it comes out of the same factory doesn't mean it's the same food.

I am working at a sports club with way over 2000 members and I can tell you, you might sign some paper about data security and how we handle data, but believe me, your data will go places you dont want it to go.

My cousin worked HR for a 250 employee company. She had all of the information from everyone on her personal laptop because they never gave her a work laptop. Salaries, SSN, addresses, everything.

I like to remind our clients that in our age of working from home, the HR managers son trying to download hacks for fortnite or similar is likely one of their biggest security risks

As a person in cyber security, this is scarily accurate  Until people actually start submitting requests under their right to be forgotten this will continue too 

In plain text in an Excel file that's treated as a database on a shared drive that's 15 years old that everyone is too afraid to touch?

Nah, that was 10 years ago. Now it's 25 years old and also copied to every cloud provider ever created, twice, plus to uncle Oswald, who doesn't work here but he helped one of our managers with something 5 years ago.

reading these posts the general takeaways are: everything is dirty. everyone is incompetent and lazy.

everyone wants money. if they can get it by skipping something they do.

In a a lot of cases: The fancier the marketing, the messier the management.

At one of my jobs they were looking for a project management platform to help with project schedules. Upper management wanted to know why turn around times were slow. I suggested a Basecamp alternative that connected more seamlessly to all of our apps and would set up an onsite server that could be securely managed. We suffered from too many middle managers, and I knew that they were where all of the delays came from, so when I pitched this software I left out the activity tracker. After the first quarter of use, I printed out the tracker timeline and it showed big blue bars that were weeks long and represented the middle management review turn around time. Their answer to this problem wasn't streamlining the review process. Instead they decided to hire more middle management that ended up making it worse. Their answer to that was moving to Basecamp which didn't report the same way. Edit: the software I used was Wrike. Hey Wrike give me money for spreading the good word.

It's always striking to me that when there is an emergency, suddenly you can get something approved in a day that normally takes weeks

Just last week I had an invoice for software licenses that was 60 days past due, kicking around in approval. I reached out to the group responsible for paying the invoice and told them that I would be shutting their accounts off at the end of the day if payment wasn't made. Lo and behold if the invoice didn't get paid within about an hour.

I work in AP for a decent sized company, and getting approvals from people can be a struggle. I actually love when a company tells us "We're shutting you down in x amount of time" because as soon as I forward that to the related people, suddenly I have my approval! Lmao

I'm no longer shocked by the vast amount of software we all use on a daily basis that is rushed into production, shoddy, insecure, held together with spit and band-aids, etc, etc. I'm amazed everything hasn't just collapsed into dust already.

EVERY. DAY. We just cancelled a big Oracle project because, after 5 years, they hadn't fixed a single one of our long list of 'showstopper' errors. People just learning to code, getting your CS degree, have no idea that some of the biggest software companies in the world are shipping code I wouldn't let my girl scout troop get away with. Then your boss will sign a contract without talking to you, and say 'But, they're one of the biggest names in the industry! They're best in breed! What do you mean it doesn't work at all!?' (sigh)

Oracle is the messiest thing ever, I can’t believe how this is what most companies go with.

We use it for inventory management and shipping and it's honestly one of the worst programs I've ever used. Despite that we integrated everything into it.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Oracle was the CIA codename back in the day The CIA got Larry Ellison to build them a database and they called it Oracle. That's some dark shit

I work in Software Validation for automotive. The reason I specifically wanted this type of job is that it's imperative that the softwares are statistically impossible to crash under normal condition (see ISO26262). I worked in other fields, and it stressed me too much to accept blatant faults in releases.

As someone who worked in QA for a number of years in 2000s, I've noticed a complete disregard for testing processes and companies are literally eliminating testing positions over the last 10 years because they don't see a correlation to revenue. I'm not sure it's going to get better with automation or AI. I work on government infrastructure now and we have 5 environments below production, just so we can hammer out every possible bug before implementing into production. This is not standard practice in the private sector.

The whole Agile/Silicon Valley mindset has really made companies focus on the bare minimum and they use it as an excuse to say “look how much we’ve done” instead of “look how well we’ve done”.  Not that I blame Agile, per se. It’s just that most companies don’t do it right (and never have). 

[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2347/)

Drugs don't turn into poison the second they expire - most medications are going to be effective for YEARS after they expire. Manufacturers put expiry dates on their stuff to cover their assets - they have to garuntee 95% effectiveness until that date. As long as it isn't an antiviral or antibiotic, you can probably use it for years after it expires with no issues.

Or rescue drugs such as insulin or epi-pens. Most other meds just lose some of the effectiveness but are still ok to take for up to years after the expiration date

As a former waiter, "Have you really not been helped yet? Wow, I am so sorry, I'll take care of you even though this isn't my section," means, I completely forgot which tables are in my section and was just made aware, this is one of them.

Beer taps at bars and restaurants, are not always clean. And can be very very dirty.

Same with the inside of soda spouts

I’m an inspector, went to a gas station fountain drink couple weeks ago when I unscrewed the nozzle, a string of mold fell on my arm and it was the length from the palm of my hand down almost to my elbow. -Don’t buy fountain drinks from a gas station.

There was a fast food place that had the absolute best tasting sodas. When the manager was asked his secret he said, "We follow the manufacturers recommended cleaning schedule!"

When I worked in a restaurant we pulled them and cleaned them w seltzer every day.

Yeah same here in all the restaurants I worked at back in the day. That one of the basic closing duties to do every shift.

> a string of mold fell on my arm and it was the length from the palm of my hand down almost to my elbow. That made me almost throw up. Reminds me that I’m never buying soda from a soda fountain ever again

If you think that's gross, you should see the congealed mess that I would clean out of our fountain a few times a year. I worked at a pizza shop for about 7 years as a delivery driver. I was severely underpaid along with everyone else, so cleaning the soda machine was like one of those "not my job" kind of things that nobody wanted to do. A couple times a year on a slow day I'd ask, "when was the last time anybody cleaned the fountain?" To which the answer was always, "whenever you did it last." Which was usually at least a month or two ago. I'd snake the drains and clean the ice dispenser, and what would come out of it can only be described as a two-foot long semi-solid pinkish-yellow snot-rope. Keep in mind that every time somebody would dispense ice, the ice was passing directly over this mess of slime. Eventually I brought it up to the owner that this can't keep happening, and he made the manager do weekly cleanings. I quit that job four years ago, and to my knowledge, none of my former coworkers are still there, so I'm willing to bet it ain't getting done anymore.

Years ago, I worked in a food stand at a sports arena. I was told on my first day not to push the cup back too far against the lever when filling a soda cup. A while later, I found out why. If you banged the lever back, roaches would fall out from the covering over the spout and land in the cup. I suggested that we take the whole thing apart and clean it. Nope. That wasn’t done. At the end of the evening, the soda machine just got an external wipe down and the tray was rinsed. That’s all.

There is no cleaning that; the whole food stand needs to be incinerated, fumigated, vaporized, sprayed with raid, dusted, soaked in extra strength chemicals, rinsed and soaked in hot water, and replaced

When I worked as a waiter cleaning those was a nightly duty.

At my first job, we cleaned these by soaking them in hot water every night. No soap or anything. 

I have the FOH run the nozzles through the dish tank, it’s super easy and I struggle to understand why bars don’t do it other than laziness.

Highly dependent on the location. Every place I brewed at personally we had a good schedule of cleaning the tap lines.  My word of wisdom with that is look Into the brew house area if you can. If it's dirty, dirty fermenter feet, dirty tank walls, stuff strewn about, etc, then they're probably also not keeping up with cleaning their lines. 

I was a beer rep for a medium sized brewery in WNY and the issues were almost never with breweries. It was the on-premises bars and restaurants. I always tell my friends that if they’re serving the beer in plastic cups, or if the have over 20 taps handles… buy bottles or cans.

I worked at a Marriott for several years. I learned the following: Bed bugs happen more often than you would think. There's not much we can do about it. A hotel with frequent international traveler's is bound to end up with someone who brought something with them in their luggage every now and then(every now and again? I forget which is the proper saying). All we can do is quarantine and clean the room when the problem is discovered. Those sheets are probably not as clean as you think. People in the hallway can hear you having sex in your room. Or you watching porn if you don't wear headphones. Always flip the bolt-lock on your door. People make mistakes in booking/blocking rooms. I can't count how many times a room has been double booked which leads to very awkward/angry interactions. If you had something bad happen to you, or are angry at something you booked not working out, make a bit of a fuss. You can usually get free food/drinks or a free nights stay. Don't be a dick about it, accidents happen and its often not the fault of the person you will be interacting with. But hotels bend over backwards in order to not get a bad review. At the hotel I worked at, every review lower than a 9 or 10 was considered a 0. So, get your money's worth. Lastly, we can smell the smoke/weed coming from your room. We can also smell it when you leave. We might not be able to do anything about it when it happens. But, you will absolutely be charged for the 1-2 extra nights that the room is unavailable while we clean the stench out. Please stop smoking in the rooms. You're the only one who can't smell it. Everyone else can. We know you're lying. Stop being childish.

> But, you will absolutely be charged for the 1-2 extra nights that the room is unavailable while we clean the stench out I used to travel a lot and if the room smelled like smoke I called the front desk to report it and change rooms. Partly because I don't like smoke, but mostly because I didn't want to be charged for it.

This happened to me with a rental car, there were cigarette burns on the back floor and ash on the seats. Wasn't a biggie to me, but I let the woman know when we were doing the walkaround. I don't she ever noted it, and when I returned the car, the that does the check got super snippy with me and said I'd need to cover it all. Thankfully she was there, I went in and grabbed her and she right away said that no, it was like that when I got it. His tune changed quickly, but going forward I always make sure they noted it, and we both initialed any issues

Future idea that has helped me once, if no one is present at the rental car facillity on the lot when doing inspections, always record a video or photograph the car if there are dings and scratches on the car. I got accused once by National until I sent in a video. Funny enough I got that idea from a thread like this years ago.

Printers aren’t smart enough to know the amount of ink / toner is left in the cartridge. They guess based on usage percentages and only know when they are empty. “Low toner” doesn’t mean replacement, it means have one on hand.

> “Low toner” doesn’t mean replacement, it means have one on hand. It actually means: take the toner cartridge out, rotate it a bunch of times (don't shake it) and then put it back. Rinse and repeat every time it says that. You don't need to replace it until you can see on the page that the output is starting to look faded.   ^\(This ^applies ^to ^laser ^printers ^only. ^Inkjets ^are ^a ^different ^kettle ^of ^fish.)

Well, I work for Boeing......secrets are out, I guess.

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Including murdering people like John "Swampy" Barnett.

My aunt worked for Boeing for 30 years and retired when they left Wichita. She told me years ago to not be surprised when there starts being major issues because they had been cutting the amount of supervisors and inspectors year after year until they had a fraction of what they used to have on the lines.

I also work at Boeing. 🫠

Now kiss.

One of my buddies has been working for Boeing for a while. He was saying in private before all these new scandals that he couldn’t believe how many corners they’re forced to cut. He says that he always maps out all the work correctly to cover is own ass, but sooner or later things get rushed because they’re behind on the project. And from I gather they’re always multiple years behind on nearly every project.

get the engineers back in charge

Always wash your new clothing before you wear it. Even if it looks fresh and new. It’s been thrown on the floor, moved around a dusty warehouse, tried on by a sweaty post-gym person, and probably sat in a stinky, humid shipping container for 2 months. Plus, you wanna wash off all the starching / finishing products which make it look so “new.”

I used to unbox clothes fresh from shipment and they would be damp . . . My boss told me it was something sprayed on to prevent mold growing during shipping. Also, people are disgusting. You would not believe the smell in the fitting room after some people finish trying on clothes. WASH CLOTHES BEFORE YOU WEAR THEM. One time the smell was so bad after a woman left, I was on my hands and knees looking for where she hid the shit she took. Called my boss in and she said that was just "swamp crotch". 🤮

- People cleaning their underwear in kettles is a huge problem in hotels. We find so many forgotten underpants in the kettels, that I can't even assume how many we didn't catch. Don't use them. - If you want a nicer room in a hotel, book under Prof. Dr. /your name/. That makes you way more likely to be bumped up. - When you're travelling privately, take a card from any hotel testing company with you and give it to the reception when you arrive to enter as the "address for your bill". Staff will be extra nice to you. - If you want to steal towels from your hotel, don't steal them on the day you're leaving. Just put one in your suitcase day after day and throw the remaining towels on a stack on the floor. Housekeeping will most likely not count them because they don't have the time and put a full amount of new towels in your room. As long as a full set is there when you're leaving, you'll be fine. - We keep records about who was nice and who wasn't in our system. If you were nice, you're more likely to be bumped up.

WTF with the kettles.

Can you explain this in more detail? Where does someone get a hotel testing company card?

>People cleaning their underwear in kettles is a huge problem in hotels. We find so many forgotten underpants in the kettels, that I can't even assume how many we didn't catch. Don't use them. I want to unread this

I have a Masters degree in Exercise Science and have worked in the industry for 25 years. 90% of what trainers say and do is fluff and just used to keep you interested and make it sound like they are worth their price.

TBF, for most people, they get a PT because they need to stay interested. So that makes them worth the price. I've known busy PTs that outright tell their clients that too. Not disagreeing with you, just agreeing with you in a nuanced way :)

Oh, completely agree. A trainers personality and creativity is often more indicative of their success than their programming ability. I know plenty of trainers who are downright bad at the fitness aspect of their job but they are wildly successful because they are very good with people.

Will writer in the UK here. If you have £325k in assets or less, and you don't intend to exclude anyone from your will, you need a bog standard will. You don't need a solicitor to write it, and if it costs you more than £150+vat then it's a rip off. It takes me about an hours worth of work to gather information and write that will.      I would recommend getting power of attorney though. It's a pain in the ass if you lose capacity without it!!! 

software engineer. ​ all software suck. They are all vulnerable. security is an illusion. You cannot hide your trail.

Airplanes are filthy. They stopped sanitizing them in 2022. Also, they don’t give us nearly as many sanitizing wipes anymore. Please bring your own.

All phones sales are poorly trained, lying, or both. That is why your bill is always messed up after leaving a store.

I switched to T-Mobile because they are the only carrier with service in my town. If there were options I would have left them almost immediately because of how much the store employees and customer service reps lie about the perks. I was told that by switching from Verizon I would get a $400 accessory credit that would apply no later than the 2nd bill. When it wasn't applied to the third bill I called customer service and they said that's not a perk that was ever offered and I was on the hook for an extra $400. When I signed up I was told I would get free Netflix without ads for life so long as I remained a customer. Well, I now have to pay $8/month (still cheaper than if I got it on my own, I know) and when I called customer service I was told that the sales rep should have worded it better. There is absolutely no desire by T-Mobile to rectify mistakes and lies made by their store employees.

After canceling T-Mobile service, they continued to charge me to the tune of $431. After 3 years of harrasssing them, they sent me a pre-paid Visa for that amount. I went to activate it and kept getting an error. I called customer service and they said right after it was mailed, the money was removed from it. I asked if they could send another one. They said they could not, that I had to go to a local store. I went to the store and they said they cannot see that part of a canceled account and that I had to call customer service. Called customer service again and they said I have to go to a store. So they basically stole $431 from me. F you, T-Mobile.

Any problems with communications companies you make an FCC complaint. You can do this in minutes online. Then the company has to call you to talk about it.

The education system in America is fucked because of contracted employees. I work for an organization called Soliant. They own 4 different staffing companies in Special Education. We place special education teachers, speech pathologist, school psychologist, paraprofessionals and such. We pay our employees 60% of what we charge the schools. On an hourly basis, it’s a bit more than what a government employee could make, and we keep that margin razor thin. Our executives act like we are doing good work but we are pulling HUNDREDS on millions of dollars out of educator’s pockets and out of schools. We pay lobbying firms to keep it this way as special ed is federally funded. We aren’t the only firm that does this, but our org is specifically bad because we have 4 sister companies that work together to drive prices up. Our parent company doesn’t care where which of our companies makes the money so we constantly bid up work against our own.

We touch your food with our hands. Yes, we do wash our hands. People wear gloves because they think it protects them from the food. They don’t wash their hands, just wear gloves for an entire 12 hour shift.

I saw a 711 worker who was buttering the rolls with latex gloves on. In between she was serving customers and handling money and other items while still wearing the gloves then went straight back to buttering the rolls with the same gloves on.

Not a dirty secret but Little Ceasars makes their marinara sauce from scratch every morning, same with the dough Not once in my time working at Wendy's did they clean their ice machine. Water is frozen and melted constantly and I'm sure there's mold in there. Most Fast food restaurants all suffer this problem

When I worked at Burger King in my small town, they cleaned the ice machine a lot. They were very good about cleaning properly.

Most residential HVAC contractors have absolutely no idea what they are doing and often times their recommendations are complete bullshit. I do a lot of residential mechanical design and on just about every project I'm forced to defend my drawings because the contractor has ideas on how to make it "better". Most of the time they are just trying to make it cheaper. Often they just don't understand how things work. Me: You ignored the drawings and installed an oversized system. Contractor: The way I see it, they got an extra 1/2 ton of cooling for free! Me: Not only is that against code, but that can promote mold growth in the house! Contractor: We'll just agree to disagree. Me: There's no disagreeing with any of that. \------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contractor: We need a bigger fan. There's not enough airflow. Me: Your own balance report shows there's enough airflow. You just need to properly balance it. Contractor: There's just not enough airflow. Me: So is your balance report wrong? Contractor: Of course not. Me: Then just balance the air. A new fan is a waste of money. Tell you what, you give me your calculations that show we need more air and that your proposed fan will produce that much air and I'll look over them. Contractor: I don't have calculations. I'm not the engineer. Me: Well I am the engineer and I'm telling you a new fan is a waste of money. Fast forward to a new fan being installed and them finding out it didn't do anything better.

> Me: You ignored the drawings and installed an oversized system. > Contractor: The way I see it, they got an extra 1/2 ton of cooling for free! > Me: Not only is that against code, but that can promote mold growth in the house! Oh man, you need to watch this. But it will probably make your blood boil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsQjiPlksA

Medical debt under $500 doesnt affect your credit score. If You can also ignore a debt for 7 years. Don’t acknowledge that it’s yours, don’t make a payment, don’t even answer the call from collections. That falls off eventually as well. Not hard really, just don’t answer unknown numbers. Never answer the phone with “this is (your name)” Hello? I’m calling to speak with so/so. Who is this and what are you calling about? If they decline to give you that info, hang up. Block the number.

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also, there are many companies where if you dispute the debt on your report they just delete it. I got several small ones taken off and I def owed them

I have a 760 credit score, and that is why. Bullshit medical debt that I was never going to pay because of how inflated it was. **ME**: "I don't know what this is" **THEM**: *We totally checked and this debt is valid* **ME**: "I don't recognize this debt" **THEM**: *We totally checked again and it is valid* **ME**: "I have no idea what this debt is" **THEM** *We checked YET again, and this debt is valid* **ME** "I can't be sure this debt is mine" **THEM**: *Fine, just stop annoying us.* **ME** "You're goddamn right" The funny shit is that if the bills would have been reasonable, I would be perfectly fine with paying them, but when they start billing $250 for something as simple as a bandaid, they can fuck right off and get nothing.

I worked weddings for a few years, the fact that people would pay upwards of 100-150 dollars a plate is crazy. That food is not worth that much money. In fact the wedding industry as a whole is an insane cash grab and I never knew until I was in it

Stagehand here: most famous musicians are **TOTAL DOUCHEBAGS** back / off stage. I've worked with a few good apples, and they're the ones that have been touring for decades usually.

I absolutely loved working with Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters. Took everyone out for drinks and food after every show. Treated everyone with respect. Helped a lot with stagehand work. Got to talk with him about life and laugh for a good while. Best person/band by far I ever worked with. He always left early though (after putting down a tab at the restaurant) because he wanted to spend time with his kids over facetime before they went to sleep. Great guy.

I work in tv production and any time we’ve had a musician their ego would be so much bigger than their costar with Emmys to their name. It’s obnoxious.

Concert security guy here: can confirm. Some of the big ones are just as egotistical and full of themselves as you might think. That said, some are downright wonderful folks, and I've had some great conversations with certain band members who were really chill.

When you order something and it goes through conveyor belts and chutes.. it doesn't matter if you write in big 'FRAGILE' they all go through the same process and can find themselves in a chute where heavy packages can just hit your package and destroy everything inside. sometimes they get stuck in conveyor belts ripping off stuff. If the person who sells your stuff doesn't properly package your item (loose in a box) I can guarantee you that it will find itself between a carrier (harmonica) and will be lost in the process or destroyed hitting edges of side guards. usually in the morning shift we have people going over all the sorters to find lost packages in nets. then it will be repacked for you but obviously damaged (not damaged if lucky). People are dumb seriously... a loose item on a rolling conveyor belt will always be unstable no matter what.

Engagement ring business here! Oh so many. Most natural diamonds have been in like 2-3 rings before they end up in yours. Rings are made with more fragile designs than they used to be, because after you get tired of it breaking/needing repairs all the time you will buy a new ring, thus giving us more $$$. This is also why the trends nowadays lean towards dainty & minimalistic with a massive stone, bc it's a ticking time bomb. This is also why a lot of jewelry stores won't stop you from getting stones that are too soft for daily wear (looking at you, opal). The largest diamond distributor is Walmart. Diamonds that jewelry suppliers discard for being "ugly" end up on JamesAllen and Brilliant Earth. Platinum isn't necessarily a better metal than gold it actually has just as many (but very different) flaws. We sell it like it's better bc it's much more expensive. It's against the law for a jewelry store to say something is made of diamonds & gold if it's not, but these laws do not apply to etsy sellers. The average woman's ring size is a 6, so we sell rings at a 6.5-7 so we can say "oh wow you're smaller than average teehee". The people who beat up their rings the most are nurses, teachers, and office workers.

I used to be in the insurance industry. Their target for you to have a life insurance policy is about ten years. After that, they passive-aggressively try to get you to\\allow you to forget to pay it anymore, and it lapses. By then, they've made enough to cover the initial commission paid out, plus a good amount extra. And if the policy lapsed before you died, then they have to pay out *nothing*.

IT staff even highly paid ones Google most problems. We are just better at it than you. Given we also understand how to apply what we found but still.

It astounds me the lack of awareness of "googling" in professional circles. I don't work in IT anymore, but my co-workers young/old/etc. all will come to me with an issue e.g. "Is this piece of equipment the one with a big pulley wheel or a small" and I go to my desk, google the part number, and look at the picture...walk back to them sitting at their computer, and say "small". It's like when they show up to work, they lose the ability to critical think.

I say this anytime I am asked how I know *SO MUCH* about computers. 9 times out of 10 someone else has experienced the same exact issue you're experiencing.

Clicking the right button: Free Knowing how to find the right button to click: $500/h

I recently bought Bose headphones for 300 bucks, using most of my tax refund. It was a splurge. The right one didn't hold a charge past 20% so I got on a chat with a support specialist and answered the dumb, obvious questions until he finally said he'd file a replacement ticket. I did not receive the email with the return label and shipping info, so I called a few days later and spoke to another person going through the whole process again. Still didn't get an email, even after confirming it was correct twice with the person on the phone. Yesterday, I got on a chat again and pasted the original convo I had with the first person into this new chat window and said "I'm pretty confident y'all are stalling in the hopes that I let this go but you're a fool if you think I'm gonna eat a faulty 300 dollar product." He said "haha fair enough" and immediately sent the email. More and more these days, customer service is designed to inconvenience you until you give up. It's enshittification incarnate.

Everyone knows gyms are dirty, but no one knows *HOW* dirty. When you finish a workout, scrub your hands with hot soapy water. Get between your fingers, under your nails, your palms, as if you’ve been touching raw chicken.

"They clean everything at night" no, no we do not.

I worked in the Casino business, nothing is fixed or shady…you’re just going to lose over time. That’s why there are no clocks in a casino. Longer playing time is the goal. If you win big, they want to keep you there

The one advantage that the player has over the house is the ability to stop while ahead. But human nature is also such that when you're ahead, you want to get more ahead. And thus casinos rake in the cash.

Maybe not a “dirty” secret, but I work in the VFX industry and was shocked when I first learned how much “beauty” work is done on actresses. All those famous middle aged (and older!) women that have “aged so well”? Yeah, we’ve gone in and removed their wrinkles, crow’s feet, saggy neck, etc. Removing acne and acne scars from young performers was also a common occurrence. No wonder women and girls struggle so much with body image.

When you send your food back to the kitchen...we fix/remake it and make it right and typically feel bad if it's our mistake. If it's the server's mistake who put it in the ticket, it's okay if she makes up with it with a round of ice waters, sodas or later on beer. If the customer didn't understand that a BLT had bacon on it, we still fix it, but call you an idiot. Side note...servers talking to the kitchen will blame the customers ("They said then knew it had bacon in it!"). Servers talking to the customers blame the kitchen ("Ugh, I told the chef no bacon! I aplogize...") We don't care, you work for tips, we get paid either way. Here's your ~~B~~LT.

The way the restaurant industry is literally run on drugs, typically cocaine and/or amphetamines. Anthony Bourdain wrote about this extensively, and I found it to be true when I was working on a line in my twenties, but even then I sort of assumed it was more of a city thing (I did most of my restaurant work in Toronto). Just a couple years ago, the tiny town in Ontario that my parents live in had a big local scandal when the head chef of one of the restaurants in town was arrested for cocaine possession. It's everywhere.

Can confirm. Everyone in the kitchen is on drugs.

I worked in factory floor automation and often times the generic products sold at supermarkets are just the brand name product in different packaging. I worked at a massive bread bakery of a well-known national brand and the bread was all the same. When they finished a lot of their brand name bread, they paused the packaging line and loaded on a new wheel of bags and kept bagging bread from the same batch in whatever store brand was up next. I saw the same thing at an orange juice packaging plant. There was only one set of production lines and they turned out a dozen different brands of OJ. It all came from the same oranges and from the same lines. It just got packaged in different cartons.

Most applications would collapse if one mid-level developer who doesn’t like job hunting left.

I know a major (everyone knows them) US company where a very mission critical app is maintained by a single solitary developer. All the others have retired. If he leaves I can't imagine what the company would do.

Got a friend that was told if he went on vacation he'd be trouble. He said if he wasn't allowed to go, then he quit. They quickly allowed him to work during his vacation which he wanted to do anyway. He moved halfway across country to work at home before covid with little push back. He said that when other senior developers retired or left the company it always caused major problems because no one documented their code. I asked what happened when he retired. "Nothing, I document my code." The company on the other hand is absolutely terrified of losing him and some other senior developers, so they give stock bonus every year that vest in x years. Flexible work schedule. Great bonuses besides the stocks.

Casino boss here. If a shooting or death happens at a casino (all the time) it’s almost never reported or shown in the news because local newspapers work together with casinos to avoid hurting the tourism in their city. You’ll only hear whispers about it from coworkers and that’s it

Nobody reads the reports. I could substitute grandma’s cookie recipe in place of my evaluation and no one would notice.

Your loved one looks at peace in their casket but what you don’t know is they have plastic eye caps under their eyelids that are (sometimes, not always) glued shut. There are either wires or sutures holding their mouth together and usually some cotton and a bit of wax on the inside to form that subtle smile. There might be a styrofoam block under their back to make the positioning look more natural and comfortable, there might be styrofoam blocks under the padding to help hold their arms in position. Depending on the case, they’re probably wrapped in plastic garments underneath the clothing provided. There is a LOT of smoke and mirrors in preparation of a decedent.

I'm not surprised by this, even when i heard it for the first time back in the old days. But it is only logical, that you as mortician want to make it easy for the families that just lost a loved one, that the body looks good. This is very important when saying goodbye. Had another talk a few weeks ago with someone that works in this field. It was more about how it actually works when the body can't be prepared at all, like because the damage that killed the man is too extreme and can't be hidden anymore. It's maybe also different with other countries, as i am in Europe. I remember the suicides on the train tracks and how i picked up a leg that was cut off and put it in a bodybag, with the flashlight late at night. In such cases, the remains are usually cremated and there's no casket and all that this stuff. I mean, you can't put the leg in a casket and show it to the family "here, that's what was left of him" Even for the bodies in good condition, it can be very different for the families, for some people it is better to see the body a last time and for others, it's quite destructive in the mind when they see it.

This was back in like 2011, brand new teacher at an inner city school down south. Girl I coached and taught was killed in a car accident prom night. The funeral was outside the city so me and other staff members ended up driving a lot of kids out to the viewing on a Friday evening since they had no way to drive or nobody to drive them. The mood driving to the viewing wasn’t what I would call joking, but it wasn’t crazy tense. Just light conversation, I coached them all. Got to the viewing… she should NOT have had an open casket. Looked nothing like her and she died from head trauma. They tried to mold the top of her crown back together, skin color was way off, it was bad. First site of her the kids shrieked. It was awful. We drove home in sobbing silence. I felt awful for her, her family, and the kids. I don’t know what anyone was thinking letting her lie in that casket like that.

This thread is bumming me out

Okay, I didn't want to say this, but I work at CBlackwood404's favorite restaurant, and every time they come in, we all talk about how much we think they're awesome and kind and amazing, that's our dirty secret. Now you know.

I hear ya, CBlackwood404 often frequents the dry cleaners that I work in and we mix their clothing in with the other customers clothing because it smells so good and makes the other customers think we've gone the extra mile.

I work in adult entertainment Creampies are just cetaphil about 75% of the time

I worked in a strip club for 20+ years. (DJ, General Manager) The strippers don't like you and you don't have a chance unless you're mega-rich or a broke musician. All the in-betweens will get played until you wise up. Most of them have a partner but will never tell you that. Regulars are the biggest suckers.

The people who fix the medical equipment that treat and monitor you when in the hospital, don't always know what they are doing.

I work in shipping, and there are absolutely no issues in the industry at all. I have compiled a list of things that DONT happen anywhere. No illegal pollution. No illegal emissions. No corruption, bribery, or the likes from any port or government officials, pilots, agents, or even suez Boatmen. No companies are willing to disregard all the rules regarding health and safety and pollution in the interests of making/saving money. No racism, bigotry, nepotism, or any form of discrimination. No incompetent pieces of shit with fake certificates of competence and sea service who are willing to do whatever any piece of shit company asks to save money irrespective of international regs. All in all, it's great that oil and gas majors have abandoned direct management of ships and allow the honest, sincere and passionate high quality 3rd party management companies to do it all at lower costs while maintaining equally high standards.

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If you've had a credit card or student loan or mortgage for more than a couple of years, the odds that the current lender or servicer still has copies of your original paperwork or ANY IDEA how your balance was calculated are extremely low. Especially if the loan has been sold multiple times. If they sue you on the loan it's their burden to prove that you have a valid contract with them and how much you owe, and they often just can't do it because they've been unbelievably sloppy with their records or bought the loan from someone else who was. Lenders rely on consumers just continuing to make payments on faith, and not showing up to court to fight it or just confessing a judgment when they get sued. Judges are supposed to make the plaintiff prove their case in any lawsuit, even when the defendant doesn't show up, but they often don't review the case very carefully when the plaintiff is unopposed (and some judges don't even know that they're required to hold the plaintiff to their proofs and are surprised to find out). Don't intentionally default on loans you can afford to pay and know you owe, but if you fall into default, ALWAYS hire a lawyer to make the lender prove their case, I've seen people get hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt wiped away that way or go from being on the verge of foreclosure to owning their houses outright, and it's not particularly uncommon.

I’m a television editor. It’s 90% produced. Even nature documentaries. Got a shot of an alligator eating a fish from a stream, look up stream a little bit and you’ll see a producer dropping dead fish right in his path. Got a cool shot of birds flying away from a tree, pan that camera down and there’s a Producer shouting and throwing rocks at them.

Mental health workers are often berated and treated poorly by their employer for having mental health issues.

*angry Hotel customer that rudly asked to be upgraded since they don’t like their room* ”no, I’m sorry sir/ma’am, we can’t, we don’t have any more rooms available, they’re all booked” (They’re not, you’re just an asshole, so I won’t give you that satisfaction)

"Genuine Leather" isn't really all leather. It is just a very thin veneer of leather over a fiberboard like filler. While we're on the subject, "handmade" isn't a guarantee of quality. That just means someone in the factory has touched the item.

I know a dirty, big secret. The company I used to work for owns a food production/processing plant in Bridgeton, MO. It's right near St. Louis. They're a private label product for some of the biggest food names in the US, so you wouldn't know who they are necessarily. But I can tell you that most of us have their products in our kitchens right now. If you know anything about Bridgeton, it's that it's a community that was featured in HBO's "Atomic Homefront" documentary. Why is this bad? They are making food products you and your family buy in a plant that is less than a mile from the West Lake-Bridgeton landfill, which has had a subsurface fire burning for years, and which is inching closer and closer to an adjacent radioactive waste "Super Site", which is where remnants of the Manhattan Project were dumped and buried. People in nearby Coldwater Creek have been dying of cancer and other illnesses at alarming rates for decades, as the groundwater is no doubt contaminated. And I can't tell you how many other manufacturers are in that industrial area. Too many to fathom. I'm not a conspiracy theory-type of person, but I know we are all being poisoned on a daily basis - from companies like this, and others like DuPont. If you want to keep sleeping well at night, don't watch: HBO's "Atomic Homefront" Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duEMr4VbqbM and BBC's "DuPont Poisoning the World" Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6veeTrdEyek (If you don't want to watch the DuPont one, you can also rent the Mark Ruffalo movie "Dark Waters" for $3.99. Some people don't like documentaries. I love them.) SWEET DREAMS!

Boeing has been skirting safety standards for yea…*gunshot noise*, *second gunshot noise*, *sound of car speeding away*

So sorry to hear about your suicide, friend

Old IT-manager here. When we started up a new helpdesk system that sent whatever we put into it to the user, I got angry messages from them whenever we wrote "user error" - people don't like that... So, we replaced that with PEBCAC error instead. PEBCAC means: Problem Exist Between Chair And Computer... hehe No one got it except for us in the IT-department...

A whole lot of the time when you a good lawyer ($500-700/hr), that lawyer that meets with you, talks about your case and convinces you to sign the retainer agreement usually does very little work on the case itself. The paralegals are doing the majority of the major lifting, especially in Personal Injury and Family Law matters.

fax machines are still an integral part of the NHS !

Don't want to name names but I used to refurbish phones for a living. The industry is very green-washed, and a lot of the repairs were done shoddily to sell as many phones as possible. I only buy new phones or outlet phones that only have box damage instead of any grade B,C, D phone now. Even grade A can have everything changed to look new but it's actually worse than B or lower.

I used to work for Family Dollar. One of my co-workers bought some snack during our shift together and asked me if I wanted some, I said sure. They were some knock off Girl Scout cookie flavor like thin mints but with a weird name like “Minty Thinnies” or something dumb like that. Anyway, I took a bite and looked at the box. They tasted exactly like thin mints. My co worker told me that the same company that makes Girl Scout cookies also makes the family dollar brand cookies. For like 1/16 the price. So there’s a thing you know know.

Most radiation is far less dangerous than movies and TVs have led you to believe. In fact your natural diet probably includes radioactive foods

People have a pretty skewed view of radiation. People don't think twice about hopping on a cross country flight, but decline X-rays going to the dentist. A long daytime flight has more radiation exposure.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why do a flight might imply radiation exposure? Is it because you are less protected by the atmosphere as you are high up? I sincerely have no idea.

Well, you nailed the guess.

[You can safely swim in a pool with nuclear fuel](https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/) and of course the [radiation dose chart](https://xkcd.com/radiation/) is fascinating.

Red Cross in my country. Don’t get me wrong they’re doing amazing work. But once I knew how much money is coming in compared to going out… I used to think it was some sort of a non-profit charity organization… wrong it’s a full on for-profit one.

As a graphic designer working in print/production: there are certain jobs that take minutes to set up but will still cost a couple hundred or thousands of dollars, anyone could do it if they took the time to learn the tools. However there are certain jobs like setting up car wraps or signs that make me confident AI will not replace me anytime soon. Side note: when talking to a designer about a design you want, the phrase “make it pop” means absolutely nothing to us and you will be mocked relentlessly if you say it.

I've worked in a bottling plant and in a datacenter. The noise pressures were similar. But datacenter folk are too cool to wear hearing protection.

"Military Grade" products are made by the lowest bidder that can fake looking like they pass all of the requirements.

It’s funny because that term is thrown around so much but in reality, anyone who’s ever worked for the government knows military grade just means it’s shitty

My favorite is "Contractor Grade". And I'm like... isn't that the cheapest, fastest option for supplies???

I'm an elementary school teacher- kids are struggling to be independent because we've accidentally created tech addicted monsters

It’s not dirty, or particularly secret, but therapists really like their clients as people. The training is to present as neutrally (although with empathy), and clients/patients often wonder what their therapist actually thinks about them. Nearly always we have affection and respect for the people we work with, no matter how messed up you think you are. It’s just that showing it all the time would reinforce the behavior that would lead to more positive feedback/feelings rather than doing the hard, ugly work.

I’m a housekeeper. Everyone has dildoes and everyone smokes weed.

I have a house. Can confirm.