authorThere are so many moving parts when it comes to how things work. Have you ever stopped to wonder about where your food comes from, and the journey it took to get into your kitchen? What about mobile video games and how addictive they are? Do you know why they’re so insatiably fun and frustrating at the same time? And of course, sales. How can companies be making money when they’re slashing prices by 40, 50, sometimes even 60%!? What’s going on here? Hint: everything is an illusion!
Juggling both our heavy work and personal lives means we need to place our trust in industry experts who know what they’re doing. We rely on the farmers who provide us with milk, and the servers who bring us our food. Unless you ask the right questions or have experience in the field, how are you supposed to know anything other than what you’re being told – or sold? Everyone is out to make a buck (money does, in fact, make the world go ’round) and while some are honest and straightforward about it, others tend to take shortcuts or bend the rules in their favor. Whichever field you work in, you’re sure to be privy to a few industry secrets the rest of us are utterly clueless about! From food and beverage to medicine to custodial arts, all of these industries thrive without our knowledge of what really happens behind closed doors. Read on for a few shocking, albeit truthful insider tips that will reframe most things you encounter in your day-to-day life.
30. You Never Really Know If What You’re Watching Is True
“Almost anything you say in an interview can be manipulated and the intentions changed, in editing.
I remember a specific case where a big company was on its 40th anniversary or something, and they made a video interviewing current and former employees… the closing was an old man that had worked there since the beginning and was retired, he said something like, ‘I retired X years ago, but if they called me again today, I’d go back in a heartbeat…’ slow fade to the company logo with emotional background music, everyone cried when watching the video….
I had a chance to view the original material sometime later. The interview continued, ‘I’d go back in a heartbeat… because it’s a shame the state the new owners have it in, someone has to beat some sense into them.’ Namocol
29. Free Range With A Time Constraint
“‘Free Range Chicken’ only has to be let out of their cage for 1 hour a day.” phresh_1
Another User Builds On This Point:
“‘Cage-free’ literally just means no cages. No guarantee they can even walk around due to crowding. ‘Free Range’ just means 2 square feet per bird, plus ‘access’ to the outside. ‘Pasture-raised’ means 108 square feet per bird, primarily raised outside, only going inside to protect them from the weather and whatnot (there are limits). Trouble is, at least in my area, regular eggs are a little over $1-2/dozen, and pasture-raised eggs are like $6-8 a dozen.” loggic
28. Not All Vodka Tastes The Same
“Former bartender here. Got fired from Buffalo Wild Wings for refusing to pour the cheap gut rot liquor into the top shelf bottles. You’re paying $12 for a shot of Grey Goose which could very well be the cheapest vodka you can get. For clarification: I intentionally shared the name of the company. They fired me for refusing to do shady/illegal ***.* Eff them.
This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. This happened in Texas which has pretty strict laws on the liquor issue. You have to be certified by the TABC to have any job related to alcohol pretty much. I reported this to the TABC immediately. I also obtained a lawyer because the manager was a shady jerk who outright told me I would be fired if I didn’t switch out the liquor. He claimed it was to save the bar from going under. I refused. It’s so illegal and I didn’t want to cheat my awesome customers like that. Unfortunately, right after I got fired, I ended up being needed in another state where my dad was dying of cancer. I would have taken the lawsuit all the way to court if I hadn’t been in the situation with my dad. I’m glad I chose to leave, though. It gave me the chance to bond with my real dad who had never really been in my life.” lifeinthefastlane999
27. Clean Eating Starts With A Good Wash
“Wash your produce! I’m not even talking about, eww, it’s got a little dirt on it. See, before those grapes get to your supermarket, they went through my distribution warehouse. While they were there, a lot of time they were dropped on some filthy, filthy floors. Sometimes, they fall in water that the scrubber just left behind. The scrubber with a water tank that smells like sewage and leaves behind more dirt than it takes. Yeah, your grapes fell into that water. Technically, we’re supposed to throw them away, but that **** costs money, so no one does. Seriously, wash your produce.” Electric_Evil
Another User Asks A Good Question:
“What if it says ‘triple-washed’ or something similar?” [deleted]
This User Says It Like It Is:
“Always wash produce, always always always. It doesn’t matter what it says, wash it. Even if the farm doesn’t use pesticides there is always a chance there is ‘dirt’ (actually part dirt, part cow/horse **** [manure]) left on the item. Or the people who were in the grocery store who were handling it, or the people who were handling it during transport. Always wash your produce.” electricblues42
This User Confirms:
“I work on a farm. When they say you should wash your produce thoroughly at home, they’re not joking.” Rene_McHugh
26. Someone Is Always Keeping Track Of You
“Not as cool as some other posts and not really a secret but I work for a large telco and one thing we do is install managed wifi usually Cisco Meraki, so basically when you go to a hotel, Starbucks, the mall, Home Depot etc., and they have free wifi, that stuff is tracking the **** out of you and is the main selling point of it. They can see reports detailing every time you come into the store, how long you stay there for and so on. Most of you need to agree to the terms or create an account, and they always have ‘Facebook login.’ Everyone uses Facebook login to save time as it is literally 2 clicks vs making an account, but now those reports are 10x more detailed as they know your age, gender, where you’re from, can see your entire friend list, they know where you work and everything. 40% of the reason people buy the managed wifi is for the actual wifi, the other 60% is for the metrics and reporting. I disabled Facebook extensions forever ago and won’t ever use free wifi anywhere now as those reports are crazy detailed!” [deleted]
25. Police Have Really Strong Intuition
author“The vast majority of decisions made regarding policy, manpower, training, deployment, etc., in law enforcement are by gut feeling.
An incredibly small number of studies have been done, and they are generally ignored. Programs to develop predictive techniques are in their infancy. There are zero national training standards, and state standards are generally very loose.
There are 18,000 police agencies in the US. If the UK was the size of the US, based on its method of organization, there would only be 200-ish. The majority of our agencies are less than 50 employees. The titles of different police agencies also vary in meaning and purpose from area to area. For the record, I love my job, but there is room for improvement.” Pregate
24. Prices Are Totally Arbitrary
“Every major discount sale item is made for that. They are made cheaper than the other items, and are set to a very high price before the sale so that they can be regularly priced with a huge 60% off sign.”m50
Another User Shares A Story:
“I was lucky to have an honest fireworks salesman pull the fleece off my eyes when I was a teenager.
We went to a fireworks store where the item we wanted was $20. We decided to shop around. Next store we went into they were $40 buy one get one free. I made a remark about it and the owner overheard me. He laughed and said, ‘I tried putting those things at $20 a pop and they collected dust on the shelves. I switched over to $40 BOGO and now they are selling.’
I’ll always remember that day. Hearing it straight from the guy who makes the price tags.” chuckaslaxx
23. Street Musicians Are Performers, First and Foremost
“I’m a street musician.
People do not give a **** about your talent level. If they wanted to go watch an expert, they’d buy a ticket. Your job is to make them open their wallets to a stranger on a street corner. Play NOVELTIES. Video game themes, RickRoll them, heavy metal on the viola. Always have at least one Beatles and one Stones tune in your repertoire that you can pull off exquisitely but differently.
My favorite is to play ‘Paint It Black,’ but in a classical concerto style, then go theme-and-variations with it. Or my medley of Zelda, Tetris, and Super Mario, ending with the ‘You fell down a well and died’ melody from Mario.” InfintySquared
22. Video Games Are Designed To Get Under Your Skin
“Mobile videogames are literally designed to be frustrating instead of fun.
A great many mobile titles make use of mechanics that are put together with the intention of nurturing habitual behavior, frustrating a user, and then offering a slightly more enjoyable experience after the money has been spent. This tactic has proven to be a more profitable model than actually offering entertainment, to the point where some companies take very careful steps to ensure that their games don’t accidentally end up being fun.
That sounds like satire, I know, but it’s actually true.
Let’s suppose you had a game like Galaga, for instance. A mobile game version monetized with in-application microtransactions would probably give you the option to upgrade your ship and your weapons, purchase additional lives, and other such things. You’d be able to earn ‘soft’ (or ‘grind’) currency by killing enemy units, with small amounts of ‘hard’ (or ‘premium’) currency being awarded when you advanced in level or something.
Now, that sounds like it would be alright, doesn’t it? Here’s where the manipulative part comes in, though: In this hypothetical game, it would be prohibitively difficult to make it beyond the third level without spending money, because there’d be a ‘recommended’ item of some kind that could only be purchased with hard currency… and it’s usually impossible to earn enough of that from within the games themselves. This is called a ‘pay wall,’ and a great many mobile games take advantage of the concept, albeit to varying degrees.
There’s only one small problem with the game concept I just outlined: It might actually be kind of fun to play. As I mentioned previously, it’s a far better idea to frustrate a user, and then give them a marginally better experience after they’ve converted to a paying player. So, maybe what we’d do with our hypothetical title is have all of the enemies slowly become more and more difficult over the course of five levels or so. Then, when a user inevitably died, we’d show them some kind of pop-up message:
‘The aliens are advancing!’ it might say. ‘Spend 15 SPACE CREDITS to revive?’
You’d be given the option to spend 15 hard currency for a single life… or to buy a pack of lives for only 50! Either way, immediately after you made the purchase, the game would become easier and more satisfying. If there were random items dropped by destroyed enemies, you’d see slightly more of them. Your score would increase more quickly, and there would be more explosions (or in the case of a game like Candy Crush, more flashing lights and noises).
After the level was done, you’d get bumped back into the typical difficulty and the same frustrating experience… until you spent more money, of course.” RamsesThePigeon
21. Teaching Is A Very Stressful Job
author“I’ve been a teacher for 12 years. The vast majority of teachers I’ve known are on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication. Consistently, they’ve reported their doctors told them every teacher they treat is on medicine.
Counseling training would be invaluable as a teacher. The majority of my job is not actually teaching academics. It’s teaching life skills, interpersonal skills, and self-regulation skills. And some of this training is for parents as well who are doing the best they know how but haven’t been taught the skills they need to be effective.
We all consistently watch for and help students who are abused, neglected, addicted, etc. When we help these students and have to release them back to their families or to a hospital or they just disappear/run away (yes this happens with disturbing frequency), we worry about them. Even students who appear ‘normal’ often have so much going on that they need a safe place to talk and to just be themselves.
We always want students to come back and let us know they’re doing ok, that they’re making it, and that they’re happy.
For clarification, I myself am an inclusion special ed teacher. This means I directly teach students in our program to remediate a variety of skill deficits (academic and non-academic) but I also co-teach all students (special ed and gen ed) in inclusion classes. While most of the inclusion teaching is academic, even when we teach and model essential nonacademic skills our students need to succeed. The good co-teachers I have worked with intuitively model and teach important nonacademic skills alongside the academic standards required. They also counsel students and parents who connect with them as well as push students to grow in nonacademic ways. We are all invested in teaching our students whatever skills they need to succeed.” pillaryspud
20. Security Wants The Confiscated Stuff You Can’t Have
“Event security.
The ***** and drinks we take from you, we take later. Normally the person who’s on searches will ask the other staff before the shift starts what they’d like to drink/take later and will take that from people during their searches. If it’s something no one wants, we’ll pretend we didn’t see it.
A lot of us drink/take ***** on shift. The majority of us are NOT trained in any way. There are no rules. We are allowed to manhandle you in whatever way we want and there will be no comeback. Most of us are jerks with anger issues (I don’t know if that’s a secret….). Most of you are ridiculous when you’re drunk/high. A lot of famous artists take ***** before they play. A lot of famous artists have *** with fans after they play.” Elcyis
19. Janitors Confirm How Clean Schools Generally Are
“Janitor here. Sets of keys that can open 95% of the doors in the school (even lockers) are willfully given to random 18-year-olds who apply and succeed in getting a job in the custodial arts. Don’t worry though, the stuff in your lockers is painfully boring.
The kitchen (cafeteria) is probably the grossest thing I’ve cleaned in this school. And it’s not on special occasions, it’s every day. I don’t know if they’re feeding the kids or the floor.
If a room smells good, like an air freshener, it’s probably hiding something nasty that happened there. None of our cleaners smell good, or bad.
I have seen every bodily fluid that can come out of a human in just my first two years of working here. All in all, schools are gross. It’s scary to see some kids walking the halls barefoot (after school hours).” pyromidion
This User Has Something To Add:
“The practitioners of custodial arts are always my favorite coworkers.
When I worked for a school district, they invited me into their fraternity which provided access to all of their break rooms. Tucked into the most obscure places within the buildings were discrete clubhouses with mini-fridges, TVs, snacks, and smoking allowed!
It blew my mind, being a recent graduate of the school, to be able to smoke cigs and drink beers mere feet from where I took my finals.
Any building that houses a few thousand people has the same, you just need to know where to look!” [deleted]
18. Servers May Or May Not Tamper With Your Food
“No matter how nasty you are to a food service worker, there’s a very, very good chance that they will NOT do something nasty to your food. That is very frowned upon. We all go out to eat.
I’m saying this from my own experience working in food service for years. From the viewpoint of someone who has been preparing food for nice folks and complete ******** alike. I get it, it happens. I’ve heard firsthand accounts from people who have done it. I’m just saying the chances are good that your food will not be messed with.” becauseusoft
This User Comments:
“I have irrational fears about this every time I go out to eat. And I’m super polite and never send back food. It kills my appetite when I get paranoid about it.” [deleted]
This User Has A Reassuring Comment:
“Then don’t worry, you’re probably one of the good things about that shift for that worker! If you’re polite (even if you send back food, it happens), you aren’t getting any weird stuff.” BWOcat
So Does This One:
“I always gave polite people larger portions and extras.” [deleted]
But Definitely Not This One:
“I worked in the service industry for almost 10 years and I 100% disagree with that statement. I’ve witnessed terrible things done to customers’ food. One place I worked, the bosses son would come in for lunch a couple of times a week. We hated him, he was an arrogant ****. He had chicken, veg, and gravy every time and every time the chef would wipe the raw chicken along the grossest part of the floor before cooking. And that’s a mild example of what I have seen happen to customers’ food.” Poachedmonkey
17. Want A Date? Call The Doctor Or Paramedic
“I’ve noticed that people sleep around a lot in health care/medical institutions. Personally not myself but it’s true that there’s a lot of drama and ****** tension for some people who are in those industries, including medical students and doctors.” AlabasterStar
Another User Has Some Thoughts To Share:
“I work for a firm that currently has four different suits pending for alienation of affections and criminal conversation between doctors and their nurses (ex-spouse of nurse suing a doctor for being the reason for the breakup of the relationship with the nurse). Doctors are like stupid ***** children. Seriously. Having read all their emails and texts, it’s like an emotionally stunted child with zero social skills. It’s not like Grey’s Anatomy. It’s like if someone followed around the dumb kids from your high school, and then someone else made a ***** parody of it.
I feel like I need to provide examples to prove my point. I’m going to change the wording slightly… So it’s harder to identify me since this stuff is in publicly viewable lawsuits we’ve filed. The changes actually improve the grammar and style, because honestly, I don’t know how to make it worse:
‘You so such a **** girl (I like your ***** and *** most of all)!’ (Some of the wording was changed to less offensive phrases from the original.)
My favorite was the one where the nurse repeatedly told the doctor via text that she would only agree if a condom was used because she wasn’t on birth control with her husband – and then the series of texts from him explaining and justifying why he lied to her about having one on (mostly his feelings were just ‘so deep, like just so deep’ that to do so was a ‘betrayal’ of their love) but why she now had to go use Plan B today ‘like right now go go go.’
Yeah, so, that’s what it’s like in real life. Not ****. Just kinda sad and pathetic.” Compliant_Automaton
And This User Drills It Down For Us:
“Note to self: If I really need t*********o********, see a doctor.” captain_cocain
16. Your Smartphone Can Decipher The Right And Wrong Side Of The Tracks
“I’m not sure if this is an actual secret but a lot of retailers use dynamic pricing models for online purchases.
When you purchase something online, a lot of information about you and the device you’re using is captured during the purchase. One of those bits of information is your IP address which can be geo-located.
You will pay more for the exact same item if your IP address is geo-located to an affluent neighborhood as compared to a less affluent location.
NOTE: This doesn’t apply to devices connected to a cellular network because of the way IP addresses are assigned by mobile service providers.” dd63584
15. Food Comes From The Farm To A Corporation To Your Table
“Pretty much any restaurant you eat at in California, even if it’s called ‘Natural Cafe’ and a sandwich costs $12, is using cheap, frozen, highly processed ingredients from the company Sysco.
I’ve worked in countless restaurants and catering services and I can tell you that Sysco products are absolutely omnipresent, even at places that claim to make everything ‘in house’ or that is ‘totally organic.’
So next time you’re enjoying something like a perfectly golden-brown and flaky spanikopita at your local Greek place, just remember that you’re probably actually eating an overpriced hot pocket.
It’s not really gross or anything, just deceitful.” FikeMosh
Another User Agrees:
“Absolutely. I worked in a retirement home kitchen in high school. Everything was from Sysco. The food was good, it was ‘fresh’ and ‘gourmet” but basically, they were just eating stuff directly off a Sysco truck that was heated and in some cases prepared. These are places that charge several thousand per month.” *************
This One Too:
“Everything is Sysco where I work. Everything. Condiments, cheese, the boats we put the food in. You can’t escape it.” crazed3raser
14. How Small Food Items Are Picked In This Day And Age
“People are always up in arms about overseas sweatshops… They should see domestic farming operations. Every. Single. Jalapeño is hand-picked. Blackberries. Handpicked. Etc etc etc. Literally backbreaking work. Hunched over for hours. Incredible. Incredibly sad.
PS I’ve also seen those overseas sweatshops. Not trying to minimize it, but the difference isn’t nearly as big as you’d expect.” geneel
Another User Chimes In:
“So, so true. Agriculture is tough, unforgiving, mind-numbing work that ruins your body, and we pay people peanuts for it. It’s the new slavery, except it’s almost exactly like the old slavery. I’ve done it, and I hope I never have to ever, ever again. Not even a hobby garden for me, thanks. I live in one of those liberalish big cities with lots of very cutesy hipster families that grow organic tomatoes and raise their own chickens and pat themselves on the back for being so progressive. Hobby gardens and chickens aren’t ****** progressive. Paying the people who pick your food for you a living wage, THAT is progressive. They don’t have a ****** clue what it’s like to actually have to survive on what you can pick or grow with your own hands. Not a ******* clue. I honestly don’t know why this makes me as mad as it does, but it sure does.” Bonbonnibles
13. This Is Actually What’s In Your Can
“There is a technical term called ‘filth’ that is applied to food manufacturers that determines whether something, (e.g. can of Spaghettios) is fit for consumption. An acceptable level of filth might include 3 rat hairs, x amount of droppings, 3 insect parts, etc, etc.” mrs_dalloway
Another User Makes An Interesting Point:
“I don’t think there’s ever been a time when food has been completely clean.” CuthbertTheDestroyer
This User Gives Us An Example:
“To add to your comment, food manufacturers, including our onsite USDA allows some places a certain amount of ‘organic’ material to be in a product that isn’t for consumption by humans. To give an example; at my old job, we made a chicken base, a bunch of wood from a broken pallet was in it, but since it was under a certain % X the size of the batch, all that splintery goodness was deemed okay for shipping by management. Disgraceful.” superciliousx
12. Most Rye Whiskey Comes From One Place
“Just about all rye whiskey is made at one huge distillery in Indiana. So, if you see a small microdistillery put out a 95% rye, it is safe to assume they just purchased it from MGP of Indiana. The same can be said for any spirit that is significantly older than the distillery. If a brand new craft distillery opens up with 3-year-old liquid, then they could have produced that and have been not making a profit for three years waiting for the liquid to be ready before they released it. However, if they release a 20-year liquid right as they open, there is no way they distilled that and had to have bought someone else’s distillate to re-label as their own. The alcohol industry is rife with crap like this.” eyesick
Another User Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag:
“Templeton Rye is a big thing here. It’s from the same recipe as Bulleit Rye, which costs a whole lot less than Templeton. Templeton got sued for lying about the recipe on the label, claiming it was the Prohibition recipe Al Capone loved so dearly.” flibbidygibbit
This User Says Other Industries Do It Too:
“Cheese companies do this as well. There is a small cheese ‘factory’ near where I live that hasn’t actually made any cheese in decades but still manages to sell a bunch….” [deleted]
11. Why Parent Teacher Meetings Are Important
“If a teacher tells a parent they think their child has, or should be tested for learning disabilities, it puts the school into a legally binding position to start the testing process within a certain amount of time. If the school doesn’t meet this, they could be sued for a substantial amount of money.
Because of this, almost no teacher will make this recommendation. Instead, we have to go through an internal process of reviewing the student’s performance and trying different teaching strategies to determine the student isn’t making progress and should be tested. That may take months.
Once a parent makes the request, testing starts much faster, so savvy and concerned teachers will find language like, ‘Mom and Dad if you’re concerned about a potential reason behind Timmy’s recent scores or behavior, you can bring it to the guidance councilor’s attention.'” NerdyKirdahy
10. Yet Another Approach To Marketing Diamonds
author“Chocolate diamonds are a marketing ploy to sell crappy diamonds. They are actually really, really low-grade diamonds that are filled with various elements that give them the brown color. They used to never be sellable and would go to waste, so someone decided to give them a desirable name and charge for it.” ksrm003
This User Says What Was On Our Minds In The First Place:
“So it’s a marketing ploy based on another product whose value is also derived from a marketing ploy? It’s like a scummy version of inception.”Art_Vandelay_7
9. Certain Award Shows Aren’t Done In Real-Time
“I’m a celebrity event photographer in Hollywood. Most of the smaller award show winners like the MTV VMAs, Teen Choice Awards, etc…already know they are going to win. This motivates the talent to come to the event. During the show, they are backstage talking with friends and take a seat during a commercial break just before their award is announced. The few exceptions are the Oscars and Golden Globes where the audience is mostly celebrities.” Sean_Sparks
8. Movie Theatre Butter Isn’t Butter
author“Movie theater ‘butter’ is actually just oil with butter flavoring. At least AMC Theaters doesn’t use butter anywhere… just a bunch of oil.” darthvega619
Another User Shares A Pro-Tip:
“Related: one of the cheapest ways to score pure coconut oil in bulk is to buy it as ‘popcorn oil.’ Some variants have a yellow colorant or butter flavor, but quite a few are 100% coconut oil, no colors or flavors.
It’s a godsend if you just want a room-temperature-solid vegetable oil and don’t want to pay a 500% markup for health claims and certificates that the coconuts in question were organic, fair trade, free range, and individually named before being hulled, crushed, and oil-pressed.” emlgsh
7. Being Nice Pays Off
“I work for a marketing/design agency. We have an ****** tax. If you’re annoying to deal with, you get charged more.” athaliah
This User Just Got The Memo:
“I just heard about this yesterday! I work with a fellow who does web design. He just picked up a new project that will require him to work over Christmas (and that pisses off his wife). He added a 25% BS fee with his wife’s name on it.” IrisesAndLilacs
This One Knows How It Works:
“Contractor here. We call it the charge ’em til you like ’em plan. I have a couple of customers on the $200 an hour plan because I’m the only one who will show up and deal with them being a complete *******.” andyb521740
And This One Too:
“I kinda do this. If a customer has been difficult in demanding something cut for them, I will charge full price. If a customer is very sweet and thankful for taking my time, I usually give them the discount price even if it doesn’t qualify for a discount.” metalmilitia587
6. It’s Hard To Say No When You’re Surrounded By It
“Not the most surprising, but:
People involved in the production and (especially) the sale of alcohol – even the finest wines and spirits – have insanely high rates of alcoholism.”iratepirate47
This User Has Seen It First Hand:
“I saw that in my family. Several bartenders, and one beer/drinks seller. It’s… easy. Take the seller. He got pulled out of school at the age of 15 so he could work for his father in the family business, which was the sale and delivery of drinks to local bars and restaurants. And, for the next fifty years, even as the company boss, his days were spent delivering from bar to bar, unloading the van, then chatting with the bar owner. One beer, two beers, sometimes a round for everyone in the bar. All day. You cannot NOT drink.” somefool
Another User Tells Us The Truth:
“Liquor store manager here. You probably have no idea how many people you encounter every day who are buzzed or completely drunk. Some of my regulars hold down a normal job and drink a handle of hard liquor per day. Plenty of others stock up on shooters first thing in the morning, daily. It’s more common than you’d think.” beardiswhereilive
5. Move Over Hollywood, The Comic Book Industry Has Lots Of Scandals Too
“I work in the comic book industry and it’s a well-known fact that high-ranking execs at well-known publishers are serial ****** harassers. For one, it’s gotten so bad that women aren’t assigned or hired for a particular department. A female colleague of mine was given a tour of the office and was purposefully steered away from the offender.
****** harassment is rampant in the comic book industry as a whole and is just in the last year or so being taken more seriously by comic pros. Though honestly, nothing has really changed. There’s more diversity coming out on the big publishers but going from 0 to 3 isn’t exactly what I would call progress.” bekahfromspace
4. Ladies Of The Night Like To Chill Out During The Day
“I work in a brothel. In the time between customers, I am wrapped in a blanket, eating snacks and talking about bowel movements with my co-workers.
When you come in and I go to greet you, I’ve ditched the blanket, put on my **** dress and put on the vibe like I’ve been **** all day, lying on a chaise lounge eating grapes. I’m saying **** things to you while wondering if I dropped food on me and maybe trying to hold in a fart from dinner. It’s all a bit of an illusion!” [deleted]
3. Gyms Aren’t Really Doing You Any Favors
“The gym industry is set up and needs you to fail.
Your average club across the USA charges $50/month, with outliers to either side like big box gyms or studio style gyms.
For a club to survive and be profitable they need to have a pretty large membership base of 1000-1500 members. (again, give or take outliers, we are talking averages here)
If each club had that many members who used the gym on an average 3 times per week basis (the normal recommended amount) the clubs would be insanely overcrowded and wouldn’t legally be able to have that many people in them even if the use of the clubs were split out perfectly equal over a 24 period. The reality is that most people workout between a 4-hour time block so usage is going to be heavily centered on those hours.
All of this means that gyms are FORCED to hope you sign up and don’t use them. And people still complain about $50/month to go to the gym.
If you wanted a fair gym price, in a gym that actually wanted to help you succeed, you would have to pay $200+/month to have usage and gym size be equal. Of course, again, CrossFit boxes that are smaller would have to be $400+/month, and big box style gyms would have to be $100+/month.
Until the industry either pushes the prices upwards in the realization that it needs to actually help people and those people accept the price increase to get needed help, or people start using the gym in high percentages randomly forcing gyms to up pricing due to overuse the industry will always be set up to hope people fail.” Brofessional337
2. Casinos Aren’t Very Clean
“Las Vegas casinos are filthy places because most casinos refuse to provide the casino porters with adequate cleaning supplies. Because executives get a year-end bonus for bringing their departments in under budget, all a casino porter usually has to work with is a spray bottle full of tap water and three cleaning rags. The tap water is useless as a disinfectant and the cleaning rags are used and reused until they are almost unrecognizable. In some places, you get three rags to use for the entire week. The rags are used to wipe down gaming machines, guardrails, ashtrays, toilets, door handles.
So if there’s a vicious bloodborne pathogen lurking on one surface, it is easily passed around to all surfaces. Some of the pathogens come directly from overseas. Asian gamblers routinely wipe snot and spit and other substances on the gaming machines they’re playing for ‘luck’. Because casinos hire illegal aliens (crooked HR workers give illegals a job in exchange for a cut of their earnings) we get people who cannot or will not follow simple instructions about the handling of bloodborne pathogens. It is not unusual to walk into a janitor’s closet to find a sandwich and cookies on the same shelf as wet Johnny mops and used cleaning rags. These people then get sick and they infect the rest of the workers and the guests. When I was working in the casinos, I’d been getting deathly sick every two or three months. Five years ago was my last day working in a casino and I haven’t been sick since.
If you’re coming to Las Vegas, bring plenty of hand sanitizer and disposable latex gloves.” Coelacanth1938
1. “Fragile” Means Nothing
“I work for the USPS. All of your packages are thrown. For sorting and loading purposes it’s just easier to throw them. Even the ones marked fragile. We’ll throw those underhanded though.” ringo_1-77
This User Confirms:
“Did this as an RCA, can confirm. Hated the job with a passion, except Sundays when we just delivered Amazon. When Amazon flex came to town, dumped the lower paying no-benefits ****************** USPS for independent contacting at higher wages, not looking back, get paid more to do less working directly for Amazon.” ravostic
A Customer Is Shocked:
“I was horrified when I worked my first day unloading and stocking at a certain major retail store. Employees were literally throwing and punting EVERYTHING. Expensive flat screen TV? Let’s just chuck that on top of the pile of other TVs! God I’m glad I developed plantar fasciitis a few days in and quit. I can’t believe that crap was encouraged.” [deleted]
Another User Has A Confession:
“Worked at a department store unloading trucks. Some of us may have played ‘dodgebox’ on occasion.” dringram82
The more you know, right? Tuck a few of these nuggets of wisdom for safekeeping next time you question washing your lemons or wonder why free-range eggs are so **** expensive! Got any juicy tips to share? Tell us everything!
