Thursday, May 7, 2020

Industries that are Shadier than They Seem


It seems like when you get down to the nitty gritty of just about any industry, there are some shady parts of it that no one wants to talk about. Even the most fun and simple seeming industries like avocados or tropical fish have seriously dark sides. When it comes to how a company treats it's employees, there are some definitered flags when it comes to looking for a job.

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Text - PolecatEZ 5.7k points · 19 hours ago Eyeglasses. You have no idea the snow job they put most people through when it comes to buying them. Its far, far worse than trying to buy a new car from a dealership. Wholesale frames are about $5-20, wholesale lens blanks are another $10. Any kind of dip coating (UV, tinting, etc) is negligible cost and effort to apply - literally pennies. To top it off, they don't even do a whole lot in house, but send it to "labs" which are basically sweatshops tha

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Text - NachOMan_RandySavage 4.8k points - 20 hours ago Apparently Tiger Zoos

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Text - chebezlcrow4212 4.7k points 21 hours ago Recycling. Dirty little secret of the recycling industry is how much is either shipped oversees and dumped in a landfill or just sent directly to your local landfill. The good news is the toxic stuff is what is sent oversees! Well good news if your not in a poor country I guess.

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Text - theseapug 54.2k points · 1 day ago 5 Avocado farms. Most of the farms in Central America are taken over by the cartel because of how much money is in selling avocados.

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Text - mrsuns10 38.1k points · 22 hours ago The textbook Industry Pearson is the fuckign mafia

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Text - drguse 27.0k points · 1 day ago 3 Seriously? The funeral business preys on people's weakest moments to convince them to buy ridiculously unnecessary stuff.

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Text - LaquandaSchutt 26.5k points · 23 hours ago & 3 More Trucking. The margins are razor thin and so everyone is trying to nickle and dime each other constantly. The drivers lie to their dispatchers, the dispatchers lie to the brokers, the brokers lie to the clients. All of this for like $50-100 sometimes.

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Text - kindredfold 22.1k points · 23 hours ago edited 15 hours ago CBD, lot of predatory companies making subpar products with questionable raw materials and then marking it way the fuck up and selling it as a miracle cure to vulnerable and ill educated consumers. Usually have a high power legal team on deck, but pay their workers shit and no benefits.

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Text - Yesberry 20.7k points · 21 hours ago O & 3 Not an industry, but higher academia is badly broken. Some of the smartest people are some of the most badly exploited. Old tenured professors limit the number of faculty many departments can have, forcing people to work as postdocs forever, effectively doing all the work the prof should be doing in the first place. Meagre pay and long hours, plus constant pressure makes postdocs some of the most depressed people. The grad students are no better

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Text - koroze 6.2k points · 23 hours ago S Recruitment Industry some examples: fake jobs to lure candidates for registration kpis • trainee negotiation tactics of telling a candidate there is a better candidate who wants less so we recommend less for you to get the job. especially for contractors. 'coveting off' pitching and telling a candidate they have been sent to a line manager but in reality they haven't been submitted because two others from same recruiter have already been in interviews.

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Text - pajmahal 20.3k points · 22 hours ago All industries are shadier than they seem. I used to work for a flute manufacturer and it was shady as hell.

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Text - beepborpimajorp 19.6k points · 22 hours ago S 3 8 A lot of hobby fish importing is pretty shady. You have farms of certain types of fish like bettas in some areas of the world that are run with the fish in horrible conditions. Which is why a lot of the ones you get in a major chain store are sick before you even bring them home. The stores will blame the fish being stressed, but I've ordered and received hundreds of fish from small breeders/sellers and outside of cory catfish that really

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Text - Lastly, boutique fish sellers/major chains do not give half a rat's ass what happens to the fish in the end. This means that people who buy fish like plecos, bettas, goldfish, etc. end up getting sick of them and dumping them in local waterways to supposedly get rid of the problem. So in some areas, these fish have completely destroyed the local water ecology because, like other invasive land species, they were never meant to be there. One of the worst offenders is the lionfish in florida

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Text - LaquandaSchutt 16.4k points · 23 hours ago Dietary supplements It's gotten better, but there's still a lot of half-truths and whole lies. Not all that long ago it was seriously like the wild wild west.

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Text - Sirnando138 16.0k points · 23 hours ago As a chef/owner, I would say delivery services like Grubhub. They take 30% of the sale leaving the restaurant with basically $0 in profit. And their customer support is a joke. It's like they hate us. Fuck them. Never again.

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Text - Entitled2Compens8ion 8.5k points · 23 hours ago Advertising. We don't really give a fuck if it works, we already got your money.

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Text - stebbi01 7.3k points · 19 hours ago S This will probably get buried, but glitter. A manager of one of the biggest glitter manufacturers, Glitterx, said in a 2018 interview that most of the glitter they make goes to one buyer for a single industrial use. When asked who the buyer was and why they need so much glitter, she said "Oh, I definitely can't disclose that." When asked why, she said "Because they don't want anybody to know it's glitter." Ever since this interview people have been tr

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Text - AbleTourist6 19.2k points · 22 hours ago The maritime industry. Most of the big companies do things by the book and treat crews well because they're afraid of lawsuits and unions, but many smaller "mom and pop" companies break laws and violate safety regulations with reckless abandon because they're not as visible and can "stay under the radar" so to speak. It's very common for a small company to ask a captain/crew to do something illegal and dangerous in order to increase profit, and for

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Text - mrsemig 6.4k points · 23 hours ago 3 The nonprofit world, unfortunately. Most people at the top are in it to make a name for themselves and don't usually care about the mission of the organization.

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Text - colin_robinson 6.3k points · 1 day ago Mattress industry. Specifically, Mattress Firm. KourteousKrome 7.6k points · 22 hours ago Worked in the mattress industry for a bit at a startup. Basically 90% bullshit. And the worst part? We had a real doctor serve an advisory role for our products. He debunked a lot of nonsense claims about mattresses like "your pillow is 50% of your spinal support" that the sales people use to sell you accessories. The sales people would argue with him, like they

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Text - No mattress will keep you from “tossing and turning" for the reason above. It's a natural thing you're supposed to do. More layers DOESNT mean better mattress. A lot of companies add in cheap materials like upholstery foam to just claim there's more layers. Maybe one layer of nice springs then just 10 layers of various types of cheap foam to get the layers higher. One that actually IS true is heat. If you frequently are hot at night, foam mattress is not good for you. It's an insulator an

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