Monday, July 13, 2020

Sketchy Secrets of Various Industries


Every industry has something they don't tell customers and clients. It could be something about the amount of quality control that doesn't happen, the arbitrary nature of pricing, or people getting away with doing the bare minimum. Lies and open secrets in various industries are like the duct tape holding your walls together. Just about any business has some weird tales, like these all-you-can-eat-buffet horror stories.

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Text - Konstantynopolitancz 1.7k points 10 hours ago Pretty much any software you use is jacked together spaghetti with no tests.

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Text - Privvy_Gaming 1.6k points · 10 hours ago Funeral Director: You can buy a casket from Costco for 20% of the price that I'm going to sell you one for. About 70% of the cost of the funeral is overcharging options and leading you on to feel guilty if you don't take them.

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Text - bladeau81 1.3k points · 11 hours ago You know when you are checking out and the store offers to round up your total and donate that to a charity? Well the company is using this to pay into their own charity with over site costs etc who then pays into another charity. They are also then using this charitable donation as tax offset. You are much better off choosing a charity yourself and saving the 5-10c each time and donating it at once to the same place. You get a small tax offset and kno

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Text - adeiner 873 points · 12 hours ago Those "Donate now and your donation will be double/triple/quadruple matched" or "We only need 10 more donors/$5,000 more from your zip code" emails are all lies. But they work, so we keep sending them.

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Text - katakago 18.5k points · 11 hours ago You know the people who write instruction manuals or user guides in things you buy? Half the time, they've never even seen or touched the product. Some dude just sends us pictures, a rough description of how it's supposed to work, and that's it.

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Text - addledhands 15.4k points · 6 hours ago Instruction manual writer here, although for software. You know how there are always frequently asked questions? I have no idea what's frequently asked. I make all of them up.

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Text - MineralWaterMike 17.2k points · 13 hours ago Young kids talk to their teachers/coaches/counselors/principals about their parents. A lot. And kids pick up on all the dirty little secrets.

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Text - IShouldBeEditing 1.8k points · 10 hours ago Documentary editor here. This varies depending on the content/genre, but documentaries can never be completely true (the ethics of filmmaking is disputed among many theorists). Those who work on documentaries understand that they are almost as fictional as completely made-up stories. Again, this depends on the project, but some common practices like Frankenbiting (splicing sentences and words to create a different message, used especially in rea

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Text - AndromedaFire 16.3k points · 13 hours ago Many hotels often sell rooms multiple times. Used to work in airport hotel. Knowing that chances are some guests won't arrive due to missed or delayed flights so we sell more rooms that we have. You have guests checking out from 2/3 am due to early flights so even though the room is technically still theirs you quickly and sometimes poorly clean the room and tell the arriving unexpected guest or new booking there's a random computer issue and to w

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Text - Jenova66 16.1k points · 12 hours ago · edited 12 hours ago Many bills are literally written by lobbyists or special interest organizations. I have seen my boss give bill language to a state legislator and then found the same language in print a few days later several times. The bill may change in committee but usually not drastically against the original intent.

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Text - pamacdon 15.5k points · 13 hours ago · edited 1 hour ago Sometime we learn something the day before we teach it to you.

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Text - provocatrixless 12.2k points · 9 hours ago 3 Not currently my profession but ghost writers in fiction. John Grisham, Danielle Steele, James Patterson, Janet Evanovich etc., all those big names with an NYT bestseller every year use ghostwriters who are are never credited or mentioned. It's barely even a secret.

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Text - Shitty_McFuckface 10.8k points · 12 hours ago Air traffic control (cue the Breaking Bad jokes) A diagnosis of virtually any mental illnes...and a diagnosis of many physical conditions...is disqualifying and will end your career. For that reason, people avoid doctors like the plague.

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Text - NinjaWen 9.3k points · 13 hours ago · edited 6 hours ago I ended up quitting a career because people (all genders and ages) kept trying to solicite me for prostitution. Young male massage therapist.

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Text - ScallyWag-Idiot 7.1k points · 12 hours ago I work in logistics/trucking/rail/ocean/air freight. Everyone, lies about everything, all the time.

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Text - secretleymorbid 6.8k points · 13 hours ago How many people who work with children (teachers, childcare workers, etc.) don't follow confidentiality guidelines. Gossiping about families with coworkers, talking about children's home situations, creeping family's social media, etc.

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Text - ImmortanJoe 6.1k points · 10 hours ago I'm sure most know this, but 99.9% of advertisements involving 'real people' is acted and scripted. Even when the people being interviewed are indeed non-actors, they are prompted on what to say. For example, recently we interviewed a guy who won a car from one of our brands. First round: Interviewer: Congrats on your win! How do you feel? Guy: Uh... really great. It's a real surprise, to be honest. Thank you. AFTER SEVERAL ROUNDS AND COACHING Interv

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Text - Reeberton 6.0k points · 13 hours ago You can buy stamps from your mailbox, just leave a note and money and stamps will be there the next day.

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Text - phpdevster 5.8k points · 10 hours ago Have you ever started filling out a form for a quote on something (insurance website, or literally anything) and then changed your mind and said "nah, I don't want to give them my personal information", and then abandoned the form before pressing "submit"? If you think that stopped them from getting your personal information, it didn't. Most companies looking to capture leads will capture your info in real time as you enter it into a form. The submit

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Text - Djdubbs 5.7k points · 10 hours ago There is at least one water bottle/soda can/energy drink/ spray paint can sitting on a piece of blocking behind your drywall somewhere in your house.

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Text - clem82 5.4k points · 10 hours ago IT, Outages occur sure, bugs happen too. Most of the time these things are known and are put off until they happen or are complained about

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Text - mindfeces 3.7k points · 11 hours ago · edited 11 hours ago Padding paperwork (studies) to slow an auditor down. Every data point, all the minutiae of the calculations, unnecessarily dense explanations of statistical methods that go on at length with notes about distribution fitting. They (auditors) aren't usually very technical, so they stop at each spot along the way without realizing they can throw half the thing out. If you're good, you can balloon a 30 page document into 100 in a matt

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Text - 69fatboy420 3.7k points · 11 hours ago At a very large pizza chain restaurant that remains widely popular, we had these perforated pans for thin crust and stuffed crust pizzas. They'd get washed in the dish washer by the hundreds per day and at least half would still have burnt cheese and shit on them. Well they were just stacked to dry. When making new pizzas in those pans, sometimes the pans that were left to "dry" overnight grew bits of mold around the burnt cheese. We were told just t

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Text - jerkITwithRIGHTYnewb 3.5k points · 11 hours ago Services costs are based on how much money you look like you have. I'm a woodworker/contractor. I come to you house, you tell me what you want done. My jumping off point is how much the market will bare. If I think you can afford a $4,000 solid oak book case that's what I will quote you. I can make a cheaper version that I make less money on, but why would I do that? It's not that I'm just ripping you off, I'm selling you a better product, b

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Text - Revolutionary_Buddha 3.4k points · 9 hours ago · edited 4 hours ago University Professor: we don't actually read your entire answer. Most of us don't.

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Text - steelavian 2.4k points · 10 hours ago A lot of the time the engineer you talk to about your project (and decide to trust with it) delegates it to cheaper contractors as soon as you sign the paperwork. Their job is new business.

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Text - AngelsInMyLivingRoom 2.2k points · 10 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago Church worker here. This may be specific to the church I work for, but I think it's pretty common for bigger (1,000+ members) churches. They're two-faced. They'll tell the janitorial crew "janitorial service is truly a ministry, and it's so good and so important." But guess what. When the church needs to make cutbacks, we're some of the first ones screwed over. We're the ones expected to clean until 2-3am on a Sunday mor

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Text - stuckNTX_plzsendHelp 1.8k points · 10 hours ago Some stores that sell used merchandise like video games and movies, will pay you money for stolen stuff even when they know it's stolen. It doesn't hurt them to get brand new games that were only released hours ago for a fraction of the cost. Then they turn around and sell them for five dollars cheaper than a new copy. They are getting brand new never opened sixty dollars games for a few bucks, and making a huge profit.

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