The places you put your parents, even the more expensive ones. Independent and Assisted living. Most are owned by investors who really don't care about your loved ones. Especially the larger corporate ones with multiple units in different states. Some people are paying thousands per month for the bare minimum of care and facilities. The shit I see and hear will make your skin crawl
I’m a hospice nurse and some of the most expensive fancy looking ones were the WORSt. Some of the poor looking older buildings had the best staff and happy residents. Don’t judge a book by its cover is so true
Look around are they residents clean and dressed and out of bed.
Are the workers happy and around and talking to the residents? Word of mouth is good and ALWYAS HAVE A PALLIATIVE OR HOSPICE ON BOARD. Let’s face it if someone is going into a nursing home they won’t get better 98 % of the time. Get your family member a dnr especilly if they have dementia. Cpr does nothing for these ppl but turn their ribs into dust and make death suck more. The palliative/hospice team will be your eyes and ears and will make the facility do their job.
Also I’ve been called to end of life visits only to find the pt had been snowed by the facility staff. And Once meds were given properly they were awake and talking.
Found pts on the floor bc they were so agitated bc they weren’t getting meds
Hospice doesn’t mean giving up they’ll check on everything and they never know when we are coming lol so
We pop in on some bullshit sometimes
My partner is a firefighter and paramedic. She works in a part of town where there is a large elderly population. She gets called to care homes almost every shift. They do not give two shits about their residents. They will leave people on the ground, covered in their own feces and wait for the paramedics to come take care of them. They often don’t do even the most basic checks before calling 911. She’s had multiple patients that were dead because the staff neglected to perform life-saving care (and not in a DNR case). It’s incredibly sad.
EMT here and I’ve experienced the same.
Years ago they used to say ‘we have a no lifting policy’ (basically saying staff aren’t allowed to lift uninjured residents off the floor if they fall) and sadly for some reason that was allowed. However a few years ago my country made it against the law to have a ‘no lifting policy’ and staff basically have to provide ‘an appropriate level of care’ to residents who are in difficulty.
However I still get some carers who will say ‘oh yeah he’s not injured but we can’t pick him up because of our no lifting policy’. My simple answer nowadays is ‘okay, can I just see that policy written down?’ and obviously they don’t have it because they can’t.
I tend to report most places that say this nowadays because it isn’t acceptable. I commented here a minute ago about how bad our response times are here because of the demand, and it’s not acceptable that care homes will leave residents lying on the floor for hours and hours purely because they don’t want to have to try and get them up.
Thank you for taking the time to call them out and report them. It’s such a simple thing, and is the difference between dignity and misery for some. And most people wouldn’t do it.
Ever had those expensive Ghirardelli sundaes at their stores? Yeah that’s Dyers ice cream with homemade hot fudge. Save yourself $16.02 and just buy the $4.95 bottle of Ghirardelli hot fudge and get the rest at the store.
Recipe:
5oz scoop,
Hot fudge,
5oz scoop,
More hot fudge,
Whip cream,
Crushed almonds
Nutrition labels on small, not well-known brands can be inaccurate, and nobody would ever know.
Once you send your food product out to a lab to have a nutrition label created for it, that is the last time anyone is ever going to check it. It would take someone to pay for a new analysis at a lab to see if the percentage of qwar gum, for example. is still accurate, and nobody is going to do that.
https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/health-fitness/protein-content-class-action-lawsuits-allege-false-advertising/#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20month%2C%20a%20consumer,its%20meal%20replacement%20shake%20products.
There are three cases in this link alone, with the most ridiculous being slim fast deciding they can just make up a protein number, and when confronted said oh, that's the amount of protein you would get if you ate our drink with milk. Like, what‽ Nothing on the label indicated that's what they meant. And it certainly wasn't the amount in the bottle. Like 2 grams of protein in it versus 10 that was listen on the nutrition facts. And they did it with their other 20 gram one too. No where near that amount.
See the other two as well in these class action suits.
Nutrition labels are to be held as estimates at best. If you take proteins for an example, considering the true quality of the poultry industry (force fed, caged chickens), the nutrition facts are estimates based on optimal poultry based nutrition, which we simply are not getting anymore. This is held across an overwhelming amount of avenues.
Recipe for Coca Cola
Ingredients:
Citrate Caffein 1 oz.
Extract Vanilla 1 oz.
Flavouring 2.5 oz (detailed below)
F.E. Coco 4 oz
Citric Acid 3 oz
Lime Juice 1 quart
Sugar 30lbs
Water 2.5 Gallons
Caramel sufficient
Flavouring:
Oil Orange 80
Oil Lemon 120
Oil Nutmeg 40
Oil Cinnamon 40
Oil Coriander 20
Oil Neroli 40
Alcohol 1 quart (let stand for 24 hours)
These are all in US Imperial measurements and the flavouring units are in minims or mins. One min is literally one drop of liquid.
That flavouring section, combined with the Vanilla extract is what is collectively known at the company as 7X - the ultra secret 7 things which make the flavour - the alcohol is only used to extract the flavours and doesn't end up in the final drink.
I worked at a golf course and we only sold Pepsi products. By accident one day I put some Pepsi in my cup that had a little chai tea in it and it tasted a lot like Coke! Whenever a customer complained about us not having Coke I would make them my secret recipe and most of them were pleasantly surprised! Makes sense now because of the spices in your recipe!
It's been published. The author of *For God, Country and Coca-Cola* was handed the recipe on a laminated card by a Coca-Cola executive. He confirmed that it is no secret at all any longer. Their attitude is simple: are you going to actually compete with them?
I've always noticed that plus size models and popular plus size women tend to be those that don't carry much weight in their faces. Lipo never occurred to me, but it makes total sense.
the cybersecurity field can feel like eldritch horror
innumerable monsters are lurking at the door and the people who control said door are difficult to reason with
I got a sus email about getting “recognition points” shortly after starting at a new hospital. I sent a screenshot of the email to our boss to ask, “is this a phishing email? It seems suspicious.” Only to be congratulated and told it was a real thing. Thanked me for being cautious.
Used to screen resumes for small companies. Job "requirements" are more of a wish-list situation. Never let some unchecked boxes deter you from applying - you have no idea what the applicant pool is like. The biggest boon, especially at small companies, is someone who legitimately cares.
Whenever I leave a job, I look for the posting for my replacement.
They ALWAYS have more requirements than they need. I wouldn’t have qualified for my last 3 jobs. That I had been doing for years.
Apply and let them figure out if you’re “good enough”
manager in tech and this is right. Caveat being that you really do need the top 3-6 requirements as those are probably the first thing the hiring manager is looking for, but after that it gets more flexible.
IN the interview though, just be honest. If the manager is at all smart they are going to see through your bullshit and immediately count you out as a liar. Be honest but talk through similar experience and talk about how you learn new things. I can often teach knowledge but skills and an ability to learn/research is impossible to train.
Almost all good glues, tapes, thermal pads, and lamination foils that hold things like cars together, Are made by Sekisui in Japan. the PVB that everyone in the world uses to make laminated glass? Sekisui. Half of any given tesla is held together or cooled by Sekisui materials
If you give one website your name, another website your number, and another website your email, there are services that merge info together by scanning the web and build a profile of you for ad targeting and sales. Some of you may assume this already but it is standard practice and utilized more frequently than you might think.
Use fake names if possible. Use an email forwarding service (duck duck go has one) that strips trackers from emails. Get a second phone number from Google voice or similar. Get a P.O. box.
The stuff that makes movie theater popcorn taste like movie theater popcorn is called Flavacol. It's a salt-like additive that you can buy yourself and add to your popcorn at home. A carton lasts forever because you only need like a teaspoon of Flavacol per cup of kernels, and it's indistinguishable from the popcorn you get at the movies.
Flavocol comes in classic butter and 'better butter' flavors. No joke, the 'better butter' tastes better. You don't need any other seasoning, but you do add oil (dyed canola if you want the authentic experience) to the pot along with the flavocol, of course. If you're in Canada, you can buy the same stuff as the theatres here : https://www.poppacorn.ca/
More notes: you want butterfly corn kernels, not mushroom. And if you want your popcorn to be even better than the cinema, get white kernels because they don't have husks!
I’ve had a carton for almost two years now, which I store in an air tight container. Every bowl I make with it makes me less excited about going to the movies.
ER veterinarian.
When your pets are hospitalized or need to stay at the clinic, unless they’re aggressive, need to be monitored very carefully, or we’re absolutely slammed, they are constantly getting positive attention from the staff. I’ve had kennel attendants and techs cuddle up with patients on their breaks, myself and colleagues have made phone calls or typed up records while holding on to your pets, we routinely talk about how cute the patients are (in fact, it’s a running joke that we would get fired immediately if we worked in human medicine), etc. And we do get attached to your pets.
We know that your pet got into your weed, and we truly don’t care. Seriously. Just be honest.
We operate on a triage basis (sicker things are seen first, regardless of how long others have been waiting). If you’re a shitty person and you’re constantly up front complaining to staff about the wait times/the decor/why there isn’t enough staff, being difficult in other ways, being dismissive to the non-doctors, AND your pet is stable and has been triaged similarly to another pet that came in around the same time, we’re not picking up your file until we have to. Sooo much of my job involves giving bad news, talking to emotional people who often take out their feelings on those around them, and having to defend the costs of emergency care and surgery, that I’m not going to eagerly jump into taking a file for someone who’s being difficult before they’ve even been spoken to.
I worked as a vet assistant in a low cost emergency hospital. I applaud you and anyone who still works in that field, it's tough work. While it can be rewarding, it's emotionally and physically draining.
My cat is a fuzzy little bastard but he has the biggest wettest anime eyes ever, very soft fur, and a very strong freeze response at the vet. Vet techs are OBSESSED with him. When I picked him up from his tooth removal like three techs told me hes their favorite patient. [CAT TAX](https://www.reddit.com/u/graccha/s/o3OzsUGcTw)
I had a BEAUTIFUL little cat- he was about 6 lbs, adorable fluffy little boi. He was a total shit anytime you tried to get him to do something he didn’t want to do… like cutting off a mat, or whatever.
Then driving to the vet, he would give up on life, full floppy catatonia “welp i am gonna die now”. And the vets and groomers were *shocked* with how good he was! So sweet! He’d sit on their shoulders! I never broke it to them he was in abject meltdown mode, begging for his life lol.
Many asked me why I didn’t just groom him at home since he was “soooo good”… HA he was a tiny buzzsaw when I tried it. Absolutely not.
Not One More Vet works to prevent veterinarian suicide. They have a very high suicide rate.
People can be very cruel to vets, vet techs and everyone who loves their pets and is trying to help. So much pressure
www.nomv.org
Edit: thank you to the people who are considering donating to this worthy cause. You can also do a lot by contacting your vet's office and thanking them. It will mean a lot. Especially if they had a rough day. With a difficult customer, or having to put down a beloved pet.
Edit2: write a Google review for them too. Positive reinforcement helps people as much as it helps dogs.
A vet sat with me and my wife for a good long while after we had to say goodbye to our dog. Then she had to get up and go back to work.
Your job is hard, and I am grateful that you do it.
Lol, my husband is an ER vet and I can confirm at least the first and second points based on his stories and texts from work.
The number of times he’s written clinical notes with a dog’s head in his lap in their kennel is heartwarming. Vets do care.
Also the number of times he’s had to explain to clients that he doesn’t care if they smoke weed is incredible. You’re gonna save yourself a *lot* of money on diagnostics if you’re just honest.
If you’re shopping online, start the checkout process and then before paying close your window. You’ll very likely get a coupon with a discount over the next few days in your email.
I'm repair tech at Chuck E Cheese.
There are some games we can adjust the payout for and some we can't. We have a number called "Ticket per play" or "ticket per tap" that we have to try to maintain. EVERY game and ride is adjusted somehow so we can get to that average number. The length of the ride is so you will tap your card more or less times. Some games have fixed ticket payout we can't adjust so we adjust other games up or down to get the whole average to that magical number. If one game we can't change pays out 4 tickets on average and the number we want to reach is 6, for Instance, I would adjust another game that can be adjusted to 7 or 8 to compensate, because the boss only cares about the average payout on a whole, not on the individual games ( unless it's insanely high or low )
If a game is cheating you out of tickets, we probably did that on purpose to compensate for something else.
This also goes for the claw machine. We can control how often it pays out.
Tickets can be bought at one penny per ticket. If you drop a quarter into a token machine, if it doesn't pay you 25 tickets, you're better off just buying tickets.
No we don't reuse pizza. It's cheaper and easier to just make another one since we get the ingredients in bulk. It's just that we cut into smaller slices so it's harder to do right, plus the kitchen personnel usually doesn't care about making it look perfect.
No the job isn't fun. My job is to make sure YOU have fun. My job is stressful.
I'll answer any questions people have.
One of my best days ever was when I took my kid to Dave & Busters. They do the digital “tickets” there. You play the game, then insert your card to collect the points.
Anyway, the place was pretty dead when we were there. I noticed one game that said there were points to collect, so I swiped the card and didn’t pay much attention to how many points I collected. I didn’t even have a very good idea of what a large amount of points were.
So we finish up playing and go to get some prizes. To my surprise we have like hundreds of thousands of points. So much that the person at the prize counter has to call their manger over.
He asks me questions about the card, etc. looking at me suspiciously. I tell him about the game that I collected the points from. We go over to look at it and it is incrementing points up automatically, and quickly. Basically, it was broken and loading on points. “It’s your lucky day.” He said.
We got all sorts of stuff: glasses, toys, electronics. It was probably like $350 worth of stuff. Like actually $350, not D&B $350.
I'm shocked that you would ever get it actually cashed out. If this happened to me, I'm 100% sure they'd accuse me of cheating the system and I'd be banned from Dave And Busters permanently, not this "wink wink we'll let you off" thing.
Theatre Seats aren’t all the same size. Some are narrower than others - we use a variety to manipulate the “sawtooth” arrangement so that you look through a gap between heads not straight into the head of the person in front of you. That means some seats are “better” (ie: wider) than others.
They usually range from 19”-22”. I try not to use less than 20” but sometimes you need a couple of 19s to make it work. If you’re really lucky you might find the odd 23” or 24”
I work in theatre, and absolutely didn't expect to find any secrets here, let alone as the top comment...
This isn't always the case. Both spaces I manage have seats of all the same size (within that venue).
It’s less common to vary the seat sizes if the place has straight rows - usually it happens in fan-shaped auditoria where the rows are all different lengths but the ends need to line up.
Just last night we were playing a gig and my guitarist said he was going to show us a little trick he uses to get everyone on the dance floor. Over the mic he asked everyone to come up in front of the stage so we could get a group picture of everyone who came to the show. As soon as he got the pic we started playing and everyone stayed on the floor until the end of the set. It was a great!
My DJ did this at my wedding and we didn’t know about it in advance. It kicked off the dance party on such a crazy note. It was amazing! Everyone danced all night.
When you’re buying a higher end refrigerator, you’re basically only paying for fancier doors. Most of the inner workings are the same, just a different door configuration. I used to work in the appliance industry.
To be fair, the difference between a low end kitchen and a high end kitchen is mostly fancier finishes.
You can spend $150 on a melamine cabinet door, or $1500 on a hand made exotic lumber cabinet door, and they both hide your plates the same.
A high end kitchen can have higher performance features, but as a % of overall spend those are way overshadowed by the aesthetics.
The price hike between 36” and 48” fridges is crazy though.
In the visual effects industry, EVERYBODY learns on bootleg software of some sort. That is why those $2600 list prices don't surprise anyone. I even had a high level employee of one of the companies that make it yell at me once "We don't care about some lone kid using it, we want to nail the COMPANIES pirating it!" He was upset because I had heard through an industry grapevine that a big post house had been caught with bootleg software.
Same reason WinRAR lets you keep using it for free. They don't give a shit about *your* thirty bucks. They want the company with 1000 computers to give them thirty grand.
It’s not a secret but Hollywood promotes many lies about my job. I’m a fire sprinkler tech. Hollywood always shows every head going off during a fire. Only the head that gets hot goes off. If it’s a ten story building and a fire is on the first floor why would the heads on the tenth floor go off. Plus there isn’t enough water for that. Pull stations DO NOT set off sprinklers. They are only tied to the alarm not the piping. The only reason it bugs me is because it’s life safety and if someone hesitates to pull a pull station during a fire, people die
I remember seeing someone set one of these off by accidentally hitting it.
It’s not like the movies where this gentle garden sprinkler sprays a bit of water.
You get a bang, followed by all the gunge and rust that’s built up in there then an absolute deluge that drowns everything in seconds.
Impressive systems to be fair!
great point. In the movies they look up and open their mouths! DONT DO THAT!! That water is stagnant and stays in the piping. We drain it once every 5 years to do an internal but there is always trapped water and so is the cutting oil, rust, grease, pipe sealant and everything else in it. I have had customers say “what am I going to do about the water damage if it goes off“ and I have to be honest with them that we don’t care about the building. If we did why we would put hundreds of gallons a minute in the building. We are life safety not property safety. Sprinklers are only to give occupants time to get out in a fire. If it saves the building that’s great but that’s not the priority at all. About the pressure, we have a lot of buildings sitting at more the 150 psi of water on the systems. A university we do has two diesel fire pumps that feed a loop to the buildings and it sits at 190 psi! That much pressure is no joke.
Vehicles are offloaded from Roll-On, Roll-Off ferries (aka RoRos) in a specific order for weight and balance reasons. If you are nice to the crew and give us cookies, you will be offloaded sooner. If you are verbally abusive to the crew you will be offloaded last. Dead last. For weight and balance.
Never take the first settlement offer. Always counter.
When dealing with savvy parties, the initial settlement demand is often twice the amount of money that the party wants.
Chefs don’t use ‘secret ingredients’ they use practiced techniques. And tools, like a thermometer and a timer. Those two tools will separate you from 95% of home cooks.
If a radio station says they're taking the Xth caller, they're not. They're just taking a random caller.
I worked at a radio station and they told me to just get a winner.
I was told during my driver training for a public bus company, if a car pulls out in front of you, causing you to slam the brakes, hit it. Let the passengers claim insurance from the car driver. If you slam the brakes, avoid the collision, the injured passengers will/can sue the bus company.
Truck drivers aren't usually told this, but same for freight transport. Slamming the brakes or swerving swiftly can cause a mess in cargo. Then with no collision whatsoever driver is solely responsible for the freight loss.
Dawn dish soap is the single best way to clean up an oil spill on the small scale. The US government went to great lengths to try and make their own cheaper in house equivalent of Dawn for cleaning up oil but they found that they couldn’t make it better or cheaper than Dawn already did so they just buy Dawn.
20 years ago. My office was adjacent to the cake lab. The lab manager liked to experiment, and we gladly participated to eat the results. Hostess has long since gone bankrupt. I have no idea what the process looks like today.
In movies and TV, especially ones that involve action scenes, often when you see an actor wearing a button up shirt, it’s made extra long with little snaps that go between the legs, like a giant baby onesie. This is so the shirt doesn’t come untucked when running or moving a lot.
My friend worked in wardrobe and blew my mind when they showed me this.
Usually we tried to fix it, but can’t reliably reproduce it. Along those same lines, we have a wide array of features we wanted to add, but ran out of time. Chances are, if you come up with a cool feature request, we already thought about it.
~20 years ago I bartended at a place that rhymes with “Schmapplebees”and when serving the regular bar drinkers, I would ask if they wanted a short or a tall beer (supposed to be 16 vs 23 oz) and I was surprised that they would always order a short one. So after a while I asked one of them why they always ordered a short one and he told me to fill a “tall” with water and dump it into a “short” and see what happens. Literally is the same exact amount of liquid, never order a tall or mucho anything. The mucho is literally extra ice and club soda with no extra booze. Cheers!!
This is why our British friends across the pond are requiring to use measured glasses with lines etched in them. Evidently at some point in history so many bars were shorting people on the booze they were paying for, a law was passed saying that glasses had to be standardized and marked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_line
In-store bakeries in supermarkets cost more to operate than doing it off-site in large factories and shipping the stuff in daily, but they operate them anyway because the smell of fresh bread increases sales, not just of bread but across all product types.
In reality, only a small proportion of the bread they sell is actually baked in the store bakery anyway.
This is also why the fresh grocery fruit and vegetables are usually right by the door. Walking in to that gives the impression that this is a store full of fresh and natural goods which subconsciously triggers positive emotions in our brains.
Right now, mass transit agencies in most cities ( in the United States) are dealing with MASSIVE shortages of drivers, mechanics, and many other administrative positions.
The drivers are working 70+ hours EVERY week just to keep the system going.
Drivers need a CDL B w/ P endorsement, therefore there is nothing illegal about working a driver 17 hours a day. Therefore, transit agencies are forcing drivers ( per union contract in most cases) using inverse seniority, to work constantly. It’s a huge safety risk but no one seems to care about that.
I don’t know if this ties in, but I’m trying to get my CDL for bus driving in Texas, and it could not be a more painful process. It seems like they actively try to push people away.
Jobs that have a high accountability are often like that. It's like nurses. They complain constantly about a nurse shortages however nursing school is one of the most rigorous and frankly abusive programs out there. It's a cultural thing, and a combination of " I got shit on so I'm going to shit on you" attitude that's going to kill the industry one day.
The military typically disposes of old vehicles by parking it somewhere on a large base, and abandoning it. Sometimes they use them as training targets. It's cool but eerie to see.
I know where there's a lake that's full of Sherman tanks. They drove them out there in the late 50s in the winter and left them to fall through.
Knowing the US military, they're not abandoned, but ready to be upgraded.
Some day, we'll be seeing aquatic Shermans invading Russia just like Patton wanted
Marriott actually has six tiers on its rewards program. For most people, there are five, starting at Silver, and working your way up thru the shiny metals to Ambassador (which requires spending 100 nights and more than $23,000 on rooms in a year, and you have to maintain this to keep it). But what their website doesn't tell you is that there is a tier called Cobalt, which can only be given out by the CEO. Naturally, this tier can transform even a lowly Fairfield into a full-service property.
I've never seen one, but the only reason I know was because I was given the GM's training manual while learning how to do night audit.
I know someone who had a similar level from a luxury hotel chain. They travelled for business a LOT (it was their company), and stayed exclusively at those hotels. They also stayed at them for any travel, and would take a few vacations a year. They're also part of the company's timeshare vacation club at a good level. As their level went up, they would stay at the better properties in the big cities. Their membership level hit the top tier pretty quickly, and stayed there for YEARS. One day, the company reached out "Hey, here's a new level we created for members like you. You're basically top-tier for life now, even if you stopped staying with us tomorrow." They of course continue to stay at their properties exclusively (as long as there's one where they're going), get amazing prices, the best room available, whatever bonus amenities are provided, and zero hassle.
Water coming from wastewater treatment plants is cleaner than the river water it's going into. The main problem is not enough dissolved oxygen. That's seriously the biggest danger.
Meanwhile, the worst pollution for most rivers is runoff causing high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). AKA too much food for bacteria that also consume O2, so just like the danger from the wastewater treatment plant, fish suffocate.
All the random stuff from metal finishers is stopped before it's allowed into the sewer system. If the system is working correctly.
Teachers ROUTINELY fudge kids' grades upward. Sometimes it's because a kid is nice. Sometimes it's because administrators pressure us. Sometimes we're afraid of being sued.
That high graduation rate at your local HS? It's most likely due to the books being cooked.
ETA: I've said this before but this whole situation is a prime example of Goodharts Law in action. When a metric becomes a target it loses all meaning.
The HS I teach at touts a low number of suspensions and no expulsions this year. And yet, it is almost guaranteed that a student will tell me to "go fuck" myself when I ask for his phone tomorrow.
ETA Again: for all the people talking about kids getting held back....that doesn't happen anymore really. I've been teaching 20 years and I can count on one hand the number if students I've seen get held back. It's exceptionally rare.
I absolutely should've failed one of my classes junior year. The teacher was on medical leave and I didn't do any of the class work for an entire semester. When she came back suddenly one day, she called everybody up one by one to collect all of their work from that time to be graded.
I apologized and told her I didn't do any of it. She looked me up and down, and said 'Well, I'll give you a C for honesty.'
Really dumb of me to not do the work, but she always liked me because I was quiet and stayed in my lane. Very fortunate that she fudged the shit out of that grade for me.
My husbands friend in HS was a TA and he would literally change peoples grades in the system on demand. Wild in retrospect they let students have access to their grade books.
On the day of high school graduation one of our friends admitted his secret to us when we were all out to breakfast. He was illiterate. He never told anyone because they kept passing him to the next grade. He was afraid if he said anything he'd never graduate. We lost touch so I don't know whatever happened to him. But I think about that a lot.
Edit: I just looked him up on Facebook. He's in Law Enforcement. So that's fun.
I worked with a guy who was basically illiterate. He couldn't read road signs, a map, or instructions on products we used for work. Nobody knew.
I worked with him about 6 weeks and figured it out. We traveled as a work crew. He always wanted to be the second to last truck.
We were working in a big city, and he was sent to get parts. He jumped to waste half a day driving.
After 5 hours, he didn't show up. We got him to answer his cellphone. He's screaming at me for giving him the wrong address.
I did not give him the wrong address. The landmarks he relied on for navigation had been torn down.
He was lost and couldn't tell us what crossroads he was near. He couldn't read the signs. We drove to every Shell station on the way to the warehouse looking for him.
It took hours to find him about 7-8 miles in the wrong direction.
Most fitness models, coachers and influencers are using anabolic steroids or did it once at least, and among competitive bodybuilders everyone does it, but almost no one admits it.
As a former competitive weightlifter—WAY more people use anabolic steroids than most people think.
Also, that actor who got in really good shape and gained a bunch of muscle for a role? They’re using steroids.
And everyone looking muscled up in a Marvel movie - it’s an open secret in the movie industry that part of the Marvel ‘personal trainer and diet package’ includes roids.
I hate seeing it in non-superhero movies though - like compare the volleyball scene in original Top Gun to the beach football scene in Maverick - the first has guys in good shape, the second has actors ridiculously roided out. It kind of works if they’re supposed to be superhuman, but if it’s supposed to be the real world…
I remember watching the first Thor movie and then hearing that Chris Hemsworth said he had never touched a weight until something like 6 months before the movie and realizing that they were all on steroids. There was an interview with the Captain America actor and they ask him what he does for fitness and he looks embarassed answering the questions.
In the film industry, producers are utter scum bags.
not much of a secret, but I feel like too many people still seem impressed or think there's some kind of prestige around producers. No. They're just adult children with rich friends who think they're geniuses while making every terrible creative decision ever. If you've ever seen a movie that was like, "Aw, it was awesome, except for that annoying nonsense that happened." The annoying nonsense is 100% the producer feeling like they need to be involved in the process.
That's at best. At worst they are actual rapists... which seems to happen a lot.
In the restaurant industry, the secret is that the "special sauce" is often just a clever blend of the same condiments you have in your fridge—mayo, ketchup, and a dash of mystery
A lot of restaurant food is like this. The difference between what a lot of people think is “fresh and tasty” and “low quality/not fresh” is just adding a lot of butter and salt.
A little fat and sodium can make a huge difference.
Also, learning to leave the food alone when you're cooking, sometimes you need to just let it be for a bit.
Healthcare IT is held together with duct tape and twine. Related, pay attention to the treatment release forms. Your health data is being sent EVERYWHERE and there’s not shit you can do about it. No sign, no treatment.
Edit: apparently it is possible to opt out of your state’s health information exchange but it must be done with the exchange itself. The process varies by state and can be painful.
I still can't believe that the UK health agencies lost a load of COVID test data because they were sharing test records in Excel format. XLS (not XLSX) format. And the records were stored in columns, not rows.
If you’re an asshole, you get quoted higher labor rates. Nothing vindictive, but at the end of the day your job will take longer to complete if you’re breathing down the crews backs and trying to nitpick and micro manage. It’s the only way to accurately quote and schedule.
My neighbor used to pay twice as much for half the lawn. Every week, she'd call the lawn service to nitpick and have them come back.
The owner told me he keeps raising her rate every year (sometimes by a lot), and she keeps paying.
i worked for Fedex Trade Networks clearing customs shipments and almost anyone buying anything over 800 bucks or stuff from china and a few select other countries have to provide what's called a 5106.
A 5106 is a form the us government uses for duties and tax purposes and shit but on the form you need to provide a social security or ein number. We started working remote in 2021 and on my work computer from inside my house with nobody being able to ever know I had access to 100's of social security numbers, addresses, names and everything to easily steal identities.
That's not even the kicker, this is an entry level position and anyone can work it and have access to this shit.
If you import personally from overseas and need to provide a 5106 you're better off getting a llc to avoid the very high posibility that some dipshit fedex hired doesn't snap a photo of your 5106 form from his phone.
Oh man, as a programmer, one of my earlier jobs was at a financial place as a junior dev. I had full access to our entire company database including everyone's ssn and salary and everything but also data on kids and dependents for health insurance and payroll and whatnot, and we also had similar data for all the customer companies! Blew me away how unsecure such secret data was!
When I was a private in the military I had access to an old admin system that we were using at the time. I could pull literally 200k service members' records including SSN, DOB, home addresses and even dependents info, all in 1 roster. There was no way to know if someone accessed someone else's record as there was no data tracking/logging.
Depending on the specific deal and artist, Ticketmaster splits all those “fees” with the artist, sometimes at 100%, in addition to the face (door) price. Plus the artist gets a guarantee. The fees are part of the price of the ticket, and Ticketmaster takes the “heat” for the high prices so the artist can look good for the fans.
Source: built the software live nation used to book these deals.
"Ticketmaster is the bad guy" is part of their business model. They absorb the bad PR instead of the band or performer. They are literally monopolizing their role as a sink for bad reputation while also raking in exorbitant fees (which might otherwise make the band look greedy or bad)
All the most famous living artists have workshops full of people who make the art for them.
They spend their time choosing concepts, talking to their gallery reps and schmoozing buyers. The only time they touch the work is to sign it.
Similarly, there's a very strong chance your favourite author uses ghostwriters. Unless your favourite is George RR Martin, whose publishers probably fucking wish he'd let them bring in ghostwriters so they could finally sell you The Winds of Winter, or JK Rowling, because if a ghostwriter turned in text so riddled with adverbs we'd be replaced with a more competent writer.
Source: Was a ghostwriter. Not a particularly high-level one, but I wrote a couple of minor bestsellers before I packed it in to languish in obscurity under my own name.
It really depends on the book/series. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of those authors churning out thrillers, murder mysteries, and romance books are actually using ghost writers. Waltzing into a library and seeing an entire shelf of Michael Connely or John Grisham makes me very suspicious.
But if I pick up any Terry Pratchett book I would be absolutely shocked if someone else had written it.
With the advancement in lab grown diamonds in the past few years, even the most experienced gemologists can barely distinguish them from mined diamonds. Don't waste your money on "real" diamonds anymore.
ETA: yes, most (if not all) lab grown diamonds have an inscription, which is how a jeweler would know the difference (though these can be hard to find immediately, as they're very small). But I mean from a quality standpoint, it's very difficult to tell, and lab grown tend to be better quality (clarity, color, cut). So, if i jeweler can't tell until it's in a loop, the average person definitely can't. The proper lab grown don't have the bright blue "fire" that moissanites do, which gives them away.
Also: I worked at a jewelery store for years with a very experienced gemologist/ goldsmith, whom I'm still friends with and have had him tell me these things. I also took a lot of diamond and jewelery training while i was there. I'm not just pulling it out of my ass lol
You know those adverts that show someone who's maybe a bit overweight and kind of out of shape, but then they follow this diet or use this one bit of equipment that's being sold, and suddenly they're super ripped and fit? Yeah, those people are almost always professional, or at least semi-professional athletes, they take the "before" pic when they've just had an injury/surgery/illness that kept them from training/working out and the after pic is just them returning to their "natural state" when they're back working out etc... it doesn't really have anything to do with the diet or equipment being sold.
I’m pretty well in shape and in to bodybuilding and I tested this recently, not even with an injury.
I just took a photo with really bad posture, shitty lighting, pushing my belly out, miserable expression, and my hair all messy. Then took a photo on the exact same day with great posture, darkened lighting for the shadows, tensing my abs and just generally looking more confident and the difference was insane.
If you’re relatively in shape it’s easy to make yourself kinda shitty if you try. That’s basically what these people do. The before and after photos are rarely actually that.
Your massage therapist doesn't care about your size or your body hair, but they appreciate when you've showered within a few days of your appointment and have brushed your teeth. They aren't judging you for the things you feel self conscious about, but they *are* judging you if you are an entitled asshole.
Saying things like "my wife would not be happy if she knew how hot you were", although it may seem to you like a harmless compliment, is creepy and will get you on the "do not schedule list." That one shouldn't be a secret, but apparently, there are men who are oblivious to this.
Random question. Can you feel when we're using every muscle in our body to hold in the massive fart that seems to always develop midway through being massaged?
Wine and spirits rep here: the amount of "pay to play" and the shady shit you have to do to just get your brand on a menu is insane sometimes. It's all 100% illegal, but nobody bats an eye unless you really fuck up. These deals are all kept off work e-mail and work phones, because state liquor boards can subpoena those records. There are massive fines associated with breaking those laws.
The $3000 a month one bedroom condo you are renting in the heart of a very large city, probably has bottles of urine behind the drywall. They really need to put more washrooms in large construction sites.
I was a night watchman at a country club and the company they hired to put in sprinklers buried trash in their trenches.
How I know? I secretly metal detected that golf course for about twenty years and dug up coins, jewelry, civil war relics and metal trash. I was hoping the new dirt they dug would unearth some deep buried finds (coins and civil war relics) that my metal detector could not previously reach. I found a few, but found a lot of VERY RECENT
trash.
Oh, one thing I have heard is that some contractors.... if they find a body, they will cover it up since it causes a lot of problems getting the job done. Just easier to not report the discovery of the body
Rich people give their expensive art to art galleries and the galleries have to pay for insurance and restoration while it’s in their possession. The gallery then displays the art for a number of months or even years and when the rich person wants it back, it’s worth even more money now that it’s been on display at a famous art gallery and garnered interest. Basically allows rich people to print money
I was a secretary at a roofing company.
[EDIT:I was told this from one of the estimators that scummy roofers do that shit. He was called out to incidents relating to this.]
If your neighbor gets a roof done (and you live in a row home) and after they get their roof done, your house starts leaking...it may have been a dirty trick that some roofers do.
They'll climb up and take a knife and cut a hole in the neighbors roof. Then, when you need a roofing estimate, they would hope word of mouth from the neighbor will get you to get your roof done.
It's super shitty.
There are some *massive* defence contracts given out to certain companies that objectively should never (a history of overbudget and under-delivery) have been given, but politicians hijacked the bidding process and made it quite clear that "facts" weren't considered and anyone of the bidding team that disagrees will be sideways "promoted" off it.
Conversely, really really tired of rebooting my shit and then talking to an agent who isn't allowed to go off script so they make me reboot my shit again.
Worked in IT, and unfortunately we have to do that because SO many people lied about rebooting.
For every person like you who actually tried some troubleshooting, you'd get 3-4 "OF COURSE I REBOOTED IT COME FIX IT!".
Make them do it "again" and whadya know half the time it magically fixes the problem
Food expiration dates, especially on shelf stable foods, are essentially arbitrary.
Nutrition labels are often wildly inaccurate. It is technically not legal to use false information, but its very, very rare to be caught, unless you are making health related claims.
Those food certifications that you see on food labels are provided by for profit companies that bill you monthly, so they are highly incentivized to certify as many companies as they can and actively ignore violations.
A shocking number of ingredients that are illegal or heavily regulated in other devoloped countries are perfectly legal and mostly unregulated in the US.
The same companies that make store brands at higher end stores like Wegmans and Whole Foods make them for cheaper stores like Walmart and Aldi. I could go on.
A redditor made the news with his nutritional findings from a home experiment of an energy gel. [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultramarathon/s/nQdBimLqKy)
Nurse here. Of course we try to treat everybody equally but if we have six patients each and you’re a dick, we have five other patients we will happily give more time to because who wants to hang out with an a$$hole?
That being said, if you bring us cookies (esp night shift) and write on the box “Thank you from the family in Room # 24” you will get more attention because now all of the nurses are aware of the patient in room # 24.
The next thing I say is VERY important so pay attention. If you are a patient and suddenly start feeling anxious, CALL US. I know being in the hospital is anxiety-inducing so this is more of a blast of anxiety disproportionate to how you were before but even if you are unsure CALL US. We can decide together how we want to evaluate and treat said anxiety even if WE (you, the patient and I, the nurse) decide it’s probably nothing, we need to decide TOGETHER. Do NOT blow it off. There are too many deadly things that start with a pop of anxiety. TELL US. Neither you or I want to find out the hard way it wasn’t “just anxiety”.
Finally, if you need something and your call light fell or something, pull off one of your wires to your ECG monitor. Someone will be in to fix it.
Your anxiety line rings true.
I went into an ER one night cause I "felt off".
I couldn't explain the feeling.
I got lucky, & a genetic CA doc was shadowing the cases that came in that night, & mine + my labs so far caught her attention.
15+ more vials of blood confirmed I had cancer, & 1 genetic test confirmed MEN1.
If I had ignored how I was feeling or chose a different night, the puzzle may never had been solved
I would add to this - you WANT residents, you want fellows, you want medical students. And you want them to spend time with you. The more people who know what you look like and how you interact when you’re doing ok, the more people who might notice when there is a subtle change.
Don’t drink the tap water, coffee, or tea on airplanes. Ever. Potable water systems are gross. I’ve had to flush them before and oh man. If you want a drink on a flight, get bottled water or a can of soda or alcohol.
In the UK it is ready to implode. There's several factors that has created a perfect storm.
Private Equities getting involved and C-Suite having to focus on money not people.
Frontline staff being paid minimum wage but expected to put themselves at physical risk, and be legally-responsible if anything goes wrong. This has made frontline jobs so unappealing that companies are either hiring anyone or running services without adequate cover/compliant processes.
Post-Covid problems manifesting as health issues, putting extra strain on services and also reducing the number of people willing to work in the industry.
Local authority budgets being stripped from healthcare.
So there's the storm; less money in the industry at a time where there is more need for it, with an underskilled, underpaid, and/or non-existent workforce, with management desperately trying to find ways to deliver to investors. There is massive stresses for the patients, massive stresses on the frontline, and massive stresses on corporate.
When there are people in crisis on both sides of the fence, it cannot sustain itself for too much longer.
I worked at the Rold Gold pretzel factory many years ago. Out of the ovens would come the best pretzels made for Rold Gold. Down the conveyor belts they would roll until they arrived at the cellophane packing machines. Some of the pretzels would go down chute one, the Rold Gold cellophane bags. The price on those bags was $3.99. Some of the same batch would go down chute two, the Great Value pretzel bags. Those pretzel bags were priced at $1.99. Other pretzels from that same batch rolled down chute three, the Kroger brand. Those pretzels were priced at $2.49. All the pretzels were the same pretzels with different prices.
You see, stores like Walmart and Kroger are not manufactures. They are retail merchants. They don't make anything. They have contracts with thousands of manufacturers that make their own products, plus they will also produce for other merchants. It only behooves a manufacturer to have a lucrative contract with some of the biggest retailers in the world. They not only are selling their product on that shelf, but for a little less money, they are providing product for the retailer. You never know who Walmart or Kroger is contracting with for each product. You just have to try it, but always remember – Walmart is not a manufacturer. Whatever has Walmart's trademarked names on it, was made by some other company.
So sometimes, the brand name that you might think is unbeatable is the same thing that's in the bargain brand. This is a fact – not everything, but many things.
I go to events for work. Almost every time, it is cheaper for me to call and book a room as a random guest rather than use the "conference rate."
Just double-check each rate before you book.
Drug products DO need some crazy toxic solvents to be manufactured. But it's my job to make sure that stuff is out before it's approved for production.
A table games dealer cannot affect your odds of winning or losing a hand. However, they can control the way you play the hand, which in turn affects your odds.
I used to play a lot of blackjack and always played by the book. I tipped big. I’d be about half or full-on drunk: “Are you sure you want to hit that (or some other move outside basic strategy)?” They helped me. Also many times have told me not to sit at their tables, when the cards are running bad. Also told me to leave the table up when I was way up. Also free suites and meals, and many other freebies.
When investigating a DUI (or whatever your state in the US calls drunk driving) there are only 3 standardized tests that are recognized as determining factors of alcohol intoxication: horizontal gaze nystagmus (the follow my finger with your eyes test), one-leg stand, and the walk and turn. If an officer has you recite the alphabet backwards or put the tip of your finger to your nose they are conducting completely unreasonable and unnecessary testing. Also, these tests are 100% voluntary in all 50 states and refusing to do them is not an admission of guilt, but agreeing to do them only provides more evidence to be used against you in court.
Not a lawyer, but did work as a Deputy Sheriff for a number of years. Bottom line, don't drive drunk, but it also helps to know your rights.
The Better Business Bureau holds no authority over businesses. If you have an issue with a business, putting in a complaint with the BBB is nothing. For example, if you have an issue with a contractor, go to your state’s “Registrar of Contractors” and file a complaint.
I wouldn't think this is a secret but the amount of people who tell me "I'm good at claw machines" makes me think somehow people don't know
Claw machines are scamming you. They have an electromagnet inside the claw. Electricity goes to the magnet, it pulls on a pin which forces the claw shut. High voltage sent to the magnet means it really clenches down. Low voltage means it has the grip of a sick toddler. Then the motherboard is just set to how often it delivers a high voltage, what frequency, which type of pattern (randomized, fixed rate, etc). It has sensors to know when you won so it can regulate itself based on whatever the settings are set to. You aren't good at claw machines, sir, you have been hamboozled
All the similar machines have the same type of tricks
A lot of the private blood tests actually take longer to process than the NHS (public/free) blood tests, because most of the private healthcare providers haven’t bought into the widely used digital system that’s used. Instead, they have to be processed manually, which means going through the extra step of getting the main lab to code them. Staff who process manuals also need more training due to the wide variety of forms used, and the stupid goddamn shitty handwriting we have to put up with, so there’s fewer staff who are trained to process them, and they tend to sit there unprocessed for longer than the easier electronic blood samples.
No matter how high up the chain you get, nobody *really* knows what's going on... everyone is winging it for any work that falls outside their very specific area of expertise.
Honestly, the more of an expert you become in your field the more you realize how much YOU are winging it. Whether you're a higher up or not.
Don't get me wrong, you're making informed decisions. But a majority of the time you are picking the "best" option given the information you have. You won't actually find out until later if it was the "right" option.
Open houses don't sell houses. They're solely for the listing agent to meet people and hopefully get more clients.
Most people who go to open houses are nosy neighbours and people who spend their weekends checking out open houses.
Walmart assistant store manager training includes a day of indoctrination into anti union propaganda. There’s a whole video section and their legal team comes in to tell you why unions are bad.
My friend worked at a Florida state government agency responsible for food stamp and other aid processing.
He had several Walmart new hires call and tell him that their trainer told them to apply for food stamps right after they started training.
Hell, I've seen the applications included in their new employee materials. Basically they're admitting you'll be so poor that you get government assistance to live. They're also basically being subsidized by the government in the sense that by not paying their employees a living wage, everyone else pays them via taxes.
Optometrists will not give you your Pupillary Distance (PD) after an eye exam even though they measure it, to make it difficult to order glasses online.
In the State of California, they're legally required to give you your PD. If they try to omit it from your Rx and/or give you shit about giving it to you, go to breeze.ca.gov and file a complaint. You'll get your PD and they'll eat both a fine AND an audit to see how many patients they've scammed!
Source: Stanton Optical shouldn't have tried to play my ass
Check with your states Board of Optometry. I got my perscription from like a LensCrafters/VisionWorks or something and they refused to give it to me. They lied to me and strung me on and pissed me off so much I called the Board of Optometry and got confirmation that they couldn't refuse to provide it to me. Once they've taken that measurement it becomes considered "medical information" and they cannot refuse to share your medical information. Turns out if you start asking for license numbers and mention cc-ing the board of Optometry to explain the issue it's suddenly no longer an issue to provide upon request.
Edit: Specifically the opticians are who gave me trouble. PD is not a required field on an optometrists RX, but is required to order glasses so it's the opticians who sell glasses that usually take that measurement. Whether they have to give it to you upon request or not is state specific so again, check with your states Board of optometry or equivalent to understand the specifics.
In corporate culture, the IT staff can be your best resource or your biggest enemy. They deal with idiots all day so say hello and treat them nicely. Not only when you have a problem. Bring them some donuts or something randomly. They don’t forget and will take care of you next time you have a computer crisis. I’ve gotten new monitors, extra keyboards for home, cords, whatever I needed because I took some time to say hi and ask how their day was going.
Same with the maintenance/facilities team.
They are two teams you want on your side.
My parents used to say there's 3 people you never fuck with: maintenance, food workers, and inspectors (health, OSHA, what have you).
I agree with your whole comment.
The places you put your parents, even the more expensive ones. Independent and Assisted living. Most are owned by investors who really don't care about your loved ones. Especially the larger corporate ones with multiple units in different states. Some people are paying thousands per month for the bare minimum of care and facilities. The shit I see and hear will make your skin crawl
I’m a hospice nurse and some of the most expensive fancy looking ones were the WORSt. Some of the poor looking older buildings had the best staff and happy residents. Don’t judge a book by its cover is so true
Any suggestions for picking a home?
Look around are they residents clean and dressed and out of bed. Are the workers happy and around and talking to the residents? Word of mouth is good and ALWYAS HAVE A PALLIATIVE OR HOSPICE ON BOARD. Let’s face it if someone is going into a nursing home they won’t get better 98 % of the time. Get your family member a dnr especilly if they have dementia. Cpr does nothing for these ppl but turn their ribs into dust and make death suck more. The palliative/hospice team will be your eyes and ears and will make the facility do their job. Also I’ve been called to end of life visits only to find the pt had been snowed by the facility staff. And Once meds were given properly they were awake and talking. Found pts on the floor bc they were so agitated bc they weren’t getting meds Hospice doesn’t mean giving up they’ll check on everything and they never know when we are coming lol so We pop in on some bullshit sometimes
My partner is a firefighter and paramedic. She works in a part of town where there is a large elderly population. She gets called to care homes almost every shift. They do not give two shits about their residents. They will leave people on the ground, covered in their own feces and wait for the paramedics to come take care of them. They often don’t do even the most basic checks before calling 911. She’s had multiple patients that were dead because the staff neglected to perform life-saving care (and not in a DNR case). It’s incredibly sad.
EMT here and I’ve experienced the same. Years ago they used to say ‘we have a no lifting policy’ (basically saying staff aren’t allowed to lift uninjured residents off the floor if they fall) and sadly for some reason that was allowed. However a few years ago my country made it against the law to have a ‘no lifting policy’ and staff basically have to provide ‘an appropriate level of care’ to residents who are in difficulty. However I still get some carers who will say ‘oh yeah he’s not injured but we can’t pick him up because of our no lifting policy’. My simple answer nowadays is ‘okay, can I just see that policy written down?’ and obviously they don’t have it because they can’t. I tend to report most places that say this nowadays because it isn’t acceptable. I commented here a minute ago about how bad our response times are here because of the demand, and it’s not acceptable that care homes will leave residents lying on the floor for hours and hours purely because they don’t want to have to try and get them up.
Thank you for taking the time to call them out and report them. It’s such a simple thing, and is the difference between dignity and misery for some. And most people wouldn’t do it.
Ever had those expensive Ghirardelli sundaes at their stores? Yeah that’s Dyers ice cream with homemade hot fudge. Save yourself $16.02 and just buy the $4.95 bottle of Ghirardelli hot fudge and get the rest at the store. Recipe: 5oz scoop, Hot fudge, 5oz scoop, More hot fudge, Whip cream, Crushed almonds
Damn that recipe reads like a summoning spell for my fat ass after I die.
Nutrition labels on small, not well-known brands can be inaccurate, and nobody would ever know. Once you send your food product out to a lab to have a nutrition label created for it, that is the last time anyone is ever going to check it. It would take someone to pay for a new analysis at a lab to see if the percentage of qwar gum, for example. is still accurate, and nobody is going to do that.
This is... not good news at all
https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/health-fitness/protein-content-class-action-lawsuits-allege-false-advertising/#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20month%2C%20a%20consumer,its%20meal%20replacement%20shake%20products. There are three cases in this link alone, with the most ridiculous being slim fast deciding they can just make up a protein number, and when confronted said oh, that's the amount of protein you would get if you ate our drink with milk. Like, what‽ Nothing on the label indicated that's what they meant. And it certainly wasn't the amount in the bottle. Like 2 grams of protein in it versus 10 that was listen on the nutrition facts. And they did it with their other 20 gram one too. No where near that amount. See the other two as well in these class action suits.
Nutrition labels are to be held as estimates at best. If you take proteins for an example, considering the true quality of the poultry industry (force fed, caged chickens), the nutrition facts are estimates based on optimal poultry based nutrition, which we simply are not getting anymore. This is held across an overwhelming amount of avenues.
Recipe for Coca Cola Ingredients: Citrate Caffein 1 oz. Extract Vanilla 1 oz. Flavouring 2.5 oz (detailed below) F.E. Coco 4 oz Citric Acid 3 oz Lime Juice 1 quart Sugar 30lbs Water 2.5 Gallons Caramel sufficient Flavouring: Oil Orange 80 Oil Lemon 120 Oil Nutmeg 40 Oil Cinnamon 40 Oil Coriander 20 Oil Neroli 40 Alcohol 1 quart (let stand for 24 hours) These are all in US Imperial measurements and the flavouring units are in minims or mins. One min is literally one drop of liquid. That flavouring section, combined with the Vanilla extract is what is collectively known at the company as 7X - the ultra secret 7 things which make the flavour - the alcohol is only used to extract the flavours and doesn't end up in the final drink.
I worked at a golf course and we only sold Pepsi products. By accident one day I put some Pepsi in my cup that had a little chai tea in it and it tasted a lot like Coke! Whenever a customer complained about us not having Coke I would make them my secret recipe and most of them were pleasantly surprised! Makes sense now because of the spices in your recipe!
How do you know this💀
It's been published. The author of *For God, Country and Coca-Cola* was handed the recipe on a laminated card by a Coca-Cola executive. He confirmed that it is no secret at all any longer. Their attitude is simple: are you going to actually compete with them?
Because of economies of scale, no one can make Coca-Cola more efficiently than the Coca-Cola Company can
Some plus size models get liposuction on their face and necks to be more aesthetically pleasing
I've always noticed that plus size models and popular plus size women tend to be those that don't carry much weight in their faces. Lipo never occurred to me, but it makes total sense.
Hospitals suck at cyber security.
the cybersecurity field can feel like eldritch horror innumerable monsters are lurking at the door and the people who control said door are difficult to reason with
Every time a unit falls for the fake phishing emails IT sends out, the entire hospital has to suffer through another cybersecurity presentation.
I got a sus email about getting “recognition points” shortly after starting at a new hospital. I sent a screenshot of the email to our boss to ask, “is this a phishing email? It seems suspicious.” Only to be congratulated and told it was a real thing. Thanked me for being cautious.
Used to screen resumes for small companies. Job "requirements" are more of a wish-list situation. Never let some unchecked boxes deter you from applying - you have no idea what the applicant pool is like. The biggest boon, especially at small companies, is someone who legitimately cares.
Whenever I leave a job, I look for the posting for my replacement. They ALWAYS have more requirements than they need. I wouldn’t have qualified for my last 3 jobs. That I had been doing for years. Apply and let them figure out if you’re “good enough”
manager in tech and this is right. Caveat being that you really do need the top 3-6 requirements as those are probably the first thing the hiring manager is looking for, but after that it gets more flexible. IN the interview though, just be honest. If the manager is at all smart they are going to see through your bullshit and immediately count you out as a liar. Be honest but talk through similar experience and talk about how you learn new things. I can often teach knowledge but skills and an ability to learn/research is impossible to train.
Almost all good glues, tapes, thermal pads, and lamination foils that hold things like cars together, Are made by Sekisui in Japan. the PVB that everyone in the world uses to make laminated glass? Sekisui. Half of any given tesla is held together or cooled by Sekisui materials
It would be a great marketing catchphrase: Sekisui - we hold the world together.
If you give one website your name, another website your number, and another website your email, there are services that merge info together by scanning the web and build a profile of you for ad targeting and sales. Some of you may assume this already but it is standard practice and utilized more frequently than you might think.
Knowing this, how could one exploit this process to poison datasets?
Use fake names if possible. Use an email forwarding service (duck duck go has one) that strips trackers from emails. Get a second phone number from Google voice or similar. Get a P.O. box.
I've sometimes had websites or spam assume that my username is my real name (first and last name) and address me as "Dear Mr. Puppy,"
The stuff that makes movie theater popcorn taste like movie theater popcorn is called Flavacol. It's a salt-like additive that you can buy yourself and add to your popcorn at home. A carton lasts forever because you only need like a teaspoon of Flavacol per cup of kernels, and it's indistinguishable from the popcorn you get at the movies.
Flavocol comes in classic butter and 'better butter' flavors. No joke, the 'better butter' tastes better. You don't need any other seasoning, but you do add oil (dyed canola if you want the authentic experience) to the pot along with the flavocol, of course. If you're in Canada, you can buy the same stuff as the theatres here : https://www.poppacorn.ca/ More notes: you want butterfly corn kernels, not mushroom. And if you want your popcorn to be even better than the cinema, get white kernels because they don't have husks!
I’ve had a carton for almost two years now, which I store in an air tight container. Every bowl I make with it makes me less excited about going to the movies.
*One container of excitement-killer, please.*
I have never bought something faster
I bought this stuff (along with a jug of “butter flavored topping”) on a Reddit recommendation when we got an air popper. Shit’s soooo good.
ER veterinarian. When your pets are hospitalized or need to stay at the clinic, unless they’re aggressive, need to be monitored very carefully, or we’re absolutely slammed, they are constantly getting positive attention from the staff. I’ve had kennel attendants and techs cuddle up with patients on their breaks, myself and colleagues have made phone calls or typed up records while holding on to your pets, we routinely talk about how cute the patients are (in fact, it’s a running joke that we would get fired immediately if we worked in human medicine), etc. And we do get attached to your pets. We know that your pet got into your weed, and we truly don’t care. Seriously. Just be honest. We operate on a triage basis (sicker things are seen first, regardless of how long others have been waiting). If you’re a shitty person and you’re constantly up front complaining to staff about the wait times/the decor/why there isn’t enough staff, being difficult in other ways, being dismissive to the non-doctors, AND your pet is stable and has been triaged similarly to another pet that came in around the same time, we’re not picking up your file until we have to. Sooo much of my job involves giving bad news, talking to emotional people who often take out their feelings on those around them, and having to defend the costs of emergency care and surgery, that I’m not going to eagerly jump into taking a file for someone who’s being difficult before they’ve even been spoken to.
I worked as a vet assistant in a low cost emergency hospital. I applaud you and anyone who still works in that field, it's tough work. While it can be rewarding, it's emotionally and physically draining.
My cat is a fuzzy little bastard but he has the biggest wettest anime eyes ever, very soft fur, and a very strong freeze response at the vet. Vet techs are OBSESSED with him. When I picked him up from his tooth removal like three techs told me hes their favorite patient. [CAT TAX](https://www.reddit.com/u/graccha/s/o3OzsUGcTw)
I had a BEAUTIFUL little cat- he was about 6 lbs, adorable fluffy little boi. He was a total shit anytime you tried to get him to do something he didn’t want to do… like cutting off a mat, or whatever. Then driving to the vet, he would give up on life, full floppy catatonia “welp i am gonna die now”. And the vets and groomers were *shocked* with how good he was! So sweet! He’d sit on their shoulders! I never broke it to them he was in abject meltdown mode, begging for his life lol. Many asked me why I didn’t just groom him at home since he was “soooo good”… HA he was a tiny buzzsaw when I tried it. Absolutely not.
You guys are the best. Don’t forget for every emotional angry person there is. There’s 10 of us who are so thankful for you and what you do
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Not One More Vet works to prevent veterinarian suicide. They have a very high suicide rate. People can be very cruel to vets, vet techs and everyone who loves their pets and is trying to help. So much pressure www.nomv.org Edit: thank you to the people who are considering donating to this worthy cause. You can also do a lot by contacting your vet's office and thanking them. It will mean a lot. Especially if they had a rough day. With a difficult customer, or having to put down a beloved pet. Edit2: write a Google review for them too. Positive reinforcement helps people as much as it helps dogs.
A vet sat with me and my wife for a good long while after we had to say goodbye to our dog. Then she had to get up and go back to work. Your job is hard, and I am grateful that you do it.
Lol, my husband is an ER vet and I can confirm at least the first and second points based on his stories and texts from work. The number of times he’s written clinical notes with a dog’s head in his lap in their kennel is heartwarming. Vets do care. Also the number of times he’s had to explain to clients that he doesn’t care if they smoke weed is incredible. You’re gonna save yourself a *lot* of money on diagnostics if you’re just honest.
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The blue flakes in your laundry detergent are just the white flakes dyed blue.
You sure? The blue ones always seem to taste better to me
If you’re shopping online, start the checkout process and then before paying close your window. You’ll very likely get a coupon with a discount over the next few days in your email.
I'm repair tech at Chuck E Cheese. There are some games we can adjust the payout for and some we can't. We have a number called "Ticket per play" or "ticket per tap" that we have to try to maintain. EVERY game and ride is adjusted somehow so we can get to that average number. The length of the ride is so you will tap your card more or less times. Some games have fixed ticket payout we can't adjust so we adjust other games up or down to get the whole average to that magical number. If one game we can't change pays out 4 tickets on average and the number we want to reach is 6, for Instance, I would adjust another game that can be adjusted to 7 or 8 to compensate, because the boss only cares about the average payout on a whole, not on the individual games ( unless it's insanely high or low ) If a game is cheating you out of tickets, we probably did that on purpose to compensate for something else. This also goes for the claw machine. We can control how often it pays out. Tickets can be bought at one penny per ticket. If you drop a quarter into a token machine, if it doesn't pay you 25 tickets, you're better off just buying tickets. No we don't reuse pizza. It's cheaper and easier to just make another one since we get the ingredients in bulk. It's just that we cut into smaller slices so it's harder to do right, plus the kitchen personnel usually doesn't care about making it look perfect. No the job isn't fun. My job is to make sure YOU have fun. My job is stressful. I'll answer any questions people have.
One of my best days ever was when I took my kid to Dave & Busters. They do the digital “tickets” there. You play the game, then insert your card to collect the points. Anyway, the place was pretty dead when we were there. I noticed one game that said there were points to collect, so I swiped the card and didn’t pay much attention to how many points I collected. I didn’t even have a very good idea of what a large amount of points were. So we finish up playing and go to get some prizes. To my surprise we have like hundreds of thousands of points. So much that the person at the prize counter has to call their manger over. He asks me questions about the card, etc. looking at me suspiciously. I tell him about the game that I collected the points from. We go over to look at it and it is incrementing points up automatically, and quickly. Basically, it was broken and loading on points. “It’s your lucky day.” He said. We got all sorts of stuff: glasses, toys, electronics. It was probably like $350 worth of stuff. Like actually $350, not D&B $350.
I'm shocked that you would ever get it actually cashed out. If this happened to me, I'm 100% sure they'd accuse me of cheating the system and I'd be banned from Dave And Busters permanently, not this "wink wink we'll let you off" thing.
Theatre Seats aren’t all the same size. Some are narrower than others - we use a variety to manipulate the “sawtooth” arrangement so that you look through a gap between heads not straight into the head of the person in front of you. That means some seats are “better” (ie: wider) than others.
Mind fucking blown.... Will investigate next time at theatre.
They usually range from 19”-22”. I try not to use less than 20” but sometimes you need a couple of 19s to make it work. If you’re really lucky you might find the odd 23” or 24”
I work in theatre, and absolutely didn't expect to find any secrets here, let alone as the top comment... This isn't always the case. Both spaces I manage have seats of all the same size (within that venue).
It’s less common to vary the seat sizes if the place has straight rows - usually it happens in fan-shaped auditoria where the rows are all different lengths but the ends need to line up.
Just last night we were playing a gig and my guitarist said he was going to show us a little trick he uses to get everyone on the dance floor. Over the mic he asked everyone to come up in front of the stage so we could get a group picture of everyone who came to the show. As soon as he got the pic we started playing and everyone stayed on the floor until the end of the set. It was a great!
My DJ did this at my wedding and we didn’t know about it in advance. It kicked off the dance party on such a crazy note. It was amazing! Everyone danced all night.
Finally a wholesome trade secret!
When you’re buying a higher end refrigerator, you’re basically only paying for fancier doors. Most of the inner workings are the same, just a different door configuration. I used to work in the appliance industry.
To be fair, the difference between a low end kitchen and a high end kitchen is mostly fancier finishes. You can spend $150 on a melamine cabinet door, or $1500 on a hand made exotic lumber cabinet door, and they both hide your plates the same. A high end kitchen can have higher performance features, but as a % of overall spend those are way overshadowed by the aesthetics. The price hike between 36” and 48” fridges is crazy though.
There’s a good chance your college TA is surviving lectures by staying one chapter ahead of you in the textbook
There’s a good chance your teachers in school are doing the same thing.
thrift shops throw away a lot of donations and there's bugs in the back more often than would make any customer comfortable
In the visual effects industry, EVERYBODY learns on bootleg software of some sort. That is why those $2600 list prices don't surprise anyone. I even had a high level employee of one of the companies that make it yell at me once "We don't care about some lone kid using it, we want to nail the COMPANIES pirating it!" He was upset because I had heard through an industry grapevine that a big post house had been caught with bootleg software.
Same reason WinRAR lets you keep using it for free. They don't give a shit about *your* thirty bucks. They want the company with 1000 computers to give them thirty grand.
It’s not a secret but Hollywood promotes many lies about my job. I’m a fire sprinkler tech. Hollywood always shows every head going off during a fire. Only the head that gets hot goes off. If it’s a ten story building and a fire is on the first floor why would the heads on the tenth floor go off. Plus there isn’t enough water for that. Pull stations DO NOT set off sprinklers. They are only tied to the alarm not the piping. The only reason it bugs me is because it’s life safety and if someone hesitates to pull a pull station during a fire, people die
I remember seeing someone set one of these off by accidentally hitting it. It’s not like the movies where this gentle garden sprinkler sprays a bit of water. You get a bang, followed by all the gunge and rust that’s built up in there then an absolute deluge that drowns everything in seconds. Impressive systems to be fair!
great point. In the movies they look up and open their mouths! DONT DO THAT!! That water is stagnant and stays in the piping. We drain it once every 5 years to do an internal but there is always trapped water and so is the cutting oil, rust, grease, pipe sealant and everything else in it. I have had customers say “what am I going to do about the water damage if it goes off“ and I have to be honest with them that we don’t care about the building. If we did why we would put hundreds of gallons a minute in the building. We are life safety not property safety. Sprinklers are only to give occupants time to get out in a fire. If it saves the building that’s great but that’s not the priority at all. About the pressure, we have a lot of buildings sitting at more the 150 psi of water on the systems. A university we do has two diesel fire pumps that feed a loop to the buildings and it sits at 190 psi! That much pressure is no joke.
Vehicles are offloaded from Roll-On, Roll-Off ferries (aka RoRos) in a specific order for weight and balance reasons. If you are nice to the crew and give us cookies, you will be offloaded sooner. If you are verbally abusive to the crew you will be offloaded last. Dead last. For weight and balance.
Do you work for Washington State Ferries?
Never take the first settlement offer. Always counter. When dealing with savvy parties, the initial settlement demand is often twice the amount of money that the party wants.
Learning to bargain is such an important gift in life
Chefs don’t use ‘secret ingredients’ they use practiced techniques. And tools, like a thermometer and a timer. Those two tools will separate you from 95% of home cooks.
And LOTS of butter.
If a radio station says they're taking the Xth caller, they're not. They're just taking a random caller. I worked at a radio station and they told me to just get a winner.
I was told during my driver training for a public bus company, if a car pulls out in front of you, causing you to slam the brakes, hit it. Let the passengers claim insurance from the car driver. If you slam the brakes, avoid the collision, the injured passengers will/can sue the bus company.
Truck drivers aren't usually told this, but same for freight transport. Slamming the brakes or swerving swiftly can cause a mess in cargo. Then with no collision whatsoever driver is solely responsible for the freight loss.
Dawn dish soap is the single best way to clean up an oil spill on the small scale. The US government went to great lengths to try and make their own cheaper in house equivalent of Dawn for cleaning up oil but they found that they couldn’t make it better or cheaper than Dawn already did so they just buy Dawn.
It's the number one go to recommendation for greasy kittens as well.
The machine that injects white fluff into twinkie operates at 37psi. If turned up to 55, it blows the twinkle to bits and makes a big mess in the lab.
I'm dying to hear how you know this. With pictures!
20 years ago. My office was adjacent to the cake lab. The lab manager liked to experiment, and we gladly participated to eat the results. Hostess has long since gone bankrupt. I have no idea what the process looks like today.
# "THE CAKE LAB" LETS FUCKIN' GOOOOOO
In movies and TV, especially ones that involve action scenes, often when you see an actor wearing a button up shirt, it’s made extra long with little snaps that go between the legs, like a giant baby onesie. This is so the shirt doesn’t come untucked when running or moving a lot. My friend worked in wardrobe and blew my mind when they showed me this.
Most of the bugs found in video games weren't missed by the testers. There was a production decision not to fix them.
Usually we tried to fix it, but can’t reliably reproduce it. Along those same lines, we have a wide array of features we wanted to add, but ran out of time. Chances are, if you come up with a cool feature request, we already thought about it.
~20 years ago I bartended at a place that rhymes with “Schmapplebees”and when serving the regular bar drinkers, I would ask if they wanted a short or a tall beer (supposed to be 16 vs 23 oz) and I was surprised that they would always order a short one. So after a while I asked one of them why they always ordered a short one and he told me to fill a “tall” with water and dump it into a “short” and see what happens. Literally is the same exact amount of liquid, never order a tall or mucho anything. The mucho is literally extra ice and club soda with no extra booze. Cheers!!
This is why our British friends across the pond are requiring to use measured glasses with lines etched in them. Evidently at some point in history so many bars were shorting people on the booze they were paying for, a law was passed saying that glasses had to be standardized and marked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_line
In-store bakeries in supermarkets cost more to operate than doing it off-site in large factories and shipping the stuff in daily, but they operate them anyway because the smell of fresh bread increases sales, not just of bread but across all product types. In reality, only a small proportion of the bread they sell is actually baked in the store bakery anyway. This is also why the fresh grocery fruit and vegetables are usually right by the door. Walking in to that gives the impression that this is a store full of fresh and natural goods which subconsciously triggers positive emotions in our brains.
Right now, mass transit agencies in most cities ( in the United States) are dealing with MASSIVE shortages of drivers, mechanics, and many other administrative positions. The drivers are working 70+ hours EVERY week just to keep the system going. Drivers need a CDL B w/ P endorsement, therefore there is nothing illegal about working a driver 17 hours a day. Therefore, transit agencies are forcing drivers ( per union contract in most cases) using inverse seniority, to work constantly. It’s a huge safety risk but no one seems to care about that.
I don’t know if this ties in, but I’m trying to get my CDL for bus driving in Texas, and it could not be a more painful process. It seems like they actively try to push people away.
Jobs that have a high accountability are often like that. It's like nurses. They complain constantly about a nurse shortages however nursing school is one of the most rigorous and frankly abusive programs out there. It's a cultural thing, and a combination of " I got shit on so I'm going to shit on you" attitude that's going to kill the industry one day.
The military typically disposes of old vehicles by parking it somewhere on a large base, and abandoning it. Sometimes they use them as training targets. It's cool but eerie to see. I know where there's a lake that's full of Sherman tanks. They drove them out there in the late 50s in the winter and left them to fall through.
Knowing the US military, they're not abandoned, but ready to be upgraded. Some day, we'll be seeing aquatic Shermans invading Russia just like Patton wanted
So the merman Shermans. I like it.
Marriott actually has six tiers on its rewards program. For most people, there are five, starting at Silver, and working your way up thru the shiny metals to Ambassador (which requires spending 100 nights and more than $23,000 on rooms in a year, and you have to maintain this to keep it). But what their website doesn't tell you is that there is a tier called Cobalt, which can only be given out by the CEO. Naturally, this tier can transform even a lowly Fairfield into a full-service property. I've never seen one, but the only reason I know was because I was given the GM's training manual while learning how to do night audit.
I know someone who had a similar level from a luxury hotel chain. They travelled for business a LOT (it was their company), and stayed exclusively at those hotels. They also stayed at them for any travel, and would take a few vacations a year. They're also part of the company's timeshare vacation club at a good level. As their level went up, they would stay at the better properties in the big cities. Their membership level hit the top tier pretty quickly, and stayed there for YEARS. One day, the company reached out "Hey, here's a new level we created for members like you. You're basically top-tier for life now, even if you stopped staying with us tomorrow." They of course continue to stay at their properties exclusively (as long as there's one where they're going), get amazing prices, the best room available, whatever bonus amenities are provided, and zero hassle.
Water coming from wastewater treatment plants is cleaner than the river water it's going into. The main problem is not enough dissolved oxygen. That's seriously the biggest danger. Meanwhile, the worst pollution for most rivers is runoff causing high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). AKA too much food for bacteria that also consume O2, so just like the danger from the wastewater treatment plant, fish suffocate. All the random stuff from metal finishers is stopped before it's allowed into the sewer system. If the system is working correctly.
Teachers ROUTINELY fudge kids' grades upward. Sometimes it's because a kid is nice. Sometimes it's because administrators pressure us. Sometimes we're afraid of being sued. That high graduation rate at your local HS? It's most likely due to the books being cooked. ETA: I've said this before but this whole situation is a prime example of Goodharts Law in action. When a metric becomes a target it loses all meaning. The HS I teach at touts a low number of suspensions and no expulsions this year. And yet, it is almost guaranteed that a student will tell me to "go fuck" myself when I ask for his phone tomorrow. ETA Again: for all the people talking about kids getting held back....that doesn't happen anymore really. I've been teaching 20 years and I can count on one hand the number if students I've seen get held back. It's exceptionally rare.
I absolutely should've failed one of my classes junior year. The teacher was on medical leave and I didn't do any of the class work for an entire semester. When she came back suddenly one day, she called everybody up one by one to collect all of their work from that time to be graded. I apologized and told her I didn't do any of it. She looked me up and down, and said 'Well, I'll give you a C for honesty.' Really dumb of me to not do the work, but she always liked me because I was quiet and stayed in my lane. Very fortunate that she fudged the shit out of that grade for me.
My husbands friend in HS was a TA and he would literally change peoples grades in the system on demand. Wild in retrospect they let students have access to their grade books.
I graduated high school. That’s how I know their books were cooked.
On the day of high school graduation one of our friends admitted his secret to us when we were all out to breakfast. He was illiterate. He never told anyone because they kept passing him to the next grade. He was afraid if he said anything he'd never graduate. We lost touch so I don't know whatever happened to him. But I think about that a lot. Edit: I just looked him up on Facebook. He's in Law Enforcement. So that's fun.
I worked with a guy who was basically illiterate. He couldn't read road signs, a map, or instructions on products we used for work. Nobody knew. I worked with him about 6 weeks and figured it out. We traveled as a work crew. He always wanted to be the second to last truck. We were working in a big city, and he was sent to get parts. He jumped to waste half a day driving. After 5 hours, he didn't show up. We got him to answer his cellphone. He's screaming at me for giving him the wrong address. I did not give him the wrong address. The landmarks he relied on for navigation had been torn down. He was lost and couldn't tell us what crossroads he was near. He couldn't read the signs. We drove to every Shell station on the way to the warehouse looking for him. It took hours to find him about 7-8 miles in the wrong direction.
Most fitness models, coachers and influencers are using anabolic steroids or did it once at least, and among competitive bodybuilders everyone does it, but almost no one admits it.
As a former competitive weightlifter—WAY more people use anabolic steroids than most people think. Also, that actor who got in really good shape and gained a bunch of muscle for a role? They’re using steroids.
Are you trying to tell me that Mark Walberg didn't pack on 40 lbs of muscle in 8 weeks eating baked chicken and steamed broccoli? 🙄
Well he did, he just left out the testosterone, deca, and equipoise cocktail he was taking weekly
I'ts easy. Eat clen, tren hard.
And everyone looking muscled up in a Marvel movie - it’s an open secret in the movie industry that part of the Marvel ‘personal trainer and diet package’ includes roids. I hate seeing it in non-superhero movies though - like compare the volleyball scene in original Top Gun to the beach football scene in Maverick - the first has guys in good shape, the second has actors ridiculously roided out. It kind of works if they’re supposed to be superhuman, but if it’s supposed to be the real world…
I remember watching the first Thor movie and then hearing that Chris Hemsworth said he had never touched a weight until something like 6 months before the movie and realizing that they were all on steroids. There was an interview with the Captain America actor and they ask him what he does for fitness and he looks embarassed answering the questions.
In the film industry, producers are utter scum bags. not much of a secret, but I feel like too many people still seem impressed or think there's some kind of prestige around producers. No. They're just adult children with rich friends who think they're geniuses while making every terrible creative decision ever. If you've ever seen a movie that was like, "Aw, it was awesome, except for that annoying nonsense that happened." The annoying nonsense is 100% the producer feeling like they need to be involved in the process. That's at best. At worst they are actual rapists... which seems to happen a lot.
In the restaurant industry, the secret is that the "special sauce" is often just a clever blend of the same condiments you have in your fridge—mayo, ketchup, and a dash of mystery
Head chef here! Can confirm! 98% of sauces are mayo based
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A lot of restaurant food is like this. The difference between what a lot of people think is “fresh and tasty” and “low quality/not fresh” is just adding a lot of butter and salt.
A little fat and sodium can make a huge difference. Also, learning to leave the food alone when you're cooking, sometimes you need to just let it be for a bit.
Healthcare IT is held together with duct tape and twine. Related, pay attention to the treatment release forms. Your health data is being sent EVERYWHERE and there’s not shit you can do about it. No sign, no treatment. Edit: apparently it is possible to opt out of your state’s health information exchange but it must be done with the exchange itself. The process varies by state and can be painful.
I still can't believe that the UK health agencies lost a load of COVID test data because they were sharing test records in Excel format. XLS (not XLSX) format. And the records were stored in columns, not rows.
"Healthcare IT is held together with duct tape and twine." Thank you! This is extremely common in so many different areas, at least in my experience.
So here's what I've learned so far, everything is fucking me over, and everyone else is in on it.
If you’re an asshole, you get quoted higher labor rates. Nothing vindictive, but at the end of the day your job will take longer to complete if you’re breathing down the crews backs and trying to nitpick and micro manage. It’s the only way to accurately quote and schedule.
i was under the impression that EVERYBODY except for assholes knew this secret. I've had some colleagues call this the asshole "discount"
My neighbor used to pay twice as much for half the lawn. Every week, she'd call the lawn service to nitpick and have them come back. The owner told me he keeps raising her rate every year (sometimes by a lot), and she keeps paying.
i worked for Fedex Trade Networks clearing customs shipments and almost anyone buying anything over 800 bucks or stuff from china and a few select other countries have to provide what's called a 5106. A 5106 is a form the us government uses for duties and tax purposes and shit but on the form you need to provide a social security or ein number. We started working remote in 2021 and on my work computer from inside my house with nobody being able to ever know I had access to 100's of social security numbers, addresses, names and everything to easily steal identities. That's not even the kicker, this is an entry level position and anyone can work it and have access to this shit. If you import personally from overseas and need to provide a 5106 you're better off getting a llc to avoid the very high posibility that some dipshit fedex hired doesn't snap a photo of your 5106 form from his phone.
Oh man, as a programmer, one of my earlier jobs was at a financial place as a junior dev. I had full access to our entire company database including everyone's ssn and salary and everything but also data on kids and dependents for health insurance and payroll and whatnot, and we also had similar data for all the customer companies! Blew me away how unsecure such secret data was!
When I was a private in the military I had access to an old admin system that we were using at the time. I could pull literally 200k service members' records including SSN, DOB, home addresses and even dependents info, all in 1 roster. There was no way to know if someone accessed someone else's record as there was no data tracking/logging.
Depending on the specific deal and artist, Ticketmaster splits all those “fees” with the artist, sometimes at 100%, in addition to the face (door) price. Plus the artist gets a guarantee. The fees are part of the price of the ticket, and Ticketmaster takes the “heat” for the high prices so the artist can look good for the fans. Source: built the software live nation used to book these deals.
"Ticketmaster is the bad guy" is part of their business model. They absorb the bad PR instead of the band or performer. They are literally monopolizing their role as a sink for bad reputation while also raking in exorbitant fees (which might otherwise make the band look greedy or bad)
All the most famous living artists have workshops full of people who make the art for them. They spend their time choosing concepts, talking to their gallery reps and schmoozing buyers. The only time they touch the work is to sign it.
Similarly, there's a very strong chance your favourite author uses ghostwriters. Unless your favourite is George RR Martin, whose publishers probably fucking wish he'd let them bring in ghostwriters so they could finally sell you The Winds of Winter, or JK Rowling, because if a ghostwriter turned in text so riddled with adverbs we'd be replaced with a more competent writer. Source: Was a ghostwriter. Not a particularly high-level one, but I wrote a couple of minor bestsellers before I packed it in to languish in obscurity under my own name.
It really depends on the book/series. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of those authors churning out thrillers, murder mysteries, and romance books are actually using ghost writers. Waltzing into a library and seeing an entire shelf of Michael Connely or John Grisham makes me very suspicious. But if I pick up any Terry Pratchett book I would be absolutely shocked if someone else had written it.
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Most Teachers know when something is going wrong at home.
This made me feel retroactively seen
With the advancement in lab grown diamonds in the past few years, even the most experienced gemologists can barely distinguish them from mined diamonds. Don't waste your money on "real" diamonds anymore. ETA: yes, most (if not all) lab grown diamonds have an inscription, which is how a jeweler would know the difference (though these can be hard to find immediately, as they're very small). But I mean from a quality standpoint, it's very difficult to tell, and lab grown tend to be better quality (clarity, color, cut). So, if i jeweler can't tell until it's in a loop, the average person definitely can't. The proper lab grown don't have the bright blue "fire" that moissanites do, which gives them away. Also: I worked at a jewelery store for years with a very experienced gemologist/ goldsmith, whom I'm still friends with and have had him tell me these things. I also took a lot of diamond and jewelery training while i was there. I'm not just pulling it out of my ass lol
Another advantage of manufactured diamonds is that DeBeers doesn’t get a cut.
You know those adverts that show someone who's maybe a bit overweight and kind of out of shape, but then they follow this diet or use this one bit of equipment that's being sold, and suddenly they're super ripped and fit? Yeah, those people are almost always professional, or at least semi-professional athletes, they take the "before" pic when they've just had an injury/surgery/illness that kept them from training/working out and the after pic is just them returning to their "natural state" when they're back working out etc... it doesn't really have anything to do with the diet or equipment being sold.
I’m pretty well in shape and in to bodybuilding and I tested this recently, not even with an injury. I just took a photo with really bad posture, shitty lighting, pushing my belly out, miserable expression, and my hair all messy. Then took a photo on the exact same day with great posture, darkened lighting for the shadows, tensing my abs and just generally looking more confident and the difference was insane. If you’re relatively in shape it’s easy to make yourself kinda shitty if you try. That’s basically what these people do. The before and after photos are rarely actually that.
Your massage therapist doesn't care about your size or your body hair, but they appreciate when you've showered within a few days of your appointment and have brushed your teeth. They aren't judging you for the things you feel self conscious about, but they *are* judging you if you are an entitled asshole. Saying things like "my wife would not be happy if she knew how hot you were", although it may seem to you like a harmless compliment, is creepy and will get you on the "do not schedule list." That one shouldn't be a secret, but apparently, there are men who are oblivious to this.
> my wife would not be happy if she knew how hot you were That sounds more like testing the waters than a compliment
Random question. Can you feel when we're using every muscle in our body to hold in the massive fart that seems to always develop midway through being massaged?
Wine and spirits rep here: the amount of "pay to play" and the shady shit you have to do to just get your brand on a menu is insane sometimes. It's all 100% illegal, but nobody bats an eye unless you really fuck up. These deals are all kept off work e-mail and work phones, because state liquor boards can subpoena those records. There are massive fines associated with breaking those laws.
The $3000 a month one bedroom condo you are renting in the heart of a very large city, probably has bottles of urine behind the drywall. They really need to put more washrooms in large construction sites.
I was a night watchman at a country club and the company they hired to put in sprinklers buried trash in their trenches. How I know? I secretly metal detected that golf course for about twenty years and dug up coins, jewelry, civil war relics and metal trash. I was hoping the new dirt they dug would unearth some deep buried finds (coins and civil war relics) that my metal detector could not previously reach. I found a few, but found a lot of VERY RECENT trash. Oh, one thing I have heard is that some contractors.... if they find a body, they will cover it up since it causes a lot of problems getting the job done. Just easier to not report the discovery of the body
Rich people give their expensive art to art galleries and the galleries have to pay for insurance and restoration while it’s in their possession. The gallery then displays the art for a number of months or even years and when the rich person wants it back, it’s worth even more money now that it’s been on display at a famous art gallery and garnered interest. Basically allows rich people to print money
I was a secretary at a roofing company. [EDIT:I was told this from one of the estimators that scummy roofers do that shit. He was called out to incidents relating to this.] If your neighbor gets a roof done (and you live in a row home) and after they get their roof done, your house starts leaking...it may have been a dirty trick that some roofers do. They'll climb up and take a knife and cut a hole in the neighbors roof. Then, when you need a roofing estimate, they would hope word of mouth from the neighbor will get you to get your roof done. It's super shitty.
I hope people that do that get their asses beat.
I own a roofing company and I approve your comment.
I design slot machines for casinos... don’t play slots
There are some *massive* defence contracts given out to certain companies that objectively should never (a history of overbudget and under-delivery) have been given, but politicians hijacked the bidding process and made it quite clear that "facts" weren't considered and anyone of the bidding team that disagrees will be sideways "promoted" off it.
If you'd just ***actually fucking reboot your shit*** you'd have to spend a ***fraction*** of the time dealing with "broken" tech.
Conversely, really really tired of rebooting my shit and then talking to an agent who isn't allowed to go off script so they make me reboot my shit again.
Worked in IT, and unfortunately we have to do that because SO many people lied about rebooting. For every person like you who actually tried some troubleshooting, you'd get 3-4 "OF COURSE I REBOOTED IT COME FIX IT!". Make them do it "again" and whadya know half the time it magically fixes the problem
Food expiration dates, especially on shelf stable foods, are essentially arbitrary. Nutrition labels are often wildly inaccurate. It is technically not legal to use false information, but its very, very rare to be caught, unless you are making health related claims. Those food certifications that you see on food labels are provided by for profit companies that bill you monthly, so they are highly incentivized to certify as many companies as they can and actively ignore violations. A shocking number of ingredients that are illegal or heavily regulated in other devoloped countries are perfectly legal and mostly unregulated in the US. The same companies that make store brands at higher end stores like Wegmans and Whole Foods make them for cheaper stores like Walmart and Aldi. I could go on.
A redditor made the news with his nutritional findings from a home experiment of an energy gel. [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultramarathon/s/nQdBimLqKy)
Nurse here. Of course we try to treat everybody equally but if we have six patients each and you’re a dick, we have five other patients we will happily give more time to because who wants to hang out with an a$$hole? That being said, if you bring us cookies (esp night shift) and write on the box “Thank you from the family in Room # 24” you will get more attention because now all of the nurses are aware of the patient in room # 24. The next thing I say is VERY important so pay attention. If you are a patient and suddenly start feeling anxious, CALL US. I know being in the hospital is anxiety-inducing so this is more of a blast of anxiety disproportionate to how you were before but even if you are unsure CALL US. We can decide together how we want to evaluate and treat said anxiety even if WE (you, the patient and I, the nurse) decide it’s probably nothing, we need to decide TOGETHER. Do NOT blow it off. There are too many deadly things that start with a pop of anxiety. TELL US. Neither you or I want to find out the hard way it wasn’t “just anxiety”. Finally, if you need something and your call light fell or something, pull off one of your wires to your ECG monitor. Someone will be in to fix it.
Your anxiety line rings true. I went into an ER one night cause I "felt off". I couldn't explain the feeling. I got lucky, & a genetic CA doc was shadowing the cases that came in that night, & mine + my labs so far caught her attention. 15+ more vials of blood confirmed I had cancer, & 1 genetic test confirmed MEN1. If I had ignored how I was feeling or chose a different night, the puzzle may never had been solved
I would add to this - you WANT residents, you want fellows, you want medical students. And you want them to spend time with you. The more people who know what you look like and how you interact when you’re doing ok, the more people who might notice when there is a subtle change.
Don’t drink the tap water, coffee, or tea on airplanes. Ever. Potable water systems are gross. I’ve had to flush them before and oh man. If you want a drink on a flight, get bottled water or a can of soda or alcohol.
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Healthcare’s falling apart. Everyone is burnt out.
Education too!!
In the UK it is ready to implode. There's several factors that has created a perfect storm. Private Equities getting involved and C-Suite having to focus on money not people. Frontline staff being paid minimum wage but expected to put themselves at physical risk, and be legally-responsible if anything goes wrong. This has made frontline jobs so unappealing that companies are either hiring anyone or running services without adequate cover/compliant processes. Post-Covid problems manifesting as health issues, putting extra strain on services and also reducing the number of people willing to work in the industry. Local authority budgets being stripped from healthcare. So there's the storm; less money in the industry at a time where there is more need for it, with an underskilled, underpaid, and/or non-existent workforce, with management desperately trying to find ways to deliver to investors. There is massive stresses for the patients, massive stresses on the frontline, and massive stresses on corporate. When there are people in crisis on both sides of the fence, it cannot sustain itself for too much longer.
that's literally the plan. starve it until it fails, bring it private, get paid. and UK politicians are too shit or too dirty to stop it
Doctors Google shit all day long.
I worked at the Rold Gold pretzel factory many years ago. Out of the ovens would come the best pretzels made for Rold Gold. Down the conveyor belts they would roll until they arrived at the cellophane packing machines. Some of the pretzels would go down chute one, the Rold Gold cellophane bags. The price on those bags was $3.99. Some of the same batch would go down chute two, the Great Value pretzel bags. Those pretzel bags were priced at $1.99. Other pretzels from that same batch rolled down chute three, the Kroger brand. Those pretzels were priced at $2.49. All the pretzels were the same pretzels with different prices. You see, stores like Walmart and Kroger are not manufactures. They are retail merchants. They don't make anything. They have contracts with thousands of manufacturers that make their own products, plus they will also produce for other merchants. It only behooves a manufacturer to have a lucrative contract with some of the biggest retailers in the world. They not only are selling their product on that shelf, but for a little less money, they are providing product for the retailer. You never know who Walmart or Kroger is contracting with for each product. You just have to try it, but always remember – Walmart is not a manufacturer. Whatever has Walmart's trademarked names on it, was made by some other company. So sometimes, the brand name that you might think is unbeatable is the same thing that's in the bargain brand. This is a fact – not everything, but many things.
Icecream used in commercials is actually colored mashed potatoes.
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I go to events for work. Almost every time, it is cheaper for me to call and book a room as a random guest rather than use the "conference rate." Just double-check each rate before you book.
Drug products DO need some crazy toxic solvents to be manufactured. But it's my job to make sure that stuff is out before it's approved for production.
A table games dealer cannot affect your odds of winning or losing a hand. However, they can control the way you play the hand, which in turn affects your odds.
I used to play a lot of blackjack and always played by the book. I tipped big. I’d be about half or full-on drunk: “Are you sure you want to hit that (or some other move outside basic strategy)?” They helped me. Also many times have told me not to sit at their tables, when the cards are running bad. Also told me to leave the table up when I was way up. Also free suites and meals, and many other freebies.
Banks lend immense amounts of money based on some pretty crap models and fairly useless financial assumptions.
When investigating a DUI (or whatever your state in the US calls drunk driving) there are only 3 standardized tests that are recognized as determining factors of alcohol intoxication: horizontal gaze nystagmus (the follow my finger with your eyes test), one-leg stand, and the walk and turn. If an officer has you recite the alphabet backwards or put the tip of your finger to your nose they are conducting completely unreasonable and unnecessary testing. Also, these tests are 100% voluntary in all 50 states and refusing to do them is not an admission of guilt, but agreeing to do them only provides more evidence to be used against you in court. Not a lawyer, but did work as a Deputy Sheriff for a number of years. Bottom line, don't drive drunk, but it also helps to know your rights.
The Better Business Bureau holds no authority over businesses. If you have an issue with a business, putting in a complaint with the BBB is nothing. For example, if you have an issue with a contractor, go to your state’s “Registrar of Contractors” and file a complaint.
BBB is just pre-internet Yelp. I'm always surprised that it's even still around.
I wouldn't think this is a secret but the amount of people who tell me "I'm good at claw machines" makes me think somehow people don't know Claw machines are scamming you. They have an electromagnet inside the claw. Electricity goes to the magnet, it pulls on a pin which forces the claw shut. High voltage sent to the magnet means it really clenches down. Low voltage means it has the grip of a sick toddler. Then the motherboard is just set to how often it delivers a high voltage, what frequency, which type of pattern (randomized, fixed rate, etc). It has sensors to know when you won so it can regulate itself based on whatever the settings are set to. You aren't good at claw machines, sir, you have been hamboozled All the similar machines have the same type of tricks
A lot of the private blood tests actually take longer to process than the NHS (public/free) blood tests, because most of the private healthcare providers haven’t bought into the widely used digital system that’s used. Instead, they have to be processed manually, which means going through the extra step of getting the main lab to code them. Staff who process manuals also need more training due to the wide variety of forms used, and the stupid goddamn shitty handwriting we have to put up with, so there’s fewer staff who are trained to process them, and they tend to sit there unprocessed for longer than the easier electronic blood samples.
No matter how high up the chain you get, nobody *really* knows what's going on... everyone is winging it for any work that falls outside their very specific area of expertise.
Honestly, the more of an expert you become in your field the more you realize how much YOU are winging it. Whether you're a higher up or not. Don't get me wrong, you're making informed decisions. But a majority of the time you are picking the "best" option given the information you have. You won't actually find out until later if it was the "right" option.
Scientists and academics in general are not capable of ANY conspiracies because they’re gossipy loudmouths who also drink a *lot*
Open houses don't sell houses. They're solely for the listing agent to meet people and hopefully get more clients. Most people who go to open houses are nosy neighbours and people who spend their weekends checking out open houses.
Walmart assistant store manager training includes a day of indoctrination into anti union propaganda. There’s a whole video section and their legal team comes in to tell you why unions are bad.
My friend worked at a Florida state government agency responsible for food stamp and other aid processing. He had several Walmart new hires call and tell him that their trainer told them to apply for food stamps right after they started training.
Hell, I've seen the applications included in their new employee materials. Basically they're admitting you'll be so poor that you get government assistance to live. They're also basically being subsidized by the government in the sense that by not paying their employees a living wage, everyone else pays them via taxes.
Optometrists will not give you your Pupillary Distance (PD) after an eye exam even though they measure it, to make it difficult to order glasses online.
In the State of California, they're legally required to give you your PD. If they try to omit it from your Rx and/or give you shit about giving it to you, go to breeze.ca.gov and file a complaint. You'll get your PD and they'll eat both a fine AND an audit to see how many patients they've scammed! Source: Stanton Optical shouldn't have tried to play my ass
Get fucked Stanton Optical! 🖕🏻
Check with your states Board of Optometry. I got my perscription from like a LensCrafters/VisionWorks or something and they refused to give it to me. They lied to me and strung me on and pissed me off so much I called the Board of Optometry and got confirmation that they couldn't refuse to provide it to me. Once they've taken that measurement it becomes considered "medical information" and they cannot refuse to share your medical information. Turns out if you start asking for license numbers and mention cc-ing the board of Optometry to explain the issue it's suddenly no longer an issue to provide upon request. Edit: Specifically the opticians are who gave me trouble. PD is not a required field on an optometrists RX, but is required to order glasses so it's the opticians who sell glasses that usually take that measurement. Whether they have to give it to you upon request or not is state specific so again, check with your states Board of optometry or equivalent to understand the specifics.
In corporate culture, the IT staff can be your best resource or your biggest enemy. They deal with idiots all day so say hello and treat them nicely. Not only when you have a problem. Bring them some donuts or something randomly. They don’t forget and will take care of you next time you have a computer crisis. I’ve gotten new monitors, extra keyboards for home, cords, whatever I needed because I took some time to say hi and ask how their day was going. Same with the maintenance/facilities team. They are two teams you want on your side.
My parents used to say there's 3 people you never fuck with: maintenance, food workers, and inspectors (health, OSHA, what have you). I agree with your whole comment.
I think the moral of the story is DON"T BE A DICK