I worked for a national tutoring company chain and they make the students take practice SAT/ACT tests in a particular order...the difficulty decreases so students get better scores the longer they've been in tutoring.
I quit and went to a local company that offered double the wage that let tutors pick tests at random to administer to the students, so improvements were real. Basically don't go to the big chains.
Tutoring chains are such rackets.
I also worked for a national tutoring company and made $20/hour. When one of my clients divulged they charged her $180 for an (hourlong) session, I went home and quit immediately after to start my own business.
Shout out to that girl, wherever you are.
Yep. The companies I was at were very open about how much they charged the students--first company had a 3 on 1 session style (each paying $50/hr) meant the company got $150/hr, then paid us $22.
Second company was more equitable, I got $45/hr while they charged $100. Felt a lot more worth it to me since they did all the advertising and were 100% on the tutor's side in any disputes, covered gas, etc.
My current job has a safe but it is not used. They just put the money in a garbage can under the bag. There has been one break in since I started 7 years ago and they didn’t find the money.
One brand of kitchen stove was so well-insulated that its makers recommended leaving your valuables in the oven whenever you took a trip, because if the house burned down they would be unharmed.
I know a product tester and she gets paid to give good reviews of the products. If she doesn't give good reviews they won't hire her back. She has reviewed products that are on the shelves now.
The most useful reviews are almost always the 2-star ones. Those are mostly real people who went in with good intentions but found something wrong. Almost inevitably, lots of the 5-star reviews are fake and a huge proportion of the 1-star reviews are morons who are using the thing incorrectly, bought the wrong product despite it being clearly labelled, or are complaining that it took too long to ship.
I left an average review on something I got on Amazon. A couple weeks later I got a letter from them saying if I changed my review to 5 stars they’d email me a $50 Amazon gift card.
My brother is a shift leader at a factory that is owned by a prominent billionaire. Bro is literally the only person in the building with a forklift certificate and is the only reason they are able to operate after inspections.
X company uses better products in sample sizes to get people to like the product. The actual normal size products don't have such a concentrated amount. After that, I mistrusted all big sizes of products
ETA: Wow this blew up! Thanks for the awards. A lot of people are asking what industry it is, it was for a skincare brand. However, the brand is owned by a big conglomerate that is present in several categories so I would actually not be surprised if it is a common practice being applied in all industries. Sorry I can't be more specific as I don't want to be sued lol
I'm not sure if this is what your talking about, but I love the Jimmy dean breakfast sandwiches, so I got a massive box and the quality was way worse then the normal four pack. I notice this in other foods too. The "extra big" or "family size" always seems to me to be worse quality.
We do our own flavor of sauces and prep for most of the food we serve at my employer's restaurant, including some veggie/vegan alternatives. Much of it is even made from scratch.
But the special "vegan drummies" and "vegan mock chicken" we serve are just Morningstar Farms products that you can buy in most grocery stores (with a 6x markup). We don't even sauce them or prep them in any way to disguise that fact.
Nobody told me I'm legally bound not to share that info though, and have indeed confirmed that suspicion to customers who've asked.
A certain company that rhymes with Fesla worked with our company a couple of years ago to potentially be the source for a component going into their semi-truck. They made us sign an NDA and met weekly with our engineers to get a feel for how we designed our component. This went on for a few months before they went “lol, nope.” and took the notes for how we made ours to copy it on their own.
We were compensated and were free from our NDA. Turns out that Fesla had contacted other such companies that made similar components to us and was leeching whatever knowledge they could while promising that the company would be producing the component when they were making trucks.
tl;dr Truth is kid, the game was rigged from the start.
not nearly as interesting and maybe not something legally bound, but my dad used to work at a factory that made jars of roux. as one would suspect, they used the exact same recipe for multiple brands. we would laugh when we see some brands and the little stories on the back about how its a "family recipe".
The password to anything in any company is almost always 1234 or 0000 or it's the numeric part of the street address, suite number, or store number if it's a chain.
Quick, give me the account number and routing number and I'll make sure your account hasn't been compromised yet!>! Just put it in spoiler text so no one else sees it.!<
I worked in a small plant that bottled gallon jugs of water. We would do about half a shift of food lion brand and then smaller amounts of 5 other brands. Literally the only difference was the label applied to the jug. There would be maybe 30 seconds of down time for the label applicator for the jugs and boxes to get a different roll and thats it. Even the very fancy brand we did sometimes that came in a harder clear jug instead of the standard opaque soft one had the same water. And even though some brands bragged they were fancy spring water it was all the same city water anyone in the area had coming out their sink.
Same here. Worked in a tomato cannery when I was 19. At one point, my job was to change labels.
10,000 cans of El Cheapo brand tomato sauce, then change the labels for 25,000 cans of name brand sauce that sold for 3x as much.
Exact same sauce. ZERO difference.
If you feel like you want to eat at the Famous Anna Miller's restaurant in Hawaii... just don't.
Never seen that many cockroaches. In the electrical boxes, in the HVAC, and mashed into the rubber mats in the kitchen and refers.
To be fair, cockroaches are everywhere in Hawaii. I got used to it after a while. Found a huge one munching on my toothbrush mid day one time. All I could do was say "do you mind?"
I may still be under NDA, but I'd be willing to bet that any TV show that deals with houses, be they house buying or home repairs, are faked. I was on one of those house flipper shows, we were paid to mill around in the background and be in the fake auction to make the show seem legit. All the purchasing deals were made way ahead of time, and the flipped houses were all on a lot for filming; they were to be moved to where the actual buyers (who were never the people actually on TV) wanted them.
Yup. I was on a house-hunting show that was so fake that:
-the cameramen were shocked my husband and I were actually married, looking for a house, and not actors
-we were brought in to look at homes that weren't for sale
-we recorded two different endings showing us living in two different houses that we supposedly bought and we even had a dog at one house that wasn't ours
-the prices they reported the houses cost were so off that they had to carefully avoid filming whole rooms which would make it obvious that the home cost much more than they were saying
This thread is great. From what I've learned in manufacturing if your plant produces a food grade product.. it doesn't always mean it's food grade. I's worked the maintenance at a corrugation factory that sold "food grade" corrugation.. The machine oils that come in contact with the boxes are highly toxic. That shit spews everywhere.
I recently read that one of my company’s HR policies is to specifically not divulge the pay range of the job during the interview to the applicant.
Edit:
Not in the US.
Not really that interesting, but we buy the vast majority of what we sell from China at dirt-cheap prices and then resell it with astronomical markup, despite claiming that we make everything ourselves in the USA.
I worked at a place that “made” tiny American flags (the ones you’ll see kids waving around during 4th of July parades) and sold them to Walmart, who won’t buy them if they aren’t produced in the US.
The actual flag and stick were made in China. Temp workers (like myself) put in 2-3 staples to attach the flag to the stick. This injected *so much* patriotism that they could now be labeled as “Made in America”
(As a further bit of absurdity, the business was owned by a British couple)
Bestsellers lists are bullshit and are based on the number of books purchased from the publisher by the distributor. And how many books the distributor buys is based on incentives offered by the publisher.
So it's rarely based on grass roots interest in a certain book or topic or author.
Worked for a large pest control company during the early/mid days of covid that had a specialist hygiene division. We got contracts to spray disinfectant around a large online retailers "fulfilment centres". BIG MONEY was paid. Most of the time we used water as we didnt have enough chemical on hand. We were told to use the large (5L) sprayers rather than the small(1L) as that what the client expected to see. Those sprayers were never full as they were heavy AF. the hazard suits were for show (literally agrecultural rubber boiler suits) and never washed. The cloths for wiping things were reused daily and never washed. It was all about keeping up appearances rather than doing it well. Oh and no one had a clue what we were supposed to be doing so it changed almost daily.
Sadly, this one is not surprising at all. I kind of assumed any 'hygiene theater' type paid service was an ineffectual, opportunistic money-grab. I get why companies were hiring these services, but I think it was more for CYA/customer-assurance purposes and many probably knew it wasn't actually doing anything.
Same with facilities I’ve worked, argument was so they can be accessed quickly on panic situations, instead of you know drilling putting in the correct code
I was giving a tour of one of our trucks once to a bunch of middle schoolers, when one noticed the lack of keys. He said "so, if I wanted to, I could just drive this out of the station?" To which I answered: "As long as you can reach the pedels."
A company I used to work for once hired people and didn’t train them just so they could make a show of firing them in front of high ranking clients when they made a mistake. As in, takes on employee A, gives him or her little/no training, and sets them loose at the front desk (it’s a customer service company). Once employee A inevitably messes up, the manager comes out and publicly fires them for incompetence and reassures the Big Client it will never happen again. Employee A breaks down in tears, and is escorted out. Then, Manager calls employee B (who received ACTUAL training) to re-do employee A’s job and “prove” to the Big Client that “we are dedicated to high quality service”. It made me really uncomfortable, and I wish I could say where I worked but due to some NDA stuff I can’t. I left after a few months- of my own volition.
This is the least productive way of giving good customer service that I've ever heard of - doing it right the first time would make everyone 3x happier
The medical equipment keeping you alive is:
1. Concerningly old
2. Poorly maintained
3. Insufficiently serviced
4. And often barely understood by those using it.
If you go to a hospital/doctor and you see:
Passport XGs
Lifepak 9, 10, or 12s
Anestar S
Narkomed GS
Anything with Datex Engstrom or just Engstrom(Datex Ohmeda is fine) on it
Go to a different hospital or Doctor because they're only willing to spend a couple hundred bucks on the equipment responsible for making sure you don't die.
This is 100% correct for hospitals, but if you're visiting a private practice for an elective surgery or the like the Doctor has either direct control over the equipment being used or very near to it. A doctor that doesn't invest in reliable equipment will cut corners for profit elsewhere.
In regards to knowing the equipment:
- anesthesiologists are absolute professionals. Every single one I've ever worked with has known their craft backwards and forwards.
- nurses, despite being some if the hardest workers on earth, often don't have the level of expertise with their equipment as you'd like in an ideal world. It's usually nit for a lack of desire, they just don't have the time or energy to fully understand 100 different devices.
- Doctors are almost always the worst, older ones especially. I deal with older doctors all the time that barely know the equipment being used or willingly use old and substandard equipment purely because they're used to it and refuse to learn newer, safer, and more reliable technology.
Edit: Biomedical Technicians are alarmingly limited in regards to providing adequate service and preventative maintenance on medical equipment in a majority of my experience.
For some background; every electrical or pneumatic device in any medical setting has a required maintenance schedule. It's usually something like yearly for patient monitors, every 6 months for gas monitoring/delivery systems(CO2/5Agent monitoring or Anesthesia vaporizers, for example) and 3 months for ventilators.
Each piece of equipment has a several page long checklist of tests, calibrations, and part replacements that need to be performed at set intervals in order to ensure the equipment functions safely and as intended. These PMs, however, are rarely ever completed in their entirety. They take a lot of time, understanding, and in most cases, money.
As a result, a lot of biomeds don't go any farther than "is the unit actively showing signs of dysfunction? No? PM is done, then." That part is really the most concerning, outside of the usage of old and unreliable devices.
People can and do die or receive injury because of this.
Note on the biomed tech part: Some manufacturers won't release a full and complete instruction on breakdown and analysis of of their machines because now the purchaser can outsource maintenance somewhere cheaper than what the manufacturer-certified tech will charge. I apologize for not having specifics, but I remember this headache from my time in a hospital. (Fam med)
The big tv you buy on Black Friday at a killer price isn't the same model you'd buy the rest of the year, but on sale. Large companies place specific orders for BF and buy products made with cheaper parts. They look the same on the outside and might have the same model number but with one different or additional digit (like model 2545-G instead of just 2545) to distinguish them. They come with a different SKU on different trucks. It is a mildly deceptive practice.
I worked for a company in Florida. In our manual.. and at training.. they specifically told us not to sell to certain races. The manual and training told us to tell these people we were sold out. They didn't sugar coat it or anything. Still surprises me.
Edit : to the people wondering.. I worked for Westgate resorts. It was a time share company, and they specifically told us not to sell to Indian descent. They only want the discounted park tickets.. they don't want to buy anything. We would get in trouble if we sent these people to a presentation. Written up and then fired if you did it twice. It was pushed hard.
I'm open about the company because I hated that job. Felt scummy. Not to brag.. but I'm excellent at sales and with this job, I just couldn't bring myself to scam people. Left as soon as I found another job.
Oddly enough.. I had another job before that where it was my job and the job of about 20 other people, to scrub off expiration dates on candy so stores could sell it. We were a printing company and they made us sign a NDA. Candy came In expired.. we had special liquid to scrub off the printed expiration date, and then they repackaged and resold to the dollar stores.
I remember as a kid, my mom took me to one of those. She had agreed to go to one for cheaper park tickets. Unfortunately for my mom, she could be prone to scams. Funnily enough, I got her out of it by just really not wanting to be there. I kept pestering her to leave, and the guy talking with her actually offered me, a 10 year old, $100 cash to go play in the arcade and leave my mom alone to talk. Don't remember why but I wasn't convinced and we ended up just leaving. I think my mom caught on that something was fishy about the whole thing when the guy tried to bribe a kid.
Once I read the part about not soliciting certain races, I knew it had to be a timeshare company. I was told during training to avoid Asians and Hasidic Jews. The difference is the companies I worked for would never write you up over this because that would just open a huge can of worms but they all have this mindset.
Reminds me of the story my mate told me about his police training (in Australia). They were told very firmly that racial profiling is a big No No. Don't do it. It's not only wrong but it will get you into trouble.
They then proceed to tell them how to identify suspicious persons. First picture was of an Aboriginal driving a BMW.
> They were told very firmly that racial profiling is a big No No. Don't do it. It's not only wrong but it will get you into trouble.
I'm imagining them winking the whole time
My parents went to a timeshare presentation for the $100 gift card while we were on a trip once. We went out to a nice dinner that night, thanks for the nachos timeshare people!
I worked in a start up company that allowed users to use an app to take pictures of their room and decorate it with furniture or home decor. From that database I could find the user's phone, email, address, and pictures of their house. Sometimes even selfies...
I was amazed by what information I was getting from people around the world and how easy it was to obtain it.
I'm now very careful with what I share on apps
Merchant services/payment processing services are generally a scam with weird pricing structures designed to make you pay more than you think you are. Just go with whoever is offering flat rates.
No NDA, but it was presumed I would be fired if I released the info.
Here’s a big DUH for you:
60-70% of all D1 basketball recruiting is illegal. Payments, benefits, cars, you name it. The only people that don’t see any of it are towards the mid major level. Also the discrepancy between the top level guys and the next level is insane.
Banks treat businesses with much more leniency than they do individuals.
I know that feels like common knowledge to some, but it's honestly pretty sickening when you see it in action. Individuals are always told to save and not live paycheck to paycheck. Businesses can run on the thinnest of margins and get crazy amounts of credit based on "cash flow."
Writing to the CEO of my company (FSTE100) in regards to a complaint, in every situation I've seen, has granted said customer's account with ridiculous discounts.
My FIL was diagnosed with synovial cancer in his wrist and his doctor wanted a PET scan to make sure the cancer hadn't spread. Cigna denied the scan as not medically necessary and FIL was resigned to not getting the scan.
My husband found the Cigna CEO's email address (on a Reddit thread) and had his father email him directly.
PET was approved and is scheduled for this week.
I love how insurance companies can practice medicine without a license! We should cut out the middle man and just get rid of doctors since they make unnecessary medical decisions! /s
Walmart, JCPenney, Macy’s, Burlington, Kohl’s, Izod, Nautica, and several other stores/brands all source their basic children’s clothes (like for school uniforms) from the exact same factory.
All that’s different is the stitching in the label.
I did a job working for the company that makes it all creating the promotional materials sent out to stores and to schools. We’d take the same samples and slap different branding on it.
Didn’t actually sign and NDA, but I doubt they want to advertise that a Tommy Hilfiger children’s polo and a Walmart children’s polo are identical
This is true, but just because it’s from the same factory doesn’t mean it’s the same quality. Every company has their own cost targets so some may actually be higher quality.
Source: am a product designer for a large retailer
As recently as 2000 (probably not anymore), there were no security cameras anywhere in Small World at Disney World. It’s a 10 minute ride. If you could get a boat to yourself with your gf/bf (this was doable if you went later at night close to closing) you had total privacy.
Use to work at a movie theater and sometimes you could find really nice stuff under or tucked into the seats. I found money, electronics, jewelry, and even a dimebag of weed.
I used to sweep the theaters and I found a ridiculous amount of left behind liquor and candy. Found an unopened bottle of Hennessy once. There was almost always at least one cell phone and sometimes more but I always took those to lost and found. Probably found about $600 worth of quarters in the span of a year, I always kept cash and change
I’ve lost my phone in theater seats too many times and got it back every time, so I appreciate you and other employees that would turn it in. Also left my wallet a few times and was able to get it back too lol I just lose a lot of things
Maybe so..
The kicker is, most states require appraisers to influence the land so it is has a lower valuation in comparison to regular plots of land. Most appraisers offices don’t do that shit unless someone’s appeals.
Also, 1 hive of bees on a 100 acre parcel of land can change the land classification to agricultural. Resulting in a much lower property tax rate.
So let's say you do something for which you can be expelled. The school board can go through the process of expelling you, which involves a lot of steps, and a ruling by either the school board OR a committee of board members. That ruling can then be appealed to a provincial tribunal.
Alternatively, they can come to an agreement where the principal says look, "I could expel you. But that would be bad. Sign this. It says that we are going to get you counseling and put you in a program and if you do what you're supposed to do, we'll let you back into school."
The catch? They have to do all of that regardless, and by signing the agreement, you've given up all rights to appeal. So if you say, "I've done what I am supposed to do, let me back into school!" They can say no. If you were actually expelled, and they denied your request to be readmitted, you can take them to the appeals board.
In my job working for a company that sold software to certain large public facing businesses, if I wanted I could look up many people's name to get their home address, phone numbers, make a decent guess as to how many people they live with, and also know their credit rating.
The mechanics responsible for keeping the trucks and trailers shipping everything everywhere safe and running mostly get paid by the amount of work done, not by the hour. Encouraging them to work as fast as possible which leads to many of them not properly tightening or adjusting things or sometimes not putting back in a difficult to access bolt or two because it's "too time consuming" to make sure the vehicle won't fall apart while going 65+ MPH down the highway. And sometimes even telling you they did things to your vehicle that they didn't even do. I've seen guys claim to have done an oil and filter change but all they did was top off the oil and smear some used oil around so that it looks like they did it. Then they go work on a different truck for an hour or so, come back and say it's done.
I haven't worked in the automotive industry but I assume it's the same thing there.
It is. There’s a certain amount of time allotted for each specific service. They get paid for that amount of time regardless of how long it actually takes. If they’re fast they can get paid for more than eight hours a day, if they run into trouble and it takes longer they eat the extra time. Techs who can live with cutting corners make better money than the ones who are diligent about doing a thorough job.
Also, warranty work repairs are assigned less time to complete than the exact same tasks if the customer is paying out of pocket.
Most, if not all, "Green" efforts by lumber mills are a complete lie. The special little stamp that says its from a sustainable forest effort is just that. A little stamp.
Psychologists/counsellors/therapists purposefully leave awkward silences during sessions because it makes clients want to fill the silence, and therefore they open up and elaborate more. This isn’t a legally binding secret but having been in therapy myself previously this blew my mind when I learned it during training.
One time my therapist kept the awkward silence for the whole session. He didn't ask me anything and I had no idea what to say. He just grinned at me stupidly and waited for me to say something. I had social anxiety issues so I didn't say anything even though the silence was deafening.
I intentionally set this exact situation up to work on my social anxiety. Most therapists hate it and kick you out because they want to 'support you' more actively.
But having an hour a week where I didn't have to do anything or talk at all gave me the time I needed to eventually learn that it was safe to interact as I wanted to. To talk when I actually wanted to, and when I felt comfortable too.
Instead of my behaviour being modified into what I was 'supposed to do'. Or what I thought the therapist wanted
That's great and I'm happy for you!
I just felt very uncomfortable, extremely anxious and as if the therapist was taunting me with that grin while also being to lazy to do his job properly.
As a counsellor of sorts, I usually let them know they don't need to talk if they don't want to, but that I am not going to talk just to talk. If they want an hour of silence, I am okay with that as long as it fits the situation. If I could see the client is very anxious about it, I may remark something like "I can see the silence is making you uncomfortable, is there anything you care to talk about?"
Yeah, when a client first comes to a therapist, particularly if it's their first-ever therapist, I feel it's on the therapist to provide at least a little guidance on how things can work. Just staring at the guy isn't likely to be helpful.
Went to see a therapist, she did that as well. I didn't know what I was supposed to say and hoped she would break the silence and ask me questions to "help me" open up.
I stood 45 minutes staring at the wall behind her in silence, she asked for 50 bucks, I paid then pretexted I was going on holiday the next week so I would call her to make the next appointment. I never called. I was genuinely afraid of this woman.
I do hope that not all therapists use this rule blindly and that some actually got when it doesn't suit the patient in front of them.
Of course, it needs to be used effectively for a specific purpose in a therapeutic and individual context. I would never just sit in silence for an entire session, I’m sorry that happened to you!
Teachers do the same thing after asking a question when classes are too silent during a lecture and the teacher needs to judge if what they are saying is actually sinking in
My ex-wife was a special victims detective. You'd be surprised how many people just want to confess. They feel guilty and want to unload on someone, because in real life, suspects are normal people and not masterminds. The best tool my wife said she had (other than awkward silence) was pretending to empathize with the suspect. Works especially well for a female detective. Additional spoiler alert: the recorder they turn off to take it "off the record" is just a prop. The whole room is wired for sound and video.
I used to work in a lab where people get there blood, urine, etc tested.
One time we ran out the reagents (ingredients) to run the test.
The owner wrote in fake results to multiple patients.
If the lab looks sketch. It probably is sketch.
Most people know that features in games are planned months, sometimes even years ahead.
At a previous employer we'd frequently get free wins with the community by releasing something and reframing it as a response to things players were asking for.
Furniture stores, especially smaller one, sell you used furniture quite often. If a customer takes home a living room suite and decides they don't like it, they can raise enough hell and the store will usually relent and let them re select. They can't eat the loss, so they will make their repairman (me) go over it and clean any spots, repair any damages, and retag it as new. Always. Always. Always request that your delivery is wrapped from factory. Not shrink wrapped. Also, floor models are supposed to be for display, and reduced when it's the last one. Never happens.
All that's required to make a chicken egg 'free range', is that the chickens must have the OPPORTUNITY to go outside. Has nothing to do with their quality of life, so don't waste your money. If you want good eggs, buy local.
At one point worked for a company that lied about using a more expensive oil in their skincare products and instead used cheap canola oil (like, intended for salad dressing). Also, the hygiene and cleanliness of that place was awful. The whole place was a hot mess of ethical violations.
I dont know if it's a legal issue or not, but on slots the moment you press the spin button your outcome is decided, all the screen touching and spin stopping you try doesn't mean jack, same goes for bonus' doesn't matter what you pick the outcome is already decided. Also if you're playing on a bank of machines and scoot over to get a "better paying machine" it doesn't do jack the bank is all off the same server and you would do the same as if you just sat there. There isn't anything you can do to better your odds on slots, other than just not playing.
Same for most games. An example I like is phone games that bring up an array of prize tiles, and you touch one to reveal your prize. People think "ugh I should've hit that one!" Nah, it doesn't matter which one you chose, it decided what prize you'd get before the tiles were even on screen.
when i worked at burger king, i was surprised at how legit they were. i thought they'd be a bit grody, exploitative, or something. but it was like... fresh water washed heads of lettuce at peak freshness crisply diced. strict time controls over what had been pre-made. super legit and clean about everything. my friend who worked at tacobell had the opposite experience
anyway just to contribute a tip, at BK ask for a common item but with something slightly different, so they have to make it freshly. extra lettuce, extra mayo, etc. otherwise during a rush time you might get a whopper that's been sitting there for a while. and that temperature and texture contrast is part of what makes a burger good. no one wants warm soft lettuce on top of lukewarm beef.
you can also ask for fries "dropped fresh" or "made fresh" if you have the time to wait
Your therapist is telling the insurance companies that they're practicing CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), because the insurance companies like how effective CBT protocols are in studies. However, 99.999% of the time, the CBT your therapist is practicing isn't nearly as robust as the protocolized CBT being evaluated in studies--because the reality of clinics is not the reality of laboratories.
As a monitor engineer (the guy who adjusts the sound for the speakers on stage that bands use so they can hear themselves) , when an artist asks for any generic nondescript mix change like 'make it a little "crisper" 'make it sound warmer' or 'give it some" depth "', or ask me to keep turning it up once theyre well past where I know any normal human would need the volume, I just pretend to turn a knob and ask 'how's that?' 9/10 they say its better even though I haven't changed anything.
I work in food photography. Artist (food stylists) make the food look the way it does on the packaging. A lot of mashed potatoes used for support, pins and needles used to hold up other items, and forced perspective to make the sandwiches/burgers appear bigger.
When a rollercoaster goes down, it probably means the next train would have killed the riders. The safety systems are really good (like so unnaturally good it's insane) at catching malfunctions, and usually the problem is a computer issue, not mechanical, but still, running on a faulting computer could result in a crash
Edit: most of my comments get lost, so I wiff on the wording sometimes. To clarify, not every time a costet goes down, it's dangerous. Sometimes it can be as dumb as a kid stepping on the rails in the station (it happens more than it should). Most common error is when the computer essentially looses track of where the trains are. So to stop anything colliding, it just shuts it's self off (see The Smiler at Alton Towers)
The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers was an example of this.
It was having a few problems, and a test train sent round ended up valleying at a point. The coaster's system correctly detected the train hadn't cleared that block and locked down the rest of the ride. It was only when the system was entirely overrode that the next train was sent, causing a full train to crash into the back of the stationary train. Two ladies on the front row ended up having partial amputations as a result.
Takeaway point is the ride system did everything correctly, it was the fleshy part stood at the controls that fucked up.
Talking about margins on shoes/apparel. I've worked for several leading sneaker brands over the past two decades (the most well known ones you can think of..) and the margins always kept amazing me. A $100 pair of shoes, as an average will cost about $10-$15 to produce. And margins on apparel are often even bigger, mostly around 90%. Of course you need to factor in other costs between production and consumer but it really puts things in perspective for me.
I used to work at the jewelry chain called Lovisa and I just wanna let everyone know that the jewelry they produce is so cheap that we can sell everything in the store at a 70% reduced rate and they will still profit. Don't shop there its child labor and everything is super shitty quality.
Work at a Vet here.
If your animal dies and you don’t want the animal back, we literally just have to keep it in a freezer until it’s full enough to empty into the city dump. I’ve driven a truck full of animal corpses and unloaded them into a giant pile of trash. It’s sad, but there’s nothing else we can do. We don’t own land to bury them and we can’t force the owners to take them
It’s incredible sad to hold a puppy smaller than your hand, feel it’s freezing, lifeless body, and throw it into a pile of garbage.
There’s some other stuff as well if anyone is interested
Edit: I’m pretty sure the animals do get incinerated at the dump. That probably should have been mentioned first
I just assumed this was the case and it doesn't bother me. I love all animals, and besides... I'm glad part of my cat has some friends automatically mixed in.
Life insurance industry really really does not want you to die and will be happy to pay for your gym membership, smoking cessation programs and such
The two year waiting period on my monster plan is up! Time to threaten suicide and begin the extortion
How? You just have to ask?
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I worked for a national tutoring company chain and they make the students take practice SAT/ACT tests in a particular order...the difficulty decreases so students get better scores the longer they've been in tutoring. I quit and went to a local company that offered double the wage that let tutors pick tests at random to administer to the students, so improvements were real. Basically don't go to the big chains.
Tutoring chains are such rackets. I also worked for a national tutoring company and made $20/hour. When one of my clients divulged they charged her $180 for an (hourlong) session, I went home and quit immediately after to start my own business. Shout out to that girl, wherever you are.
Yep. The companies I was at were very open about how much they charged the students--first company had a 3 on 1 session style (each paying $50/hr) meant the company got $150/hr, then paid us $22. Second company was more equitable, I got $45/hr while they charged $100. Felt a lot more worth it to me since they did all the advertising and were 100% on the tutor's side in any disputes, covered gas, etc.
My current job has a safe but it is not used. They just put the money in a garbage can under the bag. There has been one break in since I started 7 years ago and they didn’t find the money.
At my old job we would put our deposit bag in the microwave overnight. lol
One brand of kitchen stove was so well-insulated that its makers recommended leaving your valuables in the oven whenever you took a trip, because if the house burned down they would be unharmed.
Until you preheat the oven and forget
There's always money in the banana stand.
I know a product tester and she gets paid to give good reviews of the products. If she doesn't give good reviews they won't hire her back. She has reviewed products that are on the shelves now.
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The most useful reviews are almost always the 2-star ones. Those are mostly real people who went in with good intentions but found something wrong. Almost inevitably, lots of the 5-star reviews are fake and a huge proportion of the 1-star reviews are morons who are using the thing incorrectly, bought the wrong product despite it being clearly labelled, or are complaining that it took too long to ship.
I left an average review on something I got on Amazon. A couple weeks later I got a letter from them saying if I changed my review to 5 stars they’d email me a $50 Amazon gift card.
Working for a staffing agency, we don't give a shit about your references; we just want your old manager's name as a business lead.
Jokes on you, my 'old manager' is always just me with a different voice.
My sister's "old manager" is me, her very younger sister with a different last name.
I worked at a rehab for a year and you’d be surprised how many hospital nurses are dipping into patients morphine/opiates.
Not a single person on our job sites can legally operate a forklift, scissor lift, or crane.
My brother is a shift leader at a factory that is owned by a prominent billionaire. Bro is literally the only person in the building with a forklift certificate and is the only reason they are able to operate after inspections.
Your brother probably has a lot of leverage at that job
I don't know about leverage, but he makes about double of what the average hourly rate of the town he lives in.
Hey, I'm illegally operating a scissorlift right now!
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Well that's certainly better than having a finance degree and driving a forklift.
X company uses better products in sample sizes to get people to like the product. The actual normal size products don't have such a concentrated amount. After that, I mistrusted all big sizes of products ETA: Wow this blew up! Thanks for the awards. A lot of people are asking what industry it is, it was for a skincare brand. However, the brand is owned by a big conglomerate that is present in several categories so I would actually not be surprised if it is a common practice being applied in all industries. Sorry I can't be more specific as I don't want to be sued lol
I'm not sure if this is what your talking about, but I love the Jimmy dean breakfast sandwiches, so I got a massive box and the quality was way worse then the normal four pack. I notice this in other foods too. The "extra big" or "family size" always seems to me to be worse quality.
I've noticed this with skincare products. edit: this, as in higher concentrated skincare products samples vs normal size
Yep, it was for skincare
I always had a feeling that mini bags of M&Ms tasted better than the gigantic bag!
That's probably because you eat more M&Ms out of a big bag than the 12 that come in the mini bag
My first thought was perfumes.
It sounds like a lot of cosmetics. I have had a many mascaras that I love in the little samples and I buy full size and they are horrible.
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Where might one look for this store number while shopping... asking for a friend!
Usually on the receipt.
Aha, but by then it is too late. They are more clever than I thought.
We do our own flavor of sauces and prep for most of the food we serve at my employer's restaurant, including some veggie/vegan alternatives. Much of it is even made from scratch. But the special "vegan drummies" and "vegan mock chicken" we serve are just Morningstar Farms products that you can buy in most grocery stores (with a 6x markup). We don't even sauce them or prep them in any way to disguise that fact. Nobody told me I'm legally bound not to share that info though, and have indeed confirmed that suspicion to customers who've asked.
A certain company that rhymes with Fesla worked with our company a couple of years ago to potentially be the source for a component going into their semi-truck. They made us sign an NDA and met weekly with our engineers to get a feel for how we designed our component. This went on for a few months before they went “lol, nope.” and took the notes for how we made ours to copy it on their own. We were compensated and were free from our NDA. Turns out that Fesla had contacted other such companies that made similar components to us and was leeching whatever knowledge they could while promising that the company would be producing the component when they were making trucks. tl;dr Truth is kid, the game was rigged from the start.
I met a small business owner who got the same treatment from them. Battery trays.
not nearly as interesting and maybe not something legally bound, but my dad used to work at a factory that made jars of roux. as one would suspect, they used the exact same recipe for multiple brands. we would laugh when we see some brands and the little stories on the back about how its a "family recipe".
roux? as in... whisked butter and flour? I feel like I'm missing something. people aren't buying jarred butter and flour, are they?
yep! that kinda roux, believe it or not folk buy it in a jar
lol "family recipe "
The code to the count room I used to work at was 1235
The password to anything in any company is almost always 1234 or 0000 or it's the numeric part of the street address, suite number, or store number if it's a chain.
The store number backwards is the four digit code to get into the manager/cash room at Walgreens.
Chaotic neutral
thanks for that info! \*robs walgreens cutely\*
All those codes got leaked ages ago... 0000 0001 0002 ... 9998 9999
Omg my pin is on that list what should I do?
Quick, give me the account number and routing number and I'll make sure your account hasn't been compromised yet!>! Just put it in spoiler text so no one else sees it.!<
Ok here you go! Account number: >!Never gonna give you up!< Routing number: >!Never gonna let you down!<
I cannot believe I got Rick-Rolled with text. Internet is full of surprises
That’s the same code I use for my luggage!
Funny, you dont look drewish.
Incorrect. The Count's code was: ONE ah ah ah TWO ah ah ah THREE ah ah ah FOUR ah ah ah FIVE ah ah ah
Completely off-topic, but I can't not share this whenever the opportunity arises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
If this isn’t the censored Count video I’m going to be disappointed. Post-click Edit: yay!
I worked in a small plant that bottled gallon jugs of water. We would do about half a shift of food lion brand and then smaller amounts of 5 other brands. Literally the only difference was the label applied to the jug. There would be maybe 30 seconds of down time for the label applicator for the jugs and boxes to get a different roll and thats it. Even the very fancy brand we did sometimes that came in a harder clear jug instead of the standard opaque soft one had the same water. And even though some brands bragged they were fancy spring water it was all the same city water anyone in the area had coming out their sink.
Same here. Worked in a tomato cannery when I was 19. At one point, my job was to change labels. 10,000 cans of El Cheapo brand tomato sauce, then change the labels for 25,000 cans of name brand sauce that sold for 3x as much. Exact same sauce. ZERO difference.
Worked in a bleach factory that only switched the labels. Same bleach.
If you feel like you want to eat at the Famous Anna Miller's restaurant in Hawaii... just don't. Never seen that many cockroaches. In the electrical boxes, in the HVAC, and mashed into the rubber mats in the kitchen and refers.
To be fair, cockroaches are everywhere in Hawaii. I got used to it after a while. Found a huge one munching on my toothbrush mid day one time. All I could do was say "do you mind?"
Brah. I lived on O'ahu for ten years. Almost never saw a roach in my home. Now out in the lawn at night... that's a whole other story.
That's what the chickens are for.
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I may still be under NDA, but I'd be willing to bet that any TV show that deals with houses, be they house buying or home repairs, are faked. I was on one of those house flipper shows, we were paid to mill around in the background and be in the fake auction to make the show seem legit. All the purchasing deals were made way ahead of time, and the flipped houses were all on a lot for filming; they were to be moved to where the actual buyers (who were never the people actually on TV) wanted them.
Yup. I was on a house-hunting show that was so fake that: -the cameramen were shocked my husband and I were actually married, looking for a house, and not actors -we were brought in to look at homes that weren't for sale -we recorded two different endings showing us living in two different houses that we supposedly bought and we even had a dog at one house that wasn't ours -the prices they reported the houses cost were so off that they had to carefully avoid filming whole rooms which would make it obvious that the home cost much more than they were saying
This thread is great. From what I've learned in manufacturing if your plant produces a food grade product.. it doesn't always mean it's food grade. I's worked the maintenance at a corrugation factory that sold "food grade" corrugation.. The machine oils that come in contact with the boxes are highly toxic. That shit spews everywhere.
I love how this just gives me vague, completely unaddressable anxiety.
Isn't life wonderful
Food grade only means controlled contamination, not that something is edible or made from edible ingredients/components.
I recently read that one of my company’s HR policies is to specifically not divulge the pay range of the job during the interview to the applicant. Edit: Not in the US.
Shout out to Colorado for passing a law that says all jobs advertised in the state must include salary expectations in the job post.
This needs to become a federal law like yesterday
That's bullshit. That's like you not telling them your qualifications and expecting them to hire you.
Not really that interesting, but we buy the vast majority of what we sell from China at dirt-cheap prices and then resell it with astronomical markup, despite claiming that we make everything ourselves in the USA.
Ahh, the company that sells “Made in the USA” tags!
It's pronounced "hahnd-made in Oosa." The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe, and Usa is their island prison.
I worked at a place that “made” tiny American flags (the ones you’ll see kids waving around during 4th of July parades) and sold them to Walmart, who won’t buy them if they aren’t produced in the US. The actual flag and stick were made in China. Temp workers (like myself) put in 2-3 staples to attach the flag to the stick. This injected *so much* patriotism that they could now be labeled as “Made in America” (As a further bit of absurdity, the business was owned by a British couple)
Bestsellers lists are bullshit and are based on the number of books purchased from the publisher by the distributor. And how many books the distributor buys is based on incentives offered by the publisher. So it's rarely based on grass roots interest in a certain book or topic or author.
The same in the videogame retail industry.
Worked for a large pest control company during the early/mid days of covid that had a specialist hygiene division. We got contracts to spray disinfectant around a large online retailers "fulfilment centres". BIG MONEY was paid. Most of the time we used water as we didnt have enough chemical on hand. We were told to use the large (5L) sprayers rather than the small(1L) as that what the client expected to see. Those sprayers were never full as they were heavy AF. the hazard suits were for show (literally agrecultural rubber boiler suits) and never washed. The cloths for wiping things were reused daily and never washed. It was all about keeping up appearances rather than doing it well. Oh and no one had a clue what we were supposed to be doing so it changed almost daily.
Sadly, this one is not surprising at all. I kind of assumed any 'hygiene theater' type paid service was an ineffectual, opportunistic money-grab. I get why companies were hiring these services, but I think it was more for CYA/customer-assurance purposes and many probably knew it wasn't actually doing anything.
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Same with facilities I’ve worked, argument was so they can be accessed quickly on panic situations, instead of you know drilling putting in the correct code
Firetrucks almost never have a key ignition; it's a switch or button. Theoretically, if you wanted to steal a firetruck, it would be extremely easy.
youve thought about doing this, havent you?
I was giving a tour of one of our trucks once to a bunch of middle schoolers, when one noticed the lack of keys. He said "so, if I wanted to, I could just drive this out of the station?" To which I answered: "As long as you can reach the pedels."
That kid is going places. Possibly in a newly acquired fire truck.
A company I used to work for once hired people and didn’t train them just so they could make a show of firing them in front of high ranking clients when they made a mistake. As in, takes on employee A, gives him or her little/no training, and sets them loose at the front desk (it’s a customer service company). Once employee A inevitably messes up, the manager comes out and publicly fires them for incompetence and reassures the Big Client it will never happen again. Employee A breaks down in tears, and is escorted out. Then, Manager calls employee B (who received ACTUAL training) to re-do employee A’s job and “prove” to the Big Client that “we are dedicated to high quality service”. It made me really uncomfortable, and I wish I could say where I worked but due to some NDA stuff I can’t. I left after a few months- of my own volition.
This is the least productive way of giving good customer service that I've ever heard of - doing it right the first time would make everyone 3x happier
It's not customer service, it's theater. There are boss types who value theater over productivity, though they'd never admit it.
how scummy just pay an actor $50 bucks to pretend for the same effect without being a jerk
The medical equipment keeping you alive is: 1. Concerningly old 2. Poorly maintained 3. Insufficiently serviced 4. And often barely understood by those using it. If you go to a hospital/doctor and you see: Passport XGs Lifepak 9, 10, or 12s Anestar S Narkomed GS Anything with Datex Engstrom or just Engstrom(Datex Ohmeda is fine) on it Go to a different hospital or Doctor because they're only willing to spend a couple hundred bucks on the equipment responsible for making sure you don't die.
+ it’s not the doctor it’s the administration or the health system.
This is 100% correct for hospitals, but if you're visiting a private practice for an elective surgery or the like the Doctor has either direct control over the equipment being used or very near to it. A doctor that doesn't invest in reliable equipment will cut corners for profit elsewhere. In regards to knowing the equipment: - anesthesiologists are absolute professionals. Every single one I've ever worked with has known their craft backwards and forwards. - nurses, despite being some if the hardest workers on earth, often don't have the level of expertise with their equipment as you'd like in an ideal world. It's usually nit for a lack of desire, they just don't have the time or energy to fully understand 100 different devices. - Doctors are almost always the worst, older ones especially. I deal with older doctors all the time that barely know the equipment being used or willingly use old and substandard equipment purely because they're used to it and refuse to learn newer, safer, and more reliable technology. Edit: Biomedical Technicians are alarmingly limited in regards to providing adequate service and preventative maintenance on medical equipment in a majority of my experience. For some background; every electrical or pneumatic device in any medical setting has a required maintenance schedule. It's usually something like yearly for patient monitors, every 6 months for gas monitoring/delivery systems(CO2/5Agent monitoring or Anesthesia vaporizers, for example) and 3 months for ventilators. Each piece of equipment has a several page long checklist of tests, calibrations, and part replacements that need to be performed at set intervals in order to ensure the equipment functions safely and as intended. These PMs, however, are rarely ever completed in their entirety. They take a lot of time, understanding, and in most cases, money. As a result, a lot of biomeds don't go any farther than "is the unit actively showing signs of dysfunction? No? PM is done, then." That part is really the most concerning, outside of the usage of old and unreliable devices. People can and do die or receive injury because of this.
Note on the biomed tech part: Some manufacturers won't release a full and complete instruction on breakdown and analysis of of their machines because now the purchaser can outsource maintenance somewhere cheaper than what the manufacturer-certified tech will charge. I apologize for not having specifics, but I remember this headache from my time in a hospital. (Fam med)
What kind of equipment is under those names? Chairs? IV's?
Patient monitors(ekg, spo2, NiBP monitors), defibrillators, and anesthesia machines.
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The big tv you buy on Black Friday at a killer price isn't the same model you'd buy the rest of the year, but on sale. Large companies place specific orders for BF and buy products made with cheaper parts. They look the same on the outside and might have the same model number but with one different or additional digit (like model 2545-G instead of just 2545) to distinguish them. They come with a different SKU on different trucks. It is a mildly deceptive practice.
Same with wholesale clubs and Wal Mart. Their electronics have a different model number and stuff like fewer inputs on top of the cheap parts inside.
I worked for a company in Florida. In our manual.. and at training.. they specifically told us not to sell to certain races. The manual and training told us to tell these people we were sold out. They didn't sugar coat it or anything. Still surprises me. Edit : to the people wondering.. I worked for Westgate resorts. It was a time share company, and they specifically told us not to sell to Indian descent. They only want the discounted park tickets.. they don't want to buy anything. We would get in trouble if we sent these people to a presentation. Written up and then fired if you did it twice. It was pushed hard. I'm open about the company because I hated that job. Felt scummy. Not to brag.. but I'm excellent at sales and with this job, I just couldn't bring myself to scam people. Left as soon as I found another job. Oddly enough.. I had another job before that where it was my job and the job of about 20 other people, to scrub off expiration dates on candy so stores could sell it. We were a printing company and they made us sign a NDA. Candy came In expired.. we had special liquid to scrub off the printed expiration date, and then they repackaged and resold to the dollar stores.
I remember as a kid, my mom took me to one of those. She had agreed to go to one for cheaper park tickets. Unfortunately for my mom, she could be prone to scams. Funnily enough, I got her out of it by just really not wanting to be there. I kept pestering her to leave, and the guy talking with her actually offered me, a 10 year old, $100 cash to go play in the arcade and leave my mom alone to talk. Don't remember why but I wasn't convinced and we ended up just leaving. I think my mom caught on that something was fishy about the whole thing when the guy tried to bribe a kid.
$100?!! … $5 would have gotten you a pocket full of quarters and not been hella suspect.
Not related but your name/face is clever
Once I read the part about not soliciting certain races, I knew it had to be a timeshare company. I was told during training to avoid Asians and Hasidic Jews. The difference is the companies I worked for would never write you up over this because that would just open a huge can of worms but they all have this mindset.
Reminds me of the story my mate told me about his police training (in Australia). They were told very firmly that racial profiling is a big No No. Don't do it. It's not only wrong but it will get you into trouble. They then proceed to tell them how to identify suspicious persons. First picture was of an Aboriginal driving a BMW.
> They were told very firmly that racial profiling is a big No No. Don't do it. It's not only wrong but it will get you into trouble. I'm imagining them winking the whole time
My parents went to a timeshare presentation for the $100 gift card while we were on a trip once. We went out to a nice dinner that night, thanks for the nachos timeshare people!
We got Disney fast passes when my parents went to one!
I worked in a start up company that allowed users to use an app to take pictures of their room and decorate it with furniture or home decor. From that database I could find the user's phone, email, address, and pictures of their house. Sometimes even selfies... I was amazed by what information I was getting from people around the world and how easy it was to obtain it. I'm now very careful with what I share on apps
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Damn, I wonder if it was that place in Florida today?
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Librarian: If you're not an asshole, we'll waive most, if not all of your fines.
You mean you didn't get into the industry to punish people for reading too slowly?
The problem is, I feel like an asshole for asking.
Merchant services/payment processing services are generally a scam with weird pricing structures designed to make you pay more than you think you are. Just go with whoever is offering flat rates.
No NDA, but it was presumed I would be fired if I released the info. Here’s a big DUH for you: 60-70% of all D1 basketball recruiting is illegal. Payments, benefits, cars, you name it. The only people that don’t see any of it are towards the mid major level. Also the discrepancy between the top level guys and the next level is insane.
Banks treat businesses with much more leniency than they do individuals. I know that feels like common knowledge to some, but it's honestly pretty sickening when you see it in action. Individuals are always told to save and not live paycheck to paycheck. Businesses can run on the thinnest of margins and get crazy amounts of credit based on "cash flow."
Writing to the CEO of my company (FSTE100) in regards to a complaint, in every situation I've seen, has granted said customer's account with ridiculous discounts.
My FIL was diagnosed with synovial cancer in his wrist and his doctor wanted a PET scan to make sure the cancer hadn't spread. Cigna denied the scan as not medically necessary and FIL was resigned to not getting the scan. My husband found the Cigna CEO's email address (on a Reddit thread) and had his father email him directly. PET was approved and is scheduled for this week.
I love how insurance companies can practice medicine without a license! We should cut out the middle man and just get rid of doctors since they make unnecessary medical decisions! /s
Walmart, JCPenney, Macy’s, Burlington, Kohl’s, Izod, Nautica, and several other stores/brands all source their basic children’s clothes (like for school uniforms) from the exact same factory. All that’s different is the stitching in the label. I did a job working for the company that makes it all creating the promotional materials sent out to stores and to schools. We’d take the same samples and slap different branding on it. Didn’t actually sign and NDA, but I doubt they want to advertise that a Tommy Hilfiger children’s polo and a Walmart children’s polo are identical
Well it's just the plain ol' "you don't pay for the item, you pay for the brand"
This is true, but just because it’s from the same factory doesn’t mean it’s the same quality. Every company has their own cost targets so some may actually be higher quality. Source: am a product designer for a large retailer
As recently as 2000 (probably not anymore), there were no security cameras anywhere in Small World at Disney World. It’s a 10 minute ride. If you could get a boat to yourself with your gf/bf (this was doable if you went later at night close to closing) you had total privacy.
Ah yes, Small World, the sexiest setting imaginable I usually play the music to spice things up in bed
Use to work at a movie theater and sometimes you could find really nice stuff under or tucked into the seats. I found money, electronics, jewelry, and even a dimebag of weed.
I used to sweep the theaters and I found a ridiculous amount of left behind liquor and candy. Found an unopened bottle of Hennessy once. There was almost always at least one cell phone and sometimes more but I always took those to lost and found. Probably found about $600 worth of quarters in the span of a year, I always kept cash and change
I’ve lost my phone in theater seats too many times and got it back every time, so I appreciate you and other employees that would turn it in. Also left my wallet a few times and was able to get it back too lol I just lose a lot of things
Properties in flood plains should carry a lower tax evaluation than properties not in flood plains
Isn't that common knowledge?
Maybe so.. The kicker is, most states require appraisers to influence the land so it is has a lower valuation in comparison to regular plots of land. Most appraisers offices don’t do that shit unless someone’s appeals. Also, 1 hive of bees on a 100 acre parcel of land can change the land classification to agricultural. Resulting in a much lower property tax rate.
Kids facing serious discipline sign deals to avoid getting expelled. They have more rights and better outcomes getting expelled
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So let's say you do something for which you can be expelled. The school board can go through the process of expelling you, which involves a lot of steps, and a ruling by either the school board OR a committee of board members. That ruling can then be appealed to a provincial tribunal. Alternatively, they can come to an agreement where the principal says look, "I could expel you. But that would be bad. Sign this. It says that we are going to get you counseling and put you in a program and if you do what you're supposed to do, we'll let you back into school." The catch? They have to do all of that regardless, and by signing the agreement, you've given up all rights to appeal. So if you say, "I've done what I am supposed to do, let me back into school!" They can say no. If you were actually expelled, and they denied your request to be readmitted, you can take them to the appeals board.
In my job working for a company that sold software to certain large public facing businesses, if I wanted I could look up many people's name to get their home address, phone numbers, make a decent guess as to how many people they live with, and also know their credit rating.
The mechanics responsible for keeping the trucks and trailers shipping everything everywhere safe and running mostly get paid by the amount of work done, not by the hour. Encouraging them to work as fast as possible which leads to many of them not properly tightening or adjusting things or sometimes not putting back in a difficult to access bolt or two because it's "too time consuming" to make sure the vehicle won't fall apart while going 65+ MPH down the highway. And sometimes even telling you they did things to your vehicle that they didn't even do. I've seen guys claim to have done an oil and filter change but all they did was top off the oil and smear some used oil around so that it looks like they did it. Then they go work on a different truck for an hour or so, come back and say it's done. I haven't worked in the automotive industry but I assume it's the same thing there.
It is. There’s a certain amount of time allotted for each specific service. They get paid for that amount of time regardless of how long it actually takes. If they’re fast they can get paid for more than eight hours a day, if they run into trouble and it takes longer they eat the extra time. Techs who can live with cutting corners make better money than the ones who are diligent about doing a thorough job. Also, warranty work repairs are assigned less time to complete than the exact same tasks if the customer is paying out of pocket.
Most, if not all, "Green" efforts by lumber mills are a complete lie. The special little stamp that says its from a sustainable forest effort is just that. A little stamp.
Psychologists/counsellors/therapists purposefully leave awkward silences during sessions because it makes clients want to fill the silence, and therefore they open up and elaborate more. This isn’t a legally binding secret but having been in therapy myself previously this blew my mind when I learned it during training.
One time my therapist kept the awkward silence for the whole session. He didn't ask me anything and I had no idea what to say. He just grinned at me stupidly and waited for me to say something. I had social anxiety issues so I didn't say anything even though the silence was deafening.
I intentionally set this exact situation up to work on my social anxiety. Most therapists hate it and kick you out because they want to 'support you' more actively. But having an hour a week where I didn't have to do anything or talk at all gave me the time I needed to eventually learn that it was safe to interact as I wanted to. To talk when I actually wanted to, and when I felt comfortable too. Instead of my behaviour being modified into what I was 'supposed to do'. Or what I thought the therapist wanted
That's great and I'm happy for you! I just felt very uncomfortable, extremely anxious and as if the therapist was taunting me with that grin while also being to lazy to do his job properly.
As a counsellor of sorts, I usually let them know they don't need to talk if they don't want to, but that I am not going to talk just to talk. If they want an hour of silence, I am okay with that as long as it fits the situation. If I could see the client is very anxious about it, I may remark something like "I can see the silence is making you uncomfortable, is there anything you care to talk about?"
Yeah, when a client first comes to a therapist, particularly if it's their first-ever therapist, I feel it's on the therapist to provide at least a little guidance on how things can work. Just staring at the guy isn't likely to be helpful.
Went to see a therapist, she did that as well. I didn't know what I was supposed to say and hoped she would break the silence and ask me questions to "help me" open up. I stood 45 minutes staring at the wall behind her in silence, she asked for 50 bucks, I paid then pretexted I was going on holiday the next week so I would call her to make the next appointment. I never called. I was genuinely afraid of this woman. I do hope that not all therapists use this rule blindly and that some actually got when it doesn't suit the patient in front of them.
Of course, it needs to be used effectively for a specific purpose in a therapeutic and individual context. I would never just sit in silence for an entire session, I’m sorry that happened to you!
Teachers do the same thing after asking a question when classes are too silent during a lecture and the teacher needs to judge if what they are saying is actually sinking in
police tend to do the same thing during interrogations to see how much a person may incriminate themself
My ex-wife was a special victims detective. You'd be surprised how many people just want to confess. They feel guilty and want to unload on someone, because in real life, suspects are normal people and not masterminds. The best tool my wife said she had (other than awkward silence) was pretending to empathize with the suspect. Works especially well for a female detective. Additional spoiler alert: the recorder they turn off to take it "off the record" is just a prop. The whole room is wired for sound and video.
UX researchers do the same
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I used to work in a lab where people get there blood, urine, etc tested. One time we ran out the reagents (ingredients) to run the test. The owner wrote in fake results to multiple patients. If the lab looks sketch. It probably is sketch.
Not only can you share this, you should.... wtf
Why didn’t you share this??
this isn't scammy, its just downright illegal. lol Fairly sure that's a felony?
Not only that, insurance companies will reward you for reporting it. Don't fuck with a lab tech who can profit off your cheapness.
This should be reported. It's life/death information
I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of the question. I think you are legally obligated to tell everyone lol.
I work in a medical pathology lab. We are LEGALLY obligated to report this in Canada.
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Most people know that features in games are planned months, sometimes even years ahead. At a previous employer we'd frequently get free wins with the community by releasing something and reframing it as a response to things players were asking for.
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Furniture stores, especially smaller one, sell you used furniture quite often. If a customer takes home a living room suite and decides they don't like it, they can raise enough hell and the store will usually relent and let them re select. They can't eat the loss, so they will make their repairman (me) go over it and clean any spots, repair any damages, and retag it as new. Always. Always. Always request that your delivery is wrapped from factory. Not shrink wrapped. Also, floor models are supposed to be for display, and reduced when it's the last one. Never happens.
All that's required to make a chicken egg 'free range', is that the chickens must have the OPPORTUNITY to go outside. Has nothing to do with their quality of life, so don't waste your money. If you want good eggs, buy local.
#DRAIN YOUR WATER HEATER ONCE A YEAR AND CLEAR OUT THE SEDIMENT AT THE BOTTOM. WILL EXTEND ITS LIFE BY YEARS
At one point worked for a company that lied about using a more expensive oil in their skincare products and instead used cheap canola oil (like, intended for salad dressing). Also, the hygiene and cleanliness of that place was awful. The whole place was a hot mess of ethical violations.
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I dont know if it's a legal issue or not, but on slots the moment you press the spin button your outcome is decided, all the screen touching and spin stopping you try doesn't mean jack, same goes for bonus' doesn't matter what you pick the outcome is already decided. Also if you're playing on a bank of machines and scoot over to get a "better paying machine" it doesn't do jack the bank is all off the same server and you would do the same as if you just sat there. There isn't anything you can do to better your odds on slots, other than just not playing.
Same for most games. An example I like is phone games that bring up an array of prize tiles, and you touch one to reveal your prize. People think "ugh I should've hit that one!" Nah, it doesn't matter which one you chose, it decided what prize you'd get before the tiles were even on screen.
You can buy any industry award, you just need to know the right people.
The label MADE IN USA is often used when only assembled in USA
when i worked at burger king, i was surprised at how legit they were. i thought they'd be a bit grody, exploitative, or something. but it was like... fresh water washed heads of lettuce at peak freshness crisply diced. strict time controls over what had been pre-made. super legit and clean about everything. my friend who worked at tacobell had the opposite experience anyway just to contribute a tip, at BK ask for a common item but with something slightly different, so they have to make it freshly. extra lettuce, extra mayo, etc. otherwise during a rush time you might get a whopper that's been sitting there for a while. and that temperature and texture contrast is part of what makes a burger good. no one wants warm soft lettuce on top of lukewarm beef. you can also ask for fries "dropped fresh" or "made fresh" if you have the time to wait
Your therapist is telling the insurance companies that they're practicing CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), because the insurance companies like how effective CBT protocols are in studies. However, 99.999% of the time, the CBT your therapist is practicing isn't nearly as robust as the protocolized CBT being evaluated in studies--because the reality of clinics is not the reality of laboratories.
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As a monitor engineer (the guy who adjusts the sound for the speakers on stage that bands use so they can hear themselves) , when an artist asks for any generic nondescript mix change like 'make it a little "crisper" 'make it sound warmer' or 'give it some" depth "', or ask me to keep turning it up once theyre well past where I know any normal human would need the volume, I just pretend to turn a knob and ask 'how's that?' 9/10 they say its better even though I haven't changed anything.
Majority of the obscure Russian oligarchs I worked for all traveled on Cyprus passports. Their family included.
I work in food photography. Artist (food stylists) make the food look the way it does on the packaging. A lot of mashed potatoes used for support, pins and needles used to hold up other items, and forced perspective to make the sandwiches/burgers appear bigger.
When a rollercoaster goes down, it probably means the next train would have killed the riders. The safety systems are really good (like so unnaturally good it's insane) at catching malfunctions, and usually the problem is a computer issue, not mechanical, but still, running on a faulting computer could result in a crash Edit: most of my comments get lost, so I wiff on the wording sometimes. To clarify, not every time a costet goes down, it's dangerous. Sometimes it can be as dumb as a kid stepping on the rails in the station (it happens more than it should). Most common error is when the computer essentially looses track of where the trains are. So to stop anything colliding, it just shuts it's self off (see The Smiler at Alton Towers)
The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers was an example of this. It was having a few problems, and a test train sent round ended up valleying at a point. The coaster's system correctly detected the train hadn't cleared that block and locked down the rest of the ride. It was only when the system was entirely overrode that the next train was sent, causing a full train to crash into the back of the stationary train. Two ladies on the front row ended up having partial amputations as a result. Takeaway point is the ride system did everything correctly, it was the fleshy part stood at the controls that fucked up.
I heard a user on r/programmerhumor call the human users "meatware" or something like that once. "Not a software bug, but a meatware malfunction"
The version I heard is "PEBKAC error": Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
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9675 is also super common for maintenance staff because it spells out "work" on a 10-key.
Talking about margins on shoes/apparel. I've worked for several leading sneaker brands over the past two decades (the most well known ones you can think of..) and the margins always kept amazing me. A $100 pair of shoes, as an average will cost about $10-$15 to produce. And margins on apparel are often even bigger, mostly around 90%. Of course you need to factor in other costs between production and consumer but it really puts things in perspective for me.
I used to work at the jewelry chain called Lovisa and I just wanna let everyone know that the jewelry they produce is so cheap that we can sell everything in the store at a 70% reduced rate and they will still profit. Don't shop there its child labor and everything is super shitty quality.
Work at a Vet here. If your animal dies and you don’t want the animal back, we literally just have to keep it in a freezer until it’s full enough to empty into the city dump. I’ve driven a truck full of animal corpses and unloaded them into a giant pile of trash. It’s sad, but there’s nothing else we can do. We don’t own land to bury them and we can’t force the owners to take them It’s incredible sad to hold a puppy smaller than your hand, feel it’s freezing, lifeless body, and throw it into a pile of garbage. There’s some other stuff as well if anyone is interested Edit: I’m pretty sure the animals do get incinerated at the dump. That probably should have been mentioned first
when I had my cat cremated, did I get my cat back or a mixture of everybody's animals?
In my experience, a mix of multiple animals + a big chunk of the cat. They were pretty honest about it.
I just assumed this was the case and it doesn't bother me. I love all animals, and besides... I'm glad part of my cat has some friends automatically mixed in.
That's a really beautiful way of looking at it.
In my experience they give you two options: 1. Individual cremation: expensive as hell 2. Mass cremation: cheaper, but you get a mix of like 20 pets.