59 Jaw-Dropping Industry Secrets Professionals Swear You’ll Never Discover—Until Now

59 Jaw-Dropping Industry Secrets Professionals Swear You’ll Never Discover—Until Now

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A wet can of Diet Coke, illustrating one of the industry secrets professionals know. Diet Coke is NOT based on the coke formula and it wasn’t even made by the Coca Cola company. Coke could never make it taste even close to the regular flavor so they bought someone else’s product that was already on the market….in a vastly smaller region…..and just renamed it Diet Coke because it was the closest thing to the regular coke flavor.

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A professional in a suit and tie being interviewed by reporters, discussing industry secrets widely known among professionals. Ex political PR here. They all lie. Shocker, I know. But what actually shocked me at the beginning of my career was realizing that there is absolutely no political party/option I will ever be able to fully support. Sometimes it’s selective truth; technically accurate, but stripped of context and presented in a way designed to make you believe something else. Sometimes it’s spin. And often they simply lie.
Another thing I didn’t expect: politicians are often three steps ahead of their own PR teams. People assume PR knows everything and our job is to figure out how to sell it to the public. Not necessarily. Things are deliberately kept from us too. Because the more people who know something, the greater the chance it leaks.
You would be surprised at the magnitude of the things they lie about — things you’d assume would be far too important, consequential or risky to lie about.
Also leftist – right-winger; it does not matter. They are very much connected.

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A professional in a cleanroom suit inspecting equipment, revealing industry secrets in manufacturing. US Food Service inspections. Meat packaging plants in particular, but this is pretty much the whole food industry: you’re barely being inspected.

There aren’t enough inspectors. Period. The ones that are there are technically working for the government, but their paychecks come from the company that’s being inspected.

Yeah, that’s a thing. It’s accepted. Our food contamination rate seems to be increasing (though there is a lot of produce concerns there, so don’t drop that at the meat industry), as our government is defunding anything that looks like oversight.

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A soda fountain machine with various drink dispensers, hinting at widely known industry secrets in the beverage industry. Big Coca Cola would have you believe that McDonald’s Coke tastes better because of the stainless steel tanks of Coke syrup and reverse osmosis systems.

In theory it’s true, but if you could see how many McDonald’s have never once sanitized their tanks that are supposed to be sanitized every time one runs empty you would be sick to your stomach.

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There’s a certain large, private mental health clinic in Melbourne, Australia. It’s such an unethical place, but too many important people work there for it to get shut down. It’s a toxic environment that can get dangerous for patients *and* staff. And the staff are the main reason it gets dangerous.

I would never victim blame someone for getting attacked in their workplace….but actually yes I would.

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I work in a hospital. A nursing director once said this, which has stuck with me for 25 years:

“Everything in a patient care setting is covered with a fine veneer of feces.”.

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I worked in resale for years- we are stealing the good stuff. Not all of it, but you better believe we’re skimming off the top.

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I work in the trading of seafood. We as consumers pay wayyy too much for our seafood and it mindboggles me. Fresh certified Norwegian farmed salmon are usualy at ~6.36€/kg (2.89$/lb). American lobsters go for 12€/kg (6.3$/lb) in Europe at least, and farmed certified Greek/Croatian Gilthead seabreams go around 9€/kg (4.72/lb).

And don’t forget that EVERY wild fish have parasites. Due to the rise of sea level and its temperature increase, parasites and lices are becoming inevitable. When eating raw fish/not cooked through, please either make sure that it is farmed from a certified aquaculture, or frozen before connsumption.

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If you’re ever behind on your mortgage payment the bank sends an inspector to drive by and photograph your home.

Most people never notice this happening. But if you’re late on your mortgage and see a car pull up in front of your home and someone snapping photos from inside the car then quickly driving off, that’s your bank protecting its asset.

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The energy industry is horrendously out of date, largely due to people refusing to replace tech from the 50s/60s because they can get rates on their power from that era.

Oh and one from my husband’s work: a lot of very strange, very disturbed men work in pest control (although a woman still holds the record for the wildest behaviour he’s heard of).

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