71 Shocking Industry Secrets Insiders Are Desperate to Keep Hidden from You
nannonenglish:
Also, if you had even a mildly pleasant experience, please do the Corporate surveys and rate everything with highest marks. Use employee names to make compliments if possible. Find out the manager’s name & drop it positively if they did something above standard. Anything less than a 10 might as well be zero. But positive feedback with employee names can get them national, or even international, recognition & awards.
Gym equipment is rarely cleaned at big chain gyms. Especially group exercise equipment. WASH YOUR HANDS AND DONT TOUCH YOUR FACE WHEN WORKING OUT. Unless you want ringworm on it. 😬
The disinfectant sprays they use at gyms aren’t often used correctly. You have to let the spray sit wet for, like, 10 minutes before wiping it. Nobody does that.
katie225:
Also, a lot of fitness “experts” at the gym encourage disordered eating, are required to sell a certain number of supplements, and/or run MLMs on the side and use the gym as a leads generator.
When you go to a corporate event (dinner, trade show, conference), a ton of what you see goes straight into the garbage the minute it’s over. Flowers, signage, banners, trinkets. Special events for the most part are very environmentally unfriendly.
prompterchick:
The amount of wasted water from people who will open a bottled water, take one sip and leave it, is insane.
If you owe a medical bill, pay $10 a month before they start calling you about it.
If you only owe a few hundred bucks and they threaten to turn it over to collections – ask this: if I pay 10% of the balance due, will you be willing to waive the remaining balance?’
If you eat in a restaurant, the servers are talking about you. Making jokes. If you’re a regular, you have a nickname and someone who hates waiting on you.
megger_:
The same for passengers on a plane. If you start becoming a nuisance, we flight attendants are lighting your a** up in the galley 😂.
Teacher here: I’ve taught the whole gamut from 8-18 and when I tell you your kids need to memorize their times tables before 5th grade, (ideally end of 3rd) I am absolutely not kidding. It is such a big deal. My 6th graders who don’t know them end up struggling for the rest of their math classes. And I can 100% tell which kids had parents who read to them consistently when they were little.
When you open a new bank account make an in person appointment. Show up periodically in person. Learn a name or two. When you have an issue (and I think everyone does at some point) having a personal relationship can resolve problems quickly. With so much business online it is easy to forget that in person can sometimes resolve challenges faster.
shewhotrustsleads:
I wish that was still the case today. I prefer going for an appointment than opening a bank account online and that has happened to me last. One bank said they only accepted appointments if I could not open the bank account online. (Shocker) I preferred to open my account in person.
Librarian here: Digital books are really flipping expensive. Libraries either pay for digital copies (which often have to be repurchased after a certain number of checkouts or a specified period of time) or use platforms that are pay-per-use. This is why library ebooks have borrowing limits and why they’re not available to everyone indefinitely.
I manufacture perfume for a living, most perfumes you buy from the major brands have no natural materials despite listing the “notes” as natural things like rose, musk etc. it’s just a bunch of cheap chemicals from the big vat in New Jersey, slapped together with some alcohol, bottled by machine. The most expensive part is the bottle if that costs $10 per bottle it is a lot. Point is very high margin product.
Also, there are maybe 5-6 large manufacturers of artificial fragrance conpounds in the world. As you can guess they sort of act together to manipulate the market.
I used to work at Sephora. They make the sales people follow the shoppers around as unpaid security and to up sell. We were trained to try to convince shoppers to buy two more items that correlate with the one thing they came for. We were also told to lie to sell things ( I literally never) If you think you are being targeted for shopping while Black, you are. Meanwhile, WW will clear whole sections of Peter Thomas Roth and Drunk Elephant daily🤣 leaving empty boxes on the shelves.
Sephora staff also have to clean everything. They got rid of the cleaning service and put it on sales people. They also basically completely abandoned makeup artistry for credit card sales. The make up artist left when they realize their skills weren’t respected. now they hire any one with a pulse and threaten you with credit card quotas. Don’t meet your quota? Get harassed by management. They know Sephora shoppers don’t want credit cards and literally don’t care.
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