Exposed: The Shocking Corporate Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know—And Why You’re Somehow Not In Jail
But if it looks like a husky and barks like a husky, it’s probably a husky!
I only mention it because I do see a fair number of posts of people being surprised their rescue isn’t the breed that was listed.
I worked for a large bank. My teams job was to figure out how many additional fees we could add before losing customers. Losing some customers was fine as long as we made it up in revenue.
You know all those corporate emails and Teams/Slack messages you think no one else can see…… sorry, we see them all. Same story with your browsing history.
Water operator. Everyone should be aware of the dangers of forever chemicals in the water. Also some bacteria are becoming more and more immune to antibiotics.
Anonymous employee surveys aren’t really anonymous. I spent almost 50 years in market research – if we really want to know who did that survey badly enough, we can figure it out.
A lot of times in retail, particularly popular “beauty” brands, when they do a big sale on “bestselling” favorites or have a brand artist claiming fav products…these are actually products they are having trouble selling. Not all and not always…but very often.
Military grade means the cheapest products possible that you overpaid for.
A*****e parents are way more common than you think. Way, way more common. *Soul-crushingly common.*
polly6119:
As a teacher for 23 years I absolutely agree. People give CPS a hard time. But they don’t realize how horrible a lot of parents are. CPS is trying to just get the physical abuse stopped. They’re overwhelmed with physical abuse problems. But there is widespread and evil emotional and psychological abuse that is almost impossible catch because it doesn’t leave visual scars.
There are parents who will starve their children just enough to torture them but not enough to get caught, there parents will put tons of salt in their child’s dinner just so they suffer through the night and won’t let them have anything to drink, their parents who will make children do exercises like wall squats and arm lifts for so long that it’s literal torture and if the child doesn’t agree or stops doing the exercise then they don’t get to eat the next day, there are parents who keep a child up all night “cleaning” the house. I could go on there’s so much and so many. Not to mention the horrible degrading things they say to their child.
And you know what’s really insidious is that a lot of these people are your nicest neighbors, the parent who volunteers, the parent, who comes to school and laughs with the teacher so that the child sees that they have nobody that they can talk to.
Sorry, I’ve just seen a lot. I don’t get to talk about it much because, well it’s depressing. It’s not really a good conversation starter or party banter.
When we tell you we don’t have any more of an item in the back, it’s because we really don’t have more in the back. Sometimes we don’t even have a back at all.
DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.
Don’t rely on verbal recounting when you go to management at work. Document it, print it, and bring it with you. Just saying that you have documented something, especially when it’s multiple things that all point to an issue, management is going to be a lot more cooperative. Sometimes because it shows initiative, calm consideration, and intelligence, but more often because you have the start of a legal case if things go poorly.
It is entirely possible that your veterinarian will kiss your kitten’s belly when you are looking.
I work in materials testing for industries like automotive, aerospace, defense…
Our secret? We. Don’t. F**k. Around. Specs are holy writ and *will* be followed. We fire people for cutting corners on paperwork. I once got dragged into a conference room and chewed out for two hours not because I used equipment that was out of calibration, but because I was in the same room as someone who did. *That* person got suspended for a week without pay. We regularly get audited for compliance to standards and regs that are enforced internationally.
Why? Because when people in my field cut corners, people die. Horribly.
Edit: Almost forgot to add…falsifying documents in my line of work is actually a felony.
A little air bubble in your IV is completely harmless.
JulietAlfa:
My late hubby had cancer for three and a half years. I remember we’d watch a little air bubble go through the line and he would go “oh noooooo” and then pretend it killed him dramatically. He also once wore a dog cone on his neck to treatment. His nurses loved him. Many came to his memorial including the director of radiation oncology at Rush, they were pals.
