Exposed: The Shocking Corporate Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know—And Why You’re Somehow Not In Jail
5. Publishers will create multiple versions of the same book to game the Amazon lists.
6. Authors (like pastor/human piece of s**t Mark Driscoll) have been known to use shady marketing firms to literally lie their way onto the bestseller lists.
7. Publishers use manipulative category choice to place their books in categories that don’t offer much competition, meaning it’s easier to become #1.
Just admitting your turning in an assignment late because you were at some college party and had a bit too much will generally get you much farther than some tired excuse like your eighth grandma is in the hospital on death’s door this semester. We were one students too.
The nurses are recommending what docs need to order and often times are the ones catching big mistakes in orders.
You don’t have to top off your refrigerant(Freon) in your air conditioner every year. If someone is telling you that ask where it’s leaking at.
Don’t trust a plumber who bites their nails.
Most people that work in government agencies are not evil guys in suits discussing how to screw you over in a dark room. They are regular people that happen to be really passionate about a specific field and could be making way more money in the private sector if they wanted to.
I wasn’t surprised at all at how many government employees rejected Elon Musk’s offer to pay them out because they aren’t in this for the money lol.
Not from my current job, but when I was an economist working for the department of housing and having meetings with treasury etc.
It was an open secret that ending homelessness (or, at the very least, all but doing so) was cheaper than not. However, it was deemed political s*****e and not dealt with.
The 2 biggest reasons are, it would take a larger upfront investment (but not as much as you’d think, i’d be recouped rapidly) and governments are notoriously short term thinking as they care about the next election not down the road. So something which gets the biggest results in 4+ years is a no go.
Plus there is a not insignificant, but very influential number of voters who will instantly be turned off by it. Giving people something for free is often seen as a negative by many (I didn’t get it that easy, I worked for my life, low lives leeching on us hard workers, etc) even if it actually benefits them too. Reduced homelessness has a significant ROI for governments and needing to spend less later which means everything is better all around, which benefits everyone.
Healthcare worker in a hospital setting here (resident physician).
If you go to the emergency department or are hospitalized, call and ask for an itemized bill. It’ll make your actual cost lower since there are otherwise a lot of bs fees. You can also ask to speak to a financial advocate. Your can negotiate for a lower price or see what financial assistance programs or payment plans you can use. Many hospitals also have hardship waivers, waivers for a few days of short-term rehab, or supply for short-term medications. They also have charity care programs and can offer sliding scale discounts.
Regardless of if you have insurance, you can ask about these options. I always share these with patients since I hate the upcharge with a burning passion.
Every day the postal service moves over 20 million parcels around the country with a staff of about 500,00, only 200k of those being actual letter carriers. That’s not including every little postcard or advo the thickness of a hair that touches 25 sets of hands and numerous vehicles before it gets to your house without somehow getting lost under a seat cushion along the way. We have a 99.2% success rate on parcel delivery. Nobody thinks about all the hundreds of packages they’ve received, only that one that got lost that one time. USPS is exceedingly good at what they do, and we do it using only proceeds from stamp sales. We do not receive federal dollars in any capacity so that we can remain stable during political upheavals or budget crisis.
200,000 people hand deliver 24,000,000 packages. Double that during peak season. Every. Single. Day. I just think that’s cool as s**t lol.
Generic and name brand medications are NOT the same. They only contain the same active ingredient. Some companies care a lot about the quality of their generic, others don’t get consistent results and do not care.
Exercise a lot. Eat fruits, vegetables and a handful of nuts each day. Don’t smoke or drink alcohol. And I would be irrelevant. -Cardiologist.
In those cremated remains glass sculptures, and cremation diamonds, almost all of the remains have been burned away so its really just the glass.
-funeral home worker.
I work in clothing at Costco. You know how you grab the shirt from the bottom of the stack because you think it’s the cleanest? Sorry, it’s not. They move tables around so much that it’s very likely the bottom of the stack was the top of the stack yesterday and so on.
Your sinks and toilets are not garbage cans. For the love of all things holy, stop flushing wipes!
On a good note, the secret I’d like people to know is that anesthesia as a field is incredibly safe. We get super sick patients through surgery everyday. Young, healthy people you’d almost have to try to make something go wrong to have a bad outcome. The d***s and safety monitors are so much better than 20 years ago. We are really good at putting people to sleep and waking them up. You are safer in the OR than you are on the road driving to the OR, statistically.
Hospitality workers usually don’t care as much as you care, but if you’re kind to them they can work magic for you.
Your child’s daycare teachers really do clean them throughout the day, they are just dirt magnets.
I work at a vet clinic, and i got a few:
yes your dog or cat needs the rabies vaccine. rabies is transmissible to humans, and it’s deadly.
