Unlocking the Hidden Truths: 70 Industry Secrets That Will Revolutionize Your Perspective on Work Forever
2. If you become the ultimate Karen you will ALWAYS get what you ask for. It will take time to go up the chain but you will win. 50 hours of care per week? Complain. New shower? Complain. New Wheelchair? Complain. I’m talking daily conversations with the worker, supervisor, regional manager, etc. I promise you, it will get done. So be the squeaky wheel. Insurance banks on you giving up the fight and they don’t want to deal with a judge in a hearing over the issue. They’ll give in eventually.
Government agencies will blow money on stuff that’s not necessarily needed at the end of the year to burn up the rest of the money in their budget. If they don’t spent all the money their budget will get reduced next year.
Fountain soda machines are disgusting 90% of the time. Even the places that claim to clean and service them regularly. The amount of time it takes to properly clean them along with poor placement means it’s usually to much hassle for everyday employees to properly clean and replace filters of they do it all. I work with technicians that do service calls to restaurants and gas stations daily and the condition of almost all the machines is sickening.
Chefs in restaurants don’t wear gloves hardly ever- because gloves are dirty and gross. Corporate places that insist on gloves result in cooks wearing the gloves for a long period of time, resulting in cross contamination. If I’m making your food without gloves I am very clean and tidy and I wash my hands a lot. I only wear them when dealing with sloppy wet stuff. What I’m saying is that gloves are in absolutely no way a sign of cleanliness or lack of contamination.
Local (and probably state, but I haven’t worked with them much) level law enforcement has a staggering amount of personal information and the database is usually only protected by default credentials with no 2-factor required.
I worked in the parks industry in Colorado.
A certain amount of water is allowed for a city like Denver to keep its golf courses top-notch. That water comes from the western slope, up to several hundred miles away.
If only a percentage of that water is used, then you are allowed that new, lesser amount. So they will just keep sprinklers running to avoid having any amount taken away.
While the mountains might experience a drought and get hit with wildfires, devastating wildlife, farmlands and homes (due to excessive water use in the front range), the golf courses look great.
Public Libraries have to beg local and state (mostly state) governments for funding. Most of the cool stuff your local library has added? Yeah that came from either grants or donations. The actual funding is fought for very hard every single day. The best thing you can do to support public libraries? 1) get a library card most importantly, 2) get involved and vote in local and state elections, 3) go utilize all the free stuff available at libraries so we keep getting money to continue having that cool stuff for you guys.
The airplane you are flying on fails all the time during flight but you don’t know it because of the way redundant systems take over. Flight critical systems often have triple redundancy with systems that operate differently (like primary hydraulic and secondary electromechanical) so the same mode of failure can’t affect the backup system.
Auctions are a scam. Lots of tricks to suck more money out of customers. Could be a whole sub-reddit.
An overdraft fee is actually an incredibly high interest rate loan but, since they call it a fee and it doesn’t vary with the charge amount it doesn’t have to follow interest rate caps. For example, if you pay a $35 fee to cover $100 and have to pay it back with your next paycheck (assume 2 weeks) that is an interest rate of 913%.
When I worked at a call center that dealt with tax software, we’d cheer about the long wait times and having over 500 calls in queue. We weren’t focused on quality more so quantity of calls.
The tech industry is becoming increasingly racist. It is common for Indians to take over entire departments. They force everyone else out and hire other Indians. Once you have an Indian hiring manager it’s all over. I watched as they went from a 50/50 split to over 95% Indian. All in seven months. I’ve got no problems with Indians but in tech it’s become ridiculous. Only one of them knew their stuff and the rest just lied and covered for one another. It’s becoming a bigger and bigger problem.
FedEx doesn’t clean out any of their trailers or warehouses. Your packages sat in complete filth in a trailer for hours, being smashed by other packages, and often chemicals or plants or other liquids have hit your package and dried on it.
Do wear gloves and yeet the box out asap.














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