Unlocking the Hidden Truths: 70 Industry Secrets That Will Revolutionize Your Perspective on Work Forever
In Air Traffic Control, we joke about plane crashes on a daily basis.
Also many radio transmissions to pilots end with “freaking idiot” spoken just after the mic button was released. Its okay, they do it on the other end too.
The defense industry isn’t really wasting your money. It’s the government.
For context I used to audit the supply chain practices of what are called “commercial”(I.e. companies like Raytheon or KBR) and “organic” which are sites run by govt employees.
Every single commercial site keeps tight books and extensive records. They can account for every dollar spent.
The fed boys working for the military in a hangar at some base? Absolute garbage record keeping. Management in the dark of their own facilities and items just straight up unaccounted for.
AI is a big lie. We built an autonomous agent pipeline internally because our CEO saw that Stripe did the same thing and automated 80% of PRs. We built it. It doesn’t work and still requires major human intervention to get production ready code. A team at my company just presented at a conference how we’ve automated most work using said tool perpetuating the initial lie that tricked us into building the darn thing.
The amount of information your bank knows about you as an individual. Honestly mass surveillance starts in finance.
Screenwriters who write for TV don’t really write specific episodes. The union requires that someone be credited for each episode and they technically do actually sit down and write it, but between the writers room thourouly outlining the episode and all the extra drafts and revisions afterward (sometimes even full rewrites) it would be much more accurate to say that the whole room writes every episode.
I’m in the nuclear industry; public would be shocked to truly learn that its way safer than most other industries.
I work in recycling. Metal recycling to be precise, but I have connections in plastic/e waste/landfills/residential/etc recyling as well
Even if you recycle every possible thing you could and think you’re doing your part, I’d say a solid third of it goes straight to a landfill without even the attempt to recycle it. Of what’s left, maybe a third of that is rejected for whatever reason also to be sent to a landfill. The remainder is actually recycled in some way. There’s a lot of reasons why but the biggest by far is simply greed
Metal recycling is one of the better, if not the best industry as far as recovery and we still operate with the expectation of significant loss.
Privately held Multi billion dollar corporations do not care if a top producer behaves above the law. They will even fire Human Resources if they attempt to make it an issue. Money rules.
You work the first 20 years and are overworked and underpaid so that you can work the next 20 years to be underworked and overpaid.
I’m a lawyer.
Billing fraud is rampant. This includes exaggerating the amount of work actually done, doing unnecessary work, and intentionally creating problems the lawyer has to solve (at your expense).
Generally the bigger or more “prestigious” the law firm, the more rampant the fraud.
We’re talking 50% or more of the bill is garbage.
We’ve had raw seafood sitting on the floor in the freezer for over a month and no one has done anything. Our species should pass the baton to Dolphins.
I’m a firefighter, the way we joke about the people who we see pass away would make most people cringe, or cry, or attack us. We don’t do it because of a lack of respect, it’s just a coping mechanism for us but it would certainly shock people to hear.
Your lawyer is not telling you to get more physical therapy or chiropractic treatment because they care about your health or recovery, it’s because they can get more money.
Astrophysics. People publishing data from space instruments rarely have a good grasp on the details of how that instrument actually performs, especially if it’s been in space for awhile. They’ll still assume it’s performing the same as it did when it launched, which is usually a more idealized version of that instrument. Results in general should have far larger error bars than published and it greatly weakens them. This can even extend to the teams that build the instruments. I was doing a in-depth analysis of two separate space-based instruments that SHOULD agree with each other and they never did. Two spectrometers, observing the same events, giving different results, with errors that don’t cover each other’s results.
You know those “Can we use Cookies” popups? Most of the time they use cookies whether or not you accept. It’s been a while since I checked, but with no enforcement or consequences I doubt anything’s changed
You know those “Can we use Cookies” popups? Most of the time they use cookies whether or not you accept. It’s been a while since I checked, but with no enforcement or consequences I doubt anything’s changed.
In Canada, a standard index prescription lens for glasses that includes an anti-reflective coating costs $2.30.
The overwhelming majority of US patents are complete garbage. With limited exception, they would either be invalid if anyone had the time and money to challenge them, or they’re so poorly conceived or poorly drafted that nobody could ever infringe them. This isn’t something that’s really fixable. Patent examiners simply can’t have enough expertise in enough areas to reliably know whether something is truly inventive in view of the thousands patents, papers, and products that came before, especially when lawyers are smart enough to make even the most mundane things sound new and inventive.
That’s ok, though. The goal of the patent system is not truly to reward invention. That’s a fiction. It rewards engagement with the patent system. Domestically, this favors big business. Internationally, it forces foreign companies to expose their technology to us if they want to participate in our market. And that’s the real goal.
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