A collection of anonymous confessions from individuals across various professions, exposing surprising practices and hidden realities in areas like water safety, digital marketing, cannabis production, healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry, tourism, auto repair, funeral services, education, and the restaurant industry.
,"What's a secret from your job that we should know?" As a nosy person, I had an absolute field day with this thread. Here are some of the most fascinating responses:rosesforthemonsters"Former facility manager.
Never, EVER, drink from the water fountain. The sheer amount of use required to keep it safe is almost never reached. And even if it's a widely used one, and it should be safe, do not use it on Mondays without letting it run for a full minute first. The company that lends you the fountain conducts some tests, but they never perform the ones that would indicate it's unsafe to drink. I've never seen a company pay for an independent test, and when it happens , I always saw the same result: The water is not safe to drink.""I worked in digital marketing for a while. Your phone is ABSOLUTELY listening to you. It also tracks everything you search on Google, and thousands of websites have a Google API installed to track your browsing and purchases. Those terms and conditions you agreed to for every single app you use? You might have just agreed to let the application turn on your mic or camera when the app is not in use. Your phone is absolutely monitoring everything you do. The good news/boring dystopia portion of it is that it's usually just done for marketing purposes to sell you more products, not necessarily to infringe on your privacy and read your messages and whatnot.""I work in the cannabis industry, and the amount of pesticides and bugs that could possibly be on the weed you are smoking is unreal. I stopped smoking weed after seeing all that. Also, it applies to fruits too. Wash your damn fruits.""If you see an independent physician or physician-owned group and you struggle to pay your medical bills, call and speak with the billing or practice manager. Tell them what's up and ask to work out a payment plan. If you have a good history with the practice, a clear plan to pay, or are willing to do auto-pay, they should be more than willing to work with you. Also, if you think your bill is wrong, talk to them first and not the insurance company. They can see the reason the insurance is saying they won't pay. Insurance companies lied to our patients all the time and said it was us when it was them. Ask for the name and call log number they got when they called if they are appealing." "Also, ask for copies of the denials and the history of communication with the insurance company. Then you can reference that directly when you call the insurance company. The office is on your team, or at least should be. They want to be paid too. Also, constantly canceling or missing appointments, or not doing what the physician recommends, works against you when there’s an issue. It shows that you don't take your medical care seriously, especially if you are complaining. And it will also work against you if you take legal action.""Taking an ambulance will not get you seen quicker in the ER. I have taken many people to the lobby.""It's common practice in the pharma industry to pay daily fines instead of following the law. Fines cap out way below the cost to fix some stuff, so they just budget for an extra $100k per day.""I work in tourism in a popular holiday destination. It seems obvious, but always buy your excursions straight from the seller. Find their Instagram or phone number on Google. Reps/agencies will sell you the same ticket for the most inflated price they can get away with.""I do collision repair , and a surprising number of people don't realize that wrecking your car and THEN getting insurance after the fact to try getting it repaired is insurance fraud, and you can go to jail for that. Also, if repairs run longer than expected, it's almost always because parts didn't arrive on time, but we'll also blame parts not showing up, even if it's just because our painter is unreliable and works only two or three days a week.""Cremation urns are marked up 300% or more at funeral homes. You can buy your own for a fraction of the cost, and it's coming from the same place. Same with caskets.""Keep all the syllabi from your college courses. If you ever decide to do another degree or if you decide to transfer, the syllabi can help prove that a course should 'count' for transfer if the new university rejects it initially. Just put them in a folder on your computer somewhere or in your backup and leave them there. You don't know what you will do in five or 10 years or more, and this will help you save money and time if you do ever go back to school.""To this day, the restaurant industry does not have sick days like normal, and awareness needs to be raised. Most restaurants are staffed so low today that team leaders end up working sick all the time, as they have no one who will cover.""The results you see when searching for anything online are not random. There's an entire industry designed to manipulate algorithms to get certain websites and businesses to appear over others.""Always wash the fresh produce you buy from any store or market. You can't even imagine how many people are coughing, sneezing, and touching literally anything they see in the store. Also, many people let their poorly behaved children roam free, and they are often worse most of the time. That's one of the main reasons I don't buy baked goods from the bake shop in most stores. People are disgusting.""Former cellphone customer service. What I 'can' do, what I'm 'allowed' to do, and what I 'want' to do, are three ENTIRELY separate metrics, and the service you get has 100% to do with how well you treat me on the phone...because I CAN do a hell of a lot. I can even get away with most of it . What YOU need to do is convince ME that it's worth burning one of my once or twice a month 'bending of the rules' for you.""The 'right time to buy a car' is when it's the cheapest. When I was selling cars, I earned large and small commissions at various times throughout the month and year. You just have to be a pain in the ass most of the time to get near the bottom line. Politeness gets you nowhere, unfortunately. More often than not, the people who got the worst deals were people who were polite. They didn't know money talk, and I'll give you a hint: They weren't the people who had the money to really afford it comfortably. I was not a fan of that job.""If you call the tech support number for your company's surveillance system and ask how to delete footage, we're not going to tell you how to delete footage, but we are going to ask what footage you're trying to delete so we can advise your company's security team to review it.""Don't have any ice in drinks unless you can see it made and dispensed with no human contact. I formatted a detailed study of ice served in bars, and the results were eye-watering. I will just say that in the 18 samples taken from different bars, every sample contained feces and sperm.""Not a job, but an old internship. If you're submitting to literary agents as an author, know that the first pass is done by some 19-year-old who isn't paid. If they don't like it, it never even reaches the agent.""Patients 'fall through the cracks' and doctors often forget to put in orders, leading to procedures and treatments being unnecessarily delayed. Literally a matter of life and death, but because the patient population is so high and the doctor/nurse-to-patient ratio is so skewed, things get missed all the time. Scary to think about.""If a checkout screen asks you to round up for a donation, decline. The companies use your donation as their own tax write-off. Just donate directly if you want to donate to charity.""A huuuuuge amount of the vegetable, canola, peanut, etc. oils sold in the United States are all the same oil with different labels.""I worked in a bottling plant for things like cleaners and degreasers. Most of the time, we set up a line for one type of bottle. Once we ran out of that bottle, we'd change to a different bottle with a different label from a different company, but still the same product inside. It was normal to change bottles three to eight times. You're not playing more for a better cleaner. You're playing more for a better plastic bottle and label.""That recycling in a lot of states is a lie and is only done to look good when, in reality, it gets dumped in the same hole with the rest of the garbage. It's the reason I don't recycle anymore.""Tip: Clean the lids of your soda cans if you're going to drink straight from the can.""I'm a teacher. I can tell if you have never read a book to your child. I can tell if your child sits on an iPad for hours on end. I also probably know everything that goes on at home, as kids love to tell us.""Spirit Halloween can and will take all clothes and costumes when returned, up until the pre-Halloween deadline, and put them right back out for sale. Probably an open secret, but I'd sniff test or get what looks unopened."And:"I worked as an online customer service agent, and we could see what you were typing on the other end before you even sent it."Are there any secrets from your industry that people need to know? Tell us in the comments or share anonymously using this form.
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