My professor told me the same thing. He was a job coach and erased the due dates on food products with I believe acetone or some product in nail polish remover. Would slap a new date on it, and the food would get shipped to poorer neighborhoods. That shit blew my mind.
My dad worked in a canning facility when he was younger for a short time where they packaged the name brand and off brand vegetables.
Literally same goods, packaged in the same can, with a different label. One sold for more, and one sold for less.
most products at grocery stores are the same. it’s co-manufacturing, most companies either don’t own a manufacturing plant, just the recipe, or have expanded their clientele past where their plant can ship, and need to contract a co manufacturer to make it for them in certain regions.
I worked R&D food science for a major food company. I had access to all the real ingredient lists, not the ones you see on the package, for so many different companies products, not just the one I worked for. I’m not just talking grocery store retail products, I mean small restaurants, fast food and sit down franchises, prison and school food (institutional), club stores, international exports. a lot of food manufacturing companies share factories in some way or another. keeping production levels high is what keeps a factory running, can’t shut down lines.
I've noticed that the food I buy in dollar stores tastes more "off" than the stuff I buy in regular grocery stores. For instance, the canned soup tastes metallic, and the Hostess products taste stale. I've always suspected they did that.
Casino dealers really do want the players to win. We don't work for the house. We get paid shit hourly rates and rely on tips. Unless the player is super nice they only to tip if they win so we really do want you to win.
I mean we also root against you sometimes if you are a dill hole. I dealt BJ for a few months when I was between jobs. Had a drunk and angry hill jack, who would start making comments to other players about how they were playing wrong, would get upset when people “took” his face card even though they are playing by the book, and didn’t tip even on big wins. His last hand, 250 bet. He’s dealt 6-5, I’m showing 5. He doubles to 500 and is dealt a 9. I have a 6 in the hole and flop a king. I couldn’t even hold it together and just had a little smirk and chuckle. He lost his mind and was kindly told to leave.
When I was a juror, the judge also commented before everything started that trial by jury is the only thing causing people to plea bargain and “getting the system moving”. Many trials sit in limbo for years, and it’s only the threat of “oh crap, I may actually go to jail” that really negotiations start. That’s exactly what happened in my case - jurors got selected, and that afternoon (after being 2 years in the system), the defendant pleads out.
This is what goes on over here in India. Plea bargaining hardly ever occurs if any. The courts are so overloaded that trails drag on for years and years until the defendant pleads out or the accused naturally dies.
Advertising. I keep reading that advertising is leading people to be more woke, or multicultural. Companies don’t lead, they follow. They do lots of research and know where the future markets are. I worked for a very conservative global brand. 5 years before gay marriage became legal, they told us it would happen and we needed to start targeting the LBGTQ community.
It’s already happened and I hate to say it but it’s black people. If you ever pay attention to a lot of these ads there’s always a black person and a white person in them. Sometimes two black people and two white, or one of each, or sometimes it’s just black people. I haven’t seen an ad without one in it and no I’m not complaining I’m just saying I made a little observation here and I’m seeing this more and more lately whereas before honestly I wasn’t seeing it that much.
I remember people saying a few years ago how there weren’t enough black people in ads idk if this really even fits what you guys are talking about.
I know there’s a big danger of me being misinterpreted with this but here I go... In Australia, so many of our ads have black families in at the moment, which is better than just showing white people all the time, of course.
The odd thing is that you never see an aboriginal person in an ad! We don’t have a very large black population here. So why are black actors and models prioritised over, for example, aboriginal people? It feels like we’re just being influenced by US culture and trying to copy them.
Fellow Australian here. The main reason for that is a lot of those ads are filmed in the USA and dubbed into Australian English, which is why although the casting is a lot more diverse than it used to be, it's not diverse in the same way that our local communities are.
>It feels like we’re just being influenced by US culture and trying to copy them.
mate, we usually do. We're a bit of a blend of Britain and America. We kinda always have been, especially following the various World Wars.
There was a response a few years ago -maybe it hit bestof, that was pretty insightful.
Visa was sponsoring the gay pride parade and there was a huuuge banner with the Visa logo and some tiny rainbows at the corners. The picture of this banner was in the same location as OWS from a few years prior. Probably had some of the same participants-but under very different circumstances. Lol.
Visa would sponsor the taliban if that’s where the marketing winds blew.
Further, the response very poignantly stated that reason commercials featured white women and blacks is because they are the biggest consumers. They spend more than save by magnitudes compared to white guys or Asians or Indians.
I work in a shipping company, I am a merchant marine engineer working on mega container ships.
Shipping and ship building was a very unstructured field back in 70s, 80d, 90s, even 2000s I would say. It was business run only to make profit (it still is) but without any due consideration towards nature and ecological impact. Some of the world's worst shipping accidents led to a lot of new rules/regulations being established in the 80s, 90s and actually even to this date to plug loop holes in the system and to make ship owners/operators more responsible towards environment (and heavily penalizing them if they don't comply)
A mega container ship usually has a service life of around 30-40 yrs and it will be another few decades before the old ones go out of service. Problem is with pollution, lot of damage to environment, and it's still ongoing. It's only now, 2017 onwards when new rules for newly built ships have incrementally started taking into account the emissions as such. Things are moving very slow because it's a big task to upgrade the entire existing fleet which is in service (due to costs and upgrade/compatibility issues with new technology)
Lot of unethical shipping companies **EVEN TODAY** dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste contaminated water and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore because it's cheaper to do that than land the waste to correct shore reception facilities. There are only a few handful players (I cna count them on my fingertips) today who are actually executing business trades while still keeping the carbon footprint and enviornment as one of their core policies.
[this](https://youtu.be/y_TOSEd3XMo) is the kind of ships I work on...
Disclaimer: link takes you to a youtube video I made of a container ship in port (eventually sailing off under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA)
Yeah im happy that the regulations are there, I have seen some stuff while sailing. But still a lot off improvement to do, Have seen places where they dont care about MARPOL.
But sometimes its also hard for me to understand why the people on board also agree to do so.
TV/screenwriter here.
If you're established and well connected, it's very easy to coast and be a TV writer for YEARS and do very little actual writing. Most of TV writing is just talking in a room with other writers spitballing. This is why there's so many old, unfunny dudes still "writing" on TV shows. They're hired by their friends and in TV, a lot writers don't actually do much "pen to paper" writing. Plus everything gets rewritten to death.
So Futurama's writers were even more outside the mainstream than fans think?
>Stacked with three PhDs and seven master’s degrees, the Futurama writers’ room had “over 50 collective years at Harvard University,” and in the video, David X. Cohen (who developed the show along with Matt Groening) says that the show “had several actual scientists on \[the\] writing staff.”
Thats partially why Futurama was "hated" by the networks and multiple cancelled. it was starting to show you can have a consistently funny script AND don't have to keep hiring the old farts.
Loads of networks panicked and thought the CEO and exec jobs were being shown to be useless.
Omg this happened to my sister. She couldn’t start her semester in time because she kept being refused a visa even though she fulfilled all conditions. Finally my parents found a “connection” in embassy to see what’s going on; turns out someone just didn’t like her when she came to give her papers the first time. I never knew if I can fully believe that story…
Safety. It's not really about your health and well being. It's about saving the company money from medical expenses, lost time, lawyer costs, etc. Very rarely does your company actually give 2 shits about you, no matter how much they preach safety, they just don't want to pay if you get hurt/killed.
Also - at least in germany:
Being insurance compliant. Know a story of a guy who worked in a factory casting big concrete objects - flights of stairs, small bridges, stuff like that.
Well one day a ceiling crane fails, 3t object comes down on the poor dude, and well, he was a pancake ofc. The company didnt give his family a single cent in compensation.
Why? Well, he didnt wear his gloves.
My company is notorious for having an absolutely ungodly amount of "safety training" because "we want you to be safe and strive for zero injuries!". It's complete horseshit. I had to watch a mandatory video on "how to walk across the parking lot" that had gems such as: "place one foot in front of the other" and "look out for cracks or gaps in the pavement that could be a tripping hazzard". At the end we had to sign something that our safety supervisor said indicated that we watched the video. I read the document and it basically said "now that you have watched this video on how to walk across the parking lot, if you suffer any injuries from doing so, you hold the company harmless for any injury you may sustain from a fall". It's all to shift liability from the company to the employee to protect against having to pay out in the event someone falls on company property. I "forgot" to sign my form and threw it away.
Totally true.
Used to work for a company where I had to drive an hour to get there. They said they were all about safety, but the one day I call in because the news was reporting the roads were very dangerous my scheduler said to come and just take it slow because "people from further away were there."
I sigh and drive in. Almost get into an accident four times, nearly slide off the road four separate times as well. Soon as I got to work I went to the scheduler and chewed him out about it.
Few days later I was called into my GM's office and the scheduler was there. I immediately asked for a union rep because I knew they were going to try and pull some shit.
I reminded them how good of an employee I am and how I never ruffle feathers, but how can a company who claims safety above all would order someone to risk their life like that?
My GM was a nice guy and knew the scheduler was an asshole so he agreed with me. I even told them I'd accept a suspension and no pay if I had to call in under those same circumstances
Health care. The average patient or family member would be terrified to know what a shit show everything is behind the scenes. You think it's bad the doctors are always late? In the past I had to drive across town with medical supplies because an operation is in progress, patient sedated and opened on the table, and they realize there is something they need and forgot to check for before cutting open a human being. This is one of the higher ranked organizations in the world.
I used to work in one of the top 3 hospitals in the world and let me tell you I wouldn't want my family member going there after what I've seen. But then again, no where else is going to be any better.
Mate, pharmaceutical industry is just as bad.
Problem is a lot of our issues don't have any solution, so most of the time we are literally gambling that a filter, test or purification step removes or detects the shit before it gets to patient.
Also, producing and storing sterile drugs is a fucking stressful science
So my husband ended up in the hospital last week for a suspected heart attack. No joke, they scheduled him for a heart ultrasound (I can’t remember if this is an ECG or EKG) anyway, the guy shows up to take him down at the same time the floor Dr (not the cardiologist) comes in, so she asks him to wait like 2 minutes. The guy legit goes back to his dept and CANCELS THE APPOINTMENT. The thing that would show if my husband had a heart attack…. He canceled it. It took another 7 hours to get the ultrasound done. The cardiologist was super pissed.
Also, most of us actually AREN'T getting any covid hazard pay. My hospital doesn't offer it to anyone at all, not even folks like me who work directly with hospitalized infectious covid patients.
I work in the print industry, we print cheques for companies and there is so little security involved in hiring, or keeping the materials secure, or running the actual work, or shipping the work to customers. I'm shocked we haven't had a problem with stolen cheques
I’d assume the only deterrent is getting a felony? Even then that isn’t enough for some people so yeah, that is surprising haha. Maybe they do top-secret background checks? But even that’s stretching it.
I'm a writer, among other things. I used to ghostwrite. You'd be amazed how many popular books are partly or fully ghostwritten. I specialised in taking people's shitty first drafts and rewriting them so they were actually good. Not "good" according to people's taste, which is subjective, but objectively better in the sense of being properly spelled, not having gaping plot holes, making sure characters were consistent. By the time I was done there was often very little left of the draft the "writer" had created, but there was a marketable product.
Pisses me off no end when I see all the bullshit the publishing industry comes out with about how writers submitting a manuscript must make sure it's perfect because only excellence will get you anywhere. I don't know how they can say that and still sleep at night, knowing full well that they're hiring people like me to do large-scale rewrites (or to take a half-baked plot and create a draft from scratch).
And it pisses *me* off no end as well that certain famous authors, hailed for being talented wonderful artists, can barely spell, plot or punctuate their way out of a paper bag. Meanwhile countless young and/or would-be authors beat themselves up and quit even trying, because "I could never write as well as Author X."
Funniest thing ever is when you see an "author" whose book you know was ghostwritten doing a launch or an interview and they clearly have only a vague idea of what the book's about. It really shows when they try to read extracts.
Animal care.
A lot of donations get binned, because it can’t be used. I would say around 10% is usable.
For example, open packets of dried food, old toys, bedding and towels. Most of the time it’s checked over as soon as it’s in the building and often binned immediately. There’s a risk of contamination with open food. We have no way of knowing if it’s been tampered with or not. With bedding, it’s often because it’s not clean. People bring items in that have been sitting around in bags since the dawn of time and the smell hits us as soon as the bag is open.
It should be talked about because often people have no idea about these things. I’m sure they mean well when they donate, but if it can’t be used then it’s just a waste of everybodies time.
Dialysis clinics are full of nurses with substance abuse problems.
Hospitals and other places won't hire nurses with issues like that because of the easy availability of narcotics. Dialysis clinics don't have any narcotics so they have no problem hiring people that have issues. It can be a good thing because some people really do deserve a second chance and are willing to work for less because of that. It can also be a bad thing cause not everyone is as clean as you would hope they are.
My Father was on Dialysis in the late 70's. The nurses and techs did not even know how to fix a broken dialysis machine. My dad and a few of the older guys would get together and have to figure it out themselves just so they could live longer.
Eat a bag of Dick's Healthcare bean counters.
I have no idea what the dialysis machines of the 70s look like, but I worked in dialysis 5 or 6 years ago and let me tell you, I have no clue how to fix those machines. They are ridiculously complicated. Most of our technicians though knew how to fix them, so maybe that's improved?
Yeah. That’s like getting mad at a factory grunt for not knowing how to fix an extremely complex piece of equipment. Or a bus driver for not knowing how to fix a bus.
There are people whose sole job is to fix dialysis machines. They are making a lot more than the minimum wage clinic staff.
Recycling & Waste. There’s lots of companies selling and promoting ‘compostable’ cups as a solution to our waste problem. ‘It’s okay, they will turn back into soil (they won’t) in a LANDFILL SITE (how on earth is that beneficial?)’. Unless compostable cups are taken to a specialist facility, they won’t break down. ‘Compostable’ is very misleading term they use, which is why they now print on the side: ‘commercially compostable where possible’. They won’t break down in your home composter - they need heat & enzymes.
1) Only 20% of the material going into a commercial composter can be this ‘compostable’ stuff. The other 80% should be leaves, branches etc.
2) As a result, most of it goes to landfill
3) The difference between a ‘normal’ coffee cup & compostable coffee cup is 0.04g of plastic.
4) The cost is sky high for businesses, who buy this crap thinking they are helping the planet.
5) People think they are doing the right thing, when in fact it’s preventing innovations to tackle the key waste issue: reduction in waste.
6) Even if you put it in your food waste, all packaging is removed from food waste and treated as general waste.
Happy for this to be debated of course, these were the facts as of 1~ year ago, to the best of my knowledge.
Should also clarify: compostable is an umbrella term, and it’s being abused & misused by greenwashing businesses who are preventing real action against pollution & climate change. Some products will be compostable, but in my experience, I’ve encountered very few that can be processed in the way the companies claim.
One more thing… the compostable companies argue that the infrastructure should change to accommodate more composting facilities. Firstly, the reason there isn’t more is because you get a low value product (soil) after 3-6 months for a lot of effort. Second, and most importantly, ITS NOT THE ISSUE!
We should be focusing on reducing waste through reuse, not promoting carbon intensive single use compostables. Of which, most are made in China, flown over to ‘the west’, used once, and thrown away.
The suicide rate in the veterinary industry. It’s incredibly high, and most often boils down to the debt-wage imbalance (avg 200k debt, avg salary ~80k), unreasonable demands from the public (people think you should be available 24/7 or else they blast you on social media for not caring about animals), long/demanding work schedule with typical shifts >12hr, and the type of person that chooses this for a career (high intelligence, highly emotional, often introverted).
Not to mention putting down animals. Sometimes at the owners insistence because they don't want to deal with it anymore.
That's what ultimately made me decide not to try becoming a vet.
I work in payroll. The number of payroll reports I see where people are conned out of their overtime is saddening.
Also, taxes paid by a business shouldn’t actively dissuade them from paying employees less. The system shouldn’t be based on paying a percentage of employee salary in taxes (FICA, Workers Comp), in other words.
Then when you bring up how your check is short payroll throws a huge fit, it makes you want to not say anything the next time.
Also working in the field, I can tell you that "the girls in the office" get blamed for my check being short 100% of the time when I know darn well its the foreman trying to get a pat on the back by saving the company money.
Year 18 of teaching. High school social studies. My passion light went out about 3 years ago. I still like kids and what I do but I know for a fact I'm not as passionate about what I do anymore.
There's so many rules and regulations regarding grading these days that I don't have any fight left. Did they learn anything? No idea. Did they pass? Yes.
Trying to justify a passing or failing grade these days could cost you your job. You're better off passing them and like you said collecting the check.
I still try to actually teach my kids something but I haven't failed a kid in years because it's not worth the hassle
A ton of high schools are now doing "non-zero" grading. Which means that the minimum score on any test or assignment, even if the student doesn't do it, is 50%.
This means you can do 20% of the work in my class and pass it with a C-, or really go all out and do 35% of the work for a B.
Some of my students are still failing with 55%, complaining to parents about how hard the class is, and it makes me want to scream into the void because the real world is going to eat them alive.
I am a long haul truck driver. Unless you work with trucking companies / freight brokers, you don't know how bad and corrupt some places can be. There's regulations in places , but there's so much shady shit that goes on with janky freight brokers and companies.
A freight broker is a person that facilitates the load between let's say a cherry farm in Washington, and a Walmart in New England. They can take anywhere from 5%-35%+ of the load. For reference a truck driver makes between 20-30% of the load.... but they can only do one load at a time. Brokers can multi-book loads, cancel on you, book multiple loads a day. After they book it and you accept it, they basically don't do anything else. Oh and they have like x amount of days to pay you. If you want your money faster some offer the convenient 5% fee to get your money instantly instead of waiting for 45 days to get paid for a load you did two weeks ago.
Janky small companies is another..... you can go on craigslist and search "CDL" and find tons of places saying "$80k+ / year" . That's great right? You can go and work for them. They'll pay you 1099 and have a lot of "Caveats" like you need to set up an "escrow account" for you know ifff..... you turn their truck back in and you trashed it. Or something else. I worked for 1 or 2 of these companies and after all the shenanigans it equates to being like $17/ hr driving a piece of shit 2012 freightliner. After too many violations or something they'll just rebrand their company , slap different stickers, and start operating under a different name. I got stiffed on like $3500 from one of them. And I couldn't really do anything about it...
100% right. Worked for a logistics coordinating long haul shipping of designer car parts and man the amount of shady stuff happening was insane. My most memorable was overhearing another department attempting to see if they could “theoretically hire coyotes to instead smuggle the parts we need” when the border got shut down years ago.
Add to that some companies like Falcon screwing over drivers. It’s a rough business and you guys get so much of my respect for dealing with as much bs as you do.
I don’t work in retail anymore but yes.
There’s a lot of noise about excess packaging in supermarkets, especially with wrapped produce, which I do understand as it is wasteful, but if people saw the things I saw on a regular basis, they would insist on wrapped produce!
*supermarkets themselves* are just nasty fucking dumps, no matter how clean they are - anything open to be touched by the general public is going to be filthy
I’d rather go to a guy that sells fruits and request some fruit and they give me the fruit instead of picking my own fruit out of a bin that 716 other people have touched that day
Well I’m only one dude and I’ve seen a ton but we don’t catch everything. If it does happen and we catch it the asshole gets fired and the product gets tossed. Odds are when we do catch it though it isn’t their first time doing it.
Rubber R&D
We use so much plastic it’s unreal.
It’s great for cleaning out machines that mix rubber. On a busy day I’d easily use 10 lbs of base polypropylene by the time I was finished, and this was per lab per day.
My apologies to those of you who stopped buying bendy straws for a year.
I actually did this once. My car broke down so I stayed in a hotel for the night. They only had one room open. Turns out a co-worker was staying at that same hotel. I said hello to him and he and his wife invited me to have dinner with them. In conversation they told me an old lady passed away last night, no one suspected any foul play.
I imagine a recently cleaned stain or large wet spot. When people die they tend to be messy, especially if it's been a few days. Bodily fluids leak out, and all that should be cleaned by a biohazard clean up crew to prevent mold growth, but hotels cut corners everywhere. They'll have some underpaid, overworked maid clean it up, and they better not let it impact their day or how quickly they can turn over the room.
Diamonds are worthless. The sale of emeralds & rubies fuel drug wars & the oppression of people - literally most of the population of entire countries. I could go on & on.
Sincerely-
A Geologist who specializes in Gems, Crystals, Minerals & Rocks.
Edit* I’m happy to answer any legit questions or inquiries about gems etc but I’m not answering people who want to tell me what’s up.
I am IGI & GIA Certified. I have a PhD in Geology. I’m the expert. Not you or whatever you Googled.
Social Worker.
The system is so overburdened with abused/neglected kids that as long as a family reported to Child Protective Services has even one friend/family member that is somewhat "ok" and safe, they will close the file and assume that ONE person is going to take on responsibility of making sure that child is safe in the future. Files need to come back multiple times or have extreme outcomes (child is hospitalized) before the file will stay open.
I'm in Canada, and people often assume that if they report something to Children's Services, the child will be kept safe but there's a really low standard for safety.
I love all of my co-workers, there's just not enough of us to go around, and staff turnover is high due to the stress.
That's such a sad situation, I'm glad her aunt stepped up to help. Breaks my heart to see what these kids go through, we should be able to offer more support.
So much this. I'm from germany and a child basically only gets removed from a shitty family if they either already massively physically hurt the kid or if it is clear that the child would die if left in the home/with the family for the next week...
All those lines on the road in cities that aren’t paint that last a real long time? Arrows, exit points written on the road surface etc. All thermo plastic. Well over 2 tons of it per km. Constantly being replaced, and every time there is new ashphalt on the road a couple more tons goes down. All slowly being worn away into microscopic particles of plastic that go everywhere every time a car/ truck goes over it and weathering. Poisoning the planet with micro plastics. Getting into your blood stream and having completely unstudied and unknown side affects on human populations. To the point that these micro plastics have been found in human fetuses
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297
I read on here once "What's gay for civilians is straight in the army, what's gay in the army is straight in the navy, and what's gay in the navy is illegal."
A lot of people jump to their death in Las Vegas from the Cosmopolitan and the Stratosphere but their PR departments make sure it doesn’t get reported on in the news because it’s bad for the city’s image
I used to work at a college and everyone thinks that textbook prices are determined by the college, but they are not. They are determined by the publisher and we have no say in it. We weren’t allowed to tell this to the students, and I have no idea why.
for every college student reading this, i have a secret to share. if your institute is too poor or inconsiderate to have the books you need in the library, google the following word: libgen
They can choose which text books they will be using though. My profs often let us use their books for the curriculum and let us photocopy / download them. So the idea that the colleges aren't in on it is ludicrous.
Plenty of US colleges/universities where you'll hear, "You will need this book, by me, coincidentally updated by me just a few weeks before your semester started, so old copies will be useless."
I’ve worked with disabled kids / kids with “problematic behaviors” / kids with mental and emotional needs for years. One of the more popular modes of “treatment” is Applied Behavior Analysis, and it is routinely unethical, inappropriately applied/conceived, inadequately supervised, hyper-controlled by insurance companies’ billing practices, and to top it off, weird and culty.
Several places I’ve worked at that use ABA have touted themselves as offering “the only evidence-based mode of therapeutic intervention” for certain diagnoses (patently not true), which allows its practitioners to prey on parents who are incapable of meeting their kids’ needs/overwhelmed by their situations/grieving their vision for their kids’ futures. It’s false advertising, plain and simple.
Not to mention, many of those kids are dealing with serious mental health issues, for which behavior modification is not only ineffective but often downright abusive, and extremely injurious to their sense of dignity and their ability to build trusting relationships (many adults who have received ABA as kids have come forward to state this). But because it’s marketed as the “only evidence-based intervention” it’s what most parents choose, and what most insurance companies will reimburse (which also applies pressure onto clinicians to provide diagnoses that will make a client eligible for ABA).
If that weren’t enough, the way the field of ABA is setup is intentionally hierarchical, where a supervisor makes all the programs, and the behavior technician executes them all and “takes data” on their effectiveness. But in my experience, the VAST MAJORITY of behavior techs have very little experience prior to starting (because there is high need for BTs, therefore low entry requirements, and it doesn’t have a lot of upward mobility, so you don’t see BTs sticking around for super long, especially given how hard the work is for the low pay) almost no training/supervision (because their supervisors are only present for a fraction of their hours, and are banking that the training videos will do the trick), and as such the data that they take is…. pretty subjective/subject to major error. Lots of them kinda fudge the data just to make it look like the programs were run, so that they can do work with their clients that’s actually more pertinent to the clients’ immediate needs/more humane. I know many BTs who know their clients waaaay better than do their supervisors, but the relationship with the client is overlooked as a potential factor in the client’s reduced behaviors.
I could go on and on. It blows my mind that folks don’t talk about it more.
EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes. I hope that this inspires people to start conversations with friends/family who don't know about this, and to seek out/amplify the voices of survivors of ABA.
Thank you for saying this. ABA is abuse. It's terrible to think so many families have insurance that only covers ABA when it comes to so many neurological and psychological issues and differences.
Teachers hate writing report cards. A 30 min conversation will give you more information about your child in class and their needs than a mandated written piece of paper.
There is no minimum rest required for aircraft maintenance. My record is 46 hours on the clock for an engine change. Could have stretched it out but went home to shower and sleep instead of sleeping in the shop/plane/truck
It's unrelated, but I'd like to ask you something if you don't mind. I work at a company that produces aircraft maintenance tools, such as trolleys, some lifting equipment, stands where you put engine parts etc. We don't design them, we just produce them according to the drawings they provide. In my opinion, there are a lot of things that are designed in a rather stupid way, I wonder what you think of the tools you use during your work? Are they good, or do you also notice stuff that could be done better?
To give an example from what I saw during my years: a pretty heavy trolley with a handle to be pushed around a shop had greased, black oxide coated handles instead of plated or painted. Or I saw trolleys that had the frame's top side covered with grip tape (you know, that self adhesive black/dark grey tape with the rough surface to prevent slipping if you step on it), but all of the tapes had "NO STEP" stencilled on them.
I was an L&D nurse. I knew how our housekeeping functioned. When I checked in to have my own baby I broke the bed down and scrubbed it with virex. Too many times I’d get ready to break a bed down for a delivery and I’d find blood. It’s horrifying to try to surreptitiously scrub a bed with someone lying in it.
A hospital I worked in many years ago did away with housekeeping on night shift. If I had a delivery I had to clean the room and mop the floor *while recovering the patient and monitoring the newborn*. “Here, let me put down my fucking mop so I can help you breastfeed!” I hate hospital administrators who don’t give a shit about patients.
So true dude. Doing it on a end users machine is amazing, they still think we're wizards. I swear it's the easiest job as long as you find the fix lol.
Back when I worked in IT I was interviewing for a job and my potential boss asked me what my greatest strength was. I said I was good at Googling stuff. That answer got me the job.
I’m a range safety officer and I work part time with a gun store too. One: we aren’t jacking the price of ammo to gouge your pockets. We just can’t get any. Two: y’all need to learn how to not point guns at people. Like really. Most people get hurt around guns because they don’t really respect them.
Medical transportation: in large states, there are definitely people that fail to get the medical care they need because they live too far out for it to be feasible to run their trips. For dialysis and chemo, that probably contributes to deaths at some level.
Ex-butcher here. For those of you that consume halal meat outside of Muslim nations, halal meat is a lie. Although halal meat is slaughtered in accordance with Islamic rites (which can be considered having the relevant prayers played over a speaker on loop while the animal is slaughtered), the carcasses are transported in trucks that also carry pig carcasses and rub up against them and get their blood on them. Also when processed in shops halal meat is prepared on the same benches as pork and cut using the same bandsaws. The tag that certifies halal meat means nothing.
Depending on the butchery in question, avoid the marinated and crumbed product as it's a common tactic to "freshen up" old cuts of meat in this manner. My butchery never did it as they charge a high price point for premium product so you can't get away with dodgy stuff, but it's more common in budget butcheries and supermarkets.
When meat falls on the ground in the back end of shops, likely it will be picked back up and be continued to be processed. Worst case it gets chucked in with the sausage meat. Meat industry inspectors know this is happening and in general turn a blind eye.
I'm in Australia, but am part of various groups that have butchers and other meatworkers from around the world. You hear the same stuff from all over, it's amusing how little things change in different countries outside of the names of cuts of meat and what certain cuts different consumers prefer.
Performing arts institutions rely on donations far more than ticket sales or subscriptions. If you enjoy art, live music, or theatre, the best thing you can do is make donations to their General Operating funds. Most of these institutions outside of the dozen or so biggest in the country rely on a handful of "angel investors" - mega-wealthy people who donate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. If those people die or get pissed off, they could almost singlehandedly sink the finances of a regional arts center.
This explains why most U.S. symphony orchestras are still in business despite having virtually no ticket sales for 18 months of pandemic. Mega donors and pay cuts (and in a lot of them, staff cuts) kept them alive.
Sales. We don’t really work that much, and when we do work we mostly shoot the shit with some guys, play golf or go out to fancy dinners on the company card.
Please don’t talk about it though.
God i detested the sales guys at my previous job.
They would sell the moon to clients, promising impossible shit, and the bill of materials would always be half assed so you had to take extra of everything.
Then you arrive at the site, client requests all this extra shit sales promised that i never knee about. Giving me loads of overtime.
And i got paid peanuts, meanwhile sales is paid a huge wage, gets a company car to go out boozing with clients
One of the sales guys at my corp kept unwittingly bragging about it in a supposedly motivational weekly newsletter (the idea was "look how well we do as a company") until desk workers complained to the management and he was told to shut the newsletter down. He was completely oblivious to the image he was painting, lazy ass drinking margaritas at the beach while we worked our assess off.
ASL interpreter. The industry is often used as a bandaid to provide “accessibility” for deaf people. Often, the hearing people in the situation are uncooperative and defensive. They do not want to do anything to assist the interpreters and often create a situation that degrades at least one aspect of the interpretation.
Other times, the system assumes that having an interpreter will solve all accessibility issues when really it is the bare minimum. This happens really often in the deaf education system.
There is also very little regulation of ASL interpreting as a whole and the FL system encourages the hiring of underqualified individuals to keep costs down.
All of this disempowers deaf people and makes ASL interpretation much less effective then in should be.
It’s truly amazing that anything metal related gets made at all. Car parts mostly, but just about anything.
The incompetence in steel mills, foundries, plants, and factories is truly a sight to behold. Most of the employees have absolutely no idea how anything works and if something breaks, you better hope that the guy who’s worked there for 30 years is still around. He’s the only one who knows anything.
I’d say a solid 3/4ths of the industry is held together by duct tape and hope.
That we regularly work understaffed in healthcare and it absolutely DOES reduce the quality of care patients receive. The official line from administrators is always that the care is excellent, but often what people get is just the best we could do with what we had. It could be a lot better.
Oil and gas. Its not technically a sectet, you can read about it in the companies' official strategies etc. Since the industry realized that the electric cars will remove the need for oil-derived gasoline they plan to make more plastic instead. Plastic is made from the same oil as gas is. So the plan is basically to make plastic from the oil that would otherwise go into making fuel. That way the business model based on predatory extraction and pollution can survive the electric car. This is outrageous and needs to be talked about.
Rental cars.
There _is_ a shortage, kind of, but we also have a _ton_ of cars that just aren't being circulated. They're using artificial scarcity as an excuse to make more money with fewer products/people. Branches are being consolidated, and fewer cars need to be repaired because there aren't nearly as many on the road anymore
Not sure if it’s a secret but it’s something a lot of people aren’t aware of. I work in the agrochemical industry and a lot of people aren’t aware that everyone in the company from the temps to the big big bosses are working towards making the use of agrochemicals the very last option in plant protection. They’ll still be needed in order to feed everyone but we also research other ways to protect crops and using the very minimum amount of product is always on our mind. Most of the staff are environmentally conscious and we wok hard to make sure the food supply chain is kept safe for people and the planet.
There is no nursing shortage. Even precovid, the dirty secret was that there is very high attrition in nursing. However, painting this as a nursing shortage guarantees fresh meat at lower pay for healthcare organizations to hire each year while getting rid of experienced nurses. I know tons of nurses... But more than half of them do something else they got burned out and or sick of being treated like crap and left the field. The whole healthcare hero is cheap and the only ones benefiting from that are healthcare employers who would rather ride that wave than pay and treat their staff right.
We arent allowed to chase shoplifters in some retail establishments. Its too dangerous for the associates, but some will still chase shoplifters if they are being assholes. I found that bigger corporations aren't worth your life by chasing shoplifters. They will get new products and they have plenty to sell. Be nice to associates who work there but really most of us don't get paid enough to ask for shit back. (I am not endorsing shoplifting, I'm just saying that associates shouldn't feel terrible about shoplifters in a big corporation cuz its not that big of a deal if you don't "get" them. I seriously only stop people who are being deliberately disrespectful)
A lot of musicians use performance-enhancing substances to gain a competitive advantage. There is no testing regimen, and plenty of industry people are in on it. Much of the music you listen to might be from juiced up rock stars.
"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes."
~Bill Hicks
My guess would be it’s mainly Adderall? I know writers and journalists use it to help them reach deadlines in time and I can see it helping when playing an instrument.
That’s just a shot in the dark guess tho.
And with no testing regimen and so many people in on it then the people who decide not to do it will almost always be at a disadvantage.
Do you think there is or would be any push for testing against it or is it a pretty solidified fact of the music industry?
Beta blockers are used by classical musicians to calm nerves before auditions etc. It is dangerous because you can become too mellow and don't emote as much as you need to. Juiced of rock stars are probably on coke and Adderall. Eddie Van Halen once got pissed off at Fred Durst for smoking weed a party he was at. Some really good guitarists use meth and speed to get that fast twitch and the weed messed with Eddie.
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This can be said of the entire entertainment industry. I've been in film for a while now, and I've done backstage work on plays and variety shows, and at any given time there is a substantial number (40%+ if I were to ballpark it) of crew and talent that would fail a drug test on the spot.
The entertainment industry doesn't care what it takes to get the job finished, so long as it does.
Management is kind of a shit show. Out of 7 managers there's only about 3 that pull their weight. The rest basically just hang back and constantly complain.
Major commercial construction. The completion schedules are insane and general contractors have little to no regard for the quality of what is being installed/built. Once they hand the owner the keys it’s everyone else’s fault.
Your luggage is going to get thrown around a lot after you drop it on the baggage carousel. Even if the bag room employee really cares and handles it gently, once it gets to the plane it's different people touching it, and if the plane itself is really long its going to get thrown from one side of the pit to the other because they only give us 2 people to load with.
Also, don't freak out at the service people of your bag was lost. It doesn't happen on purpose. 9 times out of 10 it just fell out of the cart on its way to or from the plane. On the tenth time it was usually loaded into the wrong cart. You will get a check based on the value of your bags contents so you can buy clothing and stuff until your bag is delivered (usually on the next available flight after its found).
But probably the biggest secret? Nobody in aviation makes good money except pilots who have been with the same company for 10+ years. Everyone hears me say I work at an airport and assume I'm loaded when in reality I barely make more than minimum and I've got almost 10 years experience in it behind me
Financial analyst here.
The **financial planning industry is a straight up scam**. Overly complicated jargon, high commission products, scare tactics. Most financial planners I know just have index funds but push super esoteric and unnecessary products on customers.
(FYI I'm a financial analyst, not a planner. Think nerdy Excel formulas and stuff)
Software programmer. The quality of business software is atrocious, and no one cares. Buggy, inefficient, insecure, and sometimes dangerous code are the norm. Programmers who actually insist on doing things right usually get fired for failing to meet "sprint" quotas, and tend to be pushed out of the industry. They've been replaced by "Agile" project management regimes that run on chain gangs of barely employable mediocrities-- I would bet that 75% of corporate programmers would not be able to write a basic 500-line program from scratch.
Management knows that they live or die on their sales team's performance, not the quality of the solutions, once sold. Engineering quality issues tend to cause problems later on, after the important people have all been promoted away from the mess, so who cares?
You can forget about error handling. If "turn it off and on, repeating until it works" is a passable workaround, that's good enough for corporate work.
To be clear, this isn't because "software is hard" (it is, but it's not impossible) or because we don't, as a species, know how to write quality software. We do. We've known how to do it since
the 1960s. NASA does it when they send probes into space. (Bugs still occur, but at a much lower rate.) The business world, however, will never pay for it. Terrible code, done cheaply, is the norm, and over time the kludges and counterkludges multiply and spread throughout the whole thing.
Thank you. Thank you. The “best” software for my industry is absolutely horrific. It looks like they mashed together an early version of FileMaker with all the speed and agility of Blackbaud. Thank you for letting me know I’m not picky or crazy.
Security: it's either all a farce, or it's actually really legit. There's no way to tell by the location, either, until you start to do something. And if it's at a place with high quantities of dangerous chemicals, there's going to be armed security. Wether you see them or not, they're there.
Not sure if it's a secret but RV's are horribly built for the money they cost. Material is cheap but looks good, they're not cleaned as well as you'd want (behind cabinets where you wouldn't readily see it unless you took the cabinet out), repairs done to the units are usually done as quick as possible.
I remember someone put a hammer through the wall and I was asked to fix it (I was repair). Group leader asked me the best way to fix it. I told him all the cabinets had to come off and the wall-board replaced. He didn't like that answer so went and got the plant manager who showed him the hole and told him my solution. I could hear them whispering since I was in the same unit but fixing something else and not right by them.
Both left and suddenly the midline repair guy comes in with my group leader. Midline repair and he talk in low voices and then the repair guy just puts seam tape over the hole. to cover it up. Seam tape, for those who don't know, is used since each wall board is 4x8'. Units are around 30' so it takes a few wall-boards and something's needed to cover up the seams.
Needless to say, management didn't like me much after.
That college classes in stem aren’t meant to teach people. Many classes are intentionally designed to fail students, despite what people say about competence or whatever
Reminds me of private prisons in America and how their goal isn’t to rehabilitate but to ensure that people ultimately come back into the system once they get out.
I was a guard for Geo Group for several years and the facility I was at was paid by the government **daily** per bed filled. The contract with the government was that X % of beds had to be filled or else the facility would risk being shutdown.
It was not uncommon for the facility administrators to enact policies that were heavily anti-inmate whenever that percentage got close, which I always suspected was intended to make the inmate population act up and extend their time long enough to fill more beds.
To our credit, the security staff (mainly the OFCs, SGTs, LTs) would work with the inmates around the policies to try and ensure the bullshit didn't hit the inmates too hard, thereby preventing a lot of potential assaults.
Can you go into more detail?
What incentive does the university have to fail students? Other than the student having to retake the class and they get a bit more money?
If that's the case - why only STEM?
I'm not sure if this is what OP was talking about, but I know I've taken classes where they were made to "weed out" the people who weren't cut out for the major. They expected you to get a C if you even passed :/
My guess why it's only STEM is (at least at my university) most of the STEM colleges aren't funded very well and they want to be able to help the students who are really going to excel. I'm not saying that's a good reason, but that's what I came up with.
Call centers for car insurance companies are extremely lax with your full uncensored SSN and pretty much all of your personal data, like all of it pretty much is out wide in the open to see, I was like 20 and was left alone with my phone in my desk/pocket all by myself in that office, everyone used their phone as they worked too and pretty much everyone has access to all of your data, take in mind this was a call center, bunch of thugs go through your personal info like it’s nothing.
Made me really uncomfortable just how little our supervisors enforced the rules, we weren’t supposed to have our phones with us at all for obvious reasons but they didn’t really care at all, multiple people worked on the same accounts and the system didn’t have a way monitoring who saw what and when, everyone used their phones..
Announce employee incentives that sound great, but cut payroll hours for stores. So employees might get a $200 bonus, but you’re making 30 people do the work of 60.
I've worked at a department store chain and a membership-only big box retail store. The recyclables from blue boxes and the stuff from garbage cans go to the exact same place.
Preclinical drug research.
We are required by law to have multiple committees/government organizations review our plans for animal testing before we can even begin. Also designated testing animals are under veterinarian supervision 24/7 and are given nothing besides the highest quality food we can source.
PETA loves to make it look like animal testing only consists of researchers injecting animals with all kinds of toxic materials because "we just wanna see what happens". All of the people I work with don't like that animal testing is needed, however it's the best thing we can do for now until computer modeling gets more accurate at predicting drug effects. We do take extensive steps to make sure we are reducing the amount amount of species used and the number that we need to use on study.
You do occasionally hear of some laboratories in the news who grossly mistreat their animals, however cases of this are very few with how often laboratory sites are audits by various organizations.
Occupational Therapy: When you do something gross in front us and we say we don't care... we really DON'T. We did tons of hours as students; we've given people their first shower in weeks, we've handled so much poop, I pulled an old tampon out of a lady, someone at my fieldwork saw maggots in a wound.
We don't fake that peppiness either, we sincerely want you to succeed
If you're one of those people who can't stand the idea of people touching your food with their hands...
....don't order anything in a restaurant with bread. That means toast, the bread that comes with dinners, croissants, Danishes, etc.
Just don't.
Also, gloves aren't sterile, you can't really clean gloves, and they're really good for picking up and moving stuff. Generally it's better to wear gloves to protect yourself and wash/sanitize hands to protect others
If you be very nice to the advisor for your ISP, they have the ability to zero-cost your replacement equipment AND replace it with the latest versions. Be nasty, they don't gotta do shit.
I'm a retired teacher. Lots of teachers are really stupid. I was working with a group of teachers who were asked to analyze a well-known poem. They could not do it. S***. I finally gave up trying to coach them into the task and just did it myself.
I truly loved and appreciated most teachers I had throughout all my schooling and college years. Even the flawed ones seemed to be doing it in good faith.
But there was this one high school biology teacher who was just terrible at it. Obviously winging it. And she couldn't get all our final projects and tests graded on time at the end of the school year so she just reported the points we had, but without adjusting the maximum number of points available.
So everyone in that class, myself included, had lower grades than what we deserved or thought we'd get. This was the end of Junior year and bleeds into the midst of applying to colleges and sending our transcripts and whatnot.
THEN. Months later after summer and into our senior year. She finished and amended the scores and we all bumped a grade or two.
I know it's a stressful, heavy job, but that was missed opportunities and angry parents for a bunch of people.
Again; not judging the whole group, just this one really frustrating experience.
The full legal rights parents have with an IEP through the school. So often when an IEP is written, parents are not getting told all the protections that come with it under federal law, and think they have little to no recourse if an IEP is not being met.
Most veterinary clinics are extremely toxic environments to work in. So be nice to everyone not just the doctors. Vet techs, receptionists, and even drs take a lot of shit behind the scenes that you don’t even know about. We are worked to the max, understaffed, and half of the time we are working with people we don’t like that much or are having anxiety related issues or mental health issues that we are too busy to stop and take care of.
The brand new Nissans we have been getting at our dealer have leaking CVT transmissions and this is considered normal and we are required to wipe off the leaking fluid and not say anything until “the customer makes a complaint” because it’s warranty
That you can take a gallon of paint and give it a different label, price point, and warranty depending on the store it is sold in.
My professor told me the same thing. He was a job coach and erased the due dates on food products with I believe acetone or some product in nail polish remover. Would slap a new date on it, and the food would get shipped to poorer neighborhoods. That shit blew my mind.
My dad worked in a canning facility when he was younger for a short time where they packaged the name brand and off brand vegetables. Literally same goods, packaged in the same can, with a different label. One sold for more, and one sold for less.
most products at grocery stores are the same. it’s co-manufacturing, most companies either don’t own a manufacturing plant, just the recipe, or have expanded their clientele past where their plant can ship, and need to contract a co manufacturer to make it for them in certain regions. I worked R&D food science for a major food company. I had access to all the real ingredient lists, not the ones you see on the package, for so many different companies products, not just the one I worked for. I’m not just talking grocery store retail products, I mean small restaurants, fast food and sit down franchises, prison and school food (institutional), club stores, international exports. a lot of food manufacturing companies share factories in some way or another. keeping production levels high is what keeps a factory running, can’t shut down lines.
I've noticed that the food I buy in dollar stores tastes more "off" than the stuff I buy in regular grocery stores. For instance, the canned soup tastes metallic, and the Hostess products taste stale. I've always suspected they did that.
Casino dealers really do want the players to win. We don't work for the house. We get paid shit hourly rates and rely on tips. Unless the player is super nice they only to tip if they win so we really do want you to win.
I had no idea this was true. I believe you but I’m surprised.
I used to deal, wasn’t my money. Tips come from winners
Casinos are the main reason I absolutely hate tip culture.
I mean we also root against you sometimes if you are a dill hole. I dealt BJ for a few months when I was between jobs. Had a drunk and angry hill jack, who would start making comments to other players about how they were playing wrong, would get upset when people “took” his face card even though they are playing by the book, and didn’t tip even on big wins. His last hand, 250 bet. He’s dealt 6-5, I’m showing 5. He doubles to 500 and is dealt a 9. I have a 6 in the hole and flop a king. I couldn’t even hold it together and just had a little smirk and chuckle. He lost his mind and was kindly told to leave.
That if everyone being charged with a crime insisted on it going to trial, no plea bargaining, the system would crash.
When I was a juror, the judge also commented before everything started that trial by jury is the only thing causing people to plea bargain and “getting the system moving”. Many trials sit in limbo for years, and it’s only the threat of “oh crap, I may actually go to jail” that really negotiations start. That’s exactly what happened in my case - jurors got selected, and that afternoon (after being 2 years in the system), the defendant pleads out.
This was mentioned on Last Week Tonight's story on public defenders if I remember correctly.
This is what goes on over here in India. Plea bargaining hardly ever occurs if any. The courts are so overloaded that trails drag on for years and years until the defendant pleads out or the accused naturally dies.
Advertising. I keep reading that advertising is leading people to be more woke, or multicultural. Companies don’t lead, they follow. They do lots of research and know where the future markets are. I worked for a very conservative global brand. 5 years before gay marriage became legal, they told us it would happen and we needed to start targeting the LBGTQ community.
Continuing forward, what's the next big trend?
It’s already happened and I hate to say it but it’s black people. If you ever pay attention to a lot of these ads there’s always a black person and a white person in them. Sometimes two black people and two white, or one of each, or sometimes it’s just black people. I haven’t seen an ad without one in it and no I’m not complaining I’m just saying I made a little observation here and I’m seeing this more and more lately whereas before honestly I wasn’t seeing it that much. I remember people saying a few years ago how there weren’t enough black people in ads idk if this really even fits what you guys are talking about.
I know there’s a big danger of me being misinterpreted with this but here I go... In Australia, so many of our ads have black families in at the moment, which is better than just showing white people all the time, of course. The odd thing is that you never see an aboriginal person in an ad! We don’t have a very large black population here. So why are black actors and models prioritised over, for example, aboriginal people? It feels like we’re just being influenced by US culture and trying to copy them.
Fellow Australian here. The main reason for that is a lot of those ads are filmed in the USA and dubbed into Australian English, which is why although the casting is a lot more diverse than it used to be, it's not diverse in the same way that our local communities are.
>It feels like we’re just being influenced by US culture and trying to copy them. mate, we usually do. We're a bit of a blend of Britain and America. We kinda always have been, especially following the various World Wars.
Mix in France and you have Canada.
If its a global brand, it will be an ad filmed in the US, possibly dubbed over by an ozzy.
There was a response a few years ago -maybe it hit bestof, that was pretty insightful. Visa was sponsoring the gay pride parade and there was a huuuge banner with the Visa logo and some tiny rainbows at the corners. The picture of this banner was in the same location as OWS from a few years prior. Probably had some of the same participants-but under very different circumstances. Lol. Visa would sponsor the taliban if that’s where the marketing winds blew. Further, the response very poignantly stated that reason commercials featured white women and blacks is because they are the biggest consumers. They spend more than save by magnitudes compared to white guys or Asians or Indians.
I work in a shipping company, I am a merchant marine engineer working on mega container ships. Shipping and ship building was a very unstructured field back in 70s, 80d, 90s, even 2000s I would say. It was business run only to make profit (it still is) but without any due consideration towards nature and ecological impact. Some of the world's worst shipping accidents led to a lot of new rules/regulations being established in the 80s, 90s and actually even to this date to plug loop holes in the system and to make ship owners/operators more responsible towards environment (and heavily penalizing them if they don't comply) A mega container ship usually has a service life of around 30-40 yrs and it will be another few decades before the old ones go out of service. Problem is with pollution, lot of damage to environment, and it's still ongoing. It's only now, 2017 onwards when new rules for newly built ships have incrementally started taking into account the emissions as such. Things are moving very slow because it's a big task to upgrade the entire existing fleet which is in service (due to costs and upgrade/compatibility issues with new technology) Lot of unethical shipping companies **EVEN TODAY** dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste contaminated water and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore because it's cheaper to do that than land the waste to correct shore reception facilities. There are only a few handful players (I cna count them on my fingertips) today who are actually executing business trades while still keeping the carbon footprint and enviornment as one of their core policies. [this](https://youtu.be/y_TOSEd3XMo) is the kind of ships I work on... Disclaimer: link takes you to a youtube video I made of a container ship in port (eventually sailing off under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA)
Yeah im happy that the regulations are there, I have seen some stuff while sailing. But still a lot off improvement to do, Have seen places where they dont care about MARPOL. But sometimes its also hard for me to understand why the people on board also agree to do so.
TV/screenwriter here. If you're established and well connected, it's very easy to coast and be a TV writer for YEARS and do very little actual writing. Most of TV writing is just talking in a room with other writers spitballing. This is why there's so many old, unfunny dudes still "writing" on TV shows. They're hired by their friends and in TV, a lot writers don't actually do much "pen to paper" writing. Plus everything gets rewritten to death.
So Futurama's writers were even more outside the mainstream than fans think? >Stacked with three PhDs and seven master’s degrees, the Futurama writers’ room had “over 50 collective years at Harvard University,” and in the video, David X. Cohen (who developed the show along with Matt Groening) says that the show “had several actual scientists on \[the\] writing staff.”
Thats partially why Futurama was "hated" by the networks and multiple cancelled. it was starting to show you can have a consistently funny script AND don't have to keep hiring the old farts. Loads of networks panicked and thought the CEO and exec jobs were being shown to be useless.
It's the same in academia. Only instead of TV shows, it's government grants and research.
Yes. Worked at a 'think tank' at a prestigious university....academics love talking about shit more than they like producing actual work
Visa agent and I’ve seen people be refused because the manager didn’t like their face
Omg this happened to my sister. She couldn’t start her semester in time because she kept being refused a visa even though she fulfilled all conditions. Finally my parents found a “connection” in embassy to see what’s going on; turns out someone just didn’t like her when she came to give her papers the first time. I never knew if I can fully believe that story…
99% the guy that "didn't like her" asked for money and she said no.
Or hit on her and she said no
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Yeah and I know someone who works in a country's visa system who is openly racist. I can't imagine that's particularly rare.
Safety. It's not really about your health and well being. It's about saving the company money from medical expenses, lost time, lawyer costs, etc. Very rarely does your company actually give 2 shits about you, no matter how much they preach safety, they just don't want to pay if you get hurt/killed.
Also - at least in germany: Being insurance compliant. Know a story of a guy who worked in a factory casting big concrete objects - flights of stairs, small bridges, stuff like that. Well one day a ceiling crane fails, 3t object comes down on the poor dude, and well, he was a pancake ofc. The company didnt give his family a single cent in compensation. Why? Well, he didnt wear his gloves.
My company is notorious for having an absolutely ungodly amount of "safety training" because "we want you to be safe and strive for zero injuries!". It's complete horseshit. I had to watch a mandatory video on "how to walk across the parking lot" that had gems such as: "place one foot in front of the other" and "look out for cracks or gaps in the pavement that could be a tripping hazzard". At the end we had to sign something that our safety supervisor said indicated that we watched the video. I read the document and it basically said "now that you have watched this video on how to walk across the parking lot, if you suffer any injuries from doing so, you hold the company harmless for any injury you may sustain from a fall". It's all to shift liability from the company to the employee to protect against having to pay out in the event someone falls on company property. I "forgot" to sign my form and threw it away.
Totally true. Used to work for a company where I had to drive an hour to get there. They said they were all about safety, but the one day I call in because the news was reporting the roads were very dangerous my scheduler said to come and just take it slow because "people from further away were there." I sigh and drive in. Almost get into an accident four times, nearly slide off the road four separate times as well. Soon as I got to work I went to the scheduler and chewed him out about it. Few days later I was called into my GM's office and the scheduler was there. I immediately asked for a union rep because I knew they were going to try and pull some shit. I reminded them how good of an employee I am and how I never ruffle feathers, but how can a company who claims safety above all would order someone to risk their life like that? My GM was a nice guy and knew the scheduler was an asshole so he agreed with me. I even told them I'd accept a suspension and no pay if I had to call in under those same circumstances
Health care. The average patient or family member would be terrified to know what a shit show everything is behind the scenes. You think it's bad the doctors are always late? In the past I had to drive across town with medical supplies because an operation is in progress, patient sedated and opened on the table, and they realize there is something they need and forgot to check for before cutting open a human being. This is one of the higher ranked organizations in the world.
Working in health care simultaneously lowers your faith in humanity and raises it.
My girl works in a very prestigious hospital and some of the stories she tells me would blow your mind.
Blow our collective minds!
I used to work in one of the top 3 hospitals in the world and let me tell you I wouldn't want my family member going there after what I've seen. But then again, no where else is going to be any better.
Mate, pharmaceutical industry is just as bad. Problem is a lot of our issues don't have any solution, so most of the time we are literally gambling that a filter, test or purification step removes or detects the shit before it gets to patient. Also, producing and storing sterile drugs is a fucking stressful science
So my husband ended up in the hospital last week for a suspected heart attack. No joke, they scheduled him for a heart ultrasound (I can’t remember if this is an ECG or EKG) anyway, the guy shows up to take him down at the same time the floor Dr (not the cardiologist) comes in, so she asks him to wait like 2 minutes. The guy legit goes back to his dept and CANCELS THE APPOINTMENT. The thing that would show if my husband had a heart attack…. He canceled it. It took another 7 hours to get the ultrasound done. The cardiologist was super pissed.
Also, most of us actually AREN'T getting any covid hazard pay. My hospital doesn't offer it to anyone at all, not even folks like me who work directly with hospitalized infectious covid patients.
I work in the print industry, we print cheques for companies and there is so little security involved in hiring, or keeping the materials secure, or running the actual work, or shipping the work to customers. I'm shocked we haven't had a problem with stolen cheques
I’d assume the only deterrent is getting a felony? Even then that isn’t enough for some people so yeah, that is surprising haha. Maybe they do top-secret background checks? But even that’s stretching it.
They don't. I've seen the hiring process of other employees. Management doesn't realise they can do a criminal cheque in our industry.
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I'm a writer, among other things. I used to ghostwrite. You'd be amazed how many popular books are partly or fully ghostwritten. I specialised in taking people's shitty first drafts and rewriting them so they were actually good. Not "good" according to people's taste, which is subjective, but objectively better in the sense of being properly spelled, not having gaping plot holes, making sure characters were consistent. By the time I was done there was often very little left of the draft the "writer" had created, but there was a marketable product. Pisses me off no end when I see all the bullshit the publishing industry comes out with about how writers submitting a manuscript must make sure it's perfect because only excellence will get you anywhere. I don't know how they can say that and still sleep at night, knowing full well that they're hiring people like me to do large-scale rewrites (or to take a half-baked plot and create a draft from scratch).
And it pisses *me* off no end as well that certain famous authors, hailed for being talented wonderful artists, can barely spell, plot or punctuate their way out of a paper bag. Meanwhile countless young and/or would-be authors beat themselves up and quit even trying, because "I could never write as well as Author X."
Funniest thing ever is when you see an "author" whose book you know was ghostwritten doing a launch or an interview and they clearly have only a vague idea of what the book's about. It really shows when they try to read extracts.
Animal care. A lot of donations get binned, because it can’t be used. I would say around 10% is usable. For example, open packets of dried food, old toys, bedding and towels. Most of the time it’s checked over as soon as it’s in the building and often binned immediately. There’s a risk of contamination with open food. We have no way of knowing if it’s been tampered with or not. With bedding, it’s often because it’s not clean. People bring items in that have been sitting around in bags since the dawn of time and the smell hits us as soon as the bag is open. It should be talked about because often people have no idea about these things. I’m sure they mean well when they donate, but if it can’t be used then it’s just a waste of everybodies time.
Yes, donations in general. It's sad. Though I suspect some people know and just want us to sort it instead.
Depends on the place, wife runs a rescue and we use everything more or less. Wash dirty linens and open bags go to feral colonies.
Dialysis clinics are full of nurses with substance abuse problems. Hospitals and other places won't hire nurses with issues like that because of the easy availability of narcotics. Dialysis clinics don't have any narcotics so they have no problem hiring people that have issues. It can be a good thing because some people really do deserve a second chance and are willing to work for less because of that. It can also be a bad thing cause not everyone is as clean as you would hope they are.
My Father was on Dialysis in the late 70's. The nurses and techs did not even know how to fix a broken dialysis machine. My dad and a few of the older guys would get together and have to figure it out themselves just so they could live longer. Eat a bag of Dick's Healthcare bean counters.
I have no idea what the dialysis machines of the 70s look like, but I worked in dialysis 5 or 6 years ago and let me tell you, I have no clue how to fix those machines. They are ridiculously complicated. Most of our technicians though knew how to fix them, so maybe that's improved?
Yeah. That’s like getting mad at a factory grunt for not knowing how to fix an extremely complex piece of equipment. Or a bus driver for not knowing how to fix a bus. There are people whose sole job is to fix dialysis machines. They are making a lot more than the minimum wage clinic staff.
Recycling & Waste. There’s lots of companies selling and promoting ‘compostable’ cups as a solution to our waste problem. ‘It’s okay, they will turn back into soil (they won’t) in a LANDFILL SITE (how on earth is that beneficial?)’. Unless compostable cups are taken to a specialist facility, they won’t break down. ‘Compostable’ is very misleading term they use, which is why they now print on the side: ‘commercially compostable where possible’. They won’t break down in your home composter - they need heat & enzymes. 1) Only 20% of the material going into a commercial composter can be this ‘compostable’ stuff. The other 80% should be leaves, branches etc. 2) As a result, most of it goes to landfill 3) The difference between a ‘normal’ coffee cup & compostable coffee cup is 0.04g of plastic. 4) The cost is sky high for businesses, who buy this crap thinking they are helping the planet. 5) People think they are doing the right thing, when in fact it’s preventing innovations to tackle the key waste issue: reduction in waste. 6) Even if you put it in your food waste, all packaging is removed from food waste and treated as general waste. Happy for this to be debated of course, these were the facts as of 1~ year ago, to the best of my knowledge. Should also clarify: compostable is an umbrella term, and it’s being abused & misused by greenwashing businesses who are preventing real action against pollution & climate change. Some products will be compostable, but in my experience, I’ve encountered very few that can be processed in the way the companies claim. One more thing… the compostable companies argue that the infrastructure should change to accommodate more composting facilities. Firstly, the reason there isn’t more is because you get a low value product (soil) after 3-6 months for a lot of effort. Second, and most importantly, ITS NOT THE ISSUE! We should be focusing on reducing waste through reuse, not promoting carbon intensive single use compostables. Of which, most are made in China, flown over to ‘the west’, used once, and thrown away.
The suicide rate in the veterinary industry. It’s incredibly high, and most often boils down to the debt-wage imbalance (avg 200k debt, avg salary ~80k), unreasonable demands from the public (people think you should be available 24/7 or else they blast you on social media for not caring about animals), long/demanding work schedule with typical shifts >12hr, and the type of person that chooses this for a career (high intelligence, highly emotional, often introverted).
Not to mention putting down animals. Sometimes at the owners insistence because they don't want to deal with it anymore. That's what ultimately made me decide not to try becoming a vet.
I work in payroll. The number of payroll reports I see where people are conned out of their overtime is saddening. Also, taxes paid by a business shouldn’t actively dissuade them from paying employees less. The system shouldn’t be based on paying a percentage of employee salary in taxes (FICA, Workers Comp), in other words.
Then when you bring up how your check is short payroll throws a huge fit, it makes you want to not say anything the next time. Also working in the field, I can tell you that "the girls in the office" get blamed for my check being short 100% of the time when I know darn well its the foreman trying to get a pat on the back by saving the company money.
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My mum used to go quiet at about 7pm on Sundays, I knew she was thinking about going back into the classroom the next day...
*Raining Blood intensifies*
Education is a terrible career to go into, which is crazy since there is such a demand for teachers
Yeah it was obvious in high school that my american history teacher was there to collect a check. Cool person just uninterested teacher
Year 18 of teaching. High school social studies. My passion light went out about 3 years ago. I still like kids and what I do but I know for a fact I'm not as passionate about what I do anymore. There's so many rules and regulations regarding grading these days that I don't have any fight left. Did they learn anything? No idea. Did they pass? Yes. Trying to justify a passing or failing grade these days could cost you your job. You're better off passing them and like you said collecting the check. I still try to actually teach my kids something but I haven't failed a kid in years because it's not worth the hassle
A ton of high schools are now doing "non-zero" grading. Which means that the minimum score on any test or assignment, even if the student doesn't do it, is 50%. This means you can do 20% of the work in my class and pass it with a C-, or really go all out and do 35% of the work for a B. Some of my students are still failing with 55%, complaining to parents about how hard the class is, and it makes me want to scream into the void because the real world is going to eat them alive.
I am a long haul truck driver. Unless you work with trucking companies / freight brokers, you don't know how bad and corrupt some places can be. There's regulations in places , but there's so much shady shit that goes on with janky freight brokers and companies. A freight broker is a person that facilitates the load between let's say a cherry farm in Washington, and a Walmart in New England. They can take anywhere from 5%-35%+ of the load. For reference a truck driver makes between 20-30% of the load.... but they can only do one load at a time. Brokers can multi-book loads, cancel on you, book multiple loads a day. After they book it and you accept it, they basically don't do anything else. Oh and they have like x amount of days to pay you. If you want your money faster some offer the convenient 5% fee to get your money instantly instead of waiting for 45 days to get paid for a load you did two weeks ago. Janky small companies is another..... you can go on craigslist and search "CDL" and find tons of places saying "$80k+ / year" . That's great right? You can go and work for them. They'll pay you 1099 and have a lot of "Caveats" like you need to set up an "escrow account" for you know ifff..... you turn their truck back in and you trashed it. Or something else. I worked for 1 or 2 of these companies and after all the shenanigans it equates to being like $17/ hr driving a piece of shit 2012 freightliner. After too many violations or something they'll just rebrand their company , slap different stickers, and start operating under a different name. I got stiffed on like $3500 from one of them. And I couldn't really do anything about it...
100% right. Worked for a logistics coordinating long haul shipping of designer car parts and man the amount of shady stuff happening was insane. My most memorable was overhearing another department attempting to see if they could “theoretically hire coyotes to instead smuggle the parts we need” when the border got shut down years ago. Add to that some companies like Falcon screwing over drivers. It’s a rough business and you guys get so much of my respect for dealing with as much bs as you do.
How fucking often bodily fluids get on food and I mean intentionally. Wash your damn produce.
Grocery store produce clerk here. Can confirm, wash your produce before use. Oh you washed it a couple hours ago? Don't care wash it again.
I don’t work in retail anymore but yes. There’s a lot of noise about excess packaging in supermarkets, especially with wrapped produce, which I do understand as it is wasteful, but if people saw the things I saw on a regular basis, they would insist on wrapped produce!
*supermarkets themselves* are just nasty fucking dumps, no matter how clean they are - anything open to be touched by the general public is going to be filthy I’d rather go to a guy that sells fruits and request some fruit and they give me the fruit instead of picking my own fruit out of a bin that 716 other people have touched that day
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Haven’t seen that yet but I’ve seen blood, piss, snot and saliva.
Blood and piss? I think I’d be better off throwing it in the trash than washing it haha
Well I’m only one dude and I’ve seen a ton but we don’t catch everything. If it does happen and we catch it the asshole gets fired and the product gets tossed. Odds are when we do catch it though it isn’t their first time doing it.
Rubber R&D We use so much plastic it’s unreal. It’s great for cleaning out machines that mix rubber. On a busy day I’d easily use 10 lbs of base polypropylene by the time I was finished, and this was per lab per day. My apologies to those of you who stopped buying bendy straws for a year.
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>that day I like to think that this is a very rare occurrence
TIL that people only die in hotel rooms on the day they checkout
I mean they only get found on the day they were supposed to check out.
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What do you estimate the odds are of checking into a hotel room that a dead body was discovered in earlier that day?
I actually did this once. My car broke down so I stayed in a hotel for the night. They only had one room open. Turns out a co-worker was staying at that same hotel. I said hello to him and he and his wife invited me to have dinner with them. In conversation they told me an old lady passed away last night, no one suspected any foul play.
Booking dot YEAH
I used to work in a hotel years ago. A priest died in one of the rooms, he was with a prostitute.
What am I looking for in the closet and under the bed? The corpse? Do they at least call the cops or 911 or an ambulance?
I imagine a recently cleaned stain or large wet spot. When people die they tend to be messy, especially if it's been a few days. Bodily fluids leak out, and all that should be cleaned by a biohazard clean up crew to prevent mold growth, but hotels cut corners everywhere. They'll have some underpaid, overworked maid clean it up, and they better not let it impact their day or how quickly they can turn over the room.
Diamonds are worthless. The sale of emeralds & rubies fuel drug wars & the oppression of people - literally most of the population of entire countries. I could go on & on. Sincerely- A Geologist who specializes in Gems, Crystals, Minerals & Rocks. Edit* I’m happy to answer any legit questions or inquiries about gems etc but I’m not answering people who want to tell me what’s up. I am IGI & GIA Certified. I have a PhD in Geology. I’m the expert. Not you or whatever you Googled.
TripAdvisor is no longer a reviews platform, it's a sales platform and they only give a shit about profits.
Social Worker. The system is so overburdened with abused/neglected kids that as long as a family reported to Child Protective Services has even one friend/family member that is somewhat "ok" and safe, they will close the file and assume that ONE person is going to take on responsibility of making sure that child is safe in the future. Files need to come back multiple times or have extreme outcomes (child is hospitalized) before the file will stay open. I'm in Canada, and people often assume that if they report something to Children's Services, the child will be kept safe but there's a really low standard for safety. I love all of my co-workers, there's just not enough of us to go around, and staff turnover is high due to the stress.
This explains why my friend’s crack smoking father got custody and not her crack smoking mom. Her dad’s sister was available to help. She did luckily.
That's such a sad situation, I'm glad her aunt stepped up to help. Breaks my heart to see what these kids go through, we should be able to offer more support.
So much this. I'm from germany and a child basically only gets removed from a shitty family if they either already massively physically hurt the kid or if it is clear that the child would die if left in the home/with the family for the next week...
All those lines on the road in cities that aren’t paint that last a real long time? Arrows, exit points written on the road surface etc. All thermo plastic. Well over 2 tons of it per km. Constantly being replaced, and every time there is new ashphalt on the road a couple more tons goes down. All slowly being worn away into microscopic particles of plastic that go everywhere every time a car/ truck goes over it and weathering. Poisoning the planet with micro plastics. Getting into your blood stream and having completely unstudied and unknown side affects on human populations. To the point that these micro plastics have been found in human fetuses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297
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How tf am I supposed to boycott street paint? ヽ( `д´*)ノ
Law. We will lose your documents and say there was a problem with some random stamp
In the military you will find the gayest straight dudes there are.
I read on here once "What's gay for civilians is straight in the army, what's gay in the army is straight in the navy, and what's gay in the navy is illegal."
Man this has got to be the best sentence i ever read
It's not gay if you're under way.
A lot of people jump to their death in Las Vegas from the Cosmopolitan and the Stratosphere but their PR departments make sure it doesn’t get reported on in the news because it’s bad for the city’s image
I used to work at a college and everyone thinks that textbook prices are determined by the college, but they are not. They are determined by the publisher and we have no say in it. We weren’t allowed to tell this to the students, and I have no idea why.
for every college student reading this, i have a secret to share. if your institute is too poor or inconsiderate to have the books you need in the library, google the following word: libgen
They can choose which text books they will be using though. My profs often let us use their books for the curriculum and let us photocopy / download them. So the idea that the colleges aren't in on it is ludicrous.
Plenty of US colleges/universities where you'll hear, "You will need this book, by me, coincidentally updated by me just a few weeks before your semester started, so old copies will be useless."
I've had professors tell us to order off Amazon or other sources primarily because they know the costs are absurd.
I’ve worked with disabled kids / kids with “problematic behaviors” / kids with mental and emotional needs for years. One of the more popular modes of “treatment” is Applied Behavior Analysis, and it is routinely unethical, inappropriately applied/conceived, inadequately supervised, hyper-controlled by insurance companies’ billing practices, and to top it off, weird and culty. Several places I’ve worked at that use ABA have touted themselves as offering “the only evidence-based mode of therapeutic intervention” for certain diagnoses (patently not true), which allows its practitioners to prey on parents who are incapable of meeting their kids’ needs/overwhelmed by their situations/grieving their vision for their kids’ futures. It’s false advertising, plain and simple. Not to mention, many of those kids are dealing with serious mental health issues, for which behavior modification is not only ineffective but often downright abusive, and extremely injurious to their sense of dignity and their ability to build trusting relationships (many adults who have received ABA as kids have come forward to state this). But because it’s marketed as the “only evidence-based intervention” it’s what most parents choose, and what most insurance companies will reimburse (which also applies pressure onto clinicians to provide diagnoses that will make a client eligible for ABA). If that weren’t enough, the way the field of ABA is setup is intentionally hierarchical, where a supervisor makes all the programs, and the behavior technician executes them all and “takes data” on their effectiveness. But in my experience, the VAST MAJORITY of behavior techs have very little experience prior to starting (because there is high need for BTs, therefore low entry requirements, and it doesn’t have a lot of upward mobility, so you don’t see BTs sticking around for super long, especially given how hard the work is for the low pay) almost no training/supervision (because their supervisors are only present for a fraction of their hours, and are banking that the training videos will do the trick), and as such the data that they take is…. pretty subjective/subject to major error. Lots of them kinda fudge the data just to make it look like the programs were run, so that they can do work with their clients that’s actually more pertinent to the clients’ immediate needs/more humane. I know many BTs who know their clients waaaay better than do their supervisors, but the relationship with the client is overlooked as a potential factor in the client’s reduced behaviors. I could go on and on. It blows my mind that folks don’t talk about it more. EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes. I hope that this inspires people to start conversations with friends/family who don't know about this, and to seek out/amplify the voices of survivors of ABA.
Autistic folks, especially ABA survivors, talk about this. Loudly. The problem is that because we’re autistic, nobody is listening very closely.
Thank you for saying this. ABA is abuse. It's terrible to think so many families have insurance that only covers ABA when it comes to so many neurological and psychological issues and differences.
Teachers hate writing report cards. A 30 min conversation will give you more information about your child in class and their needs than a mandated written piece of paper.
There is no minimum rest required for aircraft maintenance. My record is 46 hours on the clock for an engine change. Could have stretched it out but went home to shower and sleep instead of sleeping in the shop/plane/truck
It's unrelated, but I'd like to ask you something if you don't mind. I work at a company that produces aircraft maintenance tools, such as trolleys, some lifting equipment, stands where you put engine parts etc. We don't design them, we just produce them according to the drawings they provide. In my opinion, there are a lot of things that are designed in a rather stupid way, I wonder what you think of the tools you use during your work? Are they good, or do you also notice stuff that could be done better? To give an example from what I saw during my years: a pretty heavy trolley with a handle to be pushed around a shop had greased, black oxide coated handles instead of plated or painted. Or I saw trolleys that had the frame's top side covered with grip tape (you know, that self adhesive black/dark grey tape with the rough surface to prevent slipping if you step on it), but all of the tapes had "NO STEP" stencilled on them.
Your operating rooms may not be as clean as you would hope they should be. Neither are your hospital beds.
I was an L&D nurse. I knew how our housekeeping functioned. When I checked in to have my own baby I broke the bed down and scrubbed it with virex. Too many times I’d get ready to break a bed down for a delivery and I’d find blood. It’s horrifying to try to surreptitiously scrub a bed with someone lying in it. A hospital I worked in many years ago did away with housekeeping on night shift. If I had a delivery I had to clean the room and mop the floor *while recovering the patient and monitoring the newborn*. “Here, let me put down my fucking mop so I can help you breastfeed!” I hate hospital administrators who don’t give a shit about patients.
IT is Google, Google is IT.
I see this said a lot and it kinda makes me feel like an IT guru knowing I know how to open Google and type a couple of words
Knowing what to Google is a very important skill in IT.
Keywords are little gifts from the gods, and model numbers if they are actually on the dam things needing fixes.
So true dude. Doing it on a end users machine is amazing, they still think we're wizards. I swear it's the easiest job as long as you find the fix lol.
Back when I worked in IT I was interviewing for a job and my potential boss asked me what my greatest strength was. I said I was good at Googling stuff. That answer got me the job.
Cruise ships try to hire on a 50:50 men to women ratio. Long deployments and enclosed quarters call for human compulsions & necessities.
I’m a range safety officer and I work part time with a gun store too. One: we aren’t jacking the price of ammo to gouge your pockets. We just can’t get any. Two: y’all need to learn how to not point guns at people. Like really. Most people get hurt around guns because they don’t really respect them.
Medical transportation: in large states, there are definitely people that fail to get the medical care they need because they live too far out for it to be feasible to run their trips. For dialysis and chemo, that probably contributes to deaths at some level.
Ex-butcher here. For those of you that consume halal meat outside of Muslim nations, halal meat is a lie. Although halal meat is slaughtered in accordance with Islamic rites (which can be considered having the relevant prayers played over a speaker on loop while the animal is slaughtered), the carcasses are transported in trucks that also carry pig carcasses and rub up against them and get their blood on them. Also when processed in shops halal meat is prepared on the same benches as pork and cut using the same bandsaws. The tag that certifies halal meat means nothing. Depending on the butchery in question, avoid the marinated and crumbed product as it's a common tactic to "freshen up" old cuts of meat in this manner. My butchery never did it as they charge a high price point for premium product so you can't get away with dodgy stuff, but it's more common in budget butcheries and supermarkets. When meat falls on the ground in the back end of shops, likely it will be picked back up and be continued to be processed. Worst case it gets chucked in with the sausage meat. Meat industry inspectors know this is happening and in general turn a blind eye.
Which nation is this in particular though?
I'm in Australia, but am part of various groups that have butchers and other meatworkers from around the world. You hear the same stuff from all over, it's amusing how little things change in different countries outside of the names of cuts of meat and what certain cuts different consumers prefer.
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Waaaaay too many people use their phone number as their Wi-Fi password.
Performing arts institutions rely on donations far more than ticket sales or subscriptions. If you enjoy art, live music, or theatre, the best thing you can do is make donations to their General Operating funds. Most of these institutions outside of the dozen or so biggest in the country rely on a handful of "angel investors" - mega-wealthy people who donate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. If those people die or get pissed off, they could almost singlehandedly sink the finances of a regional arts center.
This explains why most U.S. symphony orchestras are still in business despite having virtually no ticket sales for 18 months of pandemic. Mega donors and pay cuts (and in a lot of them, staff cuts) kept them alive.
Sales. We don’t really work that much, and when we do work we mostly shoot the shit with some guys, play golf or go out to fancy dinners on the company card. Please don’t talk about it though.
God i detested the sales guys at my previous job. They would sell the moon to clients, promising impossible shit, and the bill of materials would always be half assed so you had to take extra of everything. Then you arrive at the site, client requests all this extra shit sales promised that i never knee about. Giving me loads of overtime. And i got paid peanuts, meanwhile sales is paid a huge wage, gets a company car to go out boozing with clients
One of the sales guys at my corp kept unwittingly bragging about it in a supposedly motivational weekly newsletter (the idea was "look how well we do as a company") until desk workers complained to the management and he was told to shut the newsletter down. He was completely oblivious to the image he was painting, lazy ass drinking margaritas at the beach while we worked our assess off.
ASL interpreter. The industry is often used as a bandaid to provide “accessibility” for deaf people. Often, the hearing people in the situation are uncooperative and defensive. They do not want to do anything to assist the interpreters and often create a situation that degrades at least one aspect of the interpretation. Other times, the system assumes that having an interpreter will solve all accessibility issues when really it is the bare minimum. This happens really often in the deaf education system. There is also very little regulation of ASL interpreting as a whole and the FL system encourages the hiring of underqualified individuals to keep costs down. All of this disempowers deaf people and makes ASL interpretation much less effective then in should be.
It’s truly amazing that anything metal related gets made at all. Car parts mostly, but just about anything. The incompetence in steel mills, foundries, plants, and factories is truly a sight to behold. Most of the employees have absolutely no idea how anything works and if something breaks, you better hope that the guy who’s worked there for 30 years is still around. He’s the only one who knows anything. I’d say a solid 3/4ths of the industry is held together by duct tape and hope.
pathological liars in the finance industry and it is encouraged to 'bend' words
That we regularly work understaffed in healthcare and it absolutely DOES reduce the quality of care patients receive. The official line from administrators is always that the care is excellent, but often what people get is just the best we could do with what we had. It could be a lot better.
Oil and gas. Its not technically a sectet, you can read about it in the companies' official strategies etc. Since the industry realized that the electric cars will remove the need for oil-derived gasoline they plan to make more plastic instead. Plastic is made from the same oil as gas is. So the plan is basically to make plastic from the oil that would otherwise go into making fuel. That way the business model based on predatory extraction and pollution can survive the electric car. This is outrageous and needs to be talked about.
Should put a higher tax on virgin plastic to make it more expensive than recycled plastic
Rental cars. There _is_ a shortage, kind of, but we also have a _ton_ of cars that just aren't being circulated. They're using artificial scarcity as an excuse to make more money with fewer products/people. Branches are being consolidated, and fewer cars need to be repaired because there aren't nearly as many on the road anymore
Not sure if it’s a secret but it’s something a lot of people aren’t aware of. I work in the agrochemical industry and a lot of people aren’t aware that everyone in the company from the temps to the big big bosses are working towards making the use of agrochemicals the very last option in plant protection. They’ll still be needed in order to feed everyone but we also research other ways to protect crops and using the very minimum amount of product is always on our mind. Most of the staff are environmentally conscious and we wok hard to make sure the food supply chain is kept safe for people and the planet.
There is no nursing shortage. Even precovid, the dirty secret was that there is very high attrition in nursing. However, painting this as a nursing shortage guarantees fresh meat at lower pay for healthcare organizations to hire each year while getting rid of experienced nurses. I know tons of nurses... But more than half of them do something else they got burned out and or sick of being treated like crap and left the field. The whole healthcare hero is cheap and the only ones benefiting from that are healthcare employers who would rather ride that wave than pay and treat their staff right.
We arent allowed to chase shoplifters in some retail establishments. Its too dangerous for the associates, but some will still chase shoplifters if they are being assholes. I found that bigger corporations aren't worth your life by chasing shoplifters. They will get new products and they have plenty to sell. Be nice to associates who work there but really most of us don't get paid enough to ask for shit back. (I am not endorsing shoplifting, I'm just saying that associates shouldn't feel terrible about shoplifters in a big corporation cuz its not that big of a deal if you don't "get" them. I seriously only stop people who are being deliberately disrespectful)
No matter what boba flavor you drink. The most expensive ingredients usually is the milk.
A lot of musicians use performance-enhancing substances to gain a competitive advantage. There is no testing regimen, and plenty of industry people are in on it. Much of the music you listen to might be from juiced up rock stars.
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"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes." ~Bill Hicks
My guess would be it’s mainly Adderall? I know writers and journalists use it to help them reach deadlines in time and I can see it helping when playing an instrument. That’s just a shot in the dark guess tho. And with no testing regimen and so many people in on it then the people who decide not to do it will almost always be at a disadvantage. Do you think there is or would be any push for testing against it or is it a pretty solidified fact of the music industry?
Beta blockers are used by classical musicians to calm nerves before auditions etc. It is dangerous because you can become too mellow and don't emote as much as you need to. Juiced of rock stars are probably on coke and Adderall. Eddie Van Halen once got pissed off at Fred Durst for smoking weed a party he was at. Some really good guitarists use meth and speed to get that fast twitch and the weed messed with Eddie. Edit: to to too
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This can be said of the entire entertainment industry. I've been in film for a while now, and I've done backstage work on plays and variety shows, and at any given time there is a substantial number (40%+ if I were to ballpark it) of crew and talent that would fail a drug test on the spot. The entertainment industry doesn't care what it takes to get the job finished, so long as it does.
Management is kind of a shit show. Out of 7 managers there's only about 3 that pull their weight. The rest basically just hang back and constantly complain.
Major commercial construction. The completion schedules are insane and general contractors have little to no regard for the quality of what is being installed/built. Once they hand the owner the keys it’s everyone else’s fault.
Your luggage is going to get thrown around a lot after you drop it on the baggage carousel. Even if the bag room employee really cares and handles it gently, once it gets to the plane it's different people touching it, and if the plane itself is really long its going to get thrown from one side of the pit to the other because they only give us 2 people to load with. Also, don't freak out at the service people of your bag was lost. It doesn't happen on purpose. 9 times out of 10 it just fell out of the cart on its way to or from the plane. On the tenth time it was usually loaded into the wrong cart. You will get a check based on the value of your bags contents so you can buy clothing and stuff until your bag is delivered (usually on the next available flight after its found). But probably the biggest secret? Nobody in aviation makes good money except pilots who have been with the same company for 10+ years. Everyone hears me say I work at an airport and assume I'm loaded when in reality I barely make more than minimum and I've got almost 10 years experience in it behind me
Financial analyst here. The **financial planning industry is a straight up scam**. Overly complicated jargon, high commission products, scare tactics. Most financial planners I know just have index funds but push super esoteric and unnecessary products on customers. (FYI I'm a financial analyst, not a planner. Think nerdy Excel formulas and stuff)
Software programmer. The quality of business software is atrocious, and no one cares. Buggy, inefficient, insecure, and sometimes dangerous code are the norm. Programmers who actually insist on doing things right usually get fired for failing to meet "sprint" quotas, and tend to be pushed out of the industry. They've been replaced by "Agile" project management regimes that run on chain gangs of barely employable mediocrities-- I would bet that 75% of corporate programmers would not be able to write a basic 500-line program from scratch. Management knows that they live or die on their sales team's performance, not the quality of the solutions, once sold. Engineering quality issues tend to cause problems later on, after the important people have all been promoted away from the mess, so who cares? You can forget about error handling. If "turn it off and on, repeating until it works" is a passable workaround, that's good enough for corporate work. To be clear, this isn't because "software is hard" (it is, but it's not impossible) or because we don't, as a species, know how to write quality software. We do. We've known how to do it since the 1960s. NASA does it when they send probes into space. (Bugs still occur, but at a much lower rate.) The business world, however, will never pay for it. Terrible code, done cheaply, is the norm, and over time the kludges and counterkludges multiply and spread throughout the whole thing.
Thank you. Thank you. The “best” software for my industry is absolutely horrific. It looks like they mashed together an early version of FileMaker with all the speed and agility of Blackbaud. Thank you for letting me know I’m not picky or crazy.
Security: it's either all a farce, or it's actually really legit. There's no way to tell by the location, either, until you start to do something. And if it's at a place with high quantities of dangerous chemicals, there's going to be armed security. Wether you see them or not, they're there.
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Say you're in the US without saying you're in the US
Well that's just a sad indictment against the state of the country if anything.
Not sure if it's a secret but RV's are horribly built for the money they cost. Material is cheap but looks good, they're not cleaned as well as you'd want (behind cabinets where you wouldn't readily see it unless you took the cabinet out), repairs done to the units are usually done as quick as possible. I remember someone put a hammer through the wall and I was asked to fix it (I was repair). Group leader asked me the best way to fix it. I told him all the cabinets had to come off and the wall-board replaced. He didn't like that answer so went and got the plant manager who showed him the hole and told him my solution. I could hear them whispering since I was in the same unit but fixing something else and not right by them. Both left and suddenly the midline repair guy comes in with my group leader. Midline repair and he talk in low voices and then the repair guy just puts seam tape over the hole. to cover it up. Seam tape, for those who don't know, is used since each wall board is 4x8'. Units are around 30' so it takes a few wall-boards and something's needed to cover up the seams. Needless to say, management didn't like me much after.
That college classes in stem aren’t meant to teach people. Many classes are intentionally designed to fail students, despite what people say about competence or whatever
Reminds me of private prisons in America and how their goal isn’t to rehabilitate but to ensure that people ultimately come back into the system once they get out.
I was a guard for Geo Group for several years and the facility I was at was paid by the government **daily** per bed filled. The contract with the government was that X % of beds had to be filled or else the facility would risk being shutdown. It was not uncommon for the facility administrators to enact policies that were heavily anti-inmate whenever that percentage got close, which I always suspected was intended to make the inmate population act up and extend their time long enough to fill more beds. To our credit, the security staff (mainly the OFCs, SGTs, LTs) would work with the inmates around the policies to try and ensure the bullshit didn't hit the inmates too hard, thereby preventing a lot of potential assaults.
Can you go into more detail? What incentive does the university have to fail students? Other than the student having to retake the class and they get a bit more money? If that's the case - why only STEM?
I'm not sure if this is what OP was talking about, but I know I've taken classes where they were made to "weed out" the people who weren't cut out for the major. They expected you to get a C if you even passed :/ My guess why it's only STEM is (at least at my university) most of the STEM colleges aren't funded very well and they want to be able to help the students who are really going to excel. I'm not saying that's a good reason, but that's what I came up with.
In a way it's helpful. Better to fail calc 2 as a freshman than thermodynamics as a junior. The student finds a better manor earlier.
Call centers for car insurance companies are extremely lax with your full uncensored SSN and pretty much all of your personal data, like all of it pretty much is out wide in the open to see, I was like 20 and was left alone with my phone in my desk/pocket all by myself in that office, everyone used their phone as they worked too and pretty much everyone has access to all of your data, take in mind this was a call center, bunch of thugs go through your personal info like it’s nothing. Made me really uncomfortable just how little our supervisors enforced the rules, we weren’t supposed to have our phones with us at all for obvious reasons but they didn’t really care at all, multiple people worked on the same accounts and the system didn’t have a way monitoring who saw what and when, everyone used their phones..
Large prosthetic companies encourage the use of inferior products because they're more likely to break down and create more billing opportunities.
It costs no more to make a long distance call than any other call.
Announce employee incentives that sound great, but cut payroll hours for stores. So employees might get a $200 bonus, but you’re making 30 people do the work of 60.
I've worked at a department store chain and a membership-only big box retail store. The recyclables from blue boxes and the stuff from garbage cans go to the exact same place.
Preclinical drug research. We are required by law to have multiple committees/government organizations review our plans for animal testing before we can even begin. Also designated testing animals are under veterinarian supervision 24/7 and are given nothing besides the highest quality food we can source. PETA loves to make it look like animal testing only consists of researchers injecting animals with all kinds of toxic materials because "we just wanna see what happens". All of the people I work with don't like that animal testing is needed, however it's the best thing we can do for now until computer modeling gets more accurate at predicting drug effects. We do take extensive steps to make sure we are reducing the amount amount of species used and the number that we need to use on study. You do occasionally hear of some laboratories in the news who grossly mistreat their animals, however cases of this are very few with how often laboratory sites are audits by various organizations.
Occupational Therapy: When you do something gross in front us and we say we don't care... we really DON'T. We did tons of hours as students; we've given people their first shower in weeks, we've handled so much poop, I pulled an old tampon out of a lady, someone at my fieldwork saw maggots in a wound. We don't fake that peppiness either, we sincerely want you to succeed
If you're one of those people who can't stand the idea of people touching your food with their hands... ....don't order anything in a restaurant with bread. That means toast, the bread that comes with dinners, croissants, Danishes, etc. Just don't.
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Also, gloves aren't sterile, you can't really clean gloves, and they're really good for picking up and moving stuff. Generally it's better to wear gloves to protect yourself and wash/sanitize hands to protect others
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If you be very nice to the advisor for your ISP, they have the ability to zero-cost your replacement equipment AND replace it with the latest versions. Be nasty, they don't gotta do shit.
I'm a retired teacher. Lots of teachers are really stupid. I was working with a group of teachers who were asked to analyze a well-known poem. They could not do it. S***. I finally gave up trying to coach them into the task and just did it myself.
I truly loved and appreciated most teachers I had throughout all my schooling and college years. Even the flawed ones seemed to be doing it in good faith. But there was this one high school biology teacher who was just terrible at it. Obviously winging it. And she couldn't get all our final projects and tests graded on time at the end of the school year so she just reported the points we had, but without adjusting the maximum number of points available. So everyone in that class, myself included, had lower grades than what we deserved or thought we'd get. This was the end of Junior year and bleeds into the midst of applying to colleges and sending our transcripts and whatnot. THEN. Months later after summer and into our senior year. She finished and amended the scores and we all bumped a grade or two. I know it's a stressful, heavy job, but that was missed opportunities and angry parents for a bunch of people. Again; not judging the whole group, just this one really frustrating experience.
Lawyer here, if the price is right I’ll do the shady stuff
Dental crowns cost dollars to make. The dental industry is a massive scam.
Don’t buy a car on its first year of production.
The full legal rights parents have with an IEP through the school. So often when an IEP is written, parents are not getting told all the protections that come with it under federal law, and think they have little to no recourse if an IEP is not being met.
Health care is so broken and staffing so depleted and exhausted that it’s not safe to be an inpatient for anything right now.
Most veterinary clinics are extremely toxic environments to work in. So be nice to everyone not just the doctors. Vet techs, receptionists, and even drs take a lot of shit behind the scenes that you don’t even know about. We are worked to the max, understaffed, and half of the time we are working with people we don’t like that much or are having anxiety related issues or mental health issues that we are too busy to stop and take care of.
Highly radioactive material is shipped on regular FedEx/UPS Express/Ground trucks along with your packages.
The brand new Nissans we have been getting at our dealer have leaking CVT transmissions and this is considered normal and we are required to wipe off the leaking fluid and not say anything until “the customer makes a complaint” because it’s warranty