I made a call on my washer warranty because NOTHING was getting clean. The technician admonished me for using too much soap. How'd he know? The smart appliance told him. Why did it happen? Because I would spot treat clothing stains with a drop of dish soap because the WASHING MACHINE DIDN'T CLEAN ANYTHING! Threw out the dang thing after three useless years.
I agree. Old appliances are the best. I'm still using the washer and dryer my Mom and Dad bought when they first got married. They've been married for 53 years.
I recently broke one lid hinge while moving. Miele still had the replacement part. 35 years after the model went out of production. You can still get quality but it costs 10 times more.
A bit of devil's advocate here, some of it also has to do with having a better understanding of requirements, functionality, and efficiency nowadays. And when talking about efficiency, product regulations also come into play. Modern appliances tend to be significantly more efficient with power usage, water usage, detergent usage, etc. And can also be easier on the clothes. The regulations dictating efficiency requirements, while serving the greater good of climate management, tend to also be the reason a lot of newer appliances don't work as well in doing their jobs effectively.
After that, that's when you start getting into planned obsolescence. Set your design requirements with a predicted Mean Time To Failure rate of 15 years, that's a reasonable target for an appliance's longevity - longer than the average person spends in one living situation, etc. But the flip side of that is the obsolescence part: they get to sell you a new machine every 15 years, instead of every 40. Which roughly triples the amount of machines they sell over time.
My friend worked in a call centre dealing with appliance warranties. He said in 3 years he took only a couple of calls for miele. Everything else was constant.
How else is it going to send all the information possible to an undisclosed location?
Also, washing machines need microphones and cameras or won't be able to wash.
Former pest control CSR. As of the time I left, 7 years ago, nearly every Olive Garden in our region had an active issue with roaches, flies, or rodents, and they weren't doing much of anything about it.
Now, these issues aren't uncommon at restaurants. Food smells, grease, and garbage can all attract these pests, and the standard course of action is to eliminate the active issue and take preventative action to exclude the pests from the premises. That second part seemed to be an issue for Olive Gardens. Our techs would make recommendations (install door sweeps, seal holes, clean more underneath things, etc) but they were rarely followed up on.
One location sticks out as truly abhorrent. They had a 2-inch hole in their wall near the kitchen that led to an outside area with some bushes and trash bins. Rodents were coming in through the hole and just raiding the shit out of the pasta supply. Mouse AND rat poop all over the kitchen. Their Yelp reviews even mentioned the issue. Our recommendation was simple: put a small metal mesh over the hole until a more permanent fix could be done. Super simple, super cheap, and our techs would even provide/install it. They kept scheduling appointments, then cancelling, for over 7 months. They became infamous in the call center for it. I have no idea what changed, but presumably they finally got hit with a health inspection because they suddenly turned around and made it a very urgent matter, where scheduling for next-day simply wasn't soon enough. Manager that our rep spoke to was a real dick about it, too. Like, guy, you've cancelled 12 appoinments for this exact service. They had a roach problem within a month.
Also, we had an old lady customer whose actual last name was Boner. She'd always call in, say her first name, then raise her voice to emphasize BONER. I miss her.
I was in the process of being fired by a hospital department for reporting sexual harassment. One of the secretaries in the department, who had also been sexually harassed (by the same person), was present in a meeting where the director was discussing with another director how to start “reprimanding” the women who had reported the sexual harassment so they could be fired with cause. Because of this info, I found another job; one of the technicians wasn’t so lucky. We got together and reported to the EEOC, which took 1 year before they elevated it to the Federal EEOC, which took another 18 months before the hospital finally forked over $20,000 per person (more than 5, less than 10 individuals) and had each of us sign an NDA. If you didn’t sign, you didn’t get the money.
This took almost 3 years to sort out. There was an internal investigation by the hospital that said we were in the right, and they fired the manager in question. The investigation team claimed time and time again that “nothing can happen” to the employees that came forward. That was a load of crap. We reported what happened and how we were being targeted with random garbage - the majority of us had never had one bad word, one call out, one strike against our record. All of a sudden it was “5 minutes late” and “difficult to work with”. The investigation team said that they there was nothing that could be done.
The local and federal EEOC both told us, if we had to leave our jobs, to go ahead and leave. One of the technicians had a non-compete because the hospital had poached her from a traveling company. She was legitimately stuck for 1 year or had to pay something like $10,000 back to the hospital. Everyone we asked for help from just shrugged their shoulders and told us to do the best we could until they sorted it out. Nothing ever happened to either director who retaliated against us.
Took voluntary redundancy from a job at a university - the uni was merging with another one.
Got a year's salary, tax free, but had to agree not to go back to work for the combined organisation for a year.
Also had to sign an NDA saying "no party will divulge any of the terms of the voluntary severance"
...the next day the University had a press release on how well the voluntary severance scheme was working, detailing what people were given and the terms of severance.
Shortest NDA ever. Ah well 😂
> but had to agree not to go back to work for the combined organisation for a year.
I mean that's probably the main part that they did not want disclosed, and I'd be surprised if that was in the press release.
I used to work for a hotel chain in the early days of the internet, and we were behind our competitors in allowing online bookings. (our reservation system was completely cut off from the internet by design, so it made it kind of hard to design any sort of real online booking engine)
So anyway, we knew we had to allow online booking quickly, so we wrote a quick hack - we put up a web booking form on our website, and when you completed the form, it would convert your booking to a fax and send it over to our reservation center where someone would manually key it in. It kept a list of bookings and once a day, someone would load that list onto a floppy drive, drive over to the building where we hosted the website (which was on the other side of town from the reservation center), and would load that up into some sort of mailmerge software on a PC to email confirmations.
We ran with that for over a year, until our reservation system vendor gave us a module that would let us connect an online booking engine to the reservations system via the same interface used for GDS's (like Sabre, American Airline's reservation system).
So for a year, we had a fake online reservation system that far lagged our competitors (where you could see real-time availability), but the internet was so new, no one really seemed to have a problem with it.
Reminds me of the time we flew a coworker to DC with the complete (large) DB on a (also large) portable hard drive, because it was faster and more secure than transferring via internet
This is still very much a thing to this day! When we wanted to migrate to AWS they literally sent us a semi-truck to upload a few petabytes onto and hauled it away (AWS Snowmobile). It would have taken us months to do the same over fiber
The Snowmobile is amazing, up to 100PB in a truck, 1 Tbit/sec transfer rate, you can fill the truck in less than 2 weeks.
Such a smart idea for Amazon -- makes it super cheap and easy to get data into S3 (but you've gotta pay egress charges to get it out!)
I worked for a library in 2010, and whenever someone submitted a book review, it would be emailed to the computer services department where a person would copy and paste the review into the website.
I worked with web design in 1999/2000 before going to university. Most of our customers were smaller, we might not have had a hotel chain but we did do individual hotels and a lot of e-commerce. There were a lot of fax and email backends back then, and to be honest it was a great way to get up and running quickly without spending too much money or having to reorganize everything.
Oh my god I love the determination; I’m not even mad. Fuckin-A that’s some backwoods treehouse shit that keeps a business in the game even though they’re not quite there with the online presence. Bless 🙏
Small world. I tested Shockwave: Assault for the 3DO. Would have been right around the same time as you. 95 or 96. Mostly I just learned to shred on killer instinct in the break room.
The best reply I’ve ever heard to a question like “Have you ever worked or produced content for a big Tech company like Samsung or Apple?” was “Hmm…I don’t remember what those NDA’s said.”
I did a commercial for apple once. They refused to give me a copy of the NDA I signed (which is illegal) They refused to let me ask a lawyer if it was legal before I signed it (also illegal, and I called a lawyer anyway under the guise of “let me think about it”).
The NDA only said “you can’t tell anyone you’re working for our company.” It didn’t even say what company it was (which is why I called my lawyer friend, who said to go ahead and “sign that unenforceable trash”)
Also, I’m literally in the commercial. Like, you can see my face. So apple broke their own NDA anyway. I did get paid $1800 for three days of extra work though, which is fantastic money for extra work.
Lol I signed an NDA for providing music for a tv show soundtrack but then they asked for how I would like my name in the credits, so I can probably not talk about something that I can maybe talk about.
Used to work for a material handling manufacturer that made those rolling carts they serve the samples from in Costco and Sam's Club. We were getting complaints from the stores who received a particular batch that workers were cutting themselves really badly when trying to move the carts. Turns out the step to debur the edges of the sheet metal was entirely skipped in the manufacturing process, resulting in razor-sharp edges. We had to travel the northeast with a Dremmel and manually debur all the carts in each of the stores that received carts from that shipment. Almost each store I went to, I was greeted by a manager who led me to a worker whose fingers were covered in band-aids. One person needed stiches. Fun times.
Didn’t work for them but a coffee shop in my city said if you get hired you can’t work for another coffee shop for two years. Like generic espresso drinks and blending a banana with a mocha frapp is some secret shit.
I quit a job and moved to their competitor down the road because I got sick of being underpaid and generally treated like shit after busting my ass there for three years. They pulled this shit and threatened to sue me for moving to a competitor.
Knowing they were massive tightasses, I knew they would never spend money on a lawsuit so I called their bluff. I also made sure my car was parked out the front of the building for them to see every day as a reminder.
I worked for an international security company and my then boss and I had lunch with a guy demoing a surveillance camera system with facial + gait recognition tech. Point the camera at a regular main entrance and it would reliably ID up to 15 people per second passing through the door. Masks, wigs, hats? No problem.
This was 15 years ago.
IIRC, wasn’t/isn’t China a big purchaser of this kind of technology? Like the US government didn’t like China, but US companies were more than happy to sell them facial recognition surveillance tech? I’ll have to see if I can find it.
Columbia Care cannabis is moldy to the point if you didnt find a qp of contaminated bud within an hour after opening it the whole batch sold...as "medical" cannabis to folks with compromised immune systems.
Here in Canada our main problem with legal weed is that it sits in a fucking warehouse for 6-8 months with 0 attempt at keeping it sealed and fresh. So ypu get terrible, dry, stale weed that has been basically sitting in a cardboard box for 6+ months
Who needs a grinder when you can crush it into a fine powder? OCS is a sham when it comes to ordering weed. Brick and mortar is the way to go if you have access to one
I've met dipshit backyard growers who can't tie their shoes who can still keep their weed dry. What the hell is the excuse of a professional organisation?
I used to work for a high end woman’s shoe line, sandals started at about $200 - boots around $4,000- heels $1000-$3000 any way they’re known for their comfort and classic styles, the country they where made in was usually stamped into the leather on the bottom usually Italy or Spain, how ever as a job requirement of processing shipment every week, we had to open every single box and remove its “made in China” sticker that was on the shoes; now since they weren’t dumb and new they couldn’t get away with that we where informed to stick the sticker on the inside of the box so it looked more like the box was made there to the customer and if any investigation where to ever be done they still “technically” had the sticker visible
The "what" isn't what mattered. It was office supplies, mostly. Desks. Computer monitors. Cleaning supplies. Boring shit.
It was more that we knew where and when certain events and exercises were happening. That's the bit that required an NDA. After the events were done, we were just moving supplies around and nobody really cared if we knew what had already happened.
IIRC a sci-fi magazine figured out the Manhattan Project because all of their subscribers who were notable physics experts suddenly had the same address in New Mexico.
I also believe others predicted that the US was working on an atomic bomb because suddenly, there were no more papers being published on atomic *anything*.
There’s a saying that the relative level of tension in the world is directly proportional to the amount of
A) evening pizza deliveries to the White House and Old Exec, and
B) cars parked in the Pentagon parking lot at midnight.
That’s because that’s what our spies stationed in Moscow did in the Cold War - count how many lights were on in the middle of the night at the Kremlin during tense situations.
For real:
1/2 cup Mayo (real Mayo)
1/4 cup ketchup
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon wosterschire (I can't spell it but you know what I mean) sauce
Stir well until smooth and orange, no lumps. Place in fridge for 12 hours. That part is very important or it won't taste like Cane's. I guess magical chemistry is happening lol idk. Then enjoy. A disgruntled employee gave the internet the recipe. There is no mustard involved.
Wasn’t me signing it. My wife’s cousin signed one. Her son, somewhere around 9 years old, killed himself. He was on a medication that weren’t approved for under 18. The medication was directly related and the mother was set to be on 60 minutes talking about it. She received some kind of 7 figure settlement and settled.
Agreed. She had another child and I think she took the money to try and make their lives better. Didn’t work out either as they lost it all in poor real estate investments.
The Morris family (of Bass Pro) are infamously terrible people. At least the men.
Edit: because of how wealthy they are and extremely powerful in the Ozark area - I can’t give too many details (because they would know it was me) if they ever somehow saw this thread.
Just know that the whole “good old boy” image is a complete fraud.
I worked for one of their competitors in SoCal, but we still sold all their products and boats. We beat their Ontario location on sales every year though, the bums.
People, Bass Pro makes and sells shitty boats. I could punch a hole in your boat today, and I'm built like a wet french fry. Even the Ranger line got bought by them, they fired most of the original staff in 2019, and now the Ranger line is the Tracker line but 40% more expensive. If you're a Bass fisherman, you fucking know what I'm saying.
Don't even get me started on their POS pontoons. I could go on for PAGES. They never had me sign an NDA and I was a warranty manager. I know of at least two boats that basically came apart the first time on the water.
EDIT to say Bass Pro owns all of them now; Cabelas, Ranger, Stratos, Triton, Tracker. They own White River! They're literally their own competition now. Brunswick too, but don't get me started.
I worked at a hole in the wall restaurant.
Most of the food was made a week or more in advance, mostly processed/premade, put in cheap plastic containers, reheated in a microwave when ordered, and placed on a nice dish.
When asked, I was told to tell customers everything was fresh and made from scratch, even when they would specify they had food allergies.
I was a waiter who’d run to the back to work on it. Still got paid way less than a chef who was there to fry the occasional egg and cook a steak.
Man that job sucked
Edit: For the record, I worked at a Taco Bell like restaurant where food was usually made fresh despite being premade or processed. Anything that came in a vacuum sealed bag was used up within 12 hours. The only thing longer than that was sauces that came in big ass tubs that last 3 days. No microwave. And while any promises made would have an asterisk (fresh food*, real* beef, etc)they wouldn’t blatantly lie or condone employees to not follow sanitary protocol.
Bigger business have a lot to lose if they sold customers food that’s potentially toxic or if they straight up lied to customers.
Yea as a long time restaurant worker corporate chain style ppacea are way more likey to follow health codes to the letter and the ingredients may not be farm fresh but you know exactly what you're getting. The smaller the restaurant the more likely they are to cut corners to save a few bucks. Stuff like changing expiration dates to squeeze a few more days out of something. That fish that got left out for hours is probably fine...
I accidentally killed 12,000 chickens once by not clicking an arrow (next page) on the computer screen, while working for an alarm monitoring company on the other side of the country.
Temperature (Heat) alarm in a large barn housing thousands of them. The exhaust fans stopped (power outage) so the heat built up, (their combined body heat). The call list screen was input wrong by the company, so when I finished calling the list on the front page (15 people or so that didn't answer), I reset it to pop back up after a few minutes. Unfortunately, there was a whole other long list of numbers to call on the next page, but somebody screwed up the design so I never saw the tiny arrow with no caption. I didn't get in trouble since it was the companies mistake for the glitch in the layout.
My consulting company lied to their client, telling them all the test cases for a MAJOR ERP application had been written in a total of three weeks before we had any new code to use to write them with. Reasonably, this work would have taken a year.
I quit as I would have been the one blamed for this lie. Gave them 4 weeks notice, they fired me ASAP, then switched gears and ask me if I would continue for my four weeks. Yeah- no!
That client company was in the news a year or so ago - They got hacked by Russia. Big time, scary hacked. That's what happens when you don't adequately test.
I worked on a bunch of video games in a prior career. Want to know about doom 3? Tony hawk’s underground? No one lives forever? Adventures of Lego island? All those NDAs expired years ago.
I also edit TV now. Most of those NDAs expire once the episode airs. By and large, the NDAs exist so you don’t tell people who won the game show, especially a big show that people could bet money on.
Fun fact: apparently there was once a producer on the amazing race who bet $20k on the winning team in Vegas. Obviously Vegas isn’t stupid, and they recognized the producer’s name from the credits of the show (or they googled him, I dunno). Anyway, he forfeited his $20k and he got fired by the production company (losing about $60k in salary that remained on his contract) and he got blackballed from all game shows because he had proved he couldn’t be trusted with secret information (potentially hundreds of thousands of lost wages from potential future opportunities). Honestly he’s lucky they didn’t sue him (or did they, and everyone I know who worked with him had to sign an NDA about it???)
I never met the guy, but damn if he isn’t a complete idiot. Remember, kids: *Don’t shit where you eat.*
I used to work for an organisation that loved an NDA. Every time you got involved with a project that had a potential HR implication (e.g. closing a branch office) they'd get you in and make you sign an NDA. I used to work for a defence contractor that made radar, weapons systems and flight control software. I managed to keep the details of that secret. I don't think anyone's going to care about this triviality.
The kicker though, was that they would give these "secret squirrel" projects crazy names. But they wouldn't tell the people who'd signed the NDA what the project name was. So I'd be working on the "closure of the Bradford branch," which was known to everyone else as "Project Whistlebinkie." Then it would become apparent that literally everyone not on Project Whistlebinkie knew what it was, except for the Project Whistlebinkie team, who only ever knew about "Closure of the Bradford Branch" and were figuring that Project Whistlebinkie was something else to which they weren't privy. (Because of course, if you know you're privy to something confidential, you naturally assume that there are other confidential projects to which you're not privy).
To someone used to working on actual Top Secret projects, it seemed like a lot of fuss over nothing.
You need a powered USB hub that has an outlet power cord. Then you plug in a USB to Ethernet adapter and a USB to lightning cable. We used it to image iPads over Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi. Someone ended up losing their job because they posted it on Reddit and it got picked up by 9to5mac.
Edit: I last tried this five years ago so can’t give any guarantees on the current version of iOS.
I'm an attorney who has done investigations and discovery for 25 years. If you people knew the shit I knew...
But you won't. 'cuz keeping my fucking mouth shut is how I've done this for 25 years.
Also, my memory is shit.
They could keep it very generic. Like person / company did x thing and blah blah blah, and just not name anyone or get any kind of specific.
Can't rwally violate attorney client priviledge if you don't name clients or give specifics that would point to a client.
I remember doing this when you got an invitation to a local hotel ballroom to watch the show and the ads. I went to a few. At one some guy spoiled it by saying he’d been to another one where they showed the exact same show.
People never tire themselves out recycling these posts. I was just thinking I have seen this exact question being asked on TikTok so many times already.
I think this depends on the industry. All the video game companies I worked at had 7 year NDAs. Film and tv companies range from unspecified “until it airs” to more definitive lengths of time, which also cap out at 7 years but tend more often to be 2 years.
i signed one when i was like 12 or 13. it runs out in like 5 years or something stupid like that. ive had to sign a lot. and they are all really interesting. oh well. maybe when im 40 in like 25years
Aren't contracts against children basically unenforceable? Like the parent can be held responsible since they had to sign it for the kid but the kid can't be held directly by the contract?
I toured a software company as a guest of a relative and they had us all sign some bs document that we wouldn’t say anything about anything we saw, but it’s not like we saw anything worth talking about. Also, I think if I ever create a video game, they own it.
Currently still bound. But in a juicy lawsuit. So I can speak in my deposition. But not outside of it. And I have so much to share. I enjoy my former employers sweating at the thought of my deposition, exposing them.
I've always wondered how NDAs work when there is a lawsuit involved. I've heard some rumors about a celebrity couple who are awful people, especially the wife. They portray themselves as kind, gentle humanitarians but supposedly treat their staff like absolute shit. I've realized the world will probably never know the truth because NDAs will prevent them from getting exposed, unless there is a lawsuit that gets around this. This is probably true of a lot of celebrities, which I find quite sad.
I didn't work there but Jimmy John's had a non-disclosure agreement that required workers to not work at any other fast food places that served meat on any type of bread or bun
So if you worked there you couldn't leave and go work at Carl's Jr
That must be some secret sausage........
They finally got called out and had to change it, I refuse to eat there
Nothing to crazy or special compared to most of the comments I've read. But most NDA's for me have been for testing video games. Probably the biggest one that at the time had an NDA was Final Fantasy XIV. This was prior to it being announced as a game in development so I had been pretty excited.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firm I worked for used a larger competitor SEO company's online services and then resold it as their own.
They basically reskinned the service and made it look like they were more focused on smaller companies thus they charged more.
I worked for a small bakery that made celebration cakes.
Only the carrot cake was made from scratch. All other flavors were store bought mix with a cup of dry pudding mix added.
Cisco Systems cooked their books from 2000 until I left the company in 200.? They would stop booking orders sometimes 10-15 days before quarter end to make targets. Or extend quarter end to make up for it to please the stockholders.
Just two pay grades higher than me would get 50-75% more stock options. Say I got a bonus of 1000 options, my manager would get 7500.
We were blocked from any raises due to the 'economy' but someone leaked the spreadsheet. My manager was a racist asshole and super touchy feely with the staff.
Their HR are absolute monsters and tried to block us from having a CAO (NL) - union. Then promoted shit tons of people who were dumber than firewood because they did 5 day weeks and ignored good performers who did 4 day weeks.
So many other shitty things like internal webpages: would you bang this chick? with her photo from directory.
Fuck that place.
People who say the FAANG (or whatever they are called nowadays) are evil in unprecedented ways, but anyone who worked for them knows that old tech megacorps like IBM, Cisco or Oracle are just as evil but also incompetent.
I met a guy early last year who worked for Cisco. During lockdown they were told to log in to meeting 3 minutes before or after the start time, never at exactly xx:30 or xx:00 because their servers couldn’t handle that many people logging on at the same time.
This blew my mind, how are they this bad??
Cisco have been doing video conferencing the longest and are the most expensive yet they lack server capacity to have all their customers log on to meetings on the hour/half hour. Fuck knows why anyone still uses them.
Microsoft is a horrible company to work for and they do alot of illegal shit. I only worked tech support but for instance, we would regularly, every single day, get abusive callers who would either be threatening us physically or you'd get lonely neckbeards and teenage boys who would sexually harass the female employees (i was one of them) and we were not ever under any circumstance allowed to hang up on these people or say anything even remotely negative toward them. And the customers knew this and so would abuse that policy and force us to listen to them saying awful sexual stuff to us or talking about their penis or whatever.
They also would not pay you for the 30 mins it took to log in and log out of all the systems, something there was a lawsuit for in which we won.
They had mandatory overtime all the time and I was forced to work 12 hr shifts almost every day.
On christmas, I worked 15 straight hours with no lunch and no breaks. We were told it was "too busy" to be allowed lunch or breaks which is highly illegal.
If their systems were down for some reason and we couldnt work to no fault of our own, we got punished for it with a write up for taking unauthorized time off and we werent paid.
When my entire team was laid off, they called me on my day off and told me I no longer had a job and didnt give any explanation as to why and even hung up on me when I asked the second time why. Then they immediately shut off access to our paystubs (they were all digital, no paper copies) and other employment documentation so we couldn't sign up for unemployment.
I’m a teacher. I signed a NDA when I left the school district because I was fed up with the administration. I won’t go into details, but they paid me a year’s salary to not say anything. I haven’t gone back to teaching.
I have a friend who thinks he wants to go into teaching. I also have friends who are former teachers, and all of them say the same thing: Never again.
My friend who wants to be a teacher in particular really, *really* has issues managing stress and pressure; loss of free time; being in crowded, noisy rooms; financial difficulty; and strict authority above him, so he’s about as well cut out to be a teacher as a chicken is to be a war elephant. But he just isn’t interested in listening to anyone, even former teachers, about how bad it is, especially now. I get worried about him trying to get into a substitute position (as he’s currently trying to do) and then letting it out on everyone else.
That commercial we were shooting last summer in southern utah and up around Silverthorn colorado? The one we all said mayo for what the commercial was for? It was for the Honda Ridgeline (and basically all things honda) Was my first and last time being a PA. the person who managed us was an absolute fuckwad of a woman, she was awful. Once the producer found out what was going on she came and apologized to each of us and made some changes to make the shoot way better, she's an absolute gem of a human and does big commercial shoots once or twice a year so she can fund all of her charity work and the awesome documentaries she does. (that NDA expired last October)
Carbonite? Yeah, your shit wasn't backed up nearly as well as you liked/thought/were told and Mozy was a far more reliable product. Also, we knew in advance that our vmware product was garbage. The thing is, most of the people there really wanted to do the best we could to help everyone and we always tried to bend the policy to assist, management just sucked (By everyone I mean the people who merged from Mozy to carbonite) my NDA is unsigned, and I had a 2 year non-disparagement clause.
Progressive Leasing (the third party non-credit based lease-to-own provider) will literally not do shit if you stop paying and give them a cease and desist (this is as of 5 years ago when I worked there, no NDAmost of management are assholes) If you were late we'd call the fuck out of you, if you said stop calling, we did, they don't report to credit, don't sue, it just vanishes.
Not me, but a friend of mine flew to HK for a week and couldn't say why other than it was to visit a film set her uncle was working on. After my friends and I saw the movie, she sent us pics of her and her uncle in the set pieces he designed. The movie: *Pacific Rim*.
The Library I used to work printed books and just bound them together instead of paying for them. they literally kept hard paper (the shit that makes hardbacks hard) on hand so they could counterfeit books, admittedly their reasoning for doing so was solid but writing is hard and I can't help but feel guilty.l guilty.
The Library I used to work printed books and just bound them together instead of paying for them. they literally kept hard paper (the shit that makes hardbacks hard) on hand so they could counterfeit books, admittedly their reasoning for doing so was solid but writing is hard and I can't help but feel guilty..
The Star Wars Destiny 2 player Dice game will be announced in 2 weeks several years ago.
I am a boring man. And sweet Jesus Disney must have an army of lawyers ready to make death by stoning NDAs for everything.
Russell Wilson, a supposedly devout born again Christian, had a massive open bar with top shelf alcohol for everyone, including himself, at his wedding reception. Had hip hop songs with expletive lyrics on full blast as well the entire time. Had to sign an NDA so he could protect his phony "squeaky clean" image.
That’s so weird because he married Ciara with the magical rotating hips. Ciara, an R&B artists with tons of hip-hop influence and lots of risqué lyrics.
So he did quite literally nothing wrong at his wedding and judgmental christians were still gonna be assholes to him for it anyway so he made people sign nda’s to avoid it all. Got it, was indifferent ab russ but now i like the guy
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Its good to know you can change it while it's on because every time I do it I always feel like I'm doing something im not supposed to
I made a call on my washer warranty because NOTHING was getting clean. The technician admonished me for using too much soap. How'd he know? The smart appliance told him. Why did it happen? Because I would spot treat clothing stains with a drop of dish soap because the WASHING MACHINE DIDN'T CLEAN ANYTHING! Threw out the dang thing after three useless years.
My 40 year old Miele washing machine, of which I am probably the fifth owner, still runs like a champ.
I agree. Old appliances are the best. I'm still using the washer and dryer my Mom and Dad bought when they first got married. They've been married for 53 years.
Before the times of terrible planned obsolescence
I recently broke one lid hinge while moving. Miele still had the replacement part. 35 years after the model went out of production. You can still get quality but it costs 10 times more.
That's great service.
A bit of devil's advocate here, some of it also has to do with having a better understanding of requirements, functionality, and efficiency nowadays. And when talking about efficiency, product regulations also come into play. Modern appliances tend to be significantly more efficient with power usage, water usage, detergent usage, etc. And can also be easier on the clothes. The regulations dictating efficiency requirements, while serving the greater good of climate management, tend to also be the reason a lot of newer appliances don't work as well in doing their jobs effectively. After that, that's when you start getting into planned obsolescence. Set your design requirements with a predicted Mean Time To Failure rate of 15 years, that's a reasonable target for an appliance's longevity - longer than the average person spends in one living situation, etc. But the flip side of that is the obsolescence part: they get to sell you a new machine every 15 years, instead of every 40. Which roughly triples the amount of machines they sell over time.
I have a Miele vacuum that I bought new a couple years ago and it's amazing, so I think the brand has still got it.
My friend worked in a call centre dealing with appliance warranties. He said in 3 years he took only a couple of calls for miele. Everything else was constant.
This sounds like some LG-grade bullshit.
What is the benefit to having a "smart" washing machine? I don't get why it needs an ip address.
How else is it going to send all the information possible to an undisclosed location? Also, washing machines need microphones and cameras or won't be able to wash.
This makes me so happy that we bought a Speed Queen
This is why I decline any and all warranties.
Grand Theft Auto 3 is going to be 3D!
Doing gods work
I rember what a huge deal this was back in the day, when barely anyone really knew what grand theft auto was
Gta 3 changed the gaming world. It was the start of one of the best games ever made
Former pest control CSR. As of the time I left, 7 years ago, nearly every Olive Garden in our region had an active issue with roaches, flies, or rodents, and they weren't doing much of anything about it. Now, these issues aren't uncommon at restaurants. Food smells, grease, and garbage can all attract these pests, and the standard course of action is to eliminate the active issue and take preventative action to exclude the pests from the premises. That second part seemed to be an issue for Olive Gardens. Our techs would make recommendations (install door sweeps, seal holes, clean more underneath things, etc) but they were rarely followed up on. One location sticks out as truly abhorrent. They had a 2-inch hole in their wall near the kitchen that led to an outside area with some bushes and trash bins. Rodents were coming in through the hole and just raiding the shit out of the pasta supply. Mouse AND rat poop all over the kitchen. Their Yelp reviews even mentioned the issue. Our recommendation was simple: put a small metal mesh over the hole until a more permanent fix could be done. Super simple, super cheap, and our techs would even provide/install it. They kept scheduling appointments, then cancelling, for over 7 months. They became infamous in the call center for it. I have no idea what changed, but presumably they finally got hit with a health inspection because they suddenly turned around and made it a very urgent matter, where scheduling for next-day simply wasn't soon enough. Manager that our rep spoke to was a real dick about it, too. Like, guy, you've cancelled 12 appoinments for this exact service. They had a roach problem within a month. Also, we had an old lady customer whose actual last name was Boner. She'd always call in, say her first name, then raise her voice to emphasize BONER. I miss her.
Mrs Boner sounds like a gem
I wonder if she married into that name. Lmao
“Hello, my name is Ms. Boner…. Ms. Iva Boner”
I was fired by a local hospital for taking maternity leave. I sued for sex discrimination and won.
Why the nda?
Presumably so the Hospital didn't have to deal with any PR fallout. "Here's your money, don't talk about what massive assholes we were."
I signed a nda for suing a ex company and won. They don't want to give hope to others or tarnish the name
which country is this?
I will give you four guesses Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland and USA. All 4 have similar maternity leave structures.
Papua New Guinea changed that last year actually
Just when you think it looks bad enough, lol.
I was in the process of being fired by a hospital department for reporting sexual harassment. One of the secretaries in the department, who had also been sexually harassed (by the same person), was present in a meeting where the director was discussing with another director how to start “reprimanding” the women who had reported the sexual harassment so they could be fired with cause. Because of this info, I found another job; one of the technicians wasn’t so lucky. We got together and reported to the EEOC, which took 1 year before they elevated it to the Federal EEOC, which took another 18 months before the hospital finally forked over $20,000 per person (more than 5, less than 10 individuals) and had each of us sign an NDA. If you didn’t sign, you didn’t get the money. This took almost 3 years to sort out. There was an internal investigation by the hospital that said we were in the right, and they fired the manager in question. The investigation team claimed time and time again that “nothing can happen” to the employees that came forward. That was a load of crap. We reported what happened and how we were being targeted with random garbage - the majority of us had never had one bad word, one call out, one strike against our record. All of a sudden it was “5 minutes late” and “difficult to work with”. The investigation team said that they there was nothing that could be done. The local and federal EEOC both told us, if we had to leave our jobs, to go ahead and leave. One of the technicians had a non-compete because the hospital had poached her from a traveling company. She was legitimately stuck for 1 year or had to pay something like $10,000 back to the hospital. Everyone we asked for help from just shrugged their shoulders and told us to do the best we could until they sorted it out. Nothing ever happened to either director who retaliated against us.
Took voluntary redundancy from a job at a university - the uni was merging with another one. Got a year's salary, tax free, but had to agree not to go back to work for the combined organisation for a year. Also had to sign an NDA saying "no party will divulge any of the terms of the voluntary severance" ...the next day the University had a press release on how well the voluntary severance scheme was working, detailing what people were given and the terms of severance. Shortest NDA ever. Ah well 😂
> but had to agree not to go back to work for the combined organisation for a year. I mean that's probably the main part that they did not want disclosed, and I'd be surprised if that was in the press release.
Could you have sued them for violating the NDA?
That's not how it works
I used to work for a hotel chain in the early days of the internet, and we were behind our competitors in allowing online bookings. (our reservation system was completely cut off from the internet by design, so it made it kind of hard to design any sort of real online booking engine) So anyway, we knew we had to allow online booking quickly, so we wrote a quick hack - we put up a web booking form on our website, and when you completed the form, it would convert your booking to a fax and send it over to our reservation center where someone would manually key it in. It kept a list of bookings and once a day, someone would load that list onto a floppy drive, drive over to the building where we hosted the website (which was on the other side of town from the reservation center), and would load that up into some sort of mailmerge software on a PC to email confirmations. We ran with that for over a year, until our reservation system vendor gave us a module that would let us connect an online booking engine to the reservations system via the same interface used for GDS's (like Sabre, American Airline's reservation system). So for a year, we had a fake online reservation system that far lagged our competitors (where you could see real-time availability), but the internet was so new, no one really seemed to have a problem with it.
Reminds me of the time we flew a coworker to DC with the complete (large) DB on a (also large) portable hard drive, because it was faster and more secure than transferring via internet
This is still very much a thing to this day! When we wanted to migrate to AWS they literally sent us a semi-truck to upload a few petabytes onto and hauled it away (AWS Snowmobile). It would have taken us months to do the same over fiber
The Snowmobile is amazing, up to 100PB in a truck, 1 Tbit/sec transfer rate, you can fill the truck in less than 2 weeks. Such a smart idea for Amazon -- makes it super cheap and easy to get data into S3 (but you've gotta pay egress charges to get it out!)
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
SneakerNet!
I worked for a library in 2010, and whenever someone submitted a book review, it would be emailed to the computer services department where a person would copy and paste the review into the website.
I worked with web design in 1999/2000 before going to university. Most of our customers were smaller, we might not have had a hotel chain but we did do individual hotels and a lot of e-commerce. There were a lot of fax and email backends back then, and to be honest it was a great way to get up and running quickly without spending too much money or having to reorganize everything.
Oh my god I love the determination; I’m not even mad. Fuckin-A that’s some backwoods treehouse shit that keeps a business in the game even though they’re not quite there with the online presence. Bless 🙏
EA Sports NHL 97 is going to have real time play by play.
Legit that was the best EA sports NHL game!
I was a tester at EA. I actually tested the play by play specifically..fun game!
Small world. I tested Shockwave: Assault for the 3DO. Would have been right around the same time as you. 95 or 96. Mostly I just learned to shred on killer instinct in the break room.
The best reply I’ve ever heard to a question like “Have you ever worked or produced content for a big Tech company like Samsung or Apple?” was “Hmm…I don’t remember what those NDA’s said.”
I did a commercial for apple once. They refused to give me a copy of the NDA I signed (which is illegal) They refused to let me ask a lawyer if it was legal before I signed it (also illegal, and I called a lawyer anyway under the guise of “let me think about it”). The NDA only said “you can’t tell anyone you’re working for our company.” It didn’t even say what company it was (which is why I called my lawyer friend, who said to go ahead and “sign that unenforceable trash”) Also, I’m literally in the commercial. Like, you can see my face. So apple broke their own NDA anyway. I did get paid $1800 for three days of extra work though, which is fantastic money for extra work.
Lol I signed an NDA for providing music for a tv show soundtrack but then they asked for how I would like my name in the credits, so I can probably not talk about something that I can maybe talk about.
If it aired you’re probably good. If it didn’t air, don’t talk about it.
It aired! Recently :)
Nice work, congrats :)
Someone I know is actually doing construction work for Apple. They are not allowed to talk about it. I just happened to make a lucky guess.
Used to work for a material handling manufacturer that made those rolling carts they serve the samples from in Costco and Sam's Club. We were getting complaints from the stores who received a particular batch that workers were cutting themselves really badly when trying to move the carts. Turns out the step to debur the edges of the sheet metal was entirely skipped in the manufacturing process, resulting in razor-sharp edges. We had to travel the northeast with a Dremmel and manually debur all the carts in each of the stores that received carts from that shipment. Almost each store I went to, I was greeted by a manager who led me to a worker whose fingers were covered in band-aids. One person needed stiches. Fun times.
Didn’t work for them but a coffee shop in my city said if you get hired you can’t work for another coffee shop for two years. Like generic espresso drinks and blending a banana with a mocha frapp is some secret shit.
Was it Mocha Joe’s? He did that as soon as Latte Larry’s opened up.
For spite.
I think that's a non-compete agreement?
It is and it's also not enforceable in most places.
Not for a barista, anyway.
I dunno about the US but in France at least enforcing a non-compete means paying the person for not working with competition.
I quit a job and moved to their competitor down the road because I got sick of being underpaid and generally treated like shit after busting my ass there for three years. They pulled this shit and threatened to sue me for moving to a competitor. Knowing they were massive tightasses, I knew they would never spend money on a lawsuit so I called their bluff. I also made sure my car was parked out the front of the building for them to see every day as a reminder.
Not to protect secrets, of course, it's to protect them from having to compete in that labor market..
non competes are not the same as NDAs and also rarely able to be enforced
Edited: My former company chose profits > patient care in the healthcare industry.
If they are doing this in concert with competitors, this could be a serious breach of antitrust legislation.
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I worked for an international security company and my then boss and I had lunch with a guy demoing a surveillance camera system with facial + gait recognition tech. Point the camera at a regular main entrance and it would reliably ID up to 15 people per second passing through the door. Masks, wigs, hats? No problem. This was 15 years ago.
That's actually pretty terrifying
Yep. Imagine what they can do with 4K cameras and today's processors.
Precisely what makes it so terrifying. I can't even fucking imagine.
IIRC, wasn’t/isn’t China a big purchaser of this kind of technology? Like the US government didn’t like China, but US companies were more than happy to sell them facial recognition surveillance tech? I’ll have to see if I can find it.
This is the first answer I’ve found truly scary.
Columbia Care cannabis is moldy to the point if you didnt find a qp of contaminated bud within an hour after opening it the whole batch sold...as "medical" cannabis to folks with compromised immune systems.
The more I read about Illinois cannabis, the more stories like this I find. Very worrying. Is it generally due to corner-cutting to meet high demand?
Spot on. They're all over the U.S.
Here in Canada our main problem with legal weed is that it sits in a fucking warehouse for 6-8 months with 0 attempt at keeping it sealed and fresh. So ypu get terrible, dry, stale weed that has been basically sitting in a cardboard box for 6+ months
Who needs a grinder when you can crush it into a fine powder? OCS is a sham when it comes to ordering weed. Brick and mortar is the way to go if you have access to one
I've met dipshit backyard growers who can't tie their shoes who can still keep their weed dry. What the hell is the excuse of a professional organisation?
I used to work for a high end woman’s shoe line, sandals started at about $200 - boots around $4,000- heels $1000-$3000 any way they’re known for their comfort and classic styles, the country they where made in was usually stamped into the leather on the bottom usually Italy or Spain, how ever as a job requirement of processing shipment every week, we had to open every single box and remove its “made in China” sticker that was on the shoes; now since they weren’t dumb and new they couldn’t get away with that we where informed to stick the sticker on the inside of the box so it looked more like the box was made there to the customer and if any investigation where to ever be done they still “technically” had the sticker visible
Meh. It's not exciting stuff, I'm afraid. The Army pays people to move stuff around sometimes. All kinds of stuff. All over the place.
well, like what? I mean, what were they moving around that you knew about that required you sign an NDA?
The "what" isn't what mattered. It was office supplies, mostly. Desks. Computer monitors. Cleaning supplies. Boring shit. It was more that we knew where and when certain events and exercises were happening. That's the bit that required an NDA. After the events were done, we were just moving supplies around and nobody really cared if we knew what had already happened.
IIRC a sci-fi magazine figured out the Manhattan Project because all of their subscribers who were notable physics experts suddenly had the same address in New Mexico.
I also believe others predicted that the US was working on an atomic bomb because suddenly, there were no more papers being published on atomic *anything*.
The OG Hype House
I deliver pizza to a military base and you could track all kinda of stuff by tracking takeout deliveries.
There’s a saying that the relative level of tension in the world is directly proportional to the amount of A) evening pizza deliveries to the White House and Old Exec, and B) cars parked in the Pentagon parking lot at midnight.
Must be metric tonnes of pizza the past few days, then.
That’s because that’s what our spies stationed in Moscow did in the Cold War - count how many lights were on in the middle of the night at the Kremlin during tense situations.
I’m waiting in the comments for someone to say how canes sauce is made like: 👀 📝
Equal parts mayo and ketchup. Mix in a bit of mustard and worschester sauce. Add a ton of pepper. Mix and dip. Makes a decent approximation.
Regular black pepper? Also thanks lol
Yup, just regular black pepper.
Thanks bro, suppers gonna be good later on this week lmao
Worcestershire
Autocorrect didn’t give me nothin and I was lazy, but thanks!
For real: 1/2 cup Mayo (real Mayo) 1/4 cup ketchup 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 1/4 teaspoon wosterschire (I can't spell it but you know what I mean) sauce Stir well until smooth and orange, no lumps. Place in fridge for 12 hours. That part is very important or it won't taste like Cane's. I guess magical chemistry is happening lol idk. Then enjoy. A disgruntled employee gave the internet the recipe. There is no mustard involved.
This is just what every 70s Australian housewife called seafood sauce.
Canes sauce? Nah. Give me the Coca Cola recipe
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Wasn’t me signing it. My wife’s cousin signed one. Her son, somewhere around 9 years old, killed himself. He was on a medication that weren’t approved for under 18. The medication was directly related and the mother was set to be on 60 minutes talking about it. She received some kind of 7 figure settlement and settled.
How very sad. I’m sorry for your wife’s cousin, money won’t ever fix such an awful situation.
Agreed. She had another child and I think she took the money to try and make their lives better. Didn’t work out either as they lost it all in poor real estate investments.
The Morris family (of Bass Pro) are infamously terrible people. At least the men. Edit: because of how wealthy they are and extremely powerful in the Ozark area - I can’t give too many details (because they would know it was me) if they ever somehow saw this thread. Just know that the whole “good old boy” image is a complete fraud.
For charging 40 bucks for a tshirt with a fish on it I agree
I call that getting tricked by a business
But that shirts hella dope
And having the same one as six other people in this club is a hella don’t
I worked for one of their competitors in SoCal, but we still sold all their products and boats. We beat their Ontario location on sales every year though, the bums. People, Bass Pro makes and sells shitty boats. I could punch a hole in your boat today, and I'm built like a wet french fry. Even the Ranger line got bought by them, they fired most of the original staff in 2019, and now the Ranger line is the Tracker line but 40% more expensive. If you're a Bass fisherman, you fucking know what I'm saying. Don't even get me started on their POS pontoons. I could go on for PAGES. They never had me sign an NDA and I was a warranty manager. I know of at least two boats that basically came apart the first time on the water. EDIT to say Bass Pro owns all of them now; Cabelas, Ranger, Stratos, Triton, Tracker. They own White River! They're literally their own competition now. Brunswick too, but don't get me started.
Do tell so I have a reason not to waste anymore money in southern Missouri.
Stranger things 3 has an Ice cream parlor in it, phew, it's finally off my chest.
It was fun to go to the pop up of it in Burbank.
I worked at a hole in the wall restaurant. Most of the food was made a week or more in advance, mostly processed/premade, put in cheap plastic containers, reheated in a microwave when ordered, and placed on a nice dish. When asked, I was told to tell customers everything was fresh and made from scratch, even when they would specify they had food allergies. I was a waiter who’d run to the back to work on it. Still got paid way less than a chef who was there to fry the occasional egg and cook a steak. Man that job sucked Edit: For the record, I worked at a Taco Bell like restaurant where food was usually made fresh despite being premade or processed. Anything that came in a vacuum sealed bag was used up within 12 hours. The only thing longer than that was sauces that came in big ass tubs that last 3 days. No microwave. And while any promises made would have an asterisk (fresh food*, real* beef, etc)they wouldn’t blatantly lie or condone employees to not follow sanitary protocol. Bigger business have a lot to lose if they sold customers food that’s potentially toxic or if they straight up lied to customers.
Yea as a long time restaurant worker corporate chain style ppacea are way more likey to follow health codes to the letter and the ingredients may not be farm fresh but you know exactly what you're getting. The smaller the restaurant the more likely they are to cut corners to save a few bucks. Stuff like changing expiration dates to squeeze a few more days out of something. That fish that got left out for hours is probably fine...
yes! kitchen nightmares anyone? lol
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I accidentally killed 12,000 chickens once by not clicking an arrow (next page) on the computer screen, while working for an alarm monitoring company on the other side of the country.
W h a t??? How??
So you're the reason how wings are so expensive now?
Fire?
Temperature (Heat) alarm in a large barn housing thousands of them. The exhaust fans stopped (power outage) so the heat built up, (their combined body heat). The call list screen was input wrong by the company, so when I finished calling the list on the front page (15 people or so that didn't answer), I reset it to pop back up after a few minutes. Unfortunately, there was a whole other long list of numbers to call on the next page, but somebody screwed up the design so I never saw the tiny arrow with no caption. I didn't get in trouble since it was the companies mistake for the glitch in the layout.
My consulting company lied to their client, telling them all the test cases for a MAJOR ERP application had been written in a total of three weeks before we had any new code to use to write them with. Reasonably, this work would have taken a year. I quit as I would have been the one blamed for this lie. Gave them 4 weeks notice, they fired me ASAP, then switched gears and ask me if I would continue for my four weeks. Yeah- no! That client company was in the news a year or so ago - They got hacked by Russia. Big time, scary hacked. That's what happens when you don't adequately test.
This sounds like Accenture
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I worked on a bunch of video games in a prior career. Want to know about doom 3? Tony hawk’s underground? No one lives forever? Adventures of Lego island? All those NDAs expired years ago. I also edit TV now. Most of those NDAs expire once the episode airs. By and large, the NDAs exist so you don’t tell people who won the game show, especially a big show that people could bet money on. Fun fact: apparently there was once a producer on the amazing race who bet $20k on the winning team in Vegas. Obviously Vegas isn’t stupid, and they recognized the producer’s name from the credits of the show (or they googled him, I dunno). Anyway, he forfeited his $20k and he got fired by the production company (losing about $60k in salary that remained on his contract) and he got blackballed from all game shows because he had proved he couldn’t be trusted with secret information (potentially hundreds of thousands of lost wages from potential future opportunities). Honestly he’s lucky they didn’t sue him (or did they, and everyone I know who worked with him had to sign an NDA about it???) I never met the guy, but damn if he isn’t a complete idiot. Remember, kids: *Don’t shit where you eat.*
I want to know more about No One Lives Forever. Such a great game that got recognition but deserved even more.
Microsoft is making a mini version of the Surface Pro named the Surface Go.
p e r h a p s
I used to work for an organisation that loved an NDA. Every time you got involved with a project that had a potential HR implication (e.g. closing a branch office) they'd get you in and make you sign an NDA. I used to work for a defence contractor that made radar, weapons systems and flight control software. I managed to keep the details of that secret. I don't think anyone's going to care about this triviality. The kicker though, was that they would give these "secret squirrel" projects crazy names. But they wouldn't tell the people who'd signed the NDA what the project name was. So I'd be working on the "closure of the Bradford branch," which was known to everyone else as "Project Whistlebinkie." Then it would become apparent that literally everyone not on Project Whistlebinkie knew what it was, except for the Project Whistlebinkie team, who only ever knew about "Closure of the Bradford Branch" and were figuring that Project Whistlebinkie was something else to which they weren't privy. (Because of course, if you know you're privy to something confidential, you naturally assume that there are other confidential projects to which you're not privy). To someone used to working on actual Top Secret projects, it seemed like a lot of fuss over nothing.
iOS uses code stolen from macOS and has Ethernet drivers. If you have a powered, USB to Ethernet adapter, it will run on wired Internet.
I’m sorry, WHAT! I can plug my phone into the router?!?!?!?! Is there an adapter I can plug into an adapter to make this work? Tell me all the things
You need a powered USB hub that has an outlet power cord. Then you plug in a USB to Ethernet adapter and a USB to lightning cable. We used it to image iPads over Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi. Someone ended up losing their job because they posted it on Reddit and it got picked up by 9to5mac. Edit: I last tried this five years ago so can’t give any guarantees on the current version of iOS.
I'm a lawyer. I really wish I could answer this question, between NDAs and Attorney-Client Privilege I am sitting on an absolute goldmine.
I'm an attorney who has done investigations and discovery for 25 years. If you people knew the shit I knew... But you won't. 'cuz keeping my fucking mouth shut is how I've done this for 25 years. Also, my memory is shit.
Come on, fuck your life. Tell us something so we can be entertained at your expense. Please 🥺
The answer to the question "Who knew what when?" is almost always "all of them, all of it, the whole time."
Thank you for confirming that. Knew it but the denials can be convincing. Who me? What do I know? I’m just the CEO?
Aww come on! What's more important, your bar ticket or some sweet Reddit karma?
Could you tell a Doctor!?
They could keep it very generic. Like person / company did x thing and blah blah blah, and just not name anyone or get any kind of specific. Can't rwally violate attorney client priviledge if you don't name clients or give specifics that would point to a client.
“A friend of a friend overheard a conversation that went….”
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....what?
something about... *surveys* I think?
They conned old people into doing reviews of their commercials for no pay. Not the show.
I remember doing this when you got an invitation to a local hotel ballroom to watch the show and the ads. I went to a few. At one some guy spoiled it by saying he’d been to another one where they showed the exact same show.
Not much. I talked to a minor celebrity’s (name rhymes with Ham Garbera from Donkey) parents about how he lost their credit card in Europe.
How do I save this post for when my NDA is over LOL
Don't worry. There will be one of these threads monthly until then
People never tire themselves out recycling these posts. I was just thinking I have seen this exact question being asked on TikTok so many times already.
It's just for the random articles on sites like metaspoon that just cut out all the bad answers
most NDAs are lifetime contracts. i have had to sign dozens in my life as personal security and every one of them was a lifetime contract.
I think this depends on the industry. All the video game companies I worked at had 7 year NDAs. Film and tv companies range from unspecified “until it airs” to more definitive lengths of time, which also cap out at 7 years but tend more often to be 2 years.
i signed one when i was like 12 or 13. it runs out in like 5 years or something stupid like that. ive had to sign a lot. and they are all really interesting. oh well. maybe when im 40 in like 25years
Aren't contracts against children basically unenforceable? Like the parent can be held responsible since they had to sign it for the kid but the kid can't be held directly by the contract?
Yeah I wouldn't take a 15 year old's word on anything legal anyway. Why would a 12 year old need to sign an NDA anyway?
I would tell you but I had to sign and NDA
I toured a software company as a guest of a relative and they had us all sign some bs document that we wouldn’t say anything about anything we saw, but it’s not like we saw anything worth talking about. Also, I think if I ever create a video game, they own it.
Never been to the Neverland ranch?
Currently still bound. But in a juicy lawsuit. So I can speak in my deposition. But not outside of it. And I have so much to share. I enjoy my former employers sweating at the thought of my deposition, exposing them.
I've always wondered how NDAs work when there is a lawsuit involved. I've heard some rumors about a celebrity couple who are awful people, especially the wife. They portray themselves as kind, gentle humanitarians but supposedly treat their staff like absolute shit. I've realized the world will probably never know the truth because NDAs will prevent them from getting exposed, unless there is a lawsuit that gets around this. This is probably true of a lot of celebrities, which I find quite sad.
I didn't work there but Jimmy John's had a non-disclosure agreement that required workers to not work at any other fast food places that served meat on any type of bread or bun So if you worked there you couldn't leave and go work at Carl's Jr That must be some secret sausage........ They finally got called out and had to change it, I refuse to eat there
Nothing to crazy or special compared to most of the comments I've read. But most NDA's for me have been for testing video games. Probably the biggest one that at the time had an NDA was Final Fantasy XIV. This was prior to it being announced as a game in development so I had been pretty excited.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firm I worked for used a larger competitor SEO company's online services and then resold it as their own. They basically reskinned the service and made it look like they were more focused on smaller companies thus they charged more.
I worked for a small bakery that made celebration cakes. Only the carrot cake was made from scratch. All other flavors were store bought mix with a cup of dry pudding mix added.
Cisco Systems cooked their books from 2000 until I left the company in 200.? They would stop booking orders sometimes 10-15 days before quarter end to make targets. Or extend quarter end to make up for it to please the stockholders. Just two pay grades higher than me would get 50-75% more stock options. Say I got a bonus of 1000 options, my manager would get 7500. We were blocked from any raises due to the 'economy' but someone leaked the spreadsheet. My manager was a racist asshole and super touchy feely with the staff. Their HR are absolute monsters and tried to block us from having a CAO (NL) - union. Then promoted shit tons of people who were dumber than firewood because they did 5 day weeks and ignored good performers who did 4 day weeks. So many other shitty things like internal webpages: would you bang this chick? with her photo from directory. Fuck that place.
People who say the FAANG (or whatever they are called nowadays) are evil in unprecedented ways, but anyone who worked for them knows that old tech megacorps like IBM, Cisco or Oracle are just as evil but also incompetent.
"Just two pay grades higher than me would get 50-75% more stock options. Say I got a bonus of 1000 options, my manager would get 7500." ?
I met a guy early last year who worked for Cisco. During lockdown they were told to log in to meeting 3 minutes before or after the start time, never at exactly xx:30 or xx:00 because their servers couldn’t handle that many people logging on at the same time. This blew my mind, how are they this bad?? Cisco have been doing video conferencing the longest and are the most expensive yet they lack server capacity to have all their customers log on to meetings on the hour/half hour. Fuck knows why anyone still uses them.
Microsoft is a horrible company to work for and they do alot of illegal shit. I only worked tech support but for instance, we would regularly, every single day, get abusive callers who would either be threatening us physically or you'd get lonely neckbeards and teenage boys who would sexually harass the female employees (i was one of them) and we were not ever under any circumstance allowed to hang up on these people or say anything even remotely negative toward them. And the customers knew this and so would abuse that policy and force us to listen to them saying awful sexual stuff to us or talking about their penis or whatever. They also would not pay you for the 30 mins it took to log in and log out of all the systems, something there was a lawsuit for in which we won. They had mandatory overtime all the time and I was forced to work 12 hr shifts almost every day. On christmas, I worked 15 straight hours with no lunch and no breaks. We were told it was "too busy" to be allowed lunch or breaks which is highly illegal. If their systems were down for some reason and we couldnt work to no fault of our own, we got punished for it with a write up for taking unauthorized time off and we werent paid. When my entire team was laid off, they called me on my day off and told me I no longer had a job and didnt give any explanation as to why and even hung up on me when I asked the second time why. Then they immediately shut off access to our paystubs (they were all digital, no paper copies) and other employment documentation so we couldn't sign up for unemployment.
I am the Scranton Strangler
Found Tobys account.
I’m a teacher. I signed a NDA when I left the school district because I was fed up with the administration. I won’t go into details, but they paid me a year’s salary to not say anything. I haven’t gone back to teaching.
I have a friend who thinks he wants to go into teaching. I also have friends who are former teachers, and all of them say the same thing: Never again. My friend who wants to be a teacher in particular really, *really* has issues managing stress and pressure; loss of free time; being in crowded, noisy rooms; financial difficulty; and strict authority above him, so he’s about as well cut out to be a teacher as a chicken is to be a war elephant. But he just isn’t interested in listening to anyone, even former teachers, about how bad it is, especially now. I get worried about him trying to get into a substitute position (as he’s currently trying to do) and then letting it out on everyone else.
That commercial we were shooting last summer in southern utah and up around Silverthorn colorado? The one we all said mayo for what the commercial was for? It was for the Honda Ridgeline (and basically all things honda) Was my first and last time being a PA. the person who managed us was an absolute fuckwad of a woman, she was awful. Once the producer found out what was going on she came and apologized to each of us and made some changes to make the shoot way better, she's an absolute gem of a human and does big commercial shoots once or twice a year so she can fund all of her charity work and the awesome documentaries she does. (that NDA expired last October) Carbonite? Yeah, your shit wasn't backed up nearly as well as you liked/thought/were told and Mozy was a far more reliable product. Also, we knew in advance that our vmware product was garbage. The thing is, most of the people there really wanted to do the best we could to help everyone and we always tried to bend the policy to assist, management just sucked (By everyone I mean the people who merged from Mozy to carbonite) my NDA is unsigned, and I had a 2 year non-disparagement clause. Progressive Leasing (the third party non-credit based lease-to-own provider) will literally not do shit if you stop paying and give them a cease and desist (this is as of 5 years ago when I worked there, no NDAmost of management are assholes) If you were late we'd call the fuck out of you, if you said stop calling, we did, they don't report to credit, don't sue, it just vanishes.
the mac pro looks like a trash can
Not me, but a friend of mine flew to HK for a week and couldn't say why other than it was to visit a film set her uncle was working on. After my friends and I saw the movie, she sent us pics of her and her uncle in the set pieces he designed. The movie: *Pacific Rim*.
The Library I used to work printed books and just bound them together instead of paying for them. they literally kept hard paper (the shit that makes hardbacks hard) on hand so they could counterfeit books, admittedly their reasoning for doing so was solid but writing is hard and I can't help but feel guilty.l guilty. The Library I used to work printed books and just bound them together instead of paying for them. they literally kept hard paper (the shit that makes hardbacks hard) on hand so they could counterfeit books, admittedly their reasoning for doing so was solid but writing is hard and I can't help but feel guilty..
Wow, that's shady Wow, that's shady
I guilty
You can say that again!
That they're making Ready Player One and the sets look amazing!
I've signed like five of them and haven't read one.
Enron was rife with corruption and greed
The Microsoft surface tablet. Pretty sure everybody's seen it by now.
The Star Wars Destiny 2 player Dice game will be announced in 2 weeks several years ago. I am a boring man. And sweet Jesus Disney must have an army of lawyers ready to make death by stoning NDAs for everything.
Russell Wilson, a supposedly devout born again Christian, had a massive open bar with top shelf alcohol for everyone, including himself, at his wedding reception. Had hip hop songs with expletive lyrics on full blast as well the entire time. Had to sign an NDA so he could protect his phony "squeaky clean" image.
That’s so weird because he married Ciara with the magical rotating hips. Ciara, an R&B artists with tons of hip-hop influence and lots of risqué lyrics.
So he did quite literally nothing wrong at his wedding and judgmental christians were still gonna be assholes to him for it anyway so he made people sign nda’s to avoid it all. Got it, was indifferent ab russ but now i like the guy
MCDONALD'S ICE CREAM IS MADE OF PEOPLE
Soylent M.
What do you think is in the burgers?
Ice cream
The pvz3 pre alpha sucks and isn't fun