35 People Reveal The quot Dark Secrets quot About Their Jobs That Common People Aren t Supposed To Know
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Let's face it-almost every profession has a few secrets that the rest of the world would be surprised to find out. When faced with challenges, some businesses may decide to take the easy way out, which often leads to enforcing bad practices. And there's no way of knowing about them… unless you're a part of it. Thousands of workers decided to share their stories on the r/AskReddit page. One after another, members spilled their industry secrets that companies keep from the general public. From paramedics and teachers to skincare specialists and SPA workers, these people did not pass the opportunity to share their knowledge. As people say, the more you know, the more you'll understand, so make sure to read these stories below, upvote your favorites and let us know what you think! This post may include affiliate links. #1 I worked at a White Castle from 2000-2003.
It was clean. Nothing super disgusting at all. All of the equipment got a thorough cleaning every 24 hours. The floors were mopped regularly, walls were wiped down... everything.
The food was always fresh. If the burgers cooled enough for the buns to get hard, they were trashed. If fries/sides sat under heat lamp for 15 minutes, they were trashed.
We threw away a lot of food. We had to track it all for inventory purposes, and filled up a couple pages a day of stuff we through out.
Even when the bulk of the crew was teenagers, we really were trying to work fast and do a good job. Every year or so, they made us get timed on the griddle by a regional manager. Everyone had to do it. Starting with a clean griddle you had to fully prepare, box and bag 30 hamburgers as fast as possible without cutting any corners.
I know not all locations are like that, nor are all fast food restaurants, but when I was working there, we did a really good job of everything. wpmason , Deborah Lee Soltesz Report Final score: 387points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Nice. For once a place with high work standards and ethics I like it!!! Too bad we don’t have a White Castle near us I’ve heard their burgers are pretty good 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments Bored Panda contacted Jenay Rose, an online business expert who has gained enormous success after quitting her job in 2017, to talk about unethical business practices and why people decide to talk about them. One reason why some former or existing workers decide to reveal secrets from their jobs might be because they are not satisfied with their role or do not have respect for the company at all. And the expert totally agrees. "The great resignation accompanied by the rise of social media has created so much more transparency in the workplace via "whistleblowers", TikTokers, and people who are no longer willing to work for a job they hate, for a boss they don't respect, at a company that doesn't care about them." #2 When purchasing items on the internet (especially airline tickets), use incognito mode on your browser.
We use your own cookies against you: raising the price on tickets the more times you check, as you shop around for better deals. That way you'll think the price is going up or that seats are being actively sold - thus increasing your urgency to buy, and punishing you for trying to get a good deal. Valendr0s Report Final score: 359points POST AutisticMum AutisticMum Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Or empty your cookies after you decided where and what to buy 87 87points reply View More Replies... View more comments Some of the stories shared on the subreddit are really eye-opening, not only from the consumer perspective but also from the potential employee's point of view. "Knowing the good, bad, and the ugly gives us the ability of "hindsight is 20/20" TODAY. This allows us to make better decisions, find better jobs or opportunities, and creates connections (where we realize we're not alone in things we've experienced)," Rose explained. "It also puts the power back into the hands of the people, because with more information and transparency, more can be done to fix these dark company secrets and actions." #3 Cleaning up animals after an oil spill is feel good propaganda to make the public think they are helping. 90% of those animals will be dead within a few days or weeks. They've ingested enough of the oil that they are moving corpses, they (and you mr. nice person with a bottle of Dawn dish soap)just don't know it yet.
Real oil spill work is done by trained professional crews, not volunteers. If you ever tried to help, you were given busy work to keep you out of the way. Skalite4 , Peter Ma Report Final score: 302points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is so sad... 178 178points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 I used to work for a large smart phone company.
During development, we used to go through phases, Engineering Verification testing stage, Design Verification Test, Production Verification Test, and finally Mass Production. Each stage was meant to have checkpoints in order to ensure that the final product was built with good quality and any known bugs would be able to ironed out before the product launch. Any bug that was not resolved would potentially have the ability to delay the launch.
Except that there is a thing called Waivers. So the PM could request that certain bugs be granted a waiver delaying the fix of the problem to a later date. No big deal, every project has a few minor bugs, right?
For each stage there would be hundreds of waivers. Some would be minor, to be fair, but sometimes they were definitely not minor.
I will never, ever, buy an electronic device in the first 3 months of mass production. Wait for the second wave of production, the quality of the product increases ten-fold. Project2r , camilo jimenez Report Final score: 302points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The erosion of the ethical workplace. Disappointed not surprised 71 71points reply View More Replies... View more comments When trying to maintain a successful business, companies come across a variety of obstacles every day. While some decide to work harder, others start to use unethical practices or turn a blind eye to the already existing ones. "For most companies, the bottom line is priority over their people, when it should be the other way around," the self-made millionaire said. "If you take care of your people, the bottom line will naturally improve." #5 Airline pilot here.
You know those blankets that we give you on the flight? The airline never washes them. Ever. We just shake them out and shrink wrap them for a later flight. Every once in a while we toss one that's unusable. _JackStraw_ , Aleksei Zaitcev Report Final score: 263points POST juztme juztme Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago True! I worked at a laundry and they washed(well no) airplane blankets. We had to check for dirt. And if it was really visible they got washed... But... And yes.. Ewwww!!! We had blankets with sperm in it and they diddent get washed! So... Bring your own blanky in the airplane... 123 123points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 I'm a special education teacher, and the amount of injuries people sustain while working in this field is staggering. I teach high school and the kids can go until they are 21. So most of the violent students are adult sized. We get concussions, bites, broken wrists and arms, scalped, as well as sexualy assaulted by students who will grab you by your breast, pull out their d**k and start masturbating.
BTW I like my job very much and enjoy working with the students. However, there is so little public knowledge of how dangerous the position is. Ihadacow , Taylor Wilcox Report Final score: 248points POST Carey Cole Carey Cole Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago My wife is a para in the school system and I cannot tell you how many times that she has come home with bites, bruises, cuts and scrapes. Once, her entire left breast was black and purple for two weeks because one of her kids grabbed, twisted and squeezed it very hard before she could get him to let go. Also, I paid more in taxes last year (over double) of what she was paid. An SE teacher or para are VASTLY underappreciated and grossly underpaid. 23 23points reply View more comments According to the expert, one of the factors why many companies have been willing to ignore these issues is because they were able to get away with it for a very long time: "Then came social media, the pandemic (which triggered an entirely new "work from home environment" and changed the way careers look), and the great resignation. These are three core factors that led to the shift in our work environments and the exposure of bad practices with actual recourse." Another thing that big corporations fail to realize is that "people are not workhorses. They can't just keep us in a cage and expect us to throw our lives at them. We are dynamic and deserving of work-life balance." #7 Worked in a no-kill animal shelter. The thing is, no-kill still does mean you have to put animals down sometimes. Especially behavioral issues are terrible. When is a dog too dangerous? Can you rehome a Pitbill with a bite-history? What if they get too dangerous for staff to handle?
Especially when it 'gets out' that we had to put a specific animal down and all those Facebook warriors start rioting and calling you names. It's not like we make those decisions for fun... reddit , Sasha Sashina Report Final score: 243points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago It's sad but I can understand why this is done. I don't think I could do it but I have high respect for those who have to do it. 140 140points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I used to work in skincare: None of the products cost more than $2 to manufacture, but would retail at anything from $20 to $150 per product.
Always amazed me how much people would shell out for anything with volcanic clay or snake venom cream DWeb338 , Mathilde Langevin Report Final score: 242points POST Sarcastic Cow Sarcastic Cow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Pff, blue Nivea since 1987... 141 141points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 I worked at UPS ages ago. The word "FRAGILE" on a box meant nothing to us, so make sure you pack your stuff properly. Kevoguy , Kevin Woblick Report Final score: 238points POST Rissie Rissie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Industry secret my big behind! 128 128points reply View More Replies... View more comments Often, one of the main reasons why unethical behavior happens at work is the climate of the organizations. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence conducted a survey of more than 14.5k American employees across different industries to find out how often workers felt the pressure to act unethically and if they were afraid to speak about it at their workplace. #10 Worked in management for Trader Joe's for 8 years and boy have a I got a doozy for you: the employees are ACTUALLY that nice. truthpooper , Mike Mozart Report Final score: 234points POST Brandy Grote Brandy Grote Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Even the President! Hub met him, asked about things that are not available, he laughed and said yeah, he has a wish list of past favorites too! 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Viagogo are just corrupt, straight up. Not a little thing here and there, they are just a criminal company.
They will take your money for tickets even if they have none of those tickets, assuming they will eventually have tickets to sell you. If they don't get them, you get the ticket money back. An example of this was when a guy in the UK bought tickets to the Superbowl in 2013, booked his air travel, flew to the states, booked his accommodation, was staying in a hotel he paid for, and was calling us every 15 minutes to ask where his tickets were. We were told to lie to him and say someone will meet him at the stadium. We let him know 30 minutes before the game started that he wouldn't be receiving any tickets. Viagogo refund the ticket cost, but the travel, accommodation and time wasted? Nothing at all. And they never had the tickets.
Same for festivals: I took loads (LOADS) of calls from people who were told to get to the middle of the wilderness in Eastern Europe for a dance festival, having booked time off work and prepared for a 5 day festival. When they got there they were told there were never any tickets. Just go home, write off the time off, write of the ticket costs, write off the transport, write of the preparation and deal with feeling s**tty for 5 days because they were ripped off by a company...except it isn;t that simple, because now they are in the middle of a field in Eastern Europe for 5 days, the bus that took them there has gone and they have no admittance to the festival...so essentially Viagogo were responsible for just dumping around 100 people in a field in eastern europe with no provisions and no way of getting back.
Far from discouraging the practice, they LOVE scalpers and give them preferential treatment ('super sellers'). They get discounts, skip phone queues, and get a higher price for tickets than honest customers with a ticket to sell.
If an event is coming up soon, the seller can meet you at the venue to pass the ticket over. What this means is if you show up and the seller isn't there for whatever reason (illness, decided to use ticket themselves, just can't be arsed etc.), you have paid and have no proof they did not meet you. Byebye money.
If you buy a ticket from Viagogo, I would honestly say you have a 40-45% chance of getting it. reddit , Nirmal Rajendharkumar Report Final score: 215points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Hateful hearts. So many people can’t just “write off” those expenses. I hope some regulatory agency takes them down. S special place in hell for those aholes 83 83points reply View more comments #12 Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) throws away literally tons of edible produce, deli and bakery food every day at individual stores. Mainly because it doesn’t look picture perfect. Most wasteful company I’ve even seen. We have homeless people stealing food everyday and being prosecuted when we could just give them the food. But no,It all goes to the garbage compactor. Beezlegorp , Jason McHuff Report Final score: 214points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This world is just one bad state of affairs! 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments Some of the most common experiences the participants encountered were rule violations, lying and an unhealthy work environment. Although less frequent, sacrificing safety, discrimination, stealing and bullying were also mentioned as examples of bad practices at work. "While it often goes undiscovered, this behavior puts too many businesses-and, unknowingly, their customers-at risk," the researchers wrote. #13 Worked for a private school. Grades were definitely bought. We were discouraged to give anything lower than a B. Had one principal that told a teacher to take the final for a student that went on summer vacation early. She called it a shadow final and said nonchalantly that it's no big deal, just answer how you think the student would answer.
This school is expensive, and these kids go on to fancy colleges because of these grades. dwarvenmonk , Taylor Wilcox Report Final score: 199points POST buttonpusher buttonpusher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Makes sense why there's so many idiots in high profile jobs. 299 299points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 Our secret sauce is just Thousand Island dressing. PrettySureISharted , Airam Dato-on Report Final score: 186points POST C. Wade C. Wade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Which in turn is just equal parts: mayo, ketchup and mustard with diced pickles in it. Make sure to try it at home because it's amazing. Go the extra mile and throw in: a pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika. Yum. 149 149points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 I guess it's not really that dark or a big secret just something very few people know about. In the 70s and 80s most commercial beekeepers in Canada poisoned all or almost all their Hives to death every fall. The hives were then replaced by packaged bees in spring from the US, used for the summer and then killed again in fall.
This was done just because packages from America were cheaper than the medication and labor involved with over wintering your hives. Especially as you can lose anywhere from 5% to 50% of your hives over winter.
This doesn't happen anymore as the price of packages now vastly exceed the cost of wintering your hives. Even if it did become economically feasible again I can't see it happening as the public out cry would likely be huge if people found out this was happening.
Like I said not really a secret. Just something few people remember. Bokin0 , Wolfgang Hasselmann Report Final score: 180points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago So if bees go extinct one day, we can all blame Canada! 82 82points reply View More Replies... View more comments When it comes to speaking up about these issues, four in five employees said that they felt constrained to speak the truth at their workplace. "Forty percent said that they were often or almost always afraid of voicing any criticism in their organization. Our research also shows that those people who feel afraid to speak up are also likely to be the ones who are under pressure to act unethically." #16 Reality TV is anything but.
Ever seen House Hunters on HGTV? The couple "looking for a house" actually already bought and live in one of the houses that they're "looking at." The other houses are usually friend's houses, or houses that have sold but not closed or moved in yet. edinc90 Report Final score: 180points POST Grant Barke Grant Barke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago All reality TV is in some way a set up. 134 134points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 I work in a public library. Sadly, since we're open to all, we get a lot of indigent customers. In this day and age, that means a lot of opiate users, many of whom shoot up in our restrooms.
We've had many overdoses, most of which are treated quickly and effectively by administering Narcan. However, that's not always the case, and some people are either beyond saving, or are found too late.
In 2019 alone, we've had 13 deaths. Security and the EMTs are always careful to make it appear that the body being wheeled out is only ill, so as not to freak out the patrons. The actual number of deaths is even 'hidden' from the staff. (I'm friends with a few of the folks in security, which is how I know about it.) NastyLittleBagginses Report Final score: 177points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is exactly one of the reasons why we need to embrace the Swiss concept of having drug cafés. Places where people can shoot up and be safe and not destroy the environment and not worry about whether or not they’re going to survive the experience or not. 104 104points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 I worked at Whole Foods. Your cookies and bread were heated in store, not baked. Oh. And in AM meetings, you're referred to as "basket size", not customers. sauerpatchkid , Karsten Winegeart Report Final score: 170points POST Rissie Rissie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago They are finished in the store. Heating up is a different proces. And having lingo for your customer base? You do you. It's not personal. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments So if you feel stressed out or just generally unhappy about the company that you work for, Jenay Rose would like to give you a few pieces of advice. "If you're unhappy with your job or career-right now is the time to do something about it," she suggested. "There's never been more opportunity to leverage your expertise and passion to find work that aligns with you and facilitates the kind of life you want to live." #19 A "high class" spa I worked at used epsom salts and vegetable oil for their $65 salt scrubs. captnfirepants , SUN STUDIO CREATIVE Report Final score: 169points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago You shouldn't know what exotics hairdressers put on your hair for that wonderful classic sheen for 175 dollars! 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #20 I used to work in a factory that produced pillows. Let me be the first to tell you, some nasty stuff goes into those pillows. Tell me, have you ever seen those pillows labeled "Memory Foam Cluster"? Do yourself a favor, and avoid them like the plague. What we do is, there is a bale of old, recycled memory foam brought behind the grinder. This bale consists of everything from old mattresses and pillows, to those cooling memory foam pillows. Except they are all old and dirty. We cut the bigger pieces into more manageable bits and toss it into a grinder that chops the foam into small, fine cubes. These cubes are stored in a large tank, and then blown into an empty pillow casing using pneumatic pressure. Now we made good pillows too, but for the love of god, stay away from anything labeled "cluster." The_Ginger_Wizard Report Final score: 161points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago The pillow is sealed, so isn't this just a good example of recycling? 25 25points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 Volunteer paramedic ... when we find an old person who clearly has been with no pulse for hours we close the doors, shut relatives out and pretend to do something to avoid useless legal action. pantograph23 , Mat Napo Report Final score: 159points POST Panda Kicki Panda Kicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I was taught to never stop until a doctor with proper instruments had declared someone dead, only exception "in case the head is separated from the body". Cold, poison, vaious condition can make someone seem really dead and age is no reason to jump the gun there. Unless someone clearly stated beforehand that they dont want help in those situations you do your best until a proper examination declares them dead. 166 166points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 I worked at a car dealership. The $1200 car care system that we would discount to $900 was “applied” with about 15 squirts of a spray bottle. Many times I’d hang out with the detail guys so the customer wouldn’t get suspicious at a quick turnaround. DirtynDurham , SCREEN POST Report Final score: 158points POST Nadia Monteira Nadia Monteira Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is just scam. Pure scam. Infuriating 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 The icecream machine isn't broken it just needs cleaning which takes a long time. BK worker here CapnL19 Report Final score: 155points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago You mean it's cleaned?????????????? 56 56points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Wash your fruits and vegetables very thoroughly a lot of them will end up being scooped off a disgusting warehouse floor and put back in the package after falling out x740xWastedx Report Final score: 154points POST September September Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago When I was a child, about 8 years old, I had asked my mother why she washed the food like it was dirty dishes. She told me, Because people are disgusting and alot of people touched this food before we got it. A week later we went to the store for groceries. We had just walked through the front doors, the produce section was displayed prominently in front of us. There was this giant scraggly looking man that wasn't wearing a shirt, had jeans and old tennis shoes on. He kept picking rapidly thought the fruit, would stop, stick his hand down the front of his jeans, rub and scratch vigorously then continue at the fruit. Over and over again. Why is he doing that, Mom? He probably has a disease down there. Lesson learned. I've been washing my groceries since the 1970s, thanks to that experience. 142 142points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Apple: All techs and “Genius” employees are fully aware of wide-spread issues well before they are officially released to the public. They are NEVER discussed at the morning staff meetings with management present but are ALWAYS a source of discussion in the 3:00-3:30 tech staff meeting.
For example: It got to a point where I would replace an iPhone 6+ for the “display” issue and sometimes had to replace the replacement 2-3 times while the customer was waiting. It was embarrassing and frustrating that the official release from the company was that the issue was caused by customer misuse. We all knew the truth and the techs with any sort of conscience would bend over backwards to do what we could to right the wrongs. That is one of several manufacturing issues masked as user error or misuse that we tried to work around. MrFrankReynolds , Laurenz Heymann Report Final score: 154points POST John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Just one of many reasons why I'll never buy an Apple product. 107 107points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 Former Geek Squad here - most of the people that work there, aren't really technical at all. We usually just walk it over to a bench, hook it up to a corporate VLAN and run just run some software. If there are real issues - people remotely connect from India or somewhere else.
We are basically just salesmen with a clip on tie. Moots_point , Paul Swansen Report Final score: 146points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not surprised given the blank looks of the reps when computers were brought in. Fortunately we have a couple of local independent computer repair companies who give s**t and do excellent work. 56 56points reply View more comments #27 You always want to order your drinks without ice.
I've seen icemachines inside at fancy places and you definitly do not want anything in your drink what was inside there before. Ice cube machines are a real s**thole in general. willus1337 Report Final score: 135points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago It is similar with orange juice machines at least in Spain. My father does health inspections and he always told us to never use them because they are most of the time full of mold inside. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Former Starbucks partner here. I've worked at a variety of different stores during my stint as a barista, and I can't tell you how many times I've gone to clean an espresso machine and have found mold. I've only worked in one store that followed cleaning protocol correctly, out of a total of six (all in a major U.S. city).
Also, don't be a d**k when you place your order, otherwise you will without a doubt be decaffed. I've even witnessed assistant store managers do this to customers. crimewavedd , Ricko Pan Report Final score: 133points POST Stefan Stefan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago If you like real coffee, you don't go to Starbucks. 173 173points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Applebees; on the tabletop computers, go to "Extras" and tap and hold the little white space on the top left of the screen. When it gives a password prompt, it's 4321. Lets you change the table numbers or play games for free. Atrrophy , Mike Mozart Report Final score: 123points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Our Applebee’s did not survive the first six months of the pandemic 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #30 Ralph Lauren's outlet clothing is made for outlet, not from the main stores. waasaabii Report Final score: 118points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I think that is typical for most outlets 103 103points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 It has been several years, but when I worked at certain satellite tv company, they had a value system for customers.
You are valued at 1-5 stars, based on how much you spend, and how much they value you as a customer. If you are are a higher star value, they will do basically anything to keep you. You will get a ton of services and equipment for free, and they will bend over backwards to keep you from cancelling.
If you are a 1 or 2 star, they don't give a s**t. Especially 1 stars, because it usually means that you are late all the time, or that you don't spend very much. If you call in asking for deals or credits, they won't give it to you. If you threaten to cancel, no one cares.
Also, there are special phone lines for people they consider "VIPS". They never have to wait on hold, and only special employees are allowed to take the phone calls. mermaidsthrowaway , Eric Lumsden Report Final score: 109points POST Allen Garcia Allen Garcia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Who would value a customer who is always late and can’t afford the company’s service? I’d go with the big spenders, too. It’s called business. 65 65points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 Idk the legality of this but it always seemed wierd. But we would get bags of another company's product (animal premix) and manually transfer that product into a bag of our own. We would give these products lot codes of our own and sell them to customers. DrMadlove , David Gabrielyan Report Final score: 97points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago (edited) That happens often with fancier food brands. The product gets done exactly in the same place and condition as a cheaper white brand but then it gets packaged differently and you get charged much more for the same product 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 If you see rabbits or chickens at a zoo, they're food. LokiRook Report Final score: 96points POST T'Mar of Vulcan T'Mar of Vulcan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Most of us are aware chickens are food? I just ate a chicken sandwich? And I'll still coo at that if I see them at the zoo... 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 We didn't meet the contractual obligations to entirely destroy the laptops Google sent to us for decommissioning. We shredded the HDDs and sold the laptops for a profit.
Couldn't do s**t about the servers though, Google branding all over them septic_tongue , freestocks Report Final score: 86points POST C. Wade C. Wade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And why would you? Destroy the HDDs, RAM is volatile anyway = clean slate. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 I used to work for a major card service company, and before the law changed if you bought a gift card to say a red lobster and didn't use it for like say a year. It was a distinct posibility that the entire value of that card would be gone due to monthly service charges. So picture me the guy trying to explain to the guy how his 50$ gift card was worth nothing, and you can imagine how that goes. Weirdly enough I ended up loving that job the most due to other types of accounts I used to handle. That was one of the worst parts of my job honestly. Memetic1 , Tiago Scharfy Report Final score: 83points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I am glad they changed the law. I think it's messed up to charge monthly service charges to something that was already paid for but not used. 98 98points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 94 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF. 7 7points reply Rylee Baker Rylee Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Vorknkx Vorknkx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it. 7 7points reply A Jones A Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier. 6 6points reply Load More Comments POST Michelle Terrones Michelle Terrones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago At Best Buy, no one knows what they're doing. The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF. 7 7points reply Rylee Baker Rylee Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Vorknkx Vorknkx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it. 7 7points reply A Jones A Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier. 6 6points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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35 People Reveal The “ Dark Secrets” About Their Jobs That Common People Aren’ t Supposed To Know
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Let's face it-almost every profession has a few secrets that the rest of the world would be surprised to find out. When faced with challenges, some businesses may decide to take the easy way out, which often leads to enforcing bad practices. And there's no way of knowing about them… unless you're a part of it. Thousands of workers decided to share their stories on the r/AskReddit page. One after another, members spilled their industry secrets that companies keep from the general public. From paramedics and teachers to skincare specialists and SPA workers, these people did not pass the opportunity to share their knowledge. As people say, the more you know, the more you'll understand, so make sure to read these stories below, upvote your favorites and let us know what you think! This post may include affiliate links. #1 I worked at a White Castle from 2000-2003.
It was clean. Nothing super disgusting at all. All of the equipment got a thorough cleaning every 24 hours. The floors were mopped regularly, walls were wiped down... everything.
The food was always fresh. If the burgers cooled enough for the buns to get hard, they were trashed. If fries/sides sat under heat lamp for 15 minutes, they were trashed.
We threw away a lot of food. We had to track it all for inventory purposes, and filled up a couple pages a day of stuff we through out.
Even when the bulk of the crew was teenagers, we really were trying to work fast and do a good job. Every year or so, they made us get timed on the griddle by a regional manager. Everyone had to do it. Starting with a clean griddle you had to fully prepare, box and bag 30 hamburgers as fast as possible without cutting any corners.
I know not all locations are like that, nor are all fast food restaurants, but when I was working there, we did a really good job of everything. wpmason , Deborah Lee Soltesz Report Final score: 387points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Nice. For once a place with high work standards and ethics I like it!!! Too bad we don’t have a White Castle near us I’ve heard their burgers are pretty good 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments Bored Panda contacted Jenay Rose, an online business expert who has gained enormous success after quitting her job in 2017, to talk about unethical business practices and why people decide to talk about them. One reason why some former or existing workers decide to reveal secrets from their jobs might be because they are not satisfied with their role or do not have respect for the company at all. And the expert totally agrees. "The great resignation accompanied by the rise of social media has created so much more transparency in the workplace via "whistleblowers", TikTokers, and people who are no longer willing to work for a job they hate, for a boss they don't respect, at a company that doesn't care about them." #2 When purchasing items on the internet (especially airline tickets), use incognito mode on your browser.
We use your own cookies against you: raising the price on tickets the more times you check, as you shop around for better deals. That way you'll think the price is going up or that seats are being actively sold - thus increasing your urgency to buy, and punishing you for trying to get a good deal. Valendr0s Report Final score: 359points POST AutisticMum AutisticMum Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Or empty your cookies after you decided where and what to buy 87 87points reply View More Replies... View more comments Some of the stories shared on the subreddit are really eye-opening, not only from the consumer perspective but also from the potential employee's point of view. "Knowing the good, bad, and the ugly gives us the ability of "hindsight is 20/20" TODAY. This allows us to make better decisions, find better jobs or opportunities, and creates connections (where we realize we're not alone in things we've experienced)," Rose explained. "It also puts the power back into the hands of the people, because with more information and transparency, more can be done to fix these dark company secrets and actions." #3 Cleaning up animals after an oil spill is feel good propaganda to make the public think they are helping. 90% of those animals will be dead within a few days or weeks. They've ingested enough of the oil that they are moving corpses, they (and you mr. nice person with a bottle of Dawn dish soap)just don't know it yet.
Real oil spill work is done by trained professional crews, not volunteers. If you ever tried to help, you were given busy work to keep you out of the way. Skalite4 , Peter Ma Report Final score: 302points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is so sad... 178 178points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 I used to work for a large smart phone company.
During development, we used to go through phases, Engineering Verification testing stage, Design Verification Test, Production Verification Test, and finally Mass Production. Each stage was meant to have checkpoints in order to ensure that the final product was built with good quality and any known bugs would be able to ironed out before the product launch. Any bug that was not resolved would potentially have the ability to delay the launch.
Except that there is a thing called Waivers. So the PM could request that certain bugs be granted a waiver delaying the fix of the problem to a later date. No big deal, every project has a few minor bugs, right?
For each stage there would be hundreds of waivers. Some would be minor, to be fair, but sometimes they were definitely not minor.
I will never, ever, buy an electronic device in the first 3 months of mass production. Wait for the second wave of production, the quality of the product increases ten-fold. Project2r , camilo jimenez Report Final score: 302points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The erosion of the ethical workplace. Disappointed not surprised 71 71points reply View More Replies... View more comments When trying to maintain a successful business, companies come across a variety of obstacles every day. While some decide to work harder, others start to use unethical practices or turn a blind eye to the already existing ones. "For most companies, the bottom line is priority over their people, when it should be the other way around," the self-made millionaire said. "If you take care of your people, the bottom line will naturally improve." #5 Airline pilot here.
You know those blankets that we give you on the flight? The airline never washes them. Ever. We just shake them out and shrink wrap them for a later flight. Every once in a while we toss one that's unusable. _JackStraw_ , Aleksei Zaitcev Report Final score: 263points POST juztme juztme Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago True! I worked at a laundry and they washed(well no) airplane blankets. We had to check for dirt. And if it was really visible they got washed... But... And yes.. Ewwww!!! We had blankets with sperm in it and they diddent get washed! So... Bring your own blanky in the airplane... 123 123points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 I'm a special education teacher, and the amount of injuries people sustain while working in this field is staggering. I teach high school and the kids can go until they are 21. So most of the violent students are adult sized. We get concussions, bites, broken wrists and arms, scalped, as well as sexualy assaulted by students who will grab you by your breast, pull out their d**k and start masturbating.
BTW I like my job very much and enjoy working with the students. However, there is so little public knowledge of how dangerous the position is. Ihadacow , Taylor Wilcox Report Final score: 248points POST Carey Cole Carey Cole Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago My wife is a para in the school system and I cannot tell you how many times that she has come home with bites, bruises, cuts and scrapes. Once, her entire left breast was black and purple for two weeks because one of her kids grabbed, twisted and squeezed it very hard before she could get him to let go. Also, I paid more in taxes last year (over double) of what she was paid. An SE teacher or para are VASTLY underappreciated and grossly underpaid. 23 23points reply View more comments According to the expert, one of the factors why many companies have been willing to ignore these issues is because they were able to get away with it for a very long time: "Then came social media, the pandemic (which triggered an entirely new "work from home environment" and changed the way careers look), and the great resignation. These are three core factors that led to the shift in our work environments and the exposure of bad practices with actual recourse." Another thing that big corporations fail to realize is that "people are not workhorses. They can't just keep us in a cage and expect us to throw our lives at them. We are dynamic and deserving of work-life balance." #7 Worked in a no-kill animal shelter. The thing is, no-kill still does mean you have to put animals down sometimes. Especially behavioral issues are terrible. When is a dog too dangerous? Can you rehome a Pitbill with a bite-history? What if they get too dangerous for staff to handle?
Especially when it 'gets out' that we had to put a specific animal down and all those Facebook warriors start rioting and calling you names. It's not like we make those decisions for fun... reddit , Sasha Sashina Report Final score: 243points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago It's sad but I can understand why this is done. I don't think I could do it but I have high respect for those who have to do it. 140 140points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I used to work in skincare: None of the products cost more than $2 to manufacture, but would retail at anything from $20 to $150 per product.
Always amazed me how much people would shell out for anything with volcanic clay or snake venom cream DWeb338 , Mathilde Langevin Report Final score: 242points POST Sarcastic Cow Sarcastic Cow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Pff, blue Nivea since 1987... 141 141points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 I worked at UPS ages ago. The word "FRAGILE" on a box meant nothing to us, so make sure you pack your stuff properly. Kevoguy , Kevin Woblick Report Final score: 238points POST Rissie Rissie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Industry secret my big behind! 128 128points reply View More Replies... View more comments Often, one of the main reasons why unethical behavior happens at work is the climate of the organizations. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence conducted a survey of more than 14.5k American employees across different industries to find out how often workers felt the pressure to act unethically and if they were afraid to speak about it at their workplace. #10 Worked in management for Trader Joe's for 8 years and boy have a I got a doozy for you: the employees are ACTUALLY that nice. truthpooper , Mike Mozart Report Final score: 234points POST Brandy Grote Brandy Grote Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Even the President! Hub met him, asked about things that are not available, he laughed and said yeah, he has a wish list of past favorites too! 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Viagogo are just corrupt, straight up. Not a little thing here and there, they are just a criminal company.
They will take your money for tickets even if they have none of those tickets, assuming they will eventually have tickets to sell you. If they don't get them, you get the ticket money back. An example of this was when a guy in the UK bought tickets to the Superbowl in 2013, booked his air travel, flew to the states, booked his accommodation, was staying in a hotel he paid for, and was calling us every 15 minutes to ask where his tickets were. We were told to lie to him and say someone will meet him at the stadium. We let him know 30 minutes before the game started that he wouldn't be receiving any tickets. Viagogo refund the ticket cost, but the travel, accommodation and time wasted? Nothing at all. And they never had the tickets.
Same for festivals: I took loads (LOADS) of calls from people who were told to get to the middle of the wilderness in Eastern Europe for a dance festival, having booked time off work and prepared for a 5 day festival. When they got there they were told there were never any tickets. Just go home, write off the time off, write of the ticket costs, write off the transport, write of the preparation and deal with feeling s**tty for 5 days because they were ripped off by a company...except it isn;t that simple, because now they are in the middle of a field in Eastern Europe for 5 days, the bus that took them there has gone and they have no admittance to the festival...so essentially Viagogo were responsible for just dumping around 100 people in a field in eastern europe with no provisions and no way of getting back.
Far from discouraging the practice, they LOVE scalpers and give them preferential treatment ('super sellers'). They get discounts, skip phone queues, and get a higher price for tickets than honest customers with a ticket to sell.
If an event is coming up soon, the seller can meet you at the venue to pass the ticket over. What this means is if you show up and the seller isn't there for whatever reason (illness, decided to use ticket themselves, just can't be arsed etc.), you have paid and have no proof they did not meet you. Byebye money.
If you buy a ticket from Viagogo, I would honestly say you have a 40-45% chance of getting it. reddit , Nirmal Rajendharkumar Report Final score: 215points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Hateful hearts. So many people can’t just “write off” those expenses. I hope some regulatory agency takes them down. S special place in hell for those aholes 83 83points reply View more comments #12 Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) throws away literally tons of edible produce, deli and bakery food every day at individual stores. Mainly because it doesn’t look picture perfect. Most wasteful company I’ve even seen. We have homeless people stealing food everyday and being prosecuted when we could just give them the food. But no,It all goes to the garbage compactor. Beezlegorp , Jason McHuff Report Final score: 214points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This world is just one bad state of affairs! 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments Some of the most common experiences the participants encountered were rule violations, lying and an unhealthy work environment. Although less frequent, sacrificing safety, discrimination, stealing and bullying were also mentioned as examples of bad practices at work. "While it often goes undiscovered, this behavior puts too many businesses-and, unknowingly, their customers-at risk," the researchers wrote. #13 Worked for a private school. Grades were definitely bought. We were discouraged to give anything lower than a B. Had one principal that told a teacher to take the final for a student that went on summer vacation early. She called it a shadow final and said nonchalantly that it's no big deal, just answer how you think the student would answer.
This school is expensive, and these kids go on to fancy colleges because of these grades. dwarvenmonk , Taylor Wilcox Report Final score: 199points POST buttonpusher buttonpusher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Makes sense why there's so many idiots in high profile jobs. 299 299points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 Our secret sauce is just Thousand Island dressing. PrettySureISharted , Airam Dato-on Report Final score: 186points POST C. Wade C. Wade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Which in turn is just equal parts: mayo, ketchup and mustard with diced pickles in it. Make sure to try it at home because it's amazing. Go the extra mile and throw in: a pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika. Yum. 149 149points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 I guess it's not really that dark or a big secret just something very few people know about. In the 70s and 80s most commercial beekeepers in Canada poisoned all or almost all their Hives to death every fall. The hives were then replaced by packaged bees in spring from the US, used for the summer and then killed again in fall.
This was done just because packages from America were cheaper than the medication and labor involved with over wintering your hives. Especially as you can lose anywhere from 5% to 50% of your hives over winter.
This doesn't happen anymore as the price of packages now vastly exceed the cost of wintering your hives. Even if it did become economically feasible again I can't see it happening as the public out cry would likely be huge if people found out this was happening.
Like I said not really a secret. Just something few people remember. Bokin0 , Wolfgang Hasselmann Report Final score: 180points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago So if bees go extinct one day, we can all blame Canada! 82 82points reply View More Replies... View more comments When it comes to speaking up about these issues, four in five employees said that they felt constrained to speak the truth at their workplace. "Forty percent said that they were often or almost always afraid of voicing any criticism in their organization. Our research also shows that those people who feel afraid to speak up are also likely to be the ones who are under pressure to act unethically." #16 Reality TV is anything but.
Ever seen House Hunters on HGTV? The couple "looking for a house" actually already bought and live in one of the houses that they're "looking at." The other houses are usually friend's houses, or houses that have sold but not closed or moved in yet. edinc90 Report Final score: 180points POST Grant Barke Grant Barke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago All reality TV is in some way a set up. 134 134points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 I work in a public library. Sadly, since we're open to all, we get a lot of indigent customers. In this day and age, that means a lot of opiate users, many of whom shoot up in our restrooms.
We've had many overdoses, most of which are treated quickly and effectively by administering Narcan. However, that's not always the case, and some people are either beyond saving, or are found too late.
In 2019 alone, we've had 13 deaths. Security and the EMTs are always careful to make it appear that the body being wheeled out is only ill, so as not to freak out the patrons. The actual number of deaths is even 'hidden' from the staff. (I'm friends with a few of the folks in security, which is how I know about it.) NastyLittleBagginses Report Final score: 177points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is exactly one of the reasons why we need to embrace the Swiss concept of having drug cafés. Places where people can shoot up and be safe and not destroy the environment and not worry about whether or not they’re going to survive the experience or not. 104 104points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 I worked at Whole Foods. Your cookies and bread were heated in store, not baked. Oh. And in AM meetings, you're referred to as "basket size", not customers. sauerpatchkid , Karsten Winegeart Report Final score: 170points POST Rissie Rissie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago They are finished in the store. Heating up is a different proces. And having lingo for your customer base? You do you. It's not personal. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments So if you feel stressed out or just generally unhappy about the company that you work for, Jenay Rose would like to give you a few pieces of advice. "If you're unhappy with your job or career-right now is the time to do something about it," she suggested. "There's never been more opportunity to leverage your expertise and passion to find work that aligns with you and facilitates the kind of life you want to live." #19 A "high class" spa I worked at used epsom salts and vegetable oil for their $65 salt scrubs. captnfirepants , SUN STUDIO CREATIVE Report Final score: 169points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago You shouldn't know what exotics hairdressers put on your hair for that wonderful classic sheen for 175 dollars! 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #20 I used to work in a factory that produced pillows. Let me be the first to tell you, some nasty stuff goes into those pillows. Tell me, have you ever seen those pillows labeled "Memory Foam Cluster"? Do yourself a favor, and avoid them like the plague. What we do is, there is a bale of old, recycled memory foam brought behind the grinder. This bale consists of everything from old mattresses and pillows, to those cooling memory foam pillows. Except they are all old and dirty. We cut the bigger pieces into more manageable bits and toss it into a grinder that chops the foam into small, fine cubes. These cubes are stored in a large tank, and then blown into an empty pillow casing using pneumatic pressure. Now we made good pillows too, but for the love of god, stay away from anything labeled "cluster." The_Ginger_Wizard Report Final score: 161points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago The pillow is sealed, so isn't this just a good example of recycling? 25 25points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 Volunteer paramedic ... when we find an old person who clearly has been with no pulse for hours we close the doors, shut relatives out and pretend to do something to avoid useless legal action. pantograph23 , Mat Napo Report Final score: 159points POST Panda Kicki Panda Kicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I was taught to never stop until a doctor with proper instruments had declared someone dead, only exception "in case the head is separated from the body". Cold, poison, vaious condition can make someone seem really dead and age is no reason to jump the gun there. Unless someone clearly stated beforehand that they dont want help in those situations you do your best until a proper examination declares them dead. 166 166points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 I worked at a car dealership. The $1200 car care system that we would discount to $900 was “applied” with about 15 squirts of a spray bottle. Many times I’d hang out with the detail guys so the customer wouldn’t get suspicious at a quick turnaround. DirtynDurham , SCREEN POST Report Final score: 158points POST Nadia Monteira Nadia Monteira Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is just scam. Pure scam. Infuriating 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 The icecream machine isn't broken it just needs cleaning which takes a long time. BK worker here CapnL19 Report Final score: 155points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago You mean it's cleaned?????????????? 56 56points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Wash your fruits and vegetables very thoroughly a lot of them will end up being scooped off a disgusting warehouse floor and put back in the package after falling out x740xWastedx Report Final score: 154points POST September September Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago When I was a child, about 8 years old, I had asked my mother why she washed the food like it was dirty dishes. She told me, Because people are disgusting and alot of people touched this food before we got it. A week later we went to the store for groceries. We had just walked through the front doors, the produce section was displayed prominently in front of us. There was this giant scraggly looking man that wasn't wearing a shirt, had jeans and old tennis shoes on. He kept picking rapidly thought the fruit, would stop, stick his hand down the front of his jeans, rub and scratch vigorously then continue at the fruit. Over and over again. Why is he doing that, Mom? He probably has a disease down there. Lesson learned. I've been washing my groceries since the 1970s, thanks to that experience. 142 142points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Apple: All techs and “Genius” employees are fully aware of wide-spread issues well before they are officially released to the public. They are NEVER discussed at the morning staff meetings with management present but are ALWAYS a source of discussion in the 3:00-3:30 tech staff meeting.
For example: It got to a point where I would replace an iPhone 6+ for the “display” issue and sometimes had to replace the replacement 2-3 times while the customer was waiting. It was embarrassing and frustrating that the official release from the company was that the issue was caused by customer misuse. We all knew the truth and the techs with any sort of conscience would bend over backwards to do what we could to right the wrongs. That is one of several manufacturing issues masked as user error or misuse that we tried to work around. MrFrankReynolds , Laurenz Heymann Report Final score: 154points POST John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Just one of many reasons why I'll never buy an Apple product. 107 107points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 Former Geek Squad here - most of the people that work there, aren't really technical at all. We usually just walk it over to a bench, hook it up to a corporate VLAN and run just run some software. If there are real issues - people remotely connect from India or somewhere else.
We are basically just salesmen with a clip on tie. Moots_point , Paul Swansen Report Final score: 146points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not surprised given the blank looks of the reps when computers were brought in. Fortunately we have a couple of local independent computer repair companies who give s**t and do excellent work. 56 56points reply View more comments #27 You always want to order your drinks without ice.
I've seen icemachines inside at fancy places and you definitly do not want anything in your drink what was inside there before. Ice cube machines are a real s**thole in general. willus1337 Report Final score: 135points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago It is similar with orange juice machines at least in Spain. My father does health inspections and he always told us to never use them because they are most of the time full of mold inside. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Former Starbucks partner here. I've worked at a variety of different stores during my stint as a barista, and I can't tell you how many times I've gone to clean an espresso machine and have found mold. I've only worked in one store that followed cleaning protocol correctly, out of a total of six (all in a major U.S. city).
Also, don't be a d**k when you place your order, otherwise you will without a doubt be decaffed. I've even witnessed assistant store managers do this to customers. crimewavedd , Ricko Pan Report Final score: 133points POST Stefan Stefan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago If you like real coffee, you don't go to Starbucks. 173 173points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Applebees; on the tabletop computers, go to "Extras" and tap and hold the little white space on the top left of the screen. When it gives a password prompt, it's 4321. Lets you change the table numbers or play games for free. Atrrophy , Mike Mozart Report Final score: 123points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Our Applebee’s did not survive the first six months of the pandemic 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #30 Ralph Lauren's outlet clothing is made for outlet, not from the main stores. waasaabii Report Final score: 118points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I think that is typical for most outlets 103 103points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 It has been several years, but when I worked at certain satellite tv company, they had a value system for customers.
You are valued at 1-5 stars, based on how much you spend, and how much they value you as a customer. If you are are a higher star value, they will do basically anything to keep you. You will get a ton of services and equipment for free, and they will bend over backwards to keep you from cancelling.
If you are a 1 or 2 star, they don't give a s**t. Especially 1 stars, because it usually means that you are late all the time, or that you don't spend very much. If you call in asking for deals or credits, they won't give it to you. If you threaten to cancel, no one cares.
Also, there are special phone lines for people they consider "VIPS". They never have to wait on hold, and only special employees are allowed to take the phone calls. mermaidsthrowaway , Eric Lumsden Report Final score: 109points POST Allen Garcia Allen Garcia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Who would value a customer who is always late and can’t afford the company’s service? I’d go with the big spenders, too. It’s called business. 65 65points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 Idk the legality of this but it always seemed wierd. But we would get bags of another company's product (animal premix) and manually transfer that product into a bag of our own. We would give these products lot codes of our own and sell them to customers. DrMadlove , David Gabrielyan Report Final score: 97points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago (edited) That happens often with fancier food brands. The product gets done exactly in the same place and condition as a cheaper white brand but then it gets packaged differently and you get charged much more for the same product 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 If you see rabbits or chickens at a zoo, they're food. LokiRook Report Final score: 96points POST T'Mar of Vulcan T'Mar of Vulcan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Most of us are aware chickens are food? I just ate a chicken sandwich? And I'll still coo at that if I see them at the zoo... 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 We didn't meet the contractual obligations to entirely destroy the laptops Google sent to us for decommissioning. We shredded the HDDs and sold the laptops for a profit.
Couldn't do s**t about the servers though, Google branding all over them septic_tongue , freestocks Report Final score: 86points POST C. Wade C. Wade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And why would you? Destroy the HDDs, RAM is volatile anyway = clean slate. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 I used to work for a major card service company, and before the law changed if you bought a gift card to say a red lobster and didn't use it for like say a year. It was a distinct posibility that the entire value of that card would be gone due to monthly service charges. So picture me the guy trying to explain to the guy how his 50$ gift card was worth nothing, and you can imagine how that goes. Weirdly enough I ended up loving that job the most due to other types of accounts I used to handle. That was one of the worst parts of my job honestly. Memetic1 , Tiago Scharfy Report Final score: 83points POST Mama Panda Mama Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I am glad they changed the law. I think it's messed up to charge monthly service charges to something that was already paid for but not used. 98 98points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 94 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF. 7 7points reply Rylee Baker Rylee Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Vorknkx Vorknkx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it. 7 7points reply A Jones A Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier. 6 6points reply Load More Comments POST Michelle Terrones Michelle Terrones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago At Best Buy, no one knows what they're doing. The "sales" team is hired based on their looks and personality, they don't care if you have no idea what it is your selling. Also, the cashiers get harrassed constantly about selling you protection plans that are almost always a scam. Not sure if they still try to get customers to sign up for a "free" magazine subscription but they would bank on people forgetting to cancel. We had to take their credit card to complete a magazine subscription and we were literally told that if people started to object because they didn't want to be charged to say, "it's just to verify your address." Shady AF. 7 7points reply Rylee Baker Rylee Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago hi! best buy employee here, can confirm this is all true, except for the hiring for looks part, we all wing it, do your research so you know exactly what you want cause we don’t know what the frick we’re doing 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Vorknkx Vorknkx Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago As a long-time translator, I can share that we have a strict "translate what you see" rule - which means that if you submit something in poor handwirting, chances are there will be errors or pure gibberish in the translation. Something is illegible? I won't make any effort to decode it - I'll just write "(illegible)" and that would be the end of it. 7 7points reply A Jones A Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Not a secret, but a well advised tip if you need a record of communication. Keep emails between you and the business, especially for all requests, inquiries, and cases. It's the easiest way to obtain legal documentation. Also see if you can make a request to communicate over email, folks tend to prefer writing anyways. Use services like Yahoo or Gmail, they can allow for emails to stay for years. Yahoo allows you to create folders, makes organizing easier. 6 6points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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