Employees Are Revealing The Little-Known Secrets And Scams From Their Industry That More People Should Know, And I Fear I've Been Scammed

Even if you're an unproblematic queen who avoids play similar the plague, you gotta admit, it's fascinating to larn thing that wholly contradicts your preexisting assumptions — particularly if it's an manufacture secret.

So recently, radical connected Reddit were answering the question, "What's an industry secret successful your tract of employment?" and the responses are simply excessively bully to ignore. So here's what radical said...

Note: These stories travel from anonymous folks online, truthful delight instrumentality them with the accustomed atom of net salt.

1. "I utilized to enactment astatine a fashionable covering and lingerie brand. I recovered my manager cutting up returned merchandise, and throwing it successful the trash. I offered to instrumentality it to a battered women's structure instead. I'll NEVER hide oregon forgive the company's reply: 'Corporate doesn't privation our products connected THOSE kinds of people.'"

–wong_bater

"Everything is thrown away. Like, virtually perfectly bully products, conscionable to marque country for the adjacent seasonal stuff. If you got a just deal, prices would beryllium 1/3 oregon little than what they are."

–AlarmingArm9919

2. "Companies are convinced AI is acold much close than it is, oregon volition ever be. The trough of disillusionment volition beryllium heavy and agelong connected this, and erstwhile it falls, it volition beryllium reminiscent of the aboriginal 2000s net bubble."

–Darth1Football

3. "Most of the important decisions and networking hap connected the play course. If you don't play golf, you're retired of luck."

–ZestyGolf7654

4. "You are astir surely getting overcharged for repairs successful your home. Especially if you're a woman. My proposal to anyone would beryllium instrumentality the clip (if you person it) and store around. Get comparisons, inquire questions, and larn arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin astir immoderate the repair is. There's immoderate shady radical retired here. Ladies, if you person anyone successful your beingness that are consenting to instrumentality the clip to assistance you, fto 'em bash it."

–16ozbuddz

5. "So galore radical deliberation that nonrecreational musicians are 'talented,' but endowment takes truthful little, and galore person made it without talent. Some are talented, but galore of the ones who prolong a palmy vocation enactment tirelessly to get to wherever they're at. Being successful the close spot astatine the close clip tin besides beryllium key, and luck does play a relation (especially successful auditions, due to the fact that determination tin beryllium tons of variables). You besides request to BE the close person; if you're a atrocious colleague, nary substance however amazingly you play, radical won't privation to enactment with you!"

–TrumpetsGalore4

6. "We merchantability the aforesaid nonstop products into antithetic industries for drastically antithetic prices. For a merchandise that goes into a highly regulated authorities aerospace application, we volition merchantability it nether 1 portion fig for 2–3 times what we merchantability it to a smaller shaper nether a antithetic portion number."

–Expensive_Candle5644

7. "Every benignant of medicine needed to beryllium tested connected animals. If anyone tells you that determination is an existent alternative, that's conscionable a straight-up lie. Yeah, we're ever trying to regenerate it with thing else, if possible, and AI processes are being developed, but we're not determination yet. The past 2 administrations successful the US person said they're trying to signifier retired carnal testing, but it's not adjacent close. And, yes, the existent 'policies' person been perfectly devastating to research. People person nary thought however atrocious it is; they would beryllium enraged if they really knew. It's thing profitable that benefits our industries, our country, and idiosyncratic people."

–RaindropsInMyMind

8. "When I was an intern astatine a authorities watchdog agency, we'd benignant up a property merchandise for a meeting, past constitute thing favourable oregon astute astir a peculiar politician, similar "Politician XYZ of [state], said this astir [subject]..." Then we'd nonstop it disconnected to either the person directly, oregon their staff, and ask, 'Hey, did you oregon your brag accidental this?' The person oregon their unit would either o.k. oregon edit it, past nonstop it back. So, your area's person sounds eloquent successful print, but has occupation stringing 2 words unneurotic erstwhile abruptly deed with a question connected the news? There's a bully accidental they ne'er personally uttered those words, oregon adjacent wrote them."

–driving_andflying

9. "As a repairman, if I can't fig retired however to hole what you've got, I'm YouTubing it successful my truck. That, and we're milking you for overtime if you makes america permission our location disconnected hours."

–Bdpr0blems

10. "The aforesaid chickenhearted that a inexpensive edifice sells is the aforesaid chickenhearted that a five-star edifice sells, conscionable prepared differently. But the merchandise is the same, and you're paying 3 times much for it."

–Gps335

11. "Our company's messaging is that upcoming AI agents volition not instrumentality jobs distant from the lawsuit extremity users. But if they enactment arsenic intended, radical volition suffer their jobs. It's insurance-related claims and billing. We conscionable request the close algorithms to grip circumstantial situations and a fewer radical to grip oversight and unsocial situations."

–GoopInThisBowlIsVile

12. "There's an adjacent magnitude of incompetent radical successful subject arsenic determination are walking connected the street, truthful chances are the 'study' a batch of policies and ideas are based connected is flawed. Same goes for grifters successful science. They conscionable thrust the latest faff and get the astir retired of buzzwords successful their research. Yes, this applies to STEM excessively (think of each the 'scientist finds cure to cancer' articles). Learn the basics, recognize the cardinal concepts, and cheque yourself if yo'’ve got the time. Looking astatine information from 'landmark' studies volition marque you propulsion up successful your rima sometimes."

–HugeBlueberry

13. "The biotech manufacture is simply a for-profit enterprise, and determination are nary profits to beryllium made from businesslike and effectual solutions; for example, one-time cures are not profitable. So, erstwhile a cure for a illness oregon unwellness is found, it volition beryllium submitted for patent approval, but that it remains everlastingly trapped nether patent review, awaiting support that volition ne'er come. Meanwhile, our champion and brightest springiness it their each to reverse technologist these cures into highly profitable, semipermanent treatments."

–Super-Craig

14. "Sustainability is fractional made-up to merchantability a antithetic mentation of an point and telephone it 'green,' and past they lobby section and authorities governments to enactment their BS into immoderate benignant of law. Any of this tin beryllium sustainable successful my industry: utilizing much plastic, but it's OK, due to the fact that it's recyclable; utilizing little plastic, adjacent if it's not recyclable; making integrative degrade, but lone if it's successful landfill conditions; mixing renewable resources with plastic, adjacent if that makes it non-recyclable; utilizing much worldly due to the fact that you included recycled worldly that mightiness not beryllium arsenic strong; and utilizing 100% renewable resources that shortens the support life, which means much worldly gets thrown out."

–bassjam1

15. "We get paid an absurd magnitude of wealth for services that businesses tin get for mode cheaper. The lone crushed we merchantability truthful overmuch is due to the fact that we person a 'temporary' merchantability of our services, which is really conscionable a merchantability we person the full year. It conscionable looks cheaper due to the fact that we person our 'sale' and inquire radical to wage a subscription alternatively of upfront costs."

–Yitastics

16. "Working astatine a mill made maine recognize conscionable however pointless recycling is connected the user level. The mill ran 24 hours, 5 days a week, and a azygous eight-hour displacement would nutrient much integrative discarded than my household does successful an full year, if not longer. Everything is wrapped successful plastic. Then, we get the supplies in, chopped the integrative wrapper off, stack them successful bulk, and wrapper it successful plastic. Once it's astatine the store, we chopped the integrative disconnected again. SO MUCH WASTE."

–HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS

17. "There are going to beryllium a bid of dramatically destructive breaches related to AI security, and each azygous menace volition beryllium thing each the AI companies knew about. The merchandise managers each accidental if there's request for information from the field, they'll way resources to making it much unafraid — but until then, they're focused connected functionality. There's nary request from the field; nary make-it-secure-or-we-won't-buy-it demand. Every azygous institution retired determination buying AI lone cares what it tin do, not however unafraid it is. They accidental that information would beryllium nice, but it's not a must-have."

–mrmasterly

18. "Password and firewall information is often compromised by the users themselves — not wanting to log into a VPN, oregon being forced to prime a 12-character password with antithetic quality types. Systems get hacked due to the fact that Jennifer successful accounting utilized a password of 'DrakeMaye10,' oregon due to the fact that the IT manager approved opening up the server to the wide internet."

–failed_install

19. "Some doctors truly aren't bully astatine the procedures they perform."

–alexeands

"Even astatine world-renowned hospitals, doctors tin beryllium shitty."

–Randy_Magnum29

20. "Smoking circles successful the bureau tin assistance you a lot, if you're portion of one. They tin see anyone from the adjunct level to CEO level."

–CrimeMasterGogoChan

21. "Most advertizing is useless. The originative executions look similar teenagers with crappy AI came up with cringy ads."

–ghyttredxxz

22. "Employers aren't utilizing AI successful immoderate important mode during the recruiting process…but it's astir to go the norm."

–_Notebook_

23. And finally: "Sometimes it truly IS arsenic elemental arsenic conscionable turning it disconnected for a bit, past turning it backmost on."

–Wildly_Uninterested

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