75 People Share Industry Secrets From Their Jobs In This Viral Thread

Every industry and profession has at least a few skeletons in their closet. Dark secrets that the layperson might not know but really should. When Reddit user Juaninamillion asked their fellow redditors to share such industry secrets, they started up a viral discussion that really got people opening up about the less-than-stellar nooks and crannies of their jobs.

Check out some of these industry secrets that you may not have known about and remember to upvote the ones that left an impression on you as you scroll down. If you have any secrets that you want to share, we’ll be eagerly watching the comment section.

Unfortunately, it’s not just specific industries that need some fine-tuning—it’s the mentality of the entire job market. One of the most widely known ‘secrets’ is how recruiters responsible for hiring rely on completely unrealistic expectations and having candidates jump through increasingly difficult hoops. While other issues are how new employees usually have limited opportunities for growth and learning within tech companies. Bored Panda spoke about these problems with IT and AI industry professional and founder of FastAPI, Sebastián Ramírez.

#1

I don't know that this is a secret but flight attendants and pilots don't get paid while boarding, deplaning, and delays. So when you're delayed and angry, so are we. We're not making money and still have to be there.

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#2

Starbucks corporate makes us have those recycling bins in the lobby to present this green image, but most of the time all of the garbage ends up going to the dump anyway because the facility doesn’t have recycling

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#3

Animator here. It's coming more and more to light lately, but big animation studios and game companies treat their employees like [crap] and pay them barely anything and expect them to work hard "because of the love for the job". And they can get away with that because there are hundreds of thousands of other creatives who would be more than happy to deal with all of the BS just for a chance to work at a AAA studio. Really it's not just animation though, the entire entertainment industry is this way.

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According to Ramírez, current recruitment practices are working far from perfectly. Unfortunately, we don’t have any ‘silver bullet’ alternatives to the current system where in order to get a job, you have to meet expectations that are increasingly divorced from reality. However, he believes that there are some things that could help improve the way the job market operates.

Ramírez thinks that developer teams, team leaders, and others directly related to the job opening should get more involved in the recruitment process.

“That shouldn't be left for HR departments to handle alone, it should be a team effort. That's probably even more important as the area/industry gets more technical or complex. The same way athletes, let's say runners, are not hired based on the number of years they have been running, or certificates of the tracks they have run on, in other areas, like technology, we should get the teams and internal ‘experts’ more involved in that hiring process,” the professional explained how hiring practices could become better.

#4

In academia, you create content for privately owned journals like Science and Nature, but still you have to pay them. Also scientists who review journals articles for the peer review process do it for free.

If you don’t participate in this process, you can’t get papers and if you don’t have papers you don’t get funding and subsequently starve and die.

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#5

I work with kids at a daycare and we see babies take their first steps sometimes but we never tell the parents because we don't want them to feel bad about missing it

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#6

When renting a storage unit you do not need to get the insurance they offer. Even if they say it's "mandatory", it's illegal to force you to get insurance. Also the rent will increase yearly, forever.

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He also noted that there’s a problem with people getting promoted: people need clear ways to grow easily within the companies that they join. “It should be way more common than it is. Anyone that starts as an intern/junior should be able to grow professionally to a senior,” he pointed out.

“It would also probably help if there were specific company policies asking or requiring employees to keep learning and acquiring new skills. It could be through courses, by tackling new challenges, etc. People would benefit from acquiring new skills, being able to be more productive, and having better chances of growing in their careers. And companies would benefit from having people more capable, more productive, being able to learn skills relevant for the specific job, while having happier and more loyal employees.”

#7

Other academics will steal your work for themselves and publish it under their name.

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#8

I make super expensive stuff that is bought by several governments and some high-end consumer product manufacturers. One of the machines that every bit of product has to go through only works right if you stand there and poke at it with a stick. We don’t even have a special stick. It’s just a metal rod that fell off of another piece of equipment that we wrapped some tape around to make a handle. We always make the new guy do it, because it is super boring.

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#9

The official policy for customer dissatisfaction at a particular Canadian coffee franchise I worked at was, "offer them free stuff until they stop complaining."

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#10

Nothing about The Voice, American Idol, etc is real. Your votes don’t matter. Everything is pre-determined. In some cases they even choose your audition song for you, and if they want to tear you down for entertainment, they’ll choose something they know you can’t sing. And with the contacts artists sign, you cannot refuse.

Source: professional musician, I have not been on those shows but have friends who have. I cannot name names, them even telling me that stuff was against contract legalities.

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#11

Credit companies will raise your interest rate for no reason and wait for you to call and complain to get it lowered. Check your statements and review ALL notices that come with your bill.

#12

At a hospital the straight cash price discount for many outpatient tests (MRI, CT, X-Ray, Ultrasound, Labs, etc.) can often be cheaper than using insurance and dealing with deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and on and on.

I’ve seen test billed for thousands of dollars to insurance cost a cash paying patient less than $400.

It’s insane.

#13

Funeral homes are businesses, and funeral directors will absolutely take advantage of grieving people.

The most offensive to me are the cremation boxes. They're literally just big cardboard boxes, and should cost less than a hundred dollars. But they also make really expensive boxes, and directors will say things like "grandma would be more comfortable in this". No, she won't, because she's dead. Some of these boxes reach 1000 dollars, and of course are all just burned.

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#14

Terrible and illegal things go on in every strip club. Owners only hire people for upper management who they have trusted for years because they all know this.

#15

The amount of toilet paper, random items, and bills used as bookmarks that are left in returned library books.

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#16

Doctors spend so much time in their specific niche that they know jack s**t about anything else.

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#17

Businesses offer rebates rather than cash discounts because they know the odds of you going to the trouble of mailing in a rebate coupon are minimal. Then they don't pay the first time, because they know the odds of you complaining about it are infinitesimal. But they usually will pay off if you complain.

#18

I worked at a Dairy Queen when I was 16 and found roaches. I got fired because I was “too slow” when I was cleaning, when in reality I was actually scrubbing [crap] down because everyone else half assed it. That being said, don’t go to dairy queen.

#19

A used car is priced based on what it will sell for but the margin is calculated by how deep they are into it. So if a car was just traded in, and they haven't detailed it or advertised it yet you can pay thousands less if you ask. And so e car dealerships have reward systems based on numbers for the salesmen and the dealer and management so if you are there at the end of the month you can sometimes get a screaming good deal because even at 0 profit, the sale bumps them up to a big bonus.

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#20

Mobile Homes are cheaply made and mass produced by people making 9 bucks an hour and don't give a [crap] if it's up to code or safe. Hundreds of people in a factory with little supervision, and the main goal is to get as many made as possible, with little care to protocol, codes and fire stopping. I got hired as a HUD admin, ended up doing inspections so we could stop getting fined by the fire marshal and the amount of crap that is overlooked and not cared about is infuriating.

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#21

At stores that magical backroom where you can just go and pick up anything is actually a huge mess where things go missing all the time.

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#22

Half of technical support going on in the background of major platforms is convincing the developers to care about the issue enough to fix it. Also, every platform that interacts in any way with Facebook, hates Facebook. It's so f***ing broken.

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#23

Almost every register nurse has what is called a blacklist of doctors she or he would not want even remotely near them should they need emergency services.

People need to take better care and precaution of who they choose to accept as their doctor.

#24

Corporate safety culture is not about protecting you from injury, it's about protecting the company from a lawsuit after you get injured.

#25

Hospitals are not clean

The only really clean place in a hospital is the operating room, other than that the place is crawling with germs and whatever else has mutated on the floors and walls.

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#26

Daycare workers say rude things about your family (usually just the parents and not the kids)

#27

Almost everyone in the TV and film industry is winging it.

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#28

Retail: we do have those shoes in your size, but that’s my size and I hid those f***ers in the back til they go on clearance.

Yup, all athletic shoes make a [ton] of profit. But the more expensive sport specific shoes really do have better materials. Really nice soccer cleats and running shoes used to be made out of kangaroo.

Yes I see you shoplifting. If you’re not super obvious there isn’t much I can do about it. And then even if you are really obvious I can’t do anything.

#29

In an auto shop, what your mechanic tells you may not be in your best interest, but instead what is most convenient, and what is the least amount of work to do.

#30

Your mortgage has been transferred so many times that the odds are that your payment records are incomplete.

#31

I work in a vet ER. If you check the resuscitate box on our form we will absolutely do our best to resuscitate your pet.

And I mean at least 15 mins chest compressions, intubating and manual breathing, heat support and reviving drugs. It's an all hands on deck situation and we take it extremely seriously.

That being said, I have never seen it do more than have a pet have a heartbeat and automatic breathing long enough for an owner to say goodbye. I have never seen an animal recover.

Basically you shouldn't check that resuscitate box. It doesn't do anything but let us fight for your pet's life and lose.

I'm a DNR myself. I don't want to go through that and I don't want the ER staff to go through another unsuccessful attempt.

#32

People always joke that most psychologists become psychologists because they are crazy. I've worked in close proximity to a bunch of forensic psychs for the last few years - it is true.

#33

I am a Romanian who has worked for a US military contractor. The DOD doesn’t care about the price of the things the military is buying. I once sold a bag of 240 hex nuts for 9000 dollars ( it’s not a typo) which i got for 25 dollars. The spending the DOD does is really as bad as you might have heard of. The more they spend the better. It is actually scary how much money they throw away.

#34

It's not necessarily a secret, but I think its is not well known. When you call the 800 line to complain about an experience at a retailer that message is just sent directly to that store where it is reviewed by the same people you are complaining about. 99% its laughed at, you get a fake apology call, and nothing happens.

#35

About 75% of all restaurant employees are high on something at any given time.

#36

Wearing gloves in kitchens is a goddamn lie. They don't offer any sort of protection, they're actually more prone to spreading germs and filth because people don't wash them between touching different kinds of food. They exist to give the illusion of safety and professionalism. As someone who's worked in kitchens, I'd much rather see a cook wash their hands than throw a latex glove on.

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#37

Most pet stores are really sketchy when it comes to where their pets are coming from. Usually it's large industrial breeders where the animals just breed more than they should and definitely don't have the environment they deserve. They pretty much never live their entire life span.

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#38

This one is a little trivial compared to others in here, but: wine isn't vegan. It's not even vegetarian in some cases.

The fining* process uses egg whites, and sometimes isinglass (fish parts). When I worked in a tasting room people would come in and be like "I'm vegan but thank God I can still have wine, amiright!" And I wanted to tell them that they weren't right, but I also wanted to sell them wine.

#39

Hotels are held together by more superglue and duct tape than you know. Doesn't matter how nice they are, unless you're talking about ultra rich type places.

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#40

3D movie conversions are done only a handful of big companies. One of the big ones moved their office to India so they could literally put together a sweatshop of workers working 14 hour days on these things while possibly permanently [screwing] up their vision. They took millions from both the American and Canadian governments and ran.

#41

Huawei takes employees pay for mistakes made, I had a company wide 'corrective email' sent to me with a picture of the guy that messed up, his team leader and the line manager, a description of what they did wrong (some security issue, like sharing a password if I remember correctly), as well as the fact that one month's pay has been taken from each of them.

#42

Some Bars actually task Bartenders with stock rates of 104% -110%. This basically means that with every pour that should be 25ml to 50ml they actually tell you to underpour on every drink to ensure were actually making back stock on every purchase. This also means some bartenders are instructed to make more "head" on beers by swirling the glass or intentionally holding it so more head is produced, saving more stock.

I started a job that told me this and quit the next day.

#43

The clothes you find at an outlet (more often than not) are not "cast-offs" or overages from the regular store. There's a whole separate entity that designs and produces clothes at a lesser quality for outlet prices.

#44

I work in the wedding industry. Every single service you purchase for your wedding has a marked up price because we know you’re going to spend it.

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#45

Olive oil. I work at an olive oil bottling plant in Rome, New York. We had only one oil, but put it in 27 different packages, that sold at different prices. Some of the bottles claim to be aged and imported. Some claimed to be virgin, others extra virgin. Some cold pressed. One brand sold for $30 fir 12 oz., where another sold 128 oz for $12.

All the exact same oil.

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#46

A lot of restaurants have rats. Maybe not in large quantities and visible all the time, but they are there. When it closes down, their tiny little rat feet are running all over the tables, counters and kitchen equipment. Especially in old, historic buildings and buildings near waterfronts.

#47

I work in healthcare. The amount of narcotics theft by health care workers is ridiculous.

#48

As a previous pharmacy tech, I can attest to the fact that pills in all shapes & forms are often dropped on the floor for one reason or another. You should know they are never discarded but instead collected & put back in the prescription bottle or original container.

#49

Graphic design for fashion industry: no matter how incredibly good at artwork and creating you might be, you will still be asked to rip off some other artists’ work but to make it “not too obvious”.

#50

I worked for a movie theatre. A large bag of popcorn that cost the customer $5.99 (at the time) cost the movie theatre six cents to produce, including the butter, the kernels, the bag, the power used by the popper and the time it took the concession employee to fill up the bag and give it to the customer.

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#51

Used to be an unloader at UPS, putting fragile/shockwatch stickers on your package doesn't do [crap] with how carefully we handle packages especially when you're expected to unload at a rate of 1000 packages an hour.

#52

Pretty much nothing on the nutritional label is accurate.

It's close, but not very.

#53

IT support people (help desks, computer repair shops, Geek Squad, etc.) are mostly just better at Googling than you are.

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#54

That food on your plate wasn't made with love or care, it was quickly made with stress and hate by a cook either swearing at somebody or being sworn at.

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#55

Makeup testers in store are DISGUSTING. People will frequently use mascara wands right out of the tube on the shelf. When we see it happen we are required to throw them away because there safe diseases that can spread pretty easily including ocular herpes.

#56

If you’re rude to a Starbucks barista most of the time we’ll just decaffeinate your drink.

#57

Those online petitions are really just mechanisms to collect your email address so the charity can spam you later.

#58

When someone is fixing your computer, they also often look through the data on your hard drive searching for something funny or embarrassing. So, before you give your computer to an IT service, clear your browser history, and copy all the important data to an external drive.

#59

When businesses like taco bell, petsmart or others ask you to round up to donate to a cause it is 100% for the tax write off they receive. They are allowed to donate money and pay less taxes. Instead of paying from their overall sales and profits they con customers to pay extra to do it for them. This leaves their overall sales intact while increasing their yearly profit by paying less in taxes. If you want to donate just do it yourself and give more then a buck.

#60

I'm just going to say it: KELLOGS FROSTED FLAKES AND STORE BRAND GENERIC FROSTED FLAKES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME!

Source: myself. I worked in the packing factory and changed the boxes all the time!

#61

Used to work in Walt Disney World, there are secret tunnels underneath both Epcot and the Magic Kingdom (Probably other parks too) to enable the Cast Members to travel across the park pretty quickly and easily.

#62

When you call customer service and ask to speak to a supervisor, the person they transfer you to is not a supervisor.

#63

Yep, that product that you use might say not tested on animals on it, but the raw materials used to make it may well have.

#64

Worked for a chemical manufacturer and Adding as little as 0.1% of anything allows you to label a product NEW AND IMPROVED.

#65

Candles are nasty and toxic, especially paraffin ones (basically petroleum sludge). The things we put in them, yet write "100% paraffin" on them has stopped me from ever using one again. If you must, use beeswax, non-coloured and non-scented ones.

#66

If you ask a manager at a restaurant to turn the thermostat up or down, we literally don’t do a goddamn thing about it.

#67

All the pre-made foods and processed meats that people eat multiple times a day contain phosphate.

Phosphate comes in a big 20kg bag with a huge MSDS label all over it that states "Toxic Do Not Consume."

#68

All those beautiful fashion photographs that make photographers famous? They're put together by more talented people in photoshop from usually dogs**t rough photographs from the photographer. I've yet to meet a fashion photographer who could justify their ego.

#69

Not that anyone listens anymore, but never call a radio station to request a song. Playlists are researched to death and scheduled days in advanced. If a station plays your song, it’s because it was already going to be played.

#70

Community Moderator: If a game tells you they've 'punished' a player because of your report, its usually not a ban but either a mute or a warning. Hence why they don't publish the punishment; people wouldn't be satisfied with a slap on the wrist thing like that.

#71

If you're eating in a restaurant at a very busy time, your vegan burger has most likely been cooked using the same tongs as raw chicken wings.

#72

Hotel bars will ensure that your wedding bar tab is spent as early as possible.

#73

9 out of 10 truck drivers travel with a smartphone on their windshield watching a TV-series. Stay away from big trucks.

#74

Wheat flour is not actually white. We use chlorine to make it look more attractive. This also increases the gluten level in flour, and this is why people are more gluten-sensitive today.

#75

There is no such thing as Free Shipping. The cost of shipping is absorbed into the cost of the product.

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