People Share Shady Secrets From Their Industries

It's no surprise that many professions cut corners and do some sketchy shit to make an extra buck or save themselves a hassle. Many businesses claim their wares are homemade when they're actually mass-produced, or in food, pre-prepared and frozen. Some places commit highway robbery by upcharging at a serious margin. These are some pretty widely accepted (albeit unfortunate) truths. But u/CircleBox2, in the name of demystification, asked redditors to share the darkest secrets from their industries. And some of them are shadier than we expected.

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Text - r/AskReddit Join u/CircleBox2 • 15h 2曾11 What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about? 34.0k 13.9k 1 Share

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Text - ashesthenphoenix • 7h 2 Awards Sometimes librarians read the new books before registering them in the catalogue for the public. • evil laughter * Reply 11.3k ... Jeffery_Duke • 2h That's the most adorable "evil" thing 1 1.7k ...

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Text - katakago • 13h 1 Award You know the people who write instruction manuals or user guides in things you buy? Half the time, they've never even seen or touched the product. Some dude just sends us pictures, a rough description of how it's supposed to work, and that's it. Reply 29.7k •..

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Text - 69fatboy420 13h At a very large pizza chain restaurant that remains widely popular, we had these perforated pans for thin crust and stuffed crust pizzas. They'd get washed in the dish washer by the hundreds per day and at least half would still have burnt cheese and shit on them. Well they were just stacked to dry. When making new pizzas in those pans, sometimes the pans that were left to "dry" overnight grew bits of mold around the burnt cheese. We were told just to put the dough on top

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Text - MrsOMurder • 13h Oh gosh. I worked at a couple pizza places (two big chain ones). At one, the grease was unreal. The dishwasher basically had to be scraped once a day to get the thick film off. They didn't have an actual dish washer either, just made the drivers clean them and the drivers didn't want to do the dishes so they'd just toss them in there haphazardly. I can't tell you how many times l'd find pans with a layer of oil still in them and have to send a bunch back through. My husba

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Text - steelavian • 13h A lot of the time the engineer you talk to about your project (and decide to trust with it) delegates it to cheaper contractors as soon as you sign the paperwork. Their job is new business. Reply 5.3k ...

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Text - dreamki11er • 11h If it has to be accessed regularly in an IT setting? It's not secure. Not unless you're in an industry that actually polices it. Yes, people are dumb enough to pick up USB thumb drives they find on the ground. The nicer and newer it is, the more likely it'll get plugged in. Also, if you're looking to verify the security of your vendors, don't announce your visit. O Reply 2.0k ...

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Text - callmeraylo • 10h Customs broker here. Every day hundreds of thousands of containers and air shipments arrive into United States territory. The volume of customs entries entered every day is staggering. When we get licensed to be a customs broker we are trained and tested not just on knowledge, but ethics. We even take a pledge to partner with CBP to uphold the law, and cooperate with them should we come across anything suspicious. Why so much emphasis on this? Customs can't actually scre

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Text - provocatrixless • 10h 3 1 Award Not currently my profession but ghost writers in fiction. John Grisham, Danielle Steele, James Patterson, Janet Evanovich etc., all those big names with an NYT bestseller every year use ghostwriters who are are never credited or mentioned. It's barely even a secret. Reply 18.6k

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Text - Mercinary-G • 9h Pretty much ALL the high-end handmade in Australia jewellery in Australia is made at a secret factory in Bali. All the clients have to show an established business and sign confidentiality agreements. Reply 1 725 ...

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Text - cherrytomato23 • 10h I work on on a popular teen TV show. All the lead actors do cocaine regularly and they often come to set high or show up to set late because they chose to party on a Monday night. Reply 4.1k ...

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Text - phpdevster • 12h 1 Award Have you ever started filling out a form for a quote on something (insurance website, or literally anything) and then changed your mind and said "nah, I don't want to give them my personal information", and then abandoned the form before pressing "submit"? If you think that stopped them from getting your personal information, it didn't. Most companies looking to capture leads will capture your info in real time as you enter it into a form. The submit button is jus

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Text - Murgatroyd314• 13h You do not want to know how long food sits on the loading dock before it gets into the cooler. Reply 2.7k

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Text - MineralWaterMike • 15h Young kids talk to their teachers/coaches/ counselors/principals about their parents. A lot. And kids pick up on all the dirty little secrets. A Reply 20.9k LurkForYourLives • 11h 1 Award 6yo: I have two daddies! Me: That's lovely, Darling. Now let's play some piano. 6yo: One of my daddies goes on long business trips and then Mummy and I go live with my other daddy while he's gone! Me: Oh. Erm. Let's play some piano! 1 7.8k ...

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Text - ImmortanJoe • 12h I'm sure most know this, but 99.9% of advertisements involving 'real people' is acted and scripted. Even when the people being interviewed are indeed non-actors, they are prompted on what to say. For example, recently we interviewed a guy who won a car from one of our brands. First round: Interviewer: Congrats on your win! How do you feel? Guy: Uhh... really great. It's a real surprise, to be honest. Thank you. AFTER SEVERAL ROUNDS AND COACHING Interviewer: Interviewer:

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Text - secretleymorbid • 15h How many people who work with children (teachers, childcare workers, etc.) don't follow confidentiality guidelines. Gossiping about families with coworkers, talking about children's home situations, creeping family's social media, etc. Reply 10.6k ...

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Text - AndromedaFire • 14h Many hotels often sell rooms multiple times. Used to work in airport hotel. Knowing that chances are some guests won't arrive due to missed or delayed flights so we sell more rooms that we have. You have guests checking out from 2/3 am due to early flights so even though the room is technically still theirs you quickly and sometimes poorly clean the room and tell the arriving unexpected guest or new booking there's a random computer issue and to wait 20 mins and then c

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Text - Shitty_McFuckface • 14h Air traffic control (cue the Breaking Bad jokes) A diagnosis of virtually any mental illness...and a diagnosis of many physical conditions...is disqualifying and will end your career. For that reason, people avoid doctors like the plague. Reply 13.3k

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Text - Djdubbs • 11h There is at least one water bottle/soda can/ energy drink/ spray paint can sitting on a piece of blocking behind your drywall somewhere in your house. Reply 1 7.8k

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Text - Jenova66 • 14h 1 Award Many bills are literally written by lobbyists or special interest organizations. I have seen my boss give bill language to a state legislator and then found the same language in print a few days later several times. The bill may change in committee but usually not drastically against the original intent. Reply 18.8k •..

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Text - trendz19 • 11h Lot of unethical shipping companies EVEN TODAY dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste contaminated water and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore. There are only a few handful players today who are actually executing business trades while still keeping the carbon footprint and enviornment as one of their core policies. I am glad to be working with one one them (I am a merchant marine who works as an engineer on mega container ships like th

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Text - alexsupertramp_1992 • 10h Scuba instructor.. we preach how important safety is to our students. When we dive for fun and without paying customers in tow we get up to some very questionable shit. Reply 4.1k ...

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Text - stuckNTX_plzsendHelp • 13h Some stores that sell used merchandise like video games and movies, will pay you money for stolen stuff even when they know it's stolen. It doesn't hurt them to get brand new games that were only released hours ago for a fraction of the cost. Then they turn around and sell them for five dollars cheaper than a new copy. They are getting brand new never opened sixty dollars games for a few bucks, and making a huge profit. Reply 1 2.5k ...

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Text - pamacdon • 15h 1 Award Sometime we learn something the day before we teach it to you. Woah. This really hit a chord with people. Lots of shared experiences. It's great. Reply 17.9k ... unnaturalorder • 13h I've had a couple teachers say they were also learning parts of a course as they were teaching it to us. Actually made me feel a little better about asking questions about the subject. 6.9k ...

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Text - hopefulcynicx • 9h The markup on glasses (specifically frames) is stupid ridiculous. We can buy a frame for $4, then turn around & sell it for $160. Lenses too... lenses that cost us under $10 can easily be marked up to $100. I mean business is business but taking advantage of people who can't see is sorta shitty lol Reply + 950 ...

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Text - killerhacks86 • 12h The real reason programmers have so many screens is because one of them almost always has Google pulled up on it. No one knows what they are doing 100% off the time. Its typically always "hmmm this should work" or "well hope this works" Reply 2.9k

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Text - Saiyaliin • 9h Copywriter: MOST of the articles you read on the internet are written by us. We have no idea what we are talking about. We get the topic, Google it, and reword other articles into a new one. All we have to do is make sure we include a few seo words. I've written articles for HVAC companies, movie and tv reviews, tons of different merchandise sales, and so much other stuff I've forgotten. If it's a blog post online, it's likely fake. Edit: want a good example? Go read the de

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Text - VaguelyLatina • 9h There is a problem in substance abuse treatment in the United States called body brokering. Substance abuse treatment can be very expensive and insurance companies pay A LOT of money for a patient to be there. Treatment centers will hire "body brokers" to find addicts with the best, highest paying insurance and entice them to check in to the specific center, the treatment center then gives the broker a commission from the insurance money. This can go as far as body brok

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Text - tor93 • 10h Sometimes we lick artifacts to quickly determine if they are bone or pottery (bone sticks pottery doesn't). And then tap them on our teeth to determine if they are pottery or a rock (rock will hurt pottery won't). Archaeology Reply 1 1.8k ...

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Text - TiredOldRoutine • 10h I've worked in fast food, and it is a sad reality that many workers will come to work sick, because they can't afford to lose wages. One year, the flu was going around town, and I think our restaurant was ground zero. Reply 1.2k ...

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Text - Privvy_Gaming • 12h Funeral Director: You can buy a casket from Costco for 20% of the price that I'm going to sell you one for. About 70% of the cost of the funeral is overcharging options and leading you on to feel guilty if you don't take them. We have a lot of fun when we don't deal with customers, but we never have that "fun" with bodies.

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Text - NinjaWen • 15h I ended up quitting a career because people (all genders and ages) kept trying to solicite me for prostitution. Young male massage therapist. Edit: Whoa. Thanks for the upvotes. Reply 1 11.0k •..

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Text - pacmanrockshok • 14h Our athletic department has strong-armed financial aid into finding money for athletes who have sub-2.0 GPA's, are constantly busted for drugs, and get in trouble all the time which leads to them being ineligible for athletic money, but we want to keep them on the team so they find other money to keep them here Reply 1.8k ...

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