Former employees leaked their employers' "dirty little secrets" to the Internet (21 photos)

When people become employees of a company, they learn a lot about it that is impossible to notice and understand from the outside. And employers are not eager for this to become public knowledge... But if you are not bound by lifelong non-disclosure agreements, then after your dismissal you may well throw out the accumulated negativity on the Internet. Here are some anonymous stories about juicy facts and trade secrets from previous jobs.





Of course, there is no guarantee that these stories are true. After all, everything on the Internet should be taken with a grain of salt.

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"Mass-market paperbacks are cheap to produce and come in huge volumes. When it comes time to replace unsold books on store shelves with a new batch of mysteries or novels, some publishers refuse to take back their product (and spend money on it) to try to sell it." somewhere else. But they don’t want anyone to get these books for free.

So, while working in a bookstore, I spent many hours tearing covers off books and tearing book pages in half. Covers are sent back to the publishers, and books that could be donated to a library or school are placed in a locked container for recycling in the backyard. There was also a manager above me who had to come back and check my work to make sure that the books were definitely torn.

I almost cried the first time I had to rip up a pile of children's books (in a city with high child poverty rates and underfunded schools)."

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"Just because you hear music when I pause you doesn't mean I hear music. I hear every curse word you say."

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"I was a deep sea diver for 10 years in the Gulf of Mexico. There are huge oil spills hundreds of times a year and all the companies cover it up. The whole industry is involved in it. The bottom of the Gulf is a disgusting garbage dump. Boats dump their garbage in the Gulf, no one enforces the laws, and the Coast Guard doesn't police all this crap."

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"I work on a farm. When they say you need to thoroughly wash your food at home, it's not a joke."

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“The groundbreaking scientific results published in the mainstream media bear little resemblance to the results published in this scientific paper.”

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"From my previous job: the US military has a tradition where you spend your entire budget by October (new fiscal year) or risk losing that part of the budget. I've been in units that have gone out and bought $200,000 worth of worthless crap." to avoid a budget surplus. Multiply by the number of units in the military (a ton of crap) and you get all this fraud, waste and abuse."

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"Harley Davidson is doing pretty bad. They keep the lion's share of their new motorcycles in warehouses in Montana because they don't want to stop production just to keep shareholders happy. They're a ticking time bomb. Oh, and in the last few years they've been forcing retailers sellers buy new bikes every year, even if the model has not changed. If you don’t buy them, you lose the license to sell their products. And this is how they made all the sales over the last five years.”

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"I worked for a political consulting firm and was absolutely shocked when congressmen/women would come to media training (learning to act "normally" on camera or in front of constituents). Almost every politician who came to training was clueless and literally had "their opinion" on the issues my boss (media strategist) was feeding them. It sounds obvious, but it's really scary to watch."

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"I'm a video editor for a reality show. It's fake for the most part. They usually do multiple takes of the 'real' scenes that are choreographed in advance. They pass off the show as a reality show, and they even have a script reading for the show before filming."

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"I work at a car dealership. WE ARE DECEIVING YOU."

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“If more citizens knew how often the American military says things like, ‘Screw the civilians, I don’t give a damn about them,’ the Army would lose some of its unconditional support.

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“I work in radio. We can’t choose what music to put on air, the producer decides that, and we just talk between songs. Sometimes we play our favorite thing upon request - we just come up with something that someone wrote and asked to play it. But at least something pleasant.

Ironically, the guys who work on non-music radio can play any music they want. But they think the last good song came out in 1975."

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"Most people who say this sound like nuts, but having worked in pharmaceutical research, I can attest to this: we have already developed better and safer drugs than most currently on the market. However, most of these developments never won't hit the market, and here's why:

*FDA approval costs a fair amount of money and time, and it takes bloody years to get a new drug approved. The slightest mistake in testing and a return to the beginning.

* Money. If the discovery of a new drug is not as profitable as what is currently on the market, it will simply be patented and waited.

* Research funding: it is no longer sufficient to properly explore all possibilities."

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"The olive oil industry is controlled by the mafia. In 2007, only 4% of Italian olive oil leaving Italy was actually pure olive oil. Fake olive oil has the same profit as cocaine trafficking, but without the risk. About 70% of olive oil , exported, is considered counterfeit."

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"I'm a celebrity photographer in Hollywood. Most winners of small shows like the MTV VMAs, Teen Choice Awards, etc. already know they're going to win. This motivates them to come to the event. During the show, they talk backstage with friends and sit down during a commercial break shortly before their awards are announced. A few exceptions are the Oscars and the Golden Globes, where the audience is entirely celebrities."

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“I worked in a publishing house for several years. You can be a published author, but it’s not a fact that this will be enough for you to live. You need to sell about 3,000 copies a year, this is a good figure (only about 1% of fiction authors have achieved this figure).

But the royalties for a $16 paperback or $4 ebook for the author are about $1 per book. So selling 3,000 books (which puts you in the top 1% of fiction sales) nets you a "whopping" $3,000 a year. You won't get too far away."

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I worked as a nurse for a large healthcare system and quit because I didn't like what was going on. "Management wanted us to use certain 'scenarios' and manipulate patients to get good reviews from them on surveys."

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"I worked for many years at a very popular Italian chain restaurant. Those freshly baked breadsticks you so desperately want aren't actually homemade. We get TRAYS of already baked white breadsticks. We just toast them and then spread them with liquid margarine, garlic powder and salt. The cheese graters are very dirty. The waiters take the cheese with unwashed hands. The salad dressing is not ours, it is brought to us in large containers in plastic bags. The “signature” salad consists mainly of iceberg lettuce, canned black olives, and Roma tomatoes. , red onion, canned pepperoncini, and garlic croutons.. Nothing special about it. All the meat comes frozen. 95% of our pasta is from Barilla, but is supplied through an anonymous distributor. All desserts are shipped frozen and are made by a dessert company that operates. only with B2B. And we don’t grate Parmesan, it’s Pecorino Romano.”

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"Nursing homes somehow always know when they have a government inspection coming up. They have plenty of time to prepare for it, and a few days of staff in abundance. Everything is going well until the inspectors leave and you are again understaffed and overworked. It's a common complaint, but people are completely not getting the help they need."

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"I'm a 911 operator. Most of our technology is dangerously outdated. We got our current radio system in 1997. And it's not just our center, any 911 center you go to will have software and hardware that has had to be replaced a lot years ago. It's scary."