Online Thread Asked For The "Dark Facts" Of A Profession, And These 33 Answers Are Sobering

Hospitals aren’t reimbursed by insurance (or have to fight extra hard with tons of documentation to be) if a patient either falls while admitted or develops a bedsore. Because of that the staff is often spending more time repositioning people and assisting relatively stable patients to the bathroom than they are with their more critically patients- this isn’t helped by management who are incredibly focused on patient satisfaction scores because anything less than 100% on a patient survey counts as a fail and negatively affects hospital funding as well (this “anything less than perfect is zero” survey phenomenon exists in many industries).

A lot of other realtors will cold call asking if they want to sell their home because they have a buyer. They don’t. Just a tactic to get in the door. They rationalize it by saying buyers are looking and I may know one.

I did it early on and it felt deceptive. Because it is deceptive.

In therapy land a large proportion of practitioners can be put into one of two camps.

Wounded healers (choosing the career path as initially believing it would help them)

or

Parentified children (when young having a caring responsibility for others beyond what is normal, so they over develop their sensitivity and empathy for the other, typically at a cost to being able to respond to their own needs and receive care).

So at a formative age, they are either the person needing help, or they were the person giving help (or both). The prism in which the world being experienced is Caring-Being cared for.

Government jobs are generally hard to get unless you know someone AND you have the credentials, not just the credentials. I did from outside but only because I overwhelmed the credentials.

I work in project management in the SaaS industry.

You have no idea just how many applications you indirectly depend on for so many aspects of your life are more or less held together by duct tape and sleep-deprived devs.

If there were ever a prolonged disruption of the North American supply chain of Red Bull or Bang!, there's a good chance society as we know it would come apart at the seams.

You don’t have to spend $400+ on an urn, you can purchase off Amazon starting at $50.

That wasnt fresh-caught crab in your crab salad, it was a mix of canned crab and imitation crab.

Retired clergy here. Most of us, in most circumstances, disliked greatly doing weddings.

Wedding photographers charge you for them to “take” the photos. That’s it. You pay for their time. If you actually want to own or even sometimes see the digital photos, you pay more for that after the wedding. When I first got into the business, I couldn’t believe how shady that was. But it’s almost across the board in the industry. I’m one of the last photographers whose upfront price includes labor and, you know, the actual product.

All your retirement planning and financial advice is largely from a few basic software platforms. Your advisor is a sales person/relationship expert. Different if you are HNW but yeah .

Most software is insecure, poorly built and can be destroyed without even being malicious. Like really. Every app. Every single web page. Has a long list of bugs to fix and bugs being created every day.

As a software developer it is sad to know that we use a bunch of memory and CPU to over abstract some very simple workflows just because it's cheaper this way.

It's also sad when I see the bugs I fix every day happening in apps I use.

D minor 7 and F6 are the same chord.

Really, do not eat farmed fish.