Someone Asked “What’s A Dirty Little Secret You Know Because You Work In The Industry?” (30 Answers)

Enterprise Rent-A-Car buys their cars straight from the manufacturers at a price lower than dealerships get. After they rent them for a year, they sell them to the public at a price higher than they originally paid.

Don't want to name names but I used to refurbish phones for a living. The industry is very green-washed, and a lot of the repairs were done shoddily to sell as many phones as possible. I only buy new phones or outlet phones that only have box damage instead of any grade B,C, D phone now. Even grade A can have everything changed to look new but it's actually worse than B or lower.

Everyone knows gyms are dirty, but no one knows *HOW* dirty.

When you finish a workout, scrub your hands with hot soapy water. Get between your fingers, under your nails, your palms, as if you’ve been touching raw chicken.

Printers aren’t smart enough to know the amount of ink / toner is left in the cartridge. They guess based on usage percentages and only know when they are empty. “Low toner” doesn’t mean replacement, it means have one on hand.

I have a Masters degree in Exercise Science and have worked in the industry for 25 years. 90% of what trainers say and do is fluff and just used to keep you interested and make it sound like they are worth their price.

Medical debt under $500 doesnt affect your credit score.

If You can also ignore a debt for 7 years. Don’t acknowledge that it’s yours, don’t make a payment, don’t even answer the call from collections. That falls off eventually as well.

Not hard really, just don’t answer unknown numbers. Never answer the phone with “this is (your name)”

Hello?

I’m calling to speak with so/so.

Who is this and what are you calling about?

If they decline to give you that info, hang up. Block the number.

Stagehand here: most famous musicians are **TOTAL DOUCHEBAGS** back / off stage. I've worked with a few good apples, and they're the ones that have been touring for decades usually.

I’m in insurance

If you call to request an estimate for a claim, they will count it as a 0 dollar claim on your file when they deem the damage not enough to repair. That means when another company pulls your information it will not only impact your future rates, but might make you ineligible for future policies

Don’t ever call insurance for an estimate first, get a third party inspector to tell you whether you should file with insurance.

Will writer in the UK here. If you have £325k in assets or less, and you don't intend to exclude anyone from your will, you need a bog standard will. You don't need a solicitor to write it, and if it costs you more than £150+vat then it's a rip off. It takes me about an hours worth of work to gather information and write that will.  
  
I would recommend getting power of attorney though. It's a pain in the a*s if you lose capacity without it!!! .

I am working at a sports club with way over 2000 members and I can tell you, you might sign some paper about data security and how we handle data, but believe me, your data will go places you dont want it to go.