“A LOT Fewer People Would Fly”: 63 Industry Insiders Reveal The Things Companies Keep Quiet

Those plastic cups and water bottles with printing aren't cleaned before you use them the first time, and they're not handled sanitarily when they're made at the factory. That cool sports-branded cup you got at the game when you ordered a soda was probably handled by someone who didn't wash their hands and doesn't wear gloves on the line. SOURCE: Worked at a plastics manufacturing company.

Not sure if this quite counts but:

People don’t like delivery drivers tossing packages onto their porch. And I get that, I really do.

But I’ve seen the inside of both a USPS Pd&C and an Amazon distribution center and throwing packages into giants bins and letting them crash into each other is a huge way that everything makes onto the trucks in time. It’s literally called “throwing”. Supes will be like “we need people throwing” and workers will start doing it.

I’ve seen a 6 figure a year postmaster yeet a package labeled “fragile” across the room and into a cinder block wall.

Ethanol in gasoline is pointless and keeps prices elevated for more profit by the petroleum industry. It has been proven to not help emissions at all.

Most things that happen in restaurant kitchens.

I once did a training course for a housekeeper at a big hotel chain.

We were taught to use the dirty pillowslips to clean everything, including the toilet.

And it wasn't an off-the-cuff suggestion. It was the standard procedure. And they were the pillowslips in the room that were going to be washed, not old ones.

It was disgusting.

Red food dye is made from beetles crushed up into red powder.

A lot of "fresh" food isn't nearly as fresh as the marketing suggests.

I work customer service for a mobile phone company. It's an open secret in my workplace that the shops particularly will give you a tablet under the pretence that it's 'free', but in reality you are paying for the tablet and a SIM card to go with it over 24 months.

They get away with it by including the cost of the tablet with the price of something else, like home broadband or a mobile phone, and making out that for the combined price, you're getting the thing you purchased plus a free tablet to go with it.

Credit unions are not the angels that many think they are. not uncommon to have hyper toxic leaders and culture. CEO of a large west coast credit union actively appeals to politicians to keep overdraft fees a thing. credit unions love their fees. source: me, I am credit union employee in management.

The bubbles in a hot tub/spa are... you know, the bubbles you cover yourself in like you do with bubble bath bubbles at home.

It's human body fat and skin secretions, it's women's make up, sweat, missed patches of feces, and so on and so on.

Enjoy, glad I could be of Service.

I worked for Apple Care (the call center tech support, not in store) and 99% of what we do is looking up the problem on the public Apple website that you can just google. If we couldn’t figure it out from there we’d send people to the store and have them figure it out. The 1% where we could do something was usually helping an old person figure out something that would be very easy for a younger, tech savvy person.

If you knew how disgusting the inside of slaughter houses and meat processing plants were you probably would reconsider, at the very least, buying grocery store meat.

Calling them charnel houses is really under selling it.

All shipping companies are lying to you about your "insurance". Yeah, you purchased it. Sure, the driver maybe delivered it to the wrong house, or threw it into a ditch, or yeeted it around his truck. Sure, perhaps someone loaded it on its way to you haphazardly and under a bunch of heavy [stuff] and it's broken.

You're not getting that refund. You're probably not getting your package.

Unless you have an individual driver or at the facility who is genuinely going way out of their way to help you, nobody is. Your ticket was sent to some dude in India who's entire job is to find a creative way to tell you to go pound rocks.

Doesn't matter if your shipper took photos of their immaculate packaging job beforehand and you sent in photos of your items mangled corpse. Doesn't matter if the driver personally ejaculated on it. You aren't getting your money back.

The only assurance that works currently in the shipping world is when you go to a UPS store and they package it for you. The UPS store chain does have a gaurantee if they pack it, but you'll spend a ton for them to do that.

Source: Worked FedEx Express customer service. They "suspended" their "gaurantee" during COVID and conveniently never put it back. I had to quit when my driver didn't have the time to pick up the cancer meds he delivered to the wrong house and get them to the right place and the customer said "I only have so many days left with my husband on this earth, and now I have to spend them trying to track down his meds."

Also when another dude told me to KMS because his lobster went bad because it was late.

I guarantee any chain coffee shop is absolutely not washing your pitches or reusable supplies enough. That cross contamination is literally everywhere. If you have serious allergies starbucks, tim hortons or second cup is a gamble every time.

When I worked in a sports bar, the low ketchup bottles at tables would be emptied into the kinda-low bottles. It's a guessing game how many times that old ketchup was placed on top of newer stuff.

If the general public knew how airlines work, A LOT fewer people would fly. The amount of mind-bogglingly stupid people that work in just about every part of is shocking. Pilots, mechanics, ramp agents, gate agents, dispatchers, all of it. In general, I'd say the majority of the people who work in it are fine, but the ones that aren't I'm genuinely surprised even know how to breath.

Most car shops lie about needing repairs so they can charge more money.

Certain travel,shopping, e - commerce apps will collect data like the brand of smartphone or device you're using(if its a cheaper or expensive one), your previous purchases and search histories to bump up or lower the price for certain items or subscriptions that matches with their math.....soo basically people with expensive devices or purchases might face a slightly bunped up price which you'll never know(only on some apps, not on all).

Chilled supermarket deliveries stay out of fridge for multiple hours before being put away in fridge, particularly in smaller stores.

Beer from "Local breweries" are often actually just those labels contracting out to larger breweries to fill cans and kegs with their stuff, just marked up for the "Local Label".

Brewery I work at has our big common house lagger that we were filling kegs with, and we recently contracted to a much smaller company to fill their kegs and cans. We didn't even switch the line, it literally came out of the same tank, but we just put that smaller companies label on it.