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

Not sure if it’s really a secret but when you see restaurant workers wearing disposable gloves but don’t actually see them putting the gloves on, just know they could have touched plenty of dirty things before touching your food.

When I worked at a fast food restaurant at the mall, I remember getting called out by a customer for touching frozen fries before I put them into the fryer. I know it’s not the best food safety practice but I always washed my hands before handling food. I also only handled cooked foods with tongs. Meanwhile, my buddy would wear the same gloves for hours and handle sandwiches, salads and various raw ingredients. Too bad the lady was only worried about me.

As a customer, I’ll see fast food worker wearing gloves while handling mops or brooms and I always hope they change their gloves before going back to handling foods.

"Low on colors" is basically a way to make consumers buy a new cartridge because apparently the cartridges have an "expiry date".

House keeping and cleaning guy. Normally mops have specific colors i.e. red for washrooms and toilets, green for kitchen and grey for common areas (these are just examples from where I work). Each should be used where the color says. But the pressure to do a good work and take the shortest time possible makes us hurry so much we end up mixing the tools. You can find a mop meant for the toilet in the kitchen, the fabric used to clean toilets used also in the kitchen and vice versa.

As long as the place looks clean, move on.

The older I get the more I realize convenience usually comes with some pretty ugly shortcuts.

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The convenience tax is real. Paying more for something that used to be standard and was probably better.

The cremated remains of your loved one is mixed in with a teeny tiny amount of whoever else has been in there previously. No, we do not clean the machines in between uses. They are like the inside of a kiln, very porous and rough. We just sweep one person out and pop the next person in. Sorry. I will NOT be cremated. I seen too many flaming skulls for that to be me.

Won’t stop you from using the service but an industry secret in truck and car rental is that we always overbooked. There are always cancellations, stuff coming back early etc. This is why we always call to confirm before your reservation, because we overbooked and trying to free up some units.

I’m a teacher. The way some older teachers talk about students (specifically the slurs) would make a lot of people not want to send their kids to school. Public and private.

I've seen a donut shop coffee franchise that went multiple years without cleaning out their oasis machine.

Tldr, the FDA has a legal amount of insect material per unit of consumables. And there was likely significantly more than that going into every single persons iced drinks.

Only found that out because the prior manager was fired for different reasons entirely and mysteriously her staff left with her. So everything was inspected during normal cleaning and set up for reopening.

Ex GF of mine worked at a couple restaurants in college and they both had beer on tap. The amount of times she told me they had to drain some of their beer because of fruit/drain flies is staggering.

I always order bottled or canned beer now (which isn't often because I don't drink much anymore).

From the time Dunkin opens until about noon you are being served 11 hour old donuts. But we do make fresh donuts in the morning. You will start to see them at noon that's around the 8 hour mark for those. Never fresh.

Anything with an arms reach of your airplane seat is absolutely disgusting. Wipe everything you could touch during your flight with antibacterial wipes as soon as you sit down.

Getting a Brazilian wax, or any waxing, will NOT cause less hair to grow back. There's so many follicles in a square inch of skin to replace the hairs you just got removed.
Also, the lotion that "supposedly" slows down the new growth is snake oil. Just shave.

Research what’s used to make Filler used in soft serve ice cream, cheap Parmesan cheese, and a host of other processed foods.

We always send your order to the wrong address and blame you.

If you could turn the lights on and see behind the bar at the dark night club or bar you are ordering drinks at, you would never order a drink from there again.

In America, it's actually pretty easy to get your medical bills cut in half. It's still gonna be hella expensive but half is better.

It doesn’t matter if they are chiropractors, Osteopaths, Sports therapists or physiotherapists, most manual therapists have no idea what they’re doing beyond “rubbing the painful bit“.

Maybe 1 in 20 understand the human body, know what treatments to apply, and know how those treatments will affect a patient.

Window cleaners just use Dawn dish soap.

As a customer service employee, your email will not be seen until at least a month later, simply because we prioritise calls and have no time for emails. If there’s one thing I recommend, if you want to cancel or rebook urgently call the phone line.

The cleanliness level of dishes is much lower than you'd expect. Baked on tomato sauce? Eh, food will cover it.

I hated working alongside such colleagues.