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

Non-meat-eaters like to say that no one would want to eat a sausage ever again if they knew how it was made. But that applies to many more industries: apparel, politics, and even gas stations. Most of us probably have some dirt on our workplaces that we can never share without greatly damaging their reputations, but thank god for the internet, where we can still be anonymous and spill the tea for entertainment’s sake.

In one recent online thread, people started sharing disturbing behind-the-scenes facts about their career fields. “What industry secret would make customers never use that service again if they knew?” one netizen asked. Read on to find out what it really means when your favorite food item boasts a “new recipe” or whether expensive, bougie clothes are any different from fast fashion pieces (spoiler alert: they’re mostly not).