Any job can teach you a wealth of information. It might not all be relevant to your daily life, but even working in a fast food joint will provide you with knowledge that the average person doesn’t have. And because most of us don’t have the chance to dabble in 15 different career fields during our lifetimes, there’s plenty of info that we’ll never have access to. That is, unless people are willing to spill the beans online.
Reddit users who work in a wide variety of industries have been revealing some of the juiciest secrets from their workplaces, so we’ve gathered ones that you might want to know down below. Enjoy scrolling through and learning something new, and be sure to upvote the replies you find most surprising!
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#21
Worked in online community management and social media for years - Admins CAN read all of your PMs. Private only means private from the masses, not from administration, we had to be able to read them to check reports of abuse, grooming, illegal activity etc. I can't tell you how much cringeworthy s**t I had to read through, especially from guys trying to h******.
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#22
The Coke at McDonald’s tastes better because they’re one of the only companies that refrigerate the syrup tanks, the unflavored soda and the supply lines. So when it hits the ice in your cup, it’s already super cold, so less ice melts, and the first sip tastes more “concentrated” and ice cold. That’s it. No magic. No secret formula. Just more refrigeration.
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#23
Some appetizers are the most labor intense items on the menu to make, for example: dumplings takes one worker about an hour to make 12-15 orders. If you want to know where I'm getting at, if a restaurant offers a plethora of appetizers options then there's a high chance a lot of them are store bought and resold because there's no feasible way to prepare several orders for each item on the menu.
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#24
Previous industry. US hospitals casually refer to other hospitals as their 'competitors'. Noped out of that world as soon as I could.
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#25
Most—probably 80 percent or more—of the books on the nonfiction bestseller list (autobiographies, memoirs, political/business books, etc.) are ghostwritten. Source: am ghostwriter.
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#26
Teaching. Yep, teachers gossip about the kids, and each other, and everything. There is always so much drama going on at any given moment.
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#27
The news about Boeing is not a surprise to me at all. The amount of resources that they are able to delegate in an effort to deter whistleblowers is unfathomable to the average American/EU citizen.
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#28
On the Texas house floor, people push the buttons to vote for members who aren't even present that day. This happens multiple times, on every single thing they vote for.
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#29
In Australia, additional warranties are a rip off. If a device or product can be reasonably expected to last five years without defect then it can be held to that under warranty. Companies are f****d.
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