“What’s A Little Secret That You Know Only Because You Work In That Industry?” (50 Answers)

Sometimes insurance companies will set “automatic denials” of insurance claims after natural disasters so people will have to resubmit their claim, thus reducing the amount of claims they have to handle.

Video game development is a chaotic mess, it's a miracle that any game comes out at all—let alone with any amount of polish.

Also, audiences like to blame QA for bugs, but that's extremely misguided. I guarantee that QA knows about every bug in detail (including tons most players have never even encountered). The real folks to blame are management who choose not to put resources towards fixing these bugs.

The extra chicken nugget(s) or food in general, was not an accident.

My old professor teaches exercise science, once taught the military, did international research on muscles and was an ex bodybuilding champ, worked at GNC. His schpiel on the entire vitamin industry and more specifically the workout supplements is a whole sham. Why do think these supplements aren’t meeting FDA requirements? OTC testosterone boosters? Doesn’t work. A majority of the supplements don’t work (physicians can support this). Unless you are deficient, your body won’t be absorbing and storing extra vitamins and nutrients in your body; excess gets excreted. Two things he does vouch for are protein use and creatine use.

Not my current industry but most supermarkets price fix between themselves. It's known, it has been known and nothing is done about it.

Your packages get the Sh*t beat out of them while they are being processed. Fragile? that means throw underhand.

Political propaganda. TV hosts and speakers don't believe that s**t themselves and are very cynical about it, like it's just a job like any other.

Maybe an open secret by now, but all those real estate reality shows where couples are looking for houses…they’re already in contract with the one they want before they start filming. The production crew works with a local realtor to find two jabroni houses to take the fall.

That realtor will be in the show credits.

Utility construction, (primarily fiber) the majority of the subcontractors have no idea what they’re actually doing and are just following the instructions like it’s IKEA furniture.

Printer ink for home use printers is disgracefully expensive.

Printer ink for commercial printers is cheap.

Printer software for home use printers is rubbish, just re-skinned from the 2000's.

Printer software for commercial printers are fantastic, unless your with Mimaki.