70 Secrets People Aren’t Supposed To Know But Employees Shared Online

I work in education. Teachers aren't making your kids gay. They are just gay. We just treat them like humans with care and respect.

Shocking,  eh?

Chefs in restaurants don’t wear gloves hardly ever- because gloves are dirty and gross. Corporate places that insist on gloves result in cooks wearing the gloves for a long period of time, resulting in cross contamination. If I’m making your food without gloves I am very clean and tidy and I wash my hands a lot. I only wear them when dealing with sloppy wet stuff. What I’m saying is that gloves are in absolutely no way a sign of cleanliness or lack of contamination.

I'm a wildlife photographer.

A lot of the spectacular shots you see of seemingly wild and elusive animals, all over social media, stock agencies, magazines, calendars, and greeting cards, are taken of captive wolves, lynxes, snow leopards, tigers, and many others, that live horrible lives in small filthy concrete cells, only dragged out by a trainer to pose for photographers and filmmakers in fenced outdoor areas. These places are called photo game farms, and a lengthy expose of them appeared in a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

I’m a firefighter, the way we joke about the people who we see pass away would make most people cringe, or cry, or attack us. We don’t do it because of a lack of respect, it’s just a coping mechanism for us but it would certainly shock people to hear.

I work maintenance, used to do HVAC.

You can pass a million laws, have a million armed guards at the main entrance and take away every personal freedom that anyone in the entire country has in the name of security, and I will STILL be able to walk in through the loading dock if I'm holding a folding ladder and a toolkit, with no questions asked.

Public Libraries have to beg local and state (mostly state) governments for funding. Most of the cool stuff your local library has added? Yeah that came from either grants or donations. The actual funding is fought for very hard every single day. The best thing you can do to support public libraries? 1) get a library card most importantly, 2) get involved and vote in local and state elections, 3) go utilize all the free stuff available at libraries so we keep getting money to continue having that cool stuff for you guys.

Software is terrible not because of bad developers or bad testing. It's the CEOs who make business decisions to placate stockholders by releasing too soon and/or ignoring known bugs.

This insanely expensive beauty and hair products you like to buy. You know the ones that go for 1-200 for a medium sized jars of cream. It cost roughly 3 dollars to make that stuff.

I work in security. The vast majority of security is actually what's called "security theater," meaning things that make the given area LOOK more secure, but isn't actually capable of stopping any threats. It's not useless though, because a certain amount of would be threats ARE prevented under the assumption that they would be stopped if they actually tried anything.

I worked in the parks industry in Colorado.

A certain amount of water is allowed for a city like Denver to keep its golf courses top-notch. That water comes from the western slope, up to several hundred miles away.

If only a percentage of that water is used, then you are allowed that new, lesser amount. So they will just keep sprinklers running to avoid having any amount taken away.

While the mountains might experience a drought and get hit with wildfires, devastating wildlife, farmlands and homes (due to excessive water use in the front range), the golf courses look great.

I have been in academic research for almost 30 years, and the amount of cherry picked or just completely made up data in research papers should concern everyone. In the past it was very rare and now it is almost common practice. It's driven by the pursuit of increasingly scarce funding sources.

The U.S. has over 624,000 highway bridges. 42% are 50 years or older, exceeding their operational lifespans, but most are still safe to drive over.

42,000 (or about 7% of all bridges) are in “poor” condition and require significant repair or rehabilitation. Many of these are heavily traveled. In fact, this amounts to 168.5 million trips, every single day, across structurally unsound bridges.

Most people have no idea the condition of the bridge they’re driving on and will never give it a second thought.

Government agencies will blow money on stuff that’s not necessarily needed at the end of the year to burn up the rest of the money in their budget. If they don’t spent all the money their budget will get reduced next year.

Farmed salmon are so overcrowded that they get sick and develop sores. It's absolutely disgusting, and it's awful to see them suffering.

Half the sites you use every day are held together by a handful of exhausted on-call engineers, a pile of scripts nobody fully understands anymore, and duct tape. a surprising amount of the internet is one expired certificate or one fat-fingered config push away from going down for an afternoon.

I work at a university. They exist for grants, funding and research, not to teach.

I'm in the nuclear industry; public would be shocked to truly learn that its way safer than most other industries.

I work in construction supply. A lot of people often opt for the cheaper or budget options thinking the difference in quality doesn't really make a difference. "A brick is a brick, they're all the same" "cement is cement, it'll do the job" as well as for other items like steel and timber. In actual fact most of the time the quality difference is really big and you only start notice after a while and long after you've already installed the item. The only item I've seen people really consider taking the better option is with paint.

I my country the standard thicknesses for steel and tubing used to be 1.6mm and 2.0mm. Chinese suppliers flooded the market with low quality and underspecked goods forcing local manufacturers to have to have to cut the quality in order to maintain their competitiveness and as a result you know get 1.0mm and 1.2mm tubing being sold in most smaller stores.

They've managed to get around it through marketing. Instead of advertising the steel with the thickness they now label it as Heavy duty and light duty. Heavy duty and light duty can be anything, I can have a 0.9mm tube and a 1.0mm tube and legally market the 1.0mm as heavy duty as technically it is a heavier duty than the 0.9mm.

There are stores I go to that now started selling 22.5N cement to contractors that are using to build houses and foundation walls.

Most of the welded mesh fencing that's sold in smaller stores is so weak that you can literally grab one of the wire strands and pull the fence apart by hand.

Multiple times I've had to return goods to suppliers as they would supply underspecked rebar. I've received Rebar that's marked as 8mm but that measure at 6.8mm-7.2mm and Rebar is critical to the building process.

I always advise clients to go for the better option but at the end of the day you have to give the customer what they ask for I guess.

IT guy here. Rebooting works.

If you're on OnlyFans, Fansly, Fanvue, or similar platforms as a fan, there's only a tiny chance you're actually talking to the model. Most of the time, you're talking to a chatter, a person, often from a developing country, who works for a small commission, replies to messages, and sells content on the model's behalf. (Edit: especially on Fanvue that allows AI generated "models", but there are human chatters replying the messages)

Source: I've been working as a chatter for over two years.