30 Corporate Secrets People Revealed Since They No Longer Work There

The Radisson Hotel has a "Yes I can" policy. If they are capable of doing something for you as a guest and you ask directly, they are supposed to say yes and maintain a positive attitude towards providing you satisfying services. ALWAYS SHOW UP EARLY FOR CHECK IN AND ASK FOR AN UPGRADE. This is how I go from $250 a night in a regular room to $250 a night for a jacuzzi suite every time I travel.

Used to work at Michael’s craft store.
There’s a quota for the amount of credit cards we can get customers to sign up for.
We have to try and convince them to sign up for credit cards or else we lose hours and get in trouble.
We’re told not to tell anyone about the interest rate as it’s very high, 32.5 percent APR rate.
We get an extra dollar in our paycheck if someone signs up for one.
We’re only allowed to sell it to people speaking English, even if we speak fluent Spanish or other languages.

Also for the rewards they say you get 5 dollar coupons ever 25 dollars you spend but that’s not true. That is only when you first sign up, after that it’s only 3 percent of every visit you go to Michael’s. It’s not really worth it. I worked there and I tried it and it only ended up making me spend more by trying to earn the vouchers.

There’s no way to change ur email or phone number for the rewards, when we change it in store it’s only per transaction and doesn’t permanently change.

Everything in the store is marked up to be expensive on purpose so if you use the coupons it will still be slightly overpriced but people feel like they’re saving.

The quality of their art supplies is bad because they stopped carrying good brands and started to only carry cheap brands owned by Michael’s that were made poorly and are incredibly expensive.

We have so many holiday items that are “ 50 “ dollars that are entirely made of styrofoam’. Look at the big Easter bunny for 50 dollars, break off an ear, it’s styrofoam.

I will flat out just say don’t trust any diamond grading report that is not GIA. I worked for another diamond grading lab that worked with retail jewelers and the boss would fudge the grades to help them.

I did data entry for a major telecommunications company 20 years ago. The sales representatives would file expense reports for so much c**p under “entertaining expenses” and the company uses this as their basis for tax reduction. For example, one sales rep was very good friends with a guy who was a branch manager for one of our customers. A couple of times a month the sales rep would host his friend aboard his fishing boat, and he would write expense reports to pay for their beer and refreshments and ice for their cooler and gas for the boat. All came under “entertainment expenses.” And since the guy was a customer, the sales manager signed off on it. There was all kinds of the stuff going on. The company also sponsored a national golf tournament and paid for entertainment expenses for customers who were executives from large corporations. The expense reports for these events came in, and they were 4 to 5 inches thick and had to be manually entered. So there we were, clerks, barely making enough to live on and were transcribing accounts showing that a vice president (customer of ours) would check into a luxury hotel, suite, and immediately send their clothes out for dry cleaning, order shrimp cocktails and champagne from room service, and my company would pick up the entire tab. Multiply this by about 300 other individuals. These people had generational wealth and they were highly placed into large corporations. The irony was that these were the people most likely to complain about welfare for low income people and yet they were getting all this paid for, and my company was using it to eliminate their tax. This is why you hear about about corporations not paying any tax, because of write offs like this. Don’t get me started on their conventions because that’s exponentially worse….

the secret ingredient in jimmy john's delicious tuna salad is soy sauce

If you've ever put your ID into a computer for a background check it's probably been circulated to others regardless of whatever cybersecurity claims the company doing the background check claims.

Rental car companies: the upgrade price is made up on the spot.

When a Verizon rep tells you they fixed something but to call back in 2 hours or 2 days, it’s because 8 times out of 10 they didn’t solve your problem but if you don’t call back in within 2 hours or 2 days depending on department it won’t affect their stats.
ETA: if ANY rep tells you that the credit department or ANY department can raise your finance limit (unless it’s an error), they are lying.

Lululemon comes in straight from Hong Kong to the US. Mostly made in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Same with Mast Global, Lane Bryant, Torrid, Express, etc.

I can't speak for other food/beverages, but I would safely assume it's the same ... i worked in a sauce factory. Kosher sauce is the same sauce, but the difference is when they are starting to cook it a rabbi is present there blessing it.

Brand name sauce and off brand sauce are essentially the same. Barilla and Aldi's are identical. Barilla ships out the door stacked nicely, pallet shrink wrapped properly. Aldi's brand ships out stacked terribly, with a thin wrap of shrink wrap. Thats where the savings is. Loading Aldi's sauce on to trucks you could guarantee there was going to be at least one or two pallets dumped.