Every industry and profession has at least a few skeletons in their closet. Dark secrets that the layperson might not know but really should. When Reddit user Juaninamillion asked their fellow redditors to share such industry secrets, they started up a viral discussion that really got people opening up about the less-than-stellar nooks and crannies of their jobs.
Check out some of these industry secrets that you may not have known about and remember to upvote the ones that left an impression on you as you scroll down. If you have any secrets that you want to share, we’ll be eagerly watching the comment section.
Unfortunately, it’s not just specific industries that need some fine-tuning—it’s the mentality of the entire job market. One of the most widely known ‘secrets’ is how recruiters responsible for hiring rely on completely unrealistic expectations and having candidates jump through increasingly difficult hoops. While other issues are how new employees usually have limited opportunities for growth and learning within tech companies. Bored Panda spoke about these problems with IT and AI industry professional and founder of FastAPI, Sebastián Ramírez.
#21
I work in the wedding industry. Every single service you purchase for your wedding has a marked up price because we know you’re going to spend it.
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110points
#22
People always joke that most psychologists become psychologists because they are crazy. I've worked in close proximity to a bunch of forensic psychs for the last few years - it is true.
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109points
#23
Other academics will steal your work for themselves and publish it under their name.
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104points
#24
Hospitals are not clean
The only really clean place in a hospital is the operating room, other than that the place is crawling with germs and whatever else has mutated on the floors and walls.
100points
#25
I worked for a movie theatre. A large bag of popcorn that cost the customer $5.99 (at the time) cost the movie theatre six cents to produce, including the butter, the kernels, the bag, the power used by the popper and the time it took the concession employee to fill up the bag and give it to the customer.
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100points
#26
I make super expensive stuff that is bought by several governments and some high-end consumer product manufacturers. One of the machines that every bit of product has to go through only works right if you stand there and poke at it with a stick. We don’t even have a special stick. It’s just a metal rod that fell off of another piece of equipment that we wrapped some tape around to make a handle. We always make the new guy do it, because it is super boring.
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87points
#27
When renting a storage unit you do not need to get the insurance they offer. Even if they say it's "mandatory", it's illegal to force you to get insurance. Also the rent will increase yearly, forever.
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87points
#28
At a hospital the straight cash price discount for many outpatient tests (MRI, CT, X-Ray, Ultrasound, Labs, etc.) can often be cheaper than using insurance and dealing with deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and on and on.
I’ve seen test billed for thousands of dollars to insurance cost a cash paying patient less than $400.
It’s insane.
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87points
#29
In academia, you create content for privately owned journals like Science and Nature, but still you have to pay them. Also scientists who review journals articles for the peer review process do it for free.
If you don’t participate in this process, you can’t get papers and if you don’t have papers you don’t get funding and subsequently starve and die.
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85points
#30
The official policy for customer dissatisfaction at a particular Canadian coffee franchise I worked at was, "offer them free stuff until they stop complaining."
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82points