People Share 40 Things The General Public Doesn’t Understand About Their Profession

Flossing actually helps.

You can lie all you want about falling on or accidentally sitting on the stuff that gets lodged in your [butt], none of us HCWs believe you though!

Teachers don't "give grades" - students earn them. The teachers just calculate them.

Sure, some teachers can be d**ks, and actually give grades, but that's not how it's supposed to work.

That office work is more than just making excel spreadsheets and chatting at the water cooler. A busy day in an office can be exhausting.

My god, your chocolate will last the two weeks until Christmas. Buy it now and give it next Christmas. It has a shelf life measured in years. And stop putting it in the fridge. I made it three months ago and it's been sitting at room temperature in a box since then. If you put it in the fridge for a week it'll get condensation on it and turn sticky, or the cold will ruin the tempering.

Yes, the animal is in the exhibit. Sometimes you have to look for longer than eight seconds.

Bathroom renovations — things take time. Drying times are a factor. If I ask your budget, it’s not because I’m trying to empty your account. I just need to know your expectations so I can meet them.

Teaching children takes more than subject knowledge. Many people think that their experience as a student qualifies them to be teachers. It's called the apprenticeship of observation. There are strategies for both classroom management and teaching that you don't learn from being a student.

Correlation is not causation.

The Cloud is just someone else's computer.

Just because I'm an electrical engineer doesn't mean I can rewire your house. At least not legally.

I work in long term mental health care with special need adults.

I see al kinds of s**t, trust me. Most people get that. I get the 'ah you are such a hero for doing what you do, I could never do that' quite often.

What most people don't grasp is that the good moments are equally amazing as the bad things are horrible.
My residents are capable of such great things. Or they become so happy in our care it's just amazing to witness.
I could tell amazing or terrible things about my job, depending on the mood you're in to hear about.

No, I can't grab your iPhone and take a picture to match my best studio works, even if it's the most recent model of an iPhone. Also, yes, I do charge money 'just to take a picture.

Unpleasant feelings are healthy and needed for us to function properly

That everyone is entitled to due process and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty no matter how sleazy or guilty they are.

Complaining to my manager isn't going to get me fired. If anything he's going to be even more blunt with you about how much of a power tripping c**t you're being because he knows for a fact that you can't get him fired either. Retail workers, especially during a labor shortage and especially when they've got a few years experience, aren't so replacable that you can get one axed just by complaining to management. Most of the time your complaints won't even reach anyone with the authority to fire someone. Even if they do, they get so many complaints from unreasonable people that the management is far more likely to side with an employee that's in good standing with the store than with some random weirdo that didn't get what they wanted.

Teaching English in Japan does not elevate you to godlike status among the locals and Japanese kids can be as ill mannered and unruly as kids in the West.

The only certainty in medicine is that everyone dies eventually.

I am a material scientist.

America will never go to war with Russia. We buy too much Titanium and Helium from them.

If you want to fit a portrait image into a landscape canvas, you either have to crop it, leave a black or white border or empty space left and right, or distort it (which is almost always a bad idea). On a regular occurrence, clients are unhappy with either of these options, they just want me to somehow make it fit.