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<p>Do you ever feel like everyone&#39;s just lying, cheating and stealing their way to your money?</p><p>Well, they probably are. Some companies will say or do anything just to get their products and services sold, and it&#39;s hard to find out the truth unless you actually work for the company.</p><p>A<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mrzxdx/what_is_a_weird_industry_secret_that_you/"> recent Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;What is a weird industry secret that you discovered while working for a company?&quot; The answers prove that you can&#39;t trust anyone &mdash; at least not when there&#39;s money involved.</p><h2>1. Lol humans are dumb.</h2><blockquote> <p>[The] airline was getting complaints that bags were taking too long to arrive at the carousel. So they switched to a carousel further away from the gate. Bags arrived in the same time, but people spent the time walking instead of waiting. Complaints dropped. - wrongwayup</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Yet another reason to avoid flaming buildings at all costs.</h2><blockquote> <p>The water inside fire sprinkler pipes is black, smells like shit, riddled with cutting oil and has most likely been sitting in there, stagnant for decades. Every time i watch a scene in a movie where a system goes off and everyone is dancing around in the water I think to myself &quot;that is total bullshit&quot;...Im a fire Sprinkler designer... - drainbamage826</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. The progress bar makes it more satisfying.</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked as a software dev for Carfax about 9 years ago.</p> <p>Their software for producing history reports was so fast (could get a report in less than 10ms) that users didn&#39;t believe it actually &quot;crunched the data&quot; so the frontend team added a fake progress bar that waited a short random time. I believe this fake bar is still there today. - Cybersoaker</p> </blockquote><h2>4. What!!</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked for a car dealership for a short while. Had no idea they are legally allowed to mark up the interest rate that the bank offers.</p> <p>Example: they run your credit and find an eligible loan from Wells Fargo at 3%. They tell you they can get you 5%. You end up making a payment to Wells Fargo each month based on a 5% loan.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>As far as you&rsquo;re concerned (as far as the contract shows), you got a 5% loan from Wells Fargo.</p> <p>The dealership gets to keep the difference between what you&rsquo;re paying and what the bank actually approved you for. - akiws</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. If you can get out of a store with five bottles of wine and no one notices, you deserve the wine.</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked for a supermarket for a while. They used to review cctv and if they spotted someone stealing they would take a screenshot, then print the photo and hang it on the wall in our cantine so we&#39;d recognize the person if we saw them in our store again. So I used to have lunch in a room with walls covered in photos of ppls faces with descriptions like &quot;stole 10 steaks.&quot; &quot;Left without paying, took 5 bottles of wine&quot; lol - Pim-hole</p> </blockquote><h2>6. This changes everything.</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked for a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre briefly. The identity of the killer wasn&#39;t determined ahead of time, it was simply whoever got the lowest amount of votes from the audience. - TheBladeRoden</p> </blockquote><h2>7. This is quite the Jedi mind trick.</h2><blockquote> <p>Graphic Artist here. I will sometimes throw in a bit of bad design in the project to let the client find it and request a change. They always want to change things so rather than them changing something that could jeopardise the design/layout, I throw in something for them that isn&#39;t meant to be there in the first place. - Factorybelt</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. Yikes.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work for the military as a Hazmat specialist. There&#39;s a list/map in one of our guides that tells you, based on the population of the installation, what the &quot;allowable casualty rate&quot; is in event of a terrorist attack. My area is 16%. As in we can lose up to 16% of the on-base population before the installation commander has to turn over control to someone who outrank them. - CaffeinatedHBC</p> </blockquote><h2>9. That&#39;s depressing.</h2><blockquote> <p>I knew reality TV wasn&#39;t what it purported to be, but had no idea how bad.</p> <p>I worked on &quot;America&#39;s Got Talent&quot; season 7 and got to film a few episodes. The most heartbreaking thing was that I watched them take people, people I got to spend an hours interviewing and talking to, people who were passionate, who were trying, and most of the time skilled, and the judges just got to f****** mock them on a national scale.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>In the season 7 St. Louis episode there&#39;s an older woman who plays the drums, and she was genuine and sweet and excited and in the edits, they make her look loopy and crazy and I think Sharon Osborne alluded to the fact the drummer was a crazy woman. Laughed at her on a national stage. - Worlds_Best_coffee</p> </blockquote><h2>10. WTF!!!</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked for a company that makes a certain type of electronics equipment. They have an alarm that specifically comes in 8 months after an initial startup. The only person that can silence it is a technician. There is no point to the alarm but to have a technician come out and silence it, which costs the customer $1000. I used to disable the alarm when I initially started up a machine because I thought this was pretty unethical. - TheDjTanner</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. You&#39;re just paying for the name.</h2><blockquote> <p>Working in the auto industry I was surprised to learn how little of a car is actually made by say mercedes or ford.</p> <p>There is a complex network of suppliers who specialize in developing and manufacturing most of the pieces that make up a car and then selling them to car companies.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The manufacturers themselves largely just assemble outsourced parts into the final product. - Big_Requirement_540</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Nothing is real.</h2><blockquote> <p>Most callers on music focused radio stations are either not going to air live and have been highly edited to sound more entertaining. Or completely fake. - trayntastic</p> </blockquote><h2>13. Knew it.</h2><blockquote> <p>No one has any idea what&rsquo;s going on in the Navy. - drewisawesome14</p> </blockquote><h2>14. Very strange.</h2><blockquote> <p>More of a regional thing involving a loosely-related industry I guess? But where I live (and yes it&#39;s in the US) there&#39;s a lot of small to medium sized call centers that come and go; peddle a variety of products (natural health crap, self-help, all that stuff). Thing is, you trace it back to the early 90s or so, and all these places spawned from the same groups of people that used to work at a large, no longer existing, call center in the area.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Now they all alternate being competition and cooperating... depends on what business plan they jump into after the latest fails after a few years (some have lasted a good while though). I&#39;ve seen the same names who 15 years ago ran competiting centers, then 10 years ago were partnered up running one, and now are back to two different companies they started that peddle competiting health stuff again. It&#39;s a weird little industry in this area. - ironwolf56</p> </blockquote><h2>15. Great, just great.</h2><blockquote> <p>Used to work at a pretty well know hotel chain and we had to hit quarterly deadlines, one being a certain amount of members we had to sign up. The number was impossible to get so the duty mangers would go through the old files of previous guests and use their emails to sign them up as members and tick the &lsquo;i don&rsquo;t want to be notified or emailed about any company name offers&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t know if this is a common thing among other work places but yeah uh maybe check to see that you haven&rsquo;t been signed up as a member at any hotels - Th1sishard</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. Shhhh, let us pretend all our old clothes are being donated to a loving home.</h2><blockquote> <p>Thrift store, we&#39;d get over 10,000lbs of donations every day and only a small fraction of that would reach the sales floor. The rest was thrown away to the garbage. The company will have you believe it&#39;s &quot;recycled&quot; or donated to those in need, but as a backroom laborer I can promise it goes straight to the garbage.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I blew this whistle back in 2012 and so that may have changed, but I wanted people to know that their donations were being thrown to the garbage simply because one button was missing or it was too wrinkly. - Royal_Clog</p> </blockquote><h2>17. Ah, there&#39;s nothing as gross as that dirty ice cream scoop water.</h2><blockquote> <p>Working in the ice cream industry for a few years, I found out that most places will claim there is no &quot;cross-contamination,&quot; but they often use the same scoops or scrapers for different ice creams without anything but a quick rinse of water or setting in a bucket of mixed ice cream water.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>If you have extremely bad and sensitive allergies to something that may be in ice cream, ask them to use a completely fresh scooper, especially if it&#39;s somewhere you&#39;re unfamiliar with. - egan9411</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share the obscure industry secrets they learned at their jobs.

Do you ever feel like everyone&#39;s just lying, cheating and stealing their way to your money?Well, they probably are. Some companies will say or do anything just to get their products and services sold, and it&#39;s hard to find out the truth unless you actually work for the company.A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;What is a weird industry secret that you discovered while working for a company?&quot; The answers prove that you can&#39;t trust anyone &mdash; at least not when there&#39;s money involved.1. Lol humans are dumb. [The] airline was getting complaints that bags were taking too long to arrive at the carousel. So they switched to a carousel further away from the gate. Bags arrived in the same time, but people spent the time walking instead of waiting. Complaints dropped. - wrongwayup 2. Yet another reason to avoid flaming buildings at all costs. The water inside fire sprinkler pipes is black, smells like shit, riddled with cutting oil and has most likely been sitting in there, stagnant for decades. Every time i watch a scene in a movie where a system goes off and everyone is dancing around in the water I think to myself &quot;that is total bullshit&quot;...Im a fire Sprinkler designer... - drainbamage826 3. The progress bar makes it more satisfying. Worked as a software dev for Carfax about 9 years ago. Their software for producing history reports was so fast (could get a report in less than 10ms) that users didn&#39;t believe it actually &quot;crunched the data&quot; so the frontend team added a fake progress bar that waited a short random time. I believe this fake bar is still there today. - Cybersoaker 4. What!! Worked for a car dealership for a short while. Had no idea they are legally allowed to mark up the interest rate that the bank offers. Example: they run your credit and find an eligible loan from Wells Fargo at 3%. They tell you they can get you 5%. You end up making a payment to Wells Fargo each month based on a 5% loan.   As far as you&rsquo;re concerned (as far as the contract shows), you got a 5% loan from Wells Fargo. The dealership gets to keep the difference between what you&rsquo;re paying and what the bank actually approved you for. - akiws 5. If you can get out of a store with five bottles of wine and no one notices, you deserve the wine. I worked for a supermarket for a while. They used to review cctv and if they spotted someone stealing they would take a screenshot, then print the photo and hang it on the wall in our cantine so we&#39;d recognize the person if we saw them in our store again. So I used to have lunch in a room with walls covered in photos of ppls faces with descriptions like &quot;stole 10 steaks.&quot; &quot;Left without paying, took 5 bottles of wine&quot; lol - Pim-hole 6. This changes everything. Worked for a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre briefly. The identity of the killer wasn&#39;t determined ahead of time, it was simply whoever got the lowest amount of votes from the audience. - TheBladeRoden 7. This is quite the Jedi mind trick. Graphic Artist here. I will sometimes throw in a bit of bad design in the project to let the client find it and request a change. They always want to change things so rather than them changing something that could jeopardise the design/layout, I throw in something for them that isn&#39;t meant to be there in the first place. - Factorybelt 8. Yikes. I used to work for the military as a Hazmat specialist. There&#39;s a list/map in one of our guides that tells you, based on the population of the installation, what the &quot;allowable casualty rate&quot; is in event of a terrorist attack. My area is 16%. As in we can lose up to 16% of the on-base population before the installation commander has to turn over control to someone who outrank them. - CaffeinatedHBC 9. That&#39;s depressing. I knew reality TV wasn&#39;t what it purported to be, but had no idea how bad. I worked on &quot;America&#39;s Got Talent&quot; season 7 and got to film a few episodes. The most heartbreaking thing was that I watched them take people, people I got to spend an hours interviewing and talking to, people who were passionate, who were trying, and most of the time skilled, and the judges just got to f****** mock them on a national scale.   In the season 7 St. Louis episode there&#39;s an older woman who plays the drums, and she was genuine and sweet and excited and in the edits, they make her look loopy and crazy and I think Sharon Osborne alluded to the fact the drummer was a crazy woman. Laughed at her on a national stage. - Worlds_Best_coffee 10. WTF!!! I worked for a company that makes a certain type of electronics equipment. They have an alarm that specifically comes in 8 months after an initial startup. The only person that can silence it is a technician. There is no point to the alarm but to have a technician come out and silence it, which costs the customer $1000. I used to disable the alarm when I initially started up a machine because I thought this was pretty unethical. - TheDjTanner 11. You&#39;re just paying for the name. Working in the auto industry I was surprised to learn how little of a car is actually made by say mercedes or ford. There is a complex network of suppliers who specialize in developing and manufacturing most of the pieces that make up a car and then selling them to car companies.   The manufacturers themselves largely just assemble outsourced parts into the final product. - Big_Requirement_540 12. Nothing is real. Most callers on music focused radio stations are either not going to air live and have been highly edited to sound more entertaining. Or completely fake. - trayntastic 13. Knew it. No one has any idea what&rsquo;s going on in the Navy. - drewisawesome14 14. Very strange. More of a regional thing involving a loosely-related industry I guess? But where I live (and yes it&#39;s in the US) there&#39;s a lot of small to medium sized call centers that come and go; peddle a variety of products (natural health crap, self-help, all that stuff). Thing is, you trace it back to the early 90s or so, and all these places spawned from the same groups of people that used to work at a large, no longer existing, call center in the area.   Now they all alternate being competition and cooperating... depends on what business plan they jump into after the latest fails after a few years (some have lasted a good while though). I&#39;ve seen the same names who 15 years ago ran competiting centers, then 10 years ago were partnered up running one, and now are back to two different companies they started that peddle competiting health stuff again. It&#39;s a weird little industry in this area. - ironwolf56 15. Great, just great. Used to work at a pretty well know hotel chain and we had to hit quarterly deadlines, one being a certain amount of members we had to sign up. The number was impossible to get so the duty mangers would go through the old files of previous guests and use their emails to sign them up as members and tick the &lsquo;i don&rsquo;t want to be notified or emailed about any company name offers&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t know if this is a common thing among other work places but yeah uh maybe check to see that you haven&rsquo;t been signed up as a member at any hotels - Th1sishard 16. Shhhh, let us pretend all our old clothes are being donated to a loving home. Thrift store, we&#39;d get over 10,000lbs of donations every day and only a small fraction of that would reach the sales floor. The rest was thrown away to the garbage. The company will have you believe it&#39;s &quot;recycled&quot; or donated to those in need, but as a backroom laborer I can promise it goes straight to the garbage.   I blew this whistle back in 2012 and so that may have changed, but I wanted people to know that their donations were being thrown to the garbage simply because one button was missing or it was too wrinkly. - Royal_Clog 17. Ah, there&#39;s nothing as gross as that dirty ice cream scoop water. Working in the ice cream industry for a few years, I found out that most places will claim there is no &quot;cross-contamination,&quot; but they often use the same scoops or scrapers for different ice creams without anything but a quick rinse of water or setting in a bucket of mixed ice cream water.   If you have extremely bad and sensitive allergies to something that may be in ice cream, ask them to use a completely fresh scooper, especially if it&#39;s somewhere you&#39;re unfamiliar with. - egan9411 

Do you ever feel like everyone&#39;s just lying, cheating and stealing their way to your money?  Well, they probably are. Some companies will say or do anything just to get their products and services sold, and it&#39;s hard to find out...