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<p>At some point, everyone who&#39;s ever had a job has cut corners in one way or another. If you haven&#39;t, then congrats&mdash;you have burnout to look forward to!</p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="260" src="https://giphy.com/embed/noWd8B6LDGCK4" width="480"></iframe></div><p>To celebrate the corner-cutters amongst us, a Reddit user posed a simple question: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/">&quot;What&#39;s a secret within your industry that you all don&#39;t want the public to know (but they probably should)?&quot;</a></p><p>Thanks to the strict anonymity of the page, users responded with refreshingly honest answers. However, if this winds up corrupting one of your favorite businesses, &quot;refreshing&quot; is probably not the right word to use. In that case, here are 14 confessions about people&#39;s jobs that are sure to ruin at least <em>something</em>.</p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="221" src="https://giphy.com/embed/xS0FrhPmmXXt6" width="480"></iframe> <h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dkzqmpz/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit">Kill_the_worms</a> confirmed our greatest fear about Subway.</h2> </div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m only supposed to put six olives on your Footlong.</p> <p>You all deserve to know.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl06csi/">I_cant_stop_evening</a>, who manages a lighting business, revealed the truth behind the whole rental vs. purchase thing.</h2><blockquote> <p>If you&#39;re a band and rent a light for more than an 18 week tour, you basically paid the full retail price of that light for us, and we continue to rent it out making profits off of it for years.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><hr /><h2>3.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dkzsr75/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit"> Samanthaspice</a>, who has worked in a funeral home for five years, has the casket insight you never knew you needed.</h2><blockquote> <p>That casket has a huge markup and it is illegal for a funeral home to not let you source your own casket. In my area Amish make them and their prices run from reasonable to unreasonable and here&#39;s another tip - Walmart sells caskets. They are still slightly overpriced but usually better than what your director is probably selling.</p> <p>Shop your casket options.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>4. If you aren&#39;t a fan of vermin, sorry on behalf of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dkzuqcq/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit">Lostsonofpluto</a> for ruining grocery stores for you.</h2><blockquote> <p>There are so many mice and/or rats in and around grocery stores. We are required by law to take measure to control the population and dispose of contaminated products, but short of a full blown infestation no store is going to be shut down for having mice.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl00t78/">CalvinDehaze</a> works in visual effects for Hollywood blockbusters, and they have some beef with <em>Life of Pi</em> in particular.</h2><blockquote> <p>I work in visual effects for large Hollywood movies. We do so much digital cleanup and enhancement of practical effects, yet get no credit for how it looks. We only get shit on when a director or studio forces us to make cartoony CG characters or un-photorealistic backgrounds. We&#39;re the only department that doesn&#39;t have a union, yet we&#39;re in charge of upwards of half the movie&#39;s budget. Life of Pi was shot mostly on green screen, yet the cinematographer got an Oscar, even though most of those shots were created later in VFX without his input.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>6. Valet attendant <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dkzuq70/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit">jonboi9</a> pulls a<em> Ferris Bueller&#39;s Day Off</em> on the reg.</h2><blockquote> <p>Will drive your personal car gently. Rentals, will try to get air on speed bumps. Also, (at least at my location ) we&#39;re not gonna look through your shit. I don&#39;t care what&#39;s in your glove box, although I will judge you if your car smells like garbage or farts.</p> </blockquote><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="289" src="https://giphy.com/embed/zCM4YWlNMhHIk" width="480"></iframe> <hr /> <h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl033un/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit">Djmenace</a>, who has managed a car dealership for about a decade, reveals the secret to getting a good deal.</h2> <blockquote> <p>Never negotiate the payment. Often times we move the numbers around to favor us. We will negotiate your trade in. The price of the car. The interest rate. Dealer installed options.</p> </blockquote> <p>They also add:</p> <blockquote> <p>Walk out. Seriously. Never buy the car the day you go to look at it. Chances are I&#39;m going to yell at my sales guy to call you and offer you a lower price to get you back in.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl00djl/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=AskReddit">UsmcFatManBear</a> is letting these secrets out of their jail cell.</h2> <blockquote> <p>Most of the money the prison system makes is not from the tax dollars but from inmates families or women they trick into sending them money.</p> <p><br /> Commissary, Phone calls, Email, etc... Are a huge money maker.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>9. If you ever find yourself in legal trouble, former law enforcement officer <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl09mij/">the-umop-apisdn</a> says its all about the evidence.</h2> <blockquote> <p>TV cop dramas are absurd on every level, but on the subject of lost or destroyed evidence, they may actually undersell how pervasive it is. It happens <em>all. the. time</em>.</p> </blockquote> <p>They advise keeping a detailed paper trail.</p> <blockquote> <p>Make copies. Record whatever you&#39;re allowed to (and take time to understand the laws yourself to know just what your rights are in this respect). Make sure there is SOME record of any evidence you&#39;ve given police, whenever it&#39;s at all safe or appropriate to do so, as long as it doesn&#39;t compromise the integrity of the evidence itself.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/">Bak1984</a> proves that people will do <em>anything</em> for Wi-Fi.</h2> <blockquote> <p>At our hotel we had free basic WiFi. If the guest wanted faster Wi-Fi they could pay a small fee and be able to access our special &quot;deluxe&quot; Wi-Fi. There was no difference. It was all the same speed.</p> </blockquote> <div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="348" src="https://giphy.com/embed/mCRJDo24UvJMA" width="480"></iframe> <p> </p> </div> <hr /> <h2>11. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl08jsp/">UpsettingPornography</a> dishes out some info that cannabis lovers may find upsetting.</h2> <blockquote> <p>An unfortunately high percentage of cannabis that makes it to the point of sale in both the medical and recreational industry has significant traces of mold and pesticides (some even banned by the state). Some of this is from my personal experience, but some cases have been looked at by journalists.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl03ft5/">Vladmech</a> reiterates what IT employees always first suggest: turning it off and back on is the magic solution to many tech problems.</h2> <blockquote> <p>Many IT issues really can be solved with &#39;have you tried turning it off and back on again?&#39;</p> <p><br /> People constantly joke about this but easily a third of our tickets wouldn&#39;t need assistance if people would just try this before calling in. Or hey, call in and lie about it, Nancy, because I can easily check uptime and see your computer&#39;s been on for 23 days and that&#39;s just Jon security for me.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dl0dzka/">CapnJuicebox</a> has thoughts on getting extra cheese on your pizza.</h2> <blockquote> <p>If you order a cheese pizza with nothing else, it always comes with extra cheese. If you order extra cheese you will be charged for it, but get the same pizza. Most pizza places use a conveyer oven and the pizza will burn without the extra cheese. This does not apply to higher end brick oven places.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <h2>14. And finally, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6qsh64/whats_a_secret_within_your_industry_that_you_all/dkzpkey/">Taywho</a> has a nugget of wisdom that you should use to kill the vibes next time you attend a bachelor party.</h2> <blockquote> <p>The pole spins, not the stripper!</p> </blockquote> <div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://giphy.com/embed/G5X63GrrLjjVK" width="399"></iframe> <p> </p> </div> <p> </p> </div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Blabby employees reveal horrible secrets about their industries. Shhhhhhhh.

At some point, everyone who&#39;s ever had a job has cut corners in one way or another. If you haven&#39;t, then congrats&mdash;you have burnout to look forward to!To celebrate the corner-cutters amongst us, a Reddit user posed a simple question: &quot;What&#39;s a secret within your industry that you all don&#39;t want the public to know (but they probably should)?&quot;Thanks to the strict anonymity of the page, users responded with refreshingly honest answers. However, if this winds up corrupting one of your favorite businesses, &quot;refreshing&quot; is probably not the right word to use. In that case, here are 14 confessions about people&#39;s jobs that are sure to ruin at least something. 1. Kill_the_worms confirmed our greatest fear about Subway.  I&#39;m only supposed to put six olives on your Footlong. You all deserve to know. 2. I_cant_stop_evening, who manages a lighting business, revealed the truth behind the whole rental vs. purchase thing. If you&#39;re a band and rent a light for more than an 18 week tour, you basically paid the full retail price of that light for us, and we continue to rent it out making profits off of it for years.  3. Samanthaspice, who has worked in a funeral home for five years, has the casket insight you never knew you needed. That casket has a huge markup and it is illegal for a funeral home to not let you source your own casket. In my area Amish make them and their prices run from reasonable to unreasonable and here&#39;s another tip - Walmart sells caskets. They are still slightly overpriced but usually better than what your director is probably selling. Shop your casket options. 4. If you aren&#39;t a fan of vermin, sorry on behalf of Lostsonofpluto for ruining grocery stores for you. There are so many mice and/or rats in and around grocery stores. We are required by law to take measure to control the population and dispose of contaminated products, but short of a full blown infestation no store is going to be shut down for having mice. 5. CalvinDehaze works in visual effects for Hollywood blockbusters, and they have some beef with Life of Pi in particular. I work in visual effects for large Hollywood movies. We do so much digital cleanup and enhancement of practical effects, yet get no credit for how it looks. We only get shit on when a director or studio forces us to make cartoony CG characters or un-photorealistic backgrounds. We&#39;re the only department that doesn&#39;t have a union, yet we&#39;re in charge of upwards of half the movie&#39;s budget. Life of Pi was shot mostly on green screen, yet the cinematographer got an Oscar, even though most of those shots were created later in VFX without his input. 6. Valet attendant jonboi9 pulls a Ferris Bueller&#39;s Day Off on the reg. Will drive your personal car gently. Rentals, will try to get air on speed bumps. Also, (at least at my location ) we&#39;re not gonna look through your shit. I don&#39;t care what&#39;s in your glove box, although I will judge you if your car smells like garbage or farts.   7. Djmenace, who has managed a car dealership for about a decade, reveals the secret to getting a good deal.  Never negotiate the payment. Often times we move the numbers around to favor us. We will negotiate your trade in. The price of the car. The interest rate. Dealer installed options.  They also add:  Walk out. Seriously. Never buy the car the day you go to look at it. Chances are I&#39;m going to yell at my sales guy to call you and offer you a lower price to get you back in.   8. UsmcFatManBear is letting these secrets out of their jail cell.  Most of the money the prison system makes is not from the tax dollars but from inmates families or women they trick into sending them money.  Commissary, Phone calls, Email, etc... Are a huge money maker.   9. If you ever find yourself in legal trouble, former law enforcement officer the-umop-apisdn says its all about the evidence.  TV cop dramas are absurd on every level, but on the subject of lost or destroyed evidence, they may actually undersell how pervasive it is. It happens all. the. time.  They advise keeping a detailed paper trail.  Make copies. Record whatever you&#39;re allowed to (and take time to understand the laws yourself to know just what your rights are in this respect). Make sure there is SOME record of any evidence you&#39;ve given police, whenever it&#39;s at all safe or appropriate to do so, as long as it doesn&#39;t compromise the integrity of the evidence itself.   10. Bak1984 proves that people will do anything for Wi-Fi.  At our hotel we had free basic WiFi. If the guest wanted faster Wi-Fi they could pay a small fee and be able to access our special &quot;deluxe&quot; Wi-Fi. There was no difference. It was all the same speed.       11. UpsettingPornography dishes out some info that cannabis lovers may find upsetting.  An unfortunately high percentage of cannabis that makes it to the point of sale in both the medical and recreational industry has significant traces of mold and pesticides (some even banned by the state). Some of this is from my personal experience, but some cases have been looked at by journalists.   12. Vladmech reiterates what IT employees always first suggest: turning it off and back on is the magic solution to many tech problems.  Many IT issues really can be solved with &#39;have you tried turning it off and back on again?&#39;  People constantly joke about this but easily a third of our tickets wouldn&#39;t need assistance if people would just try this before calling in. Or hey, call in and lie about it, Nancy, because I can easily check uptime and see your computer&#39;s been on for 23 days and that&#39;s just Jon security for me.   13. CapnJuicebox has thoughts on getting extra cheese on your pizza.  If you order a cheese pizza with nothing else, it always comes with extra cheese. If you order extra cheese you will be charged for it, but get the same pizza. Most pizza places use a conveyer oven and the pizza will burn without the extra cheese. This does not apply to higher end brick oven places.   14. And finally, Taywho has a nugget of wisdom that you should use to kill the vibes next time you attend a bachelor party.  The pole spins, not the stripper!        

After a Reddit user posed a question regarding secrets in different job industries, Twitter delivered with supreme honesty.