25 Industry Secrets Most People Don't Know

Ignorance is only bliss when what you're being ignorant about doesn't affect you personally. This is not the case with this collection of industry secrets.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 1 year ago in Ftw

Ignorance is only bliss when what you're being ignorant about doesn't affect you personally. This is not the case with this collection of industry secrets.

While some of these lesser-known facts are fun and insightful, some of them are going to leave you wishing you hadn't gone around digging up information you otherwise wouldn't know. Like, do you know how much animal "debris" is legally allowed to be present in food?

Well, if you don't, consider yourself lucky. And if you want to remain ignorant, here is your last chance to bow out.

1
Health and safety standards are not followed in most franchised fast food restaurants on a day to day basis.

2
China has stopped buying a lot of recycled plastic from the USA due to quality issues and a lot of it just gets stored in warehouses as landfill. The industry is spending money on PR to avoid this being public knowledge.

3
If you want to remain sane never look up how much insect and rodent debris is allowed by the food safety authorities in your area. It’s always a lot more than you would imagine and can never be stopped completely.
4
The US Military is the most wasteful organization in the United States.

5
If your baby goes to a nursery/daycare, chances are those weren't their "first" steps/words etc that you witnessed. Industry standard is to not tell parents when these things happen as it makes them feel bad. I've seen kids up and walking about the room for weeks, even months before their parent proudly announced at drop off that they "Took their first steps last night".
6
As an educator, we are not indoctrinating your children. If we were, they would arrive to class on time and get their work done.
7
If you have already googled your problem, you have already exceeded the first two tiers of tech support.

8
I work in education. We are way behind the ball with student issues, and are just flying by the seat of our pants so to speak. We are in crisis, and most parents simply want to drop their kids off and hope they have a normal experience. None of this is normal. You need to start having conversations with your kids about mental health and social media. If not…woof. Our society is not in good shape.
9
Worked in online community management and social media for years - Admins CAN read all of your PMs. Private only means private from the masses, not from administration, we had to be able to read them to check reports of abuse, grooming, illegal activity etc. I can't tell you how much cringeworthy s**t I had to read through, especially from guys trying to hook up.
10
The New York Times best seller list has a lot of people on it who buy massive numbers of their own books.

11
When we tell you it isn't "in the back" we mean it.
12
The news about Boeing is not a surprise to me at all.The amount of resources that they are able to delegate in an effort to deter whistleblowers is unfathomable to the average American/EU citizen.
13
If you’re nice to hotel staff they are more likely to give you free s**t

14
Teaching. Yep, teachers gossip about the kids, and each other, and everything. There is always so much drama going on at any given moment.
15
Some appetizers are the most labor intense items on the menu to make, for example: dumplings takes one worker about an hour to make 12-15 orders.If you want to know where I'm getting at, if a restaurant offers a plethora of appetizers options then there's a high chance a lot of them are store bought and resold because there's no feasible way to prepare several orders for each item on the menu.
16
In Australia, additional warranties are a rip off. If a device or product can be reasonably expected to last five years without defect then it can be held to that under warranty. Companies are f****d.

17
Almost nobody maintains their sobriety from their first go in rehab. It's takes several goes. On the plus side there's absolutely no need to be hard on yourself for returning to rehab as its nigh on impossible to achieve this on your first go.
18
Most—probably 80 percent or more—of the books on the nonfiction bestseller list (autobiographies, memoirs, political/business books, etc.) are ghostwritten.
19
On the Texas house floor, people push the buttons to vote for members who aren't even present that day. This happens multiple times, on every single thing they vote for.

20
If you find an extra nugget in your order, it wasn't a mistake. You got a cool employee.
21
Previous industry.US hospitals casually refer to other hospitals as their 'competitors'.Noped out of that world as soon as I could.
22
94% of successful consulting is making s**t up that people want to hear. However I think it’s unethical to not present good data and systematic research before providing recommendations. You can couch honest conclusions in your findings but ultimately, other than out of legal or financial obligation, they’re gonna do what they want to do.

23
Worked with a lot of banks and their It systems.You wouldn’t believe how old and fragile they are. It’s a wonder it’s not all coming crashing down.
24
Your lobster tail at Outback is microwaved.
25
That guy you pay to come out and fix your computer, most of the time, just googles your problem to find the solution.