Industry Insiders Share Their Juiciest Post NDA Secret

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Industry Insiders Share Their Juiciest Post NDA Secret

All the best secrets these employees were previously legally bound to keep.

Published 8 months ago in Wtf

Business is all about making money, and some will go to extreme lengths while placing profit over all else.

To protect themselves against the PR backlash that brings, many companies force their employees to sign NDAs, limiting the spread of potentially harmful information.

But NDAs can expire, and these former industry insiders took to Ask Reddit and shared all the juicy secrets they were previously legally bound to keep.

From Walmart to Herbalife, here is what lay behind 20 expired NDAs.

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I've seen an early cut of “John Wick 2” where all of the animal handlers are running around on screen in green spandex bodysuits. Running alongside the horses, carrying leads for the dogs, etc. Just all of these people who are invisible to the actors and the rest of their world.

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I worked for a hotel that had no internet connection starting around 1 am to 6 am. Like clockwork, every night. Idk if it was just a system fault or if it was cost cutting. But without internet, the security cameras didn't work or record anything. The fire alarm system didn’t work either. So if we had a fire that started at 3 am for example, unless someone else driving by called it in, I have no idea what would have happened.

One night we had an assault in the parking lot. The police needed camera evidence and our cameras didn't record anything because the internet was out. So that was fun explaining to the detectives.

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The private school I worked for was for students identified with giftedness..The owner of the school administered the giftedness test. Can you pay the tuition? You're gifted! Can your sibling pay? Them too! Your cousin? Neighbour? Kid you know across town? You're all gifted!

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Intel Corporation used to go around to colleges and hold programming contests, and to the winner they'd give a mid-grade laptop and a gaudy trophy. Back at corporate, some of these winning code bases would get tens of millions of dollars poured into them in attempts to get them to product release.

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Walmart corporate office puts a screensaver on all their workers' computers with a message urging them to donate to an emergency fund for their FT or near-FT warehouse and retail workers… instead of giving them healthcare or PTO. Walmart retail and warehouse workers are kept just below FT so they can't get benefits, and the vast majority receive government benefits. Your taxes are subsidizing millions in benefits for the richest company in America so the richest CEO in America is richer.

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I worked for a company that made DJ equipment, turntables etc. They put a metal plate in their cheaply made turntables so they were the same weight as Technics when in reality they were plastic garbage.

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I worked at a cancer charity and half the people would order things for themselves and charge it to the charity. An eye-opening job for a 16 year old.

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At my old job, Pam helped me reallocate my client’s ad scheduling so I could invoice out a little extra for the last month of December 2014, helping me hit my yearly budget. I got let go two weeks after that and I believe the original plan was to fire me under the justification of missing my yearly budget. Instead I got a severance of $15,000. I believe Pam knew or heard what the lay of the land was and helped me out. Appreciate you, Pam!

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Whole Foods corporate has a form of “suggestions” inbox. Apparently it was very well received, but turns out there is no one monitoring it. Placebo effect I guess.

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Fortune 500, Real Estate, a long time ago:

”We know about the black mold problem. We always knew. We do not disclose it. We intentionally do not look into it. We don't want to know exactly what kind it is, because if it's dangerous then we legally have to spend money to fix it. The only department that is allowed to talk about the black mold problem is Press and PR because only they know how to bury it correctly.”

That was not a great work culture.

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Hasbro has tried to make the following two films:

Stretch Armstrong - a gritty re-imaging starring Taylor Lautner with a "Nolan's Batman" feel.

CandyLand - A LOTRs style epic for children starring Adam Sandler.

Both got pitch packets made before ultimately being shelved. Last I heard the Candyland idea is still kind of alive.

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Was never bound to an NDA somehow, but sat in to oversee the technical aspects of Herbalife meetings. We’re talking meetings with the highest level sellers and their board. They spoke about how to manipulate low income and “unintelligent” people, to make them millions of dollars. How to teach others to scam others to make them more money.

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I worked at a startup that tracked employee happiness, supposedly so they can make employees happier, but in practice it seemed they were preemptively getting rid of unhappy employees. No need to wait for them to quit.