Juicy Corporate Secrets Spilled By Industry Insiders

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Juicy Corporate Secrets Spilled By Industry Insiders

Sometimes knowledge can be a curse but today knowledge is your best friend, that is if you're planning on ordering guacamole at TGI Fridays any time soon.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 8 months ago in Ftw

It can be easy to feel like everyone else knows something you don't. Usually, this goes away with age once you learn most adults are just winging it, but there are certain truths to life people only learn once they've experienced them firsthand.

Now, we aren't leaking any nuclear codes here (I think that's illegal), but we are dishing on the secrets Walmart cashiers, TGI Fridays cooks, and television producers are privy to. If you didn't know by now, Judge Judy is a reality show and not a real courtroom.

Sometimes knowledge can be a curse but today knowledge is your best friend, that is if you're planning on ordering guacamole at TGI Fridays any time soon.

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As a former Walmart cashier, a lot of people were surprised when I told them that we were given a 2 minute time limit per customer .

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A lot of bands, I mean a LOT (including your favorite) use prerecorded tracks in their live show. Even ones you would never think. In fact, I would say MOST do today to some degree.

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Whenever you fill out a survey like "how did you like our website today", most of the time an *actual human* does read your response, and it doesn't disappear into a black hole

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I work at Waffle House & im a vegetarian so there’s not much I eat there. Money is taken out of my check for food. It doesn’t matter if I eat or not they’re still gonna take it out. Doesn’t matter how much or little it’s still taken out. The price varies on how many hours you worked that day I think.

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The software industry is in shambles. I don't know when it happened, but certainly before 2007. Either it's been like that forever or happened before that year.

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That if you are asked to rate someone's customer service (eg your bank lender, salesperson etc) out of 10, anything less than a 9 in some places may as well be a zero.

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As an electrician, I'm amazed more houses don't burn down every day. I do my best, but many others just work as fast as they can and leave behind shoddy work that (sometimes literally) falls apart when you touch it.

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99% of web traffic to a client’s commercial that they upload to YouTube is fake.That 1,000,000 views within the first few days for that new Bud Light commercial? Most are BoTs paid for by the ad agency that made the commercial.

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I work in IT security, for a vendor. I am constantly surprised by how terrible so many organizations’ security practices are. There’s outdated equipment, no accountability, and most of it is run on Excel.

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The use of microwaves in mid-range restaurants. I knew it was common in fast food, but seeing all the hot sides in a steakhouse with $50 entrees being cooked in a microwave was a little jarring.

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A lot of aisles in grocery stores are sponsored. The soda aisle for example, the store didn't buy that merchandise, it's stocked by a vendor.

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Lots of musicians buy their records in bulk. 500k units sold is almost platinum, then they turn around and sell it back to distributors.

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The guacamole that you eat at TGI Friday’s is a giant envelope of dry stuff, mixed with a 5 gallon bucket of sour cream. And it’s pretty freaking good.

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When I found out those Judge TV shows are just game shows and the show pays out the winnings. It's not really court, it's more of a game show at that point.Plus those shows fly you out and pay you $500 to be on them. So both sides get paid to be on them.

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Warranty work is purposely delayed.Lets say you have a product that has a manufacturing defect and is covered by warranty. Companies accept the warranty repair work yet sit on ordering the actual part needed to affect the repair until financials support that part purchase. Often it's better to use money (or on hand parts) for new customers as that's more profitable than fixing their mistakes/error.Personally, I always thought supporting your existing customers was more important than getting new ones, but that's not how most businesses operate. It genuinely surprised me when I found out. I see it all the time in construction, manufacturing, and retail.

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I feel like it just surprised me in general once I entered the world of work to learn how disorganised things are behind the scenes, even at the biggest of companies. From the outside looking in it always looks super official and clean cut but really it’s just a lot of people behind the scenes fumbling around and not really knowing 100% what is going on.

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College Admissions here: we absolutely discriminate when we read applications, and your chances of getting in are not equal. Some of the ways are legal, some aren’t, but good luck proving any of it. Most selective options will let you know about the legal ways (in broad terms, not in specifics), but plenty goes on behind the scenes that won’t make it to the information session.

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A large majority of "loading screens" in commercial software and to a lesser extent games are fake. In the modern world most software tasks happen almost instantly, but older/less technical users assume if it was done quickly it wasn't done well, so artificial loading bars are put in to appease those people. Really common in all kinds of "corporate software" that older people are likely to use.

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Billboards promoting tv shows are not for the consumer but for the advertisers we want to sell time to.

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I don't know if it's a secret, but I remember hearing someone ask a doctor why they specifically say to "turn your head" before coughing, when assessing for a hernia.The doctor said there wasn't a medical reason, but "it's so you don't cough on me.".

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That financial institution don’t buy the stocks I give them money to buy on my behalf. They only say they do and that most institutions owe 65 billion in assets (each) called “Sold not yet purchased” where they owe that much in stocks to people but have zero obligation to really buy it. All together they owe trillions and the entire system is rigged.

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Ranch dressing is a lot of mayonnaise. The first time I made buttermilk ranch I was like, “Excuse me, the whole fugging jar?!” Buttermilk and spices, stir. I’ve been eating spiced up mayonnaise milk for 30 years.

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Optometry is a scammy business in the United States. Profit margins are enormous.

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A lot of IT hardware is metal on metal. Thermal paste is "too expensive". Your switches are ticking time bombs.

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Pharmaceutical reps who go around pitching the latest prescription to doctors.. yeah they will often stiff the doctors.

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All the milk in stores is produced by forcibly inseminating cows, then separating them from their young, repeatedly, until they stop producing enough milk, at which point they're killed despite having quite a few years left to live.Does it make ice cream taste any worse? No. But I definitely eat less of it now.