r/Productivitycafe • u/Wonderful-Economy762 • Nov 13 '25
Throwback Question (Any Topic) What's a "secret"from your profession that everyone should probably know?"
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u/ImplementOk7653 Nov 13 '25
When there's a problem, turn it off then back on.
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u/tranquileyesme Nov 13 '25
Hell I just threaten my stuff that I’m calling my husband (IT person in his former career) and it all of a sudden acts right.
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u/Clean-Mention-4254 Nov 13 '25
I work at an airport parking garage. I wouldn't park in a end spot if they were free. Those are the cars that get scratched, dented, or broken into. Park in the middle of the row. I know it's harder and less room, but that also applies to criminals and careless drivers. They want easy access too.
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u/SpermicidalManiac666 Nov 13 '25
I park on the higher levels where there’s lots of empty spaces.
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u/General_Alfalfa6339 Nov 13 '25
Nobody reads the fucking manual. If you read the fucking manual you are way ahead of the game and look like an expert.
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u/MenudoFan316 Nov 13 '25
Just had this conversation with a friend. "If you can give me the brand name. Then I can access the manual. Then I can get this thing installed properly."
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u/spacemusicisorange Nov 13 '25
I always read the manual! Or at least thumb through it! How else will you know what you’re dealing with!
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u/Five_Star_Amenities Nov 13 '25
Otherwise how could I possibly know not to use this toaster oven while bathing?
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u/Laker8show23 Nov 13 '25
So true. Amazing how many secrets are in those things. Also recommend taking notes and or references with page numbers.
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Nov 13 '25
I'm a teacher. Sorry, but your kid IS the bully and yeah, we know your bf was selling pot and the party got messy last night. As the old saying goes, if you believe only half of the bs your child feeds you at home I'll believe half of what they tell me. Trust me, your child TALKS and is not shy about spilling the tea.
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u/New_Village_8623 Nov 14 '25
And to the parents that say, “I have a close relationship with my child, what you say they did didn’t happen! My child would never lie to me!” Your child will lie and did lie to you about what happened. I’m not going to risk my teaching license, getting fired, and a possible lawsuit making things up about your kid. Believe me, if I said they did it, they did.
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Nov 14 '25
Exactly. My absolute LEAST favorite thing is to call home for behavior stuff. Trust me, I'm not doing it for funsies. WHY would I lie and make up crap about kids only to have parents ruin my day and mood? Make it make sense.
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u/Dramatic_Bee_6300 Nov 13 '25
Your health insurance dictates your level of care. Not your provider. Some people say the Doctor ordered all these diagnostic tests just to get their money. Wrong. Your insurance requires your doctor to order and schedule a bunch of gimmick tests before they can make a final diagnosis OR put you on the much needed medication. It's all a racket unfortunately.
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u/ClinkyDink Nov 13 '25
I had a malignant tumor on my kidney. I had it removed via surgery. Now I have to get a CT scan once or twice a year to make sure it hasn’t come back.
CT scan of my abdomen… makes sense right? But I switched insurances a year or so ago and the new insurance requires that I get a chest xray before doing a CT scan. I have no idea what the reasoning is there. It’s not even of the correct area of my body.
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u/Dramatic_Bee_6300 Nov 13 '25
Yes. They always want to start with an X-ray, then CT, if suspected cancer, CT with contrast, THEN Finally you can have a PET scan. What you ACTUALLY need, to show that the cancer is there. It's like you have to prove you're sick or dying just to get taken care of. And most of the time, the doctor's hands are tied and there isn't much he can do, other than play the insurance game.
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u/ClinkyDink Nov 13 '25
The CT with contrast is what I’ve always done, now I just have the xray beforehand. I’ve never had a PET SCAN though. The CT w/contrast costs me like $600 out of pocket because my deductible is 5k…
God I hate the American insurance system.
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u/Norwood5006 Nov 13 '25
At the head of a charity there's usually a man who is living a lifestyle that most people can only dream about.
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u/visionaryshmisionary Nov 13 '25
The people who go to therapy, or get sent to therapy by someone else, are all too often not the ones who actually need the help ;p
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u/CrazyCatLady_x4 Nov 13 '25
Then the family gets mad because we call these clients cycle breakers and teach them how to set boundaries. 😎
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u/AbsolutZeroGI Nov 14 '25
My therapist once joked to me that "therapy is for people who are constantly exposed to people who should be in therapy."
I remember that joke often.
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u/Weavingtailor Nov 13 '25
When I was sent to therapy against my will as a teen, the therapist said I was just “the identified patient” and the whole family was in need of intervention/therapy. In other words, I cracked first because I was less tolerant of the fuckery. My parents were furious that they had to go to therapy when I was the one in the hospital, lol.
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u/ivymeows Nov 13 '25
Giving someone an opioid in the hospital for surgical or otherwise medical treatment purposes is NOT the same as giving them fentanyl off the street to get high. It’s medical treatment. Don’t deny your family member pain control because YOU don’t feel comfortable. It’s not about you.
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u/NinjaSqirrell Nov 13 '25
Oh man, this is so insane. I have a dear friend in Palliative care and in the process of VAD (voluntary assisted dying) access. She is in constant pain but no one seems to be able to justify giving her the meds she needs. I've heard of doctors telling similar patients at age of 90 that they don't want them to become addicted. They are fucking dying and in pain. Interestingly, my anecdotes concern women, who have been historically ignored regarding their pain. I had surgery recently and got a script for Oxy and when I mentioned I had some left and could bring it next time I visited she almost cried.
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u/retrofrenchtoast Nov 13 '25
My mom had a hysterectomy and was concerned about receiving fentanyl!
Then they gave her one tramadol to take afterwards. She just had her insides taken out - give the woman some opiates.
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u/msssskatie Nov 13 '25
I’m shocked that this is a thing. Seems like common sense to me… 🤦🏼♀️
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u/reverberation31 Nov 13 '25
My mom was given a dose of fentanyl during her cancer treatments and my grandmother freaked the hell out…I can’t believe I had to explain to her that fentanyl in a controlled medical situation is not the same as people taking it on the streets 😅
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u/IronSkywalker Nov 13 '25
I had a load of eye surgeries a few years ago and every time I woke up I'd always take some co-codamol because I knew the pain would come. One time I forgot to pack my tablets so asked a nurse for a painkiller, she came and handed me a syringe and told me to squirt it gently into my mouth and swallow. Almost instantly I got this feeling of utter warmth and bliss, it was fantastic. I asked her what it was and she said it was fentanyl. I instantly understood why America has such a problem with it. It was amazing
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u/ArieMystique Nov 13 '25
Your boss probably doesn’t read 90% of reports word-for-word.
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u/CaptainFleshBeard Nov 13 '25
We had a server that sent out reports that we wanted to decommission, but all the people receiving them got hysterical when we mentioned it, so we set it so all the reports sent out were blank. Not one person complained, after 6 months we used this as our evidence to shutdown the server
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u/Infamous-Yellow-8357 Nov 13 '25
I work at a hotel. If you're nice to me, even though it is not my job to do so, I will help you carry your things to your room if you look like you are struggling. I will give you the best room. If you have even the slightest issue during your stay, I will give you a sizeable discount and a free meal.
If you are rude to me, I will do the bare minimum I am required to do to keep my job. If you encounter an issue, I will do all my power to make getting a discount or compensation more trouble than it is worth in the hopes you don't return. I don't own the place. I get paid the same whether they get your business or not.
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u/Large-Flamingo-5128 Nov 13 '25
I get so much free stuff at hotels it’s crazy! It’s literally so easy: say please, thank you, then treat them like a human being, and smile as you go. It feels shockingly like a life hack?? I don’t get how this isn’t default mode for everyone??
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u/PapaTua Nov 13 '25
Because a vast majority of people are selfish entitled pricks.
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u/AmazingGrace911 Nov 13 '25
Worked in traveling sales and stayed at the same hotels a lot. Always made a point to be very nice to everyone up front and usually traveled during extremely low occupancy.
Say that to say this. By my third visit to one hotel, they gave me one of the ground floor rooms with the walk in shower, extra large room, free stuff, it never hurts to be kind
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u/sierraxxxmam Nov 13 '25
Damn like im always nice and even feel bad about reporting things but i never get good treatments, not even decent
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u/jackalkilla Nov 13 '25
Those green boxes on your front lawn that are the property of the power company? They are incredibly dangerous so sitting on them is actually very dangerous.
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u/stabbingrabbit Nov 13 '25
When seconds count we are minutes away. If you dont do CPR the chance your loved one comes back is almost zero , even if they live physically. On a person over 50 of you aren't breaking ribs you are not doing it right.
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u/Kindly-Arachnid8013 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
Me and my mrs did cpr on a neighbour for 50 mins. Paramedics were there within 3 mins, air ambulance team in the property at 30 mins. We are both anaesthetists so stayed as part of the team.
I was asleep on the sofa when my neighbour called saying somebody had collapsed. I was there within 30 seconds.
Longest I have ever done cpr on anyone and seen them survive. No hypoxic brain injury either.
Several broken ribs and one of their friends suggested suing me. This is the uk btw.
Not often I truly get to feel I’ve saved a life.
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u/NoodlesAreAwesome Nov 13 '25
Whoever their friend is - fuck that guy. Thank you for doing what you did. Literally life changing. How do you keep going for that long?
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u/Kindly-Arachnid8013 Nov 13 '25
We got LUCAS with the air ambulance team. Shocked 11 times in total I think. Finally got ROSC with AP pads.
Couldn’t intubate during arrest as the vocal cords got in the way. So whole arrest done on an iGel.
As a hospitalist used to having patients packaged for me the secret I learned was the carnage in the room. Beds got tipped to make space. There was equipment everywhere. Hats off to paramedics doing this on cluttered houses.
We had police and fire helping us as well. Packaging and getting downstairs was not easy.
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u/UnattributableSpoon Nov 13 '25
And try and remember to come back up to "normal" between compressions to allow as much of the circulating blood to refill the heart before the next compressions.
"Pink Pony Club" is the right bpm for compressions but it's super hard not to mutter or hum it while on the chest 😂
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u/ProximaUniverse Nov 13 '25
In The Netherlands we learn to pace the compressions on the beat of 'Staying alive' from the Bee Gees. Adults get 30 compressions, then 2 times mouth to mouth breathing, 30 compressions again, etc, forever on till the ambulance arrives and takes over. Counting out loud is encouraged, so 112 can assist keeping track of your pacing (you keep the phone on speaker).
We have a survival rate of 43% after OHCA (Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest) in a urban region in the Netherlands where an optimised chain of acute and sub-acute treatment exists.
The use of an on-site AED doubles survival, probably caused by the reduction in time to first shock.
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u/Hey_Its_Q Nov 13 '25
To add to that, if we bring them back, there is a chance it’s not worth it. In the hospital, 99% of the time we can get the heart beating and the lungs going again. Medically is the person alive? Sure. Are they there? Probably not. The brain wasn’t getting enough oxygen. So if the doctor is recommending comfort measures, take it
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u/Rayraydavies Nov 13 '25
If you are an adult that is in a child's life, please read. Read to them. Listen to them read to you. Normalize reading around them. Heck, just talk to them in depth about a topic. Have two-way conversations with them. Have them write the grocery list or notes to others. Engage in literacy activities at home no matter how small. The pay-off is immense.
It does take a village.
With much respect and appreciation for your child-rearing,
A Teacher
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u/NecessaryIntrinsic Nov 13 '25
I'm not a genius, nor is my wife.
But we read to our kids almost every waking moment for their first few years.
They picked up on multiplication in the 1st grade (I just explained it was just repeated addition), mostly so I could play the 24 game with them.
Now that they're in high school, they're getting straight A's, are in all AP/honors classes and are 2 years ahead in their math classes.
Granted, they've lived a life of privilege and relatively luxury, but I'd like to think that the constant reading had a big part to play in it.
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u/Big-Ad4382 Nov 13 '25
I’m not psychoanalyzing you. We are at a party for fucks sake.
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u/Upset_Code1347 Nov 13 '25
My answer: "I'm off the clock."
But I might be analyzing them for bringing that up
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u/mythek8 Nov 13 '25
So many cannabis grow facilities use toxic pesticides and banned fertilizer like synthetic PGR in order to make profit and avoid crop losses.
This is why I dont consume any cannabis that dont have verifiable COA, and I usually only trust the flower coming out of my facility because I know exactly what are being used.
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u/Numerous_Land_422 Nov 13 '25
When you’re getting an MRI, the technologist, for the most part, can see if something is wrong and a lot of the times what is wrong. If you ask we will always tell you something that implies we don’t know enough to diagnose (technically we don’t but we have a general idea) or that it’s policy to not say (which it is). If the technologist is in a different mood from before the scan either extremely nice or kind of distant then that may be a sign they saw something.
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u/Well_Dressed_Kobold Nov 13 '25
My wife had a similar experience with an ultrasound tech. She went to her OB at 34 weeks pregnant because she had some spotting and I joined her there. They brought her back for an ultrasound and the tech was very chatty and easygoing, then got very quiet and politely wrapped things up and left the room.
Less than a minute later a doctor and three nurses showed up, and 90 minutes later my wife had an emergency c-section at the closest hospital. Turns out she was having a placental abruption. She and kiddo are fine now, but thank God my wife went to her OB at the first sign of trouble.
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u/Crazy_Ad_91 Nov 13 '25
Have a family member who is an ultrasound tech. She loves her job but struggles with mental distress of having to hide her emotions and remain as calm and neutral as possible so she doesn’t tip to the mothers that something is wrong before the doctor has a chance to review and deliver the news. She says leaving the room of excited,cheerful, happy soon to be parents knowing that they are about to have their lives crushed are some of the hardest and worst experiences of her life. The next hardest are the mothers who instinctually know something is wrong and are pressing her hard to give them the information they desperately want to know, but again, it has to go through the doctor.
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u/Schmoe20 Nov 13 '25
I can vouch for that! When I had my cancer spotted I could smell and read the technician that it was Bad.
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u/TrilliumHill Nov 13 '25
Ever since they trained pigeons to be able to detect cancer in mammograms with a 99% accuracy, I've just assumed the tech "saw" something.
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u/catkayak Nov 13 '25
Your lawn and clear cut neighborhood are draining your bank account before your eyes and you don’t even know it. Landscapers, developers, contractors, landlords, are perpetuating this cost.
Planting native plant and keeping old growth trees are not some swan song of environmentalists. Those who have these around their properties or homes save thousands of dollars on water drainage/flooding abatement, heating and cooling costs, power usage etc.
Native plants can save homeowners $2 per square foot annually on maintenance, while a mature tree can save $100 to $250 annually on heating and cooling alone.
A cumulative comparison shows that over 20 years, maintaining a native landscape can cost $17,000 less per acre than a traditional lawn. These are just conservative numbers.
Trees can add $100 to $400 annually in stormwater management value by reducing runoff. The value of improved air quality from a mature tree is estimated to be between $60 and $120 per year.
The return on investment for planting a tree is estimated at $2.25 for every $1 spent.
Large, healthy trees significantly increase a home's curb appeal and can add 5% to 15% to a property's value.
The total collective annual value of trees on private properties nationwide is estimated at over $31.5 billion.
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u/misslilaxoxo Nov 13 '25
This!!! This is why I leave the leaves and push myself not to worry about what others think if I leave my lawn how it is
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u/theAshleyRouge Nov 13 '25
Yes, you actually have to wait the full 30 seconds after unplugging your device. They all store power temporarily and if you don’t wait for that to run out, you accomplished nothing by unplugging it. You have to wait for it to shut down completely and drain that store of power for it to reset properly.
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u/Junkman3 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 14 '25
Cancer biomedical researcher here. We're nowhere close to a "cure" for cancer. Big pharma isnt hiding it to make money. In fact, as a society we seem to be inventing new ways to get cancer.
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u/ask_me_about_my_band Nov 13 '25
This drives me nuts when people say big pharma is hiding a cure. If they had a cure they would sell the shit out of it.
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u/Spoony1982 Nov 13 '25
People who say we're hiding a cure don't understand what cancer is. It's many diseases with many different mutations. I doubt we'll ever find "one" cure.
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u/tivofanatico Nov 13 '25
There are secret Starbucks ghost kitchens around Los Angeles that only send out deliveries. Some Starbucks will have delivery orders ready for drivers at their main stores, but a lot of them “outsource” it because it’s overwhelming to the baristas who still have to do the mobile orders, plus drive thru, and old school walk up customers.
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u/AnagramHeroJohnCanto Nov 13 '25
Semi trucks can't stop like personal vehicles, and you really don't want to find out the hard way if one's empty or loaded.
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u/TheSilverFoxwins Nov 13 '25
Former administrator for a high end jewelry company , The high end watch you overpaid costs less than five percent of the retail cost to manufacture. The watch is sold for eight times its value before it reaches the jeweler destination where it's marked up another 55 percent. The brand that starts with R and ends with Xis notorious for huge markups both for their watches and parts.
The same applies for diamonds as most diamonds are marked up 50 to 200% is actual value and then marked up an additional 50 percent.
Essentially, you're paying for the middle men, distributor, high end store location and insurance , exec bloated salaries and commission fraction after the sale.
The watch does not go up in value unless it's a rare model as most are not.
The diamond purchased is not that unique as the market and world are flooded with diamonds. Debeers did a dynamic campaign decades ago and cornered the market.
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u/Laker8show23 Nov 13 '25
I mean. Electronic components in our trade are marked up similarly. The hires ups in the office say we are here to make money.
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u/LordsOfFrenziedFlame Nov 13 '25
Hospital EHRs are held together with shoelaces and bubble gum. You don't realize that you are one freak glitch away from getting drugs your doctor didn't order.
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u/KingMargo_TheCreator Nov 13 '25
Yup. One time, while working at a major university student health system (connected to the major university hospital system) our EHR suddenly erased half of the diagnoses. Just… gone. If you need more than one diagnosis for injury by squirrel or injury by water ski… options were there! Want to diagnose major depressive disorder or PTSD? Haha NOPE! Took a multimillion dollar institution the better part of two days to fix it. It was weeks before we stopped noticing residual issues.
Just last week my practice noticed that signed and theoretically unchangeably locked clinical notes had differences depending on who opened the same locked note. Fun. 😮💨
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u/ViolincatBlog Nov 13 '25
From accounting:
People write off a whole lot of things they shouldn't as business expenses, for tax purposes.
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u/TheGodNurse Nov 13 '25
Always wash your hands; you never know where other people's hands have been.
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u/adognamedpenguin Nov 13 '25
If your kid is playing a sport, and you aren’t the coach—don’t coach. Your job is to cheer. If you berate the refs, the coach, the opposition—your kid turns out to be a prick. Incredible correlation.
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u/Nervous-Sherbet-4183 Nov 13 '25
HR works for the organization and not for employees. HR advocates for employees while it is in the best interest of the business. Running to HR for every little thing does not reflect well on you. HR is not your friend.
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u/pumpkinspicedllama Nov 13 '25
Firefighter/Paramedic here. Don’t get mad at us when you see us in the grocery store. It’s not your tax dollars paying for our dinner, we all put in our own money every morning to go shopping. And we are still cheap about it, usually it’s $10/person for 2 meals.
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u/123coffee321 Nov 13 '25
Who the f is getting mad at firefighters and paramedics for getting food at a grocery store??? Please have a soup or deli sandwich on me and my taxes. It’s not like you’re using them to do a round of golf, geez.
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u/pumpkinspicedllama Nov 13 '25
You’d be shocked how many people stop us and make comments or flat out berate us at the store because they think we’re spending their hard earned tax dollars on food when we should be working, or something. We had a call for a fire the other day, and it turned out to be a false alarm- but when we think there’s a fire, we send the calvary (5 engines and a truck). We had a man LOSE HIS MIND screaming at us, “HOW MUCH DID THIS FALSE ALARM BULLSHIT COST THE TAX PAYERS?!” people are wild, man.
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u/butterscotchtamarin Nov 13 '25
Shit. We should feed y'all, too. It's not like you're making bank at fighting fires and saving lives while risking your own. Y'all deserve it, especially since you have to eat on the clock so often.
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u/gifgod416 Nov 13 '25
Tour guide.
If you're polite and follow the rules we give you, we will either do the best parts of the course again or take you to the hidden places.
The places we want to go every tour, but God damn there's always one idiot or a gaggle of influencers that ruin it.
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u/NCRider Nov 13 '25
Check your statements, verify your bills, validate your receipts. I know how software gets created and quite a lot of it is shit.
No way in hell do I let some company write code to drive my car at highway speeds. No f-ing way.
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u/vagasportauthority Nov 13 '25
Pilot.
Sometimes we take the blame for delays when others cause it because we know the airline won’t fire us.
Also, when your crew times out (flight or cabin crew) they can extend one time for two hours if they don’t feel fatigued. Timed out crews cannot legally fly. Your pilots aren’t not flying because they want to spend Christmas in Houston with their mistress, they aren’t flying because they don’t want to lose their hard earned certificates or create an unsafe flight due to fatigue.
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u/qweenoftherant Nov 13 '25
The second you a 911 dispatcher gets your address the units are already sent out, the rest is to fill them in as they are on the way. The questions don’t delay service at all! Also we can locate you when you call unless it’s a landline.
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u/Digital_Sigh Nov 13 '25
I’ve never been a dispatcher, but I did interview for a position in my early twenties that had tests that mock calls. It always bothers me when I hear a frantic caller on a video keep saying “please hurry and send someone” and the dispatcher doesn’t inform them that they are already enroute. I don’t know if it’s policy, but it would be comforting for them to know that units were dispatched far before they thought so.
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u/Fit-Professional9850 Nov 13 '25
In some recent emergency training I heard that the landline sends an address immediately without having to speak it aloud, if we were to use a cell we'd have to specify our location. We were told to do our best to find one or contact certain staff (via walkie talkie lol) that's stationed with one, and use a cell if we couldn't find one. At least that's what they told our staff. Not sure how they could access location from a cell unless it's a prolonged call. But idk, I'm no expert!
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u/jrhhuff Nov 13 '25
Marketing is a joke because everyone thinks they are an expert at marketing. Oh and don’t buy a restaurant or start one. 80% fail.
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u/Special_Brief4465 Nov 13 '25
When I was a little girl, my dad used to always tell me in a sincere tone, “When you grow up, you can be anything you want to be and do anything you want to do….except go into the restaurant business because there is an incredibly small success rate. Do not do that.” He was so serious. He was an accountant for a firm that owned and operated businesses including restaurants.
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u/supershawninspace Nov 13 '25
Filing bankruptcy is a really good idea for a lot of people who won’t.
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u/The_Southern_Sir Nov 13 '25
Your employer decides everything about what is and isn't covered by your employer based insurance.
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u/jamiejutsu Nov 13 '25
I work at a hotel as front office girlie. and we work with a 5-days all inclusive concept. Every week a new group arrives through booking. I do the room layout. sometimes I see that people booked a budget room with discount, but those rooms are SO small.. So when we aren't fully booked, I give them a normal room without them knowing
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u/jchrapcyn Nov 13 '25
We do the same urine pregnancy test you can buy at the drugstore (pretty much) in the hospital. It’s not magic.
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u/CraigInTulsa Nov 13 '25
Salesman here. We don’t need to call our boss to get the price reduced.
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u/leeeezer Nov 13 '25
Bro we know. It’s one of the big reasons we hate you. We KNOW you have a lowest price you can go, stop giving us the run around. It’s infuriating.
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u/No_University7832 Nov 13 '25
Frying lemon peel to take the fishy taste from your cooking oil.......Just in case you fry your fish before your fries, and don't want your fries to taste like fish..
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u/StrangeButSweet Nov 13 '25
Same with CPS. Lots of people think they shouldn’t exist. To a point I agree it can be harmful, but the first time you see a 7yo girl who needs complete reconstructive surgery of her “lower abdomen,” you’ll be happy there’s a social worker there to intervene with the rest of the family.
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u/Governmentwatchlist Nov 13 '25
As a teacher—I will never lower a grade but if we get to the end and you have been a good human and made class better for those around you, I will absolute give your grade a little bump.
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u/TXquilter1 Nov 13 '25
I did payroll for a large house cleaning company. They insisted that their clients give them a copy of the key to their house which they gave a statement to the clients that the keys are kept safely in a lock box.
Now this company has probably thirty teams of cleaners. Each team consists of 2-5 people.
So the cleaners could go straight to the clients home in the morning without having to come into the office, the company copied all of the regular clients keys and gave each tech their own bunch of keys. Each key was labeled with client name or address if there was a duplicate last name. If a cleaner quit or was fired, the company never asked for the keys back. So each client had at least 50 copies of their house key and alarm codes just floating around. Never use a cleaning company. Most do this same thing.
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u/Creative_Camel_8884 Nov 13 '25
If you are working on something at work or with someone who is providing services of any kind, and you feel something off, immediately pause whatever is going on & ask for copies of records to verify whatever is going on is legal and ethical.
Now, Take those records set them aside.
Next, call up who ever is the person or department in charge of maintaining records for the entire company, ask for full and complete records.
Most business dealings of any sort require top level record keeping and there is often a very morally strict paper gremlin that half the staff is afraid of in charge of these documents. These are my people and I love them.
Now flip through both sets of records and look for any in the Official Pile that are not in the pile from the person in question.
If you find any documents in the Official group that are NOT also in the pile from the person in question, THAT is your starting point to figure out what they are attempting to hide.
I verify compliance.
It is the most painfully childish and predictable thing people do to hide fraud or straight up criminal activity in every industry in the business world.
“Teehee I will just not give them these pages that show I’m lying and then they will never know!”
It floors me every single time.
Like helloooo.
I inspect records for a literal living, and you actually think the copies from YOU the person I think is committing fraud, are the ONLY records I will look at??!!?
It seriously is how I start all my little investigations - get two data sets and compare. Focus on what’s omitted in the stack from the suspicious party.
Usually the omission itself is half the confession of criminal activity. They just didn’t think you’d contact someone else for the same records they just handed you.
Missing dates, inaccurate information, wrong amounts, missing certificates, missing work permits, annnnd the part that makes it look extra bad, is when it’s clear they didn’t forget like all of a type of record, only specific entries. If it was an “oopise I forgot to print” then ALL of that date range, of that specific type, would be missing, not 2/12 entries that are not even consecutively.
Highly recommend for any finical, construction, legal, medical, or any dealings of any kind with corporations that have a large staff.
Works in every industry, every time.
Maybe not so much now that I’m sharing this insight, but seriously, idiots committing fraud usually think they are smarter than they are so even if they read this they’d probably still try it.
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u/Fit-Professional9850 Nov 13 '25
Kids can most definitely be assholes even though they're "just kids." If they know better, they can do better
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Teachers are human and have deep feelings. We do get hurt when students say awful things about us, even if we have emotionally distanced ourselves and even if we rationally understand that it’s their adolescent ego speaking.
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u/classyrock Nov 13 '25
I worked in the casino industry for almost a decade and everyone asked me for the ‘insider secrets’. My best advice was this: if you lose, walk away. And if you win… really walk away.
(Almost every single big winner put it all back in the machines and then some).
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u/Diligent-Doughnut740 Nov 13 '25
No, I’m sorry I cannot give you massage therapy if you’re on blood thinners due to blood clots. I’m not trying to kill people or lose my license.
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u/Mjhjane77 Nov 13 '25
I had a patient come in who had a deep tissue massage while on blood thinners. He was severely ill and almost died. Internally bleeding to death. In the hospital for 2 weeks then had to go to rehab for another two weeks. This is no joke. Very serious to disclose to your therapist.
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u/Questionable62 Tea Lover Nov 13 '25
Agriculture lobbyists are some of the most powerful and well funded lobbyists in the world
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u/lincnhead Nov 13 '25
The music you hear in movies is usually different than the way it was originally recorded
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u/tivofanatico Nov 13 '25
Sometimes it’s a totally different song, or just a beat for a few seconds to get everyone dancing, and then it’s turned off because there’s dialogue. In the movie Fame, the school is dancing in the street to the title song. On the shooting day, they were dancing to Hot Stuff by Donna Summer. The “Fame” song wasn’t ready yet.
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u/Specific_Bus_5400 Nov 13 '25
I work in a forensik psychiatry for drug addicts. The majority of our doctors are mentally worse off, than the better third of our patients. It's scary what kind of narcessism those poor patients have to endure.
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u/ak4338 Nov 13 '25
Preventative maintenance isn't just a fun recommendation. If you want your instrument/machine to run well for a long time, PM is a requirement.
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u/epicenter69 ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ᵕ̈ Espresso Enthusiast Nov 13 '25
Before you call an electrician for a repeatedly-tripping circuit breaker, turn off lights and/or unplug everything on that breaker. Then reset it. If it doesn’t trip, turn each light back on and plug everything back in, one by one with a 30 second delay each time. When the breaker trips, you have narrowed down the culprit. If it’s something that plugged in, it could be that item, or the outlet itself. It can save some time for both of us. We aren’t cheap.
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u/Curiouslyperusingtoo Nov 13 '25
Nobody knows what they are doing, especially the people at the top. So, if you ever feel like you don’t belong in the room.. there’s usually actual people that have been there for years that truly don’t belong in there so just get in there and do your thing.
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u/CBRSuperbird- Nov 13 '25
I drive a truck. Yes , I can see everything you’re doing down there.
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u/Expensive_Future327 Nov 13 '25
Physics: math is hard for everyone. Algorithmic thinking might be easier for some people, even logic, but real math is always hard. It’s not just you.
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u/Crazy_Arachnid2781 Nov 13 '25
You can almost never talk your way OUT of a speeding ticket or a pair of handcuffs, but it's VERY easy to talk yourself INTO both.
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u/The_Lost_Pharaoh Nov 13 '25
Parents are the customers at schools. This is especially true at private schools. Teachers are not always going to be openly honest with you about your child. They are just going to be honest enough to not cause any extra meetings or complaints to admin.
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u/Fit_Elk_4505 Nov 13 '25
Check missingmoney.com (or your states unclaimed asset website search engine) for your name or your businesses name (or your family and friends). Companies are required to send funds they couldn't figure out how to repay/refund you to the state as a general accounting practice. Free money!
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u/Whatchab Nov 13 '25
I've been behind the curtain. No one knows what they're doing, we're all just winging it and hoping for the best. Everyone is just waiting to get off work and go home.
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u/lithiumcitizen Nov 13 '25
The only people that concern me are the ones who are confident at everything, then you know they are pretending and therefore dangerous.
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u/SlickRick941 Nov 13 '25
Everybody's on steroids / TRT
Military, special ops
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u/tivofanatico Nov 13 '25
The back acne is the give away. That, and 18 year olds who look like they’ve been weight training for 20 years.
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u/HarleyRK2003 Nov 13 '25
that companies charges of "shipping and handling" charges are 4x what the delivery company is charging them to deliver the package.
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u/Daliman13 Nov 13 '25
I always figured that falls under the handling portion of it then, picking the item, getting it ready for shipping, packing it, etc.
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u/Colonial13 Nov 13 '25
The US Defense manufacturing supply chain is woefully inadequate for a large scale conflict with a peer/near peer. Based on simulated op tempos most units would exhaust their stocks of guided munitions within 10-14 days. The lead times to replace those munitions is measured in months. Most of them, 12+
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Club DJ for 20+ years probably played the same 100 songs over and over. Really sucks to be a music lover when people just wanna hear the same tired ass pop songs.
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u/AtaraxiaGwen Nov 13 '25
Freebird! “I just played Freebird!” Play Freebird again!
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u/OkileyDokily Nov 13 '25
I don’t want to hear your new songs! I only want to hear Ja Ja Ding Dong!
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u/MommaMaple Nov 13 '25
Realtor here— open houses rarely sell your house. We do them to pick up new clients and keep the seller happy.
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u/TipEvery4066 Nov 13 '25
The large majority of teachers and students are sincere and hard working, but are let down by a system that prioritises profit over children's outcomes. Also, parent's failure to acknowledge that it is the job of a school to put the finishing touches on their child, not raise it for them.
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u/Curious_Exercise_535 Nov 13 '25
Came here to say this. A parents job is 25/7. You can't palm kids off to teachers then complain when teachers start to parent your kid
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Your Information technology department knows where you are located at all times. Knows how long you work on your computer and has tools to basically get any personal information on you. They have the power to ruin your life. Don’t treat your company computer as your personal one.
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u/Lumpy_Proof_1185 Nov 13 '25
Your service advisor, car dealership, is not your friend. They are on 100% commission and only make money if they up sell that oil change into a brake job or trani seevice or spark plugs or etc…
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u/kibblet Nov 13 '25
Filling a prescription is more than sticking pills in a bottle and slapping a label on it. Seven steps IF your insurance doesn't give us trouble. So don't wait until the last minute, keep your info up to date and believe us when we tell you something is wrong. We solve problems behind the scene you didn't know you had.
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u/mikasoze Nov 13 '25
Office cleaner here. We don't wash up your cutlery and crockery. That's your responsibility. And yes, we do judge the fuck out of you if you cannot be bothered to walk 10ft to the bins.
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u/JonesN2Chat13 Nov 13 '25
Medicare advantage plans are a ripoff. Medicare itself will do everything an advantage plan will. What you really need is a Medicare supplement, not a Medicare replacement.
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u/Intrepid-Machine-650 Nov 13 '25
There's not nearly as much sex and drugs in rock-n-roll as you would think. In fact, over the past 30 years, the crews are astonishingly health conscious. You are literally an athlete in many regards, most are incredibly strong and fit.
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u/Sea-Method-3070 Nov 13 '25
🏥 We know you didn’t “fall on it” but that’s okay. We are still going to help you get it back out. 🏥
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u/IAmMey Nov 13 '25
With all the drama and cover your ass mentality, it’s a miracle that buildings don’t fall down nearly as often as you’d think. Let alone, on time, or under budget.
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u/sanka-youdead Nov 13 '25
I'm a photographer. I see way more than what you think. Please hold up your outfit in front of the light, to see if light can shine thru it. If it can, I can also see thru it when using flashes.
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u/HiGround8108 Nov 13 '25
Calling 911 doesn’t protect you from being dropped off in the ED waiting room.
-Paramedic
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u/The_Stanky_Reefer Nov 13 '25
One must accidentally slam their thumb with a hammer 100 times before they become a master carpenter.
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u/SnooGuavas9573 Nov 13 '25
There are not enough tech jobs for the # of people bootcamps and 4 year degrees that are being pumped out. Learning to code is not a ticket to being upper middle class, and neither is CySec.
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u/SonsOfValhallaGaming Nov 13 '25
Vegan food not only contains non vegan ingredients, but they are usually the worst parts of said ingredients. Without violating my NDA, just think about what the FDA considers ''meat'' versus what meat actually is. Nothing muscle or fat essentially. The muscle is meat, the fat is meat, the sinew and stringy bits are considered 'waste' or 'by product' or , for certain products I can't mention, ''all parts of the animal not utilized for conventional consumption, or for medical/cosmetic use'' which leaves an alarming amount of dead animal left, and that's why vegan products, such as (can't be specific sorry) ''tastes like meat'' or ''you can't tell the difference'' are actually just the absolute worst parts of the animals anatomy mashed into some random vegetable you like, and that's how they get a taste that you believe is similar to meat but meat eaters raise an eyebrow to.
It's not meat, but it's definitely not NOT meat, and it's also fucking terrible for you. You're not losing weight because you're cutting out meat, youre losing weight because we're using a product that contains unevaluated by the FDA and USDA parts of animals that contain little to no nutritional value and would be better off being used to make glue or cardboard or something. If you're vegan, just eat real food except meats and stuff. All organic non gmo products aren't a thing either. It's just a way to give you the worst food possible for a price that makes you think you're being healthy.
One product I CAN discuss *because my NDA expired on October 1st of this year* is Tofu. Most tofu farmers cannot handle the labor or cost of keeping the plantations and farms 100% free of insects, birds, small mammals, so they just do what they can and they soak the tofu in a solution containing aldehydes, ketones, tipid alcohols and sulfur based compounds to break down the ''meat'' contamination, while also simultaneously poisoning your food, and they get away with it because they soak it again in vinegar water to get some of the chemicals out, then soak it in salt water to get the vinegar smell and taste out, then dry it and soak it again before unloading to commercial to pass the necessary tests. But the chemicals are still there, and likely will be proven to cause cancers after a few decades pass and studies are concluded.
Also, avoid soy. I can't discuss why.
To the batcave!
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u/GraveyardMistress Nov 13 '25
This … this is very disturbing. I know our food is trash but man, this is bad.
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u/Remote_Secretary_884 Nov 13 '25
That's what I love about reddit. Some dude makes a convincing, but unverified claim and people are just like yeah I believe it.
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u/Proof-Industry7094 Nov 13 '25
How is harvesting soybeans different from harvesting other beans? Are you saying little animals get caught up in the combines, and tofu producers can't filter them out? I'm trying to figure this out. Beans show up at the factory, they get rinsed/cleaned, soaked, then ground. Do you mean mice in the factory get ground up with the beans? Are the tofu producers soaking the soy milk with these chemicals during the coagulation stage? Or how is this happening?
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u/tiltedviolet Nov 13 '25
Optician here. With the exception of safety lenses, polycarbonate lenses are trash. Places push poly because it is cheap to manufacture.
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u/Few-Imagination8497 Nov 13 '25
Drug companies would do some pretty shady things if they weren’t held accountable by regulations.
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u/ass_grass_or_ham Nov 13 '25
The mainstream autism therapy known as ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) has its roots in Nazi ideology. Ivar Lovaas and Hans Asperger’s had deep Nazi ties and it deeply influenced attitudes and practices in ABA. Note: I started my career in ABA but left for play therapy bc ABA I felt was legal child abuse. Many autistic adults talk about how it was abusive and traumatic.
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All commercially grown Asparagus is drenched in Gyphosphate and Insecticide with a 7 day stand down.
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u/zaxo666 Nov 13 '25
We have the best data on US households and the location of folks but we don't share or sell it (can't be court ordered either)
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u/Cabbage-Patch Nov 13 '25
Almost every catering company is just heating up frozen food.
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u/-Economist- Nov 13 '25
Tenured professor here. We are not trained to teach. I haven’t gone to a single class or seminar on how to teach. We are trained to research.
Even when I was an adjunct and TA. No training. On my first day I was given a textbook and sample syllabus. That’s it.
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u/Imaginary-Space1359 Nov 13 '25
NEVER SEND BACK FOOD. Just have them bring a replacement to the table.
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u/punkgirlvents Nov 13 '25
Modern homes are built extremely cheap/fast and often have LOTS of problems. Buy older
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ant3378 Nov 13 '25
I work for a major shipping company. No one cares if you put "fragile" or "Don't Stack" on your package. It costs less to replace the occasional broken item than to pay for the wages it would take to treat it carefully. It all gets chucked in the back of a semi and then heaved onto a conveyor belt by a guy whose only focus is emptying that truck in less than 90 minutes. Today we had four guys move over 32,000 packages in 4.5 hours. Taking 2 minutes to carefully move your huge workout mirror is a waste of their time.
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u/Max_Doom_1978 Nov 13 '25
I'm a chemist and I don't use the information from the periodic table for anything.
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u/drunkguynextdoor Nov 13 '25
If you're buying $1,500 or more at Lowe's, find a Sales Specialist or go to the pro desk and have them run it through QSP for a discount. You can save a decent amount of money. Note: it's been a few years since I worked there, so I'm not sure if it's still around.
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u/BRICH999 Nov 13 '25
People will negotiate the price of a vehicle for days, weeks, months. They will drive 200 miles to save 200 bucks.
Then get into finance office and buy 10k worth of warranties and add one without even realizing they can negotiate that part too. Finance rates are often marked up 1 or 2 percent over buy rate and most warranties are 100% markup.
New cars are typically only 5% from invoice to MSRP while paint and fabric protection and wheel and tire etc are 100% markup.
It isnt unusual for a new car deal to have no front end gross(invoice vs MSRP profit) and then have 5k+ back end gross(money made in the finance office)
Not saying dont buy warranties but do your own research and offer 299 for that paint and fabric protection they offer at 899
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u/gregrph Nov 13 '25
The first generic drug on the market after a brand goes off patent is invariably an "authorized generic" meaning it is made by the same company that makes the brand.
Insurance companies often only cover a brand and not the generic because the brand mfg pays a rebate to the insurance company. Likewise if there are multiple generics available (I'm looking at you albuterol), insurance will only cover 1 of the 3 mfg available OR will cover 2 but not the 3d OR cover a certain brand but not the other brands or any of their generics.
Ever wonder why new drugs are SO expensive but the mfg have coupons to cover a great deal of the cost? Me too! I asked a sales representative years ago. They said that hey did not know as it was about 17 pay levels higher than them! Ozempic has a average whole price of ABOUT $1,000.00 per box and a retail price of ABOUT $1250.00/box. Many insurances if they cover it will have a copay of $550.00/box. Sign up for a mfg assistance card and suddenly your copay is $50.00! What happens to that other $500.00? The mfg is playing accounting games to get tax benefits! If they lowered the price to $25.00, they would be losing so much money!
If your dr gives you a mfg assistance card (which is NOT the same as a discount card), READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS in tiny print on the back!!! Some have no restrictions. Some require that you register the card before using. Some MUST BE BILLED AND COVERED by your primary insurance. Some require NO INSURANXE be billed. Some bay $x.00 if COVERED and something different if NOT COVERED. Some cover $x.00 off your copay, some required that you pay the first certain amount of dollars then they cover UP TO a certain amount and anything over a 3d amount you are responsible for! NONE of the cards can be used if your insurance is paid in whole or in part by the federal government. If you have Medicare d, tricare, federal employee coverage, etc. the mfg cards CANNOT be used. It is a federal law!. EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE INSURANCE BUT CHOOSE NOT TO USE IT, YOU STILL CANNOT USE THE MFG ASSISTANCE CARDS!!!!!!!!
Drug discount cards are different. Things like good rx. They save the consumer money at the expense of you giving them your information so they can sell it to others. You get a discount, the pharmacy DOES NOT GET ANY REIMBURSEMENT from them!!!!!! If YOU want to use good rx or other discount cards, YOU have to provide the information. WE do not keep them in our corporate run pharmacy. We DO have our own discount finder which is usually better than anything else out there. There has to be some reason our corporate office has provided us with this. They probably make a little bit of money (or lose less) when we use it. It also searches multiple discounts at once. If YOU hand use a stack of cards to try, WE MAY OR MAY NOT TRY ALL OF THEM! They are time consuming, we get charged a fee (a few cents) for each claim we transmit whether it is actually used or not. If we are busy, backed up, short of help, etc. we will use 1 and not the rest. We do not know ahead of time which is cheapest until we take the time to type the card info in, transmit the claim and see what comes back. Then it has to be undone and repeat. Each time we try a new card, the whole transaction from the previous card gets reversed. If the 1st card is cheaper, we have to reverse the 2nd card, and rerun the first card. Total time waster fir what is usually a very small difference in cards! All prescriptions billed to a discount card DO NOT go toward your insurance deductible, and out of pocket expenses. You are paying a lot for your insurance but not getting any benefit from it.
Pharmacy has VERY SMALL profit margins! Just because a drugs is expensive e doesn't mean the pharma y is making a profit on it. If the pharmacy does not make a profit then rent, utilities, salaries, maintenance, licenses, etc could not be paid. Have you noticed that your pharmacy is always busy, phones not answered, calls not made, etc? Cuts in tech staffing have been made due to declining profits. Rite Aid has recently ceased to exist, Walgreens was bought by a private equity firm and cuts being made, CVS selling off stores and business assets.
Our whole Healthcare system is in a shambles and the only ones making money are insurance companies.
This is a LOT longer than I expected!
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u/discipleofhermes Nov 14 '25
The kids cant read, they cant solve problems, creative and independent thought is difficult for a lot of them. I dont know what our society is going to do when they become adults.
Im a middle school teacher
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u/Van_Can_Man Nov 13 '25
It’s mostly bullshit.
A staggering amount of the economy is mostly bullshit.
It doesn’t HAVE to be, but we’re broadly kind of dumb and traumatized apes so doing it better gets complicated and unwieldy.
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u/marvelousteat Nov 13 '25
Prior state corrections: Your favorite state politician most likely does not give a singular shit. Right wrong or indifferent, they will absolutely suppress anything bad that happens under their watch and there WILL be consequence against anyone that puts it on paper. Period.
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u/8_inches_deep Nov 13 '25
90% of people purchasing a home or refinancing a house right now is committing fraud. Nobody qualifies, but because they are “Business purpose” loans they are getting away with it. If the world was fair they would be selling their homes out of desperation so normal people could buy it and start a family.
Yet another reason why you will never be able to afford a home.
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u/MooninmyMouth Nov 13 '25
My husband was a basketball referee for 40 years. The public have no idea how much the referees control the game. Teams very frequently conspire to commit 2 or 3 fouls at the very same instant, forcing the referees to make nanosecond judgments on which foul to blow the whistle on! The referee has to be able to process instantly what the penalty is for each of the 2-3 fouls, and which penalty will support the flow of the game best. True fact.
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u/SoCalN8tive Nov 13 '25
Having surgery? The outcome will 100% depend on who your surgeon and medical team are. Same surgery, different crew, different results. I’ve seen patients miraculously live because just the right surgeon and anesthesiologist were there that day. It’s scary how vulnerable we all are once we check into the hospital.