ITT: You expose a "truth" in your industry of employment

[getbigger28]

And by "truth" I mean something that goes on in your industry (whether its music, fashion, IT, construction, or whatever) that the average person would not be aware of or the "truth" is actually hidden on purpose from public view/knowledge because of the adverse affects it could have.

I'll start: I work in IT and during conferences you are told you are seeing a live application, but often only small parts of it work and the rest are fake/screenshots, etc... yet it is told to everyone its the real deal.

Lame, but its all I got for right now.

[Solidarity]

The cost of labor is about 60-70% of all costs in construction... moreso with labor unions.

[crupiea]

my employer is soon to be my former employer, they just dont know it yet.

[John_Tram]

I used to to work in a Kodak store in the late 90's when people used to hand in rolls of film and we would develop them. I would say that "One Hour Photo" movie was pretty accurate. Be thankfull you now have digital cameras. There was really no confidentially and pictures we liked we made extra copis of etc...

[ScMc]

i work in the manufacturing industry and my company is supposedly ISO 9001 certified... HAHAHAHA yeah RIGHT!!!

[swolejack5]

I work in the airline industry/airport scene, all passengers think that the rampers are jerks who go through their stuff, in reality we dont because we like being employed, TSA however goes through everything, you will see them swinging golf clubs, holding up tshirts, smelling perfume, joking... ect. Theres more to it but I cant think of anything ATM

[RapBlacksmith]

i remember there was a thread like this a while back and i read a bunch of interesting stuff
so keep those truths coming

[TheRealCartman]

i work in the manufacturing industry and my company is supposedly ISO 9001 certified... HAHAHAHA yeah RIGHT!!!

Manufacturing company I used to work for was ISO 9001 certified, a couple weeks before an audit we'd run around like crazy making sure anything currently under production would pass, the next day back to our old way of doing things.

If you call and tell us you absolutely need delivery by a certain date we will agree knowing full well the shop is completely backed up and there is zero chance of making the date.

[PerfectFormForever]

Worked at a nursing home. Sometimes the nurses would put the elderly into a closet, or wheel them into a corner and put a sheet onto them to hide them for a few hours, stuff like that. I reported them but the security staff made me seem like the problem because I reported it... Do not put your parents/grandparents into nursing homes.

[CaliBakes]

whats going on inhere?

[balboa22]

Dominos Pizza:

If it's a busy night (friday, saturday, holiday or day before a holiday), and your food falls on the floor, it's getting sent to you if it looks edible. Getting the order there on time is our #1 goal.


Valet Parking:

If you have a nice souped up car, expect it to be revved up in the parking lot or played around with (if the exhaust isnt that loud).

[Bobbinsk]

Im unemployed. Its fun.

[neowolfe]

when i worked at office depot they really wanted us to push their product protection plan because 99% of the time, people who purchased it never used it so it was pretty much free money.

[balboa22]

Worked at a nursing home. Sometimes the nurses would put the elderly into a closet, or wheel them into a corner and put a sheet onto them to hide them for a few hours, stuff like that. I reported them but the security staff made me seem like the problem because I reported it... Do not put your parents/grandparents into nursing homes.

thats ****ed up

security staff?? what about management?

[Gibb1991]

Worked at a nursing home. Sometimes the nurses would put the elderly into a closet, or wheel them into a corner and put a sheet onto them to hide them for a few hours, stuff like that. I reported them but the security staff made me seem like the problem because I reported it... Do not put your parents/grandparents into nursing homes.

Thats pretty ****ing horrible.
All I got is that McDonalds worker terrible people.

[engj]

The cost of labor is about 60-70% of all costs in construction... moreso with labor unions.

Depends on the nature of the construction. D10 dozer is $375 bucks an hour, the guy runnin it is $50.

Building trades i'd believe it.

[Brothylated]

Wasn't there a thread like this that was stickied a few months ago?

[ziggy5121]

I work in a public library.

The main secret is that it's most likely the most boring place on earth, and everything inside works exacly how you would imagine it. There arn't any trade secrets or something interesting that employees do in the back.

You come in at 10, stick your headphones on, and shelve books until 5.

However, if any of you need any community service, the library is deff the place to go. You can tell them you're going to shelve books and disappear for hours, then at the end of the day you get to write off how many hours you worked. Instead of 3 you can write 20. Nobody will care.

[KPGC10]

i work in the manufacturing industry and my company is supposedly ISO 9001 certified... HAHAHAHA yeah RIGHT!!!

Why is this funny? Does the company do nothing to act on and resolve complaints it receives (thus breaking ISO 9001 conditions), does it simply not bother to produce products of a high standard in the first place or are you guys just constantly breaking deadlines?

ISO 9001 doesn't really mean much so many companies have it which shouldn't.

I work in the airline industry/airport scene, all passengers think that the rampers are jerks who go through their stuff, in reality we dont because we like being employed, TSA however goes through everything, you will see them swinging golf clubs, holding up tshirts, smelling perfume, joking... ect. Theres more to it but I cant think of anything ATM

You'd do society a big favor and make lots of money if you could get footage of this kind of abuse by the TSA occurring over time.

[rangerkid2187]

accounting industry = profit


that tax return that cost your business $1000 from the partner that supposedly "prepared" it, was done by a first year person, reviewed for 5 minutes to see if its similar to last years, signed and on its way.

[Cell-Tech Daddy]

90% of Ambulance/Paramedic work is driving peoples with diabetes problems/cancer/heart failure/elderly to hospital with little / no treatment.

[shock6906]

Truth: The government wastes a s**tload of money on inefficient and/or worthless, lazy employees.

[GUNSMAKEMEGIDDY]

Work in security. The vast majority of us have no clue what were doing, no one does patrols, we just sleep and misc. On a brighter note, they just gave me a Smith & Wesson .38spl recently, yee haw!

[randombrah102]

I got one, here is an example. A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

[RobMclovin]

Whatever you buy at a restaurant is usually double the price. Working at Outback Steakhouse, at the end of the night if their is any extra steaks or food was made by accident, they'll sell it to an employee for half the price.

Brb buying a 20 dollar Ny strip for like 7-8 bucks.

[pires65]

shadow costs play a huge part to CBA... if you get an idiot who doesnt predict decent shadow costs for your company, youre playing russian roulette when you make a decision

[KPGC10]

90% of Ambulance/Paramedic work is driving peoples with diabetes problems/cancer/heart failure/elderly to hospital with little / no treatment.

I was at the footy a few weeks back and some bloke has a seizure. It took 5 minutes for the venue first aid to get there in the meantime by dad turned the guy on his side to keep airway clear and another 10 for paramedics to arrive. When they arrived it was two women who couldn't lift the stretcher up the stairs so they had to make the guy walk down. I was disappoint.

Truth: The government wastes a s**tload of money on inefficient and/or worthless, lazy employees.

Yeah public service has no incentive to be more efficient. Unlike private industry which needs to keep in the black or go bankrupt the public service knows it can spend all it wants, the more it spends to more it's budget gets increased.

I got one, here is an example. A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

You must work for Government Motors or Chevy right?

[Gibb1991]

I was at the footy a few weeks back and some bloke has a seizure. It took 5 minutes for the venue first aid to get there in the meantime by dad turned the guy on his side to keep airway clear and another 10 for paramedics to arrive. When they arrived it was two women who couldn't lift the stretcher up the stairs so they had to make the guy walk down. I was disappoint.

That puts a hole in women complaining about equal oppurtunities..

[CunningStunt]

^^aware @ Fight Club reference.

When working behind the bar at an old pub (working in nightclub now) I'd often go into the kitchen to have a wank, when it wasn't busy.

In my 16 months of employment there, I had sex/bj/sticky fingers probably around every fortnight there.

In my 16 months employment there, I probs took about £1.5k from the books/till.

I'd often set up my video camera ontop of the bottles fridge (it'd face the bar/customers) and record whole shifts.

If someone was drunk, and being especially an arsehole, I'd slip them the elbow/slap when throwing them out.

For the last few months there, I was on mephedrone/coke/base every friday and saturday night I worked there (it was rare I didn't work a weekend). I wouldn't even hide it, I'd go into the kitchen/cellar, do a line or a coin of it, come back up, my eyes as big as saucers and as giddy as a 5 year old in Disney land.

Whenever I'd see close friends, I'd give them drinks for free.




come at me bros.

[FryDude]

I was looking for the previous thread similar ot this, damn it.