Usually, criticizing your employer while you’re still working for them is a bad idea. Whether internally, grabbing a coffee with colleagues, or externally, turning to social media, taking jabs at your low salary orbad bosscan damage your future opportunities. Even if the complaints are legitimate.However, once you’re out and have secured a comfortable position elsewhere, you may feel much more liberty to share your experiences and highlight the issues you faced. So Reddit userMave__Dustaineasked all people to reveal a secret about a company they no longer work for that the general public wouldn’t know. And since they received thousands of replies, we collected the juiciest ones to save you some time.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Usually, criticizing your employer while you’re still working for them is a bad idea. Whether internally, grabbing a coffee with colleagues, or externally, turning to social media, taking jabs at your low salary orbad bosscan damage your future opportunities. Even if the complaints are legitimate.
However, once you’re out and have secured a comfortable position elsewhere, you may feel much more liberty to share your experiences and highlight the issues you faced. So Reddit userMave__Dustaineasked all people to reveal a secret about a company they no longer work for that the general public wouldn’t know. And since they received thousands of replies, we collected the juiciest ones to save you some time.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
My family owned Veterinary hospitals.Now, I know the price has gotten nuts but that is not what this post is about.Most vets truly care and I have seen some do anything, literally anything to help your animal. I remember wanting to leave after closing, so tired and my Dad (the Vet) telling me he wasn’t leaving yet, he wanted to sit with this one dog all night.
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I worked for a very popular fast food chain and was shocked to find out their hygiene standards were actually high and everybody followed them. Like. everyone really did their job and the place was really clean and safe.
These stories vividly illustrate the grim reality that many bosses are unwilling to listen to employee feedback. Even though it might be in the company’s best interest, workers often believe they can speak up only after they’ve left.
Furthermore, more than two-fifths (45 percent) of the 2,100 individuals surveyed for the Improving Line Managementreportsaid their manager did not help morale at work.
Nursing homes are ALWAYS understaffed and overworked. The worst one I ever saw was 3 caregivers to 72 residents. That’s 3 people who are responsible for feeding, toileting, and showering 72 people every day. Mistakes and abuse are incredibly common due to the sheer burnout that is rampant. Imagine being told after a 16 hour shift that you aren’t allowed to leave (because of abandonment laws) for another 16 hours because someone didn’t show up for their shift, and doing so while making barely above minimum wage.
Here’s an open secret: IT workers are really good at Googling your problem.
Working for Tesla was one of the worst jobs I have ever had. Elon Musk was such a prick and treats people subhuman. That’s not an exaggeration, I’ve seen it personally.
Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, says having a good manager is crucial for workers, but businesses are not investing enough in training them.“It’s shocking that so many workers feel afraid to raise issues with their boss. If we want better and more productive workplaces, we need to step up investment in training, including for managers,” sheexplains.
Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, says having a good manager is crucial for workers, but businesses are not investing enough in training them.
“It’s shocking that so many workers feel afraid to raise issues with their boss. If we want better and more productive workplaces, we need to step up investment in training, including for managers,” sheexplains.
I’ve worked for Bank of America and Wells Fargo and both banks screw over customers constantly but there is a difference in how and why they do it.Bank of America will screw you over because they are huge and disorganized and no one has a clue what’s going on so customers get screwed over when people don’t know how to do their job and no one knows how to fix it when things go wrong.Wells Fargo will screw you over and they know exactly what they are doing and how they are going to do it. They will intentionally design a process to take too long forcing the customer to pay additional fees.
・A lot of the stuff you donate to Goodwill goes straight into the garbage.・No, the clothes aren’t washed before going to the sales floor and most of the items are not cleaned; please be careful and clean/disinfect if you decide to purchase it.・Yes, they are raising prices to give more to the higher-ups while not giving anything to the people actually doing all of the work.・Goodwill pays disabled employees significantly less than minimum wage.・Most of the “nice” stuff that you donate is going to e-commerce to be sold at an inflated auction price and not to a local person who might want it.・No, the sales/donation associate can’t give you a receipt with a cash value for all of the junk that you just threw in the bin, stop asking. The receipt just shows a rough estimate of what you donated, it’s up to you to determine the value of your donation if you’re that much of a tax-rat.・No, you can’t sell anything to Goodwill; that’s not what the word “donation” means.・Yes, this is all somehow legal.
Also, some researchers suggest that employees are withholding information about problems or ideas for improvement at work due to a sense of futility.In fact, onestudyfound that futility was 1.8 times more common than fear as a reason for not bringing things up with direct supervisors in large multinational corporations.As one respondent in that study said: “I think it would help if you saw them take your suggestion back to whomever and actually consider it, rather than just throw it in the trash bucket as soon as you walk out the door. I think that’s the way a lot of people feel — you can speak in a meeting, you can tell your manager. It doesn’t go any further…”No wonder so many don’t even bother and share their stories just to amuse the internet instead.
Also, some researchers suggest that employees are withholding information about problems or ideas for improvement at work due to a sense of futility.
In fact, onestudyfound that futility was 1.8 times more common than fear as a reason for not bringing things up with direct supervisors in large multinational corporations.
As one respondent in that study said: “I think it would help if you saw them take your suggestion back to whomever and actually consider it, rather than just throw it in the trash bucket as soon as you walk out the door. I think that’s the way a lot of people feel — you can speak in a meeting, you can tell your manager. It doesn’t go any further…”
No wonder so many don’t even bother and share their stories just to amuse the internet instead.
Worked as a cook at a Chilis in CA, and I can say confidently that it was one of the CLEANEST kitchens I ever worked in.We scrubbed it spotless every night.
College bookstores are a f*****g racket. The used books that are sold for a high cost were likely bought back for a fraction. The only people that got the “Good” price for book buyback were the first 5-10 people selling that book back. I saw a book be bought back for $200 and the next person through with that exact same book got offered $50. The add-ins for things like clickers were obscene. Books that were OK’d for the school year would regularly get “new” versions that could just have 2 chapters flipped, but the “new” version ment that nobody could buy used, and the prof that wrote it gets a huge payout. The few “good” profs that gave away their materials were few and far between. The notion that digital books would be cheaper is laughable. Sure, they’re charging $100 vs $200, but that’s a $100 PDF.It’s a racket and i’m glad I don’t need to mess with it anymore.
McDonald’s is one of the cleanest fast food restaurants, as strange as that may sound.
For years we manufactured/processes thousands of component incorrectly that substantially increased the probability of sudden and catastrophic failure.The component? Well it’s the main attachment points for various missiles/bombs for the US military.Discovered this shortly after working there. Notified the operations manager, who ignored it. Notified the president, who kind of acknowledged it but refused to address it or notify the customer. Finally notified the ownership who promptly had me replaced lol.
Excel. No matter how fancy your tech systems are, your boss just wants a half decent excel sheet to keep track of everything.
Stanford University has a database full of everyone that’s ever attended the school… or ever been treated at their hospitals. With the right access, you can look up anyone in their system and see their employment history, every place they’ve lived since graduating, and their connections within the larger Stanford community. The best part? There’s a section that gives all the tax/income information, with an estimate based on equations that say how much the person could realistically donate to the school without negative effect. That way, when they call to fundraise, they know exactly how much to ask for.
In the 70’s we had Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips (in the USA) and I, at 16, had to sign a NDA stating I wouldn’t reveal the secret ingredient. It was peanut oil, lol. Boy I hope the Statute of Limitations is in effect..
Universities love international students because they pay exorbitant amounts of money for non-resident tuition.
Let’s put it this way. Years ago I was bragging to a cab driver about a new job I had just gotten. When he asked about the company, I told him it was a family business. He replied “You’re screwed”. He was right.
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I worked for an oil company that pretended like they were investing in clean energy methods. It was all for show. They knew where they made their money.
Positive one: It’s a pretty small place, but Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating actually was super serious about food safety and cleanliness and never refroze product (ingredients arrived refrigerated and surplus would be frozen until the next meal it was needed for, if it got thawed out and still not used for the next cycle, it was thrown away/donated to local farmers). They had zero issue with pulling food off the line and even trashing entire batches if something was off.She tried franchising once and none of the new locations could maintain her personal quality and safety standard so she shut it down after about 18 months even though she was making good money off it.Seattle herself was also super nice and all her grandkids worked summers there through high school and college and came in and worked their asses off instead of being the arrogant asshats so many nepo-hires are.
They accepted stole $5-10M in PPP loans and laid off 2/3rds of their staff in the same breath—one of largest PPP loan recipients in my state.
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I don’t know the specifics, the laws and such, but the manager of the Amazon warehouse I was at wasn’t allowed to tell workers they couldn’t use the fans or ac in these 100°+ environments, but somehow he was allowed to shut off the fans and ac whenever he wanted, so this guy would spend the entire day most days following around anyone who would turn them on and personally turn them back off immediately. He was later fired, on paper for telling people they couldn’t use the fans and ac, but really it was because the new district head just didn’t like him. Amazon had absolutely no problems with the guy shutting fans off. People had been sending in complaints about it for years but never had a word back about it.
One of the coffee shops I used to work in absolutely had mob connections. We were never allowed to take bills larger than a $50 unless they were a “friend of Angelo’s.” Then we were supposed to let them pay for their $3 coffee with a $100 bill and just give them the change. There was no ink marker either to test the bills and my coworker who asked about ordering one got fired so we all just didn’t bring it up again lol.
We supported 1000+ businesses office phone systems and they all used the same password for their admin access to their systems.
We used to own a couple of gyms. I guarantee you that your membership can be canceled without all the b******t, most of them just try to squeeze every single thing they can get out of you.
Walgreens is currently imploding. The workers are trying their best, but they are quitting in droves due to depression. Management is gaslighting “Everyone else can handle this work! Only you can’t.” Trying to make them work harder and faster for no extra pay and less manpower everyday.
They made lists of employees about to vest their stock to fire them before they vested.
At the company I worked for, everyone was assigned a Microsoft account. This was used for Outlook emailing and Teams for instant messaging and video calls. Naturally, plenty of privileged and sensitive information was exchanged in these ways.Everyone had the same password. it was first name.last name. Every employee and manager (I didn’t have the guts to test the theory on an executives account.)And this was a company that, among other droll and boring trainings, made sure we had our requisite cyber security/anti-phishing training.There was lots more silliness at that company, but that right there tells you all you need to know.
Some (stress some) brokerage firms are like gyms. They want you to sign up and they hope they never see you again.
This was about 20 years ago…but…When I worked in a call center at Sprint, our calls would get recorded and we would receive an email that included a link to where we could review a transcript of our call.This transcript included the 3 pieces of personally identifiable information needed to access someone’s account.Well, the email they sent to us used a _GET parameter ID that was simply a number to reference our transcript.If you changed the number, you would get someone else’s transcript and the 3 pieces of personally identifiable information.I figured that’s a pretty big security hole, but I at least have to access it from my personal office computer, so they’d see who did it.Unless you went to the break room where you could access it there.Seeing how I was just out of college and I wanted to get a software engineering job, I brought this up to management who proceeded to do nothing.I left a couple months later for a sw engineering job.TL;DR… I discovered a massive security flaw in Sprints call center.
Anytime you think your company is just a hot mess behind closed doors and everyone else has their s**t together–EVERYWHERE is as hot a mess as yours.
It is very difficult for IHG to remove hotels from the portfolio if they are paying their dues and are mid life cycle. They can be a VERY bad hotels and there is nothing that can be done except for some rare life threatening situations. Some hotels have consistently failed every quality evaluation for years but will remain in the system because at the end of the day, they make money for the company no matter how hard they harm the brand name.Marriott can do it a bit more easily for non-compliant hotels due to the structure of the quality department being through a 3rd party.
Dollar General corporate does not give a single f**k about shoplifting. They only care about internal theft.
D***s. everyone, everywhere all. The. Time.Recruitment, healthcare, insurance.
A lot of small businesses are really dirty in their kitchens like they have the outward presentation of being a fancy French Bakery but the floors are dirty and there’s bugs everywhere and they’re reusing dirty sheet pans from raw product for baked product and spreading frangipane all over things that shouldn’t be covered in raw nut butter. But if you try and call that out you’re a “b***h” and “fired” lol.
A previous CFO had stolen and gambled away A LOT of the companies money and the rest of the management kept it quiet so that most of the employees didn’t and probably still don’t know that it happened.
D**g use was more common than I realized.
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