Dirty secret about an industry that you have worked in?

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This was 20 years ago in lobbying ..many of the guys drank all afternoon. We used to drag our head guy in to testify on the Hill. I had to go to his favorite watering hole...Garys (no longer there )to drag him out

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Anonymous wrote:Most doctors are burned out and hate their jobs and hate their patients.

Therapists and psychologists always come from screwed up families and often have way more issues than their own patients!

I think just about everyone knows this and add Psychiatrist to that list. I struggled with Psych clinical rotation, I couldn't wait for it to be over. I was not made to work Psych patients. Also probably why I and many others like me just don't see the worth in counseling and therapy sessions. I think there is a consistent trend of the type of people/personalities that that rely on and seek out these counseling services. We all know many of them are on DCUM. I'm sorry, I just can't take them serious.

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Anonymous wrote:Just another reminder to wash any clothes you bring home from a store. Consider that most everything has been tried on or worn, repeatedly.

As a teenager, my first job was in retail and part of my sales job was to wear entire outfits, head to toe, while working in the store. I'd change multiple times a shift - just rehang and refold the still-warm pieces.

I was expected to wear store clothes while I unpacked and tagged and sorted incoming merchandise in the warm and dusty back room, too. Only removed deodorant marks if it was obvious, as per training. Makeup stains, no problem. These went in the clearance pile for future sales.

My first job as a teen was at a store that required us to wear their clothes only. If we came in wearing something else, no problem! We'd just grab some clothes off the racks and wear them for that shift. If we snagged the shirts while unpacking boxes and stocking we'd just damage them out and toss in the clearance bin. Deodorant and makeup stains were just washed out and if they wouldn't come out, they were sent to the clearance bin as well.

Sometimes I or one of my friends would want a specific item that was on the pricey side, so I'd wear that item, pretend I couldn't get the deodorant stain out and damage it out to purchase it at clearance price.

In college I worked at Victoria's Secret and you wouldn't believe how many people would go into a fitting room for a bra fitting and just completely disrobe. And you're not allowed to say anything when it happened. You just had to grin and bare it.

Also, FIY to the moms who won't let their daughter's buy/wear thongs or sexy panties, your daughter's are some of VS's #1 thieves. We'd have hundreds of dollars each week in shrinkage and it was 95% in thongs that were stolen by the teens and tweens.

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In college I worked at Victoria's Secret and you wouldn't believe how many people would go into a fitting room for a bra fitting and just completely disrobe. And you're not allowed to say anything when it happened. You just had to grin and bare it.

Guy here so maybe I'm just clueless. Why did you care if people disrobed entirely and how did you know it?

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I worked at multiple restaurants when I was a teenager. For salad bars if the lettuce turned brown we were ups soak in some water and a white powder and the brown would go away. And then we would serve to customers. Saw in country club and pancake house and Roy rogers. Not sure if they still do this but common in early 80's

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In college I worked at Victoria's Secret and you wouldn't believe how many people would go into a fitting room for a bra fitting and just completely disrobe. And you're not allowed to say anything when it happened. You just had to grin and bare it.

Guy here so maybe I'm just clueless. Why did you care if people disrobed entirely and how did you know it?

Other guy here. The Victoria's Secret dressing room is like one big, thong-laden pillow fight. Or so I've been told.

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My college friend's father was a famous childrens therapist and professor at Harvard or Wellesley College - who sexually abused his patients!

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Another college friend's mother was a psychologist and she herself was in and out of the hospital having electro shock therapy!

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I worked in insurance (property, non-auto, like a PP) and the credit score thing is 100% true. We always phrased it like a good credit score gave you a discount and a poor credit score was no change to the base rates, but in reality, our rates were not competitive if you had a poor credit score.

Also, we are required to send all our policies, endorsements, and any other policy information, as well as all our rates and the math used to create them, to the state insurance departments prior to use. Generally, the state can approve or disapprove these policy forms/rates and require any modifications. And if you ever have a problem with your insurance company, contact the company first and then if they give you the run-around, go to your state's insurance department with your complaint. Companies are required by law to respond to insurance department inquiries, or we could lose our license to operate in that state.

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I worked retail (Kohls) a few years ago and the people who got the most "attention" from loss prevention were teenagers, especially teen girls who were in groups of 2-4 without parents obviously nearby.

Also, the Kohls Cash policies changed nationwide in, I think 2012 or 2013 or so, regarding returns, because a lady who used to shop in my area was running a huge scam on Kohls Cash and the stores just in my area probably lost close to 100k from this lady.

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Had a friend that worked on free range chicken ranch-free range just means a stick for them to perch on

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In college I worked at Victoria's Secret and you wouldn't believe how many people would go into a fitting room for a bra fitting and just completely disrobe. And you're not allowed to say anything when it happened. You just had to grin and bare it.

Guy here so maybe I'm just clueless. Why did you care if people disrobed entirely and how did you know it?

Because during a bra fitting the fitter comes into your dressing room and measures you and them helps you try on/choose a bra. Already a bit awkward, but having to look at a neud lower half for no reason probably makes it even worse.

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Anonymous wrote:All the big environmental / conservation nonprofits are a complete scam . But, I'm not sure this is a secret .

What do you mean?

PP here..ha ha..name one thing they produce. Massive corporate greenwashing that makes the top execs rich, they produce nothing. Complete scam.

Stop tarnishing all environmental orgs just because you worked at some door-to-door canvassing operation. The Nature Conservancy has top scientists working throughout the world and has used donations and other funding sources to preserve more than 120 million acres of land worldwide. In the U.S., "40 million acres of private land protected through conservation easements in the United States
by local and regional land trusts, national conservation groups, and state and federal agencies as of June 2014."

https://www.nature.org/about-us/private-lands-conservation/conservation-easements/conservation-easements-101.pdf

These blanket statements about ALL environmental orgs, ALL teachers and daycare workers, ALL federal employees are just wrong. They breed cynicism and susceptibility to Trumpian propaganda.

Nobody (except maybe this one PP) is claiming that ALL of any industry does x. We're just sharing our own experiences. I'm a PP who mentioned some of the "dirty secrets" in daycare. In no way do I think these issues pertain to ALL teachers; however, I've been around enough to know they're unfortunately not uncommon.

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Acting is 99% rejection yet attracts people with a tremendous need for approval.

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Sibley Drs, nurses, staff are gossips. It is not uncommon to hear Drs trash patients or their colleagues. Major unprofessional culture.