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Anonymous wrote:I am no longer a doula but was an active one for over 10 years. The blatant lies that OB Nurses and Doctors tell mothers are terrible. Women are taken advantage of every single day and damaged and sometimes don't even know it for years after a birth. Choose your provider and birth place carefully!

Like what? As a doula, did you tell the woman they were being lied to?

We speak about the risks prior to labor and there is only so much a doula can do if the mother/partner are bullied into procedures or interventions that were not medically necessary or ended up causing more interventions. I cannot speak for the mother, I support her choices. When an intervention is suggested, I try to give my clients a review of pros and cons but it's up to them. Panic sometimes sets in and Obs know how to manipulate. The majority of the births I supported went well but there are a few that haunt me. Also, what I see is sometimes
different than what the mother experiences. If she feels good about her birth but I have seen her Ob do something damaging to her IMO, I am not going to ruin her memory of her experience. If she does not feel great about it and asks me, I might offer my obeservations and notes.

I have attended over 200 births, question everything your medical provider does and unless it's medically necessary, don't induce.

I worked as a chauffeur for a number of years in college and grad school, still do it during big events. I had a contact at TMZ and other gossip media outlets and would sell information such as cell phone numbers of very famous people and their itineraries.

I worked in a nonprofit where they got government and private funds to do educational programming and most of the charges to the government were fabricated. They made up nonexistent people and billed for a percentage of their salaries. I was asked to sign off on something where I was doing all the work and getting about 50K and they billed the government for a nonexistent employee who was supposedly getting 95K and then they pocketed the difference. I found another job.
And the head of the nonprofit was using donated funds to pay his mortgage on his house and his car payments. Claimed they were business expenses.

Agree with the therapist comments. Many have their own issues and have a rescue complex. Its usually far more about their needs than their clients.

I worked in several day cares during high school and college as well. It was easy to get a job in the summer as a fill-in. Some were not great, but I never witnessed any type of abuse or neglect. Most of the time the kids were well cared for. Staff are very low paid and don't get breaks. Its a hard job. Kids can get hurt/trip/fall and it be a pure accident with a parent as well. They are not going to be as closely supervised in a group setting.

There are "teachers" who are not exactly the most attentive. We had our child at a co-op and the teacher did not feel it was her job to change diapers so if the volunteering parent did not change them (I'd do two rounds when I volunteered so it really pissed me off) my child's diaper was overflowing at pick up. They also would not take the kids to the bathroom. There were few activities and little supervision on the playground. Kids got hurt on the playground. Thankfully mine was fine but we didn't return.

Another center I considered when my child was born (I ended up staying home) surprised me with the bottle propping with multiple kids. One adult was doing paperwork and one was eating their lunch. Others seemed fine. I ruled out any that didn't allow me to drop in and see and insisted on an appointment. What do they have to hide? Abuse and neglect does happen and centers can hire bad teachers. Its pretty scary, which is why I choose to not return to work.

A lot of commercial software development shops hire h1bs and basically pay them nothing with their sponsored subcontractor getting all the profit. They would work very hard to avoid being sent back home. Pretty much slave labor and killing us jobs.

Anonymous wrote:I work as a govt contractor for almost 20 years now and there are so many feds that do NOTHING. They are just dead weight and they can't be fired! They are protected by a union. I had no idea. They just move these people around to different departments. Also, people get promoted to like GS14s and then sometimes their job is eliminated for some reason so they just invent new jobs that requires a GS14 or 15 just so this person has work. I never knew how much power these unions have. You can get rid of anyone! So inefficient and wasteful. Pathetic.

Yes, PP but it is hardly a secret. The dead weight themselves aren't even secretive about it! You would think that they would at least pretend to work but I have seen far too many who are so blatant about doing nothing. Proud of it even.

I work as a govt contractor for almost 20 years now and there are so many feds that do NOTHING. They are just dead weight and they can't be fired! They are protected by a union. I had no idea. They just move these people around to different departments. Also, people get promoted to like GS14s and then sometimes their job is eliminated for some reason so they just invent new jobs that requires a GS14 or 15 just so this person has work. I never knew how much power these unions have. You can get rid of anyone! So inefficient and wasteful. Pathetic.

I was working as a gov't contractor. Our customer view the money he spent on us as "his money", and in he could task us any way he wanted.

This included:
-- tutoring his college age son (we were told to hire him as an intern) I reported it. It stopped.
-- Using contract funds to buy "equipment" for his home office, including (10 years ago) a 42" computer monitor.
-- The equipment we purchased (largely legit) was viewed as his own equipment as in, when he was transferred (fired from the org.) he took everything with him.
-- He treated us (contractors) as his property as in, he was only paying me 1/2 time, but did not want me working for anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:This is probably not a secret BUT I worked in a retail store and we all pretty much had sex all over the place in there.

+1 in restaurants. Also, lots of drinking & drugs.

Journalism--probably 50% of the stories you read are advertisements in disguise.

Child care--oh, Lord. Let's just say parents only see a TINY sliver of what goes on.

You've never worked in a newsroom.

You've never seen my resume.

We gave lip service to separation of advertising & editorial, but when it came down to it, writers who made advertisers look bad didn't last long. And yes, 90% of what I wrote about was an advertisement of some sort--reviews, previews, community events, interviews, etc. I didn't always take a totally neutral or positive angle, but any coverage is advertising of a sort. My soul felt sold in that job.

You haven't seen mine. It's how I know you haven't worked in a newsroom, not a reputable one anyway.

Jeez, lady, lose the chip on your shoulder. Congratulations for working in such reputable newsrooms. Your experience isn't he inky one that's real.

Anonymous wrote:For all the daycare workers who witnessed abuse: Did you report it? What happened after you reported? You were all mandated reporters, you know...

Yes. I wrote upthread that I reported several to DSS (and have fired several for actions that were less than abuse but still not acceptable--like sleeping on the job, yelling at children, withholding food, etc.)

Wow - this thread is fascinating! I've also had first-hand experience in H1-B visa fraud/rigged contracts in IT and also seen mistreatment of elementary school students when I worked as a substitute in a public elementary school. Nothing reportable, but generally very sadistic type behavior like laughing when kids get hurt or cry, withholding food if they are "bad", punishing kids for no good reason because the teachers are tired and want to do online shopping. I tend to agree with many of the PPs. Of the people who I personally know in my friends/family/school circle, the least intelligent (IQ-wise) went into teaching.

Anonymous wrote:I am no longer a doula but was an active one for over 10 years. The blatant lies that OB Nurses and Doctors tell mothers are terrible. Women are taken advantage of every single day and damaged and sometimes don't even know it for years after a birth. Choose your provider and birth place carefully!

Like what? As a doula, did you tell the woman they were being lied to?

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Anonymous wrote:I win (or lose) this game.

I worked for an "at risk youth travel abroad / exchange" program.

Turned out to be a front for pedophiles who would meet these at risk youths in countries where the age of consent differed, or the laws were such that prosecution would be hard. Truth be told the warning signs were there before I even started, but i was a bit niave.

Reported to the FBI. Sadly, the organization still exists today.

You may win. That is just awful that the FBI did nothing.

Damn Comey.

What organization??

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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.

Anonymous wrote:I work in IT at GSE and know of 3 people that have been fired for getting kickbacks for hiring H1Bs from contracting firms they had relationship with.

2 were for testers and 1 was for developers. All were Indian and green card holders.

Thank goodness Trump is about to lay the smackdown on H-1B abuse!