10 Anonymous People Share These Industry Secrets That They Don't Want You To Know
Employees are required to sign confidentiality agreements when they accept a job offer for a variety of reasons. Confidentiality agreements are primarily used to prevent unauthorized disclosure of a company's financial data, customer information, or intellectual property. However, keeping material "secret" may also help the business safeguard it from those who the public might not want to know about.
What is a "dirty little (or big) secret" about an industry you have worked in that people outside the industry really ought to know? was a question posed on Reddit quite some time ago. And a lot of folks gave delivery. Check out some of the most fascinating business secrets that people shared by scrolling down below. Additionally, keep in mind that not all information provided online is accurate (many are not), so you should proceed with caution while reading anything. Enjoy!
I can hear every profanity you utter.
The guys down at the talk station ironically can play whatever they want but think the last good song came out in 1975.
*I had a bunch of requests for an AMA so I’m doing one now if anyone has more questions.
Mass market paperbacks are cheap to manufacture and get shipped out in huge volumes. For some publishers (particularly ones that put out new mysteries or romances quarterly) when the bookstore wants it off the shelf to make room for something new, it’s just not worth the cost of taking them back and finding someone else to sell it. But they don’t want anyone getting them for free. So as a bookstore employee I spent hours ripping the front and back covers off of books, then tearing the book at least in half so that no one could read it later. The covers get sent back to the publishers, and the books that could have been donated to a library or school get put in a locked recycling container out back. A manager had to come back and check my work to make sure the books were not left intact.
I almost cried the first time I had to rip up a load of kid’s books (in a city with high child poverty rates and underfunded schools).
What is a "dirty little (or big) secret" about an industry you have worked in that people outside the industry really ought to know? was a question posed on Reddit quite some time ago. And a lot of folks gave delivery. Check out some of the most fascinating business secrets that people shared by scrolling down below. Additionally, keep in mind that not all information provided online is accurate (many are not), so you should proceed with caution while reading anything. Enjoy!
#1 Call center
Source: pride_of_pyongyang, MART PRODUCTION
I can hear every profanity you utter.
#2
Source: anon, ThisIsEngineering
#3
Source: geekmuseNU, Tom Fisk
#4
Source: a_sad_sad_man, Kindel Media
#5
Source: anon, Pavel Danilyuk
#6
Source: Jombafomb, Dmitry Demidov
The guys down at the talk station ironically can play whatever they want but think the last good song came out in 1975.
#7
Source: Diverdave76, Pia
*I had a bunch of requests for an AMA so I’m doing one now if anyone has more questions.
#8
Source: reddit, fredsharples
#9
Source: Jeremehthejelly, Thanzi Thanzeer
#10
Large chain bookstores: so so so many perfectly good books get thrown out…Mass market paperbacks are cheap to manufacture and get shipped out in huge volumes. For some publishers (particularly ones that put out new mysteries or romances quarterly) when the bookstore wants it off the shelf to make room for something new, it’s just not worth the cost of taking them back and finding someone else to sell it. But they don’t want anyone getting them for free. So as a bookstore employee I spent hours ripping the front and back covers off of books, then tearing the book at least in half so that no one could read it later. The covers get sent back to the publishers, and the books that could have been donated to a library or school get put in a locked recycling container out back. A manager had to come back and check my work to make sure the books were not left intact.
I almost cried the first time I had to rip up a load of kid’s books (in a city with high child poverty rates and underfunded schools).
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