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!

#1 Call center

Source: pride_of_pyongyang, MART PRODUCTION

Just because you hear music when I put you on hold, doesn’t mean I do.
I can hear every profanity you utter.

#2

Source:  anon, ThisIsEngineering

The groundbreaking scientific results published by the mainstream media bear little resemblance to the results published in the actual scientific article.

#3

Source: geekmuseNU, Tom Fisk

I work on a farm. When they say you should wash your produce thoroughly at home, they’re not joking.

#4

Source: a_sad_sad_man, Kindel Media

A lot of people know this, but, the police can lie to you. About damn near anything. If you are ever arrested, shut the f**k up. Request a lawyer. I can repeat this, but you dumb motherf**kers will still talk to the f**king cops. You are soooo much better off just not talking to them.

#5

Source: anon, Pavel Danilyuk

Nurse assistant here. If you have taken any illegal dr*gs, or prescription dr*gs to get high within the last 24 hours… F*****G TELL US. It could save your life. We won’t judge you for it… But we would judge you for bullsh**ting us even if your life could be at risk.

#6

Source: Jombafomb, Dmitry Demidov

I’m in radio. We don’t get to pick what we play on air, the pd schedules it and we just talk in between songs. The closest we get is when we play a request, that’s usually something we wanted to hear and no one actually requested it.
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 was a deep sea diver for 10 years in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge oil spills happen and are covered up hundreds of times a year by every company. The entire industry is in on it. The bottom of the gulf is a disgusting garbage dump. Every boat dumps their trash into the gulf no one obeys the laws and the coast guard doesn’t enforce s**t.
*I had a bunch of requests for an AMA so I’m doing one now if anyone has more questions.

#8

Source: reddit, fredsharples

When you climb into a helicopter and the rotors are turning, you can’t reach your arm up high enough to lose a hand….but we don’t want anyone trying to test it or prove us wrong.

#9

Source: Jeremehthejelly, Thanzi Thanzeer

Graphic designer here. For the last time, just because we have Photoshop and Illustrator doesn’t mean the design process is on auto-pilot. So when we say we need an extra hour to work out your problem, we mean it. And yes, we need the vector file of your logo, or at least a PDF copy of it.

#10

Source: allosaur, cottonbro

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).