Company Secrets People Can Share Now That They've Left

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Eric Lund
Jan 18, 2022 2:00 PM EST

We're a paranoid group of people. So we're naturally curious about how insecure banking actually is or how clean Arby's kitchens are. And of course it's just inherently interesting to get the straight dirt on companies that we interact with on the daily, as well as some weird particular scams people had running out of their specific workplaces. The world is full of secrets, and a lot of them are pretty unsettling. For some more of those, here are things people can reveal now that their NDA has expired.

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    Font - j_tonks · 2 days ago I sandblasted the steam engine that pulls the train around Disney World. Not sure why it was a secret, but Disney made our management sign very scary NDAS.
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    Font - brokenmario84 · 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago So worked for ESPN for years.. They used to charge people to be an Insider, which gave you fantasy advise if you sent an email. Those "experts" were myself and other randoms here in Omaha,Ne in a call center. No training just our opinions Imao.
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    Font - Stephen2678 - 2 days ago Camera shop I worked in as a kid. Owner used to make an extra print of the nudes and kept them in a photo album he hid in the back of the shop. Thought it was funny as a 15 year old. Seems pretty f-.ed now.
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    Font - Neriahbeez 2 days ago 2 S Pawn Shop. If you pawn or sell your laptop, phone or camera delete nudes or personal pictures. I had a boss that would go through each device. This idiot would go through and try to show me pics like I gave a fi' .k. And he legally could because the customer signs a waiver. Delete your shit peeps
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    Font - BillyBraggsArse - 2 days ago I used to work for a credit card company and on their applications website, there was a check box for 'priority processing". This cost £10 and ensured that you jumped the queue when applications were processed. In reality, there wasn't any such queue jumping facility. Everyone who paid extra for priority processing was automatically declined as they were deemed "too desperate for credit".
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    Font - Tinnisher · 2 days ago Tobacco companies would deliberately leave packs of cigarettes exposed at liquor stores where kids could "steal" them because "a pack stolen is a pack sold." They'll be back soon to buy a pack.
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    Font - NudistJayBird · 2 days ago 2 (3 At a MAJOR insurance company I wrote software for was very big on security. If we needed to make an update, we weren't allowed to remote into the server (even though you physically could, it was just against policy). To make an update, you had to put your changes onto portable storage, show your ID to the security guy, use your key to open the door, get escorted to the server, then they'd observe you via cameras. The login? "admin" The password? Blank. Lite
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    Font - mymelodythefelon · 2 days ago At Victoria's Secret, I would measure the girls/womens bra size. We only sell up to 38DDD in store. I was told by my managers that if someone measured over a 38DDD, to just lie and say a close size. Usually if they were a 40 or 42, we could recommend online shopping, but for people who were 44, 46, 48, we always had to say 38 band size anyway, and get them a bra, and convince them to not try it on in store, that way we made a sale. Returns didn't affect the n
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    Font - HanleyDuck · 2 days ago Care companies make a fortune by running short-staffed (this was happening pre-pandemic too) to the point where it's part of the business model. A care home funded to have say, 10 staff on shift per day manages to keep everybody clean, fed and watered on just 6. You think they refund the council for all those extra hours? Nah, straight into the profit column.
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    Font - Cordero_Biggs · 2 days ago S I used to remodel Pizza Huts, Arby's, Wendy's, and KFC stores. Arby's kitchens were the cleanest I've ever seen anywhere. KFC had grease residue, but still clean. Wendy's wasn't bad, just not as thorough. The first Pizza Hut had me swear them off for life, and continued to gusset that opinion for the next 20+ stores. I've not eaten Pizza Hut in 25 years. My kids have never eaten Pizza Hut.
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    Font - Cheetah84380 · 2 days ago There's a ton of employee theft that occurs at certain furniture outlets. Employee wants a new couch? Then just type up an invoice saying this $3000 sofa was damaged while being moved around the show room and it was then discounted and sold for $299. Got a sectional that was delivered but doesn't show up on your inventory sheet? Just take it home and post it on Facebook marketplace. One guy was even so brazen that he would sell something, then fudge the numbers t
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    Font - That particular guy got so confident that he could get away with anything, that he even started taking cuts of sales that were made with credit/debit cards. Someone comes in and buys a sofa for $1000 on a credit card, he then writes that the customer came back the same day and complained about a rip in one of the cushions so he issued a $150 cash refund to please the customer. That dude stole into the $10,000's of dollars and got away with it for years. When the regional management finall
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    Human body - brandonday82 - 2 days ago When we put you on hold without music, we can hear you
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    Smile - ChachMcGach - 2 days ago In many of those website help chat apps, the agent can see what you're typing before you hit "send."
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    Font - anarchistSwordfish · 2 days ago S2 most clothes that get donated to Goodwill get thrown out. at a normal store they go through donations and if it isn't good enough (stains or tears on clothes, electronics that don't work, ect) or if it's been in the store for a month it gets sent to a Goodwill Outlet store. those are cheeper but a lot of things still don't get bought there. if they're at the outlet store for long enough they're just thrown out. you wouldn't think it would be that many cl
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    Font - SuperSequins89 · 2 days ago A few years ago, David's Bridal announced that regular and plus-sized wedding gowns would be the same price (like, a size 24 wouldn't be $150 more than its size 4 counterpart). They did this by marking up the regular sizes to match the plus- sized prices.
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    Font - Dary11 - 2 days ago 2 6 7 2/3 tablespoon salt 3 tablespoons white pepper 12 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 13 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dry mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 1 tablespoon ground ginger 6.7k J Reply Share Report Save Follow cooltim - 2 days ago Finger lickin good.
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    Plant - joek68130 - 2 days ago Not sure if this is a secret but worked in payments industry for one of the major firms and the tech is absolute dogsht. Banks and payment firms have some of the oldest, most broken tech around
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    Font - Inallea - 2 days ago - edited 2 days ago The senior partner at a regional office of a law firm insisted on opening all incoming office correspondence so he could add charges to the client's files for himself . He'd charge out $1,000 - $1,200 per day reading mail that he had no need to. 90% of the correspondence was for matters that he was not working on or was not qualified to work on. He was a commercial lawyer reading correspondence on criminal/family law matters. He once charged for hi
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    Font - CDC_ · 2 days ago 2 S I used to work for Lowe's in the contact center, not the store. Absolutely no one knows where your package is. What you see on the tracking info you're given is what we see. You've been waiting 7 months for your refrigerator? That sucks. Hopefully it'll get there eventually. We don't know if the inventory reflected to us is correct or not. Policy is, if it SAYS it's in stock, we tell you it's in stock, despite the fact that there's a good chance it's not in stock. It
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    Facial expression - Effingehh - 2 days ago worked at a deli, the decaf coffee was just regular coffee in a pot with an orange top
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    Font - AIRA18 · 2 days ago I worked at a company selling beauty & health products and I'm in charge of their finances. From product to packaging it cost us 13$ to make, we sell one for 200$ and people bought em like crazy. We went from making thousands to making millions per month. However making that much money in a short amount of time is what eventually kills the company
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    Font - Embarrassed-Ad8053 · 2 days ago we used to throw any donuts, bagels, or muffins out at the end of every night at dunkin. one week around christmas time we would donate the food, but other than that it was all waste, and if we took any home ourselves we would get charged for it.
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    Font - Senalmoondog - 2 days ago The boss was not in China getting new factories setup. He was in prison for tax-evasion.
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    Human body - LeaChan - 2 days ago The Dollar General I used to work at kept the key to the store... under the rug in front of the front doors.
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    Font - Talky51 · 2 days ago I worked at a dodgy UK firm for elderly and disabled people back in the mid 2000's their racket was selling stair lifts and mobility scooters to old people. They would install a stairlift for £3000 to £5000 Then keep tabs on the customer with courtesy calls until the old person passes. Offer to remove and resell the stairlift for the bereaved family. Sell the stairlift on to the next old person at full price. 90% of the time the stair lift sale would get lost in the a
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    Font - bmanley620 · 2 days ago Ronald McDonald isn't actually a real person. I worked at McDonald's solely for the chance to meet my childhood hero. Fast forward 13 years and I finally found this out. Put my two weeks notice in right away and moved on to bigger and better things, aka Burger King. Can't wait to meet him
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    Font - drax3012 · 2 days ago I used to work at a major DIY store and every complaint we got was pretty much justified because it almost always boiled down to the fact that we weren't properly staffed. Like most of the time there'd be only one person working the paint section during the day, which is insane since paint is one of the most popular things we sell. So when he goes on break, there's just a bunch of frustrated customers who'd have to wait an hour just to pick out one thing.
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    Rectangle - tylery21 · 2 days ago Dairy Queen ice cream is legally not allowed to be called ice cream. We're supposed to call it soft serve at every instance and never refer to it as ice cream because it does not contain a high enough dairy content.
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    Font - groodscom - 2 days ago I used to work at Kelloggs. All the fruit loops are coated with the same flavoring.
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