‘The Greedy Pigs are Stealing, and the Worst Part Is It’s Legal’ : Former Employees Reveal Shady Company Fails and Secrets

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Eleonora Bader
Jan 20, 2023 10:00 AM EST

It's surprising how colossal secrets are kept for so long within companies themselves, but more so when you think about how many employees have since left said company, and kept their mouths shut. Perhaps they signed an NDA, or they're afraid that they'll be sued regardless. Maybe they don't care, or they think others won't. Either way, it is of paramount importance for the world to find out about certain (bad) things, so that individuals can work together to put a stop to them. We all play an instrumental role in change.

What I'm saying is, people have worked in some pretty shady places… myself included. Company policies often, for lack of a better word, suck. They don't serve the customer in any shape, way, or form. It can get unethical pretty fast. What you'll see time and again, is company management informing the staff how to cheat customers out of money or services they deserve. Heck, it ain't even always legal…

That's what happens when greedy, shady, inconsiderate people run the place. While scrolling through r/AskReddit I happened on a post that posed the question, 'What's a company secret you can share now that you don't work there?' — and let's say that the answers were not pretty. Below you'll find some of the funniest (and most disturbing) replies.

While we're on the topic of a lack of justice, feel free to check out these funny and dumb phrases that were overheard in courtrooms.

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    Font - Posted by u/broadway96 2 days ago Whats a company secret you can share now that you dont work there?
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    Font - dylpickle91 · 1 day ago · edited 14 hr. ago At a local deli/grocery store I worked at, everyone raved about how good their mac and cheese is, and it always sold really quick when I worked in the deli. It's even labeled on the menu as [Store]'s famous mac n cheese... It's literally just Stouffer's, we didn't even add anything to it 4359 Reply Share
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    Font - ZealousidealWay1139 · 1 day ago I worked at a comic book store that offered a service where you paid a small premium to have sent in rare comics to have them graded at CGC. A few months later we had many customers coming in to check the status of their comics. We contacted the owner to see what was going on, and he would always claim that there
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    Font - was some distribution problem. Fast forward a few months, we found out he was taking customers graded copies and selling them online while trying to return back issue versions of their original comics. 4.0k Reply Share
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    Font - kuebel33 - 1 day ago How did this dude think that comic collectors who were sending in comics to be graded, wouldn't recognize they weren't receiving their original comic back? Lol. I'm sure a few newer to the hobby wouldn't be the wiser, but man. 1.9k Reply Share
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    Font - Pariahdog119 · 1 day ago · edited 19 hr. ag P2000 The vehicle modification shop at Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio dumps waste coolant from the machine shop into a storm drain that empties directly into the Scioto River, because the chemical disposal tank is a 55 gallon drum in the paint shop, and that's much too small.
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    Font - They can't throw me into solitary confinement for complaining anymore. Edit: this happens about once a year, when the machine's coolant reservoirs are emptied and the coolant replaced. It's not on a schedule, it's one of those things that you do when work is slow.
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    Font - GrievingImpala · 21 hr. ago In college I worked at a Wendy's and someone once dropped a chicken patty on the ground. Manager picked it up and said, "fuck it, I clean these floors every night" and made a sandwich and ate it himself. Only nasty thing I ever saw there. 189 Reply Share
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    Font - _Zoko_. 1 day ago If you pick up a wall phone at Home Depot and push '7' it activates the store wide intercom. This works in every store in my province afaik 6.4k Reply Share
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    Font - solitarytrees2 1 day ago . edited 1 day ago I'll say it. A place similar in name to Past Face Urgent Care (at least in the region I worked at) banned their front desk from informing customers that they have a credit balance to use toward their services and still required us to charge customers the full price on top of
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    Font - what we already owed them. Some accounts had like 500 dollars of copay that should have been refunded but weren't. I was actually reprimanded for applying the credit balance, because despite finance agreeing my method was correct, the regional manager said it was not a good look for the company and hindered her profits. 1.6k Reply Share
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    Font - CHO BayBel 1 day ago I worked at L'Oréal. The cosmetics from L'Oréal and Lancôme are practically the same. But Lancôme costs like $20 more. 3.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Ineedtwocats 1 day ago I still work here but EVERYONE PLEASE get a copy of your Medical Records from every place you've been to. keep a hard copy, in your home because I have horror stories from working in Medical Records since 2007
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    Font - mgt15 1 day ago I used to work as a receptionist at an upscale salon. While I was there, the salon introduced a new line of products marketed. towards men (up until that point most of our products were marketed towards women, but the execs saw that we were getting more
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    Font - male customers). Every item in the men's product line was about half the cost of our other products. The "men's" shampoo was the exact same shampoo the salon had been selling for years, but because they put it in black packaging with the word "man" on it, it was half the price. The owner's
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    Font - explanation was "Well, men don't want to pay that much for hair products." For the rest of the time I worked there, every time a woman came up to buy that shampoo I'd tell her that the men's shampoo was the exact same product for half the price. 5.1k Reply Share
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    Font - 6billionyearsold. 1 day ago • edited 1 day ago Olive Garden breadsticks are just Franz brand breadsticks, garlic salt, and butter ETA: It's margarine, not butter. I forgot there is a difference :p 19.3k Reply Share
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    Font - Ginker78 1 day ago Worked at Best Buy 20 years ago. Employee discount was 5% over cost and I needed a new printer. Decided to splurge on the gold plated USB printer cable that we sold for $40. Rang up $1.78. Reply Share 11.9k
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    Font - Perendinator 1 day ago In a broadband company I worked for I was tasked with editing thousands of complaints to avoid huge Ofcom fines. 2.6k Reply Share
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    Font - inkseep1 1 day ago I used to work surveillance at a casino. From something like 3 stories high ceiling, we could zoom in on money on the table games and read the serial numbers of the bills. We could see the pips on the dice. Policy was to not look down blouses. 4 27.6k Reply Share
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    Font - Camper jablair51 1 day ago Diet Sprite and Sprite Zero were the exact same thing. They didn't change the recipe one bit. They just changed the name and design. 444 Reply Share
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    Font - Technicolor_Reindeer · 1 day ago When I worked at a godiva store we would turn expired chocolate bars into sample pieces 8.1k Reply Share
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    Font - JoshM-R 1 day ago In the United States. One company's bread and butter was simply reboxing and relabling computer monitors from China to make it seem like they were from the company and made/assembled in some way by them. 11.4k Reply Share
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    Font - Lunar_Gato 1 day ago Maple sap can be trucked in from other states and where it's turned from sap to syrup decides on the state it comes from, not the location of the trees. 22.8k Reply Share
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    Font - TAHINAZ 1 day ago Hotels do not typically have security, maintenance or housekeeping on staff 24/7. Once housekeeping finishes cleaning all the rooms, the entire staff leaves except for one front desk employee. Reply Share 13.0k
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    Font - Sullyville 1 day ago Used to work at a graphic design firm. All our Adobe software was pirated. ✩ 28.6k Reply Share
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    Font - Barnlifebill 1 day ago I worked for a large construction company and the sales guys would intentionally omit items from contracts because they received incentives for what would then become a "change order".
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    Font - Me: "You forgot to include any framing in this contract" Sales weasel: "oh, I guess it's a change order then." *customer cries 13.9k Reply Share
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    Font - Following_the_Sun - 1 day ago Inbound call center - the "We are currently experiencing an unusually high call volume" message is permanent. They just didn't staff adequately. 22.4k Reply Share
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    Font - actuallyjohnqmind · 1 day ago Your luggage at an airport isn't really handled with care Reply Share 13.9k
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    Font - . iate3pepperoncini - 1 day ago 201 S & 5 More I used to work for a company that rhymes with Muzzbeed and we used to have somebody post this question every few months for material for one of our clickbait articles. 34.8k Reply Share
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    Font - Pergmanexe 1 day ago Worked in insurance, hundreds of people have access to your SSN with no security clearance or background check. 17.5k Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Bigfeett 1 day ago 2 & 5 More I worked as a dog groomer for a summer, we gave your dog a treat even if they wern't good 18.8k Reply Share
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