One nice thing about leaving a job is that you can spill all the juicy tea on your former employer's shady deeds (unless you signed an NDA), and things you got away with on the job that might have gotten you fired if your boss ever found out. A popular question is often posted to r/AskReddit—"What's a company secret you can share now that you don't work there?"—and the answers rarely disappoint. In this thread, a common theme seemed to be companies that deliberately lie to customers. It's validating, in a way, to hear a bunch of former employees confirm what we were always suspicious of.
"What? How are there not enough opinionated retirees in your area?" said u/lablackey27.
"Yeah but I'm not buying Franz sticks when Olive Garden will give me an unlimited amount that are already prepared" said u/canehdian78.
"Guilty. The worst part is, I know they can see it." said u/___cats___.
"Yeh, I started typing my responses in notepad and pasting them over because of my need to be seen as an adult" said u/ThrowawayUk4200.
"I work for a wholesaler. You would be surprised how many companies simply source merchandise and sell it without ever touching it. We ship it direct to their customers for them, just swap the return address for theirs." said u/NativeMasshole.
"Comcast. They do this all the time. Not really worth the hour plus it takes on the phone for them to not steal from you but it's worth it to them to steal from thousands of people." said u/Top-Kaleidoscope-751.
"Pound symbol then 35 at Lowes" said u/thebeautifulseason.
"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." said u/kuebel33.
"That's what we all said. My friend and I were managers and had absolutely no idea this was happening. It was a smaller town comic shop and all the customers sending in comics to be graded were good friends of ours. But the plot gets thicker. Turns out his wife was signed for the business, so the 'owner' wasn't really the owner. We called her and explained what was happening, she was in tears. She came to shop to meet the wronged customers and she took graded comics from the 'owners' collection and let the customers pick out comics to equal to the value of their GRADED comics in return for the mishap. Fast forward a few months, she closed the store, gave us our paychecks and even some 'I'm sorry' money. It turns out the guy was doing all kinds of other shady shit. She divorced him, and I'm like 99% sure he went to jail for fraud. He's also banned from CGC and all of the licensed big comic cons lol." said u/ZealousidealWay1139.
"This is true and also very annoying because I work on the floor and the guys in surveillance can't be bothered to do their job and give us a lot of 'hrmm can't really see anything' when we call them." said u/MarMar201.
"They're busy looking down a blouse." said u/CatoblepasQueefs.
"I worked baggage at an airport. Nothing is handled with care. If it's marked fragile, your only hope is nice baggage handlers. You should avoid packing breakable things at all costs. Edit. Not totally true. I never had one, but we were trained on how to properly handle a casket. The training was 'Be very careful, don't drop it, and for the love of God, don't sit on it like it's a horse.' True story. That's what our boss said." said u/FatTim48.
"'don't sit on it like it's a horse.' That's a warning that exists because someone's done it before." said u/Scyhaz.
"You need a maple syrup cartel, like in Quebec." said u/wordnerdette.
"I used to work for an online craft-type store, and one of the things they sold was 'premium craft sand.' It was literally sand from the hardware store. They'd buy 50 lb. bags from Home Depot for $8, separate it into 1 lb. bags, and sell those for $4 each." said u/DimitriV.
"The funny thing is whoever sells it to Home Depot buys it for $20 per ton and does the same thing." said u/GrannyLow.
"What the fuck. Contact your local news organizations." said u/LowPermission9.
"Contact the fucking EPA" said u/herefishyfishy1.
"Also, I suspect the menu options have not recently changed." said u/AdhesivenessLivid959.
"Back when photoshop came out it put a lot of the old school lithographers out of business. My dad was one of these. When he got laid off he copied the stack of floppy disks with photoshop on them, bought an apple computer, and started his own company." said u/SuperBrett9.
"When one of my doctors retired, I requested my records so I could take them to my new provider. According to said records, I've had a child, breast biopsy, tonsillectomy, thyroidectomy, AND I'm 390 years old. I have had exactly none of these things." said u/caryb.
"Which the exec was happy about, because he saw good sales for the male shampoo he introduced" said u/leonme21.
"Aye, but did anyone phone in to thank you?" said u/ColsonIRL.