'Companies pay $50,000+ [...] for a "best place to work" advertisement package:' 20+ company secrets from people who no longer work there

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 4, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

There are many ways to get even with your boss after you were unjustly fired, but revealing company secrets has got to be the most high-stakes option. Now, as someone who does not have the guts to pull this kind of petty revenge off, I have to step back and marvel at some of these folks for speaking their truth. That being said, they did do it behind the anonymous safety net of this r/AskReddit thread, but still, I guess we should give credit where credit is due. 

As for my company secrets, that's for another day. It's not that I don't have them; it's that I simply do not have the bandwidth to open that can of worms at the moment. For now, keep scrolling below for this collection of company secrets. When you're finished, feel free to take a look at this compilation of 20+ unwise comments made by horrible bosses.

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    Property - "What's a company secret that you can share now [because] you don't work there anymore?"
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    Font - r/AskReddit. Posted by u/mysha_chan 10 hours ago What's a company secret that you can share now cuz you don't work there anymore?
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    Font - fart_fig_newton - 10 hr. ago I'm still in it, but here's an industry secret: If your AC is low on "freon", then you have a leak. Don't let a company make money by "topping you off" at each visit like it's a consumable. Your system has a leak, and it won't work right until the leak is repaired. Also, filters are cheap. Don't pay a premium for a service company to bring them for you, you may be up charged a ridiculous amount for it. 13.6k Reply Share
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    Font - BeerPoweredNonsense. 6 hr. ago Not me, but my wife - used to work for a light- bulb manufacturer in France, their marketing at that time stated "all our products are made in the EU". Their "factory" in Italy received containers from China, unpacked all the light-bulbs and put them in new "made in EU" cardboard packaging, and sent them on to the hardware stores. 8.1k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Beastlysolid 5 hr. ago The furniture on display in stores at the big UK brand sofa companies is a far superior built product than what the general public gets delivered. 7.9k Reply Share
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    Font - LordMoody 6 hr. ago Worked at a service station (petrol/gas). Every morning at 7 I had to ring a number not connected to the company and report the cost of fuel. Friends who had the same job at a different company had the same task with the same phone number. It was definitely collusion between companies. ✩ 5.9k 5.9k Reply Share
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    Font - CMpunkMain EventMania 6 hr. ago I would change price tags for a retail store. Let's say an item was $2.99 and has been for months. I would take down the price tag and replace it with a tag that said "Originally $3.99. SALE $1.00 off! New price- $2.99." This would be done for a LOT of items. Sneaky. 5.6k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - GreenEggsGoneHam - 6 hr. ago I worked for a large cable company years ago. We were taught that if you called in about services being down and were trying to get them fixed, not to give you credit for the time they were down unless you asked, no matter how long it may be. Even if you did ask for credit, we often only gave it to you for days you called in.
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    Font - So if you had a storm roll through and didn't have service for more than one day, you had to call each day. If you took the liberty to credit them anyway, you would be coached to do it the proper way. We often used this downtime to upsell you on additional channels, faster internet speeds etc, for when it did return. We also were taught to sell higher speeds to unsuspecting customers who didn't know any better,
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    Font - thinking faster internet would make their 9 year old laptop/PC perform better. We got a kickback on how many ancillaries we sold. A basic rep who performed halfway decent could often make more than those that were responsible for them. 3.8k Reply Share
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    Font - PiPbOYMBB 6 hr. ago Not really a secret but just confirming what is already known. I worked at a division 3 college for 7 years. They weren't supposed to give out scholarships for sports but would pick a random reason for the student to get one. It seemed like half the sports teams had scholarships for being low income or good/bad grades. Also, they would wait for the cutoff date to kick students out of college. If you would receive any of your tuition back, they'd wait till the day after
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    Font - Boring Squirrels 10 hr. ago Their secret famous family donut recipe was just Pillsbury dough lol bye 1.5k Reply Share
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    Font - TupperwareNinja - 9 hr. ago Security Guards don't do anything ↑ 1.1k Reply Share badger_flakes 7 hr. ago Paul blart does 321 Reply Share
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    Font - Ruggiard 6 hr. ago After people at our main supplier went to jail for a similar incident. Senior management thought it would be a good idea to redecorate the entire office building (about 200 people work there) and to hand the contract for the redecoration concept to the struggling interior design company the CEO and the COO's wives had founded together just weeks before. So the managers authorised a six- figure design project which went directly into their family income (minus VAT). 1.0k
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    Font - MacRich1980. 6 hr. ago That in most hotels the housekeeping staff are overworked and timed per room and if a slept in bed is not too creased after checkout they will remake it without changing it, same goes for towels. I've seen it all and when I stay in a hotel I insist on bedding and towels to be left out for me to put on myself. 854 Reply Share
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    Font - Unusual-Section-8155 5 hr. ago At a conference the CEO of the world biggest drink company and a major polluter, was happy to announce that rising global temperatures were good for business as for every one degree up they sold an extra $20 million in a country of 26 million people. 768 Reply Share
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    Font - couldbedumber96 - 6 hr. ago I can give you one and I still work there Hotels will give preferential treatment to guests who made a reservation through booking.com, we care about booking scores more than Expedia or even our own website, some hotels even give bonuses to workers if guests give a 10 rating and mention the specific worker by name in the review 751 Reply Share
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    Font - butkusny 6 hr. ago 20 years in the watch industry. Basically, anything with a quartz movement is more accurate than any automatic. Also, all quartz movements are equally accurate. You're paying for handmade craftsmanship, quality of materials and marketing.. ↑ 577 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - TheSnowman10-4 - 6 hr. ago The reason everything tastes good at sit down restaurants...an uncomfortable amount of butter, cream and or/salt. Makes food delicious....but you know it's not great for you so don't use a lot at home... 556 Reply Share
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    Font - missingninja 6 hr. ago I was a welder at a rail car manufacturer. And this should be common knowledge, but I've seen a lot of dumb videos on here. Do not play around train cars while moving. I can guarantee there are some out of tolerance for overall diameter. And under it, the legs and stuff we welded could be out of tolerance. Not to mention the welds themselves. Sometimes it was just sling something up there to get the line moving. Reply Share 450
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    Font - always-_-hungry. 6 hr. ago I thinks it's more commonly known now, but Black Friday sales or sales in general aren't good deals. If you see anything on sale it means there is excess stock that they are struggling to sell because a buyer messed up and ordered too many units.
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    Font - stan13ag 5 hr. ago Companies pay $50,000+ to be listed as, and for a "best place to work advertisement package" My job that was "the best place to work in tech" was actually just one of the only ones willing to pay 318 Reply Share
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    Font - MrKeyes 4 hr. ago US college bookstores. You can almost always find the book you need for cheaper by hundreds, if not free altogether online. If you get financial aid that you can only use at the bookstore, then pay out of pocket and you'll get a refund check for what you should have spent at the bookstore. If you can't afford it out of pocket, look at the bookstore for gift cards, a lot have gift cards for Amazon an eBay that you can pay with financial aid. 309 Reply Share
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    Font - montili 6 hr. ago If you have a hardware problem with your PC/Mac/Smartphone it is never ever necessary to give away your password. Your photos will be searched and copied! I was working at an Apple reseller which also offered support. It's true that a password can make support easier in some cases, but your photos will be looked at too! And there are always ways to do so without password! ↑ 306 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - GuybrushFunkwood. 5 hr. ago Still work in it, your premium market chicken from a certain company is grown in the exact same sheds, fed the exact same food, drinks the exact same water as the budget chicken, the premium buyers basically subsidise the budget markets chicken so they can remain competitive 109 Reply Share
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