25+ Ex-Employees Expose Their Old Companies: 'I brought this up to management who proceeded to do nothing'

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Isabella Penn
Aug 12, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Get ready for the tea. Have you ever worked for a company and noticed a serious flaw but didn't say anything because you didn't want to get fired? Enter these ex-employees. Now that they've moved on from their old roles (and in some cases, we're fired), they are now able to speak the truth about the mishappening at their old jobs - even if they are speaking from an anonymous Reddit profile. Perhaps it's better that it's anonymous because we're able to get all of the juicy details out of these ex-employees. From cyber security flaws to major marketing scams, these stories might just make you feel better about your own job. If we've learned anything from this post, it's that all jobs seem to have their flaws, and it's terrifying that workers are forced to be kept silent in fear of getting fired. Just wait until you read about the ex-employee who used to work at a candy factory. 

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    r/AskReddit ⚫9 hr. ago Mave_Dustaine What's something you can admit about a company you no longer work for?
    via u/Mave_Dustaine
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    . That_Weird_Girl_107 • 8h ago Edited 6h ago Nursing homes are ALWAYS understaffed and overworked. The worst one I ever saw was 3 caregivers to 72 residents. That's 3 people who are responsible for feeding, toileting, and showering 72 people every day. Mistakes and abuse are incredibly common due to the sheer burnout that is rampant. Imagine being told after a 16 hour shift that you aren't allowed to leave (because of abandonment laws) for another 16 hours because someone didn't show up for thei
    via u/That_Weird_Girl_107
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    rocket363 • 9h ago If it seems as though your health insurance claim is being processed by a bunch of gorillas in heat throwing darts...you aren't far off.
    via u/rocket363
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    hillean 8h ago • Anytime you think your company is just a hot mess behind closed doors and everyone else has their together-- EVERYWHERE is as hot a mess as yours.
    via u/hillean
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    indie_airship • 9h ago We supported 1000+ businesses office phone systems and they all used the same password for their admin access to their systems
    via u/indie_airship
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    Sea-Bowler-8402 • 9h ago McDonald's is one of the cleanest fast food restaurants, as strange as that may sound.
    via u/Sea-Bowler-8402
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    • Gullible_Actuary_973 7h ago Excel. No matter how fancy your tech systems are, your boss just wants a half decent excel sheet to keep track of everything
    via u/Gullible_Actuary_973
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    • stackjr 7h ago Here's an open secret: IT workers are really good at Googling your problem.
    via u/stackjr
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    . Pickle_ninja 8h ago This was about 20 years ago...but... When I worked in a call center at Sprint, our calls would get recorded and we would receive an email that included a link to where we could review a transcript of our call. This transcript included the 3 pieces of personally identifiable information needed. to access someone's account.
    via u/Pickle_ninja
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    Well, the email they sent to us used a _GET parameter ID that was simply a number to reference our transcript. Basically it would be www.internalcompanywebsite.com/transcri pts?ID=12345678 If you changed the number, you would get someone else's transcript and the 3 pieces of personally identifiable information.
    via u/Pickle_ninja
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    I figured that's a pretty big security hole, but I at least have to access it from my personal office computer, so they'd see who did it. Unless you went to the break room where you could access it there. Seeing how I was just out of college and I wanted to get a software engineering job, I brought this up to management who proceeded to do nothing. I left a couple months later for a sw engineering job.
    via u/Pickle_ninja
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    20Keller12 • . 8h ago Edited 7h ago Dozens of things are stolen from every single Walmart, every single day. And the given by management about it are very few and far between. Edit: they like to pretend otherwise, but in reality management actively joke about how much was stolen day to day. What they say to everyone else and what they say behind the scenes doesn't remotely match up.
    via u/20Keller12
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    draggar • 9h ago Long past NDA. I used to support restaurant POS systems. Every system managed and supported by us had the same admin username and password for the computers, the admin software (back of house) and the credit card processing software.
    via u/draggar
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    Also, their employee "database" file on the terminals was an Excel spreadsheet. It had their names, login #'s, addresses, date of birth, phone numbers, social security numbers, etc. (and you could mentioned aforementioned admin username/ password to access them).
    via u/draggar
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    TheDadThatGrills . 8h ago They accepted stole $5-10M in PPP loans and laid off 2/3rds of their staff in the same breath one of largest PPP loan recipients in my state.
    via u/TheDadThatGrills
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    KarmaCommando_ • 8h ago At the company I worked for, everyone was assigned a Microsoft account. This was used for Outlook emailing and Teams for instant messaging and video calls. Naturally, plenty of privileged and sensitive information was exchanged in these ways. Everyone had the same password. it was first name.last name. Every employee and manager (I didn't have the guts to test the theory on an executives account.)
    via u/KarmaCommando_
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    And this was a company that, among other droll and boring trainings, made sure we had our requisite cyber security/anti- phishing training. There was lots more silliness at that company, but that right there tells you all you need to know.
    via u/KarmaCommando_
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    SnoopySuited • 8h ago Some (stress some) brokerage firms are like gyms. They want you to sign up and they hope they never see you again.
    via u/SnoopySuited
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    nothing-forbidden • 9h ago I worked for a candy company that makes chocolate coated pretzels and 'turtles' for over five years, by the time I left I wouldn't eat the candy even when they were giving it away. I saw them let tainted product leave the factory and covering it up, because reworking it would be too expensive to faking food safety compliance, and safety checks.
    via u/nothing-forbidden
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    Years after I left, the entire team running operations got replaced at once, so maybe it's better now but holy , it made me paranoid about packaged food in general and a little horrified at how much blind faith we put in the people that make our food.
    via u/nothing-forbidden
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    loritree 8h ago Your child's daycare worker is extremely over worked and underpaid. parents would complain all the time about how much day care cost, but it's less expensive than a babysitter. I always wanted to ask the complaining parent how much they would charge to watch 13 children they were not related to.
    via u/loritree
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    SuperRadPsammead 7h ago A lot of small businesses are really dirty in their kitchens like they have the outward presentation of being a fancy French Bakery but the floors are dirty and there's bugs everywhere and they're reusing dirty sheet. pans from raw product for baked product and spreading frangipane all over things that shouldn't be covered in raw nut butter. But if you try and call that out you're a || " and "fired" lol
    via u/SuperRadPsammead
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    throw123454321purple • 7h ago Universities love international students because they pay exorbitant amounts of money for non-resident tuition.
    via u/throw123454321purple
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    Sad-Variety-6501 ⚫ 7h ago • Let's put it this way. Years ago I was bragging to a cab driver about a new job I had just gotten. When he asked about the company, I told him it was a family business. He replied "You're screwed". He was right.
    via u/Sad-Variety-6501
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    Agile-Noveli • 9h ago In the kitchen of the finest restaurants there is A LOT of cocaine
    via u/Agile-Noveli
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    DangerzonePlane8 · 7h ago I worked in human services (DD/DHHS adult mostly) the amount of money that companies receive for group homes is nuts. Almost none of it gets spent on the individuals or training staff/paying them. A lot of stuff gets swept under the rug. The place I worked for would give you I kid you not a $0.25 raise and would freak out when I mentioned (I was a manager at the time) of doing $100 gift cards for employee of the month. They thought that was outrageous.
    via u/DangerzonePlane8
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    Calling DrDingle • 7h ago We used to own a couple of gyms. I guarantee you that your membership can be canceled without all the , most of them just try to squeeze every single thing they can get out of you.
    via u/CallingDrDingle
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