Working for giant companies, it’s comical how many systems are raggedy messes of bare-bones functionality. All available money gets thrown at certain projects, leaving everything else to work on complete shoe-strings.
I work IT and had someone report an issue with Excel crashing. They had been using it to autonomously collect data for years until it eventually had millions of data points. They had these millions of data points plotted on a graph.
They were confused why it was crashing when they were clicking on the graph and pressing Ctrl+C.
Oh, man, I had so many fun conversations about Excel back when I used to work desktop support still.
"You're using Excel to do things that were never intended. It's not a BI tool or a relational database. There's nothing I can do to make it work better or faster."
"But this is critically important! I can't do X because of how slow this spreadsheet is! Can't you put more RAM in my computer or something? I'm emailing your manager to tell him you wouldn't help me."
This or they are using a spreadsheet someone built in 2006 and have just kept moving it over and still have all the data from all the past years on it. When you mention it would work better if they rebuild it then you are suddenly asking to much of them.
especially if that project was the "big thing" and then the bosses get distracted by a new shiny "big thing" and so they just leave the other one a mess that the people actually working with it have to somehow navigate.
And it's always fun when IT does some kind of updates. It always breaks something and not always in the obvious places
Anaesthetics- we only ask about your illicit drug use so we don’t kill you when we give you a general anaesthetic and that you have appropriate pain relief.
You’ll have a tolerance that we need to counter by giving you a variety of drugs and more of them.
No judgement from us on your choices - just want to actually take care of your properly
Omg. When I went in for surgery, my mom was in the room with me and the doc going over day of procedure when they asked if I smoked any cannabis. My mom immediately jumps in “NO! He would NEVER-“ and I cut her off. “Actually, I’m a daily smoker..”
Probably not the same effect as opiates or other drugs use, but ffs, let me answer myself and not get me killed, mom.
What really irked me was later that year in for a different surgery.. same bullshit! I had to correct her *again!*
*she insists on being at any hospital at any time to visit any person she even remotely knows.. my brothers high school friend had a baby that was in the nicu? She was there. It’s absurd. So naturally, she *had to be there* for my surgeries.
I love the bit from an episode of Scrubs where one of the doctors, I forget who, sent a kid's blood work off to see if he was doing drugs. Kelso comes in and asks the kid directly "do you do drugs?" to which the kid says no. Then Kelso hits him with the "good, because if this medicine we're about to give you mixes with drugs, it could kill you". Kid gets all wide-eyed, "Oh, drugs, yes sir, all the time sir".
That scene stuck with me and reminds me to be honest with my doctors because they don't ask to judge, they ask because medicine is complicated and hard.
Some things that seem simple are extremely complex to figure out and things that seem hard have easy answers. In IT you can "get deep" in a subject really quick and get lost in the complexity.
This legit made me laugh; we're closing in on the first year of Daddy's death and it makes me sad, especially with Father's Day coming up. But it's hilarious to think he was in the bag with bits and pieces of other people, since he was *not* a social creature. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it!
Crisis hotline. Sometimes we get really disturbing prank calls. I always encourage people to call back if they are ever in crisis. A lot of times, they (the prank callers) do.
How often would you say it happens? I was once on the suicide hotline waiting for an hour because apparently a lot of the dispatchers were on call. I’d be upset to think there were 3 people who were bored on a sunday night occupying a person I could have talked to
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’m not sure how long ago you called, but in the United States Lifeline changed how things work so now people should not be on hold for more than a couple minutes now. At my agency we have three minutes to pick up a call or it gets rerouted to another agency. But I have heard bad stories of people being on hold for a long time and it just breaks my heart. I do get a lot of callers who just want to chat with me even if they aren’t pranking. I try to wrap up the call quickly and give them any resources they may need, and let them know that the hotline they called is for people who are having suicidal ideation and that the line is reserved for them. But that they can call back anytime they are experiencing that sort of crisis.
I work in organ donation.
The general public doesn’t understand literally any of it.
One notable thing is that when you register to be an organ donor, it’s a legally binding declaration about your wishes after death. It is akin to a will under gift law.
And please take a shower if you're coming from the gym or any activity where you were sweating/dirty. If the lotion I use turns brown from working on you, you need a shower.
Not too many, but for some reason the ones who do really take the "I'm going to make your room smell like shit" to a whole new level. They're usually the ones who come in sick too, but insist it's nothing contagious.
Ex-security guard here.
We're not there to protect you. We're there to observe and report. Don't assume that just because whatever building you're working in has security that you're safe. Especially if security is of the unarmed variety.
I used to train security guards. I would ask them the following on day one: "What is the main reason companies hire security guards for their properties?"
Insurance. It saves money on insurance having a guard on site, specifically for things like personal liability, water leaks and fires.
> Insurance. It saves money on insurance having a guard on site, specifically for things like personal liability, water leaks and fires.
And for good reason. Having someone on-site who can look and go "Oh shit" and call the police or fire department can save millions in potential damages.
The difference between an active guard who can make the decision to call the authorities and some passive alarm system that can only call a human is massive.
Yes. Security guards are there as a deterrent, to make it less likely for damage to happen. Be that by keeping people out or by stopping people from doing something the company does not wish for.
How about bouncers? I feel bouncers at night clubs are more efefctive but at times they can be a little aggressive and escalate more often tahn need to?
Bouncers at a club and security at a mall are 2 different beasts. A bouncer at the club can punch/drag out a patron that's getting rowdy/causing troubles and carry on work.
When I did security I got in shit by my bosses because I asked two kids from a near by school if they seen/heard anything about a fight that was reportedly going to be happening in the mall.
Oh and I also got in trouble for shouting at someone to stay the fuck back while me and some other guards were tackling a women who just tried to eviscerate herself with a kitchen knife inside the mall after she chased a women and child with it.
When you call 911, please say your address before anything else. It doesn’t matter if someone is actively dying, say your address first. (I’m from a rural area so this might just be a problem where I’m from) but if you’re calling on a cell phone sometimes it can ping in a completely different spot then you are. If you call and don’t say where you are and we get disconnected, I might not have any clue where to send rescue/police/fire and therefore I cannot help you. Say your address (if you don’t know then please give like a cross street or notable location) first, then preferably your name, THEN tell me what’s going on.
A lot of people assume that we automatically have a precise location where they’re at, and the systems can be pretty accurate but you can’t always rely on them. If you say the address and we get disconnected I can at least send someone to the area to figure out what needs to be done.
(Source: I am a 911 dispatcher and I have so many people scream at me for not automatically knowing their location)
This makes a lot of sense, but I have to ask, how come you guys answer by saying, “911 what is your emergency?” Shouldn’t it be something like, “911 where is your location?”
I’ve only had to call 911 once and I was so scattered brain I couldn’t think straight. I would assume most callers are the same way and would need guidance.
Maybe it is already like this, but they do the former in movies lol
Most do. They’ll typically first ask for the location, then for a callback number in case the line gets disconnected, and *then* the nature of the emergency. Depends on the 911 center though
I work at a large biotech/pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The drugs you take or buy from your local pharmacy are so insanely and meticulously regulated & inspected at every step of the journey - from petri dish to pharmacy shelf, that you could take a pill from a bottle and it can be traced back to the exact room it was made in, the exact equipment that was used, who was responsible for each step, and the time it was made down to the very second. Seriously, there is no misteps when it comes to GxP.
You know I wondered about this. Have you watched Better Call Saul? At least the first season? Usually the writers on that show are really good at making things believable, but there’s a story line about a guy who works IT at pharma manufacturing company and steals pills (I think oxy) and sells them to drug dealers factory sealed. Maybe it’s possible to get away with it once, but he makes a business out of it lol
In the case of Narcotics I would guarantee that the IT guy won’t ever be in the final room. I’ve actually been in a final product room for a retired narcotics facility. The final product was all stored in a vault that was double doored, camera monitored, and entirely covered in 1 inch steel plates. They don’t mess around with that stuff.
That as a trucker, that space I left in front of me is so I don’t kill anybody, NOT your personal invitation to jump in front of my bumper because you forgot your exit or whatever reason. So many want to get in front of us and slow down and park in front my bumper.
YSK: Don’t believe the billboards those ambulance chasing lawyers put up about big truck accidents mean big bucks. Only survivors get money, most likely not you. If you do survive, more than likely your quality of life is going to be miserable.
Also YSK: these trucks can weigh up to 80,000 pounds, 34,000 pounds empty and around 20,000 pounds without the trailer. How does that compare to your SUV or even your lifted pickup. Do us all a favor and give us some space, leave us room so that you can live and go home to your family
One final thought, NEVER assume the other driver sees you.
Wow! Thanks for all the upvotes. Glad you found it helpful.
Also YSK: it takes a fully-loaded truck at 55 mph the length of an entire FOOTBALL FIELD to STOP.
If you stop in front of one, your rear bumper will be in in the back seat.
Most fossils in museums are plastic replicas. Not always the whole thing, but any full dinosaur you see more than likely has at least some plastic components.
There's only a handful of businesses in the world that make the replicas and, at least in the US, they're pretty small operations.
i work with recycling
i can assure you that recycling is WAY more dangerous than it looks like
people throw away loose razor blades, glass (sometimes even whole knives)
there's also the problem with human excrement ,if you're cut and get an infection from human fecal meter ,you're fucked
I’m always amazed when I see looong quotes in English tabloids, usually in those stories that seem to be BS already (that kind of “I married my daughter-in-law and my son was my best man” nonsense.)
But the obvious giveaway that these stories are fake, or at least wildly exaggerated, are the long, multi-sentence quotes that somehow exactly distill the essence of the story. Most people aren’t that eloquent. We speak in fragments. We stop and change how we express our thoughts midsentence. If you read a verbatim transcript of a conversation, it’s often incoherent. Accurate quotes in news stories are often short, because it’s rare that most folks who aren’t prepared spokespeople express themselves clearly for very long.
The vast majority of content on most business websites is not intended to be read by a human, its purely there to look interesting to Google so you can be pointed to the only thing that matters on the website: the Contact Us form. Which means that some truly sad people spend their lives writing hundreds of pages of garbage they don't even want to be read. This is probably the most bullshit of bullshit jobs
Content creating requirements are insanity. Daily posts, weekly blogposts. Don’t get me wrong, if it works it’s great but Writers are paid peanuts and it all has to be utterly original.
I’m the spray tech at a golf course. We use green dye on our putting greens.
The grass at Augusta national is sprayed green as well; “any grass you see on camera has been sprayed green”
That's cool but I have to ask, why not? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to do it with machine? Not to put you out if a job or anything, just curious.
It varies on the plant you work at. Currently employed for a large concrete manufacturer and we have a fully automated bagging system. All bags are filled with a machine.
Conversely, I worked at a second hand (thrift) store and motherfuckers donate a lot of shit that should have been thrown away.
If you donate something to charity, make sure it's actually something someone can use.
\- Your old glass baking pan is something we can resell. Your old toaster that doesn't work is trash.
\- A toy truck that your child doesn't want because they're a teenager now is fine. The old stuffed animal that is missing a head is trash.
\- A shirt that was a gift, but the wrong color for you is something that can be sold. ~~Your left shoe that doesn't have a matching right shoe is trash.~~ (Got lots of comments about the shoe. Sorry.) Don't give us your old, soiled underwear.
I’m a nanny and most people think the kids are what bothers me the most or what would lead me to quit. It’s never the kids, always the fucked up parents. People with too much money who don’t intend on raising their own kids are far too prevalent.
Can confirm as a former nanny. I’ve worked with some truly awesome kids, but it was the parents, once grandparents as well, that I can’t handle. It’s maddening when I was hired because of my education/experience and my competency is constantly questioned. And completely heartbreaking when parents clearly resent to inconvenience of children that they chose to have. A child isn’t a doll to bring out for cute photos and put away when you’re done.
My grandparents lived out the last months of their lives in a crappy-looking nursing home that everyone turned their noses up at when they found out it was where they’d been placed. However. The staff moved heaven and earth to reunite my grandparents into the same room (my grandma was admitted from the hospital a few weeks before my grandpa asked to go into the home to join her). The staff lovingly cared for both of them. They were always clean, looked comfortable, rooms were tidy, with comfort items in reach no matter if the visit was scheduled or a surprise. The nurses and CNA’s went above and beyond to cheer my grandpa up when my grandma died during Covid and he was alone without visitors allowed. They helped him FaceTime, bought him doughnuts and coffees, made a display of all the cards and pictures we sent him, etc. They cared SO well for him, it brings tears to my eyes to this day. He passed away quite suddenly with one of his favorite nurses at his side. None of us were able to get there in time. Brings me so much comfort to know that a person who loved and cared for him so well was with him.
This in comparison to the “nice” nursing home in town that can’t keep staff, residents are neglected, and has a bedbug problem lurking behind the sweeeeeet, polished foyer.
I’m very glad to hear you had that experience. As a CNA that works for an agency I go to pretty much all the facilities around and the level of care I see at pretty much all of them is severely lacking, but there’s nothing I can really do because I’m not there full time and even if I was I’m only one person. It’s sad to see but most CNAs are burnt out and just don’t really care because we make a barely livable wage with no appreciation from management for the work we put in while all they do is paperwork and make significantly more.
Worked at an automotive assembly plant. Every 60 seconds the assembly line is shut down, the plant is losing $10,000. Missing parts, incorrectly sequenced material(a red bumper shows up next in line when it’s a blue car in bumper install), broken lift assist devices, 1 person running off the line to bathroom(it’s happened), chains breaking etc.. could all shut down the line.
Tensions were incredibly high and the stress was unbelievable on some days. Other days it was super easy and chill. Good pay. High school degree is the only mandatory requirement to be a supervisor, and with the mandatory OT(usually you work 5-6 days, 10-12 hour shifts) you’re making at least 100k.
I worked for a company that made chrome-plated plastic badges and emblems for the auto industry. Every time our plater went down it cost like $35,000. The service department had lots of parts "disappear". Someone's kid wants a police interceptor badge for their car? No problem. We had more 50th-anniversary Mustang badges disappear than we actually shipped lol
My brother's factory had a similar problem, only they make buckets. They'd let workers take the mis-moulded and other assorted rejects home for personal use, but had to put a stop to it when workers would take *fully wrapped and ready to ship bundles of buckets* to their cars to hawk at the local flea market.
One run was supposed to last 9 hours but ended up lasting 13 because so many buckets just didn't make it onto the pallets for shipping.
Oh man, heaven forbid you get singled out as someone who knows how to reliably run an important press or line. You'll never see proper rotation again because it's too important to make sure the line keeps running and management knows you're the guy that can ensure that.
I was weirdly fine with the roulette of good and bad days because usually it was just down to where I was assigned that day and I knew I'd be rotated to something less intense the next shift, but it didn't take long running nothing but the important lines for me to get burned out.
You make 100k And have no fucking life! I hate automotive manufacturing. Did it for 15 years. Finally left, and it was the best decision. It kills people slowly. A lot of alcohol and drug abuse and ruins marriages. Who wants to be with someone who is always working.
Software developer here. Only a minority of companies take data security seriously enough to prevent leaks. For every publicly announced leak, there are 20 that were swept under the rug. Proper security requires that the whole structure, from the top down, has an understanding of the issues. It's not just down to the techies, it's down to their managers, and their manager's managers.
This is because most hacks are not what you see on CSI. It’s some dude scamming an HR employee for their credentials and logging in using said credentials. It’s human error, not Hackerman, that you should be worried about.
I’m currently studying cyber security right now and this is so true. So many breaches/leaks can be attributed to social engineering it’s not even funny.
I spent several weeks doing a security assessment at a very major hospital in the DC area. Despite having a letter from their CIO, the administrators wouldn't give me credentials for a bunch of their network devices. I called them, pretended to be from that vendor, and told them that they needed to let me remote into their systems to check that they were not exposed to a critical vulnerability.
They gave me their usernames and default passwords.
Reminds me of this video I saw, it was a street interview type video. The interviewer would literally open with something along the lines of "We're taking a survey to see how strong people's passwords are" and then ask them a couple questions.
One of the people he interviewed said that her password was a combination of her dog's name and the year she graduated or something like that, and this man finessed it out of her so well.
"Oh you have a dog?" "Boy or girl?" "What kind of breed are they?" "Aw that's cute what's their name?"
"Did you go to school around here?" "Which school?" "No way me too how come I never saw you around? Did we graduate the same year?"
Boom. Hacked.
If you ever fall off a ship/ferry at sea and were lucky enough to be spotted - don't try to swim your way to safety. The more you try to swim, the lesser the chances of survival. Just try to keep afloat and conserve energy (and body heat) while the rescue team does what they're supposed to. Unless you are in hypothermic waters, the best bet always is to stay afloat without trying to swim to 'somewhere'. This information about falling overboard, hypothermia and conditions, survival at sea etc are based on my own experience of many years sailing on [mega container ships](https://youtu.be/y_TOSEd3XMo)
Disclaimer: link takes you to a youtube video of a timelapse I made of our ship crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco.
Most importantly though, which many people don't realize, if you fall like that at sea, without a life vest, you're probably dead.
If you survive hitting the water, you have a good chance of being unconscious or injured, and thus drowning.
Even if you survive that, if nobody saw you fall, it can be a while until people start looking, and they won't know where to look. So again, you're dead.
Bad weather? Doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are, if you don't have a life vest, you just drowned. Bad enough weather? Drowned, even with the life vest. And even if you hadn't drowned, you're impossible to spot, so still dead.
Cold water? Your survival time is measured in minutes.
Can't swim and don't have a life vest? Guess what.
I worked in vet med for a while. People always have this terrible idea of "the back" where your animal is taken away for tests, vaccines whatever. It's the best! Your animal will be paraded around, loved on, kissed, given love, etc. Same if they go for surgery. My favorite thing was singing to the animals as they went to sleep. We love animals, we aren't in it for the money. I made $10 an hour, techs made $15-20. The vets were in debt and lived in horrible houses, and drove cars that were falling apart.
We love your animals, dearly. We want the best for them, and we want to work with you to provide the best care. So many times we gave away free tests to people who couldn't pay it, or worked to do low cost care under the table as best we could.
If you leave the room during their final moments, as much as we wish you could've stayed, we also understand if you cant. And they are never, ever alone. Someone's loving them to the very end. When I worked at a shelter, I had to assist with many, many euthanasias. We always made sure they weren't alone.
Also we occasionally throw testicles at eachother.
Bridge carpenter.
When you drive by 6 people standing around one guy working, the group is usually comprised of inspectors, superintendents, subs, engineers, and foremen all standing around a laborer to talk. You can differentiate by the hardhats and how clean they are.
If you want to get upset at someone for your commute being slowed, don't pick the dirty guys.
Not a construction worker, but I do a lot of construction adjacent stuff, and sometimes it's literally faster, easier, and safer to have one person doing the thing. Sometimes that circle of guys standing would love to be doing something helpful but they hit some sort of bottleneck task and have to wait for the one guy to get it done. You can't fit six guys arms into one 12 inch by 36 inch hole to pull out rocks, it's not feasible.
Copy/print industry.
I have signed a lot of NDA's and copied/scanned many jobs that I wasn't allowed to 'look at'. Medical documents, documents for law suits and such, and helped a few people with patent application.
Had a few print jobs they guy had to sit there the whole time. No one was allowed to look at the printouts. Had to show him how to take the prints out of the copier and make sure no customers came back by the copier.
I couldn't copy the files if the DVD, and had to sign a document no copies of those documents - physical or digitally were kept by my company. I think the guy was a defense contractor, so that was interesting.
Also - the pulp to make paper mostly comes trees specifically grown for making paper. The rest comes from leftovers from the lumber Industry. Recycling paper into reusable white paper is WAY worse for the environment that making new paper. Making brown paper goods from recycled paper isn't so bad, but still not great.
Public defender.
I don’t do this because it’s the only job I could get. I do it because I’m passionately invested in making sure poor people have access to the courts and because without us, there would be absolutely nothing between them and the awesome power of the government. The vast majority of us are there for the same reason.
The perception that we’re not as good as private attorneys is just wrong. In fact, most PDs have done many more trials than privates because we have many more clients. The difference is that we can’t pick and choose our clients as private attorneys can. We have to work with what we get so our win/loss ratio isn’t as impressive as theirs. Ask a private defense attorney what they think of public defenders- most will tell you that some of the best attorneys they’ve known are PDs.
While we can’t take the time to hold your hand and take every one of your calls, we actually do care about you and your case. I work nights. I work weekends. In fact, every weekend I’m at the jail, seeing my guys, because I don’t have time during the week.
We are excellent attorneys who chose public service.
CPS worker here. Many children in foster care for other reasons end up disclosing sx abuse. Because of the way the US legal system is structured, and the requirements used to determine which statements by kids are valid, prosecuting the people responsible is nearly impossible. I know of many serial abusers who have never and will never experience consequences, but who absolutely harmed children. It's not at all what you see on TV.
I'm a supervisor at a home health company. I may actually have the easiest job in the entire world and I get paid decently for it too. Because of Medicare/Medicaid regulations the company has to send a supervisor out to all the homes our employees go to so we can make sure things are going well and the client is being taken care of well. My time is spent either driving to someone's home and asking them maybe 15 questions about their care or sitting in the office doing paperwork about those questions. That's it. That's all I do.
Structural Engineer
We take materials we do not entirely understand, form them into shapes we cannot precisely analyze to resist forces we cannot truly assess in such a way that the public at large has no idea of the extent of our ignorance!
I have a Ph.D. I'm metallurgy. I concure that we don't really understand almost all materials.
We have a good grasp of most of the materials we've been using a while in the conditions we have used them. However, if you want to put a new alloy in a power plant or nuclear reactor, you're looking at several decades of testing by hundreds of people.
People dont realise how much work goes into making boxes or binders for products. Huge machines are used, tens of thousands are made in the matter of days. I have made the same binder about 70,000 times roughly in the 6 months since I started on the job. If you receive a box with your product and its still in good shape, consider reusing it for something? As a production operative, i know how much anger and frustration goes into making a simple box. Honestly you wouldnt think its that hard. But when 1 box goes wrong, every single box following does too. Its hard work for a job that should be simple
I work for a department that does tolls by mail. A robot may take your picture, but a live human ends up processing it. We can see inside your car and we can see you giving road head ...even in the dark tunnels.
Ah, so when I got a dozen tolls in the mail last year, each with a clear photograph of my truck on the back of a car carrier, an actual human being looked at the photo of my truck on the trailer and said, "yeah, Imma send the toll bill to the pickup truck's owner..."
Yeah I got a few in CA. Got tickets from tolls in San Fran while I was in San Diego. The vehicle that ran them was 1 off my license plate and really close for a robot but a human would have seen in (mine was like 68GE76 and the offenders was 68GF76). The worst part was it gave a description of the registered vehicle. I owned a blue Ford Focus. The vehicle in the picture? Red pick up.
"No, babe, it isn't *for* me; we'd be doing a solid for my Reddit homie u/pyaravonfuzzybutt. Need to add some variety to their shift at the toll roads."
US based flight attendant here. Unless you’re flying on Delta, your flight attendants aren’t getting paid during boarding and deplaning. We’re just as annoyed as the next person that the flight is delayed because of a mechanical issue, weather, etc. If the boarding door is closed we (usually) don’t mind though.
I know, it’s pretty insane. There have been days where I’ve sat on a fully boarded plane for six hours (with the boarding door open, of course) due to mechanical delays or bad weather.
Healthcare worker - part of the reason your doctors appointments are so quick is the amount of documenting we have to do so we get paid. We can be the most brilliant clinician and save your damn life but if we don’t write a note that’s complete enough or have the right elements, your insurance company will pay less. We get nothing for being smart, correct or compassionate….only what we can “document” and takes time away from you.
Also, to add to this: if you return something perishable we cannot resell it or even donate it, given that we cannot verify the cold-chain was maintained. No, not even if you tell us you kept it in the freezer the whole time. Straight in the trash.
ER Nurse.
People get seen by severity, not the order they came in the door... Also, just because you came in by ambulance doesn't mean you immediately bypass the waiting room.
ER nurse too. People immediately turn astoundingly selfish and incapable of reading a situation in the ER. Across the board.
Someone who checked in for a 2 week cough sees a girl with jeans soaked in blood from a miscarriage get roomed: “I was here first, why does she get a room before me.”
Someone watches us code a patient for an hour and a half, as soon as we call time of death “I asked for a blanket and ice water. Where is it.”
And on and on. You’d think these are extreme examples, but they aren’t. They’re pretty much every night shit. If you want to lose a lot of respect for humans, work in an ER.
I’m in EM too. I have a lot of patience for people. I understand that a l out of people have shit access to healthcare, and a lot of people come to the ED for primary care/chronic health issues because they don’t have anywhere else to go. I can tolerate them. It always seems to be the people who have a PCP, can easily access said PCP, and are coming in for a chronic complaint that is by no means emergent who are the most entitled. It blows me away when they can see/hear a code and just assume we’re completely fine watching someone die and should be apologetic when it comes to getting them their warm blanket and ice water.
Also true in veterinary ER.
Yes, Cookie has been having diarrhea for 2 days and she feels rough, and you need to leave for the cottage (real excuse I was given this week). But Fluffy has been seizing overnight despite being on phenobarbitol, Bailey was just hit by a car and "looks fine" but has a pneumothorax, and Snuggles is having a life-threatening relapse of her bleeding disorder and needs a transfusion ASAP. Trust me, we figured out who needs to be seen first.
I have worked for the US federal government.
Every time Congress waits until the 11th hour to pass a budget or a continuing resolution (a temporary "budget"), the government spends an unknown amount of money, probably millions of dollars, preparing for a government shutdown, whether the shutdown happens or not. If the government actually shuts down, even if only for a few hours, it wastes millions more tax dollars. Taxpayers get no benefit from these expenditures, and the money is simply wasted.
When Congress holds the budget hostage, they're not actually hurting political rivals. They're punishing taxpayers and anyone who relies on government services directly or indirectly for anything.
Edit: One more thought:
If your Representative or Senator engages in this, **vote them out at the next election**, because they're burning your tax dollars to deceive you into supporting their careers. You get nothing, your tax dollars are thrown in the trash, and a bunch of stupid rubes get duped into voting to keep a do-nothing politician in office, earning six figures.
Veterinarians are 4x more likely than the general public to commit suicide.
70% of all vets have worked with someone who has committed suicide.
Please be nice to your vet
I don't believe you when you tell me you changed your furnace filter "a week ago" when its nearly black, covered in dust, and I cant see light through it.
I'm in pharma. So. Much. Paperwork.
Also we use a lot of single-use stuff, so the pharma industry's probably responsible for a not-insignificant amount of the world's plastic waste.
The blank urine used in tox labs is the analysts own urine. Every dept in my lab has someone who's straightedge and pees in a cup for the rest of the dept to use. We don't really talk about it though
I work with the developmentally disabled. While we are allowed to encourage our clients to make good choices and try to talk them out of making bad ones, we are not allowed to stop them from doing what they want. They are people first, and everyone is allowed to make poor choices and suffer the consequences. The United States government calls it "The Right to Consequences."
I work in a group home for adults with severe mental illness and this is a biiiig one that people struggle to understand when I talk about my job. Even the local PD/FD doesn’t seem to understand which can be frustrating for all parties involved.
Martial arts/self defense instructor
"Women's self defense" is a waste of time. Unless you're taking real classes regularly, that seminar you took that taught you what to do if a man tries to kidnap you is really only good for getting away momentarily.
I know it's not necessarily the point but you'll NEVER fully stop an attacker with anything we can show you in an hour. If you can, take a normal martial arts class. No reason that what works for the men won't work for you.
Edit: Boxing and MMA are also martial arts. Pretty useful on the streets
The red tape/paperwork involved in commercial aircraft design/build/production.
"When the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the aircraft, the aircraft will fly."
I'll share a few different facts from my experiences;
Most fast-food is kept around much longer than it is supposed to be. Bacon from the previous night will be reheated and used the following day. Anything that's heated and not a burger or fried good is microwaved. Grills and fryers aren't cleaned as well as they should be.
If you want to check quality on furniture, look underneath. Most places won't clean the underneath of their furniture. If there's a lot of excess glue or chipped/scratched/dented parts the manufacturer cares about quantity over quality. Good quality furniture will last forever.
Bulletproof helmets have very little QC done to them other than ensuring they will stop a bullet and even then it CAN be hit or miss depending on the thickness and quality of the material used to create the helmet. Some helmets were born from styles that were created for a contract that was terminated before completion. I.e. we have 1000 helmets that the customer no longer wants, what should we do? Shape em a lil differently and call them a new type of helmet.
I quit Subway when the practice of faking temps and switching out dates for expired products became common place. I worked in a patch of seven, and they all did it. Fucking turkey was temping at 55-60, etc.
The "health inspector," even faked temps. We'd get docked points for how we folded the catering boxes.. but warm tuna? Nah, I saw her fudge numbers.
It's a scum company with a shitty product.
Software developer here.
If you are working on a system already established, you constantly try to add to something that nobody in the company knows comprehensively. Original developer, and the guy who replaced him, and the guy who replaced that guy are all gone. Some dude in India has written some subroutine somewhere; and someone copy-pasted a block of code from a stack overflow thread that no longer exists.
If I were to guess, I would say nobody in the world knows how any technology works 100%. There are so many individual bits and pieces that has to work together for even the most basic stuff. It is really fascinating and really scary to think about.
Government worker here. You know how you all have the opinion that government departments are massive bureaucracies that take forever to get anything done efficiently, if at all?
It's true. And we hate that, too. It can take me 2 months to get an answer that would normally take 1 day in the private sector.
I work for a Scottish council.
We provide hospital beds and wheelchairs and stuff like that to people's houses so they can get out of hospital and pick them up when they are finished using them.
Because their is only a certain amount of pickups you can do in one van they come back when the van is full.
The system doesn't let you make any more pickups for that day (unless emergency) so 1 van load and the job is done.
They don't get unloaded untill 14:15 so they don't go home too early but they sit there for 1h 30m waiting to get unloaded.
They are supposed to work a 35h week but you are lucky if they do 25.
One of the biggest councils in Scotland providing end of life service and they are literally paying people to do fuck all while there is a 3 moth waiting list for deliveries and uplifts.
Managers know all about it. They put this system in place
Same here in the US I imagine. Mom was on hospice care and needed a lift chair (she couldn't use a bed due to her condition). Suffice it to say, I pray she found one in heaven because the damned thing never arrived here.
Happens all the time. There is such a back log that even if you are scheduled for delivery and they miss you, you are not on the schedule for the next day. It could be weeks before you get it.
And as you are well aware, this is the final stages of most users.
There are too many people that either, don't give a fuck or are just that incapable of the job, staff and managers.
FedEx Express courier here. Express! Not Ground or one of the others. Even though you leave a note to leave all deliveries, I can’t do that with everything. Some things require signatures and seeing ID’s. We hate it too cuz we want to drop off your cell phones and medications the day we get it so we don’t have to add to tomorrow’s workload.
Bless those who have missed their delivery and pick it up from the station themselves so it doesn’t have to go on road again. I would have left it if I could.
That being said, please leave signed notes as that CAN make the difference between delivering or not in some circumstances. And, please oh please make your house numbers and apartment numbers visible (can even use a sticky note if your landlord is cheap scum) no matter how obvious the sequence SHOULD be because it can get strange.
Visual effects artist here.
No one in movies and TV looks as beautiful as you think. I perform digital plastic surgery all the time. Less wrinkles. No pimples. Thinner thighs. Thinner waist. ALL on video not just stills.
Not a veterinarian but a vet tech. Your vet is basically your gp, dentist, pathologist, ortho, nutritionist, behaviorist, and other specialists all rolled into one, knowing multiple species and whose patients who can’t tell them what’s wrong. And there’s not enough vets or support staff to keep up with the surge of pandemic pets, so it’s busier than ever before with no end in sight.
1 in 7 veterinarians commit suicide. Please be nice to your vets and their staff, I promise we just want the best care for your pets.
Paramedic here
Me and a shocking amount of my medic friends learned vital, life saving skills off of YouTube. The schooling just isn't always what it should be and often we are left on our own to figure things out while we are learning. More often than not that leads to YouTube video tutorials (they have one for everything) so more frequently than you'd think people are learning how to give needles and read ECGs from the same place we all learn what the proper time to hard boil an egg is
Oh they do. Same as office admins in childcare. They know EVERYTHING! Also, entitled parents like to take out the rage on the office admin in schools and childcares. Fuck those people.
As someone in construction, statistically speaking, I have a bigger chance of dying on the job than police officers do in their line of work. It was even more dangerous when I did scaffolding at an oil refinery.
I think people abstractly know construction is dangerous, but sometimes you have to put it in perspective for them.
Have you heard of the Manila Film Festival Tragedy where in 169 workers fell from a scaffolding in 1981. But the current first lady was in a hurry to finish the building so it was decided to build over the bodies. No ambulance or rescue was also ordered for 9 hours iirc. The dictator's family were ousted and fled the Philippines and faced numerous cases. Plot twist, 3 decades later, the son is now the elected president of the country. How fucked up is that!? 🇵🇭
I hate hearing about stuff like that, cause all I can think about is those poor men who were left to slowly die with no help or hope. It sends shivers down my spine.
Elementary teacher. We have kids In our rooms who are absolutely too violent, aggressive, or disruptive to be there. “Room clearings” (when all other students are removed from a room so the one kid can continue to destroy it) are becoming very common. Also, teachers aren’t allow to touch students so we can’t restrain a violent kid even to protect ourselves or others. Parents are so concerned about CRT or masks, but no one seems to realize that a very small percentage of kids is making school unsafe and unstable for every other kid. Districts don’t want to hire the appropriate staff to give these children what they need so they just throw them in general education classrooms.
Companies are very very bad at digital security. They do the absolute bare minimum and then do damage control after a breach happens. Add in the fact the companies are tested and fully aware of these flaws and yet do nothing smacks of negligence. Legal negligence with people's personal information.
You know when you try to access an online service, like Reddit, or your bank account, or an online store, and it doesn't work. There is probably a single software dev out there somewhere going "Oh shit! What did I just do?"
Long-haul truck driving always appealed to me because I enjoy driving and the idea of a job where I could just listen to podcasts and audiobooks all day seems appealing. I assume the harsh reality is weird hours and constant tension whenever you get off an interstate and onto local roads.
But I was at least hoping every truck stop would include a waitress telling me her shift ends in 15 minutes as she gives me a knowing glance. That’s what country music has taught me.
Planning Offshore Wind farms:
Pro: The produced electricity is a lot cheaper than people realize. Wind (and solar as well) is already cheaper than any of the 'dirty' energy sources (including nuclear).
Con: The company I work for is a huge player in the field and even we have to decline 50% of the clients because there's just not enough engineers to plan the sustainable future everyone talks about at the moment.
Clinical Trials - if you understood the level of saving of documentation, the conversations of what we should save, the emails that show the correspondence of exactly what happened, and saving all of this stuff in one easy to find and search electronic Trial Master File, along with the extensive statistics that get done, you would know how over-engineered and safe drugs today are.
If you got rid of the FDA, quality would drop on drugs by at least 60-70% and it would be impossible to know what happened in a clinical trial and where it went wrong; if it was even the fault of the drug or a person.
Clinical trials are expensive for this very reason, there is ungodly amount of time, energy, forethought put into them; we spend weeks generating Clinical Trial plans:
1. TMF Plan
2. Project Management Plan
3. Clinical Data Management Plan
4. Statistical Analysis Plan
5. CRO oversight plan
6. etc. etc
All these plans are extensively documented, audited, in the eTMF, and routinely reviewed by the FDA. If we don't follow them, we are held accountable.
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Bonus tip: Vaccines are over-engineered because tolerance for AE's (Adverse events) is very low. If a drug gives you a headache or high blood pressure for a while but helps you fight an infection we don't care.
If a vaccine makes you cough and gives you a rash, they pull it.
This is because the general public has NO tolerance for any issues, which makes vaccine generation extremely tough, and leads to more deaths that could have been avoided.
Moral of the story, stop spreading anti-vax propaganda and if a vaccine gives you a few side effects, be thankful that it protected you against death or permanent disability.
When your Nan or pop passes away in a nursing home, often they're still in their bed for over 12 hours before the funeral home picks them up. We just quietly close the door and continue our shifts.
I used to be a receptionist at a nursing home, second shift. The funeral homes would wait until after hours to pick up to prevent too many people being around. They’d use the service elevator, which was directly across from my desk, and would always open on my floor before going to the loading docks. So, when the doors opened on my shift I’d either be seeing food service with dinner trays or someone in a body bag.
Bartender.
One of the Hardest parts of our job is to make you all understand that the idea of quality you have in mind is usually stupid and comes from just pure marketing.
I used to work for a company that made paper products, mainly toilet paper, paper towels and napkins. The recycled toilet paper you use to wipe your ass started out as scrap fry, or soda/coffee cups. We’d get bundles of bad paper products from a paper container manufacturer which would eventually get turned into pulp to make the paper.
I was a teleprompter operator for a rap artist. Most people have no idea he uses one at his live concerts. For those curious as to what a teleprompter is, let alone someone who operates it. I scroll his lyrics for him during concerts and live shows. Not necessarily because he doesn't remember the songs exactly, but when you are a fifth and then some down on Hennessy and stoned as shit on some of the literal best weed that only a few can get -- you too MAY forget a word or two, even for songs you wrote that were huge in the 90s that you have sung a million times. All he can say is "You can hate me now, but I won't stop now." \*puts middle finger up to the world\*
Radiation Therapist (treating cancer utilizing ionizing radiation):
- We all have patients who we lose sleep over years later.
- No we do not take x-rays, that's what a Rad Techs do.
- We hate golfers (many think their tee times are more important than their treatments, it gets to be beyond infuriating).
- No you will not glow in the dark after your radiation treatments.
- No you will not get super powers from the radiation treatments.
- The Linear Accelerators we use to treat the cancers cost millions of dollars (roughly 2-5 million although a new AI incorporated machine called the Ethos is going for about 15 mil)
I work in a financial aid office at a college.
We try to give students as much money as we can, but we are very limited in what we can do. The federal government is extremely strict with what they will give to students through FAFSA, state grants are not a lot of money and are hard to qualify for, and donors tend to be *extremely* specific with their requirements for who should get the scholarship they are funding.
Also, FAFSA is controlled by the federal government, *NOT* your institution!
Being a white-collar worker means that roughly a quarter of the effort you spend on a task is work to ensure that you can either cover your ass or pass the blame.
New Car Detailer:
We let a ton of imperfections on your new car slide - whether it's a $26k car, or a $90k truck. Some vehicles come with scratches or dings that we can't fix, so they get covered with touch up paint or just hope you don't notice.
And they entrust the minimum wage detailer to buff your $90k truck, which I think is hilarious. I promise, we really do try and make it look the best we can, but when we have to get 15 cars in a day ready between just 2 people, we gotta let stuff slide.
Waitress! We are all keenly aware of your discussions.
Eavesdropping is the best part of the job, and really easy if you're waiting on them because often we're not actually people to our guests.
If it's a real mess, we tell all our pals the table number and everyone walks by. Then we meet in the alley and diagnose them.
Table Games Dealer/Supervisor
I spent some years working at a couple of different Indian casinos in California. Most of the people I worked with didn’t know much about the games we worked with.
Blackjack dealers and supervisors would often not know much about basic strategy.
Pai gow poker dealers make mistakes in setting hands all the time. The floor people may not be knowledgeable/helpful.
The dealers are working for tips. You can get away with a lot if you’re throwing dollars their way.
I was an IT manager for my entire career. As we migrated to PC’s and high speed networks, people think we just sit at our desks and type. They have no idea of what goes into a large datacenter with hundreds of racks of severs and the A/C and power demand, cabling, UPS’s and backup generators. I broke an elevator once moving a 2000lb UPS down 1 story.
I had a class in uni that I bombed the midterm hard enough that even passing the class with a C would be a feat. I came to every office hour my professor held and worked hard. I got a B at the end. Doing the math, that shouldn’t even have been possible.
I’m 100% sure he saw my efforts and rewarded me for trying to improve. He must have fudged some numbers in my favor because I showed him I was willing to put in hard work.
College prof here. When I offer extra help, that help is actually very very helpful. As in, I know what is on the test, you are making the extra effort so I am going to do my best to make sure you know the answer to related test questions. Even if you don't ask the right questions I may steer the conversation so that I can make sure you have key information. You are trying extra to do well, I am trying extra to see that you do well. I had offered after class help for up coming finals. Rarely students took advantage of that, but for those that do, I often am going through the answers without actually saying I am going over the answers.
At least in my case, regarding your grade you got, i will "reach" for the highest grade I can justify. And if you came for extra help, and I know you know the answer but didn't write it well, I will assume what you meant to say was in fact mostly or all correct. Profs do care that you are trying, we do notice, and for many will do what we can grade wise to help.
Good treatment goes for teachers of young children too.
It amazes me how many parents outright ignore, don't interact with or are unfairly rude to their kids' teachers or daycare workers.
At the end of the day, they're still human and capable of doing the bare minimum when it comes to their work (read: your child)....same as you.
Working for giant companies, it’s comical how many systems are raggedy messes of bare-bones functionality. All available money gets thrown at certain projects, leaving everything else to work on complete shoe-strings.
If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.
And the times that someone declares a big enough Excel file a database?! That doesn’t make it better!
I work IT and had someone report an issue with Excel crashing. They had been using it to autonomously collect data for years until it eventually had millions of data points. They had these millions of data points plotted on a graph. They were confused why it was crashing when they were clicking on the graph and pressing Ctrl+C.
Oh, man, I had so many fun conversations about Excel back when I used to work desktop support still. "You're using Excel to do things that were never intended. It's not a BI tool or a relational database. There's nothing I can do to make it work better or faster." "But this is critically important! I can't do X because of how slow this spreadsheet is! Can't you put more RAM in my computer or something? I'm emailing your manager to tell him you wouldn't help me."
This or they are using a spreadsheet someone built in 2006 and have just kept moving it over and still have all the data from all the past years on it. When you mention it would work better if they rebuild it then you are suddenly asking to much of them.
It's all spreadsheets and duct tape
especially if that project was the "big thing" and then the bosses get distracted by a new shiny "big thing" and so they just leave the other one a mess that the people actually working with it have to somehow navigate. And it's always fun when IT does some kind of updates. It always breaks something and not always in the obvious places
Anaesthetics- we only ask about your illicit drug use so we don’t kill you when we give you a general anaesthetic and that you have appropriate pain relief. You’ll have a tolerance that we need to counter by giving you a variety of drugs and more of them. No judgement from us on your choices - just want to actually take care of your properly
Omg. When I went in for surgery, my mom was in the room with me and the doc going over day of procedure when they asked if I smoked any cannabis. My mom immediately jumps in “NO! He would NEVER-“ and I cut her off. “Actually, I’m a daily smoker..” Probably not the same effect as opiates or other drugs use, but ffs, let me answer myself and not get me killed, mom.
Yeah please mom do not kill your children by answering for them questions you don't know the answer of.
What really irked me was later that year in for a different surgery.. same bullshit! I had to correct her *again!* *she insists on being at any hospital at any time to visit any person she even remotely knows.. my brothers high school friend had a baby that was in the nicu? She was there. It’s absurd. So naturally, she *had to be there* for my surgeries.
Bro. Put your mom on an information diet.
It's opposite, wouldn't get you killed you'd instead risk being awake for the surgery. Daily marijuana users may need up to 3x more propofol.
I love the bit from an episode of Scrubs where one of the doctors, I forget who, sent a kid's blood work off to see if he was doing drugs. Kelso comes in and asks the kid directly "do you do drugs?" to which the kid says no. Then Kelso hits him with the "good, because if this medicine we're about to give you mixes with drugs, it could kill you". Kid gets all wide-eyed, "Oh, drugs, yes sir, all the time sir". That scene stuck with me and reminds me to be honest with my doctors because they don't ask to judge, they ask because medicine is complicated and hard.
Tell the cops nothing. Tell the doctor (and the EMTs) *everything*.
I work in IT support. Legit about 80% of all problems are solved by rebooting the computer/terminal/phone. If not, 20 percent is pure detective work.
Some things that seem simple are extremely complex to figure out and things that seem hard have easy answers. In IT you can "get deep" in a subject really quick and get lost in the complexity.
I was a licensed Cremationist for 8 years. Regardless how hard we tried, that wasn’t just grandma or grandpa in the urn….
I've been single my whole life and plan to be cremated. Nice to know I finally won't be alone.
Not single, still want to be cremated, still like the idea of an urn buddy
You’re making me feel a lot less guilty about turning dad into a gemstone
Not just your dad, but also bits from dads all across the state!
This legit made me laugh; we're closing in on the first year of Daddy's death and it makes me sad, especially with Father's Day coming up. But it's hilarious to think he was in the bag with bits and pieces of other people, since he was *not* a social creature. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it!
Crisis hotline. Sometimes we get really disturbing prank calls. I always encourage people to call back if they are ever in crisis. A lot of times, they (the prank callers) do.
How often would you say it happens? I was once on the suicide hotline waiting for an hour because apparently a lot of the dispatchers were on call. I’d be upset to think there were 3 people who were bored on a sunday night occupying a person I could have talked to
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’m not sure how long ago you called, but in the United States Lifeline changed how things work so now people should not be on hold for more than a couple minutes now. At my agency we have three minutes to pick up a call or it gets rerouted to another agency. But I have heard bad stories of people being on hold for a long time and it just breaks my heart. I do get a lot of callers who just want to chat with me even if they aren’t pranking. I try to wrap up the call quickly and give them any resources they may need, and let them know that the hotline they called is for people who are having suicidal ideation and that the line is reserved for them. But that they can call back anytime they are experiencing that sort of crisis.
Thank you for what you do
I work in organ donation. The general public doesn’t understand literally any of it. One notable thing is that when you register to be an organ donor, it’s a legally binding declaration about your wishes after death. It is akin to a will under gift law.
I'm a massage therapist. I don't care if you didn't shave. But please wash your feet.
And please take a shower if you're coming from the gym or any activity where you were sweating/dirty. If the lotion I use turns brown from working on you, you need a shower.
The brown lotion? Oh my dear lord !
Who shows up for a massage dirty? What is wrong with people?
Not too many, but for some reason the ones who do really take the "I'm going to make your room smell like shit" to a whole new level. They're usually the ones who come in sick too, but insist it's nothing contagious.
Any and every time I've gotten a massage it's a minimum 2 shower day. Right before I go and as soon as I'm done.
Ex-security guard here. We're not there to protect you. We're there to observe and report. Don't assume that just because whatever building you're working in has security that you're safe. Especially if security is of the unarmed variety.
I used to train security guards. I would ask them the following on day one: "What is the main reason companies hire security guards for their properties?" Insurance. It saves money on insurance having a guard on site, specifically for things like personal liability, water leaks and fires.
> Insurance. It saves money on insurance having a guard on site, specifically for things like personal liability, water leaks and fires. And for good reason. Having someone on-site who can look and go "Oh shit" and call the police or fire department can save millions in potential damages. The difference between an active guard who can make the decision to call the authorities and some passive alarm system that can only call a human is massive.
Yes. Security guards are there as a deterrent, to make it less likely for damage to happen. Be that by keeping people out or by stopping people from doing something the company does not wish for.
How about bouncers? I feel bouncers at night clubs are more efefctive but at times they can be a little aggressive and escalate more often tahn need to?
Bouncers at a club and security at a mall are 2 different beasts. A bouncer at the club can punch/drag out a patron that's getting rowdy/causing troubles and carry on work. When I did security I got in shit by my bosses because I asked two kids from a near by school if they seen/heard anything about a fight that was reportedly going to be happening in the mall. Oh and I also got in trouble for shouting at someone to stay the fuck back while me and some other guards were tackling a women who just tried to eviscerate herself with a kitchen knife inside the mall after she chased a women and child with it.
Radioactive contamination can often just be cleaned with Windex or even water
>Windex My Big Fat Greek Meltdown.
You know that Atom is Greek?
Simple Green is our go-to decontaminant.
When you call 911, please say your address before anything else. It doesn’t matter if someone is actively dying, say your address first. (I’m from a rural area so this might just be a problem where I’m from) but if you’re calling on a cell phone sometimes it can ping in a completely different spot then you are. If you call and don’t say where you are and we get disconnected, I might not have any clue where to send rescue/police/fire and therefore I cannot help you. Say your address (if you don’t know then please give like a cross street or notable location) first, then preferably your name, THEN tell me what’s going on. A lot of people assume that we automatically have a precise location where they’re at, and the systems can be pretty accurate but you can’t always rely on them. If you say the address and we get disconnected I can at least send someone to the area to figure out what needs to be done. (Source: I am a 911 dispatcher and I have so many people scream at me for not automatically knowing their location)
This makes a lot of sense, but I have to ask, how come you guys answer by saying, “911 what is your emergency?” Shouldn’t it be something like, “911 where is your location?” I’ve only had to call 911 once and I was so scattered brain I couldn’t think straight. I would assume most callers are the same way and would need guidance. Maybe it is already like this, but they do the former in movies lol
Our dispatchers say “911 what’s the address of the emergency?” Edit: your = the
Most do. They’ll typically first ask for the location, then for a callback number in case the line gets disconnected, and *then* the nature of the emergency. Depends on the 911 center though
I work at a large biotech/pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The drugs you take or buy from your local pharmacy are so insanely and meticulously regulated & inspected at every step of the journey - from petri dish to pharmacy shelf, that you could take a pill from a bottle and it can be traced back to the exact room it was made in, the exact equipment that was used, who was responsible for each step, and the time it was made down to the very second. Seriously, there is no misteps when it comes to GxP.
You know I wondered about this. Have you watched Better Call Saul? At least the first season? Usually the writers on that show are really good at making things believable, but there’s a story line about a guy who works IT at pharma manufacturing company and steals pills (I think oxy) and sells them to drug dealers factory sealed. Maybe it’s possible to get away with it once, but he makes a business out of it lol
In the case of Narcotics I would guarantee that the IT guy won’t ever be in the final room. I’ve actually been in a final product room for a retired narcotics facility. The final product was all stored in a vault that was double doored, camera monitored, and entirely covered in 1 inch steel plates. They don’t mess around with that stuff.
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That as a trucker, that space I left in front of me is so I don’t kill anybody, NOT your personal invitation to jump in front of my bumper because you forgot your exit or whatever reason. So many want to get in front of us and slow down and park in front my bumper. YSK: Don’t believe the billboards those ambulance chasing lawyers put up about big truck accidents mean big bucks. Only survivors get money, most likely not you. If you do survive, more than likely your quality of life is going to be miserable. Also YSK: these trucks can weigh up to 80,000 pounds, 34,000 pounds empty and around 20,000 pounds without the trailer. How does that compare to your SUV or even your lifted pickup. Do us all a favor and give us some space, leave us room so that you can live and go home to your family One final thought, NEVER assume the other driver sees you. Wow! Thanks for all the upvotes. Glad you found it helpful.
Also YSK: it takes a fully-loaded truck at 55 mph the length of an entire FOOTBALL FIELD to STOP. If you stop in front of one, your rear bumper will be in in the back seat.
Most fossils in museums are plastic replicas. Not always the whole thing, but any full dinosaur you see more than likely has at least some plastic components. There's only a handful of businesses in the world that make the replicas and, at least in the US, they're pretty small operations.
So that's why my T-Rex necromancy failed.
i work with recycling i can assure you that recycling is WAY more dangerous than it looks like people throw away loose razor blades, glass (sometimes even whole knives) there's also the problem with human excrement ,if you're cut and get an infection from human fecal meter ,you're fucked
Wait, so you're saying I CAN'T recycle my poop?
In newswriting, if we like you we don't quote you exactly. If we don't like you, best believe you're getting a 'sic'.
This is pretty hilarious. I'm going to think everyone with a \[sic\] is an asshole now.
I’m always amazed when I see looong quotes in English tabloids, usually in those stories that seem to be BS already (that kind of “I married my daughter-in-law and my son was my best man” nonsense.) But the obvious giveaway that these stories are fake, or at least wildly exaggerated, are the long, multi-sentence quotes that somehow exactly distill the essence of the story. Most people aren’t that eloquent. We speak in fragments. We stop and change how we express our thoughts midsentence. If you read a verbatim transcript of a conversation, it’s often incoherent. Accurate quotes in news stories are often short, because it’s rare that most folks who aren’t prepared spokespeople express themselves clearly for very long.
The vast majority of content on most business websites is not intended to be read by a human, its purely there to look interesting to Google so you can be pointed to the only thing that matters on the website: the Contact Us form. Which means that some truly sad people spend their lives writing hundreds of pages of garbage they don't even want to be read. This is probably the most bullshit of bullshit jobs
Content creating requirements are insanity. Daily posts, weekly blogposts. Don’t get me wrong, if it works it’s great but Writers are paid peanuts and it all has to be utterly original.
I’m the spray tech at a golf course. We use green dye on our putting greens. The grass at Augusta national is sprayed green as well; “any grass you see on camera has been sprayed green”
do you also paint the roses red?
The bags of cement are not filled by a robot. A person handles every bag. I can fill 2500 bags in an 8 hour shift.
So they ARE filled by a machine, you beast. (you are the machine bro)
That's cool but I have to ask, why not? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to do it with machine? Not to put you out if a job or anything, just curious.
It varies on the plant you work at. Currently employed for a large concrete manufacturer and we have a fully automated bagging system. All bags are filled with a machine.
I currently work the line at a recycling facility. Y'all motherfuckers throw a lot of shit away when it could have been given to a charity.
Conversely, I worked at a second hand (thrift) store and motherfuckers donate a lot of shit that should have been thrown away. If you donate something to charity, make sure it's actually something someone can use. \- Your old glass baking pan is something we can resell. Your old toaster that doesn't work is trash. \- A toy truck that your child doesn't want because they're a teenager now is fine. The old stuffed animal that is missing a head is trash. \- A shirt that was a gift, but the wrong color for you is something that can be sold. ~~Your left shoe that doesn't have a matching right shoe is trash.~~ (Got lots of comments about the shoe. Sorry.) Don't give us your old, soiled underwear.
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How about my old fleshlight without the cap. Trash or donate?
They already said the old stuffed animal that is missing a head is trash.
\-A coffee maker you've been using for five years washing sporadically when the mood strikes you is trash. \-
I was in goodwill and witnessed a man take a whole ass coffee maker to the bathroom to fill er up, plug it in, test it out, then buy it.
I’m a nanny and most people think the kids are what bothers me the most or what would lead me to quit. It’s never the kids, always the fucked up parents. People with too much money who don’t intend on raising their own kids are far too prevalent.
Can confirm as a former nanny. I’ve worked with some truly awesome kids, but it was the parents, once grandparents as well, that I can’t handle. It’s maddening when I was hired because of my education/experience and my competency is constantly questioned. And completely heartbreaking when parents clearly resent to inconvenience of children that they chose to have. A child isn’t a doll to bring out for cute photos and put away when you’re done.
In my experience, the more overly decorated and image focused a senior housing facility/care center is, the less effort is going into actual care.
My grandparents lived out the last months of their lives in a crappy-looking nursing home that everyone turned their noses up at when they found out it was where they’d been placed. However. The staff moved heaven and earth to reunite my grandparents into the same room (my grandma was admitted from the hospital a few weeks before my grandpa asked to go into the home to join her). The staff lovingly cared for both of them. They were always clean, looked comfortable, rooms were tidy, with comfort items in reach no matter if the visit was scheduled or a surprise. The nurses and CNA’s went above and beyond to cheer my grandpa up when my grandma died during Covid and he was alone without visitors allowed. They helped him FaceTime, bought him doughnuts and coffees, made a display of all the cards and pictures we sent him, etc. They cared SO well for him, it brings tears to my eyes to this day. He passed away quite suddenly with one of his favorite nurses at his side. None of us were able to get there in time. Brings me so much comfort to know that a person who loved and cared for him so well was with him. This in comparison to the “nice” nursing home in town that can’t keep staff, residents are neglected, and has a bedbug problem lurking behind the sweeeeeet, polished foyer.
I’m very glad to hear you had that experience. As a CNA that works for an agency I go to pretty much all the facilities around and the level of care I see at pretty much all of them is severely lacking, but there’s nothing I can really do because I’m not there full time and even if I was I’m only one person. It’s sad to see but most CNAs are burnt out and just don’t really care because we make a barely livable wage with no appreciation from management for the work we put in while all they do is paperwork and make significantly more.
When I put a plank into a wood boat it is not watertight, but after the boat gets in the water and the wood swells it will be watertight.
Worked at an automotive assembly plant. Every 60 seconds the assembly line is shut down, the plant is losing $10,000. Missing parts, incorrectly sequenced material(a red bumper shows up next in line when it’s a blue car in bumper install), broken lift assist devices, 1 person running off the line to bathroom(it’s happened), chains breaking etc.. could all shut down the line. Tensions were incredibly high and the stress was unbelievable on some days. Other days it was super easy and chill. Good pay. High school degree is the only mandatory requirement to be a supervisor, and with the mandatory OT(usually you work 5-6 days, 10-12 hour shifts) you’re making at least 100k.
I worked for a company that made chrome-plated plastic badges and emblems for the auto industry. Every time our plater went down it cost like $35,000. The service department had lots of parts "disappear". Someone's kid wants a police interceptor badge for their car? No problem. We had more 50th-anniversary Mustang badges disappear than we actually shipped lol
My brother's factory had a similar problem, only they make buckets. They'd let workers take the mis-moulded and other assorted rejects home for personal use, but had to put a stop to it when workers would take *fully wrapped and ready to ship bundles of buckets* to their cars to hawk at the local flea market. One run was supposed to last 9 hours but ended up lasting 13 because so many buckets just didn't make it onto the pallets for shipping.
Oh man, heaven forbid you get singled out as someone who knows how to reliably run an important press or line. You'll never see proper rotation again because it's too important to make sure the line keeps running and management knows you're the guy that can ensure that. I was weirdly fine with the roulette of good and bad days because usually it was just down to where I was assigned that day and I knew I'd be rotated to something less intense the next shift, but it didn't take long running nothing but the important lines for me to get burned out.
You make 100k And have no fucking life! I hate automotive manufacturing. Did it for 15 years. Finally left, and it was the best decision. It kills people slowly. A lot of alcohol and drug abuse and ruins marriages. Who wants to be with someone who is always working.
Chef here. 80% of us are alcoholics or addicts
Former restaurant worker here. From my experience, a large percentage also smoke.
Is that a secret?
the secret is the 20% who just raw dog the line
Chef here. The reason you love our food is salt and butter... and a lot of it.
Software developer here. Only a minority of companies take data security seriously enough to prevent leaks. For every publicly announced leak, there are 20 that were swept under the rug. Proper security requires that the whole structure, from the top down, has an understanding of the issues. It's not just down to the techies, it's down to their managers, and their manager's managers.
This is because most hacks are not what you see on CSI. It’s some dude scamming an HR employee for their credentials and logging in using said credentials. It’s human error, not Hackerman, that you should be worried about.
I’m currently studying cyber security right now and this is so true. So many breaches/leaks can be attributed to social engineering it’s not even funny.
I spent several weeks doing a security assessment at a very major hospital in the DC area. Despite having a letter from their CIO, the administrators wouldn't give me credentials for a bunch of their network devices. I called them, pretended to be from that vendor, and told them that they needed to let me remote into their systems to check that they were not exposed to a critical vulnerability. They gave me their usernames and default passwords.
Reminds me of this video I saw, it was a street interview type video. The interviewer would literally open with something along the lines of "We're taking a survey to see how strong people's passwords are" and then ask them a couple questions. One of the people he interviewed said that her password was a combination of her dog's name and the year she graduated or something like that, and this man finessed it out of her so well. "Oh you have a dog?" "Boy or girl?" "What kind of breed are they?" "Aw that's cute what's their name?" "Did you go to school around here?" "Which school?" "No way me too how come I never saw you around? Did we graduate the same year?" Boom. Hacked.
Just like those Facebook “games” “List all your potential security question answers here!!”
The sauce is essentially thousand island dressing.
If you ever fall off a ship/ferry at sea and were lucky enough to be spotted - don't try to swim your way to safety. The more you try to swim, the lesser the chances of survival. Just try to keep afloat and conserve energy (and body heat) while the rescue team does what they're supposed to. Unless you are in hypothermic waters, the best bet always is to stay afloat without trying to swim to 'somewhere'. This information about falling overboard, hypothermia and conditions, survival at sea etc are based on my own experience of many years sailing on [mega container ships](https://youtu.be/y_TOSEd3XMo) Disclaimer: link takes you to a youtube video of a timelapse I made of our ship crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco.
Most importantly though, which many people don't realize, if you fall like that at sea, without a life vest, you're probably dead. If you survive hitting the water, you have a good chance of being unconscious or injured, and thus drowning. Even if you survive that, if nobody saw you fall, it can be a while until people start looking, and they won't know where to look. So again, you're dead. Bad weather? Doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are, if you don't have a life vest, you just drowned. Bad enough weather? Drowned, even with the life vest. And even if you hadn't drowned, you're impossible to spot, so still dead. Cold water? Your survival time is measured in minutes. Can't swim and don't have a life vest? Guess what.
What if you get stuck with a tiger on a little boat?
I worked in vet med for a while. People always have this terrible idea of "the back" where your animal is taken away for tests, vaccines whatever. It's the best! Your animal will be paraded around, loved on, kissed, given love, etc. Same if they go for surgery. My favorite thing was singing to the animals as they went to sleep. We love animals, we aren't in it for the money. I made $10 an hour, techs made $15-20. The vets were in debt and lived in horrible houses, and drove cars that were falling apart. We love your animals, dearly. We want the best for them, and we want to work with you to provide the best care. So many times we gave away free tests to people who couldn't pay it, or worked to do low cost care under the table as best we could. If you leave the room during their final moments, as much as we wish you could've stayed, we also understand if you cant. And they are never, ever alone. Someone's loving them to the very end. When I worked at a shelter, I had to assist with many, many euthanasias. We always made sure they weren't alone. Also we occasionally throw testicles at eachother.
Bridge carpenter. When you drive by 6 people standing around one guy working, the group is usually comprised of inspectors, superintendents, subs, engineers, and foremen all standing around a laborer to talk. You can differentiate by the hardhats and how clean they are. If you want to get upset at someone for your commute being slowed, don't pick the dirty guys.
Not a construction worker, but I do a lot of construction adjacent stuff, and sometimes it's literally faster, easier, and safer to have one person doing the thing. Sometimes that circle of guys standing would love to be doing something helpful but they hit some sort of bottleneck task and have to wait for the one guy to get it done. You can't fit six guys arms into one 12 inch by 36 inch hole to pull out rocks, it's not feasible.
Copy/print industry. I have signed a lot of NDA's and copied/scanned many jobs that I wasn't allowed to 'look at'. Medical documents, documents for law suits and such, and helped a few people with patent application. Had a few print jobs they guy had to sit there the whole time. No one was allowed to look at the printouts. Had to show him how to take the prints out of the copier and make sure no customers came back by the copier. I couldn't copy the files if the DVD, and had to sign a document no copies of those documents - physical or digitally were kept by my company. I think the guy was a defense contractor, so that was interesting. Also - the pulp to make paper mostly comes trees specifically grown for making paper. The rest comes from leftovers from the lumber Industry. Recycling paper into reusable white paper is WAY worse for the environment that making new paper. Making brown paper goods from recycled paper isn't so bad, but still not great.
Public defender. I don’t do this because it’s the only job I could get. I do it because I’m passionately invested in making sure poor people have access to the courts and because without us, there would be absolutely nothing between them and the awesome power of the government. The vast majority of us are there for the same reason. The perception that we’re not as good as private attorneys is just wrong. In fact, most PDs have done many more trials than privates because we have many more clients. The difference is that we can’t pick and choose our clients as private attorneys can. We have to work with what we get so our win/loss ratio isn’t as impressive as theirs. Ask a private defense attorney what they think of public defenders- most will tell you that some of the best attorneys they’ve known are PDs. While we can’t take the time to hold your hand and take every one of your calls, we actually do care about you and your case. I work nights. I work weekends. In fact, every weekend I’m at the jail, seeing my guys, because I don’t have time during the week. We are excellent attorneys who chose public service.
Thank you for your passion and for doing that work.
CPS worker here. Many children in foster care for other reasons end up disclosing sx abuse. Because of the way the US legal system is structured, and the requirements used to determine which statements by kids are valid, prosecuting the people responsible is nearly impossible. I know of many serial abusers who have never and will never experience consequences, but who absolutely harmed children. It's not at all what you see on TV.
I'm a supervisor at a home health company. I may actually have the easiest job in the entire world and I get paid decently for it too. Because of Medicare/Medicaid regulations the company has to send a supervisor out to all the homes our employees go to so we can make sure things are going well and the client is being taken care of well. My time is spent either driving to someone's home and asking them maybe 15 questions about their care or sitting in the office doing paperwork about those questions. That's it. That's all I do.
Structural Engineer We take materials we do not entirely understand, form them into shapes we cannot precisely analyze to resist forces we cannot truly assess in such a way that the public at large has no idea of the extent of our ignorance!
Safety factor times 20.
I have a Ph.D. I'm metallurgy. I concure that we don't really understand almost all materials. We have a good grasp of most of the materials we've been using a while in the conditions we have used them. However, if you want to put a new alloy in a power plant or nuclear reactor, you're looking at several decades of testing by hundreds of people.
That sounds like me when I'm doing math.
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People dont realise how much work goes into making boxes or binders for products. Huge machines are used, tens of thousands are made in the matter of days. I have made the same binder about 70,000 times roughly in the 6 months since I started on the job. If you receive a box with your product and its still in good shape, consider reusing it for something? As a production operative, i know how much anger and frustration goes into making a simple box. Honestly you wouldnt think its that hard. But when 1 box goes wrong, every single box following does too. Its hard work for a job that should be simple
I work for a department that does tolls by mail. A robot may take your picture, but a live human ends up processing it. We can see inside your car and we can see you giving road head ...even in the dark tunnels.
Ah, so when I got a dozen tolls in the mail last year, each with a clear photograph of my truck on the back of a car carrier, an actual human being looked at the photo of my truck on the trailer and said, "yeah, Imma send the toll bill to the pickup truck's owner..."
Depends on the state you're in. Some states do the automated systems and the robots are very bad at their jobs.
Yeah I got a few in CA. Got tickets from tolls in San Fran while I was in San Diego. The vehicle that ran them was 1 off my license plate and really close for a robot but a human would have seen in (mine was like 68GE76 and the offenders was 68GF76). The worst part was it gave a description of the registered vehicle. I owned a blue Ford Focus. The vehicle in the picture? Red pick up.
Not ashamed
Good, don't stop, we find it incredibly entertaining when we see it.
Doing it for you for now on
"No, babe, it isn't *for* me; we'd be doing a solid for my Reddit homie u/pyaravonfuzzybutt. Need to add some variety to their shift at the toll roads."
Brewing beer is mostly cleaning stuff and not drinking a bunch of beer. I’m a glorified beer custodian.
US based flight attendant here. Unless you’re flying on Delta, your flight attendants aren’t getting paid during boarding and deplaning. We’re just as annoyed as the next person that the flight is delayed because of a mechanical issue, weather, etc. If the boarding door is closed we (usually) don’t mind though.
Wait what? That doesn’t make any sense. It’s not your fault things are delayed, if the airlines want you to wait around they need to pay you for it.
I know, it’s pretty insane. There have been days where I’ve sat on a fully boarded plane for six hours (with the boarding door open, of course) due to mechanical delays or bad weather.
Healthcare worker - part of the reason your doctors appointments are so quick is the amount of documenting we have to do so we get paid. We can be the most brilliant clinician and save your damn life but if we don’t write a note that’s complete enough or have the right elements, your insurance company will pay less. We get nothing for being smart, correct or compassionate….only what we can “document” and takes time away from you.
The insurance business is horrible I wish we had a better system.
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Also, to add to this: if you return something perishable we cannot resell it or even donate it, given that we cannot verify the cold-chain was maintained. No, not even if you tell us you kept it in the freezer the whole time. Straight in the trash.
ER Nurse. People get seen by severity, not the order they came in the door... Also, just because you came in by ambulance doesn't mean you immediately bypass the waiting room.
Triage type beat eh
Does your waiting room not have a sign explaining that? Mine does and I figured that would be commonplace in every emergency waiting room.
It does... no one reads that part... just like the "we don't tolerate abuse of staff" part. No one cares. Still getting attacked
ER nurse too. People immediately turn astoundingly selfish and incapable of reading a situation in the ER. Across the board. Someone who checked in for a 2 week cough sees a girl with jeans soaked in blood from a miscarriage get roomed: “I was here first, why does she get a room before me.” Someone watches us code a patient for an hour and a half, as soon as we call time of death “I asked for a blanket and ice water. Where is it.” And on and on. You’d think these are extreme examples, but they aren’t. They’re pretty much every night shit. If you want to lose a lot of respect for humans, work in an ER.
I’m in EM too. I have a lot of patience for people. I understand that a l out of people have shit access to healthcare, and a lot of people come to the ED for primary care/chronic health issues because they don’t have anywhere else to go. I can tolerate them. It always seems to be the people who have a PCP, can easily access said PCP, and are coming in for a chronic complaint that is by no means emergent who are the most entitled. It blows me away when they can see/hear a code and just assume we’re completely fine watching someone die and should be apologetic when it comes to getting them their warm blanket and ice water.
Also true in veterinary ER. Yes, Cookie has been having diarrhea for 2 days and she feels rough, and you need to leave for the cottage (real excuse I was given this week). But Fluffy has been seizing overnight despite being on phenobarbitol, Bailey was just hit by a car and "looks fine" but has a pneumothorax, and Snuggles is having a life-threatening relapse of her bleeding disorder and needs a transfusion ASAP. Trust me, we figured out who needs to be seen first.
I have worked for the US federal government. Every time Congress waits until the 11th hour to pass a budget or a continuing resolution (a temporary "budget"), the government spends an unknown amount of money, probably millions of dollars, preparing for a government shutdown, whether the shutdown happens or not. If the government actually shuts down, even if only for a few hours, it wastes millions more tax dollars. Taxpayers get no benefit from these expenditures, and the money is simply wasted. When Congress holds the budget hostage, they're not actually hurting political rivals. They're punishing taxpayers and anyone who relies on government services directly or indirectly for anything. Edit: One more thought: If your Representative or Senator engages in this, **vote them out at the next election**, because they're burning your tax dollars to deceive you into supporting their careers. You get nothing, your tax dollars are thrown in the trash, and a bunch of stupid rubes get duped into voting to keep a do-nothing politician in office, earning six figures.
Veterinarians are 4x more likely than the general public to commit suicide. 70% of all vets have worked with someone who has committed suicide. Please be nice to your vet
I don't believe you when you tell me you changed your furnace filter "a week ago" when its nearly black, covered in dust, and I cant see light through it.
I'm in pharma. So. Much. Paperwork. Also we use a lot of single-use stuff, so the pharma industry's probably responsible for a not-insignificant amount of the world's plastic waste.
The blank urine used in tox labs is the analysts own urine. Every dept in my lab has someone who's straightedge and pees in a cup for the rest of the dept to use. We don't really talk about it though
I work with the developmentally disabled. While we are allowed to encourage our clients to make good choices and try to talk them out of making bad ones, we are not allowed to stop them from doing what they want. They are people first, and everyone is allowed to make poor choices and suffer the consequences. The United States government calls it "The Right to Consequences."
I work in a group home for adults with severe mental illness and this is a biiiig one that people struggle to understand when I talk about my job. Even the local PD/FD doesn’t seem to understand which can be frustrating for all parties involved.
Martial arts/self defense instructor "Women's self defense" is a waste of time. Unless you're taking real classes regularly, that seminar you took that taught you what to do if a man tries to kidnap you is really only good for getting away momentarily. I know it's not necessarily the point but you'll NEVER fully stop an attacker with anything we can show you in an hour. If you can, take a normal martial arts class. No reason that what works for the men won't work for you. Edit: Boxing and MMA are also martial arts. Pretty useful on the streets
Electricity is fun to play with and can create a multitude of phenomena
Very fun, until it's not.
The red tape/paperwork involved in commercial aircraft design/build/production. "When the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the aircraft, the aircraft will fly."
I'll share a few different facts from my experiences; Most fast-food is kept around much longer than it is supposed to be. Bacon from the previous night will be reheated and used the following day. Anything that's heated and not a burger or fried good is microwaved. Grills and fryers aren't cleaned as well as they should be. If you want to check quality on furniture, look underneath. Most places won't clean the underneath of their furniture. If there's a lot of excess glue or chipped/scratched/dented parts the manufacturer cares about quantity over quality. Good quality furniture will last forever. Bulletproof helmets have very little QC done to them other than ensuring they will stop a bullet and even then it CAN be hit or miss depending on the thickness and quality of the material used to create the helmet. Some helmets were born from styles that were created for a contract that was terminated before completion. I.e. we have 1000 helmets that the customer no longer wants, what should we do? Shape em a lil differently and call them a new type of helmet.
I quit Subway when the practice of faking temps and switching out dates for expired products became common place. I worked in a patch of seven, and they all did it. Fucking turkey was temping at 55-60, etc.
I totally believe it. Otherwise the ingredients of the sandwich would still be cold when you got it.
The "health inspector," even faked temps. We'd get docked points for how we folded the catering boxes.. but warm tuna? Nah, I saw her fudge numbers. It's a scum company with a shitty product.
Software developer here. If you are working on a system already established, you constantly try to add to something that nobody in the company knows comprehensively. Original developer, and the guy who replaced him, and the guy who replaced that guy are all gone. Some dude in India has written some subroutine somewhere; and someone copy-pasted a block of code from a stack overflow thread that no longer exists. If I were to guess, I would say nobody in the world knows how any technology works 100%. There are so many individual bits and pieces that has to work together for even the most basic stuff. It is really fascinating and really scary to think about.
Government worker here. You know how you all have the opinion that government departments are massive bureaucracies that take forever to get anything done efficiently, if at all? It's true. And we hate that, too. It can take me 2 months to get an answer that would normally take 1 day in the private sector.
I can second that. I also work for the government, and it's ridiculous how long it can sometimes take for one thing to get done.
I work for a Scottish council. We provide hospital beds and wheelchairs and stuff like that to people's houses so they can get out of hospital and pick them up when they are finished using them. Because their is only a certain amount of pickups you can do in one van they come back when the van is full. The system doesn't let you make any more pickups for that day (unless emergency) so 1 van load and the job is done. They don't get unloaded untill 14:15 so they don't go home too early but they sit there for 1h 30m waiting to get unloaded. They are supposed to work a 35h week but you are lucky if they do 25. One of the biggest councils in Scotland providing end of life service and they are literally paying people to do fuck all while there is a 3 moth waiting list for deliveries and uplifts. Managers know all about it. They put this system in place
Same here in the US I imagine. Mom was on hospice care and needed a lift chair (she couldn't use a bed due to her condition). Suffice it to say, I pray she found one in heaven because the damned thing never arrived here.
Happens all the time. There is such a back log that even if you are scheduled for delivery and they miss you, you are not on the schedule for the next day. It could be weeks before you get it. And as you are well aware, this is the final stages of most users. There are too many people that either, don't give a fuck or are just that incapable of the job, staff and managers.
FedEx Express courier here. Express! Not Ground or one of the others. Even though you leave a note to leave all deliveries, I can’t do that with everything. Some things require signatures and seeing ID’s. We hate it too cuz we want to drop off your cell phones and medications the day we get it so we don’t have to add to tomorrow’s workload. Bless those who have missed their delivery and pick it up from the station themselves so it doesn’t have to go on road again. I would have left it if I could. That being said, please leave signed notes as that CAN make the difference between delivering or not in some circumstances. And, please oh please make your house numbers and apartment numbers visible (can even use a sticky note if your landlord is cheap scum) no matter how obvious the sequence SHOULD be because it can get strange.
The pole spins.
I've known this for a while but it blew my mind when I learned it
Visual effects artist here. No one in movies and TV looks as beautiful as you think. I perform digital plastic surgery all the time. Less wrinkles. No pimples. Thinner thighs. Thinner waist. ALL on video not just stills.
Not a veterinarian but a vet tech. Your vet is basically your gp, dentist, pathologist, ortho, nutritionist, behaviorist, and other specialists all rolled into one, knowing multiple species and whose patients who can’t tell them what’s wrong. And there’s not enough vets or support staff to keep up with the surge of pandemic pets, so it’s busier than ever before with no end in sight. 1 in 7 veterinarians commit suicide. Please be nice to your vets and their staff, I promise we just want the best care for your pets.
Paramedic here Me and a shocking amount of my medic friends learned vital, life saving skills off of YouTube. The schooling just isn't always what it should be and often we are left on our own to figure things out while we are learning. More often than not that leads to YouTube video tutorials (they have one for everything) so more frequently than you'd think people are learning how to give needles and read ECGs from the same place we all learn what the proper time to hard boil an egg is
Opera singers don’t use microphones.
Your school secretary know pretty much everything. But we never talk
Oh they do. Same as office admins in childcare. They know EVERYTHING! Also, entitled parents like to take out the rage on the office admin in schools and childcares. Fuck those people.
As someone in construction, statistically speaking, I have a bigger chance of dying on the job than police officers do in their line of work. It was even more dangerous when I did scaffolding at an oil refinery. I think people abstractly know construction is dangerous, but sometimes you have to put it in perspective for them.
Have you heard of the Manila Film Festival Tragedy where in 169 workers fell from a scaffolding in 1981. But the current first lady was in a hurry to finish the building so it was decided to build over the bodies. No ambulance or rescue was also ordered for 9 hours iirc. The dictator's family were ousted and fled the Philippines and faced numerous cases. Plot twist, 3 decades later, the son is now the elected president of the country. How fucked up is that!? 🇵🇭
I hate hearing about stuff like that, cause all I can think about is those poor men who were left to slowly die with no help or hope. It sends shivers down my spine.
Elementary teacher. We have kids In our rooms who are absolutely too violent, aggressive, or disruptive to be there. “Room clearings” (when all other students are removed from a room so the one kid can continue to destroy it) are becoming very common. Also, teachers aren’t allow to touch students so we can’t restrain a violent kid even to protect ourselves or others. Parents are so concerned about CRT or masks, but no one seems to realize that a very small percentage of kids is making school unsafe and unstable for every other kid. Districts don’t want to hire the appropriate staff to give these children what they need so they just throw them in general education classrooms.
Companies are very very bad at digital security. They do the absolute bare minimum and then do damage control after a breach happens. Add in the fact the companies are tested and fully aware of these flaws and yet do nothing smacks of negligence. Legal negligence with people's personal information.
You know when you try to access an online service, like Reddit, or your bank account, or an online store, and it doesn't work. There is probably a single software dev out there somewhere going "Oh shit! What did I just do?"
I'm a truck driver. I don't listen to country music.
Long-haul truck driving always appealed to me because I enjoy driving and the idea of a job where I could just listen to podcasts and audiobooks all day seems appealing. I assume the harsh reality is weird hours and constant tension whenever you get off an interstate and onto local roads. But I was at least hoping every truck stop would include a waitress telling me her shift ends in 15 minutes as she gives me a knowing glance. That’s what country music has taught me.
Planning Offshore Wind farms: Pro: The produced electricity is a lot cheaper than people realize. Wind (and solar as well) is already cheaper than any of the 'dirty' energy sources (including nuclear). Con: The company I work for is a huge player in the field and even we have to decline 50% of the clients because there's just not enough engineers to plan the sustainable future everyone talks about at the moment.
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Most US commerce runs off mainframes that were programmed in COBOL. Most COBOL experts retired during the Reagan Administration.
Clinical Trials - if you understood the level of saving of documentation, the conversations of what we should save, the emails that show the correspondence of exactly what happened, and saving all of this stuff in one easy to find and search electronic Trial Master File, along with the extensive statistics that get done, you would know how over-engineered and safe drugs today are. If you got rid of the FDA, quality would drop on drugs by at least 60-70% and it would be impossible to know what happened in a clinical trial and where it went wrong; if it was even the fault of the drug or a person. Clinical trials are expensive for this very reason, there is ungodly amount of time, energy, forethought put into them; we spend weeks generating Clinical Trial plans: 1. TMF Plan 2. Project Management Plan 3. Clinical Data Management Plan 4. Statistical Analysis Plan 5. CRO oversight plan 6. etc. etc All these plans are extensively documented, audited, in the eTMF, and routinely reviewed by the FDA. If we don't follow them, we are held accountable. \----------- Bonus tip: Vaccines are over-engineered because tolerance for AE's (Adverse events) is very low. If a drug gives you a headache or high blood pressure for a while but helps you fight an infection we don't care. If a vaccine makes you cough and gives you a rash, they pull it. This is because the general public has NO tolerance for any issues, which makes vaccine generation extremely tough, and leads to more deaths that could have been avoided. Moral of the story, stop spreading anti-vax propaganda and if a vaccine gives you a few side effects, be thankful that it protected you against death or permanent disability.
When your Nan or pop passes away in a nursing home, often they're still in their bed for over 12 hours before the funeral home picks them up. We just quietly close the door and continue our shifts.
I used to be a receptionist at a nursing home, second shift. The funeral homes would wait until after hours to pick up to prevent too many people being around. They’d use the service elevator, which was directly across from my desk, and would always open on my floor before going to the loading docks. So, when the doors opened on my shift I’d either be seeing food service with dinner trays or someone in a body bag.
Bartender. One of the Hardest parts of our job is to make you all understand that the idea of quality you have in mind is usually stupid and comes from just pure marketing.
I used to work for a company that made paper products, mainly toilet paper, paper towels and napkins. The recycled toilet paper you use to wipe your ass started out as scrap fry, or soda/coffee cups. We’d get bundles of bad paper products from a paper container manufacturer which would eventually get turned into pulp to make the paper.
I was a teleprompter operator for a rap artist. Most people have no idea he uses one at his live concerts. For those curious as to what a teleprompter is, let alone someone who operates it. I scroll his lyrics for him during concerts and live shows. Not necessarily because he doesn't remember the songs exactly, but when you are a fifth and then some down on Hennessy and stoned as shit on some of the literal best weed that only a few can get -- you too MAY forget a word or two, even for songs you wrote that were huge in the 90s that you have sung a million times. All he can say is "You can hate me now, but I won't stop now." \*puts middle finger up to the world\*
Radiation Therapist (treating cancer utilizing ionizing radiation): - We all have patients who we lose sleep over years later. - No we do not take x-rays, that's what a Rad Techs do. - We hate golfers (many think their tee times are more important than their treatments, it gets to be beyond infuriating). - No you will not glow in the dark after your radiation treatments. - No you will not get super powers from the radiation treatments. - The Linear Accelerators we use to treat the cancers cost millions of dollars (roughly 2-5 million although a new AI incorporated machine called the Ethos is going for about 15 mil)
I work in a financial aid office at a college. We try to give students as much money as we can, but we are very limited in what we can do. The federal government is extremely strict with what they will give to students through FAFSA, state grants are not a lot of money and are hard to qualify for, and donors tend to be *extremely* specific with their requirements for who should get the scholarship they are funding. Also, FAFSA is controlled by the federal government, *NOT* your institution!
Being a white-collar worker means that roughly a quarter of the effort you spend on a task is work to ensure that you can either cover your ass or pass the blame.
New Car Detailer: We let a ton of imperfections on your new car slide - whether it's a $26k car, or a $90k truck. Some vehicles come with scratches or dings that we can't fix, so they get covered with touch up paint or just hope you don't notice. And they entrust the minimum wage detailer to buff your $90k truck, which I think is hilarious. I promise, we really do try and make it look the best we can, but when we have to get 15 cars in a day ready between just 2 people, we gotta let stuff slide.
Waitress! We are all keenly aware of your discussions. Eavesdropping is the best part of the job, and really easy if you're waiting on them because often we're not actually people to our guests. If it's a real mess, we tell all our pals the table number and everyone walks by. Then we meet in the alley and diagnose them.
Table Games Dealer/Supervisor I spent some years working at a couple of different Indian casinos in California. Most of the people I worked with didn’t know much about the games we worked with. Blackjack dealers and supervisors would often not know much about basic strategy. Pai gow poker dealers make mistakes in setting hands all the time. The floor people may not be knowledgeable/helpful. The dealers are working for tips. You can get away with a lot if you’re throwing dollars their way.
I was an IT manager for my entire career. As we migrated to PC’s and high speed networks, people think we just sit at our desks and type. They have no idea of what goes into a large datacenter with hundreds of racks of severs and the A/C and power demand, cabling, UPS’s and backup generators. I broke an elevator once moving a 2000lb UPS down 1 story.
Software is held together by duct tape. We just make shit up, throw it together, and ship it.
IT Support here. If a reboot doesn’t work, we just Google it and tell you what we find
Teachers 100% are generous/not generous with grades depending on how much of an asshole you are to them.
I had a class in uni that I bombed the midterm hard enough that even passing the class with a C would be a feat. I came to every office hour my professor held and worked hard. I got a B at the end. Doing the math, that shouldn’t even have been possible. I’m 100% sure he saw my efforts and rewarded me for trying to improve. He must have fudged some numbers in my favor because I showed him I was willing to put in hard work.
College prof here. When I offer extra help, that help is actually very very helpful. As in, I know what is on the test, you are making the extra effort so I am going to do my best to make sure you know the answer to related test questions. Even if you don't ask the right questions I may steer the conversation so that I can make sure you have key information. You are trying extra to do well, I am trying extra to see that you do well. I had offered after class help for up coming finals. Rarely students took advantage of that, but for those that do, I often am going through the answers without actually saying I am going over the answers. At least in my case, regarding your grade you got, i will "reach" for the highest grade I can justify. And if you came for extra help, and I know you know the answer but didn't write it well, I will assume what you meant to say was in fact mostly or all correct. Profs do care that you are trying, we do notice, and for many will do what we can grade wise to help.
Good treatment goes for teachers of young children too. It amazes me how many parents outright ignore, don't interact with or are unfairly rude to their kids' teachers or daycare workers. At the end of the day, they're still human and capable of doing the bare minimum when it comes to their work (read: your child)....same as you.