35 Employee Confessions That Center On Companies' Hidden Secrets And Other Things That Will Surely Shock Us Ordinary People

Most employees want to get back at their previous jobs by revealing information they're not supposed to disclose.

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• Published in Interesting
• December 27, 2021

Every company has a dark secret—something that people would be shocked about once they find out about it. The truth is that when businesses face a certain challenge, they want to find the easy, cheapest way out, even at the cost of quality or even safety.

Bad practices, sadly, are present in multiple industries. And they're no way we could know them unless you're within the organization.

Today, we're looking a the response of redditors toward a question about companies that are hiding something. It was posted on askreddit.

What are some company secrets you can now reveal since you don’t work for the company anymore?

The question was answered by thousands of employees who are aching to spill the dark secrets of the industry. From SPA workers and fast-food employees health care professionals, these people saw this as an opportunity to share the bad practices of companies.

These professionals may have signed to keep certain things confidential, but since these people are no longer part of the company and are anonymous online, they're willing to expose that information. According to business experts, some of the reasons why they don't mind divulging this sensitive information is that they don't have respect for the company and they're not satisfied with the role given to them.

Let's take a look at what these employees revealed. And prepare to be shocked.

1. Whole Foods instructs employees to heat cookies at the store. They don't bake these snacks, according to an ex-employee.

2. Nothing's real in reality TV. A couple on HGTV's house hunters are pretending to look for a house.

In fact, it's already their property. The other houses on the show are either owned by their friends or already sold but the residents have yet to move in.

3. Apple already knows the issues of their devices before they reveal them to people.

Those problems won't be discussed during the staff meetings in the morning. However, they will be the central discussion during the afternoon tech staff meetings.

Apply will blame the issue to the users, and will consider it user misuse or error. But they already know what's causing the damage.

4. A smartphone company employee reveals the truth about the development of these devices.

Normally, developers test everything to ensure that these devices will run smoothly. But there's a thing called waivers.

Bugs, big or small, will be granted waivers so that they'll be fixed at a later time. In other words, the devices we purchase potentially have tons of unresolved errors.

This employee has a tip for consumers. Never purchase within three months of the release of a device.

Wait for devices produced in the second batch. They work 10 times better.

5. Viagogo is a scam, according to a former employee.

They will go as far as taking your money even if they don't have the ticket you want to purchase. In fact, there's only about a 50% chance that you'll get an actual ticket to events.

6. A special education teacher reveals that the job can be dangerous.

7. Public libraries welcome all kinds of people, including indigent ones.

Such people drug themselves in the restrooms. According to the library staff revealing this, they would administer Narcan to opiate users.

But some aren't lucky. They die in the library.

8. Fred Meyer is a wasteful company according to a former employee. They trash loads of edible products.

Their oldest students are 21 years old. Since these educators also need to handle adults with special needs, they get injured or worse, get sexually harassed.

We get concussions, bites, broken wrists and arms, scalped, as well as sexualy assaulted by students who will grab you by your breast, pull out their d**k and start masturbating.

9. An unused gift card will lose its value if you didn't use it for roughly an entire year.

Credit card companies actually use that value to pay for the service charges monthly. Therefore, a $50 gift card can potentially be gone and is used for something else.

10. A skincare specialist reveals that all products that retail for $20 to $150 only cost less than 2 bucks to manufacture.

11. Health professionals will pretend to do something about an old patient who no longer has a pulse to avoid legal consequences.

12. In a certain private school, grades can be bought. Teachers aren't allowed to give grades lower than B.

13. Always wash your fruits and vegetables because staff pick them up from a dirty warehouse floor and place them on the grocery shelves.

14. Ice cube machines are not really clean, revealed by an ex-employee. So don't order drinks with ice.

15. A pilot reveals that the blankets given during the flight are never washed.

16. The staff at Geek Squad outsource their tech knowledge from India or some other countries.

They're merely salespeople. They don't know anything about the technicalities of the products they sell.

17. Applebees tip from an ex-staff:

On the tabletop computers, go to "Extras" and tap and hold the little white space on the top left of the screen. When it gives a password prompt, it's 4321. Lets you change the table numbers or play games for free.

18. There was no company mentioned, but the secret ingredient is just a Thousand Island dressing.

19. Cookies on your browser are used against you when you're purchasing something online.

This is especially true for plane tickets. The more you check, the more the price rises.

You'd think that the price is going up because the products are selling out fast. In truth, the cookies are the reason you see increased prices, creating the urgency to buy.

20. An ex-UPS employee reveals that the fragile sign is always ignored.

21. Memory Foam Clusters are made from old, recycled memory foam (meaning, the nasty stuff is in there). Never purchase these pillows!

22. Not all Starbucks stores follow protocols.

Unfortunately, an employee who was cleaning espresso machines with mold in them. You also have to be nice when placing your order.

Otherwise, you'll get decaf coffee. Even assistant store managers do this to customers who treat staff badly.

23. Throwing everything away and the work speed required.

A White Castle employee, who worked from 2000 to 2003 revealed everything in the restaurant was clean. But, they trashed tons of food that were no longer good for serving customers.

For example, burger buns that got hard due to cooling get thrown away. If the sides or fries were placed under the heat lamp for 15 minutes, the employees will get rid of them.

That's not all. The food they threw away had to be tracked for inventory purposes.

The employees also had to work really fast. As they prepare hamburgers from start to finish, they also get timed.

24. Commercial beekeepers in the '70s and '80s poisoned roughly the entire hives to death in the fall.

This is because the total cost of wintering the hives is greater than receiving the packager from America. While it's not a dark secret, it's something that only a few are aware of.

25. Companies selling animal premix include their competitor's products in their own ones.

26. Someone who was from a no-kill animal shelter admitted that they still had to put some animals down.

You can't rehome a Pitbull with a history of biting. Also, some dogs have the worse behavioral problems, leaving these employees no choice but to put them down.

27. An ex-employee exposes that they didn't meet their contractual obligations to completely destroy the laptops that Google sent for decommissioning.

The HDDs are shredded. Then the laptops are sold for them to earn money.

28. Satellite TV customers are given a rating of 1 to 5 stars to determine their value.

The company will do anything to keep its high-scoring clients. But for 1 or 2-star clients? They won't bother helping you.

29. Even Ralph Lauren sells made-for-outlet clothes.

30. A certain high-end spa would only use vegetable oil and Epsom salts, but charge customers 65-dollar salt scrubs.

31. The $1200 car care system (which can go down to $900 with discounts), only involves 15 spray bottle squirts.

Customers won't get suspicious of the fast turnaround. That's because the dealer speaks with the detailing staff to make it seem like something major was done to the car.

32. Chickens and rabbits you see in zoos are actually food for larger animals.

33. Trader Joe's employees are really nice, according to a former manager.

34. A Burger King employee admits that they don't clean the ice cream machine

35. A former oil company employee reveals that animal cleanup resulting from an oil spill is a "feel good" propaganda.

People are tricked into thinking that the company is concerned about the creatures. The truth is, ninety percent of those animals will die soon.

Did a lot of things shock you?

Thanks to these revelations, we can now be smarter consumers. So the next time you pick up food from a certain store, you might need to think twice.

These people who revealed the darkest secrets about their company did not have a voice when they worked there. So it's no wonder why they're spilling the beans now that they're no longer associated with the organization.

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