Every industry has its hidden side that may be unappealing. It’s akin to visiting the kitchen of your favorite restaurant and seeing how grimy and untidy it actually is from behind the scenes. 

Much of this insider information remained concealed until someone posted this question on Reddit: “What’s the dark secret about your profession that the general public doesn’t know?”

People didn’t hesitate to respond, revealing what happens behind closed doors among lawyers, healthcare workers, educators, and service industry employees, to name a few. 

Many of these answers may shock you and make you question the fabric of society. But if you want to read about juicy industry secrets, scroll through this list.

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#1

It is entirely possible that your veterinarian will kiss your kitten’s belly when you are not looking.

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#2

The number of completely incompetent employees working in health care settings is appalling.

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#3

I used to be a police officer: There were a lot of unspoken rules about making sure we had a high number of arrests. Demonstrating high arrest numbers meant we got federal/state grant money. This kept the prosecutor employed along with the entire court system and showed the town/city we needed a larger budget because of all the arrests. The entire criminal justice system is literally a giant business which [profits] off the backs of the public

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#4

Economist here. The dirty secret is that economists do actually know what they’re doing, politicians and pundits just ignore us and do whatever they want to make more money for the rich. Oh and all conservative economic theory is a made up scam. Trickle down is a scam.

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#5

80% of women with developmental disabilities will experience SA. The statistics are already horrible for neuro typical women but most people outside the field have no idea it's so high. It is horrific.

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#6

Funeral Director/Embalmer here. I don’t know that this is a particularly “dark” secret, but despite the rising popularity, the lack of understand around what cremation really is always shocks me. You do not get “ashes” back. You get back bone fragments. In school we had it drilled into us to never use them term “ashes” because it is so inaccurate and only perpetuates this misunderstanding. Your body is not reduced to a fine, powdery ash that will float off in the wind/water when scattered. It is reduced to large chunks of bone which are then processed to try to attain a fairly uniform consistency. Much more like a heavy sand.

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#7

Book editor. Unless you have a massive social media following/built-in audience already, chances are very small you’ll get published by a major house. Chances are even smaller that you’ll make any money from your book. Just self-publish if you really want to get your work out there: the publishing industry is 95% about making money and 5% about publishing decent books.

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#8

I work in the gas pipeline industry and there’s been massive accidents and terror attacks people have no idea about and were never reported nor ever will be. All over the world.

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#9

When they make a pain cream, they put in ingredients to make you “feel” something, like menthol, because it’s associated with “doing something” or “working”. Simple not feeling anything (or less pain) is not associated with effecacy.

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#10

A boutique hotel I worked at didn’t wash comforters unless they had to. And even then you really had to push. I was pulled to help with housekeeping fairly regularly in the busy season, found a quilt with blood on it – sent it to laundry. It was sent back 5 mins for being “clean enough” 🤢🤮

My housekeepers told me it was normal. I was horrified. I cringe staying at hotels and take a blanket when I can.

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#11

Professors are regularly pressured into passing failing students to keep up graduation levels. I even had the registrar go into the system and change grades. Let’s just say I have seen my fair share of students who failed my science course but were passed by admins who are now building your bridges, interstates, buildings,levees, and multi-level parking lots.

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#12

Persuasive design is unbelievably effective on websites.

A little scarcity message there, a little was/now pricing, a big ol’ prominent “buy now” button in just the right place, badly designed filters that limit your ability to see the cheapest products.

Lots of websites are utterly garbage, and some might *look* garbage and have obviously annoying experiences (Amazon anyone?) but it’s like that because you spend more money, and cost the company less money – not to make it good for you.

We know how long you spend on a page, what you look at, what will make you buy, and how to keep you engaged for as long as possible. We know you are using an iPhone – the newest, largest model – and are likely a wealthier prospect, so will tailor our messaging and pricing to squeeze every cent out of you that we can.

These experiments are conducted on you without your knowledge in order to make you part with your money.

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#13

The US public school system is on the brink of collapse.

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#14

Food service, 20 years in the industry. Even surrounded by all of that food you barely have an opportunity to eat or drink anything. A lot of food service work is part time unless you’re a manager, and if you’re a salaried manager forget ever having a life outside of work, you are on call 24/7/365, even on your days off. You’re on your feet from the moment you start your shift until you clock out. You barely have a chance to sit down unless you’re using the bathroom. If you’re waiting tables, you earn $2.13 per hour, and all of it is taken in taxes, so you’re living on customer’s tips. You have to balance a heavy tray of food and drinks on one hand while dodging coworkers and customers and trying not to spill anything. Then you have the customers with entitled attitudes who want their food fast, fresh and hot but don’t want to wait for it and refuse to pay their server by tipping them for doing their job. There’s a lot of prep work that goes on before the restaurant opens in order to get your meal out in a timely manner. If your restaurant serves breakfast you are awake when your customers are asleep, yep, you’re clocking in at 3 am. And we wake up every day to do it for you. So treat restaurant workers well!

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#15

Professor. We are totally invested in helping you to make amazing work, we stick up for students all the time. We take the responsibility of helping you win very seriously. The only dark thing is that many people see it the other way around.

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#16

I work in laboratory support for a life sciences department at a mid-size university, and the amount of plastic waste we generate is astounding. .

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#17

During an autopsy, we will not take care with your organs and stuff them back in any old how so they fit back in your chest cavity.

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#18

No so much a dark secret, but authors make pennies on the dollar. Even mid-to-high level authors have to work a day job.

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#19

Dental Hygienist here: Not sure if ppl are aware that a RDH only requires an associates degree in science (2 1/2 yr program), medium salary is approx. 70k, 4 day work week most offices, good hours (no nights), free dental care and usually discounted for family. It’s a pretty good career and if you work at a private practice it’s pretty easy because you’re seeing patients who return every 6 months and have good home care. I have friends graduating from a 4 year college and deep in debt getting 25k job offers. It’s not a bad gig.

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#20

50% of our entire financial and banking system runs on legacy cobol code written prior to 1980.

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#21

I worked at a mental health facility. They were all about image and money. Very few clients were ever discharged. They were far more interested in the money than actually helping people.

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#22

Some farm stands and farmers market booths have fruits and vegetables from Costco repackaged into cardboard pints to make it look “home grown”.

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