We all know how to keep a secret. Most of us learned as a child when we first decided to sneak an extra cookie before bedtime or refused to reveal to anyone who our best friend had a crush on. The average person is keeping an impressive 13 secrets at any given time, so we tend to exercise our vault capabilities often. But that is nothing compared to how many secrets the average corporation is holding onto, that is until some employees with loose lips decide to spill the beans…

Workers from various industries have been revealing “dirty little secrets” on Reddit from their professions that consumers aren’t intended to know, so we’ve gathered a list of some of the juiciest ones down below to keep you pandas informed. From secrets that can help you save a little money to revelations that might make you view an entire company differently, we hope this list opens up your eyes to what’s happening behind the scenes in these sectors.

Be sure to upvote the responses you find most shocking or upsetting, and then let us know in the comments if there are any juicy facts from your field you would like to reveal as well. And if you’re interested in even more of these dirty little secrets, you can check out Bored Panda’s last article on the same topic right here. 

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#1

I am a welder for a company that builds rollercoasters… Every single weld is inspected and x-rayed for any defect. So I guess this doesn’t apply but just so everyone can feel a little bit safer I figured I’d let you internet people know.

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#2

Teacher here: I hide YOUR secrets. If your kids know it, I know it. Children are tactless and impulsive and they tell me all about your reproductive habits, financial difficulties, domestic problems, and tindr dates. I know so much about moms and dads that I wish I could erase from my brain forever.

But I will never tell! You’re welcome!

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#3

How we fix our computer issues in IT: We turn it off and on again.

Seriously, this fixes 99% of computer issues.

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#4

Many of the books you read – especially romance – aren’t written by the person who’s name is on the cover.

Most romance books are ghostwritten and bought by someone else (often a man, I’ve found) and published under a female’s name with a fake bio.

How do I know this?

I’m a ghostwriter.

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#5

If I start CPR on you, you have about a 5% chance to survive. I still try my hardest.

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#6

Tech support. I google most of your problems. Good tech support is very well worded google searches

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#7

If your baby is in full-time care (40+ hours a week) the odds are that we know about their milestones (rolling, crawling, walking, talking, etc…) before you do. It’s just because the majority of their waking time is spent with us. We don’t tell you because working hard to provide for your kid doesn’t make you a bad parent, and we don’t want you to feel like you’re missing out.

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#8

In mascara ads, the models are wearing lash extensions. No mascara is going to make your lashes that long, sorry.

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#9

Valet driver here, dont leave your drugs in the car. A kid took a pound out of a customers car a few years back and the dude came back FLIPPIN out screaming at the manager. When the manager finally asked what was stolen and he told him weed, my manager just said “oh. Well you can file a police report then”

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#10

Teacher – it’s that time of year to make class placements for next year. Every year there are two or three teachers in the school (elementary) who are so awful, we cry over which students we have to ‘sacrifice’ to them and hope they are strong enough to survive a year with Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So.

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#11

Once you realize that a “real estate agent” is actually just a “used house salesman”, you start to understand what real estate is really about.

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#12

Wash your fruit, we find spiders hanging out in grapes and berries all the time, your friendly neighborhood grocery store employee

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#13

There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer.

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#14

It is against Walmart’s company policy for hourly employees to call 911 in the event of an emergency. Rather, they must notify the nearest manager, which could take anywhere from minutes to weeks depending on where the manager is, what they are doing, whether the hourly employee has a walkie, etc. Employees can be, and have been, fired for calling 911 to report an in-store emergency.

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#15

Plumber.

I make over half my money using one tool that costs $50, and a skill that can be learned in 20 minutes.

Edit: The tool is a shifter and the skill is knowing how to pull apart and install taps. Drain snakes and plungers are how I make almost all the rest. That “almost” is the reason I need all of my other tools.

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#16

My family owns a liquor store- when the economy goes down our business goes up

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#17

Every driver of a truck has nodded off at one time or another making them an 80,000 lb death missile.

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#18

I worked in an independent senior citizens center for five years. I don’t know about other facilities that are independent, but at mine, you were supposed to be mostly to completely independent. There were some tenants that needed a caretaker with them at all times, but the families found that cheaper than moving them to an assisted living facility.

After about two years, we got a new director. We went from 20 rooms filled to all 42 in a few months. Several of these tenants I would hardly call mostly to completely independent. Clearly my boss just wanted to fill the rooms and get his bonus. We had three women move in during the same week that all had dementia. One of them went completely downhill in a period of eight months.

When she first got there, she just seemed forgetful and quick to anger. After a month, she forgot her children were adults and that her husband died. Another month, and she had no idea where she was. She thought the facility was a hotel and would always talk about how horribly she was treated. She caught her apartment on fire. She’d freak out when there were guests in the dining room. Eventually she refused to bathe, and ended up with a severe yeast infection between rolls on her stomach. We had no idea that was going on, we just knew she wasn’t bathing and smelled very foul. She ended her eight month stay stealing other tenant’s outdoor decorations and becoming incontinent. The others caused all kinds of problems, wouldn’t stop harassing staff to the point where it was getting really hard to perform our tasks, other tenants threatened to move out and refused to go to meals so they could avoid them…

My point of this is: Just because a facility says they’ll accept your dementia ridden parents doesn’t mean you should place them there. Sure, it’s cheaper for you. But they don’t get the care they need. There are no nurses in our independent facility. In the five years I worked there, we only had two half hour meetings educating our staff about dementia and how to handle the people suffering from it. There’s no one watching them 24/7. They could seriously harm themselves and others. They need to be somewhere where the staff is trained to handle them at their worst, and properly guide them through the horrible transition.

Please, think twice before putting them in independent facilities.

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#19

In a call centre, we’re more likely to waive admin fees if you’re nice to us and we like you. Also we’re more likely to charge you (more) if you’re rude or patronising.

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#20

If you’re sitting at a blackjack table and aren’t sure what play to make, ask the dealer. No, seriously. We’re trained to know the official Blackjack strategy guide and are allowed to give you that information (considered common knowledge). If the dealer doesn’t know it off hand, their supervisor should have a copy of it and will help you out.

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#21

Baggage handler. If you check a skateboard by just slapping a sticker on it it will get ridden.

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#22

A lot of people think military is synonymous with discipline and top-tier job training.

I’ve seen things that would make a McDonald’s worker think that their job is pretty high-class.

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#23

Sewer inspector. I can tell exactly who/ what house is dumping oil and grease down their drains. It’s usually the churches and businesses that get nastygrams and fines but we need to shame the house people too.

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#24

Doctor here. I’ll see a patient Monday morning in the hospital, work all night and then Tuesday morning in the hospital, and I won’t have slept in the 24 hours in between.

And this is totally normal and accepted practice in medicine.

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#25

IT technician here, I do genuinley try not to look at people’s Downloads or browser history but occasionally I do. Your all a sick sick bunch of freaks but luckily, so am I 🙂

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#26

I work in video games. Our job is to make our game as addictive as possible so that we can make the most money out of micro-transactions. (Think mobile phone games) A lot of our game design is by marketing telling us what people will most likely buy in the game by watching data. Sure, it starts free-to-play, but to keep you playing and paying we mine data to make it more “sticky.”

After a while I felt like I was working for a drug dealer and quit recommending our games to people I knew. Sure, people have fun playing the games we make, but I don’t want to hear later about how much money you or your kids wasted on it.

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#27

I own a bar, we get rich while a lot of people drown their sorrows in alcohol (Serious, that really depresses me somehow)

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#28

Barely anyone in the state of Georgia gets an autopsy. If you wanted to kill someone over the age of 40, all you would really need to do is make sure that they had some kind of previous medical history and the body was found outside of a metropolitan area. The coroners here are only required to have a high school diploma. Some states are worse, most better.

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#29

After working in the travel industry I can tell you that hotel room rates are often not fixed prices. If guests come to the front desk and ask the price we generally start at the high end. Most people accept this as fact and pay up. However, if a customer is hesitent or threatens to walk out we can sometimes drop the price to keep them there. Often there is a bottom line price set by the owners- we can’t go any lower than that or we lose money.

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#30

Medical lab scientist

The pregnancy test that we run for your doctor that costs ridiculous amounts of money are the same tests you can buy at the grocery store.

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#31

I worked for Whole Foods, that stuff in the prepared foods section you pay top dollar for isn’t even organic. It’s not even from the store. We’d go buy ingredients from Costco. Whole Foods tries to justify you paying so much money for your meals because it’s all organic and fresh ingredients but it’s a lie. Also the hot bar is just reheated leftovers from the day before.

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#32

In mental health, often the appearance of progress is more important than progress itself

Edit: I’m *not* saying counseling or therapy don’t work at all, just saying there is sometimes pressure to inflate positives to have clients stick around.

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#33

I get paid to tell you what your employees have been telling you.

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#34

FedEx Office doesn’t recycle.

I’ve personally killed probably close to an acre of forest.

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#35

Home construction. It is so bad. Amazing what people will pay a half mil for. Total rubbish. You won’t believe the number of foundation failures or how many roof trusses have termites pre-installed and for gods sake never look under the carpet.

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#36

I used to work for a major package delivery service unloading semi trailers.

The flat screen TV you ordered for christmas was under a gun safe and a lift kit for a truck.

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