Ruin My Week
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My industry secret: I work in the beer/draft beverage industry. Depending on where you live in the country, you might be appalled at how many of your favorite drinking spots have never cleaned or changed their beer lines in the 5, 10, 20 years they’ve been open and pouring from the same draft system.—u/mousicle
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My industry secret: I used to work for a magazine years ago and I used to write the advice column which was funny enough since I was about 23 and had zero qualifications to be giving anyone any advice about anything but what makes it even funnier (to me) is that I also wrote the letters asking for advice.
Who has a problem and sits around thinking, “I know, I will write a letter to some magazine and ask them for help!” The answer is no one.—u/gopms
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I work in engineering and the phrase “it’s not perfect but we gotta ship something out next week” is said for just about everything at some point. Don’t buy the first revision of anything.—u/firemogle
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Backstage at a rock show is one of the most boring scenes ever. Hookers and blow are a thing of the past my friends, it’s all corporate back here.—u/BilliousN
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That there’s a startling number lawyers who are absolutely, totally incompetent. I mean drug and alcohol addicted and/or barely literate incompetent. Courts don’t call them to account, and often tacitly cover up for them. Lawyers have to screw up spectacularly and repeatedly to get disbarred.—u/Bubba_Lou_Stanwick
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Most hospitals are actually crazy trusting about who they release dead bodies to when people die. Often times I show up with just a gurney, and someone’s name scribbled on a post-it note, and they just let me walk out with somebody’s grandma without asking my name or getting ID or anything.—u/stevebobeeve
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I’m a furniture upholsterer, and the amount of times other ‘professionals’ just recover the old fabric and filling drives me mental. If you’re paying for reupholstery, ask for progress photos. Nobody needs all that nasty old fabric hidden underneath and it’s not fair to the client as they don’t necessarily know any better (nor should they have to)—u/AliCracker
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Not that this is an industry secret, but people don’t know. I’m a social worker. On Long Island, NY. One of the most expensive places to live in the USA. Guess what we generously (compared to a number of states) give to welfare recipients. Food stamps: a max of $180/person/month. Public assistance: $150/month. Rental assistance (unchanged since 1976): $450/month/family. A single room apartment around here goes for at least $1200, btw. That’s it. That’s all. I can’t stand people complaining about people getting rich off welfare. Honestly, anyone who puts tons of effort into defrauding the system isn’t gonna get much.—u/2beagles
