People Share Questionable Practices In Their Profession That Regular Folks Ignore
Knowing things like this will certainly be useful in the future.
Each job has its dirty little secrets that regular folks are not supposed to know. They're usually kept well hidden because if the public knows about them, the backlash will be brutal. You would typically never hear these secrets unless you personally know someone who works in that particular field and they happen to reveal them to you.
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Reddit user u/CircleBox2 asked people in the r/AskReddit subreddit a very important question that might open your eyes to numerous well-kept secrets. The question was, "What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession that we regular folks would know nothing about?" Some of the replies ended up being quite shocking.
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1. Please stop yelling
"This may come as a surprise, but your vet tech is not 'only in it for the money.'""Primarily because we are paid very little.""Please stop yelling at me."2. One of the perks of being a librarian
"Sometimes librarians read the new books before registering them in the catalogue for the public.""Evil laughter.*"3. "This is so anti what a church and Christianity should be."
"Church worker here. This may be specific to the church I work for, but I think it's pretty common for bigger (1,000+ members) churches. They're two-faced. They'll tell the janitorial crew, 'Janitorial service is truly a ministry, and it's so good and so important.' But guess what? When the church needs to make cutbacks, we're some of the first ones screwed over. We're the ones expected to clean until 2-3 AM on a Sunday morning after people have used the building until midnight.""As a woman, I've straight up been harassed by the guy pretty high up in the church hierarchy, and nobody really has my back.""There are so many fake, judgmental, hateful people who hide behind the guise of Christianity. People who will lock others out of the building and laugh at them. They tell those who aren't dressed presentably enough to sit in the back, if that person isn't run off by their frozen, hateful stares.""This is so anti what a church and Christianity should be."4. Minimizing the chance that they get called on their bullsh*t
"I don’t know if this is a total secret, but a lot of the talking points about how expensive lawyers are, or how plaintiffs' lawyers get unreasonably high payouts for doing little work, are driven by corporations trying to discourage people from suing them.""For example, most plaintiffs' lawyers work entirely on a contingency basis (meaning that they advance all costs with the risk of no reimbursement and don’t see a dime unless they win), and almost all will give you a free consultation. But by spreading the false narrative of 'It’s gonna cost you to even talk to a lawyer about that,' big companies discourage you from even consulting one and finding out the truth.""Similarly, the narrative of plaintiffs' lawyers getting unreasonably high fees for cases is also designed to misrepresent the truth. For example, you hear a big company say, 'This class action got $2.50 for each person, but the attorneys got $250k' or something. But the only reason the attorneys got all that money is that the company went balls to the wall litigating over $2.50, racking up attorneys' fees on both sides, when they could have short-circuited the whole thing from the outset by saying, 'You got us, here’s your money,' and paid next to nothing in attorneys' fees. Plus, $2.50 times a million people is a lot of money, meaning that the fees were justified by the total amount recovered, and that the case was not so insignificant to begin with. But by controlling the narrative, companies make it seem like it’s unreasonable to be mad that they stole millions from consumers, and that it’s even more unreasonable for someone whose job it is to take on all the risk and then get paid based on a percentage of what their results are.""Sure, there are windfall cases, but usually those cases are needed just to offset the 10 other cases where you took a haircut on fees. It’s like putting $100 in a slot machine, losing 10 times, and then hitting one jackpot on your last turn to make it back to $100, and then having the casino say, 'He got $100 for a single game of slots; this is ridiculous,' until you’re forced to give back $90 of what you won. How likely are you going to be to play again?""There’s a lot more to this, but the TLDR is that companies are projecting when they paint lawyers as greedy, and do so in order to minimize the chance that they get called on their bullshit."5. People asking for 'happy endings'
"I ended up quitting a career because people (of all genders and ages) kept trying to solicit me for prostitution."
"Young male massage therapist."
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