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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The 'Dirty' Secrets About Their Jobs, And This Feels Illegal To Read
Be honest, it's fun to gossip and talk shit with your coworkers. Sometimes, a little work drama helps to keep things interesting. Recently, Reddit user gloomy_gumball posed this question to AskReddit: What's a dirty secret about your workplace that people shouldn't be knowing? Hunny, the answers are as juicy as they are shocking. Buckle the hell up. 1."I worked for a medical research company. All those research methods that they're not supposed to do because it's illegal here? Yeah, they just go to other countries to do that. I had to handle all the research and information on the experiments they were doing in South America." —u/wearelegion1134 2."I used to work in the hotel industry, and a lot more people die in hotels than get publicized." —u/TraditionalTackle1 "One of the worst things I came across in the industry was a woman who was basically trying to starve herself to death in the room. The manager of the hotel next door that we sometimes would share business with personally brought her over to us, saying that she was staying with them but they had to ask her to leave (which was a red flag, looking back). She didn't give our staff any problems, but after she overstayed her reservation by a couple of days, she never came to the desk to get her keys reprogrammed, and none of us had had any contact with her. Housekeeping was concerned because she had the 'Do Not Disturb' sign up, and they heard her dog barking. After a wellness check, a friend of hers came to pick her up, and she explained what happened. It turns out she had sold her house, but the one she was trying to buy fell through, and with nowhere else to go, she just planned on lying there until she died." —u/saxy_for_life 3."I work in lab testing high fructose corn syrup. You'll be surprised how much bacteria, yeast, mold, and metal pieces Coca Cola and Pepsi allow in!" —u/ColdWar82 "I worked in food chemical manufacturing, and we have a '20 bug or less' policy in our 55-gallon drums of food chemicals!" —u/-TheFourChinTeller- 4."No longer employed there, but when I worked at a certain big box retailer of home improvement products, we would occasionally see hopeful strangers sitting in our lobby with boxes or other packaging waiting for meetings. These people were small-time inventors of new products and were trying to get them on the shelves of our retail locations. What they didn't know is that, as a condition for consideration of carrying the product, they would be required to turn one or more samples over to the company to be examined by the product teams." "If the product showed promise, one of those samples would be shipped to another country where it would be thoroughly dissected and analyzed so that an equivalent product could be developed under the house label (with enough modifications to not infringe on any patents, of course) and that product was what would end up on the shelf. From what I heard, a lawsuit pretty much ended the practice, and now they don't allow pitches from independent producers anymore. They just wait to see what other retailers are already carrying (and selling well) and copy those." —u/Jackieirish 5."I used to work in radio, and part of my job was editing and producing 'bits' done by morning shows. Those phone calls where the hosts 'trap' a cheater and confront them? All fake. There are services that provide voice actors to play the parts, and people like me would edit the calls to fit within a specified amount of time to keep people listening." —u/gogojack 6."A lot of awards you see large corporations tooting their own horn over are just bullshit that they just essentially pay for. A common one I've seen is something along the lines of 'Location X's 100 Best Managed Companies'. I've worked for one of these 'best managed companies,' and it was actually the worst-managed place I'd ever worked for." "It was an utterly dysfunctional business that had horrible retention problems both for employees and management. Higher-ups would get fired for theft or embezzlement, alcohol or drug abuse, sexual harassment or assault, etc. They were constantly losing contracts for failing to fulfill them, but then bribing individuals to get the contract back. They just paid for the sizable application fee to get the award because it looked good on their advertising and attracted both clients and entry-level employees to be part of the meat grinder. Well worth it for them. Personally, whenever I see any sort of company with that particular kind of award, I avoid them like the plague." —u/MZM204 7."I work in a plastic bag plant. Everything in here runs on electricity. The owners tapped into a power line that runs through the property, and for more than 10 years, they didn't pay a dime. They made tens of millions. When the fraud was found out, they blamed an employee (who was from Latin America) and were given a $200K fine. You can't find the story online anymore, they used their community connections to have it erased. And flat out deny it ever happened. Who says 'crime doesn't pay'?" —u/dirtybird971 8."I work in a grocery store. Bulk produce items do fall on the floor regularly. We just pick them up and put them back on the shelf if it isn't damaged. If a container of berries or tomatoes pops open, we'll just put them all back in and put it back on the shelf. Nothing is rinsed off first." "We also don't clean the lids of the yogurt or sour cream tubs if the lid falls off. We just put it back on the product. It can fall on the floor, in a puddle of milk, doesn't matter. At most, we might wipe it off on our apron or with a paper towel if available. Almost nothing is actually made in the bakery. Everything either comes in already-made or in portioned pieces of dough that they throw into the oven. The only thing they really do is decorate cakes, donuts, bread, and bagels. Even most of the cakes come in with icing already on them. They just add some extra decorations. All of the seafood comes in frozen and is kept frozen, even though the sign says never frozen. In fact, the seafood people will grab bags of frozen shrimp off the shelf and put it in the display case. You are literally paying more for some thawed-out shrimp." —u/trickster9000 Related: 15 Times Someone Bravely Took A Photo Of The Very Worst Design This World Has Ever Seen 9."I worked for a nonprofit that focused on a specific medical condition. They did good work and the local chapters were great, but the staff at the national level was... unhinged." "One year at the national conference, top-level staff had bloody letters shoved under their hotel doors. They had forced out the national director because it came out that she'd left the country permanently with her assistant whom she was having an affair with and hadn't actually done any work in more than two years. The letters threatened to trash the org's reputation and ruin the work they were doing if any of it came out. They'd just received a massive donation and couldn't risk it. So the whole thing was hushed up." —u/i_am_the_archivist 10."If you buy DVDs from places like Amazon, and they were produced before 2020, they are not new. They are purchased by the sellers at thrift stores or other places, disc cleaned of scratches, new plastic wrapped around the case, and sold 'new' for the full price." —u/sovietarmyfan 11."I'm a handyman. Contractors' favorite saying is 'Can't see it from my house.' You ever see those videos from home inspectors pointing out all the crooked or broken shit in brand new construction? It's because the builders don't fucking care. And then once all the cracks start forming in your walls, they go, 'Oh, that's just the house settling.' Nope, they built it shitty in the first place and now their shoddy work is shining through." —u/the_xxvii 12."Someone died in my Amazon warehouse during peak season. He was covered with delivery boxes until the coroner could make it. They still required everyone to work that day." —u/RevolutionaryBoss648 13."I work in tax collection for the DMV. The majority of employees here are highly incompetent and are consistently collecting taxes and fees improperly, sometimes charging too much or too little based on the situation. The supervisors are usually too busy to be able to always correct mistakes and double-check the fees." "Since the taxpayers usually don't know all of the laws in regards to vehicle tax collection, the mistakes just go on and on with no one knowing about the errors. In the collector's defense, there are so many tax codes and they are difficult to understand. That and they are constantly changing when lawmakers rewrite the rules." –u/Late_Rate_3959 Related: Tattoo Artists Are Sharing The Tattoos They Felt REALLY Uncomfortable Doing, And I Have No Words 14."Universities get most of their money from the tuition fees of overseas students. They will accept weak applicants and overlook poor performance if it means the overseas tuition money keeps rolling in." —u/LittleBitOdd 15."I worked at a clothes donation sorter/exporter for cash under the table. Many of those donation bins you see in parking lots with different charities written on them are all owned by one company that donates a tiny percentage to charity to be able to use the charity name. All clothes and shoes are exported to Africa for profit, everything else is trash and goes in the garbage (toys, books, art, digital media, electronics)." —u/DonConZie 16."My company ships dangerously corrosive chemicals across the country in tanks that have repeatedly failed safety inspections. Very few get pulled over, so it's cheaper for the company to pay the fines instead of repairing the tanks or buying brand new ones. And with all the slashes to funding, firings, and relaxation of environmental regulations, it's getting even easier to do so." —u/80s_dystopia_is_now 17."Early in my career, I worked at a place that wrote and sold curriculum. We needed to show that our stuff was effective, so we hired a research firm. During the process of interviewing and selecting a firm, each one basically said, 'We'll make sure to give you whatever results you need.' That's when I stopped believing any 'third-party research' funded by the company being researched." —u/riverdoggg 18."Don't ever buy anything marinated from a butcher/meat case. It is how the older meats are sold, the marinade covers the smell." —u/Big-Melvin 19."'No kill shelters' just transfer animals to county animal shelters to take care of the tough part. 'Rescues' come through the county shelters and take all the "cute" animals and then turn around and charge hundreds for them." —u/WhereAmIHowDoILeave 20."I work in the defense industry, specifically in the US. Part of the reason the military is so expensive to update and maintain is the fact that the government basically just pays whatever the companies tell them things cost without looking into it. A valve costing $3 is sold to the Navy for $30, a computer costing $900 is sold to the Army for $2400, etc. Don't get me wrong, a lot of stuff is genuinely expensive, but I guarantee that the military is paying way too much for it." —u/JackCooper_7274 21."Recycling and garbage have different bins, but at the end of the night, they go in the same dumpster." —u/BallinBrown23 22."My company will openly hire you based solely on physical appearance. My boss has told me that he feels that if there are young, attractive females in the office, more employees will want to come in because they'll want to flirt/talk with these girls." —u/Tall-Performer2500 23."I'm a teacher. Students' rapidly dropping attention spans and critical thinking are something you see or hear about, but it is very much real. Over the past three years, I've noticed kids are less able to focus for more than five minutes without starting to draw or talking to the person next to them." "Further, with the addition of strong AI like ChatGPT, they are not being 'punished' (academically) as they should be. They can get entire course notes in 10 seconds and just cram a few days before tests. This will certainly be an issue in about 20 years when kids raised on generative AI and low attention spans become our central workforce, but I'll be long retired by then." —u/hdueeyd 24."It's wild how much access developers and engineers have to PII (Personally Identifiable Information) of users, even though that data is supposed to be encrypted/protected." —u/Just-Control-9815 25."As someone who works in corporate finance, let's just say those offshore accounts get away with a lot of things. But because it's outside of US jurisdiction, there is nothing my company will do to report because the company gets paid regardless." —u/Cheetodude625 26."I can't go into too much detail, but I once worked in a lab at a very prestigious university that was committing copyright infringement by paying several people to manually copy data out of textbooks eight hours a day. They were also not paying the data entry people the full hours that they worked (and paying them close to minimum wage on top of that). They were also underpaying me, so I quit and moved to a job that gave me a 100% raise LOL." —u/skettyvan finally, "I used to work in a drug/alcohol probation office. Everyone working there was doing drugs or was a drunk driver. One probation officer was trading pills with her neighbor just to find out the neighbor was on probation in our office with a different officer. Some employees stole pills from probationers when they photocopy the pill bottles for the client file." —u/DarkDaysDoll Does your workplace have any secrets you want to share? Let me know in the comments! Note: some answers have been edited for length and/or clarity. 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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Gossip: Real Madrid join race for Wirtz
Real Madrid are pushing to sign Bayer Leverkusen winger Florian Wirtz now his former boss Xabi Alonso has been unveiled as new manager of Los Blancos, despite the 22-year-old Germany international being strongly tipped to join Liverpool. (AS - in Spanish) Brentford have approached Liverpool over signing their £20m-rated Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, 26. (Liverpool Echo) Advertisement Meanwhile, Bayern Munich are interested in Cody Gakpo, with the Bundesliga club one of three teams the Netherlands international would be willing to join. (Florian Plettenberg) Finally, Bournemouth full-back Milos Kerkez has already agreed to join Liverpool and there no concerns over personal terms for the 21-year-old Hungary international. (Fabrizio Romano) Want more transfer stories? Read Thursday's full gossip column Follow the gossip column on BBC Sport
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
McClatchy to shutter celebrity magazines In Touch, Life & Style
The newsstands at supermarket checkout lanes might soon start looking sparser, or at least different, as mainstay gossip and celebrity magazines In Touch Weekly and Life & Style are set to shut down in late June. Their parent company, McClatchy, announced Friday that the two magazines, which helped define celebrity tabloid culture in the 2000s, are getting axed along with two other titles and their respective staffs.
South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
What does Hong Kong's obsession with ‘Mr and Mrs Ho' say about society?
Hong Kong's appetite for gossip-driven news such as reports on the drama-filled life of internet couple 'Mr and Mrs Ho' reflects residents' disinterest in politics and the allure of hot-button topics such as differences in the ages of married partners. Advertisement The couple first garnered media attention last year during a whirlwind romance that saw the 77-year-old Mr Ho tie the knot with the 44-year-old Mrs Ho within a month of meeting each other. Their television appearances and lavish displays of affection put them on the radar of both residents and government officials, whose eyebrows were raised over their eligibility for public housing. Most recently, their relationship took a darker turn when police arrested the couple over a domestic violence dispute that resulted in knife injuries to the back of Mrs Ho's head. Mr Ho was bitten on a finger. Polytechnic University's Daniel Shek Tan-Lei said stories related to the couple, one of whom was a younger divorcee from mainland China, connected with residents and made them want to chime in with their opinions. Advertisement 'The case is an age-gap romance with an older husband and a younger wife, which has its attraction to the public who are eager to gossip,' the chair professor of applied social sciences said.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kelly Osbourne shocks fans with ‘completely different' appearance in new social media snap
fans have voiced their dismay after she shared a new snap of herself looking dramatically different, reigniting speculation that she's had plastic surgery. The TV personality, 40, took to Instagram to post a couple of glamorous shots after getting her hair and makeup done, with her face looking smoother and more chiselled than ever. Captioning the photos, Kelly revealed she'd been all glammed up for her plans to be cancelled last minute, lamenting: 'Sat through glam only to find that my day had been cancelled. #alldressedupandnowheretogo'. However, her followers were distracted by her visibly much slimmer and tauter appearance, pointing to her sharper jawline, voluptuous lips and lifted brows. They raced to the comments to admit they could barely recognize the star and accused her of getting heavy cosmetic work done that had made her look as though she'd had a 'full head transplant'. One commenter asked: 'Is Kelly Osborne in the room with us?' while another wanted to know: 'Who is that??' and a third added: 'Who's face is that?' Others had similar comments, including: 'Is this the same Kelly Osbourne?' and: 'New face, who dis?' as well as: 'Where is Kelly?' A sixth said Kelly was: 'Gifted a new head for Christmas', and someone else agreed she had a 'totally different head', and another said simply: 'Full head transplant.' Someone else remarked: 'Lots of money and a good plastic surgeon and we can all be this beautiful,' and another added: 'Wow, amazing what tons of plastic surgery, Ozempic, and money can do.' Another wrote: 'I can't imagine how many surgeries, fillers, Botox injections, skin treatments, etc. were involved in this transformation. When you no longer look anything like yourself, what exactly did you accomplish?' One commenter pointed out: 'Teenage Kelly would not be happy about this,' and others said: 'What in the millions dollars worth of plastic surgery is this,' and: 'Is she AI?!' Disappointment: Kelly revealed she'd been glammed up only for her plans to fall through Kelly, who is the daughter of rock legend Ozzy and TV star Sharon, has undergone many changes in her appearance over the years. In 2020, the television personality revealed that she had quietly undergone gastric sleeve surgery two years before, leading to a jaw-dropping 85lb weight loss. She also previously admitted to having injections to change the shape of her face, and make her jaw look 'skinnier,' after suffering with TMJ (temporomandibular joint dysfunction). But Kelly has repeatedly and furiously denied that she has had any cosmetic procedures besides Botox. Last year, she declared that she was a 'huge fan' of plastic surgery, but insisted that she was too scared to get anything done after seeing her mother go under the knife so many times. She told People: 'I am a huge fan of plastic surgery. What it does for people is amazing. It can change people's lives and give them the confidence they've been lacking, and make people feel beautiful in the way they want to feel beautiful. 'But I've never done anything but Botox. I'm too scared. I've always been in the camp of, if you think it's broken, fix it. You don't have to be stuck with a nose you hate for the rest of your life. So yes, I'm a huge fan.' She explained the root of her fear, saying: 'I watched my mom go through every recovery from everything she's ever had done, and it looks awful'. Sharon, 72, has undergone a range of procedures including a gastric band, full facelift, tummy tuck, an eyelift, breast implants, abdominoplasty and Botox. While she has branded her 2021 facelift the 'worst thing she ever did' after the procedure left her 'looking like a cyclops' and 'Quasimodo'. In 2023, Kelly again insisted that she's never had any plastic surgery and that her changing face was simply down to her weight loss. Speaking to she stressed: 'I've never had any procedure like plastic surgery. There are things that I definitely want to do when I get older, but I'm too scared aren't I?' She went on: 'I've done Botox, that's it. It's weird, because now that I've lost weight, everybody is criticizing and trying to figure out what it is that I've done, and I really just lost weight. It's just the shape of my face!' 'And everyone knows that I had weight loss surgery, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. But there's this whole thing about it, "Well you didn't do it the right way". There is no right way.' 'The road to happiness is different for everybody, and I think that instead of picking apart the journey, they should just be happy that you reached your destination'. Evolution: Kelly pictured left in 2003 and right in 2021 Speaking on Hollywood Raw with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, Kelly also discussed having injections to change the shape of her face, and make her jaw look 'skinnier,' after suffering with TMJ. 'One thing I did that changed my face,' she added. 'I had really bad TMJ. One of the things they did to stop it was they gave me injections in my jaw. It kinda made my jaw look skinnier. 'That's when people started to notice that I had really lost weight because it changed the shape of everything. I found out It's called buccal fat. It changed everything on my face! How the f*** did I not know about this sooner?' After the birth of her son Sidney, two, with Slipknot DJ Sid Mason, Kelly shed the pounds again, but attributed the weight loss to diet changes. She credited her postpartum weight loss to cutting out 'sugar and carbohydrates' and was quick to deny using Ozempic, after her mother Sharon used the diabetes medication and lost a whopping 42 pounds. She told Extra in April 2024: 'I know everybody thinks I took Ozempic. I did not take Ozempic. I don't know where that came from. My mum took Ozempic.' But she was hit by a wave of backlash after heaping praise on the controversial drug as preferable to exercise and claiming that critcs of the medication being used as a weight loss jab were simply jealous because they 'can't afford it'. Kelly gushed to E! News: 'I think it's amazing. There are a million ways to lose weight, why not do it through something [that] isn't as boring as working out? Ops: Sharon, 72, has undergone a range of procedures. Seen in 2003, left, and in 2022
