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In 2018, a woman accidentally paid a Swiss cafe $7709 for coffee because she entered her PIN number as the dollar amount. When she called to get the money back, nobody answered because the cafe had filed for bankruptcy.
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I worked in the film industry in Chicago and New Orleans from 2002 to 2011 and I gotta say, it’s definitely not for everyone.
And by everyone, I mean ME.
I enjoyed my time and I made a lot of good friends during those years, but I don’t see how people can work those crazy hours (a lot of times in bad weather conditions) when they start to get a little bit older.
When I was 25-years-old? Hey, no problem!
But now…I don’t know if I’d be able to handle it…I’m not saying it’s a nightmare but I don’t think outsiders realize what it’s really like to work on movies and TV shows.
What glamorized career path is actually a total nightmare?
AskReddit users opened up about this.
“Ballet dancer
Parents spend tens of thousands (or more) on training. They give up their entire teen years and schooling (most elite ballet dancers are homeschooled and a large percentage move away from home for training in high school).
Most dancers you see on stage in a ballet are paying to be there. The bottom rungs of ballet companies are pay to play. Then when you have paid to dance a few years you might be able to get a position that pays you with a dozen pairs of pointe shoes and a stipend for performances.
Then maybe you’ll be promoted to the bottom level where you get paid 20K a year and have no health insurance. All while putting your body through major t**ture.”
“My SO is an attorney and isn’t loving life right now.
She says “You know how you did term papers in college? Well I do term papers every day, all day, endlessly.””
“Radio announcer.
Like a lot of other jobs in the entertainment industry, it’s full time work for part time pay. Second jobs are common. Your pizza delivery guy just may be your favourite morning show host! At least, that’s how the morning guy at my station made ends meet, until he was laid off in the last round of cutbacks.
Now we’re a “hybrid station,” which is the preferred business model these days. That’s a fancy way of saying one person does everything while you run a ton of syndicated programs. 12 hour days of minimum wage.”
“Veterinarian.
Insanely competitive schooling that crippled you with debt, with a depressing debt:income ratio after graduation.
Most of your patients don’t like you, and most of the owners think you’re getting rich upselling them unnecessary services when their dogs’s exploding eyeball cancer can be cured with raw organic exotic meats/cbd/coconut oil, but you’re withholding that information because you’re in bed with Big Kibble.
High stress, stagnant wages, long hours, s**t holiday leave. Rampant depression. Lost count of how many colleagues have committed s**cide. Sometimes tempted to join them.”
“I don’t know if nightmare is the word, but my wife has finally reached her lifelong goal of becoming a zookeeper at one of the top zoos in the US.
She is very happy to have the opportunity to hand food to otters, have reindeer eat out of her hand, and brush okapi. However, she took on tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and did months of unpaid work at the zoo to get the job, which is seasonal, requiring she be off 2 months a year.
She gets up at 4 AM and does farmhand style physical labor for 8 hours a day for about $9 an hour with no benefits. I am thrilled that she reached her goal, and I am happy that she is happy, but I am pretty disenfranchised with the whole thing.”
“Being a chef. Long hours, bad environment, nothing is ever good enough.
I have a friend who’s a very successful chef. He told me, “If you love cooking, just cook for friends.””
“Political staffer.
Most jobs in politics pay very little money and require you to work 80+ hours a week for a boss who is guaranteed to have a gigantic ego.
You also have to look for a new job after every election day.”
“Flight attendant.
The travel is amazing, but let’s face it.
You’re a glorified waitress working in a cramped, aluminium tube.”
“Farming on a large scale.
I was living in debt up to my a** ($500k-$1 mil depending on the time of year), haggling for every input (land, fertilizer, seed, equipment), at the mercy of the weather, and got to watch the commodity markets kick me in the nuts every business day.
The real cherry on top was everyone thinking you are trying to k**l them with GMOs and copious amounts of chemicals that we dont use. Not to mention farms are passed down through generations so you’ve got a bunch of d**d and living ancestors watching your every move.
Oh and a lot of farmers work a second full time job for the health insurance. There’s a reason farm s**cides are high and farm “accidents” are higher.
There’s a million young rural FFA kids that would give their left leg for a chance to farm.”
“I’m a professional, full-time voice actor.
I’m blessed to be successful and happy, but about 99% of the voice actors I know are depressed most of the time, struggling hard to find work, wrestling with impostor syndrome, questioning if they should give up, and barely able to make rent.
Particularly videogame/anime/animation actors.”
“This is kind of niche but, scuba dive instructor. I did it for 3ish years, I can’t begin to tell you how many times people wished they had my job.
A decent portion of the job was selling. I h**e forcing people to buy things, but I had to have a certain percentage of people buy a mask, at least. The mask was about 25% of the cost of an open water course. Chances are they’d never use it again.
Dive shop politics are insane. I worked 6.5 days a week for 90% of the year. If I turned down a course, I wouldn’t be given another until there were no other instructors available. If there were no courses going on, I still had to be in the shop incase someone came in.
During slow times there would be 7 or 8 instructors hanging around doing nothing. We all lived less than 5 minutes away. My dive shop would only hire people who were attractive enough. They’d also refuse to hire people who had trained at certain other dive schools in the area. The owners would go out of their way to be charming to the customers and then take the p**s out of them as soon as the were out the door.
The amount of responsibility is huge, and nobody even thinks about it until you point it out. You’re taking 4 people into a d**dly environment and have to bring them back in the same state they went into it in. If something goes wrong you can lose your license or go to jail.
Where I was working, these were pretty exclusively early to mid 20 year olds. Not only that, but if someone you trained has an incident at a later date, you can also be investigated and possibly prosecuted.
I was diving in 30C (86f) water. I constantly had an infection. Could be from a small cut, or my ears or my throat. It was constant.
Long, very hard work days. 12 hour days were about the norm. I’d teach, be dragging around the tanks I was responsible for weighing 20kg each as well as tonnes of other gear, and putting on my ‘be happy around the customer face’ whilst keeping them from d**ng. It’s like a combo of retail and warehouse work.
It also diluted my love of diving. Even when diving with professionals now I have a hard time not constantly being on alert, waiting for someone to do something stupid, rather than enjoying the dive.
Pay is dog s**t.
It’s an amazing job, but it turned my hair grey by 25.”
“Film crew.
Yes, you sometimes meet famous people. Sometimes they’re cool, often they’re really not. The days are 14+ hours of work with a commute of who knows how long on either end, depending where you’re shooting. You have half an hour for lunch.
Coffee breaks are whenever you’re not needed on set, so depending on your job (I was in camera, and we rarely had a down moment), it could be almost never. More often than not, someone on set is yelling. People lose their minds over making really sh**ty entertainment. You start work by 7am on Monday, and by Friday you’re coming in at 4pm and leaving when the sun comes up on Saturday.
There are no paid holidays, no paid sick days, no paid vacation. If you don’t work enough qualifying hours, the union kicks your healthcare.
And this is if you’re IN a union. Non-union, much worse. S**ual harassment is through the roof, but the kids who get it the worst are afraid to say anything or they’ll lose their jobs. I have been told some real horror stories about famous actors, some of whom I still haven’t seen get outed by the Me Too movement.
And I’m not talking word-of-mouth, second-hand stories. I’m talking about young women who whisper to each other what shows to avoid and make them swear to never use their name because if they want to work in this industry, they can’t be known as a troublemaker.
I watched so many co-workers fall into addictions, lose family, miss their children’s lives, over the dumbest TV shows in the world. If you go union, the money can be good, but it’s not worth it. It’s just not worth it.”
Now you’re up!
In the comments, tell us which career paths you think are glamorized but are actually a nightmare.
Please and thank you!
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It’s interesting how we view certain occupations when we’re young. Things that seem glamorous and exciting can actually be, well, kind of s**tty.
And it’s also interesting how our attitudes change after we’ve actually worked a specific job and not read about it or daydreamed about it.
But I guess you never know until you’re in the middle of it.
Folks on AskReddit talked about career paths that tend to get glamorized but are actually total nightmares.
Let’s take a look.
“Chef.
Been in the business for 12 years. In the US, 8 hour days and paid overtime. In UK, I’m working 60 hour weeks, 13 hour days, on salary with no overtime.
My personal life has taken a nosedive and so has my health. The only time I have to go to the gym (a hobby I loved!) is after midnight after working all day. I don’t get scheduled breaks, and if I get a chance to eat, I’m shoving fries into my mouth.
For those who are interested in becoming a chef, it is not for the faint-hearted. Have a backup plan or some other marketable skills so you’re not up a creek if this industry does take its toll.”
“I don’t practice law anymore, but when I did I mostly did criminal defense and occasional civil cases. Almost all the attorneys I knew all had great professional lives and personal lives comprised of utter s**t.
Al**hol abuse was rampant. Drug use was frequent. I knew attorneys who had “pharmacy drawers” in their office that they consulted when they needed a specific remedy.
I knew a public defender who dropped d**d of a massive heart attack as he was leaving for court. One attorney I knew said he loved going to new restaurants because he and his wife didn’t have s** any more and that was his only real passion now.
And I’m sure there are some attorneys who love their job. I’m sure there are many who are satisfied. But glamorous? Not in my experience.”
“My sister just left her dream job as a Zoo Keeper so that she could go work at Petco.
Pays twice as much and has better benefits.”
“Working in film.
I thought I loved the job. And when I got out, I was floored by how much happier I was on a day-to-day basis. My standard for happiness was pretty much at ground level and I hadn’t even realized it.
When I did my last show, the folks there had worked with me for years at that point. They knew about what I had been doing the past few months, and that I was choosing to leave.
Multiple people, including the showrunner and that episode’s director (this was a huge network TV show), pulled me aside to give their well-wishes…and to say that I was living their secret dream of escaping the industry. Blew me away.
Guys with esteemed Hollywood careers that I thought were in love with the job, shaking their heads quietly and saying, “if only I’d have got out at your age.” Any lingering doubts about my choice vanished that day.”
“Academia in general is potentially a garbage fire career path.
Namely because it’s so competitive that a lot of people burn out and become shells of human beings just from the stress and pressure of grad school and the job market.
A lot of people put pressure on themselves to end up in a top tier university when that just isn’t in the cards for everyone. So many people end up broken.
I’d just say that for anyone considering academia after a PHD, be ready to give a lot and get very little in return.”
“Being an architect is really bad.
Most people don’t complete it and the mental health issues are quite serious. There’s a lot of criticism and stress in the beginning, lots of late nights and hard work. At the end of the work you get insulted in public.
There’s no real reason for this. You aren’t going to be saving lives or anything, there’s no need to make it so expensive either.
So three years later, you get a degree and have to do a year of intern work, then it’s time for another year of study and projects and exams. Then two years of minimum wage work.
Then you come back for more exams, essays and projects.
It’s really too hard for what it is. I get paid very badly and I don’t really use any of my training. It was pointless really but girls like it at parties when I say I’m an architect. That’s a lie I don’t go to parties I have no social life.”
“Investment Banking.
People talk about the fancy plane rides, expensive dinners, wild parties with your colleagues or a client. The reality of it is you’re never trully off work, always on-call like a surgeon.
Works weeks are usually 60-100 hours and can be brutal if one follows another.
It’s really more like working from 9AM-10PM in office and then get home to work another bit and have any given presentation ready stat.
I’ve gone all-nighters followed by client meetings where all I have time for is a quick shower and a 7/11 coffee.”
“Behavioral health.
I spent a long time working towards a career in therapy, and I’ve noticed that a lot of new people/people looking to get into the field go in with the starry-eyed “I want to help people” mentality. I did, too.
You do help people, but it is f**king hard to help people. A lot of jobs are high stress/low pay type of deals, because a lot of the jobs available are through nonprofits that only have so much funding to go around.
You are vicariously exposed to other people’s trauma, and it does affect you, no matter how good you are at creating boundaries and practicing self care. It’s an admirable profession, but a grossly under appreciated one, and it most certainly isn’t for everyone who wants to “help people” for a living.”
“The nonprofit sector.
You’re mostly putting a bandaid on issues. You go into it wanting to help people, but far too many people are ungrateful, not willing to help them selves, or complain no matter how much you’re trying.
I cannot tell you how many people have made threats even when you’ve gone well above and beyond for them. So many people abuse the system for freebies. I had people come in trying to get freebies who make over 100k a year.
The pay is always s**t unless you’re at the executive level. It is ridiculous how much executives make compared to the workers doing 90% of the work. The CEO of my organization makes well into the six figures while we have to work 3 years to get a 3% raise on our low salary.
They also devalue you constantly. You have people with master’s degrees working entry level positions being bossed around by some old lady with zero education but who’s friends with the CFO or something.
You’re constantly working with a ramen noodle budget expected to come out with steak and lobster results. 9/10 volunteers are only there because they’re trying to get hours or a reference and complain a lot.
You’re constantly battling other nonprofits even if you’re just trying to share resources. You can do completely different things and are just trying to refer clients back and forth so they can acess all available resources, but they’ll guard their clients like gold.
The amount of shady practices that occur as well… Inflation of numbers, total lies, etc… it is really sad how many places do nothing or very minimal, but are galmorized as “doing good”.”
“Law Enforcement.
I went into it with the naive belief I would be making a difference. I wanted to protect people and make my community safer. Instead, I got to see the worst humanity has to offer day in and day out. Lets see if I can list all the negatives:
Most departments are filled with arrogant assholes with inflated ego’s that love to condescend to other officers or the public when they themselves can barley read.
Many officers have severe anger issues and love to take it out on the public (never saw it happen physically but verbally or by issuing ever ticket possible).
Try to suggest changes to bring about better relations with the public? Prepare to be ostracized and bullied till you tow the line.
The overall level of incompetence is staggering, with some officers barely knowledgeable of the firearms they carry everyday.
Your view of the public and people in general becomes very dark. The amount of EDP’s (emotionally disturbed persons), druggies and alcoholics you deal with each day is ridiculous and you start to wonder how society hasn’t collapsed.
You arrest a violent offender just to see them quickly released over and over, whats worse is how many times an abuse victim files a complaint because you arrested their “love” despite almost being k**led.
Very few people are actually grateful when you cut them a break. They DO take it as a sign of weakness and try to push the envelope. This is an often overlooked reason why some officers become a**holes. You try to help people out and they spit in your face (sometimes literally), this gradually tears you down until you can barely recognize what you are becoming.
The uniform is a target. You can be the nicest most patient officer in the world but to many the uniform means you are the enemy. You will get cursed at, attacked and have your private life laid bare.
Low pay not even remotely commensurate with what you have to deal with.
There is sooo much more but I was lucky enough to get out and change careers before it all really got to me.”
“Professional sports.
People have no idea how much time, effort and resources goes into competing at elite levels of any sport/esport. It is soul-sucking. Think a 50hour work week is hard?
Nah fam, try living and breathing what you do. That’s why I h**e that people think talent is what gets you there, but in reality those people are just extremely dedicated to their craft.”
“The video game industry.
A lot of kids and teens want in it so bad because “I grew up playing games blah blah blah they take me to another world blah blah blah.” Then you become an adult and learn that it’s all math and physics, and making a video game has NOTHING to do with what you experienced growing up. It’s all black screens of code, polygons, and being criticized for your work.
What’s worse, if you make games you probably never have the time to play them anymore. The gaming industry is notorious for implementing 60-80 hour work weeks.
EVEN WORSE depending on what company you work for, you may never have stable work. You finish a project and then the company tells you “we don’t have another project for your particular skill set.” Then you gotta look for more work.
AND IF ALL THAT WASNT BAD ENOUGH, you’ll probably never work on a game you want to work on. All those big, fancy games and indie darling on Steam are a very small fraction of what exists. Barbie’s Horse Adventure? Those people got degrees and we’re inspired by the same games as you.
Crappy Candy Crush knock-offs? Same degree and inspiration. Stupid table-top games that you only see in the family section at Walmart? Those also utilize game designers/programmers.
Don’t get into videogames because you like videogames. Get into videogames because you’re passionate about math and science.”
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I think we’ve all been in this position before…
You’re promised something at work and then it doesn’t happen. It’s a bummer but we’ve all been there.
But a woman took matters into her own hands about how she’d work moving forward when this happened.
Let’s see what went down.
So I’m not getting the promotion you promised? Then I’m not doing the extra work.
“This isn’t my story, but my wife’s. She doesn’t have Reddit and said I could share her story with you lovely people. Allow me to set the scene.
My wife – Harper’s – official title is Mental Health Professional, or MHP, and she has been in this position for three years at a live-in care facility for adults with mental illnesses. Before that, she work for several years on the mental health ward at the hospital, so she had more experience walking into her current position than anyone else they had hired.
Within her first year, she got 2 lifers to progress in their treatment plans so thoroughly that they both got the okay to move out into the sister program that has more freedom and independence. She was working with a third “lifer” who was about ready to apply for the sister program when lockdown hit and the transfers between housing, or even non-AMA releases, were suspended.
All this is to say that she has made some very serious and positive changes for this facility from the moment she started working there. They made her the Lead MHP, and her direct supervisor’s boss started giving her more responsibilities; like the morning team report for the whole facility, handling client money, making decisions on big changes to help the overall workload, ect.
Her yearly review happened in December, which was promised to come with a large raise to reflect all the added responsibilities she has been gradually given. Of course, it didn’t. She stayed on HR about her raise for a month or so after the review itself until the big boss finally brought her into his office to discussed with her a promotion.
It would be a bit tricky because she has her Bachelor’s in psych and social work, but not her Master’s – which we’re working on getting her back in school soon to complete, and which she needs to officially fulfill the job title they had in mind.
Still, she was clearly leaps and bounds beyond her coworkers, often staying over to help clients or to help finish paperwork, filling in wherever she’s needed. So, promoting her would be cheaper than hiring on someone new, and of course this would come with an even better pay raise.
So, for the last few months my wife has been doing even more for her supervisor’s boss and the big boss. Anything they ask of her, dangling that official promotion over her head, constantly saying it would be a “gradual transition” and she needs to learn this or that – do this or that – to train for it. Out of her own pocket, she bought new binders and other supplies that made the various parts of her job and theirs easier.
She planned, reorganized, filled-in, whatever. The supervisor’s boss even told her verbatim “I don’t know what I would do without your help!” several times. All this with the promise of an official promotion and a raise.
Then it happened. Last week, Harper was tasked with sorting through potential new hires – as they had been hurting for more MHPs for some time, and the bosses had taken some of Harper’s clients off her work load to make room for the new responsibilities – she noticed that of the stack she was given, all applicants had a Master’s or qualifying credential in social work. Hmmm… Worrisome.
Two days ago, it was business as usually for most of the day until about an hour before Harper was supposed to clock out. She called me in angry tears ranting about the conversation she had just had with the supervisor’s boss. He told her she would unfortunately be taking on more clients, and the promotion would be put on hold for the time being.
She said he didn’t come right out and say he had decided to hire one of the people with a Master’s instead for the position, but what he did say was “you’ll have to relinquish any added responsibilities and return to being just an MHP”.
Okay. Bet.
After trying to calm her down, I gave my normally frustratingly accommodating wife a nudge in the malicious direction. One of the first added responsibilities she was given was the morning report. It was her job to have all the staff gather during the clients’ breakfast to relay what happened during 3rd shift, the plans for the day, coordinating client appointments, ect.
She would have to be in the facility before 3rd shift clocked out to get their notes, and then plan a traveling and gas budget for all the appointments, review any safety concerns or incidents, and this all added about an hour to her morning.
So, how happy was she the next morning when she got to snooze her alarm and sleep in a bit longer. When she got to the facility at her usual clock in time as an MHP, she said the place was already in chaos.
A fight had broken out and someone had some money stolen out of their room (all normal events for this place) but no one was exactly sure on the who or why of it because 3rd shift had had no one to pass along the notes so they just filed them and left. Of course Harper knew where they had been filed, because she organized the filing system no one had thought to check.
As soon as supervisor’s boss saw her clock in, he asked why she wasn’t there for report. See, he is always a seemingly sweet and soft spoken man, which made the sudden change of mind all the more surprising. Harper said she just stared him down, trying not to grin, and said “I’m just an MHP. I can’t handle the morning report.”
She then spent the rest of the day giving him the cold shoulder; relaying only necessary information to him while focusing on her clients and paperwork. I want to be clear, it isn’t that the chose a more educated person for the hire position.
That makes plenty of sense. It’s that they promised her that position, spent the last few months transitioning her responsibilities to that position, promised her the pay raise to go with it, and then ripped it out from under her. That’s some underhanded bulls**t.
Oh, and since she isn’t getting the promotion, she went to HR to see about her over due yearly raise. She was told no one is getting a raise at the moment because of Covid.”
Now let’s take a look at how readers responded to this story.
This person said that you should always be on the lookout for what else is out there in your field, no matter what.
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This individual said the woman needs to take advantage of her new title and start looking at other companies if her current boss is going to drag their feet.
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Another reader shared their own story: sometimes, you just have to play hardball.
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Finally, this person brought up a good point: these kinds of work experiences can actually cause PTSD for some folks.
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It’s a sad fact of life: there are scammers are everywhere.
And you gotta keep your eyes open and be aware of your surroundings so you don’t fall victim to any number of scams that are around us.
Unfortunately, some of these scams even get normalized by people.
AskReddit users talked about scams that they believe have been normalized by society.
Let’s see what they had to say.
“Funerals.
Paying for things like caskets for your loved once when you’re at possibly the most emotionally vulnerable that you could be.”
“Amway.
Multi-Level Marketing in general is just a pyramid scheme that is only allowed to go on because the people behind the scheme actually sell a product.”
“The $130 a photography company is requesting of me to release the 4 electronic photos they took of me during my university graduation procession.”
“Diamond anything.
Just saw the front page post of McGregor’s watch and was thinking its resale value must be as low as it is hideous.”
“Payday loans.
Unconscionable bulls**t designed to suck wealth out of the people who cannot afford to lose it, who would ptherise have spent that money anyway on something worthwhile for their families, that would improve their lives and potentially provide for the livelihood of others in their community.
If a payday loan place is in a community, it is literally putting 10s if not 100s of thousands of dollars into the hands of very rich people who are definitely not spending that money at the corner store.
It’s even worse in the UK. The US has a cap on how high a monthly loan can be, like 500% IIRC, which is still terrible, but in the UK there was a company putting people in hock to the tune of 5000%.”
“Being Trendy. Fast fashion.
People buy unnecessary clothes just to keep up with the trend.
Its totally fine if you wear old clothes for years.”
“100% HOAs.
I pay for my house then pay some Karen money for her to tell me I can’t do whatever I want to MY HOUSE.
Ridiculous”
“U.S. Health Insurance and Medical Billing.
I used to think healthcare was expensive because of equipment and the cost of the provider salaries, and then I learned about allowed amounts and how it’s the insurers that profit from healthcare not the hospitals or clinics.
What they do should be illegal. Randomly denying claims, paying partial reimbursement, hiking premiums – its madness.”
“Working for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year for 50 years, and that’s assuming you’re lucky, and it’s the only way to even get by for most people.
I sell my life and get the bare minimum in return. Fun.”
“Weddings. Holy s**t are weddings a rip off.
It’s such a huge amount of money for one. F**king. Day. We have ingrained the idea in most young girls that they have to grow up to have their “special day” and passed that down from generation to generation.
You’re no less married than if you just go down to the courthouse on a Tuesday afternoon, and/or have your small religious ceremony.”
“Superfoods, which is basically just a scam for people to spend tons of money on imported exotic foods which are not superior any way to the humble potato or raddish.”
“In order to cancel my smartphone contract this month, I had to fill out a form on my providers website, call a specific number within 7 days, only to sit on hold for minutes twice before being redirected, confirm the last four digits of by IBAN, answer a security question and finally, again listen to 10 minutes of, “Can I interest you in this special offer we‘ve designed just for you?“.
To contrast this, all I would have needed to do in order to continue or change my subscription plan, even to a significantly more expensive one, was pick an option on their website. No more affordable alternatives though, obviously,
Following that I received several calls a day by different customer retention numbers, which I had to block. They are now sending letters…
Never again. Sad thing is, I know this would‘ve worked had I been only a little less patient or busier. F**king vampires.”
“Tipping, in particular how it’s viewed in the United States.
Biggest f**king scam that restaurants have pulled off. They don’t pay their employees a living wage then have somehow convinced both their employees and society to shift the blame from the establishment onto the customers.
It baffles me. Pay them a living wage, let me decide if I want to tip or not.”
Now we want to hear from you.
In the comments, tell us about the scams that you think are normalized by society.
Please and thank you!
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Job hunting is a daunting prospect. There’s the competition, the time it takes to comb through things and apply, and finding the self-worth to believe that you deserve a certain position or pay level before taking the plunge.
If you’re concerned about that latter part, this post should make you feel better – because most experts agree that you only need to met around 40% of requirements to not only apply, but to land a job and be successful at it, too.
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The hiring process is vastly different than it used to be, so if you’re about to jump into the job-hunting waters, here are some tips and things you ought to know before you do.
First, when it comes to your resume, there’s a 75% chance that it’s going to be read by a software program first, not an actual person. If you want to make it past the bots and in front of eyeballs, you’l want to make sure you list key terms and experiences that line up with exactly what they asked for in their job posting.
Second, if you have connections, you should definitely use them – as many as 80% of jobs are filled by networking these days, and around 70% of jobs are not posted at all.
Research shows that it’s your more dormant ties, like people you haven’t seen regularly or don’t know as well, who will be the most helpful. Don’t be afraid to talk to friends of friends, to reconnect with people your parents might have known or even fellow alumni from your high school or college. People you’ve worked with previously can be a great resource, as well.
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If that doesn’t work, try clubs, related organizations, or even your church.
Third, stay on top of listings and apply as soon as they come available. The smaller the group you’re being compared to the better, and don’t worry about whether or not you meet all – or even half – of the listed requirements.
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Once you make it past the bot screening resumes, you’ve got plenty of chances to sell yourself, says Ian Siegel, co-founder and CEO of ZipRecruiter.
“People are making unconscious judgments about your warmth, competencies, and ability to be hired within seconds.”
Here are three tips he suggests that you always follow:
If you want more tips and advice like these, you can check out Siegel’s book, Get Hired Now!
Good luck out there, friends.
Looking for a new job can be daunting and can make you feel like quitting before you even get started, but all of the stress will be worth it in the end.
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We’ve all heard the stories about how hot dogs are made…yuck!
But they sure are delicious, don’t you think?
You know it! But still…kinda gross…
What food sounds fine until you learn how it’s made?
Here’s how AskReddit users responded.
“I once was at a conference in Japan.
Me and some friends went into a small restaurant for dinner. My French colleague insisted on ordering Foie Gras, besides other things.
I knew the German name for this but not the French one, so I didn’t know what he ordered there until I later called my boyfriend and he told me.
In Germany you can’t even produce Foie Gras due to obvious animal welfare problems with literally force feeding geese into developing a fatty, sick liver just to eat it.”
“I was surprised to learn from people who’ve worked on farms just how bloody harvesting crops is.
There’s not really a good way to clear out wild animals so all of them get ripped to shreds by the heavy machinery moving through the fields.
I miss being able to assume no animals d**d making my produce.”
“While off-putting I see no problems with some of the “scraps” we eat.
It’s perfectly fine to me that I’m eating the scraps of chicken in chicken nuggets. Gelatin from bones and ligaments. The reject pieces of animal being used to make so many great foods or items. People want to say the Natives had the right idea, using every part of the animal.
But suddenly turning around to say eating black pudding is disgusting? I feel better knowing that we used every ounce of that cow, the cow didn’t d** in vain. The cow was used for milk, once done with that stage sold for meat. The meat market sells the bones for dog bones, gelatin, beef stock, literally anything else. Nothing goes to waste.
Don’t get me wrong the treatment from cow to meat and then the food waste alone is problematic but that’s not what the thread is about. We use every part of every item. ‘Scuse me, I have nuggets in the oven that are ready.”
“Black Pudding is a common breakfast food, but kinda messed up when you think about how it’s made.”
“Cranberry harvesting.
There are a lot and I mean a ridiculous amount of spiders especially Wolf spiders, everywhere.
They crawl up the machines, they crawl up the people harvesting them it’s a nightmare.”
“Gummy Bears ( or just gummies in general).
Took me 19 years to find out that the way they’re made is with pig carcasses and bones.”
“Cheez whiz. It’s transparent until they add the orange coloring.
I don’t know why but that makes me nope out. Not like Cheez Whiz is a salad or anything, don’t get me wrong.
But I don’t think I fully comprehended just how fake it was until I found that out.”
“Goose liver.
The goose has been force fed corn and fatty foods its entire life causing intense strain on the liver as it swells and bloats within their body, resulting in better flavor at significant expense of the goose quality of life.”
“Gelatine.
Comes from processing cattle faces, noses and ears still attached. I worked in a tannery, the face doesn’t have any viable use once tanned so it’s cut from the rest of the hide.
Fun Fact: the truck only came once a week and the pieces were stored outside in a half walled shed, so during summer the smell could be rather…ripe.”
“Avocados from Mexico.
I just learned about the avocado cartel and how they make more money than the drug cartels and it’s insane. Do some research.
Don’t eat avocados from Mexico.”
“Fish sauce
I went to a fish sauce factory in Vietnam a few years ago. In a giant silo, they put in 1 tonne of fish, and 1 tonne of salt.
After a year, they open a tap at the bottom of the silo, and hey presto, the liquid that pours out is fish sauce.”
“My German/Polish grandmother made Czernina – Duck Blood Soup.
Being a good farm wife, she would go out to the shed where my grandfather kept some of his birds (chicken, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peahens, peacocks and a few more I don’t remember). She usually was able to grab a duck on the first try and slit its throat with the straight edge razor she used for butchering small animals. She would squeeze the blood into her steel Thermos bottle, cap it and butcher the duck (sometimes a chicken).
She would roast or fry the bird and make the Czernina which smells exactly like you would think boiled blood smells like but worse. It would take at least a week for the smell to leave the house.
There were times when she would send me to school with her Thermos bottle (filled with milk this time) to school a day or two after she washed out the blood.
Of course, she also made Jello salad with peas, carrots and corn in it. Also, tuna hot dish. There’s no such thing as a casserole in Wisconsin or Minnesota, its proper name is Hot Dish, that’s a hill I will d** on.”
Are there any foods that you refuse to eat because of how they’re made?
If the answer is YES, please talk to us in the comments.
Thanks in advance!
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There’s a recent commercial I’ve seen several times lately that I really, REALLY don’t like.
It’s a Kraft cheese commercial with a close-up of a grilled cheese sandwich in a frying pan and some guy singing a stupid little song about wanting to eat it.
Really? You had millions of dollars for advertising and that’s what you came up with?
Well, now you’ve annoyed me!
Which advertisements made you actually avoid buying a product?
People on AskReddit answered that question.
“Baby commercials where the dad is just a bumbling idiot.
I can have the diaper off, cleaned, and new diaper on before baby even knows I’m changing them.”
“All the Liberty Insurance ads.
It’s been played out too long.”
“Manscaped.
Their ads about how if you use their competitors you’ll cut your d**k off.
Didn’t make me afraid of their competitors, they just made me associate Manscaped with severe genital trauma.
Good going, fellas.”
“Mr. Clean sniffing around that housewife.
I won’t let my wife buy their products for fear that creep is gonna sneak into my house and put the moves on her.”
“Quiznos ran a series of radio spots many years ago in which it would open with something along the lines of “when you’re hungry, trying to resist a Quiznos sub is like” and there would be an absurd no-competition comparison with apt sound effects.
One of the spots was (I may be misremembering but was along lines of), “trying to resist a Quiznos sub is like a puppy taking on an alligator.” You then heard a bunch of yipping sounds ending with a big chomp.
That one spot turned me off ever being a customer of that restaurant.”
“Dr. Squatch soap.
It’s just obnoxious, macho-man, “natural is better”, “oh no, chemicals!” bulls**t. I don’t even care if the soap’s good, their advertisements have ruined the brand for me. Come to think of it, any brand that targets insecure men through their advertising. There was a supplement company with a probiotic promising to make your balls bigger.
Looked into the research, it was a single, small study on rats, which is… barely evidence, and definitely not enough to launch a product.”
“The completely tone deaf Cascade Platinum commercial where they try to claim that running your dishwasher every night will somehow save you water because it uses less water than a sink.
How the f**k does that make sense? You think I’m looking at my half empty dishwasher every night and saying “oh s**t. Better take all of these dishes out and wash them by hand or else the dish fairy is going to k**l me in my sleep”?
Of f**king course not. I’m going to wait until it’s full because I’m a grown adult with enough kitchenware to last me a full load in the dishwasher. It’s just a blatant “f**k the environment. Just use our product more so we can sell more s**t.””
“I already don’t smoke ci**rettes, but those anti-s**king ads that refer to nicotine as a “brain poison” just sounds stupid to me.
It’s a drug, just call it what it is.”
“Beverage radio commercials that use lots of slurping or soda can popping sound effects.
Gave me another reason to avoid Dr Pepper and light beer.”
“Morningstar Farms selling vegetarian burger patties. “If I’m a kid and I like it…” has the opposite effect they intended.
You know what kids like? Ketchup sandwiches. Spoonfuls of sugar stolen from the bowl. Taking a bite out of a stick of butter. Plain cheese pizza. Burgers with no toppings.
When I was a kid I once dumped a packet of Gushers into a bowl of cereal and happily ate it. Morningstar Farms, the fact that some little girl likes to eat your fake meat means nothing to me.”
“A few years ago Dominos had a commercial campaign where they said things like “People told us our sauce tasted like ketchup and our crust was like cardboard. We listened and we changed the recipe!”
Those ads sure didn’t give me an appetite for pizza.”
“Dr. Pepper Ten.
Its ad campaign was literally “Not for Women”.
Normally I’m a huge Dr. Pepper fan, but I found that entire campaign so f**king stupid and aggravating that I swore I would never drink it.”
“That Grubhub commercial with those disgusting looking 3D characters dancing in a really cringe manner.
It makes me embarrassed on behalf of those people who don’t even actually exist.”
“F**k Flo from Progressive, and all her sh**ty friends.
They’re bad and annoying, but I’m not sure that Progressive has realized that their “spokesperson” is a f**king terrible, obsessive, aggressive psycho.
She’s so nosy, and the commercial where she c**kblocks two young people in the laundromat made me wish they threw her into an industrial washer.
“Oh tell me more about bundling insurance, Flo! We’d never flirt with each other when there’s insurance to be discussed, but you’ve only got another 30 seconds before the rinse and spin, and I just don’t think you’ll be able to talk during that! Or after.””
“Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast sandwich commercials only had the discordant rooster-sounding riff at the end.
Now it’s every couple of seconds throughout the entire commercial.
It’s like a knife in my ears. “
Are there any ads that really make you not want to buy certain products?
If so, talk to us in the comments.
Thanks a lot!
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I have a confession: the Discover “Cashback Match” commercials have made it absolutely certain that I will never, ever use Discover in my life because I find their commercials to be so incredibly annoying.
Do you have any products that you’ve been turned off of completely because you can’t stomach their advertisements?
AskReddit users discussed the advertisements that made them NOT want to buy certain products.
Let’s dive in!
“All time: Chevy “real people”
Recently: that Kraft singles commercial with that stupid grilled cheese song.”
“There is a phone company here in Australia that runs an ad where two sisters/friends are shown partying and generally having a good time, then one gets diagnosed with an illness, presumably cancer.
The camera cuts back and forth to one of them in a hospital bed and the other getting her long hair cut off, then an emotional reunion where the one with her hair cut off visits the one in hospital who has lost her hair.
The tagline is “it starts with yes”. It uses the emotional trauma of terminal illness to try to get people to sign up for a phone service. Utterly disgusting.”
“A local car dealer decided to put their catchphrase to the tune of Baby Shark.
Then they made a follow-up commercial apologizing for how annoying the Baby Shark spot was, but still ended it with the Baby Shark jingle.”
“Those multiple Volvo commercials that have been on Hulu forever.
Same premise- “if you don’t buy our brand new Volvo you’ll k**l a kid, yours or someone else’s”.
Fear mongering at its finest.”
“The one with the bratty kid and broccoli.
“Then I guess we’re gonna sit here all night!”
If I pulled a stunt like that as a kid my mom wouldn’t go put cheese on my broccoli, she’d cook broccoli for every meal.”
“Surprised I haven’t seen Grammarly mentioned anywhere here.
I’ve never felt a need to use their product in the past, but their ads are so intrusive, annoying, and frequent that I’ll guaranteed never use it.”
“That Marine recruiting commercial where he fought a dragon.
I never got to fight a dragon when I was in, that was bulls**t.”
“Volvo.
That f**king commercial where someone tells the car’s google assistant to “turn up the heat” at their house.
My google reacts by upping the heat every. Single. Time.”
“Reese’s (Cups, Pieces, etc.)
I h**e the voice of whoever narrates the commercials
The low-effort lines…ughhhh
The speaker delivers the lazy writing as if the audience is meant to find it clever
The next time you see a Reese’s commercial on TV, you’ll notice what I’m talking about..”
“Mesothelioma.
Massive expenditure targeting a tiny population.
The return on investment must be HUGE.
Shameless rainmaking.”
“The Google Fi ads on youtube. Terrible songs and terrible animation.
Also, Old Navy ads are garbage.
And McDonalds has somehow been incapable of making a good ad for like 20 years or longer.”
“Well, whenever I hear the KARS for Kids jingle, I think about swerving into oncoming traffic.
So I guess you could say it turns me off.”
“All the brand name medication commercials with fake people living fake lives with wild side effects worse than the original diagnosis.
And how dumb the names sound made on some name generator.
Trulicity comes to mind.”
Are there any ads that really turned you off of certain products?
Talk to us in the comments and let us know.
We look forward to it!
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If you’ve ever worked in the service industry, you know the drill: you’re gonna have your fair share of horrible customers who are rude, crude, and ignorant.
And you just gotta deal with them because you know that when one walks out the door, another one isn’t too far behind.
But still…these people really suck.
And we’re about to see some really bad examples of what I’m talking about.
Let’s see what these jerks are up to now…
Just trust us on this one.
What a total jerk!
I can’t believe people can be this stupid. Found this on Twitter and thought it would fit here. from facepalm
This is so bad.
What is wrong with people?
Latina waitress received racist note instead of tip from iamatotalpieceofshit
I think that would be the best idea for everyone.
Why can’t parents control their children? At least a little bit?
A group of kids filled it up and the parents shouted at customers attempting to complain from trashy
Also, that’s YOUR problem, young people.
My friend waited on two underage kids who tried to order drinks. Stiffing servers has always made someone a bad person, but during a pandemic when benefits have run out and restaurant employees are struggling more than they already did? Despicable. from trashy
I think that’s a polite way of describing these folks. Just stay home!
Decades of "the customer is always right" has created the most entitled idiots in human history. from facepalm
The rudeness is strong with these folks.
My aunt and her friend took me to dinner. These 10 lovely people sat next to us, and didn’t even leave a tip! from iamatotalpieceofshit
Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
Seen on a Facebook post on how people should tip their servers 20% from JustBootThings
People like this shouldn’t be allowed outside of the house.
Some people will never learn.
My cousin just posted this on Facebook. She is a waitress at Outback and this was left behind. from trashy
Ugh…sometimes, people are really the worst.
Do you have any of your own restaurant horror stories?
If so, tell us about them in the comments. Thanks in advance!
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