No matter where you work, every company has trade secrets. And thanks to a new Reddit thread, people are spilling them. It asks, “What’s a company secret you can share now that you don’t work there?”
Some of the more than 27-thousand responses are surprising, while others just confirm your suspicions, and these are some of the best:
- “I worked at L’Oréal. The cosmetics from L’Oréal and Lancôme are practically the same. But Lancôme costs like $20 more.”
- “I worked for a MAJOR hotel chain in housekeeping for over 10 years. The number of suicides and people who die naturally in their rooms is a lot higher than you’d think.”
- “Mortgage industry here, we're like cops, ONLY answer the question asked, DO NOT provide additional information to "be helpful", it could scr*w you over”
- “If you pick up a wall phone at Home Depot and push '7' it activates the store wide intercom. This works in every store in my province afaik”
- “If you were on Live Chat with Customer Care, I could see what you were typing before pressing send. I watched people work through grotesque, racist, sexist statements, fraudulent lies and mistruths, meticulous grammar fixes, and their whole range of emotions in real time before deleting and typing ‘ok.’”
- “One gallon of milk, one full bottle of Monin vanilla syrup and .6 of a pound of espresso brewed. Now freeze it. Boom! Joe Mugg's frozen cappuccino.”
- “Worked at Best Buy 20 years ago. Employee discount was 5% over cost and I needed a new printer. Decided to splurge on the gold plated USB printer cable that we sold for $40. Rang up $1.78.”
- “When I worked at a godiva store we would turn expired chocolate bars into sample pieces.”
- “Inbound call center - the ‘We are currently experiencing an unusually high call volume’ message is permanent. They just didn’t staff adequately.”
- “The ‘secret ingredient’ of Jimmy John's tuna salad is soy sauce … Kikkoman soy sauce specifically.”
Source: Reddit