What's something that is common knowledge at your work place that will be mind blowing to the rest of us?

Loca_Mosca · 11 months

The fajitas at Chilis aren't actually sizzling... they have a sauce called "sizzle sauce" that you spray over the hot food so it gives the illusion that it is sizzling.

bg86 · 11 months

When you have an IV placed, there isn't actually a needle left in your arm... The needle is taken out and a tiny flexible plastic tube is left in. So many people think they are walking around with a needle in their arm and are afraid to move it around.

Riothippoparty · 11 months

I work for a company that handles celebrities fanclubs online and through the mail. We have a machine that artists sign a contract to use called the ghostwriter. The machine lets us sign multiple items with this persons signature and legally claim it was hand signed.

So that poster you bought hand signed by that band you love? Was most likely signed by me and a machine.

turkturkelton · 11 months

Chemistry grad student. Safety regulations happen when EPA inspectors come by. Not any time else.

Wnrwnrchkndnr · 11 months

Casino dealers are not out to take your money. We live off tips. We want you to win.

Caughtnapping · 11 months

Strawberries are picked by hand. It sucks.

Bonzooy · 11 months

2/3 of Staples' annual profits occur during the 2-4 week period of back-to-school shopping.

devviebunny · 11 months

Technical Writer. Lots of people work really hard to write all those electronics manuals that you don't read.

Also, manuals are considered legal documents. If a client injures themselves following a set of bad instructions, the company can be held accountable.

Joseeeeeeaccentmark · 11 months

If you're going to the dentist to get work done (fillings, crowns, etc) and you use cocaine, tell your dentist. Cocaine use (within the 24 hrs or even more) + dental work = medical emergencies and often death.

So, moral of the story. Don't do coke then get a filling. :)

TheDisillusionist · 11 months

If you knew just how much money was dumped down the drain in EMS for non-emergent calls and straight up bullshit your head would explode.

I work in a rural system and I've seen people burn more money in a year than they would ever make in their entire lives on EMS that they aren't paying for. This is for routine or made up stuff.

Admiral_Nowhere · 11 months

Hope no one minds a second posting, but I just remembered this from my days as a car salesman (and I have never been happier from being fired from a job than the say my sales manager said "You're a good guy, but this isn't going to work out."):

To see how much that used car really is -- look for a sticker (ours were red) on the windshield and look for a number (ex. 191377499). the first and the last two numbers are the model year the numbers in the middle is the price that the dealship sets. Anything above that is going to be comission for the salesman. Haggle accordingly.

Preflash_Gordon · 11 months

If you make a lane change on the highway and cut close in front of my big rig, you are not making me mad. You are scaring the shit out of me. Because if you blow a tire or if anything else causes you to sharply lose speed at that moment, I will roll over you like a 40-ton avalanche and they will have to wash you and your children out of the wreckage with a hose.

jennaknorr · 11 months

I work as a barista during the school year. One thing that a lot of our customers don't seem to know is that dark roast coffee actually has the lowest amount of caffeine on the roast spectrum. So many night shift workers will come in right before we close and ask for the darkest roast we have because they need to stay up all night. We always correct them and assure them that our lightest roast has the most caffeine. I think people assume that dark roast has more because it has a stronger coffee taste. So, they think that a stronger coffee taste = more beans used to make it = more caffeine. Not quite. We used 80g of beans (no matter the roast) to make around 2.3L of coffee.

At the shop where I worked (I'm sure this is the same for many other coffee shops as well), dark roast coffee and light roast coffee are made from the same beans. Dark roast coffee (as the name implies) is roasted the longest. The beans gets that bitter and burnt taste, but more caffeine is burned off in the process. Since light roast is not processed for as long, more caffeine actually stays in the coffee beans.

tl;dr If you need to stay up all night, light roast coffee has the most caffeine.

SenHeffy · 11 months

Geneticist here: It is estimated that about 10% of children in genetics studies are "non-paternities", meaning 10% of the kids in the studies don't have the same biological father as we are told they have.

Edit: Want to clarify some things. This could happen when children aren't informed a sperm donor was used, the children didn't know they were adopted, or some other mix-up. The 10% comes from genetic disease studies, not just paternity testing. The 10% figure is often quoted in scientific articles, but some studies have been published which suggest the 10% figure is an overestimate.

LeChatelier · 11 months

While it is not possible with current technology to revive large organisms that have been cryogenically frozen, it is entirely possible to revive cells that have been cryopreserved. It gets cooler: we can store cells in a deep freeze state (-200 C) and bring them back years later. The cells will thaw, grow, reproduce, and continue on their respective merry ways as if nothing out of the ordinary ever happened.

Edit: Woke up to a bunch of replies, so I'll clarify some of the top questions:

1: Why don't the cells burst? We use a cryo-protectant before we freeze down the cells, this prevents the water in the cells from crystallizing when it freezes. We stick the cells in special vials, and put the vials in this temperature regulating chamber that looks something like a large revolver chamber. This slows the freezing process to an acceptable rate; once the cells reach -80C, they are taken out of the regulating chamber and transferred to -200C.

2: What's preventing you from scaling this up to animals? Humans? Let me preface this answer with a disclaimer: I am not a cryogenicist. Part of my job involves storing cell lines in cryogenic states. That being said, the biggest obstacle to overcome if we were to revive frozen people would be the brain. Cells don't have brains. Cells don't even have organs (you may argue from high school biology that they have organelles, but that's not the same thing). Cells are essentially macromolecular machines; you can leave your car sitting in the driveway unattended for a couple years, and it will still run when you come back (might need a jump or an oil change, but the analogy holds).

3: What cells are we talking about here? Malignant ones. Various assortments of cancer cell lines. They tend to grow a bit faster than their non-malignant counterparts, and "recover" from freezing faster, but both malignant and non-malignant cells will recover and grow after freezing.

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Vcom561 · 11 months

The throttle of Go-Karts is located just above the motor and can make your kart anywhere from 5-10mph faster.

Big_Bank · 11 months

I've worked at multiple retirement homes. The senior citizen residents hook up with each other quite frequently.

quiddletoes · 11 months

I work with children. In regards to potty training, kids are more likely to be able to go if their feet are on a flat surface. If you don't have a potty chair for them, give them a step stool or a box or something so their feet don't dangle.

star_pilot · 11 months

Helicopter autorotation is something designed for and tested during helicopter development. The helo is able to perform various maneuvers (fly forward at x speed, turn left/right at x speed y bank angle, etc.) without engine power. Helicopter pilots routinely practice these, and not just pray the aircraft comes to the ground softly if power is lost.

nickdngr · 11 months

The reason a lot of military units have massive budgets is because the defense funding system works on a use-it-or-lose-it system. We may not need our full budget one year, but we're a deploying unit that is deploying next year and we'll need it then. If we don't spend it all by Sept.1 (the fiscal year starts Oct. 1), when the new budget comes out we will have reduced funds. So units frequently spend all the money they are allotted in order to have guaranteed funding for when they need it. If the system didn't punish units for being frugal and made it easy to acquire funds needed for training and equipment we could reduce spending quite a bit most of the time.

saxfag · 11 months

Emt/Combat Medic: Most injuries can be fixed by a tourniquet, quick clot, or a Crike. Pretty much as long as you still have blood flowing and air going in and out i can get you to the surgery ward where the real voodoo magic happens.

KFBass · 11 months

90 percent of professional brewing is cleaning things. beer is simple, and a naturally occuring substance, we just make it easier for the yeast to do their job by monitoring temperatures, anticipating problems, and cleaning.

its honestly hard to add to this thread. its common knowledge where i work. For instance opening a tank of fermenting beer to "see how its going" will probably make you passout from co2 inhalation, and worst case kill you. We frequently get drunk college students on tours ask if they can go inside a tank of beer. no, you will die.

also we dont spend all day drinking beer and looking at samples. mostly its lifting heavy stuff, cleaning, getting dirty, moving heavy stuff, and did I mention cleaning???

veryikki · 11 months

From working at a kennel: a lot of places only have a few sizes for coffins, should you want the kennel to bury your deceased pet for you. If your pet is too big to fit one, he/she will be made to fit in it.

Working at a few vets: I have no idea how common knowledge this is, but I had no idea until I worked there, but if you see an injured animal on the side of the road that isn't yours, you can bring it in to most places and they will treat the animal at no cost to you. If the animal dies, it will also be buried at no cost to you. Good Samaritan laws or something like that?

If your animal has gotten into illegal drugs, just tell us. We don't care, our business is treating your animal appropriately as fast as possible. Just fucking tell us. It will save you money in the long run since we won't need to go through so many wild diagnostic measures, and your poor balls-tripping pet can get its system cleared before anything too bad happens.

If your cat is in for treatment and bites one of us, and has not had or is overdue for its rabies vaccine, its head will be taken whenever it dies (if it is available) and will be shipped off for its brain to be studied. Edit: Correction on my part--the animal will be contained for a week or two after the bite, and if it shows symptoms, it will then be euthanized and put down. Sorry for my mistake!

This is purely personal... but if your pet is at a certain elderly age (12+) and having major issues... please, please just consider euthanization. The amount of money you'll spend on the insane amount of treatments to keep your pet alive for another few months is not worth it, and the amount of suffering the animal endures from all the treatments is also not worth it. So many animals come in that really would be better off going peacefully into the bright light, but owners just can't. let. go. It's frustrating to watch.

JesusSwallows · 11 months

Most private colleges, especially those with high endowments and a considerable amount of prestige, will send a list of each year's applicants to their communications/development office. They'll research the kids and their families and give them a rating based on the potential the kid has to add to the endowment (basically an assessment of family wealth/potential).

This is used more to distinguish between the multitude of wealthy kids who apply to such colleges. If you're poor, most schools see that as added diversity and will help your chances at acceptance.

buildarocketboys · 11 months

I worked in a cardboard factory for a while - taking huge rolls of paper and gluing/baking them into cardboard sheets, boxes etc.

That warm, delicious smell that comes from your closed takeaway pizza as you drive home? It's mostly not the pizza - its the sugar, starch and animal fat in the cardboard and glue. The cardboard factory smelled exactly like takeaway pizza.

NeonRedHerring · 11 months

Former prison guard here.

Most inmates do not have access to weights more than 2-4 times per month, and only if they've earned it with good behavior.
The going rate for cigarettes on the prison black market is $100/box.
If you are willing to go a few years without any friends, and if you have about $100/month of expendable income, depending on your crime you can go your entire sentence without being in a fight or joining a gang.
Rape happens in prison, but it isn't nearly as common as it was 30 years ago. Inmates have an anonymous hotline they can call if they want to report a rape, and now there are cameras almost everywhere except for cells. That's where most rape happens, and there's not a lot prison guards can do to stop it.
95% of what you see in prison TV shows or movies is creative thinking.
Your first day in prison, I do not recommend picking a fight with the biggest, toughest looking guy in prison, or fighting with the first person who's an asshole to you. It won't make you look tough. More likely you'll just go to seg for a few weeks before getting kicked out into a new unit, where you'll have to do it all over again. Instead, find out who is in charge of your race. If you're white, it'll probably be Aryan Brotherhood or Peckerwood. Then either join up, or ask how much it costs to be protected. This is called paying rent. You won't make any friends paying rent, so plan on reading a lot. If you don't have the money or the desire to be extorted, you can join the gang. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're going to be down for a long time. You'll start out on the bottom of the prison gang hierarchy. After an initial training period of working out, you'll be asked to do hits on enemies of the gang. The shot callers will tell you who and when you'll be attacking, and you'll be expected to follow through. The problem with this is that you'll likely be given additional time on your sentence, so if your goal is to get out of prison, this isn't the recommended route. Plus, you'll be required to get gang tattoos, which will make it difficult to live normally after prison, and are often accompanied with Hep C, HIV, and TB.
It depends on the state, but guards in the towers are carrying weapons with live ammunition. Prison guards tend to be rednecks with fairly good aim. If you are going to kick someone's ass, don't do it in the yard. If you are perceived by a tower guard as putting someone in a position of substantial bodily harm or risk of life, you will be killed. Perimeter towers are also armed with live ammunition. If you are going to try to escape, you're best bet is tunneling out or stealing a guard uniform or impersonating a staff member, etc. Over the fence will probably get you shot, unless you have friends who have bribed the guard in the tower.
If you're in for anything sexual, you're gonna have a bad time.

TL;DR: Don't go to prison, it sucks.

Rae_the_Wrackspurt · 11 months

Wendy's actually cracks and cooks a fresh egg every time you order a breakfast sandwich, and the chili does not come out of a can.

theflamingpeacock · 11 months

When a urinary catheter is placed a tiny balloon is then filled inside the bladder so the catheter stays in place and doesn't "slip" out. If a catheter is pulled out before the ballon is deflated it shreds the urethra and is a bloody mess. Don't ever pull out your catheter! Ever!!

UPDATE: Another fun fact about catheters: for men it is best for their penis to become hard. It makes placing the catheter a lot easier. So if a nurse has ever said "thank you" while placing a catheter in your semi erect penis. You know why

askryan · 11 months

Failing a student is absolute agony for most professors. We will often look for any loophole we can find to let you pass the class, because, frankly, having to tell you that you're failing is one of the worst things we will have to do for our job all year. We think about you when we turn in our grades and we torture ourselves about it afterward.

Unless your professor is truly, truly an asshole, when you fail a class you have legitimately failed that class.

PS-grading papers takes a REALLY long time.

brewbrew · 11 months

Coca-Cola employee here. Fun fact: That crisp, sharp smell that Coca-Cola and Diet Coke give off? Strictly phosphoric acid.

trilliongrams · 11 months

When I worked at AMC:

We don't "clean" the theaters after every movie, we just sweep the popcorn under the seats, try to pick up all the big trash, and put all the armrests down.

Cinemark is much more demanding. Every kernel of popcorn must be eliminated.

postcardsfromkorea · 11 months

I worked at an optometrist's office for about two years and sold glasses. We sold more high-end stuff, but had basically everything. What some people don't realize is that if your prescription is really strong, you SHOULD shell out the extra money for the better lens material and maybe for that anti-reflective coating. It will make a huge difference in clarity, especially if you drive at night. If you have a really low prescription, fuck it. Get the cheap lenses, you won't notice.

Also: if you wear contacts, fucking give your eyes a break every now and then. If you wear them from the moment you wake up until right before you go to bed, your eyesight will get way worse way faster, you risk serious infection, and you're kind of suffocating your eyes. Even if you have the kind that you can wear for 30 days straight, you sure as hell better have at least one pair of shitty glasses you can wear if you ever tear a lens, injure your eye, or lose/run out of contacts.

tovasshi · 11 months

Standing too close to a transmitting radar for one minute will kill you in less than 6 months from multiple organ failure. It's non ionizing radiation, but it's still very strong microwaves. It cooks you.

A symptom of being cooked by radar is clicking noise in your inner ear and feeling warm.

FredtheHorse · 11 months

Healthcare worker. If we have to phone a patient at home and someone else answers we are not allowed to identify where we are calling from or why. So say we need to ring John Q. Citizen and his wife answers then we can only say "May I speak to John Citizen please?" Wife will ask who it is; "ourname", Wife will ask where are you from / why do you need to speak to John; "I can't discuss that with you, could you please put John on the phone" etc etc It causes SO many issues, we would love to just say "I'm calling about his blood test" but we are legally not allowed to do so. I am not being obstructionist or rude, please just suck it up and pass the phone over.

Vitus13 · 11 months

When you visit a single page of Amazon.com (or pretty much any large-scale website), no less than 30 computers put the page together. We're talking servers that have sub-millisecond round-trip times between nodes. When they reboot, it takes an hour to refill the cache so all results from those machines are discarded until 99,9% of the results are instant

astronautcock · 11 months

At McDonald's we have welfare day and child tax day marked on the calendars. Only brave souls are scheduled to work on those days.

Rikkikikz11 · 11 months

The majority of Japanese students have no free time. They go to school for marathon training at 6am, have school from 8-4, club activities from 4-6 and night class from 7-8 (9). If you ask them what their hobbies are they can't answer because they have no time for hobbies.

However, they are (in general) no smarter than students in the US. I say this lovingly.

originalchaos · 11 months

Archaeologist here: I don't know what it's worth, no we don't dig up bodies, don't touch my trowel, and that's a rock

st_basterd · 11 months

At Outback Steakhouse, they will prepare your food however the fuck you want. They'll put your sirloin in a blender if you want. Get creative.

Edit: I think OB owes me a gift card or something for all this free advertising I just gave them...

matiasgee · 11 months

I work retail. More specifically women's clothing. While it should be obvious, I don't think many people think about it, however those cute bathing suits you women like to try one have probably touched no less than 20 other vaginas before being purchased. They come in with sanitary stickers on them. There are signs saying to leave your panties on under them. But from what I've seen few women follow either of those rules. I've had to defect out plenty of swim bottoms that have stains on them. Hell even the tops aren' safe.

youarethegirl · 11 months

I'm just a cashier and don't have the power/authority/ability to do most of what you want (expect) me to do.

Firevine · 11 months

I work for a major ink and toner remanufacturer.

Guys....guys, really. Just STOP GODDAMN PRINTING STUPID SHIT. You don't need it. You are getting raked over the coals, even by me selling remans to you at 40% off. A 5000ml bottle of our most common ink costs us $120. HP60's are our most common cartridge. They will only hold 6ml. SIX. We sell them for $10. Also, those cartridges are garbage. For the love of everything you find holy, stop buying HP's junk. They are made to fail to make my job harder, and since they fail on the consumer too, they just make their lives harder. Why keep giving money to a company that is actively malicious towards you?

Buying an inkjet printer that is an ink tank style system will save you countless dollars and headaches IF it is a Canon or Brother. Lexmark and Epson are made to self destruct, and are also less cost effective than Brother or Canon. These new HP 950/951 self destruct. The 564/920/940 didn't, but HP made those all to be miserable to operate when using remans.

For many integrated printhead (Or drums, in the case of toners) carts, you pay a premium to replace the printhead each time when you don't need to. HP 21/27/56 carts have a page counter on them of somewhere around 2200-2500 pages. I've had older 56's stop working for customers due to the page counter before the printhead wore out. (My test machine doesn't check the page counter, so it can give me a perfect print, but the actual printer will check the counter) Also, in those 21/27/56 cartridges, HP changed the composition of the ink to where it pretty much destroys the printhead. These make my job miserable at times, but I have worked it out to have about an 80% success rate on them now, so /rude HP.

Lexmark, Epson, and HP (And Kodak, but LOL) all have self destructing cartridges. Epson for a while had self destructing printers. Lexmark also installs a process called LEXBCE that makes your print spooler dependent on it. Good luck.

Lexmark are the highest cost to operate printers by far, the least reliable/lowest quality, and the most scummy company out of the bunch. Brother are generally the least expensive, and have the least issues because they keep things simple. An inexpensive to operate Brother will suit most any home consumers needs. (I am not being paid by Brother, ha! I just like that they are the least crappy to the consumer.) Honestly, the only time I recommend something other than Brother is when my customer wants to print photos, then I recommend a Canon ink tank style system. The current generation are the PGI225/CLI226, and they are good little cartridges, and I have sold hundreds, and can count the chip failures on one hand with fingers to spare, and those even shocked me. Now please Canon, don't make me look like a fool.

If you can find an old HP printer that took the 45/78 cartridges at Goodwill or wherever for cheap, it's probably worth the investment to grab it. Yes, the 60's are "cheaper", but the 45's OEM are ~$35 for 42ml of ink, where the 60's are ~$15 for 6ml. You are getting conned hard on "cheap" ink. I'm looking at you too, Kodak.

Lexmark and HP send out firmware updates without your knowledge that disable your ability to use aftermarket products, that are entirely legal to use. (Remans are. Counterfits are not.) I'm sure it mentions it in that EULA you didn't read.

My job is far, far more complicated than "Just shoot some ink into it", no matter what those stupid advertisements from HP claimed. Everything gets electronically tested, cleaned thoroughly, tested again, filled under vacuum, and tested again. "Just shooting ink into it" works about 1% of the time, IF the cartridge JUST ran out of ink.

When I tell you I need your empties back to keep up my stock, I mean it. I'm not trying to screw you out of your little OfficeMax rewards. I NEED YOUR EMPTIES BACK TO DO MY F'ING JOB.

Finally, one of my good friends works at a big box office supply store. Stop grousing to these people about the cost of ink. There is almost no markup on it whatsoever at the retail level. If you're paying $40 for a stinkin' 12ml Lexmark 16 at Staples, Staples spent probably $39 on it.

Some of this, while mundane to me now, elicits a response from my customers, so hopefully it fits into the discussion.

TL;DR I know way too f'ing much about inkjet cartridges.

Edit: Wow, I wake up to tons of comment karma! Thanks! Also, sooooooooo many comments and PM's, and even a request for an AMA! I am trying to get to everyone, but I am at work right now. :)

Edit again: Holy crap, you guys have made me feel so much better about a job I was honestly very frustrated with!

luckynumberorange · 11 months

Being a bouncer at a nightclub is really quite dull. After about the first week, it is just monotony.

yooperann · 11 months

Even though hundreds and hundreds of U.S. women with HIV get pregnant and give birth every year, there are virtually no more babies born with HIV. We've really pretty much eliminated perinatal HIV transmission.

[Updated]Wow! Thanks for all the love. If you want to do something wonderful, please make a donation to the great people who are making such a difference here in Chicago. They mostly hire other HIV+ women to do very intensive outreach and case management and they never ever give up--sticking with the mom even after the baby has been born. They're losing a bunch of state funding because of the Illinois budget crisis and it would be absolutely criminal to lose the program. PACPI--Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative.

nsomani · 11 months

People often get cancerous cells, but your body normally eliminates them before they cause any harm.

mmee1992 · 11 months

If you drop a match into Jet Fuel the Jet Fuel will put out the match.

wild-tangent · 11 months

I work minimum wage. I see you steal things. I don't care and will never stop you, because this job is easily replaceable, and I don't see a penny in the profits of the store.

berthejew · 11 months

Hopefully this doesn't get buried, because it's very good to know.

If you live in a state where there are Meijer stores [Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana] your prescriptions for antibiotics are FREE. No questions asked. Very helpful for sick people without insurance.

AcerRubrum · 11 months

Virtually all of the forests you hike in, camp in, hunt in, and ride your bike through, were once either farmland or pasture, or logged at some point in time. 99% of the forestland east of the Mississippi in the US and in Europe, were all once cut down, and almost none of the original old-growth forests remain in the state they were before Man cultivated the land. Notable exceptions are high mountaintop forests, steep ravines, and specially-conserved tracts of land held privately by concerned landowners. Many hardwood forests in the US were cut down between 1750 and 1900, and are in the process of Secondary Succession, whereby new pioneer species take over, and a new forest slowly matures. These secondary forests aren't always of the same species as the ones that existed before being cut down. Many of the pine-oak forests of New England have been replaced by birch-maple forests, and both the American Chestnut and American Elm species, which once comprised some of the most massive and beautiful trees and made up up to 60% of forest stands down the Appalachian mountains, have been killed off by introduced diseases from Europe.

Edit: I should have stated that I'm a forester, and do most of my work out in the woods, and occasionally in front of a couple computer screens making maps using GIS software

wigga_class2 · 11 months

There are only 500 music composers in the world that actually make a living from composing for games/films/media. For scale, there are at least 11,000 wannabe composers in L.A alone trying to "make it".

chris_music_lover · 11 months

I work reception and get a lot of automated telemarketing calls throughout the day. If you press "9" during an automated call, this will usually automatically put you on their Do Not Call List and end the call immediately.

Way more effective than just hanging up, as it prevents future call backs. Figuring this out has cut my call volume down drastically.

aGeckoInTheGarage · 11 months

Bail Bonding/ Bounty Hunting is not even remotely close to what Dog the Bounty Hunter portrays.

jaraed · 11 months

Butchery. The fats and bones that are wasted from shops, actually get rendered down and made into cosmetics, shampoos, soaps, lollies and other miscellaneous products.

airbusthrowaway · 11 months

Airbus already have their production line planned for decades ahead, and have no intention of becoming any environmentally friendly at all. They will, however, try their hardest (without spending too much money) to appear environmentally friendly.

Throwaway and I won't log in again.

acityinflorida · 11 months

All keys to Chevy police cars are the same key, unless the department has a custom key made which they never do. Get one key and you have them all.

AllergicToKarma · 11 months

I've run a valet company for years. We don't look through your things, we probably know more about your car than you do (as long as there are no after stock additions, then please tell us), we don't take the car off the lot, most of the people that have worked for me have degrees (there was a point when I was the only guy on my staff without a master's) and the nicer the car is, the less we drive it.

TL;DR Ferris Bueller ruined the public's notions about valets.

westsyed · 11 months

Not everything at Subway is fresh.

orangepegasister · 11 months

At Dairy Queen (in Canada, at least) we make all our novelties in store. I can't believe how many people are surprised when I tell them that.

[deleted] · 11 months

Getting a 15 yr mortgage instead of a 30 yr could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

fuck-all-yall · 11 months

If you read to your kids, they will learn to read. If you don't, they will have a vocabulary shortfall from which they will never recover.

10gags · 11 months

EDIT:

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TREAT OR DIAGNOSE YOURSELF BASED ON THESE FLOWCHARTS SEEK PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL OPINIONS

most medicine in the hospital can be conducted perfectly adequately using a simple flowchart tool. the hardest thing to teach young doctors is to break complex problems into their component parts and deal with them directly and individually.

this will get you out of 90% of the sticky situations you are in as a young doc on overnight call. the flowcharts are easily accessed online in most hospitals.

flowchart medicine baby. it is a fucking life saver.

EDIT:

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TREAT OR DIAGNOSE YOURSELF BASED ON THESE FLOWCHARTS SEEK PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL OPINIONS

EDIT: lots of people asking for examples i put some in some reply's below but here ya go

you can get published guidelines in book form easily for any specialy as well

here ya go

put some together for you.

here's a more specific one with dosages

from this website

i'm at work, this may be behind a paywall for you, if so i apologize for the run around. but here is a standard of care document that some people will sit down with and build a flowshart out of. it's pediatrics but the concept is the same.

DownvoteAttractor · 11 months

You're more likely to get an STI from a backpacker than you are from a registered prostitute in my country.

specialkake · 11 months

~50% of patients in psych wards aren't "crazy," they're just healthy people with shitty lives. You still have to diagnose them with a disorder even if they're not crazy, or insurance/medicaid won't pay.

Also, there is a huge downtick in psych admissions by people with chronic mental illness over the holidays. This is because families feel the christmas spirit, and temporarily let them back into their lives. After the holidays, it's busy as families dump them back on the state.

O110010101 · 11 months

That legislators, celebrities, high ranking government officials and anyone else that can ' make trouble for the credit industry ' have a special section in the credit bureaus that keep them in high scores, even if they are high risk.

crackeddagger · 11 months

In 18 years of working in restaurants, I've never seen anybody spit in anyone's food.

Douchebag customers might get their ticket pushed to the back of the line or one of the smaller end peices of steak, but we don't violate health regulations if it can be helped.

pfft_sleep · 11 months

If you're upset that you're 2 weeks out of warranty and your X has broken, ask to speak to a supervisor and tell them you've been a loyal customer, you just want someone to make your day because you're low on cash at the moment. Where I work, we're not penalized for giving people warranty exemptions, we just save them for when people don't demand to speak to God like an entitled ass-clown.

JonPaula · 11 months

On YouTube, Network owners with Content-ID access have the scary-powerful ability to remove any videos that match content in their own library with a single-click, without filing a DMCA claim. What's worse is this system isn't checked by anyone, or verified by timestamps... meaning I could download your months-old video, reupload as my own, and have yours removed, and you couldn't do anything about it.

/ YT Partner / Network owner.

murseiter · 11 months

Healthcare, ICU nurse. Sometimes having a patient die is the best thing to brighten my day. Seriously. If you have been keeping mom or grandma alive for 2-12 weeks after she should have biologically died and she finally gets to die, I'm genuinely happy I don't have to torture someone to soothe your conscience anymore. If you'd put your pet down in this situation it might just be time to let your more valuable human relative go.

Xysten · 11 months

Hotels have to keep whats called "rate parity" across all travel websites. If they list a room on one website for 199.99 a night and 199.98 on another they risk being fined $50 for every occurrence. This is why every website can claim they have the lowest prices, because its supposed to be the same across all sites. Most hotels update their online inventory Friday afternoon and Monday mornings. You're most likely to find an error then.

H8te · 11 months

All nuclear plants play "laser-tag" war games. Some of them lose to the mock terrorist.

TheBlackBrotha · 11 months

Ice-cream tastes much better at a warmer temperature (~26 degrees) than it does right out of your freezer (~20 degrees). The colder temperatures make you tastebuds less tasty.

kevinproche · 11 months

That little sticker on your window that says "House protected by -------- Alarm system" does more good then having an alrm system itself.

accioc · 11 months

If you're living with family or just generally need to hide your sex life/concerns, you can make appointments with planned parenthood online and you have the option to choose that if someone other than yourself answers the phone, they will say that "Cory" is calling for you, as opposed to "the doctor's office" or "planned parenthood". Not sure if my wording is right, here.

Edit: Thank you guys for submitting me to bestof! If you ever need any advice, I'll try my best to help.

ImNotJesus · 11 months

Doctors and nurses in hospitals make mistakes all the time. They work crazy hours, have too much to do and small errors can change someone's life. I don't even blame them, the conditions make it impossible.

LetsPlaySomeLasertag · 11 months

Laser Quest, a company that promotes itself as a "21st century game of tag", has computers that run in MS-DOS mode.

The computers that have been upgraded at certain centers have been upgraded to Windows 98.

Because we operate IN THE FUTURE!!!!!

edit* Oh, I forgot to mention our internet is dial-up. Yeah.

phoenix25 · 11 months

if you leave your young child in the pool by themselves they will probably start to drown. I don't care if mommy had to go to the bathroom or needed another margarita or needed to finish her crossword.

Seriously, the number of parents surprised by this blows my mind.

TwoHands · 11 months

Your social security number is far from private. Your address is known easily. Knowing 2 to 4 data points about you is often enough to locate you, your family, your known acquaintances, the SSN of every one of these people, your job, your criminal records, your automotive records, and what court cases you've been involved in.

Teaslinger · 11 months

Not mind blowing and pretty small but I work at a tea store and let me tell you: we are NOT doctors. I can't give you teas that will make you get an erection, cure your sons cancer (yes I've had someone ask that), or act as a morphine equivalent pain killer. It's crazy what people think what is essentially hot water can fix. To be honest most wellness teas don't do anything whatsoever

Edit: I said this below but most teas for sale at tea stores won't do anything shockingly noticeable unless you drink liters and liters of it. You can mix up a batch of weird shit at home that might do something super weird

KslarTheBad · 11 months

At Chick-Fil-A, we accept any other restaurants / fast-food coupons. Say you have a coupon for a free sandwich at McDonalds, we would accept that and give you a free one.

Also if you were to get up to the drive-thru and realize you had left your money elsewhere, we "usually" will comp your meal and tell you to "pay it back next time." Of course this is if the meal is in moderation and not a huge fucking order.

Edit- I will try to find out if the policy is just our store or every where. I Have been with the company for about 6 years now, So it is very possible it has changed. ALSO we do accept Chick-Fil-A coupons that have expired no matter what and ones from other Chick-Fil-A's. Usually I dont even look at the expiration date because of this reason.

Edit2- Asked my boss about the other stores coupons. It is per store if the owner wants to. He said he would have no problem with it since no.one really knows about it. If yall have any more questions about chickfila I would love to answer them

BigBadPanda · 11 months

Pilot here. We listen to our iPods during takeoff sometimes.

MegandarGrr · 11 months

I worked at a fast food restaurant with a drive through. When you pull up to the speaker box and tell us to hold on a second, we are still listening. We hear your conversations, your singing in the car, and your awkward fights with your children in the backseat. There are four people with headsets on listening to you. The best part is, we can hear you, and you can't hear us. Mad amounts of shit are talked, as we cordially wait for you to make up your mind.

Bionicmonster · 11 months

If you ordered ginger ale and we run out before we can fill your cup, we can fake the taste by mixing 4 parts sprite and 1 part coke.

jostler57 · 11 months

If you have Windows 7, with many windows up and only want 1, take hold of the one you want, wiggle it back and forth a few times, and all the rest will minimize.

L_Duo · 11 months

That corn dog I just sold you for $5 has been sitting under that heat lamp for an hour. Plus it only cost us $0.20 to make.

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