What's a company secret you can now share since you've quit?

Story 17 is a hero. I’m disabled and my wheelchair alone cost my insurance $20k. In fact, I now have a permanent chronic illness BECAUSE I fought my insurance company for 2 1/2 years to get my second power wheelchair. That person saved so many lives and improved families and individuals’ quality of life exponentially. I hope that knowledge keeps them warm for the rest of their life. May they never want for anything this side of Heaven.

Having a clean restaurant and very high food standards is such a peace of mind thing. I would happily travel farther and pay more for that.

i never go to resturaunts because of allergies but that place sounds like i could eat at, makes me very happy to know theres people out there that care like that

Story 17; That guy is an absolute legend. Most insurance companies and hospitals will upcharge like that. If they do, ask for an itemized list and make an appointment to talk over the charges.

On the whole “infected fish from PetCo thing”, as someone with a lot of fish tanks, you should ALWAYS quarantine new fish for a couple weeks regardless of where they come from. It’s on you if you kill your entire tank with a sick fish, it’s not PetCos fault that you didn’t do one simple thing to keep your tank healthy.

"Painter hasn't warn a mask in 30 years, he's still alive and kicking." He has evolved an imunity.

That’s a chad move telling the customer that the one walkie talkie is broken. I grew up with a hunter and having good communication in the woods is a must for safety.

There's a very hipster/"fancy hippy" cafe near me I worked in for a time - one that always stood out to me was their "organic full english breakfast" in that they advertises it as "organic bacon, eggs, sausage, beans, mushrooms and grilled tomatoes" the only "organic" part was 1 in the three thin sheets of bacon was organic, everything else was as cheap as possible regular stuff. You better believe it was priced like it was all completely organic (I forget the exact price but in the region of £20, where as a normal full english 2 doors down was £5)

Story 4: Actually, that ozone generator was probably way more effective than than "carpet cleaning"; if it generated enough ozone to get the smell out, it was enough to kill any microbes and also oxidize a lot of organic nastiness. Ozone is a stunningly powerful antimicrobial and oxidizing agent; it's also toxic, but breaks down to oxygen.

It's nice to know how much that papa John's manager cared about cleanliness and safety.

I worked at Radio Shack during college and we didn't quite just put things back out if they were returned, it depended on the product and the situation. If something was returned because it was defective we'd test it and if the problem wasn't happening (unless it was an intermittent issue) we'd put it back out unless there were cleanliness concerns (something like in-ear headphones depending on the brand we'd either send back to the distributer or scrap - literally cut them with scissors and put them in our electronics waste box that we took to be disposed of properly). Something like a TV Antenna we'd usually box up and put back on the shelf because 99% of the time it was just someone being unhappy with the channels available in our area. There were only 2-3 that reached us unless you had a really powerful antenna and we'd always try to warn people and showed them a website that would let you plug in your address and give an estimate of what you'd receive, they'd still buy them. Of course we'd also get people buying them just before the super bowl and returning them just afterwards, not because they didn't get the channel, just because they only wanted it for the game.

I haven't quit yet but the place I work at uses an "ability to pay" scale for pricing. Meaning if you pull in the lot with a fancy car and look like you've got money, you're going to get charged a few hundred % markup

Why can’t I ever get a medical billing person who’ll just write off my debt? I had cancer 12 years ago, had to have several surgeries, and ended up in the hospital for over a month. I had crappy insurance that only paid like 60% of the total amount billed. I owed something like $100,00 to the hospital, to various doctors, and to other medical facilities. Did they write me off? Nope. Did they take into account the fact that being sick for months means you lose your job and have no income? Nope. Did they accept my life savings and say that was enough? Nope. The money I couldn’t pay after I’d given them everything I had was referred to attorneys who sued me for non-payment. I filed for bankruptcy. Then it all happened again five years later when I got deathly ill and spent weeks in the ICU. I ended up deciding to forego treatment that might have made me better because I had no money with which to pay for it. Now, I’m in my upper 50s and can’t work full-time because I’m too sick. I’ve been turned down for SSI/Disability three times, even though I’ve used Disability attorneys each time. Being able to work a few hours a week apparently means I’m not suffering from any disability. My medical expenses currently exceed my income — and that’s with me only seeing a doctor when I absolutely HAVE to and not taking some of the medications that are prescribed to me. I’ll never be able to retire because I have no retirement savings. I have no investments. I own no property. My car is now 23 years old and barely works. All because someone in the billing department at a hospital felt that it was better to destroy someone’s life than to find a way to write off my medical debt.

My parents told us if you have things appraised, you stay with them at all times. You don't let someone walk away with it. Mailing in an appraisal ID never trust.

This would have been more relevant when I actually quit because they already implemented the changes to most stores, but McDonald’s is planning to remove drink fountains from the lobby. All drinks will be prepared at the drive thru, perhaps they plan to install a second fountain inside the kitchen, but I didn’t see anything about that. The GM of each store is issued a book outlining corporates plans for the next two or three years. I read it without authorization. It’s part of the reason I quit, I wasn’t about to let them make my job more hellish than it already was.

The Toyota one hit hard. I also work at an American Toyota dealership but in the service department as a lube tech. The lifts we use are the last 3 of their kind in the entire US, and all of the lube tech joke about them killing someone any day now. They are so sketchy. Every time a larger vehicle goes into the air the whole rack sways. The lifts are kept at the bare minimum of legality and there are no plans to replace them.

I’m pretty sure other companies do it also but when I worked for Kroger, they would announce “recycling” throughout the store to throw out the trash. When I asked my manager why is it called recycling when we are just throwing trash away, she replied “so the customers won’t question it”.

Story 7: I don't like the smell of new clothes and I always wash them after buy them. After seeing that story I'm glad I do.

At year end the goodwill stores just DUMP all your donations into 52 foot trailers. A good percentage of it is absolutely ruined and a lot is just thrown away. You're much better off donating to other non profits

Story 11 - I believe that. I worked for a dialup ISP back in the early 00's. Before even DSL was widespread. We had 50 dialup lines allotted, so if you were customer 51, you were SOL until someone went offline.