No. 1 most probably 80% or more of the books on the nonfiction bestseller list autobiographies memoirs political slash business books etcetera are ghostwritten No.2 secondary teaching if teachers did absolutely everything in their job description perfectly they would never sleep eat or socialize planning great lessons requires hours that simply don't exist in our day consequently majority of teachers walk into lessons having done no dedicated planning we just wing it with our years of experience
and resources we purchased online 2 minutes before the lesson the students never notice I think partly because this happens so frequently it seems normal most teachers I know aren't satisfied with what they're doing in the classroom but don't have the time or resources to do better the good teachers that do put in the additional planning are usually sacrificing significant portions of their personal time and money to delivering great education this generally results in the best teachers getting
burnt out and leaving the profession or having significant issues in their personal life example divorce no social or romantic life No.3 I'm an unarmed security guard every now and then I'll get a comment from someone about how they're glad I'm around in case there's an active shooter or something yay if that happens we're not doing anything aside from getting ourselves to safety and calling the cops we're literally told in training that if we try to intervene directly with an active shooter wi
ll be fired No. 4 when I used to work for Hyatt if the mini bar was used and not declared but the value was under $15 they wouldn't bother billing for it because it gave off an appearance that it wasn't synonymous with a five star hotel No.5 audio engineer here I can play guitar bass and drums very well a lot of the time I say I'll clean a person's part up with editing but secretly I just learn and redo their part myself when they leave it's way easier than digitally cleaning up a sloppy perform
ance I've been doing this for 10+ years and nobody has ever complained not even once No. 6 I worked at a newspaper processing obituaries and it was crazy how much funeral homes try to rip people off obits are expensive like $400 for a single day expensive and they are priced by the word we had funeral homes who would send us obits with all the commas and periods separated to make full new words the homes would get the estimate from our website and use that for billing the grieving family we woul
d edit the obit to meet English standards which would reduce the word count substantially dropping the price in other words they charged for the estimate but got billed for the edit it got so bad management told us we were not allowed to talk about prices with family members even if they came in and showed us the Bill from the funeral home the customer was the home not the family so they weren't privileged to see the pricing if you have to put an obituary in the local newspaper please contact th
em directly for pricing guidelines there's usually cheaper options the funeral homes won't tell you about No.7 I'm an academic researcher and I can speak for a huge number in my field when I say if you want access to our studies and they're behind the paywall you can email us and we will send you the study we are genuinely delighted to share and if you want further context for the results or what have you I'll always try my best to oblige the only limiters on that last bit is that the original d
ata for the study might have reached the end of our right to keep it in which case it will have been destroyed I might have forgotten details or I might have written that paper during a particularly hectic time and my file system might be total shit also a lot of us are on research gate and various social media things so you can contact us through there if you can't contact us directly or we're being slow one of the other authors on the paper might be contactable No.8 a good friend of mine Korea
n visited Las Vegas for her honeymoon the husband was just a student at the time and she worked at a call center to pay their bills when they were checking in at the hotel the man at the front desk asked where they were from she told them we are from Korea and the man responded oh I love Korean food they were a bit early to check in so they left their bags and went out to get some food at a local Korean restaurant when they came back they bought some food for the front desk guy when they handed
the food over the guy was shocked and upgraded them to the penthouse little did my kind friends know the guy was a manager and the penthouse was available friends sent me pics after they got in their room and wow Las Vegas penthouse is probably a room I will never be able to afford in my lifetime all for a little Korean food they got a memory they will never forget No.9 the market for translation isn't being killed by AI because it's already dead and AI is putting it out of its misery essentiall
y translation agencies have been acting as a cartel controlling the relationship between clients and translators and abusing their position as middlemen to drive translator paydown mainly by using translators in developing countries whom they can pay less ETA this is mainly applicable to general translation but is creeping into technical subjects as well literary translation still appears to be somewhat safe from this trend No.10 if your baby goes to a nursery slash daycare chances are those wer
en't their first steps slash words etcetera that you witnessed industry standard is to not tell parents when these things happen as it makes them feel bad I've seen kids up and walking about the room for weeks even months before their parent proudly announced a drop off that they took their first steps last night No.11 worked in online community management in social media for years admins can read all of your PMS private only means private from the masses not from administration we had to be abl
e to read them to check reports of abuse grooming illegal activity etcetera I can't tell you how much cringeworthy shit I had to read through especially from guys trying to hook up No.12 I can't say if this is for all but I used to work with a credit bureau company that had an online loan mortgage and credit card eligibility check you enter your personal details and then select all the things you want for example if it's a loan how much for how long etcetera then you click search and you get a l
ist of lenders the loading and calculating screen you see as you wait for your results to come up is actually they're doing nothing the calculations are done at rapid pace because the data engineers and analyst work hard to get the calculations fast however there has been research that suggest that when people don't have to wait for their calculations they assume something is dodgy like the top result was hard coded to be that way for everyone and people assume they're not legitimate so it's rea
lly just a psychological tool you are waiting for the results for nothing they are just there to keep confidence in the shopper No.13 some appetizers are the most labour intense items on the menu to make for example dumplings takes one worker about an hour to make 12 to 15 orders if you want to know where I'm getting at if a restaurant offers a plethora of appetizers options then there's a high chance a lot of them are store bought and resold because there's no feasible way to prepare several or
ders for each item on the menu No.14 most companies even large corporations run their business from an Excel spreadsheet saved on someone's desktop No.15 I'm a casino manager it is definitely possible more likely than you think to win money in the short term for example if you walk in bet on red slash black on roulette it's reasonably close to 50 fifty not quite because of zero you might do this once double your money and leave congratulations you will always lose in the long term always anyone
that thinks they have some kind of system as a sucker a game would not make it into the casino floor if the maps have not been rigorously checked and long term simulations run to confirm exception to this is poker the casino will always have a Rake or time charge to make their money but there is no reason you cannot consistently win money if you are skilled enough No.16 I used to work for a major food manufacturer that makes snacks that are in most of our homes the snacks contain wheat my second
day on the job I was shown how the snacks are made from railcar to finished product as the raw wheat was drawn from the silos on a conveyor belt these white pellets were sprinkled on the raw wheat it's pesticide the FDA allows so much before it's considered dangerous blew my mind No.17 in the chat window for support on websites the technician can see you typing not just that you're typing but also what you're typing watching people rephrase their question a few times has been interesting and ac
tually gave me good insight into how they're really feeling No.18 commercial health insurance companies in the States absolutely do not care about their members they actively seek out ways to deny claims speaking from over 20 years of experience working at different insurance companies it's a total scam and they don't give a shit about anything but profit No.19 pet sitter here a lot of pet parenthood is based on projection if your pets are picky it's often because they've Learned how to shape yo
ur behaviour most of your pets weird habits disappear when they're being cared for by someone else fluffy will only eat out of a bowl sitting in half sunlight half shade with two pieces of cheese while you sing their mealtime song because that's what they've Learned to demand from you they usually eat straight from the bowl when I feed them similarly fluffy might not have jumped onto my lap while you were there for our meet and greet but they usually do as soon as it's just me there it's nice to
think they love and to trust only you because they hide when you have guests but if there's no one else around they'll take whoever's affection they can get also if you've never taken 10 minutes to watch a YouTube video or two on your pet species specific body language you have definitely misinterpreted them before No.20 maybe not much of a secret but when you read the ingredients list on something and it says natural flavour that does not mean that the flavour is natural natural flavour is jus
t the name of the flavour
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