" In most hotels , the housework faculty are overworked and timed per way , and if a slept - in bed is not too scrunch after check , they will make over it without changing it — same goes for towels . I ’ve visualize it all , and when I appease in a hotel , I assert on bedding and towels to be leave out for me to put on myself . "
1.“I’m still in it, but here’s an industry secret: If your AC is low on ‘freon,’ then you have a leak. Don’t let a company make money by ‘topping you off’ at each visit like it’s a consumable. Your system has a leak, and it won’t work right until the leak is repaired.”
" Also , filters are cheap . Do n’t devote a bounty for a service company to take them for you , you may be up - charge a ridiculous amount for it . "
— atomic number 92 / fart_fig_newton
— uranium / stan13ag
3.“I would change price tags for a retail store. Let’s say an item was $2.99 and has been for months. I would take down the price tag and replace it with a tag that said, ‘Originally $3.99. SALE $1.00 off! New price: $2.99.’ This would be done for a LOT of items. Sneaky.”
— uracil / CMpunkMainEventMania
4.“My wife used to work for a light bulb manufacturer in France; their marketing at that time stated, ‘All our products are made in the EU.’ Their ‘factory’ in Italy received containers from China, unpacked all the light bulbs, put them in new ‘made in EU’ cardboard packaging, and sent them on to the hardware stores.”
— atomic number 92 / BeerPoweredNonsense
5.“I wouldn’t buy furniture, especially with an ‘as is’ sticker, at a lot of popular furniture-decor stores. When it came in broken, I was instructed to glue it back together, hope it holds, and put it on the floor to sell to an unsuspecting customer.”
" I also got write up for not offering to open up a credit wit for a folk whose other three course credit plug-in got reject . This was right before the 2008 crash . My manager was pissed I did n’t help this kinsfolk get further into debt , but I sleep a small better at dark knowing my morals are right . "
— u / realRavenbell
6.“Worked at a service station (petrol/gas). Every morning at 7, I had to ring a number not connected to the company and report the cost of fuel. Friends who had the same job at a different company had the same task with the same phone number. It was definitely collusion between companies.”
— u / LordMoody
7.“I worked for a large cable company years ago. We were taught that if you called in about services being down and were trying to get them fixed, not to give you credit for the time they were down unless you asked, no matter how long it may be. Even if you did ask for credit, we often only gave it to you for the days you called in. So, if you had a storm roll through and didn’t have service for more than one day, you had to call each day. If you took the liberty to credit them anyway, you would be coached to do it the proper way. We often used this downtime to upsell you on additional channels, faster internet speeds, etc, for when it did return.”
" We also were taught to sell higher speeds to unsuspecting customers who did n’t hump any better , reckon faster cyberspace would make their 9 - yr - old laptop / personal computer do well . We get a kickback on how many ancillaries we sold . A basic repp who execute halfway decent could often make more than those that were responsible for for them . "
— u / GreenEggsGoneHam
8.“Their secret famous family donut recipe was just Pillsbury dough.”
— uracil / Boring_Squirrels
9.“A Dutch grocery store has a flowchart for offering contracts to youngsters that are about to turn 18. When they turn 18, they get too expensive so they fire them, and the flowchart shows that if it gets too close to their birthday, whether to fire them or keep them just a little bit longer.”
— u / DnD_mark_079
10.“In most hotels, the housekeeping staff are overworked and timed per room, and if a slept-in bed is not too creased after checkout, they will remake it without changing it — same goes for towels. I’ve seen it all, and when I stay in a hotel, I insist on bedding and towels to be left out for me to put on myself.”
— u / MacRich1980
11.“I did housekeeping for a while and…yep. The duvets are never washed unless they are visibly dirty like someone spilled ketchup on it or something. The sheets only got changed if they had been visibly disturbed. If I went into a room and the bed looked like it hadn’t been slept in, I didn’t touch it. If the towels looked like they hadn’t been touched, I didn’t change them.”
" We were told to do it this way to keep up the speedy pace . They wanted all rooms cleanse by a certain time , for us it was noonday . You’d be put a listing of rooms at your sack start , and if you eat up early , you were sent to help someone else . So , yeah … I second this . If you get a hotel , ask for extra linen and towel . "
— uracil / LadyLoki5
12.“I spent 20 years in the watch industry. Basically, anything with a quartz movement is more accurate than any automatic. Also, all quartz movements are equally accurate. You’re paying for handmade craftsmanship, quality of materials, and marketing.”
— u / butkusny
13.“The reason everything tastes good at sit-down restaurants: An uncomfortable amount of butter, cream, and or/salt. It makes food delicious…but you know it’s not great for you, so don’t use a lot at home.”
— uranium / TheSnowman10 - 4
" Chef here . So much this . Butter go in everything . "
— u / captancrunk
14.“The furniture on display in stores at the big UK brand sofa companies is a far superior built product than what the general public gets delivered.”
— u / Beastlysolid
15.“I still work there. Hotels will give preferential treatment to guests who make a reservation through Booking.com; we care about booking scores more than Expedia or even our own website. Some hotels even give bonuses to workers if guests give a 10 rating and mention the specific worker by name in the review.”
— atomic number 92 / couldbedumber96
16.“An electronics store I worked for constantly forces their salespeople to be extremely pushy with signing people up for credit cards and subscription services because the stores get direct profit for doing so. I once had a coworker who was literally tricking customers into signing up for credit cards and my general manager and HR did nothing until he started saying slurs on the clock.”
— u / ShawshankException
17.“This isn’t really a secret, but something I wish more people knew from having worked in hospitality for decades. MANY places that serve soft drinks do not clean or change the nozzles. This goes for bars, too. You’re getting lovely mold in your Diet Coke.”
" Bonus play thought : occupation with ice machines very seldom ( if ever ) clean them . Super easy agency to tell is where they put the glass scoop when done . "
— u / sucobe
18.“I worked in food manufacturing. I can tell you there is no difference between brand name and generic for most food items. A lot of time, they go straight from packaging one to the other with only the packaging changing. We had one product that went into eight different packages, all the same stuff, and we’d make it all at once.”
— u / Faiakki
And finally…
19.“I worked for numerous home heating oil companies. We would purposely make boilers use way more diesel than they needed to. Also, we would do patches so it breaks down and you gotta call us back in six months to a year.”
" late , they ’ve been frame mode more biodiesel into the oil so your furnace / boiler breaks down more . We say it ’s 20 % , but it ’s more like 75 % . "
— u / Anekdotin
Note : Some responses have been edited for distance and/or clarity .
