Industry Secrets Businesses Don't Want You To Know - REACTION

[@fadedfox0095]

I used to work at Ross and everyone always wanted me to “check the back” for other sizes or colors - the truth? When we would say everything is out, we really meant it. That store chain literally isn’t allowed to have back stock in the stock room. So when we would say, “ok I’ll go check anyway just in case” it really meant that we got to go take a 5 minute break just to come back and tell you no🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

[@Ephem13]

Truck to shelf, I work at a grocery store and we do the same. The "backroom" of most places is literally just receiving with little to no room for storage. Our back stock is stored on the top shelf.

[@drivitt]

I loved those little breaks. Thanks, stupid person!

[@paige8907]

we did this allll the time on the phone at my old retail job. we sold desks and furniture and didn't have a huge warehouse but people would call constantly and INSIST we "should have" the product they're looking for in stock so yeah, we'd tell them to hold while i go look manually but it takes 20 seconds to check the warehouse. People don't trust you when you return after 20 seconds though so the extra few minutes genuinley benefitted both parties I'd like to think 😂

[@dracofirex]

I worked at a deli, and we did actually have two things people had to ask for and did not keep out, and that was pickle/olive loaf and headcheese. Don't Google headcheese.

[@fernabianer1898]

From now on, I'll always ask the worker if they could check the back for a different color, even when the decision what to buy is already made.. just to give them this 5 minute break :D

[@rebashuman3755]

Here's a customer service secret that a lot of people don't seem to know: the people working don't decide prices or policies for the store and it's not our fault if you don't like the prices or policies. We just work there.

[@coder0xff]

People shouldn't even need to be told this if they'd just use their brain for a fraction of a second.

[@blakeblossoms2674]

And aren't paid enough to even enforce said prices and policies, but everyone has to fucking eat.

[@govre_]

*Mind-blowing*

[@lokicooper4690]

Tell me about it. Fourteen years in retail, and an additional twelve (and counting) in customer service, and I can't tell you the number of times people asked, and even threatened, for discounts. Sorry, but I'm not not allowed to do that.

[@rebashuman3755]

@@lokicooper4690 Worked at Walmart at one point, hurricane was coming, people were buying us out, lady said she came earlier that day with her mom to buy stuff and she came back to get stuff again and we were out of bread and water. She said " what are me and my family suppose to do? Go to the back, I know you have stuff back there " No, we did not. It's the main story that comes to mind when I think of dumb ass customers. Lol also, why tf didnt she get stuff for herself when she came with her mom? This was 3 years ago and I still think about how entitled and dumb she was.

[@KostantisX]

I've worked in HR and what Charlotte said is so true! Usually the most significant criteria are the ones you can't learn: Correct attitude and good work ethics. Just be a decent person, give a damn and show up on time and you'll get the job. Knowledge and experience are secondary if the willingness and capability to learn is there. Just go for it!

[@JMulvy]

Everytime I go on a job interview I think about the scene in American Beauty where he tries to get a job in fast food and they tell him he is over-qualified for it. He reasons with them saying that their assumption of him not being willing or able to learn is "just plain unfair". They end up giving him a chance and he becomes one of their model employees in no time.

[@kaylapounds1359]

I feel so bad for you. I just think of all the times in my job and on videos where you hear an entitled Karen say "I'm calling corporate." I've often wondered what are some of the most ridiculous things you've heard from customer complaints. Like I remember once this lady saying she was going to call corporate because we didn't do our .99¢ sale on Monday since we were closed Sunday, but we did it Saturday and had it posted all over the store about it being on Saturday.

[@doodleblos7983]

I am a dishwasher at Whole Foods, and I promise that we do wash our bulk food bins. I’m sure some places don’t, but we do. Love, Jeremy the dishwasher 😘

[@alexia3552]

That's really good to know, thank you!

[@doodleblos7983]

@Audrey word!🤙😀

[@j_g9109]

Oh thank god. The fact one place does it makes me have hope that others do as well. Thank you for sharing. And thank you for doing your job! 😊 You are the reason us bulk-buyers are bug and moss free!

[@havsumora]

We

[@sadie1347]

thanks for your hard work and helping to keep the food world sanitary!

[@missnyrap]

I once had a membership at this workout place called "Curves". The contract was *completely* fulfilled and I had closed my account that they were withdrawing their payments from for other reasons. In 2009 the police showed up at my parent's house with a warrant for my arrest for writing bad checks!!! My Dad called me with an attitude thinking I had actually been writing bad checks. I lived out of town, so I went home to figure out the problem. Curves had been attempting to withdraw from the closed account with no success, and falsely filed a report against me stating I wrote a bunch of "rubber checks". I still had the contract in my file cabinet and history of the last payment that was paid on the contract. Needless to say I didn't get locked up and Curves is no longer in business (as far as I know). FUCK CURVES!!! 🤬

[@cawierin411]

Still open in Kanata Ontario

[@missnyrap]

@@cawierin411 Ontario is good and far away from me 🙂. I think there are still some in the United States maybe even in North Carolina still open too. As long as that specific one is closed, I'm fine. I used to snarl and roll my eyes evertime I passed by a Curves. That upset me so much because I would never do such a thing.

[@andrewthezeppo]

Gym contracts are the worst. When I quit YMCA on a month to month there was literally no way to quit without paying for a month where you couldn't use the gym because of their billing cycle. When my 2 year 24 Hour Fitness contract ended I quit and they kept taking the automatic payments for months. I would see the charge, call or go in and complain and they would refund it, next month it would happen again. That happened four times and only stopped when I got the credit card company to deal with their corporate office.

[@druidriley3163]

@@andrewthezeppo - my gym tried that with me. Luckily where I worked at the time had direct access to the attorney general. I have my legal area write up a document that I was going to copy to the AG stating the gym had illegally charged my account after I officially cancelled my membership (with documentation of course). The gym folks called the manager out. He refused to sign it, but refunded my money on the spot and my card was never charged again.

[@missnyrap]

@@andrewthezeppo Yeah, I never went to another gym with a contract. That's what Curves was trying to do to me but I had closed the account. They want you to write a letter to cancel the contract. *I ONLY SIGNED A 2 YEAR CONTRACT!! Its done!! Why do I need to write a letter??* Craziness. 🙄

[@mingsworld888]

“The secret to good cooking is butter or garlic or both” FACTS GIRL FACTS

[@Mjws2907]

And alcohol

[@doceansdeepwoo2532]

Shhhhhhh that's my secret too, and bacon grease...oooppps....!

[@erinc5349]

and salt!

[@tessgonzalez]

@@erinc5349 Restaurants usually put SOOOO much more salt than any reasonable home cook would. My nephew is in culinary school & the first time I saw him season something I thought would be inedible, but it was delicious.

[@erinc5349]

@@tessgonzalez totally! Salt and butter. Ridiculous!!

[@arcaneobject]

Not really a secret but the nicer you are, the more willing people are to help you out. A smile, a ‘how are you’, just basic human decency will get you much more than if you’re being rude or a jackass.

[@krisb5695]

I try to use this on telemarketers and scammers and I end up with a lot of men with indian accents flirting with me, but I have gotten my name taken off multiple lists this way

[@TheSnowdogsShorts]

Emma, I couldn’t agree more. I am 56, and I have been doing this all my life. It makes life so much better. Most people are like mirrors, they treat you the way that you treat them. So if you find most people to be mean and miserable, there is a good reason for it. I find most people to be kind, cheerful and friendly. When I go in stores, including bigger stores, staff members often remember me, and give me extra nice treatment.

[@FilthyBitchGunClub]

That is SO true, the problem with current culture is that everyones default setting seems to be, "FUCK OFF!!!" And that is just sad.

[@andreabradley5837]

This is especially true if the price is not fixed, like custom items or special orders. I call it the PITA charge (pain in the ass). On the other hand, if you're a nice person you will pay less and get better work.

[@margaridaferreira8029]

As someone that works in hotel industry, I can say you are 100% sure. I am more likely to give a discount and a better room to a nice, decent guest than to anyone else. Sometimes the rude ones get highest price and room by the elevators 🤫

[@Banyo__]

My biggest "secret" for my old retail job involved customers demanding that since an item was sold out on the floor, that I go personally look in the storage room and see if we had more inventory. This is after I'd just spent 3 hours doing freight (getting everything out of packages and boxes and ready for the floor), I knew what was back there because I opened every freakin' box myself, but since that answer, "we don't have it," was never good enough and lead to unnecessary long winded conversations where customers tried to explain to me how to do my job, I would just enthusiastically tell them, SURE! I'll go check for you right away!!! Then I'd round the corner to the storage area, sit down or talk to an employee in the back for a few minutes, and then come back and tell them---we don't have it because we never did.

[@WayToVibe]

I do the exact same thing at the fabric store I work at. I put out the fabric. I know what we have. I just go into the back room, take some selfies on the handhelds, chat with the lady in charge of the back room, and then come back out and say we don't have what they want. Irrational customers can be waiting up to 10 minutes for me to return. Good customers I'll get back to in 3 minutes or less. If they wander off then I *don't* go looking for them.

[@Mokiefraggle]

I *love* doing that to customers! I work in some pretty high-traffic shops, and any time I get the chance to say "Oh, let me go check in the back!" is actually just time for me to chill and get the heck away from all the crazy out in the store's front side. I'll take a few minutes, putter around in the back to see if we have another thing in the back stock that I *was* intending to look for, and then head back out with a sad look and maybe a sob story about how we've been waiting for a new shipment for quite a while. It's a great way to decompress...and to avoid the rampant desire to throttle our pushier patrons.

[@Banyo__]

@@WayToVibe I relate to this so hard. It is very very true that if they were nice to me and treated me like a human, I'd give 1000x more effort even if I knew I couldn't give them the stock bc we didn't have it, but customer is always right is total BS when it came to rude people. They got my bare minimum effort required for me to not get fired.

[@Banyo__]

@@Mokiefraggle that is absolutely the truth. We were a small store and during the holidays it was insane so I actually looked forward to someone asking me for anything in the back bc it was five minutes to myself to sit down and breath without the crush of the crowds.

[@Mokiefraggle]

@@Banyo__ Yeah, I work in a theme park's gift stores, so we have a *huge* crush of patrons throughout the summer, and are constantly out-of-stock of all of our "summer specials" at the most inconvenient times. The only upside to it is getting to play the "friendly sales associate" who's willing to go search the back-stock for it all day long, and get some time away from the 10k+ people coming in and out of our park.

[@MandieLynneReview]

Regarding applying for jobs just out of your qualifications, go for it! I landed myself a dream job, far out of my skill set, but I was the best suited for the job, got hired and I was taught the things I didn’t know. Go for it!!! Please!

[@sthrchan]

I work as a Pharmacist's Assistant in Ontario and we NEVER give patients ANY medication that fell on the floor.... unless they were in a sealed package everything goes into the disposal bin...

[@Paul-zk2tn]

Im a pharmacist assistant in Scotland and I would never give patients medication that fell on the floor. Also, in Scotland medication is free for the patient, even gluten free stuff (coeliac), infant formula (allergies) and bulk/nutritional drinks (malnutrition, usually high risk patients). Each patient gets a month away at a time. I cant understate how much I hate this. Where exactly is my tiny pharmacy meant to store boat loads of bread and milk???

@@Paul-zk2tn what happens if some of the pills land on your kilts?

[@Paul-zk2tn]

@ Wow, that hurts. (but... I mean, didnt touch the ground, so...)

[@KisaTheGamerCat]

I worked in a few pharmacies for the same chain and I can say that it all depended on the environment created by the higher ups. If it was poorly managed or they cared more about shrink, then yeah they used them. On the bright side MOST of the pharmacies were cleaned thoroughly on a daily basis. Most of the time, you had to be really careless for them to end up on the floor anyways, as they were poured in little amounts onto a sorting tray that was on a counter. The nutsack comment, I find hard to believe, as most pharmacies I've worked in or been to have cameras all over the pharmacy, so unless it was a a small local pharmacy, not sure how one would get away with it not to mention its just wrong on so many levels.

[@brittttany]

Ooooo i love that nail color!!!!

[@Sleipnirseight]

Okay if you do merch, go the route Bailey Sarian went - make merch that's stylish and cute, that **you** would want to wear; not just the half-assed self promo stuff so many others do that aren't all that wearable.

[@Misty8103]

Love Bailey

[@msmander87]

Suspish, Nay Nay I say! I have her merch, shes awesome

[@stronghealer]

Bailey and Charlotte together would be a riot!😍 would love to see that!!

[@michellementh9651]

@@stronghealer omg yeeessss they totally need to Collab on something!

[@theducklinghomesteadandgar6639]

I think she has merch now, 7/2021...I need to look...She definitely needs Potato Queen Items. I would absolutely have and use anything with a potato with her face and a crown photoshopped on!!

[@happyraver1958]

I used to work for a car parts manufacturer abroad, we used to assemble fuel pumps from parts purchased in Asian countries like China and Indonesia. The cost to make a fuel pump at the time was $30, the most expensive part was a bearing that cost $1 a piece, those same fuel pumps were listed for $220 in the retail market... Every time you buy a car part, you're paying for the design of the part, not so much for the part itself. The people who built the individual parts for your car part are potentially slave or child laborers in Asian countries because car part manufacturers don't ask how the providers build their parts, they just place orders and sample-check for quality. Most of the profit made from the manufacturing of the part goes to the fat cats at the manufacturing plants and the fat cats at the distribution centers or car parts retailers. The cost to build a brand new car is between 50% to 70% of what the car ultimately retails for (before interest from lenders), we're all getting ripped off every time we buy a car. If we bought our cars at cost, I would have paid $8,000 for my 2015 Chevy Equinox, not $17,000 plus interest!!! When GM was rescued by the government the top executives gave themselves big fat multi-million-dollar "bonus checks" for bankrupting the company and putting hundreds of thousands of people's jobs at risk. This is one of the many reasons why people HATE billionaires, because they don't produce anything, they use other people's labor in third world countries where people suffer and are victims of violations of human rights to make themselves richer without giving a damn about who lives and who dies for their greed.

[@lgblgb7489]

Early! Bring on the merch! In my industry (IT), not so much a secret as a worthwhile hack; having the client take physical control and guiding them through the steps you would take to diagnose/fix a problem gives them a greater sense of control, and consequently a greater understanding and comfort level with their equipment. They become the best, and easiest to support, repeat customers.

[@jenniferdilgard863]

I've always believed the more your uses know the easier it makes your job.

[@Tinette_Izdashit]

Bartender secret: when you send your drink back because it's too "weak" but you don't want to pay for an extra shot, just to shut you drunkards up, we put a smidget of a drop of liquor down your straw. So on the first sip, it tastes like we added 2 shots to your drink. 😎

[@TheRiordane]

Wowowow thats mean hahaha. What if the drink doesn't have a straw?

[@Tinette_Izdashit]

@@TheRiordane Then its beer, wine, a shot or a martini. A good bartender always gives a straw 😊

[@zin82e98]

Drinks are hella expensive as is- just make it strong and you’ll get good tips and/or repeat customers. Weakass drinks are a disgrace. Don’t even call yourself a bartender if people feel your drinks are weak

[@Tinette_Izdashit]

@@zin82e98 Or if your tolerance is already high and you don't "feel" anything, pay for a shot to pour in your drink. Pouring heavier for extra tips can cause a bartender to lose their job. If a person is an annoying drunkard who obviously has a high tolerance for alcohol already, i just Google the nearest liquor store for them so they can leave me the hell alone but also waste their life away to the bottom of a bottle they can actually afford 😁

[@kristyflattley9521]

Really.. Interesting lol

[@itscrystaleyes]

Coffee at late night restaurants: the servers will give you whatever is left in a pot no matter what it is because they've likely already broken down/washed the coffee station.

[@sarahno4748]

Maybe but depends on the place. I had a waiter tell me he would make a fresh pot at 9pm. I told him it was fine whatever was leftover. He got visibly nervous. He asked if I was sure 2 times. He came back after taking to his manager and said he could not give me what was leftover. "It wouldn't be right" .... at this point I just tried to be extra nice and say that's fine and thank you for making a new pot sorry for the inconvenience etc.... He still was a bit nervous after that but seemed happy when I told him it was very good coffee.

[@MandaL0814]

Some may do this. We definitely didn't where I worked. We would make a fresh pot if a customer asked

[@anniek3866]

Same with fast food coffee It tends to die down later in the day so the coffee is much less fresh We are supposed to dump pots after some minutes but no one followed that

[@Jackie-kq1sg]

Our mall had a "sale". The "sale" tags/stickers with the "sale" price were yellow pasted over the white sticker with the original price. Someone removed the yellow sticker and revealed on Facebook that the "sale" price is higher than the original price underneath.

[@folkloreofbeing]

I think that's illegal too...

[@viviennart]

My mom shops at a clothing store where they put 2 prices on each tag. One that's supposedly the original (higher) price crossed out, then the "sale" price below. You can see they write both at the same time bc it's the same marker, handwriting and character size. But I also saw some hella sale on items before, one had like 4 stickers already bc it was on sale again and again. But it works bc it attracts you more. Kinda how they use .99 instead of 0 at the end of most of the prices. But the main thing they try to trick people with is selling by pack vs. by weight.

[@jassmimis7150]

Yes I too have seen and had little argument with store guys

[@staceya7870]

Kinda like how certain stores always have 40% off and 50% off "sales". When in reality the original price has just been jacked up so you think you're getting a sale!

[@rachel-in-the-208]

viviennart I think what they mean is this is “suggested retail price” and this is what we are selling it for. Sale doesn’t always mean “sale” (I learned that in an embarrassing way in 8th grade when I read a sign that said “yearbooks on sale now” and I asked what the original price was. ☺️)

[@jezaried]

Oh my gosh the wine snobs. Two years ago we booked a "fancy-pants" winery tour and dinner. My partner and I were are the table with about 6 other ladies, driniking and eatign and having a great time. After dinner, the winery owner came around offering an "amazing" deal if you purchased 6 bottles of 30% savings. We passed on the offer as the wine was good but not $300 good. The next day while at the grocery store we found the exact same wine for $5.80 a bottle.

[@butterflygirl13]

Now that's funny! Kudos to you!

[@MrsLilD76]

10:17 - when they’re talking about the gym memberships, as a previous multiple time gym manager, I can say that’s incorrect. The worst part of my job was putting people into collections for $30. A good/big gym will have ironclad contracts, especially if they outsource their billing to an agency. The contracts, if they outsource, are contracts supplied by the financial/billing company that have been written by lawyers and are just adjusted to fit the current gym. I don’t know how it is in Canada, but the US gyms will fuck you over. Just put in the cancellation request. 99% the employees don’t give a shit why you’re cancelling either. Side note - if you are ever put into collections DO NOT PAY THE COLLECTION AGENCY. Call to the original debtor and pay them. You’ll only have to pay the principal vs paying the fees and interest that is stacked on top of the the principal by the collections agency.

[@alexia3552]

omg I did not know that!

[@lokicooper4690]

Uh, as a company who has had to resort to sending some of our clients to a collection agency, we do NOT take payments from that client any more. They MUST pay the collection agency. The agency we use said they don't harm the client's credit unless they refuse to deal with them. Yes, you have to pay interest, but the company who sent you to collections should be charging you interest for the time past due anyway, so you should be paying interest regardless.

[@MrsLilD76]

@@lokicooper4690 I mean all companies are different so it’s understandable that everyone has a different set of rules in how they want to address overdue fees. Collection agencies charge interest as that’s their profit margin. Late fees or interest charges by the original business to the person that is overdue I don’t see a problem as I do that for my own company. If someone can avoid paying the profit margin of a 3rd party collections agency, they should have every chance too. Going direct to the company doesn’t guarantee they don’t get charged a fee for being late. The interest that I’m referring to, that I had assumed was common knowledge (which it doesn’t seem like it, as you came at me with a know it all attitude, when you in fact, didn’t actually know it all), is once again, the profit margin of the 3rd party collections. If a business gives the person past due the opportunity to collect from them instead of the collections agency they should. Also you should know that once you’re in collections, your credit is absolutely effected by up to a 100pt drop and will effect it for up to 7 years. You should really Google some stuff before assuming the person who told you that is all knowing.

[@lokicooper4690]

@@MrsLilD76 well, the collection agency told me they don’t do anything to affect the credit rating at first. Ignore them and they will. However, it obviously varies agency to agency, and we are not allowed to deal with any of our clients if they have gone to collections. If it seemed I came at you, I apologise. It’s difficult to tell a person’s meaning if you can’t hear that person. I guess it sounded more harsh than I meant. I didn’t mean to jump down your throat, but know that not all places will deal with people once that person has gone to collections. Plus, it may be different in different countries. By not dealing with the client any more, this is how my company is handling collections, They wouldn’t pay us before, and still ignored us when we said they were going to collections. Now that the collections agency reached out to them, they suddenly want to pay? Nope. Since the collection agency charges us a fee for each client we send to them, that client is going to pay them, not us.

[@kathrynclare9966]

In addition to this a gym contract is still a contract that you signed with it’s own sets of terms and conditions that you agreed to. Just because you no longer want to be part of that contract doesn’t mean that you can just screw the business over and walk away, you signed the thing!

[@kieranhammond8006]

The clothing that doesnt end up making it to the sales floor at Value Village doesnt get thrown in the garbage, it actually gets bundled up and sent to poorer countries that have the ability to use the fabric and restore garments for the less fortunate. :)

[@druidriley3163]

And the poor countries no longer want the clothing as it is poor quality (from China) and is basically trash to them.

[@kieranhammond8006]

@@druidriley3163You actually don't know what gets sent out, a lot of high end garments that aren't in the best condition cannot go on the sales floor. Nike, Adidas for example that may have a broken zipper or a tear. It could easily be repaired, but we dont put them out. So who gets them? Those countries do, they take the time to repair and repurpose matieral to resell. And they greatly appreciate and continue to accept the 1000's of pounds of recycled clothing daily. Not everything is trash. Stop spreading your negative views on a positive program.

[@druidriley3163]

@@kieranhammond8006 www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44951670

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

@@druidriley3163 I am tired of lazy people posting links to articles they didn't read. Your link is to an article about 2nd hand clothes hurting the local textile industry in Rwanda because no one wants to pay for new clothing when so much good used clothing is available.

[@druidriley3163]

@@stevethecatcouch6532 THEIR local industry has clothing and is suffering from imports so their government wants to protect their own industry which has its own used clothing.

[@aeryngeorge8063]

Can we take a moment to really appreciate Charlotte such a hard working queen

[@pascalenimue1392]

I am sure she works much less than at IO 😉 She said it herself.

[@NinjaSlv]

Relax

[@pascalenimue1392]

@I'm a Starboy Not a Dr crying? Where did I cry? 🤔

[@CraftescapeTX]

The real secret with resumes is just don't lie. I work in an industry that "requires" at minimum a Bachelor's degree. I've never had a shortage of job offers with my Associate's (2-year) degree. The "wish list" is there to partially weed out those who aren't interested enough to give it a try!

[@kaylapounds1359]

I'd say don't lie about skills, but sometimes you have to omit certain things. Like I told my current job I quit my previous job because I was in college too and couldn't keep up doing both that job and school. But the truth was that was a terrible place to work for. I hadn't ever done anything bad so they couldn't give me a bad reference, but I couldn't stand most of the management and they are the real reason I quit.

[@Sleipnirseight]

The National Smithsonian's museum of natural history in DC has a whole display explaining how casts are made of real fossils to make the replicas which are put out for display in the museum. The actual fossils are kept in special climate controlled storage facilities. So nothing too conspiratorial there!

[@tommythecat4961]

I think you're underestimating loonies and young Earth creationists...

[@mtz21601]

True, the natural museum near me has a window that you can look through to actually watch the experts as they are working on the real fossils. A lot of T-Rex fossils are found in this area and they cast them to display in museums around the country.

[@harleyblaze1903]

@@mtz21601 ooooooo that sounds so cool!

[@thecanadakid7622]

On top of that most dinosaurs are completely fabricated off only a few bones and they use they're imagination for the rest. like 3 bones for some, too lazy to look up.

[@marleemeadow1075]

That actually makes sense. I mean they’re valuable and all that

[@nappingwithkitties8069]

I recommend avoiding "fountain" drinks, like soda, at restaurants. I've worked for multiple restaurants and not a single one ever adequately cleaned those machines. The lines that feed the soda out of the machine are rarely cleaned. I've seen sludge, mold, bugs, and even maggots in those things. Maybe some restaurants clean properly, but I've only seen the lines cleaned when they were so full of crap that the soda stopped coming out. It's horrifying. If your drink doesn't come in a bottle, it's not safe.

[@kaylapounds1359]

I'll add in ask for no ice. I worked at Golden Corral years ago and one of the only good perks was the fact we got free drinks while on the clock. I used to ice my drinks until one day I had to go back to the kitchen for something and the ice scraper we use to get ice from the machines was laying on the wet, dirty kitchen floor. I was so disgusted! Never used ice again. But they did clean the drink station and tubes, so that's why I would still drink the drinks.

[@eeddoosshh]

Yikes! Good to know.

[@seroquelz]

As someone who watches a lot of true crime, that attorney is spot on lol

[@michellerennie8492]

I work for a logistics company. NEVER ship things that are fragile or easy to break unless it's packed VERY well. I've seen so many packages being thrown around like it's a game.

[@nimeryaspawnbrd1049]

Not really a secret, from the time the first executive courier started business...

[@shendisackett]

I used to sit in an office opposite a branch of a huge UK delivery company and wow they threw packages just for fun! It was unbelievable to watch.

[@shatteredshards8549]

Similarly, people who freak out about how standard luggage (like roller bags) are handled at an airport. If it's a domestic narrowbody flight, you're looking at 60-120 rollers and duffles that are between 40 and 75 pounds each, and then a few outliers at the 100 pound mark. Swinging those bags and using the momentum is going to happen, period.

[@munkeefinkelbeen5395]

Reminds me of a story from a previous video, her name is Karin Oshea. The girl's class was on a trip to the local USPS branch. Her mom, a chaperone, asks "excuse me...where do you keep the elephants?" Postal worker responds Excuse me? We don't have elephants, those are at the zoo." The mom comes back with, then who stomps on my packages that are marked FRAGILE?" They were immediately kicked out of the post office.

[@amandahugnkiss3619]

I've dropped my own medication on the floor 😂 at least the pharmacy has to be mopped every couple of days

[@_bewitchedbyyaz]

Mopped? We stand on carpet every pharmacy I've worked in because it's easier on our feet all day

[@amandahugnkiss3619]

@@_bewitchedbyyaz that's weird haha. I've never been to a pharmacy with carpet at the medication collection bit. Probably because its easier to clean

[@hannahfajoli3108]

Yeah pharmacys are carpet but we do vacuum lol

[@jenniferholden9397]

All tablets are now prepackaged for the UK market at least, it’s easier for the pharmacy but creates such a hell of a lot of waste and apart from the boxes nothing else is recyclable, when we had tablets in bottles we took the “empties” back to the pharmacy.

[@amberowens5109]

Most CVS stores are carpeted. Even the new ones.

[@smashingpandora]

Thankfully eating "gluten free" has become incredibly trendy, though; now those who DO have celiac or allergies have many more options for alternatives available to them!

[@Mayakran]

My grandma who has celiac had been living off of rice cakes since the 70’s and now she’s LOVING the gluten-free craze.

[@elizabethgrogan8553]

@@Mayakran Yes, my mom's friend has 2 children with celiac. She is glad the idiots don't know that Gluton free is of no benefit to them because her kids now have a wide range of choices.

[@anninaaa7572]

Although it can also create a problem when chefs think you're gluten free because of a trend instead of actual health problems and don't take the cooking seriously, like not wearing separate gloves or mind other cross-contamination :S

[@mariyahupalo8500]

On the other side, gluten free products are often more expensive, since they are marketed for people who think gluten free diet is more "fancy" and high-end.

[@EssentialBlue]

I have a sensitive stomache so I always buy one of these not-really-gluten-free breads from a bakery because there is less extra-stuff in it that causes wind.

[@h.e.r.3793]

“WD40” is extremely volatile, it evaporates VERY quickly and therefore quickly loses its lubricating quality. It is best used as a penetrating oil to loosen “frozen” parts. Soap works well to lubricate plastic parts because it attracts water so it is always slippery. BUT because it attracts water it is REALLY bad for iron parts and many other metals.

[@erin4338]

Not really related but, I used my facial oil to get the squeaky door of my 100 year old house to stop making a ear piercing noise everytime someone opened it. 5 years and it's still silent. 🤷‍♀️

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

it also kills fleas on contact!. thats why they use it to bathe rescue animals. of course it doesnt keep them from returning, but it does kill them instantly!! i use it to bathe my animals prior to their flea treatments once a month. just in case, you know...... gotta keep on top of those pests! (the fleas, not the pets lol)

[@jennycull1061]

honestly, like just use oil?

[@thebkg]

Gym membership hack definitely works. I had one with what is currently a major brand in the US. I tried for 3 weeks to cancel it. The local told me I had to call Corporate, Corporate told me I had to call local. Not even kidding here. So I went to my bank and "Lost" my card. Screw em, I tried to deal str8 and they refused to be professional. Also, Crowd Control. I was the head of the Audio/Visual dept at my church for many years when we hosted a yearly conference for another ministry organization. Not only were some of the Ministers and performers a little radical, so were a lot of the attendees. Well these people LOVED to stand around talking after the conference was over for the night. After waiting till 1am for them to leave once I devised a method that I still imploy to this day. I'm in Houston, and this was going on in the summer. So I quietly went up stage after the next night was done and turned on the Heaters. Not kidding, 30 minutes and that room was Empty!! =) Mission Accomplished!

[@SuperLadyDanger]

It still surprises me to hear that there’s anyone who doesn’t automatically wash newly purchased/acquired clothes, regardless of if it’s from a second hand store or “new” (which could still include returns).

[@jnpereira95]

Charity shops in the UK wash everything before displaying, so I don't necessarly see the need when I go charity shopping. I'm more worried when I order online tbf.

[@SuperLadyDanger]

@@jnpereira95 I’m inclined to think that they may wash clothes before displaying them, but not after who knows how many people have tried them on.

[@jnpereira95]

@@SuperLadyDanger I always see them with clothes in the back being taken care of, so not sure if they rewash them after being tried on. But that would probably be the same with normal stores.

[@SuperLadyDanger]

@@jnpereira95 Interesting. In the US clothes aren’t washed or cleaned after people have been trying them on (at least not any store I’ve been to or worked in). Thrift shops might clean them when they first get them, but I usually just see that they only accept clean clothes, and they’ve thrown out dirty clothes instead of accepting them.

[@jnpereira95]

@@SuperLadyDanger I noticed our health and safety regulations here seem stricter than in the US, so probably that's why(?)

[@GenXfrom75]

Because of the thrift store thing, I wash EVERYTHING before I donate old things. You're welcome!

[@guidobanholzer7456]

An Angel right there! Thank you...

[@thinair7671]

Never understand people that dont. Who does that 🤢🤢🤢

[@margaridaferreira8029]

I mean its the only decent thing to do, right?

[@GenXfrom75]

@@margaridaferreira8029 You'd THINK, right, but apparently, a lot of folks don't! Disturbing.

[@GenXfrom75]

@@thinair7671 I guess there are a lot who don't. Why? I have no idea. Makes no sense to just go donate your worn, sweaty, icky clothes.

[@Harukiraa]

I ALWAYS wash my thrifted clothes before wearing them.

[@thecanadakid7622]

Brand new store bought clothes are sprayed with chemicals to repel bugs, dirt and wrinkles etc. Also should be washed.

[@purpleskiesforever]

And throw a little bit of Borax in there too! Get all the nasty out.

[@courtneyhoover280]

@Lena Dzr I agree with this sorta. Depends on the degree of the damage. Thrift store clothes are typically meant for those who don’t have the money to shop new. What I consider damaged or ‘unfixable’ isn’t what others do.

[@CH-sl1ug]

When i was a teenager, i was kinda grunge and...didnt. i deff do now.

[@adopt-a-pet-istanbul]

I wash even the new ones as well. Ppl touch and try on everything, only packed underwear is safe. Anyhow - WASH IT. Always.

[@camillea4665]

Work here from a clothing store: wash EVERYTHING you buy from a store. Clothes, sheets, etc. that you put on your body or bed, WASH THEM. The boxes they come in are nasty, some have even been peed on.

[@catqb9188]

A "trade secret" at my local McDonalds, I worked at for a while, is when they say "sorry our ice cream machine is broken" its not. I have seen so many reason people think like its being cleaned things like that. Nope. Its because the ice cream machines are high tech; at least the ones we had I have seen at every location I have gone to. If we don't do the almost 2 hour cleaning process mode on it, it shuts itself down until you take it apart & turn on its cleaning process. So its because they didn't clean it or couldn't because it took so damn long to do it & we were only allowed to clean it during our open, or close.

[@FaerieStar]

I've heard that as well. our local McD's is always having "a broken ice cream machine" 😅

[@SamIAm10262]

I worked at McDonald's when I was in HS and we had to clean and sanitize that machine every other day. I hated it.

[@cherylhoggins1925]

I worked for a charity shop that sold clothes second hand and I assure you everything that came in was carefully steam cleaned. We did however have to throw away things because not everything is fit for resale or can fit in the store.

[@thecollector5243]

8:35 For anyone wanting to know how to prevent this: Your body needs about two months - after you finished shedding the pounds - to recalibrate and "accept" the new weight as status quo. After you passed this period, it will be easy to keep the new weight, even if you indulge from time to time or slack of at sports. But the fact of the matter is - after your reached your goal weight - you need to still watch what you eat and do some running - just not as intensely - for another two months... sorry.

[@maryosburn8707]

Thank you!

[@galadriel3134]

Thanks really useful info.❤️

[@isusysweetheart361]

ok... got it! anything else I should know? THANK YOU!

[@itsmefm]

I've been wavering between weights for so long, I never knew this... I could have already reached my ideal weight by know if I knew 😭 Thank you!

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

Nope!

[@mgm8675]

In restaurants: The nights specials are usually the fish or meat that is old and needs to be cooked/used.

[@SHEandITpodcast1]

OMG we only go to restaurants at night.

[@pujamajhi8265]

Omg....😓

[@harleyblaze1903]

Can confirm! Just like roast/soup/anything of the day

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

yes i was waitstaff for years, and usually the daily specials are specials because the meat fish is going to go bad the next day or two so they have to get it sold

[@bigdave7270]

Very TRUE!! Was a Sous Chef for a few years and this is VERY TRUE!!

[@katherinepearson7461]

When I drop a pill on the floor I dispose of them, I would never give a client a dropped pill.. only people who care enough for others should work in the medical field.

[@sumgirluknow1107]

Katherine Pearson Something similar, I went to Dunkin Donuts the other day and one of the workers dropped a paper bag on the floor used to hold food and she picked it up with her glove on and didn’t change the bag nor the glove....I still go there though🤣

[@katherinepearson7461]

@@sumgirluknow1107 oh my goodness eeeeew lol unbelievable

[@me2ontube]

Most people are just pigs

[@FilthyBitchGunClub]

If that became a rule, loads of them would have to quit.

[@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633]

I used to date someone that worked in a pharmacy and it was protocol to always dispose of dropped pills and make a record of it. He did once tell me that some employees did intentionally drop the pills, mark it down and then sneakily go back for the discarded pills later.

[@RobotSynthDream]

I actually wash everything before wearing it, second hand or brandnew. Brandnew clothes can give you skin problems cause of the chemicals they spray on the clothes. Ever wondered why 99% of all new clothes smell the same? There ya go. Chemicals. Lots of them.

[@angelalighthouse9141]

They instruct us to wash before wear on the tag. Freaks me out, really. Kinda worried about the nature of those chem's.

[@Kath-Erina]

@@angelalighthouse9141 you probably shouldn't freak out. If they instruct you to wash it before wear it means the chemicals are water solvable. Which means just wahs them thoroughly. If you want to be extra safe for kids or baby's whas them twice, to make sure that ever extra little bit is washed out... But that's probably not necessary

[@ASAMB12]

@@angelalighthouse9141 it's mainly a problem for the staff who unpack the items. I've heard of some who had adverse reactions from the fumes and from handling the clothing

[@michellementh9651]

@@ASAMB12 some people have CSD and have to be really careful and really wash their clothes well before wearing them to get rid of all the sizing they use

[@raimeyewens7518]

Also you don’t know who tried on the new clothes before you bought it. Also I don’t know who made it. Did they wash their hands after going to the bathroom and then put their hands all over it? Are they sick and wiping snot on their hands and touching it? Scratching their balls and then touching it? 🤷🏻‍♀️ wash it!! Lol.

[@cereliaadduci9438]

I’m so glad, I live in a small town and our thrift store does in home washing and drying before putting clothing out to sell! I feel like it shouldn’t be such a rare thing to find

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

I live in a huge city. The Value Village store I shop at has several industrial sized washers and dryers in a back room and they are constantly in use.

[@rhondaflesher8313]

A local business gets their "cleaning rags" by buying cheap bulk bags of t-shirts that a local thrift store couldn't sell otherwise. Obviously they didn't clean them too well, if at all - thanks to the bags of t-shirts the business ended up with a bed bug problem.

[@taffykins2745]

One time I donated a bunch of nice work clothes that I had washed/cleaned and pressed. I hung them carefully on hangers and brought them in being careful not to wrinkle them. I thought they could just put them on the rack without fuss. When I handed them to the lady, she just took them and threw them in a pile on the floor. I was quite surprised and felt they didn't appreciate my donation. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore.

[@peachbunni3]

I have heard so many stories about employees having a hard time with customers that I try to do everything myself. When I do ask for help, I usually am super apologetic and say stuff like “I’m sorry for bothering you”, “I’m sure there is something else you could be doing right now than helping me, I’m so sorry.”. Stuff like that. Employees work so hard and get little to no nice customers.

[@atomicghost775]

I used to work at a flower shop at one point and a lot of the arrangements require certain conditions to keep them fresh. For example, you don't want to have hydrangeas out in the blazing August because they will wilt; you can revive them by dipping the heads of the flowers in cold water but, a lot of people don't realize that. A lot of the blue flowers might be sprayed blue with a floral dye like spray paint, same thing with yellow, green, pink flowers with some white to them. However, blue is a really hard color sometimes to get, expecially if someone is looking for the preticular shade or tint of blue ( like baby blue carnations are usually white carnations that are sprayed blue) Lots of times flowers aren't in for a certain season and you have to wait for them to come in; most of the flowers come in boxes and are wrapped to protect them while in shipping; they have little water picks added to them to keep the single stem flowers/greens from drying out. Sometimes there is a shortage of a certain flower/ plant due to a storm, etc; leading to higher pricing. Prom is a fricken nightmare and it's mostly parents freak out about colors or calling last minute for corsages and all that.

[@amandawoodruff3026]

we had bulk bins untill covid hit and they took them out of my store but befor that our nutrition leader would wash half the bins every sunday very well with aporoved food safe cleaners. so i really think it depends on the store leaders

[@snowcattish]

I'm positive you were served regular coffee. Towards the end of the night restaurants breakdown as much as they can, it's very common to only have 1 pot of coffee working, most of the time the one left standing is regular.

[@pascalenimue1392]

My daughter who had worked in diff coffeeshops said, they rare giving you decaf, at least in my country. Coz it means too much of a hassle to change 'it'. She always did though, coz she knows I can't tolerate regular coffee. So when I go and have a coffee with her, she always says 'my mum has a heartdisease, so it has to be decaf'....so sweet and clever. I use it too now 😉 (I get too hyper from coffee, over the top)

[@supercali413]

Yeah. I worked at a coffee shop. The only decade to be found within 90mins of closing was espresso.

[@rhondaflesher8313]

@@pascalenimue1392 about the same as the way to make sure you get fresh French fries at a restaurant. Just specify "unsalted due to health reasons" and then grab the salt packets and salt your own.

[@quinn799]

The whole thing about bones in museums usually being replicas is NOT a secret lol. Bones of extinct species are often too precious to put in a museum where someone could damage them. Haven’t we all seen a cool dinosaur replica at the museum before? And it was clearly plastic but a replica of the real deal? I say this cuz dinosaur deniers exist lol

[@HulloItsBrit]

Even as a child I was like "Those aren't real"

[@kiraeckard7625]

A lot of museums will tell you when bones are replicas on the signage they have at the displays. Every one I've been to will tell you the if its a replica, so it's not even a secret-just a lot of people don't read the signs-they just look at the display itself. I'm sure there are plenty that don't say-but its safest to assume the majority of items are replicas for the purposes of display and education, the goodies are all in secure parts of the museums.

[@anniek3866]

Fragile or delicate things usually wear away faster while on display Especially if they are touched often So I think replicas are a lot better cause it allows interaction Museums do usually keep a lot in storage still

[@icarusbinns3156]

I got really lucky one year for my birthday at a local museum. I was asked to hold a door open while a couple cases of bugs were taken to be cleaned (tiny little mites that eat the preservation chemicals and need to be removed). One of the women asked if I wanted to watch how the bugs were cleaned (the staff likes including kids) So I was happily entertained for around twenty minutes, just watching the beetles and butterflies be cleaned… from behind an observation window.

[@jamesi188]

And they can be made from casting molds from the originals. Doesn’t mean they’re fake, simply copied. I’ve seen a lot of full skeletons in museums that were completely black so I was never under the impression that they were 💯 original. Didn’t make any of them less impressive 👍

[@wyattearp1886]

When I worked for Wal-Mart, most "rollback" prices didn't change, only the "was" price.

[@kiki24379]

I just have to say my Auntie used to be the chairperson for save the children shop in the Shetland Islands and all the 2nd hand clothes was washed before going on onto the shop floor so I guess it depends where you are and if you want to treat ppl how you want to be treated. Love you Charlotte xxx

[@jenniferschmitzer299]

And I would love me some second hand shetland knitted things like a little something with colour work or something lacy that could fit through a ring, but only from shetland sheepies and only 2-3 ply finework. I'm not picky lol.. I'd love to meet your Auntie!❤️❤️❤️

[@dennykowska6715]

I worked in the alteration department in a David’s Bridal. Sometimes someone would request spaghetti straps be removed from a dress. We would write up their bill for $20, Send them to the register to pay and tell them to come back in 30 minutes while we worked on it. Sometimes even booking a separate pick-up appointment for a different date. Then we took a basic pair of scirror and JUSt cut the straps. Most alterations take alot more skill and time then the customer expects. But a handful are really just as simple as this.

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

I sold a prom dress that had spaghetti straps. I saw a picture of the girl who bought it wearing it & she literally did just that to the straps.

[@trullsis]

I NEED a shirt that say "potato kween" with a potato with a crown

[@brittttany]

Have one of the O's in potato b a pic of a potato w a crown 👍🏼id buy it 🤷🏻

[@trullsis]

@@brittttany omg yess😍

[@bankrobber6993]

yes omgg

[@terixxxlouise7504]

trullsis Me 2...... 🥔 👑

[@rachelburrows7897]

Potato Queen yassss 🥔 👑

[@ashleypetrini4627]

"Should I make merch?" Me:*midsip of coffee* Yes. "Would you buy it? Me:Yes (if reasonably priced).

[@CH-sl1ug]

Yeah i like 10 to 30$

[@TopsyDora147]

Wash new underwear, towels, linens before using them for the first time. I even wash cans before using a can opener. Stuff & food is stored in large warehouses that probably have rodents.

[@sharilavender-hummel7387]

If you go to a hotel that has a bedspread, don’t sleep on it! They don’t wash those every time because they would fall apart.

[@MrAres1love]

The only time they will wash it if there is throw up on it or some white stuff😂🤣

[@bear.b]

I used to watch Hotel Impossible, the host would go crazy every time he saw one of those. He mentioned a lot of facts about how dirty and unhygienic they are. I just shudder at the thought.

[@cryptidofoz]

I have to shut my brain off when it comes to hotels because I'll be damned if I'm going to bring my own bedspread on vacation to change the bed sheets, or call up the front desk and ask for new sheets. I'm not gonna be that guest. I use my own pillow, but the blanket is what it is and I just move on and shower when I wake up lol

[@hectorsmommy1717]

The dish soap trick is something I learned as a kid back in the 60's. If it is something that is wood and it sticks, rub bar soap on it. Bar soap also helps sticky zippers (especially metal ones).

[@patrickbuick5459]

So does actual wax, the original lube for drawers and zippers, especially convertibles where soap gets washed away. (Jeep owners pay attention!)

[@hollyrussell6599]

At a clothing retailer I worked for, we were friendly and helping customers to reduce shoplifting. If you're chatting with them and helping grab stuff and putting it in changing rooms for them, they are less likely to try and take something. As a customer, that was a great thing to know 🤣

[@navgirljen]

The clothing industry is one of the biggest contributers to trash and pollution. My husband is a trained cook and yes it is the butter. 😂 I work in public transit maintenance and well you would be amazed that about 90% of minor repairs are improvised. I also learned just how nasty people can be when I cleaned trains.

[@robertravena]

i cleaned NYC subway trains. i KNOW how nasty they can be. i feel you.

[@jenniferschmitzer299]

How many cars did you have to do in a shift?

[@robertravena]

@@jenniferschmitzer299 if i were in a station doing it..the trains i did were 6 cars--57th st shuttle..back in the late 80s..if it was in the shop,2 cars top to bottom.

[@robertravena]

@@jenniferschmitzer299 i got promoted to motorman after doing that for about 18 months.

[@jenniferschmitzer299]

Robert Andreone cool.. wow, ok. how detailed was the clean and the surfaces? just wipeable plastics and steel? i dont know much about your sets, im not even on the cars... i am in crewing but the guys i work with do double decks, and they haveto do toilets in the trailer cars too. and carpet 🤮they do 24 cars in a night down in my yard. its like a weight loss regime lol. usually two cleaners do a car doing different roles ie pick up bits or vac or mop etc

[@davidbeaulieu4815]

when it comes to wine if they've already drank the expensive stuff and are drunk your taste buds kind of go out the window it all tastes the same after that

[@MrAres1love]

Not jeager 😂🤣

[@danielleking262]

That's what I was thinking. If they ran out of "expensive stuff" chances are they're probably already pretty drunk so are they *really* going to notice if you give them the cheaper kind?? lol

[@samaritaDeath]

Which is why I always buy the good wine first, the second bottle onwards are house wine

[@EssentialBlue]

Once I was at a company christmas party in a great restaurant and the first wine we got was the worst I ever had. 🤣They obviously did it wrong.

[@ScarletSerenade]

I worked in the hotel industry for over a year and can confirm that yes, most hotels have had bed bugs at least once. How hotels handle it makes all the difference. Bed bugs are not an indication that a hotel is dirty unless they have done absolutely nothing to contain and resolve it. Bed bugs are travelers: they comes in with guests. They don’t spawn from dirt or anything like that, they are typically transferred off of a guest’s clothes or luggage and begin their reign of terror in whatever room they end up in after that. They’re very small blood-suckers and very difficult to get rid of. Most hotels have them at least once but good hotels have contingency plans in place for when it happens.

[@MusicalMarzy]

I'm staying right now at an affordable hotel, I'm lying on the bed......I feel very weird after this 🙄

[@Lala-bo8dx]

Would it help if people carried bed bug spray?

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@Lala-bo8dx bed bug spray exists?

[@kellyterry5450]

I was a pizza hut manager for about 6 years and those " special limited time extra large pizzas " like the Bigfoot pizzas they had years ago, they have the same amount of cheese and toppings as a regular large.

[@michiganmaxedout6248]

Number 11 is so funny. I've heard other people say something similar: when dealing with the law there are 3 rules. *Shut up. Keep shutting up. Then, shut up some more.*

[@umopepisdn.]

As a dental hygiene student I got really excited about the toothpaste one. Yes, it's true. People always ask me what toothpaste is best and I just think it's funny as that is probably the least important question you could ask unless there is a specific condition in your mouth that concerns you.... just make sure it has the ADA seal of approval and contains fluoride. However: some toothpastes contain zinc or pyrophosphate and if you are particularly prone to tartar then this will help to decrease the amount of it in your mouth, as people who naturally form less tartar tend to have higher amounts of zinc and pyrophosphate in their saliva naturally.

[@FaerieStar]

My dentist actually told me to avoid brands that say 'whitening' as they damage your teeth. I already have sensitive teeth, don't need more 'fun'.

[@mintberry3164]

i would buy a hoodie that just has a potato wearing a crown on it, in a heartbeat

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Best one I've heard! Hope she's listening!

[@kathedison3887]

Same lmao..wonder if we walked around if anyone would notice..I know if I seen it I'd say sumin

[@tonidouglas5607]

💯🙌🏻

[@Veeeegan95]

YAAAS

[@vhuboe]

Or a ball cap! This girl needs her own tv show imo

[@mrs.tinarypstra4300]

The gluten thing is true most people dont even know what it actually is lmao also I have celiac disease and on a positive note everyone wanting to go GF is helping ud celiac people have so many more options lol

[@carpediem2445]

True! I have Crohn's disease and there have been many more options in the last 10 years alone!

[@deemariedubois4916]

Mrs.Tina Rypstra My eldest daughter has celiac disease and she to appreciates all the people claiming they can’t eat gluten. The store shelves are full of options now plus restaurants, well when we used to get to eat out, have gluten free options. She suffered for years as we took her to doctors trying to figure out her stomach issues and anemia. Celiac was not even in anyone’s vernacular then. I would hope it’s easier now to get diagnosed also.

[@Hopeguz3]

Yes this! It offers more options and makes some other items slightly cheaper.

[@elaexplorer]

See my previous comment. I don't want to type the whole thing out again lol.

[@tsfbaf303]

Ela Explorer 1. Why are you so lazy you can’t even type the same apparently somehow relevant thing twice? 2. There is no other comment of you visible

[@Grim_Sister]

Animation student here. Can confirm about the cartoonist thing. We are lewd AF😂

[@MthFckr7291]

I work at McDonald’s and when u order an unsalted fry say a medium we’ll take the already made medium fry and just drop them back in the oil for a few seconds to get off the salt so the tik tok trend of asking for unsalted fries to get fresh fries is not how to get fresh fries if u want fresh fries just ask nicely and we’ll put in ur order for ur fries to be made fresh

[@katsleggsful]

McDonald's are franchises. Just because yours does that does not mean all locations do so. I would suggest your store stop this practice as there are legitimate health reasons for requesting no salt on food orders, and the franchise owner could be held liable if someone brings forth a lawsuit.

[@debbieivey226]

I agree with @katsleggs. I worked for McDonald's and we ALWAYS made unsalted fries 🍟 fresh. That is policy...therefore your store is breaking it.

[@elenapelayo1]

Also.. Salt messes up the oil which is way MORE expensive.

[@makaylathompson1301]

True

[@allieg.1656]

In Germany they always say the Mcflurry machine is broken but I know for a fact that they arent and they just dont want to clean them

[@itsarah]

No one. Charlotte: making our day a trillion times better!💖 Love from a positive Utuber 😘

[@monicamacneille3372]

Totally true about small companies caring more about the fit than the skills. If you're a hard worker and you care about your work, they can train you!

[@kiraeckard7625]

Agree! Furthermore, if you get an interview, worry more about your personality than worrying over proving your qualifications. They already see it on your resume and asked to hire you, all the questions at the interview are just finding out if you seem like a cool and confident employee to work with. Just like you should use that same interview to see if they seem like good employers to work for.

[@rachelhatchet]

I'm a chef and that butter secret is SOO TRUE!!!

[@vahnayratliff9604]

Every cooking show that I watch on KZbin or on Tv always say that “There is never too much butter”.

[@iriswaldenburger2315]

How is the butter thing a “secret”?? You people just can’t cook

[@jaybea365]

Oh yeah, the first day of sauces in Culinary School is learning to Mont Au Buerre, if the school teaches classic French.

[@btwimawesome101]

i applied for job that wanted a university degree and 3 years exp.. i had neither and got it. JUST GO FOR IT

[@Hopeguz3]

Nice!

[@Sandi-ke9mi]

Congratulations❣️🙏🏻🥰

[@gabrielajoana9511]

How did you do it then? I need to get a job too 😅

[@TheBreechie]

I hope the recruiter drank a lot of pineapple juice 😈

[@arlenemmarmol]

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[@nyneeveanya8861]

Blue jeans… I worked in a blue Jean factory and the main difference was design on the back pockets and the tag sewn onto the jeans. I sewed the same jeans for Levi, Wrangler, and the $100.00 dollar jeans. Labels and pocket designs were the only thing different.

[@0029cost]

Love it! So happy you are living yah dreams out there! 💕 Also: as an American, I thought you meant “unboxing” days, as in new shipments. I worked in retail and that was real. New shipments made people think there were actual sales on the new items. But it was really the out of season stuff which would be marked down. Took me a sec. 😂 😂 I love Canadians ❤️

[@classicalgas8297]

You should sell shirts that just say “Subscribe!” Then have your name printed tiny underneath. You have a great name.

[@cb9825]

Idk about toothpaste, I sometimes use a whitening one from Korea and it DOES remove tea and coffee stains. Other brands only claim their product to be whitening, but this one really works. Obviously I don't use that toothpaste every day, only when I notice stains forming on my teeth (between ptofessional dental cleanings).

[@BangsChansDimples]

i think it's just in reference to big name brands. Colgate, crest etc

[@kaylapounds1359]

What's the brand you use?

[@cb9825]

@@kaylapounds1359 zact lion toothpaste

[@mercedesmarie4162]

When she says “I made it myself” 😂😂 I love you Charlotte!!!!!!

[@Crim-kun]

T shirt with a cartoon charlotte saying ooo naked man

[@kultledern]

And one that say "im that naked man in charlottes window"

[@gabiegbeauty8605]

Yasssss

[@kathedison3887]

Right I wanna know if naked man knows charlotte is there lol

[@hollyarchery]

The Naked man stare...😁

[@mariagraceland]

Hahaha yes

[@JacquelynLaRonde]

This was in 1996. I worked for a huge (at the time) computer company, and we were opening up a new call center in a "hick state" that had a good university - so I had a team that moved from Denver to Indiana and we ran full page "now hiring" ads with our logo, etc. We were expecting line ups, like we had in Denver, but under the advice of the local paper, every week we scaled back our advertised hourly rates and removed the name from the ad, just saying we were looking for "computer help". The ones that were hired on day one got close to 30$ an hour (about $50 now), and the last hired was $1 above min wage (less than $10 hourly). FOR THE SAME JOB. We created a contract (immediate termination) that ALL had to sign to ensure NO ONE talked about how much they made! Weirdly enough, the near-minimum wage job offering had line ups daily - it seems no one thought they were worth the top dollar. Also, strangely, the ones that got the most were often fired because they had little or no knowledge, or were untrainable.

[@LBGKLGRAF]

more of these lol so I have a cousin who worked in the FDA for make up. He recently quit. BUTTTTT as much as people hate jeffree star. apparently he is one of the FEW tht actually follows the FDA protocols on make up.

[@damiennatewa5618]

Despite how people see him or make him out to be. Hes literally what we want from makeup. We want all the extra, all the glam and jazz with packaging to show off but the quality and care. As long as his ego doesnt overinflate it should be in our best interests... however after a while I do believe a lot of people fail to see the value they used to have for whatever they set out to conquer. Having conquered ttime like anything else has a way of dwindling hard work efforts and passion.

[@alexawermuth1219]

Doesnt all makeup have to be FDA approved??

[@camillechandler4431]

@@alexawermuth1219 nope

[@Lorelei_Thoughts]

Resale shops here in the US, like goodwill, actually sell clothes/fabric to textile companies that take apart (by machines) & reuse the fabric. They don’t just throw them in a landfill.

[@LD-ko5mk]

Goodwill is pretty much the only one that does it. Salvation Army doesn’t. I worked at one for a year. It’s annoying because everyone trashes goodwill and that’s actually something they do that’s really nice. There’s definitely two sides to every store though and not everyone will be happy. Lol

[@garywest4626]

I have an industry secret for you about the Coffee business. I’ve been in the Coffee business for a very long time. I work for Starbucks for many years in corporate field position based down in the south. My nondisclosure agreement has since expire so I have no problem saying it. Starbucks does not roast their own coffee anymore. They use third-party roasters like a coffee company out of Birmingham Alabama that roast coffee for most hotel chains. They also use other coffee companies around the country to roast a different blends. Starbucks does nothing on their own anymore

[@gyeongwooeopseo]

I kind of get it w/ dinosaurs bone replicas. Real bones are rare and extremely significant so scientists wouldn't want to risk the damage that may can be caused by disaster or some random person accidentally running into it🤷🏻‍♀️

[@druidriley3163]

Exactly why museums often display replicas. Look at recent events. Some dumb jerk poses on a work of art and breaks it. Oops, he says and wanders off.

[@amandadutcher5854]

We have a local museum and they do a huge dinosaur exhibit. They usually say during the tour that they're replicas and why. But there cast from the actual bones when possible.

[@lucymtb]

Have a shirt that says “the queen of petty “ Or one that says “Aren’t you entitled “ 30 bucks seem feasible

[@nicolem5250]

I would buy that!

[@borountree4539]

30 bucks? We are in the middle so the worst economic crisis since the great depression! Who the hell can afford $30 for a Tshirt? That had better be Canadian!

[@aleampuero]

A shirt or hoodie “QUEEN POTATO” ❤️

[@lucymtb]

Robin Rountree ok 20 but she did say high quality clothes ... I’m a cyclist a kit is easy 210 - short 60 and shirt 60 on the Lower end of things . This is her lively hood so yeah 30 . I’ve made “cheap” Jersey for women that attend my classes and it’s never less then 20 per shirt so if she is trying to make money then the extra 10 would be her profit. “Are you a Karen ?” New shirt idea

[@bettyb9677]

Charlotte Dobre Aka #PotatoQueen on the pocket and your picture on the back with the caption Subscribe !!!!!!!!

[@jasonhare8540]

I've used that gym membership trick several times to get out of other subscriptions with companies that were being difficult . I was polite to the call center employee and they gave me the tip . Best 5 minutes of my life I ever invested and all I had to do was be a little polite . Thank you Noble call center person 🤘🤘🤘

[@droidfan]

1. About the coffee: placebo effect is real 2. About merch: 99% of the channels I am subscribed to belong to musicians (mostly if not all, educational). They all claim that if not for the merch they wouldn't make any $$ especially because of how badly demonetization affects them. It's a huge issue right now that's even being discussed in some courts.

[@stremoooli]

Who else watches all the ads till the end cause we do everything to support our self-employed potato queen 👑 Greetings from Germany!

[@NaginiRiddle]

sie ist so cool^^

[@stremoooli]

ConvertTlaloc actually it does. If you skip it the advertiser may not be charged and Charlotte could get less Adsense. Educate yourself please before leaving random comments ✌🏻

[@stremoooli]

Loony _ oder? Ich Feier sie einfach soooo sehr!

[@lmenagh]

When she quit IO I binge watched her videos again and liked the ones I had forgotten to

[@melissarobertson2925]

meeeeeeee 🙃

[@emilymarek4714]

My dad was a Master Plumber, and showed me a GREAT secret! If you have a shower head (or any other plumbing accessory that screws on), unscrew the appliance, grab a bar of soap, and scrape the soap along the ‘rings’ of the part you screw the accessory onto. It creates a leak-proof barrier and lasts forever! Once you screw the shower head (or other accessory) back on, the soap stays put. It’s an extremely CHEAP fix… something that a plumber would charge mega bucks to fix! You can ALSO do this to a NEW shower head, and you’ll never get a leak.

[@thepowercow]

PLEASE Charlotte! Can you do more 'People owned by science' vids? They're so funny! I can't really find any other channel with similar content either, so please do moooore!😃 love you btw!

[@baibaizkid]

Initial thought: Who the heck doesn’t wash clothes before donating them!? 😒😒😒 Second thought: That’s why I wash all my clothes before I wear them (regardless of where I bought them). As people, we need to do better! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@elaexplorer]

Oh I know, I watched one of those medical mystery shows awhile back. People were getting really sick and it turned out that the jeans they all bought had gotten chemicals spilt on them during shipping. The chemicals didn't leave a stain and the Jean's were dry by the time the reached the store so no one was the wiser. So now I wash anything I buy before wearing it.

[@joe6851]

always!

[@deedeeschway9566]

@@elaexplorer I remember that show! It was like a medical CSI show.

[@Hermioneswish]

@@elaexplorer me too I saw the exact same thing. I’m pretty sure it was formaldehyde. So ever since I’ve washed my clothes before wearing them. I also heard that they use chemicals to stop the clothes getting dirty while in transport.

[@marialooksaround]

@@elaexplorer that’s an episode from House MD!

[@ProcrastinationQueen]

Looool, the gluten thing 😆 I’m gluten intolerant, so I’ve known about that for awhile, which was why I was so confused when the whole ‘gluten free diet’ thing popped up. One of the reasons why people see a difference, is because the stuff gluten is in, is typically pretty unhealthy (bread, pasta, cake etc.) so it really has nothing to do with gluten in itself, just the stuff it’s in 😅

[@LauraBeeDannon]

Yup. Go low carb is basically gluten free.

[@lisamartin9831]

I'm confused I thought everyone knew it is only a specific diet for people with allergys etc.

[@ProcrastinationQueen]

@@lisamartin9831 trust me, a lot of people don’t 😅😂

[@caitlinhehehe8456]

CHARLOTTE YOU ARE LITTERALLY THE BEST PERSON ON THE ENTIRE PLANET LOL btw sorry if that was too crazy LOVE YOUUUUUUU ❤️

[@lilalienangel]

Creepy

[@theoverunderthinker]

@@lilalienangel meh. depends on how many people on the "entire planet" they know. I admire their enthusiasm and also their self awareness though! still the lawyer's advice might fit here; you be the judge! ;)

[@dangerouslysane]

Attorney advice is gold.

[@Chahlie]

I had my friend write that on the back of his hand before he went to court. 'Shut Up'

[@guidobanholzer7456]

Yep, the best advice of them all! Learn it, live it...own it.

[@andreabradley5837]

My former boyfriend is a defense attorney. His other pearls of wisdom are don't do meth, and don't touch people where they don't want to be touched.

[@dangerouslysane]

@@andreabradley5837 --sounds like he is a true doctor of jurisprudence!

[@theoverunderthinker]

@@andreabradley5837 words to live by! I can't see going wrong with either of those! :D

[@tyytlerwhoknows821]

The secret is to use olive oil and salted butter together. They both have a low smoke point, but they work beautifully together. Every stove is different, so you just need to experiment. I use more butter than oil. Don't cook anything on high except to boil water and if you're searing meat...medium high is enough.

[@JKAZ_M]

A "Facts don't care about your feelings." shirt or hoodie.

[@bettyb9677]

oh yeah 100%

[@taramaescott8733]

Yessssss! Ever since i heard you say that one, I have been using it at least once daily irl. lol! I would buy that one!

[@johnle1535]

HOODIE FOR SURE ILL BUY! POTATO!

[@oregoniangirl]

If you want one, Ben Shapiro has had them for awhile. I got one for my son for his birthday, year before last.

[@jessica.Blue777]

Yes!!

[@pistolannie6500]

Butter makes it Better!! This little Southern country girl could have told ya THAT! LOL

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Yup- butter, salt, and MSG are pretty much the go-to flavor enhancers in virtually all cuisines.

[@theginaya]

9:21 thats true. My brother have a punk band who been play abroad this past 3 years. Thailand, Singapore, UK, Europe and this year is Japan. Evertime he comes back from tour, the money the gather from merch is astounding

[@Jen-zk9se]

I found your channel the other day and have been in stitches 🤣 AND THEN you mention Boxing Day and I’m like whooooooo she’s Canadian! 💛 🇨🇦

[@pudupudu9837]

Me: *a Christian obsessed with dinosaurs* Love me some big ol' lizard bones. And Jesus.

[@Domarius64]

*obligatory pic of Jesus riding a dinosaur*

[@rhondaflesher8313]

The whole issue is in believing that the six creative days are literal days equivalent to what we know as a 24 hour day. Else where in the Bible it does say that a day to God is as a thousand to us. So a lot could happen in one of those "days." It is referring to a particular event time period such as when we would say " in grandfather's day" - which obviously refers to more than one day.

[@MagnetMagicGirl]

Rhonda, the only problem with thinking that the creation took more than 6 days is when God rested on the seventh. The point of Him resting is to provide an example for us (so we rest on the seventh day also). If that doesn't happen, then major elements of the Bible start to fall apart.

[@MsMcCoolio1221]

Amen to all of these comments!!

[@virginiaviola5097]

My theory on dinosaurs goes like this: God invented dinosaurs for the entertainment of small boys. And some grown ups too. But mostly little kids. And, as if to prove some long held theory, my grandson is dinosaur obsessed, and I had nothing to do with that.

[@ladylaura8641]

Employer here: this is pretty true, of coarse I love when someone has a lot of experience but a willingness to learn, pride in your work and caring about/being enthusiastic about the job will get you hired more so than not. In my experience, it’s those kind of people who do better when hired anyway.

[@princemorgan3983]

Here's a Walmart secret... If you ask an associate to look for something in the back 9/10 they won't, most of the time we just go back there & hang out or just wait until you get sick of waiting & leave

[@Eszra]

Did this multiple times. I followed them and watched them talk. One of the group noticed me and asked if i needed help. The person who was already helping me immediately apologized repeated what i was looking for, i replied yes and they went in to the back. Normally they bring someone else out with them to tell me its not there as they stay back away from me in the door.

[@oliviaocasain9980]

I don't think this is just Walmart lol I did this very thing in all my retail jobs

[@angelalighthouse9141]

Makes sense. Nothing I've asked for ever gets found.

[@InHimAlone]

I don't think it is a secret to anyone that Walmart's customer service sucks.

[@iriswaldenburger2315]

This is the same in every store, usually they don’t even bother going they just say “if you didn’t find already then we don’t have it (anymore)”

[@DaniAdams]

I will watch till the end every time just to hear Charlotte's "SUBSCRIBE!"

[@sillyvance2202]

Your thinking on how to say exorbitant & then full relief in figuring out that yes that word actually exists was super relatable ❤ I'll forever subscribe..

[@CyraGetsFit]

I would totally buy merch to support you. Many of my good days have come from watching your videos and laughing with you. So, if you design it-- I will buy it!