20 Shocking Facts You Only Learn Doing Certain Jobs

‘Trains derail often’
20 Shocking Facts You Only Learn Doing Certain Jobs

As the tagline of a wildly popular and thoroughly debunked pop-science book would have you believe, there’s a hidden side of everything. Certain parts of life are just not visible to you unless you’re down in the trenches. Ask any parent, whether human or dog/cat, how much they knew about raising their (possibly fur) children, even after reading every book available, then wait for them to stop laugh-crying.

That goes double for certain jobs. Only restaurant staff know how filthy commercial kitchens are. Only preschool teachers know just how psyched toddlers are to bite each other. And you wouldn’t believe the things people do in a taxi cab. 

That’s why user ilovenumber8 asked r/AskReddit, “Which piece of information you know because of your job or study will shock the average person?”

stootchmaster2. . 1y ago Hotels 100% profile guests. Especially guests without reservations.
Jeremy5000 . 1 1y ago Trains derail often, It just isn't usually very dramatic or destructive.
rows_and_columns_me . 1y ago Chances that CPR applied by a amateur without a defibrillator does save the patient are under 5%.
MakesYourMise . 1y ago Your lettuce grows in shit, comes covered in sand and bugs. It's washed with water.
Seat-Life . 1y ago Virtually all soft serve ice cream machines use plastic scraper blades that physically wear down as they run shedding plastics into your food.
1y ago I work for a company that distributes ice machines for a major ice machine company. Just do yourself a favor and say no ice. People do not clean these machines.
GhostPantherAssualt. 1y ago Errors in Tax Returns are actually pretty common in the federal government. That's why there is a literal section of the IRS that corrects your inputs.
BigAggie06 . . 1y ago Unless you know an accountant who specifically specializes in personal taxes, your buddy who is an accountant probably doesn't know anything more about your taxes than you do.
Hadrianic . 1y ago There is a whole wealth of historical information (and information generally) that is not available online at all. Digitizing things takes a lot of people power that many libraries/archives simply don't have.
SiriusGD . 1y ago When you go to Vegas and a casino advertises 99.9% payouts, legally that means that at least ONE machine on the casino floor has that payout among the other hundreds of machines in the casino. And probably ONLY one.
. 1y ago I work in medical billing and coding (in the U.S). 9 time out of 10, when your insurance denies coverage for a procedure or service,it's an error on how it was billed/coded by the providers office and you should research it with the billers and your insurance before you pay.
DesperateCarpet6279 . 1y ago Forensic psychologist- there are so many horrendous crimes that happen that never reach the news/mainstream media. And that there are trends in which crimes actually get reported, for example- domestics violence is very in right now, and a hot topic so you will see a lot of that in the news. It's not that it's actually happening more than usual, the reporting is just skewed by what stories will actually sell.
2ndOfficerCHL . 1y ago How rotten a lot of bridges are. I work in highway maintenance and quite a few of them are in hideous condition and overdue for replacement. I can think of one where the deck is more or less held in place by gravity and moves up and down independently of the structure beneath, which is coming misaligned because of a lateral force put on it by eroding river banks. Fortunately that one is finally under contract to be replaced this year.
ThisCarSmellsFunny 1y ago When you go to a restaurant and there are multiple empty tables and they tell you there's a wait, it's because the kitchen is backed up. Sure, everyone says oh I'll just wait at the table. Sorry, assholes before you who were given that opportunity and bitched incessantly about how long they've been there is why no restaurant will ever seat you in this situation. No matter how nice or patient you claim to be.
SalemScout D 1y ago Those stupid little pillows on the bed in a hotel room take millions of dollars to design. I had a designer change their mind after we had already ordered and manufactured three hundred rooms' worth of stupid pillows, so we had to trash them all and begin again. Oh, and because the design is proprietary to the designer and the hotel chain, they can't be donated or sold; they just go straight to a landfill.
raisinghellwithtrees . 1y ago About 20 years ago I worked for a printing со with a contract with a funeral home federation. We printed their everything, including a sheet sent out to funeral homes on wholesale casket pricing and the amount of profit to be made from the sale of each. Back then a casket's wholesale cost was 10% of what they were charging consumers. So that $5000 casket only cost them $500. I can only imagine the upcharge now.
PewpyDewpdyPantz 1y ago Edited 1y ago If someone has diarrhea or vomits in a pool it doesn't need to be drained. In fact, draining the pool might even be less effective if proper disinfection procedures aren't followed after draining the pool. Instead, the chlorine level needs to be raised to at least 20 ppm for at least 13 hours after all physical pieces of vomit or shit have been removed. Doing this will kill any possible cryptosporidium bacteria in the pool. What does 20ppm chlorine feel like? Simply by putting your hand in the water to get a sample will
cml678701 1y ago A shockingly low number of kids are actually on grade level, and they just get passed on, whether or not they're literate. When I taught English at a title one school, I had around 38% pass, and that was considered good. When state tests were cancelled in 2020, everyone on my Facebook was exclaiming, they're just going to pass everybody to the next grade?! But what if someone would have failed the test, but now they get to go to the next grade anyway? Uhhhhh that is already 60+ percent of kids. The general public thinks that
soitgoes_42 1y ago Early childhood trauma is visible in teeth. Trauma in this sense is anything that causes a stress response in the body. Could be illness, could be parental separation, could be abuse. Etc etc etc (Longer explanation: teeth grow at a predictable rate. Almost exactly like trees. If you bisected a tooth, and examined it under a microscope, you'd see rings of growth. Growth is disrupted in times of stress. The first stress ring we all had on our baby teeth is from birth. Other stressors can create other disrupted growth rings in baby teeth. And the same
slawterdu . 1y ago I'm an electrician, and I would say almost everything that I work with would shock the average person.

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