COMPANY SECRETS!

(January, 2023) Reddit asked, “What’s a company secret you can share now that you don’t work there?” Some of the responses:
– “I worked at L’Oréal. The cosmetics from L’Oréal and Lancôme are practically the same. But Lancôme costs like $20 more.”
– “I worked at a hair salon. The Men’s shampoo was the exact same shampoo in the ladies’ shampoo bottle, but half the price.”
– “If you pick up a wall phone at Home Depot and push ‘7’ it activates the store wide intercom. This works in every store in my province.”
– “At Home Depot. buy the Clearance items that end in $.03. After that, the next step of the markdown process is the dumpster.”
– “Ford parts from Mexico are way more reliable than Ford parts from Detroit. I worked in Detroit and we had some customers who were fussy about us always doing repairs with Michigan parts, but when we had a problem that wouldn’t stay fixed we would always secretly switch to the Mexican parts, which did solve things.”
– “In a broadband company I worked for I was tasked with editing thousands of complaints to avoid huge fines.”
– “I worked for a major hotel chain in housekeeping for over 10 years. The number of suicides and people who die naturally in their rooms is a lot higher than you’d think.”
– “When I worked at a Godiva store we would turn expired chocolate bars into sample pieces.” (* Expired chocolate? I’ve never heard of such a thing.)
– “Maple sap can be trucked in from other states. Where it’s turned from sap to syrup decides on the state it comes from, not the location of the trees.” (* Looking at you, Vermont!)
– “Dad worked for a laundry detergent company. All the formulas they use are made stronger than needed, so you only ever need half a cap for the majority of loads.”
– “A restaurant I once worked at was failing and unpopular. There was however one menu item that was universally popular – the House soup. No one knew it was Campbell’s, straight from the can.”
– “Inbound call center – the ‘We are currently experiencing an unusually high call volume’ message is permanent. They just didn’t staff adequately.” (* Now there’s a shocker.)
– “I worked baggage at an airport. Nothing is handled with care.”
* Another secret: At Reddit, if they don’t get enough funny answers to a question, they just make some up.
* Capitalism – the greatest system on earth! Except for the lying and the cheating and the screwing you over.
* Is there not one single, honest company left in this world that actually delivers what they promise? Anyway, here’s more of Today’s Best Music, on (station call).
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you got a company secret you’re willing to share?