COMPANY SECRETS

Reddit asked, “What’s a company secret you can share now because you don’t work there anymore?” Some of the responses [note: these are all pretty tame. We don’t think you’ll get in trouble for broadcasting it.]:
– “Those employees at Claire’s that pierce your ears? They can literally just be 15 year old kids with no work experience, literally on their first day at their very first job, told to go out and start piercing ears… ‘Just pretend you’ve done this before.’”
– “#35 on any phone at Lowe’s will get you access to the store paging/intercom system.”
– “I worked for a poker site. We had staff members who were experienced poker players playing cash games to win money from our players. Yes, they could also see what the other players had and what cards were coming on flop, turn and river.”
– “You know those conventions where you put your card in a jar for a random prize? I was walking by the sales office after and they were taking them out one by one, discussing who’s the most important, and deciding who the winner should be.”
– “When staying in a Vegas hotel in the summer your room’s A/C isn’t ‘broken’, it’s cheaper to comp the room than it is to run the A/C to where the system will get the room below 75.”
– “The secret ingredient to my work’s Mac and Cheese? Yellow food coloring. The kids won’t touch it if it isn’t orange. We make it that Kraft orange color and they love it.”
– “Worked for Whirlpool refrigerator factory. Deluxe models have essentially the same compressors, hardware, wiring, etc. as the less expensive models.”
– “Almost all the fruit you get at Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, and Target, go through the same facility in the Southwestern US.”
– “I worked at Boston Market back in the 90s when I was in high school. Here’s the secret: Everything WAS made fresh, either made in back-of-house or at a nearby kitchen. All of the meat came in raw and was cooked on-site. The sides were prepped fresh in the back kitchen as well. Although the soup stock came from concentrate, the chicken that was added came directly from those we cooked on-site. This was the 90’s, don’t know what they’re doing now.”
– “More than half the volume of iced drinks in Starbucks are ice. I know everyone knows at this point but I thought I should hammer it home.”
* PHONE TOPIC: DO you have a secret from a place you used to work?