15 Women Shared Their Job Deep Secrets You Better Never Know

Every job has its own secrets and details that most people don’t see or know about. Some of these behind-the-scenes things are better kept hidden because they might be too complicated, difficult, or even unpleasant for others to understand. It’s a reminder that every job has more to it than meets the eye.

• As a server, I have a lot of things I could share. We are absolutely reading into the vibes at your table. We can usually tell if it’s a new date, relationship, marriage, etc. personally, I’ve picked up on problematic couples many a time. Girlies, if you’re ever feeling unsafe or need a way out, find a female restaurant employee. We will do everything we can to help you. © hjs949 / Reddit
• I work for a medical insurance company. We get complaints that the hold time is too long. The problem is that everyone calls in the morning. The dept I’m in has 40 reps that have 600 calls coming in the first 4 hours. Then the rest of the day we are sitting around waiting for a few calls. The reps get off work each hour, and the last hour has only 10 reps. But we just sit there and talk to each other. © luckeegurrrl5683 / Reddit
• Most cosmetics that don’t contain active ingredients really don’t do the things they claim. Most of the ingredients you perceive as helping your hair or skin are just there for marketing to attract you. © InstructionBasic3756 / Reddit
• Teacher here: Your child tells us about everything that happens at home. EVERYTHING. Every — little — detail. © WifeMom88 / Reddit

• The mark up on most high end clothing is just to make you feel rich, not because they are of extraordinary quality. You’re just paying to have the feeling of being wealthy. And that ridiculous decision pays my bills. © Crepes_for_days3000 / Reddit
• When you go out to eat, so many people have touched that lemon that you wanted in your water. And terrible things grow in ice machines and soda guns. Lots of places don’t clean them often enough. © emmy1426 / Reddit
• Pools aren’t drained if a kid gets sick in them. Draining pools takes hours or days and is bad for the structure. But I promise you, we CLEAN. We strain out what we can. We scrub the deck in the surrounding area and anything that was in the water. We clean out the skimmers (the little filters behind the flaps). We put a ton of chlorine in, and we put in the pool vacuum. The next day (our pool foulings usually occur in the evenings when we have a lot of kids) we backwash — essentially run the whole system backwards to rinse all the crud out of our filters. By the time you’re allowed back in, the pool is probably the cleanest it’s ever been for you. © siel04 / Reddit
• Worked in grocery store. Anything we had in the front would be in the back, and if anything was not in the front meant that we were empty in the back. So every time the usual grumpy person would insist in having me go check round the back, I would go, talk to a colleague or use my phone for 2 to 5 minutes (depending on the item I was supposedly looking for) then come back to the person saying “Oh, sorry, we are actually out of this at the moment.” © xladyvontr***x / Reddit

• Worked in a grocery store bakery. If you ask if the cakes are made fresh, especially in the case, we usually just say yes. Truth is, the cakes come frozen, pre made. The buttercream comes premixed we just whip it. They can be in the case for up to three days before we have to get rid of them, in the freezer for much longer. Don’t go to a chain grocery store if you want a fresh cake. © xactamundo / Reddit
• I work at a store that sells glasses. When customers object about the prices, they will say something like ’I could get the same thing for less’ and I literally tell them to go there. © im-biggerontheinside / Reddit
• Receptionist. I at least pretend to be nice to the people who come into my work when the reality is I hate 99.9% of them. © Revolutionary-Swim28 / Reddit
• At a fast food chain I work for, we fry our French fries in beef fat, so if vegetarians eat our fries to find an alternative for meat, I’ve got some news for you. © _maniireddit / Reddit

• Hairstylist here. We are highly educated in ways of destroying or transforming your hair. I work from home, charge way less than salons. The fee is high and it’s generic price. Even a bad hairstylist can still charge you $200 and basically use you as practice without informing you that they are BRAND new to the industry. © MelloM***10 / Reddit
• Less ice does not mean more booze. You get more filler-if you want more booze you will pay for it. Most bartenders will automatically tell you “no” if you asked if you tipped them. That was number 2 on training for me many years ago. We never adjust the heat/ac in a restaurant. We tell you we did-but 99% of the time it’s locked up and we can’t. © 3kidslater2019 / Reddit
• As someone who’s had several house cleaning jobs, it’s standard not to change out the big comforter on top. If the comforter is visibly dirty or smelly it gets changed, otherwise just the inner sheets. As for why: changing the cover takes a lot longer (we have to work ludicrously fast!), they’re bulky to wash and a pain to iron, and they don’t really touch your skin when you’re in bed — that’s what a top sheet’s for. © ihbos / Reddit

Sometimes, to land your dream job, having a degree is important. But other times, what really matters is your experience and knowing a few tricks to impress during the job interview. It’s not just about what you learned in school — it’s also about how well you can show what you know and what you can do.