"The crap I see and hear will make your skin crawl."

I'm a Senior Staff Writer based in New York City, where I've been covering classic BuzzFeed-style content since 2020.

We also used replies from these three threads.

"There is way more butter than you think in almost every dish you eat at fancy restaurants, and that is usually the reason you won't see the amount of calories in each dish."

"Flavocol comes in classic butter and 'better butter' flavors. No joke, the 'better butter' tastes better. You don't need any other seasoning, but you do add oil (dyed canola if you want the authentic experience) to the pot along with the flavocol, of course. If you're in Canada, you can buy the same stuff as the theatres here. Also, you want butterfly corn kernels, not mushroom. And if you want your popcorn to be even better than the cinema, get white kernels because they don't have husks!"

"Truck drivers aren't usually told this, but same for freight transport. Slamming the brakes or swerving swiftly can cause a mess in cargo. Then, with no collision whatsoever, the driver is solely responsible for the freight loss."

"Yes, most (if not all) lab-grown diamonds have an inscription, which is how a jeweler would know the difference (though these can be hard to find immediately, as they're very small). But I mean from a quality standpoint — it's very difficult to tell, and lab-grown tend to be better quality (clarity, color, cut). So, if a jeweler can't tell until it's in a loop, the average person definitely can't. The proper lab-grown don't have the bright blue 'fire' that moissanites do, which gives them away.

Also, I worked at a jewelry store for years with a very experienced gemologist/ goldsmith, whom I'm still friends with, and he told me these things. I also took a lot of diamond and jewelry training while I was there. I'm not just pulling it out of my ass."

"This also goes for the claw machine. We can control how often it pays out.

Tickets can be bought for one penny per ticket. If you drop a quarter into a token machine and it doesn't pay you 25 tickets, you're better off just buying tickets.

No, we don't reuse pizza. It's cheaper and easier to just make another one since we get the ingredients in bulk. It's just that we cut it into smaller slices, so it's harder to do right, plus the kitchen personnel usually don't care about making it look perfect.

No, the job isn't fun. My job is to make sure YOU have fun. My job is stressful."

"I know that one through my wife. The hospital she worked at was hit by ransomware. When the hospital announced the attack, they said something to the effect of, 'Don't worry, patient data is encrypted, and everything is backed up.' All lies, of course. I'm pretty sure they just paid the ransom."

"Back in the day, when my wife was pregnant with our second child, we were staying overnight in the hospital room. I was able to see the password to unlock the computer, and I browsed the internet/played browser games all night while my wife slept."

"I used to work in IT in a hospital and can confirm this. They put more priority on making the systems easier and more convenient for the users than on security. Auto login machines, default creds on the EHR, very simple remote access via web-enabled Citrix (with all the default creds also working), out-of-date OSes and workstations, etc..."

"100% true. I used to work for a consulting group that convened and managed payor advisory boards for a major pharma company, and in my opinion, the opioid crisis wouldn’t have existed, at least not to the extent that it did/does, if insurance companies had been willing to cover (more expensive) alternatives to Oxy. They weren’t, so those alternatives never saw the light of day."

"I'm not allowed to tell you that you don't need to go to the hospital. If you call 911 and want to go, I must take you, even when the driveway is full of vehicles and family members who are sober and capable of driving the patient. The majority of calls are like this and can prevent us from responding to actual emergencies because every ambulance is stuck with a patient who could've made their own way to the hospital.

"You will be triaged exactly the same as if you walked into the hospital. I drop people off in the waiting room all the time.

Resuscitation rarely works. Last time I checked the statistics in our area, it was something like less than 5% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests survived to be discharged from the hospital. We are torturing your grandma/grandpa for a less than 5% chance of recovery. Resuscitation is for young people with reversible problems, i.e., drowning, not meemaw, who is in congestive heart failure and smokes a pack a day. I can't undo a lifetime of organ damage, and it is selfish to make your grandparents a full code 'because they're a fighter!' Congrats, you made their death as painful and traumatic as possible.

Emergency rooms are for emergencies. Chronic care will be referred to outpatient. That is why everyone goes, 'they did nothing for me!' No, they found no evidence of an emergency, meaning it can be dealt with in outpatient."

"Looking young as you age is about 80% genetic, 17% lifestyle/diet."

"Sun cream too. It is the ONLY cream that is genuinely proven to reduce aging."

"It's hard for school districts to do anything about it. There's a process to be able to terminate them, so it will go on their official record. For most, they put them on a leave of absence and then start an official investigation. They have to tell them why they're being put on leave. If school districts can complete the investigation, they can terminate, but the person normally just resigns before it's complete. Districts can't announce anything about the investigation, and once they resign, the district investigation stops.

In Texas, districts can turn the name over to TEA, along with any findings from the investigation. TEA can then add them to a do-not-hire list. All school districts have access to that list, and checking that list before hiring anyone is supposed to be mandatory, but the list isn't public."

"There is a genetic component absolutely, the pH of your saliva as well as mineral content. That being said, every single patient with a cavity blames that instead of horrible oral hygiene. If you really brush well twice a day and floss even once a day, you're gonna be in great shape."

"If people took the effort to clean, not just brush, but actually clean their teeth, I'd be unemployed."

"We know that your pet got into your weed, and we truly don't care. Seriously. Just be honest.

We operate on a triage basis (sicker things are seen first, regardless of how long others have been waiting). If you're a shitty person and you're constantly up front complaining to staff about the wait times/the decor/why there isn’t enough staff, being difficult in other ways, being dismissive to the non-doctors, AND your pet is stable and has been triaged similarly to another pet that came in around the same time, we're not picking up your file until we have to. Sooo much of my job involves giving bad news, talking to emotional people who often take out their feelings on those around them, and having to defend the costs of emergency care and surgery, so I'm not going to eagerly jump into taking a file for someone who's being difficult before they’ve even been spoken to."

"Because pet insurance premiums are based on a number of factors, including the cost of care in the area the pets live, the increased cost of procedures that hospitals charge to boost profits would, in turn, raise the cost of care in the area, and then that would raise the premiums for all insured pets in that zip code/territory. 

That same insurance company also has a side venture with prescription pet food, which is exactly why that 'prescription' food is so expensive. Oh, btw, prescription cat and dog food is a joke. If your vet is recommending a specific brand, remember that they are getting a cut. Ask your vet what medicine your pet needs, what specific diet changes they need, and what foods to avoid. Don't take whatever the vet recommends. 

It's really sad, but insurance has killed all ethics in many animal hospitals."

"Whenever I leave a job, I look for the posting for my replacement. They ALWAYS have more requirements than they need. I wouldn't have qualified for my last three jobs. That I had been doing for years. Apply and let them figure out if you're 'good enough.'"

"I work for a retail chain that sells some food and perishable items. People would be surprised how much stuff we throw away because it goes bad. It's a total loss. The companies don't donate because they are concerned with the liability. They don't want to be sued."

"How little it takes to throw away books. We also throw out a lot of overproduction in books and paper, sometimes what would equal maybe 200 books per order."

"Library worker: We regularly get rid of over one ton of old books per week: if it has had its time (or was 'written' by James Patterson), we are getting rid of it to make space for the shiny new books!"

"Yep. The waste is WILD. Everything from the actual garbage created by 200-300 people, to the set that appears for 30 seconds of the movie. 

Yes, some of it is reclaimed for other things (flats, for example). Others are so specific that they can't ever be used again, so in the trash they go."

"Can confirm. A good friend of mine does executive security work, has worked for some top-tier bands, and I've been fortunate enough to get some all-access backstage tickets from him, plus meet the bands, etc. He told me straight up, you probably want to watch from the audience, though, the sound backstage sucks, and he isn't wrong.

And yeah, when we were backstage during the actual show, if you aren't a roadie responsible for say the guitars or drums, yeah, they are back there on their phones, or BSing with other crew members etc. To them, it's just another day at work; they have heard the set a hundred times."

– Fixing it breaks something else in a worse way.

– We're saving it for the day one patch.

"Along those same lines, we have a wide array of features we wanted to add, but ran out of time. Chances are, if you come up with a cool feature request, we already thought about it."

"And placating their parents until we can shove them onto the next person in the chain."

"I'm a hospice nurse, and some of the most expensive, fancy-looking ones were the WORST. Some of the poor-looking older buildings had the best staff and happy residents. Don’t judge a book by its cover is so true

"At Goodwill, 50% of what you donate ends up in the trash because we don’t have the space for it, or we just deem it too ugly."

"If the average Joe had any idea how fragile these systems were, it would truly blow their minds."

"The real tech skill isn't coding, it's knowing what not to touch so u don't break something ancient and mission critical."

"In many software companies, 'Legacy Code' is basically held together by duct tape and prayers, and everyone is terrified of the one person who actually knows how it works leaving."

"Most people have no idea how often we just wing it in our jobs. It’s wild what you can get away with if you sound convincing enough."

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