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When it comes to industry secrets, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don’t know about. Whether it’s in the tech, finance, fashion, or any other industry, there are always insider tips and tricks that can give you an edge. In this article, we’ll uncover some of these industry secrets and provide you with valuable knowledge that most people aren’t aware of.
Tech Industry Secrets
The tech industry is constantly evolving, and there are always new trends and developments that can impact businesses and consumers. Here are some industry secrets that most people don’t know about in the tech world:
1. The Power of Data: Many tech companies rely on data to drive their decision-making processes. Whether it’s analyzing customer behavior or tracking market trends, data is a powerful tool that can provide valuable insights.
2. Agile Development: Agile development is a popular methodology used by tech companies to streamline the software development process. It emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and customer feedback, allowing companies to deliver high-quality products more efficiently.
3. Cybersecurity Threats: Cybersecurity is a major concern for tech companies, and there are constantly evolving threats that can compromise sensitive data. It’s important for businesses to stay informed about the latest cybersecurity trends and invest in robust security measures.
Finance Industry Secrets
In the finance industry, there are numerous secrets and strategies that can help individuals and businesses make informed decisions and maximize their financial success. Here are some industry secrets in the finance world:
1. Compound Interest: The power of compound interest can significantly impact long-term savings and investments. By reinvesting interest earnings, individuals can accelerate their wealth accumulation over time.
2. Tax-Saving Strategies: There are various tax-saving strategies that individuals and businesses can take advantage of to minimize their tax liabilities. From retirement account contributions to tax-deductible expenses, understanding tax laws can lead to significant savings.
3. Investment Diversification: Diversifying investment portfolios across different asset classes can help mitigate risk and maximize returns. Whether it’s stocks, bonds, real estate, or commodities, diversification is a key strategy for long-term financial growth.
Fashion Industry Secrets
The fashion industry is known for its glamour and creativity, but there are also insider secrets that drive the success of fashion businesses and influencers. Here are some industry secrets in the fashion world:
1. Trend Forecasting: Fashion businesses rely on trend forecasting to anticipate consumer preferences and design products that resonate with the market. By staying ahead of trends, businesses can position themselves for success in the fast-paced fashion industry.
2. Influencer Marketing: Influencers play a significant role in shaping consumer behavior and brand perceptions. Many fashion businesses leverage influencer partnerships to enhance their brand visibility and connect with target audiences.
3. Sustainable Practices: As sustainability becomes a growing concern in the fashion industry, many businesses are adopting eco-friendly practices and ethical sourcing to meet consumer demand for responsible fashion choices.
In conclusion, every industry has its own set of secrets that most people aren’t aware of. Whether it’s in the tech, finance, fashion, or any other industry, understanding these insider tips and tricks can empower individuals and businesses to make informed decisions and gain a competitive edge. By staying informed and leveraging industry secrets, you can become better equipped to navigate the complexities of the modern marketplace.
By sharing industry secrets, we hope to provide valuable insights that can help you make informed decisions and achieve success in your respective industries. Whether it’s in tech, finance, fashion, or any other industry, insider knowledge can make a significant difference in your professional endeavors. So, the next time someone asks you about industry secrets, you’ll be armed with valuable information that most people don’t know. Keep learning, stay informed, and stay ahead of the curve!
Health and safety standards are not followed in most franchised fast food restaurants on a day to day basis.
I worked in politics. There are A LOT of people who write to a politician like they’re a celebrity. They receive love letters and all kinds of weird stuff. There’s also quite a sizeable part of their mail that is comprised of people asking for a photo with an autograph. Way more than you think ! Some because they’re admirers, others because they collect them… and then some other cases you don’t really want to know about (I’ve worked for a female politician, trust me, you don’t wanna know).
The dirty little secret within the secret is that the politicians I knew didn’t sign anything. They had a [machine](https://maiparis.com/en/signature-machines/28-stylowriter.html) that did all the signing for them. So technically the autographs were not even real.
The New York Times best seller list has a lot of people on it who buy massive numbers of their own books.
Teaching. Yep, teachers gossip about the kids, and each other, and everything. There is always so much drama going on at any given moment.
Worked in online community management and social media for years – Admins CAN read all of your PMs. Private only means private from the masses, not from administration, we had to be able to read them to check reports of abuse, grooming, illegal activity etc. I can’t tell you how much cringeworthy shit I had to read through, especially from guys trying to hook up.
I’m a server. No matter how much we insist it’s “okay” that you are keeping the entire restaurant open after we’ve closed, please know we are 100% lying. We will get fired if we deviate from anything other than pure delight that you are keeping us from going home. We dread it. Please don’t believe us.
I saw how slot machines for casinos were designed… don’t play slots.
That guy you pay to come out and fix your computer, most of the time, just googles your problem to find the solution.
If you want to remain sane never look up how much insect and rodent debris is allowed by the food safety authorities in your area. It’s always a lot more than you would imagine and can never be stopped completely.
Cannabis testing labs with higher fees will also return higher THC numbers
I wrote an original movie a few years ago. Totally original. Totally my idea. When it finally aired on TV, It said “based on a true story.”
Also, it wasn’t Fargo.
It was never a spider that caused your abscess
Not a secret, but we just kind of nod and ask what it looked like.
I’m perpetually astounded by the fact that most people in the Internet industry have literally no idea what they’re selling. Like, when someone buys “Internet access,” from an Internet Service Provider, unless the ISP is _really big_ they typically have nobody on staff who could define what it is that a customer is paying for, or what the ISP is paying their supplier for. Like, where it comes from, what makes it more or less valuable… any of that. They’re literally just flying by the seat of their pants, trying stuff, paying bills that show up without really being able to analyze whether they should be buying those services or not, charging their customers more or less what their competitors charge… In other industries, there’s a keen awareness of input costs, how and when to economize, how to relate costs to value, etc. Maybe only the top 5% of Internet service providers have anyone with even the faintest idea of any of that.
It’s like if you went to a car dealer, and asked them what they were selling, and they said “A hundred and eighty miles an hour!!!” And you asked them where it came from, and they said “Off the back of a truck!!!” It’s both amazing and pitiful.
Former manager for a certain video game retailer.
If you were obviously and repeatedly selling us stolen stuff we did, in fact, gladly help police when they came in. I even went to court once. Was funny seeing the looks on my criminal customers’ faces in the courthouse lobby, when they recognized me in a suit, talking to the cops, and they realized what was about to happen.
Went into ‘professional’ YouTube later. As in, large studio with videographers, editors, director, episodes/series. Lots of it was educational automotive stuff for performance/custom vehicles.
No, you’re not crazy, it really looked that easy in the video and you’re struggling with a horrible project that merely looked like it wasn’t difficult.
Because we spent hours off-camera Jerry rigging shit, redoing videos, and carefully editing/magicking things to look good on camera.
In Australia, additional warranties are a rip off. If a device or product can be reasonably expected to last five years without defect then it can be held to that under warranty. Companies are fucked.
Car industry: NEVER buy a car that is completely new on the market! They always always come with a ton of bugs that need fixing and it takes about two years of serial production to get rid of most of them. If you must buy a new car, be sure the model has been in the market for at least two years.
The reason for why we don’t fix the problems before start of selling? Cost
Also, don’t buy models that were in development during years of crisis. Example: during the 2008 financial crisis we let got a huge number of people (to fix the numbers in the books, didn’t actually save the company money because they all got a big payout on their way out) so we were understaffed and under imense pressure to reduce cost. The models that came on the market after that time were shit. Like, serious shit quality we have never seen before.
When we tell you it isn’t “in the back” we mean it.
Trained artist here. Most oil paints are made with very toxic substances, as are most paint thinners and mediums. Every single one of my teachers was either very sick (Cancer, Ménière’s disease) or a bit crazy (eating chalk, licking pallettes). All incredible artists I was privileged to learn from.
One lesson I learned very well: I wear gloves and sometimes a mask when I paint.
Most industrial places are really not as well maintained as they should be.
I’m a Casino Manager.
It is definitely possible (more likely than you think) to win money in the short term. For example, if you walk in, bet on Red/Black on Roulette, it’s reasonably close to 50/50 (not quite because of 0). You might do this once, double your money and leave. Congratulations.
You will always lose in the long term. Always. Anyone that thinks they have some kind of system is a sucker. A game would not make it into the casino floor if the maths have not been rigorously checked and long term simulations run to confirm.
*exception to this is Poker. The casino will always have a rake or time charge to make their money but there is no reason you cannot consistently win money if you are skilled enough.
All those “practical effects” that people love in movies are heavily touched by VFX. We fix/enhance/replace everything digitally, and the on-
set artists get the credit. My last movie had $350k in wig tape fixes. Fury Road, which was applauded for its practical effects, had 2100 vfx shots in it. The first Avatar had ~2500.
My slogan for VFX is “we make the rest of the movie”.
That store brand products and name brand products made in the same third party factory aren’t the same.
People believe that there is no difference to the recipe and that the same stuff is just put into a different box. That it’s the same ingredients on the same production line.
Each brand asks the factory to make the product at a particular price point. A luxury brand might want the product to cost $4 a unit but the store brand might want it for $2. The factory will tailor the recipe to the price point, substituting expensive ingredients for cheaper ones, eliminating an ingredient all together, altering the manufacturing process to require fewer people or equipment, or eliminating intermediate quality control steps.
Sure, there might not be a detectable difference between some products, and other products might actually be identical to the point that spending more for a better brand isn’t worth it, but a lot of products are noticeably different even if they are made on the same production line by the same people.
94% of successful consulting is making shit up that people want to hear. However I think it’s unethical to not present good data and systematic research before providing recommendations. You can couch honest conclusions in your findings but ultimately, other than out of legal or financial obligation, they’re gonna do what they want to do.
Your phone was not “hacked,” terrorists and the government don’t give a fuck about your information. You clicked on adware, malware, or a link that asked you to put in your login information.
It’s your fault, accept that.
When you eat at a Waffle House and want chili, ask your waitress if it is any good before you order. Sometimes it has been sitting WAY too long. The waitresses never seem to give a shit about telling you the truth.
The news about Boeing is not a surprise to me at all.
The amount of resources that they are able to delegate in an effort to deter whistleblowers is unfathomable to the average American/EU citizen.
Data protection: most companies misuse your personal data. Even the ones with a better grasp of the law and a data protection team are cutting lots of corners.
Some appetizers are the most labor intense items on the menu to make, for example: dumplings takes one worker about an hour to make 12-15 orders.
If you want to know where I’m getting at, if a restaurant offers a plethora of appetizers options then there’s a high chance a lot of them are store bought and resold because there’s no feasible way to prepare several orders for each item on the menu.
The reason why the kid fell off the Orlando free fall ride.
Any ride with an over the shoulder restraint system works by using a proximity sensor to let the computer system know where the restraint is locked. The ride can’t move unless all the sensors sense the correct metal at the correct position. On some rides you can move the sensor a few millimeters for proper alignment. Not enough to make a difference. On the free fall ride someone in management might have wanted to modify a few seats for larger guests. Someone might have told a maintenance worker to move the sensor which allowed the ride to start with the restraint in a position not in the original design. With this modification the restraint would be at more of a 45 (or so) degree angle instead of directly downward . This may or may not have been done with an engineer’s approval. This may or may not have been done with the ride vendors permission. Any procedure like this is strictly prohibited from any standpoint in the amusement rides industry. I can’t explain why they thought it was ok. In most situations you wouldn’t be able to move the sensor much without detaching the bracket and moving the whole thing to a different location. Again, this wouldn’t even be discussed anywhere I have ever worked. But they might have at Icon Park. The details of this mechanical procedure never made the headlines in Florida because all the lawsuits were settled. In the end someone decided to change the position of that sensor. We will probably never know who. There is probably a maintenance worker who was ordered to do so. I’ve worked on enough restraints to know that it was not an accident. Personally I would have refused to do it and so would almost everyone that works on these things.
Lawyers who draft basic contracts, deeds, demand letters, and SPAs have a template and it usually won’t take us a few minutes to accomplish. Then we charge you the big bucks.
Tho, we did spend years learning how to do that quickly so there’s that.
When I used to work for Hyatt, if the mini bar was used and not declared but the value was under $15 they wouldn’t bother billing for it because it gave off an appearance that it wasn’t synonymous with a 5 star hotel.
Worked with a lot of banks and their It systems.
You wouldn’t believe how old and fragile they are. It’s a wonder it’s not all coming crashing down.
I’m an academic researcher and I can speak for a huge number in my field when I say:
**If you want access to our studies and they’re behind a paywall, you can email us and we will send you the study.**
We are genuinely delighted to share and if you want further context for the results or what have you, I’ll always try my best to oblige.
The only limiters on that last bit is that:
1. the original data for the study might have reached the end of our right to keep it, in which case it will have been destroyed.
2. I might have forgotten details or I might have written that paper during a particularly hectic time and my file system might be total shit.
Also a lot of us are on ResearchGate and various social media things so you can contact us through there. If you can’t contact us directly or we’re being slow, one of the other authors on the paper might be contactable.
Anybody, at anytime can enter a city bus, start it up without a key, and drive it wherever their little heart desires. Honestly. The only thing stopping you is your cowardice.
Almost nobody maintains their sobriety from their first go in rehab. It’s takes several goes. On the plus side there’s absolutely no need to be hard on yourself for returning to rehab as its nigh on impossible to achieve this on your first go.
The US Military is the most wasteful organization in the United States.
Live Audio Engineer. Sometimes they’re faking it. I’ve had to mic drum sets where the cables went nowhere. I’ve had to ask a keyboard player if they were having trouble, because they were playing, but nothing was coming out of their channel. Don’t even get me started on pitch correction, teleprompters, guide tracks, ghost musicians, backing tracks, etc.
“Are we still connected?” most times will get an immediate response from online chat agents.
I work in education. We are way behind the ball with student issues, and are just flying by the seat of our pants so to speak. We are in crisis, and most parents simply want to drop their kids off and hope they have a normal experience. None of this is normal. You need to start having conversations with your kids about mental health and social media. If not…woof. Our society is not in good shape.
If you’re nice to hotel staff they are more likely to give you free shit
If your baby goes to a nursery/daycare, chances are those weren’t their “first” steps/words etc that you witnessed. Industry standard is to not tell parents when these things happen as it makes them feel bad. I’ve seen kids up and walking about the room for weeks, even months before their parent proudly announced at drop off that they “Took their first steps last night”.
Tech industry: pretty much every single system is a spaghetti mess of trash code written by a few good engineers and a whole lotta cowboy brogrammer idiots.
It blows my mind the world works at all given how fragile most of our systems are.
Yet execs continue to insist tech is a cost centre to be controlled instead of seeing the reality that “the tech” underpins every aspect of how we do business now. It’s still rare to find tech people in the boardroom… because why would technology have strategic importance in organisations??
Behind every cyber breach is a Board of old, white, male accountants and lawyers who have no idea about tech but claim to understand risk. Just retire please and leave this new world for those of us who will be living in it.
If you find an extra nugget in your order, it wasn’t a mistake. You got a cool employee.
Google sucks so much now because around a decade ago, they abandoned the measurement known as “Page Utility” which just measured the usefulness of the site itself.
Instead, they migrated to “Expertise-Authority-Trust” which had good intentions of stopping the proliferation of bad info, but instead it basically resulted in prioritizing large corporations and capital over any sites created by average people.
The contract workers known as “raters” they employed to help determine the best search results became an echo chamber, as there were strict demands on exactly what the right answers were in most cases, and straying from the expectations of Big G resulted in poor reviews and possible firing. Of course, we were not allowed to say the G word – we could only say “The Client.”
It’s about to get worse, too – they just laid off a huge swathe of them.
If the TSA is giving you shit, ask for a supervisor. Seriously. They know policy better and have powers of discretion that normal TSA goons do not. TSA goons are obligated to call one if you ask.