People have been sharing the trade secrets that everyone should know – 21 favourites
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‘Having worked in a warehouse that stores beer cans, I’d say that you should wash the top of any can you drink from. It may have been sat on, climbed on, touched by filthy hands, had mice run across it, and if nothing else, it was probably covered in layers of dust.’
kagome423
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‘When someone shits in the pool, we only evacuate it for a short period of time and maybe add some extra chlorine with a bucket to give the illusion we are doing something.’
Campbell Elmer
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‘Your child’s success depends mainly on three things: the child’s will, the parent’s support, and the teacher’s skill. If your child doesn’t want to learn, he won’t learn. If you don’t fucking feed your child properly, he won’t be able to learn.
‘If your child gets his way at home, he will be a terror in class and won’t succeed. I am only a part of your child’s education. I can’t do anything if he refuses to learn or if you refuse to support him.’
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‘It really does help us at the library when you don’t re-shelve your own materials. (Not because we don’t trust you to know where they’re supposed to go, but because if you put it away yourself, we can’t keep track of the fact that someone looked at it, which is useful information for us to have.)’
throwaway5272
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‘When you climb into a helicopter and the rotors are turning, you can’t reach your arm up high enough to lose a hand….but we don’t want anyone trying to test it or prove us wrong.’
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‘School photographer here. Do not coach your children on how to smile. I can normally get them to smile naturally with a funny word or simply by smiling at them. I have seen MANY kids that have obviously coached smiles because they are afraid mom will take away their Playstation.
‘Remember that school photos are a marking of time, love your kid for who they are at that moment. And NEVER tell your kiddo to not show their teeth. Second graders are supposed to have lots of missing teeth– it’s charming.’
ladyofreasons
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‘When I worked at Starbucks, not a lot of people understood that a larger espresso drink does not always equal more caffeine. A tall drink has one shot, grande has two, and a venti also has two, unless it’s iced and then it gets a third shot.
‘So many times customers would order a grande latte and say, ‘You know what, you’d better make that a venti — I can use the extra caffeine,’ when, in fact, the larger size is just more diluted with milk. If you are looking for more caffeine, a drip coffee is going to be the most bang for your buck.’
babybokchoy1
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‘A lot of people know this, but, the police can lie to you. About damn near anything. If you are ever arrested, shut the fuck up. Request a lawyer. I can repeat this until the sun dies of heat death, but you dumb motherfuckers will still talk to the fucking cops. You are soooo much better off just not talking to them.’
a_sad_sad_man
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‘Touching your fresh tattoo with your unwashed fingers is bad. It’s absurd how many times we have to tell this to people.’
goddamnmike
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‘Every time I leave a hotel, I strip the beds, fold the toilet paper into a triangle, put the used towels into a pile, and leave a tip for the maid because I used to be a maid and I know how much it sucks.’
allycakes
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‘I work in live chat support. We can see what you type when you are chatting with us before you send it.’
springstof
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