‘What have you learned from your job that most people don’t know?’ – 23 lessons you will definitely want to know
12.
‘That people who are good with computers are just good at googling and using logic.’
–josie71202
13.
‘Beyond a baseline level of working correctly, successful project delivery is all about people.
‘Technology, process, software, none of it’s relevant to success. If you get the people aspects right, everything else should just fall into place.’
–adreddit298
14.
‘Always amazed how little people actually know about basic finance, especially mortgages. Working in that industry its really simple. So I suppose I learnt mortgages.’
–Cheap_Interview_3795
15.
‘I work as a cleaner in a hospital. People are quite happy to create and leave a mess that would be classed as an environmental disaster if they know that someone else is going to clean it up.’
–FlockofCGels
16.
‘Most 5 star reviews in magazines such as ‘What xxx’ are paid for. In my industry it was around the £5-10k mark for a 5 star review.’
–grgext
17.
‘I feel like it should be common sense but always be nice to the people who have access to food you are going to be eating. You have no idea what they can do to it once you can’t see them any more.’
–SnooGrapes2914
18.
‘The employee in the sex shop is not flirting with you, and we have heard all of your jokes 100 times and they’re not funny.’
–Badlydressedgirl
19.
‘The vast majority of older folks who end up in nursing homes permanently have a syndrome of behaviours that land them there: lifelong inactivity, lifelong poor nutrition, lifelong unwillingness to adapt to change.’
–noodlesarmpit
20.
‘During my press relations days, I learned that almost everything you read in the media serves an agenda and is therefore more or less untrue. Deliberate misinformation to achieve an outcome, someone pushing a particular narrative or viewpoint to form opinions, speculation, the writer has recycled a press release, and/or they haven’t bothered to check the facts.
‘Every article where I’ve known even a little of the inside story has been untrue. Least true of the BBC. People often talk about the BBC’s agenda but that’s where I look for factual reporting on anything important.’
–Sea-Still5427
21.
‘Library manager here. Libraries continue to get funding based on issue numbers. You being in the library for your work call or a children’s activity alone doesn’t help us. We love having you here, but if you want libraries to continue to be staffed, please take out some books. If you use our space, please help support our existence and take a few books out.’
–TheUbermelon
22.
‘On the phone to someone in a call centre/service desk somewhere between the hours of 11-1 and you keep getting placed on hold whilst the operative ‘checks something’ for you? They’re having their lunch.’
–watsee
23.
‘The customer is absolutely, categorically not always right.’
–Repulsive-Echidna-74
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