Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas
What would you say if you could be completely honest about your job? Would you share all the dirty secrets and things your boss or management would never want the public to know? People in this online thread had the opportunity to spill all the hot tea about their jobs and they didn't hold back.
Internet user asked: "Blanket NDAs Are Now Illegal, What Can You Finally Tell Us About Your Former Employer?" and it led to some very interesting answers which show why NDAs are even a thing. From not talking about your paychecks to horribly treated employees, you can find anything among the answers. Perhaps you will even find some stories very relatable.
They ignored shut down mandates during covid and then lied about it underoath and the judge overseeing the case still sided with them despite providing evidence they had done so on both counts.
There is no justice in this country. There's just corporations and everyone else.
Two different places I worked created roles for minorities with a plan to not retain them so they can hire more minorities to satisfy quotas. If you were any good, they would promote you to a real job and hire another minority. Someone in HR told me “the reports only show how many the company hires, not how many they keep.”
They tried to get me to sign one when I retired but I just laughed at them and walked out. When you retire you are not under any circumstances required to sign an NDA!!!
Barclays would refund those charges for exceeding your overdraft if it was clear you had a good income or decent savings. But they’d enforce those charges on the poor single mothers who were struggling to live.
They layed off 160 people so they could afford to give the COO a 30% raise.
They misused pandemic assistance funds.
I worked for a school district that changed grades to boost graduation rates.
A publication I worked for completely embezzled from the parent company. The editor in chief hired their best friend as creative director. Creative director contracts their husband as a “men’s fashion editor” when the publication had no men’s fashion section and was not a fashion-related pub. He was paid thousands monthly on retainer and almost never came into the office, and if he did he never did any work. On top of that he was paid usage fees for travel images he took and were printed. That family took a one week trip for a story, brought their child, and submitted a $40,000.00 expense report after for it. Oh, then there were the future invoices for her husband’s usage fees for his photos, while they were being paid to be there because it was for a story.
Other editors in chief from other publications were given a $25,000.00 clothing budget every year and a daily black car driver to take them to the office. When I worked for another title in the building that EIC submitted a very high expense report which included his groceries. The company would even provide interest free down payments to EICs for homes but they stopped doing that.
Meanwhile they ran multiple rounds of layoffs a year, consolidated staffs so they worked across multiple titles, and paid peanuts to regular employees. I was laid off from that company twice within 2 years and they didn’t vest my 401K match because both times I missed the cutoff by months.
One of my old bosses reprimanded an employee after the employee called HR to file a complaint about him. This is because the HR employee happened to be a friend of the boss in question, and the HR employee blabbed about it to the boss. The boss did not get fired but he did get reassigned not long after. Not sure what happened to the HR employee.
The filtered water dispenser in the cafeteria produced floaty chunks of goodness for too long a time. I had to drink bottled water.
He's actually a really nice guy. Former marine, took about 6 months off when he adopted a young boy to get him acclimated into the family
