What is something you know because of your job, that would surprise others? (My example is gross, thread warning!)

[Mrmen1100]

It can be anything!!

I will start..

I am a food safety inspector (local authority) and have been for over 15 years, working in two large cities, and my current job in a smaller local authority. The same theme...

Food handlers do NOT wash their hands properly after using the toilet / before preparing your food.. lack of antibacterial soap in a toilet cubicle or in a kitchen is common place.... even when I am there, hands are not washed, it is an absolute bug bear of mine.

Preparing with raw meat then handling food ready to eat.. not uncommon

Handling cash / touching screens then handling food.. not uncommon.

Yes it does put me off eating outside of my house unfortunately 🙃

I have come across a LOT worse but this example irritates me.

Your turn!!!!!

Most vegetables contain nitrates as well.

You can see the curvature of the Earth if you stand on a beach and hold a ruler up to the horizon.🙂

My dad went on a training flight on Concorde once <not relevant to thread>

Maybe not that well known, I was at London Bridge when they were calmly calling for Inspector Sands. I was slightly disconcerted as knew it meant fire or suspected fire, but no one else seemed concerned.

In London though, a large number of passengers will be international travellers and wouldn't know, and many others will travel so frequently that even if they do know about the Sands chap they'd probably ignore it anyway.

its possibly only well known if people travel by train a lot which many of us don't

Yessss... that's why I wrote it.

They also have a propensity for laryngeal hemillegia on the left, because the nerve that controls the left hand side of the laryx travels all the way down the neck and wraps round the aorta before going all the way back up to the larynx.

I point that one out every time a religious person starts talking about intelligent design being a proof that God exists.

I know someone who this happened to, fairly recently. He had a kid in a different part of the country and said he was staying away for hospital treatment Monday to Friday every week. For years and years (the other kid was high school age when the wife found out). God knows what he told the other woman (and their son) he was doing at weekends...

Should say hemiplegia!

shin bones and prostates aren't evidence of intelligent design either

In mental health care, section papers are pink.

Omg I think I would’ve died! 🤢💀

@BrickBiscuit They used to be. These days, where everything is sent digitally or uploaded to notes internally, it’s whatever colour paper the printer has, if we’re receiving a section on paper at all.

Well yes, a bit of poetic licence there. In the old school days, they were centrally printed on pink, then later locally printed out on pink, but now digitised into generic notes. Archived notes will have all the pink ones though.

I’m an ASL teacher and this would be the case in Scotland, where I am. A 3 or 4 year undergrad degree, followed by a one year PGDE or a 4 year BEd then an ‘induction /probation’ year before you can be signed off for Full Registration to teach in an LA schools, including ASL.

People who live or work in London will be travelling by bus or tube at least twice a day. Millions of them.

I wonder what the equivalent is in other countries. I don't travel by train very much so never heard an announcement outside of the norm in my country but would love to know what they'd use.

Much the same with corporate dentistry.

And care homes.

Occupational hazard! We often had to help each other remove tampons! I took to wrapping the string around so that at least they were easy to pull out if with a good rummage but some strippers would cut their string clean off.

Sorry yes, she is a vet too.

Nothing prescribed by the last vet who did a very thorough examination, (dog was sedated for that)nor by the previous one who actually did see her walking around a car park, nor the usual one I went to. All said she's fine nothing to worry about. I don't think I paid for anything in particular time-wise, just for an appointment as my dog was exhibiting some worrying behaviour! All were longer than 15 minutes. Maybe I just got unlucky.

That's interesting regarding franchising. I will not be going to one again in a hurry that's for sure. The vet I became quite close to (I had quite a lot of animals a the time) said they treated their staff appallingly and cared only about the money. I appreciate this is just one person's experience.

I work for an EAP and also teach counselling students. A lot of the training is slapdash as you say. Some companies/colleges are far superior to others, a lot of them just want 'bums on seats'.

When I did my own training I trained alongside some awful people who, as you've said, I wouldn't trust to help an upset friend let alone professionally counsel people who had potentially been through some awful things! Majority were lovely and well meaning, but some of them were downright dangerous when it came to the way they spoke to people, the judgmental attitudes and the combative nature. On our residential one of them was so awful to our (lovely!) lecturer that he actually addressed it in front of everyone. It was painful but he did right.

I have to say I haven't ever experienced the unprofessionalism you speak of (I manage cases for other counsellors as part of my job!) but I have seen a lot of emotional fragility and chaotic lives unfortunately. One woman recently was upset and felt over worked as she had assessed 4 people in one day. That isn't actually even counselling them, it is just asking questions, taking personal details and speaking to someone to see what kind of situation they're in, and if our service has the ability to help them. Genuinely upset, I actually felt a bit sorry for her, but surprised as those types of tasks are just like, admin work really to me and I couldn't imagine anyone feeling so fraught over them.

These are amusing me, I would love to know more! Some become very well known, I mean most people will know what 'MayDay' means? But there must be so many others.

Pharmacists have been able to prescribe antibiotics in the UK for a while now. Only for a set list of complaints. UTI, infected insect bite, simple ear and throat infections

Oh absolutely.
A fucking disgrace.
Many, many people have blood on their hands.

For example?