To ask for the scandalous secrets of your industry?

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Or just dirt?

Mine isn't very interesting, more just sad. My background is in immigration and I have never worked with so many racist (and stupid) people.

A boat of refugees when down and the guy who told us the news was laughing about it.

Endless racial stereotypes and visas refused because "as if a French person would go out with a Japanese person" etc.

Then there was the chap who said amnesty are evil because they provide money for abortions to rape victims in the Congo. He's the same guy who refuses to assess any applications from homosexuals because he thinks they should all be denied visas. He doesn't get fired for this.

There are probably more but they are the stand outs.

What's your industry gossip? I'd especially love to hear from nannies and cleaners but I'm interested in all dirt!

Itscurtainsforyou I agree, much kinder and more compassionate. Mind you, we were all given temazepam for after night shift too, before it became controlled.

Far stricter rules now, some for the good.
You just couldn't whack up an extra dose of morphine and not have a big investigation.

Henry can believe that. Briefly spent time abroad* where major industry was fabricating for oil and gas industry. The area close to the yard gates, where the bars etc were was known as the "pubic triangle".
Heard a horrible story where a child at the international school was taken from his Mum. His Dad introduced a bottle-blonde lady to him as his new mother. Meanwhile his Mum was deported, with no money.

I've known a number of colleagues who've 'massaged' scientific data when they haven't quite got the result they want. Nothing ridiculous but also not accurate to what actually happened in the experiments.

On the back of a particularly interesting result, my colleague started to set up a company with one of his postgraduates. The postgraduate never admitted to faking data but none of the many hundreds of repeats to even get close to the result he'd come up with.

I used to work somewhere where there was a nationally recognised quality control system, based on inspectors coming in to do an audit. However, the way it worked was that the date when they were coming would be agreed with the company concerned, and as soon as that was announced there would be a flood of holiday applications for those dates. That was because it was known that the auditor would pick a few specified people at different levels within the organisation and only their work would be looked at, and they wouldn't pick them if the individual concerned wasn't available. The names of those picked would be known in advance, and there would then be a flurry of activity with every one of those people's files being checked through with a fine-tooth comb to ensure that all the forms were filled in properly, all the right bits of paper were there and in the right place, and there were no unfortunate gaps. At one point it was known that the practice of one of the auditors was to go to the individual's filing cabinet and pick out a few files, so the night before the audit the victims would be regularly seen taking any dodgy files home or hiding them in their mates' offices. Honestly, we used to wonder how on earth anyone ever failed those audits, they made it so easy to pass.

peony - a lot of bullying, and a hell of a commitment to hierarchy (that flies in the face of all common sense). And so, so many people promoted into areas where they are not competent. I've never worked anywhere that is in such a state, v glad to be back in academia now (for all its faults).

So all the talk in the media and from politicians about whistle-blowing without fear of reprisals is utter tosh then?

Yes, I confronted a consultant about something that he had done and falsified in the notes. I corrected it and my life was made hell for a long time afterwards.

Worked on delivery suite where the midwives gossip and laugh about you and your appearance / behaviour behind your back in the office, sorry to say. No such thing as confidentiality on a labour ward.

Constantly having to clear up after everyone else, listening to annoying repetitive music, breaking up fights and repeating myself over and over! and someone keeps stealing my maltesers!

Housewife

I work for the Daily Mail where we post leading questions on popular internet forums in lieu of doing proper journalism .

These are now a long way in the past but -
When I worked in a filling station, 99% or people who asked for a receipt wanted it to be falsified in some way. Company policy officially forbade it and I foolishly obeyed, for which I was roundly abused. This nation is way more dishonest than we like to pretend.
I got a better job in Commercial Insurance. Some of the major Companies would from time to time agree not to chase the same business, so when we trying to find the best deal for the customer, the bosses would say "no point ringing company X as they won't quote against company Y" this was well known in the industry but not outside. Dunno if it still happens as I am a long time out of it.

LaContessaDiPlump I was about to post pretty much the same thing!

When I started working in academic publishing about 15 years ago, pharma companies used to pay the (now bust) company I worked for to publish an article saying X (usually positive effects of drug) written by Y (leader in the field). Most of the time the 'author' was paid to approved a draft that was written by a 'technical editor' in our office.

The rules around this started to get tighter before I left but I would imagine it's MUCH tighter now. I still work in publishing but no longer in a profit-led organisation, thankfully.

Solicitors and barristers make "Chambers" seem very innocent indeed. Senior partners have sex with the junior staff, policemen and police station reps, Barristers and solicitors - sometimes female barristers and male solicitors because they see it as a way of getting work. The law really is a hot bed of lust and depravity. Maybe not if you do probate work in some rural outpost, but in every other situation.

Mackerel I work in academia. Publishing is a minefield. Whilst authors aren't paid to approve things, there are authors on papers who don't deserve to be because they've done fuck all. What upsets me most is funders being named on academic publications.

Can concur with ExConstance...

NHS for 20 years.
Demotivated staff, who are so tired and over worked in some areas.
Yet there are a new breed of NHS workers who are so entitled and genuinely so NOT care about the patients or theirs jobs etc.

Disgusted but not really surprised to hear of racism in immigration. I work in the construction industry and have no gossip.

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God the temptation to make up some scandalous nonsense that the DM would gobble up and spout, only to be shown up as complete, gullible dicks...

Name changed for this.

I work in telecoms (think the biggest most well known) we have the shitest telecoms equipment for business use, most dated or basic mobile phones, office IP phones with poor connectivity, low speed broadband for home working - you name it we've got it.

We don't use anything we sell, too expensive.

Oil and gas industry here too.

Officially approved procedures listing the best and safest brothels to go to while in South America and parts of Asia.

Mutiny almost happening when management decided to stop providing free condoms on the boat for shore leave...all the workers were married.

Lulu that's shocking

I work in TEFL.

Some teachers don't correct their students' pronunciation so there are literally hundreds of Spaniards saying 'fanny' for 'funny'.

Shocking!

Wow that's crazy. Applications can't work like that!! Surely?!? What you're saying is illegal!!

When i started working in schools i was surprised just how much bitching about the parents of all the kids goes on in the staff room. Probably naive of me to think that it wouldn't, but hey ho.

Trust me - loud or quiet, involved or un-involved - you've been ripped to pieces talked about