Confessions of a....

[Applescruffle]

Taxi driver? Nurse? Wedding dress shop owner?

Tell us your job and your confessions/inside secrets.

I'm expecting a few name changes!

Disclaimer: I know this isn't really a AIBU but I thought it would be fun/interesting

holiday rep here- the bigger fuss you kick up about hating your holiday/ wanting a refund/ going to the press, the bigger chance you have of actually getting any compensation. It really sucks that those who are most unreasonable and awful to deal with get the best treatment but it's true.

Retired psychotherapist.
We're all nuts. Clients, clients' families, non clients, me, you, all of us. No exceptions.

Can't tell you... if I didn't I'd have to hunt you down and kill you!

TA

Teachers do talk about the parents in the staff room.

And your kids talk about you. A lot !

You'd be horrified ... i was. I def started wondering what the hell my 4 might be saying
😂

Confession of a council regeneration officer

Town centres are not dying because council is actively out there ruining it or taking brown envelopes. Town centres are changing because of online shopping habits, you are the reason why high street shops are closing. But…. Town centres are changing to more experience based activities that you cannot replicate online, so all is not lost!

What's yours OP @Applescruffle

Confessions of a journalist: sometimes I can't be bothered to come up with my own ideas for a story

Lol I'm not a journalist 😂

Mine are kind of boring. And I might change my name before I post them

I worked in a nursery for a year a long time ago. I heard all sorts about parents! Probably worse than schools because pre-schoolers have NO filter! 😂

Confessions of a care worker in a care home:
We are not all thick, uneducated, failed nurses
A lot of us really, really do care and work our arses off to do better and counteract the bad shit.
There's a shit ton of abuse and bad practice which gets ignored and swept under the rug. In most homes.

Confession of an ex beauty therapist.... when you come for your waxing session we KNOW if you haven't showered beforehand 😖

Ex estate agent

It's quite common for estate agents to use their clients properties to meet their affair partners to have sex

Lack of free parking and public toilets certainly doesn't help to redress the balance in any way, though.

Confessions of a Poet and Writer.

Actually, I rather like Slough.

Free parking encourages commuters/ workers to park. Making it even harder for shoppers to park as they tend to come out a bit later. Where we are we still have public toilets and if anything there’s a big push to include changing places within town centres.

Clever!

I used to work in publicity, pretty similar to PR, and some of our 'strategies' were entirely immoral and downright ridiculous.

For example, advising a client to initiate a law suit against a major multinational company accusing them of stealing their inventions, knowing full well they had done no such thing, so we could make a big fuss in the press to get on the radar of the multinational's customers ("Look we have such a similar product as the one you already use - the IP is almost the same, but ours is cheaper!") and steal them away.

We also applied for advertising space at a big family friendly event (similar to Wimbledon I suppose) on behalf of our client, knowing full well they couldn't afford to pay for it. Since they couldn't afford to pay we sabotaged the application by saying we'd use the space to advertise illegal drugs - they were a healthcare company so we dressed it up a bit. Then, when the application was inevitably declined we went to the press to cry discrimination, positioning our client as this innocent saviour of sick children going up against an evil, big event. This actually became a huge news story and was all over the news channels for ages but not in the UK so probably none of you will recognise it.

I don't believe anything I read in the papers anymore in case there are shady people like my ex-colleagues behind it all!

@RegenOfficer I have two similar sized towns both of which are five miles from my house in opposite directions. I usually go to the town with free parking. There are almost always spaces in the 'free parking' town; in fact the paid for town usually has less. Amenities are the same, roughly. I don't object to paying for the space to park but, given that I usually have five mins to dash to the shop and then get to school, the extra time it takes to faff about with a slow solar powered ticket machine is what puts me off. Plus I feel bad for the workers who used to be able to park for free and now have to pay

That's pretty much the same excuse that's used for charging people visiting hospitals through the nose for parking.

If you provide enough free parking for a maximum 1 or 2 hours, to give all of the shoppers a chance to make use of it, how are commuters going to work around that one? Nobody is suggesting that you have to make it completely free of all restrictions; just free of charge.

It's especially irritating if you have to pay for a minimum of 30 minutes or an hour when it's the kind of shop that people pop in and out of in less than 5 minutes for one or two items. It's not even just the cost of the parking, but the faff of having to buy and display a ticket that takes you longer to do than the time you actually need to be there for.

I've just realised that I pretty much repeated part of what Mammy said!

Confessions of a museum assistant.

If you're home schooling your child and you expect museum staff to suddenly become your child's personal tutor during your visit, yes we will roll our eyes, yes we will talk about you in the staff room and no of course we won't do it.

Pay for a tour instead of expecting free, special treatment.

Yep, the "tell us" was a bit of a giveaway. Ye gods you lot are lazy.

Teacher

A parent once came in query this over the top tale her child had told her about something happening at school.
She asked the HT if it was true. He said no, she said her son was very convincing. HT said 'look let's work together. If you don't believe everything he says about school, we won't believe everything he says about home!

Keep on the cleaners good side . We go all round the building and some of you are very careless with what you say in front of us because we are " just the cleaner ".

Food production worker

Trading standards can shut us down during visits for a number of things, we go through a huge list of things they check and implement many of these LEGAL REQUIREMENTS the day before the visit. The next day they're back to being ignored, these range from contamination checks to basic cleaning. The whole Random inspection thing is a lie, we always have roughly a weeks notice if not more.

I could reveal a lot more and could end my employers biggest contract and customer confidence however nothing online is ever truly anonymous and therefore for legal reasons I will keep quiet.