# Secrets You Know Because Of Your Job **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829 "2014-12-10T07:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/121 "2014-12-23T14:24:02Z")
> [@Noelq](#): > > I work in IT. Our biggest secret? This little thing called Google. Don’t tell anyone- you can usually find the answers to your problems there. > > Its amazing how many people don’t know about this. I work in the travel industry. Just tap in your flight number on Google and presto! information appears about the flight. From Google, on google … you don’t have to google anything else, or go to the airline’s website, or check flightstats or flightaware or type out the airline name in full. Try it! Make that jump! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/122 "2014-12-24T03:16:16Z")
Probably not a secret but the Federal Government is too big. And not even sensical at times. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/123 "2014-12-25T01:35:58Z")
Nope. Not a thing. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/124 "2014-12-25T02:23:41Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I work in the travel industry. Just tap in your flight number on Google and presto! information appears about the flight. From Google, on google … you don’t have to google anything else, or go to the airline’s website, or check flightstats or flightaware or type out the airline name in full. Try it! Make that jump! That’s pretty awesome. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/125 "2014-12-25T02:27:44Z")
When you call in on a live radio show, and actually get through, and there is this delay where they say they can’t hear you, (making it seem like it’s a phone problem or something), it’s the delay being reset. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/126 "2014-12-25T04:10:19Z")
I know 231 people at my company are getting laid off the second week of January. I know exactly who, and I interact with some of them on a regular basis. Awkward. For me, that is, they have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Waymore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Waymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waymore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/127 "2015-01-07T06:36:58Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I know 231 people at my company are getting laid off the second week of January. I know exactly who, and I interact with some of them on a regular basis. Awkward. For me, that is, they have no idea. That would make chitchat really difficult. My poker face isn’t that good. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829/128 "2015-01-07T07:06:31Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Once I got my first professoring job, I was dead excited because at last I would find out if it were true: if your uni roommate commits suicide, do you get an automatic 4.0? (the big rumour on campus when I was an undergrad). I taught a graduate-level research class for a few years. During the first class session, I would ask, “How many of you think that you’ll get an automatic 4.0 if your roommate commits suicide?” A few hands would go up. One or two students would pipe up and say that although it wasn’t true at our campus, it was definitely true at another one. Then I’d say, “If you can prove that this policy actually exists anywhere, at _any_ university, I will give you an A in this course.” The students would grin and some of them would get very excited and vow to return with the proof. After that, I’d never hear another word about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-know-because-of-your-job/706829.md?page=6)