What is obvious in your profession that others may not know?

In My Humble Opinion
101

The camera does not always add 10 pounds

Famous people are just like everyone else.
They just buried their mother.
Their sciatica is acting up. They didn’t get any sleep last night because their daughter is deathly sick.
They’re having a fantastic day at work and are drawing off your energy.
They have a sense of humor. They do not have a sense of humor.

The greatest day at work is not when you get to work with “famous” people. It’s when you’re driving home and you realize that you were at work with between 30 and 80 people all of whom care passionately about telling a story.

It’s only a movie or television program or commercial or live event. It’s not real life.

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102

Fast, Good, Cheap.

You can have any two of the above, but rarely all three.

103

The most common fruits and vegetables usually have PLU codes starting 40xx, but about 1400 different codes have been assigned, in the 3xxx and 4xxx ranges. For example, Meyer lemons are 3626, lima beans are 4529, and fresh tarragon is 4906.

The full list is available here.

104

Thanks for this. I think I’ll memorize the ones I usually buy, it’ll make my shopping list a lot easier to read and write.

105

Japanese are not like that. No. They aren’t. I don’t care if you watched Shogun when you were a kid or read manga, but they aren’t like that.

106

They used to be just 2- and 3- digit numbers, but sometime in the late 1990s/2000s they standardized to 4-digit numbers across the board, but retaining the old PLU as much as possible, so 608 became 4608, 11 became 4011, etc. There are some 5-digit PLUs that will start with 83- or 84-, but those are pretty uncommon.

107

Not all classical music composers are dead.

A clarinet and an oboe are not the same instrument.

No, Mozart did not write “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (Trivial Pursuit got that one wrong.)

“Crescendo” doesn’t mean “climax.” It means a buildup to a climax.

Music arranging is a more useful and enjoyable career than some may think.

A music degree is not worthless.

Music in general is a useful and worthwhile field to go into.

108

The reason a doctor is prescribing a particular drug, using a particular medical device, or referring you to a particular treatment facility is not that he is getting kickbacks from the company that makes the product or provides the service.

109

When you all were growing up did your mothers have to nag you to practice or did you just WANT to practice by yourself?

How do you learn to quickly reach down and change a page on a sheet of music?

Whats the difference between a fiddle and a violin?

110

Hotel clerks (unless they own the hotel) do not decide what to charge for a hotel room.

Night auditors at said hotels work. They don’t “sit around all night doing nothing”. Often they also have to play manager, housekeeper and engineer.

These days most if not all hotels and motels in the US do expect IDs and credit cards at check in. Credit cards that will be good for a hold. Reality check: checking in for a week and we can’t get the credit card to accept a $10 hold, let alone the $800 it should be holding? Yeah, you’re not checking in.

Don’t try to check in at 12:30 AM on (let’s say) June 5 with the argument that your reservation is for June 5th and thus expect to not pay for the night of June 4th. Your check in time for June 5th is 4 PM. You’re not getting 16 hours free.

111

Your wasting your time putting “Fragile: Handle with Care” and shipping it thru the US Mail (unless you pay for that). Otherwise its all processed by machine and almost never has a human hand touching it.

Little secret: if you DO want to have a package handled by hand, make it extra large or put it in a round container. Those are all hand sorted.

112

Just to be sure although I can probably guess, you mean round like a cookie, not round like a ball, right?

113

I just had a cube-shaped box arrived via USPS and it had FOUR fragile stickers on it. It was beat to shit. 6 of 8 corners smashed in. Looks like Ace Ventura delivered it. Thank god for a lot of bubble wrap.

Now I know why. Thanks.

114

The three most common reasons children are removed from their families by CPS are

  1. Drug addiction
  2. Domestic violence
  3. Mental illness
    Or often all three combined.
115

As a long time paramedic…I know the first instinct of good samaritans upon arriving at a car crash is to pull the victims from a perfectly stable car…no matter how wrecked it looks. Unless it’s on fire, leave the victims IN the car. Make them comfortable if you can. Cover them with a blanket. Apply a tourniquet or direct pressure if you see a wound spurting blood. But a person suffering a spinal injury in the crash that isn’t paralyzed probably will be after you wrench them out of the car. Let the professionals get them out.

116

Like a long tube a poster would come in.

117

Exactly, fragile stickers mean nothing.

Now if for example you were sending something extra long like a fishing pole thru the mail, that gets handled by hand.

118

We also get the occasional crate of live bees. That gets handled with extra care.

119

Game Development is really hard, takes a lot of work, and the game industry really isn’t very stable. The average professional lifespan of a game developer is just five years- most find out they can work fewer hours for more money in other industries.

120

From the marketing world:

Nobody out there gives a shit about your long history of dedicated service, your passion for what you do or your people who make a difference. You’re lucky if they even know you exist.