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The bread you are given to at the restaurant is of often recycled from leftovers at previous tables.
That non-trivial software development is really freaking hard, and incredibly expensive . And the majority of developers barely have any idea what they're actually doing.
I wouldn't say they're a scam! They are submitting your name automatically to everyone at once - or at least everyone who follows the law.
It's just not a long-term solution. Data Brokers are incredibly incestuous. Any data that one owns will find its way back into all the others.
If you want to try to clean up as much as possible, unsubscribe from as much as you can. Close every account that you reasonably can.
Then setup a monthly reminder to ask incogni (or similar) to nuke your data from the web. It'll work, just not forever.
It's going to be an eternal effort against a constant tide.
Taking an ambulance to the ER does not ensure that you will be seen faster. A decent chunk of ambulance patients go right out to the lobby to wait like everyone else because everyone is triaged based on their illness or injury, not their mode of transportation.
In HVAC, I've been called out to look at the air con in an office block and person A is cold but person B right next to them is hot, there's nothing we can do to help that.
One simple solution that seems to work each and every time is the placebo effect. I say ok, give me an hour, I'll adjust the parameters and check over the system operation. I then sit in the plant room for an hour paying on my phone, come back to see if it's better and 9 times out of 10 they're both suddenly happy.
Depending on the state ( in the US) security guards can have all the same powers as real cops. Literal rent a pig. Also depending on the state, security guards are little more tham unglorified receptionists. The exact same job responsibilities, plus being cpr cert'd, for half or less the pay.
Which reminds, y'all be nice to receptionists. That job sucks. be dicks to security if you want to, most of them are only there for 3 months, and the ones who stay longer are probably bootlickers, so, y'know, you do you.
Oil and gas workers are normal people with children and dogs that care about the environment and they do a pretty good job on average of protecting the it. But accidents do happen in the industry, and when they do, it's sometimes not a simple "cleanup on aisle six" scenario. I've seen grown men on their hands and knees mopping up drops of oil in a cow pasture more than once.
After the staff are done drinking coffee for the night, we only brew decaf. If you want caffeinated coffee close to closing time at a restaurant, ask for an Americano or other espresso drink.
In my captial city, the lead city designer's wife owns an industrial design company. All of the bollards, lights, bins, seats... everything is given to the wife's company for manufacturing because the lead city designer only ever puts orders in to that company.
Everyone in the industry knows but doesn't want to do anything because he's a nice guy.
Not sure how secret it is, but in many states your credit score can be used as a rating factor in determining your auto insurance premium. Insurance companies charge you more if you have bad credit.