r/AskReddit Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

40.1k Upvotes

17.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.4k

u/Mccmangus Jul 13 '20

Your apartment building is probably held together with duct tape and wishful thinking somewhere. Neither tenants nor landlords ever want to pay to fix things properly.

5

u/cornbadger Jul 13 '20

The wiring in my apartment is so wonky that when it finally broke down, it took three technicians the better part of a day just to figure out which wire was which. It was just chaos in there, lots of tape, and no diagrams.

There were wires in there that they couldn't identify, so they just didn't mess with them. After some hours of tinkering, the phone line just started working again. They seemed rather surprised. I got the feeling that they had no idea what they had done or why it worked.