In the Heating and Air Conditioning repair business, the annual system "tune-up" is nothing more than hosing off the outside A/C coils, maybe check the refrigerant charge. The main reason they are there are to sell you crap you don't need, parts or filter systems , even new equipment. The A/C tech gets paid a flat fee to go a house to "tune-up" the A/C, usually about $12. Considering that travel time to a house and time spent at the at least 45 mins, he's not making much. So in order to make a good wage he will tell you need to replace a part. He gets like 20 to 25% of the charge on commission, the company gets the rest. Most common parts sold to you are; capacitors $10 their cost you are charged $215, contactors $11 to you $250, fan motors $45 you pay $500+, but labor is included with price. Oh by the way there is nothing wrong with the old part. Whoopie!
So for the hour he spent at a house he gets $12 to show up, $54 commision on a capacitor for a total of $66 for 1 1/2 hrs. work. So he has to sell you something to earn decent money. It's not the tech's fault this is how these residential companies work. I worked 35 years at repair work and it sickens me to see people getting ripped off, when I started out it was basiclly hourly work.

DO NOT eat french fries at Sonic

Education is principally about getting kids to pass to maintain funding levels.

Over-cooked meat from the grill gets used in the next day's or week's chili. It's frozen. Wendy's.

This is probably just the owner of the local place I worked being cheap, but the comfort suites hotel I worked at for a while didn't even stock sanatizer tablets for dish washing. I didn't even realize it, until the health inspector came in one day and asked me where they were. I hate to think I may have spread something. D:

Keebler cookies are NOT made by elves. Very disappointing. I hope you take this better than I did.

I worked for the court system in NC for several years. People freaked out when they got a jury summons and gave every excuse for a dismissal. Truth is, if they just plain failed to show, no action was ever taken. Ever.

I used to process the predatory mortgage loans that crashed the economy in 2008. Saw thousands of loan documents first-hand.

I had worked at Stroh's brewery it was sold, Pabst in 2001 We were the last Srtrohs/Pabst brewery to close. It was located in Pennsylvania. That light beer people buy is a just regular beer with a lot more water in it, so in essences when you pay for light beer you are buying water with a tad of beer in it,

Housecleaners in a hurry sometimes sweep kitchen floor, make sinks look shiny, and pour Pine Sol or the like in the drains and toilets. I did it a few times, never failed, client would come home, take a whiff, look at the sink, and thank you for doing such a great job!

My industry -- corporate legal defense -- is incredibly boring and very much by the book when it comes to shortcuts, skimping, and dirty little secrets. At least it's been that way at the three "big law" firms I've worked.

Have you heard? NASCAR is going 'green'!