People whose NDA have expired, what secret can you finally reveal?

Remember: The penalties for breaking an NDA can be steep, but the penalties of honoring an NDA can stay with you the rest of your life. ALWAYS read carefully before signing, and never sign anything you can't live with.

that first one... i havent trusted medical professionals or anyone who is in a related field for years. saw some teen go into a hospital, in the room next to me. i could hear them talking. doctors said he had toenail fungus and it was causing cognitive issues. heard the mother in there 3 days later yelling because she got a second opinion... kid had brain cancer, and perfectly healthy feet.

I have an NDA that expires in roughly 50 years. Worked on a project while serving in the military with an oddly specific NDA duration: 76.26 years. Apparently, that was the average American lifespan at the time, the rationale being that anyone old enough to be in the military signing such a document would be long dead before their NDA expired.

I only had one NDA in my life, and I'm really excited about it. Because as a gamer, I like to brag that I briefly worked for Ubisoft. I was a playtester for Far Cry 6. Pretty much all communication was done via Discord, and because this was during lockdown we couldn't go to Ubisoft in person. I was looking forward to that because I live in San Francisco and pass Ubisoft all the time and have always wanted to go in, but the front door requires a scan card thingy. Anyway, the game we were given to test had all cutscenes and most dialogue removed. There was a basic "start game" screen, and when clicked it dropped us directly into the game running across rooftops. When you reached the end of that scene it dropped us directly into the next scene. Our footage was recorded on our computers remotely, meaning we didn't keep the footage and it recorded directly onto their servers. But at the end of each day we'd have to report anything we noticed. Like any bugs or anything that might have affected gameplay. Footage only shows so much. You can watch gameplay footage and not know what it's like to play it. It was really cool, because I saw what the game was like back then, and when it released I bought it and was able to tell what they changed. There was a few big things that pretty much all of us called out that they actually listened to us on and changed. Unfortunately, we didn't receive a free copy of the game, but it's on my Ubisoft account that I was a part of it. Their company employee app is still on my account. Of course I don't have access to it now, but no way I'm deleting that lol. They told us the NDA expired at the game's release, so I was able to finally tell my friends who had been begging me to tell them what game I'd been working on what it was.

i was covered my medical for the birth of my son, this would almost entirely cover the hospital expenses so I when I got a bill for $65,000 I was in shock. My agent had pulled me off of medical without any notice a DAY after my csection and the bills started flooding in. I called her and she told me that my income was too high but she had combined 3 months of income as my monthly total and cleared my plan. I had to take it to small court to get my plan back. I haven't trusted a healthcare provider since.

Story 8- This explains a lot tbh. So many times we get a pack released with such horrible bugs and glitches, that one can't help but wonder how they thought it was okay to release it. This story helps to shed some light on that issue, as I can only imagine how many bugs are found by QA that don't get reported, and then not found by the TL

I have been doing a project for the last six months about Alzheimer and elderly people and the first one breaks me in a way I can’t even describe that’s not even cruel, you have to be a monster to take advantage of the economical needs of people to scam others with such needs and conditions, or to find someone who will happily do it.

40 years ago I worked for a very small company whose owner invented and had a patent on camera movement . Think pan left, right, zoom etc. Another company deconstructed one of our sync modules and stole the technology. A multi million dollar lawsuit later (which our boss won) the boss sold out to that same competitor who stole the technology. Part of the sale agreement was that we employees would have positions at the new company at our same rate of pay. Our job was to teach them how to make our sync modules and then assemble the product. ROTFLMFAO! Ya. That didn't happen. That Monday, after a quick conversation in the parking lot, we had our plan. And ya know... It's the funniest thing happened! In 18 months we just couldn't seem to get a single one of those sync modules to work! I mean WTF! 😂 We could do it in the old shop - I dunno what happened! 🤷🏼‍♀️ We just couldn't seem to get it! 😉 That company quickly went out of business and our old boss was fat and happy. That year the old boss gave all of us a very generous Christmas bonus. Think 5 figures. That kind of generous. 😊

The fact that advertisers can send push notifications to the users of apps that just used their SDKs without the consent of the user OR the developer(/s) of the app would, in my mind, count these SDKs as malware. Like, if they can do that, they can pretty much do anything on any device they want.

my boyfriend worked for marketing in a shady dental company. they’re very much still in business, and the marketing they had to do was AWFUL. they targeted lower income households and pushed crowns on every little issue.

The medicare thing is hit and miss, my wife does it and she and even her company policy, is that if the plan is the best they can't swap them. She has calls all the time where people will even call in to her and she tells them actually you have the best plan. Based on what her experiences were though, most companies aren't like this.

the scammers are probably gonna get scammed by new scammers when they get older too bruh

Damn that first confession immediately made me think about my great aunt who is suffering dementia along with other organs slowly failing and is having trouble telling my brother and I apart. Imagine somebody like that picks up the phone and then forgets the damage they did the next day.

Most expired pharmaceuticals have little to no change for years after the date. Especially hard goods like hoses and oxygen pumps (yes, these have expiration dates). They won't last 25 years, but they're still perfectly good and safe for a long time afterwards. Usually a few years after the date. They don't just instantly expire on that date, that's just the FDA notice that's required to be there. All medicine does after the date is slowly become more or less potent, it's not going to hurt you. The potency change is usually insignificant until a few years pass. The only ones you need to worry about is stuff like morphine, which is a supervised drug anyway. When dosage ends, a pharmacist or nurse comes and destroys it. Source: my family doctor of 20+ years, after his NDA expired after his retirement. I met him in a store and it came up in conversation because I was at the pharmacy picking up scripts.

Also, regarding the last story: Sometimes dental offices do damage to your mouth during the initial examination so they can say something needs to be fixed, and then pressure you into letting them fix it right there. For example, Drilling out a tooth to give it a filling, then WHOOPS, the drill "slips" and you loose too much of the crown for it to remain stable with the filling in, so now you need a root canal, a post installment, and an artificial crown placed instead of that filling you were gonna get.

I can vouch for the Medicare stuff. I worked for a major insurance company, and yes, there's a huge conflict between having your life insurance as well as having Medicare or Medicaid. You basically can't have both Medicare and insurance. So if you have an existing life insurance policy and gotten Medicare, you're in trouble of losing your policy.

Last one reminds me of how some places cops have a certain number of arrests they need to do to get paid

I was working for a company that molded parts for cars, and Tesla had us make hinges and latches to place a child seat in the trunk of your car. They haven't done it yet or perhaps scrapped the idea but yeah. They wanted to put your kids in the trunk of your car.

It's not just Chase. I worked for an IBM child company that did mortgage management. That DOS sh*t was infuriating and you ended up having to learn to read a matrix of codes while punching in other arbitrary codes. It's considered "industry standard", or was when I worked there. Diff companies slap diff interface frames around it to "help" but they end up just as cluttered and stupid trying to find a way to work with the DOS bs. If you have a mortgage, 99% it's being pulled up on that DOS bs if you have to talk to someone. Everyone's stuck with it. Any indie coders wanna make it rich figure out a "cheap" way to update that shite.

When I look at reviews for stuff, I always look at the 1–2-3 star reviews. Generally, I feel like the people leaving those comments are a bit more honest and at the very least, I’ll know what to look out for as far as defects.