How Reddit Thinks You Should Do Money
by B. Traven

Since Friday Reddit has accumulated a massive thread full of advice from users in a wide variety of different jobs, which ranges from the banal to the absurdly specific. While you may have heard many of these tips before, it’s fascinating to see what people in a huge variety of jobs think the general public doesn’t know about their work — or wish they did know.
What are some useful secrets from your job, Redditors?
They range from the obvious:
– Always ask for hotel room upgrades.
– Don’t teach your children to swim in a water park.
– Never go to Geek Squad.
To the helpful, though possibly dubious:
– Use incognito mode to buy your plane tickets.
– Don’t buy fancy butter, it’s all the same.
– …and so is frozen food.
– Schedule your surgery for early in the morning.
To this doozy:
I work at a gas station. If you are getting something that you’re going to microwave, buy it before you nuke it. If you microwave it first, we ring it up as taxable; purchase it first, it’s rung up as non-tax. I just saved you a quarter. Those add up
I also learned that there is a specific subreddit for night auditors, which is somehow not at all surprising.
h/t to Chris Blattman, whose money secret is that social science master’s programs exist only as cash cows for the university.
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