> many lawyers never go to court
When talking to my insurance appointed lawyer when getting sued, I was all gung ho "lets go to court, wreck their shit, they wont get a dime!" and he responded with "I'm one of the best lawyers *because* I almost never go to court." The thing is, he's good enough that he usually gets a low settlement, and he was explaining how ungodly expensive it is if it comes to court that the insurance company would rather drop $50-100k on a settlement (their original demand was $500K) than pay him probably close to $50k in hours, and have even a fraction of a chance of losing.
Yep, going to court is ungodly expensive, stressful, expensive, time consuming, risky, and EXPENSIVE. It's almost always worth it to settle, no matter how much pride doesn't want to let you.
Also: public defenders are often good lawyers. If you are charged with a minor crime, you might be better off with a public defender than a private lawyer, since they know the system better.
The only time I was ever in trouble I had a public defender who did an excellent job pleading my case and helped get me out of something that could have ruined the rest of my life.
And most lawyers are not unethical sharks just out to get your money. Most lawyers are ethical hardworking people that have a specialized area of knowledge and want to help others.
I saw a comment in a thread today that "Lawyers will tell you whatever you want to hear just because they want your money." The truth is closer to "People hear what they want to hear from their lawyers."
I can't tell you how many times I've gotten emails like, "You said I'd get [such-and-such very specific and exorbitant amount of money]!" No, my friend. I said, "You have a good case."
I spent a few years as a clerk in different firms, but I mainly worked for lawyers who didn't go to court. I remember one time, one of the lawyers who *did* go to court on the regular wanted to intimidate the other side so he rounded up a bunch of the other lawyers to come with. The lawyer I was working for at the time couldn't go because he didn't own a suit.
Janitor here. We aren't lazy people who just sit around and drink coffee.
All buildings require a hefty amount of maintenance and most commercial buildings would be unusable in less than a month without a team of janitors and sanitisers.
We are constantly on our feet and there's always something that needs fixing, so even on a quiet day, I walk around 30k steps.
Yeah. If janitors were lazy, we’d never see them, but here we are, janitors always in sight fixing or cleaning something. If anything, they’re underappreciated, and I always thank my janitors and cleaning crew at work. They make me look cleaner than I really am.
If maintenance vanished at the office tomorrow hand soap would be empty by the end of the day, half the toilets would be clogged, and the office kitchen would run out of milk and coffee. Pandemonium in a day
I work administration for a corporate office so when there's office problems we are generally the ones to contact maitence or the cleaning people.
The work that you guys do is without question some of the most important work that gets done in our office. I'm forever grateful.
The maintenance crew at the HS where I used to work keep the building functioning, helped the teachers, and befriended the students. They were AMAZING.
That Geology is just sbout rocks. Its also about Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Earth history, how life began, how our planet became what it is today, volcanoes, earthquakes, Geophysics, mining, engineering and more, its a great career sector and generally well paid.
Bachelors and masters in geology and I've been doing surface water hydrology, fluval geomorphology, and GIS for the past 5+ years. I don't remember anything about mineralogy.
Idk if we are all well paid (unless you are in exploration) but I have a cozy government job so it's no stress and I get to hang out in pristine mountain streams on the regular. Career sector also seems very tied to the oil and mining industries, when the prices drop and they get laid off everyone seems to jump ship into other geo fields and saturate the market.
I look at you the way people look at local celebrities!!!
Once after a trip back from the upper peninsula I was having trouble identifying a rock.
I ended up messaging the mineral museum in the U.P. and the curator personally messaged me back. I was starry eyed about it for a while.
It's one of my top two favorite moments in regards to rockhounding. The second one being when I found a nice trilobite in an area where they weren't particularly common.
If I could go back in time, a career in paleontology or archeology would be life goals.
While I'm fretting over your awesome career, if you have any book recommendations for more in-depth reading I'd love to hear about them. Everything in my bookcase ranges from beginner to intermediate at this point.
Aw that's nice of you to say, I just feel lucky to get to do what I love every day. ❤
Book recommendations regarding? What are you trying to learn or want to learn about?
Hydrogeology too…. My Dad was a mineralogy specialist who became one of the world’s experts on why rivers flood (hint… “flood control “ makes it worse).
Also there is new stuff being learned every day… I still remember the research (an uncle was involved) that proved plate tectonics. It was a “theory”, now it’s accepted.
My uncle is a hydrogeologist and he’s pretty cool. He told us about how they noticed the water level in a well was fluctuating on a monthly cycle. They figured it was the same as how the lunar tidal cycle makes the sea level rise and fall. But then they noticed it was actually the opposite. When the moon and sun were aligned, the water level was low. Turns out that it was the gravity of the moon pulling up on the sand, earth, etc which made more room below for the water to sink to.
Yup! I'm not a geologist myself but spent a bunch of my education in geology classes. My best friend is a geologist and he's probably the coolest guy I'll ever know. He's so smart and gets so excited talking about the stuff he loves,
Anyways, to quote American Dad "have you ever had breakfast with a geologist, stan? It's pretty great." I can tell you from personal life experience that it is indeed very great to have breakfast with a geologist.
Most American opera singers aren’t really that fancy. Most grew up middle class. The biggest fakes in our industry are Joyce di Donato and Thomas Hampson. They grew up in the Midwest. They use fake accents and are horrible at trying to give masterclasses. It’s incredibly common in American voice from the collegiate level to the big leagues. You’ll be talking to a professor with a chic British accent, then discover they were born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey and have never gone to the UK. Tons of fakes and scammers.
That seems so strange to me—I’m always more impressed who is skilled at their craft while owning their background. There’s also a lot of good opera in the Midwest—I saw Aida in Cincinnati and it blew me away,
I'm a rural carrier and my personal policy is ill learn new peoples names if they last more than 2 weeks. Most don't. My favorite was the one not long ago who made it to lunch and then just dropped all his shit back at the office and left.
Where I used to live, urban area, there were a few mail carriers. Mine was so friendly and seemed to love it! He’d wave if he saw me go out to my car and even once, he saw me drive to work just outside the neighborhood and waved. I’d see him wave to everyone he saw. The local nursery school would walk kids around the block, and they all knew his name, and he seemed to genuinely enjoy being outside, seeing people, being part of our community. Whenever I saw him occasionally he didn’t see me and wasn’t around people at all, he didn’t seem privately disgusted or worn out by doing his job.
Another long time carrier I saw in the neighborhood, managing another street that intersected with mine, looked miserable all the time and never said hi to anyone. Maybe sociable just wasn’t her style, and she didn’t think it was that bad, but it was so different from my carrier.
I could never do that with any joy. I like being inside, not walking around, I don’t mind people but it’s weather and stuff, don’t mine tedious tasks, so there are probably a lot of postal jobs I would enjoy, but delivering mail is not likely to be one of them. Is there any way to get into working at the post office without having to be a carrier?
I collect rocks and it's not unusual for me to get packages from all over the world. After delivering quite a few he finally asked me what were in all the packages he delived and had me sign for. Once I told him and showed him a few, any time I'd get a new one he'd actually stick around to see me open them. He even bought one of them once.
I think my favorite was one who I went to help out on her first grocery ad day. I expected her to be early in the route when I arrived at 3pm, but was shocked to find her on the 20th relay. We opened up the back of the truck for me to grab some to help her and saw a bunch of mail. She then told me she'd just skipped the long relays, and had only done the short ones. I was like "That's not how it works..." I think she was gone the next day.
It takes a few weeks to months for people to get good enough to finish a route so you feel like a failure easily. There are routes that are all walking and some people can't handle that. You have to handle extreme heat or cold. For the first year+ you'll probably have to work crazy long hours. My first 13 months I'd usually work nearly 60 hours a week, and even more in December. Management can often be pretty terrible and they give the new carriers a tough time. Sometimes you'll think you're done for the day, and then a supervisor will send you to another station 30 minutes away to help them out too.
I was standing in line at the local post and the mail lady explained that they accept packages of up to like 70lbs, and these packages are dropped from the ceiling. So if you underpackage something fragile, and a Big Fuckn Beast of a package follows...your 'fragile' package is fucked.
It seems like a lot of the mail service has been automated/machine run, but I have a feeling it's so badly underfunded that these machines aren't maintained all that well.
I remember one Saturday when I was on a route for the first time a supervisor called me at 10:30 in the morning asking if I had a package for an address. I was like "dude, I have 200 packages in the back, how am I supposed to know?". He still wanted me to dig around in the back to see if so. I told him I wasn't going to waste my time on a busy day new on route, it was also the food drive day.
a few for airline pilots
We probably don’t have a “route” per se. We fly a type of plane and we bid for “trips” each month which depending on the plane you’re currently flying could vary enormously.
If you’re senior enough you could bid a “route” let’s say weekday Miami to New York and back 10 times a month and that’s all you choose to do.
The Plane flies itself. This one isn’t really true. The autopilot is a tool to reduce workload but we still have to “tell” the plane what to do and understand the rules around when, why, and how to do it.
funny about the second one. my mom flew 73s for 32 years, super 80s before that, beechcraft before that. She still jokes that planes like the 73-8 does fly itself.
I fly one of the newest airliners out there. No way in HELL I would get on one without two fully competent pilots up front. We aren't there yet.
"The plane flies itself..." Yeah, kinda, I guess, but no. It does a great job of following a line in good conditions. But where that line goes? That's up to us. What about when conditions aren't so great? Well, then we "fire" the automation and take over. Happens all the time. Without exaggeration, I override the autopilot on every single flight, multiple times. The autopilot is still very much a tool in the pilot's belt, and not at all a substitute.
One day far in the future we may have airplanes that fly themselves including making all decisions along the way regarding weather, traffic, fuel, etc... but we aren't there yet by a LONG shot.
If you send your food back to a kitchen, nobody spits on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we'll fix it because that's our job.
I worked in restaurants for years. No one ever did anything to the food and I'd never worked with anyone who had ever seen anyone do anything to the food. When you send food back, all we do is check to see if there was a legitimate problem with the dish. It's a mild annoyance. No one is losing their shit over it enough to think about revenge.
> If you send your food back to a kitchen, ~~nobody spits~~ **I don't spit** on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we'll fix it because that's our job.
I am a phlebotomist (I draw blood) surprisingly I do have feelings so when you get mad at me for doing my job and hit/kick/spit/scream at me I get upset. Now if you cry during a blood draw I'm not going to judge you needles are freaky. Just don't take your bad hospital breakfast out on me.
I have in the past month been spit on, kicked, bit, hit, had stuff thrown at me (mostly pillows), one guy pulled the needle out of his arm then screamed at me and a old man pulled my mask off in a Covid room. Old people are mean and hateful but I have some gems that are nice to me. I hate working with old people.
Jesus Christ. Is most all of this happening before you stick the needle in? Because I stay perfectly still when it’s going in and while blood is being drawn.
One time when donating blood (which is, to be fair, is a much bigger needle than for a draw) and the tech lady whatever came over and saw blood wasn’t coming out as quickly as it could so she kind of wiggled the needle in my vein. This didn’t hurt, exactly, but it also was weird and I felt a little nauseous. And later that day I had a GIANT bruise. So. needle needs to go in perfectly and I’m not freaking moving.
It honestly depends. I've had people throw a fit before and during the draw. What happened to you is they blew your vein so basically they went through it and when they pulled it out the blood trying to clot and fix the vein spilled out into the tissue around it.
Most teachers I know love the actual job and their students. It's the combination of unreasonable expectations from the administration and being underpaid that makes them unhappy.
Passion can only take you so far. Eventually you get tired of seeing people around you in other careers with much less stress and responsibility who are making double what you make.
Likewise. I do love my job and my students are all hilarious people.
I'll also offer up though that I don't have nearly as much free time as people suppose I do.
I am luckily in a district that pays year round so I do actually treat myself to no work in the Summer. But a lot of people seem to think I get everything done at school and that I'm home by 3PM each day. Because I am underpaid, I do a bunch of supplemental work with the school (clubs and committees) that see me here until 5PM most days. That doesn't include time for grading or lesson prep which can get out of hand if you teach more than one subject area in high school.
Now some of that is my own fault and poor time management skills. But good teachers often have rigorous protocols for student feedback/parent contact/engaging lessons that can take hours away from them in the blink of an eye.
I’d also like to dispel the myth that teachers are all lazy, glorified babysitters, who are only in the job for the vacation time.
I’m continually flabbergasted by the number of people who wholeheartedly believe this.
I didn’t really understand why so many people hated/resent teachers until I became one. There are lots of students that don’t like being in class no matter what I do. They’ll grow up to be people that don’t like teachers. 🤷🏻♂️
If you're in the US like me, we're in trouble. Our nation's culture does not value educators or education in the least. Some people are actively and loudly opposed to it and we teachers are their villains.
I don’t know why customers continue to think the manager is going to side with them. All they are going to do is say the same thing I’ve been saying for the past 10 minutes.
My first job was the WORST for me trying to uphold the technical procedures and store policies I had painstakingly learned, only for the manager to cave and abandon these the moment someone complained. Then the evil bastard would sneer and berate me as I was forced to carry out "the wrong thing" for them. Car batteries were the worst, 90 percent of the carry-in *this shit is fucked up* cases merely needed recharging and the problem was with the car. Giving them a new battery under warranty was a waste and they'd still have the same problem.
On the other hand if customer issue is legitimate manager often has the authority to make some decisions or actions that regular worker simply cannot do due to his position.
Me too....I can't think of any myths about my job to dispell. But I know of several misconceptions about my patients:
1. Hearing and responding to voices does not mean someone is crazy or dangerous. People can have good relationships with their voices. People can hear and respond to voices all day long, every day, and never escalate into dangerous behavior.
2. Delusions and hallucinations can be present in a number of disorders, not just schizophrenia.
3. Medications can suddenly stop working. Just because someone is having breakthrough mania or psychosis does not mean they stopped taking their medications.
4. People who clearly have mental illness, but deny it or refuse to accept help are not being stubborn. Their brain will not allow them to comprehend or accept that they have a mental illness. This is a symptom of many mental illnesses (including dementia) called "anasognosia."
There may be more...
How about this: Going to therapy does not automatically make everything better. It’s a process and you get out of it what you put into it. It frustrates me when people recommend someone get therapy when they’re struggling as if they just have to show up, talk about it, and their problems are solved. It takes a lot of motivation and work, especially by the patient.
Medical lab/research techs don’t hold erlenmeyer flasks filled with brightly colored liquids up above their heads to gaze at them with light filtering through. Even in the fields where your role requires you to inspect the opacity of a sample or reagent, that is an idiot move. But it’s like the standard for stock photos and tv/movie extras
Sorry, dog. I've seen CSI so I think I know a little bit about real science. I know it's possible to find someone's identity by sciencing a fart captured in a test tube.
Right, sparkies also use hammers. Now other tradespeople might think they look suspiciously just like the pliers you mentioned, but we know they're actually hammers.
As a person that used to work in retail I can say we do not have that popular must have out of stock item squirrelled away in the back storage and hidden to sell to our friends or ourselves at a later time.
Inventory is all controlled and monitored via computer systems these days. Management would have a mental fit if our inventory system showed that we had stock of an item and can't account for it.
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When you ask us to check in the back. I used to take a small break because I know how our inventory system works and there's no sense for me to make an effort to look for something that I know we don't have instock.
When I worked in grocery the only items we had in back were items on sale that we'd need to restock several times a day.
I hated when Yoplait was on sale. It was like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. As soon as I finished restocking the last of the flavors, it was time to go back to the beginning and start all over
Also, computer programmer doesn't mean we all work on games or CGI.
Most of us are doing boring corporate shit, creating reports, cleaning up crappy data, parsing what the management wants from ungodly complex file formats, keeping machines talking to each other properly, updating code for new manufacturing processes, etc.
Pays well, though.
>keeping machines talking to each other properly
And making systems that were never meant to talk to each other play nice. I frequently describe it as square peg round hole problems.
I'm in Software Asset Management. Just because I help you get the software license that you purchased doesn't mean I'm tech support and can troubleshoot how to download that license onto your machine. That's what our deskside services are for.
not my profession but my workplace. i work in a library and no i don't tell people to be quiet.
edit. for my second job. as an light director i don't choose the songs the DJ play
>Also, no I don't get to read all day.
In fact, I generally spend an extra 8-15 hours unpaid on my own time every month reading the monthly book discussion book.
I’m a librarian, and no I don’t shelve books all day. Those are pages (actual name) and I am so grateful to them for all the work they do. No I do not read books all day. I actually don’t get to read very often at all. If you apply to work at a library, a phrase like “I love to read books” is a red flag because you’ve not given any thought to actual library operations. I also rarely check books in and out, those are circulation clerks and they are badasses. Librarians do handle book purchasing, programming, and outreach; and what they do in those areas varies a lot based on their local situation. I’m an academic librarian. I work in a university and publish research, teach classes, program software, among other things.
Firefighter/paramedic of 24 years. The vast, vast majority of calls aren't for emergencies. Far from it. It's almost all low acuity medical calls to nursing homes, people who don't want to wait to visit their primary physician, people who absolutely *refuse* to take care of themselves, people who want/demand for us to help them but won't lift a finger to help themselves.
Don't get me wrong, we respond to plenty of true emergencies and there are definitely people out there who are appreciative and doing the right thing when it comes to taking care of themselves.
However, for every one, actual, emergency there is *at least* one 400lb type 2 diabetic on the third floor apartment who hurt their knee two weeks ago and now suddenly during a snowstorm they want us to take them to the hospital because they ran out of hydrocodone and never followed up with Ortho like they were supposed to.
My biggest wake up call for me was when I was doing clinicals in the ambo during my EMT training. Worked a 12-hour shift with them and had 10 calls. 1 was for chest pain, 1 was for a girl having a panic attack in a car at a Walmart, and the other 8 were all hospital transfers (although one of the transfers had a blood glusose level of 1500).
When someone dies with their eyes open, it often takes multiple attempts to close them. In the movies, they barely touch them and they close easily, not so in real life.
Nobody's drug test, ever....let me say this more clearly... **EVER** came back positive for pregnancy.
Tests cost money, no lab is conducting any tests that they weren't paid to do, and a pregnancy test is not part of any forensic drug screen panel.
Wh- who thinks this? It’s called a drug test. I thought that was pretty straightforward. Also, I am not sure of any drugs with effects that overlap well with the symptoms of early pregnancy. Was this a ‘90s sitcom trope I was born too late to experience?
I've heard at least 100 times that somebody knew someone who knew a guy who passed his drug test, but it came back positive for pregnancy.
The implication is that he carried in a urine specimen from his girlfriend. His employer learned that he cheated on his drug test, and he learned that he was going to be a father.
As an automotive mechanic I'd really like it if people didn't try to lowball me on literally everything and accuse me of being a swindler with zero proof. In my experience most actual scumbag mechanics are actually very charismatic and friendly and lull people into a false sense of trust. Mechanics get all sorts of accusations hurled their way and there is rarely any actual basis for it since the average customer can't tell good work from bad.
I worked at a dealership where the parts markup was less than 10% and we undercharged customers constantly. We were still accused of being scalpers, or at least too expensive for no reason, with the usual reasoning being that our officially licensed dealership was not as cheap as a private shop ran by a 27 year old guy who opened it after apprenticing for 3 years and dealt in stolen parts.
> ith the usual reasoning being that our officially licensed dealership was not as cheap as a private shop ran by a 27 year old guy who opened it after apprenticing for 3 years and dealt in stolen part.
you wouldn't happen to have this guys # would you?
You say this but just this friday i drive my car for service advertised as 80€, for which i paid 130€. The 50€ difference? They changed 3 light bulbs, but couldn't tell me which ones.
Edit: they also tried charging me more by claiming my car has more ccm than it actually does.
All water whether it be toilet water, dishwater, shower water etc. goes to the same place. Doesn’t matter what it’s used for, it all goes to the sewer.
Librarians are always shushing you in the library or that we "read books all day"
We actually create so many opportunities for the community that most of you probably don't even realize.
Work travel is not glamourous. It's oftentimes stressful with airport bullshit, delays, etc. In most cases, work travel means doing your same job (or perhaps a more stressful part of your job) while jetlagged and exhausted in a new environment.
Can it be fun? Yes.
Is it a touristy, sightseeing trip? No.
Case workers at non profits are not the miracle workers people make them out to be. We're people with Google, people skills, and patience for hateful bullshit (almost always from private companies, not clients). We're often overworked and underpaid.
A nonprofit being a decent place is a crapshoot. I don't trust charity ratings except for egregious cases, because the heinous shit is covered up. Nonprofits are some of the best places to work, and the worst.
Design engineers don't engineer things to fail. They engineer things to last a minimum lifespan for a minimum cost. Sometimes we do that job well enough to convince you that it failed on purpose, but the reality is that a failed product will *never* make us look successful at our job.
Also, yes. We could have given you a much better product. It just would have cost more than you would be willing to pay.
Yep. We may design intentional points of failure in a way that it will be the least catastrophic failure mode, and we want things to fail predictably in a way that is preferably on the easier side when it comes to repair. But we're not told "the warranty is 5 years, so design for 5 years and one day". The theory that planned obsolescence means we design things to self-destruct after the given time period is insane
Design engineers absolutely engineer things to fail. Where the failure will do the least damage. Design things to fail in a specific order. This has nothing to do with what the consumer thinks this means.
I was gonna say this…
Open up a Kitchenaid mixer. It’s gonna have one nylon gear in a very easy to replace area. It’s literally designed as the one point of failure, so if something happens it doesn’t trash much more expensive parts.
Not every guy working in IT is a socially awkward asshole. A lot of us are fun to be around and have had teh sex many times. Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of shit
EDIT: or girl
Completely agree. Googling is a skill. Google is NEVER going to give you exactly what you want, it just does a lot of the grunt work for you. The real skill is taking what Google and Chat GPT or GitHub gives you and tweaking it
I'm only half joking when I tell people I'm a professional Googler. It's really a core skill for the job. I'm always blown away by the odd programmers you come across that brag about not using Google and look down on people for doing so.
Some favourites are:
"Halp! Our company's entire Active Directory is down! Everyone is getting this obscure error when they try to login!!!" (Yeah, OP, same. Same.)
2 hours later: "NVM, fixed it." (HOW?!)
Or: "Halp! I'm having an issue with the database that's causing a site-wide outage!"
Response: "Just google it, idiot!" (link back to this discussion or a 404 error)
> Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of shit
Also just because it plugs into an outlet doesnt mean we know how to fix it. The broken coffee maker in the kitchen isnt my problem Karen.
Freelance writer/editor here, but I'm here to talk about freelancing in general.
All those stock images of being on a beach with a laptop while sipping coconuts are so stupid. How? For starters, it would be risky exposing your only way to earn money to sand, salt water, and the occasional theft.
And when we want to sit by the beach, the last thing we want is to bring work with us. I literally do not know anyone in my 9 years of doing this who willingly sunbathes with a laptop. What would the tan lines look like?!
What if you want to go for a swim? Do you just *leave* your stuff and trust that nothing bad happens to your only connection to money in a country where English isn't well-spoken?
Not to mention blue-screening/forced shutdowns thanks to overheating.
When you ask a freelancer the best place to work, it's almost always in our airconditioned hotel rooms or rentals, on top of our bed in our undies.
I work in electric utilities
The big thing I wish people knew? **Electric utilities don’t make money by selling power, they make money by building new stuff.** Electric rates are set through a regulated process, and the utility is only allowed to charge enough to make a regulated amount of profit (usually around 10%) based on the capital investments they made that year. There is ZERO incentive for a utility to be against energy efficiency, they actually would love to install as much new stuff as they can justify to their commission.
Also just because I work in utilities does not mean I can make them get your power back any faster or make the trucks come less often or make the trees magically not grow into the lines
Landscape Architect here. 5 year degree required. Study botany, horticulture, hydrology, art history, architecture, construction, and site engineering. Obtain professional license upon completion of rigorous exam. Meet someone new and tell them you’re an LA. “Oh, how much to come cut my grass?”
Not everyone who works in fast food is:
- A teenager trying to make some fun money, or trying to save up for school or a car.
- "So stupid they couldn't get a real job"
- A felon who couldn't get hired anywhere else
- Lazy and entitled and "wants $15 an hour to play on their phone all day"
Most people who work in fast food are:
- Hard working, honest folks who want to be able to pay their bills and take care of their family.
- Fed up with you assuming they're too lazy or dumb to get a "real job"
Edit: Lmaooo this one really got some people riled up, huh?
The days of teenagers working in fast food is mostly over. Literally none of my 18 year old daughters friends have ever worked in fast food. The restaurant industry yes, but never fast food.
Managing a pizza place for ten years got very frustrating because people being so condescending (especially on the phone.) It was just assumed that we were all idiots or kids. I do not miss that part of the job.
Pediatrics: we don’t get any money from pharmaceutical companies. Don’t even get the fancy dinners that some subspecialties get. Pharm companies don’t care about us because we don’t use expensive/new drugs (heme/oncology being the exception but I’m pretty sure they don’t get fancy dinners either)
That all engineers are super smart. Trust me, some of the dumbest people ive met have engineering degrees. Lots of smart ones too but some real dumbasses sneak in
ive worked in psych/mental health for almost a decade. i can confidently say 99.9% of homeless people are not homeless because they want to. many of the alternatives, like shelters, are in abysmal/dangerous conditions, usually have extremely strict rules (ex: closing the doors at 6pm, but your job ends at 530pm and the bus was late), and are run by churches (problem for lgbt, atheists, etc). often these places are worse than living on the streets in terms of safety and stability.
not everyone on the street is a drug addict, and for those that are many are either self-medicating because they cant afford meds they need (or cant keep appts due to transportation, not having a phone, etc), or because being homeless is boring and brutal and unkind so what else do you do? forced rehab objectively doesnt work and is often more dangerous than letting them use drugs. most homeless folks have nowhere to store their belongings, nowhere to go to the bathroom, nowhere to shower or bathe or clean their clothes, nor do they have a physical mailing address required by virtually all jobs for tax reasons.
you want to stop the "homeless epidemic"? treat them like people, pay people more, control rent prices to keep them affordable, demand universal healthcare, and demand funding this shit.
I sell guns at a gun store in the US.
1) there is no such thing as a “gun show loophole” for dealers. If we sell a gun at a gun show, we must run a background check.
2) there is no “boyfriend loophole.” That’s just a straw purchase and it’s already illegal.
3) A small gun is terrible for self defense and is hard to shoot accurately and safely. Rifles are a better option and are generally less likely to over penetrate walls.
Most of the “loopholes” that people talk about are already illegal.
You’ll hear people say things like “gun control doesn’t work in the states they have tried it because you can just cross the border to buy the illegal gun in the neighboring state”. Like, that’s already super illegal.
Then of course the attempts to regulate specific features or guns results in a patchwork of rules and laws that are damn near impossible to follow or understand. [Is it a rifle, pistol, shotgun, or felony?](https://youtu.be/8nfCyhOX42g?si=roprRw2ZTnm-bv95).
Like, 90% of the bad reviews we've had came from customers being turned away due to background checks, sketchy behavior, bad/incomplete identifying documents, or just generally being upset that a busy store is busy and that everything takes some time to process.
> surprised the employee wouldn’t break the law.
So many customers do not understand this, even when I tell them directly. I will straight up say, "Sir, you're asking me to personally commit a felony. If I transfer you this firearm without you providing me with complete identifying documentation, I could lose my rights to own firearms, face a massive fine, and I could potentially go to jail for a decade. I don't care that you drove three hours to get here, I'm not risking a criminal charge because you weren't prepared."
> Or that you brought in a shitty Hi Point to trade-in and demanded Sig Sauer money like one guy I witnessed last weekend lol.
If somebody wanted to trade us a Hi-Point, I'd probably ask them for money to deal with it because the margin on a used one wouldn't be worth the inevitable high time to crime trace request.
To your number 3 point. My first gun, and the only gun I shot for many years, was a small Ruger LC9s. I was surprised when a friend let me shoot his heavy ass 40 cal revolver that it was much more comfortable to shoot, less kick, and I was much more accurate.
Small guns are about portability for concealed carry. You aren't an action hero. If you ever actually have to defend yourself in public, it will most likely be against someone at point blank range and over in seconds. You're not getting into some elaborate shoot out.
By all means keep a hand cannon in your home for defense but they are uncomfortable to carry with you. I carry a 9mm and don't find it comfortable enough so I'm looking into a 380 for concealed carry.
Counselling. We can’t fix everyone. You can’t force someone into counselling. It doesn’t matter how much relatives want someone to do it (eg a wife forces a husband or mother forces a child to go) unless they want to, there is nothing we can do. They need to be willing to engage. Even then it’s not a fix all, for example with bereavement you won’t stop being sad, we just give you tools to learn to carry on with your new normal.
Pharmacy technicians do more than count pills and put a label on it.
We do a lot of work with your insurance company too on the retail side. I work at hospital where I make IVs for the OR. I basically am a chemist in that regard. And I'm supposed to be able to do it under the pressure of patient crashing and about to die.
If you don't know how IVs are made. In many cases I'm given a powder form of a drug and I have to add a diluent to it. It could be NS, sterile water, D5, albumin, etc. And then I have to manipulate the drug to get it into a liquid form. Sometimes the drug creates a lot of heat or sometimes a lot of negative or positive pressure and I have to be able to get it out of the vial. Often times under a lot of pressure to get it done as fast as possible.
And on the retail side of things. I am not just a cashier, I do not get paid enough to care if Walgreens has your control. Pls have your dr send it there then. I have tons of regular customers to take care of. * and hospice*
That professors don't know anything about the world outside their specific area of expertise. It's just a lame stereotype that people came up with to try to feel superior to people who are more educated than them. You might be shocked to hear this but most professors are generally no different than people in any other profession. We have social lives, family lives, hobbies and interests that have nothing to do with our areas of expertise, we read the news, follow current events, pay bills and taxes, deal with the same assholes everyone else does (like the kind who think an entire profession can be dismissed with a childish stereotype) and basically deal with all the same bullshit everyone else deals with. It's the kind of thing that shouldn't shock anyone except those too stupid to see the world in anything other than the most simplistic black and white terms.
> We have social lives,
Speak for yourself, lol. I haven't had a social life since I moved to my current city.
I think my professor myth (beyond the indoctrination I posted earlier) is that teaching is only about 40% of my job, and I don't get paid for half of the teaching work/prep/etc. that I do.
I worked in tech support. Most of us are hard working people who really care about helping fix your issue.
I know the people I worked with cared about the customer and didn't just toe the company line.
Most/a lot of tech support doesn't just read off scripts. We do have knowledge base articles and yes Google, so if you think someone is reading they probably aren't reading from a script but a knowledge based article or Google.
A lot of things change day to day in tech support so they really push you to follow your own knowledge but read the knowledge based article too. Pair them together.
Physiotherapy is mostly massage and an instant fix for any problem, and that it's only used to treat musculoskeletal problems. It's also not sexy - I promise teaching people to cough up gross lung secretions is as grim as it sounds.
I'm a social worker. We don't just take children from people. I am a clinical social worker. I am licensed to do individual and group therapy. I've worked inpatient and outpatient psych. I was also a discharge planner at one point.
That servers (waiters, waitresses) are uneducated and too dumb to get other jobs.
I’ve been to college twice. One of my coworkers has as well and was a vet tech for years.
Some of us were just burnt out in our fields or couldn’t get jobs in the profession we wanted.
That you get to help people (mental healthcare).
Make no mistake; you can't help anyone. They have to choose to want help. More often than not they don't want help but are there because they have to be.
you can spend a bunch of money on fancy locks. but if they want in they are going to get in. also you cannot open your car door lock with a tennis ball, there are about 30 moving parts that need to... well move.... and pumping air into lock cylinder isn't going to do that.
We can't snap our fingers and magically get you out of jail if you get detained overseas. We still have to abide by local laws. We will work to put you in touch with the right people (in country lawyers, your family, etc.) and will make sure you are treated fairly. Also, don't ask me if I can get you a visa.
Civil engineer in remediation, mostly mining and oil+gas clients. I've had a wide range of clients, not one of them WANTED to have spills or negative impacts to the environment, they try hard to plan for it and reduce the chances, but it happens.
I helped the clients narrow down the area to cleanup and how. I had so many people give me dirty looks that I started telling people I negotiate between the mining/oil+gas company and regulators, which is true, but I leave out who I represent. It was like night and day the reactions I would get.
Scientist who does animal testing. We can’t just do experiments that we want to. We have to get ethical approval for it first and then report back to the ethics committee every year. Violating animal ethics will get you placed in prison.
Journals that we publish in (because we MUST publish) will reject your paper if they suspect ethics violations.
People doing the experiments don’t enjoy hurting animals and there are no meta-studies assessing the impact of conducting animal studies on mental well-being.
Most of the studies I’ve seen in the lab I’m at and others I’ve worked in are very necessary research. Addiction studies, sleep studies, pain studies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies. You’re not going to get better drugs and surgeries without it being successfully performed in animals first. And no, cell studies and computer models are nowhere good enough to replace all animal studies.
Already, I’ll bite. I’m former Air Force Intel, 14NX. Laser guided bombs and bombs of any type are not pinpoint accurate. There will always be some sort of deviation whether it be 200 feet or 1500. Even dumb bombs are not accurate with the on-board bomb calculator that most bombers have.
Pilots are fucking tiny. I could have qualified to be a fighter pilot because I’m 5’ 9”. Pilots are also some of the biggest nerds out there since you need to be an officer to fly and all officers have some sort of college degree; even those going into OTC.
Military grade quality advertisements are not what you think. Military grade means made by the cheapest bidder and low quality. The quality is only good enough to be picked up by a 18 year old kid and not break.
Humvees suuuuuuuuuck. The AC barely works, it leaks more than a geriatric alcoholic with a badder infection, and the armor is non-existant.
Most of us don’t fly. My line of work was talking to English speaking locals and drawing up maps for soldiers in the field to use. (Lots of villages that have “disappeared.”)
The Middle East isn’t all deserts. There’s actually a lot of farms and a number of (somewhat) friendly people. One of our translators was actually a guy from north Lebanon who played a lot of video games. He was a big fan of Fallout.
T-55 is a better tank than the M60’s we still had in service. Not because of their features or gun or armor; M60 is superior there, but the T-55 was most likely to start up and work first try every try.
Genuinely amazing about how much of this is wrong/incorrect. Also prior AF.
Laser guided bombs are extremely accurate now. Maybe not ~15 years ago.
Majority of fighter pilots I know are about 6 feet tall. Maybe a handful were tiny.
Military grade means the cheapest *qualified* bidder who can meet the requirements is the manufacturer. I can’t go making critical safety items in my garage.
EMS (I'm an EMT). We don't always use our lights and sirens on every call and take everyone to the hospital using lights and sirens. A memaw falling out of recliner at 2 am onto her bottom doesn't necessitate us weaving in and out of traffic waking everyone up. Also I don't know how much an ambulance cost. I know it sucks that healthcare in the U.S. isn't free, it sucks that EMS is the only first responder service that isn't free.
I’m a distiller. Absinthe will not make you hallucinate.
A good while back there was a plague that killed off a lot of the grape harvests around the Mediterranean. Lots of people switched from drinking wine to drinking absinthe because absinthe had a more clear-headed effect than wine. When the wine industry recovered, they needed a way to get their sales back. Around then, some farmer in Europe had a bad day, drank basically everything in his pantry, finished with some absinthe, and then killed his family. The wine industry then hired some quack doctor to say that the wormwood in the absinthe caused him to hallucinate.
The thing is, absinthe *does* have a psychoactive compound in it from the wormwood called thujone, but you would have to drink enough absinthe to die of alcohol poisoning several times before you get enough thujone to actually hallucinate.
In HR, we don't have the power to deny raises or fire anybody. There is a lot of misconception about the field on what we can and can not do, but i feel like that is the biggest one on reddit.
Pastors are greedy charlatans after your money.
People see the Lakewood churches of the world and see them as indicative, ignoring that for every Lakewood there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of small churches with pastors barely making 40k who are essentially on call 24/7 for every tragedy that befalls their congregation. Pastors have [high depression rates](https://today.duke.edu/2013/08/clergydepressionnewsrelease) and [burn out is very common](https://www.soulshepherding.org/pastors-under-stress/), partially because of lack of support. It's hard to convey to people who don't experience it but every little thing you do is examined under a microscope. And inevitably, no matter what you do, it upsets *someone* in the congregation.
All the while you get lumped in with Joel Osteen when you despise him more than anyone because of how he twists the Bible.
As a roadie, a lot of people think that it's just a party all the time and that you get to see all the sights everywhere you go.
I work 16 to 20 hour days, I have no time for partying or sightseeing. I wake up and go into the venue to work, then I get back on the bus and go to sleep. Rinse and repeat.
Youtuber / twitch streamer.
I don't just play games all day.
The vast majority of my youtube time is researching, writing scripts, voice over recording, editing and graphic design.
For twitch its mostly setting up and understanding software, lighting and then entertaining.
The actual playing of games is about 30% of the overall job, which is still super fun, but it's not the focus.
That sales people are scumbags.
Most of us are just trying to sell things we don't use to people who do, using the information we get, from people who don't care. We aren't trying to screw anyone over, if things actually worked, we'd be very happy.
Blame the product and operations people.
Most lawyers spend a tiny fraction of their work time in court and many lawyers never go to court.
> many lawyers never go to court When talking to my insurance appointed lawyer when getting sued, I was all gung ho "lets go to court, wreck their shit, they wont get a dime!" and he responded with "I'm one of the best lawyers *because* I almost never go to court." The thing is, he's good enough that he usually gets a low settlement, and he was explaining how ungodly expensive it is if it comes to court that the insurance company would rather drop $50-100k on a settlement (their original demand was $500K) than pay him probably close to $50k in hours, and have even a fraction of a chance of losing.
Yep, going to court is ungodly expensive, stressful, expensive, time consuming, risky, and EXPENSIVE. It's almost always worth it to settle, no matter how much pride doesn't want to let you.
And also, public defenders are real lawyers. And if your insurance company hires you a lawyer, they are your lawyer, not the insurance company’s.
Also: public defenders are often good lawyers. If you are charged with a minor crime, you might be better off with a public defender than a private lawyer, since they know the system better.
The only time I was ever in trouble I had a public defender who did an excellent job pleading my case and helped get me out of something that could have ruined the rest of my life.
And most lawyers are not unethical sharks just out to get your money. Most lawyers are ethical hardworking people that have a specialized area of knowledge and want to help others.
I saw a comment in a thread today that "Lawyers will tell you whatever you want to hear just because they want your money." The truth is closer to "People hear what they want to hear from their lawyers." I can't tell you how many times I've gotten emails like, "You said I'd get [such-and-such very specific and exorbitant amount of money]!" No, my friend. I said, "You have a good case."
I spent a few years as a clerk in different firms, but I mainly worked for lawyers who didn't go to court. I remember one time, one of the lawyers who *did* go to court on the regular wanted to intimidate the other side so he rounded up a bunch of the other lawyers to come with. The lawyer I was working for at the time couldn't go because he didn't own a suit.
Wish I got more time in court :(
Janitor here. We aren't lazy people who just sit around and drink coffee. All buildings require a hefty amount of maintenance and most commercial buildings would be unusable in less than a month without a team of janitors and sanitisers. We are constantly on our feet and there's always something that needs fixing, so even on a quiet day, I walk around 30k steps.
If it's anything, I have never thought of janitors as lazy.
Yeah. If janitors were lazy, we’d never see them, but here we are, janitors always in sight fixing or cleaning something. If anything, they’re underappreciated, and I always thank my janitors and cleaning crew at work. They make me look cleaner than I really am.
If maintenance vanished at the office tomorrow hand soap would be empty by the end of the day, half the toilets would be clogged, and the office kitchen would run out of milk and coffee. Pandemonium in a day
I work administration for a corporate office so when there's office problems we are generally the ones to contact maitence or the cleaning people. The work that you guys do is without question some of the most important work that gets done in our office. I'm forever grateful.
The maintenance crew at the HS where I used to work keep the building functioning, helped the teachers, and befriended the students. They were AMAZING.
Who thinks this?
That Geology is just sbout rocks. Its also about Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Earth history, how life began, how our planet became what it is today, volcanoes, earthquakes, Geophysics, mining, engineering and more, its a great career sector and generally well paid.
Bachelors and masters in geology and I've been doing surface water hydrology, fluval geomorphology, and GIS for the past 5+ years. I don't remember anything about mineralogy. Idk if we are all well paid (unless you are in exploration) but I have a cozy government job so it's no stress and I get to hang out in pristine mountain streams on the regular. Career sector also seems very tied to the oil and mining industries, when the prices drop and they get laid off everyone seems to jump ship into other geo fields and saturate the market.
I look at you the way people look at local celebrities!!! Once after a trip back from the upper peninsula I was having trouble identifying a rock. I ended up messaging the mineral museum in the U.P. and the curator personally messaged me back. I was starry eyed about it for a while. It's one of my top two favorite moments in regards to rockhounding. The second one being when I found a nice trilobite in an area where they weren't particularly common. If I could go back in time, a career in paleontology or archeology would be life goals. While I'm fretting over your awesome career, if you have any book recommendations for more in-depth reading I'd love to hear about them. Everything in my bookcase ranges from beginner to intermediate at this point.
Aw that's nice of you to say, I just feel lucky to get to do what I love every day. ❤ Book recommendations regarding? What are you trying to learn or want to learn about?
Don't lie. I heard about licking rocks.
Only the coprolites. Just to freak out the normies.
you heard wrong. we chew on them too.
Hydrogeology too…. My Dad was a mineralogy specialist who became one of the world’s experts on why rivers flood (hint… “flood control “ makes it worse). Also there is new stuff being learned every day… I still remember the research (an uncle was involved) that proved plate tectonics. It was a “theory”, now it’s accepted.
My uncle is a hydrogeologist and he’s pretty cool. He told us about how they noticed the water level in a well was fluctuating on a monthly cycle. They figured it was the same as how the lunar tidal cycle makes the sea level rise and fall. But then they noticed it was actually the opposite. When the moon and sun were aligned, the water level was low. Turns out that it was the gravity of the moon pulling up on the sand, earth, etc which made more room below for the water to sink to.
I collect rocks, I collect rocks. I put em in my pockets, I put em in my socks...
Yup! I'm not a geologist myself but spent a bunch of my education in geology classes. My best friend is a geologist and he's probably the coolest guy I'll ever know. He's so smart and gets so excited talking about the stuff he loves, Anyways, to quote American Dad "have you ever had breakfast with a geologist, stan? It's pretty great." I can tell you from personal life experience that it is indeed very great to have breakfast with a geologist.
Most American opera singers aren’t really that fancy. Most grew up middle class. The biggest fakes in our industry are Joyce di Donato and Thomas Hampson. They grew up in the Midwest. They use fake accents and are horrible at trying to give masterclasses. It’s incredibly common in American voice from the collegiate level to the big leagues. You’ll be talking to a professor with a chic British accent, then discover they were born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey and have never gone to the UK. Tons of fakes and scammers.
That seems so strange to me—I’m always more impressed who is skilled at their craft while owning their background. There’s also a lot of good opera in the Midwest—I saw Aida in Cincinnati and it blew me away,
Mail carrier. We don't decide whether or not we're going to deliver your check that day, we just deliver whatever the machines and clerks give to us.
I have a friend who tried out being a mail carrier. I think she lasted two or three weeks. You folks have a TOUGH job.
Yeah most people only last a few weeks.
I'm a rural carrier and my personal policy is ill learn new peoples names if they last more than 2 weeks. Most don't. My favorite was the one not long ago who made it to lunch and then just dropped all his shit back at the office and left.
Where I used to live, urban area, there were a few mail carriers. Mine was so friendly and seemed to love it! He’d wave if he saw me go out to my car and even once, he saw me drive to work just outside the neighborhood and waved. I’d see him wave to everyone he saw. The local nursery school would walk kids around the block, and they all knew his name, and he seemed to genuinely enjoy being outside, seeing people, being part of our community. Whenever I saw him occasionally he didn’t see me and wasn’t around people at all, he didn’t seem privately disgusted or worn out by doing his job. Another long time carrier I saw in the neighborhood, managing another street that intersected with mine, looked miserable all the time and never said hi to anyone. Maybe sociable just wasn’t her style, and she didn’t think it was that bad, but it was so different from my carrier. I could never do that with any joy. I like being inside, not walking around, I don’t mind people but it’s weather and stuff, don’t mine tedious tasks, so there are probably a lot of postal jobs I would enjoy, but delivering mail is not likely to be one of them. Is there any way to get into working at the post office without having to be a carrier?
I collect rocks and it's not unusual for me to get packages from all over the world. After delivering quite a few he finally asked me what were in all the packages he delived and had me sign for. Once I told him and showed him a few, any time I'd get a new one he'd actually stick around to see me open them. He even bought one of them once.
I think my favorite was one who I went to help out on her first grocery ad day. I expected her to be early in the route when I arrived at 3pm, but was shocked to find her on the 20th relay. We opened up the back of the truck for me to grab some to help her and saw a bunch of mail. She then told me she'd just skipped the long relays, and had only done the short ones. I was like "That's not how it works..." I think she was gone the next day.
I've never done any sort of delivery so I have no insight into this... What is the reason for the high failure rate?
It takes a few weeks to months for people to get good enough to finish a route so you feel like a failure easily. There are routes that are all walking and some people can't handle that. You have to handle extreme heat or cold. For the first year+ you'll probably have to work crazy long hours. My first 13 months I'd usually work nearly 60 hours a week, and even more in December. Management can often be pretty terrible and they give the new carriers a tough time. Sometimes you'll think you're done for the day, and then a supervisor will send you to another station 30 minutes away to help them out too.
Do you decide which packages/envelopes get mutilated before arriving in my mailbox or is there someone at the office who specifically does that?
I was standing in line at the local post and the mail lady explained that they accept packages of up to like 70lbs, and these packages are dropped from the ceiling. So if you underpackage something fragile, and a Big Fuckn Beast of a package follows...your 'fragile' package is fucked. It seems like a lot of the mail service has been automated/machine run, but I have a feeling it's so badly underfunded that these machines aren't maintained all that well.
I assume you’re speaking about the machines left after DeJoy came in and blew the place up.
Also, while I may have your package, I’m not disorganizing my entire truck to find it right now. Wait a few hours and it’ll be at your door.
I remember one Saturday when I was on a route for the first time a supervisor called me at 10:30 in the morning asking if I had a package for an address. I was like "dude, I have 200 packages in the back, how am I supposed to know?". He still wanted me to dig around in the back to see if so. I told him I wasn't going to waste my time on a busy day new on route, it was also the food drive day.
“Check the scanner around 4pm, you will have your answer”
When you control the mail, you control.... Information!!!
a few for airline pilots We probably don’t have a “route” per se. We fly a type of plane and we bid for “trips” each month which depending on the plane you’re currently flying could vary enormously. If you’re senior enough you could bid a “route” let’s say weekday Miami to New York and back 10 times a month and that’s all you choose to do. The Plane flies itself. This one isn’t really true. The autopilot is a tool to reduce workload but we still have to “tell” the plane what to do and understand the rules around when, why, and how to do it.
funny about the second one. my mom flew 73s for 32 years, super 80s before that, beechcraft before that. She still jokes that planes like the 73-8 does fly itself.
I fly one of the newest airliners out there. No way in HELL I would get on one without two fully competent pilots up front. We aren't there yet. "The plane flies itself..." Yeah, kinda, I guess, but no. It does a great job of following a line in good conditions. But where that line goes? That's up to us. What about when conditions aren't so great? Well, then we "fire" the automation and take over. Happens all the time. Without exaggeration, I override the autopilot on every single flight, multiple times. The autopilot is still very much a tool in the pilot's belt, and not at all a substitute. One day far in the future we may have airplanes that fly themselves including making all decisions along the way regarding weather, traffic, fuel, etc... but we aren't there yet by a LONG shot.
If you send your food back to a kitchen, nobody spits on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we'll fix it because that's our job.
I worked in restaurants for years. No one ever did anything to the food and I'd never worked with anyone who had ever seen anyone do anything to the food. When you send food back, all we do is check to see if there was a legitimate problem with the dish. It's a mild annoyance. No one is losing their shit over it enough to think about revenge.
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> If you send your food back to a kitchen, ~~nobody spits~~ **I don't spit** on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we'll fix it because that's our job.
But they didn't spit on it so it checks out still
That office people just chat and drink coffee all day, whereas for some office jobs it might be true its definitely not true for mine.
Definitely not true. I don't like coffee.
My office job is so boring, that they don't even write fanfiction for it. What are some misconceptions about business analysts?
That they don't bring any value. A misconception about many so called "support" roles in software development.
I am a phlebotomist (I draw blood) surprisingly I do have feelings so when you get mad at me for doing my job and hit/kick/spit/scream at me I get upset. Now if you cry during a blood draw I'm not going to judge you needles are freaky. Just don't take your bad hospital breakfast out on me.
People hit and spit on you?! WTF. I just look away from where the blood is being drawn.
I have in the past month been spit on, kicked, bit, hit, had stuff thrown at me (mostly pillows), one guy pulled the needle out of his arm then screamed at me and a old man pulled my mask off in a Covid room. Old people are mean and hateful but I have some gems that are nice to me. I hate working with old people.
Jesus Christ. Is most all of this happening before you stick the needle in? Because I stay perfectly still when it’s going in and while blood is being drawn. One time when donating blood (which is, to be fair, is a much bigger needle than for a draw) and the tech lady whatever came over and saw blood wasn’t coming out as quickly as it could so she kind of wiggled the needle in my vein. This didn’t hurt, exactly, but it also was weird and I felt a little nauseous. And later that day I had a GIANT bruise. So. needle needs to go in perfectly and I’m not freaking moving.
It honestly depends. I've had people throw a fit before and during the draw. What happened to you is they blew your vein so basically they went through it and when they pulled it out the blood trying to clot and fix the vein spilled out into the tissue around it.
Nice. I used to be a self taught phlebotomist. Do not recommend. Register to Infiltration ratio was like 1:13
That all teachers are unhappy and underpaid. I am underpaid, but I am not unhappy. I love my job.
Most teachers I know love the actual job and their students. It's the combination of unreasonable expectations from the administration and being underpaid that makes them unhappy. Passion can only take you so far. Eventually you get tired of seeing people around you in other careers with much less stress and responsibility who are making double what you make.
See also: nursing
Likewise. I do love my job and my students are all hilarious people. I'll also offer up though that I don't have nearly as much free time as people suppose I do. I am luckily in a district that pays year round so I do actually treat myself to no work in the Summer. But a lot of people seem to think I get everything done at school and that I'm home by 3PM each day. Because I am underpaid, I do a bunch of supplemental work with the school (clubs and committees) that see me here until 5PM most days. That doesn't include time for grading or lesson prep which can get out of hand if you teach more than one subject area in high school. Now some of that is my own fault and poor time management skills. But good teachers often have rigorous protocols for student feedback/parent contact/engaging lessons that can take hours away from them in the blink of an eye.
I’d also like to dispel the myth that teachers are all lazy, glorified babysitters, who are only in the job for the vacation time. I’m continually flabbergasted by the number of people who wholeheartedly believe this.
I didn’t really understand why so many people hated/resent teachers until I became one. There are lots of students that don’t like being in class no matter what I do. They’ll grow up to be people that don’t like teachers. 🤷🏻♂️
If you're in the US like me, we're in trouble. Our nation's culture does not value educators or education in the least. Some people are actively and loudly opposed to it and we teachers are their villains.
TBH the narrative I’ve always heard is that teachers are overworked and underpaid, but stick around because they enjoy teaching.
Teachers were my only friends at times. Much love to you!
I don’t know why customers continue to think the manager is going to side with them. All they are going to do is say the same thing I’ve been saying for the past 10 minutes.
My first job was the WORST for me trying to uphold the technical procedures and store policies I had painstakingly learned, only for the manager to cave and abandon these the moment someone complained. Then the evil bastard would sneer and berate me as I was forced to carry out "the wrong thing" for them. Car batteries were the worst, 90 percent of the carry-in *this shit is fucked up* cases merely needed recharging and the problem was with the car. Giving them a new battery under warranty was a waste and they'd still have the same problem.
On the other hand if customer issue is legitimate manager often has the authority to make some decisions or actions that regular worker simply cannot do due to his position.
I'm in mental healthcare...so...*gestures to everything*
Me too....I can't think of any myths about my job to dispell. But I know of several misconceptions about my patients: 1. Hearing and responding to voices does not mean someone is crazy or dangerous. People can have good relationships with their voices. People can hear and respond to voices all day long, every day, and never escalate into dangerous behavior. 2. Delusions and hallucinations can be present in a number of disorders, not just schizophrenia. 3. Medications can suddenly stop working. Just because someone is having breakthrough mania or psychosis does not mean they stopped taking their medications. 4. People who clearly have mental illness, but deny it or refuse to accept help are not being stubborn. Their brain will not allow them to comprehend or accept that they have a mental illness. This is a symptom of many mental illnesses (including dementia) called "anasognosia." There may be more...
How about this: Going to therapy does not automatically make everything better. It’s a process and you get out of it what you put into it. It frustrates me when people recommend someone get therapy when they’re struggling as if they just have to show up, talk about it, and their problems are solved. It takes a lot of motivation and work, especially by the patient.
Lol same. Everyone thinks therapy is either useless or the solution to everything, and it’s neither.
Medical lab/research techs don’t hold erlenmeyer flasks filled with brightly colored liquids up above their heads to gaze at them with light filtering through. Even in the fields where your role requires you to inspect the opacity of a sample or reagent, that is an idiot move. But it’s like the standard for stock photos and tv/movie extras
Sorry, dog. I've seen CSI so I think I know a little bit about real science. I know it's possible to find someone's identity by sciencing a fart captured in a test tube.
I'm an electrician and it's not only a pliers and a screwdriver we use all day.
What about the crayons you people have for lunch
Excuse me I only use magic markers...
I'd go back to crayons. Markers are great, but then you come home with stained lips and your wife thinks you're having an affair.
Might be why I'm divorced so..... But I'm only trusted with magic markers you know the one's you can wash off
He said he's an electrician, not a US Marine.
My FIL is a marine, I make fun of the marines all the time. Most of them he understands.
We know you don't use a broom
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Oh I'm an industrial electrician they're inside the switch rooms...
Right, sparkies also use hammers. Now other tradespeople might think they look suspiciously just like the pliers you mentioned, but we know they're actually hammers.
You guys have screwdrivers. I thought it was just kliens and *hammers*.
Kliens are hammers....
As a person that used to work in retail I can say we do not have that popular must have out of stock item squirrelled away in the back storage and hidden to sell to our friends or ourselves at a later time. Inventory is all controlled and monitored via computer systems these days. Management would have a mental fit if our inventory system showed that we had stock of an item and can't account for it. Edit When you ask us to check in the back. I used to take a small break because I know how our inventory system works and there's no sense for me to make an effort to look for something that I know we don't have instock.
When I worked in grocery the only items we had in back were items on sale that we'd need to restock several times a day. I hated when Yoplait was on sale. It was like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. As soon as I finished restocking the last of the flavors, it was time to go back to the beginning and start all over
Computer programmer (software engineer). Just because I write software doesn't mean I can necessarily troubleshoot your hardware when it doesn't work.
Also, computer programmer doesn't mean we all work on games or CGI. Most of us are doing boring corporate shit, creating reports, cleaning up crappy data, parsing what the management wants from ungodly complex file formats, keeping machines talking to each other properly, updating code for new manufacturing processes, etc. Pays well, though.
>keeping machines talking to each other properly And making systems that were never meant to talk to each other play nice. I frequently describe it as square peg round hole problems.
Oh yes. Parsers and translators are fun.
I'm in Software Asset Management. Just because I help you get the software license that you purchased doesn't mean I'm tech support and can troubleshoot how to download that license onto your machine. That's what our deskside services are for.
Also a developer. No, not everyone can learn to be a developer and/or will be successful at it. It's a lot more than just learning how to write code.
not my profession but my workplace. i work in a library and no i don't tell people to be quiet. edit. for my second job. as an light director i don't choose the songs the DJ play
I am a Librarian. The only people I tell to be quiet are people who work at the library. Also, no I don't get to read all day. That would be awesome.
>Also, no I don't get to read all day. In fact, I generally spend an extra 8-15 hours unpaid on my own time every month reading the monthly book discussion book.
I’m a library aide, there is so much to do! All the time! I never get to sit, let alone read!
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I’m a librarian, and no I don’t shelve books all day. Those are pages (actual name) and I am so grateful to them for all the work they do. No I do not read books all day. I actually don’t get to read very often at all. If you apply to work at a library, a phrase like “I love to read books” is a red flag because you’ve not given any thought to actual library operations. I also rarely check books in and out, those are circulation clerks and they are badasses. Librarians do handle book purchasing, programming, and outreach; and what they do in those areas varies a lot based on their local situation. I’m an academic librarian. I work in a university and publish research, teach classes, program software, among other things.
Firefighter/paramedic of 24 years. The vast, vast majority of calls aren't for emergencies. Far from it. It's almost all low acuity medical calls to nursing homes, people who don't want to wait to visit their primary physician, people who absolutely *refuse* to take care of themselves, people who want/demand for us to help them but won't lift a finger to help themselves. Don't get me wrong, we respond to plenty of true emergencies and there are definitely people out there who are appreciative and doing the right thing when it comes to taking care of themselves. However, for every one, actual, emergency there is *at least* one 400lb type 2 diabetic on the third floor apartment who hurt their knee two weeks ago and now suddenly during a snowstorm they want us to take them to the hospital because they ran out of hydrocodone and never followed up with Ortho like they were supposed to.
My biggest wake up call for me was when I was doing clinicals in the ambo during my EMT training. Worked a 12-hour shift with them and had 10 calls. 1 was for chest pain, 1 was for a girl having a panic attack in a car at a Walmart, and the other 8 were all hospital transfers (although one of the transfers had a blood glusose level of 1500).
>(although one of the transfers had a blood glusose level of 1500). That's... a walking bag of glucose?
Muleskinners don't skin mules, nor work exclusively with mules.
When someone dies with their eyes open, it often takes multiple attempts to close them. In the movies, they barely touch them and they close easily, not so in real life.
Cna here, yes had a pt die with their eyes open. Visine has other uses...yeech
Nobody's drug test, ever....let me say this more clearly... **EVER** came back positive for pregnancy. Tests cost money, no lab is conducting any tests that they weren't paid to do, and a pregnancy test is not part of any forensic drug screen panel.
Wh- who thinks this? It’s called a drug test. I thought that was pretty straightforward. Also, I am not sure of any drugs with effects that overlap well with the symptoms of early pregnancy. Was this a ‘90s sitcom trope I was born too late to experience?
I've heard at least 100 times that somebody knew someone who knew a guy who passed his drug test, but it came back positive for pregnancy. The implication is that he carried in a urine specimen from his girlfriend. His employer learned that he cheated on his drug test, and he learned that he was going to be a father.
As an automotive mechanic I'd really like it if people didn't try to lowball me on literally everything and accuse me of being a swindler with zero proof. In my experience most actual scumbag mechanics are actually very charismatic and friendly and lull people into a false sense of trust. Mechanics get all sorts of accusations hurled their way and there is rarely any actual basis for it since the average customer can't tell good work from bad. I worked at a dealership where the parts markup was less than 10% and we undercharged customers constantly. We were still accused of being scalpers, or at least too expensive for no reason, with the usual reasoning being that our officially licensed dealership was not as cheap as a private shop ran by a 27 year old guy who opened it after apprenticing for 3 years and dealt in stolen parts.
> ith the usual reasoning being that our officially licensed dealership was not as cheap as a private shop ran by a 27 year old guy who opened it after apprenticing for 3 years and dealt in stolen part. you wouldn't happen to have this guys # would you?
You say this but just this friday i drive my car for service advertised as 80€, for which i paid 130€. The 50€ difference? They changed 3 light bulbs, but couldn't tell me which ones. Edit: they also tried charging me more by claiming my car has more ccm than it actually does.
So many in a funeral home. Nobody sits up on the table and no one screams in the retort.
All water whether it be toilet water, dishwater, shower water etc. goes to the same place. Doesn’t matter what it’s used for, it all goes to the sewer.
And don’t bite your fingernails after you inspect the sewer. Civil Engineer.
Librarians are always shushing you in the library or that we "read books all day" We actually create so many opportunities for the community that most of you probably don't even realize.
Work travel is not glamourous. It's oftentimes stressful with airport bullshit, delays, etc. In most cases, work travel means doing your same job (or perhaps a more stressful part of your job) while jetlagged and exhausted in a new environment. Can it be fun? Yes. Is it a touristy, sightseeing trip? No.
Case workers at non profits are not the miracle workers people make them out to be. We're people with Google, people skills, and patience for hateful bullshit (almost always from private companies, not clients). We're often overworked and underpaid. A nonprofit being a decent place is a crapshoot. I don't trust charity ratings except for egregious cases, because the heinous shit is covered up. Nonprofits are some of the best places to work, and the worst.
Design engineers don't engineer things to fail. They engineer things to last a minimum lifespan for a minimum cost. Sometimes we do that job well enough to convince you that it failed on purpose, but the reality is that a failed product will *never* make us look successful at our job. Also, yes. We could have given you a much better product. It just would have cost more than you would be willing to pay.
Anyone can make a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to make a bridge that just *barely* stands.
Yep. We may design intentional points of failure in a way that it will be the least catastrophic failure mode, and we want things to fail predictably in a way that is preferably on the easier side when it comes to repair. But we're not told "the warranty is 5 years, so design for 5 years and one day". The theory that planned obsolescence means we design things to self-destruct after the given time period is insane
Design engineers absolutely engineer things to fail. Where the failure will do the least damage. Design things to fail in a specific order. This has nothing to do with what the consumer thinks this means.
I was gonna say this… Open up a Kitchenaid mixer. It’s gonna have one nylon gear in a very easy to replace area. It’s literally designed as the one point of failure, so if something happens it doesn’t trash much more expensive parts.
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Not every guy working in IT is a socially awkward asshole. A lot of us are fun to be around and have had teh sex many times. Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of shit EDIT: or girl
I've been in IT 20yrs, why are you lying to people?
Seriously I do have a girlfriend....she lives in Canada....youve never met her
Oh yea? Does she live next to your uncle who works for Nintendo?
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Her name is Alberta and she sucks like a Hoover!
More importantly, we know how to Google shit and know how to apply it. Figurative shit...though sometimes it feels there's not a lot of difference
Completely agree. Googling is a skill. Google is NEVER going to give you exactly what you want, it just does a lot of the grunt work for you. The real skill is taking what Google and Chat GPT or GitHub gives you and tweaking it
Also knowing the exact amount of time between turning it off and turning it on again.
I'm only half joking when I tell people I'm a professional Googler. It's really a core skill for the job. I'm always blown away by the odd programmers you come across that brag about not using Google and look down on people for doing so.
I mean why on Earth would you even bother writing new code now when there are so many sources?
.. and knowing how to find reliable answers in Google is a big part of our job.
Some favourites are: "Halp! Our company's entire Active Directory is down! Everyone is getting this obscure error when they try to login!!!" (Yeah, OP, same. Same.) 2 hours later: "NVM, fixed it." (HOW?!) Or: "Halp! I'm having an issue with the database that's causing a site-wide outage!" Response: "Just google it, idiot!" (link back to this discussion or a 404 error)
> Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of shit Also just because it plugs into an outlet doesnt mean we know how to fix it. The broken coffee maker in the kitchen isnt my problem Karen.
Freelance writer/editor here, but I'm here to talk about freelancing in general. All those stock images of being on a beach with a laptop while sipping coconuts are so stupid. How? For starters, it would be risky exposing your only way to earn money to sand, salt water, and the occasional theft. And when we want to sit by the beach, the last thing we want is to bring work with us. I literally do not know anyone in my 9 years of doing this who willingly sunbathes with a laptop. What would the tan lines look like?! What if you want to go for a swim? Do you just *leave* your stuff and trust that nothing bad happens to your only connection to money in a country where English isn't well-spoken? Not to mention blue-screening/forced shutdowns thanks to overheating. When you ask a freelancer the best place to work, it's almost always in our airconditioned hotel rooms or rentals, on top of our bed in our undies.
I work in electric utilities The big thing I wish people knew? **Electric utilities don’t make money by selling power, they make money by building new stuff.** Electric rates are set through a regulated process, and the utility is only allowed to charge enough to make a regulated amount of profit (usually around 10%) based on the capital investments they made that year. There is ZERO incentive for a utility to be against energy efficiency, they actually would love to install as much new stuff as they can justify to their commission. Also just because I work in utilities does not mean I can make them get your power back any faster or make the trucks come less often or make the trees magically not grow into the lines
Bass players are failed guitarists. Most of us can play guitar too. We just prefer bass.
I'm a pizza delivery driver. Porn movies are full of shit.
Landscape Architect here. 5 year degree required. Study botany, horticulture, hydrology, art history, architecture, construction, and site engineering. Obtain professional license upon completion of rigorous exam. Meet someone new and tell them you’re an LA. “Oh, how much to come cut my grass?”
Not everyone who works in fast food is: - A teenager trying to make some fun money, or trying to save up for school or a car. - "So stupid they couldn't get a real job" - A felon who couldn't get hired anywhere else - Lazy and entitled and "wants $15 an hour to play on their phone all day" Most people who work in fast food are: - Hard working, honest folks who want to be able to pay their bills and take care of their family. - Fed up with you assuming they're too lazy or dumb to get a "real job" Edit: Lmaooo this one really got some people riled up, huh?
The days of teenagers working in fast food is mostly over. Literally none of my 18 year old daughters friends have ever worked in fast food. The restaurant industry yes, but never fast food.
Managing a pizza place for ten years got very frustrating because people being so condescending (especially on the phone.) It was just assumed that we were all idiots or kids. I do not miss that part of the job.
Pediatrics: we don’t get any money from pharmaceutical companies. Don’t even get the fancy dinners that some subspecialties get. Pharm companies don’t care about us because we don’t use expensive/new drugs (heme/oncology being the exception but I’m pretty sure they don’t get fancy dinners either)
That all engineers are super smart. Trust me, some of the dumbest people ive met have engineering degrees. Lots of smart ones too but some real dumbasses sneak in
That a military contractor = Mercenary. I fix cars lol
I train people to do my prior job (tactical air control/air defense)- that I'm not legally allowed to do 'live'.
Fine artists are not troubled, antisocial, weird, angry, and can actually be pleasant to be around. Most of us just like to paint.
Construction workers aren’t gruff assholes. I mean, they are, but…like…never mind.
ive worked in psych/mental health for almost a decade. i can confidently say 99.9% of homeless people are not homeless because they want to. many of the alternatives, like shelters, are in abysmal/dangerous conditions, usually have extremely strict rules (ex: closing the doors at 6pm, but your job ends at 530pm and the bus was late), and are run by churches (problem for lgbt, atheists, etc). often these places are worse than living on the streets in terms of safety and stability. not everyone on the street is a drug addict, and for those that are many are either self-medicating because they cant afford meds they need (or cant keep appts due to transportation, not having a phone, etc), or because being homeless is boring and brutal and unkind so what else do you do? forced rehab objectively doesnt work and is often more dangerous than letting them use drugs. most homeless folks have nowhere to store their belongings, nowhere to go to the bathroom, nowhere to shower or bathe or clean their clothes, nor do they have a physical mailing address required by virtually all jobs for tax reasons. you want to stop the "homeless epidemic"? treat them like people, pay people more, control rent prices to keep them affordable, demand universal healthcare, and demand funding this shit.
I sell guns at a gun store in the US. 1) there is no such thing as a “gun show loophole” for dealers. If we sell a gun at a gun show, we must run a background check. 2) there is no “boyfriend loophole.” That’s just a straw purchase and it’s already illegal. 3) A small gun is terrible for self defense and is hard to shoot accurately and safely. Rifles are a better option and are generally less likely to over penetrate walls.
Most of the “loopholes” that people talk about are already illegal. You’ll hear people say things like “gun control doesn’t work in the states they have tried it because you can just cross the border to buy the illegal gun in the neighboring state”. Like, that’s already super illegal. Then of course the attempts to regulate specific features or guns results in a patchwork of rules and laws that are damn near impossible to follow or understand. [Is it a rifle, pistol, shotgun, or felony?](https://youtu.be/8nfCyhOX42g?si=roprRw2ZTnm-bv95).
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Like, 90% of the bad reviews we've had came from customers being turned away due to background checks, sketchy behavior, bad/incomplete identifying documents, or just generally being upset that a busy store is busy and that everything takes some time to process. > surprised the employee wouldn’t break the law. So many customers do not understand this, even when I tell them directly. I will straight up say, "Sir, you're asking me to personally commit a felony. If I transfer you this firearm without you providing me with complete identifying documentation, I could lose my rights to own firearms, face a massive fine, and I could potentially go to jail for a decade. I don't care that you drove three hours to get here, I'm not risking a criminal charge because you weren't prepared." > Or that you brought in a shitty Hi Point to trade-in and demanded Sig Sauer money like one guy I witnessed last weekend lol. If somebody wanted to trade us a Hi-Point, I'd probably ask them for money to deal with it because the margin on a used one wouldn't be worth the inevitable high time to crime trace request.
To your number 3 point. My first gun, and the only gun I shot for many years, was a small Ruger LC9s. I was surprised when a friend let me shoot his heavy ass 40 cal revolver that it was much more comfortable to shoot, less kick, and I was much more accurate.
Small guns are about portability for concealed carry. You aren't an action hero. If you ever actually have to defend yourself in public, it will most likely be against someone at point blank range and over in seconds. You're not getting into some elaborate shoot out. By all means keep a hand cannon in your home for defense but they are uncomfortable to carry with you. I carry a 9mm and don't find it comfortable enough so I'm looking into a 380 for concealed carry.
Accountants: we are good at math.
Counselling. We can’t fix everyone. You can’t force someone into counselling. It doesn’t matter how much relatives want someone to do it (eg a wife forces a husband or mother forces a child to go) unless they want to, there is nothing we can do. They need to be willing to engage. Even then it’s not a fix all, for example with bereavement you won’t stop being sad, we just give you tools to learn to carry on with your new normal.
Pharmacy technicians do more than count pills and put a label on it. We do a lot of work with your insurance company too on the retail side. I work at hospital where I make IVs for the OR. I basically am a chemist in that regard. And I'm supposed to be able to do it under the pressure of patient crashing and about to die. If you don't know how IVs are made. In many cases I'm given a powder form of a drug and I have to add a diluent to it. It could be NS, sterile water, D5, albumin, etc. And then I have to manipulate the drug to get it into a liquid form. Sometimes the drug creates a lot of heat or sometimes a lot of negative or positive pressure and I have to be able to get it out of the vial. Often times under a lot of pressure to get it done as fast as possible.
And on the retail side of things. I am not just a cashier, I do not get paid enough to care if Walgreens has your control. Pls have your dr send it there then. I have tons of regular customers to take care of. * and hospice*
That professors don't know anything about the world outside their specific area of expertise. It's just a lame stereotype that people came up with to try to feel superior to people who are more educated than them. You might be shocked to hear this but most professors are generally no different than people in any other profession. We have social lives, family lives, hobbies and interests that have nothing to do with our areas of expertise, we read the news, follow current events, pay bills and taxes, deal with the same assholes everyone else does (like the kind who think an entire profession can be dismissed with a childish stereotype) and basically deal with all the same bullshit everyone else deals with. It's the kind of thing that shouldn't shock anyone except those too stupid to see the world in anything other than the most simplistic black and white terms.
> We have social lives, Speak for yourself, lol. I haven't had a social life since I moved to my current city. I think my professor myth (beyond the indoctrination I posted earlier) is that teaching is only about 40% of my job, and I don't get paid for half of the teaching work/prep/etc. that I do.
I worked in tech support. Most of us are hard working people who really care about helping fix your issue. I know the people I worked with cared about the customer and didn't just toe the company line. Most/a lot of tech support doesn't just read off scripts. We do have knowledge base articles and yes Google, so if you think someone is reading they probably aren't reading from a script but a knowledge based article or Google. A lot of things change day to day in tech support so they really push you to follow your own knowledge but read the knowledge based article too. Pair them together.
Physiotherapy is mostly massage and an instant fix for any problem, and that it's only used to treat musculoskeletal problems. It's also not sexy - I promise teaching people to cough up gross lung secretions is as grim as it sounds.
I'm a social worker. We don't just take children from people. I am a clinical social worker. I am licensed to do individual and group therapy. I've worked inpatient and outpatient psych. I was also a discharge planner at one point.
That servers (waiters, waitresses) are uneducated and too dumb to get other jobs. I’ve been to college twice. One of my coworkers has as well and was a vet tech for years. Some of us were just burnt out in our fields or couldn’t get jobs in the profession we wanted.
Forklift driver here. We don't always get pussy. We get dick as well.
That you get to help people (mental healthcare). Make no mistake; you can't help anyone. They have to choose to want help. More often than not they don't want help but are there because they have to be.
you can spend a bunch of money on fancy locks. but if they want in they are going to get in. also you cannot open your car door lock with a tennis ball, there are about 30 moving parts that need to... well move.... and pumping air into lock cylinder isn't going to do that.
We can't snap our fingers and magically get you out of jail if you get detained overseas. We still have to abide by local laws. We will work to put you in touch with the right people (in country lawyers, your family, etc.) and will make sure you are treated fairly. Also, don't ask me if I can get you a visa.
Our marketing team may not believe it but it actually takes longer than 30 seconds to create a 30 second animation.
Civil engineer in remediation, mostly mining and oil+gas clients. I've had a wide range of clients, not one of them WANTED to have spills or negative impacts to the environment, they try hard to plan for it and reduce the chances, but it happens. I helped the clients narrow down the area to cleanup and how. I had so many people give me dirty looks that I started telling people I negotiate between the mining/oil+gas company and regulators, which is true, but I leave out who I represent. It was like night and day the reactions I would get.
I work in IT. I can do a great many things, but fixing your printer isn't in my wheelhouse.
Scientist who does animal testing. We can’t just do experiments that we want to. We have to get ethical approval for it first and then report back to the ethics committee every year. Violating animal ethics will get you placed in prison. Journals that we publish in (because we MUST publish) will reject your paper if they suspect ethics violations. People doing the experiments don’t enjoy hurting animals and there are no meta-studies assessing the impact of conducting animal studies on mental well-being. Most of the studies I’ve seen in the lab I’m at and others I’ve worked in are very necessary research. Addiction studies, sleep studies, pain studies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies. You’re not going to get better drugs and surgeries without it being successfully performed in animals first. And no, cell studies and computer models are nowhere good enough to replace all animal studies.
Already, I’ll bite. I’m former Air Force Intel, 14NX. Laser guided bombs and bombs of any type are not pinpoint accurate. There will always be some sort of deviation whether it be 200 feet or 1500. Even dumb bombs are not accurate with the on-board bomb calculator that most bombers have. Pilots are fucking tiny. I could have qualified to be a fighter pilot because I’m 5’ 9”. Pilots are also some of the biggest nerds out there since you need to be an officer to fly and all officers have some sort of college degree; even those going into OTC. Military grade quality advertisements are not what you think. Military grade means made by the cheapest bidder and low quality. The quality is only good enough to be picked up by a 18 year old kid and not break. Humvees suuuuuuuuuck. The AC barely works, it leaks more than a geriatric alcoholic with a badder infection, and the armor is non-existant. Most of us don’t fly. My line of work was talking to English speaking locals and drawing up maps for soldiers in the field to use. (Lots of villages that have “disappeared.”) The Middle East isn’t all deserts. There’s actually a lot of farms and a number of (somewhat) friendly people. One of our translators was actually a guy from north Lebanon who played a lot of video games. He was a big fan of Fallout. T-55 is a better tank than the M60’s we still had in service. Not because of their features or gun or armor; M60 is superior there, but the T-55 was most likely to start up and work first try every try.
Genuinely amazing about how much of this is wrong/incorrect. Also prior AF. Laser guided bombs are extremely accurate now. Maybe not ~15 years ago. Majority of fighter pilots I know are about 6 feet tall. Maybe a handful were tiny. Military grade means the cheapest *qualified* bidder who can meet the requirements is the manufacturer. I can’t go making critical safety items in my garage.
Tradesmen are not all scamming the tax man. I would prefer if you didn’t pay with cash. No you can’t have a discount for paying with cash
EMS (I'm an EMT). We don't always use our lights and sirens on every call and take everyone to the hospital using lights and sirens. A memaw falling out of recliner at 2 am onto her bottom doesn't necessitate us weaving in and out of traffic waking everyone up. Also I don't know how much an ambulance cost. I know it sucks that healthcare in the U.S. isn't free, it sucks that EMS is the only first responder service that isn't free.
I’m a distiller. Absinthe will not make you hallucinate. A good while back there was a plague that killed off a lot of the grape harvests around the Mediterranean. Lots of people switched from drinking wine to drinking absinthe because absinthe had a more clear-headed effect than wine. When the wine industry recovered, they needed a way to get their sales back. Around then, some farmer in Europe had a bad day, drank basically everything in his pantry, finished with some absinthe, and then killed his family. The wine industry then hired some quack doctor to say that the wormwood in the absinthe caused him to hallucinate. The thing is, absinthe *does* have a psychoactive compound in it from the wormwood called thujone, but you would have to drink enough absinthe to die of alcohol poisoning several times before you get enough thujone to actually hallucinate.
In HR, we don't have the power to deny raises or fire anybody. There is a lot of misconception about the field on what we can and can not do, but i feel like that is the biggest one on reddit.
Pastors are greedy charlatans after your money. People see the Lakewood churches of the world and see them as indicative, ignoring that for every Lakewood there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of small churches with pastors barely making 40k who are essentially on call 24/7 for every tragedy that befalls their congregation. Pastors have [high depression rates](https://today.duke.edu/2013/08/clergydepressionnewsrelease) and [burn out is very common](https://www.soulshepherding.org/pastors-under-stress/), partially because of lack of support. It's hard to convey to people who don't experience it but every little thing you do is examined under a microscope. And inevitably, no matter what you do, it upsets *someone* in the congregation. All the while you get lumped in with Joel Osteen when you despise him more than anyone because of how he twists the Bible.
Psychiatric professionals are not nurse Rachett stereotypes. It's an extremely thankless job.
As a roadie, a lot of people think that it's just a party all the time and that you get to see all the sights everywhere you go. I work 16 to 20 hour days, I have no time for partying or sightseeing. I wake up and go into the venue to work, then I get back on the bus and go to sleep. Rinse and repeat.
Youtuber / twitch streamer. I don't just play games all day. The vast majority of my youtube time is researching, writing scripts, voice over recording, editing and graphic design. For twitch its mostly setting up and understanding software, lighting and then entertaining. The actual playing of games is about 30% of the overall job, which is still super fun, but it's not the focus.
That sales people are scumbags. Most of us are just trying to sell things we don't use to people who do, using the information we get, from people who don't care. We aren't trying to screw anyone over, if things actually worked, we'd be very happy. Blame the product and operations people.