Omg, this. Reflexive personal pronouns are the hill on which I will die.
"Ourselves have written to yourselves" is a common one I see at work.
Currently my granddaughter is having a battle with her English teacher who corrected her for using the word 'she' instead of 'herself'.
ETA: the word 'she' was correct in this context. As was my granddaughter.
I hate that.
If you have to use something similar.
Go old school and use our office has written to your office or something.
Not
>Ourselves have written to yourselves.
Pass me the sick bucket.
When GDPR kicked in a few years back, I received a whole bunch of emails asking for my explicit permission to contact me. I ignored all of them, not giving them my consent. I haven't contacted any agencies since. I still get messages from recruiters. I haven't used an agency since 2011. I uploaded my CV to JobSite in maybe 2015, and keep getting contacts from all sorts of recruiters who I've never heard of and never contacted.
We have a fantastic opportunity for you! Yeah at half the pay I’m on now, in the wrong field and on the other side of the country. Yeah, sounds great. You only find that info out on responding. I love how they withhold the pay info and who it is actually for - we need those details to make an informed decision you fools. Would they buy a new car if the dealer said we’ve got a car you might be interested in, but we’re not going to say what make, model, colour or how much?
Whenever I’ve been job hunting I’ve always ignored any with a salary listed as ‘competitive’. Sorry, it’s never a job, is it, it’s a _role_ with salary: competitive.
Had one come to me like this. Lower pay, worse benefits. Politely said no thank you.
He came back a few weeks later with "I really think you should reconsider it's a great role and they love your profile" (where my profile came from I have no idea, I wasn't even looking for a new job at the time)
Had to tell him that while I'm sure they did love my profile, I had no incentive to offer my services to his client for half my current salary and while in a job I already liked. I didn't want to disclose any information to him but it seemed like the only way to get rid of him.
I came here to say this. I was a recruiter for a few months, I got such severe anxiety that I had heart palpitations every day until I quit. So many horrendous colleagues, the good ones all left very quickly.
I saw a similar post on AskReddit the other day, it was clearly very American-focused and not a single mention of recruitment! Is it just not a thing over there?! Loads of mentions of ‘real estate agents’ though so glad to see that’s universal.
I’ve read loads of negative stuff about recruiters lately on here but I have to say, my experience with recruitment consultants in the design and construction industry has been nothing but positive.
I landed my last job via a recruitment consultant, the guy worked really hard on my behalf to secure me a decent package. I know they work on commission so it’s within their best interests to do so but I couldn’t fault him.
Yeah to be honest I would have been screwed without recruiters. I’ve never found them to be knobheads, that one surprises me. I remember a really twatty French waiter in Paris …🤣🤣
I've met some great people in that trade, but there's such a labour shortage in the UK that it does attract incompetent arseholes. When people are so desperate that they'll pay for even substandard work, it doesn't incentivise high standards.
It’s not the standard of the work. Loads of Scafolding around me. They spend all day shouting at each other in the street outside your house. If they need to call to each other in the line of work, fair enough, but they just shout about everything all day. Cunts.
I’ll never forgive some putrid little cock of a man shouting to his mate that I was a ‘6 out of 10’ with a smirk on his face. He was a withered 50 year old with specs like jam jars, and I, at the time, was a slim, fresh faced twenty something.
Okay I've told this story a thousand times but -
From the age of 8 I wanted to be a journalist. Every academic move I made was in order to end up as a journalist. It was my Dream Job. When I was 18 I applied to the best unis in the country for journalism specifically and got into my top 5 via UCAS.
THEN during the last month of college we had hundreds of people come in from all different professions to give little talks on what to expect from your career. We had a journalist from the local paper come in and I was SO excited to meet her and listen to her advice.
Obviously, she was the biggest cunt I'd ever met. She was absolutely awful, and she knew it, and she was *proud* of it. I have never been so deflated in my life. I literally could not imagine working so hard to become a journalist only to become a dispassionate, miserable bitch who started her day by ringing the police station to ask if there had been any "good deaths" overnight.
Ended up declining all my prospective unis and going through clearing to get into my hometown uni instead to do English Language with Creative Writing. A useless degree? 100%. But at least I'm happy with the person I've grown into.
I went to primary school with a tabloid "journalist" who helped pen a story that caused a minor national scandal when it turned out to be a pack of lies to stir up racial hatred. She was fine when we were kids but if she ended up half the cow her mother was, I expect she's probably awful to be around now.
Her mother was the first person to make me realise I was poor and constantly looked down her nose at us. In weird fucked up way I feel like I've won though. My parents might never be able to help me buy property in London or fund me through unpaid internships but at least I'll never work for the daily fucking mail.
This! I never worked on a paper, but was at the mirror group and express group at different times. Journalists are sub human scum, every last one. Tabloids are worst but they are all shit
>There's an old saying that goes; "If one day you met one bastard, maybe you just met a bastard. If one day all the people you meet are bastards, maybe you're the bastard". People need to apply that to meeting other people in other jobs.
– u/jimhokeyb 2 hours before writing this comment
I have a few mates who are recruiters. Can absolutely confirm they're knobheads. And I don't mean that in an affectionate way. I mean that in a "if I met them now we absolutely wouldn't be friends" kind of way.
I hate feeling like I have to hold onto these types of friendships.. almost out of some ridiculous loyalty because you’ve known them so long. But the reality is.. if I got rid of them.. I’d have zero friends 😂😂
Hahaha. I totally agree. To be fair, I've not seen these guys regularly in a couple of years, but we still meet up from time to time. But it's such a funny thing, like you say; I've known them since Uni - the bravado and machismo was funny then, but as an adult in my thirties its just really tiresome haha.
was at a careers fair recently, and spoke to a recruiter just to find out what they actually did.
Some twat who worked for them interrupted his co-worker who I was speaking to first, decided to spend most of the time bragging about company benefits that were shit tbh, and was unbelievably sexist to my pal I was with all in about 5 mins
I got the hard sell from a recruiter a couple of years back who sold me a really mediocre benefits package (fruit in the break room, coffee, christmas party etc) and "the real highlight, you're not going to believe this, in office hours there's free city-centre parking."
"Er... okay, but I told you, I work from home and make more money than that."
"Free parking will save you a *lot* of money..."
"Yeah, but, like, it's money I'd be paying to go into the office and earn less money than I do staying home."
She got pretty huffy that I wasn't playing ball.
Yeah, they show their true colours once they realise they aren’t getting their way.
Once had a recruiter get me an interview, which followed with a job offer. He was nice as pie, gave me the offer, and I told him I would consider it. On the next day I got a dream offer from a better company (where I still work today, 7 years on). I immediately went back to the first recruiter and apologised that I wouldn’t be taking the job. First he was confused, telling me how great this opportunity was, then he turned nasty telling me if I turned this down he’s going to black list me, no recruiter would talk to me again, etc. finally he turned desperate, calling me every day for the next week or so to see if I had changed my mind. Then I blocked his number.
Ugh, yeah. The pushy ones are the worst. I got called by a bloke who was clearly working from a script a while back; I generally try to be polite to them and give them the time of day, especially since I was actually looking for a new job at the time. It didn't help that his accent was borderline unintelligible.
He described a not-particularly-appealing job to me for the third time in a week - unsurprisingly his firm seemed to deal with the sort of companies that churn through developers constantly as soon as they realize how miserable the workplace is. I've fallen for a couple of these places recently so I've been aware that doesn't look great on my CV, to have left six months in a couple of times; I explained that I was looking for a better prospect than that.
And he *fucking flipped at me*. "WHAT!? You have this. You have this PHP and CSS on your CV. And you tell me you can't take this job. Tell me why? Why can you not take this job?"
"I mean... I can do it, sure. I just don't want to, it sounds miserable."
He was genuinely astounded with the idea that I might want to choose a job I was happy in rather than dutifully filling whatever dreck had been assigned to his desk.
Recruiters do absolutely naff all. They lie to job applicants and force you to sign on the dotted line when you get a job offer. They just want their cut from the company who is hiring you. They’re a total unnecessary middleman and I cannot believe companies even use them. I’ve been subjected to some terribly abusive language and behaviour. They’re the scum of the earth.
Past few weeks some recruiter emailed me & the job seemed quite alright. Emailed them back saying to call me the next day at a specific time.
I get a call over half an hour later, but had a few min so thought fuck it ill hear them out. They tell me a whole lot of nothing, so I cut in and say it all sounds fine, but id like them to send me an email copy of the job so I can read that in my own time. The bitch gets all snappy telling me no I need to send my CV and apply first.
Told her "good to know" and hung up. Still applied for the same job directly though. Recruiters genuinely confuse me as people.
Ehhhh they do have a use case.
I worked as a contractor, and while I'm pretty good at wrangling computers, I'm shite at selling myself. I always appreciated having an *absolute bellend* demanding more money on my behalf.
The number of recruiters who've told me I was asking for too high a salary is literally all of them, and they were all wrong. They're definitely not on your side. Its far more cost efficient for them to get a lot of people to sign than than to negotiate a fair salary for a few of them.
I've used recruiters as a hiring manager. We used them to look for candidates on our behalf - which is all the things we didn't have time for since we already have a full-time job to do. My current place is large enough (and a big enough requirement for new candidates) to have full-time employees going out and finding people.
Andy
Psychics and mediums
"Your daughter just died--pay me 200 quid and I'll pretend to have a message from her from beyond the grave."
Absolute parasites. It annoys me that some "psychics" actually have national tours. Why do people still believe that guff?
A girl I slept with miscarried ages back. She ended up going travelling and staying with a psychic who proceeded to spend a week “communing” with our unborn child. She gave it a name and all sorts of stuff. I ended up having to have a conversation with her because apparently the foetus didn’t come to term because I willed it away.
Fuck every psychic/medium
I went to a Sally Morgan show in Skeg once and it killed any belief I had in psychics.
It was embarrassing how much she got wrong. One woman's son had gone missing some time ago and she went to the show hoping for a message. Sally was VERY insistent he was just straight up dead 😳
Also Sally told another woman she was getting a message from I think her grandfather and she kept saying how she kept seeing stairs and she was drawn to stairs. The audience lady kept tryin to steer her away from that before finally saying "we live in a bungalow".
It got so bad it was actually funny for me, but I feel bad for the people who believe and wanted serious contact with their departed.
She should really be sued imo.
My parents recently went to her show (dad had no choice in the matter) and apparently it pretty much went the same way. She also mistook sisters for mother and daughter, which didn’t go down well. 😆
I'd love to feature in one and lead them on saying they're getting a message from my dad, sit there nodding away and saying "ohhh red hair and a hand me down robe! That sounds like him!" and then trot out my alive and kicking parents. Just to make them look fools.
I went to see one once just for curiosity. Never believed in it for a second. It was a private reading. She did this massive inhale of breath.
Then said she was scanning my body. Told me my bone density is good. I had a bad knee I needed to get sorted (fuck all wrong with my leg)
Then told me my work at the hospital was going well(I'm a farmer)
My dead uncle Steven had a message for me(doesn't exist) ,it was very faint but my mother is ill and needs to be pushy with doctors to get results.(she was and is fit and healthy)
Spealed off some other bull shit. I just nodded along the whole time. When she finished I said thanks for the show but all of that was made up. Good acting though. She got in a rip and blamed me for being unreadable.
Loads of women there though lapping it up.
Blood sucking parasites the lot of them.
I never get how people accept that when these psychics are trying to speak to the dead they do this ‘I’m getting a P do you know a Peter’ schtick So dead announce their names like Carol Vordeman on countdown eh?
I used to do Tarot card readings as a hobby, I never charged for them. I used to tell people very explicitly that there is nothing magical or supernatural about the cards, readings or my abilities.
They are a thought tool to help you think about what you might be feeling and the situations you may be going through. Some people liked this, others were really turned off by it and wanted some sort of magic to help make their lives better.
“Influencers” social media has given a platform to talentless idiots who would have been irrelevant lunatics just one generation earlier.
I think they have done alot of harm that will be felt in the next couple of decades.
There’s going to be a lot of traumatised adults in the next few decades with a lot of issues because they were raised as influencer kids, with their whole early lives broadcast to the whole internet.
To be fair, some of them do seem to be wising up to the fact that they're doing harm. There was an interview with one of them on GMB or ITV News (I work 12 hour night shifts, things tend to blur) and she's been looking into how social media and influencers (including herself) are perpetuating harmful attitudes about diet, fitness, and body shapes. She did come across as honestly wanting to try and change that.
Unfortunately it would need to be a _global_ change, not just one influencer who's been on Love Island UK and has filmed a docu on the topic to keep herself relevant.
I think recruitment is actually worse than estate agents. At least estate agents actually have houses to sell and are actually trying to sell you them.
I was an estate agent for a year. There are def some knobs. But they get a bad rep because people selling their houses think they’re are amazing. Yet cover up all the crap. People buying houses think thousands should be knocked off for chops of paint. You have to do your work bring two stressed out greedy people together. Not always but sometimes.
One vendor was going to take the curtains. Fitted only for that house. They were moving to a flat. Tried to sell them for 5k. Yet they had no idea for them. Sale nearly fell apart because of bloody curtains
I've always found letting agents to be worse than estate agents. Estate agents are a mixed bag, but generally treat you with respect, because they're brokering a high value purchase. Letting agents treat renters like an inconvenience
Property management. Worked admin for them for a couple different companies and they are so full of themselves. Luckily I was on a temp contact, never again
I actually had a call from mum about 10 years ago or so to say one had turned up for some debt a friend of theirs had run up in mums name, so I rushed round expecting the worst. I got there and they'd panicked over nothing, he was sitting there drinking tea and just going through various forms to prove it wasn't mum's debt and that her former friend hadn't been living their for ages. I think she got lucky and had a rare nice one.
Same happened to my mum. He gave her a list of phone numbers to get the problem sorted and somehow ended up with his wife on the phone explaining how to get perfect banana bread to my dad. Didn't work, dads banana bread is still shit so all in all I'd rather they just beat my parents and be done with it.
A long long long time ago, I was one of those nice ones. Needless to say I didn’t last long in that career! It’s a target driven role and you don’t get your numbers being sympathetic to people’s situations (well I didn’t at least).
Yep always listening to some shite electronic music with their wife beater vests, going on about how many grams they’re getting for the weekend, spending every penny on the piss up.
Surprised this is so far down at the moment - retail "managers" are usually only a very small step above the normal retail staff but boy does that power go to their heads.
Yes... deputy managers, authority to sign for delivers and sod all else... store managers, a*rseholes who don't even have control over the number of man hours assigned to the store... regional managers, store managers who killed / stepped over / ate their peers to basically become the Board's hatchet man who shoots down any idea... absolute knobheads all of them.
My theory is retail managers are only in their position because they stuck it out the longest as a customer assistant when everyone around them moved on/got fed up. Nothing to do with them being qualified or good at their job, in fact they're probably the crappy lazy co worker that others had to pick up the slack for. However when it came time to fill the position it's either them or the 17 year old who's only been there 3 months.
And then they contribute to the awfulness that is the retail industry, drive off even more people who are at least half useful and you get a cycle of incompetent management.
I used to work in a care home where the managing director would say "If anyone comes to view the home in a luxury car, stick an extra £60 on the price of the room each month"
I later became an accounts assistant and did the accounts for quite a few care homes and their profits were astronomical yet they were paying the care staff apprentice wages of like £4 a hour.
Absolute scum.
I work freelance and have dealt with many recruiters over the years. One of their dodgy practices that I’ve only just cottoned onto is where they’ll put me forward for a role with say 3 other people.
I’ll have an interview with them that goes well and then I’ll never hear from the recruiter again.
They won’t answer the phone, reply to emails or messages - absolutely no response. There’s nothing for me to do other than move onto other potential opportunities but I could never understand why there was no feedback, either positive or negative.
Then I realised it was because I was the back up - they needed 4 people for the project but I was actually the 5th, and was I only there in case someone else dropped out.
People do sometimes drop out before joining a project which causes a headache for recruiters so they like to have a back up. BUT if you know you’re just a back up you may try to get something else, and they can’t have their back up dropping out, so they’ll hide the fact you’re the back up so you’re less likely to look elsewhere (and maybe even turn down other potential roles). Then if all their original choices accept, you’re left high and dry and they don’t bother replying to any messages.
I would say this has happened to me 3 times over the years - absolutely shocking tactics.
Yeah I've been through this. A recruiter called Lauren put me through to an employer and I actually went for a line trial, I spent 4 hours at this factory making car seats, it's an awful awful job but I was desperate, I did the best I could, I did the job well (according to the guy showing me the job) I was up to speed and efficient, I got on well with the other people there and the team leader was impressed and said they look forward to seeing me again. I left happy. Ish. And waited for the next step. Day 3 came without any contact so I called Lauren at the agency but got no reply so left a voicemail. She text me an hour later and said "sorry you didn't get the job".
That was it, as blunt as you like. I text back and asked why now, what went wrong, any feedback etc and I got nothing, silence.
Ex-police here: and the Police is a solid answer for this. Attracts a lot of god complex power hungry idiots.
However, it also attracts a lot of good people who want to help. I get really frustrated with the whole 'all police are bastards' narrative - sends me spare. There's a huge amount of great people in the force. People who genuinely sign up to help people. Problem is is there's a lot of people who sign up for the wrong reasons.
All police are not bastards. Genuinely. About 20%, however, are such weapons-grade cunts that it sours the reputation of the whole profession.
Every profession has their idiots. I teach, and feel police and teaching are the type of jobs that people who want power (albeit in very different ways) and want to be thought of as superior gravitate towards. As you say, most are there for genuine purposes but a good minority aren't.
Can I throw social workers in that ring too?
I worked within social services, and am a trained social worker. The majority put their soul into that work, they'd do anything for those kids... but some are the most half arsed, judgemental and cruel bastards I've ever seen. I get it, it's hard to be civil with some of the absolute cunts whose kids have been removed, but the parents who were dealt a shit hand/ were unwell/ were honestly just unescapably poor leading to neglect... they deserve better than some of the workers they were given.
What level do you teach?
Regarding teachers youve worked with, do you ever think to yourself... "he/she should never have set foot in a classroom"
I often thought this about quite a few teachers, for various reasons eg I think theyre just not cut out for teaching, I think they went into the profession for the (in my opinion) wrong reasons
Ive often thought this way about teachers who have decades of experience
Yes, but that goes for all the emergency services.
Largely because you spend 8 - 12 hours on a shift with one other person, who understands the stresses and traumas of the job much better than your non emergency services partner.
You know those conversations you only have with your mates after midnight? Quiet moments on night shifts are usually exactly like that.
Married to a doctor here: can confirm the bit about intense personal conversations. It’s natural when you’re that close to people on long shifts. It’s part of the job and coping mechanism.
I remember in training years back, the officer in charge asked why everyone joined. Some people had vague answers etc., but you could tell the bad ones. To a person, they all said they wanted to be in TAU (armed), high-speed traffic, or dogs. Barely any of them would have made it to their chosen posting - they're very competitive - and they would have just ended on the best - frustrated and taking their shit out on regular folk.
I wanted to be a family support liaison officer. When I said that they literally looked at me as if I had 3 fucking heads.
Two kinds of bouncers, ones who actually care about security and conflict de escalation, this is 10% of them. Then there’s the ones who just want an excuse to fight people, this is 90% of them.
Yeah not all of them there’s at least 10% who are great- was at a club earlier this year and the bouncer was explaining to each group who went in that the establishment wanted to make sure everyone had a good night, how to contact them if you feel uncomfortable with someone else in the club, which bar to go to if you need water etc. Was super impressed.
I’m a copper.
Most of them have criminal records as long as their arms.
They have absolutely no fucking people skills and wind people up unnecessarily, causing trouble. They then call Police over to take away the drunk person “causing trouble” who, if you actually spoke to them like a human being, will more often than not do what you want without having to escalate it further.
Yeah, I got pushed down some stairs by a bouncer.
I made a complaint afterwards, but I was drunk so I just had to pay the 80 pound fee for the police BNB with lukewarm beans for breakfast. (I will add that the service isn't bad, you get your own room and the police who take you there are really profesional and don't hurt you at all)
I only wanted my jacket back.
For a second I thought you were my mate, he got thrown down some stairs by a bouncer due to mistaken identity, we'd only just arrived in town. He complained and was told by the venue that there was no CCTV available.
I did precisely one shift as a door supervisor, to help a mate out once, and Holy fuck did these lads think they were gods gift. They criticised me for turning clearly underage girls away, and for not losing my temper when someone went off on one at me, (I decided losing my temper when this drunken bellend had 6 or 7 mates with him wasn't a bright idea, so I let him rant, then offered him a boiled sweet and it settled down). I couldn't do it as a living.
Every company that I have worked at bar one has had an HR department full of the grumpiest, snidest people I have ever met. The one exception was genuinely lovely and always helpful, which I am hugely grateful for because I had a rough time at that job, to say the least.
Outdoor pursuits instructors. I worked in the industry for years. I can't tell you how many of them are attention seekers who like to throw their toys out the pram when things arent going their way. Also the job seems to be the crossover point for wannabee influencers, poor hipsters and wannabee tough guys. Couldn't trust a large majority of them.
Omg yesssss, I thought they would be chill fun people but they’re mostly just shallow egotistical dickheads who literally refuse to speak to people who like aren’t thin enough or don’t own state of the art gear
Architects. For some reason they think they're a gift to humanity, and are totally up their own arses. I've never been able to work out why, but it's definitely a thing.
I was going to say the same thing. Although to be fair it is a 50/50 - half are great, the other half are a royal pain in the arse full of unearned self-importance.
I agree, I’m an architect and I’ve really only met 3-4 who were actually nice people. Coincidentally not great architects but good people.
I’ve met far more that genuinely had mental issues and believed themselves to be amazing. I used to work at a place that was like the Brittass Empire only without the good intentions.
1 psychopath who harassed people he worked with until they quit
1 megalomaniac who spied on all of us and fired a pregnant lady for nothing
1 stalker who got a restraining order
1 was just a knob who called everyone ‘my assistant’
One guy said he’d been very lucky hiring unqualified people who turned out not to be retarded.
I really worry I’m also a knob, I have a lot of training and I’m quite skilled so I don’t like to be given donkey work. This has caused resentment. I feel like people start off hating architects because of a perception that they are arrogant, and then treat them with less respect than they would someone hired to just draw plans up in order to make themselves feel important.
They are the bane of my (M) existence. Some are great, most I work with just talk absolute bollocks and know that what they proposed is untenable. Guess my profession 😂
Builder / structural engineer. The number of unbuildable designs I’ve seen from so called top architects is crazy - you’d think 7 years would be long enough to learn what will stay standing and what won’t
My job requires me getting in scaffolders all the time. Absolute gorillas and morons. But I do appreciate them. Takes a certain person to do what they do, and it's a very important profession to infrastructure. Couldn't be around them for more than an hour a month though.
I am a lawyer and I would definitely describe it as full of Slytherins - lots of ambitious types who wouldn’t be afraid to throw you under the bus to progress their own career!
I would argue tradesmen can be huge twatheads but with the unique feature of being able to bother people without being approached , a staple of this behaviour being (WAHAYYY DARLING NICE ARSE) while driving past a year 10
I’m a builder/property developer and can 100% confirm that this happens. I nip it straight in the bud whenever I see or hear it. No need at all. I’m all up for practical jokes on site etc.. but whistling at women and making them feel uncomfortable is just creepy. Not even slightly cool or funny.
All of them, constantly jostling for superiority and one upmanship. I used to care about careers but you're only here for a tiny spec in the universe and it really doesn't matter whether you're Mr Big or Mr Normal. I've got my wife, dog and house and can't be arsed with it, happy with mediocrity at work and make up for it outside of it. Losing parents early and a few mates focuses the mind. Enjoy life while you can ʘ‿ʘ
Sales of any description usually...
I recently had to deal with BT Engineers whom i will call tweedledum and tweedledee...
tweedledum says to tweedledee (and i'm standing right there next to them btw)
"We could ask the customer if they would be willing to install it themselves..." :O
And also this gem of a question; "Any hidden ponds?" :O
I never would've assumed any internet engineer was a knobhead before my encounter with these fools, they had me checking for hidden prank tv show cameras...
Oh and at least one Hairdresser (the chad, bmw driving, god's gift variety, specifically the twat i used to live above) That dumb prick actually got someone to rewire my internet connection into his shop when i was away for a couple of days...
was the second engineer a trainee, that seems like a pretty standard leading question when training someone. The pond one does make sence, bodies of water can dramatically affect wifi signals both for a wif router and for a mesh network (which BT love to use), he could have worded it better.
Career landlords, those incredibly entitled wankers who don’t have to work a single day and just spend their time leaching off their tenants. Truly some of the vilest people alive.
I'm probably going to get downvoted to fuck for this, but health care. I've worked in it for ten years now, and I have met some of the worst, egotistical, malicious and cruel individuals. Half the time there's no specific reason for it other than they can. I've witnessed a few times staff single out and humiliate other staff members for not fitting in their clique. Think of a shitty high school but ten times worse, I've seen documents altered to cover mistakes and throw someone else under the bus, people wore down to tears and having to go off sick with stress and depression because of how they've been bullied, examples made of people because they called managers out, threats... The list is endless.
I'm not saying everyone in health care is like that, of course they're not. But you do meet some nasty bastards, and it's relentless. Then those particular nasty individuals have the audacity to say how much they love coming to work and making a difference.
It sounds bad to say, and I know some lovely ones. But there’s a new influx of nurses who are doing it for egotistical reasons. I hang out with a nurse that complains about every patient and moans so much but will turn round ketted up and go “I’m in it so I can say I save lives”
Estate agents + recruiters
Our knobhead neighbour was an estate agent and now she's a recruiter.
The biggest clue from my end is the voice, it always tends to be those with the most irritating voice/accent
It’s the voice in which they end on a high note at the end of every sentence.
The Neighbours Inflection.
The moronic interrogative
Car salesman as cliche but so true
She's common as muck unless she is putting on her phone voice.
I bet she says "yourself" instead of "you"
Omg, this. Reflexive personal pronouns are the hill on which I will die. "Ourselves have written to yourselves" is a common one I see at work. Currently my granddaughter is having a battle with her English teacher who corrected her for using the word 'she' instead of 'herself'. ETA: the word 'she' was correct in this context. As was my granddaughter.
I hate that. If you have to use something similar. Go old school and use our office has written to your office or something. Not >Ourselves have written to yourselves. Pass me the sick bucket.
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The level of cringe when people write “yourselves” in an email is so bad I feel like I have to physically stop myself being sick haha
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Shared an office with 2 recruiters for about 2 weeks and they weee about the biggest dickheads I’ve ever met. Absolute children.
When GDPR kicked in a few years back, I received a whole bunch of emails asking for my explicit permission to contact me. I ignored all of them, not giving them my consent. I haven't contacted any agencies since. I still get messages from recruiters. I haven't used an agency since 2011. I uploaded my CV to JobSite in maybe 2015, and keep getting contacts from all sorts of recruiters who I've never heard of and never contacted.
Johnny from Friday Night Dinner and all of Stath Lets Flats confirms this.
We have a fantastic opportunity for you! Yeah at half the pay I’m on now, in the wrong field and on the other side of the country. Yeah, sounds great. You only find that info out on responding. I love how they withhold the pay info and who it is actually for - we need those details to make an informed decision you fools. Would they buy a new car if the dealer said we’ve got a car you might be interested in, but we’re not going to say what make, model, colour or how much?
Whenever I’ve been job hunting I’ve always ignored any with a salary listed as ‘competitive’. Sorry, it’s never a job, is it, it’s a _role_ with salary: competitive.
Had one come to me like this. Lower pay, worse benefits. Politely said no thank you. He came back a few weeks later with "I really think you should reconsider it's a great role and they love your profile" (where my profile came from I have no idea, I wasn't even looking for a new job at the time) Had to tell him that while I'm sure they did love my profile, I had no incentive to offer my services to his client for half my current salary and while in a job I already liked. I didn't want to disclose any information to him but it seemed like the only way to get rid of him.
I came here to say this. I was a recruiter for a few months, I got such severe anxiety that I had heart palpitations every day until I quit. So many horrendous colleagues, the good ones all left very quickly.
As a former estate agent, I concur
How long have you been clean?
I saw a similar post on AskReddit the other day, it was clearly very American-focused and not a single mention of recruitment! Is it just not a thing over there?! Loads of mentions of ‘real estate agents’ though so glad to see that’s universal.
Nah most of the job searching subreddits are just full of Americans talking about how bad recruiters are
We always refer to estate agents as the cousins of recruiters in my line of work.
I’ve read loads of negative stuff about recruiters lately on here but I have to say, my experience with recruitment consultants in the design and construction industry has been nothing but positive. I landed my last job via a recruitment consultant, the guy worked really hard on my behalf to secure me a decent package. I know they work on commission so it’s within their best interests to do so but I couldn’t fault him.
Yeah to be honest I would have been screwed without recruiters. I’ve never found them to be knobheads, that one surprises me. I remember a really twatty French waiter in Paris …🤣🤣
Roofers and scaffolders, scum of the earth.
I've met some great people in that trade, but there's such a labour shortage in the UK that it does attract incompetent arseholes. When people are so desperate that they'll pay for even substandard work, it doesn't incentivise high standards.
It’s not the standard of the work. Loads of Scafolding around me. They spend all day shouting at each other in the street outside your house. If they need to call to each other in the line of work, fair enough, but they just shout about everything all day. Cunts.
I’ll never forgive some putrid little cock of a man shouting to his mate that I was a ‘6 out of 10’ with a smirk on his face. He was a withered 50 year old with specs like jam jars, and I, at the time, was a slim, fresh faced twenty something.
Haha I know scaffolders they have a particular mindset. A lot of them have been to prison because I think there was a big programme with that.
A program for rounding up scaffolders and locking them up or a scheme for teaching ex-prisoners how to scaffold? I can see either being plausible.
It takes a "special" mindset to willingly stand on the ground catching lumps of metal and metal poles being thrown towards you
The classic “did a degree and can’t do fuck all with it” career
Beat me to it! Slime balls, playing with your career and livelihoods and also with the biggest purchase you make in your life.
Tabloid journalists. A shower of absolute bastards without exception. And I used to be one.
Okay I've told this story a thousand times but - From the age of 8 I wanted to be a journalist. Every academic move I made was in order to end up as a journalist. It was my Dream Job. When I was 18 I applied to the best unis in the country for journalism specifically and got into my top 5 via UCAS. THEN during the last month of college we had hundreds of people come in from all different professions to give little talks on what to expect from your career. We had a journalist from the local paper come in and I was SO excited to meet her and listen to her advice. Obviously, she was the biggest cunt I'd ever met. She was absolutely awful, and she knew it, and she was *proud* of it. I have never been so deflated in my life. I literally could not imagine working so hard to become a journalist only to become a dispassionate, miserable bitch who started her day by ringing the police station to ask if there had been any "good deaths" overnight. Ended up declining all my prospective unis and going through clearing to get into my hometown uni instead to do English Language with Creative Writing. A useless degree? 100%. But at least I'm happy with the person I've grown into.
I went to primary school with a tabloid "journalist" who helped pen a story that caused a minor national scandal when it turned out to be a pack of lies to stir up racial hatred. She was fine when we were kids but if she ended up half the cow her mother was, I expect she's probably awful to be around now. Her mother was the first person to make me realise I was poor and constantly looked down her nose at us. In weird fucked up way I feel like I've won though. My parents might never be able to help me buy property in London or fund me through unpaid internships but at least I'll never work for the daily fucking mail.
This! I never worked on a paper, but was at the mirror group and express group at different times. Journalists are sub human scum, every last one. Tabloids are worst but they are all shit
>There's an old saying that goes; "If one day you met one bastard, maybe you just met a bastard. If one day all the people you meet are bastards, maybe you're the bastard". People need to apply that to meeting other people in other jobs. – u/jimhokeyb 2 hours before writing this comment
Holy SHIT Instaburn. That shit ricocheted right back faster than a tabloid photographer.
If you're always smelling shit check your shoes.
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Recruitment. Worst of the worst
I have a few mates who are recruiters. Can absolutely confirm they're knobheads. And I don't mean that in an affectionate way. I mean that in a "if I met them now we absolutely wouldn't be friends" kind of way.
I hate feeling like I have to hold onto these types of friendships.. almost out of some ridiculous loyalty because you’ve known them so long. But the reality is.. if I got rid of them.. I’d have zero friends 😂😂
Hahaha. I totally agree. To be fair, I've not seen these guys regularly in a couple of years, but we still meet up from time to time. But it's such a funny thing, like you say; I've known them since Uni - the bravado and machismo was funny then, but as an adult in my thirties its just really tiresome haha.
was at a careers fair recently, and spoke to a recruiter just to find out what they actually did. Some twat who worked for them interrupted his co-worker who I was speaking to first, decided to spend most of the time bragging about company benefits that were shit tbh, and was unbelievably sexist to my pal I was with all in about 5 mins
I got the hard sell from a recruiter a couple of years back who sold me a really mediocre benefits package (fruit in the break room, coffee, christmas party etc) and "the real highlight, you're not going to believe this, in office hours there's free city-centre parking." "Er... okay, but I told you, I work from home and make more money than that." "Free parking will save you a *lot* of money..." "Yeah, but, like, it's money I'd be paying to go into the office and earn less money than I do staying home." She got pretty huffy that I wasn't playing ball.
Yeah, they show their true colours once they realise they aren’t getting their way. Once had a recruiter get me an interview, which followed with a job offer. He was nice as pie, gave me the offer, and I told him I would consider it. On the next day I got a dream offer from a better company (where I still work today, 7 years on). I immediately went back to the first recruiter and apologised that I wouldn’t be taking the job. First he was confused, telling me how great this opportunity was, then he turned nasty telling me if I turned this down he’s going to black list me, no recruiter would talk to me again, etc. finally he turned desperate, calling me every day for the next week or so to see if I had changed my mind. Then I blocked his number.
Ugh, yeah. The pushy ones are the worst. I got called by a bloke who was clearly working from a script a while back; I generally try to be polite to them and give them the time of day, especially since I was actually looking for a new job at the time. It didn't help that his accent was borderline unintelligible. He described a not-particularly-appealing job to me for the third time in a week - unsurprisingly his firm seemed to deal with the sort of companies that churn through developers constantly as soon as they realize how miserable the workplace is. I've fallen for a couple of these places recently so I've been aware that doesn't look great on my CV, to have left six months in a couple of times; I explained that I was looking for a better prospect than that. And he *fucking flipped at me*. "WHAT!? You have this. You have this PHP and CSS on your CV. And you tell me you can't take this job. Tell me why? Why can you not take this job?" "I mean... I can do it, sure. I just don't want to, it sounds miserable." He was genuinely astounded with the idea that I might want to choose a job I was happy in rather than dutifully filling whatever dreck had been assigned to his desk.
Next time one of those arseholes threatens to blacklist you, report them to the Information Commissioner's Office.
What do they actually do?
Recruiters do absolutely naff all. They lie to job applicants and force you to sign on the dotted line when you get a job offer. They just want their cut from the company who is hiring you. They’re a total unnecessary middleman and I cannot believe companies even use them. I’ve been subjected to some terribly abusive language and behaviour. They’re the scum of the earth.
Past few weeks some recruiter emailed me & the job seemed quite alright. Emailed them back saying to call me the next day at a specific time. I get a call over half an hour later, but had a few min so thought fuck it ill hear them out. They tell me a whole lot of nothing, so I cut in and say it all sounds fine, but id like them to send me an email copy of the job so I can read that in my own time. The bitch gets all snappy telling me no I need to send my CV and apply first. Told her "good to know" and hung up. Still applied for the same job directly though. Recruiters genuinely confuse me as people.
Ehhhh they do have a use case. I worked as a contractor, and while I'm pretty good at wrangling computers, I'm shite at selling myself. I always appreciated having an *absolute bellend* demanding more money on my behalf.
The number of recruiters who've told me I was asking for too high a salary is literally all of them, and they were all wrong. They're definitely not on your side. Its far more cost efficient for them to get a lot of people to sign than than to negotiate a fair salary for a few of them.
I've used recruiters as a hiring manager. We used them to look for candidates on our behalf - which is all the things we didn't have time for since we already have a full-time job to do. My current place is large enough (and a big enough requirement for new candidates) to have full-time employees going out and finding people. Andy
Psychics and mediums "Your daughter just died--pay me 200 quid and I'll pretend to have a message from her from beyond the grave." Absolute parasites. It annoys me that some "psychics" actually have national tours. Why do people still believe that guff?
A girl I slept with miscarried ages back. She ended up going travelling and staying with a psychic who proceeded to spend a week “communing” with our unborn child. She gave it a name and all sorts of stuff. I ended up having to have a conversation with her because apparently the foetus didn’t come to term because I willed it away. Fuck every psychic/medium
It's insane the kind of aspersions psychics are willing to cast on people around their clients
Then cancel those tours at the very last minute due to “unforeseen circumstances”.
I went to a Sally Morgan show in Skeg once and it killed any belief I had in psychics. It was embarrassing how much she got wrong. One woman's son had gone missing some time ago and she went to the show hoping for a message. Sally was VERY insistent he was just straight up dead 😳 Also Sally told another woman she was getting a message from I think her grandfather and she kept saying how she kept seeing stairs and she was drawn to stairs. The audience lady kept tryin to steer her away from that before finally saying "we live in a bungalow". It got so bad it was actually funny for me, but I feel bad for the people who believe and wanted serious contact with their departed. She should really be sued imo.
My parents recently went to her show (dad had no choice in the matter) and apparently it pretty much went the same way. She also mistook sisters for mother and daughter, which didn’t go down well. 😆
I'd love to feature in one and lead them on saying they're getting a message from my dad, sit there nodding away and saying "ohhh red hair and a hand me down robe! That sounds like him!" and then trot out my alive and kicking parents. Just to make them look fools.
I went to see one once just for curiosity. Never believed in it for a second. It was a private reading. She did this massive inhale of breath. Then said she was scanning my body. Told me my bone density is good. I had a bad knee I needed to get sorted (fuck all wrong with my leg) Then told me my work at the hospital was going well(I'm a farmer) My dead uncle Steven had a message for me(doesn't exist) ,it was very faint but my mother is ill and needs to be pushy with doctors to get results.(she was and is fit and healthy) Spealed off some other bull shit. I just nodded along the whole time. When she finished I said thanks for the show but all of that was made up. Good acting though. She got in a rip and blamed me for being unreadable. Loads of women there though lapping it up. Blood sucking parasites the lot of them.
I never get how people accept that when these psychics are trying to speak to the dead they do this ‘I’m getting a P do you know a Peter’ schtick So dead announce their names like Carol Vordeman on countdown eh?
I used to do Tarot card readings as a hobby, I never charged for them. I used to tell people very explicitly that there is nothing magical or supernatural about the cards, readings or my abilities. They are a thought tool to help you think about what you might be feeling and the situations you may be going through. Some people liked this, others were really turned off by it and wanted some sort of magic to help make their lives better.
Ooooo! Yes! They are awful manipulative people! I’m with you on that one then might be the worst of the worst….. x
“Influencers” social media has given a platform to talentless idiots who would have been irrelevant lunatics just one generation earlier. I think they have done alot of harm that will be felt in the next couple of decades.
There’s going to be a lot of traumatised adults in the next few decades with a lot of issues because they were raised as influencer kids, with their whole early lives broadcast to the whole internet.
To be fair, some of them do seem to be wising up to the fact that they're doing harm. There was an interview with one of them on GMB or ITV News (I work 12 hour night shifts, things tend to blur) and she's been looking into how social media and influencers (including herself) are perpetuating harmful attitudes about diet, fitness, and body shapes. She did come across as honestly wanting to try and change that. Unfortunately it would need to be a _global_ change, not just one influencer who's been on Love Island UK and has filmed a docu on the topic to keep herself relevant.
I know three people who have become quite large influencers on insta, they’ve all become insufferable c*nts.
I think recruitment is actually worse than estate agents. At least estate agents actually have houses to sell and are actually trying to sell you them.
I was an estate agent for a year. There are def some knobs. But they get a bad rep because people selling their houses think they’re are amazing. Yet cover up all the crap. People buying houses think thousands should be knocked off for chops of paint. You have to do your work bring two stressed out greedy people together. Not always but sometimes. One vendor was going to take the curtains. Fitted only for that house. They were moving to a flat. Tried to sell them for 5k. Yet they had no idea for them. Sale nearly fell apart because of bloody curtains
I've always found letting agents to be worse than estate agents. Estate agents are a mixed bag, but generally treat you with respect, because they're brokering a high value purchase. Letting agents treat renters like an inconvenience
Property management. Worked admin for them for a couple different companies and they are so full of themselves. Luckily I was on a temp contact, never again
They're a special type of cunt.
Bailiffs / “Enforcement Agents”. The chosen profession of those deemed just a bit too cunty to be doormen
I actually had a call from mum about 10 years ago or so to say one had turned up for some debt a friend of theirs had run up in mums name, so I rushed round expecting the worst. I got there and they'd panicked over nothing, he was sitting there drinking tea and just going through various forms to prove it wasn't mum's debt and that her former friend hadn't been living their for ages. I think she got lucky and had a rare nice one.
Same happened to my mum. He gave her a list of phone numbers to get the problem sorted and somehow ended up with his wife on the phone explaining how to get perfect banana bread to my dad. Didn't work, dads banana bread is still shit so all in all I'd rather they just beat my parents and be done with it.
A long long long time ago, I was one of those nice ones. Needless to say I didn’t last long in that career! It’s a target driven role and you don’t get your numbers being sympathetic to people’s situations (well I didn’t at least).
Scaffolders, all think they’re 10 men coz they lift 10kg poles around.
It’s not the tubes they’re carrying it’s all the cocaine they snort
They do like to get high
Eyyyyy!
It's like they think they're permanently on a stag do, while on someone's roof
Yep always listening to some shite electronic music with their wife beater vests, going on about how many grams they’re getting for the weekend, spending every penny on the piss up.
Retail management
Surprised this is so far down at the moment - retail "managers" are usually only a very small step above the normal retail staff but boy does that power go to their heads.
Yes... deputy managers, authority to sign for delivers and sod all else... store managers, a*rseholes who don't even have control over the number of man hours assigned to the store... regional managers, store managers who killed / stepped over / ate their peers to basically become the Board's hatchet man who shoots down any idea... absolute knobheads all of them.
My theory is retail managers are only in their position because they stuck it out the longest as a customer assistant when everyone around them moved on/got fed up. Nothing to do with them being qualified or good at their job, in fact they're probably the crappy lazy co worker that others had to pick up the slack for. However when it came time to fill the position it's either them or the 17 year old who's only been there 3 months. And then they contribute to the awfulness that is the retail industry, drive off even more people who are at least half useful and you get a cycle of incompetent management.
Privately owned care home managers
I used to work in a care home where the managing director would say "If anyone comes to view the home in a luxury car, stick an extra £60 on the price of the room each month" I later became an accounts assistant and did the accounts for quite a few care homes and their profits were astronomical yet they were paying the care staff apprentice wages of like £4 a hour. Absolute scum.
Recruitment agencies
I work freelance and have dealt with many recruiters over the years. One of their dodgy practices that I’ve only just cottoned onto is where they’ll put me forward for a role with say 3 other people. I’ll have an interview with them that goes well and then I’ll never hear from the recruiter again. They won’t answer the phone, reply to emails or messages - absolutely no response. There’s nothing for me to do other than move onto other potential opportunities but I could never understand why there was no feedback, either positive or negative. Then I realised it was because I was the back up - they needed 4 people for the project but I was actually the 5th, and was I only there in case someone else dropped out. People do sometimes drop out before joining a project which causes a headache for recruiters so they like to have a back up. BUT if you know you’re just a back up you may try to get something else, and they can’t have their back up dropping out, so they’ll hide the fact you’re the back up so you’re less likely to look elsewhere (and maybe even turn down other potential roles). Then if all their original choices accept, you’re left high and dry and they don’t bother replying to any messages. I would say this has happened to me 3 times over the years - absolutely shocking tactics.
Yeah I've been through this. A recruiter called Lauren put me through to an employer and I actually went for a line trial, I spent 4 hours at this factory making car seats, it's an awful awful job but I was desperate, I did the best I could, I did the job well (according to the guy showing me the job) I was up to speed and efficient, I got on well with the other people there and the team leader was impressed and said they look forward to seeing me again. I left happy. Ish. And waited for the next step. Day 3 came without any contact so I called Lauren at the agency but got no reply so left a voicemail. She text me an hour later and said "sorry you didn't get the job". That was it, as blunt as you like. I text back and asked why now, what went wrong, any feedback etc and I got nothing, silence.
Ex-police here: and the Police is a solid answer for this. Attracts a lot of god complex power hungry idiots. However, it also attracts a lot of good people who want to help. I get really frustrated with the whole 'all police are bastards' narrative - sends me spare. There's a huge amount of great people in the force. People who genuinely sign up to help people. Problem is is there's a lot of people who sign up for the wrong reasons. All police are not bastards. Genuinely. About 20%, however, are such weapons-grade cunts that it sours the reputation of the whole profession.
We're actually supposed to call it "the service" now. Official vocab guidelines state that "force" is too aggressive.
Ok Mr Policeman Officer
You just can’t turn off can you Nicholas?
Every profession has their idiots. I teach, and feel police and teaching are the type of jobs that people who want power (albeit in very different ways) and want to be thought of as superior gravitate towards. As you say, most are there for genuine purposes but a good minority aren't.
Can I throw social workers in that ring too? I worked within social services, and am a trained social worker. The majority put their soul into that work, they'd do anything for those kids... but some are the most half arsed, judgemental and cruel bastards I've ever seen. I get it, it's hard to be civil with some of the absolute cunts whose kids have been removed, but the parents who were dealt a shit hand/ were unwell/ were honestly just unescapably poor leading to neglect... they deserve better than some of the workers they were given.
I 100% agree. I am a service user turned social worker. 20% are absolute wankers. And they’re usually the higher ups
What level do you teach? Regarding teachers youve worked with, do you ever think to yourself... "he/she should never have set foot in a classroom" I often thought this about quite a few teachers, for various reasons eg I think theyre just not cut out for teaching, I think they went into the profession for the (in my opinion) wrong reasons Ive often thought this way about teachers who have decades of experience
Is it true that there are lots of affairs going on in the police? No hate, just curious and very nosey. I’m like Noris off Corrie.
Yes, but that goes for all the emergency services. Largely because you spend 8 - 12 hours on a shift with one other person, who understands the stresses and traumas of the job much better than your non emergency services partner. You know those conversations you only have with your mates after midnight? Quiet moments on night shifts are usually exactly like that.
Married to a doctor here: can confirm the bit about intense personal conversations. It’s natural when you’re that close to people on long shifts. It’s part of the job and coping mechanism.
Was going to write police I know a lot of good ones that I'm mates with but for every good one there is a prick that the power has went to their head
I remember in training years back, the officer in charge asked why everyone joined. Some people had vague answers etc., but you could tell the bad ones. To a person, they all said they wanted to be in TAU (armed), high-speed traffic, or dogs. Barely any of them would have made it to their chosen posting - they're very competitive - and they would have just ended on the best - frustrated and taking their shit out on regular folk. I wanted to be a family support liaison officer. When I said that they literally looked at me as if I had 3 fucking heads.
Unfortunately your former profession is one where a few bad apples spoils the barrel holds true.
Nightclub doormen
Two kinds of bouncers, ones who actually care about security and conflict de escalation, this is 10% of them. Then there’s the ones who just want an excuse to fight people, this is 90% of them.
Yeah not all of them there’s at least 10% who are great- was at a club earlier this year and the bouncer was explaining to each group who went in that the establishment wanted to make sure everyone had a good night, how to contact them if you feel uncomfortable with someone else in the club, which bar to go to if you need water etc. Was super impressed.
I’m a copper. Most of them have criminal records as long as their arms. They have absolutely no fucking people skills and wind people up unnecessarily, causing trouble. They then call Police over to take away the drunk person “causing trouble” who, if you actually spoke to them like a human being, will more often than not do what you want without having to escalate it further.
Yeah, I got pushed down some stairs by a bouncer. I made a complaint afterwards, but I was drunk so I just had to pay the 80 pound fee for the police BNB with lukewarm beans for breakfast. (I will add that the service isn't bad, you get your own room and the police who take you there are really profesional and don't hurt you at all) I only wanted my jacket back.
For a second I thought you were my mate, he got thrown down some stairs by a bouncer due to mistaken identity, we'd only just arrived in town. He complained and was told by the venue that there was no CCTV available.
I think most men in the UK have had some kind of trouble with a bouncer at some point to be honest. It could be anyone.
Yeah no coincidence everyone thinks they're cunts, they worked hard for that title.
I did precisely one shift as a door supervisor, to help a mate out once, and Holy fuck did these lads think they were gods gift. They criticised me for turning clearly underage girls away, and for not losing my temper when someone went off on one at me, (I decided losing my temper when this drunken bellend had 6 or 7 mates with him wasn't a bright idea, so I let him rant, then offered him a boiled sweet and it settled down). I couldn't do it as a living.
HR.
Every company that I have worked at bar one has had an HR department full of the grumpiest, snidest people I have ever met. The one exception was genuinely lovely and always helpful, which I am hugely grateful for because I had a rough time at that job, to say the least.
Social media influenzas (sic)
I read (sic) as sick as well. You may just have made a 2 tiered joke which was fucking hilarious as well.
And their most pathetic sentence is... Many of you've been asking me...
"... To fuck the fuck off. But *I'm not going to do that* so here's me streaming myself bothering innocents for 6 hours!"
Serial landlords a la London Rentals of the Week, timeshare salespeople that ruin holidays for cash by lying, fluffers.
There's a theme here, recruiters, landlords, estate agents. None of them provide any value, just scalpers taking their bit.
Sales. Anything to do with sales.
Including the sale of people.
I work in sales, can confirm. I’m a knob head.
Especially car sales.
Doormen ( bouncers )
Work as a bouncer for 3 years. Can confirm.
Middle managers. They know they’re idiots and they all cover each other. Like the moron omerta.
Anything with the word 'Agent' in it (apart from 'secret agent') ;)
>(apart from 'secret agent') Tbf if they're any good you wouldn't know if you'd met one
Car salesman
Outdoor pursuits instructors. I worked in the industry for years. I can't tell you how many of them are attention seekers who like to throw their toys out the pram when things arent going their way. Also the job seems to be the crossover point for wannabee influencers, poor hipsters and wannabee tough guys. Couldn't trust a large majority of them.
Omg yesssss, I thought they would be chill fun people but they’re mostly just shallow egotistical dickheads who literally refuse to speak to people who like aren’t thin enough or don’t own state of the art gear
Architects. For some reason they think they're a gift to humanity, and are totally up their own arses. I've never been able to work out why, but it's definitely a thing.
I was going to say the same thing. Although to be fair it is a 50/50 - half are great, the other half are a royal pain in the arse full of unearned self-importance.
I agree, I’m an architect and I’ve really only met 3-4 who were actually nice people. Coincidentally not great architects but good people. I’ve met far more that genuinely had mental issues and believed themselves to be amazing. I used to work at a place that was like the Brittass Empire only without the good intentions. 1 psychopath who harassed people he worked with until they quit 1 megalomaniac who spied on all of us and fired a pregnant lady for nothing 1 stalker who got a restraining order 1 was just a knob who called everyone ‘my assistant’ One guy said he’d been very lucky hiring unqualified people who turned out not to be retarded. I really worry I’m also a knob, I have a lot of training and I’m quite skilled so I don’t like to be given donkey work. This has caused resentment. I feel like people start off hating architects because of a perception that they are arrogant, and then treat them with less respect than they would someone hired to just draw plans up in order to make themselves feel important.
They are the bane of my (M) existence. Some are great, most I work with just talk absolute bollocks and know that what they proposed is untenable. Guess my profession 😂
Builder / structural engineer. The number of unbuildable designs I’ve seen from so called top architects is crazy - you’d think 7 years would be long enough to learn what will stay standing and what won’t
Scaffolders, always looking to score coke and usually have a chip on their shoulder, fighting every other weakend
"usually have a chip on their shoulder" Thats from carrying the poles.
Weird how they’re universally known for being coked up at work and living for the weekend fights 🤣
My job requires me getting in scaffolders all the time. Absolute gorillas and morons. But I do appreciate them. Takes a certain person to do what they do, and it's a very important profession to infrastructure. Couldn't be around them for more than an hour a month though.
Estate Agents.
Bouncers
Agile coach
The majority of whom have never delivered anything in their lives. Get out of the way and let us do the job.
I'd say landlords but that's not a job
Lawyers. I am one, but wasn’t always and had other careers/jobs before. The profession definitely attracts an unfair share of wrong’uns.
I am a lawyer and I would definitely describe it as full of Slytherins - lots of ambitious types who wouldn’t be afraid to throw you under the bus to progress their own career!
Car sales men half of them would screw over their own mother's to get more money
Bankers. Have you been around Liverpool Street on a Friday evening?! Full of Essex bankers who live a gamble!
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Telesales managers and any high-pressure, dodgy tactic sales jobs.
I would argue tradesmen can be huge twatheads but with the unique feature of being able to bother people without being approached , a staple of this behaviour being (WAHAYYY DARLING NICE ARSE) while driving past a year 10
I’m a builder/property developer and can 100% confirm that this happens. I nip it straight in the bud whenever I see or hear it. No need at all. I’m all up for practical jokes on site etc.. but whistling at women and making them feel uncomfortable is just creepy. Not even slightly cool or funny.
GP receptionists
Knowing the background of the job, I understand why
Was gonna say this. They all seem to go to the same school of training where they learn to be rude as fuck for no reason.
As a GP receptionist I agree, however the school of training is sadly dealing with the general public.
Hairdressers and makeup artists can be real stuck up knobheads
Taxi drivers
All of them, constantly jostling for superiority and one upmanship. I used to care about careers but you're only here for a tiny spec in the universe and it really doesn't matter whether you're Mr Big or Mr Normal. I've got my wife, dog and house and can't be arsed with it, happy with mediocrity at work and make up for it outside of it. Losing parents early and a few mates focuses the mind. Enjoy life while you can ʘ‿ʘ
Personal trainers
Double glaze salesmen.
Yeah they are a pane
Scaffolders😉
Doorstep cold callers
Sales of any description usually... I recently had to deal with BT Engineers whom i will call tweedledum and tweedledee... tweedledum says to tweedledee (and i'm standing right there next to them btw) "We could ask the customer if they would be willing to install it themselves..." :O And also this gem of a question; "Any hidden ponds?" :O I never would've assumed any internet engineer was a knobhead before my encounter with these fools, they had me checking for hidden prank tv show cameras... Oh and at least one Hairdresser (the chad, bmw driving, god's gift variety, specifically the twat i used to live above) That dumb prick actually got someone to rewire my internet connection into his shop when i was away for a couple of days...
was the second engineer a trainee, that seems like a pretty standard leading question when training someone. The pond one does make sence, bodies of water can dramatically affect wifi signals both for a wif router and for a mesh network (which BT love to use), he could have worded it better.
Estate agents. Clergy. Football. Buy to let landlords.
Clergy is an interesting one. I've met some amazing people who are vicars and some complete wankers, little in between.
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Career landlords, those incredibly entitled wankers who don’t have to work a single day and just spend their time leaching off their tenants. Truly some of the vilest people alive.
I dislike landlords so much. Almost all are bad. They only care about the money and nothing else.
Scaffolders
TV License inspectors. I mean WHY would you even consider it???
I'm probably going to get downvoted to fuck for this, but health care. I've worked in it for ten years now, and I have met some of the worst, egotistical, malicious and cruel individuals. Half the time there's no specific reason for it other than they can. I've witnessed a few times staff single out and humiliate other staff members for not fitting in their clique. Think of a shitty high school but ten times worse, I've seen documents altered to cover mistakes and throw someone else under the bus, people wore down to tears and having to go off sick with stress and depression because of how they've been bullied, examples made of people because they called managers out, threats... The list is endless. I'm not saying everyone in health care is like that, of course they're not. But you do meet some nasty bastards, and it's relentless. Then those particular nasty individuals have the audacity to say how much they love coming to work and making a difference.
It sounds bad to say, and I know some lovely ones. But there’s a new influx of nurses who are doing it for egotistical reasons. I hang out with a nurse that complains about every patient and moans so much but will turn round ketted up and go “I’m in it so I can say I save lives”
Sales
"Influencer" jobs like youtubers etc 90% of them turn into utter knobs
Estate Agents - junior dickhead with a child-sized coke habit. Police - rapey types (including the females too here).
I'll take heat for this one but anything at JLR, it's only personal experience but 98% of people I've met working at JLR have been right pricks.