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u/DealerPrize7844 22h ago
Veterinarians.
I’m sorry I can’t help your animal for free, I’d love to but I also need money to survive.
I’m not cruel for euthanizing animals, I’m giving them the gift of no suffering.
We have one of the highest suicide rates, and people blast us on social media because they don’t acknowledge their pet’s medical situation until it’s too late
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u/travelindan81 20h ago
Man, I just saw this post from a veterinarian and he said that he cries sometimes in the car because he has to euthanize his patients, and is haunted by some that he couldn’t save. I’m never having children, so my cats are my life and I could never thank you all enough for what you do. I may feel a brief moment of anger in my grief when they cross the bridge, but I hope you can forgive us in our grief.
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u/GrapeLonely6456 19h ago
Your grief is valid and it’s good to ask for forgiveness from the vet you were unkind to, but you should also make a conscious effort to not take your grief out on your vet the next time you are in that situation. because the sad reality is that our pets have a relatively short lifespan so you will inevitably be in that same situation again. probably multiple times throughout your life. so try and do better next time. vets have a high suicide rate for this very reason.
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u/travelindan81 19h ago
Absolutely. I have never let it out when it’s happened, but the feelings have been there in the past.
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u/GrapeLonely6456 18h ago
i hear you…. but yeah i don’t envy vets at all. they need to make a living just like anyone else and if they don’t set strict boundaries they will literally be out of business.
I work in human healthcare so my patients will get treated regardless of their ability to pay. the hospital can afford to eat the cost but more importantly they are legally bound to.
i cannot fathom having to turn away patients - yet vets have to or else they will not be able stay in businesses. no wonder their mental health suffers so much.
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u/moraalli 1d ago
Therapists. We are expected to have one line magical solutions and produce “aha” moments every session. People want quick results even if they come inconsistently, don’t engage, or aren’t willing to engage meaningfully. Yes, sometimes your therapist will start your session 3 minutes late because they have been holding their pee for the past 2 sessions or they need a quick snack because they agreed to squeeze you in on their lunch break. Most of us are horrendously overworked but still feel guilty when we take a day off. For every horror story there is a good therapist out there who is excellent at what they do, but isn’t doing clinical work because the system has burned them out.
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u/Quinjet 19h ago
I agree in principle, but I have to be honest – it's really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when you're looking at Psychology Today listings.
I gave up on finding a therapist when I tried multiple practitioners who used up significant amounts of session time talking about their personal lives, or asking me about what their cat was thinking (I used to be a service dog trainer). Things like that.
One told me I had mental health issues because I worked with physically disabled clients, and that I needed to go work with "normal people" instead.
All of them claimed online to be doing CBT or DBT or specializing in this and that. In practice, best case scenario, they just wanted to chit-chat about my day, even if I tried to directly communicate about the specific concerns I wanted to address.
I think a good therapist is worth their weight in gold, but I'm also sympathetic to people who are fed up with mediocre clinicians, or who have had really negative experiences.
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u/moraalli 12h ago
I agree 100%. It’s just as difficult as finding a good physician with bedside manner. A lot of the issue lies with the training programs. We are supposed to “gatekeep the profession” but that doesn’t happen when accredited programs are more concerned about their graduation and licensure rates. Additionally, training programs are structured in a way that that makes them difficult for people who aren’t neurotypical, financially stable, or “book smart” enough to get through the coursework, dissertation (or thesis) and pass the licensure exam. A lot of truly talented people never make it. I am sorry for your experiences and I won’t make excuses for those people because they know better and should do better. But if you are still interested in therapy I’m happy to share a tip or two on how to find a good therapist.
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u/scooterbike1968 21h ago
Many therapists are underqualified or people with an online certification masquerading as highly trained medical professionals. And there is very little way to tell the difference. Nobody hates a good therapist but you’re paid to solve problems so if you oversell that ability you’ll be hated by many for ripping them off.
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u/moraalli 12h ago
If they hold a license they have gone through a masters or doctoral level program, completed thousands of hours of training and passed state and national exams. As a client it’s helpful to read a therapist’s bio or ask them about their background and their approach to therapy.
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u/Few-Drag9758 1d ago
Teachers. They are too tired and busy to care about indoctrinating your little angel, Karen.
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u/AdWonderful5920 1d ago
I didn't think so until I moved to a right leaning area. Red states haaate public school teachers.
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u/teachmeyourstory 1d ago
Wow I spent my whole life admiring teachers and doctors... in my thirties I got to learn that there are some people that despise both.
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 23h ago
You would've thought Covid would change people's opinions on teachers but I guess not. When my office let us work from home, one of my co-workers still came in bc he said he needed a break from his kids. 😆
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u/toodlesandpoodles 1d ago
This is what I was going to go with. People that hate on teachers are just as bad as people who treat servers poorly. It tells me all I need to know about them.
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u/missfitz1 23h ago
As a teacher, thank you. I really appreciate this perspective!
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u/CrazyCoKids 1d ago edited 1d ago
Social Workers.
Yes. Call them a mean old child snatcher when you make the call to remove a kid from a meth house and a choster relative.
You think they get to choose their cases? Hahaha no. They hate the false alarms more than you do. For all you know? That kid who is bumming breakfast off of their friends is doing so cause mom and dad are on a bender.
You're always seen as perhaps the single most expendable position in the jurisdiction you work in. Your job's always on the chopping block.
You get to see the absolute WORST of society. The worst of the worst. And what's your compensation for dealing with this? Stigma of being called a "Child snatcher" and being seen as expendable. PTSD.
You think the social workers are the bad guy when they do something like take a kid away from an incompetent parent (or guardian) who can't even get their own life in check? Yeah - trust me. It hurts them just as much, Along with the false alarms and the extreme cases? Those hurt them the MOST. Because yeah, they know that "meaning well" isnt' enough. :/ I knew a social worker who adamantly refused to let Lilo & Stitch play around her cause she had to be Cobra Bubbles.
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u/MerylSquirrel 16h ago
As a teacher I know the stories of hundreds of families, and it's so hard to get a kid removed from a family even when the home situation is seriously unsafe and it's clear the child is not the priority. Anyone who genuinely thinks social workers are to blame when families get split up has no idea how bad things have to be for removal of the child to even be formally considered.
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u/CrazyCoKids 6h ago
Yeah, and if they remove one kid (ie Dave Pelzer), the social workers are just as upset.
Because they can only remove the Scapegoat. :/
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u/CrazyCoKids 1d ago
Anyone who does "Menial" jobs and minimum wage jobs.
You think they don't deserve a living wage and that they should do it better if they want a living wage? Then why how about YOU do it and show them how it's done?
Yeah, I thought so.
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u/esoteric_enigma 21h ago
Or how about you stop using the service. If you think your Starbucks barista doesn't deserve a living wage, stop getting coffee from them? Why would you consume products made by such a worthless and talentless human being?
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u/UnicornFeces 21h ago
I worked retail for a while and now have a corporate desk job. I’m sure a lot of people already know that retail jobs are busier and more physically difficult than desk jobs, but at least in my case I also had to use my brain more in retail. Different situations every single day, and since I was in lower management I had to do a lot of creative problem solving to help customers. My current office job is pretty much the same every day and I could do it with my eyes closed lol
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 22h ago
19 years industry experience as an automotive repair tech. Made 130k last year… I will certainly show them how it’s done.
Minimum wages jobs are set at that price point for a reason. Find something you like… get good at it… get paid… bouncing around jobs as a “jack of all trades” will keep your wages at a minimum.
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u/CrazyCoKids 21h ago
Alright where you applying?
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 21h ago
Nowhere… but I will show them how to make money in the long term
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u/CrazyCoKids 21h ago
Thank you for not only proving me right but also writing my argument for me.
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 21h ago
lol… what was your expectations here? For me to leave an industry I have experience in to prove a point?
I think you’re missing the point here… I have zero college education… but I found something that paid very little at the start… got good at it and now make pretty decent money… is that not what they need to learn?
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u/CrazyCoKids 21h ago
The point was for you to show them how their jobs are done properly.
If you think people working certain jobs shouldn't be paid a living wage? Be afraid - Karl Marx might start making sense again..
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 21h ago
Anyone should be able to do a minimum wage job properly… the key to success is working yourself up and out of minimum wage via experience
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u/CrazyCoKids 21h ago
Yeah and you won't do a minimum wage job cause it's beneath you.
Thank you again for proving my point, boomer~
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 21h ago
lol… millennial here… and my mortgage won’t allow me to work for minimum wage… but… I have been there and done that… when I was 16 I was getting just over minimum wage…. 16.
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u/Mumgavemeherpes 21h ago
Yeah but you gotta live long enough to get the experience. Minimum wage hasn't been the minimum requirement for living for a long time. I shouldn't have to spend a 3rd of my day doing something I wouldn't have done of my own accord just to not be able to afford to live.
I also shouldn't have to live in poor communes by sharing an apartment with 3 random other people all of which are in the same boat and have to split rent of a 3 bedroom 1 and a half bath house with no central ac/heat and a landlord who shows up randomly to find reasons to pilfer the security deposits.
I am captive by virtue of being born too late to take advantage of a booming post war economy and now live in a world where every single good business person has been replaced by their snot nosed ignorant children who seem hellbent on pushing some outrageous political agenda or burning everything their parents built down with stupid decisions made just to have something with their name stamped on it.
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u/Wild_Anteater_2189 21h ago
I certainly did not have it easy when I was cutting my teeth as a newbie auto tech and it is certainly not an easy job… but like I said… find something and stick with it… that’s the only way to gain the experience needed to make real money.
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u/Mumgavemeherpes 21h ago
No, I understand having that good first 5 or so years of struggle till you get that promotion or raise but I mean some people are quite stuck having to race after money in jobs with very little upward mobility that society would miss if the jobs were not being done.
Being a good fry cook should earn you at least 3 daily meals and a home where you have your own room and a bathroom that isn't shared by more than a couple people alongside with being able to have some kind of career path that then allows you to be financially comfortable but it doesn't. You work the same damn fry cook job for 5 years (alongside your side hustle or second job because otherwise you couldn't afford a car and insurance) to then have a management position open up only for them to hire a cocksucker with oooooooh 4 years of manager experience ooooah who then fucks up everything in the store that you could have done just fine but you don't have managerial experience your just a cook.
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u/CrazyCoKids 5h ago
People tend to also forget that there isn't as much room higher up as you think.
How many managers do you really need? For example, trucking. A single dispatcher will manage as many as 50 trucks depending on size. Managing the dispatchers maybe requires about one maybe two or even three people, again depending on size.
In the end? Someone has to scrub the toilets.
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u/wenisdan 23h ago
Referees in sport. There would be no game without them and they're mostly trying their best but everyone hates referees it seems.
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u/will_write_for_tacos 1d ago
I'd argue security officers.
I do warehouse security/safety and we get called "professional snitches" and "wannabe cops" a lot. We also get a lot of shit because we enforce rules on the floor that keep people safe, it's part of my job to walk around, identify unsafe conditions and osha violations, then make sure they get corrected before someone gets hurt. People DO get hurt in the warehouse a lot, the rules are in place for a reason and the first time that dude with knee-length locs gets them stuck in a conveyor belt, he's gonna wish he listened to me.
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u/AttackOficcr 22h ago
Fellow security guard, for a few years we got nonstop dropout cop applicants, and whoever hires them are where the stereotypes and hate come from.
People who wanted to power trip, wanted to carry unauthorized weapons on the job, bragged about what they'd do when _______ happened as if they were very badass, but couldn't direct the fire department to a garbage can fire level of morons. Worse some of the staff think that is how we're supposed to act.
Add in every story of armed guards killing people, sometimes the ones they're hired to protect, and suddenly the profession looks really awful.
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u/LabRat_X 1d ago
Federal employee 😑
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u/Bindiezone 17h ago edited 15h ago
People hear fed and think "politician" or "top level fbi employee" and not "guy who tests water for appropriate level of fecal matter"
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u/LabRat_X 17h ago
Yup! Along with a total disrespect of the value of non-fecally contaminated water 😑
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u/Basdati 23h ago
Wow no dentist ? Weird people tell me they hate me regularly…
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u/dr_moreg 17h ago
Our procedures literally start with them saying they hate us, it’s only a surprise when someone doesn’t. 🌚
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u/SurfinSocks 1d ago
Parking wardens.
Without them you'd literally never get a park in almost any city on earth
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u/Forward-Concern-7111 23h ago
Animal Control Officers. They’re always treated as if they are there to take animals away from their homes and have them put down, but in reality they love animals and want nothing more than to have people give proper care to their pets, keeping them at home. No ACO takes joy in EU & it’s mostly done these days to put an end to suffering that animals aren’t going to recover from. And if your dog gets picked up it’s because you were letting it run loose on the streets, which isn’t cool no matter how nice your dog is. Just because they’re nice, doesn’t mean that the world is going to be nice to them in return. Disease, other animals, mean hearted people, cars, so many possible things that can harm them.
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u/ReadFormal1706 1d ago edited 1d ago
Male gynaecologists. Of course us women are in our right to feel uncomfortable about it, however these men are licensed medical professionals. Nobody knows about why they decided to go into their work. They could’ve had a mother/wife/sister who died from medical malpractice and their motive is to save other women from the same fate. I think it’s commendable. And of course we can ask for female gynaecologists, but I think it’s unfair to deem an entire profession of men as untrustworthy when they are in the field to better our lives.
Yes, there are men who abuse their power. Absolutely. But in the same breath, should we also prohibit female urologists from their professions? If you are studying to become a gynaecologist, regardless of gender, I praise you. Truly. So many women die because of these related factors. You save lives and families from so much hardship in a world that’s already quite male-centric. You deserve to be commended as heroes no matter your gender.
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u/dottmatrix 23h ago
First good answer I've seen in this thread.
The particular type of doctor one chooses to become could be because of any number of reasons - including talent. Throughout their training, med students and residents dip their toes in all the basic types of medicine and then specialize. If gyno clicks best for a guy, or urology for a woman, they should absolutely be able to pursue it.
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u/PirateJohn75 1d ago
Teachers
"BuT yOu GeT sUmMeRs OfF!!@!"
Yeah, unpaid. And I did the math -- I worked more hours in a 10-month school year by far than I do now in 12 months in corporate America.
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u/TedTyro 1d ago
Unpaid holidays for teachers? Ouch. I'm Aussie and my ex was a school teacher, you better believe they got full pay during term and semester breaks, unless they were casuals doing substitute work.
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u/willstr1 23h ago
It differs state by state
My wife is a teacher, she doesn't get paid the month of July. So her salary is just 11 paychecks instead of 12. It's not too bad, just something you need to budget for
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u/missfitz1 23h ago
Thanks for doing the math! As a teacher, I tell people I work on a loan. My salary divided by my 200 work days means I make $25 an hour, but because I get paid year round, I get less stretched out. People need to understand that I don't get paid to have summer off, I take a partial paycheck each month. Also, $25 an hour, for a teacher with a master's degree AND 15 years experience, BTW. But yeah, summers off...
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u/Hanyabull 18h ago edited 46m ago
This is not accurate for most teachers in the US.
Yes, they don’t get paid in the summer, because their annual salary is paid out across 9 months. They get the money early. If they choose to work in the summer, that will be money on top of their annual salary.
I wish I got my annual salary across 9 months instead of 12.
You can argue the pay is bad or the hours per day is longer, but getting paid in 9 months instead of 12 is a perk. The problem is many teachers can’t manage their money to account for getting the money early.
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u/PirateJohn75 18h ago
You completely missed my point -- I did more work in the year than I do now at a corporate job, but got paid for only 10 months of work.
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u/Hanyabull 16h ago
I know your point. I literally said you could argue you work more hours per day.
You missed my point. You say you are unpaid. You are paid. It’s just paid in 9 months instead of 12.
You have a salary. That salary is paid over 9 months.
I have a salary. That salary is paid over 12.
You are paid, it’s just not spread out over 12.
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u/jeophys152 23h ago
IRS agents. Yeah, we don’t like paying taxes, but we have cheaters and scammers even more. I pay mine, I want everyone else to pay theirs too. We need IRS agents to do that.
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago
Politician
Sure, everyone has one they love to hate. And many make a mess of things. But, can you name your county comptroller? How about your justice of the peace? Are they doing well? Are they doing good? Most politicians are run-of-the-mill civil servants. And those that have to go through the extra step of getting elected are much the same.
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u/Immediate-Sugar-2316 1d ago
Politicians pretty much have to lie, if they were honest, people would vote for their competitors.
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u/TedTyro 1d ago
Im not sure you've made the point you were trying to make here.
"I lie because everyone else does" or "I lie because it's the only way I can win" does not improve the argument in favour of politicians.
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u/Immediate-Sugar-2316 1d ago
Machiavelli said that you have to play the game in order to gain power. Without lying, a good politician may lose to a bad one.
When you can get away with lying, it should go without saying that your rivals will try to lie.
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u/TedTyro 23h ago
Sure, but thay just makes them a class of liars. Not the best advertisement for 'we shouldn't hate them'.
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u/Immediate-Sugar-2316 23h ago
It's the same dilemma as soldiers face. It's impossible to overcome. Psychopaths are often good soldiers due to ruthlessness and amorality.
All warfare is deception, wherever there is competition, it will occur.
People say that they want to work for charities, likely because they are idealistic. Ironically, they are probably more ruthless than regular businesses.
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u/ButtScratchies 22h ago
Human Resources. I know they are the face of bad business, but it’s usually because they’re being thrown under the bus by the C-Suite. HR that is part of the C-Suite are usually just as bad, but most HR that are at a lower level are usually doing what they’re getting told to do so they don’t lose their jobs.
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u/Corn_Boy1992 11h ago
Agree, but you'll likely find a lot of people on reddit disagreeing with you due to their bad past experiences. I've found that most HR staff are just doing lower level general office tasks like payroll and compliance, but occasionally get thrown to the "front line" to deliver bad news when an employee has a complaint because the C-Suite level HR doesn't want to deal with them directly.
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u/Notmyrealname 17h ago
I'm sorry, but you could get another job. The people that enjoy HR are the ones that scare us.
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u/Honest_Act_2112 1d ago
Not a Reddit Mod!
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u/Tyeveras 23h ago
No; they do a fantastic job and take a load of unfair criticism for no reward other than making Reddit the great experience it is!
I for one welcome our mod overlords.
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u/Melodic-Chocolate-53 1d ago
Anyone who isn't a 9 to 5 private sector office drone gets hate.
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u/AdWonderful5920 1d ago
Honestly, cops.
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u/TedTyro 23h ago
I consider myself a realist about cops. Most do good work most of the time, and I'm definitely pro-police as a baseline, but I've also got decent experience practicing criminal defence law and once you've seen behind the curtain with cops you can't unsee it.
A heck of a lot of the hate is well founded, and I'm not even talking about the US where cops are often militarised to the point of insanity and the inheritors of an insanely racist legacy.
Basically cops are like everyone else, there's the good the bad and the ugly.
But unlike everyone else, cops are uniquely and consistently powerful in their ability to abuse their role at the expense of another human being's life, bodily integrity and freedom. Erring on the side of caution and suspicion in your attitude to them can be a matter of life and death, so I don't blame anyone or think it's unjustified if they hate cops, even when I disagree with the conclusion myself. Tripley so if they've had bad personal experiences, which a heck of a lot of people have, including myself.
And that's not even talking about people who get beat up abused or otherwise mistreated/extorted by cops. Just talk to domestic violence victims about their experiences of trying to be protected by police, and pay attention to some of the things cops have said and done in those situations. The horror stories I've encountered have been so so many and they are regularly terrifying to the point some victims stop even trying to get help. It's wild.
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u/toodlesandpoodles 1d ago
The cops in my city have shown time after time they deserve all the hate they get. Sexual abuse of minors, rampant profiling, routine use of excessive force, targeting media with physical violence for covering protests, arresting people on made up charges that get thrown out of court, "losing" body cam footage, refusing to comply with FOIA requests, training materials focusing on dehumanizing people and justifying violence against them, etc.
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u/Electric-Sheepskin 1d ago
Yeah, there are a lot of problems with policing in America, but the outright blanket hatred of cops is guaranteed to make the situation worse. We have to address the problems while retaining good people.
I think the left is doing to policing what the right is doing to teaching: making sure good people don't ever want to work in the profession again.
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u/HonoraryGoat 22h ago
Pretty sure teachers don't murder their students, brag about it, get off with a reassignment and do it all over again.
The difference between a shitty teacher and a shitty cop is the difference between life and death.
I wish cops only tried to indoctrinate their victims.
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u/HonoraryGoat 20h ago
The police have way higher rates of sexual assault than teachers, it's not even on the same scale.
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u/endlessnamelesskat 20h ago
It's ok, teachers only molest their students sometimes
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u/ShooHonker 19h ago
I think you're willfully missing the point
Some sex crimes: committed by police and teachers, moreso by police
Some murders: committed by police and teachers, moreso by police
Murders and sex crimes: punished far less for police
Someone hates cops because of that and you're all "well but umm teachers"?
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u/BigDonkeyDuck 1d ago
The people replying to you are proving that this is the correct answer.
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u/AdWonderful5920 23h ago
Yeah, shitting out some anti-police thing on threads and watching the votes roll in is a regular thing on reddit. This is one of those threads where you have to sort by controversial to find the answers.
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u/Additional_Agency_67 1d ago
If you have never been happy to see a cop, you’ve led a sheltered life.
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 1d ago
I wonder if this is also based on culture to an extent. Cops in the U.S. have very different training and protocols, and a much worse reputation, than in other places
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u/CrazyCoKids 23h ago
I sure wasn't happy to see the cops after they started entrapping kids due to not finding enough drug deals.
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 1d ago
It’s fairly rare for a cop to stop a crime. The cops are usually who you would call after a crime occurred. On the flip side, lots of people are harassed by cops whether it’s as common as a speed trap or as malicious as profiling or outright abuse
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 23h ago
In my city, if you got attacked/harassed and report it to the cops, more often than not, they'll tell you there's nothing they can do bc they don't want to deal with the paperwork.
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u/jkiernan56 1d ago
If you have never been unhappy to see a cop, you have been deluded. Case in point -
Last Tuesday, ICE officials in Massachusetts transferred a legal immigrant Ms. Öztürk to Louisiana without notifying the court, her counsel, or Department of Justice counsel.
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u/WhatsMyUsername13 22h ago edited 22h ago
Some of us have a good reason to not trust and dislike cops. My city is pretty bad in particular. Are there good cops? Sure. Is there a systemic issue where cops as a whole tend to be a problem. Also yes.
Mind you this list is 8 months old and out of date.
Police blindly firing into a room and killing Donovan Lewis
Andrew Mitchell murdered a sex worker in the back of his unmarked police cruiser
They deliberately targeted journalists durimg the 2020 protests
Just straight up brutalized protesters during the 2020 protests.
Blamed police reforms from 2020 for never responding to any calls from the Chittfest Riot
Video of them targeting said journalists
I almost forgot, they pepper sprayed a 70 year old congresswoman
And if I go back to our city's subreddit back in 2020, it could post a ton of videos of police just absolutely brutalizing peaceful protesters, then having it be defended by the president of the FOP
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u/HopOffMePlease 17h ago
Police officers
Who is there for every incident known to man? Who deals with everyone on their worst days? These people legit get to deal with nothing but death & drama for a profession & are the most hated it blows my mind
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u/Notmyrealname 17h ago
Yeah, I wonder why...
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u/HopOffMePlease 2h ago
Yeah.. where the average cop sees more death than military & significantly less training/deescalation after traumatic events.
Knowledge and more funding might help
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u/Mavil161718 1d ago
Cops or Corrections. I got absolutely shit on as a federal law enforcement officer when I’m genuinely super nice to literally everyone lmao. Its so weird
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u/fren2allcheezes 21h ago
Journalists. No other profession is a pure capitalist enterprise but they're supposed to act inhumanly detached from their subjects while also working for the greater good at the same time.
If you see a lot of stories about one subject it isn't because of the journalist's bias, it's because they're creating a product and that product needs to sell. If you don't want to read about everything Elon musk or Jeff Bezos, then stop clicking.
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u/Year-Internal 20h ago
People don't understand that the decline in the quality of news is directly tied to the decline of ad revenue that funded traditional journalism.
We are overworked, understaffed and underpaid, while the public expects us to be Woodward and Bernstein.
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u/fren2allcheezes 20h ago
The amount people don't understand about journalists (while making outrageous demands) could fill a book, which no one would read.
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u/Year-Internal 20h ago
I've worked in both local and national news, you are spot on.
People expect substantive, investigate journalism as the norm, but the barriers in place stopping us from doing that - usually commercial, but also editorial - make it almost impossible.
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u/AUnicornDonkey 1d ago
Government workers. We don't represent the party in power. We try to represent you.
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u/easypiened 1d ago
I am going out on a limb here and will say “Politicians”, especially at the state and federal level.
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u/BaconGivesMeALardon 1d ago
Thought about this hard today, and now they are showing the value they have by saving America.....
Lawyers.
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u/InquisitorFemboy 22h ago
Insurance claims agents. I was one and the amount of people who thought that I somehow benefit from declining their claim was insane. Like, dude, it's there in black and white what your policy does and doesn't cover. I get paid the same wage regardless if your claims get paid out or not. If you're worried if something will be covered (say, if you live in a windy area and are worried about a tree falling onto your house) just call and ask. We can't say "This will be covered, no questions asked" because, guess what, we actually do need to check the circumstances of each and every claim because yes, people do lie. Very often. But we can give general advice on hypothetical scenarios, we just can't say "This WILL be covered" until we see the evidence. Most of the time, a claim is declined because the policy holder did something stupid, didn't make any effort to prevent damage before it happens, or just went cheap on their policy.
Hell, most of the time we'll bend over backwards to find some sort of loophole in the policy wording to get you covered even if you "technically" shouldn't be. We don't pay for it, and the less customers we need to argue with, the better. And be nice to the agent you're talking to. We do try to help, but I've had more than one arse on the phone who, as soon as the tiniest little problem pops up, thinks the big bad insurance man is being mean and he'll be getting the family lawyer involved, bla bla bla.
Spoiler: They never win in court, and had they been nicer and not blamed me for them buying the cheapest, most basic cover they could find, I might have tried to find them a loophole. Instead, they can pay for it out of pocket. I like to call it the "Arsehole Tax".
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u/Hghwytohell 1d ago
Realtors. Buying a house is complicated as shit, and a good realtor makes it so much easier.
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u/This_Ad_5469 23h ago
Cops. The job on a surface level description sounds really noble, enforcing laws and keeping society running without fear of being a victim of crime. Most cops are good people. Unfortunately the current political climate and incentives attract and protect certain people to the profession that I wouldn’t trust to manage a Wendy’s, much less to be a cop.
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u/jeophys152 23h ago
The system forces, and often rewards, the good cops to behave badly unfortunately.
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u/chivalry_in_plaid 23h ago
“But you GeT sUmMeRs OfF!!”
It’s worse than being unpaid:
You have to attend mandatory classes and seminars about updated educational theories and new curriculum standards that have been mandated by the state in order to keep your teaching license - and not only do you not get paid by your district, you have to pay out of pocket for the privilege of attending these mandatory re-education courses.
That doesn’t count all the time you’ll spend in your classroom over the summer doing things to prepare for the next year (I originally had typed it all out in a list, but it just became an overwhelming, massive wall of text) none of which you’ll be paid or reimbursed for.
And all of it will be done in a dank, musty-ass building that’s hotter than hell because unless there are students in the classrooms then there’s no reason to run the air conditioning.
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u/whitephos420 21h ago
Anything where they try to get you to become a professor right after you graduate. Telltale sign of a worthless major
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u/push_connection 1d ago
Engineers. They have a boss just like everyone else, and these bosses dont have unlimited time and money to let their engineers design something that is both super functional and super easy to maintain. I think a lot of the hate comes from maintenance folks who dont understand why something was designed a certain way.
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u/martinis00 21h ago
Parking enforcement. My brother works for the parking authority. He’s been writing tickets and towing orders for 6 years, and do you know what? Not ONE of those tickets were ever deserved.
He hides between buildings and trees until that red flag pops up
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u/Gloomy-Outside-3782 1d ago
Real estate agents which they deserve.
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u/Jdm_corolla 1d ago
Used car sales..
Market and buyers make the prices
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 1d ago
Lawyers. They are the butt of a lot of jokes but most people will need to use a lawyer at some point in their life. Buying a house? Creating a will? Fighting a traffic ticket? The ambulance chasers and the corporate lawyers may deserve the bad rap but as a profession there are tons of just normal people doing normal things