I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
- Sam_Bass ( @Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 hours ago
corporate lawyer and politician. sleaziest of them all
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 5•5 hours ago
Being rich
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 22•19 hours ago
I’m not sure I do, but one thing I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is consumer psychologists. I once read an argument that they could be improving people’s mental health, instead they are working on manipulating people into buying more.
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English4•18 hours ago
Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.
- BallsandBayonets ( @BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ) 3•14 hours ago
Only about 60-70% of them.
- ulkesh ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English16•19 hours ago
Maybe not unique in my opposition…but…
CEOs. (Especially of large companies)
They rarely know what they’re doing, are guessing 90% of the time, bandwagon anything they think will make them more money or notoriety, and get paid exorbitant amounts of money doing nearly nothing to actually earn it.
- zcd ( @zcd@lemmy.ca ) 82•1 day ago
Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground
- lolcatnip ( @lolcatnip@reddthat.com ) English10•1 day ago
Vulture capitalists.
- AndrasKrigare ( @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ) 28•1 day ago
Gas-filler. There’s a couple states in the US where you aren’t allowed to pump your own gas, someone else has to do it for you, and you’re expected to then tip them.
The job is essentially getting me to pay to be inconvenienced. I’d prefer to pay to let me pump my own gas.
- Dhs92 ( @Dhs92@programming.dev ) 11•1 day ago
Oregon let’s you pump your own gas now, so it’s just New Jersey afaik
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English12•22 hours ago
The first time I crossed the border into Oregon years ago and started pumping my own gas, the attendant came out shouting “Hey! What are you doing?” As someone that had never heard of this law in either state, I was about as confused as you could possibly be, because this obviously seemed like a trick question.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 hours ago
Just reinforces my belief that America is a bunch of weird different countries smashed together under a bastard flag.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English1•19 hours ago
Those people deserve a tip, alright. The tip of my middle finger. Pouring fossil fuels into people’s cars is evil.
- UltraGiGaGigantic ( @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) English45•1 day ago
Ctrl + F Landlord
Yall disappoint me.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•22 hours ago
There’s another comment that mentioned a landlord that was published exactly 30 seconds before yours. :P
(Please keep in mind that I’m just teasing you. Obviously, there’s no way you could have known.)
- nooneescapesthelaw ( @nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ) 1•22 hours ago
I’m staying in a city temporarily for about 6 months, whers would I live if I couldn’t rent?
- LedgeDrop ( @LedgeDrop@lemm.ee ) 5•20 hours ago
Off-topic: Lemmy really needs better crosspost functionality.
Lemmy is a small group of people, let’s not divide it further by having the exact same conversation in two (or more) places.
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•19 hours ago
no, it’s a feature, not a bug, that we can have more than one community for discussing the same topic here; makes it harder to censor
- Riskable ( @riskable@programming.dev ) English42•1 day ago
Software Patent Attorney
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 25•1 day ago
I’d say landlords but it doesn’t count as an occupation
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English13•1 day ago
Cop
- space_of_eights ( @space_of_eights@lemmy.ml ) Nederlands5•21 hours ago
Recruiters.
- LordJer ( @LordJer@beehaw.org ) 3•6 hours ago
100 percent agree. Recruiters are a waste of oxygen. Back when I was in school I attended this massive recruiting meet and greet. Head hunters from the largest firms in the area attended and talked with the students about career prospects. A recruiter from a big firm was there bragging about her arbitrary strict screening process for resumes. This Karen, a failed elementary school teacher, gloated about how she required a full page cover letter, and a full page resume. There could not be any blank space. She would measure the margins and if not exactly I inch she would throw the applicant in the reject pile. The cover letter would have to be a full page long. If any length less than 1 full page straight to reject pile. However she stated would never actually read the cover letter.
A week later I attended a Q and A with several partners from the biggest firms in the area. They all talked about how they hated absolutely HATED cover letters and bloated resumes. All they looked for was prior experience, grade point average, and whether the applicant is licensed or not. Funny enough the partner from the same firm as the Karen recruiter had a 2 minute rant on why he hated cover letters.
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English28•1 day ago
Any sort of high pressure sales sucks.
- ByteOnBikes ( @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ) 14•1 day ago
How much do you hate them?
Name a number!
How about if I drop that hatred by 22% with a 2.1% financing? And throw in a free coupon to Chili’s if you verify within the next 45 minutes! Hurry act now we’re running low on coupons. And you don’t want to go home empty handed, do you?
- Trebuchet ( @Trebuchet@lemm.ee ) 23•1 day ago
HR. Have never met anyone in HR who contributed to the good.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English16•1 day ago
HR only contributes to the good of the business, which is owned by the capitalist class. It’s a class war, and HR is not on the side of the working class. Which makes HR employees—witting or not—class traitors, something they have in common with cops.
- blackbrook ( @blackbrook@mander.xyz ) 1•2 hours ago
Since when are HR working class?
And you don’t even need to bring class into it, their role is the same even when the employees aren’t working class either.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 hours ago
HR employees must sell their labor for wages to survive, because they don’t own the means of production; therefore they are working class. The capitalist class makes money by owning the means of production, and exploiting the labor of the working class.
- wuphysics87 ( @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 day ago
Somewhat agree. The good ones you’d never know exist until you need help. They are a god send. Fuck the rest of them
- OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) English5•1 day ago
That’s because you only ever dealt with them from the employee’s side. They contribute to the good of the company/organization. Sometimes that also means good for the employee, but that’s just coincidence.
- Trebuchet ( @Trebuchet@lemm.ee ) 12•1 day ago
I think it’s because they use their position to professionalise a bullshit job, presenting it as a field (HR Management), when their skills are rather ordinary. Really, they should be doing payroll and employment admin, not setting the tone for the organisation or being seen as specialists in any meaningful way. Also, job competencies and profiles disproportionality reward the “skills” found in HR, which i think reflects their input in designing these tools and templates.
Further, i find people who work in this field to have quite a high opinion of themselves and their usefulness.