If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.
- fiat_lux ( @fiat_lux@kbin.social ) 75•1 year ago
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Waste pickers in the clothing canyons of Ghana, or any other landfill/wasteland
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Volunteer caregivers for people with disabilities, especially in places where there are limited or no social safety nets
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Street vendors like the children hawking goods in Yemen or Samoa or Zimbabwe…
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Cleaners, such as the Sewer divers in places like India where there is no protective equipment provided
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Food services workers.
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“Domestic” services workers like childcare, housekeeping, etc. I include victims of forced marriages here.
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All other exploited, outsourced, trafficked, and/or forced labour, such as the cobalt miners in Congo, or the clothing sweatshop workers in Bangladesh, or the Phillipines call centre workers, or the hazelnut pickers in Turkey, or construction labourers in Qatar, or the chaingangs in the US.
- malamignasanmig ( @malamignasanmig@group.lt ) 9•1 year ago
thanks for this very exhaustive list. this is the first time ive heard of sewer divers - with no PPE - sounds terrible.
- fiat_lux ( @fiat_lux@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Sudharak Olwe has spent a lot of time documenting the lives of “conservancy workers” in Mumbai. His entire body of work is worth a look, Content warning: Image 12 is extremely NSFL with the body of a human child, but there are also dead and dying animals in images 4 and 11 but here is one collection. The photo I see most frequently is the one of a worker neck-deep in a drain
Terrible is certainly a good word to describe it.
- 8000mark ( @8000mark@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year ago
Klick on those links with caution, especially the collection is most definitely NSFL.
- fiat_lux ( @fiat_lux@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Oh goodness, I’m really sorry! I entirely forgot some of those pics were at that level. I’ll add a content warning to my post.
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- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 58•1 year ago
Social media moderator
- Extras ( @Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ) 18•1 year ago
God I cant even imagine the shit they see. I saw a podcast episode of one and it just made me sad, think the podcast was other people’s lives
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 20•1 year ago
They don’t get thanked, they get PTSD.
- Chozo ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
It’s a long read, but very much worth it. It goes into detail about the types of material these people have to spend all day watching and reviewing, and talks in length about some of the unhealthy coping mechanisms these teams develop for themselves. Lots of drug use, sex in the office, and suicidal ideation.
While the article focuses mainly on Facebook moderators, I used to share an office with YouTube’s content moderation team around the time this article came out, and a lot of the article rings true for YouTube, as well. I imagine it’s similar across all the big platforms.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 3•1 year ago
If you’re a public moderator (eg. on reddit) you get thanked if you’re doing a good job.
But not nearly as much as you get verbally abused or defamed.
- mke_geek ( @mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
There are (or were) definitely some subs that were harder to moderate than others I’d imagine.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 5•1 year ago
Gaming subs: Easy
Ask subs: Intermediate
Location-based subs: Hard
Political subs: Ironman
If you did politics I think reddit should have had to compensate you for the years lost deleting all the hate and bs.
- hypelightfly ( @hypelightfly@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
It’s certainly thankless but is it a job if you don’t get paid?
- Blake [he/him] ( @Blake@feddit.uk ) 1•1 year ago
Yes, definitely - being the caregiver for a child is often unpaid but still very much a job. Many volunteer positions are important jobs which are unpaid.
- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 34•1 year ago
Being poor. You pay the bills of the rich.
- neptune ( @neptune@dmv.social ) English4•1 year ago
Poor persons credit card interest pays for the points rich people can easily gain and spend.
I’d imagine the margins on many cheaper products are better than the luxury version. Disney+ comes to mind where they want people to take the cheaper ad version because it earns disney more money.
Hell, the whole point of a credit score is so that poor people pay higher interest rates, allowing for interest rates for the rich to become more competitive.
- TheLemming ( @u202307011927@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Thankyou for your service
- Zoidberg ( @Zoidberg@lemm.ee ) 33•1 year ago
Tankless water heater installer.
- pH3ra ( @pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 year ago
- elxeno ( @elxeno@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year ago
Tank you!
- balls_expert ( @balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•1 year ago
No, that’s a tankless job
He’s talking about ultrasonic-cleaning those little gold things people hang around their collar
- cyberdecker ( @cyberdecker@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
No, that’s a necklace job
He’s talking about connecting to work on the Internet over the air without any cables at all
- bradorsomething ( @bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ) 29•1 year ago
Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). These people do the grunt work at nursing homes. They change bed pans and wipe butts, they fetch things, help people stand and sit, and generally get talked down to by the lower level nurses. When I did ambulance transfer, they were the ones that actually knew the patient’s normal mental state, and how they’d been changing over time. All for minimum wage.
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English10•1 year ago
My wife was a CNA until a few months ago. The pay rate has gone up to $12-15ish per hour at least but still terrible benefits on top of getting verbally beaten down by the nurses while getting physically beat up by the residents. Could make the same money with less risk of bodily harm working fast food
- DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English21•1 year ago
Step parent. While not entirely thankless (depending on the kids involved) it’s tremendously underappreciated.
So much expectation that you do things for kids that aren’t yours.
Don’t get me wrong - it can still be rewarding in many ways, and my stepkids and I love each other like blood. We have a fantastic relationship.
But it gets under my skin every time I think about how little their own father has done for them, and I’ve had to pick up the (financial) burden, yet that prick will be the one who gets to walk my stepdaughter down the aisle.
That depends in her because it would be HER wedding.
If she is grateful enough, you’ll get to walk her because you would have been her real dad all her life.
There is no written law that the bio that most be the only one who can walk her, its all just stupid wedding traditions.
If she grows to be a brat, and makes her bio dad walk her, then she doesn’t see you as her real dad, and would be something for you to reflect on.
- DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English9•1 year ago
I hear you, but it’s not quite as straightforward as that. It’s hard to explain (as family dynamics always are).
- sculd ( @sculd@beehaw.org ) 20•1 year ago
Public relations.
They are usually not responsible for the bad decisions but are responsible for taking the heat for them. They are also powerless to actually influence most decision making.
But people will just flame them for being “bad at their jobs” or something like that.
- OttoVonNoob ( @OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ) 16•1 year ago
Meter maids are traditionally hated but if they didn’t exist there is a good chance there would be no parking spots.
- sara ( @sara@lemmy.today ) 16•1 year ago
Social worker is pretty high on the list. Most are overworked, underpaid and treated poorly by their management, their clients, or both.
- const_void ( @const_void@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
Jizz mopper
- Scrof ( @Scrof@sopuli.xyz ) 11•1 year ago
You guys getting paid?
- Chozo ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
Thank you for your service. o7
- Big Nuts 700 ( @bignuts700@pawb.social ) 4•1 year ago
- t�m ( @finickydesert@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
All customer and/or low level jobs
There are several jobs that are frequently mentioned in discussions like this that are actually thanked all of them time.
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs and police are always mentioned. They are hard jobs and mostly under paid. However they are constantly thanked, businesses give discounts and commercials and politicians thank them endlessly.
Grocery store workers, butchers, plumbers, electricians, custodians, truck drivers and most “menial jobs” are completely thankless. Think of the last time you saw a 10% off for nurses and if you’ve ever seen 10% off for overnight stockers.
- MartinXYZ ( @MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs
I,too, wanted to become fire when I grew up. Turns out it’s not a real job. Instead I became disappointed.
- bradorsomething ( @bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ) 4•1 year ago
Electricians get thanked in money. I’m a paramedic and an electrician. I volunteer as a paramedic because electrician pays double.
- selokichtli ( @selokichtli@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
I’ll go with social activism. A lot of people wouldn’t even recognize it as a job.
- d3Xt3r ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 13•1 year ago
Nurses, or hospital staff in general. Overworked, underpaid and generally unappreciated.
- roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Nursing Assistant, though some of us nurses thank them. Man the pay sucks though.