Your most hated profession?

juan.kerr

MaxSteele wrote: »

Clampers. They're actually not even human beings in my eyes.

Ticket Wardens .... You're taking up too much space and oxygen sir.

Sales Reps .... You might as well just say you're a volunteer at Roar promotions.

TV license inspectors ...... "TV license ??" ... "Eh yeah ... **** off ??"

Band and media types who complain about file sharing and downloading when no one really agrees with them.

No surprise that you're happy to steal someone elses cinema seat. Maybe if you paid you way in life you wouldn't hate 4 of these professions so much.

Minevah

Taxi drivers......they drive like they own the road, pull in at short notice,illegal u-turns,park anywhere etc

*edit-oh and those charity hawkers on the streets....stay away from me, I will NOT hi-five you!

Tarkus

Unions...nowadays as big a business as any other & will screw you at every turn followed closely by the bottom feeding lawyers on their payroll.

DylanII

Delancey wrote: »

Teachers - they expect us to scrape and bow before them , overpaid and underworked , impossible to sack and use the '' won't someone think of the children '' argument every time they look for more money.

I can't think of a more self-serving bunch.

I disagree. Id say it's an incredibly difficult job. The teacher's in my secondary school certainly worked hard. They had to put up with some amount of **** and got little respect for it.


I think we are the only country in the world who hates teachers. Everywhere else highly values their teachers. It's usually fuelled by jealousy - they get longer holidays than me - they get higher pay than me - they don't do any work - its an easy job etc. Yet most of those people wouldn't do their job for the money they are on.

New teachers are starting off on something like 13k that's about social welfare money. I'm not a teacher and I would like to see them given a pay rise. It will attract better teachers who go elsewhere because teaching doesn't pay enough.

Oh and I hate taxi men. They just stop anywhere - but it's okay cause they have hazard lights. They drive in two lanes at the same time They do random surprise u turns. If they have a passenger they are crawling up the road and if they don't they are stuck up your ass

wendell borton

National bikini tour oil boys fooking hate those lucky s.o.b's.:(

BBDBB

journalists & politicians

lying feckers :mad:

Graces7

Doctors; when they think they are some kind of god especially when they misdiagnose...

Vets who are much the same.

Pharmacists who think they know more than you do re OTC meds

Ditto car mechanics.

vodafone customer "care" personnel

b of I cashiers who are rude re making you use deposit machines.

Landlords.

Moderators...

roma and other professional beggars.

I had better stop!

LoYL

Taxis actually.

Blondini

Those heavily made-up brown faced whores at the perfumes/cosmetics counters in department stores.

Looking down their snotty, brown, crusty,foundation-plastered noses at everybody regardless of sex or age.

They're usually a bunch of ugly-looking bastards anyway who failed the Leaving Cert Applied..

Bye.

Piste

Graces7 wrote: »

Doctors; when they think they are some kind of god especially when they misdiagnose...


Pharmacists who think they know more than you do re OTC meds

Probably because they do.

davet82

wendell borton wrote: »

National bikini tour oil boys fooking hate those lucky s.o.b's.:(

dont hate us cause you aint us

fasttalkerchat

Piste wrote: »

Probably because they do.

The person serving you at the counter wouldn't Pharmacist refers to a qualified person so obviously they would by very well informed on OTC meds.

Sea Filly

DylanII wrote: »

I think we are the only country in the world who hates teachers. Everywhere else highly values their teachers.

Not really, teachers here are paid very well compared to other Western countries.

DylanII

Sea Filly wrote: »

Not really, teachers here are paid very well compared to other Western countries.

The older teachers are but not the younger ones.

What I meant anyway is that society dislikes them,

Sea Filly

DylanII wrote: »

The older teachers are but not the younger ones.

What I meant anyway is that society dislikes them,

I find a lot of teachers have a very uppity attitude when anyone tries to criticise the profession in any way. "I educate young minds" type haughty attitude.

flash1080

Not so much a profession, but 75% of the lads I manage over in Britain are lazy ****ers. They were carried by the company on 40 hour weeks when they could've been let go during a quiet period, yet now when a lot of contracts have landed they're not prepared to go above normal hours to get the jobs done. They come out with **** like "There's hardly any incentive to work Mon - Fri, let alone Sat." and "I don't need the extra money". Little do they realise that after this rush of contracts they could well find themselves on the dole because of their attitude and will be replaced by immigrants or subcontractors.

tayto lover

Bankers
Regulators
Politicians
Speculators

ItAintMeBabe

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Nurses, shower of bitches. Well not all of them. But yeah don't like em at all.

Any particular example to back this up?????

tayto lover

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

Any particular example to back this up?????

One of them stuck a big needle in his arse.

Madam_X

Ooh chuggers! Can't bear them!

Most people are just doing their job though and don't deserve flack for the corrupt behaviour of their superiors, nor do they deserve to be condemned in their entirety because of a handful of isolated incidents caused by people who happen to be in the same profession.

mikemac1

Estate agent

Where you lie for a living and invent phantom bidders and have people bid against themselves

later12

Sea Filly wrote: »

I find a lot of teachers have a very uppity attitude when anyone tries to criticise the profession in any way. "I educate young minds" type haughty attitude.

Not even criticism, but questioning.

Yes. Any serious questioning of teachers' pay and conditions relative to grade output is met with serious consternation in my experience, as is any suggestion that the length of the (staggeringly abrupt) school year needs scrutiny.

The notion that teachers are untouchable is almost approaching the realms of climate change denial amongst some members of the profession. All too often (and the exception is amongst boardsie teachers, I hasten to add) this is a topic which is simply beyond the realm of consideration of most teachers, who seem to be too preoccupied with the cutbacks they have already undergone to deem any further constraints remotely intelligible.

Madam_X

I'm not a teacher but I see where they're coming from when they get defensive tbh. Not saying it's unreasonable to ask questions, of course, but they have to put up with an awful lot of downright abuse in relation to their holidays and hours (these are for the kids, not the teachers; and the teachers work outside the classroom hours) and pay (it's nothing that amazing - nobody ever got rich from being a teacher) from people who haven't a notion what they're talking about. I know I would crack up quickly if I was responsible for the simultaneous education of about 30 children, as well as all the brazen crap some kids from about the age of nine would be causing. It's a very tough job.

I do think though it's reasonable to suggest teachers should be involved in summer camps, catch-up classes, refresher classes etc during the summer months, even if just part-time. And I wouldn't understand a teacher baulking at that idea.

jonnny68

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Clampers.
TV licence inspectors, if the smarmy ones on the tv ads are anything to go by.
Customs at airports.
Bouncers.
ANYONE selling ANYTHING door-to-door.
Young gung-ho Guards, out to nail anyone to get their stripes.

+1

and Recruitment advisers and hr people absolute cun*s the lot of them not a good word to say about any of them

fasttalkerchat

later12 wrote: »

Not even criticism, but questioning.

Yes. Any serious questioning of teachers' pay and conditions relative to grade output is met with serious consternation in my experience, as is any suggestion that the length of the (staggeringly abrupt) school year needs scrutiny.

The notion that teachers are untouchable is almost approaching the realms of climate change denial amongst some members of the profession. All too often (and the exception is amongst boardsie teachers, I hasten to add) this is a topic which is simply beyond the realm of consideration of most teachers, who seem to be too preoccupied with the cutbacks they have already undergone to deem any further constraints remotely intelligible.

I accepted the ****e standard of teaching because I didn't realise the pay raises they get after a few years! When I heard how much some of the lazy sods that taught me years ago were on I couldn't believe it.

chocksaway

Professional golfers- getting serious cash for going for a long walk in a field.

Madam_X

jonnny68 wrote: »

Recruitment advisers and hr people absolute cun*s the lot of them not a good word to say about any of them

HR are just performing a function but yeah, recruitment consultants - some awful gangsters. The lies from them! Plenty of competent ones too though - in the more established, reputable agencies of course.

later12

Onixx wrote: »

they have to put up with an awful lot of downright abuse in relation to their holidays and hours (these are for the kids, not the teachers;

ah really?

but why can students in other countries (including our neighbors in the UK) put up with such longer school terms>

I know I would crack up quickly if I was responsible for the simultaneous education of about 30 children, as well as all the brazen crap some kids from about the age of nine would be causing. It's a very tough job.

Listen, I would crack up if i had to work as a doctor, a nurse, a social worker, or a post office teller.

Undertaking to assume an onerous, demanding role in life doesn't mean I ought to be entitled to 2 or 3 months' Summer holidays.

Bubblefett

I used to want to work in Sales. Then I worked in sales (in a gym). I now have a pure hatred for sales people.
To quote one of my collegues "to sell a membership to a girl just let on she needs to lose weight, is fat. Works every time"

Can't help but not trust journalists.

Madam_X

later12 wrote: »

but why can students in other countries (including our neighbors in the UK) put up with such longer school terms>

I'm sure they can - I'd agree with school (especially secondary) holidays being shorter. I don't think it's felt they're entitled to such long holidays because of the nature of their work, I'm just saying it doesn't seem likely that the holidays are as they are, purely for the teachers' benefit.

AckwelFoley

School teachers

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ComfyKnickers

chainsawman wrote: »

Barristers, Years ago, my barrister was challenging other barrister on my behalf. Couple weeks later, i found them as best of friends in the pub... Unbelieveable.

So you expect all barristers and solicitors to hate each other and not talk to each other outside the Courtroom?

seachto7

Basically any job that would actually cause a country to ground to a halt is noble. Everything else is just bullsh*t, marketing for example. Take away all marketing jobs, and the world would still function. Take away binmen, nurses, cops, doctors, and a country would grind to a halt...

humbert

ComfyKnickers wrote: »

So you expect all barristers and solicitors to hate each other and not talk to each other outside the Courtroom?

If I was a barrister I would not only hate all other barristers but I'd damn well hate myself too!

Captain Graphite

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Human Resources. The most heartless people on earth.

This, without doubt.

LoYL

@es

ComfyKnickers

humbert wrote: »

ComfyKnickers wrote: »

So you expect all barristers and solicitors to hate each other and not talk to each other outside the Courtroom?

If I was a barrister I would not only hate all other barristers but I'd damn well hate myself too!

Saying you dislike Barristers is one thing but being surprised to see Barristers hanging out together even though, shock horror, they were against each other in a case, is just plain ridiculous!

fasttalkerchat

jonnny68 wrote: »

+1

and Recruitment advisers and hr people absolute cun*s the lot of them not a good word to say about any of them

They can be a bit useless but why hate them?

I recently got a call about a part time job I applied for in April asking if I can start next week and do I have to give notice to my current employer.
I told her that I started another role 2 weeks after sending my application...
Now they will have to pick from candidates no one else wanted in the past 3 months or they will waste money by re-starting the process.

I also got an invitation to interview email and a rejection form the same company for the same job within 10 mins. When I looked through emails I had sent my CV twice for the same position (the same CV!).

haribos

Bouncers, Gardai, Airport police, Static security, store detective etc........ Give a man a badge and uniform and even a minuscule amount of power and they change for the bad, doesn't happen so much with their female counter parts, only us males

Where To

LoYL wrote: »

@es

LoYL wrote: »

Taxis actually.

LoYL wrote: »

Taxi drivers. Bleedin' salt of the earth. Opinions Opinions Opinions. I would gladly pay an extra euro if only they kept their bleedin mouth shut.

LoYL wrote: »

I think I need to say taxis again. You should have the right to gag them. Fountains of bull****e constantly.

LoYL wrote: »

Auctioneers.
builders carpenters Plumbers Electricians
Taxi drivers.

So what do you think of taxi drivers?