Your most hated profession?

hooradiation

I love these threads, it's fun watching people trying to convince everyone else that their contrived reason for 'hating' a whole bunch of people they've never had any interaction with is totally legitimate.

gobnaitolunacy

mikemac1 wrote: »

No show tradesmen

I listen to Joe Duffy, I hear ye crying over the lack of work and how you are in debt

Joe Duffy and all other hand-wringing, self-righteous radio presenters. Prendiville included.

Mully_2011

PR people The type the promote a ****ty overpriced nightclub in the Midlands.

Journalists usually the sort of type that write for the indo like your wan who bought that overpriced gaff.

Alot of managers in the Hotel/bar trade tend to c**ts

Antisocialiser

mikemac1 wrote: »

Farmer dies without a will

Two brothers go to court over the title to the farm

Question: who gets the farm?

Answer: the lawyers

That's complete bull to be fair. There is a set of laws which govern intestacy and the estate would be divided according to those laws.

ScumLord wrote: »

A married couple get separated/divorced. The solicitors turn it into a boxing match that lasts years.

Again complete bull****. A solicitor can't take any action without his or her client's instructions. If there are high fees it's usually caused by the bitter feelings or one or both of the parties circumventing the process. Delay is one thing; that is the nature of the beast. But increased costs have to be backed up by work done and this comes from the client directly. The last thing a solicitor wants is a messy divorce case.

I think people become disillusioned by this stereotype that all solicitors and barristers are blood sucking hewers.

chopser

I'm not sure whether the question is specifically related to the profession or the people who chose the profession.

Chuggers, Tax collectors, Tv License people, Clampers etc are all horrible professions and annoying but people seem to fall into these type of jobs, not actively seek them out.

But on the basis of the people in profession , without a doubt bouncers and Gardai are my most hated.
Basically they are almost always a*sh*les.
Because they are w**kers thats why they are drawn to the profession. The Gardai training school is supposed to complete the a**ho*le training too.

Of course there are many exceptions but by and large these two profession contain a extremely high percentage of D**ks

mikemac1

If gardaí and bouncers are constantly giving you hassle maybe it's something to do with how you are coming across?

JD Dublin

Odysseus wrote: »

Yeah I see a lot of that with the docs I work with. I don't know if it just docs or are other highly paid professions like that too. The highest paid profession I work with are docs so I don't know if other professions are like that too.

Eh, no I've worked with solicitors, architects, engineers, accountants, and a few more 'professions' and docs are definately the worst. I don't know if they are like that before they get to college, or it's something they learn from others in college. But it's definately there.

My sister works in a hospital and has to go to functions run by pharma companies. The docs are there like pigs at the trough, like they are entitled etc ( meanwhile the rest are pretending not to knock back the booze ). Mind you she always finishes off these stories with ''sure Mary is one my best friends, they're not all that bad''.

Chuck Stone

No particular profession but anyone who tries to exert authority or claim expertise by saying 'I'm a professional' should be tied to a pole and whipped.

LoYL

Auctioneers.
builders carpenters Plumbers Electricians
Taxi drivers.

Duggys Housemate

i like most taxi drivers, there I said it.

chopser

mikemac1 wrote: »

If gardaí and bouncers are constantly giving you hassle maybe it's something to do with how you are coming across?

Never been in trouble in my life with either Bouncers or Gardai, but I come across both a lot in my social life and work. It's their attitude to people that is terrible, all self righteous and standing on a soapbox only not pontificating.

davet82

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

i like most taxi drivers, there I said it.

:eek:

gagiteebo

Katgurl wrote: »

So have I & yes I reconsidered the fat after I wrote it. They annoy me for a whole host of different reasons, the main one being that the only consistency with them is that they all contradict each other.

Gym instructors aren't fat, you are right, but many many nutritionists or 'diet experts' are.

A friend of mine manages a chain of gyms in a few hotels in the south east area and he told me that they will deliberately hire at least one larger person so that people are less intimated to come in and join

Duggys Housemate

Fupping Grasshole wrote: »

It's a skilled job imo, unless you only work in a certain area under supervision then you're semi skilled.

It's not a snob thing, I just wouldn't class the likes of a mechanic as a professional, would you?

Whatever, I have a degree in Mathematics and a masters in maths and Engineering from an top English uni and can easily work unsupervised. I am no more supervised than a doctor, since I am the expert in my area. Of course the results are analysed - does the software work, but that would be the same as a surgeon - is the patient better.

And there are self-employed IT people - and self employed people - who work without supervision. What is your definition, then, of a profession, or a professional. You are not making it clear, it seems to be about supervision, but the self employed aren't? What is a profession?

davet82

gagiteebo wrote: »

A friend of mine manages a chain of gyms in a few hotels in the south east area and he told me that they will deliberately hire at least one larger person so that people are less intimated to come in and join

'a token fatty' is the industry term

ottostreet

These threads are very irritating. Noone can comment on the nature of someone else's job without having done it, and understanding the particular set of skills, and the particular set of tolerances that are required to do the job effectively.

ElectroJazz

Retail Management :mad:

Strawberry Fields

ottostreet wrote: »

These threads are very irritating. Noone can comment on the nature of someone else's job without having done it, and understanding the particular set of skills, and the particular set of tolerances that are required to do the job effectively.

No I worked in Financial Services and can comment that it is my most hated proffession, seems to attract weirdos with no life outside work. Tah Dah the winner.

Where To

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

i like most taxi drivers, there I said it.

I don't. I hate most of the wastards.

Fupping Grasshole

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Whatever, I have a degree in Mathematics and a masters in maths and Engineering from an top English uni and can easily work unsupervised. I am no more supervised than a doctor, since I am the expert in my area. Of course the results are analysed - does the software work, but that would be the same as a surgeon - is the patient better.

And there are self-employed IT people - and self employed people - who work without supervision. What is your definition, then, of a profession, or a professional. You are not making it clear, it seems to be about supervision, but the self employed aren't? What is a profession?

It's still just skilled labour. A professional I would class as someone highly trained in their area whereby they undertook a number of years in college before undertaking a number of years in practical training before been eligible to undertake some form of assessment/exam to see if they're competent enough to achieve professional status.

You can call yourself self employed in anything doesn't make you a professional though.

OurLadyofKnock

Newspaper journalists - considering the recent hysteria over the honeymoon case.

mikemac1

ottostreet wrote: »

These threads are very irritating. Noone can comment on the nature of someone else's job without having done it, and understanding the particular set of skills, and the particular set of tolerances that are required to do the job effectively.

Not true

Every taximan can run the country

jam_mac_jam

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

fran17

solicitors,bunch of pompus pr**ks

Duggys Housemate

Fupping Grasshole wrote: »

It's still just skilled labour. A professional I would class as someone highly trained in their area whereby they undertook a number of years in college before undertaking a number of years in practical training before been eligible to undertake some form of assessment/exam to see if they're competent enough to achieve professional status.

You can call yourself self employed in anything doesn't make you a professional though.

That seems to be your own definition of professional. It excludes anybody with a degree up to PHD who hasn't done a course after college, but not some one with a mickey mouse post graduate assessment exam.

Seems to be an Irish thing to get the usual suspects - the law, accountancy into the "professional" rank while excluding real work like engineering. It might even exclude GPs. Each to their own, I suppose, but its a dumb definition, and your own.

thomas353

dog food testers

major bill

I dont hate any profession, people do what they got to do to make money, some enjoy it and others hate it. what i do hate is people in jobs that look down on others, we have all bumped into that snobby fcuk, the one that looks ye up and down in lift with a smirk, *****!!!

Its not the profession its the snobby Professional i hate!!

ART6

Politicians of all political colours who are prepared to sell their own people down the river for short-term gain for themselves. Politicians who wouldn't know truth or integrity if it bit them on the a**e. Politicians who invent "initiatives" that are going to give all of us entry into a new type of Heaven where we will all be prosperous and fully employed, and keep on publishing those "initiatives" over and over again over the years without any obvious result, particularly where there is no actual funding for them.

Politicians who insist on grandstanding before press cameras at every possible opportunity, wearing vacuous grins. Politicians who tell me that I must tighten my belt and face a few years of hardship for the state of the nation, when they enjoy outlandish and secure salaries and huge pensions for which they have contributed nothing other that two or three years of occasional attendance in the Dail.

Politicians who justify their salaries and pensions upon the basis that they could lose their jobs in five years. How many private sector workers would love to have that sort of job security?

Politicians who vote to introduce a raft of taxes, charges, duties, etc. on the motor transport that is essential for the common man to get to work, when they are the only ones who can actually claim tax-free expenses for going to work (on the few occasions when they actually bother to do that).

Politicians who comprise the only sector of society that has the absolute right to determine their own conditions of employment and salaries. No need for a trade union there!

Politicians who come knocking on my door every five years, telling me what wonderful things they will do for me if I elect them, then subsequently denying that they ever said that (or didn't mean it in the way I interpreted it), and then treat me with contempt for the next five years (Phil Hogan take note!).

I could go on and on about these creatures (and I probably will). However, I see two possible solutions to the concern: One is that the Constitution should be changed to permit an annual cull of politicians to prevent their overwhelming society, or, alternatively, concrete wellies and the Irish Sea springs to mind:D

laoch na mona

I think the worst professions have to be any "profession" where the people who do it don't consider jobs that you don't need a degree to do legitimate "professions"
smug arseholes:mad:

GTDolanator

Sweet!12 pages and my job hasnt come up