Your most hated profession?

wp_rathead

Health and Safety inspector

gara

Professional power trippers -absolutely unbearable regardless of what job they're in!

Galwayguy35

County council workers who never do their job and fill in the potholes.:mad:

PhlegmyMoses

GTDolanator wrote: »

Sweet!12 pages and my job hasnt come up

Get back in the kitchen. Those burgers won't flip themselves.

theg81der

Doctors - horrible arrogant bunch.

Where To

GTDolanator wrote: »

Sweet!12 pages and my job hasnt come up

I hate couriers.

Acacia

1. Recruitment 'consultants'- useless middle-men.

2. Anyone who makes a living by ''being seen about town'', and the people who make a living off commenting/blogging about the afore-mentioned cretins.

3. Chuggers- Look, I feel bad for ya, pal, having to stand out in the street all day and getting rejected by passers-by every two mins... but no means no! Get outta me way!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

bullpost wrote: »

Apparently they had the highest representation of all the professions in the Nazi party - think it was something like 45% were in it :0

I think doctors had a higher percentage actually.

ART6

laoch na mona wrote: »

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:

As a qualified "professional" (engineer)I have some sympathy with you post. Years ago I had a fall-out with my GP, when I questioned his treatment for a minor ailment suffered by my wife. He demanded to know how I could question him and his "professional" judgement. I responded by asking him if he knew what was necessary to allow the lights to come on when he pressed the light switch in his surgery, or if he knew how to service and maintain the car that took him to patients. Did he have any idea of what the engineers in the power stations or the mechanics in the garages did, or how long they had to be trained and educated to do it?

The guy with a shovel who digs up the broken water main in the roadside verge does something I couldn't do. The crew who operate the dustcart and take away my wastes do something I wouldn't wish to do. The butcher who prepares my meat in a form that is easy for me to cook has skills I couldn't replicate. Even the little girl at the supermarket check-out is providing me with a service that I need. The surgeon, the doctor, the lawyer, the journalist, are impotent without the services that are provided for them by those who they consider to be lesser mortals. The possession of a degree or even a PhD is irrelevant. They simply show that the owner is a specialist in his own field.

We all depend upon each others skills.

Duggys Housemate

ART6 wrote: »

As a qualified "professional" (engineer)I have some sympathy with you post. Years ago I had a fall-out with my GP, when I questioned his treatment for a minor ailment suffered by my wife. He demanded to know how I could question him and his "professional" judgement. I responded by asking him if he knew what was necessary to allow the lights to come on when he pressed the light switch in his surgery, or if he knew how to service and maintain the car that took him to patients. Did he have any idea of what the engineers in the power stations or the mechanics in the garages did, or how long they had to be trained and educated to do it?

The guy with a shovel who digs up the broken water main in the roadside verge does something I couldn't do. The crew who operate the dustcart and take away my wastes do something I wouldn't wish to do. The butcher who prepares my meat in a form that is easy for me to cook has skills I couldn't replicate. Even the little girl at the supermarket check-out is providing me with a service that I need. The surgeon, the doctor, the lawyer, the journalist, are impotent without the services that are provided for them by those who they consider to be lesser mortals. The possession of a degree or even a PhD is irrelevant. They simply show that the owner is a specialist in his own field.

We all depend upon each others skills.

And medicine is just rote learning anyway.

Duggys Housemate

GTDolanator wrote: »

Sweet!12 pages and my job hasnt come up

Very few of us go to male strip clubs, though.

ART6

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

And medicine is just rote learning anyway.

No it isn't. It's about learning by experience. By observing and thinking and trying new ideas. That applies to every walk of life, and in my example of the guy digging up the burst water main, each situation is different. He has to evaluate it and work out what is the best way of dealing with it. Sorry to disagree with you, but I just don't see medicine as any different to any other skill. Every one of us learns from everything we do in life, and we either apply it or we don't. Even the beggar on the street corner has learned something, and he or she came into this world as a wriggling pink and bloody mess, and will die in more or less the same way. In the meantime we are all equal. Qualifications, status, privilege, do not matter one damn, eventually because even the best of us will rot in the same sort of hole in the ground as the guy with the shovel.

Well firstly, I'm surprised my job hasn't come up yet.

Secondly, since my job is the kind of job that can evoke ill will, I do feel like a lot of the comments here are unfair and I feel sympathy for the employees in question. Particularly in the current job situation, people can't be picky and it's a shame that some people have to accept jobs that they know will get them irrationally hated by people they don't even know.

Thirdly, all that said, there's no excuse for being a chugger. If you have to, fine, but you should accept that people will hate you for it.

supernova84

Cowboys I hate cowboys!

Chain_reaction

Letting agents.

castletownman

The bleedin' gards

Mont

Anyone that charges excessive fees in respect to their work. Lawyers are the worst though, then doctors. 250 quid for a phone call - madness

Hogzy

I talked to a horrible spanish person once. Now i hate all spanish people.

Oh this is about professions!!!
I talked to a horrible lawyer once. Now i hate all lawyers

Pat Mustard

Mont wrote: »

Lawyers are the worst though, then doctors. 250 quid for a phone call - madness

There are plenty of consultants who charge half of that for a full consultation. What doc is charging that for a phone call?

Sorry, shoulda picked up on that. The lawyer charged €250 for the phone call. Nuff said.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Its always the Professional classes that are hated, doctors and lawyers especially. People just tend to make sweeping generalisations based on what they've heard. Is it an inferiority complex or something?

wendell borton

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Carpenters.


They really are the scum of the earth.I see them walking around with their tools and hi vis vests and i feel like getting sick.

You make the baby jesus cry, his da(?) was a chippy.

tayto lover

Estate agents -- When your selling they tell you your price is too high but when your buying your price is always too low. I suspect they are fiddling both sides.

OnTheCouch

Has to be sales people in general, not the sort of individuals I generally would want to associate with.

Pat Mustard

spud_gunner wrote: »

the average solicitor in this country charges 100 euro for a one hour sit down office consultation

Probably Rumpole of the Bailey so.

Fupping Grasshole

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

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.

Not exactly, call me archaic if you will but I prefer proper and accurate definitions not just any tom dick and harry thinking they can call themselves whatever they please.

LH Pathe

I can't really criticize on the dole. If something comes up, I'll lend my opinion but no.

LoYL

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

uch

Chicken Sexer, bastrads get to feel chicks all day!

Il Trap

Ridiculous to tar all people within a given profession with the same brush but if I was to pick one, in my experience alot of Irish university administration staff can be real assh*les!

Galwayguy35

Have to say that some barmen can be fairly obnoxious.
You would honestly swear that we were asking them to give us drink for nothing sometimes.