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.
Realtors.
I don’t know of a job more pointless. And I worked (reception) at a realty office and still didn’t see the value.
Seems useful to me. If I’m selling my house I don’t want to spend a bunch of my own time setting up all the showings and being there for each one. And if I have to trust someone else to do it, they should be licensed and trackable in case something goes wrong.
It does seem like a job that attracts lazy people though, and it also seems like there are way too many agents in general.
I just bought a house, and having someone to coordinate all the paperwork thoroughly and promptly was definitely valuable to me.
Realtors are fucking useless, they provide none of the information you actually need but you have to go through them to figure out what the deal is with a space.
Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground
One of the reasons Boeing sucks is this. First reason is McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money, hallowed out the soul that built the world’s greatest aircraft, then sold what was left off to the big investment funds. Then the investment funds were like “look at all this money Boeing is spending on safety and suppliers” so they cut out the safety and bought out the suppliers. The horror stories of quality control at some of the suppliers is just as bad if not worse than some of the horror stories of quality control at Boeing. What if I told you Boeing fought to have ECS (environmental control systems) software that was written by third world “programmers” that didn’t speak English to remain on their aircraft illegally, claiming it didn’t pose a threat to safety, you know those systems that determine if there is enough oxygen to breath at altitude and whether the temperature inside the plane is survivable…
Vulture capitalists.
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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I’m morbidly curious at how that happens/works
Naturopaths.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I’ve seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.
Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there’s crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.
Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We’re talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.
Let’s throw our morals away and sell homeopathic meals. Like “this is a cheeseburger diluted 10c” and slap a picture of a burger on a water bottle.
Literally anyone who works in health insurance.
Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.
I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.
It’s not a good look.
I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.
Found Texas Red.
What’s texas red?
Big Iron is a song by Marty Robbins, about a criminal named Texas Red, who wore a big iron on his hip.
Ha! That went right over my head. Thanks for explaining.
I googled big iron. I still don’t understand what you two are talking about, don’t blame me.
Big iron on his hip
Big iron means a mainframe. The Ferrari of servers.
Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.
Like I said, I help design them. I’m interested to know why you think that. You work with them? How old are the ones you work with?
Thank you!
What is “big iron”?
Mainframe computers
Thanks.
I oppose the occupation of gaza by Israel !
But fr, anything position that gives one power and a feeling of superiority : magistrate, judge, police officer, military, …
You may not understand this, but humans are selfish and immoral and need rules. without all those jobs you mentioned, the rules are meaningless.
Israel
Advertiser
That shit should be illegal, with, like, a living whitelist so you can still put out a sandwich board in front of your restaurant.
Yes, I know that will implode entire sectors. They deserve it.
There’s a city in France - Toulouse, IIRC - where the mayor ran on a promise that “if you elect me, I’ll remove all the billboards.” Turns out that was really popular, so now that city does not have any billboards.
I cannot for the life of me understand why billboards are legal in general. We’ve gone through the effort of banning distractions like even touching your phone while you’re driving, which makes sense, but yet these massive advertisements who’s literal sole intention and purpose is to get you to look at it instead of the road exist and are everywhere. They’re also complete eyesores. Why?! It surprises me there hasn’t been more campaigns like that, I can’t imagine billboards are exactly a popular idea
Dope.
There’s a good next pet issue for me once over-restrictive zoning is gone and dead. I guess public transit is a perennial bee to put in my bonnet, too.
This. “Marketing” is just a euphemism for “propaganda” – it is inherently manipulative and therefore evil.
Mad Men was hard for me to keep up with because I just hated everyone and it made me angry
I once saw a video report on bullshit jobs, where they also interviewed a researcher into how much value is gained or destroyed by various professions.
They said that for every £1 (the researchers worked in the UK) given to marketing executives, that society suffered £11 in lost value.
private equity investment firms
And vulture hedge funds.
Read up on the shit people like Eric Hermann has done buying up debt from distressed countries, then siphoning off their aid money to cover those debts. Zero humanity.
Human Cannonball
Hear me out: Many circus performers are multi disciplined, or put on an incredible display of training and talent. The last big top I went to had a knife throwing couple who also did a fantastic roller skating routine, a few very talented clowns/jugglers, and a bike troupe in a ball of death. Just to name a few. These people have devoted days or years of their lives to their craft. Do you know how hard it is to ride a bicycle across a tight rope with someone on your shoulders?
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net. That’s all he did that night, yet he came out and bowed with the rest of the performers like he was an equal contributor.
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net.
That’s what it looks like to the untrained eye. But they’re not really going to fire a person out of a cannon. That’s not safe. So he just huddles in the cannon, they light a decoy fuse, it makes a bang (with no projectile), and he spring out and jumps that distance by himself. Requires a lot of core and leg strength.
This is equal parts so silly and so possible that I have no idea if this comment is a joke (I’ve never been to a circus)
Really, there’s no launching mechanism at all?
There is a launch pad thing using springs or compressed air to give them a boost or they wouldn’t go as far.
The explosion is just for sound, and it is funny if the timing is off.
I…can’t tell if you’re serious or making a joke. Lol.
Chiropractors. It’s pseudoscience. Maybe it’s not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it’s backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client’s appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.
HR. Have never met anyone in HR who contributed to the good.
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.
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.
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.
Somewhat agree. The good ones you’d never know exist until you need help. They are a god send. Fuck the rest of them
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.
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.
Especially Toby
Company stooges seems a more appropriate department title than human resources, also who the fuck wants to be called a resource I’m a human being not a number.
Advertising. Landlord. Intelligence agent or special operator for a bourgeois state.
Corporate lobbyist.
MSM propagandist
Fossil capital think tank wonk
YouTuber
Came here to write advertising. Your product should speak for itself.
Landlording, however, is not an occupation. They’re just parasites who’ve convinced people it is.
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.
edit: Fixed the link.
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
There has to be a better way to keep the strengths of federating without partitioning the community smaller and smaller until there is no community left.
Can you imagine Lemmy with a similar amount of Reddit users? Anytime you’d post, you’d have to replicate it between X number of instances (for visibility). Conversations would be fragemented and duplicated, votes would be duplicated. To me this almost sounds like “work”…
There has to be something better.
For example, instead of “every instance is an island”. Meaning the current hierarchy is “instance” - > “community” - > “post” - > “threads”. We could instead have “community (ie: asklemmy)” - > “post (ie: this post)” - > “instance (Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, etc)” - > “threads (this comment)”.
From a technical perspective, it would mean that each instance would replicate the community names and posts. Which is already beginning done (this post is a perfect example), but as long as each instance would share a unique identifier to associate the two communities/posts as “the same thing” (and this could simply be the hash of the community /post name). Everything else would be UX. Each instance would take ownership of the copy of the community and post, which means they could moderate it according to their standards.
Especially given that the above link points to lemmy.ml, an instance notorious for harbouring tankies & amplifying pro-authoritarian talking points.The link is .ml but points to a thread in .world. My bad 😅
Confusing… My instance is .world, and I similarly subscribe to communities regardless of instance. So seeing a .ml link had me go 🚨 tankie instance for a second, conveniently failing to notice that A: that post is in .world, but seem from .ml; and B: this post is in .ml.
My bad 😅
Though I would suggest OP to see if they can fix the link to one that changes the specific link based on the visitor’s instance
I fixed the link. For some reason the Lemmy Client (Voyager) keeps generating ‘.ml’ links (even though I’m on Lemm.ee)
This whole identical thread really confused Voyager, I thought I was seeing double.
Telephone sanitizers
Found the Golgafrincham.
You’ll be sorry when they’re gone!
Come on now. We all know it is a euphemism.
Whoever is in charge o blackrock
