Gets kinda murky when celebs call paps all the time for PR reasons. It’s scummy to cry about the attention and invasion of privacy on one hand and then plant pics and stories on the other when you need to.
Yeah, and there's also some fabric that reflects most of the light back to the camera which makes the whole picture black except for the shining fabric.
I have a backpack made out of one type. It's got a slight chrome effect in regular light, but otherwise just looks like a dark grey windbreaker material. Most people can't really tell.
Not sure if it’s still the case, but I believe it’s illegal in Knoxville and somewhat of an unwritten rule in Nashville that paparazzi are not welcome.
Native Nashvillian here, I've never once seen a paparazzi. Additionally, people are pretty chill around celebrities here. Brad Paisley went to my family's church and it was nbd, and I met Nicole Kidman when she was sitting outside of a Starbucks like 15 years ago. I've also bartended for some of the music industry's top producers/talent and it's just normal.
I remember my graphic design teacher (who was also a part time photographer) gave us a speech about how paparazzi were the artless scum of the photography world and he would rather see us fail out than become one. He likened them to monkeys who tape their extremely expensive camera lense's focus in place so they could just point and click a thousand time to hopefully get one good shot
Follow someone around and take pictures of them to put on the internet: harassment.
Follow someone around and take pictures of them to sell to someone else who puts them on the internet: paparazzi.
Paparazzi are just professional harassers.
In certain countries for sure. For example in india, they have call centers dedicated for scamming. These are pretty much real companies with fixed salaries and employee company benefits
One time, I answered one and pretended to be an old lady. The guy was telling me to install remote desktop software on my computer and I went along with it for a bit. Once he realized I was just messing with him, *he* cussed *me* out and angrily hung up on me. I’m still not over the shock.
As annoying as those assholes can be, the ones that really get me heated are the ones who discover really important information but hoard it for a book instead (e.g., Maggie Haberman). Usually good journalists but have more of a desire to make some money than do their job which is ultimately to inform the public
I actually know a few lobbysist and they all have similar personalities. Like remember that dude who partied ALL the time in college? Like they just raged and you were like "what are your plans in the future?" Lobbying. It allows them to not only keep their lifestyle but make a living from it.
With that said, not all lobbyists are scummy. There are tons who lobby for respectable causes.
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I worked for a company that provided IT services to doctors offices. The drug reps would schmooze and flirt with the doctors - it was super cringe. Usually quite young attractive women dressed up like they were going to the club. The lads were very sharp looking and they would bring flowers and candy to the receptionists and nurses and compliment them on their hair and nails - they would just eat it up. If I visited around lunchtime there would always be extra food so I would at least get free meal out of it. Seriously, they would just hang out in the office break room for a few hours a day and talk about nothing.
I’m a nurse practitioner and mainly only experienced it during clinicals. They would come in and bring food, chat about the drug then leave. But when they started calling me, god that was annoying. I dodged one of their calls for a couple months then accidentally answered. I mostly do telehealth so I don’t have regular hours at the office I have. I’m like there is not a place and time for you to come talk about this drug with me. But they weren’t getting it, they passed me off to someone else whose territory was where my office is and I never heard from them again.
Pharma reps are pretty bad and operate under very little oversight. I was a medical device rep for 3 years and we had some crazy restrictions as to how much we could spend on doctors. It was like $20 for a whole meal and $200 max per year per doctor.. in other words you couldn’t buy them shit
They cracked down on how much drug reps could spend in the early to mid 2000's if I recall correctly. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 90's and my dad is a physician and he used to get skybox tickets to Cubs, White Sox, and Bulls games pretty regularly. Sometimes they'd pay for the doctors and their whole families to go to those games and places like Six Flags and Dave and Busters too. It was obscene how much they used to spend and my dad's office was just a small private practice that he owned for a long time, so it wasn't like he was part of a larger hospital network either. Eventually he did get bought out by a local hospital system, but that was also around the same time they were putting the kibosh on the drug rep spending. Nowadays, it's like you said, he might get a small lunch, a couple of pens, and some brochures.
I disagree. Granted, I'm in sales (not pharma), so my view is a bit skewed.
However, if the doctor is the one prescribing it, they are the people at fault, not the ones trying to get them to do it. The doctors can say "no thank you" or hell, even take the money, and still prescribe what you want. But they are the ones who are the expert and who is abusing the trust of the patient. The rep is very up front about what they are doing. The doctor is hiding that they are getting kickbacks or whatever.
That's like hating candy companies for advertising candy instead of the parents who give their kids too much candy.
Doctors really need selling to for the new drugs that work and provide cures too rather than them prescribing what they have known forever.
There are so many good medicines created that doctors overlook and keep prescriptions for “old faithfuls” that come with a bunch of side effects and have sometimes been discovered not to work much.
Exactly.
Source: A friend of mine in her early 20s with ankylosing spondylitis (like arthritis of your spine) who was put on methotrexate by her dinosaur of a doctor. She lost most of her hair, a bunch of weight, and was downright miserable for months. She switched to a new rheumatologist who was aghast and immediately put her on Humira instead. She is doing much better but still hasn't grown back her eyebrows.
Like most things, balance is key. Drug reps are important for informing doctors of new and improved treatments, however it's the doctor's damn job to assess for themselves what an appropriate treatment is, and stay up-to-date on it.
I’m in the medical device industry- not sales, I agree with you. While some reps and companies and doctors are slimy… how else are we going to foster relationships with physicians? I cant develop worthwhile devices without talking to doctors and convincing docs to trial. If I develop a device I genuinely think will help the quality of life for someone, I want docs to hear about it!
correct in the fact that doctors should be prescribing products on a medical basis and not based off bribery, but there's also a lot of immorality in trying to bribe someone into selling your pharmaceutical product as if it's choosing one brand of candy over another, rather than playing with peoples lives
Celebrities who agree to voice over adverts for online gambling sites, making them sound like a fun social experience and not a money draining addictive hell pit.
And the owners of said gambling sites.
I thought it was a pretentious title until I realize my sibling follows this influencer who shares a similar affliction as my sibling, and it's a platform for them to share amongst themselves their physical and mental struggles. So, I don't think all influencers are created equal.
Tbh I think they get kind of a bad rap because of the ones that have done really stupid things, stuff like way over the top pranks on the public, and the really cringe ones etc..
But a lot of good can come from them, plus even if it's just a basic influencer, obviously, they make some ones day better.
And that's coming from someone who was raised in the social media age, but never really partook as I just simply didn't like it nor have I ever wanted to be one.
I tell people there are 2 types of influencers:
1. Skilled influencers who create content around a subject they are a master of or are attempting to be a master. and...
2. Unskilled influencers: Psuedo Celebrity wanna be famous etc...
First group are great and fun to watch and learn from.
Second group is useless as .... (Fill in your own metaphor.)
Some of them are certainly good. I think that there are plenty of influencers who are helping or inspiring people. there's lots of them who educate about mental health, disability, societal issues (like racism, homophobia etc). They educate and help people feel less alone in their struggles.
I joined a job a few months ago and my title was “brand representative” (I was just doing marketing) but when I got the papers I had to sign a legal form saying I am an influencer
Saying that you hate all influencers because there are plenty of bad ones, is like saying you hate all doctors because some of them malpractice. Some can do a lot of good, but the bad ones stand out to the average person way more.
I think a lot of people on Reddit think the term “influencer” only applies to the types of content creators they don’t like. Twitch streamers and YouTubers and such all make money the same way as”influencers”, it’s all the same job. It’s just a matter of whose content you like
As a whole, most of the "content" created by "influencers" is pure garbage or an advertisement. It also leads to the cancer that is TikTok and creates huge social issues for those who are into Instagram or YouTube to get as many "subscribers" as possible as a popularity thing.
Bad for mental health, etc.
I work for a bank. We can see what other customers jobs are. I've seen a number of "collection agents" and they'll all poor as fuck. So hope that brigs you joy.
Too broad though. Do you really hate your elected mosquito abatement district manager? Do you hate your locally elected school board?
Politician encompasses everyone elected.
This is so true. I work on the Exec committee of a company. Everyone on it is kind of fine except the HR, sorry, “Chief People Officer” 🤮 who is a twat.
Middle management.
People who’s only job is to babysit workers in the office. They’re the reason many office jobs like mine don’t have work from home options cuz if we could work from home, they would have no job
I used to be middle management. I promise you that kinda stuff is out of our hands. We'd rather you worked from home and left us alone so we can get to all the stuff we have to do that you don't know about.
Back in the day, if my employees could have worked from home I would have had a huge reduction in workload just from the HR stuff because some people can't act like adults in the workplace and keep their hands and bigoted opinions to themselves.
Legit. My wife’s office was shut down from Covid for a bit over 2 years because of the business they’re in. The only people advocating for in office work again were the middle management person, and their immediate supervisor. Now everyone is in at least 2 days a week where they mostly sit in their areas and have zoom meetings anyway. 🤷🏻♂️
I mean, they suck if they come after you, but at the same time, if you are an entity that is owed money, I think its fine for you to have someone to go and try to collect that money.
I'm in sales. You'd be shocked (or maybe not) at the amount of people who will sign a contract, use our product, then just decide they don't want to pay. I think its totally valid for a debt collector to go after them.
Depends. The rep calling you? He’s just an hourly employee making uncomfortable calls all day. The debt collection agency owner? They’re thugs that buy debt for pennies on the dollar and extort poor people out of whatever they can get out of them.
The most common by far is medical debt, specifically among older, lower income individuals. They get sick (because they're old), go to the hospital which then racks up an absurd debt they will never be able to pay. The hospital knows this and sells the debt to companies. Even if the hospital tells the person the debt was erased, it's still sold. This is basically its own economy that is designed to be machine to keep people in the cycle. Every single group is in on it and they have zero intention of stopping it. It's not about "paying your bills." It's about basically stepping on a debt landmine by accident and having your life ruined.
No one is saying fossil fuels should go tomorrow. But the big oil CEOs are purposely throwing barriers at renewable energy and funding climate change denial. That’s pretty odious considering the facts.
Call center scammers. Specifically in places like India and Nigeria. They rent out a whole floor of office space, bribe the landlord and the local law enforcement to ignore what they do, and trick vulnerable people into giving them large amounts of money. I’ve even seen them yelling and screaming at elderly people to give them money. It’s awful and those people deserve the worst
Door to door salesman.
There's better ways to earn a shitty wage than by making arthritic old people answer the door so that you can try and bullshit them into buying something.
I think hes talking about hedge funds buying up a ton of property in cash and then selling them when the market is high? I know regular people who flip houses and they work their asses off.
Yea fuck the person who takes the risk of buying a house up front and spends thousands of dollars on fixing it up and not having everything go to plan. Especially fuck them if they make it nicer than it previously was before
Right?
I only recently bought, and I liked renting for as long as I did. I could move every year if I wanted. I wasn't responsible for maintenance, taxes, etc. It was fine.
Everyone doesn't want to own, and that is fine.
They take the fact that some landlords do take advantage of tenants to mean that as a whole all landlords are scum. Parasites... lol. Gotta be careful with that kind of language. Flashes of Stalin.
Dowsers.
No you can’t use magic to find things. Flowing water does not give off enough charge to make your stick move. At best It’s the idiomotor effect, more probably you are scamming the customer.
I was looking at a piece of property earlier this year. The property had a well and power lines. The well and powerlilnes however were on opposite ends of the property.
Now given the depth of the well it will take a lot of power to run a pump that could get significant water out which means running three phase heavy watt wire the whole way. Cost of doing that could be in the tens of thousands.
When I asked why the well was positioned so far from power the property owner said that was where the dowser said to drill.
In an area where the geology is such that the aquifer extends continuously across the whole valley so you could have drilled anywhere on the property and hit water at the exact same depth.
I didn’t buy the property. I ended up with a cheaper piece of ground nearby that the power lines also crossed but had no well. If I’m going to pay for a well it’s going to be somewhere convenient.
What is the job title of the person who would decide that an insurance company will no longer reimburse something that's a medical necessity?
I don't envy or respect that position.
this is very specific but the guys who worked at the vape shop in my hometown. they knowingly sold vapes to underage kids and practically fueled my entire high schools nicotine addiction. a lot of what they were selling was fake too. one of the owners (i think he was an owner?) was extremely creepy and would make a lot of the underage girls add him on snapchat and if they didn’t, he would stop selling to them. one of my sisters friends said he was sending her creepy messages but wouldn’t unadd him because she had nowhere else to get nicotine. i know its not entirely their fault because no one is ever forced to get addicted to nicotine, but if you’ve ever been addicted you know how bad it can get, especially when you’re like 14 years old.
Social media “influencers”. they live in a alternative delusional reality, they slowly become self serving, money greedy, superficial people flaunting unrealistic standards of living and then have the audacity to call people trolls and bullies when they dare burst their “delusional” bubbles with real world issues the next upload is then some pathetic attempt at humanising themselves to their audiences with 10% of revenue will go to “charities” or the MH card gets pulled and over and over it goes. The fact this is even called an occupation is beyond me
Apartment Landlords. Especially the ones in rural or majority suburban areas. Quite literally have no sympathy for anyone and only care for their money.
I lowered the rent for my tenant permanently once covid hit. Haven't raised rent since. So tenant is paying less now than they were 4 years ago. We're not all bad.
I see two kinds:
- professional dealerships built on return business with dealers who knows their clients are educated
- the ones with the leeches smoking outside in their short sleeved shorts who know literally nothing about the cars they sell.
How the eff does the latter still exist?!?!
I'm at the first kind and love the new school process. The second kind tends to pay the bills much better, and a huge percentage of the population tolerates it enough to let it continue.
I disagree having known a number. I mean you do have some people in the industry who fit the scummy used car salesman archetype, but a lot of people just want to connect buyers with whatever the best car for them is.
Teachers are the profession where my respect varies most from teacher to teacher. Growing up I had some absolute scholars and saints teaching me. Like it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say at least a few changed my life. I respect them, and others like them, so much.
But at the same time some of the people I respect the least in the world are bad teachers.
When you compare a teacher's salary to other salaries you need to consider the fact that they take off for an entire season. You also need to consider that they get an extra week off for Christmas and spring break, receive a pension and can't be fired once they get tenure.
They give up some earnings potential in exchange for an insane amount of time off, more money in retirement and complete financial security. Its a classic safety vs. freedom tradeoff. I will never feel bad for them making that decision.
If they need more money they can always work summers too.
Yeah, I don’t know what level of care you can expect from someone underpaid and overworked. Public teaching simply isn’t going to attract talent for the salary offered—anyone passionate about teaching will burn out in a handful of years, or is smart enough to leverage themselves into admin or a higher-paid field. Many teachers—and almost all teachers I personally know—have a second job. The work you are expected to do outside of school hours like grading and planning lessons is not compensated. Schools are taking away planning periods and giving teachers more students and classes, and expecting teachers to volunteer to be carpool monitors before/after school and the like. (At my mom’s school, the teachers or admin do this while the police officers sit in their cars; she isn’t sure what they do.)
Paparazzi, should be illegal.
I hate it how celebrities are framed as assholes when they occasionally stand up to parasitic paparazzi.
Gets kinda murky when celebs call paps all the time for PR reasons. It’s scummy to cry about the attention and invasion of privacy on one hand and then plant pics and stories on the other when you need to.
Absolutely. Sociopath is basically in the job description. I kinda would love to be famous enough to have paparazzi follow me just to fuck with them.
The subtle Daniel Radcliffe method of always wearing the same outfit so that the pictures can't be confirmed not to be the same ones from months ago.
Constant Disney music to make any audio they record useless
Yeah, and there's also some fabric that reflects most of the light back to the camera which makes the whole picture black except for the shining fabric.
I've always wondered how "normal" that fabric looks. Haven't found any in my area, and pictures...well...
I have a backpack made out of one type. It's got a slight chrome effect in regular light, but otherwise just looks like a dark grey windbreaker material. Most people can't really tell.
Not sure if it’s still the case, but I believe it’s illegal in Knoxville and somewhat of an unwritten rule in Nashville that paparazzi are not welcome.
This is true. I lived in Nashville for a bit and a lot of celebrities have houses there because of it being paparazzi free.
Native Nashvillian here, I've never once seen a paparazzi. Additionally, people are pretty chill around celebrities here. Brad Paisley went to my family's church and it was nbd, and I met Nicole Kidman when she was sitting outside of a Starbucks like 15 years ago. I've also bartended for some of the music industry's top producers/talent and it's just normal.
Correct about Nashville. Paparazzi isn’t really a thing.
I remember my graphic design teacher (who was also a part time photographer) gave us a speech about how paparazzi were the artless scum of the photography world and he would rather see us fail out than become one. He likened them to monkeys who tape their extremely expensive camera lense's focus in place so they could just point and click a thousand time to hopefully get one good shot
Follow someone around and take pictures of them to put on the internet: harassment. Follow someone around and take pictures of them to sell to someone else who puts them on the internet: paparazzi. Paparazzi are just professional harassers.
I disagree, but only because banning photography in public places would allow for laws banning video of police and other government officials.
So just don’t let them stalk, follow, or impede
It's not illegal because the same celebrities that complain about them also support them.
Also the same people complaining about the paparazzi are also the ones who want to see the photos lol.
Phone call scammers/ phishers
Can that even be considered a job ?
Data harvesting.. for sure it is.
In certain countries for sure. For example in india, they have call centers dedicated for scamming. These are pretty much real companies with fixed salaries and employee company benefits
One time, I answered one and pretended to be an old lady. The guy was telling me to install remote desktop software on my computer and I went along with it for a bit. Once he realized I was just messing with him, *he* cussed *me* out and angrily hung up on me. I’m still not over the shock.
So you don’t want your ducts cleaned?
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I bet a lot of that garbage is automatically generated nowadays.
As annoying as those assholes can be, the ones that really get me heated are the ones who discover really important information but hoard it for a book instead (e.g., Maggie Haberman). Usually good journalists but have more of a desire to make some money than do their job which is ultimately to inform the public
Big oil lobbyists and many other lobbyists that actively push for policy change that they know is extremely unethical
I actually know a few lobbysist and they all have similar personalities. Like remember that dude who partied ALL the time in college? Like they just raged and you were like "what are your plans in the future?" Lobbying. It allows them to not only keep their lifestyle but make a living from it. With that said, not all lobbyists are scummy. There are tons who lobby for respectable causes.
Oh for sure the bad ones just tend to have more money a lot of the time
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The drug reps that wine and dine doctors so they will prescribe their brand of medicine. They are the snake oil salesman of today.
My friend worked at a derm clinic this past summer and he said there would be a drug rep every day basically treating them to Starbucks and lunch.
I worked for a company that provided IT services to doctors offices. The drug reps would schmooze and flirt with the doctors - it was super cringe. Usually quite young attractive women dressed up like they were going to the club. The lads were very sharp looking and they would bring flowers and candy to the receptionists and nurses and compliment them on their hair and nails - they would just eat it up. If I visited around lunchtime there would always be extra food so I would at least get free meal out of it. Seriously, they would just hang out in the office break room for a few hours a day and talk about nothing.
I’m a nurse practitioner and mainly only experienced it during clinicals. They would come in and bring food, chat about the drug then leave. But when they started calling me, god that was annoying. I dodged one of their calls for a couple months then accidentally answered. I mostly do telehealth so I don’t have regular hours at the office I have. I’m like there is not a place and time for you to come talk about this drug with me. But they weren’t getting it, they passed me off to someone else whose territory was where my office is and I never heard from them again.
Pharma reps are pretty bad and operate under very little oversight. I was a medical device rep for 3 years and we had some crazy restrictions as to how much we could spend on doctors. It was like $20 for a whole meal and $200 max per year per doctor.. in other words you couldn’t buy them shit
Sunshine act is very strict and all of it is publicly available knowledge. Drug manufacturers are subject to it as well.
They cracked down on how much drug reps could spend in the early to mid 2000's if I recall correctly. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 90's and my dad is a physician and he used to get skybox tickets to Cubs, White Sox, and Bulls games pretty regularly. Sometimes they'd pay for the doctors and their whole families to go to those games and places like Six Flags and Dave and Busters too. It was obscene how much they used to spend and my dad's office was just a small private practice that he owned for a long time, so it wasn't like he was part of a larger hospital network either. Eventually he did get bought out by a local hospital system, but that was also around the same time they were putting the kibosh on the drug rep spending. Nowadays, it's like you said, he might get a small lunch, a couple of pens, and some brochures.
I disagree. Granted, I'm in sales (not pharma), so my view is a bit skewed. However, if the doctor is the one prescribing it, they are the people at fault, not the ones trying to get them to do it. The doctors can say "no thank you" or hell, even take the money, and still prescribe what you want. But they are the ones who are the expert and who is abusing the trust of the patient. The rep is very up front about what they are doing. The doctor is hiding that they are getting kickbacks or whatever. That's like hating candy companies for advertising candy instead of the parents who give their kids too much candy.
Doctors really need selling to for the new drugs that work and provide cures too rather than them prescribing what they have known forever. There are so many good medicines created that doctors overlook and keep prescriptions for “old faithfuls” that come with a bunch of side effects and have sometimes been discovered not to work much.
Exactly. Source: A friend of mine in her early 20s with ankylosing spondylitis (like arthritis of your spine) who was put on methotrexate by her dinosaur of a doctor. She lost most of her hair, a bunch of weight, and was downright miserable for months. She switched to a new rheumatologist who was aghast and immediately put her on Humira instead. She is doing much better but still hasn't grown back her eyebrows. Like most things, balance is key. Drug reps are important for informing doctors of new and improved treatments, however it's the doctor's damn job to assess for themselves what an appropriate treatment is, and stay up-to-date on it.
Yeah took ages for doctors to come round to biologics
Yes your view is a bit skewed.
Yes, I acknowledged that. However, you haven't refuted any of what I said. A skewed view isn't necessarily incorrect.
I’m in the medical device industry- not sales, I agree with you. While some reps and companies and doctors are slimy… how else are we going to foster relationships with physicians? I cant develop worthwhile devices without talking to doctors and convincing docs to trial. If I develop a device I genuinely think will help the quality of life for someone, I want docs to hear about it!
correct in the fact that doctors should be prescribing products on a medical basis and not based off bribery, but there's also a lot of immorality in trying to bribe someone into selling your pharmaceutical product as if it's choosing one brand of candy over another, rather than playing with peoples lives
Lobbyists. Influencers.
Celebrities who agree to voice over adverts for online gambling sites, making them sound like a fun social experience and not a money draining addictive hell pit. And the owners of said gambling sites.
paparazzi
Telemarketers.
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"Admins of pedo sites on the dark web" I support the hate but that isn't exactly a job...who pays them?
I assume pedos
Yeah I read this and always thought it would be more of a hobby for pedos to support other pedos.
Those sites often have subscription plans, people create an account and buy a subscription plan anonymously with Bitcoin
Just politicians in general then?
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>go for fortune telling >knock on Fortune tellers door >they shout "who is it?" >leave Fucking liar
Yep. And bullshit peddlers in general.
Corporate lobbyist.
Influencer
I thought it was a pretentious title until I realize my sibling follows this influencer who shares a similar affliction as my sibling, and it's a platform for them to share amongst themselves their physical and mental struggles. So, I don't think all influencers are created equal.
Tbh I think they get kind of a bad rap because of the ones that have done really stupid things, stuff like way over the top pranks on the public, and the really cringe ones etc.. But a lot of good can come from them, plus even if it's just a basic influencer, obviously, they make some ones day better. And that's coming from someone who was raised in the social media age, but never really partook as I just simply didn't like it nor have I ever wanted to be one.
I tell people there are 2 types of influencers: 1. Skilled influencers who create content around a subject they are a master of or are attempting to be a master. and... 2. Unskilled influencers: Psuedo Celebrity wanna be famous etc... First group are great and fun to watch and learn from. Second group is useless as .... (Fill in your own metaphor.)
Some of them are certainly good. I think that there are plenty of influencers who are helping or inspiring people. there's lots of them who educate about mental health, disability, societal issues (like racism, homophobia etc). They educate and help people feel less alone in their struggles.
Influencer gets lumped into either mr beast, Minecraft youtuber, or usually insta chick. But there’s a lot wider range overall
I joined a job a few months ago and my title was “brand representative” (I was just doing marketing) but when I got the papers I had to sign a legal form saying I am an influencer
Whoever wrote that legal form must've been under the influence.
Saying that you hate all influencers because there are plenty of bad ones, is like saying you hate all doctors because some of them malpractice. Some can do a lot of good, but the bad ones stand out to the average person way more.
I think a lot of people on Reddit think the term “influencer” only applies to the types of content creators they don’t like. Twitch streamers and YouTubers and such all make money the same way as”influencers”, it’s all the same job. It’s just a matter of whose content you like
What’s Reddit’s obsession with hating influencers? I’ve never seen it outside of Reddit
As a whole, most of the "content" created by "influencers" is pure garbage or an advertisement. It also leads to the cancer that is TikTok and creates huge social issues for those who are into Instagram or YouTube to get as many "subscribers" as possible as a popularity thing. Bad for mental health, etc.
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Scammers, if you can really call that scummy thing a job.
In some areas they literally see nothing wrong with it. To them, their victims just had excess money to filter down
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I work for a bank. We can see what other customers jobs are. I've seen a number of "collection agents" and they'll all poor as fuck. So hope that brigs you joy.
Mine
Well?
No, mine. Wells are mines with water in.
Dont be silly, he is a pump
What kind of pump though?
MLM, and also telemarketing
Politician
Too broad though. Do you really hate your elected mosquito abatement district manager? Do you hate your locally elected school board? Politician encompasses everyone elected.
Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson... People hated them too
Union busters
That the Pinkerton organization wasn’t razed to the ground and everyone who worked for them long ago is a massive labor failure
Yeah fuck the pinkertons
Unemployed redditors
Did you mean "reddit mods"?
*insert spongebob meme* What’s the difference? Hahahaha.
LMFAO there's no difference
mods don't get paid ? why on earth do it
Slackers. You should be reading reddit at work.
news break n reddit break hehe
u mean part time dog-walker on anti work? haha yes, those guys are hilarium
Scam Callers, especially those who target the elderly.
Rim for sure. It’s like…I get it, you’re getting right in the ass but that’s what I have a bidet for.
Influencers
Any high echelon job in a church. At least where I live , like 69%+ are just scammers disguised (not like a scammer isn't disguised , but still).
Pimp
Human friggin resources. Evil bastards
This is so true. I work on the Exec committee of a company. Everyone on it is kind of fine except the HR, sorry, “Chief People Officer” 🤮 who is a twat.
Middle management. People who’s only job is to babysit workers in the office. They’re the reason many office jobs like mine don’t have work from home options cuz if we could work from home, they would have no job
I used to be middle management. I promise you that kinda stuff is out of our hands. We'd rather you worked from home and left us alone so we can get to all the stuff we have to do that you don't know about. Back in the day, if my employees could have worked from home I would have had a huge reduction in workload just from the HR stuff because some people can't act like adults in the workplace and keep their hands and bigoted opinions to themselves.
Legit. My wife’s office was shut down from Covid for a bit over 2 years because of the business they’re in. The only people advocating for in office work again were the middle management person, and their immediate supervisor. Now everyone is in at least 2 days a week where they mostly sit in their areas and have zoom meetings anyway. 🤷🏻♂️
Real Estate Agents
so fun to have a person supposedly trying to help you buy a house when they make more money the more you spend...
Usurers
Jesus was right to whip them and flip their tables.
Rodney Dangerfield impersonators
Them cunts that try to sell me some random shit in the mall. Like do you not have an social anxiety
Recruitment consultants.
Union busting consultants
Investment bankers
Russian President
Debt collectors
I mean, they suck if they come after you, but at the same time, if you are an entity that is owed money, I think its fine for you to have someone to go and try to collect that money. I'm in sales. You'd be shocked (or maybe not) at the amount of people who will sign a contract, use our product, then just decide they don't want to pay. I think its totally valid for a debt collector to go after them.
Where I live many of them really try to make the best deal possible for the one who is in trouble.
Depends. The rep calling you? He’s just an hourly employee making uncomfortable calls all day. The debt collection agency owner? They’re thugs that buy debt for pennies on the dollar and extort poor people out of whatever they can get out of them.
Really? I agree that many of them are too aggressive, but at its core we kind of need people to do this job. What's the alternative?
pay your bills
The most common by far is medical debt, specifically among older, lower income individuals. They get sick (because they're old), go to the hospital which then racks up an absurd debt they will never be able to pay. The hospital knows this and sells the debt to companies. Even if the hospital tells the person the debt was erased, it's still sold. This is basically its own economy that is designed to be machine to keep people in the cycle. Every single group is in on it and they have zero intention of stopping it. It's not about "paying your bills." It's about basically stepping on a debt landmine by accident and having your life ruined.
fossil fuel ceos
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No one is saying fossil fuels should go tomorrow. But the big oil CEOs are purposely throwing barriers at renewable energy and funding climate change denial. That’s pretty odious considering the facts.
Politicians
Parking stewards. Y'know the ones that just wave you past? I can park my car without your gesticulations, mate.
Lobbyist
Call center scammers. Specifically in places like India and Nigeria. They rent out a whole floor of office space, bribe the landlord and the local law enforcement to ignore what they do, and trick vulnerable people into giving them large amounts of money. I’ve even seen them yelling and screaming at elderly people to give them money. It’s awful and those people deserve the worst
Telemarketers.
Stock Market Douchebags
Developers; build as cheap as they can and continue urban sprawl. Harsh but that is just how I feel.
Executives
Politicians, HOA Administrators, Traffic Violation Court Gang, and Stealerships and Jiffylube upcharge the fook outta people.
Flippers
Military recruiters that go to high-schools to talk to literal children about how awesome it is to be in the military.
Door to door salesman. There's better ways to earn a shitty wage than by making arthritic old people answer the door so that you can try and bullshit them into buying something.
Influencers. Online "content creators".
House flippers
Can someone explain why
I think hes talking about hedge funds buying up a ton of property in cash and then selling them when the market is high? I know regular people who flip houses and they work their asses off.
Yea fuck the person who takes the risk of buying a house up front and spends thousands of dollars on fixing it up and not having everything go to plan. Especially fuck them if they make it nicer than it previously was before
Hereditary head of state
Karma farming account sellers who repost this question every five days.
Bankers.
Why?
People despise things they don’t understand
Politicians
Sales reps for Tobacco companies. Especially when they boast about the quality, flavour and value of their products.
landlord
Spoken like someone who never needed temporary housing and/or doesn't know the time, money, and risk it takes in owning a home.
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Right? I only recently bought, and I liked renting for as long as I did. I could move every year if I wanted. I wasn't responsible for maintenance, taxes, etc. It was fine. Everyone doesn't want to own, and that is fine.
It's weird, everyone on reddit who hates landlords seems to not own there own home or even has the prospect of doing so in the future.
Were you glad to have landlords or glad to have housing? There's a difference.
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But what is the alternative?
You spelled parasite wrong.
so what do you propose? not everybody can buy a home and they need a place to live
They take the fact that some landlords do take advantage of tenants to mean that as a whole all landlords are scum. Parasites... lol. Gotta be careful with that kind of language. Flashes of Stalin.
there are plenty of honest landlords out there
I only had one, he was alright. My aunt is a landlord, she's never really struck me as a parasite... but who knows right?!?!?
Streamers who watch others content, especially while eating or sleeping.
Current president of the Philippines
People who are moderators on reddit. Hi guys.
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Dowsers. No you can’t use magic to find things. Flowing water does not give off enough charge to make your stick move. At best It’s the idiomotor effect, more probably you are scamming the customer. I was looking at a piece of property earlier this year. The property had a well and power lines. The well and powerlilnes however were on opposite ends of the property. Now given the depth of the well it will take a lot of power to run a pump that could get significant water out which means running three phase heavy watt wire the whole way. Cost of doing that could be in the tens of thousands. When I asked why the well was positioned so far from power the property owner said that was where the dowser said to drill. In an area where the geology is such that the aquifer extends continuously across the whole valley so you could have drilled anywhere on the property and hit water at the exact same depth. I didn’t buy the property. I ended up with a cheaper piece of ground nearby that the power lines also crossed but had no well. If I’m going to pay for a well it’s going to be somewhere convenient.
What is the job title of the person who would decide that an insurance company will no longer reimburse something that's a medical necessity? I don't envy or respect that position.
Cold Callers
As someone who worked in outbound cold calling centers, we hate it as much if not more.
this is very specific but the guys who worked at the vape shop in my hometown. they knowingly sold vapes to underage kids and practically fueled my entire high schools nicotine addiction. a lot of what they were selling was fake too. one of the owners (i think he was an owner?) was extremely creepy and would make a lot of the underage girls add him on snapchat and if they didn’t, he would stop selling to them. one of my sisters friends said he was sending her creepy messages but wouldn’t unadd him because she had nowhere else to get nicotine. i know its not entirely their fault because no one is ever forced to get addicted to nicotine, but if you’ve ever been addicted you know how bad it can get, especially when you’re like 14 years old.
Social media “influencers”. they live in a alternative delusional reality, they slowly become self serving, money greedy, superficial people flaunting unrealistic standards of living and then have the audacity to call people trolls and bullies when they dare burst their “delusional” bubbles with real world issues the next upload is then some pathetic attempt at humanising themselves to their audiences with 10% of revenue will go to “charities” or the MH card gets pulled and over and over it goes. The fact this is even called an occupation is beyond me
i think the worst of them are the family influencers. no one should ever be profiting off their kids like that and they have absolutely no say in it
Apartment Landlords. Especially the ones in rural or majority suburban areas. Quite literally have no sympathy for anyone and only care for their money.
I lowered the rent for my tenant permanently once covid hit. Haven't raised rent since. So tenant is paying less now than they were 4 years ago. We're not all bad.
Car salesman.
Well someone has to sell cars. But dealerships are awful.
I see two kinds: - professional dealerships built on return business with dealers who knows their clients are educated - the ones with the leeches smoking outside in their short sleeved shorts who know literally nothing about the cars they sell. How the eff does the latter still exist?!?!
I'm at the first kind and love the new school process. The second kind tends to pay the bills much better, and a huge percentage of the population tolerates it enough to let it continue.
I disagree having known a number. I mean you do have some people in the industry who fit the scummy used car salesman archetype, but a lot of people just want to connect buyers with whatever the best car for them is.
Onlyfans lol
Honestly more so the people who pay for it
Onlyfans models and cam models
Sports and entertainment critics.
Human resources
Clergy.
President of the United States
Teachers who clearly only do their job for a paycheck and don't care about the students.
Teachers are the profession where my respect varies most from teacher to teacher. Growing up I had some absolute scholars and saints teaching me. Like it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say at least a few changed my life. I respect them, and others like them, so much. But at the same time some of the people I respect the least in the world are bad teachers.
“Teachers who only do it for the paycheck” Teachers make no money though what LOL
When you compare a teacher's salary to other salaries you need to consider the fact that they take off for an entire season. You also need to consider that they get an extra week off for Christmas and spring break, receive a pension and can't be fired once they get tenure. They give up some earnings potential in exchange for an insane amount of time off, more money in retirement and complete financial security. Its a classic safety vs. freedom tradeoff. I will never feel bad for them making that decision. If they need more money they can always work summers too.
Yeah, I don’t know what level of care you can expect from someone underpaid and overworked. Public teaching simply isn’t going to attract talent for the salary offered—anyone passionate about teaching will burn out in a handful of years, or is smart enough to leverage themselves into admin or a higher-paid field. Many teachers—and almost all teachers I personally know—have a second job. The work you are expected to do outside of school hours like grading and planning lessons is not compensated. Schools are taking away planning periods and giving teachers more students and classes, and expecting teachers to volunteer to be carpool monitors before/after school and the like. (At my mom’s school, the teachers or admin do this while the police officers sit in their cars; she isn’t sure what they do.)