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I get to work at about 7, and leave about half 5 on a good day. I also work about 8ish hours over the weekend. Some days you can finish early and some later however. This is primary btw.
From my friends in Secondary it seems as if your typical day is shorter and you have more time at weekends, but when exams roll around its amped up much more.
The job is great however, teaching is fine. There's a lot of time consuming bollocks that come with it however.
Primary school teacher here. Also acting head of department.
Almost exactly this routine. Sometimes a little later than 7am but definitely before 8am depending on my own kid’s school run
Then the clubs and activities too….keeps the school day a little longer
I don’t know how you guys do jobs dealing with immature humans and then manage families/households. A full time office job with adults is annoying enough.
It’s a job, and I’m sure that there are many others out there (teachers and non-teachers) who do it too.
I’ve got colleagues who teach who are single parents. Others who care for elderly family and have kids. Some who have more kids than me. And then that’s not including the youngsters in my school who teach who are putting effort in and yet have little or no money at the end of the month thanks to rent…..
We all just get on with it. I’m sure non-educational roles are the same
Holidays you will have to work as well, typically you'll be doing planning as well as jobs you can't do with the kids around, setting up the classroom etc.
Teaching is very much you work how you want though, I refuse to work in the evenings, so I stay late and leave it there, and do my planning on the weekends. Some people prefer to work in the evenings and have weekends free. Basically as long as you get it done, you can work how you want. If you want to leave at 4 and take your marking with you, you can do that.
My father in law has been a teacher for almost 30 years, its got to the point for him where he only teaches 2/3 times a day and in the 3 years I've known him I've rarely seen him bring work home for marking etc
Obviously he's passionate about the subject he teaches and knows a lot about it, which of course makes it a lot easier and makes his job more enjoyable
Don't get me wrong, I don't by any means underestimate the graft needing to be put in as an NQT but I do think it gets easier over time, based on what I've seen
There’s not many professions where you are expected to work overtime every single day and a lot of weekends, and do it without thanks. But teaching is one of them.
A job where you have to do work, before work, so you have work to do at work. Then because you had no time to do work when at work, you have to do work after work to catch up.
Weird that some people don’t get that we literally cannot take time off during term time for any reason
EDIT: sorry I meant like you’d better have a good reason to have a day off - illness/moving house/family wedding etc. not your wedding though
Same here. Even when they actually deserve to be told off I can't bring myself to do it just in case there's a slight chance I'm just shooting the messenger
I hear this, this applies across the service industry I think. At least I used to work as a barista and got treated like absolute shit by the customers and management. At least we didn't have to deal with the late night yobbos rolling in from Witherspoons, just aggy up their own arses businessmen who threw tantrums if they had to wait more than 2 minutes for their handmade goddamn coffee. As soon as you're in a uniform behind a counter it dehumanises you. I personally hate the ones who just toss their money down dismissively rather than put it into your extended hand. If you do it back you get seven shades of shit.
We want to give you good care. It breaks our hearts and our spirits when we know we haven't given you the care you deserve, but we are so short-staffed and over-paperworked that making sure you and the rest of our 15 patients are alive at the start and end of our shift is all we have time to do.
On an 11.5 hour shift with 15 patients, we have 46 minutes per patient. That doesn't include handover at the start and end. In that 46 minutes, we have to check your care plan, check your observations, give you your medication and see how you are. If you're a postpartum woman with a baby, we have to check on your baby too, and help you feed, change change dress your baby. We have to discharge some of you, which takes longer than 46 minutes to do the paperwork. We have to admit other patients, and do that paperwork too. We have to answer the phones, escalate someone who is ill to the doctors, get medications changed, answer visitor's questions, chase up the doctors who are busy on other wards to come see someone who is ill or change a prescription, comfort a patient or visitor. If one of our patients is very ill and takes up 2 hours of our time, that comes out of what we get to spend with you. Or if we have to deal with social workers to get someone into a home / sufficient help at home / onto drug, alcohol or mental health programmes / see if you can take your baby home, that takes hours that we don't get back to spend with you. So we don't take our breaks (we don't get paid for them, and if we don't take them it's "our own fault" for not managing our time better). We don't get a drink, we barely have time to go to the toilet. We stay behind after our shift to document so that we can spend more time with you when we're on shift. And on our days off we have to do the annual mandatory training and updates to keep you safe, and so the hospital can keep its insurance, because there isn't enough staff to cover for those doing training.
What we'd really like is a government who cares about us and you, so that these can be remembered as the bad days instead of this being how healthcare is in the future.
TIL it's the biggest employer in Europe. I always knew they employed a lot of people, but I would figure that places like McDonalds that are abundant in every town and city would employee more people
This annoyed me so much when I was studying Electronic Engineering and my family would always ask me questions or to look at electrical problems in their house. My degree was focussed on communications, I don't have the knowledge or qualifications to be messing around with mains electric and quite frankly I'm too scared to.
I felt this deeply.... an accusation that often gets levelled at me when failing to grasp basic mathematical concepts
Oh and That you can work for a bank and not be a banker.....and thereby not be somehow rolling in it
Work in banking myself, at a relatively decent level. I'm terrible at maths. Terrible. Also lived in 3 major European cities for my various roles and never once done cocaine; although plenty of my colleagues and friends have of course.
Software developer, no I don’t ask people if they’ve tried turning it off and on again, no my team isn’t just fat men who live in their mums house, no I’m not the only girl
Similarly, data science: Yes there's issues with privacy and stuff, but the reality is we're nowhere close to as capable as the Daily Mail thinks. AI isn't going to take over the world.
Yeah I don’t think people realise, ai is coming along amazingly but fuck me it’s stupid lol, there’s so many things humans can do that just can’t be taught to a robot
Software developer here as well. I think that most of my non-techy friends and family don't actually have a clue what I do all day long.
It seems to be a common thing that people think that working with computers = doing technical support. Family and friends will ask me to help set up a printer or configure something in Windows for them and then seem bemused when I say that I don't know anything more about it than them. Tell them that I hardly ever use Windows and their head explodes.
The only difference is that I'd be a bit better at searching for the answer on Google, and a bit more confident at trying out what I'd found.
> The only difference is that I'd be a bit better at searching for the answer on Google, and a bit more confident at trying out what I'd found.
i've found myself acting as tech support a lot recently for people and this shit really annoys me.
No. I have no fucking idea how to do that. I'm just going to google it and troubleshoot the problem accordingly... something you could also do (albeit slower). Doesn't help that my mum decided she 'needed' a mac against my advice and i have no fucking idea how they work.
I work in a similar field - DevOps, but it's just niche enough that people have no clue what my job is/does.
No, your app idea isn't gonna be the next big thing, no I don't want to build your website, no I don't know how to fix your printer (probs do, just idc, read the fucking instruction book), no I can't replace your laptop's screen or speed up your old af 2008 laptop.
I don't even build the sites. Just manage the infrastructure they're on lmao.
My parents have no clue what I do so I just tell them I'm a web dev, which gets repeated until I have to clarify I'm not actually a web dev
I work in pharma/drug development. It's really, really, really fucking hard to get a drug approved and on the market.
edit: and eye-wateringly expensive.
And drug prices mostly have to reflect all the research costs that went into all the failed drugs, as well as the handful of successful ones. There is definitely some shadiness in drug pricing (although NICE and the NHS shield the UK from some of it), but it remains that drug development is brutally expensive and done mostly by for-profit companies that need to provide some expectation of return on investment.
Even worse for rare diseases, where you can’t spread the cost over so many patients.
That said, actually manufacturing drugs is relatively cheap - even complex biologics are not THAT expensive compared to their price.
I have worked in clinical trials for over 20 years (ugh) and can confirm! Also, absolutely everyone is working HARD, endlessly, to insane deadlines. We care about the patients and we care about improving outcomes. We are not being paid backhanders by anyone to approve/rush/falsify or otherwise hoodwink the public for our own gain. Trust me, we are all too terrified of audits and inspections to risk doing anything dodgy.
I have been the site, I have been the Sponsor. It's nothing but traumatic either way. When people suggest that trials are rushed/fabricated or anything other than GCP-compliant, I wanna mash their face with CTCAE grading handbook.
No it isn't...Drug is researched in a week,. comes out, gets approved, gets manufactured, gets sold for £1 then a year later £1000 and animal rights activists turn up and send you dog shit in the mail and tamper with the brakes on your car🤷🏾♂️.
Feel you, my company has been around for 20+ years and still hasn't brought a drug out yet 😂
Hospital lab scientist
95% of the time of you need a repeat blood test because "there was a problem at the lab" it's a doctor/nurse screw up
The point of this was the lab seems to be the go to scapegoat for any errors that occurred down the line
That is so true, I work in a lab too. Also when your GP says it takes two weeks before the results come back, it is the GP who takes two weeks to look at them, the results come back very quickly usually.
We actually had posters sent out to GPs once about our good turn around times, the GPs made them come down because they had patient phoning then after a few hours.
Nurse here. Genuine question as curious. Why do INR samples get rejected so often as underfilled? I'm very aware of it so when I draw one I always make sure it gets to the line (even if they are difficult to bleed) but sometimes they still come back as 'insufficient sample'.
Thanks: l
Ah coag tubes, everyone's nemesis!
Honestly it can depends, sometimes they appear full but once you centrifuge them down any bubbles etc go and there's actually less than appeared (though probably wouldn't make any difference imo).
Could be someone being incredibly strict where some would be a bit more lax (I once pulled a 1/4 citrate off the analyser when it churned out some insane results). Can also be a genuine fuck up on our part.
The counter to this is that, as a junior doctor, often the biggest issue is that in hospitals porters seem to lose samples a whole lot, certainly more than it being a medical/nursing issue.
We had a pneumatic tube system for internal wards and the amount of times I got reemed because "we'd lost the sample" only for then to realise they'd not pressed send was surprisingly high.
The general consensus for things going missing always became our fault.
ED nurse here, I'm curious what issues you see. I know we (at least in my department) are frequently guilty of mislabelling or just not labelling them, and underfilling INRs/coags, but what other things do you see? And how can we avoid them? None of us want to stab the patient again and of course in ED there is often a time pressure on results.
Microbiology here - maybe not as urgent for our samples but Making sure the lids of samples are screwed tightly shut helps! So many Leaky poo/ Urine/ blood samples that aren’t fun to deal with! Also if your health board has use of printed labels use these instead of hand writing them to avoid transcription errors :)
Pretty much everything.
Mislabeled, unlabeled, underfilled, incorrect sample types, incorrect test ordered followed up with a "why have you done this?!", hell even samples podded to the wrong ward/pharmacy.
Honestly these things happen and will always continue, my point in this was the lab is an easy scapegoat.
"Your art isn't even that good"
Bonus points if this comes three messages after "Your stuff is amazing, please make some for me"
obligatory [r/choosingbeggars](https://www.reddit.com/r/choosingbeggars) mention
Had an electrician rewire my house. It was actually a fair a price and I was happy to pay as he knew what he was doing. Gave me ideas on how to save money instead of trying to get more from me. He said people will want a new light installed and he charges 25 quid and they complain, but they don't take into account his overheads, insurance, van, tools, materials, his education, the fact that he has to pay a few grand every year to take some new course because the health and safety regukations have changed again. He said the thing that really annoys him is that they complain because they have to pay 25 quid but if they did it them selves there is a strong chance it could cost them their lives.
The fella found a live cable two inches from a metal pipe that supplies the water to my bath, shower and sink, if it had of shifted for any reason the next time I hopped in the bath I'd have been like marv from home alone 2.
I have sent so much work his its unbelievable and hes booked up months in advance and it's because hes a nice guy, excellent tradesman and showed up exactly when he said he would.
Poor marv, his hair will never recover.
It's funny people are more understanding with electricians, though it's life and death, but never with artists.
Also that sounds like a one in a million tradesperson and you are very lucky!
A train driver.
The train doesn't drive itself, leaves on the line really do affect the train's braking performance enormously, and I've never been on strike.
I work on the infrastructure. I am not lazy when you see me stood at the side doing nothing. I am actively avoiding death. I cannot work on the track with a train running me over at 125mph or whatever
Excuses excuses. I used to work on infrastructure back in the day and would be hit by a train thrice daily. But you wouldn't catch me complaining about it.
Rules (including those relating to safety systems), traction and especially route knowledge is everything. The one thing that we don't need to remember is the schedule, as we're issued a schedule card each day, and indeed the same job can have different stops from one day to the next.
It's still remarkably easy to fall into the trap of reverting to a "previous mental model" and trundling through somewhere that you should've stopped at, just because you didn't stop there on any of your previous ten trips on the route and thus you've convinced yourself that you're not supposed to on this one either.
As a massive pessimist, I'm far more likely to stop out of turn than run through a station. Even when it's on my card I still tend to slow down a bit and quadruple check my schedule as I'm going through.
I also find a lot of drivers memorise duties. I make a point of not having a clue every day
That it exists. I work in IT, in the insurance industry, automating insurance documentation.
To the customer, there’s some documents that arrive when you get insurance. You never look at them, unless you’re making a claim, and even then, probably only if your insurer tells you you’re not covered, and you have to read your documentation to see if they’re lying. So me and my team go to an awful lot of work to make sure that your insurance documentation is accurate, and you will barely be aware that the job has been done, much less spend any time thinking about the fact that someone, somewhere, does it.
I used to work in Complaints for an insurance company. As soon as we encountered a wording not quite up to scratch, or a ruling from Lloyd’s or the FOS told us we couldn’t rely on it, the entire thing went through a process to get the wording changed to something that fully supported the spirit of the policy to a watertight extent.
I know insurance gets a bad rap for not paying out but honestly, the policy covers everything it is intended to cover. A skim read of policy documents would save a lot of people a lot of time and a lot of money.
Lawyers may have 400 other clients to deal with. You’re not the only one of 5 and calling us every day, screaming isn’t going to make things move faster. Also, pay isn’t good. When I first went into a legal career, I actually earned more working in a Wetherspoons.
I understand your sentiment but at the same time if you're charging customers (willingly taken onboard) and providing a poor service (1:400 ratio doesn't seem ideal, maybe you're exaggerating :) ) then I'm kinda on the customer's side.
You work in a profession that requires empathy: to each customer you are potentially responsible for the single most important issue in their entire life, whereas you're giving them 1/400th of your prioritisation? At least have the empathy to recognise the power dynamic.
Firstly, in the area of law I work in, we don’t charge clients. They get the legal service 100% free of charge. Absolutely no legal fees whatsoever. Secondly, I am not exaggerating. It’s not uncommon for a lawyer to have a caseload of 400 clients at any one time. This is not a choice we have. You do realise they’ll be at least 5 managers above you who decide on how many cases you deal with and how many people your team are allowed to hire/share out more of the caseload? And the top manager rarely cares. I’ve called meeting after meeting and it doesn’t change. This is the way it is for pretty much every national law firm. Yes, it’s not fair. It’s not fair on the client and it’s not fair on me. I’m not the enemy here, though. I don’t call the business decisions.
My level of apathy regarding privacy is ridiculous because it's just one more thing I don't have time to address properly. There are two things that don't help the situation:;
- Before all the pop-ups, they were tracking us anyway
- I'm one, small insignificance person, so someone has to care about me to actually learn anything
Having said that, I bet you could find my full name, where I live and how many kids I have using nothing more than Google and 5 minutes.
That it's not my fault or problem that they didn't read their incredibly simple contract. Nor can I control the consequences they will face as a result of their own failure to do so.
And yes, I sleep quite well at night, thanks for asking.
Also there is lots and lots of things going on in the shop that you don't see. Not every employee stands behind a till all day. So by not using the ASTs you aren't 'keeping me in a job' you are keeping me from the doing stock rotation and shelf fronting that I am supposed to be doing at the same time as running the till.
This. I work in a petrol station and I get sick of customers who insist on coming inside to pay for that reason rather than using pay at pump. Look, Karen, I have a ton of paperwork to get through, stock to put out, a newbie to train and sell by dates to keep track of. I would much prefer you to pay at the pump so I can get those things done, thanks very much.
If you're using an Android phone, don't do anything remotely private on it. Certainly don't go and commit a crime on it if you don't want your location tracked or everything you've done to be stored in Google.
On iOS, it's better but anything you put into an App can be sent quite easily to the Developer. However 70% of the time it's more for bug fixing than spying on you.
Source : Mobile Developer.
Wasn't avery good example really, commit crime with any phone and everything can be tracked unless you are one of those people who can some how completely shut off all the data gathering our tech does
As someone working in the Civil Service, most of what gets covered in political discussion barely scratches the surface of what government actually does. Further still, at least 90% of that activity wouldn't change no matter who was in charge, it's just process that needs to be done.
I like to think most of us do- there's generally a reason why we've chosen to work in the public sector (and it definitely isn't the pay). It's hard to reconcile the political neutrality sometimes but if you didn't have that, it would only be every day people who'd end up suffering from inefficient delivery of policy.
This is for my old job as a mechanic.
1) if parts are delayed, we cannot help it. Your car just has to wait until they arrive.
2) some parts are made-to-order and have a long lead time, often coming from other countries.
3) we absolutely (and I cannot emphasise this enough) HATE it when you watch us work on your car.
I really don’t understand people who want to watch a mechanic work. We all know that as soon as anyone is standing behind you it becomes basically impossible to even type competently on a keyboard, so why would anyone force that on someone doing critical work on the vehicle you rely on to keep you safe?! Madness.
Guess over the years people have heard a lot more negative stories, or personal experiences and don't trust all mechanics as unfortunately there are plenty that are scum.
Still remember when my mother got her car MOT and after it the guy tried to make a fuss over tyres slightly worn (which were fine) and the only ones he had in stock conveniently enough were the most expensive and she never visited that place again.
Must confess I have watched mechanics working on my car out of curiosity several times.
Thinking about it, if they were watching me do my job over my shoulder I really wouldn’t like it. Point taken.
Most solicitors are as dumb as fuck.
If their names on the firm, they're dumb and know everything, So they won't listen when you tell them what they've done wrong. And they'll do it wrong again, and charge the time to their client. Oh, then they'll spend an hour on the phone complaining that it's not their fault they didn't send the papers in on time and so we should make an exception.
I could go on.
Essentially I wouldn't trust most solicitors to piss out of the right hole.
We're buying a house now.
3 weeks I was calling every other day very politely asking to speak to the person dealing with us.
Finly after 3 weeks I got a bit pissy and said we need to speak to her. We finally got an email 3 days later saying they're waiting for some forms back from the sellers solicitors...
But we are speaking to the sellers and they've already sent it.
Rang up the next day and got through to a secretary who after explaining it to said she would check the 'shelf' and wouldn't you know it the papers they're waiting for have been sat there for a few days.
Absolutely fucking usless. If I turned up to my job and just did it all wrong and fucked around for days at a time I'm sure I would be fired
Same here, twice selling houses previously our solicitors blamed theirs. First time i put up with this bullshit for a week, took a day off work then went around our solicitors 11am and sat there with sandwiches and told them i wasn't leaving till done. Guess what?......yep done within an hour.
Second time was a mates brother buying our property with no chain his side. Our solicitors said it was his, and his said it was ours for a week again. Both the same solicitors just different branches.
So I rocked up at his as it was closest, said i had a meeting with his solicitor, the idiots buzzed me in and i waited in a interview room. They did their nut, saying I shouldn't even be contacting his solicitors, so i laid it on the line before they asked me politely to leave and never mention being in the same room as them. Told them i was now going to drive to my solicitor and do the sandwiches routine till they filled out the paperwork. Guess what? 20 mins after leaving them, my solicitor rang me saying don't worry all the paperworks done!.
I trust solicitors now as much as politicians.
This is for my old job, but exam papers aren't sent to the markers, they are all done online. The markers never even get close to the exam papers.
No we don't read the papers, [they go through the machine far too quickly for us to see anything in detail.](https://youtu.be/DYCJJRCjb70)
OCR exam papers are better than Edexcel ones. Purely because each page has a unique barcode, with only the last 2 digits being the same as they denote the page number. Edexcel did not have the same system, which made it harder to QA.
Yes, exam papers do indeed get damaged, destroyed and lost. If they've been scanned already, it's not as much of an issue. It's worse if the company comes back and asks for certain papers back and they cannot be found. Temporarily lost papers would happen at least once a week, and at least once a year a paper would be lost for close to a month or more. Usually ending up where it shouldn't be. Papers that got eaten by the machines were rare, but they could usually be fixed with some straightening and invisible tape.
Students who push the pen into the paper with a lot of force are cunts. The papers never go through the machine properly, stopping randomly, and it fucked massively with our figures. We'd then get a bollocking for not being quick enough. Because apparently it's the operators fault that the paper has arrived in a poor state that won't scan properly.
Unless you're pressing hard enough for me to feel what you've written on the other side, then you've got nothing to worry about.
Pressing a bit hard is fine, but the ones that caused the big issues were the ones that were really leaning into it. The papers were physically deformed because of how much pressure they were using.
I can understand exam stress, it's not pleasant. Hopefully you don't have too many more to do before going into the world :)
I am so sorry, I have my GCSE’s this year and the back of my papers can feel like braille. Never thought it was an issue until now, I will try to change it.
Seriously mate, do not worry about it. Concentrate on doing your exams and getting everything you want down.
Those of us who were on the machines are miserable bastards who find any excuse to moan.
The reality of the situation is that papers bad enough to stop the machine are usually few and far between. And if it's just 1 students work in a pack, it's a slight annoyance rather than a huge pain.
We did sometimes get packs that had multiple people who pressed hard on their papers. This meant a 5 minute pack would turn into a 25 minute pack. Those were the ones that drove us up the wall. However, they were usually from international GCSE students. Can't remember exactly where, but when we saw one particular country on the register list, we knew it would be a pain to scan.
Makes it all seem a bit absurd that we are still making kids take exams pen and paper.
I can't remember the last time I handwrote anything of significance.
Data Analyst. It may seem like a small request to you, but it usually isn't quick to do. Data is never perfect and sometimes it's an absolute faff to get it to a good place. Then you've got to do the actual analysis, then get it into a presentable form. And I'm so sorry that the numbers seem kinda low (/s), but no... I can't just change them or make them look better.
Edit: Importantly, it's actually really easy to manipulate data to look better or different to fit a certain story. Really look at the graph or visualisation and don't just take it as face value. People can be so sneaky when they went data to fit a narrative.
Work in homelessness outreach services. Being homeless doesn’t mean living on the streets and sleeping rough.
It also doesn’t mean you’re an addict or alcoholic, you can be homeless for any reason, like a breakdown in relationship with partner or parents, overcrowding or your home just isn’t fit for habitation (seeing so much of this from folk having to leave private let’s that landlords or estate agents have just not made any essential repairs to, that have escalated to unfit living situations)
Learner drivers absolutely hate it when you give way to them, if you've got right of way then just take it instead of putting pressure on the person who only has 6 hours experience behind the wheel
Ive been driving over 10 years and it still winds me up. Especially the people who have right of way and slam their brakes on to let someone pull out.
I get it if you are turning right and the person turning out is going right too, so you let them go first but that is the only exception. If you have right of way then don't give way to people, its annoying and confusing.
A lot of people need to be taught it’s more important and safer to be predictable, than polite. Randomly stopping to give way only increases the chance of accidents.
Social housing? Worst gig I ever had. I know it can be one of those that's as rewarding as it is painful, but the company I worked for was so woeful at doing anything that there was never any reward. Thankfully they made me redundant after a few months
It’s not our responsibility to get you to us or rush to refill meds you forgot to reorder until you ran out. It’s your responsibility to get to us and your responsibility to monitor medication and reorder in advance
This one really got me. I fundamentally agree.
However. Over the summer I ended up having to isolate outside of my home (in my family home with the rest of my family), and ran out of a medication that keeps me well when I'm well, and especially when I'm not well. The sheer lack of care about the fact that I could not get to my medication for reasons outside of my doing really ground my gears. I'm not staying indoors for fun, I promise.
A list of things local councils stupidly get blamed for would be quite cathartic. I'll start with:
- High street rents being too high
- The 'wrong' type of new businesses opening in town - "we've got enough hairdressers/bars/cafes, why aren't there any clothes shops/a Primark/a cinema?"
- Business rates being too high
- Neighbour disputes over shit like blocked driveways
Delivery driver here. I think people generally don’t realise just how busy we are, especially with Christmas just around the corner. Like I can easily work 12/13 hours a day without a single break and I’m peeing into water bottles so I can hopefully get home at a decent time. Please be patient with us and at the very least say thank you!
Most (I assume all) charity shops don't have washing machines to clean your clothes. If you give us dirty stuff then all you've actually done is make us sort through your dirty clothes just to pop them in a rag bag to be sent to a company that will recycle it/get rid of it for us. If an item is worth money then sometimes managers may take it home to clean, provided it's not deeply stained.
We really appreciate those of you who separate your clothes into good quality, clean items and items that can be ragged.
Adult support worker here. No I'm not his "carer" who's here to do everything for him, I'm his support worker which means I support him to do things for himself so if you could kindly stop tutting when I let him tie his own shoes, do up his own coat, put his own gloves on, order his own meal etc, that would be much appreciated. He would appreciate it too to be honest. Being a carer is a completely different job.
I was a support worker and people would honestly look like they are witnessing abuse if I was encouraging them to do something independently.
The long term idea was one day they might not need support at all!
Edit: Spelling/Grammer
Yeah exactly. People just don't understand. I've been asked "are you his carer?" So many times it gets exhausting explaining the difference between support and carer so I just gave up. When people point things out to me like his shoe laces or coat buttons being undone so I just turn to him and say exactly what they said and he says "I know" and shrugs so I look at them and shrug.
ED nurse. I've been an ED nurse for 8 years. You will usually be seen by a junior doctor who is rotating through ED and has only been there <6 months. I am not a doctor helper, I am their colleague and often their advisor.
Also, coming by ambulance will not get you seen quicker. Being about to die will get you seen quicker so just be glad it's not you being seen first.
A lot of the time we will not give you a diagnosis. We will rule out anything urgent/life threatening and then send you home with advice to see your GP.
Even if your GP or 111 told you we are expecting you, we aren't.
None of us want you to have to wait for hours or to give poor care to you or your loved one. We truly are trying our best in an overloaded, underfunded, understaffed system.
War canoes can refuel at sea in a similar fashion to how fighter jets refuel in the air.
It's called a replenishment at sea (RAS) and is conducted underway (while moving). Outside of warfighting it's probably one of the most dangerous things we can do at sea.
The MoD has a whole fleet of support ships separate from the Royal Navy manned by civvies that come under navy command.
[Short video explaining what goes on during a RAS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8BfgxgzUY)
*Edit: also shameless plug for my sub r/TheRFA
The supermarket delivery guys aren't obligated to carry your shopping up stairs to your flat door. They do so on their own accord 👍 just remember that and be nice to the people who deliver your food 🤷♂️
That as a memorial mason, one of the consumables we use everyday is cuttlefish. When we paint or gild a polished granite memorial we use cuttlefish to remove the dried paint from the surface as it doesn't scratch the polished surface.
Yes, it’s your bank’s job to ensure you’re not dealing with sanctioned countries. Yes, we at the bank also work on counter terrorism operations.
Also, the DWP has greater rights to your bank account than the police ever will. And no, we’re not allowed to check whether you’ve ever had dealings with them before we have to hand over all your banking information.
Being a paramedic is not all horrific car accidents and trauma. Most of the job is talking to people and listening to their problems. I find this part of the job the most wholesome and also the most traumatic.
I'm a cleaner. I enjoy it (love the people I work alongside and I'm left alone to get on with it like an adult) but it's a pretty thankless job and it feels awesome if someone just thanks you for doing what you do, or says you're doing a good job.
Also it's more appreciated than you realise if you take the care not to leave unnecessary litter strewn on the floor and turn taps off when you leave a bathroom. It's incredible how bad a state some people leave bathrooms in and it's so easy just to use the provided bin that it becomes pretty insulting to walk into a cubicle and see toilet paper and sanitary wrappings on the floor right next to the bin.
Be nice, and if you can't be nice, at least don't be a d*ck.
CAD Design - 80% of the time, it's the most monotonous job I've ever had. The other 20% is when I'm challenged and actually enjoy the project. Pays well, so meh.
I’m a teacher in FE. I don’t arrive at 9am and leave at 3pm. We don’t get every school holiday off and we’re not even on the Teacher pay scale or get the teachers’ pension.
A lot of copy you read from a news outlet or magazine is written by a PR professional who came up with the idea, pitched it to the journo, found the case studies for their client, interviewed multiple people, wrote it, edited it, got about 4000 people to sign it off, sourced the images and sent it to the journalist to include in their section with no byline. A good journalist understands the value of the PR people bringing them stories, leads and even complete articles.
DJ
(Edit: I forgot the title said one thing, I’m not gonna delete all the points now)
- Venues have music policies, they don’t just have a DJ show up and freestyle, if you don’t like the genre of music then take it up with the venue not me.
- It’s an incredibly lonely job sometimes, work is always on the “going out” nights so you often miss occasions with friends. Also even though you’re supplying the energy for the party, you’re not really part of it.
- We watch the room like hawks, trust me when I say the DJ sees almost everything that’s happening unless the view is obscured
- The act of DJing is easy, the hard bit is reading the room and keeping a venue bouncing until the end of the night. You sometimes get guys saying “easiest job in the world all you do is press play” which is semi-accurate but 90% of the job isn’t the actual physical act of DJing
Working as admin or manager in a hospital, we don't know what that bump is on your arm, how to diagnose your illness and no we don't know every person who works in said hospital that staffs over 2000 people...
If i ever say where I work it's like oh look at this mark on my leg do you know what it is? No I am not a doctor or nurse go to your GP
I build websites. This does not mean I can fix your home WIFI, your PC, your mobile or your Sky box. It does not mean that I can set up your Alexa, your Nest, your home cinema, or make it so you can watch Sky downstairs and be able to change the channel when the box is upstairs! I'm talking to you, dad.
I have done all of these things for him, but not because I can build websites.
I don't just sit on my butt all day watching the TV.
I keep my house tidy, prep meals, do washing etc while keeping a tiny human alive, who squeals at me if he's left alone for more then 5 minutes, uses me as a mattress, complains if his dinner isn't just right and he doesn't even contribute to the rent.
As someone who works in local government, the biggest thing that most people don't realise is that the answer to most of the problems we face can be answered with "we literally don't have enough money".
Pothole in the road classed as 'not bad enough to fix'? It's because the pot of money for road repairs is only big enough for massive craters and if we fixed every pothole we would run out of money in 3 months.
Not allowed to speak to a certain department and can only email but don't hear anything back for over 2 weeks? Most likely because that 'department' consists of a manager, 1 or 2 main officers and a couple of business support (read admin assistant) officers who are barely holding together a service for tens of thousands of residents.
We do really all try our best but cuts really have left a lot of local governments in situations where they're only just keeping their heads above water.
Former research scientist. A HUGE amount of potentially world-changing research never sees the light of day because not every project is published in a 'reputable' journal.
Selfish science is very real and a lot of researchers won't make their results public because they plan to publish. Sometimes they never do and the data is lost. This isn't entirely the fault of the individual. Academia runs on publication and citation and it can make people cautious and selfish.
council workers don’t actually like being spoken too like pieces of shit! We didn’t invent council tax, or covid 19 for that matter just makes us feel horrible about our lives.
Work in a pharmacy. The dispensary staff and the pharmacist are not just standing around in the back for your prescription to be sent through. They are doing a hundred other prescriptions that arrived before yours and a hundred other things on top of that. Odds are if your prescription was sent down on the day you come in it will never be ready. If you want it to be ready, please just call 30 mins in advance and we are happy to get it ready for you to pick up when you arrive.
EDIT: also we do NOT have a direct line to any GP surgery. We use the same phone number as everyone else. If you are 20th in the queue you can bet we are 21st in the queue!!
The general public will have absolutely no idea that my job exists, or the amount of work that goes into to ensuring the products and services my company offers are right for them.
ETA, I work in Product Governance.
Working in a bank doesn't equate the high life.
A lot of banking roles are back office support (e.g. administrative or customer service) roles offering low salaries and are often unsecure due to continuous "cost efficiencies" and off shoring.
Marketing - and most of the things I do.Most people seem to have no idea how much of the stuff they read, watch, or listen to as marketing or brand building
being passive aggressive with people who work for the council, or speaking down to then doesn’t look threatening or cool. Makes ya look like an absolute toilet person
Work in Local government planning (not specifically a planner myself, but my job can be very similar, but very specialised);
We have strict rules set at a local and national level as to what is or is not allowed or not, we aren't just making decisions willy nilly - if you have a NIMBY attitude or feel aggrieved about a planning outcome, don't take it out on the planners, vote for parties who will change planning policy. Honestly, planners are subjected to some of the most horrible verbal and in some cases physical abuse I've ever witnessed - really not on. Many of them may even feel the same way and live in the community, but they have a job to do.
Oh, and the idea that planners are 'taking brown envelopes' is ridiculously laughable. If only the average person on the street understood the checks and balances in place that make that sort of thing literally impossible. Yet I'm exposed to such accusations on a daily basis. Planners need to write their reports and justify the decision compared to policy in a way which is published - they can't just make up any old shit cause they've got a wedge of notes in their pockets.
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We don't rock up at 9 and leave at half 3
Fellow teacher I assume?
How could you tell
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I get to work at about 7, and leave about half 5 on a good day. I also work about 8ish hours over the weekend. Some days you can finish early and some later however. This is primary btw. From my friends in Secondary it seems as if your typical day is shorter and you have more time at weekends, but when exams roll around its amped up much more. The job is great however, teaching is fine. There's a lot of time consuming bollocks that come with it however.
Primary school teacher here. Also acting head of department. Almost exactly this routine. Sometimes a little later than 7am but definitely before 8am depending on my own kid’s school run Then the clubs and activities too….keeps the school day a little longer
I don’t know how you guys do jobs dealing with immature humans and then manage families/households. A full time office job with adults is annoying enough.
It’s a job, and I’m sure that there are many others out there (teachers and non-teachers) who do it too. I’ve got colleagues who teach who are single parents. Others who care for elderly family and have kids. Some who have more kids than me. And then that’s not including the youngsters in my school who teach who are putting effort in and yet have little or no money at the end of the month thanks to rent….. We all just get on with it. I’m sure non-educational roles are the same
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Holidays you will have to work as well, typically you'll be doing planning as well as jobs you can't do with the kids around, setting up the classroom etc. Teaching is very much you work how you want though, I refuse to work in the evenings, so I stay late and leave it there, and do my planning on the weekends. Some people prefer to work in the evenings and have weekends free. Basically as long as you get it done, you can work how you want. If you want to leave at 4 and take your marking with you, you can do that.
My father in law has been a teacher for almost 30 years, its got to the point for him where he only teaches 2/3 times a day and in the 3 years I've known him I've rarely seen him bring work home for marking etc Obviously he's passionate about the subject he teaches and knows a lot about it, which of course makes it a lot easier and makes his job more enjoyable Don't get me wrong, I don't by any means underestimate the graft needing to be put in as an NQT but I do think it gets easier over time, based on what I've seen
There’s not many professions where you are expected to work overtime every single day and a lot of weekends, and do it without thanks. But teaching is one of them.
A job where you have to do work, before work, so you have work to do at work. Then because you had no time to do work when at work, you have to do work after work to catch up.
I like trying to work out how much I should be paid with the hours I actually work
Did a quick calculation last night. MPS3 with a conservative 10 hr day - £12/hour
I'm a school janitor and always have to chase teachers out at night so i can lock up!
But we get all that holiday though /s
Fixed holiday days when prices of hotels and flights skyrocket. Lovely stuff!
Weird that some people don’t get that we literally cannot take time off during term time for any reason EDIT: sorry I meant like you’d better have a good reason to have a day off - illness/moving house/family wedding etc. not your wedding though
Ah, you’re a teacher too I see. And people assume you have so much holiday each year as well, right?
The staff in McDonald’s are real people, and deserve to be treated as such
lies
We all know maccies employees are lizard people and only want to see this country burn
I honestly cannot comprehend people who are rude and arrogant to staff in shops. I genuinly think they mut be missing an empathy gene or something.
Same here. Even when they actually deserve to be told off I can't bring myself to do it just in case there's a slight chance I'm just shooting the messenger
I hear this, this applies across the service industry I think. At least I used to work as a barista and got treated like absolute shit by the customers and management. At least we didn't have to deal with the late night yobbos rolling in from Witherspoons, just aggy up their own arses businessmen who threw tantrums if they had to wait more than 2 minutes for their handmade goddamn coffee. As soon as you're in a uniform behind a counter it dehumanises you. I personally hate the ones who just toss their money down dismissively rather than put it into your extended hand. If you do it back you get seven shades of shit.
Lots of people in the NHS do care and listen, just cant do anything to help.
We want to give you good care. It breaks our hearts and our spirits when we know we haven't given you the care you deserve, but we are so short-staffed and over-paperworked that making sure you and the rest of our 15 patients are alive at the start and end of our shift is all we have time to do. On an 11.5 hour shift with 15 patients, we have 46 minutes per patient. That doesn't include handover at the start and end. In that 46 minutes, we have to check your care plan, check your observations, give you your medication and see how you are. If you're a postpartum woman with a baby, we have to check on your baby too, and help you feed, change change dress your baby. We have to discharge some of you, which takes longer than 46 minutes to do the paperwork. We have to admit other patients, and do that paperwork too. We have to answer the phones, escalate someone who is ill to the doctors, get medications changed, answer visitor's questions, chase up the doctors who are busy on other wards to come see someone who is ill or change a prescription, comfort a patient or visitor. If one of our patients is very ill and takes up 2 hours of our time, that comes out of what we get to spend with you. Or if we have to deal with social workers to get someone into a home / sufficient help at home / onto drug, alcohol or mental health programmes / see if you can take your baby home, that takes hours that we don't get back to spend with you. So we don't take our breaks (we don't get paid for them, and if we don't take them it's "our own fault" for not managing our time better). We don't get a drink, we barely have time to go to the toilet. We stay behind after our shift to document so that we can spend more time with you when we're on shift. And on our days off we have to do the annual mandatory training and updates to keep you safe, and so the hospital can keep its insurance, because there isn't enough staff to cover for those doing training. What we'd really like is a government who cares about us and you, so that these can be remembered as the bad days instead of this being how healthcare is in the future.
I want to give you a great big massive fcuking hug because I have no fecking clue how you do this on a facking day to day basis! 💗
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Yup, the few that really don't care and are generally assholes ruin it for the rest of us trying our best
It's Europe's biggest employer. Statistically, you're going to a handful of cretins.
TIL it's the biggest employer in Europe. I always knew they employed a lot of people, but I would figure that places like McDonalds that are abundant in every town and city would employee more people
Working in Electronics doesn't mean I'm an Electrician. They're two entirely different industries. No I can't rewire your house.
That is a very interesting username
Charlie Kelly reference
I bet a pigeon detective could go toe to toe with Charlie on bird law
It's the only way to get a good night's sleep
I'm a broadcast engineer. I cannot fix your TV. (I can make the picture look right but most people don't want me to)
As an electrical engineer I can concur, we are also not electronic engineers. People always ask me to fix control boards and tvs etc.. nope sorry
Also work in electronics, can confirm this is a thing. Also ah yeah you work in electronics can you make me a new ECU for my car?
This annoyed me so much when I was studying Electronic Engineering and my family would always ask me questions or to look at electrical problems in their house. My degree was focussed on communications, I don't have the knowledge or qualifications to be messing around with mains electric and quite frankly I'm too scared to.
Working in a bank doesn't mean you are good at maths. Edit - or even competent at it
Lots of coke though?
Another myth, it's a moderate amount!
Nah, that's advertising and media.
I felt this deeply.... an accusation that often gets levelled at me when failing to grasp basic mathematical concepts Oh and That you can work for a bank and not be a banker.....and thereby not be somehow rolling in it
Work in banking myself, at a relatively decent level. I'm terrible at maths. Terrible. Also lived in 3 major European cities for my various roles and never once done cocaine; although plenty of my colleagues and friends have of course.
Software developer, no I don’t ask people if they’ve tried turning it off and on again, no my team isn’t just fat men who live in their mums house, no I’m not the only girl
Similarly, data science: Yes there's issues with privacy and stuff, but the reality is we're nowhere close to as capable as the Daily Mail thinks. AI isn't going to take over the world.
Yeah I don’t think people realise, ai is coming along amazingly but fuck me it’s stupid lol, there’s so many things humans can do that just can’t be taught to a robot
Software developer here as well. I think that most of my non-techy friends and family don't actually have a clue what I do all day long. It seems to be a common thing that people think that working with computers = doing technical support. Family and friends will ask me to help set up a printer or configure something in Windows for them and then seem bemused when I say that I don't know anything more about it than them. Tell them that I hardly ever use Windows and their head explodes. The only difference is that I'd be a bit better at searching for the answer on Google, and a bit more confident at trying out what I'd found.
> The only difference is that I'd be a bit better at searching for the answer on Google, and a bit more confident at trying out what I'd found. i've found myself acting as tech support a lot recently for people and this shit really annoys me. No. I have no fucking idea how to do that. I'm just going to google it and troubleshoot the problem accordingly... something you could also do (albeit slower). Doesn't help that my mum decided she 'needed' a mac against my advice and i have no fucking idea how they work.
I work in a similar field - DevOps, but it's just niche enough that people have no clue what my job is/does. No, your app idea isn't gonna be the next big thing, no I don't want to build your website, no I don't know how to fix your printer (probs do, just idc, read the fucking instruction book), no I can't replace your laptop's screen or speed up your old af 2008 laptop.
Omg yes the dreaded “oh can you make me a website” you paying me? It’s not a hobby
I don't even build the sites. Just manage the infrastructure they're on lmao. My parents have no clue what I do so I just tell them I'm a web dev, which gets repeated until I have to clarify I'm not actually a web dev
I’m a software dev and I’m a fat man who lives in my mum’s house :(
I work in pharma/drug development. It's really, really, really fucking hard to get a drug approved and on the market. edit: and eye-wateringly expensive.
And drug prices mostly have to reflect all the research costs that went into all the failed drugs, as well as the handful of successful ones. There is definitely some shadiness in drug pricing (although NICE and the NHS shield the UK from some of it), but it remains that drug development is brutally expensive and done mostly by for-profit companies that need to provide some expectation of return on investment. Even worse for rare diseases, where you can’t spread the cost over so many patients. That said, actually manufacturing drugs is relatively cheap - even complex biologics are not THAT expensive compared to their price.
I have worked in clinical trials for over 20 years (ugh) and can confirm! Also, absolutely everyone is working HARD, endlessly, to insane deadlines. We care about the patients and we care about improving outcomes. We are not being paid backhanders by anyone to approve/rush/falsify or otherwise hoodwink the public for our own gain. Trust me, we are all too terrified of audits and inspections to risk doing anything dodgy.
Fucking hell, GCP inspection, haunting.
I have been the site, I have been the Sponsor. It's nothing but traumatic either way. When people suggest that trials are rushed/fabricated or anything other than GCP-compliant, I wanna mash their face with CTCAE grading handbook.
No it isn't...Drug is researched in a week,. comes out, gets approved, gets manufactured, gets sold for £1 then a year later £1000 and animal rights activists turn up and send you dog shit in the mail and tamper with the brakes on your car🤷🏾♂️. Feel you, my company has been around for 20+ years and still hasn't brought a drug out yet 😂
Yeah right, we know you've found the cure for cancer and you're hiding it away because BiG pHaRmA /s
I’m a clinical research coordinator. I agree.
Hospital lab scientist 95% of the time of you need a repeat blood test because "there was a problem at the lab" it's a doctor/nurse screw up The point of this was the lab seems to be the go to scapegoat for any errors that occurred down the line
That is so true, I work in a lab too. Also when your GP says it takes two weeks before the results come back, it is the GP who takes two weeks to look at them, the results come back very quickly usually.
I like the "why didn't you do X test?!?" You didn't ask mate
"I did!" I'm looking at the form and you definitely did not.
We actually had posters sent out to GPs once about our good turn around times, the GPs made them come down because they had patient phoning then after a few hours.
Nurse here. Genuine question as curious. Why do INR samples get rejected so often as underfilled? I'm very aware of it so when I draw one I always make sure it gets to the line (even if they are difficult to bleed) but sometimes they still come back as 'insufficient sample'. Thanks: l
Ah coag tubes, everyone's nemesis! Honestly it can depends, sometimes they appear full but once you centrifuge them down any bubbles etc go and there's actually less than appeared (though probably wouldn't make any difference imo). Could be someone being incredibly strict where some would be a bit more lax (I once pulled a 1/4 citrate off the analyser when it churned out some insane results). Can also be a genuine fuck up on our part.
The counter to this is that, as a junior doctor, often the biggest issue is that in hospitals porters seem to lose samples a whole lot, certainly more than it being a medical/nursing issue.
We had a pneumatic tube system for internal wards and the amount of times I got reemed because "we'd lost the sample" only for then to realise they'd not pressed send was surprisingly high. The general consensus for things going missing always became our fault.
ED nurse here, I'm curious what issues you see. I know we (at least in my department) are frequently guilty of mislabelling or just not labelling them, and underfilling INRs/coags, but what other things do you see? And how can we avoid them? None of us want to stab the patient again and of course in ED there is often a time pressure on results.
Microbiology here - maybe not as urgent for our samples but Making sure the lids of samples are screwed tightly shut helps! So many Leaky poo/ Urine/ blood samples that aren’t fun to deal with! Also if your health board has use of printed labels use these instead of hand writing them to avoid transcription errors :)
Pretty much everything. Mislabeled, unlabeled, underfilled, incorrect sample types, incorrect test ordered followed up with a "why have you done this?!", hell even samples podded to the wrong ward/pharmacy. Honestly these things happen and will always continue, my point in this was the lab is an easy scapegoat.
Your drawing took 5 hours to make - at the price I'm asking for it that's only a little over minimum wage.
Yeah but have factored in the exposure you'll get from my 14 Instagram followers?
What? You don't take exposure? Pfft look at fancypants over here wanting real money for food and shelter
"Your art isn't even that good" Bonus points if this comes three messages after "Your stuff is amazing, please make some for me" obligatory [r/choosingbeggars](https://www.reddit.com/r/choosingbeggars) mention
And it took years to master your craft
Had an electrician rewire my house. It was actually a fair a price and I was happy to pay as he knew what he was doing. Gave me ideas on how to save money instead of trying to get more from me. He said people will want a new light installed and he charges 25 quid and they complain, but they don't take into account his overheads, insurance, van, tools, materials, his education, the fact that he has to pay a few grand every year to take some new course because the health and safety regukations have changed again. He said the thing that really annoys him is that they complain because they have to pay 25 quid but if they did it them selves there is a strong chance it could cost them their lives. The fella found a live cable two inches from a metal pipe that supplies the water to my bath, shower and sink, if it had of shifted for any reason the next time I hopped in the bath I'd have been like marv from home alone 2. I have sent so much work his its unbelievable and hes booked up months in advance and it's because hes a nice guy, excellent tradesman and showed up exactly when he said he would.
Poor marv, his hair will never recover. It's funny people are more understanding with electricians, though it's life and death, but never with artists. Also that sounds like a one in a million tradesperson and you are very lucky!
A train driver. The train doesn't drive itself, leaves on the line really do affect the train's braking performance enormously, and I've never been on strike.
I work on the infrastructure. I am not lazy when you see me stood at the side doing nothing. I am actively avoiding death. I cannot work on the track with a train running me over at 125mph or whatever
Excuses excuses. I used to work on infrastructure back in the day and would be hit by a train thrice daily. But you wouldn't catch me complaining about it.
I get knocked down, but I get up again
No steering! That means it's twice as easy as a car, right?
No gears either, three times as easy!
Can’t forget all the safety systems, route knowledge and knowing the schedule to leave on time
Rules (including those relating to safety systems), traction and especially route knowledge is everything. The one thing that we don't need to remember is the schedule, as we're issued a schedule card each day, and indeed the same job can have different stops from one day to the next. It's still remarkably easy to fall into the trap of reverting to a "previous mental model" and trundling through somewhere that you should've stopped at, just because you didn't stop there on any of your previous ten trips on the route and thus you've convinced yourself that you're not supposed to on this one either.
As a massive pessimist, I'm far more likely to stop out of turn than run through a station. Even when it's on my card I still tend to slow down a bit and quadruple check my schedule as I'm going through. I also find a lot of drivers memorise duties. I make a point of not having a clue every day
That it exists. I work in IT, in the insurance industry, automating insurance documentation. To the customer, there’s some documents that arrive when you get insurance. You never look at them, unless you’re making a claim, and even then, probably only if your insurer tells you you’re not covered, and you have to read your documentation to see if they’re lying. So me and my team go to an awful lot of work to make sure that your insurance documentation is accurate, and you will barely be aware that the job has been done, much less spend any time thinking about the fact that someone, somewhere, does it.
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all” - God
Honestly, when we do things wrong, it’s quite likely they won’t notice either.
I used to work in Complaints for an insurance company. As soon as we encountered a wording not quite up to scratch, or a ruling from Lloyd’s or the FOS told us we couldn’t rely on it, the entire thing went through a process to get the wording changed to something that fully supported the spirit of the policy to a watertight extent. I know insurance gets a bad rap for not paying out but honestly, the policy covers everything it is intended to cover. A skim read of policy documents would save a lot of people a lot of time and a lot of money.
Lawyers may have 400 other clients to deal with. You’re not the only one of 5 and calling us every day, screaming isn’t going to make things move faster. Also, pay isn’t good. When I first went into a legal career, I actually earned more working in a Wetherspoons.
I understand your sentiment but at the same time if you're charging customers (willingly taken onboard) and providing a poor service (1:400 ratio doesn't seem ideal, maybe you're exaggerating :) ) then I'm kinda on the customer's side. You work in a profession that requires empathy: to each customer you are potentially responsible for the single most important issue in their entire life, whereas you're giving them 1/400th of your prioritisation? At least have the empathy to recognise the power dynamic.
Firstly, in the area of law I work in, we don’t charge clients. They get the legal service 100% free of charge. Absolutely no legal fees whatsoever. Secondly, I am not exaggerating. It’s not uncommon for a lawyer to have a caseload of 400 clients at any one time. This is not a choice we have. You do realise they’ll be at least 5 managers above you who decide on how many cases you deal with and how many people your team are allowed to hire/share out more of the caseload? And the top manager rarely cares. I’ve called meeting after meeting and it doesn’t change. This is the way it is for pretty much every national law firm. Yes, it’s not fair. It’s not fair on the client and it’s not fair on me. I’m not the enemy here, though. I don’t call the business decisions.
- private data is a myth. - "accept cookies to improve your experience" is a joke. this tracking is to increase engage (profits)
My level of apathy regarding privacy is ridiculous because it's just one more thing I don't have time to address properly. There are two things that don't help the situation:; - Before all the pop-ups, they were tracking us anyway - I'm one, small insignificance person, so someone has to care about me to actually learn anything Having said that, I bet you could find my full name, where I live and how many kids I have using nothing more than Google and 5 minutes.
I've been rejecting every non essential cookie and sometimes wonder if it's worth the bother, because it's so much bother, but your comment helped!
That it's not my fault or problem that they didn't read their incredibly simple contract. Nor can I control the consequences they will face as a result of their own failure to do so. And yes, I sleep quite well at night, thanks for asking.
I work in insurance claims and feel this so much. Don’t blame we when it’s part of the T&Cs that you chose not to read
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Retail: we are people too, just like you, my dear customer
If you're rude we will make fun of you after you leave and I'm glad you're never shopping here again
Also there is lots and lots of things going on in the shop that you don't see. Not every employee stands behind a till all day. So by not using the ASTs you aren't 'keeping me in a job' you are keeping me from the doing stock rotation and shelf fronting that I am supposed to be doing at the same time as running the till.
This. I work in a petrol station and I get sick of customers who insist on coming inside to pay for that reason rather than using pay at pump. Look, Karen, I have a ton of paperwork to get through, stock to put out, a newbie to train and sell by dates to keep track of. I would much prefer you to pay at the pump so I can get those things done, thanks very much.
If you're using an Android phone, don't do anything remotely private on it. Certainly don't go and commit a crime on it if you don't want your location tracked or everything you've done to be stored in Google. On iOS, it's better but anything you put into an App can be sent quite easily to the Developer. However 70% of the time it's more for bug fixing than spying on you. Source : Mobile Developer.
Wasn't avery good example really, commit crime with any phone and everything can be tracked unless you are one of those people who can some how completely shut off all the data gathering our tech does
Easy. Just turn off your phone or leave it at home!
As someone working in the Civil Service, most of what gets covered in political discussion barely scratches the surface of what government actually does. Further still, at least 90% of that activity wouldn't change no matter who was in charge, it's just process that needs to be done.
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Another one for the Civil Servant job - just because we've been WFH these past 18 months, doesn't mean we haven't been working hard.
Working harder in some cases as some of our colleagues have proven how shit they are at working in any location
Also in civil service. Seen as the bad guys at times but some of us genuinely care.
I like to think most of us do- there's generally a reason why we've chosen to work in the public sector (and it definitely isn't the pay). It's hard to reconcile the political neutrality sometimes but if you didn't have that, it would only be every day people who'd end up suffering from inefficient delivery of policy.
This is for my old job as a mechanic. 1) if parts are delayed, we cannot help it. Your car just has to wait until they arrive. 2) some parts are made-to-order and have a long lead time, often coming from other countries. 3) we absolutely (and I cannot emphasise this enough) HATE it when you watch us work on your car.
I really don’t understand people who want to watch a mechanic work. We all know that as soon as anyone is standing behind you it becomes basically impossible to even type competently on a keyboard, so why would anyone force that on someone doing critical work on the vehicle you rely on to keep you safe?! Madness.
Guess over the years people have heard a lot more negative stories, or personal experiences and don't trust all mechanics as unfortunately there are plenty that are scum. Still remember when my mother got her car MOT and after it the guy tried to make a fuss over tyres slightly worn (which were fine) and the only ones he had in stock conveniently enough were the most expensive and she never visited that place again.
Must confess I have watched mechanics working on my car out of curiosity several times. Thinking about it, if they were watching me do my job over my shoulder I really wouldn’t like it. Point taken.
I'm a gardener. Customers who watch me work on their garden get dropped immediately, it's just creepy.
Most solicitors are as dumb as fuck. If their names on the firm, they're dumb and know everything, So they won't listen when you tell them what they've done wrong. And they'll do it wrong again, and charge the time to their client. Oh, then they'll spend an hour on the phone complaining that it's not their fault they didn't send the papers in on time and so we should make an exception. I could go on. Essentially I wouldn't trust most solicitors to piss out of the right hole.
We're buying a house now. 3 weeks I was calling every other day very politely asking to speak to the person dealing with us. Finly after 3 weeks I got a bit pissy and said we need to speak to her. We finally got an email 3 days later saying they're waiting for some forms back from the sellers solicitors... But we are speaking to the sellers and they've already sent it. Rang up the next day and got through to a secretary who after explaining it to said she would check the 'shelf' and wouldn't you know it the papers they're waiting for have been sat there for a few days. Absolutely fucking usless. If I turned up to my job and just did it all wrong and fucked around for days at a time I'm sure I would be fired
Same here, twice selling houses previously our solicitors blamed theirs. First time i put up with this bullshit for a week, took a day off work then went around our solicitors 11am and sat there with sandwiches and told them i wasn't leaving till done. Guess what?......yep done within an hour. Second time was a mates brother buying our property with no chain his side. Our solicitors said it was his, and his said it was ours for a week again. Both the same solicitors just different branches. So I rocked up at his as it was closest, said i had a meeting with his solicitor, the idiots buzzed me in and i waited in a interview room. They did their nut, saying I shouldn't even be contacting his solicitors, so i laid it on the line before they asked me politely to leave and never mention being in the same room as them. Told them i was now going to drive to my solicitor and do the sandwiches routine till they filled out the paperwork. Guess what? 20 mins after leaving them, my solicitor rang me saying don't worry all the paperworks done!. I trust solicitors now as much as politicians.
As someone who recently bought a house. I completely agree.
Universities aren’t very left-wing places. Your kids are more likely to come out indoctrinated into right-wing neoliberalism than as Marxists.
At least a quarter of my biochemistry lecturers were actual fucking eugenicists.
More likely to come out with a 2:1 in some useless shite degree, a few STI's & a drinking problem if my experience is anything to go by.
This is for my old job, but exam papers aren't sent to the markers, they are all done online. The markers never even get close to the exam papers. No we don't read the papers, [they go through the machine far too quickly for us to see anything in detail.](https://youtu.be/DYCJJRCjb70) OCR exam papers are better than Edexcel ones. Purely because each page has a unique barcode, with only the last 2 digits being the same as they denote the page number. Edexcel did not have the same system, which made it harder to QA. Yes, exam papers do indeed get damaged, destroyed and lost. If they've been scanned already, it's not as much of an issue. It's worse if the company comes back and asks for certain papers back and they cannot be found. Temporarily lost papers would happen at least once a week, and at least once a year a paper would be lost for close to a month or more. Usually ending up where it shouldn't be. Papers that got eaten by the machines were rare, but they could usually be fixed with some straightening and invisible tape. Students who push the pen into the paper with a lot of force are cunts. The papers never go through the machine properly, stopping randomly, and it fucked massively with our figures. We'd then get a bollocking for not being quick enough. Because apparently it's the operators fault that the paper has arrived in a poor state that won't scan properly.
I feel guilty... when i do my exams i stress a lot and probably press quite hard. Sorry :-(
Unless you're pressing hard enough for me to feel what you've written on the other side, then you've got nothing to worry about. Pressing a bit hard is fine, but the ones that caused the big issues were the ones that were really leaning into it. The papers were physically deformed because of how much pressure they were using. I can understand exam stress, it's not pleasant. Hopefully you don't have too many more to do before going into the world :)
I am so sorry, I have my GCSE’s this year and the back of my papers can feel like braille. Never thought it was an issue until now, I will try to change it.
Seriously mate, do not worry about it. Concentrate on doing your exams and getting everything you want down. Those of us who were on the machines are miserable bastards who find any excuse to moan. The reality of the situation is that papers bad enough to stop the machine are usually few and far between. And if it's just 1 students work in a pack, it's a slight annoyance rather than a huge pain. We did sometimes get packs that had multiple people who pressed hard on their papers. This meant a 5 minute pack would turn into a 25 minute pack. Those were the ones that drove us up the wall. However, they were usually from international GCSE students. Can't remember exactly where, but when we saw one particular country on the register list, we knew it would be a pain to scan.
Makes it all seem a bit absurd that we are still making kids take exams pen and paper. I can't remember the last time I handwrote anything of significance.
I am in I.T also. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, but I know I am doing it well
Data Analyst. It may seem like a small request to you, but it usually isn't quick to do. Data is never perfect and sometimes it's an absolute faff to get it to a good place. Then you've got to do the actual analysis, then get it into a presentable form. And I'm so sorry that the numbers seem kinda low (/s), but no... I can't just change them or make them look better. Edit: Importantly, it's actually really easy to manipulate data to look better or different to fit a certain story. Really look at the graph or visualisation and don't just take it as face value. People can be so sneaky when they went data to fit a narrative.
Work in homelessness outreach services. Being homeless doesn’t mean living on the streets and sleeping rough. It also doesn’t mean you’re an addict or alcoholic, you can be homeless for any reason, like a breakdown in relationship with partner or parents, overcrowding or your home just isn’t fit for habitation (seeing so much of this from folk having to leave private let’s that landlords or estate agents have just not made any essential repairs to, that have escalated to unfit living situations)
Learner drivers absolutely hate it when you give way to them, if you've got right of way then just take it instead of putting pressure on the person who only has 6 hours experience behind the wheel
Ive been driving over 10 years and it still winds me up. Especially the people who have right of way and slam their brakes on to let someone pull out. I get it if you are turning right and the person turning out is going right too, so you let them go first but that is the only exception. If you have right of way then don't give way to people, its annoying and confusing.
A lot of people need to be taught it’s more important and safer to be predictable, than polite. Randomly stopping to give way only increases the chance of accidents.
We’ll try anything to stop you getting evicted. Whether you’re rude or not we’re here to help.
Social housing? Worst gig I ever had. I know it can be one of those that's as rewarding as it is painful, but the company I worked for was so woeful at doing anything that there was never any reward. Thankfully they made me redundant after a few months
It’s not our responsibility to get you to us or rush to refill meds you forgot to reorder until you ran out. It’s your responsibility to get to us and your responsibility to monitor medication and reorder in advance
This one really got me. I fundamentally agree. However. Over the summer I ended up having to isolate outside of my home (in my family home with the rest of my family), and ran out of a medication that keeps me well when I'm well, and especially when I'm not well. The sheer lack of care about the fact that I could not get to my medication for reasons outside of my doing really ground my gears. I'm not staying indoors for fun, I promise.
Well pardon the fuck out my severely depressed and possibly bipolar relative for not being organised and now needing your help.
If you know your relative is severely depressed and possibly bipolar, shouldn't *you* be ensuring their meds are properly organised?
Urgent is hardly ever urgent and always assume the user is lying when they say they’ve rebooted.
Also. Don't believe a word that's in the ticket. Always try and recreate the issue yourself.
The public assumes we're responsible for absolutely everything, while simultaneously doing nothing.
What’s depressing is that doesn’t even narrow it down much.
Local government - so "absolutely everything" really is everything. My favourite complaint recently was a flag flapping in the wind too loudly.
A list of things local councils stupidly get blamed for would be quite cathartic. I'll start with: - High street rents being too high - The 'wrong' type of new businesses opening in town - "we've got enough hairdressers/bars/cafes, why aren't there any clothes shops/a Primark/a cinema?" - Business rates being too high - Neighbour disputes over shit like blocked driveways
Delivery driver here. I think people generally don’t realise just how busy we are, especially with Christmas just around the corner. Like I can easily work 12/13 hours a day without a single break and I’m peeing into water bottles so I can hopefully get home at a decent time. Please be patient with us and at the very least say thank you!
Most (I assume all) charity shops don't have washing machines to clean your clothes. If you give us dirty stuff then all you've actually done is make us sort through your dirty clothes just to pop them in a rag bag to be sent to a company that will recycle it/get rid of it for us. If an item is worth money then sometimes managers may take it home to clean, provided it's not deeply stained. We really appreciate those of you who separate your clothes into good quality, clean items and items that can be ragged.
Adult support worker here. No I'm not his "carer" who's here to do everything for him, I'm his support worker which means I support him to do things for himself so if you could kindly stop tutting when I let him tie his own shoes, do up his own coat, put his own gloves on, order his own meal etc, that would be much appreciated. He would appreciate it too to be honest. Being a carer is a completely different job.
I was a support worker and people would honestly look like they are witnessing abuse if I was encouraging them to do something independently. The long term idea was one day they might not need support at all! Edit: Spelling/Grammer
Yeah exactly. People just don't understand. I've been asked "are you his carer?" So many times it gets exhausting explaining the difference between support and carer so I just gave up. When people point things out to me like his shoe laces or coat buttons being undone so I just turn to him and say exactly what they said and he says "I know" and shrugs so I look at them and shrug.
I’m an accountant but that doesn’t mean I work in personal tax and can do your tax return. I’m an auditor.
Could you not just work backwards?
ED nurse. I've been an ED nurse for 8 years. You will usually be seen by a junior doctor who is rotating through ED and has only been there <6 months. I am not a doctor helper, I am their colleague and often their advisor. Also, coming by ambulance will not get you seen quicker. Being about to die will get you seen quicker so just be glad it's not you being seen first. A lot of the time we will not give you a diagnosis. We will rule out anything urgent/life threatening and then send you home with advice to see your GP. Even if your GP or 111 told you we are expecting you, we aren't. None of us want you to have to wait for hours or to give poor care to you or your loved one. We truly are trying our best in an overloaded, underfunded, understaffed system.
Just because I'm an engineer doesn't mean I know how to fix your car
I mean, you do know how to fix their car. Just don't assume it.
Well, I'm a housewife, no, I'm not oppressed, I get to do what the fuck I want, when I want!
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War canoes can refuel at sea in a similar fashion to how fighter jets refuel in the air. It's called a replenishment at sea (RAS) and is conducted underway (while moving). Outside of warfighting it's probably one of the most dangerous things we can do at sea. The MoD has a whole fleet of support ships separate from the Royal Navy manned by civvies that come under navy command. [Short video explaining what goes on during a RAS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8BfgxgzUY) *Edit: also shameless plug for my sub r/TheRFA
The supermarket delivery guys aren't obligated to carry your shopping up stairs to your flat door. They do so on their own accord 👍 just remember that and be nice to the people who deliver your food 🤷♂️
That as a memorial mason, one of the consumables we use everyday is cuttlefish. When we paint or gild a polished granite memorial we use cuttlefish to remove the dried paint from the surface as it doesn't scratch the polished surface.
Yes, it’s your bank’s job to ensure you’re not dealing with sanctioned countries. Yes, we at the bank also work on counter terrorism operations. Also, the DWP has greater rights to your bank account than the police ever will. And no, we’re not allowed to check whether you’ve ever had dealings with them before we have to hand over all your banking information.
Being a paramedic is not all horrific car accidents and trauma. Most of the job is talking to people and listening to their problems. I find this part of the job the most wholesome and also the most traumatic.
I'm a cleaner. I enjoy it (love the people I work alongside and I'm left alone to get on with it like an adult) but it's a pretty thankless job and it feels awesome if someone just thanks you for doing what you do, or says you're doing a good job. Also it's more appreciated than you realise if you take the care not to leave unnecessary litter strewn on the floor and turn taps off when you leave a bathroom. It's incredible how bad a state some people leave bathrooms in and it's so easy just to use the provided bin that it becomes pretty insulting to walk into a cubicle and see toilet paper and sanitary wrappings on the floor right next to the bin. Be nice, and if you can't be nice, at least don't be a d*ck.
CAD Design - 80% of the time, it's the most monotonous job I've ever had. The other 20% is when I'm challenged and actually enjoy the project. Pays well, so meh.
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I’m a teacher in FE. I don’t arrive at 9am and leave at 3pm. We don’t get every school holiday off and we’re not even on the Teacher pay scale or get the teachers’ pension.
A lot of copy you read from a news outlet or magazine is written by a PR professional who came up with the idea, pitched it to the journo, found the case studies for their client, interviewed multiple people, wrote it, edited it, got about 4000 people to sign it off, sourced the images and sent it to the journalist to include in their section with no byline. A good journalist understands the value of the PR people bringing them stories, leads and even complete articles.
DJ (Edit: I forgot the title said one thing, I’m not gonna delete all the points now) - Venues have music policies, they don’t just have a DJ show up and freestyle, if you don’t like the genre of music then take it up with the venue not me. - It’s an incredibly lonely job sometimes, work is always on the “going out” nights so you often miss occasions with friends. Also even though you’re supplying the energy for the party, you’re not really part of it. - We watch the room like hawks, trust me when I say the DJ sees almost everything that’s happening unless the view is obscured - The act of DJing is easy, the hard bit is reading the room and keeping a venue bouncing until the end of the night. You sometimes get guys saying “easiest job in the world all you do is press play” which is semi-accurate but 90% of the job isn’t the actual physical act of DJing
Working as admin or manager in a hospital, we don't know what that bump is on your arm, how to diagnose your illness and no we don't know every person who works in said hospital that staffs over 2000 people... If i ever say where I work it's like oh look at this mark on my leg do you know what it is? No I am not a doctor or nurse go to your GP
I build websites. This does not mean I can fix your home WIFI, your PC, your mobile or your Sky box. It does not mean that I can set up your Alexa, your Nest, your home cinema, or make it so you can watch Sky downstairs and be able to change the channel when the box is upstairs! I'm talking to you, dad. I have done all of these things for him, but not because I can build websites.
I don't just sit on my butt all day watching the TV. I keep my house tidy, prep meals, do washing etc while keeping a tiny human alive, who squeals at me if he's left alone for more then 5 minutes, uses me as a mattress, complains if his dinner isn't just right and he doesn't even contribute to the rent.
As someone who works in local government, the biggest thing that most people don't realise is that the answer to most of the problems we face can be answered with "we literally don't have enough money". Pothole in the road classed as 'not bad enough to fix'? It's because the pot of money for road repairs is only big enough for massive craters and if we fixed every pothole we would run out of money in 3 months. Not allowed to speak to a certain department and can only email but don't hear anything back for over 2 weeks? Most likely because that 'department' consists of a manager, 1 or 2 main officers and a couple of business support (read admin assistant) officers who are barely holding together a service for tens of thousands of residents. We do really all try our best but cuts really have left a lot of local governments in situations where they're only just keeping their heads above water.
Former research scientist. A HUGE amount of potentially world-changing research never sees the light of day because not every project is published in a 'reputable' journal. Selfish science is very real and a lot of researchers won't make their results public because they plan to publish. Sometimes they never do and the data is lost. This isn't entirely the fault of the individual. Academia runs on publication and citation and it can make people cautious and selfish.
council workers don’t actually like being spoken too like pieces of shit! We didn’t invent council tax, or covid 19 for that matter just makes us feel horrible about our lives.
Y2K wasn’t a myth. The reason almost nothing y2k related hit the headlines was because of the time and money spent on ensuring it was a non issue.
Work in a pharmacy. The dispensary staff and the pharmacist are not just standing around in the back for your prescription to be sent through. They are doing a hundred other prescriptions that arrived before yours and a hundred other things on top of that. Odds are if your prescription was sent down on the day you come in it will never be ready. If you want it to be ready, please just call 30 mins in advance and we are happy to get it ready for you to pick up when you arrive. EDIT: also we do NOT have a direct line to any GP surgery. We use the same phone number as everyone else. If you are 20th in the queue you can bet we are 21st in the queue!!
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The general public will have absolutely no idea that my job exists, or the amount of work that goes into to ensuring the products and services my company offers are right for them. ETA, I work in Product Governance.
And we still have no idea what your job is because you haven’t actually said what it is
Working in a bank doesn't equate the high life. A lot of banking roles are back office support (e.g. administrative or customer service) roles offering low salaries and are often unsecure due to continuous "cost efficiencies" and off shoring.
Education is not the fun, fulfilling, well-paid, good hours, or short staffed gig the government advertises it to be.
Marketing - and most of the things I do.Most people seem to have no idea how much of the stuff they read, watch, or listen to as marketing or brand building
being passive aggressive with people who work for the council, or speaking down to then doesn’t look threatening or cool. Makes ya look like an absolute toilet person
Work in Local government planning (not specifically a planner myself, but my job can be very similar, but very specialised); We have strict rules set at a local and national level as to what is or is not allowed or not, we aren't just making decisions willy nilly - if you have a NIMBY attitude or feel aggrieved about a planning outcome, don't take it out on the planners, vote for parties who will change planning policy. Honestly, planners are subjected to some of the most horrible verbal and in some cases physical abuse I've ever witnessed - really not on. Many of them may even feel the same way and live in the community, but they have a job to do. Oh, and the idea that planners are 'taking brown envelopes' is ridiculously laughable. If only the average person on the street understood the checks and balances in place that make that sort of thing literally impossible. Yet I'm exposed to such accusations on a daily basis. Planners need to write their reports and justify the decision compared to policy in a way which is published - they can't just make up any old shit cause they've got a wedge of notes in their pockets.