I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
Landlords. Do I think it’s terrible for some nice old person to rent their basement to students for a good price for a bit of income in retirement? No. But corporate landlords and people hoarding housing can fuck off.
Ctrl + F Landlord
Yall disappoint me.
Landlord is an occupation? Not familiar with any labor they do
Do you have any idea how hard it is to sit on your ass until the end of the month and then carry all those checks to the bank and sign them all? Think of the poor landlords and their signing hands! 😢
It did use to be when rent was low and tenants had stronger rights. When things broke, you’d have to fix it yourself or hire someone to do it. When a tenant was making everyone else in the building feel unsafe it was up to you to drag them out.
When rent went up and tenants rights were thrown out of the window, it became easy street. You hire someone to take care of it all, and sip your coffee in the morning.
It genuinely used to be a high risk, low reward venture. The shortage of housing skyrocketed it into an occupation for rich dullards to sit on their ass all day.
Landlord isn’t an occupation, any more than ‘white collar criminal’
There’s another comment that mentioned a landlord that was published exactly 30 seconds before yours. :P
(Please keep in mind that I’m just teasing you. Obviously, there’s no way you could have known.)
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I’m staying in a city temporarily for about 6 months, whers would I live if I couldn’t rent?
The lack of a land lord does not mean the house disappeared off the planet.
Yes but I’m not going to buy a house for 6 months just to sell it, it’s not very feasible.
The lack of a landlord also does not prevent you from temporarily using open housing either.
Wdym?
Imagine a world where housing was given on a per-need basis. People still need to travel for work and stay for months at a time, except it’s understood that the job getting done is more important than a landlord profiting off the fact you have to travel for it.
Who maintains such supply of houses, who pays for it, who would own it, who would carry out repair works as and when they are needed.
Hotels used to be the standard temporary housing.
Wall Street. Shorts, bulls, bears, options, it is all euphemisms for gambling and everyone else suffers for it.
Literally anyone who works in health insurance.
Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.
I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.
It’s not a good look.
I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.
I googled big iron. I still don’t understand what you two are talking about, don’t blame me.
Big iron means a mainframe. The Ferrari of servers.
Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.
Like I said, I help design them. I’m interested to know why you think that. You work with them? How old are the ones you work with?
Thank you!
Big iron on his hip
What is “big iron”?
Mainframe computers
Thanks.
Found Texas Red.
What’s texas red?
Big Iron is a song by Marty Robbins, about a criminal named Texas Red, who wore a big iron on his hip.
Ha! That went right over my head. Thanks for explaining.
I’m not sure I do, but one thing I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is consumer psychologists. I once read an argument that they could be improving people’s mental health, instead they are working on manipulating people into buying more.
Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.
Naturopaths.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I’ve seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.
Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there’s crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.
Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We’re talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.
Let’s throw our morals away and sell homeopathic meals. Like “this is a cheeseburger diluted 10c” and slap a picture of a burger on a water bottle.
I’d say landlords but it doesn’t count as an occupation
Telemarketers
“Influencers”
infuencers are just rebranded shills
What gets me is how transparent the term is, and people still act like its a good thing.
This. They were the first thing I thought of when thinking of useless.
I have ad-blockers to filter out crap. Now I need influence-blockers.
Chiropractors. It’s pseudoscience. Maybe it’s not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it’s backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client’s appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.
Hedge Funds and Short Sellers.
Israel
Gas-filler. There’s a couple states in the US where you aren’t allowed to pump your own gas, someone else has to do it for you, and you’re expected to then tip them.
The job is essentially getting me to pay to be inconvenienced. I’d prefer to pay to let me pump my own gas.
Oregon let’s you pump your own gas now, so it’s just New Jersey afaik
The first time I crossed the border into Oregon years ago and started pumping my own gas, the attendant came out shouting “Hey! What are you doing?” As someone that had never heard of this law in either state, I was about as confused as you could possibly be, because this obviously seemed like a trick question.
Just reinforces my belief that America is a bunch of weird different countries smashed together under a bastard flag.
Those people deserve a tip, alright. The tip of my middle finger. Pouring fossil fuels into people’s cars is evil.
Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs…in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.
I had similar experiences. It’s like there’s a small but noticeable subset of the population that wants to pin “drug user” on any person they meet and think is weird. Meanwhile, actual drug users are everywhere and mostly manage to act normal.
The number of times I’ve been told I’m high just because I have a schizospectrum disorder is too damn high.
Maybe not unique in my opposition…but…
CEOs. (Especially of large companies)
They rarely know what they’re doing, are guessing 90% of the time, bandwagon anything they think will make them more money or notoriety, and get paid exorbitant amounts of money doing nearly nothing to actually earn it.
