I’m not asking about the worst job. I’m asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.

    • Venicon@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 days ago

      Lots of family and friends still in the service and doing as good a job as they can but for each good one there is no doubt an asshole.

      But I can’t speak for cops in other countries, only experience in Scotland.

      It was seeing how awful humans are to each other that really sold it for me, I’d rather live in my bubble, thanks.

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
        71·
        9 days ago

        Cops who quit because their job is horrible are the only ones who I might consider a good cop.

        It’s the ones who relish their power and corruption which I worry the most about.

        • Alk@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          9 days ago

          This is why I hate ACAB. The time it could take for a random good person to realize not only is their profession infested with evil, but then also find a new job and quit, is substantial enough that combined with the churn rate and number of cops, I may be calling millions of good people bastards for no good reason, which may actually make those people tend to disagree with me and my ideas that the police system itself is corrupt. They know they aren’t a bastard and from their perspective I’m just insulting them mindlessly. Someone insulting you for no reason can’t be that wise of a person, or have that good of an argument, they might think.

          The system is corrupt. Many of the people are fine. Stop name calling people you’ve never met like children. Lower police funding. Demilitarize them. Restrict their powers. Investigate them more. Make punishments more strict for those with any power at all. But don’t call random people you’ve never met or even heard about bastards.