No saying politicians please
Scammer. People don’t think it’s a “profession” in the true sense but it absolutely is. Majority of higher up people in scam call centers or phishing campaigns do it as their day job and they certainly make more money than the average honest worker putting in the same amount of effort.
Disability lawyers. Don’t get me wrong, there are good ones. But I see so many that make people do everything themselves, help exactly zero with anything after the initial application, and they take a cut of the proceeds if people’s applications are approved. They do something allegedly if the case is escalated up to a judge, but many of them that I’ve dealt with seem incompetent at best and predatory at worst.
Marketing consultants
Imperial stenographers
Law enforcement, military, defense contractors, Ad people, Mainstream economists and the obvious that follow from those such as so and so at policy institute of so and so.
I’m gonna suggest two:
- anyone at all who works at ICE
- anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity
SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s proven to do is cause paralysis.
In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)
I miss James Randi…
Have you followed Captain Disillusion by any chance? Similar vibe.
Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that’s not what they are paid big bucks for.
Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in buying. There’s no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.
Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money
I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent… I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes… Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.
Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen… Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I’ve run into can be silenced.
It’s unforgivable they’ve jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you’re already paying for…
keep an awl in the car… poke the speaker .
or, get some 3.5mm male ends and stick it into the headphone port for the bild folks. does it screw the blind/visually impaired from getting gas? sure…but it’s an unfortunate side effect to saving all our ears. I wouldn’t mind if I was blind, I’d just ask the attendant for assistance in pumping.
Is there a statistically significant population of blind people pumping gas? If you struggle to pump gas unassisted, I’m honestly not sure how you would safely operate a vehicle.
If you’re legally blind you cannot get a drivers license. And it doesn’t take much to be legally blind.
That used to work but no longer does on a lot in my area. Stuffing recipts in the speaker holes could help if you know what I mean
I have yet to run into any gas pumps with video ads personally, but this seems like a great way to drive EV adoption
As if they’d not eventually show ads aswell since charging times are even longer…
I miss ads from the 60s-80s that were just a info-dump on the product with very little hype. You actually got to learn about what they were trying to sell you instead of a bunch of bullshit and a logo at the end.
Some ads I saw last year didn’t even talk about the product, I had no clue what they were selling, other than a quirky relationship video
Not mentioned yet, people working at real estate agencies (at least for renting). They take a lot of money from both sides and at best just unlock the houses so people can see them, at worst they are actively disruptive to the process.
Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.
I always see people online answering lawyers to this question but after thinking about it I don’t really understand why. Sure they might represent some horrible people but in the end they are just there to make someone gets due process.
I may have a theory but put your tin foil hats on
Maybe it’s a psyops from the prosecutors trying to discredit lawyers because they are making their jobs more difficult
I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.
I’m also a “fuck cars” adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people’s personal property at the behest of capital.
Whatever people with MBA’s do.
No one on earth hates MBAs enough
I still never remember what the fuck MBA stands for without looking it up, I can only think “Master Bachelor Associate” because I feel they’re that pretentious; but, I know that’s incorrect.
Master of business administration.
Potentially unpopular response: engineers! I respect the knowledge and intellect, and I do not respect the deficits in curiosity and emotional intelligence. The engineers I know (some of whom I love) tend to be experts on the things they do know, but they don’t know what they don’t know.
As an engineer, I can understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, it’s a field that attracts a lot of smart and socially awkward people. Those whose heads enjoy engineering challenges often lack self awareness, and it results in either being really awkward or being obnoxious, or both. The “good ones” are less loud, so you don’t hear from them as much.
I love engineers <3
Software engineers though tend toward tech bro. But on the other hand there are Really Amazing SWEs that again just aren’t that loud or annoying so you gotta be patient or lucky to meet them.
If you walk into someone’s home and it’s full of the latest and greatest tech, that’s a tech enthusiast. If you walk in and the most advanced piece of tech is a printer from 2005, that might be a senior software engineer.
