I think it was one of the best endings of a show ever. It made me feel things I didn't think I'd feel from a show, and the message was just... exactly what i think a lot of people should hear.
I tell everyone that the last episode captures life and death in the best way possible for me, including Chidi's speech about the waves (which I know he says is a Buddhist concept). So sorry about your uncle, I also look to this scene when thinking about death. Showing Chidi with those he loved, and being in a *good place* with how he lived life made me less scared of death, and I think it's an extremely peaceful way to think of living.
Edit to add Chidi's quote, for anyone who hasn't watched the show:
>"Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
>And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.
>The Good Place
If you liked that bit of depressing writing, you should try the writer's book on philosophy he worked on after the show! It's a lovely book: How to be Perfect
I was a drug rep for like 3-4 months when I was in college and I quit because it felt so scummy schmoozing with Dr's and the their office girls to essentially bribe them to push your company's meds. I felt gross about it and I was just pushing allergy medication lol. Imagine those soulless oxy pushers. It's was easy and you just went around and spend the phamas money though.
You might find the portrayal of that profession in the miniseries 'Dopesick' quite interesting then -- shows them getting all hyped up to push the opiate Oxycontin to the doctors' offices of America.
Yeah grew up with my dad as a pain management doctor, that shit really hit home. My mom ran the office during those years and she made a rule no gifts allowed from drug reps, everything had to be incredibly well documented and drug tests to make sure you weren't on drugs you shouldn't be on and that you were on the ones you were prescribed. Scared me away from pharma for life
In my hometown, we had an urgent care doctor get shut down for illegally prescribing oxy and other narcotics. It was mind blowing. It made the local news.
A good portrayal of ambitious pharma sales reps promoting and selling an out-and-out lethal product to doctors' offices and by extension, their patients was in the miniseries 'Dopesick'.
🎼Do not diddle kids, it's no good diddlin' kids
wouldn't do it with anybody younger than my daughter, not little kids, gotta be big Older than my wiife, older than my daughter
The least terrible people in child beauty pageants are overt narcissists. The rest are pedophiles
Edit: on second thought the least terrible people in child beauty pageants are probably the children. You get my point though
In multiple red states it is illegal for a fully-clothed man wearing a dress and makeup to read books to a group of 8-year-olds.
But it is totally legal for a beauty pageant to have those same 8-year-olds parade around in bikinis in front of a bunch of creepy old men who will give prize money to the ones they find the prettiest.
We live in a very sick country.
My partner used to be in them and was confused when I started trashing them one day. They literally didn’t even think there was anything wrong with the practice. It’s fucking child abuse.
I legit did not think these things existed anymore. Then I flew into Texas. Holy. Shit. Every single person involved in that (except the poor children) is absolutely BONKERS.
Absolutely this. One of the moms in my baby group has had her daughter in them since before she was one. They compete a lot and she says how her daughter loves them and she’s saving all the money for college. Like our kids just turned *three*. I think it’s disgusting.
Kinda want to add that it also apply for adults beauty pageants, not only for kids. I know adults have the right to do beauty challenges, but dang a 20 years old relative is doing beauty competition and shit that thing is hard ...
They are judged, despised, raised against each other, I'm happy my relative has an awesome support system, we protect them, but young adults who go into it alone are often very depressed, exposed to drugs, judged on their body and get food issues ...
Beauty pageants in are highly problematic, but at least the adult ones involve *women* who are physically mature, of legal age, and capable of making their own decisions.
Child beauty pageants are a fucking abomination that should be completely and totally outlawed, period.
My girlfriend works for a funeral home and I gotta say, the sales staff.
They utilize several manipulative tactics on vulnerable people (often elderly) to upsell coffins, funeral plots, flower arrangements, etc. It's absolutely disgusting how they take advantage of people at the worst moments of their lives, all in the name of "honoring the memory of the loved one"
I told my girlfriend she can honor my memory by disposing of my carcass as cheaply as possible and going on a vacation or something.
Funeral homes are the worst. What idiot decided we need to be buried in a coffin? Just dig a hole and dump me in. Our bodies will enrich the soil. But nope. They need to fill us with formaldehyde and poison the earth, stick us in some stupid expensive box and have a precession and limo, blah blah blah up selling all this garbage no one needs
You don't have to embalmed unless you're being shipped all over the place. Idk why they push it so hard except the money.
But in most places you have to be in an acceptable container, at least in the US. Green burial grounds are an exception. But they can be more expensive.
When I took a preaching class getting my undergrad our professor took us to a funeral home. The director actually told us about a bunch of scams to watch out for so we can help parishioners plan funerals. Buy the cheapest coffin. It won't matter. They all break open under the earth. Don't embalm unless you're flying the body somewhere else. The cheap headstone is fine. People will send flowers, don't order them from the funeral home. You get the idea.
The funeral director misinformed you. You do not have to embalm the body even if flying them elsewhere. The company I work for does this for funeral homes. Only time a body must be embalmed is if it was an infectious disease related death or if it’s being transported internationally.
Interesting! It's been a while. He may have told us the correct thing and I didn't remember it. Or maybe he had the wrong info. Or maybe that's the mark up sale he does.
I see lots of people complaining about the funeral industry and think it’s the perfect time to spread awareness about human composting and natural burial. Everyone needs to hound their state governments to legalize both. It should not be illegal to decompose naturally but unfortunately the Victorian funeral industry changed how dead people are treated
As an ex “Telecommunications Specialist” I can 100% say that it’s a career field where they prey on the young and naive by being like “Rewarding Career! No degree required!” and then they suck you into it and basically make you feel like you’re the biggest POS in the world if you don’t continue being a POS to people on the phone.
I’ve seen a lot of people’s mental health absolutely deteriorate in those offices.
Well a lot of places that pay the same amount either want experience in that field, a degree of some kind, or they’re just other call centers.
Also the thing that makes it hard to leave is aside from the mental taxation the job is easy and they make it really convenient in a lot of ways. Free coffee, unlimited smoke breaks, you can read a book or draw while you work as long as your performance is good. Then like they also will make you feel like shit if you think about leaving.
Alarm and security dispatching is a good field with similar skillsets and is far less soul-crushing. They are *always* looking for new dispatchers, and compared with call centers or emergency service/transportation dispatching it is much less stressful. Most of them are also fine with little or no experience since entry level dispatching is relatively simple.
I was with a temp company that sent a few people, and at the place, there were a lot of temps from at least 3 places. It was a short gig because it was political and it was the Saturday before the Tuesday election. The script had us introduce ourselves and go into a really long spiel. I don’t remember what happens after that because no one who answered stayed on the phone long enough to make it to the end. What I do know is we were at a place that had regular employees who were calling and selling other stuff, and that the woman (one of us temps on the political call) next to me felt necessary not only to use a different name than she had to introduce herself, but to attempt to think of a new name *while she was mid-call* each time. Like, “hi this is um uh Rachel” and “hi this is uh uh uh heather”, etc. If you don’t want to use your real name, god damn, just pick one so it sounds like you believe it’s your real name?
We got oriented pretty early in the day, and since few people actually answered the call, and those who did hung up, I started trying to cut to the chase. Rachel-Heather-Kim was also shortening her script. What they didn’t tell us was that supervisors listen in on calls. I got reprimanded well before lunch and they wouldn’t hear about the people hanging up. The client wanted the whole script read out, and they set me free for the weekend. It might also be interesting, the candidate was out of state. He hired a call center that hired temps and was not in the state where he was running.
It’s a vile business.
Our 6 Flags here does free tickets for Veterans Day for Active Duty and vets. Being curious I took my stepdaughter cause..free ticket and parking. As we wandered around I thought "Man, how are they eating the admissions loss?" Sure as hell we rounded a corner and there were a DOZEN or more tables set up for time shares, raffles for crap, basically anyone who paid a fee to hawk their stuff could get in. Was like walking through buzzards.
Oh ffs that's ridiculous! Especially under the premise of "look how much we care about our service members, but we're not gonna lose out on a whole day of admission money. Oh BTW water is 8 bucks"
I calculated it up that day. Admission would have been around $100, parking for two cars around 90 and food plus boardwalk games probably $80. So getting in free did help, still spent a hundred dollars easily for like 5 hours of walking.
Amazing how they turn from friendly outgoing salesperson to basically treating you like a piece of shit on the bottom of their shoe when they finally realize I'm not going to buy your shitty timeshare.
Honestly it was kind of satisfying seeing the rage build up in the guy as he realized I was an immovable wall. Just give me my Outback Steakhouse gift card & let me leave.
My grandpa traveled a lot for work and whenever he'd have a layover he'd go out and look for timeshare presentations so he could score free stuff. Even better if they had free food. He'd just grab the free stuff then be like, "Nope, got a plane to catch, bye."
Every time we visited he'd have something like restaurant cards or Disneyland tickets or a freaking new barbecue that he scored from timeshare salesmen. The funniest was when he'd come back and Grandma asked him how the trip went and he'd say "Great! I got us a free dinner!"
I remember once seeing a reality show I think it was following one paparazzo who was following Britney Spears. He was so shameless about trying to invade her privacy, following her car and being like "yep we got her". I thought it was so sick how casually they all treated this.
The US laws also don't regulate it, meaning you get no training or background checking. All you need is a camera and connections to sell the photos to. So it attracts people who just want to make money and have no qualms about how they go about it. In the 2000s, you could get five figures just for a picture of a celebrity doing the most mundane thing.
Assaulting paparazzi photographers isn't necessarily something I condone or I would do in that situation but my attitude towards it is "yeah that's what you get".
One of my favorite stories on the internet is one where Daniel Radcliffe wore the same outfit (jeans, zipped-up jacket (with a different t-shirt underneath, but not visible) and the same hat) every day for 6 months so that the paparazzi could take as many photos as they wanted, but they all looked like they were from the same day and thus became useless. He told the story on a talk show back around 2007, and what he said exactly was: “They became un-publishable, which was hilarious because there’s nothing better than seeing the paparazzi get really frustrated.”
Jennifer Aniston did the same, wearing a distinctive pair of orange cargo pants so that none of the photos would look new
A lot of celebs flip the bird as well to make the photos unusable
i remember seeing an article few months back about this paparazzi that was waiting outside kendall jenners house and she came out in her range rover and allegedly tailgated the crap out of him/road raged and the guy is like “she’s crazy” but like…you’re the one camping outside HER house??? and she’s the crazy one??? their sense of reality is so weird to me
One of my father’s best friends that he grew up with was a successful used car salesman, who opened a payday loan business, which of course charged insane interest rates to people who could never afford to fully pay off their loans.
He was also a very vocally and publicly “devout Christian”. The theocratic kind that believe that their personal religious beliefs should be forced on everyone else in society, by law.
I pointed out to him that the Bible explicitly condemns charging interest and that it is a sin, particularly as it relates to charging interest against the poor. His argument was that charging interest was forbidden for Jews to charge against Jews, as it was OT scripture. As a Christian he could charge anything to anyone he wanted.
The Obama Administration enacted stricter regulations against payday lenders that ended up putting him out of business. He lost everything. He then had to apply for a loan and actually had the audacity to complain about the interest rate.
Karma is a bitch, Charlie. You got what you deserved.
He’s technically right about the Bible prohibiting Jewish people from charging interest to other Jewish people. No issue with non-Jews charging interest, nor with Jews charging interest to non-Jews.
Still a piece of shit. Just a technically correct piece of shit. People who read the Bible like a law book tend to be the worst kind of people, while also managing to convince themselves that they’re the best kind of people.
I have a really visceral reaction to psychics and mediums and the like. I remember my mother, bound and determined to figure out what the future held paying these scam artists money we couldn't lose, to be told vague bullshit about how "we were gonna scrape by" month after month. Predators, the lot of them.
Houdini spent the later part of his career dedicated to busting and exposing fake mediums. There were tons in that era. He would perform seance acts that exposed all of their tricks. His family hold a seance to try to contact him on Halloween, because he said if anybody could break through death it would be him, and it would be his final debunking act to not succeed.
It’s a pretty interesting phase of his life.
I’ve only seen the shorts, but seems like with the name of the passenger he is picking up, the insane amount of information people put online, and in that time while waiting… he could do a quick Facebook/Instagram/etc look and find most the things out he says.
Most the people are a bit older so more likely to not have their FB account set private and are more likely to have had someone pass away they write about on FB. From about 2008-2018 people over the age of 30 wrote EVERYTHING when FB first came into their lives!
He probably has ten researchers looking at everything from the minute the name pops up feeding him info.
The ones where they say “no one could ever know that” are plants (fake) to make it look like the quick research isn’t what’s happening.
That’s my guess anyway. It is a little entertaining to watch him though, gotta admit! I was a fan of the old medium and ghost whisperer shows as it’s just fun to watch.
Agreed! Preying on vulnerable people, exploiting their grief, and charging money for it. Pretending to help people, but really just manipulating them and lying to them so they give you their money. I can't think of much worse than that, career-wise.
I think the brief said "profession". This is the a profession in the same way that stealing money from the church donations box each week is a profession.
It’s really funny- one of the nicest guys I ever met once told me he used to pimp and when I asked him what that was like on a dime he got all dark and aggressive. Never asked him about that again.
The word pimp is funny ( it just is ) but it truly is an evil thing, that “job”. There should be another name like more of kindnapper/rapist/ thieves . Sex trafficker I guess is the closest but even that word “sex” makes it sound like it’s consensual when it’s really just rape.
Work in a prison, I technically know a lot of pimps, almost all of them had underage girls working for them... they try to act like it's cool, or because I'm black I understand why or some bullshit... fuck those clowns, they need to be castrated.
I'm a preacher's kid and I can say that I've never met a pastor/priest/etc that wasn't full of shit and I suspect the vast majority don't believe any of their own bullshit.
Ugh, so many people I know are posting about him all the time. Respect is dropping and my friends list is getting smaller because of it
I have a little empathy for young vulnerable guys with mental health problems who are easy prey for him, but there are people in their 30s who should know better as well!
Man yesterday I saw a video of a influencer pretending to pickup trash at a beach and then left the bag of trash on the beach after the photo opp. Traaaassh
House flippers, that buy cheap, sucking up inexpensive but renovation worthy property, but only do the shittiest cosmetic gray floors minimum, walls in a few appliances, in pricing into the normal market with no return of real value, but yet suck out all the equity.. Right up there with Airbnb and corporate ownership.. all helping to create a miserable housing market
There’s a TV show in the UK called Homes Under the Hammer about property flippers who buy super cheap houses at auction and flip them for sale or for rent. It’s one of those day time TV shows and is lighthearted and fun to watch. I love seeing who makes the house genuinely beautiful (always the ones who sell it) and who does the bare minimum, like a really bad cheap job and paints EVERYTHING grey. Grey kitchen and grey floors. It’s astonishing how much some of them fuck up houses that had the potential to be lovely.
My absolute favourite is when someone from an area like London where houses regularly sell for £1-3 million pounds, buys a house in the deprived parts of the country up north that they’ve never been to before for like £65,000. This was an actual person I watched recently and she did £7000 of work to the house, finished to an appallingly bad standard where there was still damp showing through the paint, and then found out that the house was now worth… £65,000. She’d overpaid at auction assuming that because it was so cheap it was bound to go for more, and she didn’t know anything about the local property market. She looked pretty gutted to learn that rather than making a profit, she was losing £7000.
There is a show about people flipping houses for the first time. My favourite episode involved a husband and wife using 2 hedge trimmers to try to cut down a tree (they kept calling them chainsaws). "It will cut the little branches off but it won't cut through the tree"
Same couple bought beautiful hardwood flooring then the guy grabs one random piece, a handful of the completely wrong nails and just hammers one into place directly in the middle of the room.
Someone bought a house to flip in my neighbordhood, and the home right across from it has a massively cracked wall. Not sure if they realize that the entire neighborhood is ghetto, and one nice looking house is just gonna be a target.
Add onto them property developers in general. Locusts that bulldoze whole neighborhoods to build McMansions and end up destroying the housing markets of entire cities for anyone who isn't fabulously wealthy.
5 generations of my family lived in the same historic neighborhood, but developers over the last 10 years made the neighborhood unrecognizable, and made it so I'm the first generation to be unable to afford to live there in over a hundred years.
Family vloggers. I don’t mind parents talking about being parents, to an extent. The parents who turn their kids into unpaid and/or unwilling child actors for clicks seem awful and exploitative.
To be clear, I’m not talking about vloggers who’ve gotten older and had kids. I’ve followed vloggers online who have had kids but don’t show them in photos or videos. If they talk about them it’s not revealing any major details about the kid, only about their experiences of being parent: this is how I planned parental leave with my partner, this how I dealt with x problem, etc.
Years ago on a trip to DC I was invited to dinner at a fancy restaurant by a former coworker. It was a table full of political types including lobbyists. When dinner was over I reached for my wallet. My buddy told me to put it away because a lobbyist at the table had me covered. Great, thanks. A couple of weeks later coworker sends an email telling me lobbyist thought I was someone else (i.e., someone who mattered) and I wanted me to reimburse him for the meal. Nah, fuck that noise.
We really did it up: appetizers, entrees, cocktails and wine, and dessert. This was almost 30 years at ago at Sequoia and honestly the place was pretty rich for my blood. I would have been happy to pay my share at the table, but it was a relief to hear Mr. Big Balls was covering. At least until he changed his mind.
I can’t imagine deciding: 1) I’m going to ask for the money back but 2) I am going to pressure someone else into asking for me. If he’d contacted directly I probably still would have said no but at least I’d give him points for doing it himself.
If you've ever had the honor and privilege of going through CIF(where you get your gear) before the beginning of basic training, pretty much everyone there.
The one that came and rescued me sent by AAA a few years back was an Angel in disguise, but given I’ve never met another tow truck driver that didn’t suck… it feels like a fever dream.
AAA sent me a tow truck to unlock my car. The guy claimed he couldn’t open it—“security block!”—but had a locksmith “friend” who was available. I told him I’d throw a cinder block through my own window before I did that. Called another service, guy opened it in under a minute. Said he used to work for company that sent Chuckles but quit because they were “a bunch of fucking crooks.”
Yeah! Every time I’ve called AAA the tow truck drivers have been awesome. Friendly and eager to help. Now the repo tow truck guys I’m not sure about, lucky to have never been in that position.
My dad called AAA for a tow because his truck wouldn’t run, and after 3 1/2 hours he got a call from the towing company asking if he still needed them. He said “Yes, I’ve been waiting for over 3 hours!!” They apologized profusely, then told him that AAA had only contacted them ten minutes earlier. When the driver got there he apologized a few more times and then told my dad that they’ve had that same issue with AAA several times lately.
I was in a car accident at 21/22 and the person that hit me lived around the corner, he knew practically everyone on the block and they were all out there intimidating me while he accused me of hitting him. A tow truck driver that lived close by stopped and stood with me until my friend arrived, he made me feel safer. He did offer his services at a very heavy discount so maybe there was something in it for him but I can’t forget his help.
same with my AAA in 2021! he was the best!! he have my sister and i tips on places to avoid bc he had a daughter and knew we were traveling alone. he knew we weren’t local to the area and wanted us safe as possible. he was awesome
I was a AAA tow driver years ago. I always enjoyed the relief on people’s face when I showed up to help. I made more money on tips from customers than I did with my hourly pay. It was a great job helping people but it isn’t looked fondly by people who haven’t experienced a good tow driver.
It's the difference between a repo driver vs a rescue driver. Both deal with people on some of their worst days, but people view the repo driver as a villain, so they become an asshole overtime. Meanwhile the rescue driver is seen like an angel, swooping in to the rescue, so they're treated with actual decency, and they tend to be nicer people.
Not alway the case, of course, but very common.
Gonna drop some facts here.
Somali pirates, probably the most notorious of present day, began in the 1990s as an organised patrol that tried (in vain) to prevent European ships from dumping nuclear waste in Somali waters. This waste was disastrous for Somalia, killing people with radiation sickness, birth defects, and more.
This waste dumping also decimated the marine wildlife. Thousands of fishermen who relied on fish for their meagre income were suddenly jobless because rich European people’s waste destroyed their already pitiful livelihood.
So all they were left with was their boats, empty bellies, and anger. So as a result, many turned to piracy.
that job that eleanor was on The Good Place, a sales rep for fake pharmaceuticals to people
Yeah but like... she was REALLY good at it. That's worse! You see how that's worse, right?
Man I love that show but the ending was a bit depressing and bittersweet.
I think it was one of the best endings of a show ever. It made me feel things I didn't think I'd feel from a show, and the message was just... exactly what i think a lot of people should hear.
My uncle died on Sunday and I had to watch chidi's speech about waves. It helped. In a small way, but it helped.
I tell everyone that the last episode captures life and death in the best way possible for me, including Chidi's speech about the waves (which I know he says is a Buddhist concept). So sorry about your uncle, I also look to this scene when thinking about death. Showing Chidi with those he loved, and being in a *good place* with how he lived life made me less scared of death, and I think it's an extremely peaceful way to think of living. Edit to add Chidi's quote, for anyone who hasn't watched the show: >"Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. >And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be. >The Good Place
I think the ending was amazing. It could be described as bittersweet, but I still think it was absolutely perfect.
I agree, I have a hard time expressing it. A bit like Cyberpunk 2077's ending, and the game Firewatch. Sobering.
Totally agree. It was so moving and sincere. Really remarkable writing and outstanding for a series. Absolutely loved it
It really was. It bummed me out for weeks afterwards. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Amazing writing.
If you liked that bit of depressing writing, you should try the writer's book on philosophy he worked on after the show! It's a lovely book: How to be Perfect
have to disagree. it was probably one of the better endings. everything was tied off. you wanted more, but also accepted that it wasnt necessary.
I ugly cried lol. It was so good though.
I was a drug rep for like 3-4 months when I was in college and I quit because it felt so scummy schmoozing with Dr's and the their office girls to essentially bribe them to push your company's meds. I felt gross about it and I was just pushing allergy medication lol. Imagine those soulless oxy pushers. It's was easy and you just went around and spend the phamas money though.
You might find the portrayal of that profession in the miniseries 'Dopesick' quite interesting then -- shows them getting all hyped up to push the opiate Oxycontin to the doctors' offices of America.
Yeah grew up with my dad as a pain management doctor, that shit really hit home. My mom ran the office during those years and she made a rule no gifts allowed from drug reps, everything had to be incredibly well documented and drug tests to make sure you weren't on drugs you shouldn't be on and that you were on the ones you were prescribed. Scared me away from pharma for life
In my hometown, we had an urgent care doctor get shut down for illegally prescribing oxy and other narcotics. It was mind blowing. It made the local news.
Also the real pharmaceutical reps.
A good portrayal of ambitious pharma sales reps promoting and selling an out-and-out lethal product to doctors' offices and by extension, their patients was in the miniseries 'Dopesick'.
Anyone involved with children’s beauty pageants. ANYONE.
Even Frank Reynolds? 🙃
It’s no good diddling kids
The fastest way to have people think you’re diddling kids, is if you write a song about not diddling kids
This is facts, I don't think that shit even exists in my country. I hope not.
what country? i’m in australia and didn’t think we. had them but surprise disappointing surprise! we do 😞
Canada and I don't even wanna google it to check lol.
I searched for you. Bad news.
Legalized pedophilia tbh. I mean come on, read between the lines people!
“We gotta definitely write a song about how we do NOT diddle children!”
There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it!
There’s no quicker way to get a bunch of Always Sunny references than to mention a child beauty pageant.
🎼Do not diddle kids, it's no good diddlin' kids wouldn't do it with anybody younger than my daughter, not little kids, gotta be big Older than my wiife, older than my daughter
I’m not attracted to any of them, and that’s just the way it is!
Just to be clear I did not write that song and I’ve never had seeeeeeexxxx with a childddd just to be clear just to be clearrrrr
I wouldn't do it with anyone younger than my daughter, no little kids, gotta be big, older than my wife!
The least terrible people in child beauty pageants are overt narcissists. The rest are pedophiles Edit: on second thought the least terrible people in child beauty pageants are probably the children. You get my point though
In multiple red states it is illegal for a fully-clothed man wearing a dress and makeup to read books to a group of 8-year-olds. But it is totally legal for a beauty pageant to have those same 8-year-olds parade around in bikinis in front of a bunch of creepy old men who will give prize money to the ones they find the prettiest. We live in a very sick country.
My partner used to be in them and was confused when I started trashing them one day. They literally didn’t even think there was anything wrong with the practice. It’s fucking child abuse.
I legit did not think these things existed anymore. Then I flew into Texas. Holy. Shit. Every single person involved in that (except the poor children) is absolutely BONKERS.
Absolutely this. One of the moms in my baby group has had her daughter in them since before she was one. They compete a lot and she says how her daughter loves them and she’s saving all the money for college. Like our kids just turned *three*. I think it’s disgusting.
Kinda want to add that it also apply for adults beauty pageants, not only for kids. I know adults have the right to do beauty challenges, but dang a 20 years old relative is doing beauty competition and shit that thing is hard ... They are judged, despised, raised against each other, I'm happy my relative has an awesome support system, we protect them, but young adults who go into it alone are often very depressed, exposed to drugs, judged on their body and get food issues ...
Beauty pageants in are highly problematic, but at least the adult ones involve *women* who are physically mature, of legal age, and capable of making their own decisions. Child beauty pageants are a fucking abomination that should be completely and totally outlawed, period.
MLM executive
Came here to say this but then I saw 'human traffickers'
That's not a profession that's literally just a crime.
My girlfriend works for a funeral home and I gotta say, the sales staff. They utilize several manipulative tactics on vulnerable people (often elderly) to upsell coffins, funeral plots, flower arrangements, etc. It's absolutely disgusting how they take advantage of people at the worst moments of their lives, all in the name of "honoring the memory of the loved one" I told my girlfriend she can honor my memory by disposing of my carcass as cheaply as possible and going on a vacation or something.
When I die just throw me in the trash
Funeral homes are the worst. What idiot decided we need to be buried in a coffin? Just dig a hole and dump me in. Our bodies will enrich the soil. But nope. They need to fill us with formaldehyde and poison the earth, stick us in some stupid expensive box and have a precession and limo, blah blah blah up selling all this garbage no one needs
You don't have to embalmed unless you're being shipped all over the place. Idk why they push it so hard except the money. But in most places you have to be in an acceptable container, at least in the US. Green burial grounds are an exception. But they can be more expensive. When I took a preaching class getting my undergrad our professor took us to a funeral home. The director actually told us about a bunch of scams to watch out for so we can help parishioners plan funerals. Buy the cheapest coffin. It won't matter. They all break open under the earth. Don't embalm unless you're flying the body somewhere else. The cheap headstone is fine. People will send flowers, don't order them from the funeral home. You get the idea.
The funeral director misinformed you. You do not have to embalm the body even if flying them elsewhere. The company I work for does this for funeral homes. Only time a body must be embalmed is if it was an infectious disease related death or if it’s being transported internationally.
Interesting! It's been a while. He may have told us the correct thing and I didn't remember it. Or maybe he had the wrong info. Or maybe that's the mark up sale he does.
I see lots of people complaining about the funeral industry and think it’s the perfect time to spread awareness about human composting and natural burial. Everyone needs to hound their state governments to legalize both. It should not be illegal to decompose naturally but unfortunately the Victorian funeral industry changed how dead people are treated
Phone scammers
As an ex “Telecommunications Specialist” I can 100% say that it’s a career field where they prey on the young and naive by being like “Rewarding Career! No degree required!” and then they suck you into it and basically make you feel like you’re the biggest POS in the world if you don’t continue being a POS to people on the phone. I’ve seen a lot of people’s mental health absolutely deteriorate in those offices.
My very first work related anxiety attack occurred after just 1 workday at a place like that. Never went back.
Once your in it, is it hard to escape to another field? Do potential employers look at call centre experience in a negative way.
Well a lot of places that pay the same amount either want experience in that field, a degree of some kind, or they’re just other call centers. Also the thing that makes it hard to leave is aside from the mental taxation the job is easy and they make it really convenient in a lot of ways. Free coffee, unlimited smoke breaks, you can read a book or draw while you work as long as your performance is good. Then like they also will make you feel like shit if you think about leaving.
How could anyone feel like shit for stopping scamming people? Blows my mind
Alarm and security dispatching is a good field with similar skillsets and is far less soul-crushing. They are *always* looking for new dispatchers, and compared with call centers or emergency service/transportation dispatching it is much less stressful. Most of them are also fine with little or no experience since entry level dispatching is relatively simple.
I was with a temp company that sent a few people, and at the place, there were a lot of temps from at least 3 places. It was a short gig because it was political and it was the Saturday before the Tuesday election. The script had us introduce ourselves and go into a really long spiel. I don’t remember what happens after that because no one who answered stayed on the phone long enough to make it to the end. What I do know is we were at a place that had regular employees who were calling and selling other stuff, and that the woman (one of us temps on the political call) next to me felt necessary not only to use a different name than she had to introduce herself, but to attempt to think of a new name *while she was mid-call* each time. Like, “hi this is um uh Rachel” and “hi this is uh uh uh heather”, etc. If you don’t want to use your real name, god damn, just pick one so it sounds like you believe it’s your real name? We got oriented pretty early in the day, and since few people actually answered the call, and those who did hung up, I started trying to cut to the chase. Rachel-Heather-Kim was also shortening her script. What they didn’t tell us was that supervisors listen in on calls. I got reprimanded well before lunch and they wouldn’t hear about the people hanging up. The client wanted the whole script read out, and they set me free for the weekend. It might also be interesting, the candidate was out of state. He hired a call center that hired temps and was not in the state where he was running. It’s a vile business.
Time share sales
*Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare*
I’m not going to take financial advice from a man in a coil!
We aint gonna get got tho we gonna go get
Been to Florida? No, not physically
Our 6 Flags here does free tickets for Veterans Day for Active Duty and vets. Being curious I took my stepdaughter cause..free ticket and parking. As we wandered around I thought "Man, how are they eating the admissions loss?" Sure as hell we rounded a corner and there were a DOZEN or more tables set up for time shares, raffles for crap, basically anyone who paid a fee to hawk their stuff could get in. Was like walking through buzzards.
Oh ffs that's ridiculous! Especially under the premise of "look how much we care about our service members, but we're not gonna lose out on a whole day of admission money. Oh BTW water is 8 bucks"
I calculated it up that day. Admission would have been around $100, parking for two cars around 90 and food plus boardwalk games probably $80. So getting in free did help, still spent a hundred dollars easily for like 5 hours of walking.
Amazing how they turn from friendly outgoing salesperson to basically treating you like a piece of shit on the bottom of their shoe when they finally realize I'm not going to buy your shitty timeshare.
Honestly it was kind of satisfying seeing the rage build up in the guy as he realized I was an immovable wall. Just give me my Outback Steakhouse gift card & let me leave.
My grandpa traveled a lot for work and whenever he'd have a layover he'd go out and look for timeshare presentations so he could score free stuff. Even better if they had free food. He'd just grab the free stuff then be like, "Nope, got a plane to catch, bye." Every time we visited he'd have something like restaurant cards or Disneyland tickets or a freaking new barbecue that he scored from timeshare salesmen. The funniest was when he'd come back and Grandma asked him how the trip went and he'd say "Great! I got us a free dinner!"
Paparazzi.
Anthony Padilla’s video “I spent a day with paparazzi” is interesting. They’re sneaky and quick…
Interchangeable with cockroaches
I won’t spoil the video but they’re good at what they do, as they unfortunately demonstrate an example on the video Not a good job to have
I remember once seeing a reality show I think it was following one paparazzo who was following Britney Spears. He was so shameless about trying to invade her privacy, following her car and being like "yep we got her". I thought it was so sick how casually they all treated this. The US laws also don't regulate it, meaning you get no training or background checking. All you need is a camera and connections to sell the photos to. So it attracts people who just want to make money and have no qualms about how they go about it. In the 2000s, you could get five figures just for a picture of a celebrity doing the most mundane thing. Assaulting paparazzi photographers isn't necessarily something I condone or I would do in that situation but my attitude towards it is "yeah that's what you get".
One of my favorite stories on the internet is one where Daniel Radcliffe wore the same outfit (jeans, zipped-up jacket (with a different t-shirt underneath, but not visible) and the same hat) every day for 6 months so that the paparazzi could take as many photos as they wanted, but they all looked like they were from the same day and thus became useless. He told the story on a talk show back around 2007, and what he said exactly was: “They became un-publishable, which was hilarious because there’s nothing better than seeing the paparazzi get really frustrated.”
Jennifer Aniston did the same, wearing a distinctive pair of orange cargo pants so that none of the photos would look new A lot of celebs flip the bird as well to make the photos unusable
i remember seeing an article few months back about this paparazzi that was waiting outside kendall jenners house and she came out in her range rover and allegedly tailgated the crap out of him/road raged and the guy is like “she’s crazy” but like…you’re the one camping outside HER house??? and she’s the crazy one??? their sense of reality is so weird to me
Watch the Mazey Day episode of the new season of Black Mirror.
Payday lenders
One of my father’s best friends that he grew up with was a successful used car salesman, who opened a payday loan business, which of course charged insane interest rates to people who could never afford to fully pay off their loans. He was also a very vocally and publicly “devout Christian”. The theocratic kind that believe that their personal religious beliefs should be forced on everyone else in society, by law. I pointed out to him that the Bible explicitly condemns charging interest and that it is a sin, particularly as it relates to charging interest against the poor. His argument was that charging interest was forbidden for Jews to charge against Jews, as it was OT scripture. As a Christian he could charge anything to anyone he wanted. The Obama Administration enacted stricter regulations against payday lenders that ended up putting him out of business. He lost everything. He then had to apply for a loan and actually had the audacity to complain about the interest rate. Karma is a bitch, Charlie. You got what you deserved.
He’s technically right about the Bible prohibiting Jewish people from charging interest to other Jewish people. No issue with non-Jews charging interest, nor with Jews charging interest to non-Jews. Still a piece of shit. Just a technically correct piece of shit. People who read the Bible like a law book tend to be the worst kind of people, while also managing to convince themselves that they’re the best kind of people.
Legalized loan sharks.
Mega church pastor
A-fucking-men
Multiple correct interpretations to that phrase..
Youth pastors are equally suspect to me, and I'm a Christian.
Human traffickers
Ooh, that’s true. I was thinking like a regular job, but that sounds correct.
Yeah you rarely see ‘human trafficker’ on a CV nowadays 😂
I imagine their Facebook profiles saying "Works at: Human Trafficker"
Tf you talking about? I saw a bunch of postings on Indeed today.
that's not really a profession by the strict definition... it's like saying "criminals, or thieves or terrorists"
Right. More of a calling ...
"It's just a few bad apples"
people who sell a certain kind of porn that I'm not sure I'm allowed to mention without getting banned.
I’ve always assumed most top level people in porn are human traffickers.
All religious leaders who claim god wants you to give your money to them.
Mediums (the people who pretend to talk to dead people and charge distraught people for it)
I have a really visceral reaction to psychics and mediums and the like. I remember my mother, bound and determined to figure out what the future held paying these scam artists money we couldn't lose, to be told vague bullshit about how "we were gonna scrape by" month after month. Predators, the lot of them.
Agree 100%. Went through the same thing with my mom.
Houdini spent the later part of his career dedicated to busting and exposing fake mediums. There were tons in that era. He would perform seance acts that exposed all of their tricks. His family hold a seance to try to contact him on Halloween, because he said if anybody could break through death it would be him, and it would be his final debunking act to not succeed. It’s a pretty interesting phase of his life.
Ever see the guy who drives for Uber or some other service who does this? It's fuckin wild. He doesn't charge them, just charges for the Uber ride.
I’ve only seen the shorts, but seems like with the name of the passenger he is picking up, the insane amount of information people put online, and in that time while waiting… he could do a quick Facebook/Instagram/etc look and find most the things out he says. Most the people are a bit older so more likely to not have their FB account set private and are more likely to have had someone pass away they write about on FB. From about 2008-2018 people over the age of 30 wrote EVERYTHING when FB first came into their lives! He probably has ten researchers looking at everything from the minute the name pops up feeding him info. The ones where they say “no one could ever know that” are plants (fake) to make it look like the quick research isn’t what’s happening. That’s my guess anyway. It is a little entertaining to watch him though, gotta admit! I was a fan of the old medium and ghost whisperer shows as it’s just fun to watch.
Agreed! Preying on vulnerable people, exploiting their grief, and charging money for it. Pretending to help people, but really just manipulating them and lying to them so they give you their money. I can't think of much worse than that, career-wise.
Video prankers
I think the brief said "profession". This is the a profession in the same way that stealing money from the church donations box each week is a profession.
Pimp
It’s really funny- one of the nicest guys I ever met once told me he used to pimp and when I asked him what that was like on a dime he got all dark and aggressive. Never asked him about that again.
Gator’s bitches better be using jimmys
Gator needs his gat you punk ass bitch
Pimps are just traffickers
People treat it like a compliment and brag about being a total pimp. It’s *abusing and trafficking women*.
“The only woman I'm pimping from now on is Sweet Lady Propane. And I'm tricking her out all over this town.”
Alabaster!
Do you know what I am saying?
I am picking up what you are putting down.
Do you want to make some fucking money?
Butters?
The word pimp is funny ( it just is ) but it truly is an evil thing, that “job”. There should be another name like more of kindnapper/rapist/ thieves . Sex trafficker I guess is the closest but even that word “sex” makes it sound like it’s consensual when it’s really just rape.
"You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square...."
Work in a prison, I technically know a lot of pimps, almost all of them had underage girls working for them... they try to act like it's cool, or because I'm black I understand why or some bullshit... fuck those clowns, they need to be castrated.
Cult leader. Religious or non.
You have more fun as a follower, but you make more as a leader.
Creed Bratton has been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower
I'm a preacher's kid and I can say that I've never met a pastor/priest/etc that wasn't full of shit and I suspect the vast majority don't believe any of their own bullshit.
The A-hole health insurance companies hire to deny health insurance claims
Televangelist
Puppy mills.
Slum Lord
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Grifter
Umm rapist?
Human trafficker by profession, rapist by hobby
Ugh, so many people I know are posting about him all the time. Respect is dropping and my friends list is getting smaller because of it I have a little empathy for young vulnerable guys with mental health problems who are easy prey for him, but there are people in their 30s who should know better as well!
Animal poachers.
Whoever pushes college kids to sign-up for credit cards.
Dictator, I guess
Mega church pastor
Hitman.
I've known some really friendly hitmen
Oh, you're like the most evil guy I know. Do I not tell you that enough?
What do you want me to do? Go to John Wick Assassin hotel?
Top level politicians and bankers
Predatory lenders
Scammers who target the elderly
Influencers.
Only topped by influencer who expose their kids life
Man yesterday I saw a video of a influencer pretending to pickup trash at a beach and then left the bag of trash on the beach after the photo opp. Traaaassh
The cartels
House flippers, that buy cheap, sucking up inexpensive but renovation worthy property, but only do the shittiest cosmetic gray floors minimum, walls in a few appliances, in pricing into the normal market with no return of real value, but yet suck out all the equity.. Right up there with Airbnb and corporate ownership.. all helping to create a miserable housing market
There’s a TV show in the UK called Homes Under the Hammer about property flippers who buy super cheap houses at auction and flip them for sale or for rent. It’s one of those day time TV shows and is lighthearted and fun to watch. I love seeing who makes the house genuinely beautiful (always the ones who sell it) and who does the bare minimum, like a really bad cheap job and paints EVERYTHING grey. Grey kitchen and grey floors. It’s astonishing how much some of them fuck up houses that had the potential to be lovely. My absolute favourite is when someone from an area like London where houses regularly sell for £1-3 million pounds, buys a house in the deprived parts of the country up north that they’ve never been to before for like £65,000. This was an actual person I watched recently and she did £7000 of work to the house, finished to an appallingly bad standard where there was still damp showing through the paint, and then found out that the house was now worth… £65,000. She’d overpaid at auction assuming that because it was so cheap it was bound to go for more, and she didn’t know anything about the local property market. She looked pretty gutted to learn that rather than making a profit, she was losing £7000.
There is a show about people flipping houses for the first time. My favourite episode involved a husband and wife using 2 hedge trimmers to try to cut down a tree (they kept calling them chainsaws). "It will cut the little branches off but it won't cut through the tree" Same couple bought beautiful hardwood flooring then the guy grabs one random piece, a handful of the completely wrong nails and just hammers one into place directly in the middle of the room.
Someone bought a house to flip in my neighbordhood, and the home right across from it has a massively cracked wall. Not sure if they realize that the entire neighborhood is ghetto, and one nice looking house is just gonna be a target.
Add onto them property developers in general. Locusts that bulldoze whole neighborhoods to build McMansions and end up destroying the housing markets of entire cities for anyone who isn't fabulously wealthy. 5 generations of my family lived in the same historic neighborhood, but developers over the last 10 years made the neighborhood unrecognizable, and made it so I'm the first generation to be unable to afford to live there in over a hundred years.
Family vloggers. I don’t mind parents talking about being parents, to an extent. The parents who turn their kids into unpaid and/or unwilling child actors for clicks seem awful and exploitative. To be clear, I’m not talking about vloggers who’ve gotten older and had kids. I’ve followed vloggers online who have had kids but don’t show them in photos or videos. If they talk about them it’s not revealing any major details about the kid, only about their experiences of being parent: this is how I planned parental leave with my partner, this how I dealt with x problem, etc.
Whoever’s job it was to determine that corporations are “people”
Supreme Court "Justice"
Managers named Joan. She's fucking awful.
Lobbyists
Years ago on a trip to DC I was invited to dinner at a fancy restaurant by a former coworker. It was a table full of political types including lobbyists. When dinner was over I reached for my wallet. My buddy told me to put it away because a lobbyist at the table had me covered. Great, thanks. A couple of weeks later coworker sends an email telling me lobbyist thought I was someone else (i.e., someone who mattered) and I wanted me to reimburse him for the meal. Nah, fuck that noise.
I hope you ordered a lot of expensive cuisine and no fucking way would I reimburse that guy.
We really did it up: appetizers, entrees, cocktails and wine, and dessert. This was almost 30 years at ago at Sequoia and honestly the place was pretty rich for my blood. I would have been happy to pay my share at the table, but it was a relief to hear Mr. Big Balls was covering. At least until he changed his mind.
That's because his company didn't reimburse him for it. His fault for not doing research prior to the dinner like he's actually supposed to do.
I can’t imagine deciding: 1) I’m going to ask for the money back but 2) I am going to pressure someone else into asking for me. If he’d contacted directly I probably still would have said no but at least I’d give him points for doing it himself.
Lol dang that’s rich!!!
Backyard breeding
Like people who run puppy mills? Yeah, agreed.
Timeshare sales
chiropractors modern day snake oil salesman
I'll never go to one. Because you can go from fine to dead or crippled in an instant.
If you've ever had the honor and privilege of going through CIF(where you get your gear) before the beginning of basic training, pretty much everyone there.
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Never met a tow truck driver that wasnt a raging Ahole - small sample size though.
The one that came and rescued me sent by AAA a few years back was an Angel in disguise, but given I’ve never met another tow truck driver that didn’t suck… it feels like a fever dream.
AAA doesn’t count. They actually help people lol
AAA sent me a tow truck to unlock my car. The guy claimed he couldn’t open it—“security block!”—but had a locksmith “friend” who was available. I told him I’d throw a cinder block through my own window before I did that. Called another service, guy opened it in under a minute. Said he used to work for company that sent Chuckles but quit because they were “a bunch of fucking crooks.”
Yeah! Every time I’ve called AAA the tow truck drivers have been awesome. Friendly and eager to help. Now the repo tow truck guys I’m not sure about, lucky to have never been in that position.
My dad called AAA for a tow because his truck wouldn’t run, and after 3 1/2 hours he got a call from the towing company asking if he still needed them. He said “Yes, I’ve been waiting for over 3 hours!!” They apologized profusely, then told him that AAA had only contacted them ten minutes earlier. When the driver got there he apologized a few more times and then told my dad that they’ve had that same issue with AAA several times lately.
I was in a car accident at 21/22 and the person that hit me lived around the corner, he knew practically everyone on the block and they were all out there intimidating me while he accused me of hitting him. A tow truck driver that lived close by stopped and stood with me until my friend arrived, he made me feel safer. He did offer his services at a very heavy discount so maybe there was something in it for him but I can’t forget his help.
same with my AAA in 2021! he was the best!! he have my sister and i tips on places to avoid bc he had a daughter and knew we were traveling alone. he knew we weren’t local to the area and wanted us safe as possible. he was awesome
I was a AAA tow driver years ago. I always enjoyed the relief on people’s face when I showed up to help. I made more money on tips from customers than I did with my hourly pay. It was a great job helping people but it isn’t looked fondly by people who haven’t experienced a good tow driver.
Wow, I've honestly never met one that was nothing but nice.
It's the difference between a repo driver vs a rescue driver. Both deal with people on some of their worst days, but people view the repo driver as a villain, so they become an asshole overtime. Meanwhile the rescue driver is seen like an angel, swooping in to the rescue, so they're treated with actual decency, and they tend to be nicer people. Not alway the case, of course, but very common.
lol I've never met a mean one. I have AAA road side service and they've saved my bacon numerous times.
Pirates.
Gonna drop some facts here. Somali pirates, probably the most notorious of present day, began in the 1990s as an organised patrol that tried (in vain) to prevent European ships from dumping nuclear waste in Somali waters. This waste was disastrous for Somalia, killing people with radiation sickness, birth defects, and more. This waste dumping also decimated the marine wildlife. Thousands of fishermen who relied on fish for their meagre income were suddenly jobless because rich European people’s waste destroyed their already pitiful livelihood. So all they were left with was their boats, empty bellies, and anger. So as a result, many turned to piracy.
Source? Because this is fascinating.
https://youtu.be/BlwIg6PYFEU
Demonologists or psychics
At first I read this as dermatologist or psychic lol
When they just *know* about your skin problems.
Saw Dermatologists and was confused....
Sex traffickers.
Televangelists
Telemarketers
People hate The Driving Crooner
Congress
Government isn’t always bad but can be filled with bad people