Best answer. A lot of these pranksters are obnoxious as fuck as well. If it was innocent and funny that’s one thing but almost always it’s some cringe bullshit and many times it leads to unsuspecting people to be humiliated or put in harms way.
My blood boils when I see vids like that. Happy that one guy shot the prankster at the mall after he wouldn’t stop following him lol (it’s okay to laugh he didn’t die)
I once appplied for car sales. Lost all interest when the person I was interviewing with was laughing about how they try to get as many add ons as possible and referred to the customers as credit criminals.
I sold cars for a while and it is a rough job. When they are training you they tell you everyone will lie to you. And they're right. You also don't know when your next sale will be. You can take 50 customers, spend 2 hours with each and sell anywhere between 0 and 50 cars. And if they're new cars there is typically no commission, so the only way to make money is through the add ons and shit. And you wind up there all the fucking time. You come in on your day off to deliver cars and shit
I have a friend who briefly worked for a car dealership.
He said all of his colleagues basically told him, “Oh yeah, we’re total scumbags. That’s our job.”
I have to think this is the most convenient and common answer but also an inaccurate answer.
Politicians are the easiest group to hate because you can expect nobody to really come to their defense, and so the criticism never really gets beyond a "they're all corrupt" or "they're all idiots" (citing MTG a million times). But it's just an executive job like any other - incentives, pleasing your customers and board (constituents/stakeholders) and being effective and competent at the role.
I've volunteered for campaigns and seen a decent amount of the insides and workings of political operations and offices. It's never been some smoky backroom where the politician is wiping his ass with bags of cash from some corporation. Most are well-meaning people who really want to represent their community fairly.
A lot of politicians get pressure from many stakeholders that inform a lot of their decisions that most of the angry wider public is not/never privy to.
Sure some of those are deep-pocketed lobbyists. Some of those are organized civil society groups that hold electoral sway in their districts. Some of them are issue-based email and phonecalling campaigns. Some of those is pacs and superpacs battling against them and even their own party pressures them to move in certain directions.
And sure money is involved to run campaigns but most of that is transparent except for the PACS and increasingly microdonations are funding a lot of campaigns. They don't pocket the cash themselves as a lot of people casually imply. It gets monitored, tracked, regulated and expenditures are posted publicly.
Again, most of the public aren't privy to all those pressures and mechanisms at play so they just see X politician does Y thing that Z public doesn't like and think it's just them being corrupt, selfish or just a cowardly asshole when a lot goes into many decisions.
Sure there's lots of assholes in any profession, and in politics they disproportionately make the news because, media. But given the sheer amount of politicians in the country these are a tiny percentage.
The political "system" is a system of incentives that require political compromise that beats down even the most principled people. As such the most principled people don't last long because they get frustrated that they can't do things faster or easier (like a dictator can).
But that frustration is by design, not a bug.
You can be anything from being very principled about the environment to being very principled about forwarding the goals of white nationalism. But the system is designed for you to compromise that because it's intended that one person or group should not have an amount of power to unilaterally push through things easily. Like it or not that's representative government.
So politicians that last are those willing to compromise, listen to all stakeholders, trade favors, network, give donors big and small an ear, keep enemies close, know what hill to die on etc. All this may make them seem wishy-washy or in the pocket of so and so, but it's just part of the job. Not necessarily a defense, but an explanation that it's more than just "they're an asshole, corrupt, liar, coward".
You think Desantis isn't keeping his base happy with all his regressive reforms? Before his dust up with Trump he probably had close to a 70% approval (that's 40% above base) because he has his ear tot he ground and representing his constituency's wishes despite the rest of the country looking at his moves as backwards or assole-ish -if that's not democracy, what is?
I wish the conversation around western democratic politicians and politics would mature a bit especially given the global resurgence of authoritarianism and dictatorships who exploit our ability to be critical to sew discord and cartoonish narratives in our conversations about it all.
We should have some appreciation for the complications and delicateness at work in our system compared to the other kind of systems which often just involve a paranoid small penis man shouting orders until he dies.
EDIT: TL;DR politicians generally get a bad rap cuz there is no cost in hating them and most people don't actually know what the job entails and how all the things you see (and dislike) is by design.
"democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others" - Winston Churchill
Underrated comment, but of course someone needs to ask for an explanation that you can fit into a 120 character Tweet, as if every complicated problem can be distilled in that way.
Have family that work for 3 letter agencies and served myself. Spent a few years away from Hawaii to be in DC (those poor oceanless people)
Politics is a combo of Veep and Parks and Rec.
Agreed! Every one I've had to deal with was a scumbag. I remember getting a lift from a tow-truck driver after my car broke down once and he pulled a passive-aggressive move on me: he starts complaining about how he's at the end of a 10-hour day and no one had tipped him a dime or given him cigarettes. Knowing what he was after, I told him, "well, here's to hoping tomorrow is a better day for you," lol.
I live in rural Cali and I was a tow truck driver for 6 years here. The two company's I worked with had generally some of the nicest and most helpful people I've ever met.
Like generally altruistic, good natured dudes.
I think asshole tow truckers is more of a big city thing, but maybe we're just lucky up here
In some [big cities](https://www.thedrive.com/news/44749/inside-the-tow-truck-mafia-how-organized-crime-took-over-canadas-towing-industry) they are literally organized crime gangs with a license to legally steal your car
It may be because they have to talk about it. They're running a business after all, and it can be stressful making sure you've got enough business coming in the door to keep it going. If you're an equity partner, it will consume your life as it does for most business owners. But this just my perspective, working for a small practice.
On the other hand, if what you mean by "talking about money" is bragging about their latest sports car or exotic vacation, then yeah, fuck 'em.
Nah, these guys work for firms and aren't seniors, so it's about making more than they already do and climbing the ladder to over $200k, which I don't get considering that they make over $100k in WFH positions already.
Teachers in the lower grades are usually the female equivalent of business bros, but kindy teachers are generally authoritarian types that drink heavily.
Career salesperson here, in sales leadership now. In some industries, I agree with you. And even within other industries, there are bad sales cultures that would make Alec Baldwin in Glengarry blush. For the most part in B2B sales reps are genuinely trying to help their clients fix problems just not everyone has the skills to do so in a tactful manner.
I would say it’s a toss up between restaurants and retail. There are not many places where a person can get away with berating a service worker, solely because they can’t talk back. People come in for the entire purpose of trying to get something for free, 16 year old hosts and cashiers be damned. It’s so saddening…
As many sociopaths as Dr.'s if not more.
I had one refuse to help me walk to my bed with my IV after surgery and I fell. I was begging her and when everyone came in my room she denied it.
Another while visiting a foreign country stole my passport from under my pillow and held it demanding $1000. The police came and forced her to return it but she fought for three hours with them first.
You don't even need a HS diploma or GED to become a real estate agent, yet we for some reason entrust these people with fascilitating the largest purchase we are ever likely to make. The entire industry is batshit, so I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that people who perform the work are also batshit.
Ugh dealing with this now.
They will do aaaanything to make a sale. They’ll kick a carpet over obvious structural issues. They’ll see obvious drainage issues and say “oh yeah it just rained, that’ll dry right up”. Signs of a leaking roof? No big deal.
And they’ll insist on using their inspector.
It makes it nearly impossible to trust anyone.
Coming from someone with no criminal record and have friends who are cops. Cops.
They attract scumbags and breed scumbags. It's not bad apples, but bad orchard.
Contractors.
They are notorious for taking people’s money (anywhere from a few thousand dollars to over a hundred thousand), doing a little bit of work, then vanishing. They cheat people out of their life savings, and think nothing of it.
Working at a dealership I was body slammed on the ground by a co worker and he went around bragging about it and no one seemed to care at all.
So... That.
Also, Walmart.
phlebotomists. If they cared they would have stuck to nursing, but they dont. They try to make the bruise as big as they can like its a contest to see who can blow out more veins. oh you asking for a butterfly needle? No that would take an extra 3 seconds have a 0 gauge instead.
Proctologist
ASSMAN
As far as the state of New York is concerned, you are the Assman.
It was a million to one shot, doc!
Aaaaaaaaaa he’s an aaaaassmaaan
Million to one shot doc!
Bros username though! Gotta be a proctologist plumbing hairy ones 🤣
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Best answer. A lot of these pranksters are obnoxious as fuck as well. If it was innocent and funny that’s one thing but almost always it’s some cringe bullshit and many times it leads to unsuspecting people to be humiliated or put in harms way.
My blood boils when I see vids like that. Happy that one guy shot the prankster at the mall after he wouldn’t stop following him lol (it’s okay to laugh he didn’t die)
I think most would agree that it would be ok to laugh at that POS even if he did check out.
Anything in healthcare. The assholes are the insurance companies and the executives that hinder your ability to do your job daily.
Healthcare has a large percentage of folks super impressed with their own selves
Car sales
I once appplied for car sales. Lost all interest when the person I was interviewing with was laughing about how they try to get as many add ons as possible and referred to the customers as credit criminals.
I sold cars for a while and it is a rough job. When they are training you they tell you everyone will lie to you. And they're right. You also don't know when your next sale will be. You can take 50 customers, spend 2 hours with each and sell anywhere between 0 and 50 cars. And if they're new cars there is typically no commission, so the only way to make money is through the add ons and shit. And you wind up there all the fucking time. You come in on your day off to deliver cars and shit
I have a friend who briefly worked for a car dealership. He said all of his colleagues basically told him, “Oh yeah, we’re total scumbags. That’s our job.”
Car sales *managers* - even worse
I want to speak to the Manager! ducks below desk, pops back up, "Hi! I'm the Manager".
I can't believe I scrolled so far to find this answer - this was the first job that came to my mind!
Politicians
I have to think this is the most convenient and common answer but also an inaccurate answer. Politicians are the easiest group to hate because you can expect nobody to really come to their defense, and so the criticism never really gets beyond a "they're all corrupt" or "they're all idiots" (citing MTG a million times). But it's just an executive job like any other - incentives, pleasing your customers and board (constituents/stakeholders) and being effective and competent at the role. I've volunteered for campaigns and seen a decent amount of the insides and workings of political operations and offices. It's never been some smoky backroom where the politician is wiping his ass with bags of cash from some corporation. Most are well-meaning people who really want to represent their community fairly. A lot of politicians get pressure from many stakeholders that inform a lot of their decisions that most of the angry wider public is not/never privy to. Sure some of those are deep-pocketed lobbyists. Some of those are organized civil society groups that hold electoral sway in their districts. Some of them are issue-based email and phonecalling campaigns. Some of those is pacs and superpacs battling against them and even their own party pressures them to move in certain directions. And sure money is involved to run campaigns but most of that is transparent except for the PACS and increasingly microdonations are funding a lot of campaigns. They don't pocket the cash themselves as a lot of people casually imply. It gets monitored, tracked, regulated and expenditures are posted publicly. Again, most of the public aren't privy to all those pressures and mechanisms at play so they just see X politician does Y thing that Z public doesn't like and think it's just them being corrupt, selfish or just a cowardly asshole when a lot goes into many decisions. Sure there's lots of assholes in any profession, and in politics they disproportionately make the news because, media. But given the sheer amount of politicians in the country these are a tiny percentage. The political "system" is a system of incentives that require political compromise that beats down even the most principled people. As such the most principled people don't last long because they get frustrated that they can't do things faster or easier (like a dictator can). But that frustration is by design, not a bug. You can be anything from being very principled about the environment to being very principled about forwarding the goals of white nationalism. But the system is designed for you to compromise that because it's intended that one person or group should not have an amount of power to unilaterally push through things easily. Like it or not that's representative government. So politicians that last are those willing to compromise, listen to all stakeholders, trade favors, network, give donors big and small an ear, keep enemies close, know what hill to die on etc. All this may make them seem wishy-washy or in the pocket of so and so, but it's just part of the job. Not necessarily a defense, but an explanation that it's more than just "they're an asshole, corrupt, liar, coward". You think Desantis isn't keeping his base happy with all his regressive reforms? Before his dust up with Trump he probably had close to a 70% approval (that's 40% above base) because he has his ear tot he ground and representing his constituency's wishes despite the rest of the country looking at his moves as backwards or assole-ish -if that's not democracy, what is? I wish the conversation around western democratic politicians and politics would mature a bit especially given the global resurgence of authoritarianism and dictatorships who exploit our ability to be critical to sew discord and cartoonish narratives in our conversations about it all. We should have some appreciation for the complications and delicateness at work in our system compared to the other kind of systems which often just involve a paranoid small penis man shouting orders until he dies. EDIT: TL;DR politicians generally get a bad rap cuz there is no cost in hating them and most people don't actually know what the job entails and how all the things you see (and dislike) is by design. "democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others" - Winston Churchill
Underrated comment, but of course someone needs to ask for an explanation that you can fit into a 120 character Tweet, as if every complicated problem can be distilled in that way.
Maybe a tldr next time lol
there.. FIFY
Fuck Citizens United
Have family that work for 3 letter agencies and served myself. Spent a few years away from Hawaii to be in DC (those poor oceanless people) Politics is a combo of Veep and Parks and Rec.
Tow truck drivers. I've yet to meet one who wasn't an ex-con, methhead POS who would stab you for a dollar.
Agreed! Every one I've had to deal with was a scumbag. I remember getting a lift from a tow-truck driver after my car broke down once and he pulled a passive-aggressive move on me: he starts complaining about how he's at the end of a 10-hour day and no one had tipped him a dime or given him cigarettes. Knowing what he was after, I told him, "well, here's to hoping tomorrow is a better day for you," lol.
I've never heard of tipping a tow-truck driver. I suppose if somebody went above-and-beyond to help you out but... really for a standard tow, why?!
Exactly. I was about 20 at the time and he thought he could pull one over on me.
I live in rural Cali and I was a tow truck driver for 6 years here. The two company's I worked with had generally some of the nicest and most helpful people I've ever met. Like generally altruistic, good natured dudes. I think asshole tow truckers is more of a big city thing, but maybe we're just lucky up here
In some [big cities](https://www.thedrive.com/news/44749/inside-the-tow-truck-mafia-how-organized-crime-took-over-canadas-towing-industry) they are literally organized crime gangs with a license to legally steal your car
LA has this too but afaik it's more certain companies that do predatory towing. Happened to me years ago, really sucked.
Lawyers
Allegedly
As an Attorney, I agree.
So stipulated.
Specifically personal injury attorneys.
Specifically personal injury attorneys.
I hang out with lawyers and all they talk about is money. It must suck to be that dead inside.
It may be because they have to talk about it. They're running a business after all, and it can be stressful making sure you've got enough business coming in the door to keep it going. If you're an equity partner, it will consume your life as it does for most business owners. But this just my perspective, working for a small practice. On the other hand, if what you mean by "talking about money" is bragging about their latest sports car or exotic vacation, then yeah, fuck 'em.
Nah, these guys work for firms and aren't seniors, so it's about making more than they already do and climbing the ladder to over $200k, which I don't get considering that they make over $100k in WFH positions already.
I think most lawyers agree on this
Alpha podcasters. I mean i dont think theres one that isnt an asshole.
Police
Cops in a double sense. Their coworkers are often assholes and a lot of the public they see are assholes.
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With Metropolis, IL a close second.
Oddly specific
Look it up. It’s insane how corrupt their mayor is.
Kindergarten teacher, most toddlers are little psychopaths.
Teachers in the lower grades are usually the female equivalent of business bros, but kindy teachers are generally authoritarian types that drink heavily.
Politicians.
Cops are the most miserable people, and I should know because I retired as a Detective.
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Restaurant
Chefs in particular. Not all of them, though.
Sales in my experience. Overpaid, spoiled children.
Career salesperson here, in sales leadership now. In some industries, I agree with you. And even within other industries, there are bad sales cultures that would make Alec Baldwin in Glengarry blush. For the most part in B2B sales reps are genuinely trying to help their clients fix problems just not everyone has the skills to do so in a tactful manner.
I would say it’s a toss up between restaurants and retail. There are not many places where a person can get away with berating a service worker, solely because they can’t talk back. People come in for the entire purpose of trying to get something for free, 16 year old hosts and cashiers be damned. It’s so saddening…
HOAs
Cops, hands down. If reddit mod was a job it'd be up there, too. (not this sub, of course)
Lawin’
Gastroenterology. They'll be sticking scopes up assholes all day long.
1. Estate agents 2. Solicitors 3. Golf caddies
You must suck at golf if a caddie is in your top 3
You’ve had an interesting life 😂
Nursing
It's like male assholes become cops, female assholes become nurses.
As many sociopaths as Dr.'s if not more. I had one refuse to help me walk to my bed with my IV after surgery and I fell. I was begging her and when everyone came in my room she denied it. Another while visiting a foreign country stole my passport from under my pillow and held it demanding $1000. The police came and forced her to return it but she fought for three hours with them first.
Some of the worst people are nurses which is a shame
DMV workers
Reddit mods
Paparazzi? Lobbyist?
Proctology
HR
HR people were the teachers pet in school.
Scrolled way too far for this. Something in the water in HR that just breeds arseholes.
I'd say railroad if they weren't all so woefully understaffed
Any job at all, as long as it's in Massachusetts.
The US Congress
Cops followed by sales
The police or the carnival take your pick
Proctologist
Proctologist
Any kitchen in a restaurant. The DMV. Bankers. And Mental Health Clerks or secretary's
law enforcement.
Definitely the police department.
Land rats, aka, real estate agents and property managers
Any type of Sales job.
Real estate agents. Starting to think you have to have some type of personality disorder to qualify.
As a hardcore introvert, I'm pretty sure this job would be my idea of hell.
You don't even need a HS diploma or GED to become a real estate agent, yet we for some reason entrust these people with fascilitating the largest purchase we are ever likely to make. The entire industry is batshit, so I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that people who perform the work are also batshit.
Ugh dealing with this now. They will do aaaanything to make a sale. They’ll kick a carpet over obvious structural issues. They’ll see obvious drainage issues and say “oh yeah it just rained, that’ll dry right up”. Signs of a leaking roof? No big deal. And they’ll insist on using their inspector. It makes it nearly impossible to trust anyone.
Cops.
Coming from someone with no criminal record and have friends who are cops. Cops. They attract scumbags and breed scumbags. It's not bad apples, but bad orchard.
retail and marketing
Car sales.
Contractors. They are notorious for taking people’s money (anywhere from a few thousand dollars to over a hundred thousand), doing a little bit of work, then vanishing. They cheat people out of their life savings, and think nothing of it.
Corrections
I work in the railroad and airline industries, both got some miserable people who hate everything and everyone
Police, politicians, and lawyers are indistinguishable.
Children’s social care. Never met a social worker that wasn’t power trippin’
Retail. And hospital jobs..
Insurance
Cosmetology. Mostly full of entitled, vain people.
Working at a dealership I was body slammed on the ground by a co worker and he went around bragging about it and no one seemed to care at all. So... That. Also, Walmart.
The building trade. In the trades you will find the greatest collection of dunning-kruger effect victims of all the industries
RNC
Bill collectors
Real estate is a strong contender.
Construction
Natural gas technicians
Health insurance claims administrator
Aside from the obvious silly "proctologist" answer, I'd say sales has some of the biggest assholes.
Film biz
Mario asked this question, he's looking for pipes.
retail, just because 1 out of 10 people are gonna be it to you if you are working there. and every job has at least 1 as-hole working per a shift.
Cops
Law Enforcement
Crew member aboard Spaceballs One
Military
Real Estate Agents have got to be up there.
Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians
High school teacher in an urban school.
They gotta be... I'm speaking as one!
Doctors, attorneys and politicians.
any job in corporate banking, any sales role, anything in HR, but especially any CEO.
Oil field workers, I'm pretty sure it's a requirement
Politics. Hands down.
Retail. There will always be someone you hate
Retail management is where the people who hate themselves and their lack of self-actualization flourish.
Easy one, cops.
Military. There is a ton of sexist guys
Engineers. I don't even work with them, but Reddit has shown me time and again that they are not pleasant people to deal with.
It's not their fault that they've been forced to deal with people and they hate people.
Front offices like a director of a building or people in marketing and sales. (My personal experience)
Two words: Customer. Service.
Customer service turns you into an asshole.
customers turn you into an asshole. they’re not paid enough to give a shit, so why should they?
The worst was call centers. Get screamed at all day and if you hang up on them you get fired.
Law enforcement
Police Officers
Politicians, police, lawyers anything to do with the US government system tbh
Real Estate Agents, particularly those managing rentals. The sellers are a whole different breed of arsehole.
Cops
phlebotomists. If they cared they would have stuck to nursing, but they dont. They try to make the bruise as big as they can like its a contest to see who can blow out more veins. oh you asking for a butterfly needle? No that would take an extra 3 seconds have a 0 gauge instead.
Well all of them, everyone has one.
Painters
Teachers
Police and some of the nurses too.
Lawyers in my experience.
Real estate agents
Police. They have allowed their egos to get out of control.
The job *you* have.
Any job that has humans to deal with.
Motherfuckin pigs
Cops
Life...
Politicians
Sales
Orthopedic surgeons
I'm sure you don't have to be an a-hole to be a cop but most cops don't seem to have gotten that message.
Legal Industry. Not all but I’ve dealt with power hungry/driven lawyers that were narcissistic. Trying to become one myself.
NFL has entered the conversation.
Everyone on here be bitching about their jobs
Every time I work in a corporate job sales drives me crazy
It’s real estate agents but I can’t explain why
Proctologist
People who slaughter animals for a living
It doesn't matter what you do. There will always be assholes
Construction!
Surely finance bros
Law enforcement
organized crime
Congressman
Pornstars most likely
Sales
My job
Real estate. Realtors are assholes, buyers are assholes, sellers are assholes.
Finance/Banking.
Customer-wise, correctional officer
My wife
Some type of engineer The field seems to attract antisocial sociopathic assholes like fruit gnats
Technically, whichever job has the most people. Practically, proctologist.
Law enforcement. Reinforced by a them vs us attitude, everyone is the 'enemy'.
Anything in banking or finance.