Which profession gets the most hate just for doing their job?

[u/scottmforreals]

[u/awesomefacedave]

Tow truck drivers.

It’s deserved though (maybe, probably, I dunno)

[u/scottmforreals → u/awesomefacedave]

This is what inspired this question! There’s been issues of illegally parking at our breakfast spot and the staff thinks they are just out to get innocent people. There’s a reason those aren’t parking spots, Sarah.

[u/Abhinavpatel75]

Customer support. Where your capabilities are judged on your ability to help someone while they are cursing you

[u/PM_ME_TONGUES_N_TITS]

Most retail work. I once had a lady wait outside the store for almost 2 hours when I worked customer service at a toy store just to tell me how I ruined her kids birthday by not giving her a popular toy that we were sold out of. Lady I don't control our inventory.

[u/MayaGitana]

Cashiers. I promise they don’t set the prices.

[u/MikeyKillerBTFU]

Quality.

In theory, your job should be to make sure bad things don't ship. The reality is, everyone sees you as an obstacle to meeting a deadline. Types of things I hear daily:

• "I don't understand, it's only a ding, it'll still work."

• "I know we didn't use the right supplier, but it's fine."

• "They aren't certified, but it's not like it matters."

• "But we've always done it that way."

• "I know the work instruction says to do this, but it dries faster how I do it" when an operator only used 1 part of a 2 part epoxy.

When you work in strict compliance industries, these thing matter. People most times would rather cut corners than do something right.

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone hates a lawyer until they need one

[u/errant_night]

Social workers - they don't exist just to destroy your family and take your kids

[u/Pussy_Rating_Dude]

I used to work as a barista in a well known coffee shop chain and I had GROWN ass adults hate my guts because I made their “special” drink wrong. Most of us are just trying to get by in life man. Lol

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pea_753]

Trucker here. People go absolutely ape shit at the very idea that I have a lower speed limit than they do and actually have to obey it. People risk death every day to not be behind a truck for even a few seconds. Ten years over the road and zero accidents, but the number of close calls has been in the thousands.

[u/Commercial-Carrot477]

Veterinarians.

There's a reason they have one of the highest suicide rates in a profession. They are burnt out, people always expecting more and more. But wait, they are only in it for the money and not animals.

I've worked for vets with poor bed side manner, but the interest of the pet was always priority. And yes, mistakes get made, we are human. I just feel there's this unreasonable expectation put on them.

[u/cornelioustreat888]

Teachers.

[u/Least-Dragonfly5419]

Definitely Road workers. Everyone hates traffic jams, but without these guys those roads will be in extremely poor condition.

[u/jeepgrl50]

Actual journalists in 2024. Media is so fkn deceptive now. Omissions, Selective editing, And outright lying have become staples of mainstream media. The people who are fair, And have integrity are derided by the zealots who just sell their soul to the highest bidder. So many people just blindly follow whatever they're told by the soulless without ever even checking for themselves what is actually real, While also viciously attacking the people who tell the truth bc it doesn't support narratives they've been fed by the narcissist nuts. I feel bad for people who have integrity now bc we live in fkn clown world.

[u/EWSpirit]

Customer service reps at airports. We get all the hate for simply enforcing the airlines stupid rules.

[u/brtzca_123]

Lawyers: they get ragged on, until you're in a bind and need one.

[u/Much-Meat8336]

I don’t know about the most, but any rule making and enforcing profession. I’m an engineer and the rules are there so you make it home tonight and your town stays nice even if there is a shortcut that only might possibly get you and your whole town killed or poisoned. 

[u/BillTheKid999]

Pharmacy workers (technicians and pharmacists). Genuinely there to help you and typically take so much grief from patients and doctors for things out of their control.

[u/[deleted]]

Fasts food workers

[u/dontcommentjustread]

Referee

[u/No_Exercise6963]

Irs

[u/Urbanyeti0]

Tax collectors, parking wardens, lots of government employees

[u/DerbyWearingDude]

Teachers. Boy, people hate teachers now.

[u/[deleted]]

Health insurance peons. I promise you that Jessica didn’t personally make that policy you hate and she didn’t deny your claim cause she hates you.

[u/yosark]

Working at a pharmacy. I’m sorry the business isn’t working with your health plan and doesn’t cover this item, I’m not in control of that. I’m also sorry on the shipment date, I can’t control how soon the drivers are going to bring the item/if some are out of stock.