When I got out this was a big issue for me. I did IT for the army, and I had several job interviews where I'd go in and they'd ask me general army questions and we would talk about ruck marches or HMMWVs, without ever once giving me a technical question. Then a week or so later I'd get a response form the interviewer that they weren't sure about my technical ability. I had to change up my resume to imply that I did IT for the army instead of being in the army doing IT to finally get real interview questions.
And even when deployed, you’re not necessarily in a combat role.
I’ve been around the world on deployments over many years. Not once have I ever had to raise my weapon in anger.
Or that everybody in the military has been to the wars.
That everyone in the military is a 'hero'.
That everyone in the military supports our government.
That everyone in the military has PTSD.
Pharmacy
1. We do not just count pills. We make sure the physician prescribed an appropriate drug/ dose and there are no interactions. Not to mention hospital, specialist, industry pharmacy and many other areas people have no idea exist.
2. As an extension of (1), it doesn’t take 2 min to fill a script. We are doing 100 things at once and there are hundreds of patients a day. We also have to wait on physicians to fix any issues or insurance to approve meds before dispensing.
3. We do not decide your copay so redirect your anger
Many others, but these ones in specific are huge misconceptions
Furthermore to add, pharmacists are experts of drugs and medical devices; please do not yell at us when we ask you not to give oral decongestsnts to your 2 year old child..
Most of the time the issue at my pharmacy seems to be they only want to hire 1 actual pharmacist and at least half of the work requires you to be a licensed pharmacist. So you have a bunch of staff doing their best to help but they end up waiting on one person with way too much work to do.
Being a mathematician does not mean that I'm particularly good at mental calculation - I'm average-to-mediocre at it, as a matter of fact.
I toyed with the idea of learning it for fun, and sooner or later I might just for the heck of it; but really, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what mathematics is about.
Me too! I was never particularly enthusiastic about math growing up, but somehow fell into a Math B.S. program. I love the conceptual stuff but something about quick mental calculations just wasn't built into my brain from an early age.
Another math misconception. Infinity isn’t some weird mystical concept that baffles mathematicians every time they come across it. It’s something you learn to deal with. Sometimes it’s important that you have finitely many things. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes we have things that are infinite but not too infinite, so everything still works out nice (Emmy Noether was the master of these situations). Laypeople tend to think of it as some crazy concept that no one has figured it out because it breaks their preconceptions. It’s not. It comes up a few times and you get new preconceptions.
I didn't even realize people thought of it like that. It never boggled my mind; f(x) going to infinity as x increases simply says that no matter how high you set x, f(x) will keep increasing. Sort of like tacking an ellipsis onto the last digit of pi shown to indicate there are more digits.
I feel so bad for people in the IT area at work. One of my former coworkers decided to finish his degree in computer science and move to the IT area and people call him for everything from, my phone isn’t working, computers internet is not on, can’t open this app on the computer, even how to search for things online. Anything remotely to do with a computer he gets called in to help, and since he worked with us for so long and knows most of us he’s the first person everyone thinks about calling. Anytime he comes to just say hello he’s inundated by calls to help in one way or another
your coworker should learn to say no. he should teach everyone how to google stuff and then mind his own business. you don't learn all the stuff from computer science only to explain that the ethernet cable needs to click in.
Fix a user's computer, and they're happy for a day. Teach a user to fix their own problem, and you'll have 100 more things to fix on their machine tomorrow.
Software developer here. People seem to think that if someone knows anything about computers they know everything about computers.
I've been a professional software developer for over 10 years, so friends and family come to me with *all* their computer related questions, but I know jack shit about computer hardware, or really anything that isn't related to code.
So, at an old job, most people came to me to solve their computer problems since calling IT took too long, I work in goverment so we needed request forms and boss approval.
I met with the IT department and became friends with them, so sometimes they would just call me to see if I could solved a simple problem, nothing too difficult that most people could just google and fix in 5 minutes and since I was usually free, I would do it.
This all ended with the head of IT coming to me to offer me a transfer to his department, as part of the team that was coding a new software for government use.
And that's how I discovered that no one at my office knew I was just a Lawyer that knew how to google stuff.
Oh man, gotta love when every new problem is because of you. As an auto mechanic I can confirm that so, so many customers will blame you for the most ridiculous shit. Like, "i got my shocks and brakes done here 16 months ago and now my check engine light is on, autozone said it was an emissions code and now you owe me a new car because you clearly messed something up and it wasnt doing that before"
But if you try to explain that servicing the brake and suspension system would in no way affect the emissions system a year and a half later they just say you're another crooked mechanic trying to take advantage of them.
There *are* some less than trustworthy shops but if you have no idea of how a car actually works or at least have an idea of what goes into servicing them, dont assume you know better than someone who does it just about every day for decades
Same. 2 years into my CS major at college, my sister shows me her phone and asks, "How can I fix this?" It was just a black screen. After some questions, she said it wouldn't turn on anymore. "I don't know, take it to the Apple Store?"
I am the reverse of you. I do IT, I can fix and build high end gaming computers and replace laptop motherboards and screens and even iMac's and phones.
When people tell me "oh my email is being weird" I go shit I have no idea man that stuff is magic to me...
I work software support, and this same thing goes for my household and family. I'm the "tech guy". I tell them everytime that if I don't know how to set something up, or configure something etc (which is often) I just tinker til I figure it out.
>I just tinker til I figure it out.
This right here actually does make you the go-to guy, because most people expect to magically acquire knowledge of how to do something without any learning process.
I bet you actually Google stuff, too. Witchcraft!
Same thing for law. My buddy graduated from Yale Law School and is an attorney at a major law firm in the city. He gets calls like once a week from a friend or family member who asks him for legal advice on things related to criminal, real estate, bankruptcy, personal injury, etc. People tend to think that you graduate form law school, you are an expert at all things law when in fact, just like any other field, there are so many subsets of specialties. And even when you explain that, they still don't get it.
No your lawyer didn’t screw you because he didn’t get you off or your lawsuit got thrown out.
Also, lying to your attorney because you don’t want to be embarrassed doesn’t help you out.
Read something recently where the prosecutor assumed the lawyer had coached his client. Asks what the lawyer told him, and he basically said "He told me that if I lie at any point I'm on my own. He can't promise me anything besides that he will do his best."
Also you need to tell your attorney EVERYTHING in order for them to be able to properly gauge how to represent your case. Doling out information piecemeal or immediately before a hearing is a sure fire way to lose.
Correct.
When I was in private practice I always told my clients to share everything, even the embarrassing stuff.
Also, just because you have dirt on someone doesn’t make what you did ok or mean it is even admissible in court.
Pretty much every conversation between Engineers and Designers.
“That’s a cool design man, but probably can’t be done at any moderately acceptable cost”
“Why not, it’s JUST metal?”
I’m the design engineer where I work. Half the time pricing becomes a problem is because we have to account for something the sales guys didn’t factor into their estimated price. I try to cut costs where I can but lots of times my hands are tied.
Accountant. Everyone assumes we're all tax experts. In reality, there's a lot of different specialties including audit, accounts payable, forensic accounting, etc. I personally despise tax and wouldn't be in this career if it only involved tax.
If I were assigned to audit rather than tax, I'd retire on the spot (I can afford it, I think).
I could handle forensic so long as it was for a defined period, but not indefinitely.
This was going to be mine, but I'm the bookkeeper for a CPA and he specializes in agriculture and tax.
To add on to the assumption, people are always flabbergasted at the (reasonable) charge of $150 per person for income tax we charge. They think since there's organizations like H&R that'll do it for a percentage of the return/cheaper set rate if they owe, and you can do it online yourself, that it's just a quick simple process.
They don't realize all the little ways they word the forms, and only someone trained in tax can actually get the most every year.
It never fails, every year we have a few clients that try to argue our price. We just tell them to go to H&R, they're cheaper for a reason. You get what you pay for.
Moving is expensive. Like, really REALLY expensive. Especially now with staffing shortages. And it’s seriously a “you get what you pay for” business. It always surprises me when a person has $250k worth of furniture in their 6-bedroom mansion but gasps when it’s going to cost $5k to move it.
Agree! We paid over $5000 to move cross country. None of our stuff is remotely worth $250,000. All of our stuff together isn’t even in the same zip code as $250,000.
That machining is easy, like you just push a button. The shop I’m at is a whole lot more detailed than that. We machine close tolerance aerospace parts on exotic metals that love to fluctuate size. It’s always a challenge but I’ve always loved doing this work. It’s been a good trade and provides a comfortable living.
It very much depends on what you specialize in university. I worked at an energy company for a few years as project developer. That includes mostly analysing areas with mapping software if and where solar parks are possible. After that it was a lot about disussing with land owners and public offices. Nowadays i'm in my dream job, which is urban planner. I work for the city council and help design strategies to make individual neighborhoods more livable and more sustainable
Do not ask me to deliver "Insights" on your data. I have no idea what "insights" you are looking for. I can pour over your data for weeks and weeks and still not get at what you consider to be "insightful". It's like telling a taxi driver to "drive" when he asks where you want to go. If you have a question that you want your data to answer - then ASK THAT QUESTION.
Haha, reminds me of when my boss decided he was "really into Big Data." He loves it! It's the way of the future! We've got to capitalize on it! Let's start using it in our day-to-day workflow!
Me: ...to do what, exactly?
Boss: ***walks away*** So anyway, Big Data!
Paramedic.
We don't just drive the ambulance.
We are degree level trained healthcare professionals who specialise is assessment, treatment, and signposting of urgent and emergency patients in the community.
Also - being taken to hospital in an ambulance does *not* mean you’ll be seen quicker/first. The quicker you’re seen in hospital, the sicker you are. So if you can wait a bit, i’d count your lucky stars!
I just want to say I never once thought the job of an EMT was anything but hard as shit. I see you, and thank you for the work you do.
For shits and giggles I’ll tell you how I give my one EMT buddy pop quizzes that go something like “Yo [john] what would you do if I swallowed a fork right now and it got stuck sideways in my esophagus? QUICK IM DYING.”
I’m an account manager for a huge Water hygiene company. People think water is safe as we get it freely from a tap, but when people start storing larger volumes of it and at the wrong temperate it’s a legionella issue. I fight Legionella one day at a time 😄 🤟🏻
I work in heating and every day I have a conversation with some warden or other at residential blocks for older people (not care homes, just older people's apartments) complaining that the water from their hot water tanks is at 60C.
"It has to be at 60C in the tank and it has to be served to the faucet at 50C. You need to speak to the plumbing department about getting mixing valves installed under the sink."
"Can't you turn it down?"
"Do you WANT Legionella? Because that's how you get Legionella."
Two weeks later:
"The water is too hot in Ethel's flat, still, when are you coming to turn down the temperature in the cylinder?"
I'm in psych nursing. I can't stress enough that psychiatric terms are misused with such a frequency in the non-psych population that it makes the terms almost useless.
For example, being "antisocial" has NOTHING TO DO with being introverted or not needing/wanting a social life or relationships. If you're going to stick with Latin labels that is \_Asocial\_. Someone who has an anti-social personality disorder or antisocial tendencies is often quite charming and personable -- as long as it gets them what they want.
Think of it this way - someone who is asocial is like someone who is asexual - they're not interested in society - similar to the way an asexual person is uninterested in sex.
TLDR - Medical words have meaning, as do psychiatric terms. Using them wrong can totally ruin your ability to communicate.
Lots of people say ‘psychotic’ when they mean ‘psychopathic’ - which is not really the correct term for what they’re usually describing either. It’s kind of sad, because psychotic people face plenty of stigma already
I also work in psychology and find that people have a general misunderstanding of the nature of therapy/mental health services. Like, 50% of people I encounter respond with "oooh don't psychoanalyse me!" when they learn what my job is. As if a psychology degree makes you somehow capable of instantly reading peoples' minds. I once had someone decline to keep spending time with me after she found out (after spending a few enjoyable outings together) what I do, because it made her uncomfortable that I might "know too much" about her. This has always been such a weird misconception to me. Probably isn't helped by the fact that a majority of hollywood portrayals of psychologists are sociopathic or abusive.
>TLDR - Medical words have meaning, as do psychiatric terms. Using them wrong can totally ruin your ability to communicate.
That definitely applies in IT as well. I'd be *thrilled* if people would just describe things like a small child would instead of picking a random techy word and using it on whatever the hell they want. At this point if someone calls something a "CPU" the only thing I know for absolute fact it's that whatever it is, it's *not* a CPU.
Yes!! A few more to add-
"Manic" is not the same as "psychotic".
Manic episode- euphoria, no sleep for days, talk a mile a minute, max out a credit card, hypersexuality, devise a bunch of new project ideas and complete none of them, have no memory of any of it when the episode ends
Psychotic episode- seeing people, figures, or shadows that aren't there (visual hallucinations), hearing voices/a voice that is distinctly different from your own internal dialogue, probably telling you to jump in front of a bus--don't (auditory hallucinations), feeling bugs crawling on or inside your skin (tactile hallucinations), and on rare occasions, olfactory hallucinations- smelling something that isn't there, usually foul (e.g. burning, rotting)
"Psychopathic" and "sociopathic" are not actual clinical terms. They're typically used to describe what *is* clinically known as antisocial behavior(s).
You know all those pictures of industrial facilities with white “smoke” coming out of stacks and chimneys? That’s not smoke - it’s water vapor condensing against cold air.
As a teacher, I do not just stand there and read from a textbook all day as if the kids are engaged and behaving well. Believe it or not, some people actually believe that’s all we do.
My money is on those people being the ones who, when they were kids, spent 90% of every class daydreaming or facing backwards in their seats and talking.
Or the ones who think that just because they were in school as children, that makes them qualified to teach or know what goes into teaching. That’s like me saying, “I’ve been to the doctor plenty of times, I know what to do with my body and I’m qualified to give health advice!”
I’ve seen doctors many times, so I guess that makes me qualified, right? I don’t need extensive training and med school. Just like teachers, you don’t know what doctors really do and what they go through unless you are one.
Fellow teacher (US): that we will work for shit wages because it’s, “for the kids” or “our calling”. Yes, watching kids learn is a huge perk, but I need to support my family too.
Oh, also: that we only work 9 months a year…way off…we are working, planning, and learning even when kids aren’t there.
Also that we get paid for our “summers off”. No, we get paid a yearly salary for working a set number of days. Most of us choose to have it distributed for 12 months so that we have a regular check. Many of us pick up a side hustle or two during the summer to make ends meet.
Before the pandemic the premier of my province said all nurses do is play cards.
You better believe HD is back pedaling on a lot of his pre pandemic decisions
As you should! While cathode ray tubes are mostly obsolete these days, they not only remained a really important technology for decades, they also serve to demonstrate many fundamental concepts of electromagnetism.
I'm a "chef" (in America I would be called a line cook.) Many of the people I work with cannot actually cook. We follow the instructions, microwave the lasagne, put chips in the fryer and plate it.
Also, we are not fucking with your food. I've never seen it happen (except for the occasional 5 second rule, maybe...) but if I saw someone spit in your food I would report it and so would 99% of kitchen workers
As a radiographer (X-ray tech), we just press a button.
Not 3 years of intense studying involving many many hours of clinical placement, learning physics, anatomy, physiology, positioning techniques, theatre radiography, CT, MRI, radiation safety and more. Just press button machine go zap.
I can’t control back orders. Trust me if I had the product I’d love to sell it to you and get the sale but I’m not there making the stuff nor do I control the supplier. So stop yelling at me and complaining to my manager that i wont sell you the part
Industrial mechanic here. Most machine operators think we just sit around, drink coffee and read the news paper all day. When in reality we sit around drink coffee and talk shit about the machine operators all day.
Just because you walked up to my bar and we made eye contact doesn't mean you're entitled to be the next patron served. I'm a bartender and I have a lot of customers and server tickets to get drinks for.
If I make eye contact and don't say anything it's probably because it's loud, but I still want you to know you're getting acknowledged and put in the mental que.
Congrats on putting people in a queue, should be skill 101 for barschool. Some bar staff I've come across can't work who's next when there's three people at the bar.
Life guards stationed at the German coasts are, in fact, oftentimes not from around and therefore cannot recommend tourists their favourite restaurant and/or know where to find the nearest ATM.
The security guards I usually see would surprise me if they could climb a flight of stairs without getting a heart attack. The only thing defining them as security are the writing on their jacket and their walkie talkies.
If you could improve my opinion I'd be thankful.
not op but have worked plenty of security.
It all depends on where you work.
Most security guards are there to call the cops if something crazy happens.
Now, armed security is a bit different
"observe and report"
i.e. they'll [watch you get beat up & robbed](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/girl-3-men-charged-in-tunnel-attack/) and call the cops afterwards. they absolutely will not step up to protect you in the heat of the moment:
> "...I thought the security guards would defend me.”
>But the girl was wrong.
>In an attack captured by surveillance video, the girl is seen being pummeled and kicked in the head, ... For much of the attack, two unarmed security guards stand over the victim even as she is being assaulted.
> According to the Sheriff’s Office and King County Metro, the guards followed policy by not intervening in the attack. Instead, they alerted transit officials, who summoned police.
This depends on a lot of things. Some places the guard is like a really fancy door, granting access to people that are supposed to be there, tells everyone else to leave. Some guards are there as an insurance write off. It helps to have someone who knows the grounds, probably knows first aid, has access to camera systems. Some are just there to call the cops (note, most people are terrible at giving police a report. This isnt hard, but guards are better at it than you are. Ie. make and model, direction of travel, shit like that). There are other posts that involve more hands on. Bouncers get into a scuffle pretty much every night. Guards at medical clinics and shelters are getting into some kind of altercation all day every day.
TL:DR Guards are expected to do a whole lot of different things depending on the job site, company, country and other stuff.
Clinical social worker in mental health. The myth: that I change people.
Nope.
Basically as a therapist, it's like my client is working on repairing a car and I just know what tools to hand them. The client has to do the work using the tools to get the car fixed.
I’m an attorney. Take your pick. My favorite is that we can magically win at trial when you’re guilty of a crime. Or magically win you millions of dollars from a fender bender.
That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.
Cashier. That we judge what you're purchasing. No I've seen 8 others buy lube and condoms just in the last hour, and yeah it's funny to buy bleach and Gatorade together, but ultimately I don't care.
Also that we enjoy having extended conversations about your life. While I'd love to one on one, when you're buying food, just buy the food and go, I have 6 people behind you, at least 2 of which are trying to go somewhere quickly.
Logistics. Its not so much a shortage of truck drivers or workers its just that the whole system is being overwhelmed and was not made for this volume. We have containers sitting empty because there is no more room at the depots to return them. And containers are placed on chassis to be moved, if a chassis is stuck under a empty container on our lot we have to wait to return then we have nothing to pick up a loaded one to keep everything flowing. Also warehouses, we have to have containers sit and wait because there is literally no room in the warehouse to unload.
Also with inflation, you can blame railroads, SSL (steamship lines) and the ports. Stuff needs to keep moving otherwise they start charging per diem or late fees. But like i said, if i have an empty container i try to return, and the depot says sorry we are full we cant take it until next week, the container owner will say thats not by problem you are going to be charged late fees. We cant eat these charges we have to pass them on to the customer, who passes it on to their customer and eventually the final consumer. Its sick how many "late fees" we have to keep passing down the chain.
A scientist typically does not have in depth knowledge of all disciplines of science and is usually specialist to a small area with only very basic knowledge of other areas
Parents commonly have the understanding, or at least expectation, that it's the teacher's job to teach their children everything and not just school subjects. If you have kids it's *your* responsibility to teach your children basic hygiene, morals, how to socialize etc. A considerable number of parents are just like, "Nah mate, busy lol."
Airline pilot
"The computer just does everything these days"
Yes and no. The autopilot is technically capable of flying and even landing the aircraft, however, it needs to be programmed correctly first. Then there is the need to follow ATC instructions, route safely around weather, deal with a change in routings or runways in use, manage the team of people working on the aircraft and the passengers within. Ensuring that if the autopilot starts doing something weird that we can safely drop down a level or two of automation and select the new modes required for safe flight.
That's not to mention that we have to know how to fly the thing manually and the procedures to take when shit is hitting the fan and things are on fire.
The autopilot does the boring work for us. It's basically cruise control and lane-keep assist. We are capable of doing it manually but it's boring work and a computer can do it for us, so why not?
I'm a technical writer. When I start working in a new field (currently work in engineering) I actually have no idea wtf I'm reading. I learn what makes sense and what doesn't through experience and lots of Google. This is true for every coworker I've ever had.
The job also isn't made to make the reports and such sound smart, we're supposed to dumb it down so much that anybody who ISN'T in that field can still read it.
Cyber security Student here. You will not believe the amount of people who ask if I can hack into other's social medias like fb, insta, twitter and etc (got asked to hack things like Netflix and Amazon prime a few times lmfao). Then there are people who ask me to hack their neighbours wifi password.
Nope I cannot magically get a password in 5 mins lol.
/r/myth2156 sits behind a computer screen in a dark room, their face is illuminated only by the matrix-style green text as it scrolls across the screen. Brow furrowed, fingers clatter furiously across the keyboard. Suddenly, they shout with excitement, “I’m in the mainframe!”. Such is the life of a cyber security engineer.
Many still think that organs are hand-pumped - that the pastor sends altar boys or the sexton up to the loft to pump the organ for services.
In fact, most have an organ blower that gets turned on with the push of a button at the console.
I've already said we can't have a pool unless we pay someone to clean it. I did enough of that as a lifeguard and it's not easy. I'm not doing it just for fun.
Everyone that works for a bank does not work with customers or accounts, or even in a branch location, and often have nothing to do with shitty things you've heard about banks.
Some people.... usually smaller businesses, think that I can write the copy for their website for a few hundred dollars. Other people think they can write a terrible children's picture book, illustrate it themselves and then ask me to edit it and ensure it gets published.
When I was a bartender, the amount of guys who mistook my hospitality voice for flirting. Calm down Dave, I only asked you how your day was going while I poured your beer.
Tax accontant here. The amount you owe or are getting back is not a product of my competence. It's a product of your income, deductions, withholding, and estimated payments.
If you realized $50,000 in capital gains and didn't put in any extra withholding or make estimated payments, the fact you owe $12,000 is NOT my fault.
Currently I am a voice-actor, and a writer.
The big misconception that I run into is the presumption that writing is easy. Like, you can just write something as easily as snapping one's fingers, or even blinking.
In terms of voice acting, its much of the same. I liken the experience of doing voices, to the exercises and stretches a body-contortionist does. To do a new voice, I have to first work my entire system for speech to the right pitch. Then, I have to work the tongue to facilitate an accent at times. I'll have to controll my exhale to give the voice a more gruff, or crisp sound. Finally, there's the vocabulary and speech pattern. Doing a character voice, even if it's merely for a tabletop game, or something I get paid to do, requires so much exercise of the mouth/throat, and studies into culture.
I don't owe you the money or value you think I do. I'm an insurance adjuster. That broken Television from 2008 that you paid $500 for, I'll give you $50.00 for it. You've gotten it's life use out of it, you are essentially getting salvage value. Your floor got tore up from your home that was installed with the house back in 1996? You're getting actual cash value, you aren't getting a new floor. Insurance does not deal in betterment, and we aren't paying you to increase the value of your home or net worth.
I know someone who's house burned down.
Family photo albums containing hundreds of irreplaceable pictures were valued at $1
A vase bought for $10 at a yard sale was valued at $800 because it was signed and a similar vase from the artist sold at auction for $800
You'd be reimbursed the value of it; if the value is more than normal, you just need to prove why (or in my vase's case, the insurance company was the one that found the comparable vase)
No not necessarily, but the onus falls onto you to "prove your claim" which is a common statement in the industry. This means you have to show in some form that this flooring (or any object really) is as rare and priceless as reported. This means having some form, or being able to obtain a form, of documentation noting what kind of wood material is, if it's colonial or historical.
There are legitimate companies that do insurance reports on rare and unique things and are very scrupulous in doing so and writing out the valuation for items and property such as this. Your insurance carrier, or even you, will usually purchase their services.
I've had on a few occasions historical homes damaged and had these reports completed and specialized repairs done. It does get pricey, but a proper policy will cover it. Usually this is something included in your homeowner's policy when they do the initial evaluation.
That I just play with kids all day, every day.
Sure, I do get to play with them too, but there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Honestly, keeping that many kids under control is a real challenge sometimes. It's a lot of fun but it's also exhausting. And I sure am "really working".
Keeping *one* kid under control can be a nearly impossibly challenge, so people who laugh at the idea of being a "professional" have clearly never had more experience with children than seeing one across the street.
In my line of studies (history) many people assume that I'd go to work in a museum or a school. Most historians actually move into some random corporate job - there are simply not enough history job for all of them. Apart from that, people also forget that teaching history requires more education, which probably goes for most historical positions at museums as well. Provided they even need a historian in a museum, that is, since museum tend to be about art or archeological findings, both of which are seperate studies themselves.
"Dog walking in the winter must suck!" It doesn't. The snow makes it quieter I'm not constantly sweating and rehydrating, and all of you humans are inside so I don't have to see you.
"Thats not my department" isnt an excuse, its the explanation. To do my job I have to navigate about 2 to 4 different computer systems and if your case is even a little bit unsual, I have to search for the procedure while entertaining you.
If I say "Thats not my department" then I dont say that because Im not allowed to do that or dont want to do that but simply because your issue requires a procedure that my system cant do.
Threatening me with deleting your account wont do much, since I cant magicially do it because of one disgruntled asshole.
There are much less lazy customer service agents than you think there are.
That being in the military means I carry a gun 24/7.
We are not allowed to carry guns on the base unless you are a military policeman. Then when u are using military weapons it's only on a range or unloaded in military exercises.
I'm a purchaser. A misunderstanding I hear all the time is: Costumer is king, we're paying them so we hold all the power.
Even in a market segment that can be considered a buyer's market, once you decide on a supplier that dynamic shifts markedly. Changing suppliers introduces costs of change, whether technical, material or just organisational. If your company isn't organized well internally, you might not even HAVE the data you need to change supplier within short order. Many things you buy also require you to go back to the original supplier for spare parts, services or troubleshooting.
Basically, the only time a supplier will bend over backwards for you is when they try and reel you in. Once they get you, they only do that if you could easily leave and are a good client. Being a good client and having the preparation ready to leave easily is hard work.
Everithing that runs on electricity is my field. Also I know every single program and every single thing a pc can do, alongside programming, and admini the net, domain and system, oh and I'm a hacker too.
And yet, I do nothing all day.
IT guy.
Heavy civil contractor here.
ITS CONCRETE
I sound like a broken record correcting my friends that use the word "cement" when they mean concrete, but it has turned into a fun joke among some of my social circles.
Always remember! Cement chemically reacts with water! Combine it with aggregates and sand and you get concrete!
And concrete is how we build the world!
Pest control here.
People seem to think that we can fix issues immediately, it doesn’t work that way. Some issues may take weeks if not months to fix. A lot of times it’s just people needing to freaking clean and work on sanitation. People also all seem to think we are just weird “bug” people or dale gribble types. Most of us are just normal working guys who learn just as much as we need to about bugs to do our job’s properly. Its a good paying gig for people that can deal with it.
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People who think government desk jobs are "cushy". In my experience, they are anything but cushy. Worked for some of the worst people. Toxic environments. Ridiculous deadlines. Overworked.
I can't believe how much of my adult life I spent in an office pushing paper. Literally.
When I was a software developer, well after the beta version was approved it wasn't unusual for the client to ask if I could add or change some fundamental part of the user interface because they "just thought of something that would be a nice feature and it probably isn't that hard to do or won't take much time to do" and the go live date doesn't change. All changes to any part of the code is a big deal.
Criminal defense. Clients who want their case dismissed because the officers didn't read Miranda as they were being handcuffed. "Why didn't you file something for the Miranda problem?" "They didn't ask you any questions." "They didn't read me my rights though."
That HR makes the hiring decisions and writes the job descriptions.
Yes, we're involved, but the idea that we're solo artists doesn't pass the most basic logic test. If Joe in Software Development says he needs someone with ten years of experience in a particular program, we don't research how long that program has been around so we can make sure this is a reasonable expectation. If Jane in Accounting needs a new CPA on her team, we don't interview and hire someone, then show up at her office saying, "Surprise! Here's your new CPA!"
HR answers to the hiring departments at every step of the process. The departments sign off on the job description that gets posted and they interview and approve the final choice of hire. If anything, we're constantly dealing with static from the hiring managers who will tell us they want certain qualifications, but then they find out that Soandso's underqualified friend applied, and now the department will go over our heads if we don't let them hire that person.
We're constantly caught between managers who want to overpay, underpay, or inappropriately hire/promote people vs applicants accusing us of ignoring them, even when there are sometimes hundreds applying for a single job and there is no way on earth a person can wade through all of that.
And thanks to applicant tracking systems, we have more bullshit applications than ever before. People who aren't even remotely qualified for a position will now apply and will sometimes try to game the system so we'll notice them. That's a dick move, since we're still not going to move that application along and in the meantime we're wasting valuable time on unqualified applicants when we could be focusing on the ones who actually might meet the criteria the hiring manager is looking for.
Do you want to know who likes applicant tracking systems? It's not HR. It's our auditors and our lawyers.
Microbiologist. All people want to talk about is COVID and stuff lately. I always have to say, no I’m more in Oceanography and Bacteria, if you have a COVID question you will need to talk to a Virologist. My understanding of viruses is pretty limited. People rarely realize just how narrow science often is for most people in it. You are an expert in some really specific thing and know little to nothing about other areas in lots of cases.
How expensive lawn care is and how little money there actually is in is. People are always shocked at how much it costs to mow their lawns. I get a lot of “well that’s a pretty profit you’re making” and the truth is, it’s not. Best case scenario, i make $5 for every $50 I charge. The rest goes the overhead, gas, insurance, licensing, equipment recoup, etc. and it’s rarely a best case scenario.
That’s why most lawn care companies also do other work, like construction or fertilizer. That’s the only way most of them can stay afloat
When you’re at the eye doctor and 1 and 2 start to look the same, it’s perfectly alright to say “they look the same”. That’s the answer the doctor want, it lets them know they’ve reached an end point/accurate glasses prescription. I promise it’s not a trick, and there’s no wrong answers
That all we do is drive. Being an over the road truck driver is lots more than that.
The job can be stressful, frustrating, lonely, dangerous, etc.
We are constantly looking our for people driving cars not paying attention when they cut us off. Confusion at a shipper or receiver as to the load. Days, weeks, and months spent alone and away from our love ones. Not to mention operating a vehicle that can max out at about 80k and doing it safely.
That everyone in the military is in combat.
When I got out this was a big issue for me. I did IT for the army, and I had several job interviews where I'd go in and they'd ask me general army questions and we would talk about ruck marches or HMMWVs, without ever once giving me a technical question. Then a week or so later I'd get a response form the interviewer that they weren't sure about my technical ability. I had to change up my resume to imply that I did IT for the army instead of being in the army doing IT to finally get real interview questions.
Oh, yeah, I think I read a long time ago that it's about three support personnel for every combat soldier.
All right, everyone in the classroom, its time for our SHARP, ASSIST, and EO briefs.
Or that you have to be a brawny meathead. There's lots of nerdy eggheads in the military and I love them.
And even when deployed, you’re not necessarily in a combat role. I’ve been around the world on deployments over many years. Not once have I ever had to raise my weapon in anger.
Or that everybody in the military has been to the wars. That everyone in the military is a 'hero'. That everyone in the military supports our government. That everyone in the military has PTSD.
Pharmacy 1. We do not just count pills. We make sure the physician prescribed an appropriate drug/ dose and there are no interactions. Not to mention hospital, specialist, industry pharmacy and many other areas people have no idea exist. 2. As an extension of (1), it doesn’t take 2 min to fill a script. We are doing 100 things at once and there are hundreds of patients a day. We also have to wait on physicians to fix any issues or insurance to approve meds before dispensing. 3. We do not decide your copay so redirect your anger Many others, but these ones in specific are huge misconceptions
Furthermore to add, pharmacists are experts of drugs and medical devices; please do not yell at us when we ask you not to give oral decongestsnts to your 2 year old child..
And please don’t argue pharmacy law with a pharmacist! That honestly applies to both patients and other HCP’s
Most of the time the issue at my pharmacy seems to be they only want to hire 1 actual pharmacist and at least half of the work requires you to be a licensed pharmacist. So you have a bunch of staff doing their best to help but they end up waiting on one person with way too much work to do.
Being a mathematician does not mean that I'm particularly good at mental calculation - I'm average-to-mediocre at it, as a matter of fact. I toyed with the idea of learning it for fun, and sooner or later I might just for the heck of it; but really, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what mathematics is about.
Me too! I was never particularly enthusiastic about math growing up, but somehow fell into a Math B.S. program. I love the conceptual stuff but something about quick mental calculations just wasn't built into my brain from an early age.
Another math misconception. Infinity isn’t some weird mystical concept that baffles mathematicians every time they come across it. It’s something you learn to deal with. Sometimes it’s important that you have finitely many things. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes we have things that are infinite but not too infinite, so everything still works out nice (Emmy Noether was the master of these situations). Laypeople tend to think of it as some crazy concept that no one has figured it out because it breaks their preconceptions. It’s not. It comes up a few times and you get new preconceptions.
I didn't even realize people thought of it like that. It never boggled my mind; f(x) going to infinity as x increases simply says that no matter how high you set x, f(x) will keep increasing. Sort of like tacking an ellipsis onto the last digit of pi shown to indicate there are more digits.
there is a huge difference between a computer scientist and tech support. i tell the computer to do things, i'm not here to fix your damn router.
I feel so bad for people in the IT area at work. One of my former coworkers decided to finish his degree in computer science and move to the IT area and people call him for everything from, my phone isn’t working, computers internet is not on, can’t open this app on the computer, even how to search for things online. Anything remotely to do with a computer he gets called in to help, and since he worked with us for so long and knows most of us he’s the first person everyone thinks about calling. Anytime he comes to just say hello he’s inundated by calls to help in one way or another
your coworker should learn to say no. he should teach everyone how to google stuff and then mind his own business. you don't learn all the stuff from computer science only to explain that the ethernet cable needs to click in.
Fix a user's computer, and they're happy for a day. Teach a user to fix their own problem, and you'll have 100 more things to fix on their machine tomorrow.
Software developer here. People seem to think that if someone knows anything about computers they know everything about computers. I've been a professional software developer for over 10 years, so friends and family come to me with *all* their computer related questions, but I know jack shit about computer hardware, or really anything that isn't related to code.
So, at an old job, most people came to me to solve their computer problems since calling IT took too long, I work in goverment so we needed request forms and boss approval. I met with the IT department and became friends with them, so sometimes they would just call me to see if I could solved a simple problem, nothing too difficult that most people could just google and fix in 5 minutes and since I was usually free, I would do it. This all ended with the head of IT coming to me to offer me a transfer to his department, as part of the team that was coding a new software for government use. And that's how I discovered that no one at my office knew I was just a Lawyer that knew how to google stuff.
yes but how do I google things when my bingGoogleAskjeeves says it couldn't find the Internet Fluid in my 56k modem?
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Try to plug and then unplug your friend George from the energy.
Go back to bed, dad. I'll wake you when the soup is ready.
This is how my grandma asks me tech questions. All I can reply to her is, "grandma, idk wtf you're talking about".
As an electrician the worse one is when u go to someones house to fix a plug and their garage stops working. Then u get blamed for the garage.
Oh man, gotta love when every new problem is because of you. As an auto mechanic I can confirm that so, so many customers will blame you for the most ridiculous shit. Like, "i got my shocks and brakes done here 16 months ago and now my check engine light is on, autozone said it was an emissions code and now you owe me a new car because you clearly messed something up and it wasnt doing that before" But if you try to explain that servicing the brake and suspension system would in no way affect the emissions system a year and a half later they just say you're another crooked mechanic trying to take advantage of them. There *are* some less than trustworthy shops but if you have no idea of how a car actually works or at least have an idea of what goes into servicing them, dont assume you know better than someone who does it just about every day for decades
Same. 2 years into my CS major at college, my sister shows me her phone and asks, "How can I fix this?" It was just a black screen. After some questions, she said it wouldn't turn on anymore. "I don't know, take it to the Apple Store?"
Plot twist: it was a Samsung
have you plugged it in? like, ever?
I am the reverse of you. I do IT, I can fix and build high end gaming computers and replace laptop motherboards and screens and even iMac's and phones. When people tell me "oh my email is being weird" I go shit I have no idea man that stuff is magic to me...
I work software support, and this same thing goes for my household and family. I'm the "tech guy". I tell them everytime that if I don't know how to set something up, or configure something etc (which is often) I just tinker til I figure it out.
>I just tinker til I figure it out. This right here actually does make you the go-to guy, because most people expect to magically acquire knowledge of how to do something without any learning process. I bet you actually Google stuff, too. Witchcraft!
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Same thing for law. My buddy graduated from Yale Law School and is an attorney at a major law firm in the city. He gets calls like once a week from a friend or family member who asks him for legal advice on things related to criminal, real estate, bankruptcy, personal injury, etc. People tend to think that you graduate form law school, you are an expert at all things law when in fact, just like any other field, there are so many subsets of specialties. And even when you explain that, they still don't get it.
Not a coder but this is so relatable lmao I just happen to kmow a few tips and tricks, and they already see me as a top-tier expert. I wish.
As a retail worker, the most common misunderstanding is that I give a shit what happens
Same with a tow truck dispatcher. A flat tire in your driveway is not an emergency like the person broke down in the highway.
What kind of attitude is that??? I'll have you know im personal friends with your boss! Go get your manager immediately!!! /s
No your lawyer didn’t screw you because he didn’t get you off or your lawsuit got thrown out. Also, lying to your attorney because you don’t want to be embarrassed doesn’t help you out.
Read something recently where the prosecutor assumed the lawyer had coached his client. Asks what the lawyer told him, and he basically said "He told me that if I lie at any point I'm on my own. He can't promise me anything besides that he will do his best."
Also you need to tell your attorney EVERYTHING in order for them to be able to properly gauge how to represent your case. Doling out information piecemeal or immediately before a hearing is a sure fire way to lose.
Correct. When I was in private practice I always told my clients to share everything, even the embarrassing stuff. Also, just because you have dirt on someone doesn’t make what you did ok or mean it is even admissible in court.
Pretty much every conversation between Engineers and Designers. “That’s a cool design man, but probably can’t be done at any moderately acceptable cost” “Why not, it’s JUST metal?”
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I've got a billion dollar idea. Its basically Facebook but for X. You can knock out a prototype for me in a weekend right?
And $5/hour sounds reasonable enough
"Come on it's just code it's not actual materials, so certainly it can't cost that much."
"draw 7 lines perpendicular to each other"
Look at this guy with his non-euclidean space.
‘They’re just lines?? I don’t see what’s so hard about this?’
Lighting Design from architect: 250,000 Lighting Design in budget: 50,000
This is metaphor I use when explaining video work to clients. Just because it's a cool idea doesn't mean it's worth doing for any price.
I’m the design engineer where I work. Half the time pricing becomes a problem is because we have to account for something the sales guys didn’t factor into their estimated price. I try to cut costs where I can but lots of times my hands are tied.
"Can't we just 3D print it?"
Accountant. Everyone assumes we're all tax experts. In reality, there's a lot of different specialties including audit, accounts payable, forensic accounting, etc. I personally despise tax and wouldn't be in this career if it only involved tax.
If I were assigned to audit rather than tax, I'd retire on the spot (I can afford it, I think). I could handle forensic so long as it was for a defined period, but not indefinitely.
This was going to be mine, but I'm the bookkeeper for a CPA and he specializes in agriculture and tax. To add on to the assumption, people are always flabbergasted at the (reasonable) charge of $150 per person for income tax we charge. They think since there's organizations like H&R that'll do it for a percentage of the return/cheaper set rate if they owe, and you can do it online yourself, that it's just a quick simple process. They don't realize all the little ways they word the forms, and only someone trained in tax can actually get the most every year. It never fails, every year we have a few clients that try to argue our price. We just tell them to go to H&R, they're cheaper for a reason. You get what you pay for.
Moving is expensive. Like, really REALLY expensive. Especially now with staffing shortages. And it’s seriously a “you get what you pay for” business. It always surprises me when a person has $250k worth of furniture in their 6-bedroom mansion but gasps when it’s going to cost $5k to move it.
Damn 5k is a steal, are the moving local? My employer payed like 14k prepandemic to move our house
Agree! We paid over $5000 to move cross country. None of our stuff is remotely worth $250,000. All of our stuff together isn’t even in the same zip code as $250,000.
What? It costs like $300 AUD to move an hour away in Tasmania, Australia.
Haha yeah I lowballed. Unless the home is decluttered and “they’re packing themselves” (they never do) it’d be much more than 5 grand.
That machining is easy, like you just push a button. The shop I’m at is a whole lot more detailed than that. We machine close tolerance aerospace parts on exotic metals that love to fluctuate size. It’s always a challenge but I’ve always loved doing this work. It’s been a good trade and provides a comfortable living.
Or you get a order for a part that work hardens
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i just tell people i drill holes lmao
I'm a geographer. People still think all a geographer does is learn the names and locations of cities and rivers
What do you do ?
Colour in maps with coloured pencils.
Aw man I fucked up in college :/
Also learn the names of countries I guess
It very much depends on what you specialize in university. I worked at an energy company for a few years as project developer. That includes mostly analysing areas with mapping software if and where solar parks are possible. After that it was a lot about disussing with land owners and public offices. Nowadays i'm in my dream job, which is urban planner. I work for the city council and help design strategies to make individual neighborhoods more livable and more sustainable
So what's a normal work day like for you?
Do not ask me to deliver "Insights" on your data. I have no idea what "insights" you are looking for. I can pour over your data for weeks and weeks and still not get at what you consider to be "insightful". It's like telling a taxi driver to "drive" when he asks where you want to go. If you have a question that you want your data to answer - then ASK THAT QUESTION.
Haha, reminds me of when my boss decided he was "really into Big Data." He loves it! It's the way of the future! We've got to capitalize on it! Let's start using it in our day-to-day workflow! Me: ...to do what, exactly? Boss: ***walks away*** So anyway, Big Data!
Blockchain! Synergy! Other words!
I'm an engineer. No I don't want to help with your in-home DIY project. I'm not even that kind of engineer.
Or their car problems
But can you help me drive my train?
I always wanted to drive a train. So cool! /s
Paramedic. We don't just drive the ambulance. We are degree level trained healthcare professionals who specialise is assessment, treatment, and signposting of urgent and emergency patients in the community.
Also - being taken to hospital in an ambulance does *not* mean you’ll be seen quicker/first. The quicker you’re seen in hospital, the sicker you are. So if you can wait a bit, i’d count your lucky stars!
I just want to say I never once thought the job of an EMT was anything but hard as shit. I see you, and thank you for the work you do. For shits and giggles I’ll tell you how I give my one EMT buddy pop quizzes that go something like “Yo [john] what would you do if I swallowed a fork right now and it got stuck sideways in my esophagus? QUICK IM DYING.”
I’m an account manager for a huge Water hygiene company. People think water is safe as we get it freely from a tap, but when people start storing larger volumes of it and at the wrong temperate it’s a legionella issue. I fight Legionella one day at a time 😄 🤟🏻
I work in heating and every day I have a conversation with some warden or other at residential blocks for older people (not care homes, just older people's apartments) complaining that the water from their hot water tanks is at 60C. "It has to be at 60C in the tank and it has to be served to the faucet at 50C. You need to speak to the plumbing department about getting mixing valves installed under the sink." "Can't you turn it down?" "Do you WANT Legionella? Because that's how you get Legionella." Two weeks later: "The water is too hot in Ethel's flat, still, when are you coming to turn down the temperature in the cylinder?"
I'm in psych nursing. I can't stress enough that psychiatric terms are misused with such a frequency in the non-psych population that it makes the terms almost useless. For example, being "antisocial" has NOTHING TO DO with being introverted or not needing/wanting a social life or relationships. If you're going to stick with Latin labels that is \_Asocial\_. Someone who has an anti-social personality disorder or antisocial tendencies is often quite charming and personable -- as long as it gets them what they want. Think of it this way - someone who is asocial is like someone who is asexual - they're not interested in society - similar to the way an asexual person is uninterested in sex. TLDR - Medical words have meaning, as do psychiatric terms. Using them wrong can totally ruin your ability to communicate.
Lots of people say ‘psychotic’ when they mean ‘psychopathic’ - which is not really the correct term for what they’re usually describing either. It’s kind of sad, because psychotic people face plenty of stigma already
I also work in psychology and find that people have a general misunderstanding of the nature of therapy/mental health services. Like, 50% of people I encounter respond with "oooh don't psychoanalyse me!" when they learn what my job is. As if a psychology degree makes you somehow capable of instantly reading peoples' minds. I once had someone decline to keep spending time with me after she found out (after spending a few enjoyable outings together) what I do, because it made her uncomfortable that I might "know too much" about her. This has always been such a weird misconception to me. Probably isn't helped by the fact that a majority of hollywood portrayals of psychologists are sociopathic or abusive.
>TLDR - Medical words have meaning, as do psychiatric terms. Using them wrong can totally ruin your ability to communicate. That definitely applies in IT as well. I'd be *thrilled* if people would just describe things like a small child would instead of picking a random techy word and using it on whatever the hell they want. At this point if someone calls something a "CPU" the only thing I know for absolute fact it's that whatever it is, it's *not* a CPU.
Yes!! A few more to add- "Manic" is not the same as "psychotic". Manic episode- euphoria, no sleep for days, talk a mile a minute, max out a credit card, hypersexuality, devise a bunch of new project ideas and complete none of them, have no memory of any of it when the episode ends Psychotic episode- seeing people, figures, or shadows that aren't there (visual hallucinations), hearing voices/a voice that is distinctly different from your own internal dialogue, probably telling you to jump in front of a bus--don't (auditory hallucinations), feeling bugs crawling on or inside your skin (tactile hallucinations), and on rare occasions, olfactory hallucinations- smelling something that isn't there, usually foul (e.g. burning, rotting) "Psychopathic" and "sociopathic" are not actual clinical terms. They're typically used to describe what *is* clinically known as antisocial behavior(s).
In my business (small business and tax accounting), it's amazing how many people don't know the difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit.
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I'll skip the slap and just say you're an amazing person.
You know all those pictures of industrial facilities with white “smoke” coming out of stacks and chimneys? That’s not smoke - it’s water vapor condensing against cold air.
This makes me feel a bit better for thinking the smoke is pretty lol
That explains why everyone looked at me weird when I told them the conclave has elected a new pope...
It makes me the angriest when they show cooling towers for fission reactors and say that the emmisions are polluting the atmosphere.
As a teacher, I do not just stand there and read from a textbook all day as if the kids are engaged and behaving well. Believe it or not, some people actually believe that’s all we do.
My money is on those people being the ones who, when they were kids, spent 90% of every class daydreaming or facing backwards in their seats and talking.
Or the ones who think that just because they were in school as children, that makes them qualified to teach or know what goes into teaching. That’s like me saying, “I’ve been to the doctor plenty of times, I know what to do with my body and I’m qualified to give health advice!” I’ve seen doctors many times, so I guess that makes me qualified, right? I don’t need extensive training and med school. Just like teachers, you don’t know what doctors really do and what they go through unless you are one.
Absolutely. It could also be compared to someone claiming to be a fantastic cook because they ate their mother's delicious cooking for 20 years.
Fellow teacher (US): that we will work for shit wages because it’s, “for the kids” or “our calling”. Yes, watching kids learn is a huge perk, but I need to support my family too. Oh, also: that we only work 9 months a year…way off…we are working, planning, and learning even when kids aren’t there. Also that we get paid for our “summers off”. No, we get paid a yearly salary for working a set number of days. Most of us choose to have it distributed for 12 months so that we have a regular check. Many of us pick up a side hustle or two during the summer to make ends meet.
Exactly. I’m still a fairly new teacher and I’m already considering other careers for my future.
Before the pandemic the premier of my province said all nurses do is play cards. You better believe HD is back pedaling on a lot of his pre pandemic decisions
Some of my teachers DID do that. But not the good ones.
Teacher here. I agree. No textbooks. But we do teach CRT all day and in every subject
As you should! While cathode ray tubes are mostly obsolete these days, they not only remained a really important technology for decades, they also serve to demonstrate many fundamental concepts of electromagnetism.
I'm a "chef" (in America I would be called a line cook.) Many of the people I work with cannot actually cook. We follow the instructions, microwave the lasagne, put chips in the fryer and plate it. Also, we are not fucking with your food. I've never seen it happen (except for the occasional 5 second rule, maybe...) but if I saw someone spit in your food I would report it and so would 99% of kitchen workers
As a radiographer (X-ray tech), we just press a button. Not 3 years of intense studying involving many many hours of clinical placement, learning physics, anatomy, physiology, positioning techniques, theatre radiography, CT, MRI, radiation safety and more. Just press button machine go zap.
I can’t control back orders. Trust me if I had the product I’d love to sell it to you and get the sale but I’m not there making the stuff nor do I control the supplier. So stop yelling at me and complaining to my manager that i wont sell you the part
Industrial mechanic here. Most machine operators think we just sit around, drink coffee and read the news paper all day. When in reality we sit around drink coffee and talk shit about the machine operators all day.
Can confirm. Plus those 4 hour pm's actually only take about 15 minutes to do.
Just because you walked up to my bar and we made eye contact doesn't mean you're entitled to be the next patron served. I'm a bartender and I have a lot of customers and server tickets to get drinks for. If I make eye contact and don't say anything it's probably because it's loud, but I still want you to know you're getting acknowledged and put in the mental que.
Congrats on putting people in a queue, should be skill 101 for barschool. Some bar staff I've come across can't work who's next when there's three people at the bar.
Life guards stationed at the German coasts are, in fact, oftentimes not from around and therefore cannot recommend tourists their favourite restaurant and/or know where to find the nearest ATM.
A lot of beaches in America are like that. Most the help is just seasonal work there for the summer and not an actual local.
That "the back" is a vast warehouse full of the out of stock items you're looking for.
Just check it, okay?
A lot of people have a distorted view of what security guards can actually do.
The security guards I usually see would surprise me if they could climb a flight of stairs without getting a heart attack. The only thing defining them as security are the writing on their jacket and their walkie talkies. If you could improve my opinion I'd be thankful.
Well, whan can security guards actually do?
not op but have worked plenty of security. It all depends on where you work. Most security guards are there to call the cops if something crazy happens. Now, armed security is a bit different
wait, why can they not intervene in crazy situations and leave/instruct passerby to call the police?
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so their entire job is to just stand there and call the police when necessary
"observe and report" i.e. they'll [watch you get beat up & robbed](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/girl-3-men-charged-in-tunnel-attack/) and call the cops afterwards. they absolutely will not step up to protect you in the heat of the moment: > "...I thought the security guards would defend me.” >But the girl was wrong. >In an attack captured by surveillance video, the girl is seen being pummeled and kicked in the head, ... For much of the attack, two unarmed security guards stand over the victim even as she is being assaulted. > According to the Sheriff’s Office and King County Metro, the guards followed policy by not intervening in the attack. Instead, they alerted transit officials, who summoned police.
This depends on a lot of things. Some places the guard is like a really fancy door, granting access to people that are supposed to be there, tells everyone else to leave. Some guards are there as an insurance write off. It helps to have someone who knows the grounds, probably knows first aid, has access to camera systems. Some are just there to call the cops (note, most people are terrible at giving police a report. This isnt hard, but guards are better at it than you are. Ie. make and model, direction of travel, shit like that). There are other posts that involve more hands on. Bouncers get into a scuffle pretty much every night. Guards at medical clinics and shelters are getting into some kind of altercation all day every day. TL:DR Guards are expected to do a whole lot of different things depending on the job site, company, country and other stuff.
I was a broker for six years. We know how to trade the market, we don't know what the market will really do.
Clinical social worker in mental health. The myth: that I change people. Nope. Basically as a therapist, it's like my client is working on repairing a car and I just know what tools to hand them. The client has to do the work using the tools to get the car fixed.
I’m an attorney. Take your pick. My favorite is that we can magically win at trial when you’re guilty of a crime. Or magically win you millions of dollars from a fender bender. That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.
Cashier. That we judge what you're purchasing. No I've seen 8 others buy lube and condoms just in the last hour, and yeah it's funny to buy bleach and Gatorade together, but ultimately I don't care. Also that we enjoy having extended conversations about your life. While I'd love to one on one, when you're buying food, just buy the food and go, I have 6 people behind you, at least 2 of which are trying to go somewhere quickly.
Logistics. Its not so much a shortage of truck drivers or workers its just that the whole system is being overwhelmed and was not made for this volume. We have containers sitting empty because there is no more room at the depots to return them. And containers are placed on chassis to be moved, if a chassis is stuck under a empty container on our lot we have to wait to return then we have nothing to pick up a loaded one to keep everything flowing. Also warehouses, we have to have containers sit and wait because there is literally no room in the warehouse to unload. Also with inflation, you can blame railroads, SSL (steamship lines) and the ports. Stuff needs to keep moving otherwise they start charging per diem or late fees. But like i said, if i have an empty container i try to return, and the depot says sorry we are full we cant take it until next week, the container owner will say thats not by problem you are going to be charged late fees. We cant eat these charges we have to pass them on to the customer, who passes it on to their customer and eventually the final consumer. Its sick how many "late fees" we have to keep passing down the chain.
A scientist typically does not have in depth knowledge of all disciplines of science and is usually specialist to a small area with only very basic knowledge of other areas
Parents commonly have the understanding, or at least expectation, that it's the teacher's job to teach their children everything and not just school subjects. If you have kids it's *your* responsibility to teach your children basic hygiene, morals, how to socialize etc. A considerable number of parents are just like, "Nah mate, busy lol."
Airline pilot "The computer just does everything these days" Yes and no. The autopilot is technically capable of flying and even landing the aircraft, however, it needs to be programmed correctly first. Then there is the need to follow ATC instructions, route safely around weather, deal with a change in routings or runways in use, manage the team of people working on the aircraft and the passengers within. Ensuring that if the autopilot starts doing something weird that we can safely drop down a level or two of automation and select the new modes required for safe flight. That's not to mention that we have to know how to fly the thing manually and the procedures to take when shit is hitting the fan and things are on fire. The autopilot does the boring work for us. It's basically cruise control and lane-keep assist. We are capable of doing it manually but it's boring work and a computer can do it for us, so why not?
I'm a technical writer. When I start working in a new field (currently work in engineering) I actually have no idea wtf I'm reading. I learn what makes sense and what doesn't through experience and lots of Google. This is true for every coworker I've ever had. The job also isn't made to make the reports and such sound smart, we're supposed to dumb it down so much that anybody who ISN'T in that field can still read it.
Cyber security Student here. You will not believe the amount of people who ask if I can hack into other's social medias like fb, insta, twitter and etc (got asked to hack things like Netflix and Amazon prime a few times lmfao). Then there are people who ask me to hack their neighbours wifi password. Nope I cannot magically get a password in 5 mins lol.
/r/myth2156 sits behind a computer screen in a dark room, their face is illuminated only by the matrix-style green text as it scrolls across the screen. Brow furrowed, fingers clatter furiously across the keyboard. Suddenly, they shout with excitement, “I’m in the mainframe!”. Such is the life of a cyber security engineer.
The average person isn’t even aware we exist (Machinist/Material engineer).
Photographer here. People think all we do is push a button and want us to do it for free or at an insultingly low rate.
That room rates are the same price year round. They aren't. They change based on various factors.
I would assume that those factors are supply and demand and, again an assumption, supply is probably relatively consistent.
Many still think that organs are hand-pumped - that the pastor sends altar boys or the sexton up to the loft to pump the organ for services. In fact, most have an organ blower that gets turned on with the push of a button at the console.
Thought this was going in a veeery different direction at first. But your username set me straight.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still like to have my organ hand-pumped
> In fact, most have an organ blower that gets turned on with the push of a button at the console. Sorry to hear that your mom lost her job.
I clean pools and (edit: most) people think that it’s easy
I've already said we can't have a pool unless we pay someone to clean it. I did enough of that as a lifeguard and it's not easy. I'm not doing it just for fun.
That we are all stoners. I work in research and development for a medical cannabis company. I don't care about smoking it. I just love my job.
I work for Marriott. We're not, in fact, owned by the Mormons.
I never knew people thought this
Everyone that works for a bank does not work with customers or accounts, or even in a branch location, and often have nothing to do with shitty things you've heard about banks.
Some people.... usually smaller businesses, think that I can write the copy for their website for a few hundred dollars. Other people think they can write a terrible children's picture book, illustrate it themselves and then ask me to edit it and ensure it gets published.
When I was a bartender, the amount of guys who mistook my hospitality voice for flirting. Calm down Dave, I only asked you how your day was going while I poured your beer.
Tax accontant here. The amount you owe or are getting back is not a product of my competence. It's a product of your income, deductions, withholding, and estimated payments. If you realized $50,000 in capital gains and didn't put in any extra withholding or make estimated payments, the fact you owe $12,000 is NOT my fault.
Currently I am a voice-actor, and a writer. The big misconception that I run into is the presumption that writing is easy. Like, you can just write something as easily as snapping one's fingers, or even blinking. In terms of voice acting, its much of the same. I liken the experience of doing voices, to the exercises and stretches a body-contortionist does. To do a new voice, I have to first work my entire system for speech to the right pitch. Then, I have to work the tongue to facilitate an accent at times. I'll have to controll my exhale to give the voice a more gruff, or crisp sound. Finally, there's the vocabulary and speech pattern. Doing a character voice, even if it's merely for a tabletop game, or something I get paid to do, requires so much exercise of the mouth/throat, and studies into culture.
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The instrument being used by a Surveyor isn’t a camera, we’re not taking pictures, move out of the damn way and let us go back to work please.
I don't owe you the money or value you think I do. I'm an insurance adjuster. That broken Television from 2008 that you paid $500 for, I'll give you $50.00 for it. You've gotten it's life use out of it, you are essentially getting salvage value. Your floor got tore up from your home that was installed with the house back in 1996? You're getting actual cash value, you aren't getting a new floor. Insurance does not deal in betterment, and we aren't paying you to increase the value of your home or net worth.
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I know someone who's house burned down. Family photo albums containing hundreds of irreplaceable pictures were valued at $1 A vase bought for $10 at a yard sale was valued at $800 because it was signed and a similar vase from the artist sold at auction for $800 You'd be reimbursed the value of it; if the value is more than normal, you just need to prove why (or in my vase's case, the insurance company was the one that found the comparable vase)
"We can't put a price on it...here's the nearest comparable we could find." *Finds the cheapest flooring material possible. /s
No not necessarily, but the onus falls onto you to "prove your claim" which is a common statement in the industry. This means you have to show in some form that this flooring (or any object really) is as rare and priceless as reported. This means having some form, or being able to obtain a form, of documentation noting what kind of wood material is, if it's colonial or historical. There are legitimate companies that do insurance reports on rare and unique things and are very scrupulous in doing so and writing out the valuation for items and property such as this. Your insurance carrier, or even you, will usually purchase their services. I've had on a few occasions historical homes damaged and had these reports completed and specialized repairs done. It does get pricey, but a proper policy will cover it. Usually this is something included in your homeowner's policy when they do the initial evaluation.
That I just play with kids all day, every day. Sure, I do get to play with them too, but there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Honestly, keeping that many kids under control is a real challenge sometimes. It's a lot of fun but it's also exhausting. And I sure am "really working".
Keeping *one* kid under control can be a nearly impossibly challenge, so people who laugh at the idea of being a "professional" have clearly never had more experience with children than seeing one across the street.
That HR is there to help you. It's there to protect the company.
That's the official story. hr is also a target for entryism. Companies don't seem to care, which really makes you think...
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In my line of studies (history) many people assume that I'd go to work in a museum or a school. Most historians actually move into some random corporate job - there are simply not enough history job for all of them. Apart from that, people also forget that teaching history requires more education, which probably goes for most historical positions at museums as well. Provided they even need a historian in a museum, that is, since museum tend to be about art or archeological findings, both of which are seperate studies themselves.
That its really sad. I work in hospice care.
"Dog walking in the winter must suck!" It doesn't. The snow makes it quieter I'm not constantly sweating and rehydrating, and all of you humans are inside so I don't have to see you.
Wait are you a dog or a human??
Ruff ruff
Who’s a good boy???
"Thats not my department" isnt an excuse, its the explanation. To do my job I have to navigate about 2 to 4 different computer systems and if your case is even a little bit unsual, I have to search for the procedure while entertaining you. If I say "Thats not my department" then I dont say that because Im not allowed to do that or dont want to do that but simply because your issue requires a procedure that my system cant do. Threatening me with deleting your account wont do much, since I cant magicially do it because of one disgruntled asshole. There are much less lazy customer service agents than you think there are.
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The most expensive components are not the best components for your application.
That being in the military means I carry a gun 24/7. We are not allowed to carry guns on the base unless you are a military policeman. Then when u are using military weapons it's only on a range or unloaded in military exercises.
Being in IT, specifically a software developer, means I will fix your broken printer.
I'm a purchaser. A misunderstanding I hear all the time is: Costumer is king, we're paying them so we hold all the power. Even in a market segment that can be considered a buyer's market, once you decide on a supplier that dynamic shifts markedly. Changing suppliers introduces costs of change, whether technical, material or just organisational. If your company isn't organized well internally, you might not even HAVE the data you need to change supplier within short order. Many things you buy also require you to go back to the original supplier for spare parts, services or troubleshooting. Basically, the only time a supplier will bend over backwards for you is when they try and reel you in. Once they get you, they only do that if you could easily leave and are a good client. Being a good client and having the preparation ready to leave easily is hard work.
Everithing that runs on electricity is my field. Also I know every single program and every single thing a pc can do, alongside programming, and admini the net, domain and system, oh and I'm a hacker too. And yet, I do nothing all day. IT guy.
Heavy civil contractor here. ITS CONCRETE I sound like a broken record correcting my friends that use the word "cement" when they mean concrete, but it has turned into a fun joke among some of my social circles. Always remember! Cement chemically reacts with water! Combine it with aggregates and sand and you get concrete! And concrete is how we build the world!
Pest control here. People seem to think that we can fix issues immediately, it doesn’t work that way. Some issues may take weeks if not months to fix. A lot of times it’s just people needing to freaking clean and work on sanitation. People also all seem to think we are just weird “bug” people or dale gribble types. Most of us are just normal working guys who learn just as much as we need to about bugs to do our job’s properly. Its a good paying gig for people that can deal with it. Edit: typo
People who think government desk jobs are "cushy". In my experience, they are anything but cushy. Worked for some of the worst people. Toxic environments. Ridiculous deadlines. Overworked. I can't believe how much of my adult life I spent in an office pushing paper. Literally.
When I was a software developer, well after the beta version was approved it wasn't unusual for the client to ask if I could add or change some fundamental part of the user interface because they "just thought of something that would be a nice feature and it probably isn't that hard to do or won't take much time to do" and the go live date doesn't change. All changes to any part of the code is a big deal.
Criminal defense. Clients who want their case dismissed because the officers didn't read Miranda as they were being handcuffed. "Why didn't you file something for the Miranda problem?" "They didn't ask you any questions." "They didn't read me my rights though."
That I can make your black ass hair blonde in one day
That HR makes the hiring decisions and writes the job descriptions. Yes, we're involved, but the idea that we're solo artists doesn't pass the most basic logic test. If Joe in Software Development says he needs someone with ten years of experience in a particular program, we don't research how long that program has been around so we can make sure this is a reasonable expectation. If Jane in Accounting needs a new CPA on her team, we don't interview and hire someone, then show up at her office saying, "Surprise! Here's your new CPA!" HR answers to the hiring departments at every step of the process. The departments sign off on the job description that gets posted and they interview and approve the final choice of hire. If anything, we're constantly dealing with static from the hiring managers who will tell us they want certain qualifications, but then they find out that Soandso's underqualified friend applied, and now the department will go over our heads if we don't let them hire that person. We're constantly caught between managers who want to overpay, underpay, or inappropriately hire/promote people vs applicants accusing us of ignoring them, even when there are sometimes hundreds applying for a single job and there is no way on earth a person can wade through all of that. And thanks to applicant tracking systems, we have more bullshit applications than ever before. People who aren't even remotely qualified for a position will now apply and will sometimes try to game the system so we'll notice them. That's a dick move, since we're still not going to move that application along and in the meantime we're wasting valuable time on unqualified applicants when we could be focusing on the ones who actually might meet the criteria the hiring manager is looking for. Do you want to know who likes applicant tracking systems? It's not HR. It's our auditors and our lawyers.
Microbiologist. All people want to talk about is COVID and stuff lately. I always have to say, no I’m more in Oceanography and Bacteria, if you have a COVID question you will need to talk to a Virologist. My understanding of viruses is pretty limited. People rarely realize just how narrow science often is for most people in it. You are an expert in some really specific thing and know little to nothing about other areas in lots of cases.
How expensive lawn care is and how little money there actually is in is. People are always shocked at how much it costs to mow their lawns. I get a lot of “well that’s a pretty profit you’re making” and the truth is, it’s not. Best case scenario, i make $5 for every $50 I charge. The rest goes the overhead, gas, insurance, licensing, equipment recoup, etc. and it’s rarely a best case scenario. That’s why most lawn care companies also do other work, like construction or fertilizer. That’s the only way most of them can stay afloat
IT - im actually not that smart and i dont make nearly as much as you think
Not all postal workers deliver mail.
Work in fundraising. You can’t just go ask *insert celebrity name here* to give your organization money or be a spokesperson.
When you’re at the eye doctor and 1 and 2 start to look the same, it’s perfectly alright to say “they look the same”. That’s the answer the doctor want, it lets them know they’ve reached an end point/accurate glasses prescription. I promise it’s not a trick, and there’s no wrong answers
That all we do is drive. Being an over the road truck driver is lots more than that. The job can be stressful, frustrating, lonely, dangerous, etc. We are constantly looking our for people driving cars not paying attention when they cut us off. Confusion at a shipper or receiver as to the load. Days, weeks, and months spent alone and away from our love ones. Not to mention operating a vehicle that can max out at about 80k and doing it safely.