No saying politicians please

top 100 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 91 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that's not what they are paid big bucks for.

  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Wait, really? Do you have a link?

    The conventional wisdom is that they barely ever work, but they're also cheap enough per view it still makes economic sense for the one influenced purchase per person per year or whatever.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.

    For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent... I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes... Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen... Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I've run into can be silenced.

    It's unforgivable they've jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you're already paying for...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    keep an awl in the car... poke the speaker .

    or, get some 3.5mm male ends and stick it into the headphone port for the bild folks. does it screw the blind/visually impaired from getting gas? sure..but it's an unfortunate side effect to saving all our ears. I wouldn't mind if I was blind, I'd just ask the attendant for assistance in pumping.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a statistically significant population of blind people pumping gas? If you struggle to pump gas unassisted, I'm honestly not sure how you would safely operate a vehicle.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I dunno, machines have visual impairment functions like the audio jack which is why I said what I did

    getting gas doesn't necessarily mean they are driving. could be for lawn mower, or they are paying/pumping but someone else is driving.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I miss ads from the 60s-80s that were just a info-dump on the product with very little hype. You actually got to learn about what they were trying to sell you instead of a bunch of bullshit and a logo at the end.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • I’m gonna suggest two:

    • anyone at all who works at ICE
    • anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity
  • source
  • [–] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Hedge fund investors, CEOs, cops, self help industry folks, homeopathic medicine salespeople, organizational structure consultants, social media influencers,

    just gonna keep adding,

    Suburban development planners, strip mall developers, developers who displace PoC neighborhoods, anyone in health insurance in the US, Catholic not-for-profits writ large, Catholic priests, tourist helicopter pilots...

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS

  • source
  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    Corporate lobbyists. They've played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Scammer. People don't think it's a "profession" in the true sense but it absolutely is. Majority of higher up people in scam call centers or phishing campaigns do it as their day job and they certainly make more money than the average honest worker putting in the same amount of effort.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    It's absolutely true. They might be a building over from someone doing level 1 tech support but making half the hourly rate.

    Just having no morals won't make you rich, but it can pay the rent alright.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] 49 points 5 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I have a volunteer at my dog rescue who got her MBA but focused specifically on non-profit administration. She’s amazing, one of the most amazing we have because she handles grant writing and all the paperwork that keeps us in line. Her income job is with an np that helps refugees get their new life established.

    It’s like lawyers that actually use their training for good, few and far between but there are some out there.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago

    Advertisers.

  • source
  • [–] 59 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A β€œghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s proven to do is cause paralysis.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)

    I miss James Randi…

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • I do want to say that not all chiropractors claim to be able to cure everything with adjustments. Some are more like physical therapists. In fact my actual physical therapist did what a chiropractor does a few times. And I did feel better. But I have met plenty of the snake oil salesman type as well. Saying they can cure cancer with all sorts of things. Grifter gunna grift, no matter what name you slap on them.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago
    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'm sorry you had that experience. I work with former dealer technicians and they are good at fixing cars. Decent people all around. The service writers are often to blame. But with all that money on the line there is plenty of blame to go around. Fuck cars.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Real-estate agents, followed by recruiters. Those people usually make good money while being absolutely shit at their jobs.

    Try to find a real-estate agent who is capable of taking a single picture without their thumb partially covering the camera lens…

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I had an Army recruiter call me when I was in H.S. After his initial "sales pitch' I told him I didn't believe in the military. That asshole was positively apoplectic. He went on the predictable "if-it-wasn't-for-the-military-we'd-all-be-speaking-Russian" screed, to which I just hung up on him.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago*

    Lobbyists, Human Resources, CEO’s, Corporate Attorney, Hedge fund manager, FBI, CIA, Mossad, ICE and Televangelist

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago*

    Law enforcement, military, defense contractors, Ad people, Mainstream economists and the obvious that follow from those such as so and so at policy institute of so and so.

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Insurance workers/administrators. They are there to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. Luigi did nothing wrong. The night that human shit-stain got shot, Luigi was at my house drinking beers and playing cards.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Generically sales people. People that call themselves hustlers. Whatever grind mindset that the people who talk that up the most always ends up being people ladder stepping salespeople

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago*

    I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.

    I'm also a "fuck cars" adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people's personal property at the behest of capital.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago
    • (in-house) Recruiter
    • Project Manager
    • Agile Coach

    These are probably my top three. Recruiters who work in company HR, are usually very moody about who they pick, based on personal preference rather than facts. Sole proprietor recruiters are effective though, that’s why only the in-house ones.

    The other two are similar, but they’re the β€œI work in IT” people who neither possess nor perform the technicalities. Actual imposters (unlike many good folk who do fair work but sometimes suffer from the β€œimposter syndrome”).

    And yes, exceptions happen too. I just dislike these three roles in particular.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Real Estate agents. Pointless leeches no one needs.

  • source
  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago*

    Law Enforcement. Military personnel.

  • source
  • Outgoing call center, Door to door "sales", professional panhandlers.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Private equity firms, Attorney General, scalpers

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    HR managers. They are there to protect the company and not the employees

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago
    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Marketing consultants

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Then I won't say but thats my answer

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] [S] 16 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    That's gonna be everyone's answer, hence I asked for anything else

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    No, he wouldn't have asked if he did.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously, why ask if you know the answer. Maybe ask what everyone's second most hated profession is? Y'know, cause I can read, and if you already know the first....

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's not that DW is dumb, its that she is stubborn and obstinate about being told what to do. Clearly you understand what the post was asking, you are just upset because it didn't ask it the way you wanted and doesn't contain the sentiment you wanted either.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    Okay, I think we're crossed here. I am annoyed by your comment, not the way OP worded their question. Now my opinion, that this question is useless if you don't want the real answer, still stands. But you're not reading the room if you ask an obvious question but dont want the obvious answer. So my gripe here is with you not OP. Because they weren't reading the room as you claim. K, cool, facts are straight for you now.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Weapons dealers and manufacturers, realators, landlords, lobbyists, law enforcement officers, immigration officers or any other monopolists of violence.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I can't believe this is the only mention of landlords to date.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Probably because most people don't think of it as a "profession". Lots of landlords hire property managers, which is a profession, but the landlord themselves are just collecting the money. Small-time landlords that might have 1 or 2 places they rent out probably have a real job, and just landlord on the side.

    It's probably a relatively small percentage of landlords who actually do the work themselves, and do it as a full time job.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    It's not really a profession, more of a business which you may or may not run yourself.

    There's also the kind that's old and semi-retired and cares for properties part time. I'm curious what the breakdown is now. When it comes to the big properties, at least in Canada it seems like there's more multi-shareholder corporate landlords than Trump family-type landlords.

  • source
  • parent
  • CEO and Marketing

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago
    [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Scammers/grifters. Put all that effort into something moral and legal and make a living without having to worry.

  • source
  • Disability lawyers. Don't get me wrong, there are good ones. But I see so many that make people do everything themselves, help exactly zero with anything after the initial application, and they take a cut of the proceeds if people's applications are approved. They do something allegedly if the case is escalated up to a judge, but many of them that I've dealt with seem incompetent at best and predatory at worst.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Not mentioned yet, people working at real estate agencies (at least for renting). They take a lot of money from both sides and at best just unlock the houses so people can see them, at worst they are actively disruptive to the process.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Imperial stenographers

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Politicians please.

    And landlords and the entire finance industry.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Potentially unpopular response: engineers! I respect the knowledge and intellect, and I do not respect the deficits in curiosity and emotional intelligence. The engineers I know (some of whom I love) tend to be experts on the things they do know, but they don't know what they don't know.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    As an engineer, I can understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, it's a field that attracts a lot of smart and socially awkward people. Those whose heads enjoy engineering challenges often lack self awareness, and it results in either being really awkward or being obnoxious, or both. The "good ones" are less loud, so you don't hear from them as much.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I love engineers <3

    Software engineers though tend toward tech bro. But on the other hand there are Really Amazing SWEs that again just aren't that loud or annoying so you gotta be patient or lucky to meet them.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    If you walk into someone's home and it's full of the latest and greatest tech, that's a tech enthusiast. If you walk in and the most advanced piece of tech is a printer from 2005, that might be a senior software engineer.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    As an engineer, I suppose I should be offended by this. But I realize that it is based on "emotions," a type of internal sensory experience some humans have on a daily basis. This is not logical, and shall be disregarded. End statement.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I always see people online answering lawyers to this question but after thinking about it I don't really understand why. Sure they might represent some horrible people but in the end they are just there to make someone gets due process.

    I may have a theory but put your tin foil hats onMaybe it's a psyops from the prosecutors trying to discredit lawyers because they are making their jobs more difficult

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago
    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    united states businesses

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    People who lack basic empathy or sympathy for other people.

  • source
  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Why anyone should hate politicians is beyond me.

    Edit: I was talking about hating "politicians" as a profession. I am not talking about just office bearers, but also people whose career is politics, whether they win elections or not.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    There are definitely many power hungry and disingenuous politicians. Probably the vast majority. BUT hating politicians as a rule is just antidemocratic cynicism IMO. An excuse to not pay attention, to not hold politicians accountable, and to not want to compromise under any circumstance.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Liability lawyers

  • source
  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Defense attorneys. They give you false hope they can give you a positive outcome but they just want more billable hours.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments