Join the Fun!

Narrow_Housing3190 , Abhinav Bhardwaj Report

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Not everyone who works in fast food is:
- A teenager trying to make some fun money, or trying to save up for school or a car.
- "So stupid they couldn't get a real job"
- A felon who couldn't get hired anywhere else
- Lazy and entitled and "wants $15 an hour to play on their phone all day"

Most people who work in fast food are:
- Hard working, honest folks who want to be able to pay their bills and take care of their family.
- Fed up with you assuming they're too lazy or dumb to get a "real job"

Edit: Lmaooo this one really got some people riled up, huh?

Final score:

169points

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Kylie 9 months ago

There's nothing wrong with honest work. Wherever it is done.

94points

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Janitor here. We aren't lazy people who just sit around and drink coffee.

All buildings require a hefty amount of maintenance and most commercial buildings would be unusable in less than a month without a team of janitors and sanitisers.

We are constantly on our feet and there's always something that needs fixing, so even on a quiet day, I walk around 30k steps.

Cairo_Suite , Pixabay Report

Final score:

152points

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Miki 9 months ago

My brain is broken. Every time I head or read "Janitor" I am thinking about character from "scrubs" :D

27points

MooCowDivebomb , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Television and film portray some professions in a more positive light, and others are portrayed more negatively. Sales-related professions usually have it the worst. Think Wolf of Wall Street, where the characters are money-grabbing, coked-out, and ruthless anti-heroes. On the other side of the spectrum, there's The Office, where salespeople are often incompetent and spend their workday pranking each other.

Architects and engineers are the most positively portrayed professions in film and television. A member of the profession, Andrew Hawkins, writes that the media usually portrays them as "mentally unstable to comical to starving artists." He takes Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother as a good example of an architect in the starting stages of their career.

"I think that some of Ted's personality traits are similar to architects in the real [world]; sometimes pretentious, a stickler for semantics, full of random information, and small amounts of obsessiveness; all character traits I see all the time in myself and my colleagues."

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals I’m a librarian, and no I don’t shelve books all day. Those are pages (actual name) and I am so grateful to them for all the work they do. No I do not read books all day. I actually don’t get to read very often at all. If you apply to work at a library, a phrase like “I love to read books” is a red flag because you’ve not given any thought to actual library operations. I also rarely check books in and out, those are circulation clerks and they are badasses. Librarians do handle book purchasing, programming, and outreach; and what they do in those areas varies a lot based on their local situation. I’m an academic librarian. I work in a university and publish research, teach classes, program software, among other things.

Final score:

92points

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Sarinz 9 months ago

Academic librarian here (online university): I never see a single "physical" book. We buy digital books and collections, manage the budget, solve access problems, collect and analyze data and statistics, interchange MANY mails with colleagues, faculty, (very few) students, vendors... It's more like an office job, in a very specific area of expertise.

34points

Y-Crwydryn , NPS Natural Resources Report

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals That Geology is just sbout rocks. Its also about Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Earth history, how life began, how our planet became what it is today, volcanoes, earthquakes, Geophysics, mining, engineering and more, its a great career sector and generally well paid.

Final score:

87points

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o.0.moldy strawberries.0.o 9 months ago

i made a whole persuasive text about this in 5th grade lol

14points

RandomGrotnik , Christina Morillo Report

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Computer programmer (software engineer). Just because I write software doesn't mean I can necessarily troubleshoot your hardware when it doesn't work.

Final score:

81points

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Tina Girard 9 months ago

Agreed - IT work encompasses a whoooollle bunch of things beyond just software and hardware.

13points

Researchers at the Southern University of California analyzed data from 70 years of media subtitles and film in the UK and the US. They found that manual labor and military occupations were mentioned a lot less over the years.

The professions that get the most attention nowadays are STEM, arts, sports, and careers in entertainment. This correlates directly with what professions are popular at the moment.

They also found that there were more negative sentiments in the media towards lawyers, police, and doctors as the years went by. At the same time, TV shows and movies stopped lumping doctors and nurses into a monolith.

There are increasingly more mentions of specialized medical professions: cardiologists, gynecologists, and neurologists. On the other hand, attitudes towards astronauts, detectives, therapists, musicians, singers, and engineers became more positive.

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Bass players are failed guitarists.

Most of us can play guitar too. We just prefer bass.

WastaSpace , Pixabay Report

Final score:

80points

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Little Wonder 9 months ago

A good bassline can hold up a song, no shame in bass.

47points

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals a few for airline pilots

We probably don’t have a “route” per se. We fly a type of plane and we bid for “trips” each month which depending on the plane you’re currently flying could vary enormously.
If you’re senior enough you could bid a “route” let’s say weekday Miami to New York and back 10 times a month and that’s all you choose to do.

The Plane flies itself. This one isn’t really true. The autopilot is a tool to reduce workload but we still have to “tell” the plane what to do and understand the rules around when, why, and how to do it.

dave256hali , TRAVEL BLOG Report

Final score:

79points

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Nea 9 months ago

I wouldnt believe anything otherwise. Never gonna board one with no pilots.

33points

M O'Connell 9 months ago

Some airlines have tried to push for single-pilot operations, which is just as unsafe as having none at all. Task overload could happen extremely quickly in even a small emergency.

13points

Tim Fawcett 9 months ago

Airline pilot is one of those jobs where you really do not want them to be earning their money.

5points

Sand Ers 9 months ago

Except on those rare instances where you REALLY want them to be.

2points

Jrog 9 months ago (edited)

Well, it's kind of true that "the plane flies itself". Modern planes can land on autopilot, and nothing would prevent a system with automatic take off except there is no certification for that so it's not implemented by any manufacturer. That said, the role of the pilot is still an hard one, with supervision of the automated system, planning and configuration, management of comms etc.

2points

Ace 9 months ago

"Can land on autopilot"? No, not really. First, it's nothing to do with the autopilot, but something called ILS, Instrument Landing System and is normally only ever used in poor weather and visibility conditions. It's not as good as a real pilot in most conditions.

4points

Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago

Concorde had full autoland capability in the 1970s. It's nothing new. All that stuff is part of a suite of flying aids that have to be set up for each flight by the pilots.The pilots plan and direct every flight at all stages. Autopilots can't plan to avoid predicted bad weather, redirect the flight due to emergencies, so on and so forth. Autopilot's no use when you've got an engine fire, or when the weather radar's picked up something nasty ahead. The fact that typical airline pilots don't do a lot of manual flying is good: it reduces the risk of human error. I've heard (but not confirmed) that at least one reason take off isn't automated is to ensure that the pilots still do some manual flying every time. Airbus is experimenting with AI systems to interface the automated flight systems with air traffic control by voice, but that sort of thing is in the very, very early stages of development with no sign yet that it'll ever be deployed commercially.

2points

Admiralu 9 months ago

FAA and NTSB would never allow it.

-1point

BrownTabby 9 months ago (edited)

The last part is an excellent example of how self deprecation sets other people up to have a low opinion of you. Y’all are the ones who kept making posts about how all you do is sit and [insert leisure thing here] while the autopilot does the work, and now that’s become entrenched in the public’s perception of the job. (Also, for those who don’t know, the 2013 Asiana crash was caused by overreliance on automation!)

-3points

Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago

The Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash happened under manual flight control because the runway's ILS glide slope facility was out of action. The big problem was pilots seem to have expected the autothrottles to have been engaged, but in fact they weren't due to complex interactions between multiple control settings. Ultimately, the problem was caused by inadequate documentation from Boeing and inadequate pilot training on the part of Asiana Airlines: cost saving measures which resulted in the pilots being inadequately prepared for the circumstances they were faced with. The crash wasn't caused by "over-reliance on automation" but "penny-pinching by management" at both Boeing and Asiana.

7points

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals That all teachers are unhappy and underpaid. I am underpaid, but I am not unhappy. I love my job.

Xmvsqz , Max Fischer Report

Final score:

71points

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The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago

The amount of people that think teaching is easy or that teachers are just overpaid babysitters is astounding and enraging. Lots of people seem to have no problem criticizing teachers and schools but wouldn’t last a week doing what we do.

33points

Myles_away_from_you , Los Muertos Crew Report

#10

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals I am a phlebotomist (I draw blood) surprisingly I do have feelings so when you get mad at me for doing my job and hit/kick/spit/scream at me I get upset. Now if you cry during a blood draw I'm not going to judge you needles are freaky. Just don't take your bad hospital breakfast out on me.

Final score:

71points

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UndertaleLover (She/Her) 9 months ago

You've had ADULTS spit at you because you were drawing blood? Hmm.

48points

#11

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Firefighter/paramedic of 24 years. The vast, vast majority of calls aren't for emergencies. Far from it. It's almost all low acuity medical calls to nursing homes, people who don't want to wait to visit their primary physician, people who absolutely *refuse* to take care of themselves, people who want/demand for us to help them but won't lift a finger to help themselves.

Don't get me wrong, we respond to plenty of true emergencies and there are definitely people out there who are appreciative and doing the right thing when it comes to taking care of themselves.

However, for every one, actual, emergency there is *at least* one 400lb type 2 diabetic on the third floor apartment who hurt their knee two weeks ago and now suddenly during a snowstorm they want us to take them to the hospital because they ran out of hydrocodone and never followed up with Ortho like they were supposed to.

xts2500 , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

70points

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Little Wonder 9 months ago

I've a friend who is a firefighter and was *delighted* to be called to an emergency at 3:00am to discover it was someone who had a beeping smoke detector and wanted the battery changed.

30points

#12

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Work travel is not glamourous. It's oftentimes stressful with airport b******t, delays, etc. In most cases, work travel means doing your same job (or perhaps a more stressful part of your job) while jetlagged and exhausted in a new environment.

Can it be fun? Yes.

Is it a touristy, sightseeing trip? No.

TheMiddleE , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

67points

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Sarinz 9 months ago

I did this for 4 years in my early thirties, I thought I would love it. I ended up hating it and partly losing interest in travelling for leisure, too. Yes, well, Montevideo and Denver have very nice airports, I was glad to get to see them...

21points

#13

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals As a person that used to work in retail I can say we do not have that popular must have out of stock item squirrelled away in the back storage and hidden to sell to our friends or ourselves at a later time.

Inventory is all controlled and monitored via computer systems these days. Management would have a mental fit if our inventory system showed that we had stock of an item and can't account for it.

Edit

When you ask us to check in the back. I used to take a small break because I know how our inventory system works and there's no sense for me to make an effort to look for something that I know we don't have instock.

Alpha_Ryvius , Ksenia Chernaya Report

Final score:

64points

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Little Wonder 9 months ago

When I worked in a supermarket, stock came in on the truck and then straight onto the shelves, there was nothing "in back" except one time we had 13 trollies of cauliflower sitting out there and no one could explain why.

40points

#14

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals I don’t know why customers continue to think the manager is going to side with them. All they are going to do is say the same thing I’ve been saying for the past 10 minutes.

Leokina114 , Edmond Dantès Report

Final score:

62points

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lawrence Andrew 9 months ago

Sometimes they do side with the customer.

37points

#15

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals If you send your food back to a kitchen, nobody spits on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we'll fix it because that's our job.

CTnaturist , Rene Asmussen Report

Final score:

60points

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Nea 9 months ago

Thank you!

29points

#16

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Agriculture: we aren’t destroying the planet with pesticides, we are trying to make more food on the same amount of land to keep up with the global population ever increasing

wjn2448 , Jannis Knorr Report

Final score:

60points

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Papa 9 months ago

OP is correct. The result of going to all small farms raising crops with no pesticides or herbicides would be mass starvation. If you don't believe it, do some research on how many people have been fed by each person working in agriculture in the last few hundred years. Unless a big part of the population stops what they're doing and started farming instead it wouldn't, and couldn't, work at current population levels. This will probably get down voted to oblivion because people don't want to hear it, but that doesn't change facts.

42points

SuperIngaMMXXII , Karolina Grabowska Report

#17

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Medical lab/research techs don’t hold erlenmeyer flasks filled with brightly colored liquids up above their heads to gaze at them with light filtering through. Even in the fields where your role requires you to inspect the opacity of a sample or reagent, that is an idiot move. But it’s like the standard for stock photos and tv/movie extras

Final score:

58points

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Jesse 9 months ago

And the BP editors used that exact stock photo

66points

#18

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Fine artists are not troubled, antisocial, weird, angry, and can actually be pleasant to be around. Most of us just like to paint.

prpslydistracted , Rene Asmussen Report

Final score:

54points

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ConstantlyJon 9 months ago

Oh no BP! There's BOOBS!!!! My innocence is taken.

33points

#19

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Mail carrier. We don't decide whether or not we're going to deliver your check that day, we just deliver whatever the machines and clerks give to us.

Odd_Cat_5820 , Gustavo Fring Report

Final score:

51points

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lunitavet 9 months ago

THIS. I was post & small package deliverer, man some people do get mad at you for not delivering something it was supposed to be delivered that day. It is a very hard work, can take hours & hours to complete your assigned streets, under all types of weather. Most people don't care unless something goes wrong , then somehow its always your fault. Very undervalued job in many ways.

16points

#20

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Most lawyers spend a tiny fraction of their work time in court and many lawyers never go to court.

missuseme , Sora Shimazak Report

Final score:

47points

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Stephanie A Mutti 9 months ago

If you want to be a lawyer and be in the courtroom all the time, go into criminal justice as either a public defender or a district attorney. You will BE in the courtroom and it is amazing! Draining and stressful but nothing beats the high of making arguments.

14points

#21

Counselling. We can’t fix everyone. You can’t force someone into counselling. It doesn’t matter how much relatives want someone to do it (eg a wife forces a husband or mother forces a child to go) unless they want to, there is nothing we can do. They need to be willing to engage. Even then it’s not a fix all, for example with bereavement you won’t stop being sad, we just give you tools to learn to carry on with your new normal.

Doggybook25 Report

Final score:

47points

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Adrian 9 months ago

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

6points

Smellmyupperlip , cottonbro studio Report

#22

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals I'm in mental healthcare...so...*gestures to everything*

Final score:

43points

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Aballi 9 months ago

I get this! I work with previously incarcerated women, and I'd say about 99% have a substance use disorder and 95% have mental illness and past trauma. There is so much stigma on these populations, and yet most of the women I work with are smart, motivated, kind, curious, and compassionate. The majority of them have been dealt a sh**ty hand in life, and developed unhealthy coping skills along the way. It's an absolute honor to watch them when they work on themselves, no matter how hard it gets, and grow into productive members of society.

32points

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#23

Scientist who does animal testing. We can’t just do experiments that we want to. We have to get ethical approval for it first and then report back to the ethics committee every year. Violating animal ethics will get you placed in prison.

Journals that we publish in (because we MUST publish) will reject your paper if they suspect ethics violations.

People doing the experiments don’t enjoy hurting animals and there are no meta-studies assessing the impact of conducting animal studies on mental well-being.

Most of the studies I’ve seen in the lab I’m at and others I’ve worked in are very necessary research. Addiction studies, sleep studies, pain studies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies. You’re not going to get better drugs and surgeries without it being successfully performed in animals first. And no, cell studies and computer models are nowhere good enough to replace all animal studies.

Final score:

40points

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M O'Connell 9 months ago

Models are excellent places to start, but models are only useful because they are verified experimentally.

16points

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#24

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals That office people just chat and drink coffee all day, whereas for some office jobs it might be true its definitely not true for mine.

Cosmopolitan93 , Jopwell Report

Final score:

38points

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Monstarr the Divisive 9 months ago (edited)

Oh man, I get this. I work in an office for our communal administration in Switzerland and it's just astonishing how many people actually think we've got 2 hours of work per day and chill the rest. If they knew I was on this site for a few minutes a day, they'd execute me for being a parasitic lifeform.

8points

#25

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals As an automotive mechanic I'd really like it if people didn't try to lowball me on literally everything and accuse me of being a swindler with zero proof. In my experience most actual scumbag mechanics are actually very charismatic and friendly and lull people into a false sense of trust. Mechanics get all sorts of accusations hurled their way and there is rarely any actual basis for it since the average customer can't tell good work from bad.

I worked at a dealership where the parts markup was less than 10% and we undercharged customers constantly. We were still accused of being scalpers, or at least too expensive for no reason, with the usual reasoning being that our officially licensed dealership was not as cheap as a private shop ran by a 27 year old guy who opened it after apprenticing for 3 years and dealt in stolen parts.

PckMan , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

37points

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Jrog 9 months ago (edited)

This post has everything I loathe about most mechanics' comments on Reddit. Yes, there are a lot of cost and skills involved into being a mechanic. But every time someone rightfully says that $150/hr rate is way too much for this kind of job, and there are people doing that for $70/hr, they are up in arms, the cheaper option is tagged as a "27 year old guy who deals in stolen parts". Point is, mechanic rates varies wildly, and within reasonable limits the quality is not directly linked to price. You can have amazing service for $70 or awful for $150, and you may not be able to tell the difference yourself. Also, the difference is almost always only in the shop margin, since the average pay for a skilled mechanic has little variance across the market.

23points

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#26

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Design engineers don't engineer things to fail. They engineer things to last a minimum lifespan for a minimum cost. Sometimes we do that job well enough to convince you that it failed on purpose, but the reality is that a failed product will *never* make us look successful at our job.

Also, yes. We could have given you a much better product. It just would have cost more than you would be willing to pay.

Revenge_of_the_Khaki , ThisIsEngineering Report

Final score:

35points

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Verena 9 months ago

Yes, but: I bought a very expensive floodlight, with a loose solar panel and movement detection. It worked perfectly ... unless curious birds picked a tiny hole in the Fresnel lens. Result: The entire thing stopped working. No big deal, just exchange the 20 cent lens and everything will be okay. So I sent an email to the manufacturer, good quality name in Germany. Answer: Dump the entire thing, lamp and solar panel and buy a new one. This is ridiculous. 1. The lens was impossible to remove, which could have been made easy if a screwable tightening ring would habe been designed, instead of glueing the ring. 2. The lenses, the part weathering the worst, are not available as spare part. Not even on other websites. This is just dumb design and an incredible waste of resources.

28points

#27

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals All water whether it be toilet water, dishwater, shower water etc. goes to the same place. Doesn’t matter what it’s used for, it all goes to the sewer.

kpeterson159 , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

30points

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Jason 9 months ago

Unless you have a grey water system!

25points

#28

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Most American opera singers aren’t really that fancy. Most grew up middle class. The biggest fakes in our industry are Joyce di Donato and Thomas Hampson. They grew up in the Midwest. They use fake accents and are horrible at trying to give masterclasses. It’s incredibly common in American voice from the collegiate level to the big leagues. You’ll be talking to a professor with a chic British accent, then discover they were born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey and have never gone to the UK. Tons of fakes and scammers.

Gladysfartz , Victor Freitas Report

Final score:

29points

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Auntriarch 9 months ago (edited)

Not saying in this case, but sometimes your profession forces you to adopt a particular voice or persona. A long time ago I know, but Dame Alicia Markova was really Alice Marks. I have my telephone voice. Air traffic controllers used to have to lose their home accent.

18points

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#29

Already, I’ll bite. I’m former Air Force Intel, 14NX. Laser guided bombs and bombs of any type are not pinpoint accurate. There will always be some sort of deviation whether it be 200 feet or 1500. Even dumb bombs are not accurate with the on-board bomb calculator that most bombers have.

Pilots are f*****g tiny. I could have qualified to be a fighter pilot because I’m 5’ 9”. Pilots are also some of the biggest nerds out there since you need to be an officer to fly and all officers have some sort of college degree; even those going into OTC.

Military grade quality advertisements are not what you think. Military grade means made by the cheapest bidder and low quality. The quality is only good enough to be picked up by a 18 year old kid and not break.

Humvees suuuuuuuuuck. The AC barely works, it leaks more than a geriatric alcoholic with a badder infection, and the armor is non-existant.

Most of us don’t fly. My line of work was talking to English speaking locals and drawing up maps for soldiers in the field to use. (Lots of villages that have “disappeared.”)

The Middle East isn’t all deserts. There’s actually a lot of farms and a number of (somewhat) friendly people. One of our translators was actually a guy from north Lebanon who played a lot of video games. He was a big fan of Fallout.

T-55 is a better tank than the M60’s we still had in service. Not because of their features or gun or armor; M60 is superior there, but the T-55 was most likely to start up and work first try every try.

JMoc1 Report

Final score:

27points

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Jrog 9 months ago (edited)

And no, the M60 deployed in Iraq (I assume is 1990s Iraq, this was the last major deployment of the M60) were in the latest upgraded variant, dating back to the late 1970s. The marines got some older hardware, that was lagging behind but still better than the stock 1959-model T55s and unupgraded 1970s models used by the Iraqi. The Patton has a larger gun, thermal imaging, better fire control, more range at the price of slightly worse armor.

5points

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#30

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals I'm an electrician and it's not only a pliers and a screwdriver we use all day.

Civil-Shame-2399 , Ksenia Chernaya Report

Final score:

25points

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Jrog 9 months ago (edited)

Pliers and screwdriver are a good 80% of the job though. My electrician's belt has literally slots for screwdriver, pliers, insulating tape and a multimeter only (you can fit a cordless drill, but it would be uncomfortable).

7points

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#31

Pharmacy technicians do more than count pills and put a label on it.

We do a lot of work with your insurance company too on the retail side. I work at hospital where I make IVs for the OR. I basically am a chemist in that regard. And I'm supposed to be able to do it under the pressure of patient crashing and about to die.

If you don't know how IVs are made. In many cases I'm given a powder form of a drug and I have to add a diluent to it. It could be NS, sterile water, D5, albumin, etc. And then I have to manipulate the drug to get it into a liquid form. Sometimes the drug creates a lot of heat or sometimes a lot of negative or positive pressure and I have to be able to get it out of the vial. Often times under a lot of pressure to get it done as fast as possible.

Elsa_the_Archer Report

Final score:

15points

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Zaphod 9 months ago

I made custom IVs for a home-infusion company. You make them in a sterile clean room and suit up like a NASA satellite tech. These drugs NEED to be sterile and accurately measured.

4points

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#32

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals not my profession but my workplace. i work in a library and no i don't tell people to be quiet.

edit. for my second job. as an light director i don't choose the songs the DJ play

HelmerNilsen , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Final score:

12points

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BookFanatic 9 months ago

Often times my fellow librarians are the loudest people in the building!

2points

#33

That you get to help people (mental healthcare).

Make no mistake; you can't help anyone. They have to choose to want help. More often than not they don't want help but are there because they have to be.

theshizirl Report

Final score:

12points

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Multa Nocte 9 months ago

Clinical psychologist here - strongly disagree with this one.

7points

#34

Freelance writer/editor here, but I'm here to talk about freelancing in general.

All those stock images of being on a beach with a laptop while sipping coconuts are so stupid. How? For starters, it would be risky exposing your only way to earn money to sand, salt water, and the occasional theft.

And when we want to sit by the beach, the last thing we want is to bring work with us. I literally do not know anyone in my 9 years of doing this who willingly sunbathes with a laptop. What would the tan lines look like?!

What if you want to go for a swim? Do you just *leave* your stuff and trust that nothing bad happens to your only connection to money in a country where English isn't well-spoken?

Not to mention blue-screening/forced shutdowns thanks to overheating.

When you ask a freelancer the best place to work, it's almost always in our airconditioned hotel rooms or rentals, on top of our bed in our undies.

anima99 Report

Final score:

12points

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PFD 9 months ago

We need a stock photographer to do one of these and explain that no, they're not meant to be showing people at work etc, it's a visual representation of a concept. Or something.

5points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#35

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals Not every guy working in IT is a socially awkward a*****e. A lot of us are fun to be around and have had teh sex many times. Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of s**t

EDIT: or girl

MartyVanB , olia danilevich Report

Final score:

11points

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Mark 9 months ago

is that supposed to be 'the sex' or 'tech sex'?

5points

#36

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals That professors don't know anything about the world outside their specific area of expertise. It's just a lame stereotype that people came up with to try to feel superior to people who are more educated than them. You might be shocked to hear this but most professors are generally no different than people in any other profession. We have social lives, family lives, hobbies and interests that have nothing to do with our areas of expertise, we read the news, follow current events, pay bills and taxes, deal with the same a******s everyone else does (like the kind who think an entire profession can be dismissed with a childish stereotype) and basically deal with all the same b******t everyone else deals with. It's the kind of thing that shouldn't shock anyone except those too stupid to see the world in anything other than the most simplistic black and white terms.

schnit123 , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

10points

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Nea 9 months ago

Who thinks that?

5points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#37

Pediatrics: we don’t get any money from pharmaceutical companies. Don’t even get the fancy dinners that some subspecialties get. Pharm companies don’t care about us because we don’t use expensive/new drugs (heme/oncology being the exception but I’m pretty sure they don’t get fancy dinners either)

Savoodoo Report

Final score:

10points

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Ace 9 months ago

The days of big pharma companies bribing medical specialists are long gone. Big (or even small) dinners nowadays have to be individually justified with very valid reasons.

11points

#38

That a military contractor = Mercenary.

I fix cars lol

Hermes20101337 Report

Final score:

8points

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Mark 9 months ago

Mercenarily?

8points

#39

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals HR Manager.

I’m not out to get you or fire you. I do not have the ability to fire you out of nowhere. I’m just here to file the paperwork and to keep the company from doing illegal s**t.

thehippos8me , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

8points

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Multa Nocte 9 months ago

This has not been my personal experience, but I may be in the minority here.

16points

#40

I work in electric utilities

The big thing I wish people knew? **Electric utilities don’t make money by selling power, they make money by building new stuff.** Electric rates are set through a regulated process, and the utility is only allowed to charge enough to make a regulated amount of profit (usually around 10%) based on the capital investments they made that year. There is ZERO incentive for a utility to be against energy efficiency, they actually would love to install as much new stuff as they can justify to their commission.

Also just because I work in utilities does not mean I can make them get your power back any faster or make the trucks come less often or make the trees magically not grow into the lines

_Visar_ Report

Final score:

7points

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Adrian 9 months ago

Since you know that trees grow into lines you could magically schedule for them to be trimmed more often... ;)

1point

#41

30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals That hemp products don’t work the same as normal THC products. They do. Due to the laws interpretation (they are aggressively trying to change it) real cannabis is now being sold in smoke shops and [online](https://thca.co) across the country as HIGH THCA flower and edibles contain the same if not more thc than in licensed dispensaries.

Mister_weed420 , Laryssa Suaid Report

Final score:

3points

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Zaphod 9 months ago

The THC might be the same, but edibles "hit" differently than smoke. Edibles last longer and have more of a body high vs head high.

4points

#42

I sell guns at a gun store in the US.

1) there is no such thing as a “gun show loophole” for dealers. If we sell a gun at a gun show, we must run a background check.

2) there is no “boyfriend loophole.” That’s just a straw purchase and it’s already illegal.

3) A small gun is terrible for self defense and is hard to shoot accurately and safely. Rifles are a better option and are generally less likely to over penetrate walls.

CopperAndLead Report

Final score:

2points

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Wingsofwrath 9 months ago

* rifles * are less likely to over penetrate walls? 30-06, 7.62x54R, .308 Winchester, 7.92X57 would all like a word...

14points

Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.

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I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

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L.V 9 months ago

Bank: no we're not all rolling in money, you'd have to be quite high in the hierarchy. Most of the workforce earns an average salary.

9points

madbakes 9 months ago

Also, we're not trying to scam you. For the most part, we can offer solutions to problems you didn't know you could fix. There are some shady people, but most of us want to do right by you. We also hate overdraft fees.

3points

Disgruntled Pelican 9 months ago

Correct. And surprisingly, just because we work at a bank, it does not mean that every single person is counting money all day.

1point

Joshua Selbitschka 9 months ago

Or just because we work with money, it doesn't mean we're all qualified to give financial advice on every topic.

0points

Anonymous Anomaly 9 months ago

Veterinary technician: we too are underpaid (so are the doctors), we don't play with puppies and kittens all day. In specialty medicine (emergency, internal medicine, oncology, or my department surgery, we work a lot of overtime, and emotionally depleted, lacking sleep, hungry, on our feet moving 13+hr days. We get every type of bodily fluid on us. Our patients are scared and often want to hurt us, the practices do t charge high prices because any of us are pocketing that money. We're yelled at by angry clients because they didn't purchase pet health insurance and want to pay less or none, therefore we must not care about animals(?) We talk to clients, pull blood or other samples, run the lab work, answer phones, clean the hospital, monitor and treat patients, carry out Dr orders, paperwork, billing, prep work, fill medications, do complex calculations etc. (In human medicine practically all of those tasks are delt to different, specific job titles).

8points

Bored something 9 months ago

Thank you for caring for our beloved furred, feathered, scaly or other family.

1point

Silre 9 months ago

Welfare caseworker here! My clients are not lazy and just sitting around collecting a check and having babies. The majority work! Some of them work more than one job. These are human beings who need a little help! Oh, and people are not immigrating to the United States and immediately getting food stamps. You have to be in the country legally for 5 years to be eligible. Maybe have a little empathy, someday you may be on the other side of my desk.

8points

UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 9 months ago

Dog walker. It’s not, “Oh, fun! You get to play with dogs all day.” Many of my dogs have behavioral problems. F will lift his leg and pee literally anywhere if I don’t watch him like a hawk, and wants to murder other dogs. J hates going outside in anything other than perfect weather, and hides behind furniture to avoid going out. He wants to murder skateboards, motorcycles and scooters. B weighs a hundred pounds and pulls really f*cking hard the whole time. E will eat any food or garbage he can find on the street, but has a sensitive stomach, and in a busy downtown food and garbage everywhere. I keep an eye on their health and their behavior, and have spotted many health problems early in, including cancer.Also, I pick up piles of dog poop somewhere between 3000 and 4000 times a year.

5points

Alina Rainer 9 months ago

emergency care doctor: to 85% we can't solve your health problems in the emergency departement. If you come with sudden knee pain or a cold, chances are HIGH that you leave with the same pain/cold but with a sheet and prescription in your hand. also emergency departements are not staffed with specialists. It's the place where 3-8 young doctors are left to manage the crowd with one senior doctor. With your non emergency problem, you need an appointment in an specialised departement. And doctors also only work with their hands and medication, we cannot snip our fingers and. your contusion/disc prolaps/insect bite (!!) are magically gone. Crowds come to the hospital with this exact expectations.

4points

Admiralu 9 months ago

Once had 3 trips to the ER for my late mother who had Cardiomyopathy. Doc kept sending her home and I kept requesting that they admit her. They finally had to admit on the 3rd trip. Her Cardiologist was not happy about her being sent home repeatedly.

1point

D. Pitbull 9 months ago

Voice Actor (or anyone in 'front' part of the entertainment industry)- the only ones you really 'hear' from are those who DID get the lucky break/right-place-right-time... that's, like.. 1% OF the 1% who 'make it' - it's a very skewed and inaccurate view of what MOST will end up doing. By the way, for me, by "make it" I just mean, an amount I can live off of without being homeless.

3points

Admiralu 9 months ago

Voice actors are talented folks. Some of my favorite narrators are voice actors, notably the brilliant Marc Thompson.

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago

Bus driver. Simple profession, right? But everybody without exception, whenever they set foot on my bus, their IQ plummets on the order of 90%. It doesn't matter if it's tourists, transit, or charters - why does getting onto a bus turn you into an idiot?

3points

Bored something 9 months ago

I like my bus drivers. Most of them know me on site and automatically put my fare in before I even get as far as "Hi, how are you?" No, I'm not stopping for a chat, just being friendly and it is a quiet route. I always thank them and my kids do too.

1point

Little Wonder 9 months ago

Moderator/Social media. If you complain on a FB page or twitter and the company asks you to direct message them, they're not trying to "hide" the issue or complaint, they'll probably need your personal information to investigate the complaint and they don't want you posting your phone number or whatever on their public page, for YOUR safety.

3points

Show Thyself 9 months ago

Call Center - when you call us, we're the first instance (level1) of many. We aren't experts for all possible issues, we can't push something b/c it's really important (there are other customers with equally important issues). We have teams for specific parts which can only be contacted through tickets. We really can do less than you might think but try to make the most of it. Yes, the waiting line is horrible - try to be patient, the one you're talking to want to assist by crosschecking/asking more experienced colleagues/track back comments etc. This agent is crashing their daily goals for you. (Eg: our average Handling time is 8min - meaning: at eod we should've treated every customer within 8min, including documentation.) Funnily enough, almost all issues can be solved by just reading your bill/contract completely or make use of the FAQs

1point

Kaedyn Walsh 9 months ago

When I have a problem or something is making me furious and I need help, the FIRST thing I say or type is, "I'm NOT angry at you, I promise. I'm angry at the problem I'm having." and at the end of the help, if it's fixed or not, I make sure I say/type, "thank you so much. I appreciate you and I hope the rest of your day brings you kind customers." I sure hope it helps. I'm sure they get 90% of the ppl taking their anger out on the helpdesk workers :(

1point

JustinTime 9 months ago

The politicians are noticeably absent from this post.

0points

Danish Susanne 9 months ago

I think a lot of these misconceptions stems from the fact, that the jobs you don't have to do yourself seems easy to do compared to what you are doing.

0points

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L.V 9 months ago

Bank: no we're not all rolling in money, you'd have to be quite high in the hierarchy. Most of the workforce earns an average salary.

9points

madbakes 9 months ago

3points

Disgruntled Pelican 9 months ago

Correct. And surprisingly, just because we work at a bank, it does not mean that every single person is counting money all day.

1point

Joshua Selbitschka 9 months ago

Or just because we work with money, it doesn't mean we're all qualified to give financial advice on every topic.

0points

Anonymous Anomaly 9 months ago

8points

Bored something 9 months ago

Thank you for caring for our beloved furred, feathered, scaly or other family.

1point

Silre 9 months ago

8points

UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 9 months ago

5points

Alina Rainer 9 months ago

4points

Admiralu 9 months ago

1point

D. Pitbull 9 months ago

3points

Admiralu 9 months ago

Voice actors are talented folks. Some of my favorite narrators are voice actors, notably the brilliant Marc Thompson.

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago

3points

Bored something 9 months ago

1point

Little Wonder 9 months ago

3points

Show Thyself 9 months ago

1point

Kaedyn Walsh 9 months ago

1point