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It could be argued that, a lot of the time, the professions we do not have much direct contact with will not be well understood, and that counts for movie makers as well. People behind movies aren't always going to have deep knowledge about doctors, engineers or lawyers, and even if they have access to people from those professions that can consult them, the end result will still likely be changed for the cinematic or dramatic effect. So it could be said that it's not the movie maker's intention to deceive us when it comes to what people really do with their professions, but that's rather the by-product of trying to make the movie as concise and interesting as possible.

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread I work with horses. Movie horses are always snorting, neighing, grunting, nickering, or otherwise making noise practically every time they move. In reality, horses aren’t that noisy. They don’t snort or squeal every time they change gaits. I can count on one hand the number of times my own horse has neighed, and he was just screaming for his friends who he couldn’t see over the hill and who wouldn’t answer him.

fire_foot , Hans Splinter Report

Final score:

268points

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Jaguarundi 2 years ago

Most prey animals don't tend to be very chatty. If they are, they become an entrée very quickly.

112points

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread I.T. I don’t know everything. I can’t hack. If I don’t know the answer from experience I use google. But I do wear cargo shorts every day so they got that right.

intensenerd , Jiri Brozovsky Report

Final score:

250points

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Robert T 2 years ago

Jeans and T-shirt unless visiting a client.

42points

It could be said, though, that some movies don't even try to be realistic with their portrayals of various jobs, to the point where even people unrelated to the profession might cringe a little. For example, the way software development or hacking in movies is shown brings out not fascination, but rather a laugh, as the "hackers" or "programmers" on the screen assemble 3D shapes, smash their keyboards and type out gibberish.

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread In sci-fi movies when they rig up a massive, complex experiment and it works the first time.

otter_pickles , Luigi Selmi Report

Final score:

239points

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An Co 2 years ago

They should definitely do a scene where it does not work and someone says "Is it plugged in? Have we tried turning it off and on again?"

7points

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread If you stop CPR to pound on the patients shoulders, yell at them to "come back goddammit", and give 'em a kiss, they'll probably die.

EatYourPain , baronsquirrel Report

Final score:

235points

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Emilie 2 years ago

If your doing CPR they're probably already dead and they don't just spring back to live like in the movies either.

69points

I'd say that one big drawback of inaccurate portrayal of jobs in movies is that it gives a skewed perspective on those professions to people that might actually be interested in working in those fields. From kids to adults, movies will commonly show either the most exciting or the dullest parts of a certain job, when in reality, elements of both can be found in pretty much any line of work. Police officers have to do paperwork, lawyers don't scream at the top of their lungs in the courtroom, and builders aren't just background characters who just walk around pretending to build stuff.

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Mental Health Technician here. We do NOT like giving injections unless absolutely necessary. Too much paperwork. Also, most of us aren't complete controlling a******s that ignore or abuse patients. Everyone I work with is kind, patient, and respectful of our patients.

TooManyKids2016 , Bradley Gordon Report

Final score:

214points

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El muerto 2 years ago

most mental health workers are very good...sadly a few can totally ruin all the effort the good ones make

65points

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread I’m a bomb tech, we will blow up 20 robots before we send the most junior guy down to cut the red wire.

AgreeableMoose , Takuya Oikawa Report

Final score:

211points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

If your bomb disposal robot does not work do you try switching it off and on again?

94points

wynnduffyisking , Seattle Parks and Recreation Report

All in all, as with some things, movies probably aren't the best resource for helping you pick out the job of your dreams. That being said, it doesn't mean they don't entertain and bring us laughter and joy, even if some things are portrayed completely wrong.

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Being a lawyer is 3 months of paperwork and research and one day of trial... and we don’t yell at or intimidate witnesses - if I did what you see in movies I’d be disbarred pretty quickly.

Final score:

208points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

You can't handle the truth!

77points

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread You are definitely not, ever, going to roam around the building through the ductwork.

seeteethree , Patrick Finnegan Report

Final score:

207points

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John King 2 years ago

Not a homes ductwork, well at least only around 30ft of it you can. I've installed ductwork. Industrial/commercial settings you can stand up inside some of those things and easily room to crawl.....for hundreds if not thousands of feet

65points

#10

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Coding takes a really f*****g long time. I don't care how much of a genius you are. Whacking out 10k lines of code, debugging, testing, setting up environments to make sure it all works the way you want it takes ages.

Alundra828 , nigelpepper Report

Final score:

203points

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Paula Hurt 2 years ago

I love the fictional databases on cop shows, "give me a list of everyone in the city who is an accountant, with a 16 year old son that plays soccer and has debt problems!" 2 seconds later "we have 3 people that fit that profile!"

115points

#11

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Bookshop manager. I haven’t actually read all the books in my shop, nor do I know the personal history of every single author. However, there’s a decent chance I can find you that book you want that you don’t remember the name of but it’s blue.

Varta , Tim Green Report

Final score:

197points

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Lousha 2 years ago

I used to know this awesome guy who ran a used books' store. The place was TINY and absolutely everything was crammed with books, shelves had rows of books in front of books in front of books so you only saw a fraction of them. If you asked the guy if he had this obscure ancient greek grammar text book he wouldn't even look up from what he was reading and tell you it's in this row, that shelf, behind this and that book. He also managed to call me one day to tell me he tracked down the book I was looking for. I never gave him my last name, my number, and I'm not listed... He was either a wizard or a spy. One day he told me about this woman who was looking for "3 meters of red books" . She just had a fireplace installed and it would look so "smart" to have a row of red books above it... Guy sold her an insanely expensive encyclopedia series. It was red.

109points

#12

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread I am a cameraman, and yeah, I got the shot, so don't keep asking me if I got the shot because it is my job to get the shot and I got the goddamned shot.

miurabucho , Kārlis Dambrāns Report

Final score:

186points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

But..DID YOU?

8points

#13

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Truck driver here. When an air line gets cut or broken, the truck loses air and the brakes f*****g engage. The truck will stop. It will not lose its brakes like you see in the movies.

chicken_cider , flightlog Report

Final score:

178points

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Jaguarundi 2 years ago

I have seen that smoke show. The truck may simply disappear for a second while the brakes engage.

29points

#14

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Whenever I see someone welding in a movie I always notice how they aren’t wearing anything to cover the skin on their arms or body. That’s how you get serious arc burn that’s like a super bad sunburn. Hurts like hell.

Waitinforit , Dennis Yang Report

Final score:

175points

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El muerto 2 years ago

sweaty girl welding in thank top sells

108points

#15

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Bar musician. We're not all depressed and hoping some big talent scout from a label shows up. Some us enjoy playing in bars.

Notasupervillan , Steven Miller Report

Final score:

171points

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Jaguarundi 2 years ago

As a friend of mine once said, "The song ended, the crowd went nuts! They LOVED it! Oh, the team on the TV just scored..."

92points

ConditionalNovember , carmichaellibrary Report

#16

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Fun fact, archivists do not wear white gloves all the time like the movies show, especially not when handling paper documents since they can do more harm than good. I'm looking at you, National Treasure.

Final score:

156points

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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

I'm an archivist. Can confirm the gloves are usually 100% unnecessary as long as your hands are clean and dry.

74points

#17

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Car mechanics usually don't lie on a little board beneath the car. They lift the car over their head using hydraulic elevators.

RealMVPs , Carlos Ebert Report

Final score:

155points

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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 2 years ago

They lie a lot though

117points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

Both in films and real life....they f*****g lie alot

15points

Vicky Z 2 years ago

😅😅😅True

5points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

Yup

1point

Shelby Jackson 2 years ago

Uhhh. My dad is a mechanic. And before they had those handy dandy elevators to lift the cars he most certainly did roll around on a board under a car that was on jack stands. I used to run and jump on them and he'd yell at me because I'd break it and he'd have to buy a new one.

16points

Aria Whitaker 2 years ago

My grandfather was one too, Shelby, and I was thinking the same...I certainly remember his little car board that he used on rollers as well!

2points

David Gripon 2 years ago

What if they don't have a lift?

3points

Rhon Young 2 years ago

My dad had a small 2 bay workshop with only one hoist so they used the "little board on wheels " in the other bay.

2points

De Gueb 2 years ago

Mechanic 101, open the hood, shake your head, take a deep breath and say "this is going to cost you" Mechanic 102, open the hood, sigh and say " who the f**k did this"

2points

Robyn Bowns 2 years ago

That little board is a creeper, we used them in my grampa's garage cuz the jack stands are only so tall. Pros have all the good stuff to make the pain in the ass work easier.

1point

Alana Voeks 2 years ago

Depends where they're doing the work. Yeah, when my dad worked at the county he had that, but in the home garage? No way we have a lift lmao he's on that board!

1point

Chucky Cheezburger 2 years ago

I always called the little board a creeper, cuz you can creep under the car to work on it.Still have to raise the car on jacks and stands to fit though.

1point

Susan Thomas 2 years ago

Right? That would be guys in their own garage.

0points

Devil's Advocate 2 years ago

Depends on roof height and what you're doing, sometimes up and down on the lift takes longer when you need to work both above and below

0points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

Can add: you need to tell them what is wrong in some detail not just "my car isn't working" or "it's making a funny noise".

0points

Sasha 2 years ago

Back problems suck.

0points

Marilyn Holt 2 years ago

i think those little boards witih wheels are for the guy at home in his garage without an hydraulic lift.

0points

Magoomba 2 years ago

Not in my driveway they don’t.

0points

Cody 2 years ago

Has the spam-bot commented on every single one today? What the heck?

0points

Cookie Panda 2 years ago

It’s gone now

6points

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#18

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread As a restaurant cook/food handler. I have never done nasty stuff to someone's food, no one does. Even real a*****e customers that everyone doesn't like, their food is just food. Your server might let it sit around while they ignore you for treating them like a dog. But no one is spitting in your food in a real kitchen.

madman22377 , Tony Alter Report

Final score:

150points

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May 2 years ago

Don't tell people that - the fear of staff messing with their food is the only thing keeping some people from being complete asshats to the staff

134points

#19

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread That blackjack dealers have no personality. We live off tips. Even if you lose, we still try to entertain. Every famous casino movie show the dealer on the casinos side. We don’t want the house to win, we make money when you make money.

sgfy23 , Images Money Report

Final score:

150points

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Nick Lasley 2 years ago

Do you ever come across your hand twin, though?

9points

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#20

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread I'm a wildlife biologist. "Tranquilizers" (which is an incorrect term for the immobilizing agents we use) do NOT work immediately like movies make people believe. If drugged for the correct dose and depending on the drug you use, an animal can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to be completely immobilized if administered IM. Simply darting an animal and expecting them to drop right then and there just simply does not happen.

running_chipmunk , GeorgeTan#1...Off permanently Report

Final score:

143points

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Emilie 2 years ago

Hah! Read that all the people outraged over Harambe not being tranquilized!!! (Yes it was horrific and yes the parent should have been arrested, yes it was a terrible waste of a beautiful animal but it wouldn't have been done that way unless it was absolutely necessary! And yes I also hate children apart from my own)

37points

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#21

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Almost everything about forensic science is sped up/made up technology in the movies. Gives a jury a really unrealistic set of expectations.

squirrelnamednut , WorldSkills UK Report

Final score:

142points

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HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago

I was on a jury just after the OJ murder trial. They mentioned blood evidence and we all groaned.

24points

#22

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread EMTs never run into the Emergency Room. When we do visit the ER, we usually slowly walk in with a 450lb dialysis patient or intoxicated college student on the stretcher.

slushster , Erik Report

Final score:

141points

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May 2 years ago

I can't watch medical shows, they get so many things so wrong that it drives me crazy

53points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#23

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Probably one of the last things you will do in a library as a librarian is read books.

garfe , Eden, Janine and Jim Report

Final score:

126points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Do you have your hair up in a bun though? And shake it free when the hero comes through the door?

106points

#24

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Helicopters do not blow up as often as portrayed. Shocking I know.

tambrico , Christos Loufopoulos Report

Final score:

125points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

If there is a helicopter in a film, it has to explode. When Bruce kills the helicopter with his car, that is my favourite exploding helicopter.

43points

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#25

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread The Army. It isn't always about shooting and blowing stuff up in the Middle East. We actually garden (Get off SgtMaj's grass!), sweep the motorpool, and do janitorial services around our work area.

Filipino_Buddha , Valerie Hinojosa Report

Final score:

121points

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Judy Reynolds 2 years ago

I am heartbroken that all of the myths have been exploded! You are just regular people...

28points

#26

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread When I worked at the jail people would be a******s and they wouldn’t be given a phone call. They would argue about how we legally have to do it and we would have to explain to them that we actually don’t.

JMan1989 , Sara Report

Final score:

115points

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Trisha Howson 2 years ago

This is true......

19points

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

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#27

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread All fire/ems calls are not major incidents. Usually it’s the call because Grandma fell again. Also most of the calls on those shows would actually deplete an entire county’s (or more) resources.

microwaveburritos , Jennifer Kramer Report

Final score:

115points

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Penny Fan 2 years ago

One of my brothers is with cave rescue. The 57-hour rescue in Wales a couple of months back took ALL their resources, and a sizeable chunk of surrounding SAR organisations. They needed to set up a crowdfunder to get some back

41points

#28

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread A wedding planner. I don’t walk around with a headset 24/7, nor do I “cue” violins to play at a precise moment. That’s things that have already been determined prior to the big day. I trust my staff knows what they should and need to be doing. That includes my “contracted” staff.

N5t5 , Steve Parker Report

Final score:

98points

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rumade 2 years ago

You never see anyone else with a headset, so who are they talking to anyway?

48points

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#29

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread Movies always act like police officers never have to do paperwork and aren’t reprehensible for the damage they cause.

Illegal_alien4 , crash71100 Report

Final score:

94points

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Luther von Wolfen 2 years ago

Police officers are totally reprehensible for the damage they cause.

119points

#30

30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread That fashion designers make money. Better income to work for someone else and have them slap their name on it. My friends call me a “ghost designer” because I described it as “ghost writing, but with clothes”.

katy-peterpan , David Ashleydale Report

Final score:

91points

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MarmotArchivist 2 years ago

I love ghost designer, because it could also be understood as 'You design clothes for ghosts?'

34points

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

Lab technician: experiments using cells or tissues take days and getting results isn't a "press-this-button-to-get-your-answer" procedure. You design and perform an experiment and get numbers from that experiment, the analysis of which will let you draw a conclusion. More often than not, the conclusion isn't or is only partly what you were looking for, and that scientific paper you're reading took people months or years to put together.

32points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Amen, hallelujah, and 1000 upvotes. MD, did research mostly (Covid shifted things), and you aren't hopping puddles. You're plodding a loooooonnng trail. Which, alas, will sometimes end in a dead end.

9points

Marie Vallier 2 years ago

Yeah, and we don't have that magic centrifuge all scientists/doctors have in movies. You know, the one that does anything from sequencing to producing viruses or vaccines ? I so wish I had that centrifuge. All mine does is turn around...

6points

Jason Mills 2 years ago

For R & D that would be true but in a QC setting putting samples in and hitting buttons to get results is what I do for 12 hours a day every day lol.

0points

Katchen 2 years ago

Also, a lot of labs (not all) are ugly. Drop ceilings and fluorescent lights.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

We don't crack open chests in the ER every other minute. And it doesn't take 10 seconds. It's horrible, messy, awful. TV/books never show the *blood*. Or the smell. It's just.... Not that clean. Also, in medical research, we don't just go diving into a topic and find a solution alone. It's *always* a team effort. And it takes time. Shout it out to the grad students, the techs, the people who didn't get their name on the articles/headlines.

19points

Fried Mermaid 2 years ago

Graphic designer: No, Photoshop will not "enhance" the photo of a reflection in a rusty doorknob to ID the face of the killer

13points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/enhance-is-now-a-thing-but-dont-believe-what-you-see/

1point

Kesam 2 years ago (edited)

Journalists: most of us actually care about the truth and are decent people. And the job we do is essential for a functioning democracy, especially since that orange-faced s**t gibbon and his army of brainwashed idiots have obliterated the concept of truth.

12points

Vicky Z 2 years ago

Physiotherapists: We don't just lift people to walk out of the blue after being paralyzed for years! And no you can't walk just because you believe in yourself and have the will to walk! Unfortunately it doesn't work that way! I wish it did

11points

Eli A 2 years ago

But Charlie's grandpa got right up to go to the chocolate factory!

4points

abby smink 2 years ago

Real life doctors aren't the ones doing your x-rays, cat scans and ultrasounds. They're not the ones drawing your blood and sending it to the lab. That's radiology techs such as myself, lab techs, phlebotomists, etc. In a hospital, outside of an ICU, doctors actually spend very little time with the patient.

11points

Evil Little Thing 2 years ago (edited)

Weird that no scientist responded. Movies get us almost completely wrong. I can't count the number of times characters are searching for a cure for a virus but they look at parasitic worms in a drop of blood through a bright field microscope. Then there's all the lab equipment set up wrong or being used wrong, nobody ever wears PPE or washes their hands, experiments take like 10 seconds to design, set up, and complete, the characters never analyze their data (they just look at the raw numbers and magically know), and their conclusions are sweeping generalizations generally unsupported by their data.

10points

Marie Vallier 2 years ago

And we don't do DNA tests by looking at a stylish double strand of DNA turning around on the screen.

12points

UpupaEpops 2 years ago

SAR dog handler: our dogs aren't robots, they have bad days as well. We don't always find anyone alive. Well, most of the time we don't. It's extremely taxing on both the dogs and us. Especially when children are involved. A very good SAR-related movie is The Guardian. Related: I used to love shows like Criminal Minds until I became senior enough to start working with the Police as well. They very quickly sucked the joy out of those types of shows for me. :))

8points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

There was a movie called Other End of The Line that depicted a girl who worked at call centre in India for a bank in North America. She starts flirting with one of the customers, tells him lies about living where he is and ends up flying to him to pursue a deeper relationship. H'yeah, okay. If any call centre worker, whether it's seedier sales, research, collections, customer service, or anything, they'd not only be fired but could face legal action for breach of privacy and confidentiality laws, and lying to people is a big nono. I've had people try to flirt with me, ask for my personal number, I would lightly decline and tell them I gotta let them go. Staff are monitored like a hawk in real time and every call is recorded. And either way, as much as Hollywood loves to use attractive actors as call centre agents, it's hardly reality. Plus, we aren't that's interested nor do we believe anyone is being serious with their flirting.

8points

Daria B 2 years ago (edited)

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but, when there's a film about video games and artificial intelligence of NPCs, the developers are trying to play the game to find out whatever they're looking for, and, even when they look into the creation files, it's some kind of fancy scmency backstage game of its own. Unfortunately, that's not how it looks. It's just a series of codes and logs. Yeah, doesn't look as fun, but, on the other hand, it would take customer service waaaaaaay longer to respond to questions from players around the world if it were like depicted in these films. And then, there's real time programming (again, a fiction of such films). Whatever changes they make to the game, it immediately changes the contents, graphics, and all. Nah, the graphics department is a different team, and they collaborate. All changes are made on a different version (build) of the game which is not available to the public. After lots of testing, the new content is ready to be implemented through an update you will have to download from whatever market you're using to play the game. And the download itself might take a while.

8points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

I just saw that movie last week. I'm not very familiar with new video games now, but me and daughter were commenting on how unrealistic that studio was, and the studio boss was the cheesiest character. It was definitely parody on the gaming industry with referencing GTA, Cyberpunk, Fortnite and, I think, Minecraft, maybe other games I don't know about. It's an interesting concept, though, for a movie. A refreshing change from adaptations of older movies.

2points

John Louis 2 years ago

MAGICIAN - I have never know even one magician to pull a rabbit out of a top hat!!!

7points

MizAdeleM 2 years ago

My brother-in-law (amateur magician) calls certain other magicians that pull animals or items out of hats, etc. "dove stuffers'

3points

kaycee14 2 years ago (edited)

Ultrasound technician- I hate seeing ultrasounds on TV or in movies, because it's so wrong! Doctors do not do ultrasounds! Ultrasound is physics and angles, and doctors are not trained to do it. Also, the ultrasound tech does not tell you the results of your scan. The images we take are reviewed by a radiologist who then communicates with your doctor. And in a pregnancy ultrasound, if the fetus is still shaped like a bean, it's way too early to determine gender. Those depictions of a doctor setting the transducer on a woman's flat stomach and saying, "congratulations, you're pregnant and it's a boy" just make me crazy!

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

It depends on the age. Both my kids had ultrasound and after a few months you could clearly tell the gender on the scan. But yeah it was done by an ultrasound tech not a doctor.

1point

Octavia Hansen 2 years ago

Music studio engineers and producers cannot fix everything in the mix. If you sound like crap, it will be clearly recorded as crap. And for those male players who insist that their girlfriend sings (or plays), a studio will NOT improve their lack of talent. And in all my years of recording, a massively great song has NEVER been captured in one take.

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

Have you seen this? it is spectacularly bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954

0points

CatGirl 2 years ago

Literature / English Teachers: we don't have 'state of the nation' talks every lesson, nor does the majority of our lesson consist of responding to salient insights into Shakespeare from the teenage audience. It's mostly explaining why English prepositions make no sense but you still need to know them, and that using shorter, simpler words actually is better in your essays because they more accurately convey your short, simple ideas. Sometimes the thesaurus is NOT your friend.

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

Thesauruses mostly tell you similar words not the same. E.g. Privateer, buccaneer and pirate are not the same.

1point

Id row 2 years ago

Former court reporter here - I have rarely seen them get this right in movies/tv shows, it's such a peeve of mine considering how easy it would be to portray correctly.

6points

Jiminy 2 years ago (edited)

Newspaper journalist. We don't get a nice salary for writing half a page per week. We run from appointment to appointment, phone out butts off and then hack two articles per day into the computer.

6points

Pat Charleville 2 years ago

911 dispatchers. We don't have satelite views of your neighborhood and we can't transport officers to your house in seconds. And, no, i don't know where you are exactly, especially if you are in and apartment building or office building.

6points

creative user name 2 years ago

gamer (not pro, but still tons of myths and stereotypes about us) we arent all fat people living in our parent's basement, i'm pretty fit (read, skinnier then a skeleton) and i don't live in a basement.

6points

Beth Ellis 2 years ago

Human Resources- some people think we're all nice and people friendly (in our heads we hate you all)

6points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

The feeling is mutual. I never trust HR.

11points

Damon Tripodi 2 years ago

People need to remember that all the s**t they see on TV or the internet is FAKE

5points

Ghougle 2 years ago

"You use a computer at work? You must be in IT"

4points

PaxScientia 2 years ago

911 calls in movies and TV take about 15 seconds. 911 call takers are actually trained to ask a lot of questions, sometimes from a procedural script, so the first responders aren't just flying blind into an unknown situation.

2points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

Wtaf?

2points

Mr. Jones 2 years ago

I was the jury foreman on an attempted murder trial 10 years ago. The defense lawyer absolutely berated witnesses. He actually kept calling one witness a "street" person. She finally asked him what he meant and he then called her a "hobo" and then homeless. She finally looked at the judge and said, "I don't know what he's talking about. I witnessed the attack from the apartment where I pay rent." The defense attorney was awful. When I delivered the guilty verdict he got up in my face and told me he believed I coerced my fellow jury members. So he asked each and every jury member for a verdict, all of whom not only said guilty, but defended my honor. The judge had to tell him a few times to stop showboating, but that trial was just like every trial I've seen on TV. It lasted for 10 days. So, I don't know what this lawyer is talking about because I lived through it.

1point

Starlee Wanders 2 years ago

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0points

GoddessOdd 2 years ago

I was a little disappointed that there was no entry from a bartender, explaining that they don't know what everyone is drinking off the top of their heads, so ordering "the usual" only works if you come every day and sit in front of the same bartender. Depending on the bar, they also don't usually know the ingredients of every exotic drink and often need to look them up in the Bartender's Bible.

0points

Carrie Laughs 2 years ago

Knew a pub landlord who would know "the usuals" for the majority of people who came in once a week - he would have them ready before you reached the bar.

12points

Tim 2 years ago

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creative user name 2 years ago

hey, heres a number for you too call, 9 1 F*****G 1

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

32points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Amen, hallelujah, and 1000 upvotes. MD, did research mostly (Covid shifted things), and you aren't hopping puddles. You're plodding a loooooonnng trail. Which, alas, will sometimes end in a dead end.

9points

Marie Vallier 2 years ago

6points

Jason Mills 2 years ago

For R & D that would be true but in a QC setting putting samples in and hitting buttons to get results is what I do for 12 hours a day every day lol.

0points

Katchen 2 years ago

Also, a lot of labs (not all) are ugly. Drop ceilings and fluorescent lights.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

19points

Fried Mermaid 2 years ago

Graphic designer: No, Photoshop will not "enhance" the photo of a reflection in a rusty doorknob to ID the face of the killer

13points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/enhance-is-now-a-thing-but-dont-believe-what-you-see/

1point

Kesam 2 years ago (edited)

12points

Vicky Z 2 years ago

11points

Eli A 2 years ago

But Charlie's grandpa got right up to go to the chocolate factory!

4points

abby smink 2 years ago

11points

Evil Little Thing 2 years ago (edited)

10points

Marie Vallier 2 years ago

And we don't do DNA tests by looking at a stylish double strand of DNA turning around on the screen.

12points

UpupaEpops 2 years ago

8points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

8points

Daria B 2 years ago (edited)

8points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

2points

John Louis 2 years ago

MAGICIAN - I have never know even one magician to pull a rabbit out of a top hat!!!

7points

MizAdeleM 2 years ago

My brother-in-law (amateur magician) calls certain other magicians that pull animals or items out of hats, etc. "dove stuffers'

3points

kaycee14 2 years ago (edited)

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

It depends on the age. Both my kids had ultrasound and after a few months you could clearly tell the gender on the scan. But yeah it was done by an ultrasound tech not a doctor.

1point

Octavia Hansen 2 years ago

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

Have you seen this? it is spectacularly bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954

0points

CatGirl 2 years ago

6points

ZAPanda 2 years ago

Thesauruses mostly tell you similar words not the same. E.g. Privateer, buccaneer and pirate are not the same.

1point

Id row 2 years ago

Former court reporter here - I have rarely seen them get this right in movies/tv shows, it's such a peeve of mine considering how easy it would be to portray correctly.

6points

Jiminy 2 years ago (edited)

Newspaper journalist. We don't get a nice salary for writing half a page per week. We run from appointment to appointment, phone out butts off and then hack two articles per day into the computer.

6points

Pat Charleville 2 years ago

6points

creative user name 2 years ago

6points

Beth Ellis 2 years ago

Human Resources- some people think we're all nice and people friendly (in our heads we hate you all)

6points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

The feeling is mutual. I never trust HR.

11points

Damon Tripodi 2 years ago

People need to remember that all the s**t they see on TV or the internet is FAKE

5points

Ghougle 2 years ago

"You use a computer at work? You must be in IT"

4points

PaxScientia 2 years ago

2points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

Wtaf?

2points

Mr. Jones 2 years ago

1point

Starlee Wanders 2 years ago

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0points

GoddessOdd 2 years ago

0points

Carrie Laughs 2 years ago

Knew a pub landlord who would know "the usuals" for the majority of people who came in once a week - he would have them ready before you reached the bar.

12points

Tim 2 years ago

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creative user name 2 years ago

hey, heres a number for you too call, 9 1 F*****G 1

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