No saying politicians please
Outgoing call center, Door to door “sales”, professional panhandlers.
Marketing and advertisers
This. Their job is litterally to get people to spend money on something they otherwise wouldn’t spend money on. And they have a no holds barred attitude about separating people from their money.
This! Also , dishonesty and manipulation runs deep.
Lobbyists, Human Resources, CEO’s, Corporate Attorney, Hedge fund manager, FBI, CIA, Mossad, ICE and Televangelist
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.
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.
Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in buying. There’s no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.
“Marketing” is just a euphemism for “propaganda.”
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
That used to work but no longer does on a lot in my area. Stuffing recipts in the speaker holes could help if you know what I mean
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.
Some ads I saw last year didn’t even talk about the product, I had no clue what they were selling, other than a quirky relationship video
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
Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” 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.
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.
wonder how less popular all that shit would be if the US just jad proper affordable/accessible healthcare like the most pf the rest of the modern world
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Hedge fund investors, CEOs, cops, self help industry folks, homeopathic medicine salespeople, organizational structure consultants, social media influencers.
Marketing consultants
Law Enforcement. Military personnel.
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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.
Imperial stenographers
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
