I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
Some food jobs make me think we get carried away with what food is supposed to entail.
Elaborate please?
We could go our entire lives without the existence of a large majority of things which are taken for granted in the culinary sphere and still get the same appreciation out of food.
Telemarketer.
War profiteers. If you work for a company like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin then you are doing an incredible amount of harm to the world and I have even less respect than I have for people in the military. These companies are constantly looking to fuel conflicts, destabilize, and pump all sorts of weapons into every corner of the globe. These people are the true scum of the earth, they are among the worst people who have ever lived.
Looking at the replies, I realized I’m too much of a normie for this thread.
I don’t think I understand what you mean. Do you agree with everything said here?
Lemmy users that post the same thing in multiple Ask Lemmy communities
They get paid for that?
Streamers
Steamers with like 10-30 people are fun to watch or hangout with, when it’s 7,000 emojis and someone making $100k a month… Meh
How about the entertainment industry as a whole?
Some livestreamers (even big ones) are legitimately fun to watch, but I agree that there are a lot of livestreamers that just do “reaction content” which, while it can be fun (in the same way as Rifftrax/MST3K), isn’t something most streamers put enough effort into to be considered good. Instead it ends up being a low-effort way of generating views.
If you want some good streamers, some of the big streamers I like are people like,
- Vinesauce Vinny: Unhinged but chill New York Italian streamer who likes corrupting games (fucking with the ROM/RAM while the game is running) and laughing at unhinged 80’s and 90’s video game commercials; in a band with Jabroni Mike and he’s also known as “binyot”.
- Jabroni Mike: Unhinged and not chill New York Italian streamer who loves dredging up YouTube content slop to laugh at; in a band with Vinny and he’s also known as “Cumchugger”.
- Vargskelethor: Absolutely unhinged swedish metalhead who lives in a public toilet where he points and laughs at people while they take a shit (very childish sense of humor, but a lot of fun to watch because you never know what to expect); in a metal band called Scythelord along with a self-titled solo project. Also known as Joel, Yo-ell, Jobel, fecalfunny.com, etc.
- Jerma985: a fucking psycho in semi-retirement; best known for his irl streams like the Dollhouse (IRL Sims with chat controlling Jerma), baseball stream (
shoved an entire baseball up his ass, live on twitchput together two fictional baseball teams for a livestreamed baseball game), carnival stream (he had chat-controlled robots to let chat play the games),archeologygeology stream, Who Will Replace Me?, and so on. - Laimu/Limealicious: vtuber affiliated with Vinesauce, “”“wholesome”“” streamer.
- Fredrik Knudsen: Yes, the “Down the Rabbit Hole guy” also has a twitch channel.
- WhiskeyDing0: another vtuber, this time furry as fuck, but he plays a lot of indie horror games and sometimes organizes VRChat game shows with other furry streamers; also probably the biggest furry streamer right now. Great way to find new indie horror games.
- Jall: furry “fleshtuber” with an absolutely insane setup designed to try and recreate the feeling of watching a YouTube poop, except it’s live. Warning: consume in small doses; his streams are a sensory overload like nothing else.
Even if it’s not your thing, I’d highly recommend looking up the stream vods for Jerma’s IRL stuff, it’s brilliant and extremely high-effort.
Edit: I was just trying to make some suggestions, jeez.
Hell yea I didn’t know Fredrick streamed.
I don’t like to kink-shame but those all sound like horrible people.
“Influencers”, advertisers, and just about every Wall Street job.
Lobbyists
Senior Bribery Logistic Engineers*
What about a lobbyist who works for say the Electronic Frontier Foundation? Or a nurses union. Or who works for the Sierra Club, or some organization trying to protect the environment?
“Lobbying” is just talking to a politician on behalf of a person or group. If the Hollywood studios all hire lobbyists to talk to representatives about why copyright terms should be longer and DRM should be mandatory, doesn’t it make sense that there should be people telling the other side?
I get that too often lobbyists overstep ethical boundaries. Often, they either effectively bribe politicians, or they write up laws allowing the politician to just rubber-stamp them. But, you could shore up and/or enforce laws restricting that kind of thing, while still allowing a representative of a group to meet with a politician and explain their point of view.
Yeah, I mean the bribery kind. We need to overturn Citizens United
Anyone who is trying to sell me something
Boy, you don’t know what you’re missin’!
If only it were possible to maintain this state indefinitely
Middle-men of any kind. Facilitators, landlords, middle-management positions… They’re all worthless and contribute nothing to society but bullshit.
Flippers. Any kind of flippers
People think this without a hint of irony, and yet have never worked in a place without management. Good management improves productivity and efficiency, while also shielding workers from executives. Bad/no management almost always leads to chaos.
It’s like the whole idea of not having leaders; it’s a great theory, but it assumes that everyone is capable of working together perfectly towards the same goal, when the reality is that not everyone has the same goal.
Middlemen, etc., are trading in knowledge. They know who can do what, and decrease duplication of effort.
Being a middle manager (and therefore biased), I view my role as the person who serves the team by:
- being a firewall from upper management
- giving the team the things they need to do their jobs
- removing the things in their way
This allows them to do their jobs as best they can. Could they get by without me? Probably. But they would have a worse time and not be able to work as effectively.
Honestly, I feel like many problems with the modern workplace stem from executives’ insulation from the workforce.
My experience has been that executives don’t usually have a solid grasp of how things work at ground level. They’re good for vision and overall direction, but can have… peculiar ideas about how to get there. Good management makes sure things go in the direction that executives want, without the executives interfering in actual processes.
This does assume that executives aren’t actually malicious though, and same with management.
Search engine optimizer – The entire industry, intentionally and with malice aforethought, exists purely to make it more difficult for search engines to provide quality output to search users.
Kinda, but there’s also an implicit assumption here that search engines are unbiased, which they’re not.
Advertisers. For-profit advertisers mostly. They intentionally skew people’s understanding of the world for the benefit (usually) of the rich.
Managers without empathy.
Sounds a bit like doctors without borders now when I think about it, it’s maybe already a clan.
“the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.”
sorry, something about this phrase is not clicking in my mind, what do you mean?
Influencers. Just ad extensions.
