Jack booted tool of oppression
Anything where you’re around the public all day. Rather wash dishes than be a waitress.
That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant
I’d go back to waitering if I needed to – and if my feet weren’t so trashed from either combat boots or dress shoes already!
Fall guy
“By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself” --Bill Hicks
“Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”
No! Fuck you, you work in advertising you’re sucking the devils cock. Kill yourself!
Planting seeds.
I worked in marketing. Though…
- I create materials/tools to help patients with chronic diseases stay adherent to medication while building a better lifestyle
- I made materials to convince health insurance companies to cover medications
So, it’s not all bad. I moved on to hospital records analysis to identify things that would kill people, and now work in protocols and systems that help preserve the privacy of user data (one of them even uses ActivityPub).
I’ve been pretty fortunate in the jobs I’ve been able to find.
“Look, I’ve worked with other vulture companies to convince them to get better PR by not being absolute soul-rotting evil all the time!” is not the flex you think it is, R.E. insurance compainies.
HR rep
This one doesn’t feel inherently evil. There are some great HR reps where I work now, but I don’t work for a company that’s trying to milk us dry.
ICE thug Slumlord’s handyman Anything that takes orders directly from the Trump administration
Shift work.
Never again.
Commercial fisherman
Deep-sea diver
That bottom one. It’s the kind of job where you can do everything perfectly and still fucking die horribly. Pays like 200k a year thought.
Everyone has a price but if we stick to realistic numbers I’d say that working on a clothes store or fast food joint would be the first two that come to mind though most office jobs would apply as well.
any military or military complex job. i refuse to assist or partake in the murdering of humans.
Don’t forget the fiscal, environmental, and resource destruction. Now if they only made cool camping/ outdoor gear…
assist or partake in the murdering
Militaries outside of America do a LOT of non-murderous jobs. Sandbag the planet? Search and Recovery? Coordinating aid on the ground? When you’re a force that happens to be armed, it’s a different job. But they still need boots and belts and brass and buttons and berets and boomsticks.
There are many but since depresseddad already mentioned spreading lies for nefarious reasons, I guess I’ll go with pimping and selling narcotics (anything beyond weed at the very least, and even then I would have to really think about it).
Politics, in any form.
Corporate, in any form.
Police, in any form.
Military, in any form.
They all - I believe that institutionalized, hierarchical authority is rather obviously inherently destructive, and I couldn’t willingly take part. In fact, one of the things that perplexes me the most about politics in particular is that there are people who do willingly take part. I can only conclude that their brains are broken in some fundamental way such that they don’t see or don’t care about the harm they inevitably do.
Politics, in any form.
But how do you make the world better then?
In fact, you seem very qualified for it. Those who don’t want powet are the best people for the job, you should be leading your city/town or maybe country.
Police, in any form.
Do neighborhood watch programs count?
Military, in any form.
Do Militias count?
This unfortunately is the problem with the police. People who see the police as problematic are unwilling to join so the majority of people who join are the ones who just want to have power over others.
There are many variations on the quote but a cop who doesn’t report a bad cop is themselves a bad cop, so you could be the actual good cop who reports their coworkers until you get fired from the corrupt org but if enough people did that we might actually see some change.
Cops also have a surprising amount of freedom to choose to enforce laws so you could also just not enforce laws you consider corrupt.
I am saying this as a person who wouldn’t want to associate with a cop but would love to have some cops who aren’t bastards but unfortunately #ACAB
but unfortunately #ACAB
If American Cops Are Bastards, you may be out of luck. My wife’s sister is a cop (not American) when she’s not Ambulance (or volunteer fire! She’s an over-achiever). I’ve known her longer than I’ve known my wife, and she’s stayed a really great person despite the horror (and poop) she’s seen.
But yeah, we need to pay American cops more so they can get better applicants and can then screen out and weed out the bastards.
It varies on localities but cops can make a shit ton especially in cities.
Seattle will hire you with only a high school diploma starting at over $100k/yr with a $7500 hiring bonus and are still understaffed and keep lowering the requirements to become a cop
They also have eligibility for tons of overtime and can make over 200-300k/yr after just a few years on the force
Yet still they have an abysmal police department Which is why acab stands for all cops are bastards
I always wondered if the overtime is part of the problem. A lot of it is pretty sketchy, so it’s training cops to be sketchy
In my state, police unions have been pretty aggressive about requiring construction sites to pay for police details. I have no idea whether it has the safety benefits they claim but
- city is happy because someone else is paying their cops
- cops are happy with opportunity to make bank
But we all pay a little more, cops have a conflict of interest acting as an authority figure for a private company, and the requirements are sketchy on both sides for something other than what they were hired for
From what I have heard their overtime numbers are largely bullshit and used as a way to inflate their income and it’s considered an “acceptable practice”
But even with all of that we still can’t find good police…
You’re right. the institution of policing protects the interests of the wealthy and the status quo. that’s why all cops are bastards. we can definitely have better or worse human beingd entering the institution.
Sadly the majority of them are from the bottom of the barrel. We definitely need more cops sympathetic to the interests of the people
Sales. Especially telesales.
I spent years doing sales because they were the only opportunities that I had available, and I hated every minute of it. Now that I’m finally out, I would NEVER go back.
Anything to do with poop!
Literally what kept me from going into medicine
Retail. Done it for 4 years and got treated like absolute shit by customers, especially during the pandemic. I got told off a few times for speaking back to customers but I think now I’d probably struggle not to hit them. I’d be sacked very quickly
But this seems like something that could be tolerated at the right price point. It’s a price point they would never pay, but your reason for working it isn’t a moral or ethical reason.
I learned at a young age that I’m not cut out for retail. I can fake it for a minute or two, but I’ve got a short fuse and a sailor mouth.
