Retail, easy. Like, I enjoy what I do for my job but the people that my store attracts, make it cumbersome. People coming to me all the time with phones in my face of listings to other stores thinking we have them, people impatient, people thinking we have everything and people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.
Tech support, the number of times I had to explain trivial things to some angry entitled asshat, who refused to read the instructions or didnt try basic troubleshooting steps (eg. turn it off and on again).
Also airport jobs. If people in holiday mode would just look up and follow the fucking signs…
[…] people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.
In my experience, this shows up in every single job ever that involves people.
Software development. If you could just do what needs to be done without requirements changing every second it would be so much easier.
Luckily there are good project managers to shield you from such nonsense.
Sometimes the org itself is like a shitty client who doesn’t understand.
Reminds me of this article Programming Sucks
Tom and Harry have been working together for years, but have an ongoing feud over whether to use metric or imperial measurements, and it’s become a case of “whoever got to that part of the design first.” This has been such a headache for the people actually screwing things together, they’ve given up and just forced, hammered, or welded their way through the day with whatever parts were handy. Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. Nobody knows which parts, but everybody’s pretty sure they’re important parts.
That was a fun read . Thanks :)
Graphic designers suffer from similar customer issues as well… or did until the whole AI art thing came along.
Teaching
Lion dentist
All the existent ones?
Pharmacy. The patients that are the worst at managing their conditions are the ones you have to deal with the most. Add to that the issues that stem from insurance, addiction, neglect, or end of life care, it can be really tough.
Police officers.
Would their customers be civilians, or politicians?
Both.
Probably sex work
Probably? 🧐
Health insurance CEO
At least they get to kill their customers
I’ll be honest, the customers are far from my biggest problem with retail. :( I want electronics that work, carts it’s not easy to cut yourself on, an accurate inventory system, and more realistic expectations for how many items I can move in an hour. At least occasionally customers are nice, but policies are never nice.
Actual answer from me is deli work. I enjoyed taking inventory, making sure all the meats were dated and wrapped correctly, pre-slicing the sandwich meats and veggies before customers showed up… Very meditative.
But no one could stick to the menu, they all had to order weird shit like hot capocollo and rare London broil on a sandwich together. There was one woman who ONLY ordered weird sandwiches where each meat required thorough slicer sanitation between uses because they were all rare or heavily seasoned. Taking apart and sanitizing the slicer three times for one sandwich while the line got longer and longer.
Torturer
I’d say waiters. If everyone was nice to them and polite and smiling I’m sure it would be better
Veterinarians.
