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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.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Realtors.

I don't know of a job more pointless. And I worked (reception) at a realty office and still didn't see the value.

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[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I oppose the occupation of gaza by Israel !

But fr, anything position that gives one power and a feeling of superiority : magistrate, judge, police officer, military, ...

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You may not understand this, but humans are selfish and immoral and need rules. without all those jobs you mentioned, the rules are meaningless.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Naturopaths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I've seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.

Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there's crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 135 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground

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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Literally anyone who works in health insurance.

Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what's least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson's an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you're not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.

It's not a good look.

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[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Chiropractors. It's pseudoscience. Maybe it's not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it's backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client's appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That shit should be illegal, with, like, a living whitelist so you can still put out a sandwich board in front of your restaurant.

Yes, I know that will implode entire sectors. They deserve it.

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[–] EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

private equity investment firms

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[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Human Cannonball

Hear me out: Many circus performers are multi disciplined, or put on an incredible display of training and talent. The last big top I went to had a knife throwing couple who also did a fantastic roller skating routine, a few very talented clowns/jugglers, and a bike troupe in a ball of death. Just to name a few. These people have devoted days or years of their lives to their craft. Do you know how hard it is to ride a bicycle across a tight rope with someone on your shoulders?

The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net. That's all he did that night, yet he came out and bowed with the rest of the performers like he was an equal contributor.

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[–] Trebuchet@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago (6 children)

HR. Have never met anyone in HR who contributed to the good.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

HR only contributes to the good of the business, which is owned by the capitalist class. It’s a class war, and HR is not on the side of the working class. Which makes HR employeesβ€”witting or notβ€”class traitors, something they have in common with cops.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Advertising. Landlord. Intelligence agent or special operator for a bourgeois state.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Off-topic: Lemmy really needs better crosspost functionality.

Lemmy is a small group of people, let's not divide it further by having the exact same conversation in two (or more) places.

edit: Fixed the link.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

no, it's a feature, not a bug, that we can have more than one community for discussing the same topic here; makes it harder to censor

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

There has to be a better way to keep the strengths of federating without partitioning the community smaller and smaller until there is no community left.

Can you imagine Lemmy with a similar amount of Reddit users? Anytime you'd post, you'd have to replicate it between X number of instances (for visibility). Conversations would be fragemented and duplicated, votes would be duplicated. To me this almost sounds like "work"...

There has to be something better.

For example, instead of "every instance is an island". Meaning the current hierarchy is "instance" - > "community" - > "post" - > "threads". We could instead have "community (ie: asklemmy)" - > "post (ie: this post)" - > "instance (Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, etc)" - > "threads (this comment)".

From a technical perspective, it would mean that each instance would replicate the community names and posts. Which is already beginning done (this post is a perfect example), but as long as each instance would share a unique identifier to associate the two communities/posts as "the same thing" (and this could simply be the hash of the community /post name). Everything else would be UX. Each instance would take ownership of the copy of the community and post, which means they could moderate it according to their standards.

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[–] manucode@infosec.pub 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Whoever is in charge o blackrock

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Kudos to the people who actually adhered to the "unique" part of this. No, you're not unusual for hating money men. It's only a matter of time until someone posts "cops".

The entire entertainment industry is gross and depressing seen from anywhere close to the inside, but I'm not sure I'd really say I oppose it in concept.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

The wording of this question has a very narrow permitted window for an answer, but I'll say fuck "influencers" anyway. Entire concept should be rolled back like 20 years. Disc jockeys and similar precursors weren't quite so prone to being narcissistic kiddie creepers that were famous for being famous.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Bankers, lawyers, marketers, police, military, landlords if that was a job, politicians.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Car sales person.

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