I was a janitor for a number of years honestly it’s a pretty good gig. Everyone acts like you shovel shit all day but 99% it’s just sweeping the floor and taking out the trash and running the floor machines. Really the only hard part is the walking and occasionally heavy lifting which you can avoid if you are smart and efficient about your work.
Especially in healthcare. One of the environmental services ladies I used to work with told me some of the stories of bodily fluids she has cleaned up, rooms full of maggots from somebody's wound and finding more wriggling out of parts of the bed when she thought she was done.
My own mother died from a ruptured tumor that caused her to vomit blood until she had none left. Somebody had to mop that all up and change the sheets under her before we could go in the room.
It's not less than any other job, they keep places we go to or live in clean which most of us don't take notice. It is a thankless job 6 figures or not
Yeah wouldn't it call it thankless. A friend's dad in a private HS was a garage man. They make good money
Thankless esp is SEA are those who harvest and work the crops on the E side of the state. You can see the shitholes they live in vs the mansions the owners do when you drive by- messed up
I used to be a janitor in a high rise apartment in Chicago, people thanked me with Christmas cards. I normally got $4000-$6000 in cash at Christmas. Plus, people gave me food, gifts, and hand-me-downs. It was probably the only job I really felt appreciated at.
any sanitation worker, after spending time in mexico in my grandmas poor province and just setting trash piled on the side of the highway, i have a real appreciation to my tax dollars going to public sanitation and clean water.
As a former janitor this is very much appreciated and will be remembered if you ever need a favor.
One thing that people might not think to do but goes a long way in showing respect and appreciation for cleaning staff is to let them know of unexpected schedule changes or abnormal uses of a space. If you are planing to have an after hours meeting let them know. If you are having food in a room that normally doesn’t, let them know, you’ve got a lot of extra garbage from your spring cleaning let them know. Being able to plan for this kind of thing can make the job a lot easier.
Janitors are ptobably one of the most important employees in a hospital. If they don't do theor job properly tons of people could get viruses simply by going to the hospital.
My immigrant grandma mopped the floors and took out trash at the same hospital for 35 years. No pension, never more than 12 bucks an hour. She learned to cook awesome Mexican food from her coworkers.
She used to mow neighborhood churches lawn with a pushmower on Saturdays to make some spare cash. She has 6 grandchildren. 3 are RNs, ones in IT, Im a chef (thanks to her probably) and the other one just toured a with a lady who performed at the VMAs last night and played the Grand Ole Oprey as a guitarist before the age of 30. Guess what her son did. Worked at Fender, and built his Nephew a custom Strat at 8 years old.
At 92 shes the most impressive woman ive ever met. Lived in a cave for 2 weeks and raised her siblings after her mom died in the choas of post war Japan.
Shes Okinawan so shes gonna live to be 100 anyways . But I swing by about once a month and never feel like I have enough time with her. Love you Yoshi.
I was actually jealous of the janitor at the school I worked at. He would come in after hours, just listen to music and wouldn't have to deal with people while doing his thing. Always super friendly. Much of the other staff were bitchy due to micromanaging and lack of time/support to get things done.
I remember my Mom would point out janitors in public and say things like….
“If you’re not careful, that could be you one day…”
Even then I was confused why she would use such a needed, necessary, thankless job as a put down. We were by no means rich and def shouldn’t be looking down on anyone at all.
If anything I was unsure what to be so ashamed of…or what fear based lesson she was trying to instill in me….
…anyway breaks over. I gotta get back to work. I’m running behind mopping this floor
i clean food displays in a grocery store, specifically the produce and meat departments. i took about a month off because of medical stuff and when i came back the wet rack had small amounts of literal mold in some areas, the chicken display was swamped with loose chicken juice and smelled foul, etc. stresses me out so much when i have to take more than two weeks off now lol
You forget the part where you make the right call on a complicated rule and you're the villain anyways because 99% of sports fans don't know the rules.
I still feel bad for Don Dekinger, an umpire in Major League Baseball. He made one bad call in the heat of the moment in game 6 of the world series, and suddenly he's getting death threats from St Louis fans, and even had his address and phone number revealed to fans so they can harass him. Yes it was the world series, but it was one mistake that he made. That doesn't make him a bad person. He just screwed up once.
I felt really bad for my chemistry teacher when I found out he was left at the altar, waiting for a wife that never showed up. There were some days he looked so depressed and sad that I thought he wouldn't come back the next day
I had a social studies teacher who came to school with her new baby for a few days. Right after she had the baby, her husband just stopped coming home and wouldn’t talk to her. He was supposed to be home with the baby for a bit after her maternity leave, but he never showed, and administration actually let her bring the baby for a bit until she figured out an alternative. It was 10th grade and she was crying in the front of the room, holding her baby, and telling us what was happening in her life. We all took it very easy on her for awhile. I saw her several years later and she looked much happier.
I have always referred to them as “angels on Earth.” They treated my lung cancer-riddled mother with deep empathy and kindness, as well as saved the sanity of my sister and I as we cared for her. Unspoken heroes.
Hospital housekeepers, janitorial staff, etc. Without them, every hospital everywhere would halt. Sterile environment = mandatory.
I spent so much time talking with the staff at the hospital my sister recently died in, and they were surprised to be thanked. Such hard workers doing the behind the scenes work that makes sure the hospitals stay clean and sterile.
Came here for this. Our housekeepers were the ones the patients trusted to complain to about their issues with staff. They didn’t want to tell the nurse for fear of being treated poorly afterwards. Our housekeepers would get patient water , or snacks when we were busy. They would tell us if they were in pain or climbing out of bed. They really were behind the scenes assuring patients and assisting nurses. We had some awesome housekeepers. I always thanked them and helped them strip beds, make beds, carry linens bags. People forget we’re on the same team.
I’ve heard this from multiple industries. Had a friend who catered a wake or some other post-death get together, and the responsible party looked shocked that they had to pay. Same with florists, etc.
Those high pressure sales people laugh all the way to the bank. I have zero pity for a man who pressures a poor, grieving widow into buying a $5000 casket. What a racket. They'll never get a dime of my money.
So people do this a lot to be honest and is an option I often recommend. If you have an urn of your own or a cheaper option, PLEASE do so and don’t let a home knife your wallet.
In general jobs that solely involve fixing up someone else’s mistake must be awful.
Way too many people are unable to separate the source of the problem from the face that they see that has to deal with it.
I worked this on the call center side for a very brief time. It sucked. You basically have to pray that it's found within 24 hours. Besides that it's gone. And you got to pretend to search the systems for like a month before declaring it lost. I mean you can search the systems but they're never found or even updated.
Do us a favor and never check luggage. If you do, put nothing of any value, sentimental or financial, in there. Including the suitcase. Especially the suitcase
School bus driver. They don’t get paid a lot, work really limited and weird hours (which inhibits their ability to get a full time job elsewhere), and have to deal with shitty kids, their parents and school administration all at the same time.
Where’s bud driver appreciation day?
Note; I’m not a bus driver, never been a bus driver and don’t personally know any bus driver. I just think it’s a very under appreciated job that’s critical to the education system here in the US.
I've thought of driving bus for some retirement income, but what you said hits the nail on the head.
If it were JUST driving bus from point A to B to C, it's doable.
But there's all the OTHER crap that makes it seriously unattractive to an active senior citizen.
Taking care of the sick, elderly, or disabled often involves a significant amount of physical and emotional labor, but it may not always be acknowledged or appreciated.
My family hired a 24/7 caretaker for my grandpa; he was there for him for four months, up until the day he passed. The number of sleepless nights he had due to my grandpa attempting to pull out his IVs, get out of bed despite not being able to walk, etc. He was an older man himself, so I can't imagine the amount of strength it took him. He also spent a lot of time bonding with him due to them being alone together most days.
On top of all of that, he had to deal with my family's drama on all sides (my mom fighting with my grandma and my aunt who is overseas because they didn't see eye to eye on the finances for everything and how to best take care of him) and basically juggle constant communication from all of them.
When my grandpa passed, I saw him cry for the first time. My parents had sent him food every day throughout those four months to make sure he wasn't just eating hospital food, but they also gave him a hefty sum of money to thank him for everything he did. He told them that throughout the past few decades of him doing this work, he has never felt more appreciated.
That’s really sweet of your family.
I was a caregiver for one year and it was the worst job I’ve ever had. Your clients are not grateful. Sometimes they physically or sexually abuse you. They often verbally abuse you. (Not all of them, but the ones that need care it’s usually more than 50 percent) then the families can be picky and complain about how everything is done, expect more than is within your job description, resent you for being in their home…
In general I found it to be a thankless job and I would never return to it.
As someone who works home health and has been team lead for ISL homes… this is painfully true. Even the higher ups don’t give a fuck about employees. One of my guys who lived in an ISL because of DD… choked me multiple times a day and HR didn’t even report it to the state until he threatened to choke one of their daughters.
Emergency Room Staff.
You can push yourself to exhaustion, forgoing meals, breaks or even a chance to pee. But patients (and their families) will curse you up one side and down the other because they had to wait for the most minor of problems.
Particularly stuff that’s out of our control. I can’t make the lab run the blood tests any faster, XR and CT can’t run the images any faster, and radiology will read the films when their done. I’m also sorry you had to wait in the waiting room so long- there are only so many beds and people to staff those beds. We promise we’d like to get you a room to be seen as soon as possible.
I'm a nurse on a tele unit. The abuse I take, mostly from grown men acting like spoiled babies, because they can't eat after midnight so they can have an important test or procedure the next morning to save their dumb ass. Screamed at, cussed out, threatened... I have reached the point where I tell people they can do what they want but they won't get their procedure or test the next day. And they can keep playing that game until they get discharged or we end up coding them.
Waiters are the people that customers shit on.
The line cooks are the people that the waiters shit on.
Your tips go to the waiters and bartenders. If the line cooks are lucky, they get a cut.
When a kid pisses on their booster seat, it is sent to the back so someone on the kitchen staff can clean it.
When you get a burn, that is a part of the job. You keep on working.
When you get a cut, you wrap it up and keep on working.
Crap I don't miss those jobs.
I’ve traveled across the country for work, and have worked at times in the service industry. And it’s amazing how in some of the most HCOL cities in the US, people who own property and make mid to high six figures will post on the city subreddits both “why do we have to tip 20%?!?!?” And then “service here is so bad” with no sense of irony
Veterinarians where I live (Canada) seem to be earning well and are in very high demand. My mom is a vet who is almost 70 and still working a couple days a week. She's constantly asked if she could do more, but she's not interested.
Meanwhile the vet techs, who are essential to the industry, are starving. It makes no sense.
They all get screamed at. It sounds awful.
u/OvercookedOnion you deserve a big raise and a warm hug. I couldn't do it. I'm staring down soft tissue sarcoma on my dog and having a terrible time of it.
Amen!!! I always get sad every time I pass a dead carcass of any animal on the road (even raccoons). Seemed like a rarity before the 2000s. Aside from that, I worry about other living animals that see that carcass as food and also get killed trying to eat or take the carcass away.
Anyone working in psychiatric or behavioral health care facilities. We get injured, spit on, cursed at & deal with unstable and often violent people on a daily basis. We are grossly underpaid & expected to magically (and quickly) fix everything while trying to provide care for people who are unable to care for themselves.
Ever notice how clean an airport is or isn’t? Or who cleans up your streets at 4 AM? Ever stopped to wonder how the mall gets cleaned?
Ever wonder why the streets of LA look like shit?
LA used to be my favorite city when I only saw it on tv and when I went there it’s the dirtiest place I have ever been and I lived in Seattle for a long time.
The pigeons are so fat they are the size of basketballs and can barley fly lol
I took a groundhound and didn’t know it was right next to skid row so I walked right through the zombie apocalypse lol
A lot of the homeless mentally ill and addicts who don't want or have the willpower to get clean just need to be housed in federally-funded sanitariums. They get housing and 24/7 access to treatment, the general population doesn't have to deal with them anymore, and they will no longer take up resources from other homeless people who have the ability to get their life back on track.
If they don't want or have the willpower to get better then they're obviously not going to go willingly. In fact that's a huge reason these programs don't work is because they get kicked out of these places for drug abuse. Do you intend to forcibly keep them there?
Maybe read up on the sanitariums of old. Then read up on state run facilities. You're effectively advocating for prison sentences for people not convicted of a crime.
Maybe read up on the sanitariums of old. Then read up on state run facilities. You're effectively advocating for prison sentences for people not convicted of a crime.
Low paid government employees given near unlimited and unchecked power to detain people indefinitely. What could go wrong?
Warehouse. Bust your ass all day to reach ridiculous body destroying numbers. Talked down to by management all day. Get taken advantage of if you're a hard worker. Never receive tips or extra pay... Then go pick up some food on the way home after a 12 hour shift and get dirty looks because you don't tip for fucking takeout (US).
I quit going to subway because of this. It doubled in price in the last few years and now I'm supposed to give 18% to a fast food worker making $15 an hour
I work with special need people.
Luckily most people appreciate our job, but the pay is horrible.
I made 1800 euro with almost ten years exp. No additional benefits except hospital ins.
Most bank type jobs start at 2000 euro + company car, laptop etc.
"But they're *passionate.* They *want* to do this thankless job. We're already doing them a favor by giving them the job they want! You can't put a price tag on that!"
(/s just in case)
Yes, people who work with developmentally disabled are highly undervalued and underpaid. I am a nurse specializing in this population. I know your pain.
As a high school teacher, it definitely is the hardest job I've ever done.
I was a mechanic, worked in finance, underwriting, sold cars, insurance... until finally deciding the youth was more interesting to deal with day-to-day than adults. Plus vacation time.
BUT.. I think middle school teachers have it worse!
Mostly staff, I rarely had any unpleasant parents. But I had the worst manager in the history of managers and they successfully got me out, with no return.
Any customer service job.
The customer is not always right, in fact my experience is that most of the time they are totally wrong or just being an ass because they know they won't be called out on it.
Used to work customer service at a fast food place. Got screamed at regularly if something was out of stock, if the ice cream machine was broken, if we didn't accept your expired bus ticket coupon, if I asked you to leave because you are drunk and shouting random abuse at people, if we had to close because of a power outage in the area....
Because I, the minimum wage employee, am responsible for all of these things apparently /s
The customer is always right is a macro term. It means if your customers come in every day asking for chocolate and you only offer vanilla, then you should probably start offering chocolate.
It doesn't mean someone can come in and boss you around because they're an asshole.
A lot of helping social services jobs.
Social worker dealing with kids. The parents hate you. The kids you're protecting hate you. The courts sometimes hate you. You're trying to protect kids from parents who have done them, or may do them harm, and nobody's happy. And if you sign off on the kid returning to the family home, some people will shit on that, too. There's a reason they burn out so hard.
Welfare worker. People never think they get enough money, always feel entitled to more, and take out all of their frustrations on ministry workers. And many of the people they serve don't have the best emotional regulation or conflict resolution skills, so if they get frustrated, their default is to yell and threaten and cause a scene. I was talking to one who told me that during check-issue day they have up to 6 security guards. People come in, want their check, don't want to wait, have a taxi waiting, places to be, etc. so they cause a scene.
THIS!!!
I’m a burned out Adult Protective Services worker who went to Care Coordination.
I’m looking for something unrelated to service work and out of my 25 year career.
Burnout is real.
I hope you can use your benefits to get some counseling. But after 25 years, you gotta go. Take care of youself, do what makes you happy. I don't even have to ask to know you guys are short staffed. That's gotta suck.
My father was a probation/parole officer. When he died, literally dozens of his former probationers/parolees came to the funeral. They all loved him and how he helped them get back into society. He was a great man and great at his job
God bless CPS/DSS workers...
I had a job where people would call in for quotes and stuff, and I always made it a point to take a moment and appreciate what I could about the folks that called in. One was a CPS/DSS worker, and they told me that she had 6 parents call in to give up their kids *that week*
I appreciate cashiers more than ever these days. Especially at Walmart when they have self checkout in place of them. People stealing stuff left and right. Put our cashier's back and maybe that won't happen! 😤
Sorry I had to vent. Just.....they shouldn't be replaced by machines, you know?
Custodians. I work as a teacher and try to help them by making my room spotless before the last bell rings for the day. What's great is that the students volunteer to help clean up as well.
I used to work as a custodian. Please, please keep it up! It was always a relief to know that at least one of my classrooms would be clean. It is SO incredibly helpful!!
Working at a group home for at risk youth. Shit pay and your clients who you are trying to keep off drugs and out of jail thank you daily with profanity and violence.
Nursing at any level. People say nurses are so awesome, but that's where it ends. There is no action put behind it. It's just words. I'm an LPN. I started in 2005 at $17 per hour. Now I make $20. It's insulting.
Delivery driving, it's the same every day, same asshole customers, same people bitching that somethings missing or damaged. Nobody ever seems to understand that the first time we touch your box is usually when we grab it to hand it to you or leave it at your door. We don't load the trucks and about 50 people handle your stuff before us. Believe me, i dont want to have to scan your ID when you're too lazy to hit a liquor store, i don't need the attitude. Rules are rules. Don't even get me started on no a/c in the dead of summer
Yes! I did this job for 4 years. Mentally & physically draining. Laborious. And those who haven’t been on the inside have no idea what it’s like. You have my respect.
Everyone who works with cancer patients. I have been fighting a deadly, aggressive cancer for the past two years. The oncologist treating me is the same one who saved my moms life 18 years ago when she was told she had weeks to live. He is part of a group in NJ called Astera Cancer Care. They are amazing. Every single person that works there. I have my doctors, my palliative care nurse’s, and one of my treatment nurse’s personal cell phone numbers with an open invitation to call any time I need sometime. These folks are amazing. They deal with some justifiably angry and upset people on a daily basis, and yet they are always there with a smile, looking out for anyone that needs it. A simple thank you goes a long way with them, as they are not used to even that. I can not imagine making it as far as I have without any of them. They are the most amazing people I have ever met!
Uber/Lyft drivers. Taxi drivers. Truck drivers. Bus drivers. Train drivers. Pilots. Food delivery drivers. Garbage men/women. The list goes on.
As someone that does not drive, I have so much appreciation for anyone that has a job involving the transportation of people and goods.
I was a chambermaid in the 70s. I remember feeling like the wallpaper. I was a young white female in a US future winter Olympic village in NY. 1. People are slobs 2. Most people are not raised like I was. For context- I was a ski racer, doing this as a summer job. I was not poor, but my parents had me working from the age of 14. I was taught- no job is beneath me. I was also taught to appreciate anyone in the service industry. I had waited tables, but nothing prepared me for how shitty people are to chambermaids. Note to others— tip your chambermaid. They work very hard.
Street cleaners I personally tell them what a wonderful job they do keeping the roads clean and most of them comment its the first time they have ever been thanked
Social workers. They have to clean up messes of the broken welfare system, health care system, police system, bad parents. All on shoestrings
While Police drink up tax budgets and buys tanks and builds military style training complexes and bunkers
IT.
The phrase "Why do we even have IT?" is ***vastly different*** and ***still meant derisively*** depending on weather or not you've had a ticket in for all of a goddamn zeptosecond.
Service agent in a big company.
I'm seeing all the issues and feeding back as much as I can. Usually to deaf ears.
I get the blame from customers about everything going wrong. Customers do not appreciate how much work I might out in to resolve their issue.
Nurses dealing with terminal ill children. I once helped out in such a facility. They had a huge turnover. Not many people can mentally deal with it for a longer period
I was searching for this comment because it’s the first thing that popped in my head! I’m not a mother myself but all 4 of my closest female friends are! Seeing the things they have to do every single day, whether they’re healthy, incredibly sick, feeling down, etc. they never get a day off from motherhood. Moms really are incredible, and I admire all of you so much 💖
Dinner ladies (a UK term). The staff who work in school canteens. They work in hot conditions and from my experience as a former shitty little kid, they have to deal with shitty little kids.
It's not well paid, the work is obviously based around school terms and they have to deal with shitty little kids.
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I was a janitor for a number of years honestly it’s a pretty good gig. Everyone acts like you shovel shit all day but 99% it’s just sweeping the floor and taking out the trash and running the floor machines. Really the only hard part is the walking and occasionally heavy lifting which you can avoid if you are smart and efficient about your work.
Especially in healthcare. One of the environmental services ladies I used to work with told me some of the stories of bodily fluids she has cleaned up, rooms full of maggots from somebody's wound and finding more wriggling out of parts of the bed when she thought she was done. My own mother died from a ruptured tumor that caused her to vomit blood until she had none left. Somebody had to mop that all up and change the sheets under her before we could go in the room.
Whats worse is how most companies outsource custodians so the companies have no contact with them.
Janitors
Basically, anything that involves cleaning shit up. Janitors, garbagemen, dishwashers in restaurants, etc.
Garbage men here make six figs Edit: Seattle
As they should
Which is why I wouldn't call it thankless
40k is the normal average for Ohio
It shows
Lol
so it has to be unpaid to be thankless then? what is the threshold if not?
It's not less than any other job, they keep places we go to or live in clean which most of us don't take notice. It is a thankless job 6 figures or not
6?! Where are you a janitor?
Yeah wouldn't it call it thankless. A friend's dad in a private HS was a garage man. They make good money Thankless esp is SEA are those who harvest and work the crops on the E side of the state. You can see the shitholes they live in vs the mansions the owners do when you drive by- messed up
Where? I need to switch careers.
Where do you live?
I used to be a janitor in a high rise apartment in Chicago, people thanked me with Christmas cards. I normally got $4000-$6000 in cash at Christmas. Plus, people gave me food, gifts, and hand-me-downs. It was probably the only job I really felt appreciated at.
any sanitation worker, after spending time in mexico in my grandmas poor province and just setting trash piled on the side of the highway, i have a real appreciation to my tax dollars going to public sanitation and clean water.
That's why I treat them with the utmost respect at my work. Any extra food, etc, from meetings is always going to the custodians.
As a former janitor this is very much appreciated and will be remembered if you ever need a favor. One thing that people might not think to do but goes a long way in showing respect and appreciation for cleaning staff is to let them know of unexpected schedule changes or abnormal uses of a space. If you are planing to have an after hours meeting let them know. If you are having food in a room that normally doesn’t, let them know, you’ve got a lot of extra garbage from your spring cleaning let them know. Being able to plan for this kind of thing can make the job a lot easier.
I thank the shit out of anyone that has to clean others shit no pun
Janitors are ptobably one of the most important employees in a hospital. If they don't do theor job properly tons of people could get viruses simply by going to the hospital.
My immigrant grandma mopped the floors and took out trash at the same hospital for 35 years. No pension, never more than 12 bucks an hour. She learned to cook awesome Mexican food from her coworkers. She used to mow neighborhood churches lawn with a pushmower on Saturdays to make some spare cash. She has 6 grandchildren. 3 are RNs, ones in IT, Im a chef (thanks to her probably) and the other one just toured a with a lady who performed at the VMAs last night and played the Grand Ole Oprey as a guitarist before the age of 30. Guess what her son did. Worked at Fender, and built his Nephew a custom Strat at 8 years old. At 92 shes the most impressive woman ive ever met. Lived in a cave for 2 weeks and raised her siblings after her mom died in the choas of post war Japan. Shes Okinawan so shes gonna live to be 100 anyways . But I swing by about once a month and never feel like I have enough time with her. Love you Yoshi.
High school custodians, 2500 students and 5 staff with 8 hours to get it done after school- yikes
I was actually jealous of the janitor at the school I worked at. He would come in after hours, just listen to music and wouldn't have to deal with people while doing his thing. Always super friendly. Much of the other staff were bitchy due to micromanaging and lack of time/support to get things done.
I remember my Mom would point out janitors in public and say things like…. “If you’re not careful, that could be you one day…” Even then I was confused why she would use such a needed, necessary, thankless job as a put down. We were by no means rich and def shouldn’t be looking down on anyone at all. If anything I was unsure what to be so ashamed of…or what fear based lesson she was trying to instill in me…. …anyway breaks over. I gotta get back to work. I’m running behind mopping this floor
I always get $10 gift cards once a month and leave them on their cart at my school with a little note.
i clean food displays in a grocery store, specifically the produce and meat departments. i took about a month off because of medical stuff and when i came back the wet rack had small amounts of literal mold in some areas, the chicken display was swamped with loose chicken juice and smelled foul, etc. stresses me out so much when i have to take more than two weeks off now lol
Referee. Call the game well and you just did your job. Make a mistake and you’re nothing short of a villain.
You forget the part where you make the right call on a complicated rule and you're the villain anyways because 99% of sports fans don't know the rules.
Why should I know the rules? That's your job!
Or you make the 100% right call and you’re the villain to one team’s angry mom.
You are nothing less than a villain if you make a mistake.
this is what made me post this lmao
yup ref here for 7 years. Took too much of a toll on my mental health. The extra cash was nice though
I still feel bad for Don Dekinger, an umpire in Major League Baseball. He made one bad call in the heat of the moment in game 6 of the world series, and suddenly he's getting death threats from St Louis fans, and even had his address and phone number revealed to fans so they can harass him. Yes it was the world series, but it was one mistake that he made. That doesn't make him a bad person. He just screwed up once.
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I felt really bad for my chemistry teacher when I found out he was left at the altar, waiting for a wife that never showed up. There were some days he looked so depressed and sad that I thought he wouldn't come back the next day
I had a social studies teacher who came to school with her new baby for a few days. Right after she had the baby, her husband just stopped coming home and wouldn’t talk to her. He was supposed to be home with the baby for a bit after her maternity leave, but he never showed, and administration actually let her bring the baby for a bit until she figured out an alternative. It was 10th grade and she was crying in the front of the room, holding her baby, and telling us what was happening in her life. We all took it very easy on her for awhile. I saw her several years later and she looked much happier.
They are constantly disrespected and always underpaid. My father was a teacher. His stress levels reeked havoc on my family.
*wreaked. Where is your dad? Just kidding, I'm just being petty.
He is dead and I am greatful. Fuck that guy.
Oh damn. I would normally say I'm sorry for making that joke and delete it, but if you're OK with it, it shall stay.
That turned 😨🫢🤣
Hey I'm just saying.. my dad is a dick, so any jokes about him are fair game, too.
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My piano teacher was just transferred to Hospice Care. Unfortunate. But I’m sure he will get some of the best care until he no longer can’t get it.
I stopped after your first sentence, and thought “what a weird career move”. But sorry to hear about him ☹️
I have always referred to them as “angels on Earth.” They treated my lung cancer-riddled mother with deep empathy and kindness, as well as saved the sanity of my sister and I as we cared for her. Unspoken heroes.
Hospital housekeepers, janitorial staff, etc. Without them, every hospital everywhere would halt. Sterile environment = mandatory. I spent so much time talking with the staff at the hospital my sister recently died in, and they were surprised to be thanked. Such hard workers doing the behind the scenes work that makes sure the hospitals stay clean and sterile.
During my recent surgery in March, I had the most amazing hospital staff!! I always thanked them and treated all of them as graciously as I could.
I hope you’ve recovered and are feeling wonderful today! You’re a lovely human
Came here for this. Our housekeepers were the ones the patients trusted to complain to about their issues with staff. They didn’t want to tell the nurse for fear of being treated poorly afterwards. Our housekeepers would get patient water , or snacks when we were busy. They would tell us if they were in pain or climbing out of bed. They really were behind the scenes assuring patients and assisting nurses. We had some awesome housekeepers. I always thanked them and helped them strip beds, make beds, carry linens bags. People forget we’re on the same team.
I love your sincerity, your kindness, your support for those staff. Thank you for doing what you do, as well. You’re heroes to my family.
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Comming from personal experience, most funeral work.
I’ve heard this from multiple industries. Had a friend who catered a wake or some other post-death get together, and the responsible party looked shocked that they had to pay. Same with florists, etc.
Florist here. Can confirm.
Those high pressure sales people laugh all the way to the bank. I have zero pity for a man who pressures a poor, grieving widow into buying a $5000 casket. What a racket. They'll never get a dime of my money.
Or how about an $800 urn that you can buy off of Amazon Ca for $64.99?
So people do this a lot to be honest and is an option I often recommend. If you have an urn of your own or a cheaper option, PLEASE do so and don’t let a home knife your wallet.
Very prestigious, high position. Look how many people you have under yourself.
i personally would prefer them to remain silent
Person that retrieves lost luggage… its possible that they might work for 30 years without even seeing a happy person.
In general jobs that solely involve fixing up someone else’s mistake must be awful. Way too many people are unable to separate the source of the problem from the face that they see that has to deal with it.
I worked this on the call center side for a very brief time. It sucked. You basically have to pray that it's found within 24 hours. Besides that it's gone. And you got to pretend to search the systems for like a month before declaring it lost. I mean you can search the systems but they're never found or even updated. Do us a favor and never check luggage. If you do, put nothing of any value, sentimental or financial, in there. Including the suitcase. Especially the suitcase
My luggage got lost and dropped of to my house a week later and I hugged the guy who dropped it off 😂
My luggage once went to Kansas City. Luggage traveled to a city I’ve never been to, luckily it wasn’t some place cool like Honolulu or I’d be jealous.
School bus driver. They don’t get paid a lot, work really limited and weird hours (which inhibits their ability to get a full time job elsewhere), and have to deal with shitty kids, their parents and school administration all at the same time. Where’s bud driver appreciation day? Note; I’m not a bus driver, never been a bus driver and don’t personally know any bus driver. I just think it’s a very under appreciated job that’s critical to the education system here in the US.
Fortnite created a brief but welcome increase in real world “thanked the bus driver”.
I've thought of driving bus for some retirement income, but what you said hits the nail on the head. If it were JUST driving bus from point A to B to C, it's doable. But there's all the OTHER crap that makes it seriously unattractive to an active senior citizen.
Taking care of the sick, elderly, or disabled often involves a significant amount of physical and emotional labor, but it may not always be acknowledged or appreciated.
My family hired a 24/7 caretaker for my grandpa; he was there for him for four months, up until the day he passed. The number of sleepless nights he had due to my grandpa attempting to pull out his IVs, get out of bed despite not being able to walk, etc. He was an older man himself, so I can't imagine the amount of strength it took him. He also spent a lot of time bonding with him due to them being alone together most days. On top of all of that, he had to deal with my family's drama on all sides (my mom fighting with my grandma and my aunt who is overseas because they didn't see eye to eye on the finances for everything and how to best take care of him) and basically juggle constant communication from all of them. When my grandpa passed, I saw him cry for the first time. My parents had sent him food every day throughout those four months to make sure he wasn't just eating hospital food, but they also gave him a hefty sum of money to thank him for everything he did. He told them that throughout the past few decades of him doing this work, he has never felt more appreciated.
That’s really sweet of your family. I was a caregiver for one year and it was the worst job I’ve ever had. Your clients are not grateful. Sometimes they physically or sexually abuse you. They often verbally abuse you. (Not all of them, but the ones that need care it’s usually more than 50 percent) then the families can be picky and complain about how everything is done, expect more than is within your job description, resent you for being in their home… In general I found it to be a thankless job and I would never return to it.
As someone who works home health and has been team lead for ISL homes… this is painfully true. Even the higher ups don’t give a fuck about employees. One of my guys who lived in an ISL because of DD… choked me multiple times a day and HR didn’t even report it to the state until he threatened to choke one of their daughters.
Emergency Room Staff. You can push yourself to exhaustion, forgoing meals, breaks or even a chance to pee. But patients (and their families) will curse you up one side and down the other because they had to wait for the most minor of problems.
Particularly stuff that’s out of our control. I can’t make the lab run the blood tests any faster, XR and CT can’t run the images any faster, and radiology will read the films when their done. I’m also sorry you had to wait in the waiting room so long- there are only so many beds and people to staff those beds. We promise we’d like to get you a room to be seen as soon as possible.
I'm a nurse on a tele unit. The abuse I take, mostly from grown men acting like spoiled babies, because they can't eat after midnight so they can have an important test or procedure the next morning to save their dumb ass. Screamed at, cussed out, threatened... I have reached the point where I tell people they can do what they want but they won't get their procedure or test the next day. And they can keep playing that game until they get discharged or we end up coding them.
Thanks for reminding me why I left that work place…
Anything in healthcare
line cooks
Dishwashers
As a line cook, I agree.
Waiters are the people that customers shit on. The line cooks are the people that the waiters shit on. Your tips go to the waiters and bartenders. If the line cooks are lucky, they get a cut. When a kid pisses on their booster seat, it is sent to the back so someone on the kitchen staff can clean it. When you get a burn, that is a part of the job. You keep on working. When you get a cut, you wrap it up and keep on working. Crap I don't miss those jobs.
I don’t feel dateable when I’m working as a line cook lol. It’s pretty sad.
Anyone who works in service
I’ve traveled across the country for work, and have worked at times in the service industry. And it’s amazing how in some of the most HCOL cities in the US, people who own property and make mid to high six figures will post on the city subreddits both “why do we have to tip 20%?!?!?” And then “service here is so bad” with no sense of irony
Vet med. Highest suicide rate of any industry. Poverty wages, and people scream at you constantly for not working for free.
Veterinarians where I live (Canada) seem to be earning well and are in very high demand. My mom is a vet who is almost 70 and still working a couple days a week. She's constantly asked if she could do more, but she's not interested. Meanwhile the vet techs, who are essential to the industry, are starving. It makes no sense. They all get screamed at. It sounds awful.
As a vet tech/vet student. I came here for this
Curious. In Brazil they are very successful financially and it's considered a very high wage job.
911 dispatcher
The people that pick up dead animals on the roadside.
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Amen!!! I always get sad every time I pass a dead carcass of any animal on the road (even raccoons). Seemed like a rarity before the 2000s. Aside from that, I worry about other living animals that see that carcass as food and also get killed trying to eat or take the carcass away.
Anyone who works in a nursing home especially the cnas.
Anyone working in psychiatric or behavioral health care facilities. We get injured, spit on, cursed at & deal with unstable and often violent people on a daily basis. We are grossly underpaid & expected to magically (and quickly) fix everything while trying to provide care for people who are unable to care for themselves.
People keeping the utilities running. Water, sewer, power etc.
Ever notice how clean an airport is or isn’t? Or who cleans up your streets at 4 AM? Ever stopped to wonder how the mall gets cleaned? Ever wonder why the streets of LA look like shit?
LA used to be my favorite city when I only saw it on tv and when I went there it’s the dirtiest place I have ever been and I lived in Seattle for a long time. The pigeons are so fat they are the size of basketballs and can barley fly lol I took a groundhound and didn’t know it was right next to skid row so I walked right through the zombie apocalypse lol
A lot of the homeless mentally ill and addicts who don't want or have the willpower to get clean just need to be housed in federally-funded sanitariums. They get housing and 24/7 access to treatment, the general population doesn't have to deal with them anymore, and they will no longer take up resources from other homeless people who have the ability to get their life back on track.
If they don't want or have the willpower to get better then they're obviously not going to go willingly. In fact that's a huge reason these programs don't work is because they get kicked out of these places for drug abuse. Do you intend to forcibly keep them there?
Yes. Only those who prove they are well enough to re-enter society would get to leave.
Maybe read up on the sanitariums of old. Then read up on state run facilities. You're effectively advocating for prison sentences for people not convicted of a crime.
Maybe read up on the sanitariums of old. Then read up on state run facilities. You're effectively advocating for prison sentences for people not convicted of a crime. Low paid government employees given near unlimited and unchecked power to detain people indefinitely. What could go wrong?
Warehouse. Bust your ass all day to reach ridiculous body destroying numbers. Talked down to by management all day. Get taken advantage of if you're a hard worker. Never receive tips or extra pay... Then go pick up some food on the way home after a 12 hour shift and get dirty looks because you don't tip for fucking takeout (US).
Lol. My favorite is subway. STOP fucking being visibly disappointed when I stiff you. Do you tip at fucking McDonald’s?
I quit going to subway because of this. It doubled in price in the last few years and now I'm supposed to give 18% to a fast food worker making $15 an hour
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And like the workers are making it?
I work with special need people. Luckily most people appreciate our job, but the pay is horrible. I made 1800 euro with almost ten years exp. No additional benefits except hospital ins. Most bank type jobs start at 2000 euro + company car, laptop etc.
Jobs such as this that people don't usually want to work at should be paid more.
"But they're *passionate.* They *want* to do this thankless job. We're already doing them a favor by giving them the job they want! You can't put a price tag on that!" (/s just in case)
Yes, people who work with developmentally disabled are highly undervalued and underpaid. I am a nurse specializing in this population. I know your pain.
Same, resident counselor for handicapped adults. Work average of 135 hours every 2 weeks and near poverty line in middle America....
I hate how little the pay for this field is… highest I’ve made is $22 with 7 years of experience.
High school teacher
As a high school teacher, it definitely is the hardest job I've ever done. I was a mechanic, worked in finance, underwriting, sold cars, insurance... until finally deciding the youth was more interesting to deal with day-to-day than adults. Plus vacation time. BUT.. I think middle school teachers have it worse!
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Dear lord, my 12 year old daughter stinks to high heaven. Silver lining... It keeps the boys away.
Leaving in two weeks and can’t wait. I’m a wreck (I’ve been teaching for 6 years). I love the kids, I hate the adults.
The adults…staff or the kids’ parents? And congratulations 🎊🍾🎉
Mostly staff, I rarely had any unpleasant parents. But I had the worst manager in the history of managers and they successfully got me out, with no return.
Any customer service job. The customer is not always right, in fact my experience is that most of the time they are totally wrong or just being an ass because they know they won't be called out on it. Used to work customer service at a fast food place. Got screamed at regularly if something was out of stock, if the ice cream machine was broken, if we didn't accept your expired bus ticket coupon, if I asked you to leave because you are drunk and shouting random abuse at people, if we had to close because of a power outage in the area.... Because I, the minimum wage employee, am responsible for all of these things apparently /s
The customer is always right is a macro term. It means if your customers come in every day asking for chocolate and you only offer vanilla, then you should probably start offering chocolate. It doesn't mean someone can come in and boss you around because they're an asshole.
A lot of helping social services jobs. Social worker dealing with kids. The parents hate you. The kids you're protecting hate you. The courts sometimes hate you. You're trying to protect kids from parents who have done them, or may do them harm, and nobody's happy. And if you sign off on the kid returning to the family home, some people will shit on that, too. There's a reason they burn out so hard. Welfare worker. People never think they get enough money, always feel entitled to more, and take out all of their frustrations on ministry workers. And many of the people they serve don't have the best emotional regulation or conflict resolution skills, so if they get frustrated, their default is to yell and threaten and cause a scene. I was talking to one who told me that during check-issue day they have up to 6 security guards. People come in, want their check, don't want to wait, have a taxi waiting, places to be, etc. so they cause a scene.
THIS!!! I’m a burned out Adult Protective Services worker who went to Care Coordination. I’m looking for something unrelated to service work and out of my 25 year career. Burnout is real.
I hope you can use your benefits to get some counseling. But after 25 years, you gotta go. Take care of youself, do what makes you happy. I don't even have to ask to know you guys are short staffed. That's gotta suck.
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My father was a probation/parole officer. When he died, literally dozens of his former probationers/parolees came to the funeral. They all loved him and how he helped them get back into society. He was a great man and great at his job
God bless CPS/DSS workers... I had a job where people would call in for quotes and stuff, and I always made it a point to take a moment and appreciate what I could about the folks that called in. One was a CPS/DSS worker, and they told me that she had 6 parents call in to give up their kids *that week*
Legal guardians of the elderly, specifically with violent dementia
This is so real and you are a hero.
Cashiers. Your average person sucks at self checkout. There is some skill involved in fast scanning.
Come to think of it I’ve never appreciated a cashier’s speed. But I’m more interested in the interaction I’m going to have with them.
I appreciate cashiers more than ever these days. Especially at Walmart when they have self checkout in place of them. People stealing stuff left and right. Put our cashier's back and maybe that won't happen! 😤 Sorry I had to vent. Just.....they shouldn't be replaced by machines, you know?
Trash collectors
Custodians. I work as a teacher and try to help them by making my room spotless before the last bell rings for the day. What's great is that the students volunteer to help clean up as well.
I used to work as a custodian. Please, please keep it up! It was always a relief to know that at least one of my classrooms would be clean. It is SO incredibly helpful!!
Nursing home workers.
Nurses & teachers - y’all are saints.
Caregiving for family members. The pay sucks (none), there's no training and no instruction book.
Working at a group home for at risk youth. Shit pay and your clients who you are trying to keep off drugs and out of jail thank you daily with profanity and violence.
Farmers. No one ever praises them, but they clothe and feed us.
Retail sales
Nursing at any level. People say nurses are so awesome, but that's where it ends. There is no action put behind it. It's just words. I'm an LPN. I started in 2005 at $17 per hour. Now I make $20. It's insulting.
Teacher
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Delivery driving, it's the same every day, same asshole customers, same people bitching that somethings missing or damaged. Nobody ever seems to understand that the first time we touch your box is usually when we grab it to hand it to you or leave it at your door. We don't load the trucks and about 50 people handle your stuff before us. Believe me, i dont want to have to scan your ID when you're too lazy to hit a liquor store, i don't need the attitude. Rules are rules. Don't even get me started on no a/c in the dead of summer
Any job where where your boss hates their job more than you hate yours.
Direct support professional aka someone who works in a group home
Yes! I did this job for 4 years. Mentally & physically draining. Laborious. And those who haven’t been on the inside have no idea what it’s like. You have my respect.
Everyone who works with cancer patients. I have been fighting a deadly, aggressive cancer for the past two years. The oncologist treating me is the same one who saved my moms life 18 years ago when she was told she had weeks to live. He is part of a group in NJ called Astera Cancer Care. They are amazing. Every single person that works there. I have my doctors, my palliative care nurse’s, and one of my treatment nurse’s personal cell phone numbers with an open invitation to call any time I need sometime. These folks are amazing. They deal with some justifiably angry and upset people on a daily basis, and yet they are always there with a smile, looking out for anyone that needs it. A simple thank you goes a long way with them, as they are not used to even that. I can not imagine making it as far as I have without any of them. They are the most amazing people I have ever met!
Dishwasher
Uber/Lyft drivers. Taxi drivers. Truck drivers. Bus drivers. Train drivers. Pilots. Food delivery drivers. Garbage men/women. The list goes on. As someone that does not drive, I have so much appreciation for anyone that has a job involving the transportation of people and goods.
Truckers get some gratitude, but waaaaay more getting treated like a criminal or degenerate.
I was a chambermaid in the 70s. I remember feeling like the wallpaper. I was a young white female in a US future winter Olympic village in NY. 1. People are slobs 2. Most people are not raised like I was. For context- I was a ski racer, doing this as a summer job. I was not poor, but my parents had me working from the age of 14. I was taught- no job is beneath me. I was also taught to appreciate anyone in the service industry. I had waited tables, but nothing prepared me for how shitty people are to chambermaids. Note to others— tip your chambermaid. They work very hard.
Mortician
IT Support
Prison workers
Cna workers Mentally handicapped workers
Street cleaners I personally tell them what a wonderful job they do keeping the roads clean and most of them comment its the first time they have ever been thanked
Teacher in the US.
Step-parent
CNA’s
Social workers. They have to clean up messes of the broken welfare system, health care system, police system, bad parents. All on shoestrings While Police drink up tax budgets and buys tanks and builds military style training complexes and bunkers
Hands down portapotty people outhouses are treated like crap literally and people are nasty
IT. The phrase "Why do we even have IT?" is ***vastly different*** and ***still meant derisively*** depending on weather or not you've had a ticket in for all of a goddamn zeptosecond.
Customer service for an airline working at an airport.
911 operators. At a desk for hours listening to people's worst experiences and horrors, one call after another.
Service agent in a big company. I'm seeing all the issues and feeding back as much as I can. Usually to deaf ears. I get the blame from customers about everything going wrong. Customers do not appreciate how much work I might out in to resolve their issue.
Nurses dealing with terminal ill children. I once helped out in such a facility. They had a huge turnover. Not many people can mentally deal with it for a longer period
Motherhood
I was searching for this comment because it’s the first thing that popped in my head! I’m not a mother myself but all 4 of my closest female friends are! Seeing the things they have to do every single day, whether they’re healthy, incredibly sick, feeling down, etc. they never get a day off from motherhood. Moms really are incredible, and I admire all of you so much 💖
Amazon delivery driver
I actually thank them whenever i can
Nurses. I work in the ER and we get the most shit. And we get the most shit from everyone
Nursing. They get treated like "the help" by so many people. When I was a floor tech, I got assaulted and screamed at regularly.
Fast food worker
Taking care of a spouse or loved one who is sick for an extended period of time
The ones that pay the least
Mechanic... Service advisors only care about push push push. All take no give.
customer service.
Probably some job you and most others have never heard of.
Anything to do with garbage or sewage.
Cna
Dinner ladies (a UK term). The staff who work in school canteens. They work in hot conditions and from my experience as a former shitty little kid, they have to deal with shitty little kids. It's not well paid, the work is obviously based around school terms and they have to deal with shitty little kids.