DAE Hate When People Think Your Job Is Easy So They Belittle You?

TenThousandSuns · 1 year

CatfishRadiator · 1 year

I'm being totally serious when I say this. Stacking shelves in a supermarket is hard fucking work. You seriously have no idea how fast food gets bought at peak times, and to keep the shelves full seriously envolves making a list, going to the store room, loading up everything and taking it out, then stacking the shelfs, by the time you are done it will be about an hour untill you need to do it again, and thats if you plan and bring out more food than is acctually required.

No I don't work in a supermarket anymore, I did when I was 16.

Edit: I must add, after working in the supermarket I am extremly respectful to people who do these sort of jobs, I used to hate getting told how to do my job/ getting talked at like I'm some sort of shit stain etc...

DoodlingJellyfish · 1 year

I'm a restaurant bartender. Being belittled is part of the job description.

Raver32 · 1 year

"It only appears easy because I make it look that way."

arcsine · 1 year

I'm a sysadmin that's the entire IT division at a small company. Most of the people who work here think that because I do the end-user support that I'm just some lowly entry-level helpdesk tech. I have ELEVEN YEARS of server and network administration experience. I just can't justify hiring a Pimply-Faced Youth to my Bastard Operator From Hell due to the low workload they'd face.

themanwhowas · 1 year

I'm a web designer in charge of email marketing and banners for a 30 million dollar company. Every email that touches over 70,000 people every week including a daily series has come from this desk. And my girlfriend thinks that just because I don't have to deal with customers or run around on my feet all day that I've got it easy. Granted, I like to play down what I do because I like the downtime between projects, but it's not all tea and Reddit.

MadAce · 1 year

Mine's just as weird. I work for a department of welfare. When I tell people I do they treat me as I just said I am on welfare. Really strange.

khafra · 1 year

Hopefully it cheers you up to know that some of us experience the opposite; my job sounds impressive and almost everyone treats me with a bit more respect after hearing what it is, but it's actually pretty easy.

cadmiumgrey · 1 year

I'm a medical transcriptionist. Most people think I have it easy sitting at my desk "just typing" all day. In reality, I have to know how to spell words that the average person has probably never heard, know what it means and have enough knowledge to know if the doctor is using it correctly. People don't realize that I.went.to.school.for.this.

I have to make sure these documents are within HIPAA compliance while maintaining a 98% accuracy while transcribing from dictation that comes from holier-than-thou physicians who think it's perfectly acceptable to eat their lunch, yell at their kids, belch, fart and any number of unspeakable things while they talk into the microphone with a heavy middle eastern accent or with an ungodly rate of speed (sometimes both). I am a human being listening to this. Please show some respect.

evildeadxsp · 1 year

I've mentioned this before on reddit... I used to work as a line cook at a pretty nice restaurant. Rough hours, hard work, both mentally and physically, and not the greatest of pay. And the worst was that most of my peers look down on it.

My current career field is in marketing/design. It's office labor, very casual and overall is a great time. I enjoy it a lot. And I can say unequivocally, that my current job is easier in ALL aspects than my past job. Yet somehow I get paid more and I'm held to a higher regard by my peers.

I hated when people belittled me for my work as a chef. And now I have respect from my family and friends for doing what I consider much less of work. It's ridiculous.

boymangodshit · 1 year

I'm a server... you wouldn't believe the respect we get.

BrewRI · 1 year

All the time. I'm 21 and running a painting business for the first time ever with no previous experience, hell I'm still trying to get into the business division at my school. Recently I was attending a home show to try and get customers and someone walked by and practically announced to anyone around them not to go with us because all of my workers were alcoholic hungover college kids. It's true I hire college students but I also certify and train everyone (With a national based paint distributor) regardless of their previous experience to ensure they can produce quality work, she basically thinks I'm a kid with a clipboard.

Many of my friends also think what I do is simple. I explain I can't go out because I have to work (Either going door to door, doing estimates, or working with customers) and I hear the same half ass "I have work tomorrow to! You don't see me complaining!". What they don't realize is there's a difference between delivering pizzas from 12-4 and waking up at 5am preparing folders for the day and trying to convince people that I am responsible enough to be trusted with multi-thousand dollar jobs. Then again I just kind of belittled pizza delivery guys.

wtmh · 1 year

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

HydroCabron · 1 year

American culture makes your job part of your identity. Everyone always wants to know what you do, and go from there.

I find that any assumption that someone else's job is easy is really faulty. Any career can be hard, with the sole exception of selling real estate, but we're talking about actual jobs, which require some native intelligence and sense of ethics, so realtors may be safely excluded.

realvanwilder · 1 year

I'm in school for construction management. People always ask why i have to go to school to manage Mexicans.

Uncoolio · 1 year

As a comedian, I frequently hear "I wish I got paid to tell jokes." On paper it looks pretty good - I perform 30 minutes a day, and I'm allowed to drink on the job. But go to any open mic night at a club, and you'll quickly see that telling jokes is harder than it looks. Everyone thinks they're funny, but standup isn't about that. It's about being funny in front of a bunch of randomly-selected strangers, and doing it consistently enough to get paid for it. That's a hell of a lot harder.

What they don't see is the amount of writing and hustle that goes into that set. Breaking into standup requires years of writing, editing and practice. (For every minute a comic is on stage, there's 30 more he wrote that didn't cut it). It also requires a shitload of networking and the ability to quickly get along with almost anyone. Finally, there's the tons of driving - often 14-20 hours one way, because you don't get paid enough to make flying profitable.

For 30 minutes a day, my job is usually easy. At 4am outside a gas station in rural Texas, when you're running on 4 large coffees and 2 hours of sleep, when you can't stop because you have 10 more hours to go - it's a bit harder. When you're facing down a drunken heckler, who's turned the crowd into an angry mob, and facing the very real possibility of getting your ass kicked, it's harder still.

NullRefException · 1 year

I've done most of my professional work doing development on web services or web sites. Its frustrating beyond belief to listen to systems programmers talk about how my work is "easy" and "not real programming." I've done embedded and systems projects too. Real-time programming in resource-constrained environments is not some sort of programming black magic.

And of course, there was college, where the EE's basically claimed that CS students were in CS because they couldn't hack it in EE. I picked some of the hardest EE classes as required electives due to interest, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't satisfying to throw that into the faces of smug EE students.

zombiecupcake · 1 year

I work in a call center. :|

vinsfeld08 · 1 year

I work retail at a suburban superstore. The hardest parts of my job are knowing where things are, cleaning shit up, and otherwise just being nice. However, every smelly asshole who walks through the store sees me as a tool to use for getting through the store. Instead of knowing my department, I've made it my job to know the whole store, because that's simpler than relying on anybody else to do their jobs. This means I put a smile on my face and deal with every single problem anybody in the store can find me with, regardless of whether it's my job or not.

Is the work I do easy? Yeah, pretty much. But I get paid to smile and take shit, and that's the real workload. To anybody else with a real college degree and experience who gets treated like shit, respect. But even people lower on the totem pole eat shit too.

DanLar75 · 1 year

I am actually more annoyed by people saying 'you never work'. YES I have free work hours. YES I sometimes wake up around noon. YES I sometimes just play video games for an hour in the middle of the day or take a long lunch. BUT you know what! I also don't have vacations, I work weekends, I work in the middle of the night..

Start-up Marketing for the Win!

Zasz · 1 year

Being a war panda trainer is not as easy as it looks.

OnlyHalfKidding · 1 year

Every single independent contractor I know has to deal with this. Clients try to belittle you to convince you they should be paying you less.

techietalk_ticktock · 1 year

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Killfuck_Soulshitter · 1 year

I'm a janitor. People think my job is hard and/or unpleasant. I laugh at their foolish beliefs.

astrangeone · 1 year

This is probably my biggest pet peeve. Whether it be a teacher, a waiter, or janitor--you should never judge someone based on what job they hold.

soonami · 1 year

When I was working as a technician at a large academic Biochemistry lab, I would always get shit for my job because the majority of my time was spent immortalizing cells, establishing stable cell lines, and maintaining cultures. I worked with up to 50 cell lines derived from human tissues, small mammal embryo, and insects and developed protocols for several novel cultures. To them, easy stuff...

Even though I had a BS from an Ivy League University the post-docs and grad students in the lab treated me poorly and thought of me as the equivalent of a take-out restaurant: they'd tell what cells they wanted, when they wanted it, and I was expected to deliver. They'd tell me all the experiments they wanted me to do for them, while they would go sit in the lounge drinking coffee or at happy hours. They would always pull the, "you work for me," or "it's your job," line on my everytime I protested.

And then one day I quit. Now, I get emails all the time about where XYZ cell line is, why they are getting contaminations, what the culture protocols are, what cells have what markers, why they can't repeat my results etc. I ignore most of the ones I hated and just tell look in my lab notebook or in my documents, where I kept immaculate records. I worked really hard at a job that everyone thought they could do no trouble and even after two years, I had nothing to show for it. All the work I did that contributed to papers, I did not receive credit for, not even an acknowledgment. That's okay though I'm in grad school now and in labs where people and the PI's really appreciate the work I do.

Sea_Hag · 1 year

being called an "ambulance driver" when you are a paramedic pisses me off. do you call a cop a "policecar driver"? or a firefighter a "firetruck driver"? drives me fucken crazy.

donthavearealaccount · 1 year

I have the opposite problem. I have a degree in aerospace engineering and I work in automobile aerodynamics and thermal management. I spend most of my time sorting pictures of car parts and transcribing information from a spreadsheet or powerpoint presentation into a computer program that someone else wrote. Occasionally I get to send an email asking someone what the temperature of the alternator is supposed to be so I can type that into the computer program.

No one believes me when I tell them that I could train them to do my job in about three weeks.

7ypo · 1 year

Kinda like this?

baelwulf · 1 year

I only kinda know what that means; people belittle me because I don't have a full-time job.

I work as a field hockey referee for 12- to 14-year-olds, which only has one season. I get paid a lot for not a lot of work, but it's still only three months of work. In high school, when I got the job, I didn't need that much money.

Now that I'm in college, I need to have a full-time job in the summers. However, when I go home, NOBODY wants to hire me -- especially in this economy. Last year, I applied to over two dozen places in my little suburb hometown, from unpaid internships to sales to fast food to janitorial positions. Nobody wants someone who'll only work for about three months.

Everyone else my age who has a job either knows someone and can put in a good word or goes to a local community college. Nobody cares about my 4.0 GPA and scholarships, or my past leadership positions, or my volunteer work. If I'm coming back in late April and leaving early September, I'm not worth hiring.

And of course, my peers don't understand this. Everyone and his mother say, "Oh, well, this place is hiring!" Chances either, I've already applied there, it's too far away, or I'm completely unqualified for the job (i.e. I can't work at Radio Shack because I don't really know the difference between AA and AAA batteries except size).

bibs · 1 year

I used to find that when I was a merchandiser for a well-known chain of stores. They were like "oh, you work in ..." and make a comment about working as a cashier. I'd explain that actually, no, they send me round the country all expenses paid because what we do is actually pretty complicated. "So you put the products on the shelves then?"

Sigh.

trabo · 1 year

My girlfriend is a professional dancer and teacher. She gets the same shit. She always says that people look at her like, "Aww.. that's cute, what's your real job."

Sad, but ignorance is rampant.

ElliotofHull · 1 year

An American walked into an English pub and asked for a pint of Budweiser.

The barman replied "You're American aren't you?"

The man says, "Yeah. Could you tell by the drink I ordered, or the accent?"

The barman replied. "Neither, you are the fattest fuck I have ever seen."

cynoclast · 1 year

No, because I scare them with big scary words that are in the headlines, and a few that sound more mysterious and interesting than they are.

A few examples:

Dark pool crossing engine
prop trades
Algorithmic trading
FIX messages
durable instances
symbol ranges
exeuctions
crosses

Yes, that industry.

I suspect that part of the reason stuff like this garners respect whereas web apps don't is because the layman can easily see a webapp, and has probably interacted with many. The stuff I work on doesn't even have a GUI. So it's intrinsically more mysterious, and thus more intimidating/respect demanding.

deuteros · 1 year

People I work with don't know how easy my job is. Thankfully my job is essential and none of them have any idea how to do what I do.

jhh4321 · 1 year

I thought I was in r/design for second.

[deleted] · 1 year

About a week ago I was at a wedding reception for a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in many years. I spent most of the evening talking to his father (the groom was extremely busy greeting guests). He mostly talked about how awesome his son was (cancer survivor, grad student in quantum computing). When it was my turn to talk about my exploits, I casually mentioned that I was in school for IT, and that I liked fixing computers. He responded by telling me that his son was fixing his neighbor's computers in middle school, and that we should leave that sort of work for the 14 year olds. I nervously laughed, but then fumed on my 2 hour drive home.

ZanshinJ · 1 year

As someone who teaches both academic subjects and dance, I can sympathize.

ImLosingTheGame · 1 year

I'm thinking about getting arts degree after I graduate, so I guess I should be prepared for this.

HorusTheHeretic · 1 year

Not really my job, but related: bass player. :(

[deleted] · 1 year

Let me just say as a former dance student... you have a hard job. (pats on back)

Vocalities · 1 year

I work in retail. Anybody that thinks it's easy is an asshole.

SarahC · 1 year

I'm the software girl, working alongside the hardware guy - our jobs sometimes cross with sys-admin work, and user support.

Apart from that though we do entirely different things. He gets lost with all the cabling, and switch setup, and rolling hardware around to prepare for disaster recovery situations, and whatever else he does when he disappears into the roof space... I spend my days writing programs that automate communications between our company and others, and update software data between departments... and I try to know all the technical details (behind the scenes) of the huge systems we have running.

We're both treated like unskilled high-school leavers, because we're only ever seen by other staff when they can't position a text-box in a Word document, or they can't find a file. That's stuff we both learned, and remembered 10 years ago, it's so trivial we're shocked when the same person two weeks running asks the same question.

From that - they assume we must just run around the building restarting printers, helping people with Word documents, and sending big Emails, occasionally moving a computer...

I've got a degree fro ma Russell Group university, and various other qualifications, and over 20 years programming experience building some huge systems, and he's got similar with hardware systems.

From our point of views, we're wasting time on user support, because it's not what we're even paid to do! (It's possibly the last line of my job description...)

".... including any other tasks such as supporting users."

Yet some days, it's 3/4's of a days work. Not the same questions, but people.... simply not learning simple IT stuff!

I got really pissed last year:" Can I have a rise? Programmer's are getting at a minimum 5K a year more than me!"

"Well Sarah, it's like this - you don't do enough programming to get a raise, and the user support work doesn't doesn't pay that kind of salary."

Basically saying - because people are either so ret.... slow at learning, or can't be bothered learning, that I am not getting a pay rise this year because I'm not spending enough time on programming!

You can imagine the animosity it made me start feeling when the phone rings and someone (yet again) asks "How do I put a picture in a Word document?"..

There's another crack in my chance at a raise...

-sigh-

Kaluthir · 1 year

I have a slightly different problem; I'm a student, but I'm in Army ROTC (meaning that in a couple of years I'll be a 2nd LT in the Army). Anyone with a vendetta against the military tries to belittle me for it, not because it's easy but because they're against everything that my job will entail.

loranis · 1 year

I am a civil servant and in their defense they are right, my job is easy

allforumer · 1 year

My experience is anecdotal - about 5 dance teachers in 2 states.

Dance teachers are my favorite professionals. They regularly deal with a bunch of people who pretty much suck at dancing (and don't practice outside of class) and manage to stay happy and energetic the whole time.

KKJS · 1 year

I work part time as a supermarket assistant. I can't think of a job that gets less respect than what I do.

People don't realise that supermarkets are a workplace and that the staff in the store's primary function is in fact NOT to pamper your ass. We're there to make sure the shop runs around, we stock shelves from morning to evening, sweep, clean, prep and organize. Everything has to be done within a time limit, we're always under staffed because the only place to save is on wages and we have to do our job while hundreds of ignorant jerks trample through our workplace knocking over stuff, asking silly questions and demanding we make more room and open another cash register.

People seem to have this idea that when we're not sitting by the cash register, we're out back on a cigarette break or eating lunch or what ever. Hell no, at most you get a 30 minute break during a 10 hour work day, the rest of the time you're out on the floor or in the back room doing daily routines.

Some times I'll be working my ass off, desperately trying to get an isle cleared, and some lazy customer will come up to me and ask where the canned tomatoes are or what random shopping item nr 288190 costs. I'll try to direct them to where the item is or where the price checker is. And they'll get all pissy because that's bad service, surely I can get off my knee's, put down that 40 pound crate and go show them where it is, all the while smiling and being thankful for them putting their precious cash in my store. MOTHERFUCKER. They've been shopping in this same shop for over a decade but they still can't figure out what part of the store the canned goods, dairy products, etc are stored and they expect me to know the exact price of every single fucking item that we sell?

Look, yeah, we're there to give customer support, but sometimes it would help if people would pull their head out of their ass and think real hard before they drag me away from what I'm working on.

EGAgraphics · 1 year

Holy shit. I was going to write about this yesterday in DAE since I have been stewing about this for over a week.

A female colleague who I am friends with were chatting about career paths. I'm always very encouraging because hey, we're friends right? Then the subject turns to me.

And she says "yeah, I hope you get to the next level. But it would require a big lifestyle change for you."

WTF does that mean? I don't create a lot of noise and slam papers on my desk and shoot off fireworks when shit doesn't go my way.

I come in at 9 and leave at 5. I also work from home 1-2 days a week because my manager lets me.

I'm not saying there is "no merit" to what she is saying. We ALL have to work harder to get to the next level. But seriously, what a slap in the face. You don't say that to a friend.

And if you are also a person at work who puts on the heir of "you couldn't possibly be working as hard as me" then Fuck you too.

amokie · 1 year

well to be fair, my job is really easy

phatouls · 1 year

I learned more life skills from dance class than any other class I could remember.

lear · 1 year

I work with people looking to volunteer and nonprofit agencies needing volunteers to complete certain projects (i.e. tutoring, building restoration, soup kitchens, etc). Kind of like matchmaking for community service.

Every single individual, be it a volunteer or an employee at another nonprofit agency, wants their hand to be held through the entire process. Once I walk them through all the steps, I typically don't get thanked or will get bitched at for not doing a good enough job.

We recently had this -countless expletives- Disney thing. I'm actually not sure how much I can say on here, but the gist of it involved giving 1,000,000 Disney tickets to the first 1,000,000 volunteers to donate their time. We had many, many people try to lie and cheat their way through the system. I was belittled by individuals that didn't even take the time to understand a few minutes of my job. Thankfully, at 6PM last night, the last Disney voucher was distributed.

wtmh · 1 year

I teach computer software/comptia, etc. Sometimes I have to prep for a class I've never taught in a single day so I can teach it the next. Thanks to the stress of this job I have way more gray hair then anyone my age should. And I probably have an early heart attack to look forward to.

One day, the person who sets up my classrooms said his job was difficult because he had to move computers and re-image them, and that I have it easy. I wanted to kill him with my bare hands.

[deleted] · 1 year

I think on my end what irritates people the most is how much I get paid and how little it seems like I work. I tell them that I do more work in 5 hours than most people get done in 2 weeks but they don't really understand it. Generally if I go off on a rant about cloud computing or basic vulnerabilities in the way they have their wireless arranged and how it could be used to frame them for a number of crimes, they shut the fuck up...Sometimes throwing in a big word or two with real world scenarios can make them realize how important the things you do are..

When I did IT consulting, I told this joke to my clients every time this topic came up:

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