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[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 96 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that's not what they are paid big bucks for.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money

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[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent... I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes... Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.

[–] cujo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen... Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I've run into can be silenced.

It's unforgivable they've jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you're already paying for...

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn't be interested in buying. There's no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"Marketing" is just a euphemism for "propaganda."

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I miss ads from the 60s-80s that were just a info-dump on the product with very little hype. You actually got to learn about what they were trying to sell you instead of a bunch of bullshit and a logo at the end.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Some ads I saw last year didn't even talk about the product, I had no clue what they were selling, other than a quirky relationship video

[–] lolo@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s proven to do is cause paralysis.

[–] czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)

I miss James Randi…

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wonder how less popular all that shit would be if the US just jad proper affordable/accessible healthcare like the most pf the rest of the modern world

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I’m gonna suggest two:

  • anyone at all who works at ICE
  • anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity
[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This. Their job is litterally to get people to spend money on something they otherwise wouldn't spend money on. And they have a no holds barred attitude about separating people from their money.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Law Enforcement. Military personnel.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Hedge fund investors, CEOs, cops, self help industry folks, homeopathic medicine salespeople, organizational structure consultants, social media influencers,

just gonna keep adding,

Suburban development planners, strip mall developers, developers who displace PoC neighborhoods, anyone in health insurance in the US, Catholic not-for-profits writ large, Catholic priests, tourist helicopter pilots...

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SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 28 points 2 months ago

Corporate lobbyists. They've played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scammer. People don't think it's a "profession" in the true sense but it absolutely is. Majority of higher up people in scam call centers or phishing campaigns do it as their day job and they certainly make more money than the average honest worker putting in the same amount of effort.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 23 points 2 months ago

Advertisers.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then I won't say but thats my answer

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (9 children)

That's gonna be everyone's answer, hence I asked for anything else

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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

At best. At worst they're happiness enforcers, and/or corpo double agents

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago
[–] btsax@reddthat.com 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.

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[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

HR managers. They are there to protect the company and not the employees

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 15 points 2 months ago

Insurance workers/administrators. They are there to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. Luigi did nothing wrong. The night that human shit-stain got shot, Luigi was at my house drinking beers and playing cards.

[–] golden_trashcan@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Real-estate agents, followed by recruiters. Those people usually make good money while being absolutely shit at their jobs.

Try to find a real-estate agent who is capable of taking a single picture without their thumb partially covering the camera lens…

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[–] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Weapons dealers and manufacturers, realators, landlords, lobbyists, law enforcement officers, immigration officers or any other monopolists of violence.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lobbyists, Human Resources, CEO’s, Corporate Attorney, Hedge fund manager, FBI, CIA, Mossad, ICE and Televangelist

[–] Ashrakal@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago
  • (in-house) Recruiter
  • Project Manager
  • Agile Coach

These are probably my top three. Recruiters who work in company HR, are usually very moody about who they pick, based on personal preference rather than facts. Sole proprietor recruiters are effective though, that’s why only the in-house ones.

The other two are similar, but they’re the “I work in IT” people who neither possess nor perform the technicalities. Actual imposters (unlike many good folk who do fair work but sometimes suffer from the “imposter syndrome”).

And yes, exceptions happen too. I just dislike these three roles in particular.

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Generically sales people. People that call themselves hustlers. Whatever grind mindset that the people who talk that up the most always ends up being people ladder stepping salespeople

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.

I'm also a "fuck cars" adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people's personal property at the behest of capital.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Law enforcement, military, defense contractors, Ad people, Mainstream economists and the obvious that follow from those such as so and so at policy institute of so and so.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Real Estate agents. Pointless leeches no one needs.

[–] toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 10 points 2 months ago

Disability lawyers. Don't get me wrong, there are good ones. But I see so many that make people do everything themselves, help exactly zero with anything after the initial application, and they take a cut of the proceeds if people's applications are approved. They do something allegedly if the case is escalated up to a judge, but many of them that I've dealt with seem incompetent at best and predatory at worst.

[–] rmerc@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Potentially unpopular response: engineers! I respect the knowledge and intellect, and I do not respect the deficits in curiosity and emotional intelligence. The engineers I know (some of whom I love) tend to be experts on the things they do know, but they don't know what they don't know.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As an engineer, I can understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, it's a field that attracts a lot of smart and socially awkward people. Those whose heads enjoy engineering challenges often lack self awareness, and it results in either being really awkward or being obnoxious, or both. The "good ones" are less loud, so you don't hear from them as much.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Outgoing call center, Door to door "sales", professional panhandlers.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Private equity firms, Attorney General, scalpers

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