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To think there are jobs in the world which no human being should be doing?

169 replies

ConstantIllness · 28/06/2025 09:32

Abattoir workers
Online child sex abuse investigators
Are 2 in particular that spring to mind. They require people to become numb to pain and suffering.
In anticipation of snarky replies: no, I don't know how else they should be done and yes, I know there's always been pain and suffering. It's at an industrial scale now though.
Maybe it takes a certain kind of human to do it, which is worrying in itself.

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FreyjaOfTheNorth · 28/06/2025 17:21

greencartbluecart · 28/06/2025 10:51

AI is used for abuse images but at some point the human needs to view - AI provides a set of possibles - it can’t go and make the final call and do the arresting and investigation. Also things evolve and sometime ai needs to be handled new training examples - given by humans

it is such a terrible hard role and so very necessary

abattoirs however - I can’t help feeling if you eat meat ( and I do ) then you should be able to handle the slaughter of the animal ( which I doubt I could - nobody is perfect )

So how do you feel about the animals killed in the harvesting of crops? You surely don’t think that huge harvesting machines stop and wait if a mouse or bird gets in the way? They get churned up with the crops.

Foolsgold74 · 28/06/2025 17:06

missmollygreen · 28/06/2025 12:40

Well according to alot of people on this thread they should not be allowed to do their chosen job.

Go feminism!

Celebrating women having the freedom to become prostitutes is nothing to be proud of and is one shitty form of feminism.

Foolsgold74 · 28/06/2025 16:49

Ponoka7 · 28/06/2025 10:41

By that train of thought, most jobs in the hospital, MH, Police, Military shouldn't be done either, probably the prisons, as well. I've worked in child services, you are part of the prevention. It's a different mindset and thought process than you've got. I thought that this thread was going to be about children breaking rocks, manual process across Africa, teams of rubbish dump workers across the world. Or even children walking miles for water. MN is embarrassing at times.

Are people not allowed to have concerns for others in the UK? Or does everything have to be compared to Africa, India etc?

Foolsgold74 · 28/06/2025 16:46

B1anche · 28/06/2025 10:25

What a strange way of looking at it. Surely most people have sex primarily for the pleasure they get out of it, paying or not. I imagine most couples use each other as a masturbatory aid from time to time. If someone is happy to charge for it and the other is happy to pay, who cares?

I think you quickly need to wise up on your pollyanna view of prostitution.

DontTouchRoach · 28/06/2025 16:39

ConstantIllness · 28/06/2025 09:32

Abattoir workers
Online child sex abuse investigators
Are 2 in particular that spring to mind. They require people to become numb to pain and suffering.
In anticipation of snarky replies: no, I don't know how else they should be done and yes, I know there's always been pain and suffering. It's at an industrial scale now though.
Maybe it takes a certain kind of human to do it, which is worrying in itself.

”A certain type of human” that is “worrying in itself”?

Sorry, but that’s a really fucking offensive thing to say. People do utterly horrible jobs because they’re necessary and keep people fed and children safe, and you decide that makes them “a type of human that is worrying in itself”?

Maybe be a bit more grateful, rather than implying they’re fucked in the head.

JohnofWessex · 28/06/2025 16:34

Cleaning ships engine room bilges takes a lot of beating if you want a really nasty job

Confined space full of a mix of dirty oil and water

That or going into boiler's to mend or inspect them

SALaw · 28/06/2025 16:32

henlake7 · 28/06/2025 16:30

Anybody involved in animal testing.
Pretty sure nobody needs to be doing that in this day and age.

For medical purposes?

henlake7 · 28/06/2025 16:30

Anybody involved in animal testing.
Pretty sure nobody needs to be doing that in this day and age.

ShiningStar3 · 28/06/2025 16:23

B1anche · 28/06/2025 16:22

Great....so we agree!

Interesting reading comprehension (or lack thereof)

B1anche · 28/06/2025 16:22

ShiningStar3 · 28/06/2025 15:53

You can experience sexual pleasure without objectifying and dehumanising someone. But whatever helps you sleep at night!

Great....so we agree!

ShiningStar3 · 28/06/2025 15:53

B1anche · 28/06/2025 15:13

🙄 Oh no, my partner and I purely have sexual intercourse as a way of expressing our deep love for each other and for making babies... Any sexual pleasure is unintentional. 🙄

You can experience sexual pleasure without objectifying and dehumanising someone. But whatever helps you sleep at night!

smallglassbottle · 28/06/2025 15:43

Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:16

Surely insurance has rules and limits that people know about when they sign up for it. They can't pay for everything.

Edited

Of course, but there are sharp practices that go on and things aren't always cut and dried.

Example: my cat had cystitis and I took her to the vets who gave antibiotics and the problem subsided for a week then returned. Because I couldn't get an appointment within the two weeks required for a return visit by the insurance company, they wouldn't class it as a return of the problem and wouldn't pay even though it was absolutely a return. They got out of it on a technicality. Luckily it didn't work out as an expensive problem, but imagine if it was a human and it was a significant cost. This is why US Healthcare Insurance has such a terrible reputation. Inhaler for $600? The young patient needing this died by the way.

Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:16

smallglassbottle · 28/06/2025 14:33

The people who run health insurance companies abusing their workers by telling them who to turn down for payment. Same goes for veterinary insurance. People having to choose between buying food or paying for a treatment. People losing their homes in the US etc.

Surely insurance has rules and limits that people know about when they sign up for it. They can't pay for everything.

B1anche · 28/06/2025 15:13

ShiningStar3 · 28/06/2025 14:22

If you think it's normal or healthy for someone to use their partner (or anyone) as a masturbatory aid then that's just depressing.

🙄 Oh no, my partner and I purely have sexual intercourse as a way of expressing our deep love for each other and for making babies... Any sexual pleasure is unintentional. 🙄

Iwillclasptheeagain · 28/06/2025 14:43

It is funny seeing abattoir workers branded wholesale as psychopaths.

That's a lot of psychopaths.

Clearly no one here was ever from a small town where the meat works was one of the major sources of employment.

Out of touch doesn't really cover it.

smallglassbottle · 28/06/2025 14:33

cryptide · 28/06/2025 10:54

I always wonder about people in jobs where they are incentivised to reduce costs of things like care, housing and special educational provision. Do they really feel satisfied going home at the end of the day knowing that, because of their work, some child who desperately needs help in school is going to have to do without it? Or a vulnerable young person is sleeping out on the streets and probably being attacked, or an equally vulnerable older person is having to lie in their own urine and faeces because they have no-one to help them to the toilet?

The people who run health insurance companies abusing their workers by telling them who to turn down for payment. Same goes for veterinary insurance. People having to choose between buying food or paying for a treatment. People losing their homes in the US etc.

Charlottetharlot · 28/06/2025 14:33

ScreamingBeans · 28/06/2025 09:35

So called sex work. No one has the right to use another human being's body as a masturbatory aid.

Oh really I've got no issues with my job...any one who is forced ( into any industry) is an entirely different matter (and also disqualifies it from being a 'job').

smallglassbottle · 28/06/2025 14:26

B1anche · 28/06/2025 10:25

What a strange way of looking at it. Surely most people have sex primarily for the pleasure they get out of it, paying or not. I imagine most couples use each other as a masturbatory aid from time to time. If someone is happy to charge for it and the other is happy to pay, who cares?

The myth of the happy hooker. There's a site (can't remember the name) where men write ratings and reviews of sex workers. The stuff that's written there is abhorrent and degrading. They literally see the women as meat with holes. Then they view all women the same way. All women and girls end up paying for it one way or another.

ShiningStar3 · 28/06/2025 14:22

B1anche · 28/06/2025 10:25

What a strange way of looking at it. Surely most people have sex primarily for the pleasure they get out of it, paying or not. I imagine most couples use each other as a masturbatory aid from time to time. If someone is happy to charge for it and the other is happy to pay, who cares?

If you think it's normal or healthy for someone to use their partner (or anyone) as a masturbatory aid then that's just depressing.

Snorlaxo · 28/06/2025 14:21

It’s not just the investigators though. The people need to be tried and law enforcement needs to process the evidence too. The victims need human help (social services, medical services… ) and I suspect that AI investigations might not be legal in the same way that human investigation is and criminals getting out on technicalities is the last thing that we need. I suspect that online moderators on social media platforms are minimum wage workers and I can’t imagine what training (if any) they receive before seeing some of the horrific shit that people post.

The victims of human cruelty need human help more than anyone else. It would be sad if help that vulnerable people received was via AI and robots.

Pingiop · 28/06/2025 14:19

Dappy777 · 28/06/2025 13:44

I often wonder about the kinds of people who work in slaughterhouses. I have a dark suspicion many of them are sadists and psychopaths who get a kick out of it. In the future, people will look back at the meat industry with the same disgust we feel when we look back at public hangings (which were popular entertainment in the 1700s).

Psychopathy is a very serious mental health disorder, something that you can’t control like depression. Most psychopaths aren’t violent, dangerous are a criminal. It’s very insulting to refer to someone as a psychopath as it only perpetuates the myth that they are all dangerous, which is not factual. I suggest you educate yourself as it’s a very ablest and discriminatory comment and comes under the 10 protected characteristics of the UK Equality Act and quite frankly falls under hate speech.

BeRoseSloth · 28/06/2025 14:17

Emptying the dog poo pins in parks etc. No one should have to do that. Take it home with you!!

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 28/06/2025 14:11

Lincslady53 · 28/06/2025 11:24

In the last episode of Clarksons Farm, he has problems with the cess pit in the new pub. As he is talking to the builders by the pit, they wind up the block and tackle and a man is pulled up from the cess pit who has been working inside it. He did have a big smile on his face, but did make me think 'Who would do a job like that?'

I was just thinking the same. That MUST be the worst job.

Mrsbloggz · 28/06/2025 13:50

Dappy777 · 28/06/2025 13:44

I often wonder about the kinds of people who work in slaughterhouses. I have a dark suspicion many of them are sadists and psychopaths who get a kick out of it. In the future, people will look back at the meat industry with the same disgust we feel when we look back at public hangings (which were popular entertainment in the 1700s).

I agree, those of you who kid yourself that these animals are raised and killed humanely 🙄
don't make me laugh.
If the meat industry were humane it would not be profitable

Pingiop · 28/06/2025 13:48

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 28/06/2025 13:33

I don’t think it can be that much of a thing, it’s pretty visual and we all have cameras..

The patient came in during the early hours of the morning so I doubt there would have been loads of cars on the road. But I’m guessing it would have just looked like any other car crash unless you were driving alongside them. I also doubt many people would have the time to react and take a video of someone on fire if they’re driving 90 plus miles an hour, plus being on your phone whilst driving is illegal. Very unethical to take a video of someone almost being burnt to death. No idea about the other patients that did it, but I highly doubt a group of nurses and doctors are going to lie about it to a student.

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