What does your job make you notice?

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I work in advertising so I always notice bad fonts, dodgy claims, poor punctuation, use of stock photos and all sorts of things that leave me steaming with annoyance while normal people all around seem to be able to walk past a crap sign without wincing.

Does your job make you notice things the normals don't see?

How eye wateringly rich some people are. I work in a private school. Some of the parents are normal, others make you feel like another member of their “staff” 🙄.

After working in state schools, it has been a real eye opener.

Marketing - publications, brochures, catalogues, website content and copywriting. Bad spelling, grammar and punctuation make my teeth itch, especially the misuse of the apostrophe.

How kind people are generally.

I send an email out asking for help. Usually get replies within a very short time.
People bring things in to help others.
People understand mistakes happen.

Yes we get some horrors too, but the vast majority of people put themselves out for others time and time again.

And I want to thank the subtitlers of the world. I have 3 DCs, a pet cockatoo, and a tough time hearing with background noise.

If it weren't for subtitles, I wouldn't be able to follow anything.

And, as a fun aside, my DD who has a complex disability now watches everything with subtitles, too. She says it is easier to understand everything with them on.

I work in the water industry and I never fail to be surprised by how little some people know about their water - from how to turn their supply on/off to thinking that both their drinking water and waste water go through the same pipes. Water and drainage are an “invisible” service and it’s often not until something goes wrong that people have any idea what goes on behind the scenes to get their water to them/their waste taken away and treated. In some ways that’s great as it likely indicates they’ve never had an issue with it but it still surprises me how little people know about something so essential.

I work for the NHS and can't help but notice the total lack of investment and the stealth privatisation going on

And the waste! We had new phones installed but we can't use them! They are crap. We knew they would be!!

Also how honest our patients are!! They are regularly bringing in items people have left on a visit either from the car park or the toilet!!

I'm a medievalist, so I notice (and am irritated) every time someone uses 'medieval' as a synonym for 'violent to women/backwards'. Eg. 'Alabama's medieval abortion laws'.

How much people cope with in their lives. My eyes have been opened to the fact that so many people have complex lives, family life, health and mental health issues that most people around them wouldn’t even begin to guess at and how amazing people are in how they cope despite little support.

Also constantly awed by the strength of women I see, emotionally and physically. It’s a cliche but it’s absolutely humbling.

These are interesting

Love to hear from a surgeon or top chef, what do you notice

Roof tiles and wellies.

Retail Customer service: an unremittingly, unabashed sense of entitlement from some people, coupled with bad manners. A certain customer demanding we sought out her taxi home for several weeks on the trot, another very naice lady calling a manager a bitch because her card was declined, demands that I open up more tills, others insisting we do their shopping for them, that its disgusting that I'm just 'stood around' etc.... all from the older generations, that do nothing to dispel the stereotypes about baby boomers.

How many people don't clean their belly buttons (scrub nurse)

I hear you!

MidsomerBurgers It almost needs it's own procedure code/consent cleaning them out sometimes!