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 many arseholes work in the music biz

Leftover from my nursery days, I always notice how many people there are in a room.

Love this thread.

Mine is how little people prepare to undertake a train journey. Not knowing where they are specifically heading to or thinking about rail replacement services even when information has been readily available for months beforehand.
Also how rude people are to rail staff when cancellations/delays are not there fault but will blame them anyway.

How often parents now call or email university admissions departments on behalf of their offspring who are sometimes applying for postgraduate degrees 😂

It was unheard of in my own uni days and I made all of my DC do their own uni wrangling, not that they expected me up do it for them.

Ohhhh, I’m bad for wearing earrings for months at a time and not taking them out eastmidsgp, I hardly wear them unless it’s for an occasion but every now and then I will put in some studs and forget all about them.

How often people miss appointments. I’m an estate agent and have a no show at least once a week. Not so bad of it’s a local viewing within walking distance of the office but a pain in the tits when I’ve driven half an hour to get there. I’m so conscious of always cancelling appointments with as much notice as possible as a result now. I can only imagine how frustrating this must be for those of you on the NHS.

Good thread OP
I work on a till & see allsorts of people - find it fascinating. I notice that parents can be so thoughtless when talking to me about their child in the child’s earshot eg I will see a young kid sitting in the trolley & jokingly say “ How much are you?” & so many parents reply “ Take him/her, she/he’s free” or something along those lines. As an adult I know they don’t mean it but imagine what the child thinks? And loads of parents seem way too strict with their kids, really laying into them when they’ve barely moved 2 inches or ( heaven forbid) asked for chocolate on the counter. Wish shops didn’t insist on putting sweet stuff at the checkouts.

To look for all the escape routes / fire exits etc

How often parents now call or email university admissions departments on behalf of their offspring who are sometimes applying for postgraduate degrees 😂
On the same kind of theme I had DS 's college ring me up a few months ago to tell me he had missed an assignment and had some absenteeism.
My reply which was ' why are you telling me ? Tell him it's not good enough , he is a adult now'!! Its not my buisness.
Ds is 19!! a few days later when DS asked me to make an appointment at the dentist for him when I was making my own. I was told they couldn't as he was over 18 he had to make his own!!

As a teacher l notice children wandering off. Even on holidays l am uneasy if l see a child wandering off without the parents noticing. Last week l sat inside a restaurant window and couldn't enjoy my meal as a small child of about 3 was playing ball on the path..almost alone. I was terrified the ball would go in the road. Her dm was chatting to her friend inside a shop door. It was nerve wracking.

Ah@Shinyletsbebadguys I suspect we've had similar work histories and very possibly a current role in common??

Every one I meet is a potential sex offender

How desperately poor so many families are since the austerity measures - children losing weight in the summer holidays as there's no free school meals, children wanting to stay at school in winter because it's heated unlike their home.

Good thread! I have no idea what majestical skills my job has given me but I always recognise punctual people and those who can manage their time properly.

I notice that life is actually fleeting, that you need to fit in what you can while you're able and that one day you'll be old and nobody will give a toss.

I notice when people hide from having their photo taken and it makes me sad because in 50 years time they will long to see their youth again, in a photo frame or a memory book.

It makes me see that sometimes people are scared and go straight to anger and that they still need kindness and compassion, even if on the face of it they're being utter twats.

It makes me want to not miss a second of my life and my children, even with the stresses and strains and worries of everyday life and living with a mental health condition , because one day I may be sat in the lounge of a nursing home ravaged by dementia having forgotten how to speak or feed myself. That what is happening now is life and that one day it all stops.

Poor use of statistics (sometimes deliberately so), poor numerical understanding, dodgy data interpretation, correlation/causation confusion. I’m a scientist

I notice people who over share, endlessly . I notice people who have absolutely nothing of interest to say talking. Constantly.

I notice these things because I'm Not. Constantly. Talking!

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

The state of people's feet, they put on nail polish and think thats all that is required and they have the most minging, thickened, hard, cracked heels. Mmm, attractive. I notice it most at the airport in the security queue, I can't help it as i work with feet all day.

How lonely so many children are and how many of them really don't look forward at all to school holidays at home.

I notice how some famlies completely ignore their elderly relatives and just find them a burden.

Potholes, damaged pavements, bus lanes, bus shelters, cycle paths, cycle parking, footpaths, nicely resurfaced sections of road...

I work in a council highways department. It’s bad when I’m noticing these things on holiday!

That people don't read instructional / directional signage. That we don't really value art and culture in this country.

That people lie if they think it will get them their own way.

How many parents just don't value education, or think that educating their DC is in no way up to them ('Mummy didn't hear me read, she had to go to the gym.')

How many people are crashingly ignorant about the functions of the different layers of local government, and how constrained they are by legal requirements, but still feel able to bawl and shout and criticise on social media ('All that pomp and circumstance about approving the minutes and the mayor running the meeting...' Yes, dear, the minutes have to be checked and approved and the mayor chairs the meeting, coz someone has to.)

I also notice sheep. It's years since I looked after any, but I'll still go, 'God, look at the state of their feet!'

The extent of MH and lack of support.
The entitlement of some people who think because they "pay full rent" they should get a better service. Consequentally they also think that those who "don't pay full rent" should be lower down our priorities.
The amount of stuff a business has to pay that is absolutely nothing to do with what their business even is.