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?

I work in engineering... I notice problems with building construction, metal fatigue, structures not built or used in accordance with fire or safety codes... I can be a real downer some times.

notmylittleangel, absolutely Bob on

I still check currency rates and have the occasional look at the Foreign Office website, 13 years since I needed to do this.

Waves to Dot as a fellow policy official!

I can tell when Ministers have gone off piste when interviewed and when a Department is trying to gloss over an issue. I feel for them as it regularly used to happen to me when we had a renegade Minister!

How amazing horses are at expressing affection, need, annoyance, anger, loneliness, contentment and trust without uttering a sound.

Worked in sales and promotion- i can tell by an advert whether the product does what it should or if it is a load of b.s

Various Catering (private functions/reasturants and take aways)- whether food is fresh/frozen/out of a packet/made from scratch- usually just from sight but definatly from taste/texture. People know fuck all about the food they eat,inc what is in it or where it comes from
From both i gained; people are assholes, the customer is only really right 1 out of 10 times and most of the population do not know how to make a telephone call and place an order correctly. ( one of My favourites : At a Chinese takeaway- you know that dish with the chicken in and it has that sauce stuff on it....? )

From working in a school (not teaching staff): only 1 in 5 children wash their hands after the toilet. Parents think they can park any where and no one else matters apart from them and their offspring. And they believe anyone can do a better job teaching than the teacher themself.

Being old or ill is crap.

How people lie. How people can be so neglectful and then be surprised when told that they have been.
It's the lies..... Of course their dog lost half its bodyweight overnight 🙄 I'm a vet nurse.
Also how people refuse to pay for the smallest thing, then drive off in their brand new huge car

jenna can you tell me what 'tells' to look out for, I would love to be able to point these out to my dd (& ds's come to think of it!)

Life can change in an instant....that being super fit and healthy does not preclude someone from getting cancer

The sheet amount of money wasted by businesses.

*sheer

Bikini waxer here.

95%+ of people have hairy bumholes.

Professionals use double words a lot. Particularly too too or and and. It gets to the final book/ article far too often and really annoys me.

How much men really really hate women and anything women like (fashion, beauty) is labelled as feminazi drivel.

I work at a magazine and the comment sections are 90% men being really really abusive and angry.

That people do not read notices. The doors into the reading room are clearly (well, clearly-ish - black lettering on glass doesn't always stand out and we can't have anything brighter because listed building) marked Way In and Way Out. But they might as well be in Sanskrit for all the notice people take of them.

I'm sure there are customers who think I'm patronising for pointing the signs out. Sigh.

I can sniff a scam a mile off. I work in Fraud Prevention. I can look at any bank account transactions and decide whethwe they are likely to commit fraud or be the victim of fraud.

How amazing horses are at expressing affection, need, annoyance, anger, loneliness, contentment and trust without uttering a sound.
Amazingly sheep are the same

I've realised just how lonely so many of our older people are, many have no living relatives and how stretched adult social services are

What kind of magazine, bluechairs? Is it a women's magazine that weird women -hating men deliberately go onto the website to spew vitriol on the comments or a more general lifestyle/news one for both sexes that the men stray over from the other sections a bit more by accident but pause long enough to pour scorn on the articles to do with women's interests?

@powershowerforanhour it's a mixed website with a lifestyle section which generally has more women based articles.

So they spill over but then complain about an article titled, for example, 'The 13 best dresses for spring' and they'll say that:

we all try and trick men and then divorce them and steal their kids and spend all their money on dresses, only loose women wear red, all these midi dresses remind them of their mothers outfits, have women nothing better to think about than this drivel, maybe if women stopped reading fluff and started reading news they'd get their 'so called equal pay'.

Ad infinitum

Ugh, I think that's more depressing than a small number of ultra dedicated weirdos trolling women's websites.

Love this thread!!

Italian menu spelling errors, in English-speaking countries.

I itch to pull out my pen (I’m a translator). I’ve been known to sidle up to chalkboards and rub out ‘extra’ letters.

It still bemuses me that Italian food is so popular, Italian language is so phonetic, yet there’s barely ever an error-free menu. People seem to be working on a ‘throw in a few more “c”, if in doubt’ principle. Example: Osso buCo, FocCaccia

And some extra accénts, to indicate the item is posh

Academic working in English lit.

BS claims about higher education, from people who don't really understand the system but think being snobbish about newer institutions makes them sound like they've got it sussed. In reality, academics from all sorts of places socialise and collaborate together. It's not like supporting different football teams

Poor usage of English. I never get judgy about bad grammar outside of formal prose but I cringe at pretentious, overwritten, pompous sentences.

I'm an editor for an online publication. For me it's shoddy spelling, awful pictures (I've had to overlook some amazing hotels and restaurants because their imagery is so poor), other publications lifting copy from us verbatim, local influencers are all smiles on their insta-feeds but demanding harpies in real life that majorly take the piss out of indie businesses.

Also as a freelancer I see some AWFUL feature pitches that get commissioned in an instant and excellent stories without so much as a sniff.