What's the rudest thing someone has said about your job?

[NoEffingWaytoSurvive]

I am a support worker in mental health (outs self entirely)

Someone said a few weeks ago 'you are a glorified bum-wiper'

I would like to give them a thump and then take them to an adult acute inpatient hospital and support people who are acutely mentally unwell, suicidal, violent, sexually disinhibited, manic and psychotic. I will of course, help with personal care where needed.

She was not a friend, fwiw and never will be

I was having a polite chat with the grandad of my sons friend at the school gate. He asked what I did and wen I told him he said “I hate Civil Servants” and looked menacingly at me. I had spoken to him a few times before but kept my distance after that.

‘Why are you tired? All you do is sit colouring in all day.’

Year 1 teacher. I really wish I was colouring all day!

As a police officer, all my colleagues and I are racist murdering liars, hell bent on persecuting the vulnerable and utterly corrupt. Many, many people have told me they hope that I/my family get cancer (or AIDS, back in the day) and die.

I'd still rather do my job than teach Year 1 colouring all day? How did you not thump them @Wowcherarestalkingme ?

Police officer and agree with above. Apparently we're all corrupt and racist

As a pharmacist I have been told I am a waste of space and should not be questioning the doctor. I have been told that I don't know the law and I should just do as I'm told, by both patients and HCPs. The worst is definitely 'but I'm a nurse so I know you can break the law if you wanted too'

"Bottom polisher" so not dissimilar to you OP but for a different reason. Elderly great uncle on dhs side told me I was a bottom polisher because I work in an office job so I sit down all day. It was a conversation about retirement that id find it easy to work into older age ,(in my incredibly stressful high pressure job) because I don't have to do manual work!

Well I work in a Wetherspoon pub so you can probably imagine I've heard plenty of rude things.

Most of the horrid things have been from snooty twats on Mumsnet. There was a comment once from someone who said something like,
"People who work at Wetherspoons are too dumb to be trusted with knives"
I've also read on here that Wetherspoon staff are not known for their intelligence.

It got me down at the time to be honest

I'm a teacher. A counsellor once told me. 'surely you can find something better than that with your qualifications.' Hairdressers often tell me how much they hated my subject.

Why on earth did she even say that to you?

Thank you for doing what you do OP

And everyone else who has to deal with shitty folk.

"I thought you would choose something less menial". I'm a lecturer (now associate professor). This was a "friend" from university, who let this clanger out at a dinner party where me and all the guests were in some kind of teaching profession. He"s a lawyer.

The thing that I failed to understand about the bum-wiping comment is that her mum was ill in hospital and would have needed personal care.

I treat my patients with the utmost respect, and part of that is providing personal care. It is a privilege to support people in remaining clean and dignified.

It's not all nurses and doctors, HCSWs are doing a hard job for not much money!

I'm a robot in a call centre

I'm not saying what my job is as it's pretty outing, but I've had people say to me "Do they actually PAY you to do this?!" (In a derogatory way, not a "wow, I wish I had your job" way)

OP I was immensely grateful for the HCSWs when I was an immobile inpatient a while ago. I was incapable of getting myself to the bathroom and on one memorable occasion couldn't put on my own knickers. Your colleagues grace and kindness spared me a great deal of humiliation. I will also never forget the HCSW who noted the elderly lady wasn't eating, asked her about it, and when she said all she really wanted was some chocolate, popped to the hospital shop and bought her a big bag of wispa bites. Hold your head high, you're worth a thousand snooty cunts.

I’m a GP receptionist. Probably the nicest thing is that we just sit drinking tea & chatting all day, generally it is the usual that we try and stop patients getting appointments, we think we’re doctors, etc etc.

Until recently I worked in a small clothes shop.
I lost count of the number of women who left a mountain of clothes on the floor of the changing room, whilst breezing past me saying that picking them up would keep me in employment.
People assume that retail workers are all thick and unable to get any other job. In my experience this is very far from the truth.

My grandfather had a senior military job, buddies with Norman Schwarzkopf. Someone (who I barely knew) said my grandfather only got to a senior position not because he was a desert warfare expert strategist , but rather because our surname came early in the alphabet.

Bless my dad he sometimes comments on how I earn 'peanuts' (but pays my bills, I'm happy).

My mum said to me...

‘I don’t tell my friends what you do because it doesn’t sound very impressive’.

I’m Head of Marketing at a FTSE 250.

@NoEffingWaytoSurvive for you. Mental health services wouldn’t survive without good support workers. Thank you for what you do.

“You’re just playing with kids all day, anyone could do that”.
When I was working in a nursery. It made me annoyed, how people simultaneously didn’t value my job and also the amount of people who said “ I could NEVER do that!”

Someone once said to me "You must be really thick or else you would be working privately as a doctor" (I'm an NHS doctor). I'm many things but cant say I've ever identified with the idea of being thick!

I’m an Early Years teacher and my SIL who is a secondary teacher once said to me “so you change nappies and wipe snotty noses all day?” I was so angry as I though another teacher may have some understanding of my job!

I got married abroad and had to give details of my job for the marriage papers. When I told the wedding organiser, she hissed at me and made a cross with her fingers. I thought she was joking but she very much wasn't. She recorded me as a social worker (which is nothing like what I do) as she couldn't bring herself to write my actual job title .
I'm a civil servant and she'd had a run in with my department when she lived in the UK apparently.

Had a lot of comments over the years on how we all sit around doing nothing all day every day and earn megabucks (both couldn't be further from the truth).