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

Some people really have no idea of how hard other people's jobs are do they .
Can you imagine what the country would be like without teachers , police, health care workers, and all the other unrecognised jobs out there.

I am a cleaner , I started part time and have worked my way up to running my team on several sites dealing with contractors , H&S , writing risk assessments and god knows what eles and yet a few weeks ago I was told
'You are just a cleaner , a monkey could do your job '
The day before
I had got offered a discount on some of the products we bulk buy , I intended to pass some of the savings to to this person, well guess what . . . . . .

I'm ex-cabin crew... Just a glorified waitress apparently (no offence to waitresses, not my words!). If this plane crash lands or you have a medical emergency on board you are going to hope I do more than pour you a cup of coffee.

On MN it's usually described as being done by bored teenagers and they'd be 'horrified' if was all their child aspired to do.

I actually have a degree in one of those vocational careers parents start threads about when DC are choosing A Levels. I choose to work with small children, it's not an easy job, most of my colleagues are not teenagers and the teenager I do work with is awesome!

My mother implied that I dont live in the real world and dont have to deal with the public. Im a job coach at a jobcenter (not uk).

That I’m lazy and not very smart otherwise I would be a hospital specialist in rather than a GP.

@Hfjshdhs that’s hilarious! Reminds me of the scene in motherland when Amanda thinks Anne works at Greggs: “I was actually head of product design at GlaxoSmithKline worldwide”

@Hfjshdhs
"My mum said to me...

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

I’m not Head of Marketing at a FTSE 250 but my mother says I do something that isn't what I do 'because it sounds better'.

@Mjstjs Its almost comical isnt it!

Me nothing, as it would be too outing, but I was on a train with a police officer friend and someone he had put away walked up to him, put his face literally right in his face, and said “get cancer and die cunt” .

I'm in your industry @NoEffingWaytoSurvive and there's not many people who can do it. Going into work and possibly getting attacked for wages that don't reflect what you actually do isn't for everyone and people don't know how hard it is unless they've done it themselves. Support workers are the backbone of mental health care and I salute you!

"Anyone could do your job. It's just pushing a button innit?"

• articulately delivered by a drunk and bolshy groomsman at a wedding - I'm a photographer)

I had a very difficult role, I was the only person in a company with over 400 employees who could do any of it.

My line manager, a senior manager with the company who also couldn't do the job, said to me one day:

"Your job isn't difficult, it's just time consuming".

That comment, combined with many other, similar, snide remarks made me reevaluate my position. I found another (much better) job and left.

When I gave my notice in, I explained to HR that they didn't need to replace me. Just find someone with plenty of time on their hands and give them the job 😂

I’m a prescribing nurse practitioner.

I’ve been told I must be a nurse because I’m not clever enough to be a doctor (probably true but I’m not daft) and all I do is what the doctor tells me to. Errr not quite. I can assess, treat and prescribe within my remit without any input from a doctor. Having said that we work rather well as a team and complement each other’s skills!

NHS podiatrist very specialised, I get asked ALL THE TIME why do you need an MSc to cut toenails?
I don't cut toenails AT ALL or do any kind of routine treatments, I treat very high risk patients.
I never respond because I would not be able to shut up if I did.

@baldafrique Yes. I’ve had it from members of the public but the worst one was a consultant (quite old fashioned type) telling me I’ll be wasted in primary care, implying that it was a less worthy job.

I was once told I was thicker than the biggest plank you could find. I merely pointed it the degree certificates behind me and said 'The most intelligent person I know doesn't have a degree granted, but could you tell these 3 universities here they have been conned. You however are ignorant on every level including decency and humanity' I walked out and got three flights of stairs down and then cried.

@MadisonMontgomery I was a practice manager for many years. GP receptionists have an incredibly hard job and put up with so much rubbish. I always told those I worked with to pass difficult people up to me. They weren't paid enough to deal with much of what they did!

Police officer too. Not even sure where to start...
Usual effort is they'll rape my children, follow me home (good luck with that as I love 30 miles away in an entirely different county), if I have glasses on then I'm a speccy twat, if I haven't then I'm usually a slag or a lesbian.

Water off a ducks back to me now. When they make comments like that, it says more about them than me (although I could do with losing a few pounds). And I'm delighted when they do call me a slag, I'm middle aged and married with a child and it's nice someone thinks I could muster effort to be a slag!

I'm an NHS manager so....

Some of the posts on here are really sad.

Pre Covid because I work from home I don't work a full day and it's not a real job.

These people are now working from home.

When I was a special needs teacher in a mainstream school, one of my class teaching colleagues said that I shouldn't be paid the same amount as her because I was just sitting with 2 or 3 kids and she was teaching 30.

Another time when I went to test drive a new car they guy asked me what work I did. I said I taught children with SN. His reply was so awful I can't repeat it on here.

I worked as a nanny. My grandfather once asked when was I going to ‘grow up and get a proper job’. I didn’t answer directly but moved the conversation on. There was no point trying to change his opinion, I didn’t agree with his values and was perfectly confident in my own choices so shrugged it off.

I work 9-3 and am hugely lazy. I get eleventy billion weeks a year holiday in return for this
I also pick on teenagers purely to make their lives miserable.

I'm evil because I work for the pharmaceutical industry.

I'm a senior teacher with a string of outstanding qualifications, and I was advising a decently bright, but painfully shy, mathematician that she ought to read maths at university. Her father said " I don't want her to become a maths teacher though, she's better than that ". He did add "no offence", but I took some anyway. How many people get a salary for doing a job they love, and that's useful to society?