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

Civil servant, one of the unpopular departments. Pretty much heard it all.

I just drink coffee all day (for clarity l hate coffee) and play pool (lm crap at that and not fond of it). In reality l work in mental health with some quite unwell and risky people. Getting head butted and getting my nose broken were low points

@toomuchfaster doctors often need questioning in my experience

@ComplaintsComplaintsComplaints Loving the racist, corrupt and liars comments. My police officer father hid his racism well, being married to my mixed race mother for nearly 30 years

Yes, but what's your actual real job? I'm a dance teacher, I teach 30 hrs a week and spend at least another 30hrs a week doing the admin and paperwork for my studio.

@ZiggZagg

Obviously

I'm a TA. Apparently I'm not clever enough to be a teacher.

I’m a secretary and people do say ur just a doctors skivvy. Whilst in some cases this can be true as some really take the piss I do work hard and without me typing and sending ur letters and organising appointments you wouldn’t be getting the care you need.

Local newspaper editor accused Dh (in his editorial comment) of stealing tax payers money to pay for his flash car... he’s a civil servant and drives a 11 year old Ford.

I’m an nhs manager. Colleagues are lovely and grateful for the work I do. ED dr yesterday said to me in my response of “oh I’m not clinical” but we’re all one team and I need you doing your job as much as you need me to make this hospital work. Sadly, people outside the nhs think managers get paid too much and do nothing. The managers have actually worked beyond hard implementing safe services. The doctors and nurses don’t write many risk assessments, sops etc.

I work as a lawyer in compliance. My dad described my work as 'admin'.

Ex-DWP

Reminding a customer that she ought to be looking for work (or at least blag it to us- we didn't give a toss) while claiming JSA she asked me how I slept at night. Apparently because she was respectable she didn't need to do anything.

Advising a customer that we wouldn't be replacing a giro because she had cashed it earlier, she replied that she would follow me home and burn my house down.

Nothing specific but I find it really rude when someone says "oh I couldn't do your job"

It's really ignorant, sweeping and it really fucking pisses me off. I wouldn't want to be a brain surgeon, a taxi driver, an accountant or a cleaner but I'd NEVER say it to someone that was. It has absolutely no relevance or point.

was in retail so have heard it all, DB "sells computers" so also gets all the could have tried harder at school type comments.actually sales director of a really well-known computer company. People are just so sneery about roles they believe are beneath them.
remember careers advisor from school who told a friend who wanted to be a nurse that if they had only tried harder they could have been a surgeon!

I was working retail while I was at college (not that it matters, but it was a stop gap job till I left), and one of my teachers said something like 'Only the dregs of society work at supermarkets past the age of 25 so be careful you don't end up a career she stacker". I just found it such a rude and unnecessary comment!

Management for nhs MH unit

Apparently I just sit in meetings

Oh and according to a poster on here I didn’t need to go into work during lockdown as they know other managers who didn’t so that would apply to me too r

Op I am well aware how much support workers are relied on. Everyone is an essential part of the team and the support workers we have do a huge amount of work they have the closest relationship with our patients

Oh, and here is another one, my friend is a midwife, and another friend said to her "Must be an easy job, the women do all the work and you just watch"

I am a health visitor - most people on Mumsnet think I'm fucking useless. 😔

According to my line manager (I’m a secretary) I sit there looking pretty all day
Well, for someone who doesn’t know what I do, that’s the last thing I do. I’m a fucking one woman juggling act!

Senior Manager in FinTech. According to exdh, sat on my arse all day while he was working. (He was a lecturer)

I'm a paramedic.. and all I apparent do is help the drunk after a night out on the town covered in their own vom... Ok then. I do more than that lol. Jeez.. why people so judgy about peoples job? From cleaner to c.e.o , everyone should feel respected

Not proper teaching
What can you teach THEM
Do they not hit you?
Did you choose to do that? Do you get paid the same as a normal teacher?
You must have the patience of a saint!
Must be great finishing at 3 everyday and having 100 weeks holidays a year?
Eugh aren’t some of them still in nappies, do you have to change them?

I’m a SEN teacher

Used to be in hospitality - far too many jibes to mention, but I'll just say that I'm not an illiterate idiot and if you want a 'professional' service then you need some people with experience and knowledge because otherwise who's going to teach new and young staff what's expected? And frankly, beers shit if the cellar and lines aren't looked after properly 🤣 and don't even get me started on the general publics understanding of licensing laws..... Most people would have had theirs removed if they'd done some of the things I've been asked to do in the name of customer service and common sense.

I'm in care now, bum wiper is a usual one, and that I make tea and play Scrabble all day.....🙄 If only!

I run a business selling online. One of my family made a snippy remark about my selling "tat" until I showed her the balance in my Paypal account for just one week was more than she made in a month. Made her think again.

I'm a Special School TA...
so... too thick to be a teacher ( I have a very respectable degree thanks)
and I just wipe the bums of unteachable kids.

I also carry out gastrostomy feeds, manage epilepsy, do physio, manage challenging behaviour etc etc, but yep it's low paid so totally unworthy.

Luckily the kids are awesome, the staff are brilliant and my job has allowed me to be around for my children while Dh was in the Forces!

@lljkk

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).

Sir Peter? By far the best man for the job!

I'm a recruiter and I do my job well. I care about my candidates and my clients but ALL recruiters are rubbish apparently.

Work in health visiting. I get very frustrated on behalf of my excellent colleagues for the amount of times (both on here and in real life) who think health vistinf is a job you can get just by doing a little course or something. Nope, they're all nurses or midwives who've gone on to do post graduate qualifications to take on the specialist role. And good lord the pasting they get. There's good and bad as with all roles but frankly my role exists because health visitors are too busy working with extremely complex cases, loads of safeguarding, families in desperate situations, loads of co-working with social workers, therapists etc. If people have no idea what health visitors do or what the point of them is they should consider themselves lucky-it means they and their babies are safe and well the majority of the time!