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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To slag off someone else's profession?

115 replies

Mawgatron · 30/09/2013 21:39

E.g. Nurses don't really care about their patients.

Or firefighters just sit on their arses at the station most of the time so why are they whinging?

Or the police are all corrupt.

Actually, all of these opinions are bollocks. But I wouldn't dream of slagging off a profession that I have no proper understanding of, so why do so many people feel the need to slag off the hardworking teachers of this country? GRRRRRR!

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chicaguapa · 30/09/2013 22:35

Actually I think the comments that this is mn and most of the people posting are parents and are more likely to have an opinion on teachers have a ring of truth to them.

Also that you pick up on the threads that slag off your own profession.

Maybe if we all had regular fires and a need for firemen on a daily basis (oo-er), we'd be moaning about the firemen strike too. People in my office had a lot of derogatory comments to say about them and I felt like shouting 'they go into burning buildings and save people's lives FFS! What is the matter with you?'

We might have something to say about the Royal Mail strike when our Christmas shopping orders arrive a day or two later. Those lazy postmen, they only work half a day anyway!

kerala · 30/09/2013 22:35

Remember my friend and I were on the pull in our twenties she a tabloid journalist me a lawyer we had to pretend to be air hostesses in the end

HearMyRoar · 30/09/2013 22:35

I can sympathise. I'm a local government worker. I'm just sitting around all day squandering tax payers money while spinning a wheel to decide what library to close and laughing in the faces of homeless old ladies. Oh, and did I mention my massive gold plated pension... Whoar!

To make it worse, like teachers I do a job that everyone thinks they are an expert in because they have come into contact with it before. Pisses me right off.

thebody · 30/09/2013 22:36

what trolley dollies? they spit in your food and are only nice to male passengers.

MalcolmTuckerISmyHERO · 30/09/2013 22:39

Oh num yes solicitors are lazy, heavy billing, twats and dont het me started on the smarmy estate agents...
Can you tell we are in the process of moving!!!
(grin)

VerySmallSqueak · 30/09/2013 22:40

Vicars only work on Sundays.

Everyone knows that.

NumTumDeDum · 30/09/2013 22:43

Malcolm, you're not wrong.

waxlyrical · 30/09/2013 22:46

Planners - destroying the economy with red tape and denying decent honest builders a living. All this whilst drinking tea paid for by the other hard working tax payers who work in proper jobs and taking backhanders.

MalcolmTuckerISmyHERO · 30/09/2013 22:47

Landscape gardeners = sunbathing all day

Hairdresser = free haircuts and chatting about crap

Waitress = extra money (tips) for just doing your job

Chef = 'tasting' delicious food all day to 'check' it

Cinema/theatre/concert ticket collextor = free film/show/concerts!!!

MalcolmTuckerISmyHERO · 30/09/2013 22:49

Wax, whats worse than a planner?...
A planning officer who works in conservation!
We can do NOTHING to our house! Even the garage doors have their own spec!
Thats why we are moving...

quoteunquote · 30/09/2013 22:50

Just call people out on generalisations,

I've lost count of the amount of nasty generalisations I read on MN about my profession,

Apparently I am lazy, steal, con, cheat, lying cunt, don't pay tax, thick ,fat, racist, sexist, sexually harass, drive badly, bully, smelly, BNP,EDL, cheat.....

Some people are stupid,I blame the teachers they probably don't even realise how lacking they are, just pity them.

Plomino · 30/09/2013 22:52

Well I'm just a power crazed doughnut eating thug in a paramilitary uniform , who does nothing about anything unless I'm persecuting either totally law abiding drivers whose cars unaccountably seem to be doing 20mph , or picking on someone's kids who weren't doing nuffin. And I have a fantastic union .

Only I don't . Police officers can't join a union because its illegal for us to even talk about striking , and my staff federation see Theresa May and roll over every time .

VerySmallSqueak · 30/09/2013 22:54

Bankers.Money grabbing con artists.

Oh,Wait.

Not a good example......

breatheslowly · 30/09/2013 23:23

Teachers do get slagged off a lot. I think that this is because everyone has been at school. So they know exactly what it is like to be a teacher. There is no other career where people have spent 5 hours a day, 195 days a year for 12-14 years with people working in that career.

However you can be a pupil for all that time and have no idea what it is like to be a teacher. Until I did teacher training, I had no idea how much planning went into teaching and what the paperwork looked like. Even after teacher training and a few years teaching secondary, I had no idea what it would be like to teach primary (and still don't). All I know is that it looks very hard.

WorrySighWorrySigh · 01/10/2013 07:14

I dont think that people claim to know what it is like to be a teacher but most people know hat it is like to be taught. They also have experience as parents of children being taught. Therefore they have an opinion about it.

I would guess that for many people other than their own profession the single largest professional group they will come across is teachers. This group will offer up a few brilliant teachers, some good teachers, a large number of okay teachers, some poor teachers and if unlucky one or two menaces.

It is always the exception which is memorable. Also when things go wrong it tends to affect a large number of people. One bad teacher can affect a huge number of students in a secondary school. A bad maths teacher for a year can mean that the students taught by that teacher miss a whole year's worth of maths teaching. Most people get one chance at education.

Anyway, this is Mumsnet not Teachernet.

WilsonFrickett · 01/10/2013 11:10

Well actually verysmallsqueak there are a small percentage of bankers who work in a particular bit of banking who have clearly fucked it right up the arse. But most people who work in banks are perfectly normal cashiers, mailroom clerks, HR people, communications managers - I could go on and on... And it's them who were advised not to travel in to work in uniform at the height of the crisis, them who were advised not to wear staff passes out of the building ever, members of the public particularly enjoyed walking in to branches and throwing handfuls of coins in tellers' faces for a couple of weeks... so I'd say they've had it pretty tough as well.

LessMissAbs · 01/10/2013 11:21

Yes, I get this, being a lawyer. Usually from men of a certain age who have gone through a bitter divorce. They seem to hate all female lawyers, and some of the comments can be quite scary.

SelectAUserName · 01/10/2013 11:49

Try working for the CPS. We spend all our time prosecuting innocent people, bringing pointless cases to court and letting the real criminals get off scot-free AND we do it all at the taxpayers' expense while being lazy public sector workers too busy thinking about our gilt-edged pensions to look out of our ivory towers at the real world. Apparently.

chicaguapa · 01/10/2013 13:11

WilsonFrickett Imagine if the bankers went on strike!

Pendeen · 01/10/2013 14:23

Architects are completely unnecesary, self-obsessed dilettantes who just waste clients money on extravagances.

It's obvious that any sensible person who has watched a few episodes of 'Grand Designs', read a self-build magazines, done a bit of DIY or (of course) is blessed with an inherent sense of style and good taste can design, specify and manage any building project just as well.

VerySmallSqueak · 01/10/2013 17:24

Wilson fair point. Sorry.

I can imagine that it hasn't been much fun at all for all the other people working in banks if they had to deal with those sorts of horrible situations.

I still would like to slag off,in a more specific way,the small percentage of bankers who work in a particular bit of banking who have clearly fucked it right up the arse....

I don't mind lawyers.So long as I'm not paying since it seems if you fart in their office it carries a charge

And dentists obviously enjoy inflicting pain and then positively squirm in delight to charge you for it....

WilsonFrickett · 01/10/2013 17:51

Oh you can slag the percentage who fucked it up the arse to your heart's content . Work away!

Opalite · 01/10/2013 17:56

I know this isn't a serious thread but when you've only had bad experiences with say, vets then why shouldn't you slag them off? My sympathies lie with the people who have had the bad experiences, not with people whos jobs have been slagged off indirectly

Opalite · 01/10/2013 17:59

Ok I mean most of my sympathy, of course it would be annoying to hear your profession being slagged off

ViciousVampireGuineaPig · 01/10/2013 18:29

I have had my profession slagged off (defence lawyer).

Although my DFriend works for Ryanair so has had her fair share of comments.

Teacher comments are rising up because of strikes. Strikes are meant to cause disruption. I'm not sure what the union wants- people to be happy about it? Disruption leads to resentment. Teachers are targeted but not to a larger extent than many other groups and they are lucky enough to have a strong union, but they don't deserve the vitriol. Many teachers are shit. Most teachers are great. Like every and any profession. Doctors, nurses, social workers, police officers and more all receive similar comments- also undeserved. The comments should be against the individual, not the job.

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