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I have a job that regularly gets lambasted on here. I mean nasty comments about the type of person who does my job. It really upsets me, because I do not consider myself an awful person, and the people I work with aren't either. I am trying to avoid those threads for my own sanity.

My aibu is this- am I being pathetically unreasonable at getting upset at the horrible comments? How do other people with unpopular jobs deal with the hatred?
Do you just shut down and ignore, try and argue your point, avoid engaging altogether? Do I need to grow a thick skin, be reassured that I do my job because I want to make a difference, and heck, pay the bloody bills?

@anotherday no but close! It's such a fine line between being underpaid angels and overpaid minions from hell!

@liminality sorry for your bad experiences

It is the bad few apples that poison the whole cart. But the damning generalisations and assumptions people make are not fair on the majority of those who do their best within whatever their area's shit constraints are.

There are certain sorts of people I don't tell what my job is. I just say I work at an airport. It gets very boring listening to the same lengthy rants over and over again.

My favourite bingo card entry is that we have quotas for seizing contraband. We don't, because we don't need them, usually thanks to the two-bit fag smuggler that's subjecting me to the rant. I don't do much work in that department either, but I never get that far in explaining.