Does anyone else have an unpopular job?

[Wednesdayafternoon]

And is just sick of the negativity towards it?
I've worked my way up to a decent position in a call Center dealing with home insurance (for a global company) and worked there for 15 plus years.
It's obviously not the most exciting job in the world and certainly isn't where I saw myself working when I was little, but hey ho, it suits my life!
We actually work extremely hard at our place. Dealing with all sorts of situations which can be triggering and unpleasant, dealing with all types of customers who can be verbally abusive.... more often then not!
Home insurance usually peaks in the winter, I've had my Christmas holidays cancelled and been under the most pressure around the holidays pretty much every year. It's hard, really really hard.
But when do you actually hear anyone say anything nice about us poor buggers answering the phones? Dealing with 20+ claims/customers every. Single. Day.
Heaven forbid you say something negative towards the NHS or a teacher on here (not that I do I will point out, but seen it time and time over) and the Mumsnet brigade comes out on full force. Why do people in these jobs only seem to get recognition for working hard?
I worked through the entire pandemic. Until all of our WFH equipment was set up (which took a while) we were going into office every single day with 200+ people... didn't matter whether you were vulnerable or not! Not a single hour was lost.

Anyway I am rambling. I just find the "free pass" for certain jobs tiring. Anyone else feel the same?

@Wednesdayafternoon does the company you work for begin with m?

leave, it will never ever improve. There are better companies out there believe me!

@PassThePringles thank you for explaining what you do. As a person who cleans a home (dh and 2 teenagers), I totally respect what you do as a professional. Appreciate your listing the tasks because I have often wondered how the holiday cottages are so immaculately clean. Now I know. It is bloody hard work, considering my house gets dusty even after a few days. It is incredible to think you check every single plate and glass. I presume pots and pans too. That is so fiddly.

I cannot abide people who live like pigs but you must see many of those. The one thing I don't do is strip beds unless asked but when I leave a cottage, I try to make it look as if no one has been there.

My mother was a tax collector for HMRC. Used to go out "on call" (by herself, it wouldn't happen nowadays), dropping in on farmers and other self employed people, to tell them to cough up or the bailiffs would be round. She was embarrassed and would just tell people she was a civil servant.

Out of all the jobs listed I can't believe this, haha! My stereotype of vets is a very "vocation, they just love animals, passion career"! Out of all the jobs I'd call "just being in it for the money" vets are very low on the list... maybe beaten only by social workers!

most of us are not the victims you think

I'm glad that you and your friends/coworkers chose your work and felt empowered to do it safely.

However, I feel that it's disingenuous to say 'most of us are not victims.' Perhaps true of your group, I absolutely accept that, but in the wider world of sex workers, not true at all.

As a solicitor who works in-house, I completely sympathise. The other thing lawyers can do which apparently no one else can is read a contract even though it is in English. Yes, English. The answer to the question you are asking me is right there in the contact in plain English. It is not voodoo.

@Calmestofallthechickens
@Lifeismeh

I have so much respect and appreciation for vets - I've never met one that wasn't anything short of amazing! Occasionally if our pets need to go to the vet we do make the standard 'oh got to keep the vets in private islands' joke, but the last time I stopped myself and said to my husband that I shouldn't make that joke in all seriousness, I know vets don't set the prices and see very little of that money. I was quite shocked when I found out how much the average primary care vet earns - you all deserve far more for your years of study, expertise and compassion. You're all saints as far as I'm concerned!

Attendance officer in a high school 😂

As a doctor, I second this 😀

I used to do a similar job which is why, if I am being frustrated by "computer says no" I make of point of saying that I understand that it isnt (say) your fault and I always thank them at the end of the call even if I didnt get the result I wanted.

Apart from one who was for an electricity company who was so fucking rude and arrogant I did actually tell him to fuck off and hung up. Then I called back, got the issue resolved and was later sent a £50 compensation cheque after they have "reviewed the call". 😏

You do realise that dealing with "insurance claims" includes people whose house has burnt down or had a gas explosion with the family members in it, horrific car accidents, or horrendous horrendous workplace injury claims?

And often involve having to review images? Or video footage?

Don't be so ignorant.

I’m a hygienist
I have no name I’m just ‘the hygienist’ that’s what everyone refers to me as (patients dentists reception and even the boss)
and every day people tell me how much they hate coming to see me

Me too. In so many ways it's so grim. I love the kids though.

Oh shut up

Tax lawyer

People think I just help rich companies and people avoid paying tax while getting rich myself. Could not be further from the truth!

I take my hat off to anyone who can work in a call centre for any length of time, I lasted 3.5 months and it was awful (a big bank)! Fair play to you!

Criminal barrister

AKA: fat cat unethical lawyer who defends the guilty people at the (overinflated) expense of the taxpayer.

Bit mostly, my shed blew down, I lost my phone etc actually

Im a journalist. It’s absolutely fine to attack us 😅 Happens on here every day completely unchallenged.

“Another lazy journalist looking for a story..” etc etc

We even have our own #scummedia hashtag!

Every single journalist I know is a decent person who wants to improve the communities they live in and hold those in power to account. Yet everyone thinks we all work for the Daily Mail and spend our days chasing Prince William around the countryside. Only 0.1 per cent of journos in this country work for the tabloids. The rest of us are a pretty nice bunch (and even some of those at the tabloids are, heaven forbid, decent people)

I work in CAMHS- we are constantly slated.
i work incredibly hard and it’s a very stressful job but I enjoy it and love working with young people and their families. Unfortunately years of underfunding and underinvestment in training and an increased need for mental health services have meant we are overloaded and can only see the most urgent patients. It’s a sorry state of affairs but not the fault of clinicians.

Lol I'm a journalist - people blame us for everything from government incompetency to war.

Oh it still happens now. Lone workers sent out to those with debts to try to collect. Field Force Officers they are called now. Bloody hard (and potentially dangerous) job.

Years ago I met a bloke at a party. Engaged in small talk:

Me: so where do you work?
Him: I can't tell you that
Me: why not?
Him: you'll hate me. Everyone hates me when I say where I work
Me: it can't be that bad. I mean I work for the Inland Revenue (now HMRC for our younger viewers 😬)
Him: (astonished). Me too !

Everyone hates the tax man.

😂😂😂

I’m another social worker, formerly child protection, now Cafcass. So I’m, variously, a misogynist, a misandrist, biased against men, biased against women, an idiot, ignorant, don’t understand domestic abuse, don’t understand parental alienation, and generally a useless cunt.

no, I don’t know why I do it either. Probably because the kids are ace and it’s important that someone advocates for them.

to be honest most of you (civil servants) talk to clients like they are trash. You think they are trash, and you sleep better at night knowing the povs and chavs are dirt.
I am not from a troubled background and have been fortunate in life, but have helped those who are not. The abuse and judgement I have personally witnessed from those who work for local councils is abominable. But we just carry on with our MC lives, claiming ignorance.