One thing they get wrong in films or TV dramas about your job

[KarlWrenbury]

In schools. That boyfriends (invariably ) could just turn up in classes
See. Bruce almighty. Yesterday. Cheaters.

That in unruly classrooms, students take it in turns to shout out.

That judges use gavels

That we can all type very quickly without making mistakes (IT).

I've never seen anything close to my actual job depicted on TV or in films.

They'd probably make us look like computer geniuses just because we can work magic with Adobe software.

Mostly that roles like mine dont exist (NHS corporate admin type role) or if they do then we're always the baddies who are shutting things down rather than the goodies trying desperately to make things better for the patients and ALL our staff.

That anyone can walk in to a school and have a wander round freely to find their child/wife/husband - Neighbours

one doctor in hospital will treat everyone they know -Dr Karl in Neighbours

The Drs do your job. See House. Where they appear to know how to do ultrasounds and other diagnostic examinations themselves.

That UK barristers in Crown Courts shout out 'Objection!', and that UK detective police officers are addressed as 'Detective' (just that). Recently retired from justice system.

I also have a forgotten NHS diagnostic job. Always done either by doctors or an invisible, unmentioned department on tv and film.

That teachers arrive at school at the same time as the children. Ditto leaving at the end of the day.

I'm an accountant so no one tries to do my job even badly on TV..

Hairdresser - once watched an episode of a crime drama where they convicted the killer of a hairdresser in their salon based on the killers hair being on their clothes/body. Hair is literally everywhere in a salon, in the staff room, in your handbag, in your lunch/coffee, INSIDE your clothes and shoes. You stop caring/noticing it but the idea of them being able to isolate these few particular strands to convict someone was laughable.

That anyone in a school gets a lunch.

That SLT and LA advisers have long restaurant lunches. ( in my LA we don’t even get a drink provided).

That as the HT I can ring the educational psychologist and he/she will be arrive in an hour. ( more like ‘back end of never’ as currently our LA hasn’t any Ed.psych’s in post).

That academies are all brilliant and maintained schools rubbish( actually that is the BBC news).

Casualty: the amount of time the nurses and doctors have on their hands to get involved in the personal dramas of the patients!! Although it would probably be slightly boring if they just treated a patient and then moved on to the next one like in real life 😀

I second everything PPs have said about teaching.

Yes! And in the Uk that a witness “takes the stand”. No. We are not in Texas. They go into the witness box.

That it’s all quite cool and funky (PR and media). It’s not.

That English teachers have very busy love lives, all their classes are besotted with them and they’re one sideways glance away from an affair with the attractive but troubled student at the back.

That we have millions of fans, a PA, someone to manage our whole lives basically, private jets, that we live in hotels and have lots of money. Entertainment industry. The reality is quite different. I’m eating an M&S ready meal for dinner after a 16 hour work day which included going on 5 different (2nd class) trains up and down the country. I haven’t booked my train form tomorrow morning yet. Oh how I’d love a PA right now!

To be fair you’ve just described my first labour. It does happen but yes it’s annoyingly frequent on tv dramas

I bloody love 'VERA' .. and most detective shows .. (Midsommer carnage is a guilty pleasure) .. but I have NEVER .. in 26 years seen a DI (detective inspector) out in a job !! They are back at base up to their eyes in supervision and paper work !!

If it's a really big job then they might come out.. but they are not in the nitty gritty ... just stood at the back with a camera crew doing the public comms ..

That social workers can just take away children, sometimes for the most minor things, or that they give even the tiniest shit about washing up being left on the side.

Adjacent to my job, but that anyone is "at the top" of an organ donor list, and that money/fame can move you up.

Pretty much all of it 😂.

half the tech is pure science fiction and doesn’t exist, the other half isn’t legal to use,

lots of furious typing randomly, animations of green letters dropping down the screen. The entire database of images scrolling past one by one until the compute goes ping! And the correct one appears.

it’s hilarious.

in a different job we used to advise a tv company on realistic storylines. Most of the time they’d ignore our input because realism is boring and they preferred their made up version 😂