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.

Absolutely every and anything to with pharmacy! Especially hospitals. Sets my teeth on edge and I scream at the TV with the inaccuracies! Wow.. needed to get that off my chest 🤣

Teachers normally arrive and leave the same time as pupils at any of the schools I drop and collect children. The principals may arrive a bit earlier and leave a bit later but the rest are out the door once the bell goes.

That my job doesn’t exist and teachers can magically do a full pastoral role along with a full teaching timetable

That no matter how much you zoom into a photo you will always get a crystal clear picture.

I agree I was going to say similar also the fact that horse is how it is depicted as winning really loud as they come to screeching halt especially in the older cowboy type films and that you can just leap on any strang horse from the distancing gallop off from it been stood at a standstill

Oh yes. Furious typing (never any c&ping) then it runs just like that.

I write scientific software so I could note more about the inaccuracies of pretty much anything scientific. The liquids in the flasks and tubes are usually too colourful instead of mostly being clear or yellowish. The explanations which are either wrong (often with mispronounced words) or just stuff you wouldn't need to explain to your colleagues.

(The one honourable exception I can remember was years ago now, 'Life Story' about the discovery of the structure of DNA. )

English/ Welsh barristers roaming about the courtroom when asking questions, like they do in the USA. We stay in one place!

I once saw a movie where a star-level university professor was expected to lecture 1 year students and was preceded and introduced by a warm up act of someone else who introduced her. The professor then proceeded to work closely with said 1 year students in labs producing ground breaking science. Hahaha. Godlike professor will not teach full modules to 18 year olds, will not do labs and it will take 18 years old many years of knowledge acquisition to be able to work at that level. Also no warm up for lectures. And they don't look like TED talks. Though that was a really funny depiction of university life

Oh the suitcase thing annoys me too, same when it’s a mug and it’s clearly empty. On a similar note I hate when babies have obviously just been replaced with a blanket wrapped around a cushion or something and there’s no weight to it, it’s either too big or too small and the actor isn’t holding it at all naturally. I understand there are rules around how long babies can be on set but it’s really jarring to me when they haven’t even tried to make it look like the blanket the person is holding is wrapped around a baby. You can buy those weighted lifelike reborn dolls nowadays, surely it can’t be that hard to find something that resembles a baby enough the actors can hold it realistically.

Also, not to do with my job but when people on TV all sit down for a meal and then for some mundane reason everybody ends up getting up and leaving the table mid-meal leaving all the food untouched. Especially annoying when they’re at a pub and they just get up to leave and leave a full pint on the table; who does that in real life!?

Which country are you in? It’s not like that in most schools in the UK; I’m a teacher and at every school I’ve worked in my contractual hours were 8:30 - 4:30. So at my school even though the kids finish at 3 I can’t regularly leave before 4:30, the head might make occasional allowances if there was a reason I needed to leave early one day but for the most part teachers can’t leave when the kids do. In reality I’m usually working at school until at least 5:30/6:00.

Marketing mainly involves making television ads and coming up with slogans / jingles.
That's advertising (and a stereotypical picture of it at that). There are plenty of marketing jobs that have no or little involvement with these kinds of activities!

Oh and market research mainly involves asking leading questions in focus groups while scribbling on a clipboard!

We almost never get time to sit around drinking tea and chatting.

Births mostly don’t end in some big dramatic emergency.

We spend very little time with babies.

Bloody hate one born every minute!

There was a Ben Affleck movie where he was an accountant too, I think. An accountant with guns.

Ugh.. mostly any time a dog trainer/behaviourist is called out they talk bollocks or its Cesar Milan.

The +R training community cheered when we heard the dinos in Jurassic World would be shown being clicker trained... and then we all sobbed as they used a total muppet (got his cousin killed) to give Pratt insight into animal training and on screen.. we saw Pratt using a clicker like a fucking remote control. ITS NOT A REMOTE CONTROL PEOPLE!

Even Big Bang Theory got animal training wrong, and for an american sitcom, their science was surprisingly.. not awful, in general anyway!

In case you're wondering, Sheldon uses chocolates to alter Penny's behaviour, using positive reinforcement - so far so good (read Don't Shoot The Dog by Karen Pryor though if you really want to know how to influence peoples behaviour this way)...

But then he describes the application of an electric shock as 'negative punishment', a common misunderstanding, where the lay person assumes 'negative' = 'unpleasant' .

In fact the shock application is positive punishment, because positive and negative here mean 'something added' and 'something removed', not 'good' and 'bad' - (and reinforcement means increases frequency of behaviour, punishment means decreases frequency of behaviour).

Rookie error for Sheldon and the shows writers!

You are forgetting Richard Armitage in The Vicar of Dibley.

Having spent years in cath labs and operating theatres - there is blood, the blood gets wiped on the Dr's gown s/he needs to not have hugely wet hands so they wipe them on something sterile, usually their gown.

Also the Dr is not on their own (in a cath lab) you will have at a minimum a scrub nurse, usually there is a scrub nurse, a radiographer, circulating nurse, tech and may a couple of other trainees.

No one ever flatlines, what you see on film / TV is electrodes not attached. What we call a flatline looks more like a badly hand drawn line.

One thing that DOES happen IRL is junior Drs phoning for the results of a 24 hour tape when the patient is still wearing the tape. The clue is in the name, it records for 24 hours, we can't analyze it until then.

Teaching - I think has mostly been covered but as a supply teacher I'm lucky if I can teach one of the subjects I have either trained to teach or have an interest in. but I might be covering Spanish or Music or resistant materials.

Sorry to anyone on here whose children have had a supply teacher I can't let you use the machinery, I don't know how to use it safely so I can't let you. Sorry you can't play the musical instruments, I've been given work and that is to design a poster.

I know it's crap, I know you deserve someone who can teach you to use the equipment, but I'm onsite and the school needs to get their money's worth.

I've just changed jobs to a different industry, but formerly worked for the NHS for over 5 years and most programmes don't actually portray colleague interactions correctly and the toxic and bullying atmosphere. The only show I've seen portray it somewhat is 'this is going to hurt' in regards to Shruti's story.

I very rarely watch anything to do with my job because I find it too irritating and I can’t focus on the actual storyline, I’m a midwife. The list of inaccuracies is too long, but off the top of my head, everybody either gives birth on a labour ward with legs in lithotomy and a gown on, or in the taxi / cafe etc, very rarely does anyone have a successful midwife led home or birth centre birth. Doctors painted as the hero’s while midwives are either bossy or incompetent. 9/10 births ending in a medical emergency. I couldn’t get past the first episode of this is going to hurt and its no wonder women are coming to us terrified of giving birth more and more often these days.

That criminals always confess to the crime when police confronts them with all the evidence.

That family courts look like criminal courts.

This. Or Social Workers turn up in a suit and have clip boards. The other funny thing is that Social Workers also seem to come with the police and just take a child. Trying to ever get a police officer to attend a visit with a social worker even a high risk child protection one is basically impossible. I remember watching Sex Education and thinking WTF is going on??

Asystole (a straight line on a cardiac monitor) is a shockable rhythm; it isn't.

awww 😀

You misread the post. This is what they get wrong. Teachers don’t arrive with the kids

I've never seen my job on TV. However on the rare occasions that cats appear in TV dramas they are never bother to 'cast' the correct sex and you get an obviously male cat being referred to as 'she' and vice versa.

I'm not a detective but in movies or tv they argue about who get the case. Because they are all so passionate about wanting to solve it. I imagine in real life they have enough to do and don't give a shit.