To think there are jobs in the world which no human being should be doing?

[ConstantIllness]

Abattoir workers
Online child sex abuse investigators
Are 2 in particular that spring to mind. They require people to become numb to pain and suffering.
In anticipation of snarky replies: no, I don't know how else they should be done and yes, I know there's always been pain and suffering. It's at an industrial scale now though.
Maybe it takes a certain kind of human to do it, which is worrying in itself.

So how would you get money back from people who have defaulted on loans...surely it would just encourage people to get into more debt. Remember bailiffs (if a reputable company) will do everything in their power to get a solution without taking stuff away

@Catsandcannedbeans why ? What happpened ?

No words, this is dreadful - surely on the motorway,are they driving? Are they deliberately trying to kill and hurt others?

I got bitten and punched by a customer on my first day, (1 hour into my shift) people there were also just rude as fuck. Worse than your standard customer. I would say normally 1/20 is rude at a normal pub, at the airport one it’s 1/5. I know the airport is stressful but oh my god the people were feral. Complaining about everything, getting way too drunk, lots of throwing up. The only upside was there wasn’t any drug related incidents, but the people didn’t need drugs to be a pain in the arse. Years later I was a manager at my pub and if someone was bad we would send them for a shift at the airport bar as punishment.

@Catsandcannedbeans aaah I understand now - getting in ‘holiday mode’ the sort of travellers who get denied boarding sometimes. Sorry you went through that

Yes but thats not so black and white. It is a choice individuals make sometimes because it’s more money faster. There’s also a spectrum from people that actually prefer to do it and then there’s the forced sex work at the other end. So I dont think that’s in ‘jobs humans shouldn’t do’ - that’s just something that’s wrong and criminal in those cases where someone is forced into it.

Sewer workers, especially the ones with confined spaces training who have to go down the sewers and clear away fat bergs.

Strange to say that most claims (in my day 98%) are paid and a lot of the remain 2% are where the customer hasn't bought accidental damage cover or cover for items away from home.

I always thought it was a stupid name to give them. Our in house la's were know as Claims Advisers Surveyors.

I always remember one of our cas calling me as there had been huge flooding in Shropshire,. She had been called in as we had "flooded" the area with extra staff, sent out our mobile office and we're knocking on every door, our customers or not to offer help. She hadn't received an answer on one door despite knocking 5 days on the trot. This day an old man had opened the upstairs window and spoke to her. He was one of ours but him and his wife didn't want to bother anyone so they moved up stairs.

Between us we agreed that she would drive them to the nearest hotel with vacancies, I would then ring them and pay for accommodation and food upfront as they didn't have debit or credit cards and dealt cash only. The hotel would then Bill direct. She also took them shopping for shoes as they only had slippers and I reimbursed her via telling her manager to approve her corporate card spending.

So whilst you may have had a bad experience, they can be bloody good people.

Yes, deliberately trying to cause as much carnage as possible, whilst driving. I was shocked when I first found this out, a trainee at the time so had never dealt with anything like that before. Was shocked when the staff were explaining to me what had happened, and them just being so calm. But like I said you just learn to adapt. 999 call operators also have a brutal job.

No one is overtly forced to take any kind of work, but generally speaking we will all try to get the best kind of work that we can. What constitutes 'best' will vary but generally speaking it will be to do with the pay and the terms and conditions of the work, how much satisfaction we get from it.
Some of us will find ourselves at the bottom of the pile where the only work available to us is the unpleasant badly paid work that no one else wants to do.

Thank your daughter for me, please.

I tried to move into this but I wasn't able to detach enough and had to stop training because I couldn't stop crying-- at work.

It does take a certain type of human- a strong, brave, resilient, caring one.

So sorry, replied to the wrong poster. I meant to reply to the lady whose daughter helped bring child abusers to justice

I had no idea that suicide by self immolation whilst driving on the motorway was a thing🤯

I didn’t either until I started on that ward. I did ask the nurse why hadn’t more people heard about it or read it in the press with it being so unusual, he couldn’t answer so I guess it’s to stop copycats or they just don’t report that part of the story.

My husband was a trainee slaughtering at 16. He left because he started having nightmares

I’d be more worried about jobs like this, or appalling factory work, and sex work as previously mentioned.

I knew someone who investigated war crimes as part of her job - she was sent off to Kosovo etc and examined the bodies of people that had been killed to see if they’d been tortured and how. She was a delightful and completely sane person who was able to be quite detached about the examinations themselves (she’d got into her original line of work because she was interested in how the human body worked), and saw herself as doing the last thing anyone could do for these poor people - getting them justice.

I don’t think it can be that much of a thing, it’s pretty visual and we all have cameras..

I was in a very difficult position where someone was living in a house I owned but not paying rent. The rent was supposed to cover part of my mortgage payments but she wasn't paying any rent for months on end. I was in a very difficult financial position and it was completely unsustainable as I was struggling to feed my kids. I am not a slum lord or anything. I have two children with disabilities and I thought if I bought the house when they are children and paid some of it down, that when they grew up they could have an income when they were older because otherwise they would only have benefits and I don't trust the government to take care of them. It was awful. I didn't want to make her homeless but I couldn't sustain it.

It went to a tribunal and she left on the morning that she was supposed to be "escorted from the property". I don't know what I would do without the threat of removal. I also feel bad that there wasn't better support for people who can't live a functional life. More accessible community housing. (Not in UK).

I know that there are people who will jump on me that I shouldn't have been a landlord if I can't handle a squatter being in my property for over six months and that I am greedy. I would love it if the world was different and I could trust that my kids will be looked after when I can't. I give myself a hard time already.

I often wonder about the kinds of people who work in slaughterhouses. I have a dark suspicion many of them are sadists and psychopaths who get a kick out of it. In the future, people will look back at the meat industry with the same disgust we feel when we look back at public hangings (which were popular entertainment in the 1700s).

The patient came in during the early hours of the morning so I doubt there would have been loads of cars on the road. But I’m guessing it would have just looked like any other car crash unless you were driving alongside them. I also doubt many people would have the time to react and take a video of someone on fire if they’re driving 90 plus miles an hour, plus being on your phone whilst driving is illegal. Very unethical to take a video of someone almost being burnt to death. No idea about the other patients that did it, but I highly doubt a group of nurses and doctors are going to lie about it to a student.

I agree, those of you who kid yourself that these animals are raised and killed humanely 🙄
don't make me laugh.
If the meat industry were humane it would not be profitable

I was just thinking the same. That MUST be the worst job.

Emptying the dog poo pins in parks etc. No one should have to do that. Take it home with you!!

Psychopathy is a very serious mental health disorder, something that you can’t control like depression. Most psychopaths aren’t violent, dangerous are a criminal. It’s very insulting to refer to someone as a psychopath as it only perpetuates the myth that they are all dangerous, which is not factual. I suggest you educate yourself as it’s a very ablest and discriminatory comment and comes under the 10 protected characteristics of the UK Equality Act and quite frankly falls under hate speech.

It’s not just the investigators though. The people need to be tried and law enforcement needs to process the evidence too. The victims need human help (social services, medical services… ) and I suspect that AI investigations might not be legal in the same way that human investigation is and criminals getting out on technicalities is the last thing that we need. I suspect that online moderators on social media platforms are minimum wage workers and I can’t imagine what training (if any) they receive before seeing some of the horrific shit that people post.

The victims of human cruelty need human help more than anyone else. It would be sad if help that vulnerable people received was via AI and robots.