Awkward questions you've always wanted to ask someone who works in a specific job...

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I thought this would be a good way for us to get answers to those awkward questions we would never dream of asking someone to their face in their place of work.

These are questions relating to my life that i would love honest answers to.

Hairdressers - When someone with bad dandruff/psoriasis sits on your chair, do you shrug it off, or do you quickly have a look to make sure it's not lice? Are you able to tell the difference right away or does it need investigating? And do you really want to know what my plans are for the day, or would you rather work in silence?

Teachers - do you get annoyed when parents write in homework diaries that a specific piece of homework was too tricky for their child? Do you take it as an insult to your teaching skills?

Waiter/waitresses - do you expect people to offer to clean up their children's mess before they leave, or do you just shrug it off as part of the job? If you're busy and haven't had chance to clean a table yet, and a new customer came up and asked for a cloth to clean it, would you be offended?

I'm a trainee SLT so not quite sure if I'm qualified to answer any questions regarding that line of work yet.

But i have experience working in a Subway sandwich store, a library, a gym and as a cleaner. So i can answer any cleaning, book or sandwich questions that are burning away inside you all.

Thanks Mortified. I had visions of traumatised cleaners

SunnyL A shark researcher? Wow! Do you swim with sharks? Do they all just see you as food or are some of them quite friendly?

Barclays were lovely to me once when on holiday I lost my card. I didn't have any ID apart from stuff like boots advantage card. I did know my account number though, she let me take lots of money out my account. I was surprised, thought they'd tell me to go away.

Tea I can see you said aged up to 18. Sorry. Do they want to stay longer?

Management Consultant question-

Can you tell me about your job? Are you involved in the HR side of recruitment such as head hunting?

Re dead people in hotels. DH is a copper and got called out to one where they had died in the shower. Water does nasty nasty things to a body apparently. But yes people regularly die in hotels.

Apparently most cruise ships have a morgue on board it happens so regularly!

I'm an ex social worker if anyone wants to ask anything.

I love the dentist responses!! they are all questions I would ask!

Im a Mental Health Nurse in a Regional Secure Unit- ie nursing females who are detained under criminal sections of the mental health act (ladies who have received prison sentences/indefinite hospital orders etc) and then come to us for care and treatment.

Daniel most of my sharks were baby sharks but i still managed to get bit twice! Both times my fault I must add. You never made mistakes with the big sharks.

I teach at a university and mature-age students are (usually) my favourite. They talk. Nothing worse than a bunch of kids who roll their eyes at me when I ask them a question.

BEAUTICIANS: Please spill the dirt on Brazilians and other waxing. Is it the worst part of your job? Do you judge? Is there waxing faux pas we should avoid?

Tired

Hi there- I am a CPN with a mainly Forensic caseload most of them under supervision orders. I used to work in one of the big Three.

Pilots, cabin crew or air traffic control.

How safe is flying really?

How often are there near misses?

I'm a doctor, so can answer doctor related stuff. :-) Gynae is great because it is a speciality with a good range of both medicine and surgery. There are lots of problems that involve the more complex problem solving type of medicine, and there are also a wide range of surgeries to do so it's the best of both worlds.:-) In gp, I don't mind if you have googled and want to be involved and discuss things as long as you haven't massively misunderstood what you have read and won't be corrected. The only patients who really annoy me are the ones who book an emergency appointment because they have had 'a tickley throat' since yesterday. sigh

mignonette thank you! Young peoples mental health is a service vastly both under funded and under appreciated, we've had a few who have needed some real help and its a minefield trying to find and access services for them whilst the workers on the 'front line' are doing the best they can...

The young people section officially ends at age 18, by then we're usually on a losing battle to drinking, partying and boys/girls! At that point you just have to hope that you've done enough work that they dont get themselves into too many stupid situations!

At 18, they are usually thinking about uni/work so I could be writing references for them but if they do want to stay involved I offer young leaders training from about 14-16 so they are trained volunteers and can help out on sessions as soon as they're 18 (and I can get a crb done for them) or they can move into the community sessions - we dont let anybody go away ever! if they dont want to

migonette!!

SMALL WORLD!

waving back!!

Re the foster carers questions, the way I explain it to people is like this...
When you were at school, in your class there were your best friends, your mates, those you liked but didn't really have much to do with and those you didn't really get on with.
I loved and cherished all the children who stayed with me but out of 28 there were two I really didn't want to let go.
I viewed my role as enabling each child to fulfil their potential. Letting them go was hard but there would be another child that needed me more.
Childcare troubleshooter here ,I work privately sorting eat, sleep and behaviour in the 0-5 year old , also ex jockey. Ask away

Refoca - being a diplomat doesn't mean that you are always tactful and nicey-nice to everyone. Part of being a diplomat is lobbying other countries about eg their human rights abuses. You can't, as most people seem to think, say "I'm sorry old chap, but it's really not cricket to torture ethnic minorities in your country. Be a love and give it a rest for a bit, would you?" What you do is build a rapport with someone and then deliver the message, in such a way that you hope they might think about what you have said, and if you are lucky, agree you might have a point and act on it.

I have a question for dentists/orthodontists: my daughter has perfect teeth apart from one small tooth at the bottom (the pointy one at the front at the side) which sits outside instead of inside her top teeth. Our orthodontist has said that this one tooth can skew the whole jaw and pull it out of line. Is he telling the truth or does he just want to fleece us of £5000, which is what he reckons it will cost to put it right?

TheLabradoodle

When a relative of mine became ill and died abroad the local Consulate were fantastic in assisting her children (and us) in negotiating the myriad regulations surrounding repatriation of her body alongside the medical system and paperwork. You do a great job.

Another question for dentists- Is it true that "buck teeth" are caused by the person leaving their mouth open all the time causing the teeth to grow outwards instead of inline with all the others ?

Labradoodle I don't have any diplomat related questions but wanted to congratulate you on your impeccable taste in chocolate. We went to Pierre Marcolini's last year and it was amazing ly expensive

Also, re. MRI scanning for the larger patient, some hospitals have bigger scanners, but we had to send one patient to the zoo...

This has been a fascinating read! I wish I could think of some questions!

I have a question for hairdressers - are you always naffed off at the people who come for a cut but dye their own hair. Can you always tell? Does it actually make much difference if it is competently done? Is box colour actually worse for your hair?

I'm an accountant, can't imagine the questions flowing in......

IsleofRight, I know lots of men who wear kilts. And no, they don't go commando. To quote my DBro 'Would you sit on a folded woollen blanket without yer kecks on? No? Then why do you think I would?'

And my DH chose to wear a kilt to our wedding (he is not Scottish). He was highly amused when my mother quietly asked him not to go commando, and to tell his best man too. As it was a hired kilt, DH had no intention of not wearing his undercrackers. Though there's a question I never thought to ask him - whenever one tries on swimwear, for example, one is asked to keep one's underwear on. Did the hire shop request that they wore pants??

I'm a writer. Re reviews, on amazon I love five or four star, but I'm ok with bad reviews if they have a reasonable point to make. I get annoyed if they have given my book one star because the trader delivered it late etc!

I have also got the rage about reviews in magazines where it's clear the reviewer hasn't read the book properly

Here are my questions...

fashion people why when you see stars or models on the catwalk or red carpet, do their incredibly expensive designer dresses look like they need the hems and seams ironed and you can see little pulls where the stitching is? I would give a newly made/altered dress an iron before wearing it!

barristers how can you defend someone who has/may have done something terrible? How can barristers defending alleged paedophiles attack the victim and accuse them of making stuff up? Do they believe it themselves or is it just an act/just doing their job? I've often thought I would make a good lawyer (argumentativeness-wise :)) but that bit stumps me.

And judges and anyone else legal - you can't know that the verdict reflects the truth, in many cases, so why is the judge allowed to make a nasty speech after the verdict calling the convict evil or heartless etc.? I always feel terrible when that is on the news in case it's a wrongful conviction.

And cardboard box people why when there are easy-folding boxes available, do some things still get packed in boxes glued together like fort Knox that are a bastard to flatten for recycling? (often not things that need to be strong or even need a box at all!). Why don't companies minimise packaging wherever they can as a surely it would save them money too?

ENorma you really don't want to know. DH is in the aviation industry and watches the reports on some official website (yawn). Let's just say DH doesn't fly Air France...

A survey recently revealed that a frightening proportion of pilots have fallen asleep whilst on duty, including when autopilot is turned off, eg on final approach

Even more frightening was the number who reported waking up to find that the other pilot was asleep too