ICE thug Slumlord’s handyman Anything that takes orders directly from the Trump administration
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ICE agent.
Same. Although mainly because I don't have the cool maintain my cover while undermining the organization from within.
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Unless you are very good at causing internal disruptions, sabotage and slow downs.
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Palantir
Meta
Amazon
Apple
As a Software Engineer my list is only slightly longer and has these additional companies:
Oracle
Microsoft
any military or military complex job. i refuse to assist or partake in the murdering of humans.
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Jack booted tool of oppression
Nursing.
Couldn't pay me to go through the hell those people witness
Me ex-wife worked 100% in surgery. She used to laugh that she never had to talk to the fuckers. She was so clinical about it that she could tell me about a case and had no idea if it was a man or woman, black or white, nothing, just body parts.
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Mercenary/ "private military contractor", ICE agent, prison gaurd
Debt collector
My wife works in Accounts Receivable, and now manages a team who talks nicely to people about paying that debt over others, so their essential products arrive on time. She's an absolute sweetie and I don't know how she does it, but she's excelled for a decade at it now.
Anything requiring me to travel to the US
travel to the US
They round up 12 people a month from New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND! Anyone hating on the nicest country on the planet really has mental issues they need to get solved.
Sales. Especially telesales.
I spent years doing sales because they were the only opportunities that I had available, and I hated every minute of it. Now that I'm finally out, I would NEVER go back.
Anything where you're around the public all day. Rather wash dishes than be a waitress.
That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant
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Retail. Done it for 4 years and got treated like absolute shit by customers, especially during the pandemic. I got told off a few times for speaking back to customers but I think now I'd probably struggle not to hit them. I'd be sacked very quickly
I learned at a young age that I'm not cut out for retail. I can fake it for a minute or two, but I've got a short fuse and a sailor mouth.
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Working under Trump.
My coworker left our job because a place offered him a pay raise that was like half his current salary.
He came back - the job was so terrible he couldn't stay there. Not just the actual work, but the people.
I try to avoid working anyplace evil, so banks, oil companies, etc. and there are environments I can't be productive in - government, healthcare, anyplace very structured and bureaucratic. I guess if the pay and position are secured, and I can handle my work however I want without losing them, then I would not do anything that would kill me or others either directly or through incompetence (underwater welder, race car driver, assassin, surgeon), would probably cave on banks and other evil orgs, since I might be able to try to change them from the inside.
I try to avoid working anyplace evil, so banks, oil companies, etc. and there are environments I can’t be productive in - government, healthcare, anyplace very structured and bureaucratic.
That's who invented the Internet.
I work for a Contractor who contracts to Government, including Healthcare. The job is meh, but the people are absolutely awesome. The structure is actually a huge benefit, and it makes all the dotcoms' seat-of-the-pants I.T stand out so much more. There's no power-play to prevent updating software - for example - just because "Doug knows the CEO and he doesn't want to" because Dougie's written objection wouldn't pass scrutiny -- and, at most, Doug would get an extension to follow a set plan with milestones to get to that update anyway. But there are many examples where common dotcom slackery dies under review.
There are obvious and well-repeated problems with the overly-structured setup, but they're different from the ones that bother me, and erring on the side of safety and most-benefit is what annoys people ("why can't we have containers and supply-chain exploits like everyone elssssse") the most.
I tried to work in a structured and bureaucratic environment once and was so useless because I want to change everything all the time, and wasn't used to "have your manager talk to her manager", or people trying to blame their errors on others, or trying to get their job. When I saw the lady who did payroll checking everyone off on a long sheet of green and white paper even though they were paying for Kronos and just not using it right, but she protected her job and didn't want it to change, and people there would make others look bad instead of helping them, in an effort to look better themselves in comparison, I cannot function in that world.
I've only worked at startups, and the good part of that is that everyone is trying to do things better, easier, I don't get mad if someone sees a better way I could do something, and they don't have to have their manager tell my manager. And everyone helps everyone, nobody is protecting their job because there is always too much, helping others is how you move up here.
(And yes I know this is a personal difference, not saying it's a better work environment for everyone, or even better for results. Accounting is its own type of work, too - I try to solve problems and get the software to do what a machine does better than a person. The kind of accounting where you are doing what a machine can, is dreadfully boring. I have often thought help desk at my work is the best job. They troubleshoot, and set up equipment, it's got a good balance of work. )
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Prison guard. You can’t leave work during your shift, you’re in prison.
Prostitution. My apologies if this subject is taboo. However, it is the oldest profession in the world and stood the test of time. I have a vivid imagination and I’m having trouble imagining what would happen if I’m just not attracted or aroused.
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Raytheon and co. Anything related to "defense", really.
You only go around the sun so many times, and you want to spend it on making brown kids into skeletons more efficiently? Fuck that shit.
Anything in the Oil Industry, Cops, Military, or Evil Multinational Corporations
Politics, in any form.
Corporate, in any form.
Police, in any form.
Military, in any form.
They all - I believe that institutionalized, hierarchical authority is rather obviously inherently destructive, and I couldn't willingly take part. In fact, one of the things that perplexes me the most about politics in particular is that there are people who do willingly take part. I can only conclude that their brains are broken in some fundamental way such that they don't see or don't care about the harm they inevitably do.
This unfortunately is the problem with the police. People who see the police as problematic are unwilling to join so the majority of people who join are the ones who just want to have power over others.
There are many variations on the quote but a cop who doesn’t report a bad cop is themselves a bad cop, so you could be the actual good cop who reports their coworkers until you get fired from the corrupt org but if enough people did that we might actually see some change.
Cops also have a surprising amount of freedom to choose to enforce laws so you could also just not enforce laws you consider corrupt.
I am saying this as a person who wouldn’t want to associate with a cop but would love to have some cops who aren’t bastards but unfortunately #ACAB
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There are plenty of jobs I'd be terrible at regardless of what they pay.
If it's an actual job and not just something made up to be arbitrarily horrible I'd probably give anything a try if you pay 10x my current pay.
Cop
Ice
Dhs
Military
HR rep
This one doesn't feel inherently evil. There are some great HR reps where I work now, but I don't work for a company that's trying to milk us dry.
I once interviewed at a bulk email (spam) company because i was desperate for a job. They realized how uncomfortable i was so didn’t offer it, but i like to think I would have declined, regardless how much i needed the job.
Shift work.
Never again.
Fall guy
Anything that requires me to exert force with my hands repetitively for long periods, like teasing or twisting. I've done it while fixing things around the house, and I'm damn sure I'd get carpal tunnel very quickly. But typing and moving the mouse all day, every day is fine & dandy! 🙃
Right after Project Veritas got subpoenaed by Congress back in, I think, 2015 or 2016, they offered me a well paid position as an interface designer for the website. I had been unemployed for years by that point, and I was extremely desperate for work. I never applied for the job, and I don’t know how on earth they got my my résumé.
Suffice it to say, I told them to go fuck themselves.
That should be evidence to them that they are the bad guys. No one tells a job offer to “fuck off” if the company isn’t utterly shit. Even if Meta or Twitter offered me a job I’d probably just use a curt “no” and move on. But, Project Veritas, Heritage Foundation, Palantir? They’d get a “fuck off” for sure.
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Materials handler at a chemical plant.
Animal agriculture.
There are many but since depresseddad already mentioned spreading lies for nefarious reasons, I guess I'll go with pimping and selling narcotics (anything beyond weed at the very least, and even then I would have to really think about it).
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