What’s the most hated profession in the UK? Take your best guess and read on to find out thanks to Solopress.com’s What’s in a Title? survey, which asked 2,000 respondents about their perceptions of different jobs. Here’s what they said… 5. Lawyer [7.85 per cent] 4. Police officer [8.50 per cent] 3. Sales person [11.70 per cent] 2. Call centre operator [11.90 per cent] 1. Traffic warden [47.85 per cent] And if you wondering about the most-respected professions, according to the participants in the What’s in a Title? survey they are: 5. Teacher [6.30 per cent] 4. Veterinarian [8.45 per cent] 3. Armed Forces [17.70 per cent] 2. Doctor [31.35 per cent] 1. Surgeon [33.25 per cent] http://business-reporter.co.uk/2015/02/06/5-hated-professions-uk/? I must admit that I agree with a lot of these.
Funny that really when you think about it. A lot of surgeons are utter arseholes. Yes brilliant at their jobs but they take arrogance to levels that would make some of our still obsessed with Nige Pearson lot have a nervous breakdown. I also think people confuse "respect" with "gratitude" in respect of teachers. The treatment they get at work is frankly shocking. The respect paid to the armed forces is mostly lip service too. How can you hate a lawyer? Why would you? I suspect most people haven't gone anywhere near one, unless buying or selling a house, and without one you'd be pretty ****ed. Same for police. If you have a problem (criminal related) who the **** are you going to call? Traffic wardens wouldn't have much to do if people didn't park like ****s, with their "Im a ****" lights flashing away when they know they're parking like a ****, but think putting those on absolves them of any fault. I'll concede that some wardens are just arseholes but there's people like that in every profession. Again, call centre operators, why? Normally I phone them when I have a problem. Rarely do I hang up without it being resolved. Cold callers, sure, sales people? Kinell that's a little generic aint it? Actually, this has just reminded me why I despise polls like this.
How about mine as one of the most hated collection. Certificated Bailiff High Court Enforcement Agent Insolvency Agent Financial Investigator Process Server Debt Collector
Policemen generally are absolute ****ers. And they have the powers to make your day really, really **** for absolutely no reason. Just because they're fat ****s. Policemen should be number 1. Football managers should be number 2.
"Armed Forces" is a bit of a sweeping generalisation, isn't it? Pissed-up Squaddies causing aggro round Beverley pubs on a weekend don't deserve much respect. Horrible little ****s.
The thing with police being on there is they must have either asked football fans on a matchday, or the family of the reporter in South Yorkshire who was threatened by police turning up at her door off duty saying that if she reported on the things going on in Rotherham they'd give her details to the *****s. I don't know how else they'd come ahead of bankers on that list.
So we can't make generalisations about Muslims because of the actions of a minority but can about the armed forces?
I differentiate between police doing a difficult job and the ones taking out their frustrations they face doing that job on the only minority group with no rights, football fans.
We can make generalisations about anything, really. Based on many personal experiences, I sometimes struggle with the "Heroes" thing, that's all. Seems that location is sometimes important in determining whether they're heroes or arseholes!
"Orders must be obeyed at all times, without question." (Whitaker - a character in 'Journey Into Space', if my recall is correct).
Like a lot of things heroes is a term used so much as to be meaningless. Just because you were in the forces doesn't make you a hero. My parents, like millions of other people, were in the forces during the war. That didn't make them heroes. Yet anyone who is an ex forces person is described as a hero nowadays. Neither is someone who scores a goal, a try or takes a wicket a hero. Celebs who tell us they are struggling with booze and drugs are not brave and courageous either.
I find the use of the word hero very hard to accept when it is used in sport. And you are right, serving your country does not make you a hero. But you have to consider this. The British Armed Forces are voluntary, the fact that a person will chose to serve and will in many cases have to serve on active duties is heroic. Having served I would never consider myself a hero, in fact it would upset me to be considered as such and many feel the same.
