“I’m just doing my job”: A list of authoritarian jobs that have a poor reputation.

[ADFSDF1996]

Having a well paying job is something we all want and need to live comfortable lives. But certain jobs while offering good pay can cause you to lose friends and even be ostracized by society due to the confrontational and intrusive nature of these jobs. Usually you’ll hear the following excuses from bad people within these professions “I am just doing my job” “I’m just following orders”.

Didclaimer: This doesn’t mean that everyone who works in these professions is incompetent, rude, abusive, overly aggressive, corrupt etc. Even though many people may despise people who have these jobs as a whole, only certain individuals within these jobs may fit such criteria, this is meant to inform not to vilify any of these jobs as a whole. Like in many things, there’s good and bad.

1.) TSA: Individuals in this profession often receive flak by the populace for their tendency to be unprofessional, rude and incompetent. There have been numerous incidents between TSA officers and passengers. It doesn’t help TSA’s reputation that around 18,000 TSA employees created a Facebook page to rant about passengers This is why TSA has a bad reputation.

2.) Psych Ward staff(orderlies, security, psychiatrists): Psych Ward staff are highly despised due to their reputation of being abusive, rude and intrusive towards the patients in their care. There have been numerous incidents between psych Ward staff and patients as a result of the unprofessional and incompetence exhibited by the psych ward staff.

3.) Bouncers: These goons are why I never go to night clubs. Bouncers have the worst reputation on this list due to their tendency to be rude, abusive, arrogant and incompetent. Bouncers have been associated with bullying and goon like behavior. As a bouncer you are expected to keep the peace not instigate trouble. There have been numerous incidents of groups of Bouncers causing serious injury to patrons. And likewise there have been many cases where the patrons had to act in self defense against the bouncers. On one occasion a patron’s younger brother was being beaten down by a group of burly bouncers and so the patron had to use lethal force to defend himself and his younger brother from the group of bouncers. You can read about the incident here

4.) Prison guards: Prison guards are notorious for being susceptible to corruption, incompetence and rude behavior. But most criticism is directed at their tendency to use excessive force on inmates especially when the inmates are mentally ill.

Incident involving Mentally ill inmate

5.) The IRS: The IRS are highly despised by many people who feel that the IRS lacks any form of empathy when it comes to financial matters

6.) Judges: It shouldn’t be surprising that judges are highly despised by many people. Judges are known for having tremendous amounts of power such as protection from lawsuits and are treated as if they are above the average citizen since they must be referred to as “your honor”. Aside from that, individual judges have poor reputations because of the court decisions they make whether it be sentencing an innocent person, showing bias and overall abusing their power. Not to mention the infamous “contempt of law” that basically limits a person’s first amendment in court.

7.) prosecutors: A prosecutor is always determined to get a defendant a guilty sentencing even if the defendant is innocent of any crime. In the prosecutor’s mind the accused is always guilty as charged. It shouldn’t be surprising that prosecutors are highly despised by many people especially innocent people who’ve fallen victim to being wrongly punished.

8.) Debt collectors: Ah yes, a type of job that is often compared to the gestapo or stasi. Despite the job being nothing more than pretty much collecting debt, their reputation is that of a bunch of hired goons for obvious reasons.

9.) Interrogators(Job task): Note that an “interrogator” isn’t it’s own job in the US, it’s a task that only certain law enforcement officials(specifically criminal investigators) can take part in after receiving special training. Interrogators have a very poor reputation due to how they are portrayed in the media, because of their “guilty until proven innocent” stance and because of their potential usage of trickery to acquire false confessions.

A controversial interrogation scene from “When they see us” that resulted in Netflix getting sued.

These are jobs that have a poor reputation whether it be deserved or undeserved is a matter of perspective.

references:

https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/chicago-psychiatric-hospital-under-fire-after-child-abuse-allegations-again

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-prison-guards-charged-20191203-gqukrr2e3rcuppj6i2uzpkurxu-story.html%3foutputType=amp

https://muaythaiauthority.com/story-the-time-mma-legend-bas-rutten-took-on-5-bouncers-at-once/

https://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2017/07/common-interrogation-technique-suspected-of-causing-false-confessions/

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/irs-republican-budget-cuts/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2014/03/03/why-do-we-hate-debt-collectors-mistaken-identity.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thrillist.com/amphtml/entertainment/nation/what-do-bouncers-do-and-why-do-people-hate-them

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court

https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason.com/2016/06/23/confessions-of-an-ex-prosecutor/%3famp

[monkeynutts]

Prime Ministers, in my country they are considered dirt, common people won't even shake their hands anymore.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

how many prime ministers are there in your country?

[monkeynutts]

@SuccessfulHornDog one at a time, but they don't last long, the party that votes them in kicks them out and replaces them quick.

[madprofessor]

Repo men
Bounty hunters

[SecretGardenBlood65]

Good take

[seansin]

You know back in the day I used to want to be a cop or balancer anyting I don't want nothing to do with any of that nowadays I thought it was rough back in the day but damn people just have no respect for law enforcement or anybody with the authority that they can get away with locking or being bad to the bone being bad to the bone people are just not nice no more and I don't really like the people in this world that much anymore to be honest I mean most of them are right they keep their mouth shut but you got a bunch of them that think they f****** deserve everything they're more important than everybody else in the f****** world f*** we got to respect our law enforcement or government no matter what we think you know back in the day. Back in the day if we would have dumped a bucket of water on a cop what would have happened your parents would have whooped your f****** ass for being out of line what happened to the parenting I know there's a lot of single parents because I'm one of the cases but man way too many parents let their kids get away with everything and now they think they get that right when they're a grown up there right nobody else is wrong or everybody else is wrong the world needs to respect each other I will be killing each other sooner or later we're already doing it now you know if we let the powerful destroy our weak what are we going to do where you know the ones that are a little bit tough are going to be extinct pretty soon so if I was a bunch of people out there in the world I'd start f****** protecting everybody does it matter what color you are where you come from what you do if you're a perv if you like to have sex in public it's not your concern just let people be people and respect them f***

[NineBreaker]

Great take.

My grandfather was a judge in a small town; civil court. He was popular throughout his tenure, which unfortunately is the exception, and not the rule. He discouraged all of his kids and grandkids from practicing law in any capacity.

Because of that, of his many children and grandchildren, not a single one became a lawyer or judge like him. The closest any of us got to criminal justice is one uncle who was a police officer briefly, but tapped out early, went back to school, studied agriculture, and became a farmer.

[mulder2020]

the NONSENSE placed in my personal and individually curtailed google play store, along with the specific renditions of applications to which might speak to my life personally= very eerie... (note two e's). i understand the reason for each and every professional career within our society, and moreso, that certain careers will always require a certain level of unwavering dicipline in fulfilling the role of what others might perceive as "the bad guy". Though to be certain, every position or career will always be met with demands as to the actual job description. It remains an individual call of integrity, honesty and inner compass concerning one'S own personal moral as to when lines must be drawn between fulfilling orders and when one might need to actually affirm to their superiors, their bosses or the system at large, even if anonymously, when what is asked of employment is wrong, inhumane, illegal, or ethically unjustfied.

[MissDawn7961]

no police officer is perfect for they are human just like the rest of us are ! however , we should respect and pray for them anyway ! for they lay down their lives everyday to help keep everyone safe everyday ! Thanks

[ADFSDF1996]

What does that have anything to do with this article?

If you read the article, you would have noticed that I didn’t include police officers on this list because they aren’t actually hated as much as the media makes it seem.

[Avicenna]

I'd definitely add police officers to that. One of my pampered princess exes used to run to her cop friend and make an unofficial criminal case out of seemingly everything that annoyed.

[mykal1123]

Order followers are what keep the slavery system intact. Order followers are the bottom of the f****** barrel no s***. Imagine same to yourself I'm going to spend my life doing what other people tell me to do. I got zero zero love for people to do that s*** just doing my job is no excuse for doing bad things to fellow human beings.

[Pejtu]

Judges can be real fkn stupid people saying honestly
I did work as a Personal security for a year, thats far from bouncer or prison guard

[Waffles731]

Fun fact, The TSA has literally never prevented a single terrorist attack

[DanOh2018]

Hmm I don't know, being a bouncer was pretty chill 99 percent of the time. Most of the time I'd just stand there and look hard as nails.

[DanOh2018]

The other 1 percent usually involved politely asking people to leave.

[admles]

Same in my experience. 99.99999999% of incidents were caused by patrons.

Women were the WORST to deal with.

[DanOh2018]

We had a female bouncer and she was big into judo, honestly she'd be way more prone to kicking people's asses than the rest of us LoL

[Cozzy81]

It's a job you do what needs to be done to make your living. If this bothers someone they can move on. As the old saying goes it's strictly business, nothing personal.

[ADFSDF1996]

If you’re incompetent at your job then find another job.

[ADFSDF1996]

“Nothing personal” sounds more like an excuse to be an a**hole.

[Cozzy81]

We do live in a much more touchy, feely, you hurt my feelings time so I guess it would be expected now that a prison guard has to treat scum kindly and be nice to criminals and degenerates. Or an IRS collector collect a deadbeats outstanding debt has to make friendly conversation.

[ADFSDF1996]

Until the prison guard looses his or her job for using excessive force (violating the 8th amendment) on an inmate.

Or a debt collector ends up with a broken nose for Harassing the wrong person.

[Cozzy81]

To each there own but we all know the consequences of our actions. It's not ok to be an asshole but there is a fine line between stern and being an outright ass. I guess it really could be a case by case scenario but if you're a criminal personally you should no longer have rights. I was just using a few scenarios here but in many cases the actual scumbags and bad people tend to jump on these types of bandwagons to take the heat off their own wrong doings and unethical ways

[ADFSDF1996]

Stern behavior is only acceptable when a person isn’t cooperating with reasonable instructions. Under the 8th amendment authoritarian individuals are prohibited from crossing many lines.

Unfortunately many people with authoritarian positions can’t handle so much power hence their tendency to become despicable individuals.

For example, there have numerous cases where patrons had to use lethal force against bouncers in self defense. www.google.com/.../%3famp

Authoritarian individuals seem to forget that they aren’t above the law.

[ADFSDF1996]

@Cozzy81 Also, there’s no excuse for authoritarian figures like the ones listed above to be rude, intrusive, abusive or goon like. For example, why should us law abiding citizens have to deal with rude TSA agents whenever we go to the airport?

Assuming that authoritarian figures are always correct is nothing more than begging the question, a faulty generalization and a false dichotomy all in one.

[Joshyjay95]

You forgot the bylaws. I hate them so much. Them and their tickets

[TwoToTooTutu2]

My Sergent is a prison guard, and he hates that place. It's a hard jod to do. He always makes excuses to do more shit with our unit to get out of there.

[Shamalien]

Yeah fuck all these people they can burn in hell. If you know you are doing something that is IMMORAL and your only excuse is "im just doing my job" then you can fking burn in hell

[Rocky_Jocky57]

Anything involving working with the public.

[ExcellentHarry]

Nice post. But forgot paparazzi lol.

[ProfessionalMusician]

I had a well paying job for a long time 64,000 a year

[TheBreakfastGuy]

I'd say police in general, not just interrogators

[anon1903]

good job, handsome.

[zagor]

Politicians.

[Plitty-Tank]

Yes. Many jobs are very demanding and stressful.