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What professions give you a knee-jerk reaction to think 'scum bag' or scammer?
For me, I always had this kind of knee-jerk reaction to taxi drivers, used car salesmen, and, mostly in Bulgaria, real estate agents. In more recent times, I would add anything crypto-related to the list, too.
Car salesmen are probably the worst still I think. My uncle was importing and selling Japanese cars many moons ago, and the car salesmen he had on the lot were basically just criminals, constantly lying, stealing, and being shady af.
536 sats \ 8 replies \ @siggy47 15h
Dentists
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Bingo!!!! I had so many issues with dentist! When they say ohhh I think we should drill on your tooth before it becomes a problem. Has lead to me seeing the drill more times than I needed.
I call it drilling for gold!
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179 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 11h
Exactly. It took me a long time to see past that veneer of respectable competence
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Nice play on words
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89 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 10h
😀
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 11h
Yeah which has always gotten me to side with them. I would rationalize getting my mouth drilled on because I would say to myself they are the experts.
My dentist now wants to redo a crown because it might become a problem in the future. I told him I’ll think about it soon as I feel pain. Going on 3 years since he recommended this service and the tooth is doing just fine.
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79 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 11h
It's a good plan 😅
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I'm always very suspicious about dentists. So when my dentist said I grinded my teeth and recommended a mouthguard four years ago, I ignored it. Then, a few months ago one of my teeth died because I ground it too much and had to get it extracted. sigh
I still don't trust them though
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My dentist complains about his wife's gambling problem
When he found a cavity, it definitely got me wondering...
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129 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 12h
Doctors.
Constantly pushing unnecessary and potentially harmful procedures and pills.
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Doctors probably have the highest societal respect to deservedness ratio, in the US at least. I think they've made med school so hard and expensive that it only attracts a certain personality type, and that's a type that isn't necessarily suited to caring for the wellbeing of others.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @crrdlx 10h
Insurance sales. Whoever came up with the idea of selling something as intangible as insurance, and with as many loopholes, should be in the scammer hall of fame.
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Insurance contracts are designed to be confusing to the average person. They make it sound good but if you work through the math they aren't necessarily a good deal at all.
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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 15h
Pretty much anything to do with crypto.
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what, this guy doesn't look trustworthy to you?
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93 sats \ 0 replies \ @euthymic 13h
Anything HR related
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80 sats \ 2 replies \ @wilto 15h
Has to be politicians
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It's so obvious an answer I completely dismissed it, but yes. This one should be the auto-default number one spot.
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hot take: I tend to blame the politicians less than I do some other professions, like journalists.
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Salespeople in general feel this way. I know they’re not all bad, but the bad ones ruin it for the rest
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Oxy 19m
Call center reps for things like auto renewing subscriptions. By the time you realize you’re paying, it's late already.
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I’d throw multi-level marketing into the mix. Friends who joined lost thousands trying to build their business and ended up selling protein shakes to each other
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 1h
Insurance sales agents especially those who guilt trip you into policies you don’t need. Feels like being strong armed into buying a product that only benefits them
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 2h
Crypto influencers? Absolutely. When your financial guru is making 50 grand a month from referral links, you know something’s off
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Anyone selling anything. Which is almost all "entrepreneurs"
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How has nobody said chiropractors?
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central bankers
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 11h
Most tech, both consumer-facing and b2b. It's all fake-it-till-make it now. In fact, we have an entire AGI industry which is that.
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I don’t think I agree with this. It certainly happens, but I don’t think most tech is all smoke and mirrors
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Used cars sales man are the worst. I’ve bought one car off a car lot in my life and it will be my last. There is always something wrong with cars and they push useless insurance on people. Next time I buy a car it will be new or a used one from an individual not a car lot.
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Anyone selling "crypto" or custody/middleman solutions. Run.
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The ones that tell you they have a job for you and to reach them on a whats app number
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Tailors definitely Tailors
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zion 15h
Wall street traders
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 15h
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