IT people hate computers
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More like a love and hate relationship. I normally turn off my work computer and turn on my gaming one. Most of my time I am using one. Or a pocket computer some call it smartphone.
I have nothing against computers, as long as people aren't allowed to touch them
Well, they may distrust or dislike them, but I reckon the hate goes towards printers - especially label printers
Even worse: network based label printers. Fuck them.
i keep a shot gun in case my pc makes any wonky sound.
every time i pick a different direction in my career, Donald Trump personally brings about that industry's ruin
Have you considered a job in the military-industrial complex, or maybe at a hedge fund?
WW3 and having to suck up to racist pedophiles, those are already on the chopping block
Become a hedge fund analyst or maybe get a job with McKinsey
McKinsey will likely be one of the few actual victims of AI replacing jobs.
Pharmacy: PBMs
All medical folks hate those bastards. The highest driver of increased prices, and only serves as the middle man.
Paramedics hate methamphetamine. And alcohol. And high voltage electrical current.
But we love people who injure themselves creatively.
Stupid people are our job security.
- Emergency Medicine: Alcohol and/or fireworks
- Family Medicine: Wellness influencers
- Surgery: Pre-op NSAIDs (eg ibuprofen)
- Pediatrics: RFK Jr
Neurology: Football (American football) and boxing
Epidemiology too for RFK.
We all hate RFK, except Ortho. Those guys seem to like stupid $&#(.
Oh, I forgot for OB/Gyn: GOOP and "Natural Birth Midwives"
For lawyers? The Dunning-Kruger effect.
That's the enemy of anyone with any specialization
Nvidia hates Wayland. :(
Funeral Homes hate the Government.
They are incredibly rude to the families receiving financial assistance, it takes 3 months for them to pay us, and did you know that if you don't have a will they cut your step-children out of the process entirely?
We had one gentleman in our care whose only living family was his step-daughter. Because there were no blood relatives and no will the Public Guardian took control of his disposition and the step-daughter had no say in anything that happened with him. Wasn't allowed to keep a portion of the ashes, the Funeral Director had to fight just to allow the step-daughter a brief final visitation.
This is also true for children under 18. Your 17 year old child has no say in your disposition if you have no other living relatives.
Have a will people, if for no other reason than to allow your loved ones to decide how they will grieve rather than some indifferent bureaucrat.
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SLTs hate pacifiers. They're horrible for a child's teeth, leads to costantly open mouths, are bad for posture etc.. Most patients' parents who come into therapy are good about weaning their kids but some don't and don't know about the harm either
School bus drivers hate landscapers. And Amazon delivery drivers, but at least those fuckers move quickly.
We also hate children but I probably shouldn't admit that publicly.
Anyone using a phone hates clankers.
There's one automated system I need to call regularly at work that does not give me the option of dialing numbers and forces me to speak to it. It lists the options it can understand, but I can't just press a number to move on. Then it asks me to say and spell my first name, then say my last name (which it guesses the spelling of incorrectly) and pretends to type while it's processing. Why are we doing this?
Stop humanising answering machines by equating them to Star Wars level droids please.
Insulting.
Star wars droids are just more advanced answering machines
Sure. But lots of them definitely qualify as AGI, whereas what we have is just AI.
So like yeah, oranges are round-ish and planets are round-ish, but there's quite a sizable difference.
Firemen hate pedophiles
Teachers hate pedophiles
Doctors hate pedophiles
Lawyers hate pedophiles
Liberals hate pedophiles
Conservatives hate pedophiles
Independents hate pedophiles
Where's the fucking list Donny? Give us the list you fat orange fuck. We know you're on it, and so do you. How did you think this was going to pan-out, dumbass?
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Arborists hate Bradford pear trees. They’re the ones that have white flowers and smell like cum. That’s not even why we hate them though.
I wrote a mobile app years ago for a company that surveyed power lines to figure out what trees had to be cut away. They gave me a list of something like 800 tree species and I was like "do you guys really know what all these trees look like?" They did, it was a very impressive knowledge set.
A fun fact about power lines in rural areas: property owners generally get compensated monetarily when their trees have to be trimmed for this, and the amount they get is dependent on the species of tree. So the surveyors would usually find all kinds of incredibly exotic shit planted directly under the lines, basically a cash crop for people living in the middle of nowhere. This is probably a huge and under-appreciated factor in the spread of invasive species.
That's gorgeous, I love the unintended consequences
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Software devs hate users
Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
And Product Owners.
And Scrum Masters.
And Software Architects.
And Security/Compliance Managers.
And QA Testers.
And worst of all... Software devs.
Sysadmins hate computers.
Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
I would never be able to explain coherently the difference between UX and UI people. I've only worked for one company that even had a UX guy on staff. He was paid an insane amount of money (close to half a mil per year) and as far as I could tell did absolutely nothing except insist that certain procedures be followed rigorously. He never designed anything at all himself.
He was the only coworker I've ever had who ended up refusing to speak to me or even acknowledging my existence. This came about because I wrote a TV Guide-type app for Blackberry which our client loved and insisted on having added to their corporate app. The UX guy insisted that no app could be produced unless it was preceded by a formal design document, so he was forced into the situation of having to produce a design document for an app that had already been written, which completely broke his brain. Or rather, he was forced into ordering someone else to do this, since as I mentioned he never actually did anything himself.
He eventually left because he got a job offer for way more money lol. I guess I shouldn't make fun of somebody who had the system figured out far better than me.
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Physical therapists hate motorcycles.
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