Occupations with the most insufferable people

Human rights campaigners

Acting

Doctors, hedge fund people.

Lawyers

Astrophysicists give me a secular Jehovahs Witnesses vibe.

Life Coaches

Flight Attendants, without a doubt.

Once they out on their little winglets, they enter into an altered state where they somehow believe they are the head of the FAA, TSA, FBI, DOJ, DMV.

School counselers

R7 here - “out” = “put”

Escorting.

Anything to do with HR.

Marketing. Retail fashion (buyers, not sales).

critical whitness councellors, those Robin DeAngelo white fragility types and everyone on twitter declaring themselves an activist.

Theatre.

Social Media Influencers

HR obviously. Also gender studies or any academic department infected with critical theory.

P.E. coaches

Gay men in the fashion and beauty industry. 9/10ths are absolute cunts.

sales

GAP shop-bottom

drag queens though I know a few exceptions

Is drag queen an occupation?

What about civil service workers, such as DMV for one example, who have heard it all, and answer you with "Mmmmh hmmmhh..." and a rolling of eyes?

Any occupation where the employees breathe.

Analytical philosophers.

tv talk show host

pundit

Law students, lawyers and judges (and even the very dead Ruth Bader-Bader).

Managers.

I've met a lot of realtors with an unwarranted sense of grandeur, like they are so much far superior in putting a house on the market and finding buyers.

No, you are a middle man that most people HAVE to use due to a rigged market. When the housing markets are hot with over speculation and foreign money, their sales are because they're so great. When the housing market is down, it's due to the economy and other factors.

Those shows on Bravo prove that. Yes, it takes hustle to get listings but they make far too much money for what they put into it.

City Council Man/Woman

Has anybody here have experience with dentists? I kind of felt like many worship money.

Daughters

TV news people. ALL of them, both in front of and behind the camera, are the most insufferable cunts in the world. All of them. Trust me.

r34 = Phyllis Lindstrom

Economists for the win.

R34, Jane Pauley comes to mind. Lately she seems especially bitter.

Gender studies and social studies college teachers. Ugh.

One of the most bizarre people I ever met was a physical therapist. She was also incredibly gifted. I was once only 5 minutes late and she was super pissed which surprised me. But the minute she started working on me her anger just vanished. She also got rid of a groin hernia I got from lifting weights simply by therapy so I didn't have to get surgery.

Any profession w adverts that feature unnecessary, often creepy photos of the person grinning maniacally. Real estate agents and ambulance chasing lawyers come to mind.

Critics of any type, art, theater, film, music, whatever.

Fox News anchor. I win!

People behind drug ads. Yes, we heard about your miracle pills with the same 20 side effects, stop the shilling.

[quote] Theatre.

Oh come now! They are humble and self-effacing!

Politicians. Either party. They’re all ego maniacs and liars.

Architects. They thing no one but themselves are allowed to have opinions on buildings, even the people who have to live or work in them.

*"think," not "thing"

Sorry.

[quote] Has anybody here have experience with dentists? I kind of felt like many worship money.

My dentist is like a car salesman. I'm able to fend off all of his suggestions for things I need to get done on my teeth. He even looks the part. Good-looking, but dresses too young for his age.

I would go to another dentist, but my town doesn't have that many dentists.

R45 is the both sides troll.

Nurses. Absolutely nurses.

I can't believe I'm the first to post this.

What’s wrong with nurses?

Middle and upper management. So far removed from the people that do the work and supposedly have meetings all day about what should be done instead of doing it.

Another for architects, followed by interior designers.

[quote]Another for architects

Please. It's an honorable profession.

LAWYERS are the scum of the earth.

Royalty

accountants

Lawyers first. Journalists and media assholes a close second.

Doctors

Nope, R32, you are the only poster on DL who has ever seen, or had experience with, a dentist, lol. I do agree with you that more than a few seem to be almost entirely money-driven, though I wouldn't say the majority.

And R50, I can't believe it took 49 other replies for someone to say nurses, either. As soon as I saw the title of the thread, I knew at least one person would say nurses. I'm not saying that person(s) is you, but any time there is a thread about nursing/nurses, there is always at least one asshole who cannot wait to demean the entire nursing profession: we're all fat, lazy fraus or bitchy gay men who get off on having "power" over our patients, but in reality, we're just bedpan attendants who need to get off our asses and bring the apple juice & jello quickly and with a smile. There are insufferable people in every profession--I am sure you, or someone, will say this post is proof that you are correct--but you'll find many more nurses who are empathetic, educated, intelligent and skilled professionals, who work their asses off to, hopefully, keep their patients alive, aid in their recovery, and assist them on the path to health, just as much as physicians & other clinicians, if not more so. Nurses are underpaid and definitely underappreciated, but the vast majority love their jobs, genuinely enjoy caring for, and helping, their patients and people in general, and who want to make a difference, regardless of how small, in patients' lives. And yet, there is always someone who cannot wait for the first chance to belittle the entire nursing profession. And I'm not even talking about myself, because as an NP, I know it's the staff RNs within hospitals & health systems--the RNs in the E.D. when you have a stroke or heart attack; the RNs in the ICU who are fighting to keep their COVID patients alive, if at all possible; the surgical RNs in the O.R. when you need your gallbladder removed, your knee replaced, or a malignant tumor excised; the labor & delivery RNs holding the hand of, and offering reassurance to, a scared, laboring mother-to-be & her newborn infant, etc.--the pre-hospital and/or flight RNs within EMS & MICUs, LPNs & RNs in skilled nursing facilities, long-term care & locked dementia units, hospice, rehabilitative medicine centers, et al., who are the real MVPs of medicine and health care. Rant over. Love you, R50.

Corporate CEOs are worse than Social Media Influencers, because they harm more people. They may be smoother on the surface, but they're all narcissists and/or sociopaths underneath.

And thank you, R60. I'm a nurse, and if nurses aren't giving everyone what they want, it's because we just can't be everything to everyone - the patients, the families, the doctors, our employers, clueless regulators, etc. We try, but we just don't have the time or the resources to deliver everything to everyone, which mortally offends some people because they aren't getting what they need and they don't understand why, or don't want to. But we're there, giving what we can, even when there's a pandemic on we're short of PPE, because we can help or save people. It's worth doing.

Journalists

journalistss, vloggers, drug dealers, politicians - really any govt funded worker, non profits (never a more cutthroat business than six figure do nothings capitalizing on slave labor; volunteers.), college admins, military recruiters, sports recruiters (seriously, you ever have a young relative getting recruitment attention? I swear these guys would blow everyone in the family if they thought they'd get a contract signed.), real estate (especially family owned. . that shit just always heads to creepy town.), lgbt group facilitators, lgbt club owners, porn directors, onlyfan performers, elderly careworkers, gym coaches, anyone that believes they're starting an original clothing brand using a print on demand site, digital nomads

The worst person I have ever encountered professionally was an architect. He was impossible to work with and was incredibly arrogant and nasty. However the other two architects who worked under him were lovely people. I have no idea why they worked for him.

Nursing.

Teaching.

Apartment managers are invariably horrible, as are the sleazy leasing agents. Both reside at the bottom of the real estate heap.

Many surgeons seem to be on the crazy and/or asshole spectrum. It's probably a good thing that they deal with unconscious people throughout their workday.

Social workers. I had to deal with them on a regular basis when my mom was in a nursing home and the social workers were nothing more than enforcers and attack dogs for the company that owns/operates the facility. Imagine the worst 'Karen' stereotype but with the power to make your elderly parent's life Hell.

I know it sounds implausible but I've had nothing but good experiences with lawyers! Go figure

r66 'smart' social workers end up as slum lords. they can bank so much on group homes. imagine you've got a house in other situation that would result in fines, be condemned and torn but instead gets subsidies, that you can pile each room up with as many bunk beds as you can fit in, charged them EACH 85% of ssdi/ssi whether they have or not because the state will pay to keep them off the street plus additional kickbacks from the govt and other organizations, sometimes ranging into the 1000s. plus whatever you grift off them, life insurance fraud, all that crap. that is one reason CA's homeless problem became so bad. well, that and the closure of state hospitals.

Is it really fair to call all lawyers insufferable? I mean I would think there's a difference between a corporate/white shoe firm attorney and a civil rights attorney or a prosecutor.

R60, Thank you for telling people the realities of nursing. I’ve worked with some lazy, angry, burnt out and uncaring nurses, but the vast majority are there because they care deeply about their patients and their work. I am a mental health nurse, and I deal with situations that would make most people’s hair stand on end. I don’t have any “power”. My job is to help people find theirs.

Chefs are insufferable cunts.

Cops have a lot of assholes on "the force."

R67, that is shocking but somehow not surprising. The group home scenario you describe is horrifying.

One of the social workers I encountered during my late mother's travails turned out to be unlicensed. The facility where she worked was a magnet for low-level sociopaths. The incompetent administrator didn't give a shit, even though it's a criminal offense to hold oneself out as a social worker/practice without a valid license. I reported them all to the state and the shady company that ran the place eventually went out of business. I was so relieved when I was able to transfer my mom to a better facility.

Bloggers. Freelance journalists. City Hall staffers. Cops.

Any job with "social media" in the title.

Have to admit this response is influenced by Douglas Adam’s...

I thin any profession one enters will be populated by tiring, unendurable, stupid people as long as one is a young, new, “up and comer”.and then as one proceeds along that path, they become the old, irascible and intransigent asshole that one strove against for years and years and years.

Just my take...

Any in Los Angeles...everyone was an actor or script writer..all of whom were on hold with Spielberg—most had other jobs they conveniently forget to mention. Others who didn’t fall into that trap would lie to look more important to others within earshot...what a hell hole!

I'm surprised taxi drivers are not mentioned yet -- or it simply goes without saying?

I drove a cab at night in Boston for years, now Uber but have been on unemployment since April when the virus changed things. Kind of embassed to collect but as long as it's offered....yet some Uber drivers are still driving; for whatever reason they didn't qualify for unemployment. But I'm almost 61, obese and need blood pressure needs. So maybe I should just stay away from Uber or other jobs dealing with the public for now if the government is paying unemployment-- and even an extra $300 weekly again before taxes for 11 weeks.

But yes, there are some nice and/or honest cabbies out there, despite their reputation. Agree?

Lesbian comic

R77, so you’re fat. At least you’re not a fat WHORE!

Or maybe you are... still in Boston?

Married couples.

Employers.

What’s the deal with HR workers? I’ve seen them referenced here for years, ut have never had to deal with one.

[quote] Occupations with the most insufferable people

All of them. Other people are hell

The front office gay in a gay physician's office, a receptionist really, but so much more in his own mind, always by unpredictable turns mock pleasant/put you in your place cunty. Whenever a patient approaches he looks up from his phone just fleetingly and then turns his head away and holds up a "wait for me to acknowledge you" finger as he launches into a ten minute discussion of the other staff's weekends, the bagel he's going to have for lunch, the temperature of the office... When he finally addresses you he's 30% flirty and fake nice, and 70% scolding, judgmental, eye-rolling, county, and will find a way to contradict the least statement or question.

Doctors especially surgeons and I say this as a doctor myself. In my country, a vast majority of our seniors and professors are so horrible to us, some are outright abusive. A lot of them have literally slapped med students and residents infront of patients at some point. There are definitely good eggs, but they are few and far inbetween.

When I first started med-school, I thought maybe a bout of bad luck had made me come across the worst people medicine had to offer, but after hearing about my friends' experiences in other hospitals and some of my own down the line, i have since changed my mind.

I have concluded that my field tends to attract people who enjoy having power over others, want to be put on a pedestal and look down on everyone else from their perceived "moral high ground". I also genuinely believe atleast two people I went to med-school with were psychopaths.

As I said, there are good people too who really want to help patients but there's not enough of them.

Professors in the social "sciences".

Journalists - they don't report the news, they attempt to make news.

People in academia who have never worked outside academia.

Border guards. No other job on earth gives more power to stupider people.

R66 - they hell surgeons deal with unconscious people. And, because my later partner was a hell of an obgyn surgeon, I can tell you that those working with that breed of surgeons (PA's, nurses, staff, anesthesiologists, etc..) tire of it really fast.

When I worked in credit, people always talked about teachers, ministers/clergy, and doctors not only as occupations often likely to have bad credit but also often likely to become haughty or aggressive when denied for loans turning on their ‘authority act’ to try to overrule you. All these people have power in their worlds and don’t like being told no.

The professional victims who make up any Race and Gender Studies department these days. Their profession and in fact their very existence is based on just complaining and finger wagging. Cunts need to get a real job.

Wannabe Actors - worse than actual actors

Corporate recruitment agencies. Every single person who works in them.

Scum of the earth.

Art dealers are right up there with the worst of them - arrogant, greedy and crooked with a thin veneer of 'culture'.

R84, receptionists at doctors' offices are a special breed of awful. I have some great doctors but they are really let down by their front office staff, many of whom appear to have room temperature IQs

Human Resource people

Those people are specifically hired to be like that R95. Complete cunts because they are in a marginal position of power. And because they are complete cunts to the patients, people react to them and then they become even more cunty.

Anyone in media. I worked there for too long and the egos are insufferable.

Not quite HR,. Not quite social workers, although both are for the most part hideously wretched, but HRA employees. I call them the Human Rat Association. They live to ftc people and close cases.

Every veterinary surgeon of the dozen I’ve met is cunty, including a former gf from school who became one. Maybe it’s too many years of study?

Influencers.

Unfortunately, a lot of them do make a living at whatever it is they do. But it ain't influencing. I know that much.

Is “Datalounger” an occupation?

What do you call the people who work at the entrance to a hospital in registration.

Those people.

Also, not the doctor's or nurses, but the people in reception.

They're also cunts.

doctors*

Most police (not all, but most). Spend anytime with them and you'll find out what they really care about is maximizing their pension benefits.

Lots of good submissions, particularly the odious HR people. I'd add anyone who fancies themselves a professional "activist" - particularly "human rights activists". They're people who can afford not to have proper jobs, but want to appear they serve some higher cause, rather than just looking down on other people & lecturing them about carbon offsets on social media.

Personal trainers tend to be a weird bunch too; I'm not entirely sure why - attention to one's health & wellness is obviously a good thing, but these people tend to have weird control issues.

The professions that attract a high number of psychopaths seem to be the most mentioned in this thread...

Art critics, particularly those that criticize others' work for not fulfilling their ambiguous standard when they cannot even produce anything close to that.

Politician of course. This profession is made for hypocrites.

Museum curators. They're worse than academics because they are given money to buy things and that makes them think they're more important than the art. Also, many of them are lunatics.

The jobs that marathon runners and cyclists do.

quote]Art critics, particularly those that criticize others' work for not fulfilling their ambiguous standard when they cannot even produce anything close to that.

I disagree, R108, not entirely on the occupation but on the explanation/example. It's not that I haven't met a share of insufferable art critics, but those are almost invariably the lazy and untalented ones. Very few art critics, art historians, and art curators arel artists, but there is no reason that they should be.

Fundamentally, an art critic describes art within some context, usually art history and/or contemporary culture, and tries to understand something of the artist's intent, and to summarize these as with his informed, critical eye. He isn't meant to thumps up/down everything, but to present a logical case for his perspective and impressions on the artworks.

He's not meant to demonstrate that he can do the equal or better of the artist with his own mind, his own ideas, and his own hands — that would be a competition not a critique.

In the end art isn't about technique, proficiency with brush strokes, or shadow, or acrylic versus oil, or impasto versus glazing... Art is about generating a reaction, stirring the senses, making people somehow take notice.

Architects can design buildings and have a unique way of seeing things, but if you want to understand architecture, for fuck's sake don't read books/manifestos by an architect, read a book by someone who understands architecture and can put his understanding to words. The same is true for artists. The art historians, critics, writers are the people who describe and interpret art, who hopefully find new audiences to it, or allow it to be seen in new ways. Their jobs are not to do the same painting better, faster, and cheaper. It's not a competition.

[quote]Museum curators. They're worse than academics because they are given money to buy things and that makes them think they're more important than the art. Also, many of them are lunatics.

R111: Museum curators are usually art historians. Very few are ever "given money to buy things." In the lucky few rich institutions with purchasing budgets, the head curators who head departments usually watch for potential acquisitions that fill a gap or represent some opportunity for a museum, but they work through the museum director and various acquisition committees to put forth various candidates for purchase. It's rarely ever a certainty or an easy or quick decision to buy something, and it's usually kept under wraps for months or years until it finally happens—and then it's the executive director who takes all the credit. The purchasing aspect of a curator's work is usually very small. Museum curators take a long and quiet view of things, they dress all their lives like art historians, very few are Machiavellian in plotting career advancement or time in the limelight . Museum directors (and art gallery people) on the other hand...

Public transport drivers like bus drivers / streetcar drivers / subway staff etc.

Dicks.

I think Jodi Arias (Arizona murderer) was a psychopath, but the victim/ex-boyfriend really got whitewashed in the media. Travis Alexander (victim) was dubbed a "motivational speaker" but was really involved in a pyramid (multi-level marketing) scheme involving "pre-paid legal" services.

I've found that a good way to gauge how good a doctor will be is how good the receptionist is. If the receptionist is a cunt, it's either because the doctor allows and encourages the behavior, or the doctor is so awful no one but a bag of dick with work for the doctor.

Israeli Settler

Trans anything. Nine out of ten are mentally ill.

Drive thru fast food workers

Economists. There is nothing wrong with astrophysicists. Gender studies types are too nutty and insignificant to be insufferable.

Nurses and their Tik Tok videos.

Marketing. Mouth breathing whores with unresolved racial issues.

r121, yes! You're a fucking nurse. Do your nurse job!

Property managers

R113 we have an art critic defending his occupation

Psychologists can either be great or really deluded. Ironic.

[quote] Drive thru fast food workers

Why? I don't understand this one.

Good job DL. Intriguing, informative thread.

Chaturbate moderators

That's been my experience with therapists too R126. Bipolar distribution: either very very good or horrid.

Career criminals. Doing life on the installment plan. Know the system just well enough to game it. Often their judges have given into their pack of lies. I often ask for a better class of criminal, but I’m given mediocrity.

Insurance and fund salesmen. I think everyone knows the reason.

Reddit SJW message board moderators. NO OPINIONS ALLOWED.

Many astronomers are con artists and incel types. Of course some do good work, but there’s a lot of corruption in that field, especially when it’s presented as ‘news’.

There happens to be an extreme shortage of psychiatrists, OP. Back when we had a functioning state hospital system & before managed care, people had insurance that covered the cost of however many therapy sessions they believed the patient needed. Sometimes it was twice a week for years. Psychiatrists had their own practices, plus they were affiliated with state psych hospitals (which had populations of hundreds to thousands of patients), plus they would take call for local medical hospitals for emergencies (suicide attempts, drug ODs, freak-outs in the ER). Plus they testified in court cases as paid expert witnesses. And there were far, far fewer guns back then.

In a nutshell, shrinks had it easy. Then came psych drugs. The destruction of the American mental health system was started & managed care made psychiatry a not-very-lucrative profession. The reimbursement for therapy sessions & the number of sessions was set by insurance companies & was very low. Nobody wanted to be a psychiatrist anymore.

There are waiting lists to see psychiatrists just to get medication evaluation. Almost all therapy sessions are now done by social workers, psychologists, NPs & PAs. I knew an NP who worked doing medication evaluations for a county health clinic. The psychiatrist did the original prescribing. The NP saw the patient every 3 months for evaluation. He HATED the job. This was a guy who began as an orderly, became an LP.n, then RN, then NP, so it’s not as if he never worked hard before. He said it was all junkies, lowlifes, crazy scary people dotted with frustrated never-jailed people. They lead crazy lives. He was allowed to give 15 minutes to every patient, then onto the next. He worked 12 hour shifts of seeing patients every 15 minutes so he could renew the scripts or bounce the patient back to the shrink if medication re-valuation was necessary. He ultimately quit to save his own sanity.

40 years ago the crazies would be locked up, the neurotics would get therapy sessions twice a week paid for by insurance. Some people would have a short stay in a regular hospital’s psych ward then go home. The serious crazies who came into the hospitals were seen by an on call shrink & he would make a decision to commit the patient to a psych hospital. My mom’s friend who was a nurse from 1940s-1980s recounted how she would call a dr in the middle of the night & demand they write transfer orders for a crazy, disruptive patient to the psych hospital. The dr would give a verbal order, police would come & transport the patient to one of 3 state hospitals in our county . No more problem.

Those people who wear the suits in monster movies. Complete cunts.

Since when is "moderator" for online anything been a job?

Spokesperson for PETA. Or anyone working for animal rescue organizations. They are all bonkers.

Attorneys.

professors in the social sciences.

R103 they are called Carol.

People in the art world, unless actual artists. They have zero talent and spend their lives sucking in their cheeks at cocktail parties.

R142 What's a cocktail party?

R142 It takes a lot of sales talent and a good knowledge of your art market and your art domains, to be a successful commercial gallerist.

Dog rescue women screeching "Adopt, don't shop!"

Professional medical witnesses,

We own this thread

Evangelical preacher - what do I win, Don Pardo?

TV show runners and those that want to be tv show runners. No question.

Teachers.

DMV employees: some are pleasant, but the ones who aren't are super cunts.

B,C, and D-list celebrities: I've read that entertainers who aren't big stars are often more arrogant than A-list celebs. They have enormous egos, yet deep down are very insecure of their place on the Hollywood totem pole. Reality tv types are good examples of being famous without much talent to justify the attention, but they expect to be treated like royalty.

Agreed, R151. B,C, and D-list celebrities are constantly in competition with one another and are in the business because they like attention. Many are obnoxious and desperate.

Many actors have the inability to not constantly call attention to themselves and very quickly move from amusing to annoying.

But they generally mean well.

HR OTOH, tends to attract awful people who do not mean well.

Plantation overseers

TSA workers. Total cunts.

House Speaker

Social workers

Politicians

Talk radio hosts

Musicians

Actors

Comedians

Lawyers

Teachers

Clergy

Producers

Movie directors

Basically anybody with a job is just rubbing it in at this point

Wouldn't it have been easier to list the professions that did NOT have insufferable people R157?

Least, in order: care aide, nurse, therapist, craftsperson, beautician/stylist, charity worker, teacher, creative artist, doctor, accountant.

White House Press Corps.

Left Wing (Berner) or Right wing (Trumpster) political pundit, talking head, or social media personality.

Nursing--a profession that seems to attracct either very deveoted people or slutty whores who are otherwise uninterested in medicine.

Professors--some of the most egotistical people ever. There is truth to the "ivory tower" stereotype.

Journalists and, let’s face it, teachers.

Both believe their modest salaries entitle them to massive persecution complexes.

CEOs, CFOs, and all those other "Chief" jobs.

R163. A qualifier: Professors who are Critical Race Theorists. Theirs is a policy of scorched earth, since the more professors that they are able to get fired, the more they hope to place one of their own in an Academy that, at present, looks primarily for professors of color. But to be even more exact, the professors of color they hire must to the Party Line. A free-thinking black man or woman is even more of a threat than a "whyte" person who can be easily cowed, and therefore must be skewered, lapidated, de-gutted, castrated or fgm-ed, etc. etc. Watch out for them if you are an "outsider" --

Yes, I was more specifically referring to professors in the social sciences/humanities. I haven't found the same level of arrogance in other fields.

[quote] “Nursing.

[quote] Teaching.

[quote] —NO, you’re NOT a “hero” just for doing your job!”

But YOU are, right? Because YOU have a job that values the life of everyone you touch and improves the quality of life of those dependent on YOU? Because YOU have a profession that ISN’T only a means of adding to your bank account and edifying only yourself, R65?

Dieticians are very uppity cunts who run out of professional information on the second meeting. Often closet bulimics or barely recovered anorexics.

People who said economists are correct. Abusive behavior is seen as competency and rewarded, even if they're just pulling numbers out of their ass. Kind of like doctors in the sense that cruelty is encouraged and then justified as "well that's the way we've always done it." As a result it's self-selecting for antisocial personalities, instead of actual ability.

Serbian pro tennis players

Supremes.

Animal rescue people mean well but tend to be neurotic and treat animals ten times better than people. I only volunteer where I don’t have to be lorded over by some non-profit frau. It’s sad how many people stop volunteering because of some twat on a perpetual power trip.

Academia, theatre, fashion, medicine, finance,

Nurses- I know they work hard, but some of them are the biggest cunts ever.

Radio program directors.

R175 they do all the work and barely get credit compared to the doctors lol

Any c suite executive at your company. They're all brain dead elitist cunts.

I don't get all the nurse hate...in the last 8 years I've been hospitalized several times and have yet to have been cared by anyone insufferable. They all did their very difficult jobs with a lot of patience and kindness, that I could see. I have run across a couple that were annoying (one excessively perky and one incompetent) but...don't get the insufferable tag. Unless y'all are really shitty demanding patients.

Same thing with regular teachers. Many aren't super smart (you don't have to be super smart to teach...just smarter than your students) and it's a thankless job but I haven't really run across that many who could be called insufferable.

NOW, when it comes to being insufferable (smug, know it alls who think they're God's gift to the world because of what they do) then here's a good list:

1) Academics/college level professors: I've known many and been around a lot more and they're a very special class of nut. Academia is a fantasy land they dwell in....like something out of a novel or bad British TV show. Most academics are just really old students who never grow up. It's all petty bitchery and rivalry and lusting after students and having very high opinions of themselves. And, many of the young academics are morons...though to be fair, I also think many of the old ones are too but they probably actually had better educations to start with.

2) Anyone with any kind of connection to film/television. Even a receptionist at your local cable company probably has a 'tude because she "works" for HBO. And, the higher up you go, to actual people who work on film and television productions, the worse it gets. And, it's not just an actor or director or executive thing....crews can be the most insufferable people on the planet. Some yutz whose job it is to nail together sets thinks he's some kind of god because his name might be listed on the credits of some shit movie or tv show.

And, indy film people are just as insufferable if not worse than the actual pros.

OH! And, don't get me started on film FESTIVAL people! They all think they're the equivalent of Truffaut because they sell pop corn to old folks at a Wes Anderson screening or because they got to chat with Parker Posey for 10 minutes at an post screening reception.

3) Media people. Ties in quite a bit with #2 but they're their own special kind of crazy. And, it's every category....TV and print and new media. And, 20 times more insufferable if they work with any kind of well known outlet.

And, it ranges from delusional anchor people on your local news to the yutz barely hanging on to their jobs at your local daily to the hip snots at your local hipster weekly down to the very deluded bloggers and "influencers". They all think they're VERY smart and VERY entitled to freebies left and right.

And, I say this as someone IN media. I know I'm smarter than most of these turds but I'm not constantly begging for freebies or playing the "don't you know who I am?" card to get them. Tacky.

Let's just run down a few more briefly:

4) People who work at hot clubs/music and performance venues: they might actually be the worst of all. They treat EVERYONE like crap! Except for name talent and any hottie they might want to fuck.

5) Music store clerks/some bookstore clerks/most comic book store clerks: Jesus Fucking Christ, they're all such cheesy caricatures of Comic Book Guy down to the fact most of them are fat. And, loud. They all have a band/novel/graphic novel in a drawer some where.

6) People in fashion and god forbid they work for a big name.

7) Nowadays, and especially in hipster than thou metro areas, most wait staff, bartenders and baristas all think they're some kind of entitled god like being who deserve huge tips for doing very, very little and what they do do, is usually slow and with a sneer.

8) Performers: musicians, comics, drag, burlesque, rock n rollers, actors, painters....all fucking neurotic shitbags to one degree or the other. Most of them. A few normal ones scattered here and there but also so much delusion. And, they all vary slightly but they're all pretty equal in awfulness. Art people/painters/photographers are particularly annoying. Photographers might actually need their own category because they all think they're some kind of brilliant artist when in reality, anyone with a decent camera and an eye for framing, can take an amazing photo. But, don't tell them that because you'll get an hour long lecture on "technique" and "craft" and the hours/money they spent on acquiring both.

9) Poets.

oh, fuck!

I left out: PUBLICISTS!!!!!!!

And, MARKETING people!!!!

Truly the home of the insufferable, the delusional and the idiotic.

VETERINARIAN - they kill themselves the most. Cat owners are mostly fat cunts.

R54, George I thought you were a marine biologist?

Has anyone here mentioned the company computer guy? Especially Nick Burns!

The people at media companies like Mediapolis who decided that in order to increase revenue it was necessary to add that FUCKING ANNOYING POP UP AD down in the corner.

That guy.

#FuckingAsshole

Journalism. God, their entitlement, self-importance and self-righteousness are out of control. Someone I know won't stop bleating about what an important role she plays in the world by "reporting the truth" to people. A bitchy friend of hers shut her up once by telling her that she was just a version of a neighborhood gossip who happened to make a living passing on information to others.

Only old fat dinosaurs who don't know ad-blockers always complain about popup ads. Enough already.

On mobile phone, just fucking use Opera browser and enable ad-blocking.

I own a website so I hate ad blockers.

I also hate shitty design and an over abundance of ads.

I'm complicated.

Also: Fuck you, R190, you small dicked, cunt faced shit eater.

Everyone who has posted to this thread is the epitome of insufferable

(R11) I work in HR and it delights me to know that I am privy to all your records..medical, background checks, run-in's with the law..How delicious.

All SJW’s need to be put in the nearest wood chipper

Academia, as others have said. If you grow up in a school environment and then never leave it, you never truly mature.

I now have to go to a specialty dentist. He's one of the few in my geographical area. Anyway, when I first started going there, he (dentist) had a bitchy receptionist / appointment person (young gay man), but I just ignored the bitchiness & dealt with it b/c I had few choices. Recently, I noticed that the bitchy receptionist guy is gone. I think maybe he got fired. The actual dentist is super nice and calm.

[quote]but I just ignored the bitchiness & dealt with it b/c I had few choices. Recently, I noticed that the bitchy receptionist guy is gone.

Honestly, I bet he did get fired. If he was doing that to you, he'd be doing it to others and some other patients probably didn't deal with it so well. I've noticed a couple of times when I've been in similar situations, but my fear of confrontation makes me keep quiet, that you find out later the person is being a shit to other people too and one of them hasn't keep quiet about it.

Can't stand people like your receptionist. It's stressful enough going to the dentist without that going on, and just 'cause he has a miserable life I don't see why he has to take it out on people like you.

^*kept, I meant.

[quote][R175] they do all the work and barely get credit compared to the doctors lol

I would say that during the pandemic they have been getting the credit they deserve. Most nurses I know are nice and humble. I know a few who are arrogant as fuck. The worst one is my cousin's stepdaughter. Since the beginning of the pandemic, she whines on Facebook about how administration at the hospital where she works was allowing employees who aren't doctors or nurses to have some of the food and beverages that businesses and restaurants were donating to the hospital. She said something about how her job is harder than the maintenance people, security guards, social workers, receptionists, PBX operators, custodians, etc. and that they don't deserve any perks. While I agree her job is harder, I find it hilarious that she bitches about people getting occasional free food and she doesn't seem to get the people in those roles still play a part in her hospital running.

My cousin's stepdaughter is also someone who has been pretty spoiled throughout her life. She didn't work in high school or college. During college, my cousin's wife and her ex-husband covered all the expenses. She never had the experience of working some lower paying crap job.. There have been times that you can tell that she doesn't get that other people have jobs that are shitty or not so great in other ways.

[quote]I think Jodi Arias (Arizona murderer) was a psychopath, but the victim/ex-boyfriend really got whitewashed in the media. Travis Alexander (victim) was dubbed a "motivational speaker" but was really involved in a pyramid (multi-level marketing) scheme involving "pre-paid legal" services

I agree, Travis was whitewashed in the media and many people ignored the MLM crap he was involved in. I remember reading some crime discussion forum and there was a poster who said she worked at a hotel in Oklahoma City where Pre-Paid Legal held events. She described them as being cult like and that people in those groups would get very quiet whenever hotel employees were around them. Pre-Paid Legal is known as Legal Shield. There are review sites and anti-MLM forums/ sites that bash Pre Paid Legal/Legal Shield. The Jodi Alexander/Travis Alexander case occasionally gets brought up on some of those sites and some people will post that Travis'" motivational speaker" role was used as bullshit to rope other people in.

Doctors!!!

I agree with the poster upthread who chose nurses. I'd add CNAs. Now they all think they're 'heroes' and deserve special preference. Nurses used to choose their profession based on other reasons than money and it was difficult to become a Registered Nurse. Now, you can do it online (how the fuck does that work?) Fuck 'em unless they're over 35 years of age. Anyone younger is a dolt.

R202 To a small extent I sympathize with CNAs as they do a lot of physical work in hospitals and nursing homes and people tend to give a lot of the credit to nurses.

The fashion field, talk about insufferable and grating people. One note describes them to a T. These loons eat, breath and live 'fashion'. I shouldn't say eat, because most of them look ill. Most are obsessed with being thin, basically, they look near anorexic.

Everything in their lives is based on how they look and what labels are 'important'. Most of these fashionistas are incredibly insecure, they are always wondering what others think of them.

I ended up in this field by default, I initially started working on graphic designs for a fashion firm, I liked the work and remained. I love the work, yet despise most of these people. Thankfully, I no longer work with these people directly. I've been working from home since 2004.

A lot of the people who work in high end fashion boutiques are quite insufferable.

SNL cast member

Almost everyone in the international high fashion industry has a major personality disorder. And the taboos they establish, like against fat people, are ugly: they look at you like you have six heads or are pathetically lame if you object to animal cruelty, fur, drugs, nudity. The entire thing is peer pressure writ large.

Lawyers. Has it even said? I’ve been slowly following this thread over months.

It bears repeating.

Lawyers.

Minneapolis court workers.

Fire fighters

Fire fighters are insufferable?

Nurses. Look at me. I'm a savior and Tik Tok star.

People in book publishing, especially publishers, editors and publicists.

Theater critics

I worked in Academia as my last job prior to retirement. A friend was a Dept head and she hired me. It was so unlike the working world that I had experienced during my entire business career. Like being on another planet. It didn't impact my performance, which was in the IT dept dealing with a student workforce. The one thing that I noticed was how many decisions and promotions were a result of a concensus of people unlike the commercial workplace. Hiring and replacing a vacancy was also a high mass. Very very different than the outside world. Lots of purchases of equipment were based on grant money expiring , creating a need to spend without much planning. The higher ranked people had free housing on the campus where I worked. Quite unusal in the business world to offer housing,

Hollywood directors

Judges (in court). Really full of themselves. Can't stop talking about themselves.

Tech people, computer/IT people, though some are less robotic than other service professions. Insufferable because you want to run far away from their unexcited mutterings and condescension. The pretension to superiority is something to witness. Once.

R218, do you mean like the guy in the video @ R187?

[quote] The pretension to superiority is something to witness.

It's not a pretension if the one is actually superior.

[R220] As I said, it's something to witness.

Sales

Police

[quote] Judges (in court). Really full of themselves. Can't stop talking about themselves.

My dad had a friend from college who was a court judge and he was full of himself. I couldn't stand him.

Hell is other people

[quote]Nurses and their Tik Tok videos.

I can't stand that trend. I know a woman in her early 40s who is a nurse and she's annoying as fuck on social media with videos on Facebook and TikTok. Another similar trend is cops doing TikToK videos of their work days. I suspect that eventually healthcare facilities/groups and law enforcement agencies will probably shut down that shit down due to possible HIPAA issues or other legal issues.

[quote]Animal rescue people mean well but tend to be neurotic and treat animals ten times better than people. I only volunteer where I don’t have to be lorded over by some non-profit frau. It’s sad how many people stop volunteering because of some twat on a perpetual power trip.

I encountered that when I volunteered at a shelter in a city I used to live in. Some people who work in sectors of the non-profit world can be insufferable. I'm a social worker and I've worked in both private and public sectors. I've encountered and worked with some insufferable social workers, therapists, etc. in the private/non profit world. The worst ones were at a domestic violence shelter where I did a college internship at. The director, HR rep,the clinical directors and the case manager supervisor were insufferable and quite condescending to some of the lower level staff members.

R224 did you ever ask him, “ Who are you to judge me?“

[quote] Border guards. No other job on earth gives more power to stupider people.

A lot of morons who are hungry for power go into that field.

Speakers of the House

PE teachers are sexy. Big ex muscle jocks gone to seed...still have big arms and chest and some belly overhang.

I always found science teachers to be quite insufferable in high school and college.

Phillip Roth autobiographers

For insufferable people - no other professional beats Recruitment agency staff - specifically corporate head hunters and corporate recruiters.

Every single one of them are the worst cunts on the planet and should be shot.

Phillip Roth biographers are the worst, R233.

ENT doctors. Self important assholes. Oddly, many are Indian or Pakistani.

In the past few years, I have found nurse practitioners to be quite arrogant.

My ENT doctor is a charming gay man. I love my appointments with him.

Surgeons are cunts.

Many surgeons are psychopaths.

60 Insufferable

168 You can tell you're the child of teachers.

Sorry, formatting fuckery!

R60 Insufferable

R168 You can tell you're the child of teachers

R60 Insufferable

R168 You can tell you're the child of teachers.

R240-242 here, logging off for the night in shame (goddammit)

Tenured professors that teach graduate classes

Every single person working within the insurance industry. ALL of em.

Real Housewife of.............................

Well, Miss cunt r168, I am a legal aid attorney, so I daresay I likely do much more good than your rather stupid ass.

“BUT IMA NURSE! I WENT TO TWO YEARS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE! IMA HERO!”

Whatever happened to that Staten island nurse who got busted stealing from a covid patient?

Graphic art, any kind of commercial art.

[quote] [R240]-242 here, logging off for the night in shame (goddammit)

What's your occupation R240 through R243? You sound insufferable.

Professional bed testers

[quote] they do all the work and barely get credit compared to the doctors lol

No, you don't, and the doctors are the ones who make the real decisions. You are just following orders. You're also well paid for what you do and get as much OT as you want. You're not in an uncomfortable position. A lot of the work is also at a relaxed pace. You also get great access to health care and you work in a clean environment AND you're unionized.

Hotel managers and hospitality people.

The Unvaccinated

Home repair/ improvement contractors.

I’ve never, ever, ever had one show up even within 2 hours of their appointment time.

They’ll call at 10:30am to say they are “running late” for their 9:00am appointment with you, but they’ll be there around 1:00pm.

When you tell them you won’t be there because you are headed to work, they’ll get all pissy.

Influencer

Prosecuting attorneys / DAs are a strange group of people. A lot of them are closeted men. A lot are religious and impose their religious beliefs on others, get church and state mixed up. There's some overlap with the closeted men / religious men. Kind of an non-intellectual group of people.

Physical therapists

Law. Politics. Wall Street.

porn performers

art critics

Wall Streeters

advertising

After the recent "kidneygate" incident, I'd have to say: writers.

SM influencers

^BD influencers

SM = social media, you dumbass at r264

Chiropractors!

I worked as graphic designer for a very well known animal charity and it was FULL of women on the grift. I've never seen such a blatant waste of donated money. At least in the private sector you know that everyone is out to get as much as they can. I expected an animal rights charity to be better, but it was actually worse.

Any position filled by a trans.

R265 BD = Bondage/Domination, Melissa-Ann

Senior Director of research, Pfizer.

Chief Marketing Officer, Purdue Pharma

Several posters who are nurses have expressed astonishment or bewilderment in this thread at people complaining about nurses being obnoxious, and I believe they’re being sincere, so I'd like to explain the situation to them. I’m a quiet, courteous, responsible patient. I’ve known nurses and other medical personnel who were beautifully empathetic, kind, and caring, even in stressful, demanding situations. But these good nurses need to know that they have a disproportionately high percentage of colleagues who undercut the reputation of their profession by taking [italic]obvious personal pleasure[/italic] in bullying patients, in enjoying the patients’ embarrassment or discomfort, in belittling their concerns or fears, in scolding them for not knowing what only a medical professional would know; and often it appears that they are simply exasperated that the patient is there to deal with in the first place. Then there is also their tendency for a misplaced self-confidence, and speaking with inadequate knowledge. A nurse was busily berating me once for not having rescheduled a follow-up exam “after your new prescription” . . . when I pointed out that I had no new prescription, and that the medication she was referring to was one I have taken for several decades. Many nurses seem to get a psychological high from supposing themselves to have authority, knowledge, and power which, in truth, they don’t have at all. Abused patients should stop being kind and accepting this behavior, and should not hesitate to register calm and accurate complaints with the proper authority. Patients deserve respect too.

This hasn't been stressed enough:

Comedians. Assholes, every last one.

Organizers and people who work for non-profits can be nuts.

Chefs are abusive

Weird, but experience with nurses, in hospitals, has always been positive.

There is a special place in hell reserved for wedding/party/event planners and interior designers.

Liberal arts professors/academics. Education administration.

[quote]A nurse was busily berating me once for not having rescheduled a follow-up exam “after your new prescription” . . . when I pointed out that I had no new prescription, and that the medication she was referring to was one I have taken for several decades. Many nurses seem to get a psychological high from supposing themselves to have authority, knowledge, and power which, in truth, they don’t have at all. Abused patients should stop being kind and accepting this behavior, and should not hesitate to register calm and accurate complaints with the proper authority. Patients deserve respect too.

Are you sure this person was an actual nurse or just a medical assistant? Many doctors today don't hire actual nurses to assistant them in an office setting. A medical assistant usually takes your blood pressure and weight, they can also do an EKG.

Most medical assistants are decent and professional, while others are total morons and on bizarre power-trips.

Once I was literally only 15 minutes late for two special eye tests which I could not get at my local medical office, where I see most of my doctors. Even though my eye doctor is local, I had to travel to another part of my borough because the special machines for these eye tests were not in the local office. My eye doctor works out of three offices of the HMO. The problem was, he wasn't doing the tests, a medical assistant was.

This obnoxious medical assistant slowly waddled out of an office, I thought I was being called in, she informed me, "You are very late!" She then had the audacity to ask me to reschedule. "You need to reschedule!" Very late? "Very late" would be about an hour or two. I wasn't actually even 15 minutes late, as I had to sign in at the front desk and two people were before me checking in.

Considering this medical group actually has patients sometimes wait over an hour or two to see a doctor, and this is with having an appointment, the nerve of being asked to reschedule, was incredibly unprofessional. I could see this woman was on some sort of power trip.

I informed her, I took three buses to this office, I live nowhere near the office and there was no way I was going to take more time off my job. I also informed this dunce, "Not once in all the years that I've belonged to this medical group have I ever been taken on time, why would today be any different?" I also told her, "The time you are wasting arguing, the first test could have been done and yes, I know how long each test will take because my eye doctor told me!"

This horrible medical assistant spent more time berating me than the actual first test took! That test took barely 10 minutes.

Because she had another patient, this moron went on about being unable to squeeze me in later on. I informed this dolt, I was the other patient she had at 3PM! She then figured she wasn't going to win the argument, she then left in huff for lunch. Another technician, who appeared out of nowhere, did the first test.

I thought I was in The Twilight Zone, if another technician was available, why was this crazy woman arguing with me?

So many people hate their jobs, they will take any opportunity to stress out others.

r279 , that's a good insight, and I ( r272 speaking) think you're largely right about the problem being less about nurses proper but rather more about medical assistants. The confusion is fostered, though, by doctors and medical staff themselves, who--at least to patients--refer to both as "nurses." Doctors, also, need to take on the responsibility of making sure their medical assistants act in a responsible and professional manner at all times.

I'd like to add that I'm sincerely grateful and appreciative, and will always be, to those many nurses--who, considering the circumstances of particular occasions, were clearly [italic]true[/italic] nurses--for their empathy, consideration, and for going more than the extra mile for me on many occasions in significant, impactful, ways. In the hurley-burley of illness or eventually getting out of the hospital, we patients may forget to thank you, or not know how to reach you at that point; but, believe me, we will never forget those wonderful kindnesses you've done.

Academia.

Republican candidates for office. Doubly so if they win.

R135: Fun fact psychiatrists are also M.D.'s. That being said we have an extreme shortage of M.D.'s too. I remember reading that by 2030 we'll need roughly 50,000 more M.D.'s in this country alone. Ain't gonna happen. It's why most of what you see now is Nurse Practitioners. And from what I can tell they can do what the techs can except they have prescribing power.

Nonprofit administration

Executioners.

I've always found executioners the strong, silent type.

Russian figure skating coaches

Certain Canadian Truckers

[quote] Psychiatry is an occupations with insufferable people

Oh yes, why do you say that?

Lawyers and accountants

Economists and nurses

Fox News photojournalists

Is Chief Impact Officer an occupation? What's the job description?

Doctors’ receptionists!

[quote]Personal trainers tend to be a weird bunch too; I'm not entirely sure why - attention to one's health & wellness is obviously a good thing, but these people tend to have weird control issues.

Another vote for personal trainers! I used to work with one - nice lady, but I'm a fatty, not very coordinated, but at least I'm eager and she acted as if she was put in charge of the special ed kid in class (which, I guess if there was such a thing as "physical special ed", I'd be in it." It was all polite enough, but I could tell she seems exasperated at my lack of abilities and I felt like "bitch, this is what I'm paying you for. If I was a gym bunny, I wouldn't need YOU!" I'd think if that was your business, you'd be more inclined to want to help the hapless rather than act annoyed by them.

I had to click on this thread because like most of DL, I too loathe HR people. I also loathe (but then, who doesnt?) social media influencers & their incessant humble bragging/constant need for validation.

[quote]Physical therapists

My experience as a patient with physical therapists were positive. However, I know a couple of physical therapists through extended family connections and they are insufferable. One person is the wife of my mom's first cousin. My cousin's wife retired from physical therapy last summer. She spent the last 25 years of her career working in a hospital. She constantly talked shit about the people on staff who weren't in medical/clinical positions. My cousin constantly bragged about her for years in irritating ways about how she educated she is blah blah. I get that people do have a degree of pride when it comes to the occupations of their spouses. But, the bragging was constant and obnoxious. My parents had theory that my cousin's constant bragging was probably brought on by the wife. My cousin worked in auto sales and his income fluctuated and his wife had no issue constantly bringing that up in conversations at family events. She probably lorded the fact that she had a steady income over him and he probably felt the need to brag about her just to appease her.

The other physical therapist from an extended family connection is a cousin on my dad's side of the family. He is in his late 30s and he didn't seem like an insufferable asshole when he started out about 10 years ago after he finished PT school. He is also married to a nurse practitioner and she's also an insufferable asshole. She works at a private practice and brags about how she's "second in command". In general, healthcare is a mixed bag of insufferable assholes who enjoy the power trips or lording things over non-medical people and then there are the decent humble people who do care about helping people.

Doctors for me, or I've been unlucky and encountered too many awful ones (and no, they were not all ones I actually used e.g. the uber-religious one who tried to insist to me that the existence of God was logical while I just kept saying 'it's faith'... I love that he tried to donate a kidney and they actually refused him).

Antique Dealers

Classical musical people: very uptight and snobbish about music. Refuse to regard music as something that can be fun and unpretentious.

Doctors

People who work at prestigious law firms, hedge funds and investment banks (or banks in general.)

Princes who live in Bel Air.

Customs people. They tend toward little hitlerism.

R299 I had a middle school band teacher who used to mention that teachers focused solely classical music be annoying as fuck.

R301 Yeah, I agree on people in investment banking.

Some school librarians can be quite insufferable.

Nursing...look at my Tik Tok videos!

There were nurses that did TiKTok videos about the case of that nurse in Nashville who was on trial for a patient's death.

Talk about being self-satisfied.

People who work in “Communications”.

308 here. Sorry, meant self-absorbed nurses.

“Influencers”

Why do people hate HRC ?

Definitely people that work in animal rescue type organizations. They are all fucking crazy.

Speakers of the House

Accountants are pricks. So are attorneys.

Senators

Duchesses of Sussex

Hollywood Scientologist actors.

Professional athletes. I've got two of them in my family. Sometimes they AR very insufferable.

R61, a perfect example of how they act like aliens is a montage of CEOs as talking heads stating their position on why Airbus stopped manufacturing the A380. They all spoke English, but the verbage is straight out of the Teflon school of nonspeak. It's the first two minutes of the vid, but it's worth watching. They act like fucking aliens.

A few years ago I had a first-time appointment for physical therapy in a fancy new office. I was about five minutes early - It took the woman at the front desk about ten minutes to sign me in. (She was having problems, and kept screwing up). Then the therapist came out and showed me into a room. He proceeded to berate me for being five minutes late, and said if I couldn't be here on time in the future, I wouldn't be able to continue therapy, because they were on a very tight schedule. I explained what happened, but it didn't seem to matter. He looked angry. So I said, listen, it wasn't even my fault, but if you're going to be this mad when someone is only five minutes late, I wouldn't want to come here, anyway - and I left.

Attorneys in real life always need to be right about everything., even when they now they’re not. They’re full time Sophists.

Hairdressers.

Especially the ones who serve prosecco and make the entire thing way too try-hard “glamorous”. And then after four months your hairdresser dramatically leaves for another salon, preferably one street away, and you just KNOW the bitch will leave said salon after 1-year tops.

R296, Tony Todt was a physical therapist. He slaughtered his family and lived with their corpses for a while. In Florida, bleccch.

Yes lawyers, definitely.

trans activists

Merchandising. I fucking hate those cheerleaders.

Oh and R152 here is my DMV story. This is years ago in Rhode Island. I had to register a car and I go up to the counter and the woman sees my name and asks are you related to so and so. I said yes in fact he's my uncle the whole tune changed. She tells me I had gotten a five day tag that I never returned. And then proceeded to tell me she wiped that off my record. Turns out she knew my uncle. So that was a positive DMV moment.

People who work in school administration as principals, vice principals, or superintendents tend to be insufferable.

I worked every day for six years with nurses. I can't remember any encounters with them where I thought they were insufferable. The front desk people on the floors could be absolutely fatal, but there were really only two of them. The nurses were lovely. Believe me, in a big hospital there are malignant personalities crawling out of the woodwork. I have no memories of any nurses being anything but easy to work with and communicative.

Meter Maids.

R283, why is there going to be an MD shortage?

[quote]There is a special place in hell reserved for wedding/party/event planners and interior designers.

Related to that group-some non-denominational/secular wedding officiants can insufferable. A couple who I'm friends with regretted hiring a wedding officiant to handle their secular wedding. She came off as condescending in one of her speeches during the ceremony.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Inquisitors

Chiropractors. You charge too much for a massage, except you can actually paralyze people for life.

Maître d’

[quote] Evangelical preacher - what do I win, Don Pardo?

I have a lesbian friend who grew up going to Evangelical or Pentecostal churches with her family. She described the pastors as arrogant or insufferable. Years after, she came out of the closet she was missing the church experience for some weird reason that she couldn't explain. Anyway, she visited several gay and lesbian friendly churches like Episcopalian, Presbyterian or Methodist. She said that she found most Episcopalian and Methodist ministers to be humble compared to the Evangelical types she knew she growing up.

Zookeeper

Johns...Not all of them but some can be very bossy and annoying. I know what I'm doing. Trust me, I work in a repeat business occupation and I know what I am doing. You are going to be someone I do NOT see again with your attitude. .

Saleskid at the lemonade stand in your neighborhood.

Nurses and doctors are overworked, stressed-out and have to deal with human suffering day after day. This explains why they can be prickly and difficult deal with in everyday life.

Diversity and inclusion managers/officers

“I’m special because I’m black.”

Nurses

Too lazy to go to medical school and think they’re better than doctors.

Engineers in the Silicon Valley. Indians think they were hired because of their qualifications but they’re really just cheap labor.

The executive board members of the gay community who passed the board resolution to add the T. And then the Q.

Football players. “I can beat up my wife and no one will care because I can run fast with a ball.”

Yeah, but they are brain-damaged R346. They should get more sympathy than lawyers.

Republican congressman. Thread over.

Public school administrators (particularly principals and superintendents). They go into teaching just to get on the occupational ladder to higher salaries.

Personal injury attorneys

Civil Service management.

Hairdressers. Dunning Kruger Effect

Sorry to say this, but a lot of gay people in front-of-house roles.

R353 good one.

Actresses who take on the role of Michelle Obama in a miniseries.

Female impersonators

Tugboat captains

r344 That is every straight white executive in the corporate world. They all think they got there on their qualifications.

Some librarians can be insufferable. One of the librarians at my high school was very condescending.

female jail guards

I also choose CEOs, because of the widespread damage they cause.

This is a very old thread you dredged up.

Doctors (also the cheapest, skinflint people on earth)

Nurses (they talk too much and are obnoxious know-it-alls)

Chefs (Male ones in blazing hot kitchens with large knives in their hands - bad mix and they are meanass motherfuckers that can make or break your tips and think nothing of making waitstaff suffer - just because they can)

Maitre d's (that 'd' stands for dick)

Politicians (Republican, Libertarian, Democrat, etc - does it really matter? They are all asswipes with their wallets closed tight but their money-grubbing hands outstretched at every opportunity)

Did I miss anyone?

Haven't read all the replies yet but it's doctors. Absolute cunts. Surgeons especially are apex cunts. I estimate more than 50% of them would be diagnosed narcissists if tested.

Surgeons are creepy. Someone dies on their operating table, and a few hours later they’ll be playing golf.

5364 A lot of surgeons are sociopaths and very money hungry.

Political journalists based in D.C. They're all shallow ( like worse than Hollywood shallow), nasty and stupid.

A lot of fiction writers are malicious narcissistic creeps. They will think nothing of mining people they know and then releasing unflattering characters based on them, indifferent to any hurt that might cause. They all think that their viewpoints and perceptions about life are all somehow gospel. The more critically praised they are the worse their character is.

Uvalde, TX police officers

Retail sales clerks making minimum wage at high end stores but acting snooty to customers (who unlike them) can actually afford to shop there.

Anyone selling for an MLM

- by the way him I’ve got a great way for you to increase your health and wellness! Do Terra essential oils!

Anyone who works in advertising is toxic. The non toxic people get out real fast.

TV advertising

Jesus H Christ. Imagine If everyone in a profession mentioned here went on a long-winded butt-hurt soliloquy like the nurse at r60?

Grow a sense of humour sweetie.

Chaturbate

Findom Master

R366 = Babe Paley

[quote]Anyone selling for an MLM

[quote]- by the way him I’ve got a great way for you to increase your health and wellness! Do Terra essential oils!

I agree.

A couple of years ago, there was a short lived sitcom called Robbie on Comedy Central. There was a character on that show who sold essential oils. The company name was never mentioned. You figured it was some kind of MLM. The character who sold the oils came off as insufferable and considered herself a "business owner". It was hilarious because the show wanted us to root for that character because she had been raising her son by herself and never told the main character Robbie that he was the father of her son for years. The MLM salesperson character wasn't likable and she was a total cunt to most of the other characters on the show.

Museum and concert hall docents,

Baristas in Portland, Or.

Accountants.

CEOs of corporations like Starbucks.

Psychiatrists

People that work for local or national government.

Radio talk show hosts on news radio stations

“Content Creator”

Washington Post employees

Almost every powerful executive in the arts or entertainment business. Working in high finance (investment banks, hedge funds) is essentially like working for the maffia.

R384 The worst ones are the mommy fraus on YouTube and Instagram.

In other words every occupation according to this board. What occupations don't have insufferable people?

It’s seems everyone is insufferable based on this thread.

[quote] I worked every day for six years with nurses. I can't remember any encounters with them where I thought they were insufferable. The front desk people on the floors could be absolutely fatal, but there were really only two of them. The nurses were lovely. Believe me, in a big hospital there are malignant personalities crawling out of the woodwork. I have no memories of any nurses being anything but easy to work with and communicative.

Take a look at the nursing subreddit thread. A lot of the posters are insufferable.

Entertainment journalists especially the ones who a bit SJW.

Preachers. Within three minutes of meeting one they will tell you their profession. This identity is all the have.

Surprised more people haven't said chiropractors. Always go by "Doctor First Name" (how cutesy), demeanor of used car salesmen, too fake friendly.

Diversity/inclusion directors. Their employment is dependent on telling everyone else that we're doing everything wrong while not contributing any actual work themselves.

R393 I think chiropractors was mentioned upthread.

Republican politician.

Megachurch pastor.

Thread over!

Agree about accountants.

Publicists, TMZ, music company brass

Lawyers, definitely lawyers. So many nut jobs (including judges). Can’t wait to retire and be done with that crazy profession in a few years.

I wouldn’t have agreed with you R229, until a couple days ago when I lied to a border guard. She asked if I’d ever been arrested and I said no, because when I moved to Oregon I asked the state police to run a background check on me because I intended to do some volunteer work that might have needed one, and I wanted to know if my one arrest would show up.

They said the arrest didn’t show up, so I told the border guard I had no arrests, and she went away and had me within 5 minutes. Which led to a zillion more questions and two guards pawing through my entire van, which didn’t have a single contraband thing in it.

They were pleasant and firm and I don't resent it. If I were Canada I’d deny entry to all American citizens. In fact, they are in the one profession anybody has mentioned in this thread where I’d say the ability to be both humorless and thorough is an asset.

Kari Lake's campaign workers

The art world is nowadays full of rich kids who refuse to acknowledge they owe everything to their parents’ money and family connections.

Accountants.

Attorneys.

R401 Art Basel Austin would be nothing without me*!

Corporate recruitment consultants. Nobody is worse. They are the worst people on the planet.

Anyone on Kanye West's current staff

I have probably already mentioned this but:

Front desk staff at doctor's office. Worst people you will ever deal with.

R406 In general I think healthcare has been overrun with insufferable people. Most people I know who work in various roles in healthcare have no sense of humility.

Flight attendants. So much arrogance and so little actual power.

The old ones are tired, the young ones are just dumb, and the gay ones are ludicrously cunty. Just shut the fuck up, all of youse, and hand out the pretzels and beer cans for $28k a year. If you were really anything important, you wouldn't be slinging Diet Cokes in a mini-apron between Cleveland and O'Hare.

Academics

r409 is a Trumper.

Definitely accountants and lawyers.

Woke professions, at least all the Republicans make no illusions that they’re fucking you.

House of Representatives clerk

Influencers and instagram "models".

Any unfortunate employee of Sam Smith or Lena Dunham.

There are quite a few YouTuber's who are overbearing as hell. I've got a few neighbors who are too.

The shittiest girls you knew in high school will always wind up being nurses. Always.

Part of the human condition is to find ways to dehumanize and/or look down on other groups of humans. That’s what the OP started without any evidence, as if there was any.

r417 In other words, part of the human condition is to exercise one's judgment. OK, got it.

Fox News producers who file lawsuits.

motherhood

[quote] Front desk staff at doctor's office. Worst people you will ever deal with.

For me it can be hit or miss. Some front desk clerks/receptionists are kind and professional and others are cunts. I have a friend who is a retired physician's assistant. She said clerks in teaching hospitals were some of the worst employees she ever encountered.

Anything to do with real estate.

Real estate agents. Con artists all.

Any employee who is related to the owner of the company.

Some real-life examples in various companies include: the wife who did the books and was a complete bitch to everyone, ignoring me even if I said hello to her in the morning. The son of the manager who came and went as he pleased and was completely fucking useless. Basic work feedback ("I think we should print doubled sided to save paper") would result in a long email outlining why my suggestions had no validity whatsoever. The receptionist sister of the manager that everyone had to suck up to just to get her to do something basic like book a courier. The girlfriend of the manager's son who looked over my shoulder constantly to make I wasn't wasting wasting any time doing something crazy like paying my rent, but helped herself to any complementary products that were supposed to be distributed amongst the actual staff members ( I learned to hide and steal very quickly). The wife of another manager who constantly told us she was a gentle and kind soul, but waited until people did things like buy houses or booked expensive holidays before getting them fired. I bought a new car and guess what?

Fuck, I could go on ... and I have!

Admit it, r424. You just have an issue with women.

Doctors receptionists can be little Hitlers!

R426 Nope, just women related to the manager.

People who make a career out of LGBTQ+ activism. Ultimately you end up parroting the line of the day whether you believe it or not o supporting the organization you work for whether it accomplishes anything or not. You lose your soul and become a grifter for the cause.

R428 do you mean famous people or just regular people?

Begrudgingly I must agree with R346. Idiot egotist shithouses (affectionate) who are given too much power socially.

That said, fans are as bad or worse. At least footballers/soccer players can be hot and have money, if they play at a high level.

Mount Everest guides.

R23, I read years ago before they posted officers at the DDMV about a guy that suddenly started yelling at an elderly employee, and all the other employees suddenly gather around the woman he was screaming at and started singing “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” repeatedly, over and over his yelling, then one pushed all his papers off the counter.

None of them got into trouble for it either.

Accountants…

Military officers. Uptight motherfuckers, the lot of them.

You good people DO realize that you have enumerated ALL occupations as having the most insufferable people, right? YOU might be the problem if you think that everyone is insufferable. On the other hand, such inclusiveness goes a long way towards showing that ALL commercial activity is based on human greed, and that it cultivates arrogance, deceit and all-out meanness. Not a good look for Mankind in general

Broadcast journalists

R346 football managers are worse.