If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.
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Waste pickers in the clothing canyons of Ghana, or any other landfill/wasteland
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Volunteer caregivers for people with disabilities, especially in places where there are limited or no social safety nets
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Street vendors like the children hawking goods in Yemen or Samoa or Zimbabwe…
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Cleaners, such as the Sewer divers in places like India where there is no protective equipment provided
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Food services workers.
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“Domestic” services workers like childcare, housekeeping, etc. I include victims of forced marriages here.
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All other exploited, outsourced, trafficked, and/or forced labour, such as the cobalt miners in Congo, or the clothing sweatshop workers in Bangladesh, or the Phillipines call centre workers, or the hazelnut pickers in Turkey, or construction labourers in Qatar, or the chaingangs in the US.
thanks for this very exhaustive list. this is the first time ive heard of sewer divers - with no PPE - sounds terrible.
Sudharak Olwe has spent a lot of time documenting the lives of “conservancy workers” in Mumbai. His entire body of work is worth a look, but here is one collection. The photo I see most frequently is the one of a worker neck-deep in a drain
Terrible is certainly a good word to describe it.
Klick on those links with caution, especially the collection is most definitely NSFL.
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IT in so many ways in so many industries.
- “Everything’s working, so what are we paying you for?”
- “Everything’s broken, so what are we paying you for?”
At least it pays… usually
Honestly, not that well. I got out of IT because I could make double as a developer.
What do you mean? Software developer? That’s still IT. If you mean as admin then yeah it’s super thankless and pays not enough
Tankless water heater installer.
You’re throwing downvotes! 😱
It’s thankless not tankless/s
Its tankies not tankless/s
Tank you!
No, that’s a tankless job
He’s talking about ultrasonic-cleaning those little gold things people hang around their collar
My wife is a school based therapist. The parents routinely cancel without notice. The kids have behavioral problems and trauma that makes interacting difficult and stressful. Not to mention that she has to read through the kid’s trauma history that requires them seeing her in the first place. Not a lot of thank yous for that kind of work.
There are several jobs that are frequently mentioned in discussions like this that are actually thanked all of them time.
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs and police are always mentioned. They are hard jobs and mostly under paid. However they are constantly thanked, businesses give discounts and commercials and politicians thank them endlessly.
Grocery store workers, butchers, plumbers, electricians, custodians, truck drivers and most “menial jobs” are completely thankless. Think of the last time you saw a 10% off for nurses and if you’ve ever seen 10% off for overnight stockers.
Electricians get thanked in money. I’m a paramedic and an electrician. I volunteer as a paramedic because electrician pays double.
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs
I,too, wanted to become fire when I grew up. Turns out it’s not a real job. Instead I became disappointed.
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Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). These people do the grunt work at nursing homes. They change bed pans and wipe butts, they fetch things, help people stand and sit, and generally get talked down to by the lower level nurses. When I did ambulance transfer, they were the ones that actually knew the patient’s normal mental state, and how they’d been changing over time. All for minimum wage.
My wife was a CNA until a few months ago. The pay rate has gone up to $12-15ish per hour at least but still terrible benefits on top of getting verbally beaten down by the nurses while getting physically beat up by the residents. Could make the same money with less risk of bodily harm working fast food
Walmart greeters. They always say ‘thank you’ to you, but have you ever thought to thank them? I dont think so.
The ones in the town I live in check receipts of anyone who looks not like a white middle class family. It’s such blatant discrimination it’s not even funny
Thanks for… thanking me?
Get a real job
Step parent. While not entirely thankless (depending on the kids involved) it’s tremendously underappreciated.
So much expectation that you do things for kids that aren’t yours.
Don’t get me wrong - it can still be rewarding in many ways, and my stepkids and I love each other like blood. We have a fantastic relationship.
But it gets under my skin every time I think about how little their own father has done for them, and I’ve had to pick up the (financial) burden, yet that prick will be the one who gets to walk my stepdaughter down the aisle.
That depends in her because it would be HER wedding.
If she is grateful enough, you’ll get to walk her because you would have been her real dad all her life.
There is no written law that the bio that most be the only one who can walk her, its all just stupid wedding traditions.
If she grows to be a brat, and makes her bio dad walk her, then she doesn’t see you as her real dad, and would be something for you to reflect on.
I hear you, but it’s not quite as straightforward as that. It’s hard to explain (as family dynamics always are).
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Parenting is absolutely a job. It’s a full-time job on top of whatever other job you have.
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I know that feel. I technically have a job right now but I am very underemployed, and it has left an entire generation in shambles.
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Social media moderator
God I cant even imagine the shit they see. I saw a podcast episode of one and it just made me sad, think the podcast was other people’s lives
It’s a long read, but very much worth it. It goes into detail about the types of material these people have to spend all day watching and reviewing, and talks in length about some of the unhealthy coping mechanisms these teams develop for themselves. Lots of drug use, sex in the office, and suicidal ideation.
While the article focuses mainly on Facebook moderators, I used to share an office with YouTube’s content moderation team around the time this article came out, and a lot of the article rings true for YouTube, as well. I imagine it’s similar across all the big platforms.
They don’t get thanked, they get PTSD.
There was that whole fiasco with the CSAM issue very recently on Lemmy. All of those poor moderators had to deal with all of that.
I hadn’t heard about this, is there any posts about it?
If you’re a public moderator (eg. on reddit) you get thanked if you’re doing a good job.
But not nearly as much as you get verbally abused or defamed.
There are (or were) definitely some subs that were harder to moderate than others I’d imagine.
Gaming subs: Easy
Ask subs: Intermediate
Location-based subs: Hard
Political subs: Ironman
It’s certainly thankless but is it a job if you don’t get paid?
Yes, definitely - being the caregiver for a child is often unpaid but still very much a job. Many volunteer positions are important jobs which are unpaid.
Being poor. You pay the bills of the rich.
Thankyou for your service
Poor persons credit card interest pays for the points rich people can easily gain and spend.
I’d imagine the margins on many cheaper products are better than the luxury version. Disney+ comes to mind where they want people to take the cheaper ad version because it earns disney more money.
Hell, the whole point of a credit score is so that poor people pay higher interest rates, allowing for interest rates for the rich to become more competitive.
I remember it was something like people who clean hospitals, according to some study.
Farm labourers. There is a reason that such a large percentage of them are trafficked.
Domestic work.
Raising children, feeding families, and cleaning up a household are staggeringly underappreciated labor tasks that are paid very little (or nothing at all when it’s just family obligations).
