No saying politicians please

  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    10·
    19 hours ago

    Insurance workers/administrators. They are there to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. Luigi did nothing wrong. The night that human shit-stain got shot, Luigi was at my house drinking beers and playing cards.

  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 day ago

    Generically sales people. People that call themselves hustlers. Whatever grind mindset that the people who talk that up the most always ends up being people ladder stepping salespeople

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 day ago

      This. Their job is litterally to get people to spend money on something they otherwise wouldn’t spend money on. And they have a no holds barred attitude about separating people from their money.

  • golden_trashcan@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    1 day ago

    Real-estate agents, followed by recruiters. Those people usually make good money while being absolutely shit at their jobs.

    Try to find a real-estate agent who is capable of taking a single picture without their thumb partially covering the camera lens…

    • Smeagol666@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      I had an Army recruiter call me when I was in H.S. After his initial "sales pitch’ I told him I didn’t believe in the military. That asshole was positively apoplectic. He went on the predictable “if-it-wasn’t-for-the-military-we’d-all-be-speaking-Russian” screed, to which I just hung up on him.

  • itkovian@lemmy.world
    92·
    2 days ago

    Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that’s not what they are paid big bucks for.

    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
      27·
      2 days ago

      Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        21 minutes ago

        Wait, really? Do you have a link.

        The conventional wisdom is that they barely ever work, but they’re also cheap enough per view it still makes economic sense for the one influenced purchase per person per year or whatever.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
      14·
      2 days ago

      Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in buying. There’s no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.

    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 days ago

      I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent… I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes… Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.

      • cujo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen… Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I’ve run into can be silenced.

        It’s unforgivable they’ve jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you’re already paying for…

        • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
          6·
          2 days ago

          keep an awl in the car… poke the speaker .

          or, get some 3.5mm male ends and stick it into the headphone port for the bild folks. does it screw the blind/visually impaired from getting gas? sure…but it’s an unfortunate side effect to saving all our ears. I wouldn’t mind if I was blind, I’d just ask the attendant for assistance in pumping.

          • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
            13·
            2 days ago

            Is there a statistically significant population of blind people pumping gas? If you struggle to pump gas unassisted, I’m honestly not sure how you would safely operate a vehicle.

            • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
              1·
              1 day ago

              I dunno, machines have visual impairment functions like the audio jack which is why I said what I did

              getting gas doesn’t necessarily mean they are driving. could be for lawn mower, or they are paying/pumping but someone else is driving.

        • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I have yet to run into any gas pumps with video ads personally, but this seems like a great way to drive EV adoption

            • grue@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 days ago

              Luckily(?) charging times are long enough that you’d probably walk away from the charger and wait somewhere else.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I miss ads from the 60s-80s that were just a info-dump on the product with very little hype. You actually got to learn about what they were trying to sell you instead of a bunch of bullshit and a logo at the end.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        6·
        2 days ago

        Some ads I saw last year didn’t even talk about the product, I had no clue what they were selling, other than a quirky relationship video

  • SparroHawc@piefed.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    Corporate lobbyists. They’ve played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.

  • lolo@sh.itjust.works
    652·
    2 days ago

    Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s proven to do is cause paralysis.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      I do want to say that not all chiropractors claim to be able to cure everything with adjustments. Some are more like physical therapists. In fact my actual physical therapist did what a chiropractor does a few times. And I did feel better. But I have met plenty of the snake oil salesman type as well. Saying they can cure cancer with all sorts of things. Grifter gunna grift, no matter what name you slap on them.

    • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      351·
      2 days ago

      In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)

      I miss James Randi…

    • IronBird@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      wonder how less popular all that shit would be if the US just jad proper affordable/accessible healthcare like the most pf the rest of the modern world

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Fun fact, in Europe a lot of countries will pay for your homeopathy. It actually might be a bigger thing there.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    I’m gonna suggest two:

    • anyone at all who works at ICE
    • anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity