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What professions give you a knee-jerk reaction to think 'scum bag' or scammer?
For me, I always had this kind of knee-jerk reaction to taxi drivers, used car salesmen, and, mostly in Bulgaria, real estate agents. In more recent times, I would add anything crypto-related to the list, too.
Car salesmen are probably the worst still I think. My uncle was importing and selling Japanese cars many moons ago, and the car salesmen he had on the lot were basically just criminals, constantly lying, stealing, and being shady af.
536 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 17h
Dentists
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Bingo!!!! I had so many issues with dentist! When they say ohhh I think we should drill on your tooth before it becomes a problem. Has lead to me seeing the drill more times than I needed.
I call it drilling for gold!
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211 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 14h
Exactly. It took me a long time to see past that veneer of respectable competence
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68 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 14h
Yeah which has always gotten me to side with them. I would rationalize getting my mouth drilled on because I would say to myself they are the experts.
My dentist now wants to redo a crown because it might become a problem in the future. I told him I’ll think about it soon as I feel pain. Going on 3 years since he recommended this service and the tooth is doing just fine.
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79 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 14h
It's a good plan 😅
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Nice play on words
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89 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 13h
😀
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I'm always very suspicious about dentists. So when my dentist said I grinded my teeth and recommended a mouthguard four years ago, I ignored it. Then, a few months ago one of my teeth died because I ground it too much and had to get it extracted. sigh
I still don't trust them though
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Mishawaka 13h
My dentist complains about his wife's gambling problem
When he found a cavity, it definitely got me wondering...
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i've been lucky with my dental experience, but I can totally see how their financial incentive is to do as much work as can be billed for
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143 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 15h
Doctors.
Constantly pushing unnecessary and potentially harmful procedures and pills.
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Doctors probably have the highest societal respect to deservedness ratio, in the US at least. I think they've made med school so hard and expensive that it only attracts a certain personality type, and that's a type that isn't necessarily suited to caring for the wellbeing of others.
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i think docs will, in their minds, be justified though. Even during the opioid epidemic, im sure a lot of them convinced themselves that it was harmless pain management. the power of denial is real
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @joyepzion 3h
I’d throw multi-level marketing into the mix. Friends who joined lost thousands trying to build their business and ended up selling protein shakes to each other
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good call , MMLs are the scumiest, especially when people brainwash themselves and become 24/7 shills
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Insurance agents and property agents in my context. They may be disingenuous with the truth because their clients pad their wallets with fat commissions
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yeah, then go through hell trying to get a payout
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Singapore and Bulgaria are as different as night and day - but it seems that insurance agents attract the worst personalities everywhere haha
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @crrdlx 13h
Insurance sales. Whoever came up with the idea of selling something as intangible as insurance, and with as many loopholes, should be in the scammer hall of fame.
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Insurance contracts are designed to be confusing to the average person. They make it sound good but if you work through the math they aren't necessarily a good deal at all.
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107 sats \ 1 reply \ @euthymic 16h
Anything HR related
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It's true, HR are just snitches
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 10h
How has nobody said chiropractors?
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good point! most people still think they're totally legit
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51 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 18h
Pretty much anything to do with crypto.
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what, this guy doesn't look trustworthy to you?
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looks like the Jeff Dahlmer of Crypto
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80 sats \ 2 replies \ @wilto 17h
Has to be politicians
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It's so obvious an answer I completely dismissed it, but yes. This one should be the auto-default number one spot.
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hot take: I tend to blame the politicians less than I do some other professions, like journalists.
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57 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 13h
Most tech, both consumer-facing and b2b. It's all fake-it-till-make it now. In fact, we have an entire AGI industry which is that.
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Influcer business hustler types are like this, and a lot of would-be tech bros.
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I don’t think I agree with this. It certainly happens, but I don’t think most tech is all smoke and mirrors
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Salespeople in general feel this way. I know they’re not all bad, but the bad ones ruin it for the rest
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Bankers
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 1h
Bulgarian here, I was born and grew up in Germany, I noticed that "lying, stealing, and being shady af." is a Bulgarian thing and deeply rooted in this Nation. IMHO, Bulgaria should become the first EU protectorate., I mean why does it even exist? The politicians are almost all criminals, there is no justice system, no accountability, no due process in whatever you can think of, most of the people have low to no IQ. I mean give me one good reason against making it a EU protectorate...I am waiting.
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I'm not a Bulgarian, but I've lived here for ten years. To protectorate or not would be a different topic, and I certainly wouldn't be the person to debate on it. As for the people, I've met some absolutely wonderful people here, and I have also met some dummies and scammers.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Oxy 2h
Call center reps for things like auto renewing subscriptions. By the time you realize you’re paying, it's late already.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 4h
Insurance sales agents especially those who guilt trip you into policies you don’t need. Feels like being strong armed into buying a product that only benefits them
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 4h
Crypto influencers? Absolutely. When your financial guru is making 50 grand a month from referral links, you know something’s off
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Anyone selling anything. Which is almost all "entrepreneurs"
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central bankers
Used cars sales man are the worst. I’ve bought one car off a car lot in my life and it will be my last. There is always something wrong with cars and they push useless insurance on people. Next time I buy a car it will be new or a used one from an individual not a car lot.
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Anyone selling "crypto" or custody/middleman solutions. Run.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @LowK3y19 16h
The ones that tell you they have a job for you and to reach them on a whats app number
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These are just straight criminal scammers tho
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Tailors definitely Tailors
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zion 17h
Wall street traders
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 17h
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