Is there an entire occupation of people you wish were extinct?

[undeterred]

I nominate HUMAN RESOURCES- people with NO SKILLS who get to interview people with skills and decide their fate.

[MissMillie]

1. ok... forgive me but

telemarketers....

[Skittles]

2. oooh they are pretty bad

absolutely

[Parche]

3. TV So Called 'Terror Experts"

:grr: :grr:


:hi:

[soleft]

4. cheerleaders

Girls, get out on the field and play the game. It's so much better.

[Skittles]

32. I agree

girls should be playing their own sports, not demeaning themselves acting as titillation for men playing sports and people PLEASE spare me the crap about how "athletic" cheerleaders are :puke:

[Javaman]

79. Give me full contact cheerleaders anytime!!

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

85. As a cheer coach, I was going to say something. but I won't bother. I'm too busy

getting my team ready to compete this weekend to get involved in this argument again. (FYI, I do agree that pro cheerleaders are over the top and overly sexualized.)

[Maine-ah]

58. even if it's just so we don't have to go through this again......

:hide:

[bluethruandthru]

5. Meter maids...

or whatever they're called.

[undeterred]

7. peter maids

:shrug:

[CreekDog]

6. health insurance claim administrators

:yoiks:

[undeterred]

8. now thar's a PLAN

I'll vote for.

[stuntcat]

36. isn't it their job to

to see how much they can get away with NOT helping pay? x(

[Kutjara]

9. Human resources people suck.

At best, they're hatchetmen and women, doing the dirty work for the corporate bigwigs so the CEO doesn't have to get his hands dirty with the "little people". At worst, they're interfering incompetents with no clue about anything other than pushing mountains of paper around. I've never engaged in any personnel activity that wasn't made immeasurably less pleasant by the inclusion of someone from HR.

My real loathing, however, is reserved for "recruitment consultants." They're as clueless as HR, but slimy too.

[triguy46]

12. Clueless. I followed the advice of our Asst Director of HR...

and 2 years later I'm in Federal Court as the company representative in a discrimination lawsuit. Thanks for the advice.

[Kutjara]

14. I hear you. The HR Director at my last company...

...handled the 2002 downsizing so unprofessionally and ignored so many employment laws, he opened the firm to an enormous class-action lawsuit. Which they lost. The payout drove them out of business. Bravo!

[triguy46]

24. This woman thought she was a lawyer....

Her famous and nearly last words with our firm, were "I almost went to law school..."

so when we were preparing for depositions our hired gun who handles nothing but defending companies in these cases said to her, "do not bring anything into the room with you. If you look at a note, or a paper it must be introduced into evidence." So I'm in the room observing her deposition, since I was the company's 30(b) representative (which means I was the rep for the company), and 3 minutes into her deposition, in response to a question, she opens a notebook and pulls out an email. Of course the entire notebook gets introduced. She was an idiot.

[Serial Mom]

81. I heard HR is an oxymoron - it is neither human or a resource

:scared:

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. I worked at one firm that had a fantastic human resources department.

But of the 10-12 places I've worked, that is the ONLY place that has had a fantastic human resources department.

In fact, it's the only one that didn't have an HR department filled with C-grade second- and third-tier asses who were there only because they weren't smart enough for the mail room, but had too much ego to assistant manage a Walgreens.

[undeterred]

52. ...

:applause: well said

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. Thanks!

[fudge stripe cookays]

66. HR includes a lot of roles.

If you had ever been a federal employee about 1991, you would not have gotten a correct paycheck without a time/leave clerk like me. That included annual and sick leave, overtime, and those types of time paid and unpaid.

If you had been injured on the job, you would not have had anyone to deal with all the nastiness of OSHA claims and helping you through the system. Much more of this stuff is automated by phone now (yes, by all means, let's de-humanize it and lose MORE people's jobs), but any changes to your insurance dependents, life insurance beneficiaries, and other related matters are all taken care of by human resources folks. I find them quite helpful.

That's quite a broad brush you're waving, sorry.

[Kutjara]

71. In other words, all the functions that used to be called "personnel."

I agree that there are many administrative functions that are necessary to the happy running of any organization. Where I think it all went wrong was when perfectly respectable personnel functions were relabeled with the overblown "Human Resources" moniker. Delusions of grandeur quickly ensued, to the extent that, today, HR clowns interpose themselves in every aspect of company life, whether they have anything to contribute or not.

Payroll, admin, employee records, etc.: great! Human resources: crap.

[fudge stripe cookays]

73. Got it.

Agreed. :-)

[TrogL]

10. Managers

If you can't do my work, get out of my way so I can do it.

[BleedingHeartRN]

11. People who work at the DMV

you know, the Selma and Patty types that make you wait in line for 4 hours only to deny you whatever it is you came there for in the first place.:banghead:

[undeterred]

22. Break time!

They all go on break at the same time when there are 40 people sitting around and three or four screaming toddlers.

[stuntcat]

35. that is exactly what's happened to me before

I have cried, in public, twice, at the DMV :cry: I can't even drive, I just needed an ID.

[SeattleGirl]

13. People who work at collection agencies.

:grr:

[KamaAina]

15. Repuke political office holders

although I guess that's not an entire occupation...

[Mojambo]

16. Advertising executives. n/t

[democracyindanger]

19. Seattle Sonics fans.

Bet I get my wish before you get yours.

:evilgrin:

[Mojambo]

21. Ouch!

There's not many of us left anyway.

[democracyindanger]

25. Actually

as a Blazers fan I'm all for keeping the I-5 rivalry alive--not to mention Bennett's a scumbag.

[PeaceNikki]

17. Nope.

Everyone is needed in the circle of life.

Each person is a unique snowflake.

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. We're all SPESHul!

We're good enough, we're smart enough, and, doggone it, people like us!

[Dr. Strange]

18. Telephone sanitizers.

Do we really need them?

[TrogL]

20. I think my phone is making me sick

mostly 'cause my manager calls me on it.

[YankeyMCC]

23. Fortune tellers and other "paranormal professionals" nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Yes! The astrologers, fortune tellers, and "prophecy mongers" on the chopping block first.

And by prophecy mongers, I mean the charlatans and criminals who push Nostrodamus as some kind of seeing-into-the-future predictor of everything, and the criminals who take the prophetic literature of the Bible from it's intended purpose of being prophetic in the sense of "speak out", and turn it into "prophetic" as meaning "predicting the future".

I will personally volunteer to chop the astrologers. Every fucking one of those unethical shitbag criminals.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. And then after that, telemarketers, pyramid business people (Amway, Mary Kay, etc.), and pop stars

[Flaxbee]

45. no, no, no. Save your venom for the

televangelists, please. Those other guys are harmless; televangelists are destroying this country.

[Yavin4]

26. Everyone Who Works In The Military Industrial Complex

They are sucking us dry and limiting our economy.

[Quantess]

27. self delete

My comment was too "heavy" for the Lounge.

[GCP]

28. Telemarketers and people soliciting by phone

:grr:

[baldguy]

29. People who insist that you attend useless meetings.

I spent FOUR HOURS in meetings today, and still had EIGHT HOURS of work to finish!

[TZ]

39. Or how about the one person in the useless meeting

That yammers on and on and on even though there is a tight schedule and everyone ELSE has plenty of work to do.:banghead:

[baldguy]

41. Unfortunately, thats usually the boss.

[TZ]

43. Luckily today it was not...

And it was soooo funny to see the big boss cut the yammerer off in mid sentence..much to his self important dismay....:rofl:

That was without a doubt the politest STFU I have ever seen..

[Initech]

31. Advertisers

I hate looking at ads and they're everywhere now. We dont need to watch commercials at the gas station!

[Haole Girl]

33. Paparazzi

I mean... enough is enough of Britney. God.

[Redstone]

34. But only because they changed the job description from "personnel" to "HR."

That's what fucked it up...just like Rock & Roll started its Death Spiral when bands started "naming" their concert tours.

Redstone

[spacelady]

70. Death Spiral is a great name for a concert tour. n/t

[Jade Fox]

42. Right wing talk show hosts.......

The only job were you can let your stupid id out to run amok and 1)pass this off as ideas and opinions and 2) have many people take it seriously because you're on the radio.

[Spider Jerusalem]

44. Marketing and advertising

[ThomCat]

46. CEOs. CFOs. CIOs.

and all the other C students who make the corporate world so evil. x(

[TZ]

48. ....

MBA's and Sales people in my world...they are really idiots in some ways. No clue about science. And since thats what companies in my field do....

[ThomCat]

51. If hell was real there would be a special place reserved

for scummy, ignorant, dishonest salespeople. x(

And people with MBAs who think they know anything about anything.

And accountants who think they know how to run anything other than the Finance Department.

:nuke:

[ashling]

47. Republican officeholders

[Muttocracy]

49. TOTALLY! HR aka personnel aka payroll

That was my response to your title! I never guessed that would be the first suggestion.

At the college where I currently work, I've been screened out by HR screeners with no scientific creds to judge my resume.

A few years ago as a cost-savings measure the HR folks were removed from departments and clustered into shared groups. As you might guess, they now occupy their own spaces talking HR-speak nonsense to one another, and wouldn't you know it, there are just as many now as there used to be, but they're more powerful.

[undeterred]

54. I really can't believe these people get paid to ask

Where do you see yourself in five years? In ten? And where do they see themselves? Asking the same inane questions in the room next door?

[Muttocracy]

57. that's great

at least I've never been INTERVIEWED by them.

[cloudbase]

50. Restroom attendants.

I really need somebody to hand me a towel.

[Throd]

53. Anyone associated with a towing yard

They are the vilest form of scum.

[begin_within]

55. Ticket scalpers

When I was in high school and college, if a band came around that you wanted to see, you just went and bought a ticket. No problem. Now, the line at the ticket window is full of people talking on cell phones to their coworkers in other lines in other cities, and the concert sells out before the line even moves. It's insane.

[Ptah]

59. soldier

[ThomCat]

62. Best answer.

:(

[Ptah]

68. I'm a little disappointed

that no one had thought of it before.


:shrug:

[mitchum]

60. Consultants

[ThomCat]

63. As a consultant

I hope you don't mind if I object. :P

[mitchum]

64. Okay...not ALL consultants

just every one I have dealt with (and Mitt Romney)

[fudge stripe cookays]

69. I'll partially agree and partially disagree.

I'll say consultant FIRMS. Like the one that just fired me.

Let's take jobs that have been outsourced, and manage to fill them anyway! But let's not give people any benefits, and if we do, let's not make them very good, and then we can expect them to deal with asshole customers too! Let's make sure they have no say so if the customer is a complete asshole and treats them like crap!

Do I sound bitter??

[Schema Thing]

61. Radio morning show host

[Madrone]

65. REALTORS.

I live in a town of about 1000 people. 800 of them are realtors. Vapid, self-important, arrogant.

HELLO you fuckers!! You're not that fucking special!! There's like 800 of you in 3 square miles! You're like fucking cockroaches!! One gets squashed, 12 more move in to take your place!!! GET OVER YOURSELVES.

*ahem*

Yes, I wish realtors were extinct. ;)

[fudge stripe cookays]

67. Middle management at GE

For personal reasons. I now have a special vendetta against them, and it isn't media related. It's asshole middle manager related.

[NV Whino]

72. The entire insurance industry

Method in my madness: get rid of the insurance idiots and the lawyers go too. Heh, heh, heh.

[raccoon]

74. I second that emotion. Tim Fields, a Brit who has done a lot to bring workplace bullying to

public attention, said the main purpose of HR is to keep the employer out of court. I think he's right.

[blindpig]

75. real estate developers

they are scum, to the camps with them...

start with Del Webb

[flvegan]

76. "The Bobs" a/k/a Efficiency Consultants

Not the ones that are brought in solely for process and workflow. The ones that are brought in to see how they can cut X number of jobs or offshore X number of functions (and subsequent jobs).

[harmonicon]

77. capitalist

[sazemisery]

78. IRS AGENTS. Who needs em?

Certainly not little 'ole self-employed me.:P

[Bake]

80. Wow. I had to get 3/4 way through the thread before anybody mentioned lawyers!

That's an improvement!

Bake

[undeterred]

86. They were mentioned, but in a positive way.

Thank you, John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

[SKKY]

82. Insurance adjusters...

...without a doubt, the most vile people in the world.

[EnviroBat]

83. Collectors.

nuf said.

[Arger68]

84. Whale hunters. n/t

[izzybeans]

87. HR = Office gossipers aka Big Brother

I would also nominate Insurance actuaries. They exterminate the poor with their fancy risk models.

[redwitch]

88. war profiteers

War wouldn't be nearly so popular if it didn't make some people rich.