If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.
Speaking as a surgical tech: hospital janitorial staff, and sterile processing staff. They are INVISIBLE until something goes wrong, then everyone likes to bitch and point fingers, but they bust their asses constantly to keep us from becoming a giant pathogen cocktail. Hospitals would be fucking disgusting in the scope of like, idk, 2 hours, without those peeps.
Been a little bit since I put one of them in for an award. I think it’s time to flex my keyboard again.
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’m sure that’s true in plenty of families, but sadly not ours. My stepkids’ dad is a entitled and materialistic, and he’s married someone just like him. They even try and “teach” the kids that you don’t have to thank wait staff at restaurants, because they’re paid to do the job.
It’s funny - my wife and I were each originally married to the same type of selfish arsehole, then found each other after our respective marriages broke up. Our exes, however, didn’t wait that long. Kinda says everything…
Call center representative
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Telephone support people have helped me hundreds of times in my life, I’ve have had phone calls with people who have been really kind and thoughtful and done a lot to help, going above and beyond the call of duty.
Telemarketers sure but legitimate remote support is critical.
Oh man, I worked at a call center for a little over four years doing internet technical support… Never again.
I am thankful for those that can push through it (especially on the more direct customer service side of things), as I certainly don’t have the cognitive fortitude for it.
One of my roles at my current job still involves a lot of support, but at least its not over the phones thankfully.
I did that once. Now I try to get them to laugh on the phone, ya know? Make their day a little better without disrupting their average handle time stats.
Garbage collector.
I only ever see mine from a distance and never get the chance to say thank you. My mum used to give them a tip at Xmas.
I thank mine all the time. You know how much job security I get from people constantly running into walls, or leaving the PTO on while driving?
They should just swap the names for pickup artists and garbage men.
IT
Yeah, the whole IT crowd.
IT Support
I’m a help desk tech and someone genuinely thanked me for showing them something today and I felt so good afterwards. People very rarely thank me in a genuine way. It’s always polite, but you can tell nobody actually means it. They just want their shit fixed.
It’s like they internally blame you that it broke in the first place.
Ikr? Like, Idk if they expect me to spend 8 hours a day being hackerman or what lol.
oh they do. There’s a little bit of that fear? fear because something they don’t understand has “turned” on them, and they have to reach out to someone else to fix it, but I’ve straight up had idiots tell me they “don’t accept” computers can malfunction.
To be fair, when they break, usually it’s because someone broke it… and that someone is almost always the user. Like, sure, sometimes a fan stops working or a hard drive clunks itself to the big spinning platter in the sky, but 99% of “my computer isn’t working” situations are caused by someone filling their drive with junk, accidentally unplugging something while they were tidying up, installing some software that they shouldn’t have, etc.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
If you did politics I think reddit should have had to compensate you for the years lost deleting all the hate and bs.
a significant portion of my job is to moderate and provide first line direction of all the social media pages for a huge company that commissions my company. We dont do any marketing or real engagement just moderation and essentially telling people to reach out to customer service per big company’s poorly provided directions. I don’t particularly care much for big company’s product but ive seen some really nasty people with attitudes towards my and my coworkers as if we physically made and handed them a defective product. We do sympathize and understand a certain level of anger but there are some people who are just outright cunts. It doesent help that big company does big company things and barely has customer support so more of the anger is directed towards us social media people
Teacher.
No, quite the opposite
Youve never been thanked for being a teacher?
Drive-through window clerk gets thanked a lot, too.
This is a perfect response. I could never write anything this succinct :(
Thank you, teachers! o7
As a teacher, I have to say I do get a lot of thank you’s. I get Christmas presents, gift cards, coffee, and hand written letters/cards. Sometimes my students reach out and/or visit me after they graduate. I feel quite valued and thanked. I live in Canada, if that makes a difference.
My wife who is a social worker spends her days slaving over people’s cases and is repeatedly harassed, and has been assaulted countless times. Now that is a thankless job.
Yeah, I’d say living in Canada makes a huge difference. However, I think people answers “teacher” because, all things considered, it’s a very hard and valuable job, frequently an underpaid one.
Where I live in America they do that too. Thanking them doesn’t mean they’re paying them.
At my schools, we get appreciation from 80-90 percent of our families and campus admin. Much less from the people above that.
Thank your wife for me. Social workers are the best people for so many reasons.
This is highly dependent on what age of students you teach. Elementary teachers get thanked by parents. High school teachers get thanked by graduating students. Middle school teachers…well, not so much.
When I taught middle school, I got thanked a lot, and not just at holidays.
Morticians?
Came here to say deathcare. Especially those without a degree or license.
Don’t the bereaved thank them for making the deceased look good?
Not sure how it is in the US, but I had to arrange a funeral in the UK this year and my only point of contact was the funeral director, I never even saw a mortician or anyone like that.
At least in the US, funeral directors are often also embalmers.
I’m sorry for your loss.
Ah, thanks.
Embalming isn’t a common thing in Europe as far as I know. We don’t put the dead on display like they seem to do in the US.
Process servers?
Maybe not by the defendant, but you don’t thank your process server afterwards?
A friend of mine would occasionally do this for a few bucks every so often and liked it. But, yeah, only the person paying him thanked him.
Meter maids are traditionally hated but if they didn’t exist there is a good chance there would be no parking spots.
Nursing Assistant, though some of us nurses thank them. Man the pay sucks though.
Housewive/-husband.
Customer Service Agent.
I did that for years and had more wonderfully nice and thankful calls than I did bad ones, but man it sure feels like they evened out anyway.
Felt this. Sucks that you remember more of the bad ones, but they can be SO bad.
Nurses, or hospital staff in general. Overworked, underpaid and generally unappreciated.
Any position in a corporation other than executive.
