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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.
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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, Content warning: Image 12 is extremely NSFL with the body of a human child, but there are also dead and dying animals in images 4 and 11 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.
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 donβt get thanked, they get PTSD.
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.
Being poor. You pay the bills of the rich.
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.
Tankless water heater installer.
Tank you!
No, that's a tankless job
He's talking about ultrasonic-cleaning those little gold things people hang around their collar
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 patientβs normal mental state, and how theyβd 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
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).
Public relations.
They are usually not responsible for the bad decisions but are responsible for taking the heat for them. They are also powerless to actually influence most decision making.
But people will just flame them for being "bad at their jobs" or something like that.
Jizz mopper
You guys getting paid?
Thank you for your service. o7
Meter maids are traditionally hated but if they didn't exist there is a good chance there would be no parking spots.
Social worker is pretty high on the list. Most are overworked, underpaid and treated poorly by their management, their clients, or both.
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.
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.
Electricians get thanked in money. Iβm a paramedic and an electrician. I volunteer as a paramedic because electrician pays double.
All customer and/or low level jobs
I'll go with social activism. A lot of people wouldn't even recognize it as a job.
Nurses, or hospital staff in general. Overworked, underpaid and generally unappreciated.
Nursing Assistant, though some of us nurses thank them. Man the pay sucks though.
Nobody said cleaners? Cleaners, and rubbish/trash/garbage collectors
Housewive/-husband.
IT
IT Support
Jobhunting
Anything in retail.
being the chairman of the FCC in the US between 2017 and 2021
fuck ajit pai
Merchant Marine.
Landlord
it's not a job
So I guess Iβm a landlord. We have a house that we rent. Bought it in 2007 using this cool thing called a sub prime mortgage. So we were sorta forced to hold on to the house and rent it.
Fast forward 15 years and Iβm now renting the house I live in from a landlord. Itβs made me realize that weβre good landlords. My dishwasher has been broken for two months collecting mold while its replacement has sat in my living room waiting to be installed.
Our own tenants have mostly been cool but I wish the guy we cut a break with (few months for free when he lost his job during covid) hadnβt grown weed in the garage and damaged some floors.
Other than that one guy, I donβt expect anybody to thank me.
Based on your upvote/downvote ratio, I think you win.
I guess they didnt specify that they deserve any
Bouncer