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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Housewive/-husband.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Healthcare environmental team, they clean up everything and are literally front line for IPC

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Domestic work.

Raising children, feeding families, and cleaning up a household are staggeringly underappreciated labor tasks that are paid very little (or nothing at all when it's just family obligations).

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I remember it was something like people who clean hospitals, according to some study.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Anything in retail.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Farm labourers. There is a reason that such a large percentage of them are trafficked.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Merchant Marine.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Most public service workers who take their job seriously. In my country, those include military personnel, teachers, actually competent politicians

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

probably working in an amazon warehouse they are very shit to work for

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Being an undercover loss prevention officer.

I have never thanked one of those snitches.

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