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Each era has its own folklore and its own myths. In the old days, these were mighty heroes and terrible monsters, then noble knights and beautiful princesses, cowboys shooting without a single miss, and bulletproof superheroes. The contemporary world also has its own myths, and moreover, we face them literally every day.

Ask any software engineer you know how many times in their lives they have been asked to fix a desktop - simply because they are "programmers". Or how many times an accountant - even if they have never dealt with a tax report in their entire professional career - receives requests from acquaintances to sort out their taxes?

Myths, myths and more myths surround literally every profession, and we create these myths ourselves. Just from watching a couple of James Bond films, we are sure that spies spend their lives doing nothing but driving around in luxury cars wearing insanely expensive suits. Just from watching a couple of children's films, we will strongly believe that the workers at the animal shelter have the most wonderful job in the world, as they pet doggos and kitties all day long.

The list is literally endless, and a popular thread starter in the AskReddit community recently helped us by asking people the question: "What's your profession's myth that you regularly need to explain 'It doesn't work like that' to people?" In just a few days, the thread has racked up 2.5K upvotes and over 3.8K comments, bringing together an incredible collection of today's mythology.

To make it easier for you to figure out all this abundance, Bored Panda has made a list of the most popular comments of the original thread. So now feel free to read stories on debunking modern myths, scroll to the very end, and if you have your own professional experience that can also dispel some myth literally in the wind, please be sure to tell us about it in the comments.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Your terminally ill grandmother isn't "becoming addicted" to her pain medication. She's dying in as much comfort and with as much dignity as we can provide.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. MIL was on morphine pretty much on demand at the end of her life. Having an addiction was the least of our worries.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Pet euthanasia. There is a wildly popular post that goes around about how pets dropped off for euthanasia “look around for their owners” and know they’ve been “abandoned”. It’s nonsense, and I will defend clients dropping off until I myself die.

I’ve seen what happens when owners can’t say goodbye so they don’t. The animal suffers for days to weeks until their bodies finally give out. I have literally seen a dog rotting from the inside out, SOMEHOW still alive, but the owner couldn’t commit to euthanasia so she didn’t and that dog suffered tremendously for it.

Everyone has boundaries to what they can handle. Requiring an otherwise loving, doting, and responsible owner to be present when it was all they could do to make the appointment doesn’t help pets the way you think it does.

Furthermore, in the nine years I’ve worked in this industry, I have *never* experienced what is described in that post. Ever. And my colleagues overwhelmingly agree. We love on them and hug them, and tell them they’re a good boy until they pass. **By the logic in that post, you should also never drop off for sedated or anesthetic procedures either because the process begins the same way (with sedation). How is that pet to know that death is imminent? They don’t.**

You’re projecting your emotions onto people who are already suffering, and you’re not helping pets by shaming owners, and my local, professional cohort overwhelmingly agrees.

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Deborah Harris
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time I take one of my dogs to the vets they hate it, the Vet always asks me or my partner to stay whilst they do whatever it is they are doing in order to calm the dog down and help her/him relax. There is no way on Gods sweet Earth would I leave my dogs alone whilst being euthanised, no matter how much it would kill me inside I will be there at the end giving them my love and comfort ..

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Weight loss surgery is NOT the easy way out. There is nothing easy about getting your stomach resized to hold a cup or less of food, it f***s up your metabolism, eating the wrong things can cause serious pain, and guess what you're on for the rest of your life? A restrictive diet. Because your stomach's tiny but you still need all the nutrients.

Weight loss medications are not the easy way out either. They don't work unless the patient does, and even then, sometimes it takes months to find the right combo of meds. And there's still nutrition and exercise requirements.

Basically, being obese is really hard, and getting to a point where one is no longer obese is also really hard, so when you see someone obese, assume that they're doing their best and could use some kindness.

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Helen Waight
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, there is no ‘easy way out’ of being obese and for some of us it’s not possible at all (disabled, messed up metabolism due to ED and medications…). So don’t look at us and think ‘lazy’

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Carrying extra weight on your body is physically demanding and it takes more exertion for every movement. Chances are that the joints and spine will degenerate painfully. Having lived with a hard working mother who had morbid obesity, I can testify that her life was a daily struggle and triumph over her body ;you can't be obese and independent while also being "lazy". In many cases, obesity should be regarded as a mental health issue. Like many addictions, people don't actively choose to compromise their health but anxiety, stress and being overwhelmed by modern living can be mentally taxing. I've never met a person who doesn't have some way to sedate their own emotions whether it be food, drink, sex, drugs, adrenaline junkies. Just be glad if your distractions in life don't compromise your health.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I found out earlier this year that my BMR is 920. That means if I eat over an average of 920 calories a day I put weight on. I first mentioned I thought I had a metabolism problem to my GP (in UK) in 2001. Eventually I went private for testing as I was not being taken seriously. I frequently drop down to 800 a day for months at a time to keep my weight in check. Supplements are a necessity!

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Olivia Lisbon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a good example of why the standard advice of so many calories a day is bollocks - science treats every body like it’s the same body, which just isn’t the case. It’s not just a case of “burn more calories than you ingest and you’ll lose weight”.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the Roux en/Y bypass done 12 years ago. No, it is not easy. BUT I went from 320 lbs down to 163 and have kept it off. Vitamins every day, learning how and what to eat all over again, But the benefits outweigh the bad parts. No, I wasn't lazy either.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother had gastric bypass 21 years ago. She lost about 180 pounds and yes has kept it off. She’s constantly sick, sometimes throwing up all day for days at a time. She has a really hard time not over eating. She has a very hard time eating proteins, which she desperately needs. She has a number of other conditions and side effects. Nothing about her health is easy. I care for her and it is definitely a lot of work, and she shouldn’t need nearly as much support at her age.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've have a couple of conditions with my stomach where I can't eat at all sometimes and Insure(spelling?) make me sick but Bolthouse puts out high protein/vitamin drinks and finding them saved me from having to get a feeding tube in my stomach. The vanilla chia ones also really helped with my constant nausea during stomach episodes.🙂

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Katie Howerton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was ran over by a drunk driver in 1994 and she still can't walk much and she ended up with many health issues since and she always have people telling her to lose weight. It's one thing if they are a medical professional but totally different if it's a family member, friend, or stranger telling her to lose weight when they don't know what's going on with her.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This... So many obese people have a medical issue that causes obesity. Then, there's those that have been abused, and beating it the only comfort for their pain. I weighed 220 at one time... The looks, the snide remarks. I was severely abused when I was a child. I had painful depression, and I was mild manic depressive. I was raising two kids alone. The snide remarks doesn't make us loose weight, it just shame's us into eating more. Please, think before you open your mouth! We get snapped at for opening our mouths to eat, the people that fat shame us, open their mouths to spew out pain. I'm still overweight, 155 pounds, and I'm 5'6.

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Jennifer Steiner
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My youngest child has thyroid issues and at one point a crappy doctor who preferred medical gaslighting to treating them. The results were they gained an extraordinary amount of weight and hate to go to the doctor. They are so embarrassed to go exercise for fear of being fat shamed or looked at with disgust. Not all 'fat' people got that way due to bad habits.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amen!! I had a total gastrectomy (stomach removal) because of ulcers and a vascular hernia that choked off blood supply and caused my stomach and parts of the small intestine to become necrotic. They made me a 'pouch' for food. I eat just like a patient whose had weight loss surgery. It HURTS if I take one bite too many - and knowing when that bite will happen is a c**p shoot. I get so nauseous- but at random things. It could be fine to eat one day and make me sick the next. Most antibiotics don't work because many are absorbed through the stomach. I don't have one anymore. And my sister had weight loss surgery and actually became underweight and malnourished because she could not keep ANY food down. Noit's

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lap band surgery works for 50% or less of people and can be horrifically painful (I had severe pain and didn't loose weight) and pouch type surgery can lead to severe complications including ruptured pouch and infection

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Megan Lauhon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh lord my mother threw up after eating anytime for a YEAR after her surgery. It's not an option I would ever take let alone call 'easy'.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the mental health side of battling obesity must be very taxing too. These people deserve support and encouragement instead of societal judgement. The lazy ones are those who refuse to see beyond their prejudice!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw what my Aunt went through, how she was treated by some members of our family, crazy restrictive diets and ultimately surgery. As I kid I used to get so mad at people who didn't treat her right. She was the most loving person in my life and an amazing person to everyone around her. You never know what someone is going through so please just be kind and don't judge.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you can stretch your stomach back again after and put all the weight back on again. Know 2 people who did that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From what I've seen on TV (yes, I know) people who are very obese have a very real addiction..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teraphy is often a better solution than surgery. Morbid obesity is often the result of an eating disorder/addiction. Source: former (recovering on and of for like twenty years) anorexic person. A problematic relation to food have many different forms and it's really to get rid of

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had it done 22 years ago. Best decision ever. I have some issues but then obese people have issues as well.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was tiny until a tumor on my throid caused my weight to nearly double in a year. the resulting pressure on my joints keeps me from exercise. being big isn't a choice & surgery may be the only way, for many.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried to long term fast, and I'm one of the unfortunate people who can't. My potassium greatly starts to decrease after week one, and I cannot lose weight any other way, even with exercise and eating right. Screw you people who think we do nothing. It's years upon generations of evolution that make it near impossible for us to lose the goddamn weight.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another thing to keep in mind is that obesity is not always caused by food. It can be caused by health issues and medication as well. Stop being so judgmental!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom is getting this surgery on Tuesday. I told her as long as it makes her happy and healthier in the long run, I will support her

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I found out my Hypothalamus is not working properly it took me 4 doctor, 2 nutritionist, and 2 personal trainers later to find that. I tried everything except surgery to loose weight. Thank God my spouse saw exactly what I was eating and doing and could account that hey something is wrong. Once the right doctor did the right test I felt so happy. It's still a struggle now to find the correct combination of medicine, exercise program that fits my body and what foods to eat for my body. The other jerks the doctors nutritionist and Trainer all just thought I was a liar and not sticking with their program even though my spouse told them otherwise. They were all convinced how could their program, diagnosis, fail it just had to be...how about learning everyone IS NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL!!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am currently under the care of a special weight management service, because I have a couple of chronic illnesses and and I can't exercise and I can't lose weight. I'm fat because I'm sick, I'm not sick because I'm fat. Apart from my chronic illnesses I also have food intolerances, and taste, smell and texture aversions which really affect my life every moment of the day

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is sooo true!! I had weight loss surgery in 2001 and lost 150 pounds and I have kept it off through 2 pregnancies and the birth of 3 babies!! My toddlers ate more then I did back in the day and even now almost 22 years later I still can't eat more then 1/2 of a happy meal at best!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For years I struggled with thyroid and diabetic issues. No matter what I did it was almost impossible to loose the wt. Then a new endocrinologist pointed out that of course I was having difficulty, I was on a boatload of insulin and insulin causes wt. gain. I nearly lost my mind right then. NO one in the 20 years I had been dealing with this had EVER told me about insulin and wt gain! I switched some meds around and am now FINALLY loosing wt!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just about died from complications from weight loss surgery. Six weeks in hospital instead of three days. Not my definition of easy way out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going on 8 years since my surgery - 125lbs gone - and it isn't easy. But I was never looking for it to be easy. My surgery was a tool to help me - just like my running shoes are a tool when I walk. I had to relearn how to eat, when and what to eat to stay healthy and keep the weight off. I'm lucky in that I don't dump with any food or have any major vitamin deficiency problems but is was something that I weighed the benefit vs the risks and I'm so glad I did.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had gastric bypass 16 yrs ago. I still have the same post op issues I did that first year. And forget endoscopy. Im glad I had the procedure but it gave me issues even the pros can’t warn you about…permanently.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My doctor put me on Ozempic for my blood sugar levels because I was eating a good diet and they were still going too high. The other day I threw up because I had one gulp of water too much because of how much it slows down the rate of stomach emptying and intestinal motility. I wasn't eating that much before and now if I have too much water I pay for it. I gained weight due to an autoimmune arthritis that affects all my joints, and it's coming off now, but if this wasn't making my sugars better at the same time (back to pre-diabetic levels), I wouldn't take it solely for weight loss.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have been saying this for years. Got the surgery last year, has been extremely hard but it saved my life.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was at a healthy weight and I biked a lot for fun, but after very intense weight bullying I started to give up, what was the point of denying myself sweets when I was still fat? I wasn't, I was 170 cm and weighed 65 kilos, but in my head I was big enough that I thought my raincoat would fit a tall burly man and still be too big. So i gave up and ate whatever I wanted, I stopped biking since I was embarrassed about being fat. When I was fourteen I weighed 75 kilos and a doctor told me I got my ear infection because I was fat. I developed an eating disorder, a form of bulimia, and I kept gaining weight and I kept getting bullied. I know better now, but my mind and body is so messed up when it comes to food now that it is extremely difficult to do anything about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a relative that did this surgery, even though they really didn't need it. There was a serious complication. When they stapled the abdomen shut they accidentally stapled the stomach wall; puncturing it. This led to a septic infection. They had to go back in and fix the damage. They had to leave the abdomen open with a covering afterward. Two months in the hospital; and many more recovering afterward.

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Angela Mccar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who would have thought to eat less and less junk food to help keep weight off. I work 10 hours a day I'm on my feet moving heavy boxes at work. I still have my home to take care of and errands to run...I'm far from lazy and I already follow the eat a little and don't eat junk food so please wise one tell me why I can't loose weight

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surely, though, this *is* the easy way out because the other ways out either haven't worked or haven't been tried?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents and aunties and uncles were all alcoholics. father and uncle sexual abusers. others physical and mental abuse. I choose to eat rather than drug / alcohol to ease my pain. This is not easy. Finally with a good therapist. Meds for ptsd and depression make it *very* hard to lose weight. Eating is Still better than cutting myself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being obese has NOTHING to do with any medication... you're fat because you eat too much. Eat less move more, lose weight ... it's not a difficult process, just needs determination and discipline which most obese people don't have.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You want to explain that to the professionals who prescribed my meds ? Because being too fat is better than being too depressed and cutting. The professionals - who have studied this stuff in university. And who discussed my options and risks with me.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community No Ma'am, we aren't going to 'shock' (defibrillate) your family member because their heart isn't actually beating.

Defibrillators do not restart a heart, they reset a malfunctioning cardiac rhythm. If the heart isn't at least doing something then our options are CPR and meds until we get some kind of rhythm.

Sincerely,
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, the hearty-starty machine is actually a hearty-stoppy machine. A heart needs to have a shockable rhythm, that is it needs to be fibrillating (like quivering) in order to be de-fibrillated. To de-fibrillate means to stop its rhythm which usually, and certainly hopefully, prompts the heart to restart itself in a sinus rhythm.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Antibiotics don't work on viral diseases.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What? You mean you need to let a virus run its course and treat the symptoms or take an anti-viral!?

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Child welfare investigator here

My job isn’t “hard” for the reasons most people think: constantly being exposed to and interviewing abused children

It’s hard because 90% of the time, it’s just disgruntled exes calling on each other over nothing..and dealing with grown adults’ drama is exhausting af.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep!! My friend's ex husband called CPS on her and put her life into a tailspin. She did absolutely nothing wrong. The incident in question? Their daughter was angry her phone was taken away as punishment so she told her dad her mom threw the phone at her face. My daughter was there when it happened and said that it was an absolute lie. She felt really bad for not backing up her friend, but I told her the truth was more important. It cost my friend thousands of dollars to fight him in court.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Just because I’m a psychologist doesn’t mean I’m immune to psychological disorders or distress.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community I'm a retired used bookstore owner. People were always saying "Oh, I would love to own a bookstore. You can read all day.". Um, no. It's actually a lot of hard, physical work, (boxes of books are heavy), lots of bending and reaching. And then you get to clean the store and do the paperwork. Owning any retail store is not an easy job!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry, but anyone who thought owning a book store would mean „reading all day“ is an idiot

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Retail. If an employee tells you they're sold out of that hot sale item. They're sold out. They're not hoarding them in the backroom, because f**k you. They know they're sold out, because you're the 10th person to ask about it, in the last 20 minutes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But could you please check in the back? Where you have all the extra ones.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Former pastry chef, and still work in a hotel. No I do not make amazing food at home. I barely survive on a diet of cereal, sandwiches and chocolate bars. Pot noodles if I’m feeling fancy.

Also most people in the industry are either junkies or alcoholics to cope with the brutal schedule. My extended family still can’t fathom me working the amount out of hours a week I work.

Also we do not enjoy weddings, they are fun to attend, but nothing but a headache to run.

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Amy Taylor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The restaurant industry sounds a lot like the film industry, lol. People are in utter disbelief when I tell them that I work 18 hour days a lot, and that a 10 hour day is a "short" day in my industry.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community When I was building decks I remember a lot of people asked for shorter railings because it'd look nicer. I totally agree, but if 42" is the minimum in this state we're gonna do 42"

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Although I'm a skilled teacher the students need to do the learning. I can't do it for them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a language teacher, teaching English to kids and teenagers. As a native speaker it's astounding how much English grammar that I wasn't actually taught in school and I now have to learn myself as it was considered common knowledge in my native UK.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community No doctor does all aspects of medicine and surgery.. it’s specialized and sub specialized. Obviously in more rural areas people do more, but for the most part, complex things get sent to very specialized folks and a doctor like House would never exist (and anyone who acted like him would be fired in about a week)

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Being a car machenic that specializes in a couple of cars. We dont know everything about how to fix the car out of our heads. we use youtube a lot to figure out stuf we dont know.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community "I have this great idea for a book. You write it, and we'll split the profits."


Nope.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community That vet techs get to play with puppies and kittens all day. It’s a physically and mentally exhausting job.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Wearing glasses doesn't make your eyes worse. There are so many misconceptions and so much false reasoning that goes into that one belief that I don't even know where to start. But I'll try anyway I guess.

1) "I noticed my eyes got blurry only after wearing glasses!" That is because your eyes have adjusted to seeing things with more clarity. So of course you're now going to notice when you're missing that clarity whether it be because you took off your glasses or your prescription has changed.
2) "Wearing glasses cause eye strain!" No it doesn't. Your usual eye strain is from working long hours or staring at screens. But you're only noticing it now because the adjustment period when getting glasses for the first time or when getting a new prescription does increase eye strain until you adjust.
3) "I used to never need glasses but now I need new ones every two years! My eyes are getting worse because of glasses!" Refer back to 1. But also you didn't need glasses previously because your eyesight wasn't s**tty enough for you to notice yet or be really othered by it yet. That doesn't mean you didn't actually need them. Your eyesight was probably changing every year even while you didn't notice. Now that you are used to seeing with clarity, you'll notice when things aren't clear and crisp anymore.

I have dealt with many adults who insist they don't need glasses, either distance or reading or both, because they just don't want to concede that their vision isn't great anymore. These are adults with nearsightedness, astigmatism, and sometimes who even need reading correction. And they can't see s**t. Like why are you so stubborn.

kirabera , Lisa Fotios Report

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community I work in childcare and no, I don’t just get to play all day and have fun. I have to deal with behavioral issues, developmental delays, diapers, injuries, curriculum, art projects, huge messes during mealtime, working with one other person to put 12+ toddlers down for nap, etc. Of course it’s fun at times but dealing with all of that is so stressful.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community The "defense attorney" aspect of law

It's not your job to lie, deceive, and cheat to get your client acquitted. You give them the best legal defense so that they receive the due process that everyone has a right to.

*"The job of the defense is to make sure the prosecution does theirs."*

If your client is guilty, then the prosecution should be able to prove it fair and square. If they can't then the quality of evidence does not meet the minimum standard and your client should go free. Full stop.

Does that mean the occasional guilty person gets away with it? Yeah. But far worse is a system where innocent people are more likely to go to jail because a s**tty prosecutor's weak arguments were accepted.

A good defense attorney would recognize a losing case and just try to get the best deal for their client, and getting the weaker charges dropped (in case the prosecutor just decides to "throw the book" at them)

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Computer animation doesn’t mean the computer does the animation…I do.

CheeseburgerBrown , Vancouver Film School Report

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community There are no skeleton keys. There is no "one key that fits all locks". There are master keys that have been painstakingly installed into a buildings locks, some of which might fit all the locks depending on that particular keys chosen mastering levels, but no. There is no skeleton key. I, a locksmith, use special tools to open locks. I have a big bag of them. Tools like picks, jiggle keys, bump keys 2in1 Lishi keys, and many more. Yes, I got into your house fast. That's because I know how your lock works and know how to defeat it. No I did not turn up with a working key (disclaimer: sometimes I do as I have codes recorded for places I've worked on and I can get codes from car dealers so I can make a key before I turn up.)

PapaOoMaoMao , plenty.r. Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The phrase "skeleton key" comes from the time when locks were all very basic and had "wards" that would physically stop the wrong key from turning. A "skeleton key" was therefore the "bare bones" necessary to slide the lock pin, while missing all variations of wards *for that particular size lock" so even then it was never meant to fit *all* locks.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Something being 'off the record'.

If you're speaking to a journalist, you can't just say 'off the record' and then spill your guts. You need to have agreed with the journalist beforehand that you will not be quoted.

Yossarian__ , CoWomen Report

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community University prof. I do not get summers off.

Teaching in front of classes is only about 30% of my job. The rest is one-on-one supervision of graduate students. Doing research, writing grant applications, writing research papers. Summer is the time of year when I finally have the time to do all that other stuff.

bigbrowbeater , eren {sea+prairie} Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worked in wildland fire and got "what do you guys do in winter, theres no fires. Must be nice sitting around all day". In the fire season I had a seasonal staff of 70+ and in the off season there were three of us. Lots of wrapping up the last season and getting ready for the next (reports, equipment restocking, invoice processing, hiring, giving/taking training, contract prep, etc). Although some would take a week or two off in summer, especially if they had kids and were able to, we also took our annual leave during the winter. I rarely had a "summer".

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Tax professional.

Most clients think that the best tax Pros necessarily get them bigger refunds. If you get a smaller refund in a particular year it may be because tax laws change, because you didn't pay in as much, or because you didn't have as many deductions. Explaining stuff to people doesn't work if their eyes are all glazed over because tax law discussions bore them

Going to another tax Pro to get a bigger refund, thinking that that tax Pro is "better" may just get you an audit

But the worst myth about taxes manifest itself when scammers call people on the phone climbing to be IRS agents. They tell folks that they owe money and that authorities are coming to their house to put them in jail if they don't pay up. The truth is that the real IRS does not call anyone on the phone unless they have contacted IRS first and are expecting them to return the call. IRS does not accuse you of text fraud. Even if they truly believe you have committed tax fraud they will simply send you a letter stating that they think you have underpaid your taxes. They will give you a chance to prove your case. If you don't do this or pay them what they say you owe, they will simply Levy your paycheck or your personal property. They do not show up at your house to put you in jail. So please if a scammer calls you do not give them your credit card information or give them payments in any form. Call the real IRS and report them.

Bebe_Bleau , Keith Cooper Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can someone explain to me why I need to file my own taxes as opposed to just receiving a check or bill/statement straight from the IRS? Legitimate question.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community That converting to salt water pools does not ‘get rid of the chlorine’. Salt is sodium chloride, salt gets converted to chlorine in a salt water pool, and you use the exact same test kits to monitor the chlorine levels in the pool water.

Malka8 , Aaron Toth Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But at a MUCH lower rate, and yes the water is salted, small electrode blades convert a small amount of salt into chlorine.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Just because your old technical device (laptop, tablet, phone) is in good condition, doesn't actually mean that it's any "good" today.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community I work in a hardware store and apparently people think we have a huge underground storage big enough to hide every product in existence. No, i can't just go and fetch a part for your 20 year old fireplace or power tool from the backroom.

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I work in a bakery.


Baking stuff for 5000 people every day will take all night to do so when we run out of something during the day. We can't just slap something together in five minutes.


Come back tomorrow and we can get it for you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or call 24 hours (or more) in advance and make a special order for the thing you want

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community If something isn't stocked on the shelf and I tell you it isn't in the back then it isn't in the back and I can't magically make it appear out of thin air... that being said if you are a d**k I also might just tell you it ain't in the back

m_g2468 , David Stewart Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shoe stores are the exception - very few can have all sizes and all styles out front. Asking them to check / get your size from the back is valid.

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30 Of The Most Entertaining 'It Doesn't Work Like That' Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community Factory worker here.. Once a machine is set up, it can run all day, perfectly, without adjustment. Nope. Steel can vary in hardness, even within a continuous coil of wire. Humidity, ambient temperature, tooling wear can also spoil parts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Machinist here. Everyone thinks I just push the green button and magic happens. Sorry, I have to do hours of programming, cutter specific geometry, and lits of a*****e puckering to make your part.

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