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There’s no shortage of ways to make a living—some grind you down, some barely cover the bills, and others pile up serious cash.
But a job is often about more than just the paycheck.
One Redditor wanted to know which professions people see as undeniably “evil.” The responses ranged from dead obvious to completely surprising. Scroll down to see them all and weigh in.
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#1
People whose job is to find ways to deny insurance coverage to save their company money at the expense of other people's health.
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#2
Televangelists. All of them. "God says my current pair of jets are too small".
#3
Mega church pastors.
J. Maxx 3 months ago
Hey, Luke Branwen...actually ALL organized religions are harmful, and their leaders are world-class manipulators. Organized religion is a tool used to keep folks uneducated, scared, and easily controlled so those in power can keep that power and consolidate wealth. And the worst offenders are the big three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But don't worry because now Hinduism and Buddhism have come along and joined those top three in the s****y department. ALL of them commit horrendous acts of sexual depravity on children to this day, and all of them continue to use violence. What's not to love?
#4
For profit health insurance.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
For profit health insurance is like for profit religion. Oh, wait ...
#5
Family bloggers. Even in the best circumstances it's still exposing your children to the internet for profit and denying them privacy. Yes, even the ones that don't show their children's faces directly, but air out all the kid does. Yes, the funny ones too.
StrangeOne 3 months ago
Name me one family blogger that doesn't exploit their children and hasn't been caught up in accusations, or actually charged with child neglect/abuse.
#6
Lots of good answers here, but the first thing I thought of is ICE.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
There were people saying that the ICE workers were facing a lot of bullying and that they were really affected by it. And you know what ? Good for them.
#8
Pharmaceutical Benefits Management companies.
Billionaire 3rd party paper pushers that provide no health services and no insurance but interfere with patients ability to access services and for insurances to cover what it ought to.
#9
The people employed by baby formula manufacturers to lobby the government to eliminate or shorten maternity leave requirements, forcing new moms back to work earlier so they have no choice but to feed their babies formula instead of breastfeeding.
#10
Anyone working for payday lenders.
Paul Donahue 3 months ago
The people you interact with are usually just trying to survive too.
#11
Influencers.
Anyone who tries to hide adverts in “organic” content is just disgusting.
#14
People who profit off of for profit incarceration including for profit behavioral hospitals.
#15
Telemarketing - It's deceptive, invasive, greedy and unnecessary. I can't think of a single good reason why it should continue to exist.
#17
Those engineers at TikTok and Google who maximize children's a*******n to their apps.
Mook The Mediocre 3 months ago
WTF Panda? Is "hildren's a*******n" = abolition -- abruption -- accession -- accretion -- actuation -- a*******n -- adoration -- adulation -- affection -- agitation -- auto loan?
#18
People that intentionally create disinformation.
StrangeOne 3 months ago (edited)
Doesn't matter if intentional or not for some people. Accusations fly around.
#19
Cigarette Company Sales Representative.
I live in Australia and we're heavily restricted on what we can say to customers and yet every time I see a sales rep for British Imperial they're urging me to break the law and recommend to customers what to buy.
#20
Whoever decided printer ink should cost more than a printer.
Don Adams 3 months ago (edited)
Whoever had the wonderful idea that inkjet printers should require subscriptions, so you can pay for using the thing, and deny the printer to the consumer that buys the branded replacement ink cartridges from a store, rather than the subscription. Tank printers rule!
#22
Tobacco lobbyist. They lied back in the day saying there was no proof it was bad, they used their power to block regulation, and they keep lying to this day. They’ve k**led an immense number of people all for a paycheck.
StrangeOne 3 months ago
Frustratingly, there are people to this day who still think there's nothing wrong with cigarettes.
#23
Those people that stream themselves gambling online and making it look like tons of fun and an easy way to make money.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago (edited)
And people who work for online gambolling apps and websites. Always trying to get around restrictions as well as advertising constantly.
#24
A lot of the advertising industry. So many lies.
keyboardtek 3 months ago
My childhood friend was a pathological liar. He ran the ad campaign for a politician. Then worked in advertising all his life. His perfect job.
#25
This one I honestly feel is a bit of a necessary evil but, people who employ undocumented people to do manual labor for basically slave wage/hours.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
The guy that suggested that farmers employ immigrant people and instead of paying them just give them a place to live, is a monster. And he is pro-slavery.
#26
Hostile Architecture. I couldn’t imagine being on a first date or meeting new people and telling them what I did for a living was making s**t terrible so poor people and homeless folks can’t sit comfortably.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
And it's SO bad that it's not only bad for homeless people, but also for everyone else. You're pregnant/elderly/handicapped/tired and want to sit on a bench ? Have fun with those sh!tty tilted bench that will make you and everything you carry fall !
#27
Casino owners. Not the people that work for the house, the people that own it.
Source: casino employee.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
Name the only president who managed to bankrupt three places where people go to hand over their wallets voluntarily.
#28
HR.
They pretend to be there for the employees benefit but in reality they're there only for the employer, in every possible regard.
They run anonymous questionnaires that are in no way anonymous.
They'll attempt to be friendly with you merely to get to know any way the business can potentially screw you.
They deliver misinformation and play stupid mind games.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
The recent Astronomer/Coldplay cheating scandal proved that HR is in bed with management. HR is there to exploit "human resources" and dispose of waste products as cheaply as possible.
#29
Lobbyist for an oil company.
#30
Pyramid scheme recruiters. I finished my associates degree and updated my linkedin. Got so many calls, emails, texts, and messages from these guys... I can be a paranoid and skeptical guy, so I was hesitant to join right away. Some basic online research and reviews made me realize these dudes were f*****g a******s.
#31
Surprised to have gone so far down and not seen arms dealer. Literally a merchant of death.
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
🎶 Let me ask you one question - Is your money that good? - Will it buy you forgiveness - Do you think that it could? - I think you will find - When your death takes its toll - All the money you made - Will never buy back your soul 🎶
#33
People who seek out other peoples’ homes that are being foreclosed on, coax the people out for pennies on the dollar, then tearing down the one house to put up six tiny, cheap, “units” in its place.
Becky Samuel 3 months ago
We have the opposite problem in the UK. Hate on those cheap units all you like, but developers here get away with blue murder. They have to build a certain proportion of 'affordable housing' in each development, but the definition of 'affordable' is 'sold at 80% of current market average'. Which means that in an area where the average is £400,000 these 'affordable' units are still well out of reach of most buyers.
#34
Patent trolling. Buying patents, usually from small inventors or failing tech companies, and then not producing anything with them but just sueing.
Usually combined with sueing startups for one dollar less than a lawyer’s retainer so you can then say there’s “legal precedent” for the claimed violation.
#35
From personal experience, prison. Spent 14 years doing that s**t, when I finally quit I had more for the prisoners than my coworkers. Prison breeds evil and I DON’T mean in the inmates.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
Not always the case, but it does attract a lot of people who are just in it for the power. The good ones get so burned out by the inhumanity they see they don't last long, so no real change happens. In my experience, there are more humane people in juvenile justice, though there are still a lot of bad seeds too.
#36
Politician.
MontanaMariner 3 months ago
Politics = People Of Low Integrity, Temporarily In Charge (of) S**t
#37
Tow truckers that patrol neighborhoods to enforce b******t HOA rules.
#40
Idk if it’s “evil” but I ran the mailroom aka “junkmail department” at my last job and I always felt pretty s****y about doing that as a job lol. It really is quite pointless and the databases we would use for addresses always felt kind of scummy. But any time the machine messed up piece of mail I would just throw it away instead of reprinting it, so that made me feel slightly better.
Becky Samuel 3 months ago
Without the income from 'junk mail' the US mail and UK Royal Mail would both fold within weeks.
#41
People that boot your car. Can't park in this parking lot reserved for residents/customers but if you do, we're going to make sure you can not leave this parking lot until you pay us $180.
Heffalump 3 months ago
Unfortunately this practice arose in response to the fact that the world is full of entitled asshats who feel they should be able to get away with parking on private property in a space that someone else is paying for. Unless you can suggest a better deterrent than imposing inconvenience and cost on these cretins, we're stuck with boots.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
They forgot hedge fund manager, real estate developer (or investor), business executive, and “Christian” therapist. Oh, and finance bro.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
Christian therapists are not bad. There are Christian people out there, whose lives are so controlled, they'll only talk to a "Christian" therapist. That may be the first time in their lives where they hear that biblically they don't have to stay with an a*****e spouse. Or deny that they're gay. A good Christian counselor is worth their weight in gold if they actually know the Bible and can use it to help people escape the rigid boundaries of Christianity.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 3 months ago
Sites who censor "dirty" words so they can make more money from advertisers. Fuck them.
WindySwede 3 months ago
If this is your last entry we will know why you were blocked.. 😑 /jk
Load More Replies... Don Adams 3 months ago
When I got out of the Army in 2987, I went to the job service. Despite training in engineering, truck driving, administration, and other things, the job they found for me was to work at the local hospital. I would be going room to room, patient to patient, to collect $1.05 daily television rent. No way I could deny someone laying in a hospital bed the small joy of watching TV. Seems so heartless.....
J. Maxx 3 months ago
Do you know I did the same job back in the 80s, TV rental at St Francis Hospital. They had turned off the TV for the HIV/AIDS patients, and I went around and turned them all on. I ended up getting fired for showing folks compassion at a catholic hospital. NO SURPRISE!
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
They forgot hedge fund manager, real estate developer (or investor), business executive, and “Christian” therapist. Oh, and finance bro.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
Christian therapists are not bad. There are Christian people out there, whose lives are so controlled, they'll only talk to a "Christian" therapist. That may be the first time in their lives where they hear that biblically they don't have to stay with an a*****e spouse. Or deny that they're gay. A good Christian counselor is worth their weight in gold if they actually know the Bible and can use it to help people escape the rigid boundaries of Christianity.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 3 months ago
Sites who censor "dirty" words so they can make more money from advertisers. Fuck them.
WindySwede 3 months ago
If this is your last entry we will know why you were blocked.. 😑 /jk
Load More Replies... Don Adams 3 months ago
When I got out of the Army in 2987, I went to the job service. Despite training in engineering, truck driving, administration, and other things, the job they found for me was to work at the local hospital. I would be going room to room, patient to patient, to collect $1.05 daily television rent. No way I could deny someone laying in a hospital bed the small joy of watching TV. Seems so heartless.....
J. Maxx 3 months ago
Do you know I did the same job back in the 80s, TV rental at St Francis Hospital. They had turned off the TV for the HIV/AIDS patients, and I went around and turned them all on. I ended up getting fired for showing folks compassion at a catholic hospital. NO SURPRISE!
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