Asklemmy

Realtors are fucking useless, they provide none of the information you actually need but you have to go through them to figure out what the deal is with a space.

Seems useful to me. If I'm selling my house I don't want to spend a bunch of my own time setting up all the showings and being there for each one. And if I have to trust someone else to do it, they should be licensed and trackable in case something goes wrong.

It does seem like a job that attracts lazy people though, and it also seems like there are way too many agents in general.

The "management" should be seen as positions to help the employees to do their work properly, not to rule over them (but helping would necesarily need to include some level of reviewing the work and if really necesary organize disciplinary measures).

From my personal experience I defintly conclude that a company where the management serves the employees get better results than companies where managment are little wannabee generals.

(I am also currently middle management and hope I do this right.)

The town west of Kelowna?

You may not understand this, but humans are selfish and immoral and need rules. without all those jobs you mentioned, the rules are meaningless.

Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We're talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.

I'm morbidly curious at how that happens/works

One of the reasons Boeing sucks is this. First reason is McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money, hallowed out the soul that built the world’s greatest aircraft, then sold what was left off to the big investment funds. Then the investment funds were like “look at all this money Boeing is spending on safety and suppliers” so they cut out the safety and bought out the suppliers. The horror stories of quality control at some of the suppliers is just as bad if not worse than some of the horror stories of quality control at Boeing. What if I told you Boeing fought to have ECS (environmental control systems) software that was written by third world “programmers” that didn’t speak English to remain on their aircraft illegally, claiming it didn’t pose a threat to safety, you know those systems that determine if there is enough oxygen to breath at altitude and whether the temperature inside the plane is survivable…

I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what's least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson's an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you're not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.

It's not a good look.

Landlord isn't an occupation, any more than 'white collar criminal'

Well, lobbyists work not only for evil corpos, but also for NGOs and movements... Lobbyism is the process to sway politics to a direction through interpersonal meetings, and is necessarily in a democracy.

However, one thing that would benefit the US is transparency around lobbyists; who they are, how they are funded, their agenda etc. The EU has a database on registered lobbyists and the transparency helps with parts of the problem.

This. They were the first thing I thought of when thinking of useless.

I have ad-blockers to filter out crap. Now I need influence-blockers.

infuencers are just rebranded shills

This. "Marketing" is just a euphemism for "propaganda" -- it is inherently manipulative and therefore evil.

And vulture hedge funds.

Read up on the shit people like Eric Hermann has done buying up debt from distressed countries, then siphoning off their aid money to cover those debts. Zero humanity.

Company stooges seems a more appropriate department title than human resources, also who the fuck wants to be called a resource I'm a human being not a number.