People Discuss The Most Useless Jobs In Existence

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Nov 14, 2022 6:00 PM EST

It is normal to ask yourself occasionally, "does my job contribute anything substantive to society?" When I worked as a security guard at my college's library, I would have to watch unattended items on the security camera to make sure they weren't stolen. After almost a year of working at these libraries and countless hours watching footage of unattended laptops sitting on a table, I never saw an item get stolen. Never! Not once! My watching it had no positive impact whatsoever. That really made me question whether my job was futile or not, and the answer was leaning towards yes. 

No matter how useless our jobs might feel, there's no way they're the most useless jobs in the world. After all, being a Marketing and Communications Chair for Petco Corporate must contribute some good in this world, right? Some jobs can't help but show their slip about how bad and ungood they are for society. U/yeetthyself64 asked Reddit, "What job contributes nothing to society," and the people of Reddit had some compelling arguments. 

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    Font - ? r/AskReddit u/Yeetthyself64. 20h 6 2 S1 What job contributes nothing to society?
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    Font - Agile_Ad_4114 • 19h 1 Award Extended warranty call center Reply 8.6k
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    Rectangle - Gpxy2841 18h Aka scam call center ... 41.4K
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    Font - DJ33. 11h 34 Awards Predatory tow agencies. The ones with the little rectangular signs at the entrance to public parking lots that have 2500 words on them in size 5 font, basically explaining that they can tow your car for any reason. Then you work in the fact that every shady condo landlord or strip mall owner is in bed with these dirtbags, obviously getting a kickback off every car they call in.
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    Font - S rollsyrollsy 18h 5 Awards In the US: PBMs (Pharmaceutical Benefits Managers). They drive up medical costs while simultaneously telling your doctor what you can't have. They make no contribution to your well-being and produce nothing of value. Reply 19.7k
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    Font - spongebue 13h My wife was close to discharge after having a baby, but her blood pressure was a little high. Doctors prescribed some meds (retail ~$250) for that, and insurance denied it. Doctor called insurance and told them without the meds, they'd be paying for an inpatient stay through a holiday weekend. They still said no. GOAT doctor found a much better deal (~$30) through Good Rx and moved our other prescriptions to a nearby pharmacy that took Good Rx.
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    Font - Morals of the story: 1. Drug prices here are meaningless 2. Insurance would rather pay for an inpatient stay than some pills 3. Because of their fucy, they didn't have to pay for either of those things 42.2k
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    Font - skeetbuddy. 16h I had no idea that this was a thing until I switched insurance and for the first time in 20+ years of being employed, I had some faceless jagoff telling me (and my doctor) that two medicines I take prescribed and MEDICALLY NECESSARY- are ones they won't pay for because they don't think I need them. Are you KIDDING ME?!?! 42.4k
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    Font - RikF. 16h My other half needed a repeat on a nerve ablation. You can have one every six months. She needed it on the left and right sides. They denied her coverage because she'd already had it twice in the past six months. I spent THREE MONTHS arguing with her insurance that having the procedure done on both sides was not having the procedure done twice. If I paint both doors on a cupboard I haven't painted the cupboard twice have I? <shakes fist angrily at the sky> 41.3k 1.3k
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    Font - enTernamehereonce • 19h 1 Award Admissions Counselor for unaccredited schools Reply 7.7k
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    Font - Blanketsburg. 15h I worked in an admission office for a traditional private, accredited college just outside Boston, after I finished grad school. I was mostly doing the email marketing for the office, but occasionally filled for in-person college fairs when someone was sick, or we double-booked.
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    Font - Most colleges are not-for-profit, meaning all of the money from tuition had to go back into the college. As an admission counselor, we were legally not allowed to get things like commission or bonuses based on enrollment numbers. I got a salary, and that was it. The other for-profit schools, which were unaccredited and for-profit, were basically sales reps. I talked to one of them (who tried to poach me), and he specifically mentioned how much he earned each year from recruiting students.
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    Rectangle - S Awkward-Channel-268 4 Awards Megachurch scam pastors ... 18h Reply 10k
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    Font - dadbod6900 - 16h But I see them healing all those people on stage!!! ... 856
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    Rectangle - 3 SuvenPan 18h 2 Awards Journalists who write click-bait articles, page after page of deliberately prolonged text and ads. Reply 16.3k
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    Rectangle - Amaranth_devil. 18h "you'll never believe what she told the waiter! Click next to find out!" ... 2.8k
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    Font - idratherchangemyold1. 17h One time I spent 20 minutes clicking through BS just to try to get to the bottom line/answer of the post. When I finally reached the end, there was no answer/bottom line. Dafuq? 4772 772
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    Font - MaeBealnTheWoods 16h The ones I really hate are the ones who write articles detailing one small thing in [X property] and then proceed to spend 17 paragraphs merely talking about the plot, making, and history of [X property] before having the last paragraph say something along the lines of "Unfortunately, we still have received no confirmation on whether [Question I clicked on the article for] is true or not." 93
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    Font - Lopsided-Change-7983 19h ● 1 Award Those people who make long-winded facebook videos which promise a lot but where nothing happens. ... Reply 19.3k
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    Font - Amazing James 18h ● With this one simple trick, you can be rid of your problem. But before I show you the trick, I'm going to talk for 45 minutes and show you fake chalkboard drawings and then tell you you need to pay for the trick, but it isn't a trick at all. It's just common knowledge but now you're out $59.95 and I've made a bunch of money off of people's hopes. 44.6K
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    Font - Andrew8Everything. 18h ORRRR you can get a 10% discount off your purchase by signing up for one year of SuperTrick+ for only $89.99. 41.1k 1.1k
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    Rectangle - ESA n0o07 19h 4 Awards Patent Trolls. 100% legal. O contribution to society, just a person who has their hands out asking for money along the way Reply 26.9k
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    Rectangle - The Starving_Autist. 15h what is a patent troll? ... 1.8k
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    Font - kookykrazee 11h ● S 1 Award This is a person/company that searches all day for patents that are not used and scoops them up to sell back to the "creators" Another variation of this is a person/company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/ movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment. ... 43.4k 3.4k
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    Font - 04201 Alterscapes. 11h Another variation of this is a person/ company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment. This is killing me at work. I'm in social video, we pay an enterprise licence for stock music and often run into issues on YouTube where audio gets flagged for copyright infringement from some weird entity. Such a headache. 1k
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    Rectangle - D S imlilyhi. 19h 4 Awards Multilevel marketing .. Reply 20.5k
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    Font - prophylaxitive . 17h I felt so foolish to have been convinced it wasn't "pyramid selling". Yes. Yes it is. Didn't cost me a lot, thankfully, but the fact I tried to get others involved was shameful. 44.4K
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    Font - Volerra 14h The first thing they're trained to explain away is how it's not a pyramid scheme. Run away if you ever hear a variation on this argument: "So explain to me what you think a pyramid scheme is. Some guy at the top, with people working under him, and more people working under them? Well, that's just any business model." 41.6K 1.6k
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    Font - sinisjecht 19h 1 Award Ticket scalper ... Reply 3.1k
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    Font - imasperplexedasyou. 18h lets simplify this scalpers Ĵ 41.6k
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