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What is the most "Thankless" job? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Street/Parking Lot Cleaners.

Every night, I clean up:

Styrofoam cups/cans/plastic cups & bottles
tossed out left over fast food
dirty diapers that someone couldn't walk 7 feet through the Walmart parking lot to throw in an actual trash can
empty boxes for: flat-screen TVs, Car seats, memory foam mattresses, or Amazon purchases
disposable vapes
trash bags that someone decided needed to be left in a parking lot instead of in a dumpster
So. Many. Plastic. Hangers.
receipts
grocery bags
candy wrappers
Edit shattered glass, but it makes that gravel in a vacuum sound when the truck sucks it up, so that's nice.

And the only time I get thanked is when my employer asks me to do extra work because there was a storm, another driver was out sick, another driver needed help on a site, or there was a big event that needed to be cleaned for/after.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for doing this job !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've learned shoppers in your country are messy pigs.