Derogatory terms for skilled jobs

[Richard A Thackeray]

When I tell people I'm a dispenser in a pharmacy they say "oh you're a drug dealer!"

Sadly, in line with the (Hospital) Phlebotomists being 'Daylight Vampires'

 

[raleighnut]

Sadly, in line with the (Hospital) Phlebotomists being 'Daylight Vampires'

I must tell the oldest Grand-Daughter that, she's a Phlebotomist although currently working as a 'Practice Nurse' for a Doctors Surgery.

 

[User10119]

I've been in IT for 30 years too and have never heard of 'code monkey'. I would call them 'techies'.

 

[Milzy]

Bike Mechanic = knobber.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I find it hard to imagine large numbers of developers organised into any kind of group coherent enought to protest!

My wife works for a software company..she would agree with that statement..

 

[Drago]

Private parking enforcement = The Taliban

 

[subaqua]

We did a job on a site in Bermondsey a while back. A carpenter got into an argument with a decorator about the relative skills of their jobs.

" You know what they say don't you???? If you can piss you can paint..."

Try p**sing for 8 hours .

 

[Markymark]

Try p**sing for 8 hours .

...then you can get a job at the Heineken factory.

 

[subaqua]

...then you can get a job at the Heineken factory.

Budweiser ... Shirley

 

[slowmotion]

Try p**sing for 8 hours .

I didn't actually agree with the carpenter. Putting gloss paint on without sags, runs or brush marks takes some skill.

 

[slowmotion]

Stella, for @slowmotion

I have "progressed" to San Miguel.

 

[Piemaster]

Just reading another thread on cyclists "blocking ambulances" I'm reminded of another (unintentionally) derogatory term which cropped up quite a lot: Ambulance Driver.
I get that it's said with no malice intended, but emergency ambulances are of course usually crewed by Paramedics who study for a couple of years to gain their qualification. At the very least, they're crewed by qualified Emergency Medical Technicians who also study (albeit a shorter course) to gain their qualification. Driving is perhaps 5-10% of the job, keeping people alive and providing urgent care is the other 90-95%. Calling them "drivers" isn't very fair or accurate.

Not all ambulances are emergency vehicles manned by EMT staff though, or they certainly aren't around here. Some just seem to be glorified minibuses liveried up as ambulances for taking people to appointments and the like - no blue lights as far as I could see when being passed by one very closely.
May be unintentionally derogatory for some, but not all.

 

[Hyslop]

Archaeologists -"muckrakers".see also educated navvies.As far as our local council management were concerned,we far preferred the term"devious"We were and being local government,it took them a long time to realise it

 

[ufkacbln]

WAFU......

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Complete and utter twat - politician