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Prejudices against professionals?


Chris Wilson

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Am I alone in having serious prejudices against estate agents, journalists, and solicitors, and needless to say, local councillors?

 

I tend to find those in the motortrade can also be added to the list. Both garages I have used have been scum.

 

It seems I have a similar opinion as Rorscharch... how odd! :D

 

Car dealers. Car mechanics. Car tuners. Car experts.

 

What a bunch of rotters.

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Doctors hit the spot for me. They seem to forget that other people out there (ahem) are equally as qualified but in their own discipline. I think doctors have a superiority complex and soon forget all they are doing is standing on the shoulders of giants.

 

Lets put it this way, where would a doctor be without all the engineers out there that design and make the equipment they rely upon. Basically back to throwing bones, chanting, looking at the clouds and then reaching for the leaches.

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I think doctors have a superiority complex and soon forget all they are doing is standing on the shoulders of giants.

 

Surely all educated people stand on the shoulders of giants, and it's the uneducated ones that make truly original decisions.

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Taxi drivers miserable,lazy,ignorant,unprofessional,poor drivers.

Solicitors leaches,thieving,parasites.

Bus drivers,miserable,lazy,ignor...........same as taxi drivers.

I like nurses mmm yes,accountants a good one will save you more than his fee,ice cream men when its hot,lap dancers.... err better stop there before I mention working girls ohhh dear.

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i think it depends who you are and who you know. My dad, being in the building industry for xx years was used to dealing with solicitors, architechts, financial people and estate agents. So he has some good contacts, so i know that my financial advisor (who goes to watch the footy every other week with my dad) who was also an estate agent and ran a branch of nat west wont rip me off. Similar with solictors, helps to be on first name terms :p

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I personally fail to see how a job influences the way a person should be viewed...

 

I know lots of different people in various professions from mechanics to professors, and none of them are pretentious. The definition of a professional is someone who is a member of an organization such as Charted Engineers that sort of thing (for me anyway)

 

I'm not prejudice against anyone as a rule, I hate them all....

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I personally fail to see how a job influences the way a person should be viewed....

 

Indeed, and from a spiritual "You are not your job" point of view, this rings true too.

 

I'm not prejudice against anyone as a rule, I hate them all....

 

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i think it depends who you are and who you know. Similar with solictors, helps to be on first name terms :p

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

Certainly in relation to solicitors I think it really depends which type of solicitor you are refering to. Divorce lawyers and residential property lawyers even I don't like! Solicitors which deal with catastrophic injury cases and the ones that protect the little person are usually very nice people.

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Solicitors which deal with catastrophic injury cases and the ones that protect the little person are usually very nice people.

 

Is that what you do by any chance? :rolleyes: :D

 

I absolutely hate estate agents with every bone in my body. I've met very few nice ones in 7 years of Conveyancing work.

 

I was dealing with one yesterday who's commission was £40k. Our fee was £300. Doesn't really seem fair. We do all the work, take constant abuse from all sides and they get paid for putting a few pictures together? Nice one.

 

I hate my job now and I'm trying to get into something else. There is so much stress and people are so negative before you start it's really an uphill struggle all the time.

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As a general profession I find estate agents dis-honourable. I feel the same about car salesmen, and also the vast majority of vehicle mechanics. Its a bummer of a way to be but thats just how the world has become. Salesmen omit the truth in liberal quantities, and so many jobs are sales driven. Even mine is "be careful what you say". I despise the lack of truth in this world.

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