What jobs attract the very worst kinds of people?

1. Volunteer "supervisor" type positions. In non-profit, we sometimes have to rely on volunteers for jobs which would normally be paid positions in corporate. The people who want jobs with power over other people and are willing to do it for free are often some of the nastiest, abusive people you'll ever meet. You're not going to find a normal person for it. You just have to assess if they'll be tolerable or not.
   — mveot


2. Paparazzi. The amount of deceitful stuff they do to try and force an awkward situation for the target is incredible.
   — Liberal_irony


3. Hands down : Security Guards. I am a security guard. This isn't a "hurr durr they kicked me out fuck them rent-a-cops" post. My industry attracts the shittiest people I have ever met. In the few years I have been in the industry I have witnessed and reported 1. A mobile patrol officer that would show up and drive our patrol car absolutely shitfaced every day. He would pass out in the buildings or go completely off site for personal reasons 2. A guard that spent most of his shifts using the site computer to watch kiddie porn and search for where to find rub 'n tug massage parlors. He did this in a crowded lobby. I reported this and got in trouble for reporting it. 3. The first other guard I met that trained me spent half of my training shift telling me about the Illuminati and how they weren't who society thinks they are. He also went on racially bigoted rants about the Muslim population and refugees constantly. He got fired for absolutely losing his shit on a building employee for smoking where they shouldn't be. He also used to take pictures of the kids that skateboarded at the site to intimidate them before telling them to leave. 4. Cat guy. Smells terrible. insists on talking to people for long periods about his cats. abandons his post 15 minutes early every night and leaves. 5. The massive power vortex in my upper management. They are constantly battling for power and it causes no good changes to come through to help protect their employees from harm. (For instance I was heaving weapons pulled on me working at a seedy mall in the downtown core and we still couldn't get vests) 6. The hotheads. My mobile patrol guy recently told me he applied for an armed position and told them about how he would shoot the bad guys in his interview. He also calls his job "Bum hunting" and is disrespectful to every vagrant he has to remove. He's 130 LBS tops with hair that hangs to about his belt level. He's never been in a fight in his life and thinks his uniform will protect him from his actions. My list goes on. The security industry is a god damn joke at the lower levels. They will literally hire anyone with a license and that's why there are so many youtube videos of us rent-a-cops acting like jackasses.
   — Declinex






4. Cleaning toilets in a stadium... the sheer amount of drugs, druggies and all the shit that goes on in here is astounding! You know you're in a tough spot when most of your colleagues are "former" meth addicts with all their front teeth missing (except for the canines) and they're so damn thin you could literally carry them in your arms. Also, many taxi/limo drivers are on coke and a good chunk of them gets their first stroke before the age of 40.
   — Quirite


5. Those damn carnivals and their carnies.
   — Danger_Zebra


6. Debt collector and payday loan shop owner.
   — chumchilla






7. I work for a great marketing start up and one of the many benefits is we get to work from home 3-4 days a weeks. I didn't know this when I applied and they have a very extensive interview process. When I had my final interview, the owner explained to me that it's remote work. She had gone further to say that when they included it in any job descriptions, they got upwards of 2,000 resumes, and the few people they did interview, all lied on their resumes about their experience. And not little lies, it was obvious they had ZERO experience whatsoever. So any kind of remote work probably attracts awful people who are lazy.
   — courtneyeggs


8. The killing floor in a slaughter house. I speak from experience, I once for a short while worked in the packing department of a slaughter house and saw what went on in the killing floor. Being minimum wage it attracted a lot of otherwise unemployable psychos, They took great pleasure in torturing the animals for fun, it was like the Saw movies at times, this shit would give any sane person PTSD.
   — klaybetterthanjordan