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People whose jobs have appeared in movies, what did they get wrong?


  1. High school students don't look like college graduates.
    — psiddy42

  2. Military, Everything.
    — meesersloth

  3. In *Waiting*, they showed two employees have sex in the bathroom, and that never happens. Employees have sex in the walk-in coolers.
    — PM_MeTittiesOrKitty



  4. Anything to do with computers in general. [Hacking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CzCQ4eT0g), [Enhancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk0), [Programming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluANRwPyNo). Things aren't like that, but theatrics takes precedent over realism.
    — Famnation

  5. Writers do not have fabulous lakeside retreats.
    — kulsepmoq

  6. Not all architects get to design skyscrapers (faulty ones at that). Also when the movie plot calls for “blueprints”, of the building, they are accurate down to the last drywall screw. Most As-Built drawings are about 60% accurate.
    — dirty-dirty-water



  7. I'm an accountant. I'm not a killing machine.
    — diegojones4

  8. That pottery scene in *Ghost* is stupid. For much of the scene she's not actually doing anything, the clay is just running through her hands. Also, not wearing pants in the studio is about the worst idea ever, you're going to get clay all up in your bits.
    — Cat_Toucher

  9. In the 40 year old virgin, he didn't go to reddit and whine about it.
    — ToyVaren



  10. Lawyer here. Basically everything. Nothing is remotely that glamorous, exciting, or interesting. And it takes months, if not years for something to go to trial, and that’s if it doesn’t settle first. And NO law firm has that many hot people working there (that I’ve ever seen)
    — PolarsteeleMGB2

  11. Oh, so much in *All About Steve*. No one gets employed full-time to write *one* crossword puzzle, and that puzzle would never go to print without someone else solving it first and seeing what was wrong with it.
    — PrincessCimorene

  12. Live show and events department. The mic doesn't feed back when you tap on it. Don't tap on the microphone!! The audio guy has already rung out the room ans there shouldn't be any feedback if he is at least haft way sober and awake.
    — mrfuzzyshorts



  13. Chemist here - you know how the inside of space stations look in movies vs. how they look in real life? Laboratories are kinda the same story.
    — EkstraLangeDruer