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Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?
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ICE
Working under Trump.
Anything requiring me to travel to the US
Social work and sales
Even for $500m per year
There are plenty of jobs I'd be terrible at regardless of what they pay.
If it's an actual job and not just something made up to be arbitrarily horrible I'd probably give anything a try if you pay 10x my current pay.
Debt collector
Materials handler at a chemical plant.
Nursing.
Couldn't pay me to go through the hell those people witness
Me ex-wife worked 100% in surgery. She used to laugh that she never had to talk to the fuckers. She was so clinical about it that she could tell me about a case and had no idea if it was a man or woman, black or white, nothing, just body parts.
Mercenary/ "private military contractor", ICE agent, prison gaurd
ICE thug Slumlord’s handyman Anything that takes orders directly from the Trump administration
Prison guard. You can’t leave work during your shift, you’re in prison.
Prostitution. My apologies if this subject is taboo. However, it is the oldest profession in the world and stood the test of time. I have a vivid imagination and I’m having trouble imagining what would happen if I’m just not attracted or aroused.
Palantir
Meta
Amazon
Apple
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...kill yourself" --Bill Hicks
"Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart."
No! Fuck you, you work in advertising you’re sucking the devils cock. Kill yourself!
Planting seeds.
Anything in the Oil Industry, Cops, Military, or Evil Multinational Corporations
any military or military complex job. i refuse to assist or partake in the murdering of humans.
Don't forget the fiscal, environmental, and resource destruction. Now if they only made cool camping/ outdoor gear...
Jack booted tool of oppression
Retail. Done it for 4 years and got treated like absolute shit by customers, especially during the pandemic. I got told off a few times for speaking back to customers but I think now I'd probably struggle not to hit them. I'd be sacked very quickly
I learned at a young age that I'm not cut out for retail. I can fake it for a minute or two, but I've got a short fuse and a sailor mouth.
But this seems like something that could be tolerated at the right price point. It's a price point they would never pay, but your reason for working it isn't a moral or ethical reason.
Sales. Especially telesales.
I spent years doing sales because they were the only opportunities that I had available, and I hated every minute of it. Now that I'm finally out, I would NEVER go back.
Anything where you're around the public all day. Rather wash dishes than be a waitress.
Anything to do with poop!
Literally what kept me from going into medicine
Cop
Ice
Dhs
Military
Politics, in any form.
Corporate, in any form.
Police, in any form.
Military, in any form.
They all - I believe that institutionalized, hierarchical authority is rather obviously inherently destructive, and I couldn't willingly take part. In fact, one of the things that perplexes me the most about politics in particular is that there are people who do willingly take part. I can only conclude that their brains are broken in some fundamental way such that they don't see or don't care about the harm they inevitably do.
Politics, in any form.
But how do you make the world better then?
In fact, you seem very qualified for it. Those who don't want powet are the best people for the job, you should be leading your city/town or maybe country.
Police, in any form.
Do neighborhood watch programs count?
Military, in any form.
Do Militias count?
This unfortunately is the problem with the police. People who see the police as problematic are unwilling to join so the majority of people who join are the ones who just want to have power over others.
There are many variations on the quote but a cop who doesn’t report a bad cop is themselves a bad cop, so you could be the actual good cop who reports their coworkers until you get fired from the corrupt org but if enough people did that we might actually see some change.
Cops also have a surprising amount of freedom to choose to enforce laws so you could also just not enforce laws you consider corrupt.
I am saying this as a person who wouldn’t want to associate with a cop but would love to have some cops who aren’t bastards but unfortunately #ACAB
Shift work.
Never again.
Animal agriculture.
Commercial fisherman
Deep-sea diver
Fall guy
HR rep
This one doesn't feel inherently evil. There are some great HR reps where I work now, but I don't work for a company that's trying to milk us dry.
There are many but since depresseddad already mentioned spreading lies for nefarious reasons, I guess I'll go with pimping and selling narcotics (anything beyond weed at the very least, and even then I would have to really think about it).
Companies that use the Microsoft suite of products. All of the reprehensible stuff that Microsoft is known for aside, I just can't think of anything that Teams, Office, Outlook, etc do well compared to any of their competitors.
Then there's the little quirks that make you wonder how they're considered a tech giant at all. Example: I travel semi frequently and will work my usual hours in different timezones. Teams makes you restart the app on MacOS just to change fucking timezones.
Example: I travel semi frequently and will work my usual hours in different timezones. Teams makes you restart the app on MacOS just to change fucking timezones.
This just happened to me this week. It was definitely not something I would have expected. I'm really disappointed we had to migrate onto Teams.
Right after Project Veritas got subpoenaed by Congress back in, I think, 2015 or 2016, they offered me a well paid position as an interface designer for the website. I had been unemployed for years by that point, and I was extremely desperate for work. I never applied for the job, and I don’t know how on earth they got my my résumé.
Suffice it to say, I told them to go fuck themselves.
That should be evidence to them that they are the bad guys. No one tells a job offer to “fuck off” if the company isn’t utterly shit. Even if Meta or Twitter offered me a job I’d probably just use a curt “no” and move on. But, Project Veritas, Heritage Foundation, Palantir? They’d get a “fuck off” for sure.
Anything that makes the world a worse place, eg. most finance jobs.
Regime whore
Everyone has a price but if we stick to realistic numbers I'd say that working on a clothes store or fast food joint would be the first two that come to mind though most office jobs would apply as well.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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