Retail, easy. Like, I enjoy what I do for my job but the people that my store attracts, make it cumbersome. People coming to me all the time with phones in my face of listings to other stores thinking we have them, people impatient, people thinking we have everything and people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.

  • Björn Tantau
    41•2 days ago

    Software development. If you could just do what needs to be done without requirements changing every second it would be so much easier.

    Luckily there are good project managers to shield you from such nonsense.

    • @RedditWanderer
      24•1 day ago

      Sometimes the org itself is like a shitty client who doesn’t understand.

      Reminds me of this article Programming Sucks

      Tom and Harry have been working together for years, but have an ongoing feud over whether to use metric or imperial measurements, and it’s become a case of “whoever got to that part of the design first.” This has been such a headache for the people actually screwing things together, they’ve given up and just forced, hammered, or welded their way through the day with whatever parts were handy. Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. Nobody knows which parts, but everybody’s pretty sure they’re important parts.

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      8•1 day ago

      Graphic designers suffer from similar customer issues as well… or did until the whole AI art thing came along.