Best Jobs to pick up Gossip

jaysischrist

Hi All

More a theoretical question. I’m putting together a list of jobs in which professionals find themselves in an excellent position to pick up gossip in relation to the town or city in which they are based. So far I’ve come up with the following. If anyone knows any others, I’m all ears.

Thanks for all responses.

Bar Workers: As some people like to gossip on nights out under the influence of alcohol, bar workers are potentially in a position to over hear things.

mikemac

switchboard operator?

Hey, maybe this job doesn't exist but my parents were telling years ago you connecting your calls through the local post office. And the ol' biddys there were notorious for listening in calls. :mad:
But hey, that's years and years ago. It's probably a computer nowadays

I suppose Post office worker. You see who is on benefits, who lost their job, who is a single parent, who pays their bills late and you basically get to know everything,especially in a rural area.

Nody

Social workers
Hospital nurses/Doctors
Police

segaBOY

Those who work in rural shops, know about everyone/everything especially if they are in the 40+ age group

kinkstr

Gossip columnist.

ITDept

I used to work for a mobile phone company, and they can easily see every text you send. Lots of boring rubbish to sift through, but every now and then a good piece of gossip would appear.

Thoie

Bank staff and Gardaí would be the first that come to mind. Citizen's Advice Bureau staff/volunteers. GP's secretary.

However just because someone is in a position to pick up the gossip, doesn't mean they're in a position to share it.

MagicMarker

Priest

Xiney

When I first got to Ireland, I quickly landed a job in a newspaper.


I went from knowing nothing about the place I was living in to knowing nearly everything about it within a week or two. No joke - knew more than my husband who'd lived there for 20 years

SoupyNorman

Witness Relocation Programme co-ordinator.

Mrs OBumble

Filing clerk in the plannng department of the council. (My mate did it, found out an incredible amount about the city, partly from files and partly from colleagues).

dats_right

Solicitor. Usually the person who somebody comes to when in trouble with law, banks, family or any other bother imaginable.

HashSlinging

Public relations consultant. Worked in an agency and they are a bunch of gossips.

lemon_sherbert

Hairdressers or beauticians?