Over paid/Under paid professions and people

Teachers should be on everyone's underpaid list.

Specialun wrote: »

I see.but surely if a DM signs off on the solution/product they should know what they are actually signing off on...

Not quite sure what you mean by DM as it's not an abbreviation I'm familiar with.

But yes, in theory they 'should' be aware just as in theory the 'solution' should be fit for purpose.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

My friend is a psychiatric nurse and I work in childcare.

We both work for fcuk all, and compare stories about the sh1t that's thrown at us at work. Literally...

I earn so little taking care of other people's kids that It'll be a long time before I can afford to have any of my own. /remembers to go take pill

I knew a nurse who worked in a large dublin emergency department. The things I have heard are just gobsmacking. Every single day she got abused, threatened, yelled at, the waiting room was constant chaos, fighting, gardai being called, she even got a gun pulled on her and got a wack of the gardai's pepper spray by mistake in a scuffle.
I also know a pediatric nurse who gets abuse daily from scumbag children and parents, and when she corrects the 8 year old child telling her to "fúck off ya dumb bítch" the parents just laugh.

Another story I heard was from somebody working in the ambulance service who got called to a regular abuser of the 999 system. Alcoholic, druggy type person. While they were bringing him to hospital, he assaulted and beat the living **** out of the female paramedic in the back. Gardai were called....sorry no unit available nearby. This was in the countryside and there was nothing they could do about it other than try their best to deal with the situation.

Junior doctors are over worked, on 40 hour shifts, paid less than fast food workers, a huge amount of them are over stressed, suffering from depression and more. I hear the suicide rate and drug abuse rate amongst medical students is pretty damn high.

Another person I know, a retained fire fighter (i.e he only gets payed per each call he gets). Called to a bad neighborhood to put out a bonfire. He gets tackled by a scumbag off his head and punched in the face several times putting him out of work. Every single week in Ireland, fire trucks get the **** stoned out of them, broken windows, and items stolen. Its not just halloween.

All of the above dont spend several years in university learning the systems of the human body in great detail, all the drugs associated with their scope of practice, signs and symptoms of specific diseases, and things like advanced cardiac life support and how to read ECG's etc just to become "pillow puffers".

Maybe a handfull of lazy nurses working in nursing homes for abled-elderly people sit around drinking tea all day, but I can assure you, the vast majority dont.

Remember a guy on here called irishbob on here he loved nurses he did.

Specialun wrote: »

Maybe for small IT products that might be so but for any product worth its salt or of value...yes at times a salesguy can oversell or upsell initially but to say if a decision maker is signing off on something he/she should know what is is..espcally as by law you do have x numbers of days grace

I wouldn't know about small IT products, it's not really my area.

It's not a problem of knowing what it is, it's a problem of not knowing what it does, what it can and can't do and how it's supposed to be doing it.

All good and well knowing you're getting 8 of product X if you've no idea of whether or not that will fit your requirements, work with your existing environment, can be migrated onto etc. etc. etc.

Anyways, I'd much rather not get into a long session on solution design here.
Suffice it to say I've met a lot of IT sales people that were, are and continue to be grossly overpaid.