People Are Sharing The Things That Movies Get Totally Wrong About Their Jobs, And The Inaccuracy Is Wild
It's pretty damn rare for a movie to accurately represent the daily struggles of mankind. So when I stumbled across a Reddit thread by u/Kattsu-Don, asking people to share the things that movies get wrong about their jobs, I was not surprised by the surplus of users venting their annoyance in the comments. Here are some of the top-rated responses:
1."Anything that has someone crawling through an air duct. You'll be covered in sticky sealant and punctured to death with screws within 20 minutes of attempting to go through one."
2."Pizza delivery driver. A lot less invitations for sex by sexy ladies or dudes. Though I did delivery to a porn company office one time. They didn't even tip."
3."EMTs never run into the emergency room. When we do visit the ER, we usually slowly walk in with a 450-pound dialysis patient, or an intoxicated college student on the stretcher."
4."Whenever I see someone welding in a movie, I always notice how they aren’t wearing anything to cover the skin on their arms or body. That’s how you get serious arc burn, which is like a super bad sunburn. Hurts like hell."
5."Bar musician. We're not all depressed and hoping some big talent scout from a label shows up. Some of us just enjoy playing in bars."
6."Any movie or show that portrays the field of a medical examiner or forensics professional working in a luxurious, high-tech office surrounded by beautiful people. We actually work in a super shitty building that always smells like shit, in a shitty part of town."
7."In sci-fi movies when researchers rig up a massive, complex experiment and it works the first time."
8."Mathematicians actually often suck at arithmetic/working with numbers."
9."Being a lawyer is three months of paperwork and research and one day of trial — and we don’t yell at or intimidate witnesses. If I did what you see in movies I’d be disbarred pretty quickly."
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10."Computer programmer here: You can't hack with HTML."
11."Fun fact, archivists do not wear white gloves all the time like the movies show — especially not when handling paper documents, since they can do more harm than good. I'm looking at you, National Treasure."
12."Bartenders don't spend their entire shift wiping the bar or polishing glasses."
13."When someone needs CPR, we are usually going at it for a while — inserting central IV lines, running multiple tests at the bedside, switching off and on who is doing compressions, etc. We also never shock when someone is flatlining — only for two types of rhythms. We don't give up after 30 seconds."
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