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I started IT thinking it was genuinely telling people to turn their computers off and on again. I feel that's like a 1% though. Most of the times it's actual issues. At my work some stuff is hardware, web, databases and I wasn't expecting this when I first started.
Thanks IT Crowd
I have not unlocked a single chasity belt, it doesnt even come up as a service they might need.
Call centers: that there is time between calls. That people have time off the phone to form friendships with coworkers.
Handyman: we have sex with clients.
IT: that we can just code anything we want regardless of standards, policies and best practices.
Waiting and Party Down were both great about depicting the experience of food service, but gay men and Latinos were criminally underrepresented in both.
Basically all science but particularly biology. I'm not sure I've ever seen accuracy regarding well anything outside parts of gattica.
Assays that can't be sped up, sped up. Machines doing 5 things other than what they're actually built for. Gloves, no gloves at wrong times. Terrible technique, etc.
Gaming.
There is no way that this obvious secret wasn’t discovered until now. If there are as many gamers as you show, it would’ve been found within 2 weeks maximum. Looking at you, ready player one. Cringy McCringeCringe can’t be the only one who found these obvious secrets after literal years.
"Drive backwards on the track"
That's literally the first thing people do in racing videogames. That would have been SECONDS
Yes it was way better than watching him play Atari Joust for 30 minutes but still!
I don't think I've ever seen my job in a movie. The only place I could imagine industrial embroidery ever showing up on screen would be as the setting for a chase scene or something.
I work at a bank. Every bank heist scene makes me fucking cringe lmao. Why would only one person know the code to something??? Why are safety deposit boxes treated as some super special thing? Daredevil just pissed me off with this so much lol
If you broaden it a little from job/hobby to living in the real setting of a movie, you'll notice characters going places that make no sense at all. Like if it's Seattle they might start a boating scene on Lake Union and ends up at Mercer Island, swinging by Alki beach on the way.
Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing
It is surprisingly difficult to get into a good dance position, especially for the standard (waltz, tango, foxtrot, quickstep, Viennese waltz) dances. Two actors walk up to each other and it's apparent even before they touch that they have no idea WTF they are doing: they aren't even standing up correctly.
Hobby 2: Chess
Smart guy walks over and absolutely beats the pants off of anyone else playing like 30 seconds after they get taught the rules or from glancing over the shoulder of someone else playing the game. It's all "aha! Mate in 4!".
No way dude. It is way, way not that easy. There's "good at chess" and there's "GOOD at chess". Unless you are part of a very large club or are taking lessons from someone at or above the master level, you probably don't know anybody in the second category. Dr. House is not going to blindfold beat anyone like that.
My favorite version of the chess one is from the Simpsons when the teachers at the school go on strike. Bart now has a ton of time on his hands and ends up playing chess against 3 people at the same time in the park. A bystander comments on how smart he must be right before all 3 opponents checkmate him. https://youtu.be/zLcAu1VuP0w
(Engineering)
According to movies:
We spend our entire workdays in the lab.
Whenever anything is turned on, there's a loud whirring and a big shower of sparks. Computer screens with big flashing "WARNING!" signs are optional.
Something is inevitably spinning on the lab bench. It's unclear if it does anything.
Fixing a major problem is solved when someone has an "Ah-hah!" brainstorm moment, wires up something on the spot, and it magically works perfectly.
Assembling a new thingymajig involves lots of power tools and pieces which fit together seamlessly. If they don't fit, they can be made to fit with some elbow grease and definitely won't fail horribly the first time you turn them on.
Labs are festooned in such random pieces of hazardous equipment as high-voltage power lines, random chemicals, blowtorches, and radioactive materials.
In reality, we spend a lot of our days at our desks, the equipment is surprisingly quiet (and that which isn't, you stay well away from while it is operating), and spinny stuff largely went away in the 1980s. Assembling a new thing is 30 minutes of grumbling, 3 hours of pulling your hair out, and day(s) of waiting for a new part because someone screwed up tolerances or signal polarity. The most dangerous thing in the lab is stuff sloppily left laying on the floor, which I have tripped over and nearly cracked my skull before.
In fairness, #4 happens sometimes. It's extremely rare, but occasionally you do get those moments where you figure out what the bug in the system is and can rectify it in an hour or two. Most of the time, a fast fix for one problem causes another.
Movies: "What? You're making robots? But what if they become evil?"
Me: "No, actually you can prevent that easily by..."
Movies: "Ghost in the machine! Bugs! Hackers! Robot becomes self-concious and disables its safeguards! Evil!"
Me: "Our robots are not even that advanced. Also you can easily add an off switch and..."
Movies: "They've bridged their off-switch! Terminators kill all humans now. All robots become evil!"
Me: "Whether they become evil or not depends on how you implement it and also ... "
Movies: "Evil robots! More evil robots! The downfall of humanity!"
Every. Damn. Movie. For once I would like to see a movie with robots that don't turn into mindless "cuz evil" killing machines. It's really annoying how widespread the fearmongering about robots is in movies.
Also, why the fuck do all robots have the worst possible speech synthesizers ever? Heck, even the announcements in subway trains and buses have better natural sounding computer voices than robots in movies.
Not sure if it fits or is still a thing, but it used to be that 4 stroke dirt bikes made a 2 stroke sound. Also, all propeller airplanes had the sound of a piston engine, even if it was a turbine.
I don't think I've ever seen blacksmithing done correctly in a movie, show or game.
As the flipside to the question, pretty much any customer facing job like retail, sales, or food service have been spot on, especially if they are specifically calling those industries out. Superstore, Waiting, Office Space etc. are so damn accurate to the pain of working them.
To the original question, I think it was mentioned earlier, but anything with a gun is typically wrong. The struggling artist who can afford immense loft apartments in downtown cities. Ghost hunting/supernatural expeditions are so glamorized. They NEVER tell you how much time it takes to review everything.
Accountants actually spend hardly any time doing tax work. And in most countries tax returns are automatic anyway, so no, AI isn't going to destroy all the accountant jobs.
We almost never uncover accursed tomes or massive government conspiracies.
(Archivist)
