10 Most Violent Jobs

[Devonai]

This backs up my opinion that "unarmed" security is the dumbest idea of all time.

"Hey, this building/facility is a soft target. Let's put a 63 year-old retiree out front!"

If you have an unarmed security force "protecting" your building, aren't you insulted? I would complain to the management.

Being armed isn't the end of the argument, however. I worked for Brink's for three months; talk about a tactically idiotic situation. I went on to work in undercover asset protection which makes much more sense. It seems to me that the only reason to hire an armored car company like Brink's or Loomis-Fargo is if you need 100 boxes of quarters delivered. Otherwise using a plainclothes service makes much more sense. Not only is it less expensive but there's no big armored bullseye stopping in front of your building at the same time every day.

 

[Crosshair]

7. Special ed teachers

My mom hates the "No Child Left Behind" act because this is what she has to put up with. Short bus kids (SBK) that can't count to 10 are being put into class with regular students. My mom and other teachers have problems with SBKs disrupting class and being a general pain. Not trying to be mean, many of these kids can't help it, it is the way they are. It is the morons in DC that prevent these kids from being in special classes getting the help they need and letting the regular kids get the education they diserve.

Sorry, just ranting. I help my mom at her school every once and awhile and I can't believe the kids that they are putting into classes with regular kids.

 

[Tom Servo]

I've worked five of those jobs over the course of my life!

I guess I really am fortunate to be still walking around in one piece.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I take it that the listing was only for legal jobs. I would have thought prostitution would have ranked very high as a violent job.

 

[Spiggy]

how bout the list of what the 10 most violent jobs SHOULD be?

1. politician
2. lawyer
3. credit card executive
4. health insurance executive
5. pimp
6. spammer
7. ...

7. People who talk in the theatre

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

Be advised this list encompasses the most violent jobs, i.e. those jobs that you are most likely to be involved in a violent encounter, not the most dangerous jobs where your chances of being injured or killed in an accident are high.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...149E9705673BD7C78625710F0037BDEB?OpenDocument

I must be a self destructive person. i have held 4 of those jobs myself. i am suprised "soldier" did not make that list.

 

[Working Man]

I take it that the listing was only for legal jobs. I would have thought prostitution would have ranked very high as a violent job.

And or taxable, people wont report anything if they're getting paid under the
table.

Besides for prostitution, reporting it is bad for business.

 

[KCMO]

7. People who talk in the theatre

...
8. People who drive slow in the passing lane :banghead:

 

[Camp David]

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Top ten in fatality rate (deaths per 100,000 employed):

1. Logging workers
2. Airline pilots and flight engineers
3. Fishers
4. Structural iron and steel workers
5. Garbage collectors
6. Farmers/ranchers
7. Roofers
8. Electrical power line installers and repairers
9. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
10. Taxi drivers

Dan...what about Postal Workers?

man...when I go in to buy a stamp nowadays, I wear my flak jacket and my WWII helmet and move fast and stay low! Somebody yells postal and I'm outta there!

 

[V4Vendetta]

Your list forgot "pizza delivery driver". My older brother had to quit his job at Papa Johns for safety reasons. One of the other drivers got mugged. Well the scumbags didn't like that he didn't have a lot of money, so they kicked his head in. That driver was unarmed.

Another driver was mugged. He pulled his pistol & told the kids he "didn't feel like getting mugged today". One ran off, he held the other one there till police arrived.

My brother works now making Tye-Dyes so he still has a job.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

What about postal workers? Actually, the postal profession isn't that dangerous. They are no more likely to have workplace violence than the average business office. The hype of postal violence is because of the high recognition and the fact that so many towns have post offices and they all have the same basic name, "Post Office."

 

[YellowLab]

Corrections Officer is WITHOUT A DOUBT the most violent.

If we were lucky we would go 2, maybe 3 days without a staff assault. Inmate on Inmate violence was about a daily occurance.

If you worked a block there were 120 inmates, you, and a radio. God did I hate dayroom. Yard officer was worse, 1500 inmates, 4 COs, and one tower officer with, wait for it, 5.. that right 5 rounds of .223.

Man do I have stories....

 

[buzz_knox]

Corrections Officer is WITHOUT A DOUBT the most violent.

If we were lucky we would go 2, maybe 3 days without a staff assault. Inmate on Inmate violence was about a daily occurance.

A CO is outnumbered 40 to 1, has no weapons and is locked up WITH the inmates.

Man do I have stories....

A friend who worked as a counselor at a psychiatric hospital reported a similar level of assaults. The frightening thing is she worked with kids. They can be extremely vicious when having a psychotic break.

 

[YellowLab]

My girlfriends middle daughter (early 20's) works for a juvie center, and her boyfriend works in a bootcamp type private center that handles state juvie inmates.

I would say that female inmates are the worst, then juvies (under 15).. although mentally handicapped can be pretty bad when off meds. Male inmates are generally not that bad compared to the women and kid inmates.

Man, does SHE have stories. Bitten, fights, you name it. I don't know if they have a ERT team or what, they are low pop facilities... but I would ENJOY stomping.. er, restraining one of those little bastards if I knew they gave her any problem.

 

[roscoe]

I am willing to bet that the 'violence' a junior-high teacher faces is somewhat different than that faced by a corrections officer. Talk about your apples and oranges!

 

[buzz_knox]

I am willing to bet that the 'violence' a junior-high teacher faces is somewhat different than that faced by a corrections officer. Talk about your apples and oranges!

True. As pointed out earlier, sometimes officers have to initiate violence, thus the stats will be artificially increased for them versus the teacher, who is barred from initiating violence. Further, the teacher isn't typically equipped with the weapons or skills needed to deal with the trend of violence in schools. And when you consider how violent (and even large) some of the more . . . troubled junior high students are these days, it's no wonder that when they act out, teachers can catch it. There's a dead junior high principal and two severely wounded ones only a few miles from where I'm sitting because a kid decided to vent at school with a weapon.

 

[buzz_knox]

How the hell is being a custodian a violent job?

Bullies/criminals tend to pick on those who are either isolated or "lower caste." Custodians often work when others aren't around, and so are vulnearable. And the person who cleans the toilets is about as lower caste in this society as people interact with.

When I was in law school, the school got reamed out because some students pushed a janitor down the stairs at a party at a museum. If they'll do that there, I'd hate to see what they'd do at a high school/junior high.

 

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