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These are the unsung heroes whom we do not appreciate enough. And that’s an understatement.
Case in point: Gabbaim/Shamashim.
-Who has to arrange all the benches/chairs and tables in shul after the Purim party? This is usually quite late at night and follows scrubbing the floors etc. for hours, which in turn followed tireless hours or arranging and setting up….
-Who, exhausted after a whirlwind erev Pesach season, and after hours of bedikas chometz in his own home, must go to shul only to spend the other half of the night doing the bedika there?? (and then be expected to oversee the biur chometz, and setting up the shul for Yom Tov?
-Who has to clean up the geklappete hoshanas, and set up the table etc. while everyone else rushes home for the seuda and to prepare for Yom Tov? This will repeat itself a few more times before the sukka has to be taken down… …by the same fellow who put it up…
The list can go on, but I think the point is clear.
Any additions to this list of under-appreciated persons/tasks/positions will be gratefully accepted.
Coffee Room moderators.
Thank you. Not anymore, I guess 🙂
The guy whom recycles the toilet paper
the president
mashgiachs 😉
At least 99% of the people on this planet will perform a thankless job at some point in their lives.
Kollel guys. They are one of the three pillars holding up the world and yet they take abuse from many.
Mother
Mother’s are not thankless.
People who work on behalf of the community. Very little thanks, lots of grief.
I think splitting your learning time and working time in half is a thankless job, though not a job per-say. But since you spend half your time learning you do not get the benefit of standing out at work, getting rich or having a prestigious career and since you work half the time also you are not considered a kollelman and do not get the recognition of being a serious learner and might have a harder time in shidduchim.
Posting here in the CR!
(no one thanks me)
to LF and all other posters: Thank You For Posting!
😉
Sometimes being a bus driver feels like it.
ummmm, kollel guys are not a pillar of the world. Torah is. And there are many people not in kollel learning also. Plus kollel guy is not a job.
Garbage collecting is a thankless job.
the folks who hand out parking tickets.
Bump – in honor of “Hashem is reading”
Husbands & Fathers.
the people who make laundry detergent.
Do you really find that to be the case? I’m just wondering, since I wouldn’t know, never having been one.
nfgo3 – +1 People get mad at them when they should be thanking them!
daughters & sisters
english teachers
Rebyidd23………
If you think garbage collecting is a thankless job, I wish you did it instead of the men who will receive the holiday thank you cards and checks I just made out.
It’s not my holiday, but those goyim who provide me with regular service: mailman, garbage men, newspaper carrier, etc. ALL get thanks…both written sentiment and $$$$ this time of year.
In many places tipping your garbage collector is illegal.
RY – really? Why?
CT – that’s really thoughtful and nice of you!
@CTLAWYER you obviously do not know what it means to be a real eved hashem. I see you are lacking the proper hakaras hatov towards those who clean our garbage……
HM – I think maybe you misunderstood CTLawyer’s post – he does appreciate the garbage men, that is why he tips them!
Just to clarify why I bumped this thread – I actualy bumped about a half a dozen threads all starting with the word “The” because of a comment that “Hashem is reading” made.
However, the moderators either deleted my other bumps or they haven’t moderated them yet, so the joke got a bit lost along the way 🙁
sorry – they are there now – I either didn’t see them or they weren’t up yet when I checked.
The guys who clean up and put away the siddurim and other sforrium.
The guys who opens up the shul and make sure everything is ready for the first minyan. The guys who arrange speakers and shuirium and have to put up with complaints.
LuL, NYC is one of those places. Google “sanitation worked fired for accepting tips.” Sanitation workers want to be treated like police, and it’s obvious why it’s illegal to tip police.
Rebyidd23………..
If my garbage was collected by government employees, my tip could be considered a bribe and its acceptance could be an illegal act by the recipients.
However, here in small town CT we have no municipal garbage pickup. One either takes the family garbage to the transfer station each week or pays for private companies to pick up at the house.
I am very appreciative of the work these men do, lifting the heavy barrels, never spilling any on the lawn or driveway, replacing the the barrels neatly in their place with the covers on.
When I lived in a city with municipal garbage pickup, the employees would throw the can lids like frisbees, spill trash all over the place and toss and dent the empty cans with no respect for private property,
I’ve heard parents say that being a mother or father is a thankless job.
However…
These same individuals wouldn’t trade it for any other job in the world.
Thankless jobs can be Pleasurable Wonderful and Meaningful.
Thankless jobs can be jobs that one would never trade for the most thankfilled job, such as a global good-news-delivery-person with fantastic comprehensive lifetime benefits.
And imho, infinite thanks and gestures of gratitude still cannot compare to the thanks that they are due in this world.
It sounds like the OP is referring to people in thankless jobs behind the scenes that as a community we all benefit from yet IRL may not realize how much they do for us personally.
Also, these jobs don’t come with the compensation of status or power.
lilmod! oooooohh now I get it I just read your explanation. ok. the the the …..
Shkoyach! Glad someone finally got it!
YehudaYona – thanks for answering my question! I don’t really get the logic though… if it’s obvious why it’s illegal to tip police, what does that have to do with garbage men?
In case anyone didn’t get the joke:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/fire-is-retarded#post-638281
Lilmod
Why tipping government employees can be considered a bribe and be illegal
Re: Trash collectors:
When I lived in New Haven we had municipal trash collection.
Weight limit per can: 75 lbs
No mixed recycling with regular trash
No construction debris: sheet rock, broken pieces of porcelain toilets, sinks, etc. No insulation.
No leaves or grass clippings.
Maybe if I tip the regular garbagemen on my route, they will overlook transgressions. Instead of tagging the can as a violation, and leaving it on the curb, they might just tip it into the truck and cover the forbidden trash with other garbage
CTLawyer -thanks for explaining. I never would have thought of that! That’s rather a funny concept – tip the garbage man as a bribe for my negligence in recycling 🙂
Being a Rinnai water heater.
Nice!
“Maybe if I tip the regular garbagemen on my route, they will overlook transgressions. Instead of tagging the can as a violation, and leaving it on the curb, they might just tip it into the truck and cover the forbidden trash with other garbage”
Don’t know how it is in other places, but in NYC the trash collectors aren’t the ones who issue the fines. They have “officers” from the sanitation department who drive around and check.
Meno……………….
I never mentioned fines.
The garbagemen simply tag the can as a violation:
Overweight
Mixed with recyclables
Forbidden items and leave the full can on the curb.
The homeowner then has to either correct the situation or transport the can to the transfer station and separate the items for disposal, recycling, etc. and buy disposal tickets for construction debris.
I’m currently taking down a sheet rock wall in my home to move a staircase entry. All the sheet rock is getting bagged and on Tuesday, I’ll take it to the transfer station, buy a $10 construction debris disposal ticket and unload the bags.
So tipping them may be permissible
Mmm my mistake… I read “Most THINKless Jobs.” I’ll be on my way.
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