What profession contains the biggest liars?

[tctnd]

Talk show hosts

[Chocaholic]

Didn't read through this, so apologies if already said, but it seems obvious....Politicians!

[vash]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Politicians and televangelists is/are too easy.

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add strippers and we can close this thread.

[Bill Douglas]

The motoring industry are probably the biggest bunch of liars. From mechanics to used car sales people.

Edit I've just had a sudden thought. Gulp, I certainly wasn't referring to you guys Rueben. I hold you guys in the highest regard. I was more thinking about that fulla in Petone who thinks he knows something about 911s, and a now defunct car dealer who nearly sold a $1,500 car to my sister for $8,000. Plus one or two others that GF's have taken their cars to over the years.

[Por_sha911]

Not a profession but some of them treat it as a full time job: atheists.

[JD159]

Gods

Biblical authors

Prophets

[JD159]

Being a parent?

"This gift is from Santa!"
"*Insert how you explain where babies come from*"
"You're so handsome!"

[Arizona_928]

lol this went down quick. ^^^

[Matt Smith]

Wow Por_sha911, probably the wrong forum for those comments....

I work in the environmental science industry: Plenty of ignorant, ill-informed and under-read people now apparently feel that we are the charlatans of modern society, despite dedicating our working lives to answering questions everyone asks, and of course everyone has an opinion of.

[GothingNC]

Politic's and car salesmen.

[wdfifteen]

Talk radio host is #1. Yes, they get paid to say whatever it takes to get the audience riled up, by lying is lying. Car salesmen come in second. One of them told my wife the brakes on a car had been rebuilt, "I had the rotors balanced and everything."

[fastfredracing]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

The motoring industry are probably the biggest bunch of liars. From mechanics to used car sales people.

Man, that hurts

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Man, that hurts

I think they're referring to dealership mechanics. either way they're blaming the wrong guy. The mechanic purely fixes the car, and people rarely have interaction with said person. It's the service writers that are the complete scheissters.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by vash

add strippers and we can close this thread.

As professionals, the participants in their industry are way more honest than the amateurs. They know their product, honestly advertise it to its best potential and with most being open to negotiation on a sliding scale, even though they've priced their product to be the cheapest and most readily available on the open market for centuries.

[asphaltgambler]

Hands down: car business / sales & service. Nothing but lies to the customer, each other, between departments and their suppliers. In fact the entire working profit model is based solely on this principal, because if truth be told the numbers would be impossible to reach without lying.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

The motoring industry are probably the biggest bunch of liars. From mechanics to used car sales people.

That is too broad a brush to paint the industry. Generally mechanics/techs are the good guys. However working as a mechanic in a big shiny car dealership I would think would be dehumanizing. When my first service comes up on my three year old Miata I will get a quote first. If not much difference then I go to my indy shop who I absolutely trust.
Service reps give me the heebee jeebies. However our Lexus dealership is good. They did show me the leaky shock absorber they replaced and I crawled under the car to make sure there was a new one installed.

[VincentVega]

Home improvement contractors. Cant count how many no shows or blow off's I've dealt with. Then there are the crazy estimates followed by the delays, cover ups, cheap fixes... Thankfully I've found a few good guys but have found so many that are far from honest.

[wdfifteen]

I worked for a Fiat dealer one summer in college (early 70s). When a new car came in for its first service the owner made sure we took the oil filter off by hand, so as not to scratch it. He had a place where he set the filters up to drain. After a week or two of draining he would put them in a new genuine Fiat part box. When the next car came in for service he'd upsell the guy from our standard Fram filter, charging $1 more for it because "...genuine Fiat is better than Fram."

[widgeon13]

Politicians(mostly lawyers) and car salesmen!

No trust as far as one can spit.

[vash]

Originally Posted by JD159

Being a parent?

"This gift is from Santa!"
"*Insert how you explain where babies come from*"
"You're so handsome!"

"no, i dont have a favorite"

(says the bitter middle child )