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We all want to go home early, so sometimes we end up with "not my job" moments of questionable professionalism. Sure, we all have the potential to be good at our jobs, but there's a whole lot of improperly installed toilets and misspelled signs that suggest a few of us could try harder. Either way, it's nice to have some "not my job" moments to gawk at.

People want work done fast, cheap and well. Unfortunately, all three of those are never going to happen at the same time. There are some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments that slip through when no one's looking. But hey, it's better to get the job done-ish than not done at all, right?

Putting together buildings isn't as easy as it might seem. There are pipes running every which way, irregular sized doors, and real sketchy electrical situations. Most of us want to go home early anyway. That attitude results in some pretty wild "not my job" moments of incompetent construction.

Work is hard. That's why we try our absolute hardest to not try our hardest. These moments of quality unprofessionalism spring forth in the form of misspelled signs, messed up products, extremely curvy highway lines and totally useless staircases to nowhere. And we couldn't have it any other way.

For some reason tons of people think that the worst thing that can happen if you don't follow a doctors orders is that they'll get caught and be scolded. But no, there's an actual reason a medical professional tells you to do something. Medical professionals see through lying patients all the time, and patients still try to deny the stupid things they've done.

As it turns out, it's hard to formulate a decent representation of a lab tech when all you have is a model and a few beakers of colored liquid. It's like everyone's job is a cartoon. For more funny an accurate criticism, here are people's questionable haircuts getting roasted as well as some hilariously precise rare insults.

We've all witnessed some majestically unprofessional "not my job" moments. Maybe someone at work was running out of time, money or patience and just went with what they had. Those moments can result in stairways to nowhere, cans of peaches that magically contain peas, and countless other mistakes resulting in people and things failing at their one job.

Everybody has to put on some kind of a front for their job, whether it's acting like you have a technical solution or pretending you don't gossip about the customers behind their back. Some industries are way shadier than they seem.

If being a brain surgeon was as easy as putting a stethoscope up to someone's disembodied brain, then sign us up for a nuerosurgery position. As it turns out, trying to depict someone's entire profession in a single stock image is really hard to do. Or it would be, if it ever seemed like these people were trying. Sometimes they're not just inaccurate, sometimes stock images are really weird. 

It's not necessarily a stock photographer's job to make the photos look accurate, but to get across the basic idea as quickly as possible. The resulting bad stock photos of people's professions are cartoonishly incorrect and a whole lot of fun to criticize. Stock photos can also get really weird.

This business owner has a history of taking absolutely no shit as well as having an incredible mouth on em. Basically the perfect combo to stop any rude and annoying customer in their tracks. Seriously, check out what this guy said to a private school when he upgraded their charity before them. Total Legend.

It starts off with an interaction between the customer and the admin manager, then after enough annoyance, Chelsea brings in the big guns.

Consider this a free session. That said, it is well within your rights to totally misinterpret these and use them to rationalize being even more selfish than you already are. But on the whole, there's some good insight here. If these don't cheer you up at all, here's some wholesome memes.

When you're at work, you don't have the time or energy to get in a real fight, so people opt for more passive aggressive means of debasing each other. So here's all the things people have heard or told morons that amount to the sheer fury of the phrase "as per my last email." Work can be brutal.

With every job comes a slew of misinformation about what it is you do all day. Wouldn't you believe it, Law and Order SVU isn't actually a terrifically accurate depiction of what forensics specialists do all day. Here's a smattering of the dumb conversations people have to have about their jobs.