What are functions that are not a part of your job that common wisdom would make people expect are a part of it?

Table Games Dealer here. “Help us make money” – listen, if the dealer knew how to beat the house they’d be a player. The dealer is a terrible player, that’s why they’re on their side of the table.

Ohhhhh. From "table games dealer" I thought you owned a tabletop gaming store. Selling, like, Settlers of Catan and D&D and stuff. Took me a minute to realise you're a casino employee.

Making sure your fruit and veg is washed, half the time we've dropped it on the dirty floor and just do a quick dust off.

If you're not fully washing your fresh produce when you get home, do it from now on, people are fucking disgusting and will sneeze in their hands meer seconds before picking up, handling and then putting back the stuff on the shelf, contaminating the rest.

I'm a software developer. All my relatives assume that I know how to troubleshoot every computer problem they have. From cleaning up crapware-ridden ancient Windows XP laptops to replacing failed hard drives, they call me for help.

I mean I do, but that's not the point!

I have a degree in computer science. Today I was defeated by my mother's laptop not detecting its fucking webcam. Downloaded the official driver from HP but I have no clue whether that one even got installed because the install scripts always ended weirdly fast without a success or error message. I will never buy a cheap HP laptop again.

I work retail. Contrary to popular belief, I DO NOT always know whether a particular item is in stock or not, unless I consult the computer. I do not have the exact price of every item committed to memory. I don’t even know the expiration date of every single coupon. Some customers think I suck at my job, but I haven’t gotten any complaints from the people who pay me, so…

I'm always amazed when people know what shelves and aisles things are at off the top their head. I am asking 100% expecting people needing to ask some who runs that department or to check the system.
- It takes a while to learn, but now I’m glad I know where some of the weird, obscure items are that people rarely ask for. It’s nice not to have to scour the store thinking “I just KNOW I’ve seen it around here somewhere…”
- Back in the day there were stores that could definitely answer such questions. The employees were trained to be able to tell you which aisle (side and end) you could find their products.
  
  Not anymore. Guess the training got cut so the CEO could get his quarterly bonus for being a genius. /s
Doubly so if you just got back from time off or helping another store.

I'm an electrician, a lot of people assume electricians are lighting specialist. We are not.

I have lighting vendors calculate photometrics for commercial jobs and I do what is common sense for residential.

I do DevOps engineering, but to most family I just say computers which means I am an expert at everything online and can help make an app for their phones or make crypto.

Luckly managing expectations IS part of my job lol

I'm a Linux software engineer and my in-laws always want me to fix their emails, troubleshoot their Windows driver problems, or work out why their printer is no longer working. Often all three on the same day. Its so difficult to explain to them I'm not "that kind" of computer guy.

What I'm saying is.. can you come to my in-laws house and do expectation management for me? I'm bad at that.
- @flubba86 Yeah, it's actually fucking easier to come in and fix their printer or whatever.
  
  @fruitycoder

Fix your PC. Yes, I work in technology, and yeah, I probably CAN fix your PC. Not my job.

Dealing with your shit.

Not. My. Job.

Not my current job, but people working in a large department store knowing where individual item is.

Most can point you to a department, but not even an aisle. But not everyone who works in a department store works for the department store. Anything that's not in their line of vision might as well not exist in the store at all.

From my time in IT - that issue that's been really bugging you? The one you still haven't logged a ticket for? Not my job to look at it.

I am an accountant and cannot even begin to count the number of people who asked me to do their taxes. I do not do tax accounting, never have, it's a whole separate department where I work, and at every job I've worked. I'm not sure the tax people even think of themselves as accountants.

Can you do a quick financial professional jargon check for us?

I have an accountant, and she's employed for her expertise in the UK tax code as applicable to small businesses.

I understand that there are also accountants who work like financial engineers, trying to find tax-efficient schemes for large businesses. What's your business?
- I am in sports now, we are international but employ consultants for international tax stuff. It's way too complicated. Our internal tax department does do some of the financial planning, yes, tax minimizing schemes as you say, working with the legal department. They also do some general reconciling of the tax liability accounts, sales tax and VAT on merch, that part is accounting but the planning stuff is more like legal work than finance.

Mental health crisis clinician: dementia is not considered a "mental health" issue

Also, we can't force people to get help just because they are acting wildly "crazy"... Even if it's clearly psychosis, mania, etc. Even if the cops are getting called everyday because the person keeps trashing stores or harassing people. (And, in my state, the cops aren't allowed to arrest them either, BECAUSE the behavior is due to mental illness).

There's some serious issues with our mental health system in the US.

Writing code.