Liaconn, again as in other posts you see my point as an excuse for saying it's all right. What I'm saying comes back to the first line of my post today: you're not special.
There is no special agenda against you all, many, many people face sweeping generalisations. What I object to is the PS/CS expecting special consideration or sympathy because it happens to them. Whether I'm unemployed and claiming benefit, a butcher, baker, candlestick maker, my whole life is subject to the same generalisations and, depending on what I do, the same bitterness and attacks as the PS/CS.
No it's not acceptable, but no you're not special.
I'm not going to state where I work or what I do publically because, one I'm a chicken, but more that I prefer to have some privacy on such forums. If you really wish to know PM me.
However, just to state for the record, my job and employer has come in for more than its fair share of stick on these forums, in the media and in public. Let me put it this way: I will go out of my way to not use a taxi because of the inevitable "so where do you work" conversation.
The difference is, where people are right in their criticism, I agree with them, why would I get defensive when they're right? Why would I defend the indefensible? Where they're wrong, I explain to them a different perspective, I try to show what the reality is. If it doesn't work and they still have their prejudice, then it really is no skin off my nose.
I like my job, I even like my employer, but I'm not going to get wound up about something which is effectively a means to pay my mortgage and to facilitate my life outside of work hours and at weekends. It's a job, a good one and it pays well enough, but it's just a job. If, despite pointing out their errors, people still want to have a go, then ho hum, I'll have bit of craic with them, maybe even play along with the stereotype they have just to wind them up. But I won’t take literally or to heart.