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This is the second reference I've seen in this thread about bullshit jobs being something that actually does work everyday. Has no one here had a job that was l
by lovich 8y ago
This is the second reference I've seen in this thread about bullshit jobs being something that actually does work everyday. Has no one here had a job that was literally useless? As in, if you dissapeared, there would be zero affect on anyone other than the company paying out less money every month.
It's not a low skill job phenomena either. At one of my software jobs we we're tasked with generating reports that I later learned we're never read and we're actually auto trashed by the management it was sent to. The only reason we were still around was because the manager with authority to fire us didn't care about anything smaller than a few million, and it wasn't worth the effort for lower level managers to bring the issue through company politics. That's a bullshit job
- notahacker 8y agoFew people would argue that literally useless functions cannot exist in sufficiently sclerotic organizations. What we are saying is that Graeber's claim that job satisfaction surveys indicating 40% of people would not describe their job as "making a meaningful contribution to the world" are clear evidence that enormous proportions of the workforce have no value to anyone is bullshit. (And particularly his original article, which put it in terms of a "poet musician" being rather more cynical about the merits of his day job than his apparently less commercially valued art, and this being evidence this creative output was undoubtedly worth more to society than the service he actually could get paid big bucks for)
- JTbane 8y ago> At one of my software jobs we we're tasked with generating reports that I later learned we're never read and we're actually auto trashed by the management it was sent to. Yeeeeeah, if you could put the new cover sheet on those TPS reports, that'd be great.