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I'm curious, which jobs do you define as bullshit?

• 0xfaded 6y ago
  There's a whole book on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs To quote wikipedia "The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs: flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants goons, who oppose other goons hired by other companies, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers taskmasters, who manage—or create extra work for—those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals
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  • avgDev 6y ago
    I am rewriting a crappy application as we speak, I guess I have bullshit job. feelsbadman.jpeg.