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If a consultant is being brought in to do a job you think you should be doing yourself, then who really has the bullshit job in this instance?
by aisengard 6y ago
If a consultant is being brought in to do a job you think you should be doing yourself, then who really has the bullshit job in this instance?
- mola 6y agoFirst "a consultant" is @ very overloaded term. I was talking on the type McK bring to do a little business research and give some recommendations. Software consultants OTH are usually sub-contractors and not consultants per se. Regarding who has the bullshit job, well, probably both the mediocre/corrupt leaders, and the consultant.
- munificent 6y agoMaybe it's bullshit jobs all the way down.
- 2112 6y agoContext : "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues for the existence and societal harm of meaningless jobs. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber