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Bullshit jobs is bullshit. Sure when tasked with some interminablely dull task it can sure feel like bullshit, but the reality is no firm pays for headcount unl
by retube 4y ago
Bullshit jobs is bullshit. Sure when tasked with some interminablely dull task it can sure feel like bullshit, but the reality is no firm pays for headcount unless it absolutely has to. Large organisations by the nature need a fair amount of box ticking and other admin to allow management visibility and control over an organisations' activities.
- enneff 4y agoYour logical fallacy is assuming competence on behalf of the job creators. Companies waste money on many things, that is certainly true, and so why wouldn’t pointless roles be one of those things?
- aabhay 4y agoIt’s not just incompetence, it’s much much deeper. Take for instance a consulting company placed on a project for another company. The consulting company might have one key person, but then adds three other workers to the project to impress management. The three excess workers are forced to invent work that justifies their existence. In this case, neither company would have reason to complain.
- 88840-8855 4y agoNot sure that always is applicable. Here in Germany you have too many incompetent, hostile and yet unfireable employees. For instance in my 12 FTE team is a colleague. She appeared fine when we hired her, but within the first weeks of her employment she proofed to be incompetent, hostile and all talks went into nowhere. We wanted to fire her within the probation period, but suddenly there was a doctor's note that she is pregnant. Nobody believes her, but we cannot fire her. He HAVE to employ her. She will go to maternaty leave in month 8 of her pregnancy. Before that she will take her 30 days (=6 weeks) of paid holiday. After the maternaty leave she has the right to work 50% at 90% pay for 2 years and cannot be fired, too, because she is a young mum. We had our lawyers look into that. Nothing we can do. We will never be able to fire her. We are also worried that she will manipulate data or sabotage without us being able to fully proof it. Hence, we gave her a bullshit job.
- retube 4y agook sure, there are always exceptions. But in general my point still stands.
- rwmj 4y agoYou don't believe she's pregnant even though she has a doctor's note saying she is? Do you think the doctor is lying, or she tricked the doctor?
- rightbyte 4y agoActually sounds like she might be the protagonist of the story if you read between the lines.
- 88840-8855 4y agoYup. She faked figures in the reports.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoI know of a doctor who was caught supplying hundreds of fake notes to asylum seekers in Antwerp. He is still exercising his profession and his cabinet is doing well, I was told. Here in Belgium, corruption around medical certificates is so widespread that anything that requires subsidies has to be approved by anonymous doctors working for social security.
- janetacarr 4y agoLet me get this straight, you don't think she's pregnant, but she has the supporting documentation for pregnancy (from a doctor no less), and you think she'll manipulate data or sabotage without being able to prove it (in other words, without evidence). To me, it sounds like to me you've gone through the cognitive dissonance to justify her relegation to a shit job on the basis of her sex.