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What is one of the fake jobs you mentioned?

• citizenpaul 4y ago
  BS Jobs is the official term. From a tech perspective though there are plenty of people even on HN that will freely admit they probably do less than 10hrs of work in a week. There is also adversarial hiring in tech where you hire highly educated people and make/find work so your competitors don't hire them. flunkies who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters goons who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers; duct tapers who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff 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, quality service managers; taskmasters who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals