If bullshit jobs are really bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?
If bullshit jobs are really bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?
Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn't make fiscal sense, so what's up?
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There are no bullshit jobs. There's no such thing as unskilled labor. These are propaganda pieces to suppress wages of the most vulnerable of society.
Those two things are not at all similar. The idea of bullshit jobs is not a propaganda thing like unskilled labor. The guy that wrote this book Bullshit Jobs would probably find that what most people think of as unskilled labor are some of the most not bullshit and most important jobs there are.
Although the guy has a lot of debatable ideas that I don't fully agree with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Facebook paid an HR professional six figures for over a year to not do any actual work. Good for her and all but it does sound like her job wasn’t much of a job.
So, she did do something, just not her specific job duty because she got fired after 6 months for a TikTok video. She was doing a bunch of training and was told to learn how things are done at Meta. At a large company, I would not expect a new hire to do much of anything for the first few months as they learned the ropes of how things worked. The more forward facing, theonger I'd expect. Hiring people? That's forward facing. You're choosing who to spend money on. Developers? Customers see the application. I wouldn't let them touch anything significant for a bit. I'm sure it applies to other areas as well.
I think you misunderstand the original author's point.
Bullshit jobs are another issue, it's well paid jobs, sometimes very well paid but whithout an objective way to quantify what they do. Think about the manager who organizes workshop on improving communication between team in a company or the person who does long post on Yammer to praise the company for their green transition as from today there is charging stations on the parking and directors will be given a Tesla rather than a Mercedes and other executive will be given an e-bike rather than a train card.
The don't really feel like they do something complex (or linked to there training) but just use common sense to do basic tasks. Unfortunately, these are still necessary in a large structure
TFW you're so anti-capitalist that your integer overflows and you become pro-capitalist again.