management, CEOs, csuites, and admins being one of them.
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SanicHegehog@lemmy.world 13 hours agoThere’s a book Bullshit Jobs that explores this phenomenon. Freakonomics also did an episode referring to the book, which I found interesting.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The jobs did not start out that way, I guess these people have been tossed to the side and are not where the action currently is.
Yet they are still employed because the boss does not understand what they are doing and they might embellish their contributions etc.
There are so many people who do little, drink free coffee talk to everyone and are seen as very social, liked by everyone etc. They do fucking nothing, I know a handful of them.