OPs has distilled his job title from ‘political agitation meme technician’ to ‘shitposter’.
Radon
Submitted 5 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to [deleted]
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BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 months ago
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I Funeral Home…
Fuck.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I bury corpses.
Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Also I don’t. I am not a funeral director and the cemetery does that. I do paperwork, make cards and signs, pay bills, move bodies and make sure they are where they are supposed to be.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Saying “I catch fish” is as descriptive as the first guy saying “sales analyst”. Second person is a software developer, second guy is a systems architect. So you catch fish? Sure. What kind? On a river? In the ocean? Do you really just press a button that rolls up a big net full of turtles and dolphins as well and you’re destroying the delicate balance of a fragile ecosystem? Are you a fishing guide?
Anyone can describe their job in three words. Understanding it is on you, man.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
The whole concept is more akin to whether or not you are working directly with the material fruits of your labor, or if you’re some secondary or tertiary job to the actual work being done.
Basically, their view is that if you are not directly making the product or apart of the physical logistics for that product, then you’re in a bullshit job. I would not say I agree with the philosophy myself, but i kind of get it. ‘I farm Corn’, ‘I Truck frozen food’, and ‘I catch fish’, do exist in a very different realm from ‘I manage a team of QA specialists’, ‘I am an Advertisement Consultant’, and ‘I contribute to my company’s server backend codebase’.
Taldan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The problem, to me, is that not everyone on a boat is catching fish. There are plenty of different roles. It’s just that people outside the industry don’t have a concept of the nuanced differences between roles, so it gets simplified to “I catch fish” even if they aren’t involved in catching fish at all. Most people outside of tech have no idea between the different roles that exist in tech either. It wasn’t too long ago where no matter your role in tech, you’d tell laymen, “I work in IT” as a catchall for any technical role
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank you for your insight.
The concept is still bullshit. You can describe any job in three words to the same extent that “I catch fish” is informative. That’s all I’m saying.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
test
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I melt plastic?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
If someone is willing to pay you enough to live for a bullshit job, is it really a bullshit job?
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 months ago
That makes it even more bullshit because the person paying knows it’s bullshit.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 months ago
Yes.
Though I don’t agree with that person’s definition of “bullshit job”.
yakko@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I verb nouns
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I can’t say.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 months ago
Found the glowie
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I had to Google what that was. Not as exciting, I’m afraid.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Emails and meetings
Karjalan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You just successfully described 95% of modern office jobs
P1k1e@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I fix shit
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I pull beef
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Make missiles hit.
Objection@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Maybe don’t.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 5 months ago
He’s a fertility doc.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’d think that would help but it probably means they just send more missiles and hit more random things around the target.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
i make websites
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can confirm this works, since fullstack is a real job, but I can’t describe my frontend bullshit in 3 words.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So I either have a bullshit job “I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks” or a real job “I herd electrons”…
icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
You do math.
Grimy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am an aquatic resource acquisition specialist leveraging distributed ecosystem monitoring, real-time biological signal analytics, and manual–mechanical retrieval interfaces to optimize biomass extraction.
drath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I suck dick
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Nice to see you here Mr. President.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Ah, it’s nice to meet another fellow customer service rep.
blarghly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I do things
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Is this really the message we want to send?
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution. That is not the fault of the people who have bullshit jobs.
And no, I won’t accept “this is just a shitposting sub, lighten up” as a response. This is just another form of kicking down, and it isn’t funny. The working class needs solidarity, not this.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution
Couldn’t be further from reality. Capitalist firms actively hire the least amount of people possible, because if they can get away with equal production and lower number of employees, that means higher profit.
Capitalism is actually the only system in human history with unemployment: it wasn’t a thing in hunter-gatherer society, it wasn’t a thing in early agricultural societies, it wasn’t a thing during the times of slavery, it wasn’t a thing during feudalism, and it hasn’t been a thing in any communist nation such as Cuba or the USSR (both guaranteeing jobs to every citizen as a right, and the latter having 10% of all positions vacant from 1970 onward).
Capitalism maintains an unemployed sector of the population because:
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Employing more workers costs more money to firms
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Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms
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Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 months ago
Further reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Yeah I really don’t like the “blue collar good tech bad” undertone here
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 months ago
When I saw it, it was posted on sites to mock this thinking.
Yeah, someone believes it to have made this. But yeah, that person sucks.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Agreed, but I refuse to extend that acceptance to most consultants.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 months ago
I make art.
^ real job.
I get disability benefit trapping me in dependence on the system under threat of impoverishment, destitution, starvation, freezing, if i dare ever attempt to do anything productive, or even look like it, or even not. Paid to do nothing.
^ real bullshit job.
Oh what a great system you have there. >:[
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I write code
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I generate bugs.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honest.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Numeric question answering.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My job is bullshit, but my job is not who I am.
rustyfish@piefed.world 5 months ago
Same. I don’t work because I like my stupid ass job. I work because I like everything outside my job and some of these things are in dire need of being financed.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I manage systems
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I know it is a shitpost but this fucking fisherman that kills animals and destroys our environment. He is the worst. Fuck you fisherman!
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He also leaves nets in the sea when they tangle, because plastic is cheap and fuck the ocean is their preferred pronoun.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I fix houses.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 5 months ago
I shop for people
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Stay away Roman slaver!
hOrni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“I hate it”. Does this count?
Boppel@feddit.org 5 months ago
i catch fish (and then they rot on his ship, because thats all he does)
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I draw lines
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Can you draw three lines perpendicular to each other?
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yes, easily
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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Heck yea, it’s computer aided and shit
Furbag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You draw lines? I draw lines, too!