This video reminds me of when the Russian revolutionaries seized the palace and were looking through Nicolas II's diary. Even though WW1 was occuring all the diary entries were about laying around and drinking, sometimes he'd go for a boat ride in the pond. Trotsky says something in the History of the Russian Revolution about how the Romanovs had completely pointless lives and were effectively already dead, I think
Diary of Nicholas II, 1917-1918, an annotated translation
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3084&context=etd
Reminds me of that video of rich white hippies living in a faux-commune in Guatemala.
It was in the chapo book, and it's still the best way to put it. These people are living fischer price lives. Their life styles are only possible with the extreme inequalities between imperial core and global south. Like, for every person living this life, a couple a dudes have to mine for coltan while having AKs pointed at their heads, a couple gals had to sit in a sweatshop making their wear-once business casual clothes, etc.
I think about this every single day that I serve labor aristocrats.
Oh yeah,because of course there's the super exploitation but if that wasn't enough you still gotta have your company uber driver and company sbux workers making your food and driving you around.
That's all true but I'm not sure I see the connection to Fischer Price
Feels like parody. Nothing about what actual work was accomplished. They wrote ideas on some stickies and then what?
I feel like the grind of this job would be maintaining this bubbly attitude the whole time while also sacrificing any personal life outside of work. Half the video is just food and beverage socializing, and that is explicitly part of the work day.
The promotional trajectory is likely entirely based on how cool and friendly you are with the bosses while going out together after work. Reminds me of the Japanese middle class work culture with just more veiled misogyny.
I definitely feel like this is a parody but I really can't tell.
The bit about work paying for uber and how it would be pricey if they didn't when the DC Metro is right fucking there seems like bait? Idk.
On the other hand she looks exactly like she works at Deloitte in DC.
Hate this.
The bit about work paying for uber and how it would be pricey if they didn’t when the DC Metro is right fucking there seems like bait? Idk.
I mean they're a company dedicated to privatizing everything so the idea of using something funded with tax dollars is totally alien, if not anathema to them.
Nahh I feel like that's just their kayfabe. "The market is more efficient" seems to be their justification rather than an actual belief, IMO.
I'm not able to find it, but I swear I remember hearing economists and consultants when asked about the 2008 collapse saying "well, everything we did led to this but it was still the right thing to do."
tiktok breaks my parody-sensing abilities because literally everything someone shows me from that app looks like they're doing a bit
Part of the career trajectory is just hanging in there while literally everyone else gets burnt out around you. I think the stat is 70% of consultants are gone within 3 years? So this is just pure slop also to get people to keep signing on. I don't doubt she's way about all the stuff that causes the burnout though.
I think the stat is 70% of consultants are gone within 3 years?
Imposter Syndrome must be vicious when your job is completely fake.
Yeah that's a major part of it. The other part is the constant connections you have to build and maintain to keep getting on projects and justify your employment. So I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people in this video are just kissing massive ass to keep their job.
Never really thought about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I was in tech consulting so it skewed heavily towards one gender. It definitely has a good old boys club feel for sure.
Edit: Thought about it and I had a few female coworkers that I wasn't especially close to, but they were all gone very quickly.
The consultant in this video picks up tea and a pastry for her boss, confirming that she's also having to feed the massive ego of a super-consultant.
We have educational consultants that come to our school for these "growth sessions." Common thread between all these guys is that they have a small army of ass kissers that walk around the room to pass out sticky notes and gift cards while these guys sit up front and tell us we're horrible at our jobs.
Another I'm-sure-it's-purely-a-big-conincidence thing that I notice about all these big shot consultants; this pack of followers always happens to be attractive young women. Go figure!
bubbly attitude
how cool and friendly you are with the bosses while going out together after work.
i legitimately could not do this job
this is parody, the part where she has her phone on the table surrounded by sticky notes she's just writing things down generated from this website which is satirical
My best guess about the designtitles.com thing, it's more like peering slightly behind the veil, I think she can't show exactly what she does at deloitte (NDAs, whatever), so she chose to represent it in a cheeky way, so she knows her work is nonsense. She is also choosing to make these videos because they're doing numbers, even though they're doing numbers because they're hate-watched, her first videos definitely are less about "showing off my wealthy lifestyle" and more about recommending spots on D.C.
Every dollar that paid for this ridiculous day, the education required to get it, and the generational connections that got her into that school, were stolen from the value of workers.
Sometimes i feel like my job is fake, this reminds that i actually do work sometimes
I'm starting to think that if your job consists primarily of having meetings: you don't have a real job.
what the fuck. like i know the point of this video genre, the reason why it gets engagement, is because it presents a fantasy of wealth and comfort, but like the kicker for me is the shot of her "brainstorming sessions" where she's just refreshing a nonsense word generator. Like it feels like she must mean it as a joke but I honestly can't tell.
And they’re probably getting 6 figures
What a fucking stupid reality we live in lmfao
If this is a joke, the joke is on us because Deloitte is a real consulting company that does nothing and makes $60 billion per year.
I got
Designer for Brutalist Religion
as my first try, so seems to work well.
Part-Time Design Wizard and Disciplinarian
This is a perfect bazinga brain job title tbh
there are no words to express how much :proletariat: I feel right now
I also do literally nothing for most of the day but at least I don't lie about it lol
Now I want to make a tik tok like this except it's just me playing flash games and finding creative places to nap
here you go. this is what most of humanity is held in abject misery to uphold as we head towards environmental collapse
Nooooooooooooo she's a worker! She's a based prole exploited by Capitalists!!!!!!
Catch me standing outside of McKinsey HQ showing people gritty memes and trying to get them to unionize.
You don't want to be in mass transit where the OTHER GUY may be insane and/or have a knife! Mass Transit Sucks!(tm) :my-hero:
Didn't realize we had a :graeber: emote. Definitely going into the rotation
ofc I'm pro-labor and would never job shame but I have to ask, how is it fair that you're making a six figure salary putting post-it notes on a whiteboard and live blogging all day? Why can't I have this job, I do fuck all all day long and I'd fit right in.
Attending Ivy League schools isn't about the education in so much as it's about the networking to get these kinds of jobs.
This is an ad to get young people to want to work at Deloitte. Young people like to eat food.
American Psycho really got it right when it showed people with these bullshit jobs spending 90% of their day making dinner reservations and going out to lunch at 10
