Business school -> nepotism mostly. Also possible after decades of ass kissing, but results are far less guaranteed
this really isn't true at all. I have a bullshit job and never had any connections or wealthy family to get it. I just went to business school (because I didn't know any better at 18) and then it turned out that nearly all jobs you get when you have a business degree are bullshit
Death to America
But aren't you just coasting on all the spreadsheets produced by your business school colleagues?
we're all coasting. we've got 6000 people to do like 1000 people's worth of work. the inefficiency is staggering
Death to America
if you get one you need a non work coping mechanism to deal with the sureal pointlessness of everything you do. I reccomend the film head office for depicting that
Seriously, the money is good but Graeber accurately points out the psychic damage from keeping up the masquerade where you know your job is pointless but can't be sure your boss doesn't also know that.
"Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
I used to work at a place where there were as many "business analysts" as there were developers. The analysts' job was to talk to clients and produce paperwork that ensured strict contractual compliance between client needs and what developers built so the company could get paid without having to contest in court.
My work presented a project group that consisted of 1 dev, and 5 manager/analyst positions. Elsewhere there's teams that are like 12+ dev "agile" teams with 1 scrum master and 2 BAs who don't have time to do any more than hand whatever the customer asks for to the devs.
ironically that guys job is actually important he just couldn't explain it while flustered
Compared to the psychological trauma of a real job, I'm sure it's manageable.
That kind of job sounds like a vacation compared to picking 350 items an hour at my job. I gotta climb ladders and squat as fast possible for 12 hours straight in one of Bezos' swampy warehouse while someone else gets to send a few emails a month? Sign me up lol
Anyone who complains about having an e-mail job has clearly never top-stocked a water heater.
this is extremely true. as a bullshit job haver I can safely say that the ratio of money to work is excellent, but the psychic and spiritual damage inflicted by the pointlessness of my job - and especially by my coworkers' and bosses' insistence that our jobs aren't pointless - is extremely bad for my mental health. to the point where I'm going to leave America to teach English ASAP to get away from the situation
Death to America
Just walk into the building wearing your best suit, demand to see the CEO, and give him a firm handshake :grillman:
For real, a bulkshit job sounds really relaxing and hilarious. I'm like, really really good at bullshitting people and I once convinced someone that lentils got their name because it was the only thing French peasants ate during lent. I would thrive in this kind of environment by accident cause I'm doing s bit.
If performing little psychologically shocking but ultimately harmless tricks was a career I'd be rolling in cash, I once tricked my sister into thinking dairy queen went bankrupt and closed down and was apparently so convincing that 10 years later she tried to argue with me about it while sitting inside a dairy queen
It's the ultimately harmful tricks that get the money. Amoral me would be working in advertising so hard.
My partner has one of these jobs, and I try every day to convince them to stop working. Alas, once a month, they come up with a new process improvement to implement across many branches of the organization.
Like. Just, stop it. Coast. Nobody will notice or care. I bought them a mouse jiggler for Christmas this year, and I'm sure they aren't going to use it.
I'm the junior deputy analytics coordinator and I have a job that's a little harder than this and pays $65k
I'm always amazed at the "managing analytics" part and how often it's done by people with, you know, NO ACTUAL BACKGROUND IN ANALYTICS.
Just let me grift my analytics BS in peace, man.
Its literally just called "consulting" and Deloitte is always hiring
Part of the thesis of “Bullshit Jobs” is that if you aren’t socially conditioned, you won’t be emotionally prepared to deal with such a bullshit job.
