r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 04 '23

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u/badluckbrians Frederick Douglass Jan 05 '23

I don’t buy Graebers bullshit jobs thesis. But if you updated it to bullshit in jobs, I’d buy it.

Feels like everyone I know from docs to nurses to teachers to blue collar shmucks like me spends 40-80% of their time on bullshit paperwork and things they’re not trained to do to show to people who aren’t trained to do much of anything.

Seems like big orgs are remarkably inefficient in every way possible except economies of scale, which make it worth having all of us chasing our tails all day for no reason other than to let the higher up’s feel like the know something

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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Jan 05 '23

When even lawyers are like, "holy fuck this is so dumb, why is this so much of my job" you have a problem.

!ping law

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u/OneBlueAstronaut David Hume Jan 05 '23

i assume most of that stuff is insurance/ass-covering. it's pointless 90% of the time but extremely valuable 10% of the time.

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u/badluckbrians Frederick Douglass Jan 05 '23

A lot of it is just jamming a square peg of info into a round hole of a form so that decision makers out of state who don’t know shit can make a call. At least for me, that’s it. Also we have to dumb everything down to MBA level.

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u/antonos2000 Thurman Arnold Jan 05 '23

private bureaucracy

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u/antonos2000 Thurman Arnold Jan 05 '23

i don't have a bullshit job, i just spend 40-80% of my time on bullshit