• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    There’s a book out there called Bullshit Jobs.

    The thesis is that most jobs are bullshit, that they add nothing to society except to entertain middle management who, in turn, entertain upper management. My last job was a bullshit job but the position was never eliminated because the funding was already secured and to eliminate it would be a political blow to the director.

    Oddly enough, menial, low paying jobs are often the ones that are NOT bullshit jobs, but as you climb the education and career ladder, you are more and more likely to find yourself in a bullshit job, a sinecure for those who followed all the rules of the ruling class.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I can’t really see a pig dressing up to write code for cancer research. Maybe that’s why the NIH has had funding cut

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        3 months ago

        I owned chickens once, and yes they’re all one good peck away from full cannibalism. They will go after each other and their own eggs. It doesn’t matter. The second they figure out that other chickens and eggs are made of food, they go wild.

        Thankfully it’s only ever one or two at a time that figure this out, and those ones can be separated or culled as necessary.