![]() Or feel good about themselves, in some cases. ![]() A flunky exists only to make someone else look good. People would suggest ideas to me, and gradually it came together to five categories.Īs you say, we have, first, the flunkies. And so, in a way, we came up with category-systems together. I did little interviews with people afterwards, follow-up stuff. I asked people, “What’s your most pointless job you ever had? Tell me all about it how do you think it happened, what’s the dynamics, did your boss know?” I got that kind of information. I assembled several hundred testimonies from people who had bullshit jobs. This came from my own work, of asking people to send me testimonies. And on the other hand, you have jobs where you’re treated with dignity and respect, you get good payment, you get good benefits, but you secretly labor under the knowledge that your job, your work, is entirely useless. If you’re cleaning toilets or something like that, toilets do need to be cleaned, so at least you have the dignity of knowing you’re doing something which is benefiting other people - even if you don’t get much else. On the one hand, you have the jobs that are shit jobs but are actually useful. So, you can almost see it as an opposition. In fact, the more your work benefits other people, the less they’re likely to pay you, and the more likely it is to be a shit job in that sense. You know, if you have a bad job, chances are that it’s actually doing some good in the world. But actually, the irony is that those jobs actually aren’t bullshit. When you talk about bullshit jobs, they just think jobs that are bad, jobs that are demeaning, jobs that have terrible conditions, no benefits, and so forth.
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