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I write code. ✔️ Real job.
I chop down trees. ❌ Bullshit job.
I jack lumber.
I jack off
I fell trees!
you can use “fell” as a transitive verb. it’s a little archaic but sounds cozy.
First one: i analyse sales.
Second one: i automate production
Third one: i’m a fucking idiot
- I
- Am
- A
- Fucking
- Idiot
It doesn’t fit
Imma fucking idiot
Don’t be like that, Imma.
I know you are, but what I am too, also.
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well the job is BS so…
“I’m Stupid” works
I am idijit
Fourth one: I murder living beings so humans can eat their mutilated corpses
Nom nom nom.
Going further with wikipedias article and some of their bullshit jobs listed:
Telemarketing: I sell stuff.
Corporare lawyer: I explain law.
Academic administratrors: I administer students/professors
Compliance officer: I check compliance.
Corporate lawyer would be : i’m an asshole
That’s also most lawmakers/politicians/lobbyists
Is this a war on being specific?
If a fisherman says “I operate the winch on a bowpicker tuna fishing boat”, is that a bullshit job?
If a middle-management yes-man who exists only to fluff his boss’ ego describes his job as “I encourage excellence” does that mean his job is no longer bullshit?
“I encourage excellence” - Chef Excellence
I guide people
Why is everyone always annoyed at managers?
A lot of managers are pretty useless. Some degree of management is needed because you can’t just have 10,000 individual contributors all reporting directly to the CEO. But, a lot of managers get where they are by schmoozing, claiming credit, shifting blame, avoiding responsibility, etc.
3 people above the fisherman:
- sales analyst
- automation technician
- software engineer
Fisherman:
- I operate a decentralized, sustainability-focused aquatic-resource acquisition methodology utilizing precision-guided line-and-lure interface systems to facilitate targeted biomass retrieval.
I think the meme is saying that if you know your job is bullshit, you obfuscate what you do behind a thick layer of corpospeak.
Everyone likes to act like they’re more important than they are.
Ironically the fisherman might actually be worse ethically and ecologically.
Everyone likes to act like they’re more important than they are.
And that impulse is borne out of insecurity.
Being aware of the system doesn’t make you immune from the system.
All it does is convey that the person saying it thinks their job is bullshit and that they’re insecure about it. So they either have impostor syndrome or their job is genuinely bullshit.
In the OP, all the speech bubbles are answers to “What do you do at your job?” I challenge you to try again with that in mind
“I press buttons”
- “I analyse sales”
- “I automate processes”
- “I create software”
I appease Machine-spirits.
Somehow feels less self-immolating than appeasing billionaire-spirits
They’re the same picture.
If you ask me what my job is and then you ask for clarification because you don’t know what that job is, those are two separate questions.
Just because a person does not understand a job does not mean that it’s a BS job. By that logic a cyber security analyst is a BS job. But you would sure as hell would notice if all of them went away.
I write code
(It’s still a bullshit job)
I generate bugs.
Honest.
I code
The requirements said three words, that’s how know you’re a dev and not a PM pretending to be technical.
“I write code”
“Refrigerator Wifi Firmware”
3 words, but my job is still bullshit.
So you’re the guy responsible for ads? Get him everyone!
You’ve been tagged as fridge ads. 🤭
You are the firmware?
Everybody do the flop!
I suck dick
Nice to see you here Mr. President.
Ah, it’s nice to meet another fellow customer service rep.
I make programs
I make problems
Problems make me.
student?
teacher?
I make bugs
The techy kind or the crawly kind?
Practical problems, solve
So I either have a bullshit job “I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks” or a real job “I herd electrons”…
You do math.
Cum on camera
OF is a real job
Is this really the message we want to send?
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution. That is not the fault of the people who have bullshit jobs.
And no, I won’t accept “this is just a shitposting sub, lighten up” as a response. This is just another form of kicking down, and it isn’t funny. The working class needs solidarity, not this.
When I first saw this (maybe years ago), it was posted on sites to mock this thinking.
Yeah, someone believes it to have made this. But yeah, that person sucks.
Agreed, but I refuse to extend that acceptance to most consultants.
Yeah I really don’t like the “blue collar good tech bad” undertone here
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution
Couldn’t be further from reality. Capitalist firms actively hire the least amount of people possible, because if they can get away with equal production and lower number of employees, that means higher profit.
Capitalism is actually the only system in human history with unemployment: it wasn’t a thing in hunter-gatherer society, it wasn’t a thing in early agricultural societies, it wasn’t a thing during the times of slavery, it wasn’t a thing during feudalism, and it hasn’t been a thing in any communist nation such as Cuba or the USSR (both guaranteeing jobs to every citizen as a right, and the latter having 10% of all positions vacant from 1970 onward).
Capitalism maintains an unemployed sector of the population because:
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Employing more workers costs more money to firms
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Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms
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Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.
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I fix things.
I jerk off.
Almost everybody??
I have a limited number of appointments available. Easy, but not cheap.
