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People get shitty about bullshit jobs and then when they do get cleaned up by ATMs or some other efficiency turn around and pine for them.



That’s not entirely fair. Jobs automated out of existence weren’t bullshit jobs.

Bullshit jobs are HR and project management. Made up fluff nobody really needs.


If they can be easily automated they should be. Keeping a human doing a job that doesn't need to be done by a human is a bullshit job. It might not have been a bullshit job twenty years ago, that doesn't matter. Things change.


That's a huge blanket statement. Bullshit jobs aren't tied to any specific industries, and all jobs in HR and project management aren't bullshit.


No the bullshit jobs I see people complain about are often linked to "Couldnt someone automate this" like taking notes from inbound phonecalls and simply relaying messages inside the office.




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