What are some modern bullshit jobs?

tjarod11@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 129 points –

Jobs that either don't contribute in any meaningful way or jobs where one would be better off if they were paid to be on call.

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In fairness, some companies, especially the big ones, won't accept a hard truth until a third party agency tells them directly. This is primarily because the grunts of the workforce often have the most knowledge of the systems but whose opinions are easy to dismiss.

People I know who work in consulting have said they charge an outrageous amount of money to speak to factory line workers and say what they've said to the factory managers because the managers are too up themselves to do it

That's basically all Gordon Ramsay did on Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell. The only time I can remember that it wasn't because the owners or management weren't listening to their workers, the problem was a 21 year old kid that BS'ed his way into a head chef position, who had no business being a head chef. The episode ended with the kid being fired, cause he couldn't manage to maintain a clean kitchen.

This is because their execs are overpaid idiots who are on this list of people who should just stay home.