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[-] RION@hexbear.net 77 points 3 weeks ago

"I analyze sales"

"I develop automation"

~~There's no saving Blockchain stuff fuck that~~

"I sustainably harvest fish and other aquatic foodstuffs for human and/or animal consumption."

Bad news fisherbros

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

sustainably

I mean, probably not, no.

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

this doesn't always work the other way, for example "I own property"

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

I’d say that still works because ownership of a thing isn’t work. Saying “I own a coffee maker” says nothing about what I do for work. If their description doesn’t include describing labor then they’re clearly not working for a living.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

“I make phonecalls.” -Landlord

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago
  • I collect rent.
  • I play golf.
  • I gentrify neighborhoods.
  • I botch repairs.
  • I evict tenants.
  • I call pigs.

This meme sucks lol

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure none of these are actually "bullshit jobs" as defined by Graeber, they just do things that Hexbear culture doesn't like.

Also, plenty of very real R&D & manufacturing jobs couldn't be described in 3 words without being needlessly vague or reductive. There is in fact complexity in a modern industrial economy.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah this is a little bit "if you don't have a hard hat and a big hammer you aren't proletarian," which is the exact opposite of what we should be saying

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't feel like busting out the jargon but yeah it smacks a bit of vulgar producerism.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

It's been a while since I read it, but there are two broad categories of bullshit jobs, right? In the first, the job itself is bullshit; you might barely have any day-to-day responsibilities and no one notices if you do any work or not, or perhaps the work itself doesn't accomplish anything of value (I think an example of the latter was someone who prepared exhaustive compliance reports that no one actually read). The second category is a real job that contributes to a bullshit industry. So a network administrator is a real job, but doing IT work for an insurance company is in service of a bullshit industry that just shuffles money around. On the other hand, an engineer for Lockheed Martin, while undeniably doing harm, is not doing a bullshit job.

Totally with you on complexity not implying bullshit, though.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

OTOH this meme would piss off techbros which makes it good.

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

I can see the appeal, but I suppose I don't think about techbros that much so that's not a metric I'm evaluating things on shrug-outta-hecks

[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Cool add 1 word and now it is still valid. I am so sick of corporate bs speak.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 44 points 3 weeks ago

Bad because the vast majority of bullshit jobs are just:

  1. I write emails.
  2. I make graphs.
  3. I generate reports.
  4. I schedule meetings.
[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

This is more than three words, but "I fetishize real work and imagine that the only thing that counts as real work is when white guys with beards do stuff that would fit in the age of empires tech tree"

I guarantee the author of this meme is some urban liberal that is working through their own alienation from work

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

People seem to constantly forget that the working class is mostly women of color. "I drive buses" or "I serve food" would have been better

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 32 points 3 weeks ago

I draw furries

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago

"I break kneecaps" - debt collector

"I kill dogs" - cop

"I ruin countries" - US president

[-] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

I bang writers

hears the sounds of the Volcell police and runs away

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

u can run but u can't hide from the volcel police

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[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

I herd cats

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

"I abuse and kill fish"

Sorry, that's more than three words smuglord

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

I can describe those first three in three words:

“I scam people”

“I scam people”

“I scam people”

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, lots of automated capabilities are very real things, like running a hydroelectric plant.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

See, I’d just describe my job as “running a hydroelectric plant” then. When people lead with the esoteric, abstract jargon instead of the concrete, that screams to me either they’re puffing up what they do to make it sound more impressive than it really is, or they’re a grifter. It’s like people that describe themselves as entrepreneurs; people who run a small business developing something they’re passionate about talk about making the product or service, people who talk about being an entrepreneur are about to sell you on a Ponzi scheme or MLM scam.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’d just describe my job as “running a hydroelectric plant” then

Notably four words, you hack thonk

I mean I absolutely agree on a fundamental level, but practically even workers who do real things (like help run a hydro plant) will have to use phrases like these at and around potential employers. It's not being a grifter so much as speaking grifting language at grifters (employers/investors etc.). If someone says that kind of stuff to me as a non-work acquiantance, family, friend etc. then yeah it's for sure nonsense.

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The two firsts are bad examples because it's just software engineering. They might build a scammy bullshit service but they might also build the interface through which we operate trains so that's not the definition of bullshit

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

I pretend working

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This message brought to you by "I make comics but post them online instead of having a contract with a newspaper"

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

i sell stamps

I program computer.

[-] glans@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Dunno if its any interest but graeber was insistent that having a BS job was self defined. Because there are jobs that may appear useless to an outsider but in fact are not.

Also having a job which is harmful, destructive, or evil is not the same as having a BS job.

[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Saving this when I inevitably have to make a LinkedIn profile

[-] gramxi@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I suck dick

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ive never read this but the cover always shits me, we're going to need comrades doing behind the scenes admin after the revolution

  • oh its a poster, my point remains, it ties into that lib attitude i see masquerading as principled anarchism, ya know why work? work less, its individualist garbage imo
[-] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I have a fake job. I'm going to try to get a new one soon. But I just tell people I meet it's a fake job.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I work at the dick-sucking factory

Wait, that's more than three words don't tell me it was all for nothing

[-] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago
[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I never got promoted. A lot of favoritism at the dick sucking factory

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[-] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

Glad to see that "social media influencer" is a real job.

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I deliver beans

Not even a joke, I'm a bean delivery man

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[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago
[-] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

i vape piss

[-] NoamParenti@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

I extract surplus

I kill gamers

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