Dave Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" treatise.
In a lecture he gave he was asked how to identify a job thay was bullsbit, one way he suggested was to flip it around. What happens when they all quit? like teachers or Tube workers (he was in London at the time) those are the needed and worthwhile jobs but oddly are often treated like shit.
I'm a school bus driver. Apparently, there is a big shortage of school bus drivers nationwide. But (and it's a big butt): in many of the school districts in my area, this driver shortage has been used as a rationale for privatizing bus services. Somehow, schools can't find people with CDLs willing to work for $30+ an hour with benefits like health insurance, dental and vision plans, retirement contributions and even a pension, plus vacations and PTO - yet private bus service companies have no trouble finding plenty of drivers willing to work for $22 an hour with no benefits at all.
If you fire every CEO at a company. Business will continue as usual.
If you fire every insert basically any other role here, you will more than likely have a problem.
That should tell anyone all they need to know about the "value" CEOs bring.
Disclaimer, I'm talking about large corporations.
I think the delusion is far enough that the owners no longer grasp how the labor exploitation system works. If you don't give them enough crubs it stops everything.
I know someone that has all the hours, proper credentials to be a pilot, he has credentials to fly 737s and A320s, and he has never failed a test. He applied to over 70 airlines (major, regional, corporate, anything in the US) he had people in the industry review his resume. He can't get hired. He is a flight instructor and operates tourist flights but wants to fly larger planes. If there is a pilot shortage, why is no one willing to hire him?
That would be because they're lying. Not the guy in the meme. Companies are constantly saying they're short of workers without actually hiring more. There's several reasons for it, but mostly it's to influence regulation on training and safety standards. In teachers it's a political preference for private schools at the expense of the normal school system.
We produce enough nurses, pilots, and teachers. But the shortage myth justifies running skeleton crews, treating them badly, and hand waives high turnover.
because the media is owned by the same rich assholes that won't hire your friend. these same assholes are setting the narrative to get us fired up to attack each other so we don't look at what they're doing.
what they're doing is accelerating us on a path of self-destruction so they can come back with their resources and take over completely.
Something about this seems off. There is a pilot shortage. Are you saying this person is type rated on a 737 and a 320 and can't find a job? How much experience do they have on type?
He has over 1500 hours of total flying time.
If everyone knew just how little CEOs actually do day-to-day for their millions of dollars, you'd be storming the capital.
if everyone knew just how little senators actually do day-to-day.....
If CEOs work so many hours, who keeps golf courses in business Monday thru Friday?
I've been screaming this for years: THERE IS NO NURSING SHORTAGE! There is a shortage of nurses willing to deal with the shitty conditions they push on us! It's not healthy for us or the patients!!!
To be pedantic, there are a shortage of nurses in hospitals, due to manufactured conditions.
Yes. There are plenty of people willing to do the job, including all the nasty shit they deal with, but then they see the pay and it's simply a better decision to push papers around instead.
The willing to do the job is also being used against the nurses. Strikes are very difficult for them, because they have a real responsibility and it is extremely hard to stop caring for the patients.
A nurse friend of mine told me stories of how brutal it was for her to start working as a nurse at the height of covid. So brutal because they WANT to help people, and the system they are in is not designed for that to much woe
Not yet we don't 🔫
That green water pistol emoji as shown on my device (voyager/iOS) looks like a weapon Luigi himself would use.
Honestly, we should have more CEOs too. They shouldn't be paid as much, but we definitely don't want fewer people running more companies.
Seizing the means of production is a popular phrase for a very good reason. Wealthy doesn't mean competent. In fact it leads to hubris.
And now the insurance industry has a shortage of money, to pay out on insurance claims. Even though everyone paid all of their money. Every month. Every month for their health insurance. And every month for their home owners insurance. And then when it comes time to pay 🤷 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷 where is the money? Better start increasing everyone else’s monthly rates.
Shortages because these jobs pay shit money to put up with a lot of bs.
Yes, because wages are being suppressed by CEOs. Statistically if you are in the USA you've got a roughly 30% chance to earn a million dollars in your lifetime. You cannot physically earn a billion dollars. At the dollar's current rate. You don't have enough lifetimes. You're more likely to win the powerball 4 times in a row than have a trillion dollars.
If all the pilots, teachers, and nurses disappeared overnight there would be mayhem. If all the CEOs disappeared overnight literally nothing would change. How about we replace the actual pointless jobs with AI like the CEOs that pretty much do nothing by comparison.
We don't make these decisions. It's unsurprising that the people who do make them have given themselves all of the money.
We choose to let them make those decisions for us
Education and health care are two places where the administration has expanded much, much faster than either the "customer base" or the people doing the real work. Which is quite odd. There should be economies of scale at work; you don't need twice as many administrators to handle twice as many workers or customers. Should be a lot less, like 1.2x or 1.5x. However, the actual numbers have gone the opposite way, like 5x the admin staff for 2x the workers and customers.
While it's probably the single easiest job to offload onto AI we will need actual humans to take the fall for the boards decisions for the foreseeable future.
"We deleted the software responsible for our most recent ecological disaster" doesn't have the same weight as firing an actual person.
That just creates a new job! I can be the "fire guy!"
People can employ me just to fire me when the AI fucks up. Lol
"We fired the guy responsible for our most recent ecological disaster" doesn't have the same weight as an actual punishment
The only thought that went through my mind reading the last bit. Is there really that much difference between firing a CEO and deleting an AI? Deleting the AI would save us the cost of the golden parachute....
I've been saying this since day one... Make the AI's replace these fucking useless pieces of shit. Replace MOST managers, in fact, as well.
How about a manufactured CEO shortage, the French way? 🤔
De-manufacturing is a better word
We actually DO have a shortage of overpaid CEOs, as much of the entrepreneurial web of small businesses and local special interests have been bought out or bankrupted by corporate expansion and conglomeration.
The days of petite bourgeois middling millionairehood are coming to a close. The fat dodos trundling around Middle America with their second homes and their Sea-Do outlets and their small patch of land dedicated to not growing alfalfa have all been clubbed and devoured. You're either at the top of the food chain or you're someone else's dinner.
I would love to be a teacher. I have a teaching license in 2 languages and IT and I can't teach because I have bills to pay. :(
That's so sad. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and she still bartends at least two nights a week to make enough money to live.
On a nicer note, maybe some of your co-workers would be interested in learning a second language? Maybe you could just make it part of the work day sometimes?
I wanted to be a pilot very badly. I was told that the good paying pilot jobs would die with the previous generation of pilots. I was told that airlines don't need to pay good money for pilots anymore. So, it's no surprise that there's a shortage of people who were willing and able to sacrifice the incredible amount of money and time required to become a commercial pilot. The airline executives very much made their own mess.
Just look at what happened during COVID.
All the jobs marked as "essential" back then would probably be a solid proportion of the grease of society. People would riot if they suddenly stopped existing.
Civilization collaaaaapse.
I've been told there would be a pilot shortage since I was in high school. I started flight school in 2005 and was teaching flight school by 2010. I've still never seen anything I would describe as an "opportunity" in the aviation industry.
The only shortage is a wage shortage.
This is all it is, and it’s annoying when other people or the media just gloss over it.
You can’t just say there’s a worker shortage without saying at which pay. There might be shortages of teachers and nurses for the jobs paying $30K, but I bet there aren’t shortages for the jobs paying $300K.
Oh the demand for those workers is zero? I guess a shortage there is just as impossible as fully staffing the $30K positions.
There is a fix for this and it just takes us rallying together a little bit in a video game character fashion.
There is a fix. It's called Unionizing.
well unfortunately these shortages do not generally affect billionaires (not directly atleast).
Post-covid proof people don't appreciate the true backbone. Bangs more pans
There's a shortage because people is not desperate enough.
Desperate people usually gain an understanding of the job market really soon and what happens when you are too picky
When you guys up there realize that jobs get more and more scarce because they are still getting done, but either by sourcing external talent or AI, that's when the real desperation will kick in
And suddenly, that spot at McDonald's, serving burgers or cleaning bathrooms, will look more appealing
Sadly, by the point this happens, these jobs will also be out of reach because of automation
You are still young, probably. Don't lock yourself out of the job market while waiting for the world to change.
And without bread or circuses they will attempt to rule the mobs, just as the czar and ancien regime
Are you Dora the Explorer on an acid trip?
You seem incapable of not licking Boots.
or, you know, join a union
Noooo you're supposed to panic and work a job you hate until even that option is gone!
ShartDickPrime is back from huffing the glue factory dumpster with another hot take!
Your entire posting history is pathetic AF.
To companies hiring CEOs there is a shortage actually, otherwise they would pay them peanuts.
No, CEO pay is a kickback/grift. CEO pay is decided by the Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors is made of CEOs of other companies. What they're doing is all colluding to inflate each other's wages and then using that as a justification after the fact to demand higher pay for themselves, lying that it's due to "the market."
They don't think of it that way. They think "we are paying this person for what I know is a tough job and the value they bring to it." Even though they are definitely colluding. Boeing's board is probably one of the most egregious examples. Dave Calhoun let a door plug fall off and abandoned two people in space, but he still got a huge severance package. Gross.
