• Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
    1482·
    29 days ago

    First one: i analyse sales.

    Second one: i automate production

    Third one: i’m a fucking idiot

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    63·
    28 days ago

    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.
    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      28 days ago

      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.

      • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
        41·
        28 days ago

        Everyone likes to act like they’re more important than they are.

        Ironically the fisherman might actually be worse ethically and ecologically.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          28 days ago

          Everyone likes to act like they’re more important than they are.

          And that impulse is borne out of insecurity.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              28 days ago

              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.

    • slampisko@lemmy.world
      51·
      28 days ago

      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

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        3·
        28 days ago

        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.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    434·
    29 days ago

    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.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      29 days ago

      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.

    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
      1·
      28 days ago

      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:

      1. Employing more workers costs more money to firms

      2. Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms

      3. Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    37·
    28 days ago

    So I either have a bullshit job “I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks” or a real job “I herd electrons”…

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    392·
    28 days ago

    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?

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        26 days ago

        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.

  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
    27·
    29 days ago

    Extreme physical danger of drowning, hypothermia, severe injury, insane hours, unpredictable income, huge mental and emotional stress in an industry that often damages the environment and is plagued with human rights abuses?

    This comic feels like it was written by the fisherman.

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
    19·
    29 days ago

    I am an aquatic resource acquisition specialist leveraging distributed ecosystem monitoring, real-time biological signal analytics, and manual-mechanical retrieval interfaces to optimize biomass extraction.