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[–] 64 points 11 months ago* (12 children)

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.
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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

    Ironically the fisherman might actually be worse ethically and ecologically.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

    And that impulse is borne out of insecurity.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)
    • "I analyse sales"
    • "I automate processes"
    • "I create software"
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  • [–] 3 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 147 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    First one: i analyse sales.

    Second one: i automate production

    Third one: i'm a fucking idiot

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (6 children)
    1. I
    2. Am
    3. A
    4. Fucking
    5. Idiot

    It doesn't fit

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Going further with wikipedias article and some of their bullshit jobs listed:

    Telemarketing: I sell stuff.

    Corporare lawyer: I explain law.

    Academic administratrors: I administer students/professors

    Compliance officer: I check compliance.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So I either have a bullshit job "I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks" or a real job "I herd electrons"...

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I write code. ✔️ Real job.

    I chop down trees. ❌ Bullshit job.

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  • [–] [S] 67 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I write code

    (It's still a bullshit job)

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Or one of those boomers, who really wanted AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they either can be stay-at-home mothers or go to "real manly jobs".

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    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.

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    "I hate it". Does this count?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You'd think that would help but it probably means they just send more missiles and hit more random things around the target.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe they should leak the tech so that everyone's missiles can be more accurate and have less collateral damage. Giving missile targeting systems to, say, Al Qaida is ethical, actually? 🤔

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Can confirm this works, since fullstack is a real job, but I can’t describe my frontend bullshit in 3 words.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    "Refrigerator Wifi Firmware"

    3 words, but my job is still bullshit.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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    Generate shareholder value

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    My job is bullshit, but my job is not who I am.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I guide people

    Why is everyone always annoyed at managers?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months 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.

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    [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    OPs has distilled his job title from 'political agitation meme technician' to 'shitposter'.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems."

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    I fix things.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Refreshments and Narcotics

    (an old joke about registered nurses)

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