Kulturkampf

[DavidCroquet]

as someone who worked a fake job in the fake UBI corporate smoke and mirrors world for a long time, I find it hard to disagree.

I’m not sure that the corps are intentionally establishing useless roles and departments, but there’s a lot of mechanisms that support this. As one example, departments have to spend to justify budgets, so they find employees to fill the bucket. Many places have employee reviews that are 100% vibes based, and if you’re not setting the place on fire you can always be useful as a warm body for an on-call rotation during the company wide holiday break.

It’s also why massive layoffs can happen and Microsoft doesn’t delete Windows or whatever. We fired 16% of everyone and…you wouldn’t even have known if we hadn’t told you.