[BugheadTorpeda6]

I don't really believe the whole bullshit jobs thing to the extent some do. There are definitely a lot of office space style "I gather the requirements from the customer so that the engineers don't have to" type jobs that exist as intermediaries and handle bureaucracy, but I suspect that those aren't actually bullshit and they have good reasons to exist. They could be eliminated, but work quality would probably suffer without those personnel. Hence why everybody complains about being understaffed and having to wear too many hats.

It's easy to think there are a ton of bullshit jobs if you are in a startup that isn't being regulated and is growing and intends to compete with large entrenched companies. Especially working on mostly greenfield projectsm The minute the startup becomes entrenched themselves, I think you end up seeing why the big dogs had so many so called bullshit jobs in the first place and that maybe it wasn't stupid after all.

I think running lean and mean is easier said than done and we would see more of it if it were actually a case of jobs just being invented out of thin air for no reason.

Certainly, a lot of jobs FEEL like bullshit, but that is more of a function of alienation from the actual work output due to positioning in an organization and lack of ownership, rather than actual uselessness.