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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by yowlingcat on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @04:34PM (#18802532)
Who pissed in your coffee today? Perhaps it's my bias living in NYC, but the average denizen here (myself included) finds someone asking proper, honest questions to be the absolute bare minimum to taking that person seriously, not to mention the absolute bare minimum to a whole host of basic human interactions and endeavors: working together, dating, making and sustaining friendships, making art, building a company.

Frankly, I find the almost passive aggressive lack of asking proper questions to be a little condescending and mean in and of itself. One of my favorite movies has several themes, but that's one of them. It's name, very interestingly enough, is Mean Girls.

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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by scarejunba on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:35PM (#18804213)
About the one difference between people who live in NYC and people who live elsewhere is that the former always prefix their questions with "As someone who lives in NYC,". They're sort of like college mothers, members of the armed forces attending university, or vegans.

I'm somewhat of the opinion that the people you're talking about will have considered answers to the so-called proper questions you have. It may be that they need to think to answer some.

Constructing some fictional individual who's bullshitting on LinkedIn and then tearing them down is top-shelf insecure behaviour.

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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by skookumchuck on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @04:41PM (#18802560)
Ironically, asking someone "where are you from?" is now considered a micro-aggression!

https://othersociologist.com/2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-r...

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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by danmaz74 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:04AM (#18805448)
As an Italian living in London, with very light skin and blue eyes, I still get this question asked often enough - just because of my accent. Mostly, it's a way to start a conversation. Personally, I also ask the same questions to most English-sounding and looking people - to learn if they're from London or from somewhere else.
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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by bartread on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:46PM (#18803161)
I must admit that I find the whole idea of micro-aggressions somewhat suspect, at least as currently posited, since it becomes an apparent necessity for me to second guess everything that anyone says to me for ulterior or questionable motives. As an introvert this degree of "extrospection" sounds utterly exhausting.
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Re:Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work by skookumchuck on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:43PM (#18803604)
It's much like that "cultural appropriation" absurdity.
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