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Re:Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100 by cercatrova on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:39PM (#22828763)
Bullshit Jobs is a good book about this exact topic. Managers hire people so they feel like they have someone to manage.
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Re:Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100 by PeterStuer on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:55AM (#22830373)
Read the original article, it makes good points. I bought the book going on that and found it to be unreadable waffle.
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Re:Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100 by cercatrova on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:02PM (#22837332)
I found the book to go more in depth to the article. What didn't you like about the book?
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