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Re:MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations by ironmagma on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:10PM (#23492867)
It’s roughly the same concept. Those people were hired for a reason, even if it wasn’t a fully rational one. Just as musicians are the quality of life improvers of society at large, so too are code janitors to an IT team.
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Re:MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations by toshk on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:58PM (#23493715)
The idea of bullshit jobs started a few years ago mostly based upon the idea that the people doing themselves felt like they were doing bullshit jobs, and therefore not feeling fullfilled.
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Re:MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations by Doctor_Fegg on Friday June 12, 2020 @12:59AM (#23496184)
Douglas Adams got there in the 80s with his Golgafrincham B Ark storyline.
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Re:MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations by alasdair_ on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:02AM (#23496478)
>Douglas Adams got there in the 80s with his Golgafrincham B Ark storyline.

If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it's that (as Adams warned us) "telephone sanitizers" are absolutely essential.

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