B.S. jobs [1]: "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case."

I see people in the comments always try to existentialize this phenomenon (i.e. draw on meandering philosophical platitudes like "what is the meaning of life"), that is a distraction. Working people are obviously unfulfilled, as the article describes. Fulfilling work does exist, these folks just aren't doing fulfilling work. We all want to do fulfilling work; working people feel like they have no control. To call it another name: labor alienation. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation