James’s Reviews > Bullshit Jobs: A Theory > Status Update

'It's no wonder the soul cries out. It is a direct assault on everything that makes us human.'

"Many duct-taper jobs are the result of a glitch in the system that no one has bothered to correct—tasks that could easily be automated, for instance, but haven’t been either because no one has gotten around to it, or because the manager wants to maintain as many subordinates as possible, or because of some structural confusion, or because of some combination of the three." good god