The "Bullshit Jobs": these Var people were employed to make unnecessary professions they tell

Complete someone to perform a task that is useless, heresy?However, the phony consultants, the "happy managers" and other consulting firms with tirades as empty of meaning that he full of Anglicisms thrive.Just as unnecessary vigils proliferate and portfolio managers who do not help earn more money ... technique?An art of multiplying unnecessary tasks in order to "stage" his work, baptized internationally "Bullshit Job".

The phenomenon is not new.Already in modern times, Charlie Chaplin's cult film released in 1936, not only does nothing work, but factories produce nothing visible.

Work one day

"In his survey of managers, Robert Jackall collected this pearl, in the mouth of a lawyer for a large American company in the early 1980s and which will remind some of the beginnings of confinement:" I really think that if theMost people did not come to work, that would have no consequences.You might easily come only one day a week to do what is absolutely necessary. "Exactly the definition of a Bullshit Job. However, no one was talking about it. What happened?", Questions Nicolas Kayser-Bril who proposes to respond in his full-time imposture test (released on January 20 at editions du Faubourg).

As strange and paradoxical as it may seem, this "unnecessary work" fruit of liberalism does not harm prosperity.The proof, the economy continues to function as if nothing had happened!

Legitimize a social position

"The Covid has plunged our societies into a crisis where we lack arm to make useful jobs, such as treating the sick or harvesting vegetables. In addition, many employees take advantage of telework to lift your foot and do notMore work than the time necessary to accomplish their tasks, sometimes two hours a day instead of the eight planned. (...) The only problem is political: decreasing the time worked would question the centrality of work. We could no longerLook like an "emancipation instrument", to use François Hollande's words. It would be necessary to replace the work by something else, and very few politicians dare to consider it. Instead, it is the work that theWe constantly redefine so that he can fill the days of citizens, "continues the author, himself confronted younger with unnecessary - and obscure work!- From ... "Blended Learning" which inspired his work to him.

So who benefit the "bullshit jobs"?"First of all to the people who occupy them. They make it possible to legitimize their social position and their income. The more we descend the social scale, the more difficult it becomes to obtain a" bullshit job ". It is for this reason that theUseful trades, as a caregiver or cleanliness agent, are also the most poorly paid ", analyzes Nicolas Kayser-Bril.

The testimonies of Varois (read elsewhere), often resigned to these positions "which bring them nothing", come to confirm his questions about "the sense of work".