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They might consider themselves fortunate. After all, a large portion of the workforce is being paid-often very good money-to do nothing. It’s not obvious, however, why having a pointless job makes people quite so miserable. For workers who have internalized this value system, there is little that is more demoralizing than waking up five days a week to perform a task that one believes is a waste of time. We expect a job to serve a purpose and to have a larger meaning. (Only 50 percent said that it did 13 percent were uncertain.) A more recent poll conducted in the Netherlands found that 40 percent of Dutch workers felt their job had no good reason to exist. In 2015, YouGov, a polling agency, asked Britons whether they believed their job made a “meaningful contribution to the world.” More than a third-37 percent-believed it did not. There, I unseal the box, fill out another form, hook up the computer, get a few signatures, drive back home, send a letter with the paperwork, and then I get paid.”
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A guy from the logistics firm carries the box to the new office. I drive to the barracks, fill out a form, unhook the computer, load it into a box, and seal the box. The barracks are up to three hundred miles away from my home, so I rent a car. I get an email to travel to the barracks. The logistics firm approves the move and requests personnel from us. The IT subcontractor reads and approves it and forwards it to the logistics firm. Instead of carrying his computer over, he fills out a form. “Let’s say a soldier moves to an office two rooms down the hall. The logistics firm has a subcontractor that does its personnel management. The IT firm has a subcontractor that does its logistics. “The German military has a subcontractor that does its IT work. This is how Kurt, a subcontractor for the German military, describes his job: Graeber is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.Įveryone is familiar with the sorts of jobs whose purpose is difficult to discern: HR consultants, PR researchers, communications coordinators, financial strategists, logistics managers. By David Graeber, from Bullshit Jobs, which was published last month by Simon and Schuster.