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2024-11-18 11:30:31
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Lena ⏥ on Nostr: affine Sylwia آمنة 🏳️‍⚧️ «Why did the Dutch publishing outfit need a ...


«Why did the Dutch publishing outfit need a receptionist? Because a company has to have three levels of command in order to be considered a “real” company. At the very least, there must be a boss, and editors, and those editors have to have some sort of underlings or assistants—at the very minimum, the one receptionist who is a kind of collective underling to all of them. Otherwise you wouldn’t be a corporation but just some kind of hippie collective. Once the unnecessary flunky is hired, whether or not that flunky ends up being given anything to do is an entirely secondary consideration—[…]»

This is the type of receptionist he's talking about. source: David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”, Ch. 2
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