• JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world
    1·
    25 minutes ago

    That’s a sharp joke 😅 Sometimes sounding polished and confident gets mistaken for intelligence. Tone can be convincing, even when there’s not much depth behind it.

  • desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

    Is it possible that the way humanity has been dealing the with useless 1/3 of the population was to put them in middle-management positions? Consultants and the like?

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      11 hours ago

      Absolutely it is. Thats where we got the phrase “kicking them upstairs” from. Promote the useless guy to a position where they can’t actually do any damage.

      If AI succeeds in replacing a lot of those “positions”, we’re going to face a tsunami of idiots.

        • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
          9·
          4 hours ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

          Graeber states that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and five types of entirely pointless jobs:

          • Flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters;
          • Goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists;
          • Duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage;
          • Box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, academic administration;[14]
          • Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.[1][4]
  • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
    511·
    23 hours ago

    Corporate middle managers don’t use semicolons. They don’t even know when to use colons or apostrophes.

    They taught AI to talk like HR reps.