No Gods No Masters
Cassandrich@nogodsnomasters There are a huge number of actual unskilled jobs but they're the opposite of what gets classified as unskilled. Being a yes man is not a skill. Most corporate jobs above entry level are not about performing any skill but rather playing along with the falsehoods that make the owners money. Bullshit jobs are unskilled jobs. Actual labor is never unskilled.
Kevin Karhan 
@dalias @nogodsnomasters nodds in agreement
- Besides few professions that are barred & regulated for good reasons (you don't want unskilled people to be surgeoms in the ER nor do you want people with no formal edication to design critical infrastructure!) the lies of "#unskilled" and "#overqualified" are only used to deny applications in lieu of honest feedback as that would modt likely be an illegal discrimination!
I.e. an employer can't say they don't want to hire someone for being PoC/migrant, or whatever but they can just admit to it or face…
Jargoggles@dalias @nogodsnomasters
It's kind of funny, I got to the same exact conclusion as your last sentence a different way.
I think there has to be some skill involved in that sort of office politicking. It's something that someone can do better at than someone else and you can get better at it with practice. However, it's a skill that produces nothing of value, so you can't really call it actual labor.
Bullshit jobs are skilled in the same way that lying is a skill.
@jargoggles @nogodsnomasters Super spicy hot take: it's only a skill if you're neurodivergent. Otherwise going along with bullshit comes naturally.