gtramont parent
Reminds me of the late David Graeber' BS Jobs: https://web.archive.org/web/20220901173213/https://www.strik... and the book that followed.
These aren't bullshit jobs, or at least the two on mostly unrelated. These are "real" jobs that need title inflation because title is cheaper than cash. The article uses the example of building receptionists.
Receptionist may or may not be strictly necessary for any particular building, of course, but it's indisputable that a building receptionist is a real job. Eg a large office or residential building where you have a large number of people coming and going throughout the day. Part security guard, part front office mail clerk, part janitor, part concierge. More than enough random little tasks that are difficult enough to automate in the edge cases.
The article also mentions "Sanitation technicians", which are about as far from a bullshit job as you can get... someone has to clean the shit.
There is notable overlap between bullshit jobs and inflated titles though. Poke around any large corp and you'll find plenty of "Global Head of Value Engineering Strategy" types, often 'heading' a team of 1, namely themselves.
Hence "reminds me". Indeed they aren't the same, but I disagree that they're unrelated. I'd recommend getting past the article and book titles to understand how these jobs come to be in the first place.