Bullshit jobs are created just like the comments on this article demonstrate.
The proper response is "This is bullshit, let's fight it". Yet, it's not of personal importance, and really, how many fights can you fight, so somebody somewhere comes up with a way to circumvent the system. Others help refine the step for that - because you know it's bullshit, and circumventing bullshit feels satisfying.
From there, this will no doubt spread, and be further refined. The ultimate outcome is a content free form that allows everybody to take no personal risk, and simply trades the actual decision making for signing a form that you know will never harm you.
And voila, there will, at some point, be a specialization where you just see large volumes of people, and sign their slip. The insurance will press to make it lower skill and less expensive. Since no actual skill is needed, it won't stop at being delegated to nurses. Sooner or later, it's a minimum wage job. At this point, companies will start bringing it in-house - why would you want people taking half a day off for signing a bogus form? And after a while, there's huge demand for this - each company needs it - but really, they're not needed fulltime. And so there will be an agency that has these people travel to your office.
At this point, backpain form signer certainly is a new job. And the decisions at every step of the way were entirely rational.
I want to end this with a rousing call to fight bullshit where you see it, but realistically, it would be an all day job. So we'd get bullshit fighters. Who probably at some point just sign forms.
The proper response is "This is bullshit, let's fight it". Yet, it's not of personal importance, and really, how many fights can you fight, so somebody somewhere comes up with a way to circumvent the system. Others help refine the step for that - because you know it's bullshit, and circumventing bullshit feels satisfying.
From there, this will no doubt spread, and be further refined. The ultimate outcome is a content free form that allows everybody to take no personal risk, and simply trades the actual decision making for signing a form that you know will never harm you.
And voila, there will, at some point, be a specialization where you just see large volumes of people, and sign their slip. The insurance will press to make it lower skill and less expensive. Since no actual skill is needed, it won't stop at being delegated to nurses. Sooner or later, it's a minimum wage job. At this point, companies will start bringing it in-house - why would you want people taking half a day off for signing a bogus form? And after a while, there's huge demand for this - each company needs it - but really, they're not needed fulltime. And so there will be an agency that has these people travel to your office.
At this point, backpain form signer certainly is a new job. And the decisions at every step of the way were entirely rational.
I want to end this with a rousing call to fight bullshit where you see it, but realistically, it would be an all day job. So we'd get bullshit fighters. Who probably at some point just sign forms.