\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Unbelievable how unproductive, time wasting and mindless most F500 employees are

...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
why doesn't capitalism weed them out?
aquamarine house feces
  04/29/25
I really don't know. It's a great question. Maybe markets ...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
...
Light Casino Love Of Her Life
  04/29/25
Actual capitalism would weed them out. The mutant freak neol...
Curious chestnut gaming laptop
  04/29/25
Actual capitalism has never been tried!
indecent pontificating ape
  04/29/25
...
gaped idiot theater stage
  04/29/25
...
Bull headed stage
  04/29/25
...
Impertinent sepia national
  04/29/25
...
swashbuckling factory reset button menage
  04/30/25
...
henna deep garrison
  04/29/25
large financialized, publicly traded corps should be thought...
Bright Box Office Nibblets
  04/29/25
This is an interesting theory.
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
cr the "Bullshit Jobs" book covers this aspect a l...
exhilarant hot selfie public bath
  04/29/25
That’s actually a rubbish book. I’ve covered thi...
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/29/25
why haven't any conservatives shredded these companies for w...
aquamarine house feces
  04/29/25
Most of it is him talking about the Nolan Batman movies and ...
henna deep garrison
  04/29/25
He spends a lot of time praising Women and attacking the dum...
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/29/25
I think I already talked about him being a jew in my poast i...
henna deep garrison
  04/29/25
cr that book sucks and that guy was a Short jewish shitlib ...
Bright Box Office Nibblets
  04/29/25
the output of the lower retainers isn't valueless. as the co...
Crimson Headpube
  04/29/25
yeah. also, the lower someone is in the retainer pyramid, th...
Bright Box Office Nibblets
  04/30/25
Right the actual service most companies provide is very basi...
Crimson Headpube
  04/30/25
...
Bright Box Office Nibblets
  10/29/25
i really like it here
titillating stubborn forum jewess
  04/29/25
...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
not really. you just deal with lawyers
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
He’s perfectly describing Fake Jobs. Like 60% of F500 ...
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/29/25
He knows this he just feels threatened.
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
With the amount of RIFs last 3 years, I think most truly unp...
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
This is an insanely retarded POV. Large public companies ar...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
please do tell me about these jobs
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
I don't know what you would like me to say. I interact with...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
So no examples?
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
Would you like me to start identifying individual employees ...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
job titles would suffice (open hiring positions?).
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
Okay let me pull a couple org. charts and some memos with th...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
tyia
Fantasy-prone doobsian senate
  04/29/25
agreed for most fortune 500's but not for the big banks.
judgmental point telephone
  04/29/25
Check whatever company you’re thinking about and the n...
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/29/25
lmfao
bistre brunch
  10/29/25
I have an F100, an F500, and a startup job. Of all of them, ...
concupiscible fanboi
  04/29/25
...
histrionic theatre community account
  04/29/25
...
henna deep garrison
  04/30/25
...
Gay dragon
  04/29/25
nonstop "alignment" meetings where everyone wants ...
odious personal credit line
  04/29/25
Only in liberal arts jobs
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/29/25
my company has all these fucking retarded meetings about vol...
judgmental point telephone
  04/29/25
TCR
green fiercely-loyal institution
  04/30/25
Alignment is my current most hated buzzword
swashbuckling factory reset button menage
  04/30/25
heard it used here more in a month than in a lifetime of emp...
odious personal credit line
  04/30/25
Are you an Engineer
aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm
  04/30/25
no but work heavily with them. even they outsource the bulk ...
odious personal credit line
  04/30/25
WFH’s greatest gift is that I can just skip these meet...
Mauve Psychic
  04/30/25
You’re gonna be terminated by an AI for misalignment
swashbuckling factory reset button menage
  04/30/25
...
bistre brunch
  10/29/25


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 11:53 AM
Author: histrionic theatre community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890439)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: aquamarine house feces

why doesn't capitalism weed them out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890443)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

I really don't know. It's a great question. Maybe markets aren't as hyper-competitive as we like to pretend they are. It's a big open secret that anyone who observes these companies becomes privy to the more closely you interact with them (but there's no incentive to change the status quo because the supermajority of people within the company benefit from it, like a gentlemen's agreement that everyone just half-asses things). The average management-layer employee has a calendar full of meetings they don't contribute to but nevertheless sit in on (so they appear "busy"), 4 weeks of paid vacation that they assuredly take to the last minute, a couple weeks of fake sick time they finagle in, and they work a real 10 hours max per week putting together charts and "ideating." Projects take forever to complete; everything is constantly delayed; there are significant inaccuracies and mistakes that get glossed over by higher layers of management and leadership; there's no sense of urgency in anything unless it is externally imposed on them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890453)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:36 PM
Author: Light Casino Love Of Her Life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891413)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 1:44 PM
Author: Curious chestnut gaming laptop

Actual capitalism would weed them out. The mutant freak neoliberal GC clown show we have rewards them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890701)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:31 PM
Author: indecent pontificating ape

Actual capitalism has never been tried!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890830)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: gaped idiot theater stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890856)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:13 PM
Author: Bull headed stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891355)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:32 PM
Author: Impertinent sepia national



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891815)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: swashbuckling factory reset button menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893574)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: henna deep garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890449)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 12:08 PM
Author: Bright Box Office Nibblets

large financialized, publicly traded corps should be thought of as fiefdoms made up of layers of retainers

everyone in every layer has retainers below them who serve them, all the way up to the very top. people are permitted to continue to exist within the organization to the extent that the usefulness that they provide as a retainer to others outweighs any friction or problems that they pose to others

retainers in medieval times didn't do anything most of the time, either. they just existed as parasites on the productive system around them until their lord called on them to do something, just like corporate employees with their boss(es)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890485)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

This is an interesting theory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890685)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:00 PM
Author: exhilarant hot selfie public bath

cr the "Bullshit Jobs" book covers this aspect a little. larger headcount = more important = more power. it also gives individual managers or teams the room to cut headcount later as a tool to look like they're "doing something" in a time of crisis. summary: it's all fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890740)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

That’s actually a rubbish book. I’ve covered this iirc. He doesn’t do a very good job of delving into the BS and it’s kind of hard to do so when you’re a shitlib tbh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890801)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: aquamarine house feces

why haven't any conservatives shredded these companies for wasting shareholder money?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890806)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: henna deep garrison

Most of it is him talking about the Nolan Batman movies and also being a jew iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890808)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:33 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

He spends a lot of time praising Women and attacking the dumb things the military does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890839)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: henna deep garrison

I think I already talked about him being a jew in my poast imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891395)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Bright Box Office Nibblets

cr that book sucks and that guy was a Short jewish shitlib

i can't remember if he actually addressed what i described above but i stand by it as cr. anyone who has worked in these orgs can attest to this being how those orgs work

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890870)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Crimson Headpube

the output of the lower retainers isn't valueless. as the company grows the workforce specializes and becomes formalized. each activity of the company is spread over more and more people, so it becomes commoditized. the roles aren't useless, they are just increasingly simple.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891334)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 10:17 AM
Author: Bright Box Office Nibblets

yeah. also, the lower someone is in the retainer pyramid, the more work they're actually doing (typically)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893093)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 10:20 AM
Author: Crimson Headpube

Right the actual service most companies provide is very basic and can be performed in a totally rote way. Companies get complex as external relationships and organizational demands increase, hence most people push paper over email.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893112)



Reply Favorite

Date: October 29th, 2025 5:43 PM
Author: Bright Box Office Nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#49385726)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:28 PM
Author: titillating stubborn forum jewess

i really like it here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890817)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890849)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

not really. you just deal with lawyers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890835)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

He’s perfectly describing Fake Jobs. Like 60% of F500 adult male employees with desks/computers have Engineering Deliverables.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890843)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

He knows this he just feels threatened.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890847)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

With the amount of RIFs last 3 years, I think most truly unproductive jobs are gone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890852)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

This is an insanely retarded POV. Large public companies are full of these positions still.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890857)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

please do tell me about these jobs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890865)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:40 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

I don't know what you would like me to say. I interact with and see this in management layers (especially) at F500 companies every day. The standards and tolerance for shirking / slacking / bullshit / half-assery / not giving a shit are still phenomenally high even after any sort of RIFs that have occurred. As I said above I think part of it is just tacit coordination/collusion--it benefits most people most of the time to keep things like this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890879)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 5:57 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

So no examples?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891307)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

Would you like me to start identifying individual employees at Raytheon?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891313)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

job titles would suffice (open hiring positions?).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891318)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account

Okay let me pull a couple org. charts and some memos with their info just standby for a while hoss thank you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891320)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:04 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone doobsian senate

tyia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891329)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 8:46 PM
Author: judgmental point telephone

agreed for most fortune 500's but not for the big banks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891716)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

Check whatever company you’re thinking about and the number of employees in 2019 vs 2025. The only layoffs I can think of were in bloated af tech Firms and western game developers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890891)



Reply Favorite

Date: October 29th, 2025 5:39 PM
Author: bistre brunch

lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#49385716)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: concupiscible fanboi

I have an F100, an F500, and a startup job. Of all of them, F100 is the least efficient and pays the most.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48890848)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: histrionic theatre community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891284)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 10:19 AM
Author: henna deep garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893104)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 6:00 PM
Author: Gay dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891316)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:32 PM
Author: odious personal credit line

nonstop "alignment" meetings where everyone wants to get involved but do nothing. it's pretty amazing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891816)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 10:11 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

Only in liberal arts jobs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891947)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 10:17 PM
Author: judgmental point telephone

my company has all these fucking retarded meetings about volunteering/discussing the strategy with people who are irrelevant to the "strategy" and inclusion meetings where we all just bullshit about our "concerns" which usually amount to "but why do I have to come into the office 3 times a week muh kids dentist appointment??"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48891970)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 7:02 AM
Author: green fiercely-loyal institution

TCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48892699)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 7:08 AM
Author: swashbuckling factory reset button menage

Alignment is my current most hated buzzword

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48892700)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: odious personal credit line

heard it used here more in a month than in a lifetime of employment elsewhere. we even joke that it takes 5 months to align to do 5 weeks of work. what's amazing is that even if you align with a ton of people, some random person will still be pissed off that he wasn't in the loop, even though he's completely irrelevant. then there are people who make whole careers doing 100 lines of RACI, thinking this shit was even remotely useful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893790)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: aphrodisiac khaki stag film pisswyrm

Are you an Engineer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893966)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: odious personal credit line

no but work heavily with them. even they outsource the bulk to contractors & vendors, chiming in to "align" on shit. fucking LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48894017)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: Mauve Psychic

WFH’s greatest gift is that I can just skip these meetings entirely now and no one notices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893265)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 12:28 PM
Author: swashbuckling factory reset button menage

You’re gonna be terminated by an AI for misalignment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#48893579)



Reply Favorite

Date: October 29th, 2025 5:38 PM
Author: bistre brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718092&forum_id=2...id#49385711)