Fake Work is Destroying America!

[bijou]

Fake work is evil. Fake work is cancer.  Fake work kills.

Fake work has crept into a crevice or corner into an office near you.

And it is destroying America!

Fake Work (FW): A project or task that keeps one or multiple people busy yet has no productive value.  It serves to keep an illusion alive that there is still something of productive value being achieved.

Office Space made fake work famous. The Office made fake work routine.  Your company has made fake work part of day to day operations.  We laugh because it’s funny.  We laugh because it’s true.

And we accept it. “Work for work’s sake”.

Sometimes we know it’s FW.  Sometimes, FW is conveniently disguised.    Other times, we don’t want to know.  It can even be comforting to have mountains of fake work, fake projects, and fake tasks because then our positions feel more secure.  ...

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