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{{a|work|}}An individual’s relative risk, in a given commercial environment, to a single individual the Oxford English Dictionary might describe as “an unpleasant or stupid person” on one hand, and the sheer weight of ''l’ennuyeux'' vouchsafed by the massed practitioners of the [[buttocractic oath]] on the other, is encapsulated by the ''[[arsehole-jobsworth continuum]]''. | {{a|work|{{image|arsehole-jobsworth continuum|jpg|''Where we have come and where we are going'' {{vsr|1923}}}}}}An individual’s relative risk, in a given commercial environment, to a single individual the Oxford English Dictionary might describe as “an unpleasant or stupid person” on one hand, and the sheer weight of ''l’ennuyeux'' vouchsafed by the massed practitioners of the [[buttocractic oath]] on the other, is encapsulated by the ''[[arsehole-jobsworth continuum]]''. | ||
A small, intimate workplace leaves you greatly exposed to a single tosspot, from whom you cannot hide, whom you are obliged to greet wanly in reception each day, and who can wantonly ruin entire days, weeks and years of your professional existence. We like to imagine tech startups (''[[founder and CEO]]''), small restaurants (''chefs''), and [[hedge fund]]s (''anyone really'') are unusually prone to this experience. | A small, intimate workplace leaves you greatly exposed to a single tosspot, from whom you cannot hide, whom you are obliged to greet wanly in reception each day, and who can wantonly ruin entire days, weeks and years of your professional existence. We like to imagine tech startups (''[[founder and CEO]]''), small restaurants (''chefs''), and [[hedge fund]]s (''anyone really'') are unusually prone to this experience. | ||
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At the other is the massive multinational, full service banking organisation — especially one which used to be a sleepy commercial lender, until it acquired a credit trading operation in 2003, when that seemed a good idea, rescued a failing investment bank in 2008, when it didn’t, and an asset management division in 2009. Here there are plenty of arseholes, to be sure — but they are generally avoidable, at least in the long run. What is ''not'' avoidable is the sheer, soul-crushing bureaucratic monotony in these organisations, an ear-splitting background [[tedium]] which has survived and, apparently ''thrived'', despite all these punctuations in the organisation’s evolutionary equilibrium. | At the other is the massive multinational, full service banking organisation — especially one which used to be a sleepy commercial lender, until it acquired a credit trading operation in 2003, when that seemed a good idea, rescued a failing investment bank in 2008, when it didn’t, and an asset management division in 2009. Here there are plenty of arseholes, to be sure — but they are generally avoidable, at least in the long run. What is ''not'' avoidable is the sheer, soul-crushing bureaucratic monotony in these organisations, an ear-splitting background [[tedium]] which has survived and, apparently ''thrived'', despite all these punctuations in the organisation’s evolutionary equilibrium. | ||
{{Otto}}, by way of defending the [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]] (“[[conservation of tedium]]”) from the apparently contradictory evidence presented by [[outsourcing]], established the [[seventeenth law of worker entropy]] describing the rate of growth of tedium in an ''inflating'' system: “the intrinsic tedium acting on any organisation is proportional to the square of the number of individuals comprising that organisation” | {{Otto}}, by way of defending the [[sixteenth law of worker entropy]] (“[[conservation of tedium]]”) from the apparently contradictory evidence presented by [[outsourcing]], established the [[seventeenth law of worker entropy]] describing the rate of growth of tedium in an ''inflating'' system: “the intrinsic tedium acting on any organisation is proportional to the square of the number of individuals comprising that organisation”. | ||
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