Bullshit Jobs: A Theory: Difference between revisions

[[Internal audit]]: now that ''that'' is a bullshit job: these people must turn stones, analyse data, write [[PowerPoint]] presentations, jockey [[spreadsheet]]s, and sanction the compilation of [[MIS]] against which they must measure formal, but ''never'' substantive [[KPI]]s and [[deliverable]]s. [[In the weeds]] which are their natural habitat, these  are perfectly sensible, prudent, and plausible means of managing systemic risk. From a birds' eye view they disappear from view altogether, but render really as a gray, sticky sheen over the whole organisation. In performing their role, internal auditors consume not only their own resources, external resources, but those of (usually) productive people whose functions they are employed to audit. That is bullshit squared, especially if they're auditing other people who themselves are carrying out largely bullshitty roles: [[ISDA negotiator|ISDA negotiators]] or [[Mediocre lawyer|netting opinion compliance personnel]].