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Calling people who were gainfully employed “nasty pandemic fat” is a new low.

The mass layoffs are despicable, and it wouldn't fly in Europe, but if you employ 100k people then I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day. I mean some of them have documented it openly on TikTok. Just watch any of the "A day as X at company Y" videos and you'll see all some people do is brunch, drink matcha lattes and then sit in some relaxation pod.

Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience

> I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day

Yes, it's fair to say those people exist.

It's not fair to claim to know their quantity, that management knows who they are, or that it's always their fault they don't create anything.

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