Book Titles

In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.

…if you’re on the clock, do not be too efficient. You will not be rewarded, not even by a gruff nod of acknowledgment.

Humans are social beings that begin to atrophy – even to physically decay – if they are denied regular contact with other humans…

…the higher you climb in the hierarchy, the more oblivious the managers are likely to be – but at the same time, the more formal authority they tend to have.

…the psychological and emotional labor required to balance meaningful interests and bullshit work is often daunting.

…it is possible to find purpose and meaning despite even the worst of bullshit jobs.

…when a profit-seeking enterprise is in the business of distributing a very large sum of money, the most profitable thing for it to do so is to be as inefficient as possible.

…extra managers are hired with the ostensible purpose of improving efficiency.

Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds…

…a mass reduction of working hours is probably the quickest and easiest thing that could be done to save the planet.