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Overvalued and Overpaid Jobs That Are Totally Useless

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    Font - drchris6000 • 4d If someone else is "Regional VP" they are either drowning in responsibilities working 70 hrs a week; or they have absolutely nothing to do other than collecting a check. ... Reply 24.1k

    "I would expand this, personally. Call it the Michael Scott theorem: In any company of sufficient size, there is at least one layer of management that is completely useless, but kept around as a dumping ground for people who earned a promotion but really should've stuck to non-management work, nepotism hires, and people who definitely shouldn't have been hired but are kept around so the person who recommended/approved hiring them doesn't get embarrassed." said u/Nuka-Crapola.

    "My lifelong best friend just got a regional VP job a month ago, and he's been trying to figure out wtf he's supposed to be doing because thus far his duties encompass replying to/directing emails between facilities in his region. It's literally a job he could do with 1.5 hours of 'real, actual work' per day…and the company is thrilled with his work thus far! I told him that I personally think he lucked into the perfect job (at least if you're going to work for someone else.)" said u/blargmehargg.

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    Rectangle - skininja89 4d 1 Award Whoever was in charge of that fuckup in Ohio Reply 8.3k ...
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    Rectangle - ds_vii. 4d 1 Award my IT director.. he's never around, automates his email, and he has his own company ... Reply 8.7k

    "So many IT directors are not techs by any stretch, but just management that filled the void. They end up hiring MSPs to do the work. They pretty much balance the budget and approve requests for permissions or product purchases." said u/Toosh0933.

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    Rectangle - Underground EvilDoer • 4d 3 Awards Vivek Garipalli, Clover Health: $389.6 million. George Mikan, Bright Health: $180.8 million. Mario Schlosser, Oscar Health: $60.8 million. John Kao, Alignment Healthcare: $46 million. Reply 11.8k ...

    "400 million to drive a fucking company into the ground? Where do I sign up?" said u/ExIdea.

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    Rectangle - plexxxy • 3d 1 Award Gillette 'engineers' - they took 5 years to go from 3 blades to 4 Reply 2k
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    Rectangle - min_mus • 4d 3 Awards About two-thirds of the upper-level admins at the university I work for. ... Reply 37.1k

    "I am the payroll person at a state university, and I completely agree with this. The people in upper management aren't even in union-protected jobs who, in theory, should be the first ones gone when we need to settle the budget problems we have. Instead, they were the only ones who got raises during COVID." said u/Vandelay222.

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    Font - brighter_hell 4d 1 Award Member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). They've had a lengthy history of excessive demands ($4 million US spent on "entertainment" in Nagano, traffic lanes dedicated to IOC members during the games, etc.) They make very few decisions, all of which are politically motivated. They travel extensively and are paid well for it: https://dailytrojan.com/2021/08/16/progress- without-profit-the-ioc-benefits-itself-at-the- expense-of-athletes/ #:~:text=Although

    "I wouldn't mind that job. How do I apply? Do they teach corruption or a job requirement?" u/wants_the_bad_touch.

    "you have to bribe your way in, so 10+ years of corruption and bribery is minimum requirement" said u/MikeHock_is_GONE.

    "Am I able to bribe with tax payer's money? Don't have much of my own." said u/wants_the_bad_touch.

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    Rectangle - sakbak • 4d 3 Awards Ferrari strategist Reply 13.1k

    "You'd think out of pure dumb luck they'd eventually make a correct call right? You'd be wrong." said u/italia06823834.

    "It's almost uncanny, there's the standard strategy, and the risky one, and then there's whatever the fuck ferrari are doing." said u/Burgess237.

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    Font - Frankie Mint • 4d Generally, US govt contractor positions requiring high security clearances. Entry level pay isn't that high, but once you're cleared other contractors will offer bigger bucks because you can get cleared with them quickly. Jump from one to another, wait two years, do it again, lather, rinse, repeat. Reply 5.3k

    "I have a very close friend that falls into this category. He literally sits at a desk overlooking a beautiful lake and once a month drives 60 miles to visually inspect a dam. Like just drive to it and look at it. He always jokes 'if you want to see your tax dollars wasted, come visit me at work'" said u/soIstartBlasting.

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    Font - NZKhrushchev • 4d My mum from whom I am estranged works as the vice president of reward at an international company. She basically arranges contracts so millionaires can get more money and gets paid 189,000 pounds a year for it. Even she thinks it's ridiculous. Reply 10.4k
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    Font - Lucy Vialli 4d President of FIFA ● Reply 26.6k
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    Font - RootMan322. 4d 1 Award One night I babysat three kids for about 2 hours or so. The kids went to bed when I got there, and the parents had left dinner out for me, so all I did was eat their food and watch their TV and pet their dogs. When they got home the mom paid me $100. I told her that was way too much. She slurred "Don't worry about it, I'm drunk." And then I noticed her fly was down. So that was the most over paid job ever lol. Reply 20.1k
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    Rectangle - idreallyrathernotktx • 4d 2 Awards My uncle was a commercial airline pilot. He described his job as "vastly overpaid in normal circumstances and vastly underpaid in emergency situations." ... Reply 32.1k
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    Rectangle - Uajpqsa • 4d 6 Awards Hospital CEO's... and actually almost all hospital upper management. There are so many layers of management that many of them barely step foot into a healthcare facility EVER, let alone EVER speak to a patient, yet all of them make 6, 7, 8 figure salaries plus mega bonuses. My hospital network CEO makes $11 million salary not including bonuses, which bothers me, but bothers me even more are all the board members and shit directly under him making nearly as much.
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    Font - moeriscus • 4d I still don't know what big-firm "consultants" do. Reply 8.4k
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    Font - flacocaradeperro . 4d 1 Award The one I had at my last office job. I was originally hired to be the manager of a new project, but the project was never launched and I had a long term contract. After 5 months of being paid by only clocking in and out without doing any actual work, someone saw me in the pool for available associates and invited me to join their project as a frontline agent. Apparently at some moment the database just marked me as an available employee, without mentioning th
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    Font - thewezel1995. 4d Life coach ... Reply 2.8k
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    Font - _BlueFire_4d Anything that could be reduced to "I make a lot of money because I move a lot of money", like brokers, insurers, wall street stuff, real estate agents... Reply ↑ 5k ↓ ...
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    Font - lump77777 4d 1 Award Realtor. While I believe they can provide value in some situations, technology has put a lot of the work into the buyer's hands. You find places you like, send them to a realtor, they walk you through and point out which rooms are bathrooms, print out a mountain of paper for you to sign and ... BOOOM $50,000 commission. Reply 4.6k
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    Rectangle - loapqjz • 4d 1 Award I am here for a potential change of career. Reply ... 40k

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