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Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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“The people that are the most susceptible to the corporate bullshit tended to choose the worst solutions to those problems on a consistent basis,” Littrell said.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Well that goes some way partially to explaining why management at large corporations almost as a rule are uselessly incompetent.

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[-] disorderly@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

Littrell noted the workers who participated in the study all came from highly educated backgrounds in HR, accounting, marketing and finance, had bachelor’s degrees and even PhDs, which shows the findings go beyond simply assessing the intelligence of the study participants.

Actually, I'm not convinced that we've managed to eliminate that hypothesis. The only group that gives me pause is accounting.

[-] Calirath@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Education ≠ intelligence. To quote Berkeley, "Few men think; yet all will have opinions."

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