ABSTRACT
The adverts were not a campaign by an Italian company making jeans or an American job search website. These subvertisements were installed by an anarchist collective called the Special Patrol Group. They drew on text that was originally published in Strike! Magazine titled 'Bullshit Jobs'. These are jobs which many of their occupants secretly think should not exist. The people who do them think their work is unproductive, pointless and even humiliating. These are bullshit jobs. David Graeber's perceptive analysis of bullshit jobs certainly gives us a starting point for understanding the astounding spread of bullshit within organisations. Spending days dealing with bullshit sounds like a task for a post-modern Sisyphus. Sisyphus's working day is not one many of us would envy. Endlessly rolling a boulder up a hill would rate very low in surveys of the most desired jobs. But Albert Camus saw Sisyphus as a symbol of hope.
