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Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n Yale has more administrators and managers than undergraduate students. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/ Replying to @slavov_n
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Your name hints that you are not from the US originally. Please know that you are not supposed to point out such things. Padding staff is something often done, but polite people do not embarrass them. It is a way to show that the organization is rich enough to afford extravagant waste. It has a real reason – organizations now have so many computer systems, human rules, mandates and agendas – no human can keep track of them, so it is necessary to hire ten humans for each task. Putting them into jobs where they cannot do too much damage helps. But politely do not notice or mention it.
The older and richer the organization, the more likely and the more people involved. When layers of managers gets to about 10, you have to create new organizations and give them new titles. Whole large corporations now are completely filled that way, with hundreds of thousands paid good salaries not to do anything. Please do not embarrass them by noticing. There are jobs just making up job titles and still more creative writers to justify continuing, even adding new accomplishments and titles, benefits and awards.
There are whole new industries where this kind of thing starts from the very beginning. The ‘big and rich extravagant model’ is taken as some ideal to be copied, so rather than just hiring people who do work, you skip that and go directly to only managers and administrators. Whole corporations and countries can be built this way. So everyone has a job, everyone pretends to work, and no one is expected to produce any useful things.
In fact, with true AIs one day, no human ever has to work again. The AI apps will do any work required, so humans can visit, chat, and waste time, procreate and pretend. The laws of robotics require the AIs not hurt the feelings of humans, so humans and AIs should avoid ever pointing out that no one is working and no one is expected to work. This will be especially true of “educators” from old schools, because jobs that only depend on memorizing and executing rules will be the first to go. But avoid firing them, just make them administrators or managers and avoid saying anything.
Did @elonmusk fire most of the Twitter staff? He is rich enough to get away with it, but he is polite enough not to mention it.
Just ignore such things and you will be much happier when your job is not needed either and you have to learn how to not rock the boat. Do not talk about other people’s jobs and duties.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
