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"You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it."
~George Carlin
You know what's funny - I've actually seen that happen at my last job. Like the director explicitly said, in effect, "We aren't hiring scientists anymore. We want cookbook chemists." They fired all of the best method development people (the lab used to literally be a world leader in analytical chemistry method development - like just 5 years ago) and have hired people "just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork." Fuckin embarrassing - I got out as soon as I could when he came in.
As someone who formerly worked in a chemical lab, I'm genuinely curious which company this was.
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