/lit/ - Literature

Started a new job in a county local government job. Last 5 jobs I've had have max 2 people and were private side. I'm not antisocial or autistic, but I'm struggling working with other people in a department of 20, trying to get projects done that lay half finished by previous employees.

Does anyone have any actually good recommendations that aren't just 7 habits or how to win friends? I need to learn how to manage, motivate, and convince other people to their job. Half of them don't even know what projects are going on. Management. Project management. Bureaucracy. Fucking anything. This department is supposed to actually help people and if it was up to par, it would be.

>Manufacturing Consent
Describes how U.S. interests manipulate and controls the media
>The Society of the Spectacle
Explains modern techniques of control by said U.S. interests in current times
>the Democracy Project
Describes the rise and downfall of the occupy movement
>Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Explains how U.S. interests have coerced the rest of the world into control through debt
>People's History of the United States
Point to focus on: historical context of the downfall of the labor movement
>The Utopia of Rules
Explains the bureaucratization of the world, especially schools (pic related)


Basically, it boils down to the fact that after OWS, U.S. interests cemented the final nail in the coffin of class consciousness by targeting identity issues. The rise of identity issues within the zeitgeist convinced colleges to spend money on it. People paid money and did awful things to get the subject first on your mind and subsequently painted as the core of your problems instead of asking: 1. why am I in a grad program I hate and why am I working a job I hate?

>>22689304
>So, you are against 90% of existing jobs.
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Half of people believe that if their job disappeared it wouldn't change anything or would make the planet better. This is the whole thesis of Bullshit Jobs. Serving coffee, making TV, or cobbling shoes all provide some kind of value, but administrators basically spend all day trying to figure out ways to justify their jobs. We could have had a 2 hour work day by now with automation, but instead they moved all the jobs away and continued to force us to work.