Graeber divides bullshit jobs into five categories: flunkies (employed to make others look important), goons (employed to be aggressive or coercive), duct tapers (employed to paper over the cracks in a business), box-tickers (employed so that a company can pretend it is doing something that it is not doing), taskmasters (employed to get other people to do their jobs) and complex multiform bullshit jobs (it’s complicated). I’ve identified as at least two of those in my time (though never, thankfully, as a goon).