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50 Bulls**t Jobs: Business analyst

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Stanley Bing
Stanley Bing
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alley
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By
Stanley Bing
Stanley Bing
and
alley
alley
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April 26, 2007, 5:08 PM ET

Just a few ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing’s book, “100 Bulls**t Jobs and How to Get Them” (Harper Collins).

A reader from Atlanta writes:

The actual job: Review and assess business requirements needed for any new project or an enhancement in an existing product prepare a detailed functional specification document create/raise issues in current production environment investigate and fix those issues

What people really do: nothing.

Copy things here and there from previous functional specification documents only create and raise the hell about current issues/problems and blame it on Engineers and poor design chat and leave home early to put. In short bulls**t your way to an upper management position and be the ultimate and biggest bulls**tter

Readers, what do you think? Is this a bulls**t job?

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