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When your job feels existentially absurd

I work night shifts monitoring server temperatures and I spend eight hours watching machines that exist to make other machines run cooler while burning enormous amounts of electricity and I feel like I am trapped in some kind of absurd loop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Modern work often involves tending to systems whose purpose becomes circular and meaningless upon examination.

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