One of the premises of BSJ is that people hire staff to puff up their egos and make themselves feel important… and I guess it feels like that is true for some jobs? Like, they are sort of supports for other people’s personal narratives?
That’s fair! They may actually do a big chunk of the work that the “boss” is assigned. I guess it feels like these “superfluous” jobs may be more common in academia, where deans seem to proliferate
