Fake work and Y2K w/ Leigh Claire La Berge

In 1998 Leigh Claire La Berge was hired by a major communications
conglomerate, where she worked alongside employees of the soon to
be disgraced Arther Anderson (the auditor of companies involved in
high profile corporate fraud such as WorldCom and Enron). Leigh
Clare and her colleagues were tasked with working on the problem of
Y2K - also known as the millennium bug - when it was predicted that
the turn of the millennium would cause computer systems to fail -
with potentially catastrophic consequences. Based on her experience
of working for the conglomerate, Leigh Claire wrote a book: Fake
Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke.We talked about
the absurd nature of the conglomerate's work on Y2K, the
socio-cultural atmosphere of the late 1990s, and about how Leigh
Claire's experience of becoming a Marxist affected her perspective
on the diary she wrote whilst working for the company. Finally, we
touched on the extent to which the book fits within the tradition
of Workers' Inquiry.