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If you can fall between the cracks of corpo structures where every person thinks you are busy doing stuff, just not for their Department/Team, you can get by for years while doing very little. Just make sure to always look busy and that any work you do end up doing is good, so that people will think fondly of you for managing to bang out that great Server/Report/App/McGuffin in your limited time. They will be grateful that you did that so well in spire of the many chairs you are filling leaving you so busy and won't actually care that it took three times as long as it could have.
Think of it as getting your stolen wages back.
And never feel guilty. Most people employed by corporations do not do useful work for those corporations, nevermind for society. Capital has removed itself so far from these concerns that, somehow, a product made by minimum wage employees who do the actual assembly needs to have, at minimum, three separate departments and at least sixteen separate bosses managing those departments that all get paid way more then the people who do the work and that all raise the price of the product, which is okay because, well, the other corproations are just as bloated so it's normal to still make profits while tacking on all that graft. You didn't create this stupid system and you shouldn't let it consume you.