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Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
I wouldn't say I was missing it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
In school I once got a lower grade for standing around with my hands in my pockets after my task was done.
Other kids who were doing the same but not with hands in their pockets didn't get admonished, but in a way I suppose the teacher had a point. Gotta teach the kids to look busy!
When I finished work early in school they gave me candy and let me read whatever I wanted
That's some bullshit, I would finish early a lot, I was really fortunate I had reasonable teachers mostly. It was common they would say "since you're done why don't you help your neighbors if they're having trouble?" I felt like an achiever and it also instilled more of a helper mindstate in me at a young age.
I pulled this off for almost a year and half until my boss caught me after the nationwide blizzard in January
He thought I was only doing it for a couple weeks using the blizzard and its aftermath as an excuse; little does he know I averaged three hours a day doing jackshit for over a year 
little does he know I averaged three hours a day doing jackshit for over a year
Same. I see more patients than anyone else in my clinic, but work with a bunch of boomers who spend half the day typing out their medical notes with two fingers, or even worse using text to speech.
I built a bunch of templates in our electronic medical records system so I can finish them in like 30 min. I think the key to working in the modern era is to find a workplace filled with a bunch of hard working incompetent people.
That's a nice bit of wisdom.
Works out pretty well. Boomers can't admit that you're just better at a job they've been doing for 40 years, so the only alternative is for them to believe you're just working so hard you're going to burn out eventually.
This is wisdom I pass down to the youth as an older millennial.
One of my first jobs was to copy data from one spreadsheet, to another. It blew my mind that nobody else in the company had figured out how to automate that.
I did ~30 minutes of work a day as a part-time employee. When I left, my boss said that I was able to do more work every day, than half the department, and they could never figure out how.
That job taught me a lot about corporate life...
Yeap. We recently upgraded from an electronic medical records system that hadn't been updated since windows 98. During the mandatory education class over the new system I sat next to a 75 year old pediatrician. Watching him during class try to figure things out was like witnessing a 14th century aristocrat try to decipher ancient chaos runes.
This shit is real though. Manager complained about the fact that I was resting too much on my shift. So I just did the work at half speed and got a commendation for my "hard work"
I basically chilled the fuck out at my job and just make sure to never look like I was just on my phone starring at furry paws whenever somebody enters (I totally was)
I found the happy median of doing only 1 thing a day and still being a high achiever. They don't pay you more for working harder
This is basically me. I keep thinking I'm going to get in trouble for doing nothing, then all my reviews they say keep up the good work.
lmao same, I was all worried about the fact I burned a couple days of PTO because I was hungover as shit, then friday I showed up an hour late. I talked to my manager yesterday and apologized while also saying I was going to need a week or so off in July to go see my friend from Chunka Luta and she said "oh no problem you have practically perfect attendance!" like what?! I show up late/call out all the time lol.
Office jobs in the US are such a joke, I get paid to sit around and watch youtube shit for half the day.
I've racked my brain for years trying to figure out how they actually make money off of me and I've never found an answer. I guess I can't complain, but my actual talents are being squandered and so is most of our society.
If you’ve never read Bullshit Jobs by Graeber it’s a fun read. You can read it at work!
I'll add it to the list!
Looking like a big company where the person you report to has many people under them/multiple teams and meeting all the goals they set for themselves looks stable on paper. You take those numbers to someone looking to invest and you puff up your chest about the expected growth and they're the ones who give you the money. The company is predictable and modestly upward and that's enough for someone who's rich because their great grandparents confiscated a lot of gold in Germany in the preamble to WW2
If you compare the income vs expenditures of major companies and compare it to the contributions made by their workers to achieve it, they are still exploiting even (1) highly paid workers and (2) workers who don't seem to be doing much. It's really just misdirected work that doesn't factor in, but even then that's kind of the deal: selling labor time for them to direct it. You're paid to let them do that even if they're not great at it.
Anyways if you ever get to peek at their balance sheets and payroll your head will explode with rage.
I'm an accountant so I see those at a high level. It just shows how inefficient the system all is. I wish it was easy for most people to be self employed.
office space
All these comments, man... I work from home and still manage to fuck around a lot, but unfortunately I have a boss who is on my ass a lot while my co-workers get to do whatever they want. (They're all white, I'm not.) Would love to find a job where I could just fuck around all day.
It's wild how distinct the racial stratification in the US is in labor types especially, it's de facto apartheid. I feel like we don't even think about it because it's so normal. Compared to most blue collar jobs mine is super cushy, nearly everyone in our department and the admin levels above are white, wheras at the same organization every security guard and cleaner is BIPOC. This is in an area with a very high level of racial diversity. There is one cleaner I can think of that is white I've ever seen there.
I barely work two hours a day on most days.
literally the plot of office space
God this makes me so mad about the 'If Books Could Kill' episode about "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber. Those two fuckin sucked that episode.
In typical liberal fashion they consider themselves left-wing but don't understand even the basics of actual left-wing politics. Michael defending advertising as having social value was hilarious. Praise be to jumble, I would never pay for that shit lmao.
When you work really hard and you do it for yourself, you're moving mountains.
When you work really hard for others, you're blowing feathers.
It makes no sense for us to be stepping on each other's necks. This anecdote is another proof, shame it's an exception and not the rule.
I’d break my back building socialism. Not doing it for piggy’s new yacht/ rental property though
Reminds me of the forgotten employee.
At a previous job a collegue who had been "teleworking" for two years had to be shown how to send email when RTO orders hit the entire department.
Jealous.