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If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where
by kempbellt 7y ago
If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time?
I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of boredom.
- legulere 7y agoThere’s an entire book written about this phenomenon, called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- navyad 7y agothat one is a good to read.
- derefr 7y agoWhy do nothing, when you could instead get a second (remote) job and then make 200% salary by doing your second job during your first job's working hours?
- ryanmcbride 7y agoHad someone do this at a job I used to work with. Bosses never caught on and as far as I know he's still doing it. It's a big company where 80% of the things we made wouldn't ever see the light of day, which is perfect for something like that.
- cgriswald 7y agoTrue story. When I was an overnight computer operator, the guy working the other nights had a second job working in a package shipping warehouse. He’d come in, fire off a bunch of jobs, go to his second job, return at lunch time, fire off the next batch of jobs, and then be back before any of the rest of the office came in for the day to catch up on the rest. He got caught because the timing didn’t quite work out and he was always behind in the morning. They checked cameras because of it and he admitted it when confronted. I remember thinking a simple batch script could have done that job but I was smart enough not to write it. I hadn’t thought of writing it and then just getting a second job...
- onemoresoop 7y agoI agree, this is basically the recipe to wither oneself. Getting lazy and doing nothing becomes a habit hard to get rid of...
- darepublic 7y agoThis is like adding an event listener to door open and providing a callback. It's pretty great