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If it would look bad to read a book at your desk, that would seem to suggest there’s something else your employer expects you to be doing with your time?
by akerl_ 7y ago
If it would look bad to read a book at your desk, that would seem to suggest there’s something else your employer expects you to be doing with your time?
- Icathian 7y agoLet's not pretend that "looking busy" isn't part of most office culture. There are times at most jobs, statistically, where you have nothing expected of you but are still required to be at a desk and look like a member of the workforce.
- highhedgehog 7y agoIt's tolerated that you are on your phone, for instance, but I think having a book wouldn't be..
- tjansen 7y agoMaybe you can connect your phone to your monitor? At least Samsungs have a desktop-like interface. Don't have much experience with it, but if you got a browser with unrestricted internet, you can do pretty much everything.
- tartoran 7y agoHN is probably not tolerated either yet how many of us are HNing at work?
- highhedgehog 7y agobecause opening a new tab in your browser is definetly less noticeable than a book open on your desk
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- tartoran 7y agoGood point. At the same time all browsing history is logged somewhere and could be self documenting.
- highhedgehog 7y agoyes but I'm not worried about that. I see people reading news and stuff like that so
- Frost1x 7y agoPretty sure you employer expects you to be making them money with your time. At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your compensation. It's funny how culturally, we paint business practices of optimizing profit as picturesque but paint labor optimizing their profit as a sin. It's really all a matter of perspective and somewhere, most the labor force was convinced to take the capital owners perspective.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 7y agoThis is because if everyone does very little the company goes bust and we are all out of work. Organised labour movements are supposed to be about what is fair. A fair wage for fair safe work.
- Frost1x 7y agoI agree completely, as with most things in life, there's a healthy balance somewhere in between. One extreme or the other tend to be counterproductive to everyone involved. Theres a reasonable amount of productivity that's respectable with a reasonable compensation that considers everyone's situation. Unfortunately, the economic system we've adopted tends to work quite well at finding extremes and many of the corrective measures to flatten these out are failing more and more.
- thebean11 7y ago> At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your compensation. As little as possible within some allotted time, or spending as little time as possible? The first one sounds miserable.