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If you're paid by the hour then you get money by sitting around in meetings, but not by going home and watching a movie.
by Thorrez 5y ago
If you're paid by the hour then you get money by sitting around in meetings, but not by going home and watching a movie.
- Zandikar 5y agoJust because the company only values your time at X an hour, doesn't mean you're content wasting that time for X an hour. Idle time at my old minimum(ish) wage jobs when I was younger was honestly the biggest stressor I had. When we were busy, time flew, it was no big deal. But sitting around idle, that same hour drags on, and can be a real drain on mental health. Especially if you're going to school or something and have better ways to spend that time, but due to the work environment, you can't spend that time accordingly for whatever reason. Sure, pay is pay, but time is more valuable than any job can afford to be honest, and few things let that reality sink in as much as idle time at a job you hate, but you have to stay and deal with it because you're struggling to make ends meet.
- randomdata 5y agoBut you could be working during that time, giving at least some stimulation and sense of accomplishment. Listening to someone drone on about nothing you care about only serves to remind you that you could instead be doing something productive with your time.