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Have you ever had a job where you did nothing for years and nobody found out?
- eigengrau5150 5y agoI work the graveyard shift, babysitting a rack of servers that do batch processing for a state government's means-tested benefits programs overnight. I monitor the batches, handle deployments, and install OS patches. I do a maximum of 90 minutes of real work a night, but stay up in case something goes wrong overnight. It's the ideal gig: no meetings, no culture bullshit, and as long as I follow the run book, the machines stay up, and the batches work properly nobody gives a shit about me.
- pbaka 5y agoBoth Kafka and David Graeber would like a word with you.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoBabysitting is not "nothing." It's one thing to get paid and go fishing a la Peter Gibbons, it's quite another to sacrifice your circadian rhythm in the service of your employer's uptime.
- eigengrau5150 5y agoThanks for your concern, but my circadian rhythm is fine. I've always been a night owl.
- ksaj 5y agoWhen I was a teen, I worked for a maintenance company. My job was to clean the floors after the mall was closed. It was an 8 hour per night solo job. A friend of mine was crashing on my couch, so I got him to pay his way by helping me out. We managed to get so efficient it took only around 2-3 hours, and things were spotless. We spent the rest of the night smoking like chimneys and playing games on a portable TRS-80 computer in the food court. Good times!