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> There are literally days in which the only time I spend on my job is the few minutes it takes to attend the morning stand-up. Then I successfully bullshit my
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> There are literally days in which the only time I spend on my job is the few minutes it takes to attend the morning stand-up. Then I successfully bullshit my way through our next stand-up to hide my lack of production.
This is the key point that makes your situation problematic: You're actively deceiving your manager and peers.
Reasonable managers don't expect everyone to be in crunch mode all of the time, to produce 8 hours of work in an 8 hour day, or even to be productive every single day they were.
But they do expect you to make an honest effort, and to tell the truth about your progress. If you're going out of your way to feed them information to make yourself seem productive while doing as little as possible, that's a problem. It will catch up with you eventually, one way or another. They either know already, or they will know once they start looking more closely. Usually the people who aren't working are at the top of the list to be cut when layoffs are necessary.