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I don’t care about slow productivity. I care more about FAKE productivity. Talking about people who schedule emails at odd hours or people who are there to chee
by lvl100 5y ago
I don’t care about slow productivity. I care more about FAKE productivity. Talking about people who schedule emails at odd hours or people who are there to cheerlead. That’s basically 80% of white collar workforce.
- kache_ 5y agoWelfare for the unproductive high class through government jobs & connections.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt's not like government has a monopoly on unproductive workers. I'm sure us corporate folks have all seen slackers and inefficiencies.
- kache_ 5y agoThat's the connections portion, you're right. Saw a lot of pretty bad stuff at IBM.
- wayoutthere 5y agoWe fake productivity because there just isn’t enough to do. I can do my job in about 2 hours a day most days. My company and clients still receive the same amount of benefit whether I work 2 or 10 — and actually, probably more out of 2 because I’m not making up work that I’m roping other people into.
- ejb999 5y ago>>I can do my job in about 2 hours a day most days. I often wonder how many people I work with that have 1 or 2 additional full-time jobs that they are just faking busy at. People that are 100% dedicated to the project you are on, but for some reason are never available for meetings or ever deliver anything on time. Just show up once in a while at a meeting, give some song and dance about how busy they are and then disappear for days at a time. One coworker just disappeared for ten days - not a peep for him - shows up on day 11 with nothing new completed, but lots of stories about how hard he is working. Not sure this remote working is going to last for a lot of folks given the abuse I see everyday.
- jrockway 5y agoI wrote a short story about this as an HN comment over the weekend. It got downvoted to 0 and someone replied asking me if I was on drugs. (I guess drugs make you write long paragraphs? I can do that without any assistance, it turns out.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858533
- givemeethekeys 5y agoThat isn't a long paragraph. That is a formidable wall of text.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoIt's ok, but it's no Victor Hugo https://bookstr.com/article/the-longest-sentence-that-victor-hugo-ever-wrote/ https://bookstr.com/article/the-longest-sentence-that-victor...
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoMy goodness that was a joy to read aloud. Thank you.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThat's not even an essay, that's just a bunch of descriptive clauses, an overabundance of semicolons.
- peakaboo 5y agoI'm sorry but you need to learn how to format text into paragraphs if you expect people to read that. Just honest advice.
- jrockway 5y agoI mean, it should really be one sentence. There shouldn't be any pauses to think about how you got from the previous fragment to the next. It just keeps going; you start with a requirement about what camera to buy and you end up airlifting someone to the hospital, and that's just how the economy works. It is clearly not what the weekend HN audience wants (all good ideas fit into 140 characters!), but I had fun writing it.
- Wonnk13 5y agoI'm going to add an emoji reaction to this comment so that everyone on Slack sees that I'm online and "working". </troll> Fake productivity is absolutely why I will never ever work in any other white collar sector other than tech. The "butts in seats" culture of consulting and banking is so outdated and cannot end fast enough imho.