How long could you getaway with doing absolutely nothing at your job?

Nina slim perfect wrote:

Have always been jealous of corporate BS jobs where nothing gets done after 11am Friday because it's almost the weekend.

11 am? Man, I wish my office was like that!

I usually have to work until about 2pm on a Friday before I can put it in "do nothing mode"!!

I'm a member of the House of Representatives from a gerrymandered district. I'm going on 36 years of doing nothing at work and sailing into re-election in 2020.

Usually 1-3 days a week. Sometimes with an extra half day or two of nothing thrown in. Today is one of those half days followed by afternoon meetings. I’m not answerable to anybody at my office, and I only see my actual boss maybe once every few weeks, usually at meetings. Performance evaluations mostly involve me telling my boss what I’ve been doing, and him writing it down.

Testing the waters wrote:

I mean absolutely nothing, except occasionally make an appearance of working.

How long before people would catch on?

How long until there would be consequences?

Me? Definitely 3 days.....maybe 3 weeks during slow season.

what is this, a Seinfeld episode?

They should give these sorts of jobs to all the NEETs

I guess it depends on what kind of job you have.

for me as a cashier at a supermarket, no days off for me!

Runfasta wrote:

I'm going on a year now of 10 hours of work a week out of 40. I'm amazed my boss hasn't noticed. Maybe they are too busy to not delegate tasks. So hard to do nothing, but being in the office and replying to a few emails is enough. I'm trying to switch jobs due to boredom but I guess the better question is how long would someone would want to continue that. It's just so hard to find a job that pays as well with the benefits so figure I'll ride it out til that comes along. Eventually I need to improve resume, so doing nothing is not a good long term plan.

I’m the same way, but it’s been more than 2 years. I don’t feel like a loser because I’m making so much money and will be able to retire very early ($500K) and I have other more meaningful things in my life to focus on: raising kids, getting under 16:30, learning a second language, etc. But yeah how the f am I going to find a job that only requires 35 hours of facetime and pays even half as much?

3 mil in the bank wrote:

[quote]Runfasta wrote:

I'm going on a year now of 10 hours of work a week out of 40. I'm amazed my boss hasn't noticed. Maybe they are too busy to not delegate tasks. So hard to do nothing, but being in the office and replying to a few emails is enough. I'm trying to switch jobs due to boredom but I guess the better question is how long would someone would want to continue that. It's just so hard to find a job that pays as well with the benefits so figure I'll ride it out til that comes along. Eventually I need to improve resume, so doing nothing is not a good long term plan.

I lasted about 3 months of doing that. I seriously couldn't stand trying to make myself look busy. I don't know how people do this all day..other than just to collect a paycheck.

I was brought on board to help with the second phase of this Microsoft CRM to Salesforce transition our company was doing. Went from the development side of the house to a different development side of the house...lol. Huge undertaking for the second part which basically involved putting all of our customer service employees in Salesforce (Hooray Service Cloud), rolling out e-commerce and online ordering via Salesforce (APIs and all) and then training on everything including workflows. After this phase of the project went out and a few months of fine tuning it, I literally worked probably 20% of the day. Did this for about 3 months and went to my boss and said "I'd like to go back to my old team" and explained why. She totally understood and was thankful for me coming to her with it, so I went back to my old team. They hired someone to basically do all the menial updates and tasks that were being asked to do at a much lower salary than what I was making. Win-win.

30 minutes

Less than 5 minutes. That's retail for ya.

Nancy P wrote:

I can’t remember the last time I did anything productive.

Every now and then I take trips overseas and find a way to get reimbursed. I got caught last week though, and has to cancel

This would have been funnier if you hadn't typed "s" instead of "d"

Sonals Trump wrote:

Nancy P wrote:

I can’t remember the last time I did anything productive.

Every now and then I take trips overseas and find a way to get reimbursed. I got caught last week though, and has to cancel

This would have been funnier if you hadn't typed "s" instead of "d"

You really think any federal workers still showing up for work in Washington D.C. are doing anything?

And the furloughed ones aint gettin by on mac and cheese with the lights out and heat turned off.

Theyre down in Margaritaville, toes in the sand, beer in their hand and partying.

3 mil in the bank wrote:

I’ve gone pretty long stretches before. Maybe a few weeks with maybe 2 hours of work per week?

Regularly I put in about 35 hours of face time and actually work maybe 15 hours?

Here’s the kicker: I make $500K

Can you tell me your job? I’m serious . email me. I want it.

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It's a reliable thumb rule: in white collar jobs 20% of the staff does 80% of the work. Its really a product of the way social networks act within the workplace, and the 20% are not always the same people. But the 20% still only work 60 hours a week (or less), meaning the 80% are working far less than that. And some of them are doing absolutely nothing for days at a time (or longer). Usually it's not a matter of what they can "get away with", but of what they have been assigned to do. In blue collar jobs the work is far more evenly distributed and the bosses track the workers much more closely.

Is it really work if you love what you do?

Different jobs are different wrote:

Literally an hour or less. Not trying to sound self-important at all, but about 4 other people rely on my productions to do their job every day, and work starts almost as soon as I arrive each morning, so if I didn't show up or didn't do anything, multiple people would notice right away.

What do you do?

notrump wrote:

It's a reliable thumb rule: in white collar jobs 20% of the staff does 80% of the work. Its really a product of the way social networks act within the workplace, and the 20% are not always the same people. But the 20% still only work 60 hours a week (or less), meaning the 80% are working far less than that. And some of them are doing absolutely nothing for days at a time (or longer). Usually it's not a matter of what they can "get away with", but of what they have been assigned to do. In blue collar jobs the work is far more evenly distributed and the bosses track the workers much more closely.

+1. Anyone in an office setting can definitely go several days AT LEAST. I don't care what your role or title is.