track chick wrote:
I used to leave my office door open and unlocked and go out with my friends. They assumed I was "working"
We were usually in a bar..
Ever try leaving it open and locked?
track chick wrote:
I used to leave my office door open and unlocked and go out with my friends. They assumed I was "working"
We were usually in a bar..
Ever try leaving it open and locked?
3 years and 8 months. Then they laid off half our department
I had a friend in high school who got a job bagging groceries. He would go in and punch in, then leave. Come back later and punch out. Never actually worked. He made it about six weeks before they found out and fired him.
I used to work for a company that was tied to the automotive industry. My boss was on the west coast and I was on the east coast.
We had a lot of turnover, department reshuffling, management changes, everything was also in flux. I got so frustrated with the changes and lack of accountability that I would log into my computer from home and go out and run, do errands, go to the brewery in my neighborhood, go to the movies, etc. I would come back and if nobody emailed me, I was good for the day.
If there were days when I went into the office and I didn't have anything to do, I'd just leave at 1 or 2pm and go home. There were weeks where I did nothing but enter my time sheet.
The salary was $95K. No really increases in base pay, but small bonuses. I was eventually laid off and got severance pay after nearly 6 years at the company, and honestly, it was a blessing. Everybody was miserable there.
The company basically disbanded a few months after I left and was sold to another company.
When I started my job, probably weeks and I'm convinced that I could've gone stretches where if I didnt turn up, it would've taken a one or two weeks for anyone to notice. But the company downsized, became much more efficient and I rose through the ranks to a position where if I probably stopped for 10 minutes, I'd get disapproving looks and would also be shutting down the work of 20 more people in that time too.
Probably about an hour. I could go to the bathroom and sit on the can for 15 min or so. Then wander off and sit staring at the computer for another 15-25. Then just walk around. But that’s about it. Who would want to though? Takes more work to pretend to work.
Ever since we went remote for COVID I've worked way less.
I used to be in the office ~ 40hr/week, sometimes 35 sometimes 45. Now that I work from home, I've slowly drifted to doing the bare F***King minimum most days. Sometimes I'll KNOW I just need to get a bunch of stuff done that I've put off for weeks, so I'll go all-in for 4 hours or so, to catch up.
It's getting out of control and I need to start "forcing" myself to be productive before anyone majorly notices. My boss still seems happy with me so I've just been riding the wave. I love not working on work.
I'm one of the more tech savvy members of my team so when someone comes to me to fix something, or make a function in excel, or something simple in matlab they flip the F***K out acting like I just turned water in to wine.
As I work in Child Care, I would say....2 minutes tops.
Any longer, and one child will likely throw a block at another.
project manager so i am largely self-directed.
i could easily do nothing all day and it wouldn't be known.
we have almost daily lame-o zoom meetings to check-in, so you could only miss one of those before questions would be raised.
If i logged on to the zoom meetings, answered the emails and signed a few forms, I could probably go a week until somebody who needed something i wasn't doing blew the whistle.
that said, truth is with working from home, i often work hours in the evening, on weekends, during my vacations, whenever it is needed.
I've gone weeks with barely 10 hours of quality work per week before. When covid forced us to wfh and management was too preoccupied with other stuff I basically took 3 weeks off, sending several emails throughout the day and then another 3-4 months of less than 20hrs/wk. Got in the best shape in recent memory; cut weight, hit 100mi/wk for the first time, and overall was the happiest I've been since college.
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track chick wrote:
I used to leave my office door open and unlocked and go out with my friends. They assumed I was "working"
We were usually in a bar..
Ever try leaving it open and locked?
Yes, but it wouldn't shut.
covid has probably worsened the situation drastically. some don't care about their reputation and have mastered it to exploit the smallest gaps in the system as if they were the mozart of laziness. i wonder less about these people than that it was made possible for them to do it that way. great thread.
Plenty of George Costanza clips on how to not work at work.
10 minutes I work at a job with managers and manager assistance looking over my shoulder every second.
I'm also being tracked on how efficient I am by a scanner.
If I leave for a little bit they just assume I'm taking a break but if i dont come back my scan rate will go down and I will be approached by a trainer the next day to ask why.
according to insiders who have worked or currently work in the domestic auto industry i/e/ GM, Ford, Chrysler, at least six years. And this is for white collar professional types. 5-6 years!! Meanwhile the assembly line honks, who knows. I've seen first hand line workers clocking in then leaving and not returning until time to punch out or they 'pay' employee friends to clock in / out and then repay the efforts.
I'm a janitor at a university in a high-traffic building, so if I'm not doing my job it becomes quite evident.
I work an 8.5-hour shift, and lord knows I don't have 8.5 hours of things to do. Not even close. If I want to take an unscheduled break, and take a load off my feet, it's done in a storage room/closet out of camera view. When you're a janitor, a lot of your time is spent hiding out.
How long have you been doing this job? How much longer you staying put?
adiBRO wrote:
How long have you been doing this job? How much longer you staying put?
I started as a part-time janitor in January 2018. I recently was made full time.
Before that, I was a longtime newspaper sportswriter/sports editor (laid off in 2011), a seasonal state park ranger (2011 to 2019), and an assistant ranger at a Boy Scout campground/camp (2019 to job eliminated during pandemic). I am of an age in which it's very hard to start a new career or even get a job.
My wife has a professional career and provides the benefits, except for one: tuition remission. I work at a public university, I have three kids soon to enter college, and, if they choose, they'll get free tuition at one of numerous state schools (I targeted the university for employment for this reason).
The job isn't that bad: The students are courteous, I'm pretty much left alone to do my thing, and I listen to podcasts while working.
I feel lucky to have any job at all.
It is evil to rip off your employer. It is stealing. it makes you a lowlife.
shoeless in seattle wrote:
according to insiders who have worked or currently work in the domestic auto industry i/e/ GM, Ford, Chrysler, at least six years. And this is for white collar professional types. 5-6 years!!
I work for Ford in a white collar job. You are full of crap. I work with a bunch of great, professional people who are educated (Michigan, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Stanford, Colgate, UCLA) and work very, very hard. I've had a lot of office jobs in my near 20 year career and Ford is by far the best place I've ever worked.
We are compensated well, well above industry standards for our roles. There is no toxic behavior, no pettiness. The culture here would not allow laziness. I'm not sure where you got your information, but you are incorrect.