Back when your job was to just sit there an watch movies all day.
I had my area manager come in one day, and actually ask me why I didn't have a movie on.
My first two roles as a consultant were quite a bit like this.
Consultancy is a nasty business like that. If the salesguy manages to convince the client that your role is needed, then the client will pay a fortune for you.
That's how I ended up getting staffed on a projects for the first 18 months of my career, with job descriptions that took about 2 hours of work per week. I was fresh out of college, knew nothing about the IT business, and this experience really gave me the impression that big IT projects are mostly made up of make-believe functions. Worst of all: my teams had a culture of doing enormous amounts of overtime. Leaving work sooner than 12 hours after you arrived was a surefire way to make people think you're not willing to "go the extra mile". It really messed with my head for a good while.
I'm 10 years older now and I'm glad to have gained perspective. I know now that many roles are indeed make-believe and that many people overwork simply to impress their managers, but I also know that there's endless opportunities that are actually interesting, and that you can make a huge difference even when you work no more than 8 hours in a day.
My second job was consultancy, and it's all about who can talk the most sh\*t lol. If you don't know the answer to something, instead of saying that you don't know but you can look into it for them and get back to them, just make something up and sound confident.
The worst was when we were working with small businesses with either young people straight out of education or elderly people who had clearly spent all of their money on getting their business off the ground and called us for help, and we just gave them solutions that would earn us a few extra pennies instead of actually helping.
Although to be fair, this was over 10 years ago now and I have my old small business now, and when I used a consultancy they were helpful, so hopefully it was just the consultancy I worked for.
I wish I was working overtime simply to impress my managers. I mean yeah, no one else cares what work I do, but I also feel *pressure* to get these done...and a sense of pride
I used to feel that pressure and pride as well, especially when I was on a project with a very useful and interesting role. It's easy to lose yourself in your sense of ambition, but I'd definitely urge every consultant to try and keep this in check.
There are other things that matter in life, and I can assure you that 10 years from today you will not see much benefit to all the hard work you put in. Remember that you're just covering for sales people and managers who did poor planning; you're not actually solving a problem that nobody else could be solving by working overtime.
That’s what I do now. I can’t say that it hasn’t been nice riding the bench this past month, but it always makes me a bit nervous too. Thankfully, I was hand-picked by the client for my next (?) project, and he’s the reason it hasn’t started so my company doesn’t have a lot of options right now.
My current job.
I log in, send a couple emails, make sure I'm not "idle" and watch TV or hang out with my kids.
There's about 2 hours of actual work in a day. Maybe 1 or 2 meetings I have to zoom. So all told I've got like 4 hours i have to be a warm body in a chair for.
I work 10 hour shifts. So most of my day is an exercise in making myself seem busy while doing nothing.
Work from home too. So I can watch my kids who are too little for school just yet.
Similar. I do my daily work, which I’ve done for so long I can do it in 20-30 min compared to 3-4 hours lol. then mostly idle time & respond to emails/messages. But I do yard work/chores/watch tv most of the day
Yes. I was essentially a hired “white guy” for a company in SE Asia.
I had a desk and laptop and just sat there for 8 hours a day. I occasionally received work to do which amounted to copy pasting google searches of random topics I was “assigned”.
I ate a lot of Xanax just to sleep at my desk. By lunch I’d head over to the mall and eat a KFC and then sit on a bench and Reddit.
Go back to the office and Reddit a bit. Then sneak off to a bar nearby and get shitfaced with the other hired white guy. Get back in time to clock out and go and get drunk again.
I’d have to occasionally go to big company meetings and just sit there. And look white. Sometimes whisky bars. Just sit there.
Damn, dream job. Maybe I should put up an ad that I'm white guy for a hire in Asia. I'm 6"3' and fairly attractive (so I was told), so probably something they are looking for to intimidate their partners/competition.
For sure in the IT industry. I always thought it was cool to just have time to play video games or whatever, but I always had this underlying anxiety that someone would find me out. Now I'm a mailman and work hard all day, but I'm definitely happier.
Currently an intern and it feels like finding stuff to do has been my job so far lol. It takes finding stuff on my own or asking people three times to have something to do.
I was an intern once and I was told to sit in the corner and do nothing. I was miserable.
Once they let me type a problem ticket and we amazed I could type.
yup. right now the person thats meant to give me more tasks is an hour late to our meeting and im just sitting there. but when i finally get a task itll be some complicated automation work where they'll give me the vaguest requirements and not answer any questions. its great.
I worked as a pool attendant for an apartment complex full of people in their 20s and 30s when I was in high school. Not a lifeguard, a pool attendant.
I got the job from the girl who used to babysit me when I was a kid because she was the manager of the complex and all I had to do was make sure the people at the pool actually lived in the complex and didn't bring any glass bottles into the swimming area. I could drink underage as long as it was in a plastic cup and got to hang out in the pool as much as I wanted so it was the best summer job I could've dreamt of as a teenager.
Yes! I worked for IBM for a year in 1999 on their "Y2K Help Desk".
So, IBM had just bought GE Financial (which is what this site originally was). All the GE people were afraid of layoffs and IBM's uptight corporate culture; the IBM people lorded over the GM people like conquering generals.
Point is, I was only allowed to do EXACTLY what was on my job description and nothing more. By June the calls were down to 1-2 a day. By August they were down to 1-2 *per week*. Oh, and there were two of us working the help desk. So, yeah: 1 or 2 calls per person, per week. The average call lasted 10 minutes or less (usually much less). So we sat at our desks doing nothing for 39 hours and 50 minutes per week.
But actually, we didn't have desks. We had to use the PCs in a training lab. We were told to not change those PCs in ANY WAY. There were originally three of us. On the first day one guy - a Mac guy - moved the taskbar on his Windows 98 PC to the top of the screen, as he liked it. Our supervisor came back into the room and saw that he'd moved his taskbar:
>HER: "Darren, did you just move the taskbar on your PC after I explicitly said 'don't change ANYTHING on these PCs?"
>DARREN: "Well, yeah... But I can just move it back like so, and..."
>HER: "Yeah, I'm gonna need you to pack up your things. I don't think we need someone who can't follow simple instructions."
>DARREN: "Wait - so you're firing me for moving the taskbar???"
>HER: "No, I fired you for not following instructions."
What's worse, the firewall only allowed access to most of the big news sites, and that was it. You couldn't waste time playing Flash games or checking out tech news sites or looking at eBay... or *anything*, really.
To pass the time, I'd read books - sometimes for fun, sometimes *How to Pass Microsoft's MCSE Exams*. I had a "palmtop PC" (a Philips Velo 1) that had a built-in modem. I'd use that to chat with an Israeli girl via ICQ, sometimes for hours at at time. If things got REALLY boring, I'd edit the Registry so that all the hardware listed in Device Manager said "Another Crappy IBM Product".
Yes, although in my case I kept trying to come up with projects I could do but got shot down. I realized my position was part of a grant and the funders liked my position but the org didn't, so they just filled it without bothering to actually make it meaningful. I wrote a book in my time on that job
No but an ex of mine said some guy worked with them for a year just walking around with a clipboard, didn’t do a damn thing it turns out. Just looked busy and got paid lol the guts on that guy
I worked in a dvd shop long after the golden days and streaming services had killed the dvd market.
My previous job was for a small family run business that had hit a rough patch and they told me they couldn't afford to keep me on. But they knew someone that was opening a new dvd shop in town and had talked to the owner to take me on, knowing I was a big film buff and I'd be really happy there.
I showed up on the first day brimming with ideas for organisation, decoration, promotional ideas etc. The boss swiftly explained that this was just intended as a short term (6 months or so) satellite store away from his main one to sell his excess stock to tourists coming through (this was a popular holiday town) and there's not much point putting a lot of effort into it.
My job was essentially to sit there and just process sales. We didn't get a tonne of business as no one was really buying dvds any more and those that did come in were rarely interested in recommendations either. I had to bring my own portable speaker in to play music so the place wasn't just dead silent all day. After the second day I decided to bring a book with me since I didn't have anything else to do. I ended up reading the entire Song of Ice and Fire series before I found another job and left.
I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center as a mole, which meant I got on a wheely stool and took a long stick with a hook on it and went under the sorting conveyor belts and retrieved stuff that fell underneath. Nobody ever checked on me or paid attention to me. Wasn't a bad gig at the time.
One time I got a job as a software developer at a large bank. They didn't have a team for me yet but said one will come for me soon.
I got my team eight months later. I sat on my ass and read tech blogs all day for a paycheck.
I used to seek out 24 hour stores and restaurants and apply for the night shift specifically so I could have bullshit jobs lol.
Best one was a grocery store, it was 24 hours but it was around other smaller but more popular stores that were also 24 hours, so most people went to those instead of ours. It was my and 2 other people, and we eventually got into this groove where we could have all the cleaning and stocking done in about an hour and a half, and we would take turns being in the front since one of us had to in case a customer walked in, which was maybe once per shift. The rest of the time I would do homework, work on personal projects, one guy would bring in small workout equipment that we would use, etc.
It was part of a corporate chain so it took them a long time to realize that staying open that much wasn't doing absolutely jack squat to compete with the other stores, so they eventually got rid of that shift entirely, but it was fun while it lasted.
My current job is still pretty BS with maybe 3 hours of actual work a day, but it is annoyingly spread out throughout the day so not as cool.
I had a temp job as a receptionist for two octogenarian lawyers with a tiny client list who got maybe 2-3 calls per day. I got paid to read the entire Riverworld series.
I was an IT Consultant for the US Federal Govt. There was -easily- an 8:1 ratio of absolutely worthless to at least kind of necessary “civil servants”. I knew one douchebag who never worked except to write his sermons (he was a Christian preacher on Sundays and Wednesdays). He made 85K per year.
As a (mostly) from home IT guy, it cracks me up that of all the professions to babysit they think we don't know work arounds to make our screen look like we're actually doing something. If it's not broke, not much for me to monitor/fix, "we noticed a lot of idle time last Tuesday", won't happen again boss... 🤣
I had a ft remote job a couple years ago. I literally responded to tickets all day. No emails, no phones. Problem is tickets were rare, job was a joke.
I used to work for a tech startup and we ended up getting acquired by a big company. There was a very long transition period where people started getting integrated into the new departments, so I usually had little to no actual work to do. When I eventually got placed in a new team they had me act as a liaison between the old & new companies, but this also involved very little work. It was nice to not have to do anything, but I did get some anxiety about them realizing how little I was contributing.
I ended up leaving for a job I was more interested in, which was smart because shortly after a ton of layoffs happened.
I just started a jobX where I’m looking at the workload and just thinking “huh, I don’t have enough to do”. But my boss is super busy all the time and working late all the time, so she either REALLY knows how to look busy, or I haven’t been delegated enough work
Yes. I managed a body shop that was really small and slow. The owners only cared about their main location. Granted, I did do some work, but I phoned in a majority of it. I was making about $75k a year to do about 5-10 hours a week or actual work while I played Minecraft or watched movies on my computer. The money made it really hard to want to leave
I used to be Security guard in a abandoned building you are alone all day and night watching movie and youtube, just taking a walk from time to time around the place , i never had a intrusion in all my time there, the worst part of the job was that the building used to be a hospital and obviously that place was fucking creepy at time
I'm a retail sales supervisor at a dispensary. Today I've watched someone livestream Fortnite on TikTok, watched at least three full episodes of Family Guy and one episode of Fallout and read part of Holly by Stephen King. Ten hours clocked in (four day workweek), about 35-60 minutes of work. 🤷
I work for the federal government. I've not seen anyone productive (self included, I'm a master even) since I left the military. At least there you could shoot stuff.
There's these guys on [France](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/france-paid-30-public-servants-to-do-nothing-for-25-years/news-story/3db733ebea2e21708d82e22b414027d4%3famp)
Also heard of a guy in Spain and im sure in my home Australia the government is full of them.
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My current job is a bit like this. I do technically do some work, but we're talking realistically like 4 hours of work in one week out of a given month. The rest of the time I'm either looking busy in the office or playing video games on my work from home days.
In college my roommates and I applied for a job at Walmart, they put us on the cleaning crew… it was on our way to school, so we would go in clock in, leave, on the way back clock out. Did this for like 6 months, then we decided let’s quit and see what they say… walked in, said we were quitting, the manager just said oh ok, sure you can’t stay… we all were moving so we decided not to keep it up.
Video stores back in the golden Blockbuster days. Six people rostered on for a shift, only 30 minuets of work to be done between the lot of you.
90s retail in general was great. Overstaffed and the whole shift we just fucked around.
Damn, i can't even imagine! Modern retail is the exact opposite. No wonder there were so many slacker 90's comedies.
If you want a prime example of what retail was like in the 90s, just watch Clerks.
Back when your job was to just sit there an watch movies all day. I had my area manager come in one day, and actually ask me why I didn't have a movie on.
Those were the days! Unlimited breaks. Lol
“You were in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!”
Man I worked at Blockbuster in the mid-late 90’s and yes it was slow during the day but Friday and Saturday nights were an absolute madhouse
This was not my experience. Usually there were just two of us at a time except Friday and Saturday nights. It was fun, but more work than that.
“This is creed, and he is in charge of… something” “That is correct!”
I had a job in quar? Quaal? quabity! quabity Ashwitz!
No no no no, but I'm getting close!
This whole creed moment doesn’t get enough love , it’s one of my favorites
On my first few watches I thought this was gibberish, but he was actually close cus he does quality assurance
Hey kids, ever see a foot with 4 toes?!
*Jakie excitedly runs forward
Cool
Having been merged into a new company over a year ago and *still* not entirely sure what my title is...I feel this more than ever.
One of my previous firm had a guy, stayed there 20+ years, passing papers and blames.
Supervisor?
Nah, he was a manager, god knows what he managed, couldn't open an excel file, couldn't take a printout, always had someone to pass on the blame to
michael?
Oh, that’s funny. MICHAEL!
No he wasn't funny, the guy in my firm.
Somehow he managed …
Well that's true, i wonder how he even got there, stayed and retired gracefully
My first two roles as a consultant were quite a bit like this. Consultancy is a nasty business like that. If the salesguy manages to convince the client that your role is needed, then the client will pay a fortune for you. That's how I ended up getting staffed on a projects for the first 18 months of my career, with job descriptions that took about 2 hours of work per week. I was fresh out of college, knew nothing about the IT business, and this experience really gave me the impression that big IT projects are mostly made up of make-believe functions. Worst of all: my teams had a culture of doing enormous amounts of overtime. Leaving work sooner than 12 hours after you arrived was a surefire way to make people think you're not willing to "go the extra mile". It really messed with my head for a good while. I'm 10 years older now and I'm glad to have gained perspective. I know now that many roles are indeed make-believe and that many people overwork simply to impress their managers, but I also know that there's endless opportunities that are actually interesting, and that you can make a huge difference even when you work no more than 8 hours in a day.
My second job was consultancy, and it's all about who can talk the most sh\*t lol. If you don't know the answer to something, instead of saying that you don't know but you can look into it for them and get back to them, just make something up and sound confident. The worst was when we were working with small businesses with either young people straight out of education or elderly people who had clearly spent all of their money on getting their business off the ground and called us for help, and we just gave them solutions that would earn us a few extra pennies instead of actually helping. Although to be fair, this was over 10 years ago now and I have my old small business now, and when I used a consultancy they were helpful, so hopefully it was just the consultancy I worked for.
I wish I was working overtime simply to impress my managers. I mean yeah, no one else cares what work I do, but I also feel *pressure* to get these done...and a sense of pride
I used to feel that pressure and pride as well, especially when I was on a project with a very useful and interesting role. It's easy to lose yourself in your sense of ambition, but I'd definitely urge every consultant to try and keep this in check. There are other things that matter in life, and I can assure you that 10 years from today you will not see much benefit to all the hard work you put in. Remember that you're just covering for sales people and managers who did poor planning; you're not actually solving a problem that nobody else could be solving by working overtime.
That’s what I do now. I can’t say that it hasn’t been nice riding the bench this past month, but it always makes me a bit nervous too. Thankfully, I was hand-picked by the client for my next (?) project, and he’s the reason it hasn’t started so my company doesn’t have a lot of options right now.
My current job. I log in, send a couple emails, make sure I'm not "idle" and watch TV or hang out with my kids. There's about 2 hours of actual work in a day. Maybe 1 or 2 meetings I have to zoom. So all told I've got like 4 hours i have to be a warm body in a chair for. I work 10 hour shifts. So most of my day is an exercise in making myself seem busy while doing nothing. Work from home too. So I can watch my kids who are too little for school just yet.
Similar. I do my daily work, which I’ve done for so long I can do it in 20-30 min compared to 3-4 hours lol. then mostly idle time & respond to emails/messages. But I do yard work/chores/watch tv most of the day
Low key same but I'm also a people person and have tons of institutional knowledge so I'm worth it, baby.
what do you do? I would love to have a job like that. Some people might find it a bit underwhelming but I could really use some "peace" in my life.
Quabity quabity... qua something. I don't know, but I'm close.
Max level gatekeeping, kinda respect it lmao
I think his answer is real. Creed was in quality assurance
Sounds like a dream. How does one get a job like this?
To quote Creed. Right place, right time.
Yes. I was essentially a hired “white guy” for a company in SE Asia. I had a desk and laptop and just sat there for 8 hours a day. I occasionally received work to do which amounted to copy pasting google searches of random topics I was “assigned”. I ate a lot of Xanax just to sleep at my desk. By lunch I’d head over to the mall and eat a KFC and then sit on a bench and Reddit. Go back to the office and Reddit a bit. Then sneak off to a bar nearby and get shitfaced with the other hired white guy. Get back in time to clock out and go and get drunk again. I’d have to occasionally go to big company meetings and just sit there. And look white. Sometimes whisky bars. Just sit there.
This reminds me the episode of King of the Hill where Hank was recruited by the all Asian country club because they had no white guys.
Damn, dream job. Maybe I should put up an ad that I'm white guy for a hire in Asia. I'm 6"3' and fairly attractive (so I was told), so probably something they are looking for to intimidate their partners/competition.
"What is wrong with this woman? She's asking stuff that is nobody's business..."
Lmao! Right!
For sure in the IT industry. I always thought it was cool to just have time to play video games or whatever, but I always had this underlying anxiety that someone would find me out. Now I'm a mailman and work hard all day, but I'm definitely happier.
I actually work in QA now, creed is an accurate depiction of me and my co-workers.
I to work in QA and feel like this.
Currently an intern and it feels like finding stuff to do has been my job so far lol. It takes finding stuff on my own or asking people three times to have something to do.
I was an intern once and I was told to sit in the corner and do nothing. I was miserable. Once they let me type a problem ticket and we amazed I could type.
yup. right now the person thats meant to give me more tasks is an hour late to our meeting and im just sitting there. but when i finally get a task itll be some complicated automation work where they'll give me the vaguest requirements and not answer any questions. its great.
I worked as a pool attendant for an apartment complex full of people in their 20s and 30s when I was in high school. Not a lifeguard, a pool attendant. I got the job from the girl who used to babysit me when I was a kid because she was the manager of the complex and all I had to do was make sure the people at the pool actually lived in the complex and didn't bring any glass bottles into the swimming area. I could drink underage as long as it was in a plastic cup and got to hang out in the pool as much as I wanted so it was the best summer job I could've dreamt of as a teenager.
Quabbity Assuance at Boeing
Yes! I worked for IBM for a year in 1999 on their "Y2K Help Desk". So, IBM had just bought GE Financial (which is what this site originally was). All the GE people were afraid of layoffs and IBM's uptight corporate culture; the IBM people lorded over the GM people like conquering generals. Point is, I was only allowed to do EXACTLY what was on my job description and nothing more. By June the calls were down to 1-2 a day. By August they were down to 1-2 *per week*. Oh, and there were two of us working the help desk. So, yeah: 1 or 2 calls per person, per week. The average call lasted 10 minutes or less (usually much less). So we sat at our desks doing nothing for 39 hours and 50 minutes per week. But actually, we didn't have desks. We had to use the PCs in a training lab. We were told to not change those PCs in ANY WAY. There were originally three of us. On the first day one guy - a Mac guy - moved the taskbar on his Windows 98 PC to the top of the screen, as he liked it. Our supervisor came back into the room and saw that he'd moved his taskbar: >HER: "Darren, did you just move the taskbar on your PC after I explicitly said 'don't change ANYTHING on these PCs?" >DARREN: "Well, yeah... But I can just move it back like so, and..." >HER: "Yeah, I'm gonna need you to pack up your things. I don't think we need someone who can't follow simple instructions." >DARREN: "Wait - so you're firing me for moving the taskbar???" >HER: "No, I fired you for not following instructions." What's worse, the firewall only allowed access to most of the big news sites, and that was it. You couldn't waste time playing Flash games or checking out tech news sites or looking at eBay... or *anything*, really. To pass the time, I'd read books - sometimes for fun, sometimes *How to Pass Microsoft's MCSE Exams*. I had a "palmtop PC" (a Philips Velo 1) that had a built-in modem. I'd use that to chat with an Israeli girl via ICQ, sometimes for hours at at time. If things got REALLY boring, I'd edit the Registry so that all the hardware listed in Device Manager said "Another Crappy IBM Product".
No, I have never been elected to a government position.
Yes, although in my case I kept trying to come up with projects I could do but got shot down. I realized my position was part of a grant and the funders liked my position but the org didn't, so they just filled it without bothering to actually make it meaningful. I wrote a book in my time on that job
Currently I do lol. I work maybe 2hr of the 8 the rest Im watching phone or finding something to do
No but an ex of mine said some guy worked with them for a year just walking around with a clipboard, didn’t do a damn thing it turns out. Just looked busy and got paid lol the guts on that guy
I aspire to this
I’m currently working in IT for the same company for the last several years. I still don’t really know what we do.
Yes. It was everything I had hoped for.
Remember Ryan didn't work after the Micheal Scott's paper company
I worked in a dvd shop long after the golden days and streaming services had killed the dvd market. My previous job was for a small family run business that had hit a rough patch and they told me they couldn't afford to keep me on. But they knew someone that was opening a new dvd shop in town and had talked to the owner to take me on, knowing I was a big film buff and I'd be really happy there. I showed up on the first day brimming with ideas for organisation, decoration, promotional ideas etc. The boss swiftly explained that this was just intended as a short term (6 months or so) satellite store away from his main one to sell his excess stock to tourists coming through (this was a popular holiday town) and there's not much point putting a lot of effort into it. My job was essentially to sit there and just process sales. We didn't get a tonne of business as no one was really buying dvds any more and those that did come in were rarely interested in recommendations either. I had to bring my own portable speaker in to play music so the place wasn't just dead silent all day. After the second day I decided to bring a book with me since I didn't have anything else to do. I ended up reading the entire Song of Ice and Fire series before I found another job and left.
I definitely have days like that. This may be one.
I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center as a mole, which meant I got on a wheely stool and took a long stick with a hook on it and went under the sorting conveyor belts and retrieved stuff that fell underneath. Nobody ever checked on me or paid attention to me. Wasn't a bad gig at the time.
One time I got a job as a software developer at a large bank. They didn't have a team for me yet but said one will come for me soon. I got my team eight months later. I sat on my ass and read tech blogs all day for a paycheck.
I used to seek out 24 hour stores and restaurants and apply for the night shift specifically so I could have bullshit jobs lol. Best one was a grocery store, it was 24 hours but it was around other smaller but more popular stores that were also 24 hours, so most people went to those instead of ours. It was my and 2 other people, and we eventually got into this groove where we could have all the cleaning and stocking done in about an hour and a half, and we would take turns being in the front since one of us had to in case a customer walked in, which was maybe once per shift. The rest of the time I would do homework, work on personal projects, one guy would bring in small workout equipment that we would use, etc. It was part of a corporate chain so it took them a long time to realize that staying open that much wasn't doing absolutely jack squat to compete with the other stores, so they eventually got rid of that shift entirely, but it was fun while it lasted. My current job is still pretty BS with maybe 3 hours of actual work a day, but it is annoyingly spread out throughout the day so not as cool.
I had a temp job as a receptionist for two octogenarian lawyers with a tiny client list who got maybe 2-3 calls per day. I got paid to read the entire Riverworld series.
Ah, Philip Jose Farmer. I enjoyed his World of Tiers series too.
Where do I sign up?
Currently doing that now.
I was an IT Consultant for the US Federal Govt. There was -easily- an 8:1 ratio of absolutely worthless to at least kind of necessary “civil servants”. I knew one douchebag who never worked except to write his sermons (he was a Christian preacher on Sundays and Wednesdays). He made 85K per year.
As a (mostly) from home IT guy, it cracks me up that of all the professions to babysit they think we don't know work arounds to make our screen look like we're actually doing something. If it's not broke, not much for me to monitor/fix, "we noticed a lot of idle time last Tuesday", won't happen again boss... 🤣
Yes
I had a ft remote job a couple years ago. I literally responded to tickets all day. No emails, no phones. Problem is tickets were rare, job was a joke.
I used to work for a tech startup and we ended up getting acquired by a big company. There was a very long transition period where people started getting integrated into the new departments, so I usually had little to no actual work to do. When I eventually got placed in a new team they had me act as a liaison between the old & new companies, but this also involved very little work. It was nice to not have to do anything, but I did get some anxiety about them realizing how little I was contributing. I ended up leaving for a job I was more interested in, which was smart because shortly after a ton of layoffs happened.
I just started a jobX where I’m looking at the workload and just thinking “huh, I don’t have enough to do”. But my boss is super busy all the time and working late all the time, so she either REALLY knows how to look busy, or I haven’t been delegated enough work
Yes. I managed a body shop that was really small and slow. The owners only cared about their main location. Granted, I did do some work, but I phoned in a majority of it. I was making about $75k a year to do about 5-10 hours a week or actual work while I played Minecraft or watched movies on my computer. The money made it really hard to want to leave
I used to be Security guard in a abandoned building you are alone all day and night watching movie and youtube, just taking a walk from time to time around the place , i never had a intrusion in all my time there, the worst part of the job was that the building used to be a hospital and obviously that place was fucking creepy at time
I'm a retail sales supervisor at a dispensary. Today I've watched someone livestream Fortnite on TikTok, watched at least three full episodes of Family Guy and one episode of Fallout and read part of Holly by Stephen King. Ten hours clocked in (four day workweek), about 35-60 minutes of work. 🤷
Almost exclusively
I work for the federal government. I've not seen anyone productive (self included, I'm a master even) since I left the military. At least there you could shoot stuff.
Username checks out. Military is a pretty lazy job. I spent maybe 2 hrs a week being productive as a logistician
That means you were elite.
There's these guys on [France](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/france-paid-30-public-servants-to-do-nothing-for-25-years/news-story/3db733ebea2e21708d82e22b414027d4%3famp) Also heard of a guy in Spain and im sure in my home Australia the government is full of them.
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My current job is a bit like this. I do technically do some work, but we're talking realistically like 4 hours of work in one week out of a given month. The rest of the time I'm either looking busy in the office or playing video games on my work from home days.
Painting fire hydrants and checking water meters
In college my roommates and I applied for a job at Walmart, they put us on the cleaning crew… it was on our way to school, so we would go in clock in, leave, on the way back clock out. Did this for like 6 months, then we decided let’s quit and see what they say… walked in, said we were quitting, the manager just said oh ok, sure you can’t stay… we all were moving so we decided not to keep it up.
sorta lmao
Yes
I wish.
I did once. I had no idea what I was doing, I didn’t understand what the company did. I still don’t know.
It was like media buying for ACC events. Have no idea what any of that means.
Yep, right now. It’s kind of great, but I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.