Bosses love to think that they know it all, but they operate on limited info like everybody else. This just shows how stupid it is to work hard for a job, when everything is based on impressions and not on any kind of objective measures.
I've seen unproductive people succeed simply because they show up early and leave late while doing less than average work. It's all about appearances.
It's a dumb system for dumb people and I hate it.
One time I spent an hour restacking four small pallets into one big pallet. Managera come through and one of them says, "hey wow, looks much cleaner in here, good work today!"
Anyways I got a promotion a few months later.
I work hard for myself at work. To know my day and time wasn't wasted. I also try to learn something new every day. If I'm gonna be a wage slave I'm gonna be a smart wage slave.
....wait.
I only work hard for myself. Contributing to open source bcoz that is the one that gives me satisfaction, even if not the money.
It's a running joke where I work just how hard it is to get fired. One of the few stories I know of someone who was fired involved an employee for whom my employer paid multiple times for courses of rehab. He was finally fired when after all that they found him at his desk so drunk they basically couldn't wake him at all.
I once saw a truck driver not get fired for getting caught for the second time stealing meat (whole carcasses) from the truck.
That's sad.
Similar stuff happens at my job. Only thing people really get fired for is getting into fights.
where do you work?
On my first job, there were several employees whose jobs was to aimlessly wander around the office because they had a problem with their logins when they were hired and nobody bothered to fix it for them. Companies really don't give a shit.
He costanzed it
Lame. Dude just reinvented the wheel
Does everyone in this thread work in a warehouse?
The secret to promotion is to be competent but not amazing.
If you're good enough not to be fired, but not so good you're indispensable in your current role, your boss will be happy to recommend you for promotion to get you out of their umbrella.
Just be a constructive slight annoyance... and be funny, nice and be seen ether the first or exit the last (I suggest first).
"Better than good, good enough"
Sleeping for 10 hours in a closet would do enough damage to my body that i'd quit my job and get a disability pension
I once took a power nap in a walk-in fridge. I put a chair against the wall and just curled into a ball and slept. Twenty minutes of chilly, peaceful rest on the hottest day of the year. It was absolutely perfect.
I tried again a few months later on an uncomfortably warm, but not really hot day, and it fucked me up. Every muscle in my body was tight and angry and I was super overwhelmed going back into more normal temperatures.
I haven’t tried it again because the first one honestly seems like a fluke, but I remember it happily.
What work would even in concept make this possible?
Ssh.
But honestly, I could see this in pretty much any office setting, including mine. My boss will go whole days stuck in meetings, so I'll only see them if I get in really early or stay late. If I'm missing all day, people would assume I'm also in meetings or something, because we work with remote teams and half of my team is remote.
I'm a software engineer, but this could work for almost any office job, especially those in cubicles.
This is a plot point in The Caine Mutiny
