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Like half of all jobs in engineering are this, except you spend a little time faking a record of what you have been doing in case this happens.
A girl I'm seeing these days also works as a programmer and talks about how she always gets her job done in like, 3 hours in the evening. They do roll call at 10am and then she just goes back to bed most days.
"But if we give people a living wage they'll just play video games all day"
I haven't actually read it but reading excerpts of Bullshit Jobs is one of the factor of my radicalization
i will constantly bang the drum that this is the absolute best book of leftist theory by stealth to begin the radicalisation process for the libs in your life (especially white collar libs)
"hahaha its just like buzzfeed theres five types of bullshit jobs i cant believe number four and its all so relatable to my own job, wait why do i suddenly want to tear down capitalism now"
You can destroy capitalism with this one trick they don't want you to know about.
"Haha, yeah I totally relate to these people feeling alienated by the nature of their work. I should google some theories of alienation to see if other people feel this way."
Can I get higher-ups to loathe me for my Socialist politics and punish me by giving me no duties? That's a helluva trick.
Also, TIL Spinoza is Jewish
Owning a socialist by... letting him get paid without doing any work.
I literally work like 5-10 hours a week and my supervisor still tells me what a good job I'm doing and how important I am to our department
Seriously, most office jobs are like 30% actual work and 70% communicating that you're available if something comes up.
I've gotten closer to formal reprimands from forgetting to answer emails or missing meetings on occasion than I ever have for work getting delayed. Nobody gives a shit if a forty-line script takes me three days to get around to doing, but if I don't call in advance that I'm gonna miss this week's morning huddle, I have to spend an hour back-and-forth on emails with my boss' boss about how I had something important going on and, yes, I will let you know ahead of time if it comes up again, and I'm very sorry, my apologies.
A lot of jobs are reactive and they require you to be "present". If you do some productive stuff like moving things around, facilitating knowledge production or merely oversee things to get done in schedule, you are no better or worse than the person putting 80 hrs.
