I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    What kind of work do you do that it is so easy to see what and how much someone actually does?

    Pick any freaking job lol.

    1. Carpenter — you’re not delivering anything… carpented. Carpened. I dunno.
    2. Nurse — you’re not pulling your weight; the other nurses will notice immediately (I know second hand).
    3. Software engineering in a team — people will notice you’re not creating any pull requests, e.g. Or saying the same bullshit every single morning at standup.
    4. Cleaning — the clients you’re supposed to be cleaning for will complain to your manager somehow that the shit ain’t cleaned properly.
    5. Fishing — coming home with empty buckets: “wtf you doing out there, son?”

    Like, pick a profession. If you’re not producing or providing the service, people should notice. Otherwise it’s poorly run, IMO.

    What do you do for work? That’s really starting to intrigue me.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
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      27 minutes ago

      Chemical engineer. But the same applies to any job where you need to come up with some sort of solution that is not already known or readily available. Anything creative really.