Pretty sure that guy rang me yesterday to let me know there was a problem with my computer. Nice lad, helped me through it all step by step.
Well….that’s the way to get to nirvana….
You do it best (you do it best) when you do nothing at aaaaalll
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I’m going to send this to my boss before my performance appraisal next week. It will help him get a better idea of where I see myself in five years’ time.
Oh I needed this this morning, thank you 🤣 Had my old manager speak condescendingly towards me in front of colleagues on a Zoom meeting yesterday for no good reason, which led to me turning my camera off while I cried and remembered why I moved teams. As my boyfriend always says “no one leaves a bad team, they leave a bad manager”. I’d just had the most amazing two days in work and it took 3 minutes to turn a week on its head!
You’ll all soon be dead just fucking chill made me snort a laugh on the train
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I’ve been saying this for over a decade. Saw it first hand when the “go to” guy for IT issues with a bunch of contacts ended up having to retire early on health grounds due to being overworked and pushing himself too hard to try to get a promotion. I thought the place wouldn’t be able to go on without him and yet it did. It was slightly less efficient but we all struggled on and muddled through.
So when I saw the place could survive without someone that was widely regarded as a major cog in the machine of the running of the place, I realised it could and would survive without a much less major cog in the wheel like any of the rest of us. It’s been hard to motivate myself to give a fuck or try hard in work ever since.
The whole work thing is weird though.
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When you don’t like your job, you don’t go on strike, you just go in everyday and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
Pay minimum wage, get minimum effort in return and don’t fucking complain, I don’t get paid to listen to your bullshit.
People doing karaoke with Osho satsangs now? 😂
I’ve always did the same thing when it comes to work.
Absolutely hype myself up (I’m quite good at speaking which helps)
Then absolutely do fuck all unless the boss gives a deadline or is looking over my shoulder, than you work your aas off for 1 or 2 days and go back to doing fuck all.
Had a job watering 3k euro (each) trees at a construction site during rainy season, was being paid minimum wage to lug a huge metal hose around literally miles of estate.
So I did what my wages assured, the minimum. Let the constant rain storms water the plants and I found a nice tree to sit under for 3 months unless the boss announced he was coming where I would actually work for 5 minutes.
Easiest couple of grand I’ve ever made lmao
Namaste
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How many years did this man meditate under a tree though?
Genius
Well in that case do absolutely minimum.
Namasday.
except: childcare
I’ve been doing this for the last 33 years and can confirm.
Thats quite an impressively concise grouping of both narcissistic and nihilistic bollocks!
Maybe this works if you’re some unlikely fuck born into lifelong security and choices, but for the rest of us, which I think is the vast overwhelming majority of people, we need to do shit for each other and we need to do shit for ourselves to get on.
Thats nothing worth crying about and that doesn’t mean you have to drive yourself into a wall being obsessed with a job or some such other bullshit.
When I was a young lad I was an awful man for the timekeeping. Couldn’t arrive on time for the life of me. Always got my work done to a good standard and was happy to stay late to finish things but getting in at 9 was beyond me entirely.
Manager took me aside one day and said ‘Smoky, 99% of everything in the workplace is about appearances. Nobody really cares if your work is good, bad or indifferent, or you stay till midnight but believe me, coming in late everyday just pisses everyone off. Nobody even cares if you come in early as they won’t actually see it happening because they’re not there yet, but they will care if you piss off early even though you’ve done your stint. Manage appearances and your life will become a hundred times easier.’
He was dead right. Life-changing advice from a really good manager. You can get away with murder and never have to sweat the big calls if you get the small, meaningless shit right.
r/ireland users: don’t work, fuck your job, fuck the system 😎
Those same users: why aren’t people building houses 😢😢😢
This sounds like the lads over in HSE and other government agencies
I needed that
I know this is funny but here’s a thought.
Instead of working out a way of mooching a living to the max, why not find something you actually like doing and do it.
Depends on the job, if its for the money fine, if you want to do something on the world obviously it wont work
Remember your existence and humanity is nothing but a small blip in the lifetime of the universe, nothing you do will ever have such an impact on the universe as a whole. But take comfort in that note because imagine if we where to have such an effect, this whole universe would be so fucked.
But how will stuff get done???
maybe I’m a bit different but once I get a corporate job, I will devote everything to it. It has always been my dream to have a corporate job.
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Pretty sure that guy rang me yesterday to let me know there was a problem with my computer. Nice lad, helped me through it all step by step.
Well….that’s the way to get to nirvana….
You do it best (you do it best) when you do nothing at aaaaalll
u/savevideo
I’m going to send this to my boss before my performance appraisal next week. It will help him get a better idea of where I see myself in five years’ time.
Oh I needed this this morning, thank you 🤣 Had my old manager speak condescendingly towards me in front of colleagues on a Zoom meeting yesterday for no good reason, which led to me turning my camera off while I cried and remembered why I moved teams. As my boyfriend always says “no one leaves a bad team, they leave a bad manager”. I’d just had the most amazing two days in work and it took 3 minutes to turn a week on its head!
You’ll all soon be dead just fucking chill made me snort a laugh on the train
u/savevideo
I’ve been saying this for over a decade. Saw it first hand when the “go to” guy for IT issues with a bunch of contacts ended up having to retire early on health grounds due to being overworked and pushing himself too hard to try to get a promotion. I thought the place wouldn’t be able to go on without him and yet it did. It was slightly less efficient but we all struggled on and muddled through.
So when I saw the place could survive without someone that was widely regarded as a major cog in the machine of the running of the place, I realised it could and would survive without a much less major cog in the wheel like any of the rest of us. It’s been hard to motivate myself to give a fuck or try hard in work ever since.
The whole work thing is weird though.
u/savevideo
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When you don’t like your job, you don’t go on strike, you just go in everyday and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
Pay minimum wage, get minimum effort in return and don’t fucking complain, I don’t get paid to listen to your bullshit.
People doing karaoke with Osho satsangs now? 😂
I’ve always did the same thing when it comes to work.
Absolutely hype myself up (I’m quite good at speaking which helps)
Then absolutely do fuck all unless the boss gives a deadline or is looking over my shoulder, than you work your aas off for 1 or 2 days and go back to doing fuck all.
Had a job watering 3k euro (each) trees at a construction site during rainy season, was being paid minimum wage to lug a huge metal hose around literally miles of estate.
So I did what my wages assured, the minimum. Let the constant rain storms water the plants and I found a nice tree to sit under for 3 months unless the boss announced he was coming where I would actually work for 5 minutes.
Easiest couple of grand I’ve ever made lmao
Namaste
u/savevideo
u/savevideo
How many years did this man meditate under a tree though?
Genius
Well in that case do absolutely minimum.
Namasday.
except: childcare
I’ve been doing this for the last 33 years and can confirm.
Thats quite an impressively concise grouping of both narcissistic and nihilistic bollocks!
Maybe this works if you’re some unlikely fuck born into lifelong security and choices, but for the rest of us, which I think is the vast overwhelming majority of people, we need to do shit for each other and we need to do shit for ourselves to get on.
Thats nothing worth crying about and that doesn’t mean you have to drive yourself into a wall being obsessed with a job or some such other bullshit.
When I was a young lad I was an awful man for the timekeeping. Couldn’t arrive on time for the life of me. Always got my work done to a good standard and was happy to stay late to finish things but getting in at 9 was beyond me entirely.
Manager took me aside one day and said ‘Smoky, 99% of everything in the workplace is about appearances. Nobody really cares if your work is good, bad or indifferent, or you stay till midnight but believe me, coming in late everyday just pisses everyone off. Nobody even cares if you come in early as they won’t actually see it happening because they’re not there yet, but they will care if you piss off early even though you’ve done your stint. Manage appearances and your life will become a hundred times easier.’
He was dead right. Life-changing advice from a really good manager. You can get away with murder and never have to sweat the big calls if you get the small, meaningless shit right.
r/ireland users: don’t work, fuck your job, fuck the system 😎
Those same users: why aren’t people building houses 😢😢😢
This sounds like the lads over in HSE and other government agencies
I needed that
I know this is funny but here’s a thought.
Instead of working out a way of mooching a living to the max, why not find something you actually like doing and do it.
Depends on the job, if its for the money fine, if you want to do something on the world obviously it wont work
Remember your existence and humanity is nothing but a small blip in the lifetime of the universe, nothing you do will ever have such an impact on the universe as a whole. But take comfort in that note because imagine if we where to have such an effect, this whole universe would be so fucked.
But how will stuff get done???
maybe I’m a bit different but once I get a corporate job, I will devote everything to it. It has always been my dream to have a corporate job.