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02-11-2008, 03:50 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by Bimmerbill
My motto is: Working is for suckers. I certainly won't work myself to death!
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Go to YouTube.com and seach "How to do nothing at work and still get paid".
Remember Peter Gibbons being interviewed by the efficiency experts in Office Space (1999)?
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Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.... I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.... The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
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02-11-2008, 04:33 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
Posts: 6,873
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Originally Posted by Milton
Go to YouTube.com and seach "How to do nothing at work and still get paid".
Remember Peter Gibbons being interviewed by the efficiency experts in Office Space (1999)?
Related article: Brit workers excel at skiving | The Register
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Does posting here qualify as "doing nothing at work?" Thanks for the mention of "Office Space." Are you the one who mentioned it recently on a movie thread? I've been hot on the trail of the DVD; its outrageous that my library which uses four floors in a building it owns and rents out the rest as office space, doesn't have a copy. I'll have to use my Amazon.com reward coupon to buy it; then maybe donate it to the library.
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02-11-2008, 05:37 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2008
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It's sad to see someone in this day and age, with all the automation and conveniences available to us, still manage to work themselves to death. I could see if we were still spending sixteen hours a day plowing fields by hand, but in a modern society in a rich country something like this should never happen.
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02-13-2008, 07:38 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2006
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[quote=Milton;614384]Go to YouTube.com and seach "How to do nothing at work and still get paid".
Remember Peter Gibbons being interviewed by the efficiency experts in Office Space (1999)?
Hah! I have most of that down now. I learned early in my army career that if you carry a clipboard/notebook and walk very fast most people will leave you alone. I do that even when heading over for a coffee!
I don't call in sick tho, I have 700+ hours of sick leave on the books. I'm lucky, I don't get sick.
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02-13-2008, 02:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by Bimmerbill
I learned early in my army career that if you carry a clipboard/notebook and walk very fast most people will leave you alone.
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Worked for me in the navy, too! Ensign Pulver (aka "the most hapless, lazy, disorganized, and in general most lecherous person I've ever known in my life") was my hero.
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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02-16-2008, 07:12 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Being that compulsive sounds more like mental illness to me. Am I wrong?
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