No one questions you if you have and open excel sheet on you screen with lots of data. Have a browser with a good section of tabs open also help. Never underestimate the emoji response in team, also the quick auto response button. Just some more helpful tips
About those tabs: Are you pro-having multiple preferred and unrelated-to-work webpages open while at "work"? If yes, then aside from various browsers' stealth/privacy modes, how do you advise keeping those tabs open and discouraging of too much attention from co-workers or bosses? Asking for a friend.
Also Reddit and stack overflow look real similar. If you are caught watching YouTube, it was a tutorial and they saw and ad. Walking meeting with “coworkers” are key and good for your health!
Excessive use of exclamation points will have you coming across as a "TEAM PLAYER" so I recommend those. They help turn a dire tone into a go-getter anthem. I could do that vs. I could do that!
Writings like this are so comforting. I thought I was the sole smarty pants that invented this “ruthless productive” theater…along with quiet quitting”. Ha!
Highly recommend the mentioned Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber for a gut punching deeper dive into this. One of his lighter, faster reads perfect for a read-in-the-park-day.
Many, many years ago I knew a guy who had a bullshit job with one of those old phone companies that were spawned by deregulation of the Bell system. He managed to use it to hone his playwriting. He was paid fairly well, I thought. At the time, I was running an adult literacy program that barely paid me. I had two other jobs to cover food and rent. But I did feel I was doing something helpful to people in our society’s “surplus population”. I was taking a risk that I would somehow not end up living in my car. That’s the risk you take if you take that gamble on as your “occupation”.
I work remotely in a Fortune 500 and the meeting trick is how I keep people from bothering me all day. Also I constantly replay the recordings of big meetings so my screen never turns off while I go do other things and look for a better job. Our company is failing and we have no goals or KPIs so I straight-up just barely work.
Also, saving this post and filing for future reference. Folder name: "Professional Development"
beautiful
I learned too from George Costanza that if you always look frustrated or upset people just assume you're trying to get a lot of things done.
For remote work — I'm always running a mouse jiggling script.
Savvy. Cagey, if you will. (And I think you will.)
This is beautiful. Wow. It takes years of trial and error to come up with such a masterplan. Thank you, Antonio.
haha
No one questions you if you have and open excel sheet on you screen with lots of data. Have a browser with a good section of tabs open also help. Never underestimate the emoji response in team, also the quick auto response button. Just some more helpful tips
hell yeah, i have like 50 tabs open at least at all times
About those tabs: Are you pro-having multiple preferred and unrelated-to-work webpages open while at "work"? If yes, then aside from various browsers' stealth/privacy modes, how do you advise keeping those tabs open and discouraging of too much attention from co-workers or bosses? Asking for a friend.
get a desk where (almost) no one sees your monitor
Also Reddit and stack overflow look real similar. If you are caught watching YouTube, it was a tutorial and they saw and ad. Walking meeting with “coworkers” are key and good for your health!
there's even some browser extension or something that makes Reddit look like Outlook
Excessive use of exclamation points will have you coming across as a "TEAM PLAYER" so I recommend those. They help turn a dire tone into a go-getter anthem. I could do that vs. I could do that!
Writings like this are so comforting. I thought I was the sole smarty pants that invented this “ruthless productive” theater…along with quiet quitting”. Ha!
Highly recommend the mentioned Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber for a gut punching deeper dive into this. One of his lighter, faster reads perfect for a read-in-the-park-day.
Many, many years ago I knew a guy who had a bullshit job with one of those old phone companies that were spawned by deregulation of the Bell system. He managed to use it to hone his playwriting. He was paid fairly well, I thought. At the time, I was running an adult literacy program that barely paid me. I had two other jobs to cover food and rent. But I did feel I was doing something helpful to people in our society’s “surplus population”. I was taking a risk that I would somehow not end up living in my car. That’s the risk you take if you take that gamble on as your “occupation”.
You forgot point number 7: "Write about doing nothing at work on Substack under your real name".
They'll never suspect a thing.
Jokes aside, keep this up. If you get fired you can always put you Substack on your CV and get a writing related job.
"Interesting point!"
"Lets get this idea flying with some blue sky thinking!"
I work remotely in a Fortune 500 and the meeting trick is how I keep people from bothering me all day. Also I constantly replay the recordings of big meetings so my screen never turns off while I go do other things and look for a better job. Our company is failing and we have no goals or KPIs so I straight-up just barely work.