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[–] thawed_caveman 26 points 14 hours ago

Sleeping for 10 hours in a closet would do enough damage to my body that i'd quit my job and get a disability pension

[–] chiliedogg 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The secret to promotion is to be competent but not amazing.

If you're good enough not to be fired, but not so good you're indispensable in your current role, your boss will be happy to recommend you for promotion to get you out of their umbrella.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Just be a constructive slight annoyance... and be funny, nice and be seen ether the first or exit the last (I suggest first).

[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bosses love to think that they know it all, but they operate on limited info like everybody else. This just shows how stupid it is to work hard for a job, when everything is based on impressions and not on any kind of objective measures.

[–] Vinny_93 104 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've seen unproductive people succeed simply because they show up early and leave late while doing less than average work. It's all about appearances.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 22 hours ago

It's a dumb system for dumb people and I hate it.

[–] SendMePhotos 46 points 1 day ago

One time I spent an hour restacking four small pallets into one big pallet. Managera come through and one of them says, "hey wow, looks much cleaner in here, good work today!"

Anyways I got a promotion a few months later.

[–] jaybone 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Does everyone in this thread work in a warehouse?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Can it wait until the next full moon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

🏃🏠💨

[–] thawed_caveman 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thawed_caveman 3 points 13 hours ago

We do bulk and they're also werewolves, so it's a werewhore warehouse

There were some in Pompeii but they haven't been located yet, to this day archeologists don't know where the werewhore warehouses were

[–] TootSweet 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's a running joke where I work just how hard it is to get fired. One of the few stories I know of someone who was fired involved an employee for whom my employer paid multiple times for courses of rehab. He was finally fired when after all that they found him at his desk so drunk they basically couldn't wake him at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

where do you work?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 22 hours ago

I once saw a truck driver not get fired for getting caught for the second time stealing meat (whole carcasses) from the truck.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

That's sad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

Similar stuff happens at my job. Only thing people really get fired for is getting into fights.

[–] Iheartcheese 37 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Lame. Dude just reinvented the wheel

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What work would even in concept make this possible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Ssh.

But honestly, I could see this in pretty much any office setting, including mine. My boss will go whole days stuck in meetings, so I'll only see them if I get in really early or stay late. If I'm missing all day, people would assume I'm also in meetings or something, because we work with remote teams and half of my team is remote.

I'm a software engineer, but this could work for almost any office job, especially those in cubicles.

[–] kalpol 3 points 16 hours ago

This is a plot point in The Caine Mutiny