I'm seldom observed, and I just wear my headset all the time and pretend I'm answering the phone if my boss comes along. I do surveys for money on my phone when I have down time. Made 5K over the last few years and haven't paid for anything on Amazon since I began.
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Care to share what you use to do surveys for Amazon money? How long have you been doing it?
Of course! About three years now, I use the apps HeyPiggy, Five Surveys, Qmee, and Leger Opinion (called LEO in the app store). It's a grind but I really have made money; I paid for a 500 dollar shopping trip for clothes that way recently and both a ton of clothes (thank you Americans for having such good long weekend sales). I toted up my Amazon purchases over the time I've been doing it and I've bought 117 things. There are other apps but I don't find them as good as these ones. I've only been using HeyPiggy three weeks and made 75 dollars.
I mostly wfh so not really a problem anynore. However, I had a trick from before covid. My companies av is trash, it scans any new files created with a single thread, there's a exception for the directory we compile in (although it's frequently failing and scanning anyway π) but I keep a repo outside that directory for when I want make my compile take 6hours instead of 10minutes. I also have this as my screensaver
Where are people finding these stereotypical office jobs that allow for so much downtime? In every office I've worked in, the calls and tickets would just keep coming in non-stop. I was always too busy to have time to look like I'm busy.
There's a lot of bureaucratic delays in large enterprises and public sector. If you're doing a job right you're likely waiting on other people 80% of the time.
I do all kinds of free training when I've got downtime. Psychology, the sales cycle, dealing with people, project planning etc. Can all help with almost any job
Well I found mine while looking for a moderately large company. I've learned, that big company's and small family businesses don't allow much downtime and freedom so I went looking for the middle.
Thanks for the tip. I've only ever worked for one extreme or the other.
jerking off. nobody bothers a man who is jerking off.
Find a job where you're never without something to do.
Gawd I'm so glad I work in a factory.
Y'all's jobs sound fucking awful lol
It's highly dependent on the job, the employer, and the employee.
Some love highly monotonous work and some hate it.
There is also a higher physical risk with factory work that should be considered.
True, I've lost consciousness due to the heat before so it's not a safe work environment.
I guess I'd rather die than be bored.
That's a weird choice but whatever works for you I guess.
When you're bored every second feels like an hour.
When you're dead time just flies by!
Fair enough.
You really have to find a job where you are not bored if you are able.
keep typing
Terminal -> vim with syntax hilighting -> some source code. Passerbys won't know what your code is for or what it's supposed to do, but it'll make you look busy and you can tinker with your own projects.
A friend of mine has a highly complex spreadsheet open at all times at work. He's a D&D DM and uses that sheet to easily calculate price fluctuations in finished goods based on changes in resource price.
Bingo, that's what I do
Make jokes about not being busy. Make them boldly in slightly non appropriate circles. Then lean with the same amount of conviction into compliments. Agree with full heart, be non apologetic with the same force used to joke about how little work you have.
This duality is powerful because on the one hand you clearly have nothing to hide, and on the other hand you're painfully truthful. Works a charm. Then go have brunch on the clock.
Back in the day, I used to grab any piece of paper, and then walk around the entire office with a slightly angry and urgent look on my face as if I was going to talk to someone important. Do a lap. Back to your desk. Job done.
Your pace of walking definitely has a huge impact on peopleβs impression of you.
I used to work in a large manufacturing complex and two of us would walk around with clip boards pointing and taking "notes". If anyone would ask what was going on, we'd say we were carrying out random health and safety inspections.
Even cleaning up junk from your OS Filesystem looks like you are working, and you discover things you forgot you had
That's what I do, well I don't clean the Filesystem of the OS my company decides, but I hook up my phone or sometimes my own SSD and just start organizing.
Don't. Nobody cares cause they're all pretending to be busy too.
Play BitBurner, use Links browser.
I am now addicted to BitBurner and I blame you
You're welcome.
Their reasoning being that their employees were using unethical behavior while the company itself has been in multiple lawsuits for unethical behavior
What does one call that again? Fucking hypocrits
Use the buddy system. Years ago I had a work-friend, we'd just book meetings with each other a couple of times a week, go to a meeting room and just hang out, I taught him to juggle, or we'd watch an episode from a series etc.
It was fun feeling like we got away with something, but realistically nobody questioned it because we both got our work done and it was a good company where that mattered more than time spent at a desk.
I go from one place to another, greet people, talk, drink coffee, have a snack, go to the toilet, etc, etc. They are pushing working from the office more and more saying it's better for connecting with colleagues, so I go to and do that.
Seek more work. Find tasks you can help on, earn brownie points, don't offer to do anything extra that takes more than 30 minutes to get done. Don't overdo it, and make sure to also use the downtime to grab a federally required break, stretch, drink water, meditate, do some calisthenics.
The first part boosts how you're perceived by others: your bosses will take note of your enthusiasm, your coworkers will appreciate you more; this is why it's important to not overdo itβyou don't want your extra effort to be the new baseline expectation.
The second part boosts your health, mood and productivity.
If you find you have more free time than these fill, consider asking your employer to sponsor certifications/continuing education in your field to further your career, or just talking with your boss about taking on more responsibilities for a raise. But still make sure to "leave room on your plate" to do the aforementioned breaks. If the money/career growth isn't an issue, consider negotiating reduced hours so you have more free time.
I think once I saw a web browser that made websites look like its code. So you were looking for bugs while browsing.
There was certainly a plug-in or something that made Reddit look like an Excel spreadsheet, so reading Reddit made you look like you were doing important calculations!
One of my prior roles was moved from a proper office to an open office and one of the "selling" points was "you can work from anywhere in our cool new building!". So, I spent most of my day anywhere but my desk. I got my work done and half my time was spent in meetings either way, but if I didn't have somewhere to be, I'd be in the quietest spot I could find in the building (cafeteria mid-morning/afternoon, conference area when there were no meetings, outside, the lobby, etc.). I was regularly commended for adopting the new culture.
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