Antiwork

lol

If you want to play it that way: let me count my 2 hour commute through standstill traffic as paid hours.

if the most interesting aspect of a mf is their role at work there's probably zero percent chance I give a fuck about any aspect of their life anyway, opinions certainly included

Even if you work at one of the rare unicorns where hard work is rewarded with raises and promotions, hard work has nothing to do with working extra hours. Fuck off with this "You need to be the first one in and last one out" shit.

Actually, guys, boots are super tasty and licking them is very cool.

This gives big "Brian Johnson is a working class hero" vibes.

Pay me as little as you can get away with and I will work as little as I can get away with.

I would take that awesome advice...

...if I was on a compressed hours working pattern, and I would absolutely be turning the lights on and locking the doors in the first half of the week, and fucking off early on Thursday. No dramas whatsoever. My 37 and a half hours will boxed off as early as sensibly possible.

Pulling a sixty hour week and getting paid for 37/40/42 though? Yeah nah fuck that.

Side tangent: I hate the term 'nuggets of wisdom. Seriously, only Tenders of Wisdom are much tastier.

End of year performance review.

“We think your performance this year has been ok. Not great, not bad, just ok. We can’t justify a bonus for you this year with senior management.”

“But I am always the last one out every night and have been nearly all year.”

“Really, I wouldn’t know. I never stick around that late. Now that reminds me, there were those two days last month where you were seen leaving early. We don’t appreciate that lack of work ethic at this company.”

“It was because I had stayed back late the previous days!”

Gus Catlson: US based company consultant who writes for right based Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail. Also was a director at that newspaper. Was in charge of communications for the Thompson Reuters merger. Has a Pulitzer from 1992, but beyond that its all business reporting and opinion pieces.

Everything in his background tells me he hasn't had to work insane hours in decades. He hasn't had a boss ask him to work 10 - 20 extra hours just to have a 2% increase at the end of the year. He was in charge of a Canadian major newspaper, which aren't known for paying a proper wage. So he knows he's lying, he's just annoyed people want to have lives.

I have a work ethic. I guess some people wouldn't like mine, but I have one.

I work just hard enough not to get fired

Company Objective: Pay minimum, Gain maximum work

My Objective: Gain maximum pay, work minimum

You know how a country has their country prioritized? (eg: "America First") Well I have a similar idea: "Me First". Fuck the company. They are maximizing their profits, I'm gonna maximize my profits.

Everytime I see somebody systemically overworking and being proud of it, I think to myself: "how incompetent should he/she be to need to compensate that hard"

Sounds like someone who's really, really bad at managing their time 🤷‍♂️

Work ethic never went out of fashion. Many, many people work very hard everyday. Always have. Work is a part of life, always has been, always will be. It's the incentives that are the problem. Paying people just enough (or not enough, in many cases) to just keep their heads above water, for taking on more and more work, so that owners, investors, and executives can make ever increasing profits, just doesn't motivate people to work very hard. Much of the hard work in the current system is motivated by fear. That is not positive or sustainable.

If you pride yourself on being a hard worker just know that everyone else is in a group chat without you.

This is a ticket to being seen as insufferable.

If I turned the office lights off at the end of my workday, it'll just annoy the people who are still working. 🤷🏻‍♂️