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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like slacking is the new cool. Even if you put in 40 hours, people don’t understand. Quiet quitting, lazy girl jobs, etc. are now all the rage. People want to count their commute in their 40 hours. People want to sabotage RTO by exaggerating time on in-office conversations, coffee breaks, etc.

Here’s what I don’t understand: all these people are getting paid, so why the bitterness? In fact, most people have received hefty pay increases that well exceed their personal inflation rate. Yet, they seem angry at their employer, their job, and their coworkers. It’s like they expect to be paid and to do nothing. Where did this expectation come from?[/quote]

Many don't actually slack but want to give the impression they do more in less time. People were like ducks at Stanford and in Silicon Valley over the last decade. It looks like they're hardly working but beneath the surface they're actually going crazy.[/quote]

Rest and vest was a thing.

And Adam Neumann partied most of the time [/quote]

Resting and vesting after getting through a hiring process far more selective than Harvard or Stanford? It happened less than outsiders think, at the top tech companies anyway. Everyone took a year just to get over the imposter syndrome in my experience. That is a classic example of the SV duck where people talk about how little they did for all that stock $$. I was basically sipping my Big Gulp on the roof!  :lol: 
He partied and worked obsessively. Bankers share that stereotype with startup playboys.  [/quote]

If they say they slacked off I'm going to believe them. Some of those tech campuses seem designed for it. But like you said they're also highly intelligent people so they probably worked very productively in less time and maybe it felt easy for them. These type of people would be responsible remote workers because they could slack off at home an hour or two but still get all of their work done and do it well. The problem lies in the OP assuming that people on the office are actually working for all 40 hours which is just not true most of the time. [/quote]

The problem actually lies with you, old man. Few people in tech have jobs like answering the phone or staffing an office that requires 40 hours of continuous work. Most jobs are project-based and no one is paying “40 hours” anymore like it’s 2010. It’s well-known that you’re being paid to get the work done. Some weeks that’s 30 hours and some it’s 50. Some it’s 15, and your boss doesn’t care if the work is done. [/quote]

That literally doesn't contradict anything I said. [/quote]

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