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Does anyone else feel guilt over not working the full 8 hours in a laptop job?
Even though I do something very provably useful, and bring in millions for the company while being paid basically entry level, doing something that requires (imo) rare talent, I still feel a lot of guilt that I tend to work only 4-6 hours a day.
Most people I’ve talked to fall into two camps, either telling me it’s fine and I should slack more, or that I have a fake email job and should join a startup instead. Sadly I did the startup path for many years and got burned pretty hard.
Anyway, seems like most others in my corporation also don’t work a full 40 hours but, I detest this sort of fakery most of us feel forced to do. I wish I could be honest about how I do the tasks I’m assigned, often going above and beyond, but it just doesn’t take me 40 hours.
My company is planning to adopt MS Team, any tips on gaming it so I appear more active than not?
Get the app on your mobile phone so you can quickly respond (and/or buy time). While I'm a contractor I spend most of my time at home doing whatever I like unless someone needs doing. This might not work in larger company's that actually monitor mouse movements/keystrokes per hour or something.
If you have literally any prospects in your respective labour market you should immediately leave any jobs that do this. What a fucking nightmare.
Mine does that, and it's pretty harmless. When you don't interact with your laptop for a while, your MS Teams status goes to "absent", and that's it. AFAIK they don't record it.
lol I guess I should have qualified.
I assume teams yellow status is just the default. I'm so desensitized to its existence.
I had in mind call center tier metrics and associated oversight and punishment for not hitting metrics or having too much idle time, etc
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