Comment on Anon falls through the cracks

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• oce@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we ignore the actual stress of a manager suddenly finding out and asking you to report what you have been doing. Probably still possible to bullshit long enough in a big company to rextover your position or find another job.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why you shouldn’t get rid of all your work. Keep a bit and make it immaculate. If they ask why you haven’t done more, just say “nobody asked me to.”

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    • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Problem with that approach is that they will argue that if you didn’t have enough work to do, you should have asked for more. OP knowingly slipped through the cracks to, so the argument of ‘I don’t have a line manager to give me any’ probably isn’t going to cut it as their work will argue that OP should’ve gone to HR to sort their responsibilities as soon as they were aware.

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They might get fired but no one has to “seek” extra work, there’s no legal obligation. If they do their simple existing task, they are meeting known expectations.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t know what kind of fucked up country you live in, but in my the employer- employee relationship means that the employer dictates what work you do and when, so if they don’t give you anything to do that’s on them.

        Going further even better if you are self employed and on a cintreact thats fix rather than hours based, they have even less of a case, contract says you will charge x amount every month, if they don’t contact you with any issue that’s on them.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do things that are never finished. Optimize the everloving bejeezus out of some code. Endlessly fiddle with webpage layouts. Explore and review all the ways not to reticulate a spline.

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  • OppaGundamStyle@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “I’ve been awaiting my next job”

    Probably get fire but oh well, easy run until that point.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, when you jam up the machine in an unexpected way, more likely than not they’re going to keep it quiet. A manager isn’t going to want to go to their boss with a problem no one noticed… It’s going to do nothing to benefit them and it’ll make their life harder

      All you have to do is play dumb. Insubordination is one thing, waiting for orders is just having a job with little autonomy. If you maintain you were just a good little cog waiting to be reconnected to the machine, they’re better off sweeping it under the rug.

      They might get upset instead, but what are they going to do? Sue you for not being more proactive? They’d probably lose more in legal fees than they could get back from most people

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2022, pretty sure they are job hunting 2024

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