I used to think the Chads I work with made more work for me. Now I realise the Chads already figured out that the job is bogus and you get paid the same either way

Management is always running a skeleton crew. If everyone gave 110% then that would become the new target. Worse, they'd make 120% the new target and lay someone else off

Giving a solid 60% is enough for my boss to think I'm doing a decent job while not screwing my coworkers. In a crisis, you can turn it up to 80% and suddenly you're a rockstar

Everyone should be acting their wage. We need more Chads in the workforce to remind management what they should actually expect of their staff

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The fun part is my job is seriously considering only paying "working hours" as an if you are not "actively working" you don't get paid, seems insane but look around.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Time to unionize

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That fucking chemist joke, I can't read that as anything other than un-ionize ever since.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Well it used to be employee owned...

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Giving a solid and consistent 60% is better even for the company. A burnt out employee is an unproductive and unreliable employee, and good managers realize that.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

I'd define 100% as the pace you can work without burnout. This also goes well with that "Let's give it 110 %, which is otherwise usually mathematically impossible...

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 15 points 4 days ago

I work from home putting together bids for construction projects that our project managers want to work on. I'll usually get a project to handle every week or so, but it usually only takes me a couple days of dedicated work to finish one, so I usually just pretend to work until the final few days before a project is due.

Last week we got an emergency project that the project manager forgot to send to us for takeoff, due in only 2 days. I clocked a bunch of OT that I didn't actually need since I could finish the project up at my normal pace anyway, and my boss loves me for finishing it so quickly. Working hard every day would just make that timeframe the norm, and take away any of the appreciation for the work I do.