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It's unacknowledged how much of civilization operates on "pretend to be working" (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 23 hours ago by sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to c/autism@lemmy.world
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This has been the bane of my existence in almost every job I've worked. "Look busy", "don't stand idle", "delegate tasks for yourself". My dude, if it's not on the job description and it's not a task I was onboarded in why would I do it?

But in life we're just supposed to somehow already know. And assume that we should lie about how we're spending our time. I've fought with multiple managers because I'll just leave when I get far enough ahead of my work that the only thing left to do is pretend I'm still working. I've been reprimanded for helping other areas instead of just still pretending to do work in my own.

It happens in enough fields that I realize, the culture isn't broken. This IS how average people get through their careers. I'm the one who can only survive in roles that don't have a hard endpoint for tasks. Because I'm broken in someway that I can't stop getting ahead of my work and I can't make myself lie about it.

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[โ€“] Snowclone@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is why certain jobs are very nice to have. Right now I'm transporting students. Best job I've had. There's no down time. You are either on route or picking up or dropping off. Well you can be early and need to sit for a min, but I think 20min is the longest that's ever been and that's a one in a year occurrence of 5+ students canceling, which is not typical. Most days, we're 5-10 early at the end of a full route simply because no unexpected delays happened. And that just means you sing the ABCs a few times waiting for the school site workers to come out and receive students.

[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Nice. I've been thinking about cabbing in the near future after a big change because it sounds like the lifestyle would fit me. I would miss heavy equipment but it's probably worth it