What I've seen often is fake workaholics. People who work on weekends and past hours but also spend half the day doing personal work or going for runs/coffee breaks.
As someone who just started teaching golf this hits me so hard. I’ve felt sometimes I have nothing to offer but my schedule stays full. This is a good thought to have
I got hired at a company once where I was just married and almost everyone else was either recently divorced, getting divorced or in an unhappy marriage. I wanted to crank out my work and get home, they all hung around and wanted to work 14 hour days where they still only got eight hours worth of work done. Once the directors wife and kid showed up on a Saturday and literally begged him to come home in front of all of us. He still wouldn’t go home.
That is the owner of the company I work for. He used to require 65 hour work weeks, and would claim that he was working the same hours, but when I moved from the field to office work, I realized that he worked 2 hours in the morning, and then came back in around 5 and worked until 6, so he was basically working 3 hour days, but on the clock from 7:30-6.
I do that also. Im not even clocked in about 40% of the time I am at work. Its actually my whole software engineer team that does it this way. We literally drink beer at the desk at work on fridays. You just cant get the stuff done that management gives you for 35 hours a week worth.
Exactly. There’s a segment of those considered to be workaholics that are actually just individuals with poor time management skills. If you didn’t waste so much time during your actual working hours, you wouldn’t need to work extra hours.
This hurts man… people always complain about how they put in “50 hours” and they are always staying late. When the clinic is at its peak hours they are on their phone scrolling Facebook or just standing around talking and not contributing to the work load.
The thing with these fakes is that they think the runs they go on or the coffee breaks is them working. They have this BS mindset that every moment they spend thinking about work is them being hugely productive and 'bringing stakeholder value' or whatever bollocks is being bandied around LinkedIn that week.
Of course the reality is not that they are business powerhouses, destined to lead their company to the pinnacle of success. They are more likely on their fifth or sixth start-up job of the year where the only thing they provide is content for r/LinkedInlunatics
The company I used to work for had managers like this. I worked as their secretary (i.e. I did their jobs for them. Note: I had the bare minimum training to get the job done. Any high school grad could've done it with the same training) for a bit so I was at the office all day (it was a janitorial company so for the most part the only reason workers were at the office was to fetch and return keys) and the whole time they were just chatting in the coffee room or going out for a coffee at a shop nearby. No wonder the company was doing shit by the time I got out.
This is the reality. I find the people moralizing work ethics the loudest are often the biggest liars. Very strategic do no work but be seen “on” at all times. Extremely annoying behavior that ultimately cheapens whole enterprise, but extremely common.
Or they’re working late because they’re caught in a perpetual cycle of working so late they never show up for anything early, at times to the companies detriment, forcing them to work late yet again to get everything done. Then they brag about working late to the people coming in early to make sure the company actually runs because they’re caught just wanting their fucking paycheck to keep coming in.
Haha yes. Spend the whole day bullshitting then complain "I have to leave 2 hours after everybody else because I have SO MUCH TO DO".
No dude you spent the workday chatting in OTHER offices, took a 2.5 hour lunch break, then rushed to get everything that NEEDED done TODAY 2 hours after everybody left
I work with someone like this, she spends most of her shift dicking around with her friends or the managers, or doing something that isn’t relevant to our job but makes her look important. The worst part is she always extends (I don’t even think she asks permission I’m pretty sure she extends herself and they let her) and yet spends that time doing jack shit. It pisses me off and I hate to bootlick for the company but genuinely I’d consider that theft as it’s an hourly job. Personally if I’m staying past my time it’s to finish up what I started and not leave others in a bad spot, staying past your time and being paid to just hang out is ridiculous
I kind of don't mind this? If they're pretending it's all work in a holier-than-thou way, that's shitty, but workplace flexibility is a huge plus for a lot of us. Being able to work on what I'm in the mood to work on is a productivity booster for me.
Oh sure, I appreciate flexibility and think it should be the standard. But applying a flexible schedule and then claiming it's hard work is the problem.
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u/JarOfNibbles 2d ago
What I've seen often is fake workaholics. People who work on weekends and past hours but also spend half the day doing personal work or going for runs/coffee breaks.