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There was a post in our Facebook group from a fellow who was complaining about getting fired multiple times with “no reason”. I’m sure there’s a reason, but I’m not here to guess.

What struck me even more was what he said about his previous job:

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There was almost no work to do. Most days I'd deal with 1 ticket a day. Sometimes none. They let me go saying there was a lack of work to do but also mentioned it was due to me looking at non-work related websites during the 7 hours a day I had nothing to do.

anonymous stranger

LMAO.

I’m sorry anon, but…no shit?

I mean, maybe you’d still have gotten canned had you put those hours to use and helped improved things. But, somewhere deep down in my soul I feel that you would have had a better shot if you…actually did some work?

I was in this position once. I had a job where my boss was in another office and we hardly ever spoke. We talked once a week, if that. Work moved slowly. People I waited on from other teams were slow. I began to pick up the same habits. I finished my work slowly because that was the standard. After all, you could just pick up the pace a little bit and be the hero.

Why try harder? Reddit was full of hilarious memes and special-interest subreddits for any hobby you had. Why not do your work in the morning and just look at memes the rest of the day? Or not even do your work?

The dopamine drip is addictive and powerful.

I could’ve coasted at that company. No one was making high demands of me.

But…I began to feel my motivation and interest decline. I burnt time on dumb websites and waited for the clock to hit 5 pm.

I wasn’t mature enough to manage myself then and I ended up moving on to a job where there was much higher amounts of accountability demanded. I needed it.

We all look at reddit or other social media, dm friends and aren’t working on-task 100% of the time. That’s understandable and healthy. I’m not asking anyone to be 100% productive. That’s unreasonable. Breaks keep us healthy and sharp.

HOWEVER…

If two, three, four or more hours of your workday are being completely wasted just sitting around bullshitting on reddit or random websites…

I think you should make some serious changes.

With all your free time you should be improving the system of the business.

Start to look at the business as a system with inputs and outputs.

Money is an input and output.

It goes in and out of businesses all day long.

Businesses want to save money or make more money.

Despite your thoughts on capitalism, you should learn how to exploit it and save your company money or make your company money.

Applied to IT, maybe you’re writing scripts that cut hours long processes into ones that take minutes.

Maybe you’re writing documentation with ChatGPT.

When you save the business money or make it more money, you will become indispensable, sought-after and highly paid.

OR maybe…

You hate your job, no one is watching you and you really could give two fucks less about the bottom line.

In that case, work on yourself! Improve your own market value by studying for certifications, reading books, setting up lab environments or exploring other high-value skills.

You don’t need to go 100% all-in on this stuff. Just enough to hedge your bets and be risk-averse.

It’s always nice to have options.

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