How do you kill time at work? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would you be able to create even more work for yourself and get paid more for doing it? Like suggesting things to be done, or doing side projects?

[-] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

This was me. At first I automated some commonly used spreadsheets and then made some simple web tools to help our team which eventually led to getting to their IT department and now I work from home full time as a developer.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

From home full time is the dream. I'm at home Thu–Fri.

But yeah, very good! Showing what you can do will get you ahead and not be bored!

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Will it get you ahead tho? Or only under very certain conditions? The last times(!) I have seen people going beyond it was essentially treated like that is to be expected. I have never seen that pay off to anyone. But you know what "always" pays off? Showing you boss you are busy. Just making that impression, not necessarily doing much.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

If you are at a company and nobody notices you are doing nothing but "looking busy", and that doesn't get you in trouble eventually, you don't want to be at that company. What the fuck is that, dude. You should be in a place of collaboration where people notice you, and notice if something is off. Otherwise the place is very clearly poorly run. Get out of there.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

How many bosses are there that genuinely look at how efficient someone was based on objective data instead of going by gut feeling? How to even define efficient or any other metric? Way too complicated.

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