If we cut the bullshit from office jobs we could have everyone doing maybe a day or two's worth of work and getting the same amount of actually productive stuff done. Get all these newly underemployed office workers to do some actually productive work 2 days a week and then all the construction/manufacturing/frontline workers can work less too.

Imagine no longer being chained to the desk and actually getting to teach kids or help old people or cut trees/replant forests for a bit every week. Actually doing something worthwhile, and maybe even touching some grass.

I love programming but I hate how it's basically my whole life now.

Honestly, it's still a real job even if they feel it isn't anymore.

They scripted some collection of mindnumbing stupid tasks, while everything works it's all fine and they have lots of free time to "think about optimising other things in the organisation" (or in reality do whatever they like for private projects).

But when SHTF (and it always will at some point), this person is the one that can fix it all in a few hours max (and possible optimise thing further), while some external firm would struggle for weeks. That can worth keeping them on the payroll, even if the bosses are aware of the situation.

This is exactly the kind of job that should be rewarded. The person doing the exact same paper pushing for 40h a week without questioning how dumb the task is and how it could be optimised is the real resources drain.

Remember that story of that guy who outsourced his work to India and he played videogames all day. Then years later got fired and couldn’t find a job at the same level because his skill set and knowledge was years behind. Don’t use up all your time on useless shit when you find a job like this since you never know when that golden goose will stop laying eggs. Might as well find a second remote job where you only have to spend 3 hours a week on and double your income.

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I need to learn Python

I kinda did some of this kinda thing at one of my old jobs. It wasn't an office job, but I found shortcuts to do stuff that the other non computer geniuses weren't even able to begin to learn.

I was a king. Until they random'd me (I still didn't think it was random, but I'm still curious who it was because I got along with everybody as far as I knew.)

Others would come in talking all about how high they were, but I'm the one that gets fired for it when I wasn't even high at work at all. Sad. I was good at that job too. Haven't been good at anything else since, and there aren't any similar jobs elsewhere in town. Feelsbadman

This is me rn. I work like 4 hours a week handling all the devops tasks. Boss happy as fuck, colleagues happy they don't have to do it.

Living the dream rn.

My work (part-time) officially pays me for existing.

I've finished my last assigned task around 1,5 years ago now and they just keep paying me money to keep me in staff in case they ever need it.

I don't ever come to the workplace, I don't even communicate with anyone. I just have money coming on my card twice a month.

Hope they never stop!

This is the kind of automation I believe in: Bottom-up, with no permission asked and no goal but to hold down one thriving wage with minimal effort and maximum free time. My only critique is that they felt the need to brag in public. You teach this shit in secret so the bosses never twig.

How do people like this not get roped into countless meetings? Do workplaces exist in the digital space that actually communicate without a meeting culture?

The realization that if I won the lottery I would browse 4chan all day

My best friend has this kind of situation working for Draft Kings. When your whole business is a massive government approved ponzi scheme with very little overhead compared to profits, the job can be pretty relaxed.