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how's your week going, Beehaw (self.chat)

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it's a bit of a busy week but i am currently reading I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism

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[–] Megaman_EXE 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'm a bad influence, idk. But honestly, I think people generally work quite hard overall. We're often stuck working for less than we should be getting and doing unfufilling tasks repeatedly.

Life's too short for us to be stuck in an office/warehouse/job for 8+ hours a day until retirement.

Obviously, try not to let it become a habit lol. Don't get in trouble, but I think if people can take back their time and still ultimately be productive most of the time, then I say go for it. Everyone has off days, and they're lying if they say they don't. We're humans, not machines

I hope you're doing better!

Sent from my android while listening to RATM at work lol.

[–] JCPhoenix 8 points 7 months ago

Ha, perhaps I'm a bad influence as well! I'm definitely like you most of the time. I'm usually the guy in my office who's like, "People, relax; nothing we're doing here is life or death!" I'm constantly telling my co-workers to just breathe and slow down a bit (read: a lot).

And I've definitely had a few (past) co-workers consider me the "lazy one" just because I'm not putting in 80hrs a week, crying in the office due to the stress, even though I still get my shit done. Don't get me wrong; I've put in my 12hr days or working overnight or during the weekend to fix something. I work in IT, so sometimes I need everyone offline to do my stuff. But those are very, very rare.

But I still try to do at least some work each day. So it was unusual for two straight days to basically do nothing! You're right though; sometimes it just happens and you have to ride it out. Definitely much more productive this week already!