I’m not talking about the days when you sit in meetings all day, or when you try but get nowhere. I’m wondering how often you have a day where you are at work, but you don’t even lift a finger to try to do any work. I get about 2 of those days per week.
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For training on being unproductive, go to COV100. It's long been my assessment that on any given day, if 99% of the people working there died or just forgot to go to work, no one would notice, nothing would be left undone, and production/productivity would go up.
I put in my best efforts every day, but there are certainly days I get nothing done! More commonly after the transformation with all the time wasted being micromanaged by project lead, project owners, customers, scrum wa---r, epic coordinator, chapter manager, hub leader, department head, and so many more! When goes flatter and simpler start exactly?
Outside of field ops, Chevron gave its employees two years of minimal-work, minimal-effort for full pay. It’s going to be hard to reverse that mindset.
Enjoy it while you can slackers. When the boomers start retiring en-mass, people with v-injury go full disability, and zoomers leave for WFH jobs you're going to see more work.
My chapter manager does this everyday
Geesh, what kind of roles are you all in? I may not always love what I’m working on or think it’s all value add, but I’ve never had nothing to do.
You’re a sad excuse for a human being….
That is sad if that is what you really do. Clearly says what kind of person you are… someone with little value and worth. It doesn’t matter if you don’t get caught… I would be ashamed of myself if I lived that way.
In the office? A lot of those days. Not by choice. It’s because everybody wants to talk about their weekend/kids/hobby instead of just doing their job. At home I can get everything done on my own time without having to feign interest in my coworkers.
Happens every 2-3 days for at least half a day, sometimes full days.
You should be happy about it though. I'm in IT, and if I'm doing my role correctly at implementation time, with proper instrumentation and monitoring... things are running smoothly. I'm only slammed if something I'm responsible for is 'down' at the moment. So yeah, I get a ton of 'easy' time with nothing terribly pressing... but I'm being paid more for what I know, and keeping things running and reliable, than for what I'm doing every minute of every day. (And I've certainly put my time in on jobs like those as well... but this is not that at all.)
Must be nice. Those in front office definitely don’t get those. I wish.
@chc, agree, but more like 50%. OP, if you don't work, or don't get anything done, then it's not actually called Work, in case you didn't know. Have fun wasting your life away. You can tell that to your grandchildren one day, or make up lies and say that you weren't a worthless individual. I'm sure they will be proud.
Seems like another 30% need axed
@eoi, you missed that in the cafe in the afternoon, some of the tables are high-pots scheming to bump their bosses out, fantasizing about their next foreign assignment, or jockeying to get on some EVP's staff. Oh, and when you go down there, be sure to bring a laptop and have it open on the table. Makes it look like you're working.
This is the least amount of work I have done for the most amount of pay
It's not hard to do. First, come in late, blame it on traffic. Then go down to the cafe, have breakfast on Chevron's time. Get coffee after that, ki-l an hour talking about nothing with other employees. Then go check your email, reading through about 75% worthless and pointless messages (too many people send emails to entire groups rather than to the person intended). This is what looks like "work" to everyone else. Get another cup of coffee and/or talk with co-workers about where to go for lunch. Go to lunch, no urgency, take 90-120 minutes. Come back, check your email again, maybe play around with a spreadsheet or PowerPoint (again, looks like "work"), maybe check Chevron stock price, call your spouse (makes them look like they're "working" as well), then go down to Starbucks to complain to your co-workers how bad Chevron is or how much your kid's private school costs. Before you know it, it's time to hop in your car and face that traffic again. When you get home, send out (or answer) some emails off-hours, that really makes it look like you're 'dedicated'.
never
This is one of the reasons why I left. I understand people's mindset of "it's a paycheck to do nothing, just accept it" but it drove me nuts to not have any work most days.
The sad part is people that are ok with this.
That’s a sad existence. If that were my reality, I’d have to quit due to the lack purpose and opportunity.