I forgot when I posted that bit about the Japanese guy you can hire to do nothing that I had this other link in my drafts fold to a column I quite liked at The Graun. It really leans into the pointlessness of pretending to enjoy work in the dying moments of late-stage capitalism. (That’s a whole vertical at The Graun).
I say this as someone who is privileged enough to actually enjoy my job and work, but the people arguing that I'd get bored if I stopped working severely underestimate my ability to amuse myself and pass the day.
Mind you, Mr Birmingham and Mr Lambright would have to greatly increase their output to keep up with my increased consumption of the written word if my leisure hours were to expand. But at least I might finish Netflix 😂
Right? And thanks to a number of "hey, try X streaming service for a big discount for one year!" I seem to have collected ALL the streaming services. I have so much TV to watch and no time to do it in. Bring on a big lotto win and instant retirement 😂
I would love nothing more than to do nothing. To potter around, read, play games and so on. You'd get bored, say people. Get fucked, I say back.
I want to enjoy time now, because the climate apocolypse is coming and my twilight years are going to be spent scrabbling for survival in a world where only the megawealthy can afford food and so on.
This whole working for a living thing? That we have to earn our way to basic fucking necessities? I want to feed cunts into the woodchipper that think this is how it's meant to be now. We have all this technology, all this power and we force people to do things they hate so they can afford a roof and food and running water. We are doing it all wrong.
The handmaidens of capital like to call out stuff like this, usually referring to 'no one wants to work' or 'quietly quitting'. If millennials are ruining anything its they are destroying the pretence that work is for most of us anything other than the toil undertaken so people can have minimum shelter, food and care they need to function.
I did nothing for about three years at one job, ($120K p/A) I read cracked and reddit, Got told by my manager I wasn't good enough for more or meaningful work. So I waited and waited, doing maybe 20 minutes of work a week, taking long breaks, smoking, leaving early arriving late. I used to print out art books and plan work for when I got home. People used to call me and the first thing they would say " I know you're really busy but I need help" I would reply , 'I am not busy , I've got capacity, I can help you' silence would follow, I could hear them think ' he's saying the wrong thing , I hear words, but they don't have any meaning'.
I could have stayed but my soul wouldn't let me. These things are more common than the public service lets on. In an organisation where you cannot be fired unless you're on a professional award or regulated elsewhere, and where the indolent are promoted and there is no accountability , then its basically a charity scheme for the middle class. The end result the Robodebt Royal Commission.
This isn't just doing the bare minimum at a job- this is getting paid and not showing up at all. Well, it seems attractive to get paid and do nothing...but I'd imagine that there'd be two words ricocheting around most people's brains- fraud and boredom.
Get found out and how many years of pay would they be looking to recover. And day to day, what do you do? Can you get a 'second' job? Are you just working on the great Australian novel?
Reminds me of a guy who didn’t turn up for work one day, and never again, without reason as far as I knew, but it took them 18 months to officially sack him. It was the public service back in the last millennium, so...
I say this as someone who is privileged enough to actually enjoy my job and work, but the people arguing that I'd get bored if I stopped working severely underestimate my ability to amuse myself and pass the day.
Mind you, Mr Birmingham and Mr Lambright would have to greatly increase their output to keep up with my increased consumption of the written word if my leisure hours were to expand. But at least I might finish Netflix 😂
imagine being able to say "i got to the bottom of netflix". It boggles the mind when i see Edgar Wrights movie list each year
Right? And thanks to a number of "hey, try X streaming service for a big discount for one year!" I seem to have collected ALL the streaming services. I have so much TV to watch and no time to do it in. Bring on a big lotto win and instant retirement 😂
Biggest. Mood. Everrrrrr.
I am on retainer to write extra entertainment for that latter emergency, Ms. Mitchell ;-)
Phew! Not all heroes wear capes Mr De Jager 😍
I would love nothing more than to do nothing. To potter around, read, play games and so on. You'd get bored, say people. Get fucked, I say back.
I want to enjoy time now, because the climate apocolypse is coming and my twilight years are going to be spent scrabbling for survival in a world where only the megawealthy can afford food and so on.
This whole working for a living thing? That we have to earn our way to basic fucking necessities? I want to feed cunts into the woodchipper that think this is how it's meant to be now. We have all this technology, all this power and we force people to do things they hate so they can afford a roof and food and running water. We are doing it all wrong.
The handmaidens of capital like to call out stuff like this, usually referring to 'no one wants to work' or 'quietly quitting'. If millennials are ruining anything its they are destroying the pretence that work is for most of us anything other than the toil undertaken so people can have minimum shelter, food and care they need to function.
I did nothing for about three years at one job, ($120K p/A) I read cracked and reddit, Got told by my manager I wasn't good enough for more or meaningful work. So I waited and waited, doing maybe 20 minutes of work a week, taking long breaks, smoking, leaving early arriving late. I used to print out art books and plan work for when I got home. People used to call me and the first thing they would say " I know you're really busy but I need help" I would reply , 'I am not busy , I've got capacity, I can help you' silence would follow, I could hear them think ' he's saying the wrong thing , I hear words, but they don't have any meaning'.
I could have stayed but my soul wouldn't let me. These things are more common than the public service lets on. In an organisation where you cannot be fired unless you're on a professional award or regulated elsewhere, and where the indolent are promoted and there is no accountability , then its basically a charity scheme for the middle class. The end result the Robodebt Royal Commission.
This isn't just doing the bare minimum at a job- this is getting paid and not showing up at all. Well, it seems attractive to get paid and do nothing...but I'd imagine that there'd be two words ricocheting around most people's brains- fraud and boredom.
Get found out and how many years of pay would they be looking to recover. And day to day, what do you do? Can you get a 'second' job? Are you just working on the great Australian novel?
Reminds me of a guy who didn’t turn up for work one day, and never again, without reason as far as I knew, but it took them 18 months to officially sack him. It was the public service back in the last millennium, so...