Take a dump that’s three minutes longer and think of Sharon during.

Oh Sharon. If you are going to count the minutes early I leave, I’m going to count the minutes late I leave, and I promise you I will cash them in at the least opportune moment.

Good morning Sharon,

I apologize for leaving three minutes early yesterday. In my day-to-day, I tend to focus on completing my tasks efficiently and effectively. Labor is the force that turns the gears in our company, and productivity is the grease that makes our labor fruitful. While I spent 7 hours and 57 minutes yesterday ensuring high productivity, unfortunately, I found it difficult to keep track of every minute that passed during my highly effective contributions.

To my great fortune, you prioritize monitoring clocks. That is your great value-add to this company: you observe the segments of each hour, and provide a human-generated report that cross-references the passively generated output from a clock with identified employees and include a general description of start-stop milestones. Yes, we already have software that features this exact function, and one could argue that you most likely leverage these generated reports to send your findings and summaries to employees who made the same observations during their interactions with the software. But that’s an impressive and unique quality of yours! Where others see plagiarism and redundancy, you’ve strived to prove that persistence and insistence can justify your attendance at this company.

Others may ask, “What value does that bring?” Or, “How does she still work here?” But they lack the imagination to see your amazing potential! Because you’re known for your expert timekeeping and ability to synthesize truths about value-loss based on arbitrary observations, you must also be able to identify value overages from other such arbitrary observations during your daily efforts to observe the passage of time!

While you’re obviously busy generating evidence of your value to this company, I ask for your assistance within your area of expertise:

“Find a way to cover this from one of the days that I accidentally took a short lunch or left late, you useless fuck.”

Much appreciated,
TheFartographer

Hey Sharon, how about you shut the fuck up?

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can’t see me, and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

I had a similar experience. I’d clock in from the mobile app while walking into the office, this way I could more efficiently make my morning rounds by starting from the entrance instead of going to the onsite terminal.

They pulled me in, showed me security footage alongside the time clock timestamp showing me clock in a full what, 15 seconds before I enter the building? Said I was stealing time and wrote me up. Put it “on the record”. And required I use the physical terminal to clock in unless make an oncall visit to the datacenter.

My daily routine changed from finishing the daily rounds efficiently in under 10 minutes to clocking in, going to the break room, getting a coffee, sitting down at my desk for half an hour catching up on work email and whatnot, then finally getting to the morning rounds, but I’d be extra thorough with the checks, so it’d take about half an hour instead of 10 minutes. Gotta be extra careful right?

For context that was the time I worked IT and morning rounds was checking each device in the building that wasn’t employee equipment, so the TVs with their signage, clock in terminals, printers, etc. I’d come in at the rear entrance and could hit each checklist item without backtracking before finishing up at my office.

Sharon, your name is Sharon right?

You see, Sharon, scientists have recently developed a microscope so granular in its detection capabilities that one can basically image singular atoms.

Now Sharon, if we were to use this machine on me, you would still not be able to see the level of give-a-fuck about you, your email, or your three fucking minutes that I have.

So, Sharon, do us all a favor, fold yourself in half 6 times and fuck off.

At my company, at the first position I held, I was an FTE at a help desk. Management thought it was a good idea to mix it up and put people in change of units that were outside the expertise of those holding positions. Some shitty lady from finance, with an MBA, became our boss. She had this sort of mentality about time.

Previously, I’d stay until the job was done and not think anything of the time I was losing. I liked my job and helping people. She decided one day, when I left about 15-minutes to make a doctor appointment across town, that I had done something wrong and needed to work my entire 7.5-hour shift. She wanted us to note everything we did and document it for her review.

She fucked up. To comply, I wrote a program to track when I locked and unlocked my computer and log it with date time and show the running total of the time worked per day. I stopped staying late. I stopped returning from lunch early if I knew we were busy. People stood at the counter waiting while I finished incidental things at the end of my shift to prevent any late departures. I made sure to never leave early, but I never stayed late or took walkups near my 7.5-hour day.

Malicious compliance is my favorite kind of compliance!

“We are a team!”

Oh fuck off with this fake ass BS, you clearly don’t care about “the team”.

Its not even real. I see people engage with fake posts here, and fake Ai channels on YouTube. Its like some people cant see what is fake, or they are bots designed to upvote fake things.

Shit boss alert!

Unfortunately the economy is even shittier or I’d say just leave and go someplace where you’ll be appreciated.

• unionize
• direct action

totally balanced reaction

You guys don’t have flexible work times and overtime?

Holy shit, i would be so fucking lazy and difficult for the next week probably 2 if someone sent me an email like this.

My pettiness knows no bounds when it comes to power hungry twats like this one.

Oh, oh no. I’m having severe flashbacks to working in a call center. Quick someone tell me the company pays me to turn around the customer within a reasonable time, and that I should be balancing my call metrics, having a near perfect FCR, NPS and hold time doesn’t excuse me having an AHT 40% higher than my colleague who is getting coached around dropping every call that seems more than middling complex.

I feel like Ryan isn’t getting the full experience unless Sharon has 2 levels of middle management over her in that office alone, all 3 levels trying desperately to justify their existence.