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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by throw20161123 on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:46AM (#14078882)
Your ass in your seat, taking minimal vacation (with your Blackberry), justifies my existence and competence as your manager in Big Corp.
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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by basisword on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:00AM (#14079032)
This definitely isn't a 'big corp' problem though. In fact, employees at 'big corp' will often have better hours and more vacation that employees at 'hot new startup'.
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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by raverbashing on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:52AM (#14078945)
Also "hard work" is easy. Sit and do some meetings to look busy

Shipping and solving problems is harder

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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by eeZah7Ux on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:58AM (#14079009)
Shipping useful stuff and solving actual problems is even harder
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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by dkersten on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:49AM (#14079500)
do some meetings to look busy

This book is pretty great! https://www.amazon.com/100-Tricks-Appear-Smart-Meetings/dp/1...

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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by patrickmn on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:47AM (#14078899)
There's gotta be some kind of Schroedinger's cat type joke here. If you're not in your seat, you don't exist.
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