For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by dvtv75 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:15PM (#17261800)

My job is one of those. I do about 35 minutes a day, I'm paid SFA (legal minimum) for turning up to stand around for a few hours. I can't swear enough to underscore how much I hate it and I would leave in a cold second.

The worst part is that they rely on my skill when stuff goes wrong, which happens very rarely, although they've just assigned me a high end graphics project (I'm not a graphic designer by any definition of the term), a $10,000 project that they've promised to pay me about $100 for.

Most days, I'd rather just drive into the oncoming truck than go there.

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Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by seren on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:17AM (#17263792)

> The worst part is that they rely on my skill when stuff goes wrong

In itself this is valuable for the company. If the system was more transparent, you could be called once a month, stay at home the rest of the time and be paid the same amount.

If you are the guy fixing everything in emergency, what would it cost to the company if you left for good and worked somewhere else ?

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