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Re:I did no work for a year and no one noticed by AbbeFaria on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:15PM (#47925192)
If you have the self-awareness to realise that your job is BS and is deleterious to your well being the path of least resistance is to simply quit and find another job hopefully that is more relevant to what you’re skilled at.

All this chicanery to escape work would only eat at my conscience. I don’t believe for one moment that I should be emotionally attached to my employer but at the same time I am a professional and am paid to do a job. I should hold up my end of the bargain. Being deceitful 24X7, 365 days a year will eventually wear me out because there’s always the chance I will be found out. There’s also the reputational risk of being found BS’ing which is non-trivial and could ruin chances of future employment.

The path of least resistance is simply to quit.

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Re:I did no work for a year and no one noticed by hyperhello on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:58PM (#47925732)
The thing is that it’s not polar. You can actually take a wider view and learn to optimize for selfish reasons, and once you’ve figured out the program you can go back to what you’re most comfortable with having a new perspective on how to do your job more efficiently.
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