And only once they ping you to ask if you’re working on it.
This right here is the winner.
I’ve been told to do so much unnecessary bullshit during my combined time in the workforce… finally clicked that unnecessary bullshit also equals unmemorable bullshit, so new hypothesis: management knows it’s unnecessary bullshit and care about that task’s completion even less than I do.
After years of rigorous testing: hypothesis confirmed, management don’t give a fuck either.
New evidence based practice:
Be told to do something; agree cuz they are in fact the boss of me; find something more critical that happened in the same timeframe that you can use as an excuse if questioned; ideally that’s it, cuz management has now forgotten; if they do remember and check in on it later “Oh my bad, I spent the couple days after agreeing to do that stuck in patient care, so I never got the chance, and now it’s been so long I had completely forgotten - thanks for the reminder, I’ll get on it as soon as I can!” …repeat as many times as you think you can get away with; if management persists and they actually really do care about the unnecessary bullshit, then fine, go ahead and get it done.
Fuckin’ hate busy work. Give me something real to do, or let me go home.
And the level beyond Pro is: I’m only doing the things my boss specifically asks.
And only once they ping you to ask if you’re working on it.
This right here is the winner.
I’ve been told to do so much unnecessary bullshit during my combined time in the workforce… finally clicked that unnecessary bullshit also equals unmemorable bullshit, so new hypothesis: management knows it’s unnecessary bullshit and care about that task’s completion even less than I do.
After years of rigorous testing: hypothesis confirmed, management don’t give a fuck either.
New evidence based practice:
Be told to do something; agree cuz they are in fact the boss of me; find something more critical that happened in the same timeframe that you can use as an excuse if questioned; ideally that’s it, cuz management has now forgotten; if they do remember and check in on it later “Oh my bad, I spent the couple days after agreeing to do that stuck in patient care, so I never got the chance, and now it’s been so long I had completely forgotten - thanks for the reminder, I’ll get on it as soon as I can!” …repeat as many times as you think you can get away with; if management persists and they actually really do care about the unnecessary bullshit, then fine, go ahead and get it done.
Fuckin’ hate busy work. Give me something real to do, or let me go home.
When everything is urgent, nothing is.
Or things are on fire.