anyone work just enough to get by to not get fired?

[SampSon]

When I worked for salary in corporate hell I really didn't put my all into it.
Even though pay was decent, I wasnt about to put in 80 hours a week just to see these companies plod along.

Then I discovered the wonderful world of fee based independence. I never looked back.

 

[JS80]

I always give 150%. When I stop getting promoted and not rewarded with bonuses I move on to the next company. I won't stop until I'm C-level.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Elstupido
BoomerD, yes, you get it, lot's here don't

I was vastly confused for a second because he didn't have the hippie avatar. And I totally agree, BoomerD. Even if you suck at your job (I sucked at my first job), always work when you're being paid to do so. After getting in trouble enough for either slacking off or just doing plain stupid shit when I knew I shouldn't have, I've developed a semi-decent work ethic: work when you're being paid/when you're in class, and have fun when you're not.

Don't need no Hippie Avatar no mo...

Good GOD man! How long has that thing been stuck to you? Didn't anyone tell you ??? :laugh:


< had too long hair for too long, too.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Elstupido
BoomerD, yes, you get it, lot's here don't

I was vastly confused for a second because he didn't have the hippie avatar. And I totally agree, BoomerD. Even if you suck at your job (I sucked at my first job), always work when you're being paid to do so. After getting in trouble enough for either slacking off or just doing plain stupid shit when I knew I shouldn't have, I've developed a semi-decent work ethic: work when you're being paid/when you're in class, and have fun when you're not.

Don't need no Hippie Avatar no mo...

Wow, you look all kempt and shit...

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Elstupido
BoomerD, yes, you get it, lot's here don't

I was vastly confused for a second because he didn't have the hippie avatar. And I totally agree, BoomerD. Even if you suck at your job (I sucked at my first job), always work when you're being paid to do so. After getting in trouble enough for either slacking off or just doing plain stupid shit when I knew I shouldn't have, I've developed a semi-decent work ethic: work when you're being paid/when you're in class, and have fun when you're not.

Don't need no Hippie Avatar no mo...

Wow, you look all kempt and shit...

Almost 5 years between haircuts...went from THIS to THIS with just a couple of snips of the scissors and a couple of "buzz-busses" of the clippers...
I feel like I've lost 10 pounds.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Work isn't important in life, work is what gets in the way of what's important in life. Fuck the job, it's only a way to get enough money and insurance to do what you really need to.

Unless you're bright enough to work at what you're interested in and care about.

That is the grand ultimate situation. Unfortunately difficult for many to achieve.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Work isn't important in life, work is what gets in the way of what's important in life. Fuck the job, it's only a way to get enough money and insurance to do what you really need to.

Advice to success from a successful individual.

Success is subjective.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Work isn't important in life, work is what gets in the way of what's important in life. Fuck the job, it's only a way to get enough money and insurance to do what you really need to.

Advice to success from a successful individual.

Success is subjective.

Agreed. Each person has to decide for himself how he defined "success." It's not the same for everyone.

 

[Baked]

It's called a government job. When you're working for the government, you've made it.

 

[Kroze]

people who do the minimum are always disgruntle and pissed off. Blaming everyone else but themselves on how this or that guy came in after him but got promoted before themselves. Or why that guy got a higher salary raise, etc....

I work 110% every shift and I'm rewarded often by my superior officers with easy jobs every chance they got. This of course cause a lot of animousity among my cowprkers who only do the minimum (union job sucks)

 

[Kroze]

they all swear that I've must know someone up there to constantly get easy/desireable job usually reserved for senior officers. Non of them realized how hard I work each day (obviously my supervisors does)

so when you do the minimum, don't blame anyone else but yourself if you got passed for promotion, lower pay raise, not considered for anything important, and be the first one to get lay off.

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Elstupido
BoomerD, yes, you get it, lot's here don't

I was vastly confused for a second because he didn't have the hippie avatar. And I totally agree, BoomerD. Even if you suck at your job (I sucked at my first job), always work when you're being paid to do so. After getting in trouble enough for either slacking off or just doing plain stupid shit when I knew I shouldn't have, I've developed a semi-decent work ethic: work when you're being paid/when you're in class, and have fun when you're not.

Don't need no Hippie Avatar no mo...

Lookin' good.

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: JS80
I always give 150%. When I stop getting promoted and not rewarded with bonuses I move on to the next company. I won't stop until I'm C-level.

What's c-level

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: fritolays
I'm still fairly new to the corporate world... in my previous internships, they never expected much out of me so I enjoyed doing my own work inside my cubicle and still ended up with full time offers from both internships.

Here at my full time job, I started with one other guy just out of college like me and he seemed to have picked up things much faster. So even though we both started at the same time, people go to him for questions and pull him into meetings instead of me. Personally, I hate meetings and I really don't mind it at all but I feel like I'm doing just enough to get by. What's your perspective?

I hope you like the job a lot because you'll be stuck doing it for a long long time without any promotion with that attitude.

 

[God Mode]

I haven't met 1 management prick that rewards and takes the damn time to notice and guage worker performance. If anything, their buddy or nephew or some other lazy retard that does jack shit always gets the promotion and you get jack.

 

[Kroze]

^ my example of a disgruntled employee, most likely to go postal one day :-O

 

[Old Hippie]

went from THIS to THIS with just a couple of snips of the scissors and a couple of "buzz-busses" of the clippers...

Everybody to their own, but I've had nightmares about that shit. :laugh:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: fritolays
Topic Title: anyone work just enough to get by to not get fired?

Of course not. Those people are lazy and will never be successful

Posted from work.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Work isn't important in life, work is what gets in the way of what's important in life. Fuck the job, it's only a way to get enough money and insurance to do what you really need to.

Advice to success from a successful individual.

Thats the problem. People measure how successful they are by how much they make or how hard they work at their job. Fuck that. Measure your success by how happy you are or by how much you get to do what you like to do.

 

[buck]

I work hard enough to keep the right people happy.

 

[AmpedSilence]

I worked 60 hours weeks for my first job, earned a 25% pay increase after the first year, generating almost 50% of the company's revenue at one point and was generally the top of the top. The company stopped caring after that, and so did I. I went from being 50% of the company's revenue to being fired one quarter because i was no longer willing to put in the 60 hours and be everyone's bitch. I don't plan on working that hard again. I will work to be about a B+/A- employee. That's my goal. Which in my eyes is just enough to stay employeed and not work your bones off just to betrayed and fired by your company.

But since I was fired, I've been to Australia (Sydney and Cairnes), New Zealand (Auckland and Christchurch), Pargue, London, India, and I
ll be going to Dubai and India again in Nov/Dec. In my eyes, I am MUCH more "successful" now than when I was working like a dog.

 

[polarmystery]

I do. No cost of living raises and our yearly raises if we are doing well is below the inflation rate. Currently seeking new employment.

Care for my job I do not.

 

[Raduque]

My job doesn't reward success. There's a guy who's been here for a year and a half and is basically supporting the entire second shift. He does more work by himself than all of first shift does. What does he get? Absofuckinglutely nothing. Never gets told he's doing a good job, doesn't get a pay raise (Union doesn't allow pay raises unless it's plant-wide), doesn't get extra vacation days, recognition, nothing. There's a woman on first shift who does literally nothing. She comes in and sits at the table. She got transferred to a different section of the same department that gets all the overtime, so she basically got a pay raise for not working.

So, fuck doing anything more than you're simply required to do.

 

[krunchykrome]

With that attitude and mindset, you're career progression won't keep up with your peers

form my observations, there are two types of people in business....

1) those who take responsibility for their actions, are go-getters and arent afraid to get their hands dirty, and people who "own" their job

2)those who try to pass the buck and do the bare minimum

avoid being #2 if you want a successful career

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Raduque
My job doesn't reward success. There's a guy who's been here for a year and a half and is basically supporting the entire second shift. He does more work by himself than all of first shift does. What does he get? Absofuckinglutely nothing. Never gets told he's doing a good job, doesn't get a pay raise (Union doesn't allow pay raises unless it's plant-wide), doesn't get extra vacation days, recognition, nothing. There's a woman on first shift who does literally nothing. She comes in and sits at the table. She got transferred to a different section of the same department that gets all the overtime, so she basically got a pay raise for not working.

So, fuck doing anything more than you're simply required to do.

Actually, unions ONLY set the minimum pay for the job. The company is free to pay the guy MORE than union scale under MOST union contracts.

In my last 15 years of working, I think I only had one or two short-term "fill-in jobs" where I actually "only" made union scale. Normally, I get anywhere from $3/hr to as much as $7/hr OVER the applicable union scale.