It's a bs term coined up by businesses to keep people working imo
It started to gain a lot of traction from news articles/columns a couple of months ago, it's mainly about doing just enough not to get fired, doing the asbolute bare minimum.I'm not so sure about that. At a minimum its been coopted by other groups since then. There also seems to be a bit of a debate about what it means - anywhere from 'I'm just working 9-5 and thats it' to 'I completely stopped doing any work for them and am waiting to see how long it takes for them to fire me'
Most of the mainstream news articles about it point to it being much more of a fluid definition with strong correlations to not going above and beyond\setting boundaries as opposed to mainly being about doing the bare minimum. Forum and social media goes a bit further and heads into the "I decided to quit today I just didn't tell anyone. I stopped doing my job and am just waiting for them to fire me" spectrumIt started to gain a lot of traction from news articles/columns a couple of months ago, it's mainly about doing just enough not to get fired, doing the asbolute bare minimum.
just like in office space
I stopped being "loyal" to my job when my software solution to a problem allowed my company to make $1.8 million in a single year and all I got was a laughably small "reward". The problem was Excel sheets that needed to be manually formatted by staff to be input into the system. It took six people working from 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. to manage to get 50 files into the system. That's how bad the Excel cell formatting issue was.
My solution was to create a form which would output an XML file which I converted to an Excel file with the correct formatting already applied, using my rudimentary knowledge of C and an Excel library. I also created an intranet using CGI and C later to do away with the form so users could enter data directly on a web page. Suddenly, a single person was able to input 300 files into the system. What did I get for my ingenuity? A measly $5000. The programming experience was pure fun and joy for me but the payoff just killed any desire to pursue it further.
My IT guy threw out the XP Core 2 Duo machine hosting my intranet after it was superseded by a fat ASP.NET web app. I didn't even get to say goodbye to it, or take a working copy of it. Found out weeks after it was gone.but the new server won't work over the new VPN and the entire thing has been down for about a month now... so yeah, so much for that.
My IT guy threw out the XP Core 2 Duo machine hosting my intranet after it was superseded by a fat ASP.NET web app. I didn't even get to say goodbye to it, or take a working copy of it. Found out weeks after it was gone.
Us techies are so under-appreciated. The fat app is now going to be migrated to Azure at a minimum cost of $10,000 per month. That's how bad it is performance-wise. Two load balanced 4 core Cascade Lake IIS VMs totally succumb under CPU load of about a 100 users connecting to that app. My C CGI executable handled 200+ users on two cores and it was also my work machine. Rarely would I feel things slowing down.
My IT guy threw out the XP Core 2 Duo machine hosting my intranet after it was superseded by a fat ASP.NET web app. I didn't even get to say goodbye to it, or take a working copy of it. Found out weeks after it was gone.
Us techies are so under-appreciated. The fat app is now going to be migrated to Azure at a minimum cost of $10,000 per month. That's how bad it is performance-wise. Two load balanced 4 core Cascade Lake IIS VMs totally succumb under CPU load of about a 100 users connecting to that app. My C CGI executable handled 200+ users on two cores and it was also my work machine. Rarely would I feel things slowing down.
I'm so glad that I haven't had to deal with something like THAT!They basically are more on the security side but they are very nazi about it, even our local IT have no say in what they do or how they operate.
I thought exactly of this character when reading the thread title.It started to gain a lot of traction from news articles/columns a couple of months ago, it's mainly about doing just enough not to get fired, doing the asbolute bare minimum.
just like in office space
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i worked 12 to 18 hour days last week because i'm a loser
The toll it will take on your health isn't worth it, unless you really really enjoy the work, the workplace is very nice (free food!) and there is no vampire/dinosaur/dickwad breathing down your neck. And there are cute girls there who are nice and friendly with you and charge your hormones right up to 100 percenti worked 12 to 18 hour days last week because i'm a loser