Had a Teams call with a coworker and manager. My manager gave an update on the new facility in farm country USA that he recently finished setting up (IP address, firewalls, switches, printers, workstations, etc.). Lots of work. He said he was proud of us because we did excellent work to keep operations going here while he was away. It was nice to hear. One of my favourite things to do while at work is to open random apps and spread them out over the three screens I use so it looks like I’m deep into research. What I’m actually doing in periodically refreshing the helpdesk ticket portal and scrolling Twitter on my phone. You know real work. I work when there’s work to be done. Don’t get me wrong I’m learning a lot about how they do business here and when there are tickets for me to resolve I do my best to fix them. But when there’s no work to be done I make it look like there is. This is how to survive in an office. This is my life now. For just under 50k a year I’m doing the baseline amount of work I feel is worth it. Who knows, if I get paid more maybe I’ll work harder. Maybe.
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