Confused Gen Z works office job, complains that they get 5 days of work done in 2: 'Is this what life is going to be like for the next 50 years?'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 22, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

The transition into the white-collar working world can sometimes be a difficult one. A fresh employee might try to focus on the positives, like a salary hike and not having to endure face-to-face customer service, but then they get rudely confronted with the joys of BCC emails and office politics. In some roles, another thing that can come as a shock is the workload. Time management is of the essence, but not always in the way that might be expected.

This is something that one Gen Z employee recently found out when they got an office job and began complaining that they weren't being given enough work to do. Claiming that there were at least three days in the five-day week where they were trying to look busy in front of their boss, many people on the internet wondered why they weren't trying to use their time better. It's examples like this that make working from home look more appealing.

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    rosey ✔ @thechosenberg Follow Too many jobs that should have 3/4 day workweeks
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    Z r/GenZ u/Z-e-n-o 4h . Chat what the frick am I supposed to do at work? Discussion Got an office job for the first time in my life but now I'm just sitting around bored out of my mind 8 hours a day. Boss assigns me work for a week, it takes like 2 days to finish, and I'm stuck trying to look busy for the next 3. I tried asking if there's more stuff to do but I think that just annoyed him. For now I've found some idle games this look like work tabs but I can't keep this up. I'm spending more tim
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    • Literally Chad @literally_chad 15h Replying to @thechosenberg Also there's more responsibility the longer you've been there, they're trying not to drown the newb and also trying to avoid the newb anything up.
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    TA DeeZe @DeeZe • 16h Replying to @thechosenberg this free time is a blessing, homie just needs to use it correctly and not waste it playing idle games
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    Luke OJ · @Lukeoj MMA 14h Replying to @thechosenberg This is why WFH was a blessing. I could do a days work in the first two hours and they play COD for the rest
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    SourPatchLyds ❤ @sourpatchlyds Replying to @thechosenberg This is why people become Follow "overemployed", change my mind. Value your own time.
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    MIA @MIA_on_line - 16h Replying to @thechosenberg WFH solves this
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    feral meemaw @feralmeemaw Replying to @thechosenberg Follow baby's too green. you can't be pushing through your workload like that and telling on yourself. you gotta pace it out. otherwise they'll give you more work to do for the same pay. or they'll make you do managerial duties for grunt pay. use your downtime to work on yourself, work on school, on a side hustle to turn into your main hustle to turn into your dream life.
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    Diamond St. Hova @Puerto RicanJosh Follow Replying to @thechosenberg it called take the money and build a life outside of work lol.
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    Garrett Courtney → @CaptVanGarrett Replying to @thechosenberg Follow I think we're at a stage where we can go down to a 4 day / 32 hour work week, with little to no loss in productivity. I think that for a lot of people, we might actually increase productivity, that way. I don't know if we're ready to go down to 3 days yet.
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    . Ty Murphy @TyMarshal Murphy - 12h Replying to @thechosenberg I had an office job like this once. I found a seat where no one could see my screens and I read the pdfs of every single game of thrones book.
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    Whiz @HunterWhiz 12h ⚫ Replying to @thechosenberg Cramming people in an office 5 days a week for 12 hours of work in 2024 is diabolical
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    menegaz @maumenegaz 15h Replying to @thechosenberg • Nah, they should not exist. You bet this kind of job will be taken by computer scripts.
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    Maximilian Kirk @realmaxkirk - 12h Replying to @thechosenberg It's amazing to me how little the workplaces understand Parkinson's Law. . • Parkinson's law can refer to either of two observations, published in 1955 by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson as an essay in The Economist: [1] "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", the number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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    mint @bettytrayed - 10h god i see what you've done for other people and i want that for me
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    diya @diyadontgaf · 13h when are you not complaining about something. you have free time at work be happy that's what you're supposed to do you godless beasts
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    Casper, Pumpkin & Poe @ashleyy1294 Follow This is why you get a fully remote or at least hybrid position (with a company that doesn't micro manage you of course)
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    Froward Jason Would Li... @JasnTru Follow Whenever I had similar situations I just started learning a new skill on the job, even if completely unrelated to the gig. But if you like the gig you're best off finding other people you can make yourself indispensable to by helping them out, especially if the boss values them.
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    Bre.Livie™: Breezy @Bretiful • 8h . It's literally all about time management, 3-4 work days really should be more common.
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