People share times they finagled companies into paying them for doing 0 work: 'The truth is, I'm at home not even thinking about [work].'

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• I took a job a month ago and haven’t even tried doing it.

  "A few weeks ago, I was recruited to work for a company that I don’t think should exist. Their business model is exploitative and unethical. At first, I ignored it, but I ended up taking the interviews, and they were all pretty crazy. They’re not just unethical, they’re also disorganized and pretty dumb.

• So I took the job. I’m a little over a month in, and I’ve done nothing. It’s remote work (sales in the field), and I’ve just been making up daily recaps. I got to the office once a week and act really frustrated that I haven’t sold their product, but the truth is, I’m at home, not even thinking about it.

  I have a three-month trial period. I was hoping to work the full three months. It’s getting harder to keep up the act, though."

  -Oddinvestment4230

• It's not easy to grapple with the societal construct that we have to work all of our lives and then retire at an age where we can't even do anything exciting anymore… Like, how am I supposed to go hang gliding off the Andes in Chile at age 65? That's the age where if you break a hip, you're down for the count, basically, the rest of your life. Heck, I broke my ankle at 20 years old, and over ten years later, I can still tell when it's about to rain. 

  Unfortunately, that is the reality we live in, and we have to keep a roof over our heads and food in our bellies, so, yeah… Could tricking the system into thinking you're working when you're really not be the new version of an early retirement plan?

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• “My first real job out of college, I was at one of the largest hospitals in my area. Was an X-ray tech. Noticed one day, after some time there, that a few of the techs never really did any work but always looked busy. I got mad one day and decided to look busy, as well, as I was sick of picking up their slack. For the next hour, I ‘looked busy.' That was the last time I ever did that, as it was more exhausting to fake work than to just do the work, and I could not believe only an hour had passed. I found it much easier to just do the work instead of looking like I was busy working. Also makes the day go by much faster when you are doing work.”

  -forever_not_the_same

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• "I've worked at some scamy sales company before, it was in an office, I was let go after 2 weeks, after they realized I thought it was a waste of time. We had to cold call small companies around our state, and try bulldozing through their employees until they let us speak to an owner or someone important in their job, and forcing a meeting with us.

• The issue was that my company never told me what we were selling, what we were doing. I just had to make the first contact, force them to agree on a meeting date, and then another team will do the selling.

  How the he** do I convince someone busy to just sit there and talk to us without knowing what we do? All very sketch. After around 20 calls, I realized this is weird, and just stopped making calls, and sat on my phone for the rest of the day until I was told to leave."

  -NowWeGetSerious

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• No-Fix-614

  Bro turned remote work into a paid undercover investigation. But yeah, this only works until someone asks for actual numbers instead of vibes.

• Slowhand1971

  I like it. Your goal is to be just a concept. Sweet!

• We don't want to encourage laziness or discredit hard workers. That is an important quality to have! But when times are tough, and you are forced to work somewhere that follows philosophies that don't line up with yours or hires management that just takes advantage of you, then yeah, become ungovernable! 

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