• Honytawk@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    24 hours ago

    Is there really nothing else you can do than that Sisyphean task?

    Bring a book or something?

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      21 hours ago

      Unfortunately, the work culture here is so ass-backwards that would get you in trouble. The whole “if you have time to lean you have time to clean/ I’m not paying you to stand around” exploitative nonsense. You must look busy and act like you are doing work at every possible second for the boss’s pleasure, less they feel they aren’t getting a return on their “investment”.

      It comes from an old school “Protestant work ethic” which has been a pervasive sickness in American culture since its foundations.