• @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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    1213 hours ago

    I heard many similar stories like that from friends and it’s always a bit shocking to me. I’m no go getter or anything, i run my own business, but even then, i don’t want to work more than i really have to. But i just really can’t imagine what that must be like.

    I had a friend who worked as a static engineer. He then worked for a company that made bearings for big machines, which wasn’t his line of work but he liked it. The company got bought by another company who did something different and he just fell through the cracks. At first he was super anxious and just pretended to draw on his drawing board and had excel open on his computer. But no one cared, a lot of people switched jobs and suddenly he didn’t really know anyone anymore and after a few month he told me that he doesn’t really know what his job is.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      411 hours ago

      I’ve had jobs that amounted to sitting around waiting for work and hated it. I’m the first to tell people that I work just hard enough to not be bored and to keep everything under control

    • @_____@lemm.ee
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      -712 hours ago

      disclaimer: I’m not a bootlicker, all’s fair game for how you earn your keep

      but there’s no way a competent person finds themselves not knowing what their job role is

      that being said: a dubs a dub I guess ?