Slacker tip #55 - finding the best job for slacking
If you are a slacker like me, then there is nothing quite so bad as getting a new job and realizing you will not be able to get away with being a slacker. Typically I do not stay around too long at these types of jobs.
For instance, if I have a job that I do not have internet access at, then I cannot stay there. Yes, I am completely confident that I can successfully waste away the day doing nothing without the internet. However, why would I want to do that? I mean, honestly. What fun is slacking if you can be watching YouTube, writing emails or blogs or looking up ridiculously funny shit?
I also like to maximize my pay for slacking. At my current job (the one I am trying to get let go from so I can collect unemployment) I do a lot of working for me. Some days I will spend the entire day writing articles. That means I am averaging double pay on those days. The company is paying me and I am earning the same amount per hour from the articles yet I’m only putting in one set of 8 hours. It’s brilliant really. And it frees up my nights and weekends since I’ve finished all my article writing on the company’s time.
With these things in mind, you have to consider new job offers very carefully. It may not necessarily be in your best interest to transition to a new job that pays more per hour if there is less opportunity for slacking.
I have the opportunity to move to another company in a position that pay $1 per hour more than my salary now. I asked around and apparently that company is chock full of internet and slacker nazis. I heard tales of weekly phone and internet usage reports, super strict dress codes where you will get sent home to change and are actually expected to drive all the way back in proper dress code. Screw that I say. I’m quite comfy in my shitty little job where I get to play all day or write articles for cash if I want.
In my experience the smaller the company the better the opportunity for slacking. The company that has the new position for me is in the Forbes top 20 list of something (shitty places to work?) which shows that the larger the company the less slacking you get to do.
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