Your POV on skiving

[orangpelupa]

googled "skiving"... hmm...

oh...

be grateful to have work that consistent enough and making you think about (or do) skiving.

about "talking to people",
yups, thats what my experience too.
for example: when i'm on job interview, it always boring waiting time with nobody talking. its either they are too shy or simply not interested to have a chat. Dunno its because rivalry between candidates or not (or simply because all of us are stranger, all of them minding their own business, and here i am starting a conversation).

The most successful topic to ignite conversation was asking about stuff they like, their hobby, and job experience (fresh grad, applying for 10000th times, etc). After one person starts to talk, i can say "oh nice, blablabla, and how about you?" to the other candidates. then BAM, conversation happens. The waiting for interview no longer silent boring sit.

Edit:
lol now i remember i forgot to send job application for today.

 

[liolio]

Wow that's some strong wording there. I better not comment then. OR maybe I will. I have a great career, I worked my ass off years ago and now I'm enjoying what came of it, My only real 'stress' is the travelling which sometimes can get a bit much. But otherwise all I do is relax. I haven't been to the office in a couple of weeks - and when I do is not for long - because I don't need to. My year is pretty much done and I've spent this time playing on my PS4, going out, eating like a pig, having random sex. Pretty much doing nothing. Oh and drinking!

I love skiving. I love being in the position that I can now relax and wake up whenever I want most days. People would work a lot better if they were allowed to relax more, I'm fully supportive of that and I banish any idea that 'skiving' is bad for the universe.

Chill! Relax! Have a break!

I have people! Who now handle a lot of the work I broke my back doing in previous years.

Seriously now, of course I downplay it a fair bit. My job entails going to meetings - booked by someone in the office - and manage my existing clients with the support of someone else. And of course directing my team so that we all do what needs to be done, directing sales in my territories and everything that comes with a higher level sales job. But it's extremely flexible. For me. Not the rest of the team But that's also because I travel a lot: I think the last two years I probably did around 70 trips to Europe on business, per year. So yes I work a lot, just with a different structure and I allow myself a lot of time to relax, mainly because of the extensive travelling which gets very tiring.

Well I've nothing against lazyness, it is a great driver for efficiency though, now that you have a relaxed approach to things to which extent are your sure things are going as well as you think? That there are nobody under pressure of lazy persons WITHOUT work ethic? How are you sure that you are still completely in touch with the change in your job and did get let you surround by yesmen and who know what?
You said you worked your ass off, I assume that you really worked not that you successfully skived your way to success trumping partly the guys over you. Now you do it your way do you think a young you would get noticed?
Either way what you described is some consolidation which happens in a lot of company, somebody reach a position (great or not) and then they start being complacent with themselves, they make mistake in promoting people, etc; etc; That process is slowing driving countless and countless of companies (and countries as it happens in government too) slowly into the wall, aka the moment the last productive elements retire and their knowledge vouched useless against emailing and other administrative tricky like countless pointless meetings...

If you were an insulated case it would be fine but what I'm saying is that like many things or ideas that sounds ok... ish scale issues are kicking in pretty fast,. Skiving is the tips of the iceberg, as it turns really fast, for a lots of people at least as I'm not questioning your merits or competences (I hope you get the conversation is friendly and this is not a personal attack ) into incompetencies and then abandon of work ethics, and the later is of greater importance than the former, it can lead to forgery, disregard of important regulations, etc.

My pov is that skiving as well as gigantic loss of work ethic is taking private and public sector down. Think of the implication in more serious business than mine, like the financial world, the army, the INtel services, chemistry, pharmacology, etc.
Imo it is not usually the nature of the good and rightful people to search "power" but of late I've been really thinking that those good people have to raise as the house definitely has to swept. Now I don't think they are either the type of persons able to convince sheeps to let them handle things... so our best hope is a wake up call from the top dogs. THough looking at things from where I stand this won't happen till the house is crumbling (it is clearly already on fire).

 

[green.pixel]

Whatever brings down the system™ sooner, the better. It is on a path of self-distruction since inception anyway.