Is it normal to do nothing at work all day?

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I have been in my field for 5 years, always a top performer, and yet work less than most. I always look busy though :)I never have anything to do and don't understand how people in my profession always seem busy.

I do something for idk 1-2 minutes, screw around on the internet for 10, work for another 1-2 minutes and continue in this rotation all day. I am starting to think nobody else works either and I am just more efficient. What do you think?

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  • phillipphung94
    13 years ago

    And you're complaining because...?

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    The person who sits beside me does this too. He flips to his real work whenever anyone glances at his screen but then goes immediately back to emailing his friends or browsing the internet. I specified a project as seven weeks work. The work was given to him and it took him a year and a half (with a lot of help from me - without that help, it'd be three or four years).

    It pisses me off that we're paid the same but my output is at least twenty to thirty times his. The body of evidence is starting to build against him, though, and I'll guarantee that he'll be the first one to lose his job when we have to trim the fat.

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  • Lonely2
    8 years ago

    Ive been there...the true way your supposed to handle it is inform your supervisor your finished the assignment and ready for another

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  • Princessandthepea
    13 years ago

    My colleagues and I are always busy and some of them hate being busy, they want to get paid to do nothing. If only they'd moan when payday comes.

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  • Robinson81
    13 years ago

    I have been promoted. I even asked them to put me through school so I could learn more and do more (which they have done)... still nothing to do most of the time and yes it is BORING!

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  • recent_grad
    13 years ago

    I think you're lucky. Unless you're bored of course. Maybe you should use some of that extra time to try and get a promotion?

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  • aussiewolf
    13 years ago

    yeah im kinda in the same boat and its so freakin boring! i am thinking about changing professions completely just for a challenge. but its nice getting paid good money to do nothing.

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  • yaboiiii
    13 years ago

    Yeah I do nothing really at my store either. We're always hecka slow so all I really do all day is sit around and wait for customers to walk in. I feel unproductive.

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  • lewlew80
    13 years ago

    My last job was so boring that I started fallen asleep (couldn't control it), I had to get another job, there isn't that much efficiency in the world when ur totally effn bored, I'm just sayn..

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  • Robinson81
    13 years ago

    I do marketing and database administration work for a software company.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    What's ur job?

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