Posted on 01/12/2022 10:58:25 PM PST by blueplum
I don’t think he’s smart.
A smart person would develop a product on his own time, copyright it, trademark it, and market it as an enterpreneur working for himself and paying himself
Two bit thieves too lazy to make their own way in the world steal from the boss.
I work with plenty of people who work 1-2 hours per day; I think the problem is older directors have no idea how much technology makes employees more efficient. If the director spent 8 hours doing it 25 years ago with a manual process, he doesn’t understand common programs can do the work in under an hour.
EOM
I work harder from home than I ever did in an office.
You’re right.
EOM
You’re right.
EOM
You’re not a goldbrick then.
No, but I am a cold pr*ck.
Great point.
The employer hired him to perform and complete certain tasks. He did. If he’s a salary man, as opposed to an hourly wage earner, then the employer is SOL.
I don’t see the problem here.
Employer assigned a task to employee.
Employee competently produces quality work product for employer.
The only problem I see is that he is not being honest with the employer about his labor but at the end of the day, they are receiving the entire work product form the employee that they have assigned him. Smart cookie.
Ideally, he would sell the script to the employer for a good large chunk of change, and then be off to the next job.
Most people I know that work from home have company provided everything - computers, cellphones, paper clips, etc.- even a portion of the electric, internet and heating bill. But as you suggested - I agree - he’d be better off developing his product on his own time and marketing it as an entrepreneur instead of stealing time and resources from the boss.
When at work, with nothing to do, what do you do? housekeeping of files or inbox or mailing lists or checking the file cabinets and drawers for misfiles. Replacing worn banker boxes in the archives, reviewing workflow charts, reviewing production, catching up on scheduled reports and going back over the prior years’ reports with a critical eye for errors and wrong forecasts. Drafting employee reviews and revisiting some. Planning out future marketing campaigns if only for the annual company picnic. For IT I guess it would be updating software and firewalls - equipment maintenance, checking cabling, switches, routers, verifying continued availability of parts from vendors, updating procedure manuals, servicing workstations, cross-training coworkers —why is only one person trained on case file databases and not two or three??—, retraining on fire and emergency procedures and especially on company policy and standards- all the busy work that keeps office folks busy but still connected to productivity even on the very slowest of days. Want to watch TV at 2pm - better call in a mental health day and take it off of sick leave. A worker would never want to come into my office and claim they had nothing to do. I’d fire them where they stand for the simple reason they themselves just admitted they’re not of any value and have no initiative. Same for work at home. Nothing personal. A boss pays 40 for 40.
the employee is bragging online that he is scamming his bosses behind their backs and isn’t he the clever fellow for doing it. There is most definitely an issue.
“10 minutes of work a day “
Define the term ‘work’.
He is performing work all day since he is responsible for the operations throughout the day of his area of responsibilities.
His work is not measured by attendance to a specific computer system or any other measure that requires his presence at a specific computer.
Don’t forget...
3) hey dumbass, shut the hell up.
I’m not so sure about personal use scripts and programs the company is not aware of.
he told us what his job was.
Say I hired a person to babysit for 10 hours. I leave and they lock the kid in a room with a camera for 9 hours an 50 minutes, only interacting with the child for 10 minutes. Did they perform their job of babysitting? NO, they didn’t. They neglected the job for 9 hours and 50 minutes.
All good developers do automation scripts for any number of repetitive tasks.
The people who don’t know this are exactly the micromanagers that keep companies back in the COBOL and stone age script languages. The Stay In Your Lane types.
I have any number of stories from personal experience.
his verbage, his braggadocio - he’s reduced his function to that of a log reader
“I clock in every day, play video games...and at the end of the day I look over the logs ...I’m only at my desk maybe 10 minutes a day.”
This guy is stealing and is stupid for bragging about it.
In the first place, if his required job is so simple that an easy script can replace it, how long will it last?
He may find a job as a script writer, but if he keeps on stealing from his employer, he may be prosecuted.
“his braggadocio”
In other words, you are jealous! Get over it.
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