Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 03, 2022

he must’ve taken lessons from Garfield.

He is at least filing himself in the correct place

Nope. That’s just quitting indirectly.

If I tried that the file cabinet would tip over…

His majesty is depicted exercising his divine right to (not) work-to-“rule.”

Two chairs, one or both without armrests, makes a good bed. It worked for me.

We have an employee who does everything short of sleeping. He does it so well that they gave him an “Employee of the Year Award”. I told my supervisor if he ever nominated me for that award, I would shoot him. Unfortunately, I was chosen for that same award years later by our Director. It’s now sitting in my closet next to my bowling trophies and old socks.

Just doing enough to get by. It came as quite a shock in my younger years to realise that many people – men, mainly – absolutely loathed doing the job they were doing; they did it because they owed it to their families to make ends meet, but they dearly wanted their bosses to “Take this dam@ed job and shove it!” Most (and I say most) of my working life has NOT been like that.

He’s found Z drawer for it.

Maybe their biggest clients represent Zyrtec, Zippo, Ziploc and Zoom.And are considered sleeper accounts.

My experience has been that if you have an employer who cares about you and makes your work meaningful, you want to be fully engaged. But when your employer sees you as nothing more than a cipher, you owe them the bare minimum.

I once worked for a guy who would often take quick naps under his desk. One day a client came in and asked for him. Naturally I said he was out but would be back later. That’s when he started to snore…

In the Air Force we called this a ROAD scholar. Retired On Active Duty.

Once worked with a guy who was caught on a construction site sleeping in the Job Box, one of those yellow steel boxes used to lock up tool and materials. How he could sleep in that box on top of piles of boxes of metal parts was beyond me. But he did get “canned” after that…

Actively snoozing. But the drawer is aptly labeled.

A show had an impoverished owner that lived in his office. He had a horizontal filing cabinet that folded out into a murphy bed.

I think, I’d replace the office chair with a Lazy-Boy. Add a nice soft blanket, Heaven.

I’m generally not a conspiracy theorist but you have to wonder if this media freakout over people just doing their job has some sort of push behind it. You wouldn’t think working the hours you’ve been paid for, putting family and personal health first should cause such hysteria. For years companies have been getting 60-70 work weeks out of people while they are paying for 40 hours. Now that people are clawing back some of their personal time you’d think the world was ending.

That guy in the file cabinet looks nothing like “WALLY”. (Apologies to Scott Adams.)

I’ve seen a Steelcase RSM stand in a pedestal drawer to prove a point.

From the size of his office it looks like he slept his way to the top.

You know, now that I think about it, we used to call that “skating” and the men who did it the most were called “sht birds”. I don’t think things have changed all that much.

I sometimes think that what became the ‘office worker’ mode of employment eventually reached its peak and has faded in the face of a number of factors, including simple repetition, the covid ‘work from home’ situation, and the fact that workers usually go very separate ways when the work day is over.

In an earlier time, some workers lived near others who did the same work. They may have gone to school together. After the Depression, Dad worked his way up to railroad engineer at the same time as his friends built their skills on the line. They hung out together, lived near each other, met frequently, shared funny stories about work and the world. The wives did the same. It was great for me to be able to grow up in that closeness. Yes, it was a smaller world but it was cohesive. When one was injured, everyone helped in some way. When one was promoted, everyone celebrated. A birth meant laughter and great promises.

I miss that. It seems the major theme nowadays is indifference.

Except that the file cabinet would most likely topple over…

I don’t find doing exactly what one was hired for, during the hours one was hired to do it in, “quitting”, yet this is apparently what ‘quiet quitting’ entails. If you expect more time and work from your employees than you have contracted, well, it is you who is in breach of contract. Yet apparently we are expected to, at minimum, put in 60 hours a week into our 9 to 5 jobs, and proactively look for extra work to enhance the companies value.

I dunno. The last fifty years of worker productivity gains have gone straight into pockets of stockholders and CEOs. Maybe it’s time for the corporations to pay for the years of wage theft and exploitation. If one listens to Rep. Katey Porter, as one should, and buys that at least half of the present inflation is going to corporate profits, maybe that time is over due. Seeing as they are shafting us coming and going.

The real king is the guy who outsourced his job to a man in India while he sat watching cat videos on the Internet.

A confederacy of dunces.

The way to prevent “Quiet Quitting, Retiring In Place, etc” is to treat your people with respect, to engage them in the workplace, to get them involved in decisions that impact their work, in short to treat them as the valuable asset they are.

He only gets away with it on the days the companies bosses take their 4 hour martini lunches.

Vote for Lucy.When she spreads manure around,it’s harmless.

Whatever happened to the good old days when you called your boss an idiot and slammed his door so h ard the glass broke?

I see a potential cascading comic filing cabinet accident here.

Major major, major major did it best. Don’t even show up to the office but everyone thinks you’re there

I always said I couldn’t afford to retire so I’ll work until they shove me in a file drawer. Turns out I could afford to retire.

Using the term, “quiet quitting” is just the latest way to shame workers into accepting more exploitation and abuse by the rich and powerful. The true lazy people are those who ride upon the backs of the working class while claiming to be some kind of patriots.

“One-dimensional, repetitive work is exactly what computers, robots, and other machines are best at — and what human workers are poorly suited to and almost uniformly despise.” —Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought, 1999

This man knew how to quiet quit

His patience hit its limit

His salary is low,

the workdays are slow,

and he’s sick of his boss’s s@#t.

My understanding of the term doesn’t mean goofing off at work. It means that when you go home, that’s it. No answering texts or emails at night, weekends, or vacation. That problem is that people here it and make up their own interpretation.

(Someone else comes along…) “Hey, I wonder if you can open this from the inside.” [shove, click]

Inspired by Jerry Van Amerongen

I think he is jumping the gun a bit. It’s a little soon to end up in a drawer.

I have come across coworkers laying on the floor. In one case, the person was experiencing back issues, in the other case, the woman was experiencing a dizzy spell.

I thought it was a smart move on the latter’s part. She recovered nicely, but I drove her home anyway.

Great idea about putting blocks under the headboard. I’m going to try that.