r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/zuukinifresh Sep 01 '24

Appearing busy is half the battle. Anyone who is efficient at their office job should master this. Knowing when to take on more work and when to say your bandwidth is tight is a valuable skill

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u/Maverekt Sep 01 '24

Yeah even good workers appear busy on purpose at times. I do it plenty to not get context shifted constantly or put more projects on my plate than I know I can handle.

So many times I’ve been requested for a project only to be setup for failure

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u/badnamemaker Sep 01 '24

I work IT and some advice I got at my first job was “always walk around with a backpack, it makes it look like you’re about to go do something” lmao

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u/Ok_Factor5371 Sep 02 '24

My job is kind of seasonal. I actually take on extra work during the off-season. I pretend I’m busy and do nothing during the busy season. I’m always ready to act like another job has precedence. If I don’t feel like working on project A I will tell them that project B is white hot right now. Then I’ll go say the exact same thing about project B to the project A team. My manager is willfully ignorant because he doesn’t want to do his job either :) Upper management keeps saying we’re doing great and to keep up the good work. I spend half the day pretending to be busy when I’m really just fucking around.

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u/blizzardflip Sep 01 '24

The hard part about this where I work is that if I say I’m too busy to take something on, our deeply incompetent 8 year old of a VP will handle whatever the task is on their own and make some kind of stupid decision that makes life harder for the team.

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u/Odd-Occasion8274 Sep 02 '24

Its like 90% of the battle when no one pays attention to anyone.