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A while ago on Reddit, there was a thread by a member who claimed he got hired by a firm and was just placed in an office without any stipulations for the job. He was basically hired to do nothing. I'm not sure if this was a true account, but it's worth asking if this is a common occurrence in the workforce.
No. Wages are a concern for any company and only badly mismanaged ones will let something like this happen.
That type of thing would never happen in the private sector. Only a company run by complete retards would hire someone to sit in a room and do absolutely nothing, and that kind of company wouldn't last long.
However, I have heard of plenty of cases where federal government workers are assigned to sit in an office with nothing to do all day and they get paid well for it.
That type of thing would never happen in the private sector. Only a company run by complete retards would hire someone to sit in a room and do absolutely nothing, and that kind of company wouldn't last long.
However, I have heard of plenty of cases where federal government workers are assigned to sit in an office with nothing to do all day and they get paid well for it.
I've heard that some engineers at some contract firms get paid engineering salaries for merely doing paper work. A lot of engineers don't do engineering work.
It happened to me at a well known manufacturer who has been in business for decades; you have at least one of their products in your home right now! It took them 4 weeks to get me a computer that was supposed to be on my desk the day I started and then several more weeks to get me logins to the systems I would be working with. I have to imagine this doesn't happen often, but it happened to me!
Work in any large company, in some sort of niche position like, "EEO Coordinator". Federal employment is rife with positions like this. And jobs with union protection. The way they "punish" you is give you an office, with no work, no job duties, no computer. Sometimes a deeply buried cubical, and they tell you to stuff envelops or something.
This would be insane. Most places I have worked don't have enough people to keep the operation running smoothly. Even the owners would be out there working along side us. The only position where someone isn't working all the time is either the boss's kid(s) or the hr manager.
That type of thing would never happen in the private sector. Only a company run by complete retards would hire someone to sit in a room and do absolutely nothing, and that kind of company wouldn't last long.
However, I have heard of plenty of cases where federal government workers are assigned to sit in an office with nothing to do all day and they get paid well for it.
That's parodied on 'Parks and Recreation' although, with local government workers, although not federal or necessarily being paid well for it.
I have had jobs as a paper pusher and never had enough to do. I was not always using my time wisely and being very young. I would spend time studying. And yes, it was a temporary government job, not permanent.
I rarely had long downtime occasions in the private sector ... I don't have to elaborate on why that is.
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