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"Why aren't you working?" "There's nothing to do." "Well pretend like you're working!" "You get paid more than me. You pretend like I'm working."
Bill Hicks.
I will always upvote a Bill Hicks reference. That man was ahead of his time and taken too soon.
I can only imagine what he would have thought of Trump. :single tear:
I once had a manager who couldn't stand that I wouldn't "look busy." I said, give me something to do -within the scope of my contract- I'll do it with a smile, but I won't pretend to work. My contract said they had to pay me even if they sent me home for the day. So I just hung out, but they hated that too because I was visably doing nothing. There are downsides to contract work, but there are also big upsides. I can't tell you how many times I'd agreed to terms with a client, arrived, and had them immediately try to gaslight me about what was agreed to.