So your ideal job is one where you get paid a lot of money not to do anything? First of all, why should anyone intentionally do that for you? And second, what does that say about you?
It says he is a good businessman. Would you judge an employer harshly if he endeavored to get the most productivity from his employees at the lowest cost?
I dunno.
What does it say about you that you haven’t quit yet?
Do people just up and quit jobs they don’t like in your world? Must be nice to not have any sort if financial responsibilities.
Actually, it says the exact opposite.
I have to say, this is all very new to me. I’ve met plenty of people who were dissatisfied with their job for one reason or another. But I don’t think I’ve met too many people (at least since I was a teenager) who actually endevour to do as little work as possible in life and think that’s ok.
Never suggested anything of the sort.
But you seem to think that getting paid as much as possible for doing very little constitutes some sort of moral failing, yet you continue to do it. I’m just saying that criticizing someone for aspiring to the exact situation in which you, by your own choice, currently find yourself, smacks of hypocrisy at best, or perhaps just stupidity.
Also, as Fear Itself suggested, businessmen who attempt to get the most out of their employees for the lowest possible cost are generally admired by corporate douchebags like you; why is it immoral for employees to try to maximize their own return/effort figures?
You are going to have to elaborate on this. A job is a business relationship between the employer and the employee in which they exchange productivity for a paycheck. Both want to maximize their gain and minimize the cost. I don’t see why one side of this relationship is more virtuous than the other for trying to maximizing gain. From a business standpoint, the perfect employee delivers high productivity for a small paycheck; the perfect employer requires little productivity for a large paycheck. There is no personal judgement here; it’s just business.
I “continue to do it” because at this particular moment I do not feel there are any better opportunities in the job market. That is not to say that I’m not doing research, enhancing my resume, building my network and taking other actions to prepare myself for a future move when the time is right. In the meantime, I do my job (such as it is) as best I can.
Not being challenged in your job is very different from aspiring to have a do-nothing Office Space / Idiocracy job. Forget the morality or work ethic aspect of it because you’re right. If the company wants to pay you to sit on your ass, it’s their business decision. But as a purely practical matter, where is that job going? How long do you think a company will pay you to not produce anything? What skills are you learning that you can take with you to another company if you need to? And don’t you just get plain old bored watching the clock for 8 hours a day? Don’t you have something that you would rather be doing and what if someone could pay you for that instead?
Also, don’t call me a douchebag.
msmith537, you have my sympathy. Jobs like that suck and they usually end with a performance review along the lines of “So what do you actually do here?”. Here’s to the hope that either your business or segment of the job market picks up.