Poll of the Day > How long do you think you can last at your current job if you stopped working?

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I would say a week before I'm found out
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A day.
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I would last maybe a couple of hours but I would need to spend the rest of the day playing catch up.
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For one job maybe a day. For the other indefinitely, if my co-worker is anything to go by.
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i've been working 50% capacity the last year and haven't been found out yet

=X
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damn you guys are lucky , except Kyuu <.<

I'm just extremely hungover......... today feels like a dream
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Like a whole month. My supervisor is an idiot and doesn't understand her empolyees jobs.
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it depends on the day/week, ok?

like, if i just stopped working today, they'd probably let me go early next week. but if i did it when we were less busy (which happens every so often)...maybe a week or two?
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Zangulus posted...

I hate this company. Its so poorly run that Ive gotten away with this for so long.

Story of my life, really not looking forward to the next 40 years of this :(
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15 minutes.
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well... im not gonna fire myself, but im also not gonna make any money
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Like, completely stopped? Hmm. Depends on what project I'm working on at the time. Some of the projects I could easily have gone 2 weeks before anyone noticed. But a lot of times it wouldn't take more than a day or two to notice I'm not doing anything.

So time until my boss comes to "have a chat" with me? Less than a week.
Time until I'm fired? Probably a week after the "chat".
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It's pretty hard to fire full time employees here, so likely a month or so. Maybe more since my boss doesn't actually have permission to hire anyone to replace me if I did get let go, but who knows.

Being salaried has it's benefits.
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less than a day
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Dikitain posted...

It's pretty hard to fire full time employees here, so likely a month or so. Maybe more since my boss doesn't actually have permission to hire anyone to replace me if I did get let go, but who knows.

Being salaried has it's benefits.

I mean, being salaried certainly has benefits, but outside of a few positions I imagine most people would think it better to just have no one around than someone who is actively refusing to do literally any work.

I think most people so far are wrong on their assumptions though - you'll last longer than you think. You'd have to work in a real shitty place if they let you go for one day of no productivity. Most normal places that might constitute a warning. Then if you don't pick it up in the next few days they'll get rid of you.

I just can't imagine firing someone after less than a week of abnormal performance. Especially if you went from being a great employee to just doing nothing.
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I've been doing actual "work" for <2 hours a day for the last year and change since I got this job

A complete stop would probably get me axed at the end of March (when the fiscal year ends) once they realized my sales numbers were literally zero

I've got enough experience to get a better-paying job, but man, the thought of actually going back to an 8-5 (as opposed to this place which is 9-5) and actually having to work most of the day sounds unpleasant.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

A day.

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Dynalo posted...

Dikitain posted...

It's pretty hard to fire full time employees here, so likely a month or so. Maybe more since my boss doesn't actually have permission to hire anyone to replace me if I did get let go, but who knows.

Being salaried has it's benefits.

I mean, being salaried certainly has benefits, but outside of a few positions I imagine most people would think it better to just have no one around than someone who is actively refusing to do literally any work.

I am not saying he wants me around, just that it would be hard to get rid of me. He would literally have to go through an approval process to do it. Hell, people who under perform take up to a year to be fired so that the company can cover all of their legal bases.
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A couple days. I'd get a warning, but after that, I'd be fired.
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Just stopped doing anything at all and just sat at my desk and stared at the wall? Maybe a day. I'm involved with and run a lot of meetings.

Just not showing up? I'd probably be fired after a week but they'd give me a couple of days before they demanded an explanation.
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After just one day my supervisor would be like, "WTF".

I'd be fired in a week, maybe two.
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I'd probably be found out within a day or two. I've had jobs where accountability was so diffuse that you could go close to a week without anybody noticing, although not responding to emails would at least start to tip some people off.
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I'm a temp, I probably wouldn't make it to lunch.
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It would depend on my points. We get 4 points for missing a full day, and if we get to 48 points, we're gone. But they don't look too kindly on no call, no show, either.
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Just stopped everything? Hmm... Week or three, maybe a month or so.

Went into low operation mode? Several years.
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Well, let's see. At the moment I have four weeks vacation time saved up, plus another week and a half of banked overtime, plus a week and a half of sick time... and my company allows us to go up to negative two weeks of vacation time, so I can add that in too. Toss in the vacation/sick time I'm accruing while I'm away, plus a couple of stat holidays, and I can basically get nearly three months of paid time off right out the gate. I could probably add in a month of unpaid leave on top of that, although that would draw suspicion. After that... well, at the moment I could last maybe a month without doing something without anyone raising an eyebrow, but that's actually low for me because I'm not assigned to a major project at the moment. Most of the time I'm on long-term projects, so I could literally go months without doing anything and nobody would know until it came time to send in the deliverables. Even then, with my usual client I could feasibly string them along for another couple of months by saying analysis is taking longer than expected and I'm being held up by delays on document control.

Honestly, under ideal conditions, I bet I could do no work for over a year before being fired.
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x Shadow posted...

Just stopped everything? Hmm... Week or three, maybe a month or so.

Went into low operation mode? Several years.

This is something I wonder about. If I was lousy at my job, would they fire me? Would they slash my hours? Would they do nothing and I keep the same schedule?
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5 minutes before I clock in.