• BambiDiego@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Sometimes my wife says she doesn’t like so much downtime at work. I understand her frustration, but I don’t empathize.

      Pay me to slack off, that’s the life.

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        6 hours ago

        When I first started my job, I was really anxious about being seen as “slacking off” whenever there was downtime (which is pretty frequent and can range from 10 minutes to two hours). That made it pretty exhausting, which in turn fed the anxiety because “how can doing nothing wear you out?”

        Luckily my colleagues and leads were great people and helped me get more comfortable with it, and I’m really grateful for that.