Are you a slacker, just like a whopping 71% of workers?

[prolesunited]

Bosses beware! Fully 71 percent of U.S. workers are slackers. They aren't doing their jobs. That's the astonishing word from a Gallup poll that used more politically correct terminology than "slackers": Nearly three-quarters of us are "not engaged" in our jobs.

Gallup's Curt Coffman, who is also a co-author of "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently," told Denver Post reporter Al Lewis that at best, these folks are clock-watchers and break-takers. At worst, they mock their bosses and undermine the companies where they work.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/careers/package.jsp?name=fte/slackers/slackers

So, fess up. How do you rate? Be honest. This IS an anonymous poll after all.

[Bob3]

1. I'm such a slacker I can't even be bothered to vote

N/T

[matcom]

2. is DUing whilst at work considered 'slacking'?

then YUP! :D

[AndyP]

11. I only DU at work

that's the only time when I come to the DU, I have loads of time here.

[skippysmom]

3. I feel like a slacker

But when you work 40 hours per week, yet only have about 5 hours worth of work per week -- what should I do all day?

[GOPisEvil]

4. I slack AND I get my work done!

How about that? :D

[prolesunited]

5. Commendable

But I would expect nothing less from you. Should I revise the poll?

[VOX]

21. Yes! This is *the* one true path!

It's like surfing a long, glassy wave -- you have to know when to ease back, and also when to point the board toward shore.

It is possible to do high-quality work, on time and exceeding expectations, *and* also slack.

[ComerPerro]

6. Ok, its complicated

I would describe myself as a motivated, above average employee who is a slacker and is secretly trying to bring the company down from the inside.

[NJCher]

7. Try this

Try clocking yourself on actual work hours. I do it because I'm engaged in two occupations: that of college instructor and also as the operator of a Web design studio. Since I must be careful how I apportion my hours, I keep track of exactly what I do and how long it takes. It's really hard to do a solid eight hours of work a day, especially if you own a house, have a husband (or other family), pets, etc. And then there's an hour or more a day for physcial exercise. Tough to do.


Cher

[Vitruvius]

8. One of the best ways to get FIRED is to work your ass off & make a breakth

breakthru; management will give the credit for your hard work to their little fast-track buddies, promote the buddies and fire you.

This happened to me and many of my friends over and over. If you work for a Fortune 500 company, they all have fast track systems ("management succession plans"), and if you make a breakthru that's big enough to be featured in the Annual Report, management will dump you to promote their buddies. Every time.

Best of all, they then blacklist you out of the industry. And the excuse they give you is that they don't want you working for a competitor. The unstated reason is that these management sociopaths get their rocks off by ruining people who are competent and hard working.

Every fast-track BOY promoted on my work was a slacker -- through-and-through. No accomplishments, no track record, nothing in production, no breakthrus; zero, zero, zero, and zero. Lazy, incompetent, racist, and vicious -- just like Bu$h, "the MBA president". Oh, yes -- management believes in hard work -- OTHER PEOPLES' hard work. For their own part, they do as little as they can and grab as much as they can, and think that anybody who works hard is a fool -- a fool to be exploited & ruined.

So be smart. Take your cue from management. Slack off, do as little as you can, get as much as you can. Just like the bosses do.


Or do like I did -- and go into business for yourself. But NEVER work hard for big business -- it's not safe!

[ellie]

9. I'm a slacker,

I work from home!

[Az]

10. Corporations are clearly not invested in their workers

So the workers are not invested in their work. Companies get the commitment they give.

[Vitruvius]

14. Exactly. Loyalty HAS to be a 2-way street. There's no point in

wasting loyalty on companies that will never show any loyalty in return; there's no point in wasting loyalty on managers who will stab you in the back to advance their worthless careers.

[Smirnoff]

12. This is what I'm doing at work

What does that tell you!?

[TheMightyFavog]

13. I slack so much that...

I am the patron fucking saint of slacking!

[Nikia]

15. I couldn't get away with slacking

Maybe, I could get away with little things, because I work mainly independently. Since I am the only one that does my job and my work is always noticed, I couldn't slack overall even if I wanted to.

[Vittorio]

16. I'm as slacker-y as they come.

:)

My motto: "Put off today for what can be done tomorrow." :)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

17. To be a slacker at work...

I would have to be employed......

When I was working, I was not a really a slacker. I respect the crew I generally work with and I feel that if I'm slacking, my friends are working harder because of me. Its a mutual respect thing, as opposed to a "hard work for the company thing." But arcaheology is a wierd biz.

Now, if I had an office job, I be the KING of slack as working indoors either puts me to sleep or makes me cranky.

[pmbryant]

18. Sounds like corporate propaganda to me :-)

At worst, they mock their bosses and undermine the companies where they work.

That's a funny one. The cardinal sin, right up there with 'undermining the company', is mocking the boss.

:eyes:

--Peter

[tigereye]

19. no I always worked pretty hard

but it was always fun to have some time to talk to people in their offices or in the hall. You need that. I don't think of that as slacking. Since I set my own schedule now and work more at home, I can slack but it's on my time. That's a little different. If I don't complete the work, I don't get paid.

[RobinA]

20. Sabotage?

Workers trying to sabotage the company? Every company I ever worked for did a far better job of bringing itself down than any worker ever could.

[SOteric]

22. I love, and am engaged in all 3 of my jobs.

But non is full time. Only one involves a corporation, -and in that one I'm a consultant with a contract - not an employee.