Since about a week, with that setup, I can not open replies to comments anymore. I click the “x replies” and nothing. Google says nothing. Do you randomly have and ideas?

How did the person “bait” you? How is it nonsense? How does the responsibility, how you spend your time, shift to someone else? How are you a victim? How are you arguing in good faith?

So much to unpack.

So many nice personal insults from you, I really wonder why you want/need a “no censoring” area… Oh wait, no, I do not and I am happy that people like you are not allowed everywhere.

Talk about blaming others. Interesting person.

While I agree on the general message, I very much disagree on the “completely free speech part”, for the same reason the paradox of tolerance exists.

No. That is not my point. I said that the most important thing is making the boss think you are productive/busy, regardless of that actually being the case. A boss can’t and/or does not use objective data to assess productivity. At least I have never seen that anywhere.

That does not mean that you do nothing. It just means that you can appear far more productive/busy/important/… when that is far from the truth.

Non really, and not just movie quotes but any quote. They are not connected to emotions like that.

What sort of cheese is that supposed to be?

Polish it.

Yes, costs very little really (pad, holder for any drill I assume you have and glass polish, perhaps 40 $, mostly for the polishing compound), and only takes about an hour.

Chemical engineer. But the same applies to any job where you need to come up with some sort of solution that is not already known or readily available. Anything creative really.

What kind of work do you do that it is so easy to see what and how much someone actually does?

For me, a new job could be a few hours or several days and I only truly know that when it is done and no further complications can pop up. For someone else doing the same thing, it could be the opposite (easy/fast vs slow/hard). Or it all hinges on one singular idea to solve some issue, so it could literally be a month without real progress and then it is solved within an hour.

Here is hoping.

How many bosses are there that genuinely look at how efficient someone was based on objective data instead of going by gut feeling? How to even define efficient or any other metric? Way too complicated.

Will it get you ahead tho? Or only under very certain conditions? The last times(!) I have seen people going beyond it was essentially treated like that is to be expected. I have never seen that pay off to anyone. But you know what “always” pays off? Showing you boss you are busy. Just making that impression, not necessarily doing much.

Perhaps you have no mental illness then…?

Oh, I am not alone with that? Yes.

You brain makes up the details in exactly the amount you need to. That is a core problem when your brain itself is the issue.

Sure with easy numbers multiplication is easy. Try anything else.

Let’s hope so. And let’s hope the next guy is not going to be Putin².