I lead a team of mostly useless lazy assholes that cannot be fired because gov + union so I work. Those who have any decency work too but some are too lazy and lacking in integrity to make any effort. They will just sit and stare when asked to work. They take 20 minute toilet breaks every 2 hours, they refuse jobs they don’t like, they move in slow motion deliberately, they encourage others to do nothing because ‘noone can ask you to work’. It’s a safety issue. It’s my job to get these people to work and I have no fucking clue. They make more than 80k per year for one of the easiest jobs on the planet and they refuse to make any effort at all. Im embarassed for them because they cant do the most basic things. Any advice would be appreciated. Im a lazy person myself but these prople are on another level. I work when im getting paid and we get decent pay.
No additional reward for working, lose nothing being a bum.
I don’t think there’s much to be done except enjoy it, for your own mental sanity.
Introverts make great leaders
But given the choice, I’m doing the project alone.
Is this trying to say that introverts are stupid? Cuz anyone that tries to do a 4 man job with one person is stupid.
It’s moreso saying they’d rather suffer a disproportionate workload than deal with group work, for better or worse. It also has the subcommentary that a lot of workloads have their personnel requirements overestimated, or that sometimes interpersonal inefficiency/friction/etc. can turn a 1-person job into an artificially higher workload.
Well, we can steelman that subcommentary by pointing to blue collar workers in physically rigorous fields. Many blue collar workers are men, do not ask for help despite needing it, and take on jobs that will literally break them. Will they get it done? Maybe, but they sure ain’t no pussy askin’ fer help like a lil’ bitch.
See what I mean? Seems like if you’ve got 5 people, one of them is a bad manager let’s say; you still have 4 people to work on the job. It is, even with the dead weight manager, still more efficient than subtracting the manager + 3 other people. Unless those 3 are also dead weight, however if you somehow gathered that from the comic… kinda seems like projection.
Idk, seems pretty dumb to try and attempt most things solo - but muh rugged individualism, amirite?
Yeah that’s why I wish things were better managed in general, so that we could all avoid over- and under-manned jobs :[
Yea… we all know the job would be easier with people, but um…
I don’t want to bug my friends I don’t want to (or cant) make new friends I don’t have the money to hire people.
So, here I am.
looks away nervously
Why use ai to generate something that has been created before numerous times in the past? God, I hate this future.
Which part of it does it look AI-generated to you?
Thought so too, but deep fried nature indicates otherwise
They wouldn’t do it right anyway
I work alone, i make my own hours mostly, I see my supervisor once a week and my boss maybe once a year, it’s glorious as an introvert
Same here, I have to do a team meeting everyday but that’s audio only. Other than that, I do a waste day (office day) once a month and half the time my supervisor cuts that by half. I haven’t seen my manager since December and the department head since September.
It’s been six years and my supervisor learned a long time ago that if you just tell me what to do and then leave me alone, it will get done. If I run into an issue I’ll reach out, but otherwise you won’t hear from me until I’m done.
What field do you work in?
International shipping
There is enough social psychology research to suggest that most of the time people are more efficient alone than in a group, although some tasks take more than one person. Process gain vs process loss, social loafing, groupthink, etc., if you put four people on a team you might get 200%, not 400% return, or worse.
Interesting, for complex tasks that require thought, the most efficient grouping tends to involve groups with diverse backgrounds and a work culture that values disagreement… which is basically the opposite of what’s going on in American government right now, lol.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
This seems true only on short time scales, and in corporate work structures. On long time scales and with more collaborative, voluntary work structures, a group of people working together and supporting each other will almost certainly outperform a disorganized collection of non-communicative individuals. We can see this is true because, yaknow, society exists.
There have definitely been a lot of studies that show adding people reduces average efficiency, but there is still the problem of needing more work done without burning people out. A lot of times, the split of work to add additional people needs to happen sooner than when burnout is exhibited.
Interesting, for complex tasks that require thought, the most efficient grouping tends to involve groups with diverse backgrounds and a work culture that values disagreement
Not surprising. Complex tasks involve learning and learning requires some form of information exchange. People of different background pooled together have a much larger spectrum of different information so each one can act as a piece of the puzzle to fulfill the complex task. The disagreement, I imagine, largely comes from having to break your own routine which is irritating.
which is basically the opposite of what’s going on in American government right now, lol.
Also not surprising lol
Yup. It gets even more complex depending on the tasks qualities, like if it’s a one-answer solution (e g. math) or a more open ended one (e.g. policy). Also, other disciplines argue you should also have a diverse group to better represent stakeholders, an especially important part of business and politics.
Look how content the introvert is.
Yeah, it’s the exact same expression as of all the others, but I’m feeling that one so much more. Possibly, because I am an introvert, too…
Solace at last
Sometimes I force myself to accept help despite my nature, because reciprocity builds relationships
Introverts make great leaders.
Many loads are lighter if not divided.
my ass going through a whole blender course to learn how to change a tiny thing instead of asking the person who made it for help
then there’s me. sitting in the cart with a stick pushing myself along.
completely unaware that the track abruptly ends in 300 feet and I have zero brakes.
And then there’s me going the introvert route plus not using a vehicle for moving a boat trailer “it will take longer if I have to find the keys so I’ll just push the atv instead”
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