Fuck this guy. Living out my dream ;'(
If we ignore the actual stress of a manager suddenly finding out and asking you to report what you have been doing. Probably still possible to bullshit long enough in a big company to recover a normal situation or find another job.
This is why you shouldnât get rid of all your work. Keep a bit and make it immaculate. If they ask why you havenât done more, just say ânobody asked me to.â
Problem with that approach is that they will argue that if you didnât have enough work to do, you should have asked for more. OP knowingly slipped through the cracks to, so the argument of âI donât have a line manager to give me anyâ probably isnât going to cut it as their work will argue that OP shouldâve gone to HR to sort their responsibilities as soon as they were aware.
Iâve seen this happen with coworkers of mine. Folks who never did any work. And slipped under the radar for many years. at least two (and one other to a lesser extent) come to mind.
I have a coworker like that in a shared office. Guy fucking watches movies on speaker with the boss next door.
So this answers the question what universal basic income would lead to â sitting at home and watching movies
Ah yes, the super-informative anecdotal sample size ofâŠ
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⊠one.
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Eh, an unreliable source at that
Iâm mean, thereâs a part of me that would say âfuck yeah, I would get a second job and get two incomesâ. The other part of me is really sleepy, so Iâm honestly not sure who would win this internal debate.
Probably the sleepy bit for the first few months as you recover from a lifetime of wage slavery. Then the second job part comes along, once youâre in the right place and you figure out what you would love to do all day.
You didnât report that you donât have a manager is a reason to fire you, but doing two jobs is both easy to find (if theyâre looking) and fraud.
Even a cursory search online provides evidence that that isnât the case: https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/#design
Love that youâre getting down voted but we had something approaching universal basic income in my country trough wellfare plans that were not exclusive with each other and had super lax requirements (since corrupt officials would take a cut of them) and it resulted in a very marked increase in poverty and a very marked cultural decline in work ethic on the lower classes
Why work or study when you can just stay at home and get paid enough to survive if you vote for the ârightâ candidate. People love to dream about theorized ideals but reality is often more complicated
love random comments dismissing potentially good policy because âin my countryâ which you didnt name, it doesnât work
what kind of fucking scientist says âhuh that attempt didnât work i guess it never willâ?
Youâre not even going to tell us what country it is so we can see? probably not, because it is probably a shitty comparison.
and for the record, parent comment was downvoted because itâs fucking stupid. thereâs no UBI in this post. itâs as if i take a day off and go to the park and say âHmpf this is why UBI doesnt work!â like what the fuck are you talking about, UBI is not just when lazy day. the only thing that could make this post dumber would be calling me triggered for pointing out how dumb it is
OP is working for a huge corporation, so slacking off and getting paid for that is ethical.
Iâd go even one step further and say that slacking off is more ethical than actually working in that situation.
Red cross, EPA, and FDA are all large organizations imo. Definitely outliers, but theyy do exist and I wouldnât consider it ethical to take their money without working.
Depending on the state youâre in you can get sued for all that money back, best to CYA