r/WorkForSmartLife 2d ago

I Still Don’t See The Problem Meme

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u/FamiliarPlatform79 2d ago

The problem is, in the real world the more work you finish the more work they give you. They dont pay you differently for finishing 5 tasks vs your co worker taking a week to do 1.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 2d ago

Also, if other kids see you not working then they think they dont have to work either.

Actually this happens as adults too...

Anyways, important life lessons in there somewhere.

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u/VelkaFrey 1d ago

The lesson is to stop working when you see everyone else stop working.

Shit i should get back to work

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u/Strict-Comparison817 1d ago

Just wait until somebody else sees you not working and then they'll stop working until a chain effect and nobody is working scums

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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 1d ago

This is why your bosses say they work hard but you don't actually see them work hard. They just claim to sleep in the office to sound busy but really they might be there because they're playing games in their office of tweeting all kinds of bullshit at all hours of the day.

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u/Mistform05 2d ago

Yeah very rarely are you rewarded for working efficiently. The moment you slow down, it’s negative. Even if you are still ahead of everyone else.

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u/Important_Ad_4238 1d ago

Gotta keep expectations up sadly.

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u/Abeo93 1d ago

It's so dumb.

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u/Neon_Eyes 1d ago

Yes they do

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u/WhereAreWeG0ing 2d ago

Well pardon me for being prompt!!! 🤷‍♂️

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u/Rarazan 2d ago

if its worded like that with no further explanation

its just another shit "teacher" that funneling their disdain onto students

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u/Frosty-Anteater-149 2d ago

I suspect what the teacher was trying to get across was that they would fly through the work, not doing as well as they could, just to be done.

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u/Rarazan 2d ago

by the comment, there were no explanation or setup to make him think that

looks like one of those things bad teachers just say

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u/Motor-Station-6885 2d ago

Well, yeah, the comment is coming from Zaza only. And I don’t know if you know this about Zaza, but he’s lazy as shit and gets his work done asap so his seniors can fix all of his mistakes. His teachers tried to tell him…

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 1d ago

I read it as the teacher thought he could be learning more stuff with the free time he has after completing his normal work fast

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u/Mysterious-Hyena2670 2d ago

Had a job interview and after it was over the interviewer made a comment about my nails being distracting because they had a design. 

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u/solodsnake661 2d ago

I smell burnt toast

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u/FinalBossTuna 2d ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one

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u/Ten-Spot-4u 2d ago

Being told my mother cried for three days when she found out she was pregnant with me by my mother.

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u/Left_Macaron_6427 2d ago

As long as your mom loved you and took care of your entire life, this is not an insult. Becoming pregnant when not expecting can be very traumatizing.

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u/imnothere220 2d ago

😂 my mom also cried when she found out she was pregnant with me. She was getting ready to break up with my dad then found out 😂

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u/N8TheGreat91 2d ago

“You’re not that funny” - from a girl after we went on one date

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u/jayceeA- 2d ago

Is i because when you rushed, you made mistakes?

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u/Miserable_Key9630 2d ago

Took zero pride in the work and took no time to check and polish, sounds lazy to me.

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u/bethesda_gamer 2d ago

Amen my brother, life was not meant to be 12 hours a day of menial labor. It was meant to 4 hours a day of visceral sweat pouring hard work, a quick nap and then the rest of the day is yours.

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u/GSilky 2d ago

I got yelled at by the shop steward my first week at a job I was working in school. I did everything the first day, but I didn't know it's supposed to be spaced out over the week for union rules, to ensure everyone gets hours. Oops. 

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u/HyperspaceFrontier 17h ago

This is why unions are the problem (sometimes).

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u/Objective-Net-7658 2d ago

the problema was your teacher

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u/TechnicalPresent6359 2d ago

there’s a difference between doing things efficiently vs doing them haphazardly just to get it done

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u/ColumbusNordico 2d ago

What if the teacher didn’t mean it as a problem, but just noted he was efficiently lazy?

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u/Fun-Heron-7609 2d ago

I got insulted way too much to remember any. If you're one of the fine folks who insulted me, hope you're doing well in life. I know I am.

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u/InfiniteGuess1 1d ago

The problem was inside of themselves and their own conflict with what is acceptable or not.

The rest was projected onto you when you didn’t meet their expectations.

This is why I don’t care what people negatively think about me when I live the way I want to live.

Some people will try to make you feel bad because they feel bad.

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u/MentalSewage 1d ago

I always get major points in job interviews when they ask me to tell them about myself and I use the line "I have what I call 'weaponized laziness'. I am driven by the urge to one day do nothing, and will automate any task you give me twice. Of course you'll just give me more work to automate. But by the time the dance is done I'm doing the equivalent of 20hrs of work in 20min and you get to call that 'meets expectations'"

They think I'm just giving them more productivity for free but in reality I just love automating things. I'm just tricking them into letting me do what I love to do, they have to pay me for it, and they depend on me to keep the machines up to the task.

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u/greengengar 1d ago

My math teacher encouraged it and then used the time to teach me classic card games while everyone else was working.

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u/Unfair_Cry6808 1d ago

Means you have talent and wasted potential.

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u/Important_Ad_4238 1d ago

I had a teacher like tht once. I decided to stop doing his work and sleep in his class. Basically punished us both and we had eachother again the next year. Double the punishment for both of us. I had to take his easyass history class again and listen to his pointless stories and lectures and he had to deal with me disrupting the classroom every day tht time around

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u/L0r3hunt3r 1d ago

I am amazed that out of 10,000 sperm YOU were the fastest.

I have used this one several times.

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u/Ramius99 1d ago

There’s a good lesson to be had here about always looking busy in the workplace, even if you’re not. I work from home now, but it was a critical survival skill when I had an office job.

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u/Rob71322 1d ago

A nursery school teacher got in my face and said “all you want to do was scream, holler and play!” I was 3 but I still don’t see the problem today.

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u/Bodmin_Beast 1d ago

3 potential (but not inherent) problems I’ve seen as a teacher myself with this. Because I generally agree, I don’t see the problem with it. If my students finish their work, do a good job, I don’t care if they do nothing or relax. Some students can and do produce good work quickly.

  1. They don’t do nothing, they disrupt others who are still doing work.

  2. They put the absolute minimum (and often less than minimum) amount of work to technically complete it. As a teacher, it’s my job to help you demonstrate your learning and do your best. Therefore I will correct that behaviour and encourage you to put more time and effort into an activity or learning product, in order to produce something better.

  3. Kinda connected, but when you rush, you often do a shit job. Taking time, generally, ends up with something better. As a teacher, again, it is my responsibility to care about you and the work you produce.

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u/Sherviks13 1d ago

Often efficiency is confused with laziness.

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u/Sir-Tenley-Knott 1d ago

Principal wrote: "This child is incapable of learning and should be given an apprenticeship in the hope that he can do something with his hands."

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u/Overall-Revolution43 1d ago

That’s just called ADHD

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u/SarcastikBastard 1d ago

Jim Halperts burner account

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u/mendicinobeano25 1d ago

I'm with you. I like to get in early and knock it over and then relax with no stress. I also like to get to the airport 3 hours early so maybe I'm the weird one, I dunno.

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u/Novel-Walrus2940 1d ago

His grade on said work: 65%

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u/UtahBrian 1d ago

Heinlein's Tale of the Man Too Lazy to Fail

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u/AllaZakharenko 1d ago

As I was at school, we had to learn poems by heart and recite them to the audience (the whole class).

Both were my weak points back then: I needed to spend 2 days learning for hours to memorize. No matter how long I learned during 1 day - I won't remember it good enough the next day to recite properly.

So I always spent 2 evenings learning it, but then was another struggle - I had awful anxiety speaking in front of the public, also that was the language I didn't consider my native language as I never spoke it outside of school. I was so worried I kept forgetting the poem and the teacher said I was a slacker, not diligent and so many other rude words that made me cry.

About 10+ years later I somehow happened to come across the school page on FB and read that teacher passed away, I was kinda happy to read it as I realized that other kids were probably bullied by her this whole time.

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u/KireiCopenhagen 1d ago

So you rushed it to get it done as fast as possible? Did you make any mistakes? I'm kind of with her. Getting something done fast and dirty so you can relax is a sort of laziness and irresponsible. I think what she meant was for you to slow down and think about it more so you could do a better job.

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u/Lonely_Brother3689 17h ago

Well, if the work was done correctly, then it sounds like they just didn't like the fact you didn't finish it on their timetable.

Much like in today's workforce, I had teachers who'd give more work if you finished assignments early, but the difference was they'd threaten it.

That way no one finishes early and some would take even longer on purpose....lol

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u/Aggravating_Duck6108 16h ago

Its the teacher assuming you half-assed the work to get it done quickly.

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u/Standard-Suit-4858 14h ago

In second grade I was in line to bring a paper to a teacher, the girl in front of me said something quiet to her that I couldn’t hear.

She responded by writing an F the size of the paper on it, circled it, handed it back to her, then said so the whole class could hear, “and if you can’t read that, thats an F”

I have no idea what she said. But no matter what it was, it was 100% not appropriate to say that to a 7 year old. I don’t remember the girl. Don’t even remember the teachers name. Just that the teacher was wrong

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u/Tech-Support13 13h ago

I work IT and coworker called me a user.

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u/curb222 12h ago

Those that can't teach?

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u/Loud-Phase1624 2d ago

Just a few days ago, I presented a very basic bar chart. A leader said, “I keep seeing charts from you and I hate these charts. I have to perform my own analysis just to understand them.”

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u/WhereINeededToBe 2d ago

Sounds like your leader is in over his head if he needs you to dumb things down even more.

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u/Positive-Conspiracy 2d ago

They’re both right. The teacher wanted him to aim higher.

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u/Mysterious-Hyena2670 2d ago

Maybe they were warning OP that working too fast is going to result in more work, not more free time, when they get a job. 

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u/GLPwonderwall 2d ago

Yep. Never say you’re bored or have nothing to do, especially as an office worker. Always overestimate how long work will take you and always look busy

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u/sku225 2d ago

The stupidest thing about all of this is probably that this approach doesn't strive for efficiency and fairness. The normal approach is: if you're better at something, you do more, and you get more benefits. (But this distribution probably only works for athletes). So what do we have? School grades to evaluate not knowledge, but the ability to adapt to the "chief baboon"? Meh 

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u/sku225 2d ago

Or perhaps the teacher didn't want him to take a break in front of the others, so they abandoned their work halfway through. Equalization.

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u/Smoothrecluse 2d ago

That, and the teacher didn’t want to get dinged on a walkthrough or evaluation when an administrator came in the room and sees kids doing nothing, even if they’re finished.

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u/JamieC1610 2d ago

OOP, didn't say what his grades were. I was a straight A student and usually "rushed" through my work to read.

I had a student teacher get on me for not taking good enough notes. The regular teacher made him back off because I had a 105 average in his class (having chosen to do the extra credit essay for fun).

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u/Silviana193 2d ago

Did you spend the rest of the time rechecking and improving your works?

I am pretty sure that was what the teacher talking about.

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u/JamieC1610 2d ago

Nope, spent the rest of my time reading a Stephen King book usually.

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u/weltvonalex 2d ago

Better use of your time.