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My shift lead told me to hide my sketchbook at the warehouse and I did it for 3 years, that was the real theft
She said drawing on breaks made the team look lazy even though I was faster on the forklift than anyone at the Kent facility, and I bought it for 3 years until I quit and realized I had traded 1,500 hours of drawing for a job that replaced me in a week, so who else has been told their real work is a problem at their day job?
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ruby_jones27d ago
I worked at a pizza place in college and the owner told me I couldn't read at the counter during slow hours because it made the place look like we had "nothing to do." So I started hiding my book under the register and reading between orders anyway. Got written up twice for it. Two years later I found out the owner was running a side business out of the back office during those same slow hours, taking calls and doing paperwork for his other company while I got yelled at for reading a paperback. The whole "looking busy" thing is such a scam. It's never about the work, it's about who gets to decide what counts as work.
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piper77927d ago
Funny how that works out. The same thing happens in offices, teachers get mad at you for being on your phone but the boss is on Facebook all day. It's almost never about the actual work getting done, it's about keeping the people at the bottom looking a certain way. The rule was never really "look busy," it was "know your place.
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