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Today I discovered, after finishing my file, that a co-worker and I had been assigned the same one by the completely inept management and that I had just spent two days working for nothing.
Now, I like getting paid to waste time as much as anybody possibly can, but I would like to have known that I was so that I could have enjoyed it a little more.
By the same token, billing the company for time spent waiting for someone to send me work to do is fine with me in principle, but it happens at the worst possible times. First thing in the morning, when I could be home in bed, if only I had known there was no work to do so come in later; and last thing in the evening, when I am just counting down the minutes before I can permit myself to leave and would prefer to be absolutely anywhere at all rather that at work listlessly checking my email every two minutes.
What would be best, I think, would be if I could bill the company, on principle, for hours I would have spent at work had there been any work for me to do, but instead spent sleeping, or at the movies because there wasn't. This seems perfectly fair to me. I don't mind doing the work -- well, okay, I mind, but I will still do it -- but what I resent is having to be in the office doing nothing, when I could be out doing any number of other things that actually need doing.
My time should be worth more than this.
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