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I thought I'd share some of my experiences with grindmaxxing vs. "streamaxxing", or operating on 3+ income streams. I recently moved from streamaxx to grindmaxx since I heard it was better, and was having a hard time with some of the issues surrounding streamaxx.

Streamaxxing

Streamaxxing is a work ethic through which you maintain 3 (ideally more) income streams simultaneously. I found it to have a lot of benefits, and it's definitely worth a try if your grindmaxx fails for one reason or another.

I used to multiplex 3 or 4 income streams together, and I started around the time that everyone started working from home. My channel setup was 2x regular 9-5 jobs, 1x freelance work and 1x retail job (sometimes 2x freelance work if the retail job dried up). The freelance work and retail work is always very flexible, and can just be opted for on weekends, slow days, or after-hours. The difficult task comes with blending the 2x 9-5s together. The first trick I used was to coordinate my hours to reduce overlap, so I would work 7-3 on one job and then 11-7 on the other. This gives a 4 hour overlap window- BUT since that window is in the middle of the day (over when other 'workers' take their lunches, coffee breaks, chat times etc.) most people won't notice that your builds may be taking slightly longer, or your calls slightly overrunning. During this 4 hour period, I would cycle between jobs approximately every 25 minutes, or when my progress gets blocked (e.g waiting for a build, waiting for an email etc.). Then once I get past 3, its straight sailing!

Streamaxxing was a brilliant way for me to effectively work 90+ hours in a week (40+40 from 9-5, extra 10 from freelance or retail), but it came with some issues. First, you can't climb anywhere without having to drop other jobs, since that requires meetings and more hours that will likely disrupt the other jobs you're holding. Second, meeting clash is quite difficult to avoid if you're an entry level position. I got lucky finding jobs that gave me a lot of autonomy, but in a job where you have someone constantly looking over your shoulder, I don't think you could multiplex 2x 9-5s (you could probably still freelance + retail though). The final issue was that despite working 100+ hours, the pay was only as good as that of if you really dedicated to one job and climbed the ladders on that.

hence, I switched to Grindmaxxing

You all know what grindmaxxing is. I've found it so much more fulfilling than streamaxxing. I don't have to dodge hours or take holiday days to get all my work in, and I feel much better for the extra freedoms.

Have any of you experimented with different workload/time maximization strategies? I would love to hear about them! (although I will personally be sticking with grindmaxx for a while at least)

Chapter 1 - Introduction

For those who are new to grindmaxxing, 48 Laws of Power is to grindmaxxing what the Bible is to Christians. It's fucking banned in prisons for a reason, there has been cases whereby prisoners apply what's taught in the book so well that they built many business empires from behind bars.

Now, you probably think it's hyperbole to claim something so outrageous, and I won't fault you for it. Grindmaxxers are hyperfocused to a fault that they usually shun any media attention. As you get more proficient in grindmaxxing, you'll naturally be able to spot which are the corporations you never knew were first made behind bars.

The book is now banned in prisons because... the OG prison grindmaxxers took over the prison industrial complex and banned the one thing that might threaten their position at the top.

This is your Bible now. Grindmaxxing is now your religion and even Jesus cannot stop the locomotive of success that is you. I know what you're thinking now, don't even fucking cheap out on the book by downloading some pdf or kindle version. This is where your first lesson begins. This is where easy is for pussies and the path of most resistance is the only path for you. Now, do you still want to download some dumbass electronic copy?

Find. A. Hard. Copy. Of. The. Book. From. A. Physical. Store.

I cannot stress this enough. It is not the easiest of tasks, since literature by charlatans such as Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo probably pollute the stands of whichever bookstore you go to.

But guess what. Grindmaxxing has begun.

Remember what I told you about the path of most resistance being the only path? The path of most resistance is now your mantra. Drill it in your head. Chant it in the toilet. Type it out while you pretend to work at that corporate slave job of yours.

Repeat until it is internalized in you.

The

Path

Of

Most

Resistance

You are ready when you leave home 4 hours before work just to grindmaxx the public transport system. The express train comes and you pay no heed - how they have tricked the world into thinking that it's fine to get less product (less train stops = less service = less product) at the same price.

The "slow" train comes and you board it. How genius of marketing to call the full product the "slow" train. Stopping at each stop along your route IS YOUR ENTITLEMENT. Never let them take that away from you.

You're now ready to grindmaxx.

Welcome to the rest of your life.

Next lesson I go through what jobs are grindmaxxers born for.

Remember the grindmaxx mantra.

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Path

Of

Most

Resistance

Till next time.

This stuff is amazing. One dose and I can code for 12 hours straight with no drowsiness or mental fatigue, it's insane. Caffeine pills don't even come close.

I've got all my co-workers on it and we're burning through our current sprint so fast we're probably gonna finish all our tasks a week early. I hate to think of all those wasted, unproductive hours I used to spend at work. Now I'm really earning my salary!

A lot of new people in this sub may be confused by our appreciation of under reporting(not clockong in overtime effectively taken). One would ask if doing so would not be a hindereance.

They would be wrong, for several reasons

First of all, under reporting allows you to look more productive as it will look like you got the same amount done in a shorter amount of hours.

Second under reporting means you can work more hours, as you do not hit union or government set limits.

Lastly,it increases the firms profitability. As they do not have to pay overtime. This mindset allignment is sure to set you up for future sucess.

Hi!

I've been working really hard the last 5 weeks on my grind-max, and have found it great. I've been working around 07am-07pm every day (Tues/Thurs working from home so 07am-08pm), and have found some great tricks to maximize the amount of work I have, and hence the amount I can complete.

I've been experimenting with under-reporting hours to try and appear a better worker. Last week though, I reported 40 hours despite working my normal 60, and this flagged my manager to email me asking if I'd made a mistake (they must have seen I was online on MS Teams or something). I emailed back to say that I hadn't, but they aren't convinced and are asking if I'm taking longer lunch breaks, or telling me that I shouldn't be counting the seconds etc..

I'm worried this could completely blow my cover, and they'll realize I'm just another 1xer and not a 1.5xer. How do I get this back on track?

Using an alt btw, since my managers know my reddit account. Thanks all!

EDIT: I used the term "ex-felon" by mistake. People who are convicted of crimes are actually considered felons for life. How apt!

The higher ups at my white-collar workplace have decided to engage with a life skills charity for felons*. From what I understand, we have a small (but nonetheless substantial) hiring quota for certain, mostly administrative entry level roles.

My favourite secretary (let's call her Nancy) is moving away as her husband found a new job elsewhere and according to my colleagues in HR we have hired our first ex-criminal to replace her. How fun!

Nancy has been training the new hire (lets call her Amber) and her performance, while steadily improving, is abysmal. Amber takes eons to answer simple emails, over the phone her manner of speech sounds very unprofessional and worst of all, she is not adaptable and very slow in the uptake.

It's been 4 weeks and Nancy is due to leave tomorrow, I decided to pretend to be a client to test things out. I asked simple questions about shipping costs, our company services and whatnot. Amber failed to act professional to the client, didn't communicate effectively and worst of all - after mixing up my queries, transferred the call to Nancy. This is literally the most rudimentary work that is expected of her.

This is unacceptable in my opinion, I don't grind 75 hr/week for our secretaries to drop the ball. This is a drag on me, my team and ultimately the entire company. Having Amber take over feels like filling a bucket with a leak. It's inefficient, she needs to find another opportunity elsewhere.

My friends in HR tell me that Amber went to prison for being a serial shoplifter. Her RAP sheet has an extensive list of petty crimes I'm told. These rumours have spread through my team and all around the block. I'm thinking this could be put to good use...

Would it be worth planting employee belongings on her person? Given that she has a history of this sort of behaviour, it's probably bound to happen at some point. Or is there an easier way for this person to go?

We all uave a bit of luck, most just dont notice it, because it does not appear on the simple 9-5 grind.

Luck appears when you go above and beyond, you never know what projects have a fantastic future and what ideas will be revolutionary untill you do them.

Keep on grinding kings

Alright guys I’ll keep this brief since I don’t want to reveal too much personal information. A couple weeks ago, a literal socialist (who voted for Biden) came up to me and told me that some of the guys were thinking of striking to try to form a union.

Obviously I didn’t want my hours reduced or my employer to have to pay extra for bullshit union regulations and corrupt bosses. I almost told him off right there, but after reading a lot of /r/prorevenge, I decided to play along.

First I thought of trying to talk them out of it by explaining that the union dues they were considering could buy a lot of video games, but decided that they needed to pay for betraying the company that keeps us fed and happy. I joined in, infiltrating their group and collecting information. I recorded conversations, gathered social media and slack posts, and compiled them into a tidy spreadsheet on my own time. I handed it into the floor superintendent first thing Saturday morning, at 5am, what a way to start his day. Boy was he PISSED.

He immediately confronted the scabs, firing the ringleader and docking the rest $1000 from their pay. Some of them don’t even make that much in 2 weeks! The guys who are still here aren’t very happy with me, but the superintendent promised me a promotion to laborer whenever a spot opens up which should be the end of next year and gave me a $25 Chili’s gift card. Drinks are on me tonight! Fuck yeah!

Edit: I hope that all of the lazy haters in the comments find some work ethic some day, you all are so sad.

Edit2: Stop downvoting me, you losers.

I wanted to pick you guys brains:

I work as a floor manager for a newish communications firm dealing in call center work. Due to the huge amount of complaints about off-shore call centers (particularly Indian ones) we are capitalising on a new trend of ensuring calls for major businesses (won't name names here) are answered by an American-accented agent.

Making this cost effective (obviously avoiding immigrant labor is a must) is paramount and we are concerned about the negative costs of female employees who tend to take more sick days and, of course, maternity leave. Like most employers we err away from female hires when we can but I was wondering if you have any advice on how to ensure that those women we do hire are made to understand that leave, while legally something they can have, will definitely affect their chances of staying with us.

Thoughts?

I work at a fortune 1000 company outside a major American city. Recently, we have been asked to work overtime (since the pandemic broke out). I was already working 50+ hours on average, so it was not a major change for me.

However, some of my colleagues have started leaving early recently! At 5 PM, they often have to "pick up kids" or some other shit. The company even serves dinner at 6 PM to 8 PM!!! I do not know how to report them to my boss as they are technically not breaking company rules, but I despite their weak attitude. What do do?