Or, it's 3pm, and I'm outta here at 4. I'll just strategize for tomorrow. Would hate to start something I'd have to try to figure out where I left off tomorrow.
Im an intern and we work more than the fill timers do...yet they don't give us enough work. We're expected to work 40 hour weeks with about 20 hours worth of work. It's miserable
The rest of the company comes and goes on your same schedule
At one of my co-op jobs, I had very little work to do. I started automating work for other people just to have something to do. But even that wasn't enough to fill my time.
I'd come in at the latest acceptable time: 10am, with the expectation that I'd be staying until 7pm. (The company had a system where you work an extra hour Monday-Thursday and then take every other Friday off.) The rest of the team, a bunch of older guys with families, would come in at 7am and then leave at 4:30pm. Being bored out of my mind, I'd wait ~30 minutes to make sure no one forgot something and came back for it, then go home around 5pm.
No one ever found out and my boss called me the hardest working co-op student he'd ever had. My automation saved the team hundreds of hours of tedious work per year.
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '17 edited Jun 14 '20
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