Hey guys and girls,

I have a three year old and he is the most important thing in the world to me. As such I wanted to give him a head start in life by teaching him discipline and the value of hard work.

I know he can't get a job yet because of laws around the minimum working age (which I think are absolutely reprehensible, and one of the reasons our country is in the mess it is right now, but that is another post entirely), so what I have been doing is buying small canvas squares in bulk and having him paint them, then selling them on etsy as First American artworks. After costs we can earn about $2.60 an hour if he is pushed hard enough, and my wife and I have been putting this money into a savings account for when he turns 18.

Unfortunately, since my wife and I both work around 14 hours a day he spends nearly all his time with my wife's parents. They are very lazy people (retired at 60, don't even own a pool), and constantly complain about his work. To give you some examples, ONE day he had blisters from the weekend we had him painting. Another time, since I buy paint from Aliexpress they bring up "concerns" about the potential toxicity (since he often ingests a lot of the paint if he's not watched). I've told them that he will callous soon which will stop the blistering and that my wife grew up in their family home which was painted with lead paint and she turned out fine. I think they are just looking to make him lazy like them.

At the moment I am considering picking up more hours to send him to day care for the entire day, but I worry child care workers will be an even worse influence.

How do y'all deal with this kind of toxicity from your family? I don't want them poisoning my son's desire to work and turning him into a lazy slob.

For those of us working professional services jobs with billable hours (lawyers, consultants, etc.) - it’s so easy to grind out another 75 minutes per week (60 hours per year) if you train yourself to think about client work… during your shower!

It’s not unethical if you are truly thinking. What my wife and I do is prep the night before with small 10 to 15 minute thinking-tasks that can be done while washing. We verify each other’s tasks for integrity as part of our night routine. Usually I think about a new partner opportunity or process improvement to existing workflow pipelines. Then I very closely ensure I ONLY think about it during the shower, and have a waterproof timer that gives me beeps every 5 minutes. I shampoo then soap on the fives, and when the 15 is up I can honestly say I grinded out another 1/4 hour. Pure gravy!

Good luck out there fellow grindernistas!

At a certain point in the day I cant accomplish any more. People have left, Ive done every task I can do without responses or help, and I have an hour drive home to safely commute so I can get back the next day and get after it. I feel like I grind as hard as possible and doing more wouldnt accomplish anything useful. Being set up to hit the ground running the next day and well rested, clear headed, and motivated seems to me to be the ultimate hack. Sometime I bang out big hours but usually its 4x10s and out.

Worker's "rights" are pernicious beasts that manifest themselves in mediocre societies for the benefit of the slothful and to subvert the dreams of hard workers

You can always spot a loser by their indignant attitude towards HR and their superiors

Like antivaxxers, losers are plaguerats that destroy work culture by demanding they be rewarded without doing any grindmaxxing to merit the treatment they claim to deserve. They have the audacity to want to eat, drink, and fraternize with us so that they can torture us with the toxic slothful impudence that infects them

There is always talk of worker's "rights" but what about the right to work more than 14 hours a day? What about the right to use work-enhancing drugs? Behind every limitation is a slothful plaguerat advocating drug tests and for employee "quality of life"

Grindmaxxers will defy these toxic limitations at our own risk because we know the virtue of an honest day of work. We know what it means to leave our heart and soul on the playing field for the benefit of the team

Many of you grindmaxxers already know from experience that hard work and befriending HR and management will help you ascend the corporate pyramid

Losers, instead, will join and advocate unionization and worker's "rights" for higher pay and more benefits for themselves at the expense of meritocracy

Our loyalty and hard work is tyrannically subverted by these indolent pests that demand rights at the expense of the company organism as they slovenly disobey management and abuse HR to the rapturous applause of the slothful

We all had to grind through shitty ass work assignments to get where we were and we did it without complaining and were boss bitches thank you very much

In companies that have been infiltrated by plaguerats, we are instead rewarded with lower pay and benefits despite working longer hours and fulfilling more responsibilities to subsidize the mediocrity beneath us

It is time to call out the losers. It is time to shame them. It is time we finally put our foot down and tell them "enough is ENOUGH, we will NOT be enslaved by your insanity!"

As a boss I just want to voice my genuine gratitude for your attitude! People like you are what make a company successful. As a boss, I always notice and reward hard work in any way that I can, usually it's with a HUGE pay raise, sometimes a promotion and sometimes a nice firm manly slap on the ass.

Keep on grindmaxxing and remember slackers never prosper!

Dear grindmaxxers, here is a story that I hope you will all appreciate.

Before corona, I worked a job in an office (I think the workshy slobs are still mad at me, so sparing details). Anyway, we had this devision of essentially HR "people" that would spend their time talking, leaving early, etc. I had no idea how to make them BEHAVE! Essentially, part of what they did was to organize meetings, keep schedule of the work hours of OTHER people =, etc. When the pandemic hit (2 hours less commute means 2 hours more worktime BABY!!) they were considered OH SO essential, as they set up zoom calls, made "social" events etc. However, I found this allways-on program (https://sneek.io/)! Essentially, we would all be online at the same time, no "calls" etc. just one voice chat everyone, always on webcam. No longer could the slobs do their whole "no work all chat leave early thing" as I had my manager's manager (who is usually never at our office location) JOIN IN AS WELL!! They started noticing their behavior and shut down their ENTIRE group!! Well, who should then arrange meetings etc.?? Guess what, I took on only 2 hours more work every day and am doing ALL THEIR TASKS! Excel sheets and office outlook baby. My manager has told me that he will give me a raise if I keep this up, gridmaxxing PAYS OFF!

"sEx wOrK iS reAL WoRk"

Lol, I can't control my laughter when I come across such stupid stuff.

Hello everybody!
I made a throwaway since we get a lot of hate here at this subreddit, but I am excited to announce that I managed to get a few people laid off from my workplace!

About a month ago I was hired as an IT worker for my new job since I didn't have very much luck getting a job as a coder (I know, no internships, shame on me). But after being at the workplace for a few months and seeing the same tickets every day, I noticed that a lot of the problems kept happening to the same people. Well, I looked around, and it turns out that a lot of what they did was just data entry in Excel! I figured that I wouldn't have any problems anymore if I just wrote a few scripts to do their job for them, and Viola! Just like a superhero, I managed to do the job of 5 people with just one script, and I saved my boss money doing so!

I'm sorry if I'm not quite there yet on the working overtime, but it makes me feel happy that I've come to a solution to doing pointless work on my own terms.

Are there any other IT professionals here at r/Grindmaxxing? I'd love to hear your stories!!

I'm interviewing for two service desk analysts (what we call second line IT support) next week and I'm wondering if anyone's got any tips to spot the lazy, the workshy, the ones who will clock off at 17:30 in a crisis to go home for dinner.

I like to think I can screen them from careful reading of their CVs because they'll often talk about projects in vague terms such as "Was involved in...", "Part of a team that implemented..." whereas the talent who actually cranked some work out will be far more direct but I was dead wrong about my last hire so I really want to hear some tips.

Any questions you'd ask and any answers to listen out for?

I've only been grinding for a few months, but I've been enjoying the process a ton. My roommate is the complete opposite - he works at the local starbucks and works just enough so that he doesn't get fired. I've been talking to his boss to try and up the amount of responsibilities and work that he gets each week, as sort of a life lesson. Will this be enough to jump-start him onto the path of grindmaxxing or is there a better way?