No work is being done at work, and that's a good thing

 As the one reader of this blog who hopefully still reads it will know, I do technical sort of work at a company that does very boring things. My job description would put even the post empathic listener to sleep, it's nothing to be proud about.

And I don't work much on a regular day, it's like they expect me to do something, I delay it and dally it and they say ohh why don't you do it, and I'll say yeah yeah I'm doing research and then later, ooh yeah something came up can you help it, and very soon they've done all of the work and I'm giggling like a maniac and even then I've half-assed all of it. It gets done eventually, two weeks for a piece of work that should have taken a day and a half at most, and it doesn't even need working on anymore because some other team in a different country discovered they had the requirements all mixed up. Who comes out ahead in this case, that's obvious.

Lately though we've been having so many meetings at work, it's quite comical. My day starts at 8, 8.30, and meetings go on nonstop until 12, after which I'll run out to get some lunch or just chill on my bed, and back to meetings, no time to be distracted and go on youtube etcetera even. And it's really hard to like zone out from meetings all day long you know, they expect you to say something sometime and you have to remember what was said in earlier meetings to show them that you're still a part of the team.

So, everybody's treading water lately, that's what my teammate said in a chat a couple of days ago, and that's because there's no time for us to do our nerdy work since meetings are everything. And that's fine because everybody knows about it. This is perfect, as I'm being more productive not doing anything in the meetings, than not doing anything in my freetime, because this is what's expected from me. I can listen and talk, I can do that till all eternity. It's actually the expectation of me moving my fingers and noggin when I start freakin' out man, really start freakin' out. And it's good now, all's well.

As I led towards in the earlier post, this means I should become a manager, a technology manager who makes freak tonnes of monies, while not doing any technical job, making the nerds do the shit work while I uhhh drink my bubbling nonalchoholic champagne and talk to other managers about managering. No work will be done by me technically, but meetings will be productive, and the nerds will be doing things.

The only problem is, it's unclear if my job will let me go towards the managerial direction in the foreseeable future, seeing as I haven't even risen above the starting job description in all these years, which kinda' sucks but there's nowhere else to go. i want to manage people, jeez why is it so hard to understand, I can talk argue identify  opportunities and negotiate, just pay me the monies for that, to mange the nerds, but we'll pretend like I'm one of the nerds, and that's how my base pay will be set. That way I'll be rich, you'll be a productive company, and the nerds who seem to looove loove loove working will get all the working of their lives.