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This seems obvious but I guess needs 'official research' to register.

A quote I remember from a coleage - 'They wouldn't give me a pay rate rise, so I gave myself one, by working less hours in a day'

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It'll never register, lol.

It'll end up being a tick box moment in some Friday after 5 minute management training document that got completed while thinking about what to do over the weekend.

> It'll never register, lol.

Which is why people do it.

You get fired if you just stop showing up on Thursdays, but not if you start reading comics on your phone for the first hour of every workday.

Yeah, naw. My team ended up firing an engineer who could have been reading comics or something for the first hour or two. The guy usually showed up to meetings but didn't deliver any work for three months.

Yeah, I think nobody is gonna tell their boss "I did not like the way you treated me, so I will take a day off for feeling slightly sick". So, while it all sounds obvious, the extent of "idgaf then" is not easy to quantify.

I think zfg is a measurable quantity.

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