Do you know anyone who gets paid to do so little?

[dankehause]

I have a friend who works for a cyber security firm working from home.

He does two hours of work a day, then will go about and do as he pleases. His boss knows he's waiting on more work and are very relaxed about it.

He is paid £45k a year and graduated three years ago.

Does anyone know anyone else who has a similar job and what do they do?

I thought this was going to a thread about the royal family.

True.

I had a job like this for a few years before redundancy, after working full time or overtime for years with the same company. IT again.
I couldn’t afford to leave without the package, wasn’t allowed WFH and it very nearly sent me over the edge.

I'm in procurement and finance.

Sounds utterly boring. Sounds like my NHS managers.

I don't do very much. I wfh now but even when I was in the office I didn't.

Today I've probably been at my desk for half an hour, had a nap, caught up on jobs etc.

As can be seen from this thread and when I speak to people locally, there is a huge amount of non work, no work to do or skiving going on. Whoever owns or runs these business are not very good! It is batshit crazy and if it was my money funding this, I would not be happy. It feels as if the minority in some professions are completely carrying the non/hardly any work workers. It’s pure luck at times and tough luck for others. For all of my moaning, where are these jobs and how do I get one (disclaimer, it’s my day off today so not skiving)!😂

I worked for track and trace and that was just government money spaffed up the wall. You had to press a refresh button that only ever said no cases found. It was in the news.

I even went on holiday at one point. No one noticed.

I’ve known people paid a shitload more than £45k for doing much less @dankehause. There are loads of non exec directors who get six figures for a day a month.

It was incredibly boring and I prefer to be busy btw. I usually work dealing with emergencies so the day goes by in a flash.

Gosh I'm finding it hard to find p/twork at the moment and I'm amazed at these jobs where people can do little. I've always had to work super hard just to keep standing.

I am amazed they dont cull the jobs/reduce the hours. And I want one! stamps foot like a jealous toddler

DC picked up a job where they get paid £12 an hour to sit and read/play on their phone and every 20 minutes or so ask someone to put a mask on before going to their appointment. was very useful when they needed chaining to a chair to do their A level revision......

Years ago i did temping for BT....so bored...nothing to do all day....it was awful but really good money....we read papers...books...a manager did taro cards all day...rune stones etc.....i lasted a year....

A friend waters plants for some rich italian countess at her luxury flat in central london....takes him 5 mins...she pays him £40....twice a week.....he is in the block anyway doing other jobs...!!

Me!

2-3 hours of work per day max
£39k salary PM
Prefer to go gym, shopping etc during the day then bang out the admin work after 9pm when kids are in bed

My last civil service posting was as a configuration manager for legacy systems. A 3 year posting.

List all items in a database... stretched that to 6 months. Nothing much changed in legacy systems, maybe a new monitor or keyboard from time to time.
No phones at work, no Internet access.

God it was dull.

But it paid £40k pa. (It is hard to give that up even if you are bored)

The novelty wears off after about a week, I used to have a job were I barely had anything to do, by 10.00 I had nothing to do pretty much for the rest of the day, I couldn’t go on the internet much as our usage was monitored, I literally watched the clock, chatted with colleagues if they were around, made endless cups of tea, shuffled some papers to look busy, but it was soul destroying and actually I found it very stressful in a weird way, I hated it, but the perks of the good salary, excellent holidays etc kept me there for a long time. My next job I never even had time to look at the clock it was so full on, I became a different person I absolutely loved not having enough hours in the day. Careful what you wish for.

I had a job where in the summer we had only 20% of our job available to do. I would spend the days surfing the internet and wandering about. HATED it. I much prefer being busy and productive.

The thing is that people should get paid for their skill level. If more companies worked on that basis we’d have a happier workforce.

The idea of being paid by the hour is toxic.

Im leaving my job soon so I’ve checked out anyway but I’ve started pushing back against being actively on the premises for 48hrs a week just because that’s in the contract. If I’ve done all my work and there’s another manager in the building, I’m off.

Not massive bucks considering I do PT. I get 15k. I do maximum 10 hours a month. Generally about 6 though.
No qualifications no previous experience.

I'm in public protection too, middle management and do 10 hours a day , 5 days a week and some more in the evenings. So envious of some of you on this post.

This is a great point and sometimes missed by the anti-work-from-home crowd on here.

Some jobs need hourly input. Some jobs are more project-based or results-based.

If you can get the job done in half the time compared to someone less skilled then that's to your benefit. In these cases managers / employers just want the job done by a certain time.

So if you want to work like crazy for three hours non stop, or do 20 minutes work at a time spread out over nine hours that's up to you.

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My job is seasonally dependent. We need to be available all year round but in the quiet periods I like to do cross stitch and watch box sets in the office 😂
Of course that’s balanced by the busy periods, where you log on to 15 disasters that happened while you were asleep and spend the entire day fighting the tide to control them.
But then it ends and washes away and aaah… cross stitch and box set time.

I know a lot of people would rather have things a stable amount of busy all the time but I enjoy it!

The idea of being paid by the hour comes from the Industrial Revolution where you would be paid to operate a machine for 12 hours (or whatever) until the person from the opposite shift showed up to continue operating said Machine.

Things don't work like that now for every job. As people have said, someone with skills can get a job done in 3 hours that would take someone else a week.

Why should the fast skilled person be penalised for working faster by being given more work?

I actually WORK about 4 hours a day. I am very efficient but also not afraid to step away for a run if I’m just not getting anything done whereas I feel most people feel they have to sit at their desk and try and push through. Paid £90k. Highly regarded at my company, get all my work done and regularly do extra (building out reporting, covering tasks for others when busy etc). Previous role I worked even less, paid £75k.