Lazy Girl Jobs

[Porky]

So that’s it now, I feel the end really is near and all hope for the future of business to move forward slips away as next gen quite rightly want that better life work balance from day one and anyhow who cares about output

We are now in the era of the Lazy Girl Jobs:-

The appeal of the 'lazy girl job'

A content creator says workers should clock fewer hours, work from home and make comfortable salaries. Thousands of people couldn’t agree more.

www.bbc.com

Some good lazy girl jobs suggested we’re obviously WFH positions, marketing support, client success manager where they consider it’s great to do the bare minimum, answer a couple of calls, go for a run, play with your cat, whilst demanding the highest possible salary.

The thing that I really took from this was that it’s totally ok to take the p@ss and do next to nothing all day for your employer, I mean it’s akin to theft IMO, but there is no thought for the fact that they are helping the business fail by putting next to zero effort in. I mean since covid having a WFH position they already benefit from eliminating travel cost and time and flexible working yet now need to go that one step further and advocate doing even less. I give up if this is future

 

[MBE2017]

Always been the same, but don’t blame people for being lazy, 90% are and always have been. Blame the management who allows it.

I collect my wife from a large NHS Office block, where even during the summer the heating is on constantly, with the windows open as well. Bad management is bad management, wherever it is.

 

[Fagin2021]

So that’s it now, I feel the end really is near and all hope for the future of business to move forward slips away as next gen quite rightly want that better life work balance from day one and anyhow who cares about output

We are now in the era of the Lazy Girl Jobs:-

The appeal of the 'lazy girl job'

A content creator says workers should clock fewer hours, work from home and make comfortable salaries. Thousands of people couldn’t agree more.

www.bbc.com

Some good lazy girl jobs suggested we’re obviously WFH positions, marketing support, client success manager where they consider it’s great to do the bare minimum, answer a couple of calls, go for a run, play with your cat, whilst demanding the highest possible salary.

The thing that I really took from this was that it’s totally ok to take the p@ss and do next to nothing all day for your employer, I mean it’s akin to theft IMO, but there is no thought for the fact that they are helping the business fail by putting next to zero effort in. I mean since covid having a WFH position they already benefit from eliminating travel cost and time and flexible working yet now need to go that one step further and advocate doing even less. I give up if this is future

Whilst I sympathise with your sentiments surely the real culprit is the employer who offers that type of job, doesn't set objectives or work standards and doesn't monitor performance or enforce discipline.

The root cause goes back to school and higher education with its 'everyone has won, so everyone must have a prize' attitude. If you've been brought up to think the bare minimum is acceptable it's hardly surprising you carry this attitude through into adult life.

 

[Ozzy]

I started typing a reply on this ages ago and then got side tracked with work, the irony isn't missed on me. Then in the meantime @MBE2017 and @Fagin2021 post saying pretty much my same sentiments.

Bad management is the issue that allows this to happen, where if there was effective management in place these employees would be removed from the organisation and replaced with those who actually do contribute effectively and be rewarded appropriately for doing so.

I think the news article is quite badly written and skims over what I feel are some quite sensible and useful content. Flexible working isn't a bad thing, my staff have no fixed hours of work and I don't mind if they work on the beach in Barbados for all I care. I do however expected 7 hours of productivity a day and that is monitored and staff must have accountability for their productivity.

 

[fisicx]

I work best first thing in the morning. I often start around 5 and rarely do anything past lunchtime. Does that make me lazy?

As @Ozzy says, it the productivity that matters not the time you do the work. The Lazy Girl job is nothing new. Poor management has let people get away with this for years.

 

[BustersDogs]

Employers need to start seeing the value of taking on ND people. I didn't have enough work at a couple of my jobs, because employers expect a neurotypical amount of work to be done in a day. Once when working for the BBC my team was moved to a temporary office, and we were much closer together. Couldn't believe the amount of 'non work' that appeared to be going on....

When I asked for flexible working to do 6 hours a day, I was given even less to do, and just ended up so bored I asked for more work, and my manager was asked if I could be lent to other teams. My manager was steaming angry and complained she never should have agreed to me doing 6 hours. But she wasn't filling my days?

So what if we're weird, don't like things to change, don't like interruptions, or have sensory issues....

Get NDs in.

 

[Ray272]

I have seen that article on the web a few times but the title just really put me off.

Once you read it fully, you realise it is just an absolutely awful title, but it got people talking, so it worked.

 

[IanSuth]

Always been the case as well.

When i was about 17 i worked for a summer in the packing shop of BASF coatings&inks who had a plant in my village (it was there as if it caught fire it would have just left a huge crater)

most of the perm staff were mums of people from my old primary school and they did the fiddly jobs and those requiring use of the machines - one of the jobs done by temps was as the plastic lined cardboard box containing a pot of resin and a pot of hardener went along the rollers you had to hit a foot pedal and fill it with set amount of sand before the next person folded in the top of the plastic and added a little pack of plastic gloves and stirring stick wrapped in the instructions.

If the mums got a bit bored and wanted a smoke break, they would tell us to either double hit the pedal or hit it early/late. All would lead to sand on the floor and the line being stopped whilst it was cleared away as a slip hazard - in the meantime they got to go for a fag break. Happened every single morning and afternoon at least once in the entire 5 weeks i was there and mgt did nothing.

 

[Maxwell83]

Lazy people aren't new. Its just TikTok that's new. This is just a new way to showcase something very old - people doing the absolute bare minimum required at work so they can do other non-work stuff.

You can't seriously believe this is some catastrophic new business-world ending phenomenom?

There will always be people that see work as a chore and seek to minimise their exposure to it like a disease. There will also always be some young innovator or entrepeneur on their way to making the next Tesla/Amazon/Facebook and working 23.5 hour days and eating pot noodle while they do it. Nothing has changed.

 

[DontAsk]

Lazy people aren't new. Its just TikTok that's new. This is just a new way to showcase something very old - people doing the absolute bare minimum required at work so they can do other non-work stuff.

I've experienced this when I was dissatisfied and demotivated, but they kept paying me, including bonuses, so I stuck it out for a while.

A lot of management do not have a clue about managing people, no matter how many management course you send them on. Especially in companies where the only career progression was to go into management. A disaster for a lot of technical people. Contrast that with more enlightened companies where you can be an "individual contributor" with the same perks and salary but no people management requirements.

 

[Lucan Unlordly]

One of my offspring works in financial admin and regularly achieves 140% of their daily target. Others achieve as low as 65% so they receive additional training (extra expense), mentoring (extra expense) and are put on performance plans in the hope that they achieve the required 80%+ in order to keep their job.

Factoring in some consideration for age, time in the job, etc., how can acceptance of less than 100% be right? Who sets the 100% target, which most exceed by a small margin before putting their feet up!?

I really do think that many managers would benefit from some time at the coalface of a hard nosed sales role where you don't eat if you don't perform.

 

[MBE2017]

I really do think that many managers would benefit from some time at the coalface of a hard nosed sales role where you don't eat if you don't perform.

I used to train door to door salespeople, the average person lasted a couple of days, those that thought they could do it were considered time served after a month, my small team of top professionals all had 6-8 years under their belt.

It just came down to hard work, and attitude. My guys all wanted £1-2k per week, the really good ones knew they would make £3k per week. It’s a shame few fancy a hard days work, there is good money for those that are prepared to graft. This was 20 plus years ago, but the same applies to telesales, drivers etc, most want an easy 9-5 job with average low pay.