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Does anyone else get really anxious when you get downtime at work? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, I still have termination anxiety. When there's nothing obvious to do at work, I get really anxious, like there's something I'm forgetting to do.

What should be relaxing is a source of dread.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By my estimation, half of white collar jobs are like this and everyone just engages in theater about how busy they are

This is common in a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs I've had too. Gotta milk the work and get it done as close to the expectation as possible or else you're rewarded with more work and higher expectations.

Always been a huge point of frustration for me since I like to get a good pace going and stay busy since it makes the shift go by faster, but then I have to arbitrarily slow down to keep from giving the boss man the wrong idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

On quiet shifts when I worked at McDonald's, we'd deliberately dirty up the work surfaces so we could look busy when a floor manager came by — because otherwise they'd find some awful/dangerous job for you to do instead