As an employee, you need a strategy for survival.
You need to develop your ability to appear PRODUCTIVE without actually expending time or energy.

1. those who work hard regardless of the compensation (IDIOTS)
2. those who avoid work, thus appearing lazy (IDIOTS)
3. those who avoid work while somehow appearing to be productive
(CONTENTED EMPLOYEES)

How to pretend ? here are some tips :

• BE A CONSULTANT ON A TEAM
  If you can't be a manager, the next best way to avoid real work is to be an "adviser" to people who are doing the real work. Sounds familiar ? That's what your mentors are doing to you, IDIOTS!
• CHANGE JOBS FREQUENTLY
  The longer you stay in one job, the more work you'll be asked to do. Sounds familiar ? That's what your mentors are doing ! Two years is the most you should ever spend in the same job. Or else, you will become competent over time, and that's as good as begging for more work.
• COMPLAIN CONSTANTLY ABOUT YOUR WORKLOAD
  Take every opportunity to complain the unreasonable demands that are being placed on you. Reinforce your message during every interaction with a co-worker or manager. Over time, these messages will work themselves into the subconcious of everybody around you and they will come to think of you as a hard worker without ever seeing a scrap of physical evidence to support the theory.
• ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE AT MEETING
  Come to the meeting late and leave early. This leaves the impression that you are are so busy you can't do everything. The first part of a meeting is useless and the last part of a meeting is when the assignments are handed out.
  That is wasted time for a busy person such as yourself.

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