I’ve learned to procrastinate as a strategy being salaried exempt. I procrastinate at work because I’m tired of the routine bureaucratic parts of the job that make it more painful than doing your taxes and the never ending pile of tasks that get continuously added to my workload as a result of being efficient.
Just because you can do something well doesn’t mean you enjoy it, but management seems to think that’s the case even if you said it wasn’t—so they pawn off more of it on you. Do your job well and finish your work, and in the infinite wisdom of management your reward is more work rather than open time leaving you free to be more proactive at attacking the issues plaguing your company.
Ironically, in a job formally defined as a problem solving role, they just want you to do what they tell you to do rather than think and solve problems. They’ll unload your colleagues and give it to you or just go to you because you get things done, and it leads to burnout.
It’s sad because in corporate America my personal experience in the industrial sector has been that management is all knowing, and they tell everyone what to do. Giving your people freedom for a part of the workweek—even 1 day per week—to pursue solving the problems they’ve identified as important would go a long way toward reducing procrastination, improving morale, and job satisfaction.
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I’ve learned to procrastinate as a strategy being salaried exempt. I procrastinate at work because I’m tired of the routine bureaucratic parts of the job that make it more painful than doing your taxes and the never ending pile of tasks that get continuously added to my workload as a result of being efficient.
Just because you can do something well doesn’t mean you enjoy it, but management seems to think that’s the case even if you said it wasn’t—so they pawn off more of it on you. Do your job well and finish your work, and in the infinite wisdom of management your reward is more work rather than open time leaving you free to be more proactive at attacking the issues plaguing your company.
Ironically, in a job formally defined as a problem solving role, they just want you to do what they tell you to do rather than think and solve problems. They’ll unload your colleagues and give it to you or just go to you because you get things done, and it leads to burnout.
It’s sad because in corporate America my personal experience in the industrial sector has been that management is all knowing, and they tell everyone what to do. Giving your people freedom for a part of the workweek—even 1 day per week—to pursue solving the problems they’ve identified as important would go a long way toward reducing procrastination, improving morale, and job satisfaction.