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If I had to guess, most of us aren’t exactly model employees. Some Monday mornings we straggle in at 9:25, and there have been more than a couple “sick” or “work from home” days that may have involved nursing a hangover or hitting the golf course while only giving your email a brief check once or twice that day. Overall, though, those sins are relatively minor and can (and should) be forgiven by a good employer, because as inefficient as you are on mornings after late happy hours, you’ll make up for it by answering emails after hours or staying a couple of hours late before a deadline. You don’t exactly get a gold star, but you’re not on the chopping block either when (or if) a layoff comes your way.
Better Buys surveyed 2,000 US workers to find out what their greatest sins as employees are, and as it turns out, your occasional sick day may not be as bad as you think it is. Late to work? Not to worry — 54.8% of employees surveyed are late to work on a consistent basis. Nearly as many (53.7%) gossip about their coworkers and 53.2% also take fake sick days. Other common transgressions include yelling at coworkers, spending too much time socializing, or taking long lunch breaks.
While you’ve probably committed at least one of these work sins, don’t feel too badly, because chances are around half of your coworkers do the same. However, there’s a smaller percentage of employees that are pushing the limits to an entirely new level. 53% of employees steal from their workplace, and 21% do drugs at work. Under ten percent of employees also engage in a variety of horrible workplace behaviors, such as embezzling money, fighting, blackmailing other employees, or sharing classified company info. Possibly one of the worst statistics? 15% of men and 3% of women view adult content at work. Seriously, one out of six of your male coworkers are watching porn AT WORK.
At this point, I’d like to give a shoutout to all of you terrible employees out there, because all of a sudden my 45-minute lunches aren’t looking that bad anymore. If you’re like me and occasionally tend to play sick or stroll in a little late a couple of days every pay period, it’s time to breathe a sigh of relief, because thanks to all of the true degenerates out there, your job is safe for now..
[via Better Buys]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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If an employee comes in a late on a consistent basis and the manager hasn’t done anything about it, who’s really to blame?
If you come in late every day, isn’t late just the new on time?
Right, time is a man made construct so you can argue that a start work time is limiting in the sense of space and time since we could essentially do our jobs from any location with little to no oversight.
The studies done 4 months from now on how many people lost their jobs because they were playing Pokemon Go are going to be out of control.
So the other 85% of you never did the five knuckle shuffle in the handicapped stall to avoid work? Liars.
I never understood why people get upset or offended if a coworker walks in late. Chances are that person not being there has 0 impact on your daily workload and if it does, what were they going to accomplish in the 10-15 minutes that they missed while being late? Those people should focus more on catching Pokemon in the parking lot and actually accomplishing something in their lives as opposed to worrying about someone else.
I work remotely (but usually not from home- I just go to a lot of different worksites) and often take liberties with my time. But I excuse those because I don’t have coworkers around me. I used to waste way more time having water cooler talk when I was office-based than I do taking a long lunch or dipping out early.
Donald Draper napped in his office half the time and was drunk the other half. If perusing the web helps me out in my creative downtime while creating software, and I’m at least as productive as my co-workers, who gives a fuck?