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Vive La Loafing!
theodp writes "Bonjour Paresse, an anti-corporation slacker manifesto whose title translates as 'Hello Laziness,' has become a national best seller in France and made a countercultural heroine of its author, who encourages workers to adopt her strategy of calculated loafing in response to dimming prospects of success for rank-and-file employees. Could a translation find a Silicon Valley audience?"
Can't be bothered to RTFA, I've got too much slashdotting to do here at work before lunch rolls around.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Walley. (read: Dilbert.)
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Are you aware of who you're posting to?
All we are is lazy. This post is the proof!
Who do I have to blackmail to get some representation around here!?!?!?!?
I'd have to imagine that that sounds much more attractive in the original French. Let's see what Babelfish says:
"pourquoi gangrene non écarté par le système de l'intérieur ?"
Yes, I was right. That sounds much more attractive. I'd like some, but without the butter.
She just wants everyone else to do nothing so she comes out looking all good, teachers pet! :-/
Say it frenchy - CHOWDA
Don't Tread on Me
What I don't understand is how this qualifies as countercultural in France...
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"...if you don't like your job, you don't quit, you just go in every day and do it really half ass, that's the American way." - Homer Simpson
If you just walk around with a bit of paper in your hand you look busy and can make sure you achieve nothing.
Rus
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Seriously, have these businesses considered a no loafing sign?
The less code you write, the less bugs you introduce.
She's on top!
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
Have you seen Office Space?
Of the Bobs: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter: I wouldn't say I've been 'missing' it Bob.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of people slacking off!
slashdot?
What is slashdot?
Holy crap, I hope I never have to work for you.
So her point I guess is a mental strike. Instead of fixing the rotting system from the inside by working harder and going nowhere, accelerate the rotting by doing nothing. Either they will have to give up on their socio-political HR poilicies and start basing promotion, hiring and firing on applicable indicators like skill or die by their own hand.
I'm suprised, France, that's very capitialistic of you. And here I thought you didn't swing that way.
The next remark is false. The previous remark is true.
Not to be confused with measuring your turds.
Sorry folks, I know it's sophomoric, but it's Monday, and I'm bored, the thought popped into my head, it made me laugh, and for some reason I decided to share it with the world.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
Work HARD = Work SMART, not Work LONG
ALERT! DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER! This person has uttered a Dilbert 'Pointy haired boss'-ism, and no humor or irony has been detected. Someone notify Cowboy Neil that a PHB has gained access to Slashdot, and pull the account, quick!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
He/she has doubled their productivity by posting the same reply twice in a comment. We won't hear from 'havoc' for another three months now.
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No it wouldn't. South Americans are light-weights when it comes to alcohol, and every country has its native un-identifiable clear spirit that sells for a song because there's no import tax. In Peru its "Pisco", in Chile its "Aguadiente" (They also have "Pisco" but they deny stealing it from the Peruvians), in Bolivia it doesn't even have a name but its 95% alcohol and tasts like rocket fuel. I don't remember what the Brazillian one is called, but they mix into with lemons into a Cahparinha, which is really yummy.
Disclaimer: I am an Australian with an engineering degree. I am fully qualified to talk about drinking.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
On the other hand, if you have a white collar job that allows you to sit in a padded adjustible height chair and browse the internet, you are probably already better off than the vast majority of humanity....And if you are going to slack, slack productively! Become an activist or a political grafitti artist or something so the rest of us slobs have something amusing to look out on through our windows.
"Oh, yes, and sir, the VP of international business development is out spraypainting our walls with 'Terrorists must die!' again."
May we never see th
But what in the hell do you do with all your time?!
There's nothing wrong with being unmarried. Having a significant other (or kids, etc) would only impact my ability to work. If I only worked 9-5 five days per week, I'd be bored out of my fucking skull.
Even on company holidays when we were all forced to take time off and the hours were taken out of our vacation accrual, I would work. I just wouldn't tell my boss. I'd log on from home through the VPN and get a lot of work done in those extra 8 to 16 hours. Not to mention the weekends. I was able to do in one 16 hour per day 7 day per week stint what it would have taken the average employee a month to accomplish.
I think people place too much value on "personal" time and "relationsihps" and "real life". I work insane hours and durations because it's my passion. It may not be my dream job (I don't care about the product or the specific position), but a man's worth is dictated by his professional recognition, salary and resume. Any schuck can go knock some skank up and have a family. It takes someone of principal and accomplishment to build a smashing resume and career over his life time.
Money is like points in a videogame. The man with the most before he dies wins.
They should have canned her, since spilling a drum of ink isn't in her job description, either.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Damn... how difficult is it to emigrate to France? Do they not let the devil Americans in, or do they consider us poor Yanks to be political refugees? I already know I'm way too out of shape to join the Foreign Legion.
Gotta dig up those French language tapes... je parle francais en pus... damn, needs work.
Workers Doxology:
Praise him for bits of overtime
Praise him whose wars we love to fight
Praise him fat leach and pa-ra-site
AMEN
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
There is former programmer at the the gas station I frequent that used to say the exact same thing about himself. And I must say he has turned out to be a very arrogant cashier. He is always glaring at the ID and access cards that hang from my belt as he takes my money. He also begrudgingly hands me my free carwash ticket as though I didn't deserve it. The universe is indeed a cruel place because the gas station is owned by Indian immigrants.