Employee discovers coworker is booking fake meetings with himself for quiet work time, debates telling boss: ‘I can't decide if this is genius or insane’

You are a hardworking employee only if your calendar is fully booked…Every workplace has that false notion that employees must busy themselves with countless meetings every single week. We go from meeting to meeting, talking about the same things and moving at a glacial pace, just because the corporate world has decided that's what productivity looks like. In reality, however, the real work gets done when employees get a chance to quietly sit at their desks and simply do their jobs uninterrupted. They don't need to have another meeting with the client, they need time to actually work on all the things they discussed in the last meeting, and the one before that…We never thought we would reach the point where employees would lie their way into being allowed to work, but here we are. As it turns out, some employees have to get creative so they can be granted some quiet time to work. It's no longer enough to put on your earphones and sit at your desk, nothing is stopping your coworkers from interrupting you. And if you try to find an empty room at the office to hide in, all your boss needs to do is look at your public calendar to know that you have "nothing" going on.This led one clev…

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