Franco-American unity
If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
The French way too, it seems.
Corinne Maier’s tongue-in-cheek book Bonjour Paresse, or Hello Laziness, has earned her a disciplinary hearing. Hello Laziness or “the art of doing the least work possible for your employer” was written as a comic antidote to all the “how to succeed” management books.
But sadly, Ms Maier’s bosses haven’t seen the funny side.[…]
It was Ms Maier’s advice to readers that probably stung the most: “You don’t have much to lose if you don’t do much at work,” she wrote, telling readers to choose the most useless sort of job - become a consultant, an expert or an adviser.
Sounds like the same stuff that Scott Adams said in The Joy of Work. And I'll bet there have been deadwood workers since the Sumerian court bureaucracy.
Posted by Jimcat on August 9 2004 06:10
=v= I regret to inform that the above quote was Homer's. Bart did however say essentially the same thing, in song, in an earlier episode.
Posted by Jym on August 11 2004 14:53