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0 pointscoffee14y ago0 comments

> I can literally do nothing to sop up any problems that might arise

Have you trained your job (bosses) to understand that you take periodic breaks outside of the building (i.e. grab coffee)?

Once you have, you simply grab your bag, with personal laptop, hit the wifi enabled coffee shop, and stop or at least slow down the fire.

I've done it. You lack creativity :)

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lsc14y ago· 2 in thread

I've done it too... but yeah, it is not so nice for the employer. I'd much rather have someone like dclowd9901 working for me than someone like you or me.

If you do run a side business and keep a dayjob at the same time, you need to know going in that you won't be 100% for that dayjob. I mean, you can make excuses for it, like nobody is 100% for their dayjob; other people have kids they have to deal with, etc... but in the end? you are choosing your own interests over your employer's.

I'm okay with that.

(I mean, I was up front when I'm hired that I had this other thing going on; but I recognize that I was a much worse employee than I would have been otherwise.)

coffeeOP14y ago

>...it is not so nice for the employer.

I can see how my comments and actions could be taken negatively, but I disagree with that generic statement. Yes it can be not so nice for the employer, but it could also have zero negative impact.

I was able to successfully do with zero negative impact. In fact, the flexibility that I trained my employer to have, made me a happier and more productive employee for that company. The ability to attend to my personal business, regardless of what it was, made me appreciate them and work harder for them.

>I'd much rather have someone like dclowd9901 working for me than someone like you or me.

Please don't lump me into that category.

lsc14y ago

>Please don't lump me into that category.

It's quite possible that I'm wrong, of course.

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