Are there some days at your job when just don't feel like doing any work at all?
Have you ever gone to work and felt like or planned on actually doing no work at all?
Why did you feel this way? Did you actually do nothing? Was it because you were lazy, too tired to work, or some other reason? Was it a day when you needed a mental or physical break? Does your job prevent you from being able to do minimal work for a day? If not, how did you get away with it? What did you do instead of working?
How many days a year do you feel like this and how many days have you actually done nothing?
Should there be a national Go To Work, But Do Nothing Day?
Observing members:
0
Composing members:
0
16 Answers
Yes. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday. These are my last three days at this “job”. I leave for home on Thursday, so I’m not really all here.
Yes at work and at home too.
Yes and today is one of them….
Yes, happens all the time. The longer you are at a job the more you will do it and the more you will know to get by doing it.
I do it because the following reasons:
-I’m lazy (once you’re somewhere long enough you know what you can get by with, it’s hard not to do nothing if you can get by with it )
-I’m depressed or anxious (usually don’t realize this is a problem until I haven’t done anything in awhile, you’d think you’d realize this if it happens over and over and over again but you don’t)
-I’m an introvert and hadn’t had enough personal time recently
The longer I’m at this job the more I feel this way. I probably do this the majority of the time now.
I don’t know if there should be a “holiday” type day for this. From what I’ve heard it’s like this everyday if you work for the government.
I usually plan to work, but once I sit down I find myself procrastinating on the internet. Even then I usually get at least some work done.
To be honest, yes. Different reasons… not feeling well (right not I’m on antibiotics for an oral infection & it is making me feel really out of sorts), not getting a good night’s sleep, going through a bout of “the blues” over a non-work related situation, or right before a long holiday weekend.
I usually do my work at a much slower pace, with less going from the “incoming” box to the “filing” box than on days when I’m more motivated. I find that after taking a mental break, like spending 5–10 minutes on Fluther or reading comics online, I can usually then get my focus back on my job. If it is a really bad day, for emotional reasons, and the quality of my work is suffering, I will ask to leave early either as ½ sick day or take comp time if I have some accrued.
If this happens too often for too long, and it isn’t related to depression over personal situations, then I start updating my resume and keeping my eye out for other opportunities.
Well, kind of. I’m still in school (8th grade) and some days I just don’t want to do the schoolwork. Yes, there should be a Go To Work/School But Don’t Do Anything day. We should figure out how to make it official.
@Snarp I am the same exact way.
Oddly enough, no. I am doing what I love. In short, I work with Nanotechnology and every day feels rewarding and exciting.
In the research work that I do the activity level often doesn’t fit my mood or energy level.Sometimes there are long “dead spots” when the machine shop and equipment techs are busy as bees but I have nothing to do but retreat to my office and wait, websurf, e-mail, AB Fluther or just go home early. When I am doing my work, everybody else is standiing by while I have fun doing the actual testing work. My work often does not fit the season either. When the prototype is ready I go to the test range whether it’s White Sands at 115F or Norway/Finland at -35F. Trying to do creative work when your mood doesn’t want to is not pleasant so I tend to use the idle time when my mood is good to write out contingency plans for the next phase in the program or work on the proposed Field Manual or Tech Manual. I have to plan for days when my mood is destroyed and things must be done, the worst combination of things (I can’t plan my depressed periods in advance). I would love to plan a “do nothing” day in advance but it’s not possible. I don’t think a national holiday would work because there are so many people whose work is vital to keeping our world functioning.
yup loads…we calls it motivational issues…other people call it laziness ..both can be symptoms of the waft of depression….most people do things for a purpose and if you lack one or feel that its not that important its hard to keep a focus
I couldn’t have said it better than @limeaide
It usually happens to me because I’m overstimulated (I’m also an introvert) & so many things are racing through my head that I can’t focus on the work I’m supposed to be doing or because I’m lazy/depressed about what I’m currently working on (ie. it seems hopeless to finish this project so why bother). Either way, it sneaks up on you and you don’t realize you’re doing it until a week later and you think “I accomplished absolutely nothing last week – what is wrong with me?”
I really don’t ever “decide” not to do work though – I have an inbuilt ethic that tells me that I need to provide some value for what I’m being paid. So, it is usually the case that I am trying to focus and get something done but can’t because I’m too exhausted or something else is distracting me.
I have days like that from time to time. I’ll save my tedious, non urgent tasks for days like that.
I think the majority of people feel that way more often than you think
Yes shameless admission, but yes, however the workload in my job is a daily thing that I have to acheive KPI’s on (Key Performance Indicators) so my lack of activity will soon become apparent and the door shown! Unfortunately the bad weather at the moment is affecting affecting this something very much beyond my control.
P.S. I dont work in sales – this work trend seems to be filtering through all walks of life now.
Answer this question 
Composing members:
0
