It isn't my responsibility to adapt to your slow day. Keep it to yourself, be a professional. This "trend" seems little more than just immaturity.
I'll take it slow today
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#12Do people really say "I'm deliberately working slow today"? It sounds unprofessional. Just work at the pace you feel comfortable, commit to deadlines accordingly, and block your calendar if you aren't at your desk or are working heads-down on something. Sometimes I work slow, sometimes I work fast but either way it isn't other people's business to know. I always hit my deadlines, and if I can't I meet a deadline I co…
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#13There's little consideration for the times where this isn't some sort of voluntary choice. "If you’re not feeling well enough to work, don’t." is fine and well if you've got unlimited sick days, never get sick, or don't have any sort of disability.
The author is in Germany, so the situation in other places may be surprising to them.
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#14If I only worked on days where I felt "fully recovered", I wouldn't do that much work at all. This article feels kind of tone deaf.
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#15There's little consideration for the times where this isn't some sort of voluntary choice. "If you’re not feeling well enough to work, don’t." is fine and well if you've got unlimited sick days, never get sick, or don't have any sort of disability.
The author is in Germany, so the situation in other places may be surprising to them.
My angle was more about the ambiguity of the status/using the phrase, but I can see how it may appear insensitive to others. It definitely wasn't my intention.
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#17This article has a lot of "trend" and "have you noticed" and "people are doing X" and "this is a thing" statements. I'm not looking for hard data in a blog entry but this smells a lot like someone extrapolating from a few interactions to create a buzz article.
But I'll take the bait: I have noticed no such trend.
People did that before pandemic, they do it now. Some of them are performatively demonstrating that they are important, and therefore busy, and therefore tired. Some of them appear to have medical issues. Some of them have a cold but find lying in bed boring. Some of them are indirect-bragging about their heroic alcohol intake.
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#18People still have/use status messages? I haven't seen a status message in almost decades now probably, and definitely not in a work context. Signaling you are sick and working via a status message just seems like an odd choice. The pessimist in me looks at this as signaling for sympathy.
The only status I've seen people use is linking to that no hello site.
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#19This article has a lot of "trend" and "have you noticed" and "people are doing X" and "this is a thing" statements. I'm not looking for hard data in a blog entry but this smells a lot like someone extrapolating from a few interactions to create a buzz article. But I'll take the bait: I have noticed no such trend. People did that before pandemic, they do it now. Some of them are performatively demonstrating that they…
I haven’t seen this. I see people responding when sick and I usually tell them to wait or give me some of their tasks so they can rest without worrying. I don’t care if someone is under the weather. They can reply or not, and if I see that they are sick or low battery, it’s just a reminder to give a little grace.