I'll take it slow today
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I'll take it slow today
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#2Interesting that almost every take is about various ways how other people will react to this.
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#3I assume that the text is as AI-generated as the picture is.
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#4Here’s my secret: my every day is a slow day. If they don’t accept my slowness, they don’t deserve my quickness.
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#5This seems to me like a lack of people skills on both sides of the conversation.
Not feeling great today? Keep it to yourself or at most tell people who depend on you for something critical today. Avoid all work that isn't urgent and important. Communicate as necessary and expected.
Other person not feeling great today? Don't ask them to do anything that's not urgent and important. Feel free to ping them via message on random stuff, they're not doing work-work anyway.
Any of that feel like too much? Person fucked up, they should have taken sick leave instead.
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#6There'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.
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#7I assume that the text is as AI-generated as the picture is.
Hey. Author here. It's not, that's where I draw the line! :)
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#8There'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.
I have a cold right now. I would prefer to be off work recovering today but I work on a contract basis; if I take time off work I don’t get paid.
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#9Do 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 communicate it as early as possible.
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#10People 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.