Title: For as long as I&#x27;ve been working professionally, I have been slacking around a lot of the time, reading blog posts, HN, often even reading (tech, biz-related) books and just doing the bare minimum for appearances sake but no one seems to notice. In the office I book a booth to work in to have some peace &amp; quiet and have a couple of code commits prepared to not arouse suspicion. In companies with perf reviews I get some useful feedback here and there but most of the time it&#x27;s positive, people love to work with me, I do get stuff done if I have to, but as soon as I can get away with doing close to nothing, I&#x27;ll take the chance. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m blocking other teams and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m preventing my own team from having accomplishments and often people refer to me as being either partially or mostly responsible for shipping something because I manage to have a clear mind and focus when things get close to a deadline.<p>If I am motivated and the task&#x2F;project&#x2F;product is fun I throw myself into it but that isn&#x27;t sustainable. I&#x27;ve read a few of these posts from people at FAANG doing almost the same so I don&#x27;t really feel bad about it. I&#x27;m just wondering how wide-spread this is. One of my theories for this behavior is that this is related to 40+ hour work weeks. I think I&#x27;d be able to get my devopsy work done in ~3 hours&#x2F;day if I manage my time well and schedule most meetings on Mondays.
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