[throw20161123]

Your ass in your seat, taking minimal vacation (with your Blackberry), justifies my existence and competence as your manager in Big Corp.

[basisword]

This definitely isn't a 'big corp' problem though. In fact, employees at 'big corp' will often have better hours and more vacation that employees at 'hot new startup'.

[raverbashing]

Also "hard work" is easy. Sit and do some meetings to look busy

Shipping and solving problems is harder

[eeZah7Ux]

Shipping useful stuff and solving actual problems is even harder

[dkersten]

do some meetings to look busy

This book is pretty great! https://www.amazon.com/100-Tricks-Appear-Smart-Meetings/dp/1...

[patrickmn]

There's gotta be some kind of Schroedinger's cat type joke here. If you're not in your seat, you don't exist.