I’ve been getting a fair amount of supportive letters and comments from readers of the blog. At the same time, I’ve also received some angry words decrying how slackers use others, slow productivity to a halt, and are generally not good people.

I find most slackers to be laid back, pleasant individuals. Our slacking and the ways we go about it are purely business, nothing personal. If that’s the rule that motivated workers live by when they stab coworkers in the back, why can’t slackers use the same mantra? I have nothing against anybody I work with. I just don’t want to make friends with them. It’s part of the slacker culture.

Every slacker who is still employed has apparently not yet done a poor enough job to be let go from his or her organization. Therefore, what he or she is doing on a daily basis must be enough. Slackers merely do the bare minimum of what is least required to get by. The fact that managers allow this to go on show that shoulder some of the ‘blame’ for slacking also.

And how do many slackers become the way they are? It happens because they have often to used, abused, and lied to by the managers that they are trying to subvert. They’ve been promised projects to work on, training to be offered, and raises to be given.

We’re not a-holes. We’re just getting through another day.

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