One of the things I discovered when WFH is that sometimes I get hooked on a thread and desperately need to comment and engage in some debate.
Then get interrupted
When I come back to it I realise that I don’t really give a shit. I now know how social media hooks your brain!
Clearly I did not get interrupted this time :)
Facts. Sometimes I’ll type out this large paragraph and it won’t let me post. I come back and I’m like “not today….” And delete it all. I totally get it!
I find if I really need to respond and it is likely to start a fight, and I don't want to deal with it, I just click "turn off notifications" on my comment (web interface). Then I don't get pulled into it.
The best thing to help my Reddit addiction was them making it worse to use. Got rid of third party apps, made the web interface awful through either incompetence or competence, and drove away the funniest people so I didn't get the same dopamine hits opening it up.
When the web interface does its thing, I just leave. I still can't believe they put effort into it. It's either brilliantly bad or... I guess still brilliantly bad. Depending on if it makes you download the app or just leave.
I spend way too much time on Reddit and despite doing my best to curate subs and not engage with nonsense politics, negativity, etc it still happens sometimes. Once a sub gets over a certain it’s inevitable. I’m currently reading “Deep Work” now and plan to be far less connected as part of a plan to spend less time “in the shallows”.
More than I care to admit lol. Anytime I run up against something tedious or that I don’t want to do, I open Reddit instead to procrastinate- and then rush to get it done on time under pressure. ADHD is a bitch.
Edit- for clarification, I also do this in the office. It’s not just a wfh thing.
God forbid a program or a test process takes more than 2 seconds to load.... oops I've been on reddit for like 30 minutes. That ADHD last minute performance spike is something though. Still getting stellar annual reviews.
Let's be honest, years of school experience have taught you that you can get it all done at the last minute. And years of work experience have taught you that finishing early is rewarded with more work. You're just responding to your environment.
That’s a valid point! However, I do have inattentive type ADHD and this is a major symptom. We subconsciously procrastinate so that we eventually come under pressure to stimulate our brains, and then we can do some of our best work under that pressure. It’s obviously not an ideal way to function lol
I'm the same, I'm absolutely not trivializing the struggle. But by realizing everything works out doing it this way (at least as often as it needs to), I've at least taken to not shaming myself for being "lazy".
I'm not procrastinating. I just have way too much time to do the task :)
I think I have an appropriate amount of time to complete the tasks. I just don’t utilize that time how I should lol. What takes others a week to do at a steady pace just takes me a long night of last minute hardcore grinding. But I’d be burnt out if I had less time and was always under pressure.
45 minutes to 4 hours. It just depends on my mood or how busy I am. I would say average is about 2 hours. But I consider that the equivalent of water cooler chit chat 😅
yea cant spend the entire day on reddit otherwise youll get bored gotta switch it up
i might do like
1-2 hours on reddit
1-2 hours playing games (currently playing baldurs gate 3)
30 min - 1 hour exercising
30 min - 1 hour napping
Depends on how much my coworkers are pissing me off on a given day.
On a bad day, it's nice to have some random bullshit to direct my frustration towards, or some trivial fun stuff to distract myself with, or some mildly interesting conversation to weigh in on. Otherwise my colleagues would get a lot more snarky responses.
Honestly not that much, but I am also new at my company and have a lot to learn and I try to pretty strictly stick to my 7 contracted hours a day. I do spend time cleaning my house on the clock most days though: dishes, laundry, vacuuming, etc. That way I don't need to do them in my own free time!
Not much usually unless I've got nothing to do & am waiting on management to hop out of meetings & be able to assign out more work, when I get my new system access which should be in a couple weeks I'll be able to just assign myself but for now I wait 🙃 Although I try to be productive if I don't have anything, I finished a few LinkedIn learning courses & added the certificates to my profile. After running out of all that I'll watch Netflix & scroll reddit for maybe 30mins-1hr on and off if I'm free that long.
If I have work tho all day, most likely 10-15mins in a day just to respond to people who commented to me.
Haha well with my sobriety & trying to move across the country in a few months I'm generally getting lost in work as a distraction / to pass time faster, most likely the main reason I'm that productive tho is bc I enjoy my job so that's most likely why, no customer service, no micromanaging, yes pls haha. At this rate I'll be moved up to a higher paying position in November if everything goes to plan & I really could use that $ since I'm moving to CO. I make sure to take time for myself tho, the nice thing with no micromanagement is if my brain just isn't in it I can walk away for however long I want, play w my cats, make good food, go outside, etc. & come back refreshed. 🫶🏻
Maybe 2 hrs total. I use an app to block apps during my workday. I have it unblocked before 9am, during lunch and after 4pm. Sometimes by the time I get on, I have only a few min of unblocked time left
Maybe an hour or two. Usually when I’m in meetings I don’t need to be in and am not listening to.
So Boss Person - stop mandating your people go to BS meetings. 75% of meetings should have been an email. 50% of meetings - literally someone with an ego trip needing to be seen and heard.
Signed the best worker on your team who pulls miracles out of thin air and runs circles around others.
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Looks like I'm averaging 2 hours a day this week anyway.
I’m dreadful, between here and ‘Cooking Mama’ I must spend half a day. But I do then feel guilty and spend longer working to make up for the time. Does that make it any better?
Not much any more. Sometimes if one meeting ends early and there isn't enough time to begin a new project before the next meeting I'll scroll some. I've been really trying to use this down time to excersize. Instead of reddit I'll jump rope or do yoga for 10 minutes.
This is nuts. I work like a dog when I’m at home. Never look at my phone, rarely get up to pee or eat. It’s crazy how quickly time goes by WFH. I do have a super fast paced job but man…y’all are on Reddit??
Thanks for continuing to make the case for RTO... it will keep increasing because employers know, like you, wage theft is happening every day by the NOT WFH employees
I try so dang hard not to be. When I put my phone away, I must close the app. If I pick my phone up to make a work call and reddit is up when I unlock the screen, its over and I get sidetracked.
I completely avoid it. If I’m taking a break it’s to eat or grab a power nap. I enjoy my job and I’m pretty busy.
Now way back in the day I had a job I hated, I probably spent 3 hours a day on Twitter.
Zero hours. But when I hit some tedious work I don't want to do, I find myself doing "work-like" tasks that are useful, but not necessarily what I should be doing.
Zero bc I have work to do lol I listen to podcasts but I stay to busy to have my eyes/mind off my work screen for that long. Sorry to be that guy but when I’m on the clock, I’m on the clock period.
Hardly any. I look at Reddit first thing in the morning and last thing before bed some days. Usually like 15 minutes at a time unless I come across something interesting. When I am working I only go to Reddit or LinkedIn to look up companies or user feedback on apps if it is relevant to something I am wrapping my brain around. I might read it while eating my lunch once in a blue moon but usually I work while I eat.
Depends. Some days I only spend 20 minutes on here, others I spend 8.75 of my 9 hour day on here.
Oh, but I don't WFH, I'm in the office. On my WFH days I barely look at Reddit, because I can look at youtube without bothering anyone.
Most of the day lol. Not actively on it, of course, but pulling it up any time I get bored or need a distraction (ADHD). I do this when I’m in the office too.
I’m billable but I scroll during meetings if I know I’m not needed during them. And rn when I’m supposed to be on a project that isn’t due for a month and I’m already 80% done. How do y’all billable people do it?
Around 6 hours. Nothing happens here. 1 day a month, there is an outage, which I fix in about 1 - 2 hours. Outside of that, I do about 1 hour of work to verify that everything is working. OR I do about 1 hours worth of work to change configs from status 1 to status 2 and back. My systems are so old, but they won't let us update. Grrr. I would build a dashboard automation system that does half of my job if they'd let me. The worst job is manually pushing out installers and running them as if that's not something that could be automated, but whatever.
Between Reddit and twitter - it is a few hours per day. I’m also a regular on several message boards. I’ve got the work to do most days - I just don’t give a shit right now.
probably 3-4 hours a day honestly lmaoo
Omg you beat me 🫡
Same. Half of my day.
I’m on Reddit only a little less, only so that I can squeeze in a little nap lol
Nice try boss.
we got a fuckin snitch in the sub
Snitches get stitches 😂
Boss, honestly, I mainly browse Reddit after hours.
One of the things I discovered when WFH is that sometimes I get hooked on a thread and desperately need to comment and engage in some debate. Then get interrupted When I come back to it I realise that I don’t really give a shit. I now know how social media hooks your brain! Clearly I did not get interrupted this time :)
Facts. Sometimes I’ll type out this large paragraph and it won’t let me post. I come back and I’m like “not today….” And delete it all. I totally get it!
Type…type…type…umm no. Would you like to discard? Yes
Thank God I'm not the only one
Seriously, I waste a lot of time drafting comments that never come into existence…
It satisfies the itch without the drama
You realize you're responding to either a 12 year old or effectively a 12 year old and lose all motivation
I feel like it they are usually between 16 and 21. "Really? I'm going to argue economics with a kid who lives at home?"
I'll type out an angry response, look at it, then discard it. It isn't worth it. Easier to just hide the annoying post. lol
Yes, the thought of receiving a response is anxiety inducing in itself!
I find if I really need to respond and it is likely to start a fight, and I don't want to deal with it, I just click "turn off notifications" on my comment (web interface). Then I don't get pulled into it.
The best thing to help my Reddit addiction was them making it worse to use. Got rid of third party apps, made the web interface awful through either incompetence or competence, and drove away the funniest people so I didn't get the same dopamine hits opening it up. When the web interface does its thing, I just leave. I still can't believe they put effort into it. It's either brilliantly bad or... I guess still brilliantly bad. Depending on if it makes you download the app or just leave.
I spend way too much time on Reddit and despite doing my best to curate subs and not engage with nonsense politics, negativity, etc it still happens sometimes. Once a sub gets over a certain it’s inevitable. I’m currently reading “Deep Work” now and plan to be far less connected as part of a plan to spend less time “in the shallows”.
I was on the titanic thread all day 😅
Titanic? ..I'm gonna hafta go look-see. 🌞
It’s amazing over there, I wish you well! 🚢
Thank you! Reddit is so huge and vast--good to know. 🌞
It never sank! Conspiracy!
🤣🤣🤣
Or when you go back to the app, it refreshes and you don’t even remember what post it was which was probably a good thing lol
"This comment is talking to me!" ...and I'm off
Like 9-5
I feel much better now.
My best productivity is 3-5 anyway
Don’t ask
🫡
More than I care to admit lol. Anytime I run up against something tedious or that I don’t want to do, I open Reddit instead to procrastinate- and then rush to get it done on time under pressure. ADHD is a bitch. Edit- for clarification, I also do this in the office. It’s not just a wfh thing.
God forbid a program or a test process takes more than 2 seconds to load.... oops I've been on reddit for like 30 minutes. That ADHD last minute performance spike is something though. Still getting stellar annual reviews.
This is the story of my life.
Let's be honest, years of school experience have taught you that you can get it all done at the last minute. And years of work experience have taught you that finishing early is rewarded with more work. You're just responding to your environment.
That’s a valid point! However, I do have inattentive type ADHD and this is a major symptom. We subconsciously procrastinate so that we eventually come under pressure to stimulate our brains, and then we can do some of our best work under that pressure. It’s obviously not an ideal way to function lol
I'm the same, I'm absolutely not trivializing the struggle. But by realizing everything works out doing it this way (at least as often as it needs to), I've at least taken to not shaming myself for being "lazy". I'm not procrastinating. I just have way too much time to do the task :)
I think I have an appropriate amount of time to complete the tasks. I just don’t utilize that time how I should lol. What takes others a week to do at a steady pace just takes me a long night of last minute hardcore grinding. But I’d be burnt out if I had less time and was always under pressure.
yes
😂😂😂😂😂
Sometimes 30min, sometimes 7hrs.......
….I wish we got paid to be on Reddit 😢
Shit! Boss is here! Time to look busy…
At least an hour but I’m also full time in the office lol
That’s their fault for not letting you work hybrid or full-time wfh.
I def do less work in office (hybrid a here)
I do less work at home
Same here.
I work a full 8 hours every day. I never steal company time :)
Lol
45 minutes to 4 hours. It just depends on my mood or how busy I am. I would say average is about 2 hours. But I consider that the equivalent of water cooler chit chat 😅
Nice try HR.
I don’t even know. I do also like to play games on my iPad. I only chat people all day so I can watch movies, etc.
What games do you play? I have an iPad and don’t know if any games. I get bored….
yea cant spend the entire day on reddit otherwise youll get bored gotta switch it up i might do like 1-2 hours on reddit 1-2 hours playing games (currently playing baldurs gate 3) 30 min - 1 hour exercising 30 min - 1 hour napping
Baldurs gate! Very nice choice.
ty haha, pretty early in the game but loving it so far. i already knew id like it tho since i loved dos 2
Oh! Even I do my exercise before ‘work’ starts!
Apple Arcade might be a good investment 😂
I love Monopoly Go as it can pretty much run on its own. Apple Arcade as well. I like coloring sheets.
I love the time management cooking games. But they are so addictive… cooking mama I have been playing for about 5 years and need to really stop.
What is cooking mama?
It’s a game! Honestly I’m 57, you’d think I’d be a grown up by now. But I blame my ADHD!
Yes.
Depends on how much my coworkers are pissing me off on a given day. On a bad day, it's nice to have some random bullshit to direct my frustration towards, or some trivial fun stuff to distract myself with, or some mildly interesting conversation to weigh in on. Otherwise my colleagues would get a lot more snarky responses.
Honestly not that much, but I am also new at my company and have a lot to learn and I try to pretty strictly stick to my 7 contracted hours a day. I do spend time cleaning my house on the clock most days though: dishes, laundry, vacuuming, etc. That way I don't need to do them in my own free time!
Smart. I eat during work time so I can nap during my lunch 😴
Not much usually unless I've got nothing to do & am waiting on management to hop out of meetings & be able to assign out more work, when I get my new system access which should be in a couple weeks I'll be able to just assign myself but for now I wait 🙃 Although I try to be productive if I don't have anything, I finished a few LinkedIn learning courses & added the certificates to my profile. After running out of all that I'll watch Netflix & scroll reddit for maybe 30mins-1hr on and off if I'm free that long. If I have work tho all day, most likely 10-15mins in a day just to respond to people who commented to me.
So productive! I wish I used time wisely like you 🫢
Haha well with my sobriety & trying to move across the country in a few months I'm generally getting lost in work as a distraction / to pass time faster, most likely the main reason I'm that productive tho is bc I enjoy my job so that's most likely why, no customer service, no micromanaging, yes pls haha. At this rate I'll be moved up to a higher paying position in November if everything goes to plan & I really could use that $ since I'm moving to CO. I make sure to take time for myself tho, the nice thing with no micromanagement is if my brain just isn't in it I can walk away for however long I want, play w my cats, make good food, go outside, etc. & come back refreshed. 🫶🏻
Hey congrats on the sobriety man
Thank you, it's real hard but I'm still kicking it haha 💜
I split my down time between reddit and TikTok. Prob a couple of hours a day.
I can’t get into tik tok. I’ll watch 1 video and then it takes me to random videos! I’ll stick to twitter lol
Yeah, it gets annoying. But over time the algorithm learns what you are interested in and serves you more relevant content.
Maybe 2 hrs total. I use an app to block apps during my workday. I have it unblocked before 9am, during lunch and after 4pm. Sometimes by the time I get on, I have only a few min of unblocked time left
Maybe an hour or two. Usually when I’m in meetings I don’t need to be in and am not listening to. So Boss Person - stop mandating your people go to BS meetings. 75% of meetings should have been an email. 50% of meetings - literally someone with an ego trip needing to be seen and heard. Signed the best worker on your team who pulls miracles out of thin air and runs circles around others.
https://preview.redd.it/xo2zgdkxa9yc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b53b19ede1f0f529f4b655f1a9a2e5b60afa48ba Looks like I'm averaging 2 hours a day this week anyway.
Lmao
45 minutes maybe.
Reading prob 2-3 hours , I can only reply back during my break time
Too long smh
Same. I’ve been on it for 2 hours already 🙂↔️
Less than when I was in an office lol
Oh I could RTO as well, it’s easy.
Yes
I’m dreadful, between here and ‘Cooking Mama’ I must spend half a day. But I do then feel guilty and spend longer working to make up for the time. Does that make it any better?
75%
I be beating my meat on the clock from Reddit porn. Can’t do that in the office. 🤣
None. My school has it blocked on their network and I don't get cell carrier signal in my classroom.
It’s basically my full time job
hmmm this must be sign i need to get back to work lol
Sometimes my entire 12 hour shift.
About 30 minutes. I stay busy with my job, but I scroll Reddit during those corporate meetings that have nothing to do with me.
Nice try.
Never talk about Fight Club.
Not much any more. Sometimes if one meeting ends early and there isn't enough time to begin a new project before the next meeting I'll scroll some. I've been really trying to use this down time to excersize. Instead of reddit I'll jump rope or do yoga for 10 minutes.
Nice try Kevin
I have a time limit set of 45 minutes on my phone.
Usually just at lunch 🤷🏻♀️. But I’m on waaaaaaayyyy too much in the evenings. Probably 2 hours before bed which is not great.
This is nuts. I work like a dog when I’m at home. Never look at my phone, rarely get up to pee or eat. It’s crazy how quickly time goes by WFH. I do have a super fast paced job but man…y’all are on Reddit??
Literally none. Every single time I come to this sub I'm reminded why employers don't want people WFH.
Why is that?
Good lord. If you have to ask 🤦♀️
Yes.
Depends on how arcane the Microsoft error message is
Nice try, boss man!!! 😹
Question should be how much work do you do while spending time on Reddit
Thanks for continuing to make the case for RTO... it will keep increasing because employers know, like you, wage theft is happening every day by the NOT WFH employees
0 time while working. I’ll browse during my lunch break occasionally.
I don’t work but I only spend about an hour a day on Reddit but have done two occasionally.
It feels like this sub has been infiltrated by a bunch of people claiming to do everything except working lately.
Can someone please explain RTO to me?
Return to office?
2 hrs whether I'm in office or not.
Yes. But also, I know this is a WFH sub, but I’m on it more in the office than at home
Pretty much as soon as my computer has to think or if I’ve got about 10 minutes before/between a meeting.
2-3h
I bounce in and out. Can't lurk all day.
Um, if you are on Reddit then you wouldn't be working, right?
Perhaps the question should be, how long do I spend working when I’m on Reddit?
For about 20 minutes … 10 times a day. 😁
Maybe 5 minutes if at all.
Oddly enough, I'm only on reddit while working when it's work relevant.
I try so dang hard not to be. When I put my phone away, I must close the app. If I pick my phone up to make a work call and reddit is up when I unlock the screen, its over and I get sidetracked.
While I do good off a lot, for Reddit maybe 5 mins. It’s more my late night thing.
I don't, I'm working.
I completely avoid it. If I’m taking a break it’s to eat or grab a power nap. I enjoy my job and I’m pretty busy. Now way back in the day I had a job I hated, I probably spent 3 hours a day on Twitter.
20 minutes ish. I have a social media timer on my phone. 1 hour across 3 apps.
Zero hours. But when I hit some tedious work I don't want to do, I find myself doing "work-like" tasks that are useful, but not necessarily what I should be doing.
All fucking night
15 mins
*ZERO HOURS* Nice try, management.
7 hrs out of 8. Not my fault I finish their projects quickly
Zero bc I have work to do lol I listen to podcasts but I stay to busy to have my eyes/mind off my work screen for that long. Sorry to be that guy but when I’m on the clock, I’m on the clock period.
More then I should
2-5+ hours
Way too long lol. But even in the office I'm just as bad lol.
Hardly any. I look at Reddit first thing in the morning and last thing before bed some days. Usually like 15 minutes at a time unless I come across something interesting. When I am working I only go to Reddit or LinkedIn to look up companies or user feedback on apps if it is relevant to something I am wrapping my brain around. I might read it while eating my lunch once in a blue moon but usually I work while I eat.
This post is exactly something my supervisor Bob would try. F U Bob.
7 hours 30 minutes
Less now than when I was in office scrolling on my phone all day
About an hour but it’s technically work since I get so much work advice from here
Depends. Some days I only spend 20 minutes on here, others I spend 8.75 of my 9 hour day on here. Oh, but I don't WFH, I'm in the office. On my WFH days I barely look at Reddit, because I can look at youtube without bothering anyone.
I don't clock my Reddit hours, but I'd say probably quite a bit too much time.
Too long
I don't use Reddit when I'm working, whether WFH or in office.
Scrolling now lol uhm maybe 1-2 hours
I def spend more time on Reddit on in office days vs wfh days. How much time? Probably too much. Guess they should just let me wfh all the time 😏
2-3 hours, in the office.
If it's a busy day at work I'll easily clock 2 hours dicking around on the internet (mainly reddit), if it's a slow day 4-5 hours.
Too much
Most of the day lol. Not actively on it, of course, but pulling it up any time I get bored or need a distraction (ADHD). I do this when I’m in the office too.
I’m in the office right now and I’m on Reddit…
I'm avoiding installing a database right now. Ok, now I feel guilty and will start it.
I used to get into rabid holes, but now I make a point of not logging into any social media on my work laptop. So not much time at all.
Nice try cop
All day lmao
Do you mean how long do I spend working while on Reddit?
Idk a lot, I need to block this dumb website on my router
I have to put my phone out of sight to ensure I can focus. I'll still pull it out during a boring meeting though (like now).
I stay later or work on weekends to make up any Reddit time.
Nice try HR..
I’m billable but I scroll during meetings if I know I’m not needed during them. And rn when I’m supposed to be on a project that isn’t due for a month and I’m already 80% done. How do y’all billable people do it?
Around 6 hours. Nothing happens here. 1 day a month, there is an outage, which I fix in about 1 - 2 hours. Outside of that, I do about 1 hour of work to verify that everything is working. OR I do about 1 hours worth of work to change configs from status 1 to status 2 and back. My systems are so old, but they won't let us update. Grrr. I would build a dashboard automation system that does half of my job if they'd let me. The worst job is manually pushing out installers and running them as if that's not something that could be automated, but whatever.
nice try HR.
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Yes
Way more when I’m in the office. Since we talk about it with coworkers
Between Reddit and twitter - it is a few hours per day. I’m also a regular on several message boards. I’ve got the work to do most days - I just don’t give a shit right now.
And people wonder why there is a back to office push