tl;dr Do you know of any best practices to engage in time theft at a job with billable hours?
I want to engage in some meaningful time theft and “quiet quit” my day job. The challenge is that this is a job where we bill clients at 15 minute increments. I typically bill 25-30 hours in a week, and devote 12.5 hours to email and Slack. (8.5 hour day).
Does anyone have ideas on how to do less at work, but create the illusion of work on time sheets?
The best ideas I have are to say I was working on business development activities (internal hours) and, obviously, to fluff up the amount of time a work project actually took (billable hours).
In general, a strategy I have is to be more active on slack and more responsive on slack, to create the illusion of work/activity, and to remind people of how busy I am. I feel inclined to share that my boss is a nightmare, and this job exemplifies the trauma of capitalism, and I have little desire to create surplus value for a company owner with serious generational wealth. My inner honors student hates the idea of time theft, but feel it's a righteous act of anti-capitalism.
Can you think of any other strategies to aid in quiet-quitting or time theft, especially at a job where you have to account for your hours on a timesheet?
PS. Greetings from my burner account. I've been active on /antiwork for the past four months and really appreciate this community.