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Sleet · 13 answers · 8mo

Do you guys think someone complaining about not doing work while clearly not doing it is annoying, or wrong of them? if you saw someone who you knew a) complains about work a lot and b) you never see them do work, would you dislike them for it? just curious

yeah it is annoying and its kind of telling about what sort of person they might be outside of a work environment ngl -akira

it's a different story if they're actually doing work and I just never see them working but if it's someone actively whining about something they aren't even doing then yeah it's pretty fucking annoying, I wouldn't say WRONG of them but i'd say annoying and it'd probably get me to wanna end the conversation quickly.

I'm more interested in the psychological reason why that is. From personal experience there are lots of things I know I ought to do but find myself unable to, and the cognitive dissonance gets to a really distressing level when I am confronted with that fact. I suspect there's some subconscious reason for that, and I don't think pointing out the hypocrisy is the solution.

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