20. On that day the Lord will shave the head and hair of the legs with a razor hired from the other side of the river, and even take away the beard. The prophet points out here that the Assyrians will inflict much more evil than the Egyptians on Judea - the prophet here, as it were, completely forgets about the Egyptians.

“I Woke Up in a Cold Sweat”

“I Woke Up in a Cold Sweat” “For centuries, the insanity of dreams has become a source of unhealthy anxiety for anyone who has ever woken up in a cold sweat and tried to remember where he had just been in a dream and what he was doing there.” A. Alvarez Majority

We've all met colleagues who have achieved great skill in shirking work. Columbia Business School professor Eric Abrahamson, who specializes in management and organizational problem solving, has carefully studied the ways people resort to doing nothing at work for which they receive a salary.

"Michelangelo of work evasion" Professor Abrahamson calls the heroes of his work. They masterfully know how to do nothing of their own. official duties while avoiding any unpleasant consequences of idleness. Moreover, sometimes they even manage to get promoted.

The professor's advice, published in Forbes magazine, will either help you achieve the same results, or allow bosses to recognize such a strategy from their employees faster. He advises against following the example of his Michilangelos, but says that knowledge of these methods will help leaders solve the problem of uneven distribution of work in the office and increase the effectiveness of teamwork.

In his work, Abrahamson identified 10 basic tactics for avoiding work or 10 ways to get money without doing anything.

1. Always arrive at work in different time

If your boss never knows exactly what time you will be in the office, it will be difficult for him to give you tasks.

2. Work from home

Distant work- one of the easiest ways to avoid unpleasant duties.

3. Try to spend as little time as possible at your desk

If you work in an office, go to the restroom as often as possible, give yourself smoke breaks and coffee breaks. Come visit your colleagues. If your boss can't find you, he won't be able to give you an assignment.

This gives the impression that you are so busy that you can't even find time to check your messages.

5. Demonstrate benevolent ignorance

You must give the impression that you really want to, but can not complete the task given to you. Then your boss will delegate it to someone else.

6. Arbitrarily increase time for specialized tasks

If others can't do what you're doing, then they don't know how long it takes.

7. Use predictive failure

As friendly and kind as possible, let the boss know that, most likely, for objective reasons, you will not be able to cope with the task that he plans to give you.

8. Give the impression of a terrible workload

When someone asks you how you're doing, say, "I'm so busy I don't even have time to go to the bathroom."

9. Take credit for others

This method is especially popular in the academic world, political circles and among senior management. Take credit for projects in which you were only an observer or participated only at the stage of their launch.

10. Master the technique of cyber idleness

Program your e-mail so that your letters are sent when you sleep - to give the impression that you are working day and night. And the monitor can be configured so that the Excel spreadsheet pops up with any keystroke - so that when the boss approaches, you can instantly hide the game of solitaire or the LiveJournal page that you are actually reading.

As of February 1, 2016, according to Rosstat, Russia's wage arrears to the population amount to 4.33 billion rubles. This means that about 74 thousand Russians are waiting for payments. Of these, 56% are workers in the construction and processing industries.

Can employers be punished for late transfer of wages or its delay? Yes. Every employee can contribute to this.

Delaying wages or other financial payments for more than 15 days is a good reason to stop the work of an employee personally or of an entire team who are employees on a legal basis and perform their job duties.

Art. 142 Labor Code RF.

The employee has the right to go on forced leave after a written notification of the management or authorized persons. Otherwise, failure to attend work will be considered absenteeism.

How to write an application?

The application for the suspension of the work process is written in free form addressed chief. They indicate the reason, the date from which the employee will not go to work, as well as the missed payment date, note from what day you stop your work activity. From the 16th day of non-payment, the employee has this right.

Note also that the return to duty will take place the day after receipt of the back pay.

An application for suspension of work due to non-payment of wages is submitted personally to the head or by registered mail.

Will it work?

The effectiveness of the method is quite high. Downtime always costs many times more than the payment to the entire workforce. The inability to perform labor activities falls entirely on the shoulders of the employer - that is, forced leave will cost the company 100% in accordance with Art. 234 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.

Exceptions

There are cases when stopping a workflow is against the law:

• military action or state of emergency;
• Employees of the public service, the Armed Forces and Defense, intelligence, emergency services, during the elimination of natural disasters, deployed emergencies, law enforcement agencies;
• Employees of organizations with especially dangerous production;
• Employees of organizations that provide the life of the population (energy, heat and water supply, communications, emergency care).

Contacting the Labor Inspectorate

Appeal can be both collective and single. It is issued in writing in a free form and can be issued as early as the 16th day of wage delay.

How to make an application?

The application must include the following information:

1. The introductory part is the full name of the organization, address (legal and actual or place of residence of the employer), full name of the applicant, contact phone number, address.
   The main part is the date of commencement of work in the organization and the position, the date of receipt of the salary (the last one) and the established monthly calculation date, the delay in payment, how the calculation is made, the amount of debt, what are the reasons for the delay, according to the employer.
2. Requirements - to pay the debt in full, taking into account in the amount of 1/300 of the rate for each missed day, to bring the head to administrative or criminal liability based on the deed.
   Use links to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the Labor Code, where your rights and obligations are noted, as well as the boss, and articles that confirm the violation of your freedoms.

Application documents (copies):

• labor contract;
• passport of the employee (employees);
• letter of resignation, settlement (if the organization has not fulfilled its financial obligations after your dismissal);
• employment history.

The application must be signed by all members of the team, if any, or by you personally. The same applies to other personal information. You need to prepare 2 copies - for yourself and the target organization.

Possible Labor Service Solutions

What will be in this case? In this provision, the laws are quite strict on the accused: a fine of up to 50 thousand rubles or criminal liability in particularly difficult cases.

In terms of effectiveness, this method is extremely convincing: your wage will be listed as soon as possible.

Appeal to the prosecutor's office

If the previous methods did not play the expected role, the last instances are the prosecutor's office and the court. Consideration of the complaint will take several months, since the prosecutor, like the judge, is given 30 days to process the appeal.

The prosecutor's office has a supervisory function over the lawful activities of organizations and enterprises, has the right to initiate criminal cases. Therefore, after contacting the prosecutor's office, the court cannot be avoided. For the mobility of the case, simultaneously file a lawsuit with the court and an application with the prosecutor's office in order to receive answers from two instances at once within one month.

The appeal to the prosecutor's office is carried out in person or online. In any case, you will have to provide information about yourself, you cannot submit an anonymous application.

Documents and application form

As in other cases, a free form application, but mentioning the same basic information as when applying to the labor service, as well as the fact of applying to the court. Addressed to the prosecutor at the location of your organization.

is a question that worries many workers, especially in times of economic crisis.

If you quit, be sure to check if you have any unpaid vacation days. Read more about how this period after dismissal is paid.

About a month ago, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg were seriously talking about punishing the unemployed, just recently Rostrud came up with a similar, but still ideologically different initiative. We categorically disagree with such measures, so we decided to find a few guys who refuse to work in the classical sense, and asked them about all the most important things.

Pavel Ilyin

I am 27 years old. I have not worked almost all my life. I had two outbreaks when I suddenly got a permanent job. It was in 2006, when I had just arrived in Moscow and I still had no understanding of what activities I wanted to do. And another one in 2013.

I think this conviction has always been with me and over the years it has only grown and affirmed in my mind. Work makes you a philosophical zombie! You are exchanging the most precious thing you have for a very small amount of money. But at the same time, you have no life. All that remains is neurosis, psychosis and a couple of days off, in which you just want to sleep or immerse yourself in some big story - read light books, watch simple films and play games at a low level of difficulty. Even if you earn a lot of money and you have a high position, you have even less life - the more they share with you, the more they hang on you.

It is also very important that when you work, there is no time and cognitive resources to find yourself, and this is the hardest work (yes, let's distinguish between the terms "work" and "work" in our discourse). Of course, there is a possibility that the labor market may coincide with your hobbies and passions, but the likelihood of such a scenario is so small that it is better to go hardcore right away!

You need to do something meaningful, not work. Of course, any reasonable creature, in my system of values, at least, has a natural right to be free from work, because the modern system of distribution of goods in society (any, somewhere there are just more distortions, somewhere less) is no different from slave system, only now we are in economic slavery, and the degree of this slavery is directly correlated with the balance of your bank account. Is it in vain that we put so many people to abolish the institution of slavery?

The state should, it MUST (since it is for the people, and not vice versa) provide what is called in the developed world basic income, which would cover at least the minimum needs. In many countries, this has already been implemented in fact, however, it is still bashfully called unemployment benefits.

If everyone follows my example, it will be great, people will be happy, the culture will become much more diversified, we will see a huge number of different cool projects in completely unexpected places. Of course, this will create an acute shortage of personnel in traditional economic sectors, which is good from all sides. On the one hand, if we really need these industries, then they can be easily automated, and if this is just an imitation of activity, then to hell with these dummies.

The state should provide what is called in the developed world basic income, which would cover
minimum needs.

Of course, I do not like the constant scarcity of resources. You constantly need to think in which store what is cheaper, and everything from dumplings to drumsticks. There is also a difficulty with motivation, you need to be able to push yourself to action, but if you have found a cause for which you are ready to kill, then there is no such problem. But the advantages are obvious: you are free and independent. You are in charge, this feeling cannot be exchanged for any money or statuses.

The money comes from one-time orders, from scholarships, sometimes dad sends something. With housing, the issue was resolved three years in advance within the framework of my main field of activity. If you look at the last month, my main expenses are food, rehearsal room rent and travel. Of course, I undertake paid work, but it must either be in the sphere of my interests and directions of development, or be ideologically correct, or be radically stupid. But only a threat to my life can force me to go to the office: mine or someone close to me.

Not working is not the same as sitting on the couch at home and consuming unfiltered media culture. Not working personally for me means doing various things that make me rush. I have three functional areas of activity. This is music, namely drumming and writing poetry in English, which is what I do in the NaPast group. These are different Internet projects, development and administration of sites. And this is a graduate school where I study theoretical cultural studies and try to find a way out of postmodernity.

My usual day starts at five or six in the morning, I spend the first couple of hours preparing my body for a fight: shower, breakfast, news, correspondence. From about 11:00 to 14:00 - 15:00, it's time to solve cognitively complex problems, usually I write pieces for my dissertation or do something difficult on my sites. Between 15:00 and 18:00 mandatory practice on the drums (more precisely, on the nearest chairs and armchairs). Then there are either some social affairs like a rehearsal or meeting with friends. But this is a perfect day, and not everyone gets it.

I have various phases of effective functional activity in which I do what I can now do meaningfully and with dedication. Instead of a vacation, I arrange for myself, rather, just a change of scenery with the preservation of activity, but, of course, with its modification and adaptation to new conditions.

Traveling is my passion, every six months I try to go somewhere. For example, New Year met in Germany and the Netherlands, and just this morning returned from Belarus. Basically, my relatives have a positive attitude towards my lifestyle, but precisely because I do not work actively. If I were just sitting on the couch, staring at the TV, I think the attitude would be sharply negative. For as long as I can remember, I have not felt the desire to work in the classical sense, but I can’t remember any examples to follow. I am sure that both culture and life provided me with similar examples, but they rather strengthened my conviction than somehow turned the picture of the world upside down.

Luba Makarevskaya

I have not worked and have not been listed anywhere for almost 15 years. I am 29 years old. I think that if some part of the people follow my example, society will only become healthier and more productive. They still can't work anyway.

My day is built like this: I wake up at three, walk with my dog, then watch TV, walk or read, depending on my mood. The peak of my activity comes at 12 at night and lasts until five or six in the morning. During this time, I usually write. I chose this way of life, because until the age of seven I had a very happy childhood, some kind of directly Nabokovian. I always had a very strong emotional connection with my parents, who, consciously or not, did a lot for my intellectual development, despite the fact that I was never forced to do anything, but this wonderful time was cut short by going to first grade.

The unbearable boredom and outright stupidity of our school are inexpressible in words. Of course, I felt a very strong gap with my peers in the intellectual sense, and in general being at school terribly traumatized me. At the age of 11, I realized that in my views I was an anarchist, and when I managed to escape from the yoke of the school, I would never be listed anywhere else. I remember that I even swore to myself that.

At 14, I read Walt Whitman. He influenced me a lot. Whitman, as you know, did not work and wandered. He became my ideal for many years. In the ninth grade, I was kicked out of school, and since then I really have never been listed anywhere, as I swore to myself at 11 years old. Now I am 29, and there has never been such a period in my life that I have worked somewhere officially.

I still live on the money my mother gives me. My expenses are the most ordinary: food, cosmetics and clothes, nothing interesting. I don't really like parties as I am an introvert. My favorite pastimes are bookstores, McDonald's and walking my dog.

I am afraid of society - I think it seeks to take me away from me and bring any person to a certain denominator.

I feel the need for a vacation all the time, because even without working you can get tired of life in the city. I have been abroad, but I don't really like traveling, I'm afraid to fly. I think the best journeys happen within ourselves. Sleep is also a journey. Hunger or emergency circumstances could force me to work, I would go to work as a courier, most likely, I could also earn extra money by walking dogs. I, as Michel said, love animals very much.

I'd rather choose suicide than the office. Death, stretched out in time, or instantaneous - there is not much difference. I think death stretched out in time is like working in an office. I will not hide that I am a walking phobia, and my main phobia is our society. I think the ideal ratio of unemployed to employed is 50 to 50. It seems to me that someone can just do regular, fairly monotonous work, and someone can't, and the word "dependent" is not quite the right definition.

Friends and relatives treat me with understanding, which periodically alternates with irritation, to which I am used to. I, in principle, got used to everything and have a philosophical attitude to everything. I think about self-realization and therefore I write - poems and other texts. I feel fulfilled and happy when I write, it just doesn't make money, but I've learned not to get upset about it. When I do not write, this is rest. True, I'm sad at this time. My ideals among the unemployed are Walt Whitman and the protagonist of The Big Lebowski.

I am afraid of society - I think it seeks to take me away from me and bring any person to a certain denominator. I am against this and I think that the work is partly a tool in this matter. It seems to me that to be listed somewhere means to compromise. In general, I periodically want to burn my passport, but now you can’t buy alcohol without it, so now it has become a necessary thing. I don't feel like I'm unemployed, after all, being alive is also a job, sometimes extremely tiring.

Mark Lukyanov

I am 24 years old. I can't say that I don't work. I work a lot. It's just that they don't write about it in my work book. Well, one day I didn't even finish my shift at one bakery - I realized that I was wasting too much time. Bit into some cakes in the warehouse and left to make music. Forever and ever.

Why am I not working? Approximately the same question can be asked in relation to everyone else. Of course, it is necessary to work in a broad sense - this is not even discussed. But one could argue about what to spend time on - all people are different. And yes, we should more often have the right to such a choice, whether to have a job in the classical sense or not. I am sure that in each country it should be arranged in its own way. At the same time, it seems strange to me that in some states there are unemployment benefits, but I like it.

If everyone follows the example of the unemployed, it will be something like what always happens when too many people want the same thing. I think some people just shouldn't be in that area.

Sponsors pay for my housing. My friend is a model. I recently returned from Paris Fashion Week and brought a lot of money from there. For the last two months we've been spending this money: jelly, beads, movies, women's leather coffin shoes and a nose ring.

I would love to go picking Sicilian oranges as a volunteer. For two months, tan. That's all I'm thinking about right now. That's all I do. I don't think I have the kind of vacation that people in official positions have. I don't feel the need for it and, unfortunately, I don't travel much. But this is not for long. My close friends don't work either. I have had real examples working on official works, which inspired me to abandon this idea.

Alice Taiga

I am 28 years old, and I have a happy opportunity to do only what I love. My parents are working class heroes and real self-made heroes, workaholics of the simplest origin, who put all their youth into surviving and gaining a foothold in Moscow. I am grateful to them for their strength and steadfastness, for their stubbornness in teaching me to read at the age of three and giving me a better education. Recently, I talked with them about my path: it’s hard for them to imagine that I live without a work book, but with some part of my being I’m sure that they understand that working in Russia is a fiction that can end through no fault of yours in any moment. "You're lucky you're doing what you love - we didn't have that luxury," they told me the last time we met. The moral support of my parents and the fact that I always have a corner to return to if I stumble keeps me from the unnecessary and often empty work that many of my friends outside of Moscow have to do to stay here. Plus, I can always count on a husband who does what he loves and, as a technical specialist of a unique profile, receives a salary many times more than I, a humanist. But he can always count on me. That is, if something happens to my loved ones and I need money, I will immediately go to work and be motivated to a stable plan.

I have two favorites in my life permanent work, but on both I burned out: I didn’t know how to find a balance between work and free time, and I didn’t take responsibility and duties correctly. Now I would not make such a mistake, but for my part I can say that people flourish from freedom. All colleagues who are given air are ready to do much more with enthusiasm than is required. Unfortunately, many progressive and even more backward Russian systems have never heard of how to motivate employees and operate with fear. I heard many stories from the creators of the trainings that there is nothing easier than putting pressure on a sales girl who rents an apartment with a friend and came from Siberia to conquer Moscow. They are so scared and want change that they are ready to eat tons of shit. I categorically do not accept the training of people, the extortion of a submissive herd from them, the superiority that I often see in superiors in relation to their subordinates. Projects born out of love and with loved ones live longer and smell better.

In fact, I work all the time, but my work is precarious (the editor automatically corrected it to excellent) - that is, it seems to be related to the intellectual sphere, but it is paid no more per month than the work of a trolleybus driver. I know museum workers who are paid less than cashiers, not to mention programmers, realtors and salespeople, whose work does not even require special education and a scientific degree, but rather a wide range of soft skills. A lot has been said about precarious labor in art and culture, and it is, in fact, a real exploitation: cash money, friendship work, fees that are half a year late, endless contributions to projects that may not be approved, constant revision of conditions. I have no insurance and no child support. In a good way, I work at a juicer in a city where billions are allocated for the reconstruction of theaters and museums. All people around art and cinema, if they don't *********, live according to normcore all their lives and plan a vacation in St. Petersburg.

I respect this choice, there is a lot of courage in it, but this system is, in fact, the plantation of our days, only in the territory of intellectual labor. I hate the wording “we are looking for a young with burning eyes”, because it is clear that such young people are usually turned on ***. On the other hand, those young people with whom I worked really want to overcome and learn, despite the snobbery of older colleagues and routine work. You also have to go through this. The reward is doing things you believe in. If you spend a week among those who don’t give a damn and who only care about the fact that the salary dripped onto the card on time, you immediately understand the price of life without skepticism and this rotten pragmatism. Most philosophers considered creative work to be the pinnacle of human development, most people do not take a single step towards expressing themselves through work. That's why there are so many "projects" for the sake of projects, that's why the things that three carers can do are often done by ten disinterested ones. But this is not only a Russian problem, this is how a person works in general.

You can’t overwork, you can’t work on weekends, you have to find time
to the spontaneous and the beautiful.

It seems to me that the only justified way of monetary existence is an honest own business. And I'm sure I'll get there. I really like the opportunity to program the schedule, plan a strategy. Now my main expenses are travel and entertainment: cinema, museums, concerts. I don’t need to deny myself something, but with clothes, food and cosmetics, I figured out the list of expenses a long time ago and learned to live within my means. I have the super ability to find cheap things that recently cost four times as much. The most precious thing I have - family and friends, this can not be bought. In winter, I grieved because of the exchange rate, but now I understand that I can ride around Russian cities that I have never been to. And you can save up for two vacations a year, if you're not an idiot. Plus, I despise credit cards and never buy anything I can't afford. I have no jewelry, no valuables other than a computer, I spit on technical innovations and sold everything that I didn’t have. There was too much.

But I don't have kids yet, so things like that happen pretty fast. I started to separate work and leisure quite recently, and this is my best idea. You can’t overwork, you can’t work on weekends, you have to find time for spontaneous and beautiful things. I never work on trips, but I take a lot of notes there and, in principle, spend my time actively. I have never taken a beach vacation. I am convinced that the main thing happens not at the desktop.

Will I return to the office? With joy, if there is something to fight for. Now I have nothing to fight for in the office - I get all the drive from texts, books, movies, lectures, concerts, singing and language classes. The office has nothing to offer me yet. With the dream team, I work in a mode that is convenient for me and I don’t work with assholes at all, I don’t meet them, and they don’t meet me. Regarding the state, I am not inclined to absolve myself of responsibility for my own choice, and from the experience of living in other countries I can say that many things in Russia are better than in many countries of the world. In general, 98% of countries do not live like North America and Western Europe, and we must be grateful to the conditions that we have now - the most free and fair in the history of man. However, this is totally far from ideal alignment. Incorrect career guidance, inability to work in a team, lack of logical thinking, a tendency to conflict - these are the basic problems of a Russian person in the professional field. They are solved in a team, but without a portrait of Lenin above their heads. You just need to respect the other person as yourself, and look for multiple solutions to one problem.

For this reason, progress in Russia and social life in general is being hampered. In addition, the life of people like me is not regulated in any way in the legislation. Who am I? Unemployed? Freelance? Contract worker? How to live like me if they want a big family? How to survive if you are not from Moscow? With jacked-up housing and food prices, Moscow, for all its charm, is becoming unbearable for creative life in general. But I doubt that the state is interested in doing this.