Us vs. Them: The Promotion Fight

You go to work on a daily basis, sometimes even take it home with you in the form of thoughts or actual work, and you feel like you're just spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere in your organization. You give 110% and you are consistently among the best at what you do, but it is all to no avail.

We have all faced this problem in our workplace...and now we can view this problem through the perspective of a new survey done which, among others, is being reported at (one of my favorite sites) Slashdot.org.

American workers were polled and several revelations were among the findings:

o The average worker openly admits to wasting 2.09 hours daily outside of lunch and scheduled breaks (adding up to a total of $759 billion annually)

...on a side note: Remember the scene from Office Space where the main character is meeting with "The Bob's"?

o From the article: [O]ne of the reasons people gave for wasting time is they feel that they're not being paid appropriately for the work they're doing. And so it is sort of quid pro quo, in that an individual employee's ability to increase his or her pay is limited, but their ability to decrease the number of hours they actually work is not as limited.
o Not all nonproductive time that an employee spends is a complete waste. Some of it is creative or constructive waste.

Okay...so here is what I propose: Around your workplace make it known how you are the person that counteracts these trends. You don't waste time at work like other people do; you efficiently do your work as to not create constructive and non-constructive waste.

There's some food for thought in your fight for that next promotion.